I think you missed a key word there, nascent. In other words, Google is ripe for turning into a monopoly in the future. I don't particularly think that they are or will be a monopoly, but in any case, I do believe you're mistaken in thinking the OP said that Google is a monopoly right now.
Also, there's delicious irony in accusing someone of being a troll, and calling them a retard in the same breath.
And if she's willing to sacrifice hers for yours, then she better get something valuable out of the deal... Presumably, if one is willing to sacrifice their career to take care of the kids, they consider that fulfilling enough that it does actually count as getting "something valuable". That's the only circumstances under which I'd sacrifice my career (being of the opinion that I'd get just as much fulfillment out of child-raising), I know that much.
Oh please. I make $32,000/year, don't live with my parents, and I still can afford health insurance. I'm currently getting it cheaper from work, but even if that weren't the case, I'd still be able to afford health insurance! Whether it's worth it or not is debateable (I hate insurance on principle, paying for things I don't use pisses me off), but it's perfectly affordable, unless you're in horrible health.
How do you figure he's ripping on jazz? My interpretation was that the post was sarcastic in nature, hence the suggestion of a "soft cushion" as a "cruel" punishment. So... you just flamed someone for saying, essentially, that jazz is pleasant to listen to.
a) Why must people invoke the version flame war?
b) Oh well, now it's invoked, might as well take part. 3.5ed is kinda iffy, and struck me as more of a recollection of all the errata into the core books than anything, but 3rd ed is no way just exploiting people for money. It's easily better than 2nd ed, which I found clunky and confusing as all hell. Down with 2nd ed, up with 3rd ed!
This whole thing could be avoided if you had sufficient ranks in Profession (Divorce Lawyer), you know. Maybe you can get the DM to make you let an untrained skill check, if you're lucky.
Nor are they terrorists. I agree with the GP, why the hell is DHS worrying about her? Granted, I don't think they're capable of doing the job they're supposed to be doing, but they should at least be focusing solely on that, no matter how ineffectually.
Those people who liked to buy a lot of CDs are now buying fewer CDs and downloading music illegally instead... I can come to two different opinions based on the same evidence This claim isn't based on evidence at all, much less the evidence of the study which says that P2P increases CD sales. It's not an unplausible conclusion, but you provide no evidence for it. Care to do so?
No, that applies to everyone. You can call it just suspicion, but in fact it's more than that. If we allow someone to widely publicize that a certain company acted in an unethical way, and we accept it without proof, requiring instead the company to prove that they did no wrong, there will be cases where the company, though having done no wrong, will be unable to prove it. People will then accept as fact that the company did wrong, when in fact they did not. The company will suffer needlessly, then. There's a very good reason that the burden of proof is on the accuser: it's so any idiot accuser can't randomly get lucky with a slanderous claim that can't be shrugged off for some reason. They have to prove it if they want to be believed.
The burden of proof is always on the accuser, never on the accused. That applies no matter who/what the accuser is, and no matter who/what the accused is, be they person, government, corporation, or coalition of grannies for great justice. As it should be.
Bullshit! A vote for a candidate in no way endorses past candidates on the ticket they happen to be running on. It's not as if your theoretical vote for Ron Paul would go back in time and cast a vote for Bush, too.
In fact, I bet it recognizes more devices than my Windoze Vista. I'll take that bet. Vista's device recognition is pretty damn solid, and is, in all likelihood, going to move from "solid" to "really good" with SP1. Now, I don't know OpenBSD's device recognition rate, but, I know that Linux still isn't as good as Windows, and it would stand to reason that OpenBSD, being less popular than Linux, will have even worse support in that department.
Now to be able to afford a zillion hardware configurations to test both OSes on...;)
Bull. No matter how many times Microsoft gets caught doing something bad, the burden of proof is still on the accuser, not the accused. Requiring Microsoft to prove that it DIDN'T engage in unethical behavior in order to stop judging them is, in itself, unethical. Hate Microsoft as much as you want, but if you're going to tarnish their reputation, the burden of proof will always be on you.
Well, one could always use DOSBox under Windows to run that old software, and then continue to run the rest of your Windows apps natively, better than Linux can. I think switching to another OS to run DOS apps is a bit of an extreme response, but maybe I'm misunderstanding you.
Hate to break it to you, dude, but like any other nation, we have citizens who proofread their work, and citizens who don't. Where do you get off criticizing "American" grammar like it's all one unit?
No offense taken, and I don't mean any offense when I say that the reaction to 9/11 was a complete overreaction. People die all the time, and as none of the people who died in this attack were personally connected to me, it means their deaths are no more meaningful than someone who died in an accident, or someone who died of peaceful old age. Is it good? Of course not. I don't want anyone to die... but I'm also not going to let the deaths of people who I had no idea even existed bother me, that would be completely senseless (if I did, how would I ever get through the day? I'd be constantly grieving over lost life).
And I can assure you that I am on no medications whatsoever, even though some have suggested that I should be.;)
Yes we are, and no they aren't. Although I haven't played Half-Life 2 episodes 1 and 2, so they might be, but I'm gonna take a wild guess that they're like the first two games.
Seriously... how can you have a segment on "They have annoying commercials", and not even mention ATT/Cingular's "idk my bff [name]" commercials? They have the dubious honor of being some of the only commercials (Axe being the other one, for the curious) to make me feel like my iq was lowered just by watching it.
Yes. That is not immersive, not from the perspective of storytelling. Sure, one could argue that it makes the game world feel more seamless (a different thing entirely), but it makes the story feel more distant and less relevant. Even Halo 3 (an excellent game otherwise) suffers from this problem to a small extent, in some parts where there's minor plot exposition through a scripted event that you watch in first person (I'm specifically thinking of the part where you're defending the Marine base on Earth, and the Sarge is talking to Cmdr Keyes on a viewscreen here). It just doesn't work as well as a cut scene.
Wrong. Any company, no matter how retarded their IT policies are, has the right to run their company the way they wish. If you don't like it, you are, of course, well within your rights if you choose not to work there. If you want to get the policy changed, that's your right too.
What you do not have is a "civic duty" to break the rules set down by your employer. Go ahead and do so, I don't care, but don't make yourself out to be a hero because you're doing it. You aren't. And this isn't even getting into how some of the "violations" you list are ridiculous, and are also well within a company's rights.
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Also, there's delicious irony in accusing someone of being a troll, and calling them a retard in the same breath.
Oh please. I make $32,000/year, don't live with my parents, and I still can afford health insurance. I'm currently getting it cheaper from work, but even if that weren't the case, I'd still be able to afford health insurance! Whether it's worth it or not is debateable (I hate insurance on principle, paying for things I don't use pisses me off), but it's perfectly affordable, unless you're in horrible health.
How do you figure he's ripping on jazz? My interpretation was that the post was sarcastic in nature, hence the suggestion of a "soft cushion" as a "cruel" punishment. So... you just flamed someone for saying, essentially, that jazz is pleasant to listen to.
The... world? Dude, D&D IS the system. That's all it is, a book of game mechanics. What do you mean by "the world"?
Sir, lying on slashdot isn't cool. You get people's hopes up when you do that.
a) Why must people invoke the version flame war?
b) Oh well, now it's invoked, might as well take part. 3.5ed is kinda iffy, and struck me as more of a recollection of all the errata into the core books than anything, but 3rd ed is no way just exploiting people for money. It's easily better than 2nd ed, which I found clunky and confusing as all hell. Down with 2nd ed, up with 3rd ed!
This whole thing could be avoided if you had sufficient ranks in Profession (Divorce Lawyer), you know. Maybe you can get the DM to make you let an untrained skill check, if you're lucky.
Nor are they terrorists. I agree with the GP, why the hell is DHS worrying about her? Granted, I don't think they're capable of doing the job they're supposed to be doing, but they should at least be focusing solely on that, no matter how ineffectually.
I'm assuming that the OP is taking the study's claim at face value.
The burden of proof is always on the accuser, never on the accused. That applies no matter who/what the accuser is, and no matter who/what the accused is, be they person, government, corporation, or coalition of grannies for great justice. As it should be.
Bullshit! A vote for a candidate in no way endorses past candidates on the ticket they happen to be running on. It's not as if your theoretical vote for Ron Paul would go back in time and cast a vote for Bush, too.
Now to be able to afford a zillion hardware configurations to test both OSes on... ;)
Bull. No matter how many times Microsoft gets caught doing something bad, the burden of proof is still on the accuser, not the accused. Requiring Microsoft to prove that it DIDN'T engage in unethical behavior in order to stop judging them is, in itself, unethical. Hate Microsoft as much as you want, but if you're going to tarnish their reputation, the burden of proof will always be on you.
Well, one could always use DOSBox under Windows to run that old software, and then continue to run the rest of your Windows apps natively, better than Linux can. I think switching to another OS to run DOS apps is a bit of an extreme response, but maybe I'm misunderstanding you.
Hate to break it to you, dude, but like any other nation, we have citizens who proofread their work, and citizens who don't. Where do you get off criticizing "American" grammar like it's all one unit?
Yes, because having played Half-Life 1 and 2 counts as not basing my opinion on experience.</sarcasm>
What universe do you live in, where playing the games doesn't count as experience?
And I can assure you that I am on no medications whatsoever, even though some have suggested that I should be. ;)
Yes we are, and no they aren't. Although I haven't played Half-Life 2 episodes 1 and 2, so they might be, but I'm gonna take a wild guess that they're like the first two games.
Seriously... how can you have a segment on "They have annoying commercials", and not even mention ATT/Cingular's "idk my bff [name]" commercials? They have the dubious honor of being some of the only commercials (Axe being the other one, for the curious) to make me feel like my iq was lowered just by watching it.
Yes. That is not immersive, not from the perspective of storytelling. Sure, one could argue that it makes the game world feel more seamless (a different thing entirely), but it makes the story feel more distant and less relevant. Even Halo 3 (an excellent game otherwise) suffers from this problem to a small extent, in some parts where there's minor plot exposition through a scripted event that you watch in first person (I'm specifically thinking of the part where you're defending the Marine base on Earth, and the Sarge is talking to Cmdr Keyes on a viewscreen here). It just doesn't work as well as a cut scene.
Ah, true. I forgot about that one, thanks. I'd actually pick it up for my 360 if the PC version wasn't coming out soonish.
Bioshock is not exclusive. Mass Effect and Fable 2 are, but aren't out yet, so they don't count. I'm judging by what's available right now.
What you do not have is a "civic duty" to break the rules set down by your employer. Go ahead and do so, I don't care, but don't make yourself out to be a hero because you're doing it. You aren't. And this isn't even getting into how some of the "violations" you list are ridiculous, and are also well within a company's rights.