EA can do what it damn well pleases about the overdraft fees. The class action suit might make them change there mind though. Any action can happen but whas an equivalent reaction.
How about solar panels? They run at ~100% efficiency in space and you would only need a small sail (If china says they need a solar sail the size of a football field to power all of china you'd need one the size of a nickle to power 25GW). (Yes, I am exaggerating, but you get my point)
All terrorists are try to start a revolution in one way or another. A lot of those in the middle east are trying to force people to believe in muslim. That right there is what a revolution is. We slap terrorist on them since they are trying to change the way our government works through means not controlled by the government. The Americans in the American Revolution were considered terrorists against the crown. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/revolutionary
of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
Remember The Legend of Zelda? Steal a set of arrows or a bomb from the store keep and he'd roll your ass. You'd have to make a quick get-a-way for the door while he wasn't looking.
I hate SUV's but the argument that you see "more suv's then anything else in some certain scenario then another" is probably more along the law of statistics. There are (or were a few years ago) more SUV's on the road then cars/trucks/vans/etc. So law of statistics is going to say that if an equal amount of dumbasses are driving and there are more SUV's on the road, then there will be more SUV's wrecked.
I will admit that security probably also has to do with it, but I feel pretty damn safe in my ((insert 5star crash rating car here))
A Computer Scientist should always be a good programmer -- it's one of the core skills in CS.
Good, no. Able to program? Yes. For example I had a coworker who just got his masters in CS develop a text parser. Instead of simply doing a loop that iterates every line, he argued with me it would be impossible without a character that delegated the end of a line. After I told him that was the '\n' character, he broke it down character by character and parsed it to find the \n character, where he then stored it into a double character array. It was quite a bit slower (exponentially) and after that I would not longer trust him to do anything. That was kinda a big deal. So again, Good? No by no means necessary.
"Equal opportunity" in education (grants/scholarships/financial aid) is not necessarily flawed.
BS, how many scholarships have you seen for white guys? I actually find it hilarious, both of my roommates graduated highschool with a 4.5 (4.0 +.5 weighted) GPA's and they didn't get one instate scholarship. I graduated High School with a 1.66r GPA and got a free ride + 4k/semester because I'm 1/8th native american. Whooo a whole eighth, but the school said "oh hey if we get him, we can knock that off for our Equal Opportunity".
Tell you what though, I didn't turn down the scholarship, it put food in my belly while I was in school and a roof over my head. As for the work place, yeah I've seen blacks hired for programming job for no other reason then to fill a spot. The guy I worked with on my last project wasn't a bad programmer, but no one would dare try to train him because if you told him he had a problem he'd scream racism. I don't know how many times I got a stink eye from him when I told him not to re-invent the wheel.
What do you call public schools? How about a police force? Or the court system? Or the Military? All of these are publicly funded infrastructures; I'm sure you may nowhere near the amount as warren buffet does into the public system but you are rewarded with the same protection by the military as he is. You say we don't extort communist ideals, I call you a liar.
Actually, A/C has a valid point here. On the one hand some people download and never buy, on the other hand you have people who buy and only download so they have a digital back up.
In most realities people both buy and download, they buy the games, music, movies that are worth re-playing/listening/watching. And discard those which are utter crap, believe it or not pirating is capitalism at work. It forces companies to manufacture goods on a competitive level that needs to actually be better for the consumer, instead of the consumer blindly trusting the company made a good product. I literally put the right to pirate with the right for free speech; a company shouldn't censor reviews of it's product nor should it stop people from demoing it with the right to return. The biggest problem is you can't just buy a game anymore, install it, play it for a week and return it as most retailers will not allow you to return it.
Besides reviewing a game/album/movie there is also the entirely financial side to the fact. Put bluntly, I can't afford as much entertainment I consume, even with a 6figure income. This is where one might construe it as theft; I like to call it the ideals of communism; but in actuality it assists our economy further by making a more even distribution of wealth across the companies. Each generation has had a "thing" up to only 5-10 years ago. They were either Music (70's/80's) Movies (80's/90's) Games (90's/00's) where a market was fully owned by a genre but what you are seeing now is that people buy only what they want of each and pirate the rest that isn't important. Again, with my previous point, and so they're is more need to innovate a broader spectrum of things (eBooks, PC's/Laptops, Phones, Music, Movies, Games) without a particular class of that owning the market. Basically, the more we pirate the more we win as a consumer.
Just some food for thought. This guy was only enabling what our market is changing into and I support his actions.*Pirate Hat and Eye Patch* arghhhhhh.
I wont go through them till I know what I'm putting my body through. I want clear and concise results, if they are on the off chances seeing huge genetic damage then f* that.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-Terahertz-Waves-Influence-DNA-125734.shtml "“Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none,” Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Center for Nonlinear Studies expert Boian Alexandrov, the leader of a research team looking into the effects of terahertz radiation, says. The team adds that the energy in these photons is not nearly as high as the ones in X-rays and ultraviolet light, which are perfectly capable of damaging our bodies over prolonged exposures. UV rays are known to trigger skin cancer."
But I have to say, people actually expect the government to predict the future. They purchased a missile defense system thinking that it would work, hoping, expecting, and they would not know the difference till it was built. Well now it's built and it's going to be considered a giant waste of government spending. It's not, and it will sadden me when FOX tries to push the blame of this on Obama....... Not saying I'm in favor or against him, I'm kinda mid-line. Oh and for you "big government bad, private corp good" (which I'm in line with the former part, not so much the latter); the private sector does this all the time, release a product that doesn't work to expectation. Kinda like Vista, ME, and FBSD 6 stating it would support more mobile devices.
When I traveled to Japan I ended up staying in a capsule hotel for one night. The problem (and only problem) I had with them is the fact that they allow smoking. Almost every japanese male (male only btw) smokes, as one of my old japanese coworkers said "You aren't a man if you don't smoke". Well, when you have 510 people smoking in a very very small building it becomes not only disgusting but I got really sick from it. After that day I stopped smoking, and haven't lit up since.
I would like to make DMCA take down notice of this post for infringing the/. trademark on One True Way. If you don't cease and desist lots of angry/. nerds will debate the values of Copyrights and Trademarks till you are driven to insanity.
Wait one freaking minute! That 30% google is so kindly taking off each one of my sales was supposed to go back to the telecommunication company anyways to "pay for the bandwidth required to supply my app".
How much is a persons life worth, say you are Walmart, Amazon, or any one of a million big retailers which make millions during the 7pm - 11pm? Not exactly 3am, but you go in, get your server back up and running. Get the applications redeployed, and you kept yourself from losing customers and sales. Many life insurance companies wont give you a fraction of what these businesses generate in an hour for your life. So really, which one is more valuable?
My only concern about gitmo is the lack of a trial. Even though we know the trial will be weighted against who ever is on it, the person would have otherwise been dead if not in there so quality of life doesn't make a difference to me.
As for the Health Care plan, this is one of the biggest reasons I voted for him. I want a public option. Public Option != dead private sector, but it makes it a real benefit for a company to pay for it instead of a necessity. Not only that, but it would force the insurance companies to compete with the government. If they can't do that they die, welcome to capitalism. On the other hand the FORCED insurance is fucking bullshit, you can't require someone to pay for health insurance and make it akin to needing car insurance. The right to drive a car is not a right, the right to exist is. I will not support any bill requiring that.
Fox may not have power in the house per-se, if they make one of there republican canidates look bad, say good by to your republican career.
On a related note: It's kinda funny here though, the Democrat party will never get anything done like the republicans do. The republicans all say "we will vote on issue X" and they all vote for it while the democrats squabble and argue about it and fail to beat a filibusterer. Really Obamas inability to get things passed is due to his own party fighting each other. Meh, fuck it, voting republican from here on out and will just try to change the party to kill useless corp programs and reagenomics (the stupidest fucking idea ever) and empower them for something else.
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EA can do what it damn well pleases about the overdraft fees. The class action suit might make them change there mind though. Any action can happen but whas an equivalent reaction.
News at 11.
How about solar panels? They run at ~100% efficiency in space and you would only need a small sail (If china says they need a solar sail the size of a football field to power all of china you'd need one the size of a nickle to power 25GW). (Yes, I am exaggerating, but you get my point)
All terrorists are try to start a revolution in one way or another. A lot of those in the middle east are trying to force people to believe in muslim. That right there is what a revolution is. We slap terrorist on them since they are trying to change the way our government works through means not controlled by the government. The Americans in the American Revolution were considered terrorists against the crown. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/revolutionary
of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
Remember The Legend of Zelda? Steal a set of arrows or a bomb from the store keep and he'd roll your ass. You'd have to make a quick get-a-way for the door while he wasn't looking.
Mod up for srs luls... I lol'd
Nevermind that it is actually illegal to put any distractions on the window of a car (such as a banner ad).
I hate SUV's but the argument that you see "more suv's then anything else in some certain scenario then another" is probably more along the law of statistics. There are (or were a few years ago) more SUV's on the road then cars/trucks/vans/etc. So law of statistics is going to say that if an equal amount of dumbasses are driving and there are more SUV's on the road, then there will be more SUV's wrecked.
I will admit that security probably also has to do with it, but I feel pretty damn safe in my ((insert 5star crash rating car here))
A Computer Scientist should always be a good programmer -- it's one of the core skills in CS.
Good, no. Able to program? Yes. For example I had a coworker who just got his masters in CS develop a text parser. Instead of simply doing a loop that iterates every line, he argued with me it would be impossible without a character that delegated the end of a line. After I told him that was the '\n' character, he broke it down character by character and parsed it to find the \n character, where he then stored it into a double character array. It was quite a bit slower (exponentially) and after that I would not longer trust him to do anything. That was kinda a big deal. So again, Good? No by no means necessary.
"Equal opportunity" in education (grants/scholarships/financial aid) is not necessarily flawed.
BS, how many scholarships have you seen for white guys? I actually find it hilarious, both of my roommates graduated highschool with a 4.5 (4.0 + .5 weighted) GPA's and they didn't get one instate scholarship. I graduated High School with a 1.66r GPA and got a free ride + 4k/semester because I'm 1/8th native american. Whooo a whole eighth, but the school said "oh hey if we get him, we can knock that off for our Equal Opportunity".
Tell you what though, I didn't turn down the scholarship, it put food in my belly while I was in school and a roof over my head. As for the work place, yeah I've seen blacks hired for programming job for no other reason then to fill a spot. The guy I worked with on my last project wasn't a bad programmer, but no one would dare try to train him because if you told him he had a problem he'd scream racism. I don't know how many times I got a stink eye from him when I told him not to re-invent the wheel.
Well at least they know what they're doing! I wouldn't want to go into an operation like that without an expert handling it.
What do you call public schools? How about a police force? Or the court system? Or the Military? All of these are publicly funded infrastructures; I'm sure you may nowhere near the amount as warren buffet does into the public system but you are rewarded with the same protection by the military as he is. You say we don't extort communist ideals, I call you a liar.
Actually, A/C has a valid point here. On the one hand some people download and never buy, on the other hand you have people who buy and only download so they have a digital back up.
In most realities people both buy and download, they buy the games, music, movies that are worth re-playing/listening/watching. And discard those which are utter crap, believe it or not pirating is capitalism at work. It forces companies to manufacture goods on a competitive level that needs to actually be better for the consumer, instead of the consumer blindly trusting the company made a good product. I literally put the right to pirate with the right for free speech; a company shouldn't censor reviews of it's product nor should it stop people from demoing it with the right to return. The biggest problem is you can't just buy a game anymore, install it, play it for a week and return it as most retailers will not allow you to return it.
Besides reviewing a game/album/movie there is also the entirely financial side to the fact. Put bluntly, I can't afford as much entertainment I consume, even with a 6figure income. This is where one might construe it as theft; I like to call it the ideals of communism; but in actuality it assists our economy further by making a more even distribution of wealth across the companies. Each generation has had a "thing" up to only 5-10 years ago. They were either Music (70's/80's) Movies (80's/90's) Games (90's/00's) where a market was fully owned by a genre but what you are seeing now is that people buy only what they want of each and pirate the rest that isn't important. Again, with my previous point, and so they're is more need to innovate a broader spectrum of things (eBooks, PC's/Laptops, Phones, Music, Movies, Games) without a particular class of that owning the market. Basically, the more we pirate the more we win as a consumer.
Just some food for thought. This guy was only enabling what our market is changing into and I support his actions.*Pirate Hat and Eye Patch* arghhhhhh.
Hey guys! Have you seen this thing called http://goatse.cx?!??! It's the coolest thing in the world!
What's sad is that I saw someone spoof a tinyurl to goatse the other day on slashdot. I weeped a tear that day. You think HL2 is old.
Or instead of another heavy plugin, you could just not click tinyurl links.
I wont go through them till I know what I'm putting my body through. I want clear and concise results, if they are on the off chances seeing huge genetic damage then f* that.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-Terahertz-Waves-Influence-DNA-125734.shtml
"“Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none,” Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Center for Nonlinear Studies expert Boian Alexandrov, the leader of a research team looking into the effects of terahertz radiation, says. The team adds that the energy in these photons is not nearly as high as the ones in X-rays and ultraviolet light, which are perfectly capable of damaging our bodies over prolonged exposures. UV rays are known to trigger skin cancer."
*Whoosh* I know
... ... Not saying I'm in favor or against him, I'm kinda mid-line. Oh and for you "big government bad, private corp good" (which I'm in line with the former part, not so much the latter); the private sector does this all the time, release a product that doesn't work to expectation. Kinda like Vista, ME, and FBSD 6 stating it would support more mobile devices.
But I have to say, people actually expect the government to predict the future. They purchased a missile defense system thinking that it would work, hoping, expecting, and they would not know the difference till it was built. Well now it's built and it's going to be considered a giant waste of government spending. It's not, and it will sadden me when FOX tries to push the blame of this on Obama.
He would also have to be in the pheonix wright objection position. When the arm becomes fully extended the action figure emotes "Objection!".
When I traveled to Japan I ended up staying in a capsule hotel for one night. The problem (and only problem) I had with them is the fact that they allow smoking. Almost every japanese male (male only btw) smokes, as one of my old japanese coworkers said "You aren't a man if you don't smoke". Well, when you have 510 people smoking in a very very small building it becomes not only disgusting but I got really sick from it. After that day I stopped smoking, and haven't lit up since.
And how I am supposed to address the Welsh Institute of Wood looking like a twit ? I look like somebody from Llanelli !
Twat
No breathing near my xbox720 the fat detector will hear you and tell me to hit the treadmill, then void my warranty.
I would like to make DMCA take down notice of this post for infringing the /. trademark on One True Way. If you don't cease and desist lots of angry /. nerds will debate the values of Copyrights and Trademarks till you are driven to insanity.
Wait one freaking minute! That 30% google is so kindly taking off each one of my sales was supposed to go back to the telecommunication company anyways to "pay for the bandwidth required to supply my app".
How much is a persons life worth, say you are Walmart, Amazon, or any one of a million big retailers which make millions during the 7pm - 11pm? Not exactly 3am, but you go in, get your server back up and running. Get the applications redeployed, and you kept yourself from losing customers and sales. Many life insurance companies wont give you a fraction of what these businesses generate in an hour for your life. So really, which one is more valuable?
My only concern about gitmo is the lack of a trial. Even though we know the trial will be weighted against who ever is on it, the person would have otherwise been dead if not in there so quality of life doesn't make a difference to me.
As for the Health Care plan, this is one of the biggest reasons I voted for him. I want a public option. Public Option != dead private sector, but it makes it a real benefit for a company to pay for it instead of a necessity. Not only that, but it would force the insurance companies to compete with the government. If they can't do that they die, welcome to capitalism. On the other hand the FORCED insurance is fucking bullshit, you can't require someone to pay for health insurance and make it akin to needing car insurance. The right to drive a car is not a right, the right to exist is. I will not support any bill requiring that.
Fox may not have power in the house per-se, if they make one of there republican canidates look bad, say good by to your republican career.
On a related note: It's kinda funny here though, the Democrat party will never get anything done like the republicans do. The republicans all say "we will vote on issue X" and they all vote for it while the democrats squabble and argue about it and fail to beat a filibusterer. Really Obamas inability to get things passed is due to his own party fighting each other. Meh, fuck it, voting republican from here on out and will just try to change the party to kill useless corp programs and reagenomics (the stupidest fucking idea ever) and empower them for something else.