it's LASER as long as you pronounce it "ell ey ess ee ar". What, you dont? Then why dont you stop nitpicking, and just accept that at some point, a pronouneable acronym becomes a new word.
[...] and they seem to want to make me wait until the very day of release before I get anything out of my backing unless I pay more money.
I dont know how much you gave them, but it seems it was less than the amount required to get you into one of the betas. And I dont remember there being a tier for "I want to get a pre-release demo"
So, you did not get what you did not pay for.
But maybe I just didnt read your whining thoroughly enough. So, what is your *real* problem again? Them saying "hey you could still be a beta tester for $$" ?
The notion that "portraying men as muscled killing machines" is a kind of sexism has not yet arrived in the mainstream. Which tells you interesting things about our society.
Still: women are more likely to be displayed in roles perceived as *de*grading, whereas men are portrayed with attributes perceived as positive (strength, power, etc). So the problem of sexism against females should get priority imho.
Many Europeans are already used to using different keyboards at different times.
Yes. For me it's three.
Mostly, I'm using the Neo2 layout. When gaming, I use the standard German qwertz layout, and sometimes I have to use US English. It takes time getting used to it, but once you've mastered a layout, you're fine on ANY DEVICE.
The problem I see here is that the X1, by re-positioning or abandoning physical keys, effectively forces you to not only know 3 different layouts, but 3*2 = 6. Great.
(Plus, with the caps lock key gone, I'd have to hack Neo2 to get the 3rd level switch on the home or end key, blegh.)
That's the 'noble primitive' myth. It's only a myth.
I wasn't talking about the idea that people in smaller tribes were inherently more moral people (which is what the noble primitive myth deals with), but that crime is low because of social pressures in small groups (where everyone knows everyone, and it is harder to get away with crime) or for other reasons. My point was that crime rate is smaller in a smaller social group, but more and more people prefer to live in/around cities.
Has the timeline been changed by better archaeology or dating, or reclassification of remains? when I was at school (only 2 decades ago, in the UK) I was taught that the last Neanderthals died out around the time of the construction of the Pyramids in Egypt, no more than 6000 years ago
Just asked my sis (who sports a B.A. in prehistoric archaeology )... according to her, you must've had a very strange teacher -- historically, the figure for "how long ago did they die out" has been creeping down as more and more recent specimen were found. At no time did people think it was just 6ka ago.
... after Mr Guttenberg had to quit as Defence Minister because of plagiarism, it seems to have become a sport to topple politicians this way. It's a fun thing to watch.
That, somehow, he who does not know how to debug the kernel should not play with bit operations?
Something like that?
Or, that we should stop researching the structure of the universe, and instead focus on what we usually do, which is making war, screwing other people and post photos of our dicks on teh internet?
Don't know. There are upright and honourable people in politics. There's black sheep, like everywhere, and maybe politics has more than its fair share of them.
But seeing how the media turn and twist every word you utter, and publish them again completely out of context, I imagine it's difficult to be upright and straightforward.
By the way, in Germany the Pirate Party is very big, at least in the news, these days. Most of them, even those that are in the spotlight, are political amateurs. As such, they dont all always talk... cautiously with media (also, a lot of the political discussion happens in public fora etc). Recently, news show "Die Tagesschau" made my day when they quoted a party member saying something like "all parties contain 10% idiots". Never before had I heard the rather profane word "idiot" in that show. And I fear I wont hear it again soon;)
Wouldn't a giant impact change its orbit? Kind of like this...
The moon-creating impact was my first thought also. But I can imagine that it may also have heated things up a bit on its own, all without significant chaneg of orbit.
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it's LASER as long as you pronounce it "ell ey ess ee ar". What, you dont? Then why dont you stop nitpicking, and just accept that at some point, a pronouneable acronym becomes a new word.
Nice downvoting of someone who states things obvious to everybody except circlejacking dudebros like you guys.
Parent deserves some upvotes.
[...] and they seem to want to make me wait until the very day of release before I get anything out of my backing unless I pay more money.
I dont know how much you gave them, but it seems it was less than the amount required to get you into one of the betas. And I dont remember there being a tier for "I want to get a pre-release demo"
So, you did not get what you did not pay for.
But maybe I just didnt read your whining thoroughly enough.
So, what is your *real* problem again? Them saying "hey you could still be a beta tester for $$" ?
Just for women ? That's really sexist !
The notion that "portraying men as muscled killing machines" is a kind of sexism has not yet arrived in the mainstream.
Which tells you interesting things about our society.
Still: women are more likely to be displayed in roles perceived as *de*grading, whereas men are portrayed with attributes perceived as positive (strength, power, etc). So the problem of sexism against females should get priority imho.
I'd rather have ratings done by a non-government funded agency.
Wat. How will having a private entity help with non-biased labeling?
My take on it as well.
There is a lights arms race on the streets. I wonder if we already passed the point of "more is safer".
Many Europeans are already used to using different keyboards at different times.
Yes. For me it's three.
Mostly, I'm using the Neo2 layout. When gaming, I use the standard German qwertz layout, and sometimes I have to use US English. It takes time getting used to it, but once you've mastered a layout, you're fine on ANY DEVICE.
The problem I see here is that the X1, by re-positioning or abandoning physical keys, effectively forces you to not only know 3 different layouts, but 3*2 = 6. Great.
(Plus, with the caps lock key gone, I'd have to hack Neo2 to get the 3rd level switch on the home or end key, blegh.)
Only? 2M informants is no more than 0.2% of the population.
Compare that to the East German Stasi, who had ~0.5% full time on their payrolls (about 100k of 16M ppl), plus ~3% of unpaid whisperers...
Yes, lignite. Insane as it seems, there are still villages being razed in Germany for lignite strip mining.
As it is, Vattenfall is the most destructive Swedish force in Germany since Gustav Adolf.
That's the 'noble primitive' myth. It's only a myth.
I wasn't talking about the idea that people in smaller tribes were inherently more moral people (which is what the noble primitive myth deals with), but that crime is low because of social pressures in small groups (where everyone knows everyone, and it is harder to get away with crime) or for other reasons. My point was that crime rate is smaller in a smaller social group, but more and more people prefer to live in/around cities.
depends on the type of crime, i guess.
i know that at least homicide is much lower in today's "western" society (about one in a hundred thousand per year) in comparison to contemporary hunter-gatherer tribes (one in a hundred to one in three thousand).
Video blocked in Germany. Im starting to hate it when ppl upload vids with unrelated music copyrighted to big labels
I thought that was satirical...but it seems to be real.
Wow.
Always someone to 1-up the stupidity thats in circulation.
abandoning != suspending
Has the timeline been changed by better archaeology or dating, or reclassification of remains? when I was at school (only 2 decades ago, in the UK) I was taught that the last Neanderthals died out around the time of the construction of the Pyramids in Egypt, no more than 6000 years ago
Just asked my sis (who sports a B.A. in prehistoric archaeology )... according to her, you must've had a very strange teacher -- historically, the figure for "how long ago did they die out" has been creeping down as more and more recent specimen were found. At no time did people think it was just 6ka ago.
Neanderthal were still plentiful in Europe around 7K to 5K BC
No, they were not. Neanderthals died out about 25ka ago.
... or is that just me and the people I know?
... after Mr Guttenberg had to quit as Defence Minister because of plagiarism, it seems to have become a sport to topple politicians this way. It's a fun thing to watch.
... or so I misread the headline at first glance.
What do you want to imply?
That, somehow, he who does not know how to debug the kernel should not play with bit operations?
Something like that?
Or, that we should stop researching the structure of the universe, and instead focus on what we usually do, which is making war, screwing other people and post photos of our dicks on teh internet?
Schellenberg, E. G., von Scheve, C.:
Emotional Cues in American Popular Music: Five Decades of the Top 40
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Don't know.
There are upright and honourable people in politics. There's black sheep, like everywhere, and maybe politics has more than its fair share of them.
But seeing how the media turn and twist every word you utter, and publish them again completely out of context, I imagine it's difficult to be upright and straightforward.
By the way, in Germany the Pirate Party is very big, at least in the news, these days. Most of them, even those that are in the spotlight, are political amateurs. As such, they dont all always talk ... cautiously with media (also, a lot of the political discussion happens in public fora etc). Recently, news show "Die Tagesschau" made my day when they quoted a party member saying something like "all parties contain 10% idiots". Never before had I heard the rather profane word "idiot" in that show. And I fear I wont hear it again soon ;)
Sci-fi authors are simply extrapolating from current trends, and correctly so.
And that's a pity. Because current trends are just that. Current.
Those who've read the cyberpunk genre knew well in advance what was to come, and better prepared for it
Those who haven't, don't even know what hit 'em
I havent. Please explain... what exactly hit me?
Wouldn't a giant impact change its orbit? Kind of like this...
The moon-creating impact was my first thought also. But I can imagine that it may also have heated things up a bit on its own, all without significant chaneg of orbit.
No, but the male mind is, or so I've been told.