Unfortunately, there is not a non-flash player version as near as I can tell.
This link has enough comments to explain it all. http://vice.typepad.com/vbs/2007/06/vbs_producer_m e.htmlhttp://www.vbs.tv/shows/index.php?show=Toxic%20Alb erta Is the source of the vids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Oil_Sands Is an article about what the vids cover but it doesn't say anything at all about how bad it is, and the long term (40 year) shortsightedness of it.
Unfortunately the wiki article does nothing more then say that "Its controversial". The vids really demonstrate how bad it is...
"690k 3 bedroom houses and so on..." Its insane economic growth, at a major cost to the environment and the people of Alberta Canada. And its backed by only people wanting to make a quick buck, and the oil companies handing out the paychecks.
The term aristocracy refers to a form of government where power is held by a small number of individuals from an elite or from noble families. Only this elite is allowed to compete for power and to hold the most powerful positions in state. The transmission of power is often hereditary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy
In regards to my post, Busch Sr, Jr, and Jeb Busch qualify as Aristocracy as far as I'm concerned, I live in Florida, and I only recently was freed from bondage under Jeb and put back into bondage with his close cousin Christ.
Aristocracy also tend to hold most of the wealth in the country since they hold all of the power in the country. They are also closely allied with very wealthy tradesmen such as Bill Gates and Houses such as House Haliburton or House Ratheon.
Alas if we only had House Atreides to set us free from the despotic rule of House Busch and his legions of Fundamentalist Sardukar Troopers.
Never say never.... Its already the United States of Aristocracy now. Unless your a multimillionaire, an oil or energy company, or a fundi zealot institution good luck "lobbying" or "protecting" your rights here...
and that did not stop carmak/id software from releasing quake 4, doom3 binaries for linux... nore did they consider it "stupid" of themselves to have ever done it.
Neither did that stop them from releasing q3 source... or the enemy territory source...
FYI also the benchmarks used here are simply specific games... a newer game like WoW or... maybe something new as HL2 is not going to perform the same way... or some cheep hack by EA or some software sweatshop is going to behave radically different then ET, and Doom3.
Not to mention - yeah conservative CAD companies push openGL but it is truly a more "serious" library then directX considering there is a market for video/accelerator cards that support it were the cards themselves cost 1000$'s of dollars.
Is directX a great way to get to the desktop/everyday joe who works at a department store and doesnt want to hack to get his games to work and wants to shell out 50$ for a shiny new xbox360 title yeah... its perfect
but why hate the geeks and their cedega/wine/wine cvs/source? its something good. one day it may even surpass directx... like for example fixing a directx bug before directx even patches itself ( i think it already has for some older DX releases...), IF and when it can catch up... plus its not vmware cedega translates dx directly into opengl your not running windows to run directx to run your game... your running an api for an api... like a generic database driver that is supposed to provide common access to a specific database driver. its not as bad overhead as you think and is very well implemented in wine/cedega.
Me i own a xbox360 ive shelled out 50$ for a shiny new sweatshop title or two... but i also have run EQ, starcraft, WoW, and a few other games under cedega/wine... did it take a few hrs of work, some compiling... i had to compile cvs source code to get world of warcraft running =P... but it did run pretty darn well even under linux. Ran quake3, doom3, and UT under linux natively of course the novelty... (that also took some working, to install the version of ut i had... and get mesaGl libs removed with proper nVidia libs in place... and stuff linked all correctly back when doom3 was new and young...)
Because Jack Lives in Florida... we (I being a floridian) are to ignorant and pacified by our evil opressive southern baptist regime to stand up for our selves and throw rotten tomatoes at him.
And because he is not trying to ban beer, lotto tickets, and guns.
No one "deserves" public infrastructure, law enforcement, or a welfare state. I do not appreciate a large institution with many people payed by my own money I earn telling me I will pay them or else...
Without this "so called high state of civilization" from our taxes you so espouse as being the greatest thing ever... I would still work, I would work for myself. I would still survive, and still probably be generally happy unless I was depressed or something...
Granted with an anarchistic low level privative civilization I doubt the human race would be exploring space or have the capabilities to do so. But we should work towards less tax employees/accountants and more scientists.
So you are incorrect in saying that we humans are dependent on taxes. We really aren't only a certain cross section of our species is dependent on taxes let me list just a few:
Lawyers - to enforce laws mandated by the people doing the taxing as well as to enforce specific tax related laws
Presidents - cause they are the big boss man figurehead of our lovely tax system they exist completely at the behest of the people they lead
Soldiers and police cause they come and take you out of the system if you don't pay your taxes and they are the primary argument for needing taxes cause no one can protect themselves appearantly
Priests ala tithes the original tax
cough... its a vicious cycle and the communists are good at taxing 120%
Personally I think some taxes are acceptable - I wouldn't want to live in total chaos - however i think taxing someone 3 times on a prize they won without expending any of societies resources to achieve it is a little excessive and socialistic (i.e. since one person won a trip then everyone should get a piece of his or her pie too).
The human race is defined on competitiveness and he has just been taught that being smart and able to answer Java questions is pointless cause he has to take care of 100 nameless strangers through his taxes... which probably would have went to go fund our now corrupt and defunct government here in the USA (state or federal or what have you).
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This proves Linux has a smaller carbon footprint then other OS's!
Unfortunately, there is not a non-flash player version as near as I can tell. This link has enough comments to explain it all. http://vice.typepad.com/vbs/2007/06/vbs_producer_m e.html
http://www.vbs.tv/shows/index.php?show=Toxic%20Alb erta Is the source of the vids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Oil_Sands Is an article about what the vids cover but it doesn't say anything at all about how bad it is, and the long term (40 year) shortsightedness of it.
Unfortunately the wiki article does nothing more then say that "Its controversial". The vids really demonstrate how bad it is...
"690k 3 bedroom houses and so on..." Its insane economic growth, at a major cost to the environment and the people of Alberta Canada. And its backed by only people wanting to make a quick buck, and the oil companies handing out the paychecks.
The problem is she won't win VS Hollywood The oil industry already did something worse then ban camcorders in alberta http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=5981 99&lineup=987200225&firstVideo=0
The problem is Canadian politicians are selling out to the highest bidder, "In the name of progress"...
The term aristocracy refers to a form of government where power is held by a small number of individuals from an elite or from noble families. Only this elite is allowed to compete for power and to hold the most powerful positions in state. The transmission of power is often hereditary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy In regards to my post, Busch Sr, Jr, and Jeb Busch qualify as Aristocracy as far as I'm concerned, I live in Florida, and I only recently was freed from bondage under Jeb and put back into bondage with his close cousin Christ. Aristocracy also tend to hold most of the wealth in the country since they hold all of the power in the country. They are also closely allied with very wealthy tradesmen such as Bill Gates and Houses such as House Haliburton or House Ratheon. Alas if we only had House Atreides to set us free from the despotic rule of House Busch and his legions of Fundamentalist Sardukar Troopers.
Never say never.... Its already the United States of Aristocracy now. Unless your a multimillionaire, an oil or energy company, or a fundi zealot institution good luck "lobbying" or "protecting" your rights here...
Why not force the military industrial complex to all take 1 level of pure caster and learn colorspray?!
They can subdue 1d4+1 HD of illegals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (mobs)
pretty close...
i prefer slackwares simple tgz.sh method...
and that did not stop carmak /id software from releasing quake 4, doom3 binaries for linux... nore did they consider it "stupid" of themselves to have ever done it.
... maybe something new as HL2 is not going to perform the same way... or some cheep hack by EA or some software sweatshop is going to behave radically different then ET, and Doom3.
... did it take a few hrs of work, some compiling... i had to compile cvs source code to get world of warcraft running =P... but it did run pretty darn well even under linux. Ran quake3, doom3, and UT under linux natively of course the novelty... (that also took some working, to install the version of ut i had... and get mesaGl libs removed with proper nVidia libs in place... and stuff linked all correctly back when doom3 was new and young...)
Neither did that stop them from releasing q3 source... or the enemy territory source...
FYI also the benchmarks used here are simply specific games... a newer game like WoW or
Not to mention - yeah conservative CAD companies push openGL but it is truly a more "serious" library then directX considering there is a market for video/accelerator cards that support it were the cards themselves cost 1000$'s of dollars.
Is directX a great way to get to the desktop/everyday joe who works at a department store and doesnt want to hack to get his games to work and wants to shell out 50$ for a shiny new xbox360 title yeah... its perfect
but why hate the geeks and their cedega/wine/wine cvs/source? its something good. one day it may even surpass directx... like for example fixing a directx bug before directx even patches itself ( i think it already has for some older DX releases...), IF and when it can catch up... plus its not vmware cedega translates dx directly into opengl your not running windows to run directx to run your game... your running an api for an api... like a generic database driver that is supposed to provide common access to a specific database driver. its not as bad overhead as you think and is very well implemented in wine/cedega.
Me i own a xbox360 ive shelled out 50$ for a shiny new sweatshop title or two... but i also have run EQ, starcraft, WoW, and a few other games under cedega/wine
Sales people do not work on geeks or intelligent people... when will sales people stop trying to sell me snake oil?
Because Jack Lives in Florida... we (I being a floridian) are to ignorant and pacified by our evil opressive southern baptist regime to stand up for our selves and throw rotten tomatoes at him.
And because he is not trying to ban beer, lotto tickets, and guns.
No one "deserves" public infrastructure, law enforcement, or a welfare state. I do not appreciate a large institution with many people payed by my own money I earn telling me I will pay them or else... Without this "so called high state of civilization" from our taxes you so espouse as being the greatest thing ever... I would still work, I would work for myself. I would still survive, and still probably be generally happy unless I was depressed or something... Granted with an anarchistic low level privative civilization I doubt the human race would be exploring space or have the capabilities to do so. But we should work towards less tax employees/accountants and more scientists. So you are incorrect in saying that we humans are dependent on taxes. We really aren't only a certain cross section of our species is dependent on taxes let me list just a few: Lawyers - to enforce laws mandated by the people doing the taxing as well as to enforce specific tax related laws Presidents - cause they are the big boss man figurehead of our lovely tax system they exist completely at the behest of the people they lead Soldiers and police cause they come and take you out of the system if you don't pay your taxes and they are the primary argument for needing taxes cause no one can protect themselves appearantly Priests ala tithes the original tax cough... its a vicious cycle and the communists are good at taxing 120% Personally I think some taxes are acceptable - I wouldn't want to live in total chaos - however i think taxing someone 3 times on a prize they won without expending any of societies resources to achieve it is a little excessive and socialistic (i.e. since one person won a trip then everyone should get a piece of his or her pie too). The human race is defined on competitiveness and he has just been taught that being smart and able to answer Java questions is pointless cause he has to take care of 100 nameless strangers through his taxes... which probably would have went to go fund our now corrupt and defunct government here in the USA (state or federal or what have you).