Except neodymium is not scarce at all, it's about as common as lead. What is scarce is countries willing to mine it as cheaply as China does. And if you think other countries will have a better long-term strategic plan you don't know jack about China. Most Westerrn countries won't plan further than the next election, if they plan that far ahead at all.
Your paranoia is way off the deep end. Yes, Chinas industries including mining are in a growth phase. Yet you see growth in raw materials as some sort of world domination plot not a natural extension of their growth in manufacturing, equate a failed attempt to buy a zinc mine as taking over Australias mining, and somehow see stockpiling minerals as a threat when everybody does it.
Chinas "bid to dominate the world, economically, politically, and militarily" is merely a bid to have a strong economy, keep their government stable and be able to defend themselves with more than ancient Soviet hand-me-downs. Their wanting an 'Assassins Mace' is no different to the black-ops projects of any advanced nation.
The Chinese want a strong China, they aren't some maniacal Bond villan wanting world domination. There's only one country around who behaves like that anymore.
I'm afraid it doesn't allow more than a single resolution on my screen at once, it just offers a resizable window. Besides which, we're talking about hardware here.
* It can be used to change video hardware mid-frame. This allows the Amiga to change video configuration, including resolution, between scanlines. This allows the Amiga to display different horizontal resolutions, different colour depths, and entirely different frame buffers on the same screen. The AmigaOS graphical user interface allows two programs to operate at different resolutions in different buffers, while both are visible on the screen simultaneously.
So is the Amiga more powerful than both VirtualBox and the Mac? Again, Amiga wins!:P
Well, lets see, after over a century of colonial powers slicing up China into spheres of influence you had the eight nation alliance supressing the Boxer rebellion around 1900, then a period of instability with warlords controlling provinces, then finally reunification and the split between the communists and nationalists.
China from 1912 was never expansionist and in fact lost control of Tibet and Mongolia, as well as several islands including Taiwan and Macau. So China shrinking is supposed to give me nightmares?
I guess your grasp of history is about as good as your grasp of stability in Iraq.
If only there was some way to find out how the whole operation was conducted, like a fucking link in the summary that explains how none of your fantasy is in any way true and you have wasted your time, mine, and whoever else reads this crap before it's modded into oblivion you imbecile.
You don't need a professional cast and a corporate backed budget (though I'm sure it helps), but you do need talent. If you're a trekkie you should know about Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning as an example of a low budget knockoff done right.
While these guys might suck, they still don't deserve suppression. Surely some legal disclaimer bullshit should suffice to create a fan work. Perhaps if they knew it would be legitimate they could have recruited better talent and it wouldn't suck so much.
It's almost like a spellchecker, except it's not, but it is, but it's slightly different so it's not. Either way, neither should be patentable in a sane society. It's just too fucking obvious.
Any automobile mechanic who can't fix their car, plumber who can't fix their toilet, the aerospace or mobile phone engineer that can't fix their plane or phone is incompetent by the fact that they are claiming competence in that field.
If system administration isn't second nature to your developer, he is incompetent.
There's a huge difference in selective breeding of foodstocks and intraspecies genetic manipulation, not to mention the bizzare cross species modifications being made.
Well this is advocating replacing alcohol with benzodiazapines, potent anti-psychotic prescription medication. I'd say synthetic cocaine or herion wouldn't be out of the question for Professor Nutt.
Well it's the christian labels they use that impose the message. Until a publisher comes along that will impose quality as well as preaching religious games will lack polish and be bland. Still, not all christian rock is bland shite, quite a bit of it stands up quite well against other pop/rock bands.
It'll be a long time before we see any other religions back modern pop music or a gaming studio like Christians do though. It's not like they'd take on a jewish band.
X Factor winner Joe McElderry has branded Rage Against The Machine's 'Killing In The Name' "dreadful" after finally hearing his chart nemesis.
The star, who is currently 11,000 sales ahead of the Los Angeles band with 'The Climb', said he hated the track.
"They can't be serious!" he said. "I had no idea what it sounded like. It's dreadful and I hate it. How could anyone enjoy this? Can you imagine the grandmas hearing this over Christmas lunch?
"I wouldn't buy it. It's a nought out of ten from me. Simon Cowell wouldn't like it. They wouldn't get through to boot camp on The X Factor - they're just shouting."
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Except neodymium is not scarce at all, it's about as common as lead. What is scarce is countries willing to mine it as cheaply as China does. And if you think other countries will have a better long-term strategic plan you don't know jack about China. Most Westerrn countries won't plan further than the next election, if they plan that far ahead at all.
Your paranoia is way off the deep end. Yes, Chinas industries including mining are in a growth phase. Yet you see growth in raw materials as some sort of world domination plot not a natural extension of their growth in manufacturing, equate a failed attempt to buy a zinc mine as taking over Australias mining, and somehow see stockpiling minerals as a threat when everybody does it.
Chinas "bid to dominate the world, economically, politically, and militarily" is merely a bid to have a strong economy, keep their government stable and be able to defend themselves with more than ancient Soviet hand-me-downs. Their wanting an 'Assassins Mace' is no different to the black-ops projects of any advanced nation.
The Chinese want a strong China, they aren't some maniacal Bond villan wanting world domination. There's only one country around who behaves like that anymore.
I'm afraid it doesn't allow more than a single resolution on my screen at once, it just offers a resizable window. Besides which, we're talking about hardware here.
From wikipedia:
Uses of the copper
* It can be used to change video hardware mid-frame. This allows the Amiga to change video configuration, including resolution, between scanlines. This allows the Amiga to display different horizontal resolutions, different colour depths, and entirely different frame buffers on the same screen. The AmigaOS graphical user interface allows two programs to operate at different resolutions in different buffers, while both are visible on the screen simultaneously.
So is the Amiga more powerful than both VirtualBox and the Mac? Again, Amiga wins! :P
Well, lets see, after over a century of colonial powers slicing up China into spheres of influence you had the eight nation alliance supressing the Boxer rebellion around 1900, then a period of instability with warlords controlling provinces, then finally reunification and the split between the communists and nationalists.
China from 1912 was never expansionist and in fact lost control of Tibet and Mongolia, as well as several islands including Taiwan and Macau. So China shrinking is supposed to give me nightmares?
I guess your grasp of history is about as good as your grasp of stability in Iraq.
An estimated 275 million books have been published. If you were to read one an hour, it would take you over 30,000 years.
Hardware light years ahead is it? So can I have multiple resolutions present at the same time on my monitor? No? Amiga wins again! :p
If only there was some way to find out how the whole operation was conducted, like a fucking link in the summary that explains how none of your fantasy is in any way true and you have wasted your time, mine, and whoever else reads this crap before it's modded into oblivion you imbecile.
We've all read the Art of Programming, and are therefore all artists. Q.E.D.
You don't need a professional cast and a corporate backed budget (though I'm sure it helps), but you do need talent. If you're a trekkie you should know about Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning as an example of a low budget knockoff done right.
While these guys might suck, they still don't deserve suppression. Surely some legal disclaimer bullshit should suffice to create a fan work. Perhaps if they knew it would be legitimate they could have recruited better talent and it wouldn't suck so much.
Slavery, unless consensual, is clearly contradictory.
So slavery is illogical except when it's not. Nice paradox.
Gender equality (with provisions for maternity) is also an easy deduction.
So gender inequality is illogical except when it's not. Another nice paradox.
Religion on the other hand is just (usually malignant and malicious) distraction having no true business in the matter.
So religion is a malignant and malicious distraction, and your logical basis for this opinion is what exactly?
Two words: incompletness theorem. Any system of logic complex enough to be useful will result in truths that cannot be proven. You always need faith.
It's almost like a spellchecker, except it's not, but it is, but it's slightly different so it's not. Either way, neither should be patentable in a sane society. It's just too fucking obvious.
Well that's cleared that up then.
IMHO you are wrong, it is humble.
Any automobile mechanic who can't fix their car, plumber who can't fix their toilet, the aerospace or mobile phone engineer that can't fix their plane or phone is incompetent by the fact that they are claiming competence in that field.
If system administration isn't second nature to your developer, he is incompetent.
There's a huge difference in selective breeding of foodstocks and intraspecies genetic manipulation, not to mention the bizzare cross species modifications being made.
I for one welcome our mutant zombie clone goat overlords.
Well this is advocating replacing alcohol with benzodiazapines, potent anti-psychotic prescription medication. I'd say synthetic cocaine or herion wouldn't be out of the question for Professor Nutt.
Well it's the christian labels they use that impose the message. Until a publisher comes along that will impose quality as well as preaching religious games will lack polish and be bland. Still, not all christian rock is bland shite, quite a bit of it stands up quite well against other pop/rock bands.
It'll be a long time before we see any other religions back modern pop music or a gaming studio like Christians do though. It's not like they'd take on a jewish band.
He better watch out for the hindus...
Really they all pale in comparison to the modern death tolls around the fertile crescent.
I'd prefer one that covered the missionaries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.
Just watch and be enlightened. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/208-Eve-Online
Nerds who play eve are to nerds what nerds are to normal people.
Get noscript you fool! Lack of noscript is unnacceptable on a win box.
You might like this article then:
X Factor winner Joe McElderry has branded Rage Against The Machine's 'Killing In The Name' "dreadful" after finally hearing his chart nemesis.
The star, who is currently 11,000 sales ahead of the Los Angeles band with 'The Climb', said he hated the track.
"They can't be serious!" he said. "I had no idea what it sounded like. It's dreadful and I hate it. How could anyone enjoy this? Can you imagine the grandmas hearing this over Christmas lunch?
"I wouldn't buy it. It's a nought out of ten from me. Simon Cowell wouldn't like it. They wouldn't get through to boot camp on The X Factor - they're just shouting."