Not exactly less "enjoyable", they simply reduced the frequency with which you could get the quest rewards from daily to weekly, while simultaneously increasing the rewards so that overall rate of reward was largely unaffected. IOW, they make it less attractive from a rewards perspective to try to make people spread out timewise. Likely won't work like they expect though.
I have one friend who drinks pretty heavily, and has always seemed uncannily aware of exactly how much alcohol is in his system and exactly how it's going to effect him. To the point that one night at a D&D game, he stood up, said he was going to pass out in about 30s, walked over to the cushy armchair away from the table (as opposed to the metal folding chair he was in), took the time to get comfortable and was then unable to be awakened for a while. I know of a few occasions where he's been driving drunk, and you can tell because as he becomes increasingly impaired he slows down a lot, leaves more distance before the next car, etc. Essentially, he assumes his reactions are slowed more thank he actually thinks they are, and changes his habits around that. Given that unimpaired he tends to drive much faster than the speed limit, weave through traffic, and generally do lots of moderately unsafe things at high speeds to get where he's going slightly sooner, he might actually be safer when he's just barely impaired enough to know that he's impaired. =p
Your example depends entirely on the perceived danger of the activity and the prtectiveness of the parent. If you replace football with something rougher or more likely to cause serious injury if something goes wrong, and have mildly overprotective parents then yes you'll get kids saying "I was at the mall" to cover up going out on a dirt bike in the woods or some other potentially dangerous activity. You definitely get teenagers lying about their mating habits constantly, though they aren't in any strict sense addicted to making out (or farther). I know I'd used excuses to hide fooling around with my gf when I was in high school (overtime on my workstudy in the computer lab, going out to the mall, etc, etc, etc). It really is entirely about the stigma associated with the act from the person you are talking to.
The issue I see coming is that the classes who can only act as a damage dealer are also generally the ones with the least powerful buffs/debuffs. When you have to choose between dealing X damage with Y buffs on a character or dealing 0.95*X damage, with Y++ buffs, and the ability to also act as a healer or tank by standing out of combat for 5 seconds, how do you make the classes that lack the flexibility of having the option to tank or heal worthwhile as a choice? WoW had already seen some of that, when looking at census values and doing the math, something like 15% (beyond what would be assumed as an even split of players going to DK) of those playing damage-only classes switched *BEFORE* making switching roles as simple as being out of combat for 5 seconds.
I think the implication was to keep production and possibly distribution illegal, but not possession or viewing. Then we go after the producers, which will actually reduce the net child abuse being performed. Going after possession doesn't reduce production, unfortunately.
Small correction for you, his name is Sen. Robert C. Byrd. With a Y. He's also held the longest time in office of any Senator, is the oldest Senator, and will be in that office until either he refuses to accept the seat or dies. He's brought too much into WV for anyone to even consider voting against him. Biting the hand that feeds and all that.
Of course they are the victims being innocent teenaged girls and all, but since the girls did take the pictures, they are also the perpetrators of this horrible crime. =)
Don't worry, I've had that here too, although it gets weird sometimes. I could demonstrate, by following the papertrails that a 1% error rate in a several thousand piece project was my fault and where exactly all remaining errors were coming from in the process. I was told that 20ish errors was "too many", after all the guy in the next bay dealing with a hundred piece job didn't have that many.
Heh, we have that problem with both temps (which we use only rarely for tasks that will be short lived) and laborers. We're lucky if they show up two days in a row, and if they can manage that then we're lucky if things take less than 10 explanations. That's before the political games played with "general laborers" and who they take orders from/report to (they tend to get passed around like a sort of perverse currency, "If you can let me use that forklift for 10 mins, I'll give you Jim for 15 min").
How is a digital signature verifying that the file is the original provided by Apple iTunes DRM in any meaningful sense? It places no restrictions on the file in any form, doesn't prevent or limit it's usage, simply acts as verification: "My checksum matches the checksum that this signature says it should, therefore the file has not been changed since purchased from iTunes".
Simple, most of those areas have small local volunteer fire departments. Fire service beyond that literally gets told "Go down for miles and make a right, third house on the left" because in many cases that side road they made the right onto simply doesn't have a name. Most fires are fought by solely by the local guys, for whom it's literally the smoke plume you can see from the fire department.
If there were a serious fire, say 2 miles up the unnamed road the branches off of Paint Creek however far up Paint Creek it branches off, they'd literally be told that if it was something big enough that the locals there couldn't handle it.
I'm well under 45. I'm also well aware of the benefits unions brought, being from WV, home of company scrip that can only be spent in the company stores, and coal towns. We literally have a history here of employers making a profit from *payroll* in the past.
At the same times, what unions became is not necessarily so great. Organizing workers for collective bargaining is good, some of the crap that gets tied to it is bad. If we could effectively separate the two, we'd be golden.
"If you unionize, I'll have to close down the shop, and you'll all be out of jobs, barring the union forwarding you somewhere else, likely out of state"
I have actually heard that spoken by the owner of a medium sized local company the last time the word union was used on their property. If you aren't in a position where you can trivially pick up and go somewhere else, and your employer tells you that before a union vote, do you think it will effect your vote?
Could be worse, they recently (as in past 5 years) started requiring a verifiable street address to get a license (not a mailing address, a physical address). This doesn't sound bad until you understand the practicalities of living in West Virginia -- the answer "My home doesn't have one" is often actually true. There's a big thing going on to reassign every lot in the state a "permanent" address, with a mechanism for determining new addresses for lots that get split or combined, based on the physical location of the lot. As opposed to the current method of just picking a number that isn't in use and running with it (which is what my employer did with the two facilities they built in the past 5 years -- literally just chose a number that wasn't in use already and claimed it as their own).
Depends on timing. Many economic policies take substantial time to have the intended effect. I'll be paying attention not to where the economy is, but which direction it's moving in 2010 and 2012 to see what effects Obama's policies are having.
Exactly. Noone seems to be able to demonstrate what male teachers/students due to "deny" females the same math instruction, at least initially (as in some things hold prerequisite courses and all that jazz -- if you can't pass algebra, you aren't taking numerical analysis, regardless of gender).
Some things get different distribution incoming. At my college for example, the professors seemed to go out of their way above and beyond what was given to the male students to try to help the female students in CS, all two of them (out of 30ish) in my graduating class. Ditto in high school -- fewer female student in the upper end math, but no real signs that they were discriminated against so much so as the average female student pursuing a schedule leaning harder towards other things (I had a dual credit psychology course with 60 students, 5 of them male, which was about as strict on limiting entrance as the AP calculus and physics classes were).
Yes, but if it's not even close, then not only do you not have legally mandated recounts, but you also don't have any claims either way of anyone stealing the election. Nobody tried to dispute Reagan for example, but in Bush's election, things were close enough and there were enough signs of potential malfeasance that it stuck out. In comparison, I'd expect the same of Republicans if it came down to a single state and there were enough signs of potential maliciousness to reverse the decision.
There were four of us, and it covered something like 3 counties. Met weekly, two of us were from the same school, same grade. It was intended as a supplemental thing, and we went into all kinds of interesting tangents.
In the school district where I grew up, and where my nephew now attends, they have a "gifted" program for those that (by their own testing), test IQ > 130, with +-3 points of that mark being taken on a case by case basis. I was in it when I was young, and my nephew currently is. Compared to others his age that I've known (including his older brothers/sisters when they were that age) you can tell. He picks up new skills/tasks/knowledge amazingly fast compared to them.
I have a feeling if they had tried to teach him to read earlier than they did he would have ended up an ubergeek bookworm like me (I was barely walking when my mother decided that I should at least look at the storybook she was reading, I picked it up early/quickly enough that I actually have no memory of a time before I was reading junior-high level stuff.
One of the four preachers at my place of employ has tried to "reach" me several times, but whenever I point out the gaping logical holes in whatever the point of the moment is, his answer is that the Bible has to be "spiritually received" rather than understood. Which then leads to the situation you mentioned where "they can't figure me out, and I can't figure them out either". It's like we're talking past each other.
So you shine a red laser pointer on the ground and wiggle it until they go? Neat.
(As an aside, there's nothing like a red laser pointer to work like a leash for a cat, especially since if they are trying to chew it off, the cat is already in your hands (though likely not in the way you intended).
Yeah, I figure it's mostly that it didn't come down to a close vote in a single state where some things that might be interpreted as being malicious if you squint at it the right way could have reversed things. Seriously, if it came down to a few hundred votes in a state where ACORN was very active do you not think that the republicans would have contested it? Instead we got a scenario where the only way McCain could have won would have involved several states changing, at least some of which were not even close.
Let's see, Palin may have more executive eperience that anyone on the ticket, but she also manages to have less federal-level experience than anyone on the ticket, and is also under more investigations related to ethics and public record laws than any candidate.
In comparison, I had heard of everything you had mentioned regarding Obama and Biden. In large part because it seemed like all the McCain campaign would do is attempt character assassination on Obama (that and say "Maverick" every other word). We had plenty of coverage of both candidates here (two local papers, one leans more left and the other more right [American scale of course]), both positive and negative but we as a state went Republican yet again.
It's actually kind of bizarre -- the state is largely democrat, heck about half of the state and county offices don't have a republican run because there's absolutely no chance one will win (they have a better chance with house seats and state legislature/governor, so they concentrate resources there), but we voted republican for president in 2000, 2004, and 2008.
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Kittens are at least consistently cute and affectionate. It's like having a warm snuggly fuzzy ball of love with a "blend" setting. =)
Not exactly less "enjoyable", they simply reduced the frequency with which you could get the quest rewards from daily to weekly, while simultaneously increasing the rewards so that overall rate of reward was largely unaffected. IOW, they make it less attractive from a rewards perspective to try to make people spread out timewise. Likely won't work like they expect though.
I have one friend who drinks pretty heavily, and has always seemed uncannily aware of exactly how much alcohol is in his system and exactly how it's going to effect him. To the point that one night at a D&D game, he stood up, said he was going to pass out in about 30s, walked over to the cushy armchair away from the table (as opposed to the metal folding chair he was in), took the time to get comfortable and was then unable to be awakened for a while. I know of a few occasions where he's been driving drunk, and you can tell because as he becomes increasingly impaired he slows down a lot, leaves more distance before the next car, etc. Essentially, he assumes his reactions are slowed more thank he actually thinks they are, and changes his habits around that. Given that unimpaired he tends to drive much faster than the speed limit, weave through traffic, and generally do lots of moderately unsafe things at high speeds to get where he's going slightly sooner, he might actually be safer when he's just barely impaired enough to know that he's impaired. =p
That's easy, so long as they don't have to be operating today. Charles Manson's followers were referred to as "the Family".
Your example depends entirely on the perceived danger of the activity and the prtectiveness of the parent. If you replace football with something rougher or more likely to cause serious injury if something goes wrong, and have mildly overprotective parents then yes you'll get kids saying "I was at the mall" to cover up going out on a dirt bike in the woods or some other potentially dangerous activity. You definitely get teenagers lying about their mating habits constantly, though they aren't in any strict sense addicted to making out (or farther). I know I'd used excuses to hide fooling around with my gf when I was in high school (overtime on my workstudy in the computer lab, going out to the mall, etc, etc, etc). It really is entirely about the stigma associated with the act from the person you are talking to.
The issue I see coming is that the classes who can only act as a damage dealer are also generally the ones with the least powerful buffs/debuffs. When you have to choose between dealing X damage with Y buffs on a character or dealing 0.95*X damage, with Y++ buffs, and the ability to also act as a healer or tank by standing out of combat for 5 seconds, how do you make the classes that lack the flexibility of having the option to tank or heal worthwhile as a choice? WoW had already seen some of that, when looking at census values and doing the math, something like 15% (beyond what would be assumed as an even split of players going to DK) of those playing damage-only classes switched *BEFORE* making switching roles as simple as being out of combat for 5 seconds.
I think the implication was to keep production and possibly distribution illegal, but not possession or viewing. Then we go after the producers, which will actually reduce the net child abuse being performed. Going after possession doesn't reduce production, unfortunately.
Small correction for you, his name is Sen. Robert C. Byrd. With a Y. He's also held the longest time in office of any Senator, is the oldest Senator, and will be in that office until either he refuses to accept the seat or dies. He's brought too much into WV for anyone to even consider voting against him. Biting the hand that feeds and all that.
Of course they are the victims being innocent teenaged girls and all, but since the girls did take the pictures, they are also the perpetrators of this horrible crime. =)
Don't worry, I've had that here too, although it gets weird sometimes. I could demonstrate, by following the papertrails that a 1% error rate in a several thousand piece project was my fault and where exactly all remaining errors were coming from in the process. I was told that 20ish errors was "too many", after all the guy in the next bay dealing with a hundred piece job didn't have that many.
Heh, we have that problem with both temps (which we use only rarely for tasks that will be short lived) and laborers. We're lucky if they show up two days in a row, and if they can manage that then we're lucky if things take less than 10 explanations. That's before the political games played with "general laborers" and who they take orders from/report to (they tend to get passed around like a sort of perverse currency, "If you can let me use that forklift for 10 mins, I'll give you Jim for 15 min").
How is a digital signature verifying that the file is the original provided by Apple iTunes DRM in any meaningful sense? It places no restrictions on the file in any form, doesn't prevent or limit it's usage, simply acts as verification: "My checksum matches the checksum that this signature says it should, therefore the file has not been changed since purchased from iTunes".
Simple, most of those areas have small local volunteer fire departments. Fire service beyond that literally gets told "Go down for miles and make a right, third house on the left" because in many cases that side road they made the right onto simply doesn't have a name. Most fires are fought by solely by the local guys, for whom it's literally the smoke plume you can see from the fire department. If there were a serious fire, say 2 miles up the unnamed road the branches off of Paint Creek however far up Paint Creek it branches off, they'd literally be told that if it was something big enough that the locals there couldn't handle it.
I'm well under 45. I'm also well aware of the benefits unions brought, being from WV, home of company scrip that can only be spent in the company stores, and coal towns. We literally have a history here of employers making a profit from *payroll* in the past. At the same times, what unions became is not necessarily so great. Organizing workers for collective bargaining is good, some of the crap that gets tied to it is bad. If we could effectively separate the two, we'd be golden.
"If you unionize, I'll have to close down the shop, and you'll all be out of jobs, barring the union forwarding you somewhere else, likely out of state" I have actually heard that spoken by the owner of a medium sized local company the last time the word union was used on their property. If you aren't in a position where you can trivially pick up and go somewhere else, and your employer tells you that before a union vote, do you think it will effect your vote?
Could be worse, they recently (as in past 5 years) started requiring a verifiable street address to get a license (not a mailing address, a physical address). This doesn't sound bad until you understand the practicalities of living in West Virginia -- the answer "My home doesn't have one" is often actually true. There's a big thing going on to reassign every lot in the state a "permanent" address, with a mechanism for determining new addresses for lots that get split or combined, based on the physical location of the lot. As opposed to the current method of just picking a number that isn't in use and running with it (which is what my employer did with the two facilities they built in the past 5 years -- literally just chose a number that wasn't in use already and claimed it as their own).
Depends on timing. Many economic policies take substantial time to have the intended effect. I'll be paying attention not to where the economy is, but which direction it's moving in 2010 and 2012 to see what effects Obama's policies are having.
Exactly. Noone seems to be able to demonstrate what male teachers/students due to "deny" females the same math instruction, at least initially (as in some things hold prerequisite courses and all that jazz -- if you can't pass algebra, you aren't taking numerical analysis, regardless of gender). Some things get different distribution incoming. At my college for example, the professors seemed to go out of their way above and beyond what was given to the male students to try to help the female students in CS, all two of them (out of 30ish) in my graduating class. Ditto in high school -- fewer female student in the upper end math, but no real signs that they were discriminated against so much so as the average female student pursuing a schedule leaning harder towards other things (I had a dual credit psychology course with 60 students, 5 of them male, which was about as strict on limiting entrance as the AP calculus and physics classes were).
Yes, but if it's not even close, then not only do you not have legally mandated recounts, but you also don't have any claims either way of anyone stealing the election. Nobody tried to dispute Reagan for example, but in Bush's election, things were close enough and there were enough signs of potential malfeasance that it stuck out. In comparison, I'd expect the same of Republicans if it came down to a single state and there were enough signs of potential maliciousness to reverse the decision.
There were four of us, and it covered something like 3 counties. Met weekly, two of us were from the same school, same grade. It was intended as a supplemental thing, and we went into all kinds of interesting tangents.
In the school district where I grew up, and where my nephew now attends, they have a "gifted" program for those that (by their own testing), test IQ > 130, with +-3 points of that mark being taken on a case by case basis. I was in it when I was young, and my nephew currently is. Compared to others his age that I've known (including his older brothers/sisters when they were that age) you can tell. He picks up new skills/tasks/knowledge amazingly fast compared to them.
I have a feeling if they had tried to teach him to read earlier than they did he would have ended up an ubergeek bookworm like me (I was barely walking when my mother decided that I should at least look at the storybook she was reading, I picked it up early/quickly enough that I actually have no memory of a time before I was reading junior-high level stuff.
One of the four preachers at my place of employ has tried to "reach" me several times, but whenever I point out the gaping logical holes in whatever the point of the moment is, his answer is that the Bible has to be "spiritually received" rather than understood. Which then leads to the situation you mentioned where "they can't figure me out, and I can't figure them out either". It's like we're talking past each other.
So you shine a red laser pointer on the ground and wiggle it until they go? Neat.
(As an aside, there's nothing like a red laser pointer to work like a leash for a cat, especially since if they are trying to chew it off, the cat is already in your hands (though likely not in the way you intended).
Yeah, I figure it's mostly that it didn't come down to a close vote in a single state where some things that might be interpreted as being malicious if you squint at it the right way could have reversed things. Seriously, if it came down to a few hundred votes in a state where ACORN was very active do you not think that the republicans would have contested it? Instead we got a scenario where the only way McCain could have won would have involved several states changing, at least some of which were not even close.
Let's see, Palin may have more executive eperience that anyone on the ticket, but she also manages to have less federal-level experience than anyone on the ticket, and is also under more investigations related to ethics and public record laws than any candidate.
In comparison, I had heard of everything you had mentioned regarding Obama and Biden. In large part because it seemed like all the McCain campaign would do is attempt character assassination on Obama (that and say "Maverick" every other word). We had plenty of coverage of both candidates here (two local papers, one leans more left and the other more right [American scale of course]), both positive and negative but we as a state went Republican yet again.
It's actually kind of bizarre -- the state is largely democrat, heck about half of the state and county offices don't have a republican run because there's absolutely no chance one will win (they have a better chance with house seats and state legislature/governor, so they concentrate resources there), but we voted republican for president in 2000, 2004, and 2008.