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While all this may be true, the fact of the matter is that these games do very well in terms of engagement. Though you and I may think that "Farmville" is ridiculous, there are millions who spend hours each day devoted to maintaining these virtual crops. If this is the case - and it is - how does that translate into marketers "exploiting" users. Gamification is merely our attempt to engage users in a space in which they already play.

I am get surprised really and what about flare if its near about earth .... its cause this

I hope its by Kate Middleton. If not, you could still go for Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, right?

No need to be the world's policeman anymore.

How is it possible when dollar is pegged to OPEC oil?

London Heathrow Airport is inside the M25 and only around 20 miles from the "centre" of London but, more importantly, Heathrow lies within the London borough of Hillingdon, which may or may not be one of the "London councils" to which the F article alludes. Without knowing whether Virgin media's plan is for the City of London, Inner London, or Outer London, it's hard to say whether or not it will have any affect on Heathrow.

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I remember emails being released. I don't remember exposing any hoaxes though... Perhaps you're confused.

http://goo.gl/ocYqZ

many scientists would agree (either publicly or anonymously due to fear) that human caused global warming IS a hoax.

[citation needed]

Let me google that for you.

http://goo.gl/4jCmQ
http://goo.gl/hCTQK
http://goo.gl/RyfZf
http://goo.gl/GWcP9

And another: http://goo.gl/PN8mU

many scientists would agree (either publicly or anonymously due to fear) that human caused global warming IS a hoax.

[citation needed]

Let me google that for you.

http://goo.gl/4jCmQ
http://goo.gl/hCTQK
http://goo.gl/RyfZf
http://goo.gl/GWcP9

And another: http://goo.gl/PN8mU

many scientists would agree (either publicly or anonymously due to fear) that human caused global warming IS a hoax.

[citation needed]

Let me google that for you.

http://goo.gl/4jCmQ
http://goo.gl/hCTQK
http://goo.gl/RyfZf
http://goo.gl/GWcP9

And another: http://goo.gl/PN8mU

many scientists would agree (either publicly or anonymously due to fear) that human caused global warming IS a hoax.

[citation needed]

Let me google that for you.

http://goo.gl/4jCmQ
http://goo.gl/hCTQK
http://goo.gl/RyfZf
http://goo.gl/GWcP9

And another: http://goo.gl/PN8mU

many scientists would agree (either publicly or anonymously due to fear) that human caused global warming IS a hoax.

[citation needed]

Let me google that for you.

http://goo.gl/4jCmQ
http://goo.gl/hCTQK
http://goo.gl/RyfZf
http://goo.gl/GWcP9

And another: http://goo.gl/PN8mU

Between 184 and 7789 Linux users purchased this.. http://goo.gl/imBYi (link to wolframalpha)

I don't know how to use the site well enough to get around the fact that it returned no answers when I added the (l+m+w)*4.44=303911.06 constraint

You mean like this? http://goo.gl/8D3LH

Shortened to this: http://goo.gl/E8WJI

They've only gone and done it upside down:

http://goo.gl/ptrDV

Do it again, and do it properly this time.

I agree. Every year US car menufacturers HAVE to find the killer-new-feature. Its the only way they can keep propping up the price. Then Hyundai comes in with "what we want" and I buy from them. I am convinced that Intel is behind this. They have laid this out and no one wants it.

As far as your app comment I completely agree.

If you fall asleep their is an
app that beeps.

If you speed, there is an
app that beeps.

If you want a smart cruise control, there is an
app for that.

Help eliminate stupid speeding tickets

I agree. Every year US car menufacturers HAVE to find the killer-new-feature. Its the only way they can keep propping up the price. Then Hyundai comes in with "what we want" and I buy from them. I am convinced that Intel is behind this. They have laid this out and no one wants it.

As far as your app comment I completely agree.

If you fall asleep their is an
app that beeps.

If you speed, there is an
app that beeps.

If you want a smart cruise control, there is an
app for that.

Help eliminate stupid speeding tickets

I agree. Every year US car menufacturers HAVE to find the killer-new-feature. Its the only way they can keep propping up the price. Then Hyundai comes in with "what we want" and I buy from them. I am convinced that Intel is behind this. They have laid this out and no one wants it.

As far as your app comment I completely agree.

If you fall asleep their is an
app that beeps.

If you speed, there is an
app that beeps.

If you want a smart cruise control, there is an
app for that.

Help eliminate stupid speeding tickets

well i think people should use this open source projects (Linux, Ubuntu, fedora) and----

There was a brochure issued by the DMV that said that you only may wear headgear for religious reasons on the photo. That was the initial trigger why @NikoAlm started the whole thing. The law regarding driving licenses says nothing about religion, only that the head must be "fully visible", but that came up only recently.

The clerk at the DMV initially refused to issue the driving license, asking for a photo without headgear. When Mr. Alm asked to get that in writing, the DMV issued a (kind of) subpoena instead and had Mr. Alm examined by a medical officer regarding his mental health. Luckily the examination only took 5 minutes and Mr. Alm now has it in writing that he is mentally sane and fit to drive a vehicle.

The DMV then issued the driving license after about a year but did not contact Mr. Alm so that he could pick it up, that's where the long delay came from.

That's the whole story as told at http://blog.alm.at/2011/07/12/hl-fuhrerschein-episode-6-das-finale/ (translation: http://goo.gl/MOsG1)

Yes, it is only a moral victory. For a real victory, somebody would have to do that with a passport photo where headgear really is only allowed for religious reasons. But hey, given the even international publicity, somebody might... :-)

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But the US is actually smaller than Europe.

Population-wise, yes. But in this context, it's about power, isn't it? As you say, Europe has failed to achieve a common foreign policy.

But, realistically, do you really think most Americans or American politicians care what Europeans think of them? Europeans have looked down its noses at the US since the US was founded.

I don't think Americans will care what Europeans think about them until Europeans get the power to do something about it (or the USA loses their power). It's up to the Europeans to do something about it.

American politicians fully agree with you: http://goo.gl/SRDOX

I don't think American politicians would have kept spending on NATO, if they didn't believe they benefitted from it. US foreign policy is based on having a strong military presence in the world, which requires a large standing army. It also gives them leverage over Europe.

I absolutely think the USA should withdraw from NATO, if it no longer benefits from it. It would force Europe to build up their own armies and become more independent.

Will try to comment on your other points later.

Well, I'd like to call it "bullying" if one party is much bigger and more powerful than the others, and uses that power to force their will onto others.

But the US is actually smaller than Europe.

You can't make everyone happy, but you'd draw a lot less criticism from Europeans if you stopped pursuing your interests so aggressively.

But, realistically, do you really think most Americans or American politicians care what Europeans think of them? Europeans have looked down its noses at the US since the US was founded.

It's also possible the balance of power in the world will shift - for example, the USA has a huge national deficit, and sooner or later, I think you'll be forced to either cut down on your military, or be unable to pay the interest on your debts.

American politicians fully agree with you: http://goo.gl/SRDOX

The USA has been almost constantly involved in one war or the other since the 1800's. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Haiti, Kosovo, Sudan, Somalia, Korea, Vietnam, and so on, and so on - check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States. In many of them, the USA was the aggressor.

You mean "the aggressor" as in stopping the slave trade, kicking out communist regimes, and stopping genocides? Guilty as charged. And during most of that time, European nations were busy raping and pillaging their colonies across the globe.

Have a look at the French, British, and German pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Britain

I mean, you need small print and sections to fit it all. And the many wars related to colonialism were both unjust and brutal, and they didn't end with WWII either. So much for Europe's pacifism. It only ended because Germany wasn't allowed to wage more wars and France and Britain couldn't afford it anymore.

1) Importing slaves for labour from Africa.

Yes, imports by European slave traders, abolished as soon as Constitutionally allowed by the 1808 slave trade ban and enforced by the US military (one of your "wars of aggression" on that list).

2) Genocide of Native Americans. I don't think American colonists can be blamed for the plagues they brought to the New World, but they did do a good job on killing the remaining Native Americans and taking their land.

The vast majority of Native Americans were killed under European rule, just like in other European colonies. Europe continued is murderous and oppressive campaigns in other colonies until the mid-20th century. The US, on the other hand, tried to integrate Native Americans into the nation, give them both citizenship and autonomy, and to compensate them.

3) Supporting oppressive regimes in the Americas and the Middle East.

And how is this different from Europe? Europe also gives large amounts of money to oppressive regimes around the world, and Europe also sells arms all over the world. And both the US and Europe do it for the same reasons.

Western European nations tend to believe you need to use as peaceful and non-intrusive methods as possible to create lasting peace. For example, foreign aid, sending UN troops, aiding in negotiations, receiving political refugees and war refugees, and so on.

Funny, when Europe does it, it's "foreign aid and aiding in negotiations" but when the US does it, it is "supporting oppressive regimes". In fact, both the US and Europe pretty much do the

Thats nothing. How about £9,936 for a 2.5 meter HDMI cable! - http://goo.gl/VMECV - Now that is pushing the envelope to the maximum. Sadly there will always be idiots with too much money in their pockets who buy this stuff. Everyone should do Digital Electronics 101.

Well, I WOULD pay good money for a list of their customers' e-mail addresses.

Thats nothing. How about £9,936 for a 2.5 meter HDMI cable! - http://goo.gl/VMECV - Now that is pushing the envelope to the maximum. Sadly there will always be idiots with too much money in their pockets who buy this stuff. Everyone should do Digital Electronics 101.

As to if the money spent by NASA over the past 30 years has been wisely spent, that is a whole separate discussion.

The Shuttle appears to make more sense if you look at it as a geopolitical engineering project (more like over the past 40 years, BTW), to provoke the ignorant Soviet generals[1] into pushing for a rampant spending of their counterpart, to have a parity for (non-existent) "strategic advantage" of the STS. Of course, then one has to ask why was it allowed to continue sucking NASA dry for the past two decades?... there even was a good opportunity to terminate the program post-Challenger (of course, that in turn could be also a "revenge of the Buran" of sorts - it was essentially being prepped on its launchpad at the time, and of course the Soviets couldn't be allowed to be the only ones with a shuttle[2])

1. Their engineers very much didn't want to go there, preferring Spiral approach. With the vehicle being just a payload ...ultimately, when forced, also doing it with STS-class vehicle (Energia was a more sensible Ares V-like approach from the start) - but it bled them dry, killed what they really wanted (Zarya "super Soyuz")

2. Who knows, the history might judge the last laugh was even more on Buran - in its only flight, it demonstared the whole main "point" behind a shuttle (its flight profile) to a much fuller degree than any of STS vehicles ever did. With the secondary point (LEO space station) being essentially, for STS fleet, in the form of maintenance and expansion of two space stations meant for Buran...

as compared to the Apollo program in terms of how beneficial it has been

Apollo might be not the best counterexample (vs. the dick-waving reasons alluded to in the posts above); at its core it was a crazy unsustainable crash project, with scientific benefits demonstrably more or less equalled by unmanned probes of the time (especially considering that of the twelve people, only one was a geologist, during the last mission - how the hell did we manage that / one of the saddest testimonies about the mindset of humanity IMHO). "Structural" / educational / etc. benefits revving up already after Sputnik.

I'm really not convinced that the current programs, particularly the SLS, is going to be of any benefit to the country especially as they are doing a retread program to "boldly go where hundreds have gone before" and do so on gilded spacecraft on top of that.

It's debatable if "retreat" fits more to current programs or to... the Shuttle (heck, the ISS can be soon raised a bit, to its intended orbit, finally unconstrained by STS limitations) - everybody at first expected "aerodynamic" or "spaceplane-ish" shapes from reentry vehicles, and worked towards it hard. They proved pretty much unworkable. Blunt shape entry capsule was a relatively late innovation, an improvement; and a bit of a surprise. There's nothing wrong with capsules; physics, rocket equation, are a bitch.

It's simply how dreams about expected modes of space travel turned out to be wrong; dreams extrapolating (not understanding, generally) rates and directions of observed progress. Look at those airplanes from "our" times (imagined during rapid advances of marine tech; and we can even build them - take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy... still a horrible idea vs. "boring" reality).

Consider how the "spaceplanes" came to dominate scifi... around the 40s, during rapid advances of airplane tech (I can see a pattern...); how the designers and decision-makers of the Shuttle were undoubtedly raised on those works of fiction. And how they gave us an analogue of Catalina, at best (Spruce Goose, at worst); but something which looked very soothing and "inspiring"

Apple's GUI toolkit is completely different from Android's though, so their approach to multiple resolutions is different too.

I'd like to remind everyone that the existance of multiple resolutions of Android devices since the beginning meant the UI was designed to handle them all. As a result, many well-written apps work very well and look good regardless of resolution.

I could sit here all day posting screenshot examples from the four Android devices in my house (sorry, only three in that shot) but its not really worth it.

I think the idea of 'trucking around hydrogen' is akin to the idea we'll never have truly portable computers because nobody wants to carry around a power cord that long. Hydrogen should be produced at the station, possibly using one of these nifty techniques being developed @ MIT like this or this or this

I think the idea of 'trucking around hydrogen' is akin to the idea we'll never have truly portable computers because nobody wants to carry around a power cord that long. Hydrogen should be produced at the station, possibly using one of these nifty techniques being developed @ MIT like this or this or this

The log in the eye of Greenpeace: http://goo.gl/60vU8 Greenpeace puts the "green" in blackmail and extortion. There's no business like the imminent doom business . . . and has been so for millennia "According to a May 2011, report to Congress by the US General Accountability Office, the total Federal Government funding for climate change from 1993 to 2010 amounts to US $106.7 Billion. This does not include the revenues lost to the Federal Government for special deductions and tax credits (including grants in lieu of tax credits) of $16.1 Billion. These bring the total to $122.8 Billion." Funds that could have been spent instead on real science and technology. Claims that scientists who question the global warming dogma are in the pay of so-called Big Oil are, by comparison, laughable.

well i think people dont wants security.... they wants compliance. company isn't interested in it. What they want is certificates, they want their ISO27k and their PCI-DSS, but not because they want them to know for themselves that they're secure, they want them to display to others that they are, so they can get contracts or are compliant with legal requirements to be allowed to do something.,

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This object is 10 meters in diameter. "Asteroid 2011 MD, a chunk of rock estimated to be 25 to 55 feet (8 to 18 m) across, is expected to pass less than 8,000 miles above Earth's surface around 1 p.m. EDT (17:00 UT) on Monday, June 27th." -form source.
The logical demarcation between meteoroid and asteroid http://goo.gl/Ws6xp “adopt 10 m as the dividing line for an object to be considered to be either an asteroid or a meteoroid...natural objectsolidlarger than 100 micro m” -Martin Beech and Duncan Steel, U of W Ontario, On the Definition of the term ‘Meteoroid’
Obviously, this object doesn't definitely qualify as an asteroid because it's debatable if alien spacecraft are "natural".

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There are some high-value comments still on here. I think part of the trouble is that after a while, keeping up with the intake of articles demands only surface-level comprehension, and the comments are dominated by those selfsame types -- things with just the right tone and rehashing of Economics 101 concerns to be moderated up, and the cycle repeats.

The depth is also selected against: similar to Wikipedia, the expert comes here to share some specific and factual knowledge. The trouble is, he probably isn't going to be learning anything new on the topic; he does that with interactions he has with other experts -- he then is posting for the benefits of sophists and ingrates, who don't realize that to explore implications past the level of a child requires dependencies. These dependencies must exist in one mind all at the same time -- a Wikipedia primer won't cut it, unless of course all you want to do is "nail" someone like John Carmack with witticisms according to the goals in my first paragraph.

And so, there is a conflict eventually. The ones remaining are from the wrong side of the opportunity-cost choice, putting time in for reasons other than scientifically-obtained knowledge.

You asked for a link to another site; here it is.

Plunging, sinking, and expanding...

...but I have a solution for the man. Here is an authority that can help him nip this problem in the butt.

Richard Bartle's recent article shows how players of modern MMOs are manipulated by a wide range of techniques into performing actions.

If they really want to wean themselves off of the imperial tit, they should use Bitcoin.

Here's some goat.seman to tide all of us over.

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