It seems a little odd to be upset that they are more upfront about their plans for expansion packs and the content that will be in them. Each race will still be playable in multiplayer. There is no indication that the SCII won't have as much single player content as the original SC, albeit you'll only be able to play one races campaign.
I'd much rather wait and see more details on what it entails before passing judgement.
If you really want to have privacy in the digital age the only winning move is not to play. The people in control of things want to endlessly analyze every single thing they can in order to better control and shape society to their will and it is too easy to get that data through computers.
"Wah, stop bashing my favorite big corporation! The other big corporations are no better, blah blah, whinge, whinge".
CLUE: intelligent people don't have "favorite" big corporations.
Where did he profess his love for any corporation? Pointing out that Google gets much of its innovation from others doesn't mean he loves Microsoft or any other large corporation. I guess an intelligent person such as yourself already knew that.
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place,
-Eric Schmidt, Google CEO.
I'm guessing Google has prior art for all of this. Although Google claims all of the information it has on you is for serving you ads, I've yet to see an ad that didn't have something to do with what was being searched for at the time.
Wrong. There is plenty of money for black budget projects and the militarization of space that'll be launched out of Air Force Space Command, just not enough for peaceful purposes.
So basically what you are saying is, let's find any way this can be marginally useful and attribute it to the only reason why Google is doing this and disregard everything else, thus they are not evil.
Actually, I wouldn't expect that from them at all. The military has no real interest in spying on the civilian population. Perhaps the FBI, CIA, or NSA might do the stuff you were spouting off about, but the military is going to be focused on conducting electronic and cyber warfare, i.e. destroying the enemy's electronic infrastructure and protecting our military's infrastructure.
if you want to be hysterically paranoid, at least do it about the right things...
You're calling someone paranoid by because they aren't correctly identifying which part of the government is spying on them illegally? That's a new one.
In 2005, NBC obtained a secret 400-page Defense Department document listing more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” across the country related to peaceful anti-war demonstrations. “The Defense Department document is the first inside look at how the U.S. military has stepped up intelligence collection inside this country since 9/11, which now includes the monitoring of peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups,” NBC reported.
In the wake of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon established the Counterintelligence Field Activity. CIFA illegally conducted broad domestic operations that targeted antiwar and other dissident domestic groups and logged these in the TALON database. After the unit received negative publicity, the Pentagon’s senior intelligence official, James R. Clapper, recommended to Sec. Def. Gates that the counterintelligence field office be dismantled and that some of its operations be placed under the authority of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Liberty Dollars were not authorized by law, and therefore the minting of same is illegal.
It depends on the definition and meaning of "current money." Gold and silver coins and certificates have long since been minted or printed for the purpose of being put into circulation.
Since it has been awhile since silver and gold coins have been considered "current money" it would be reasonable to assume that is no longer against the law to mint, utter or pass your own for private use.
It's really only illegal if you are somewhat successful.
The FBI went after Liberty Dollar, which sold and real gold and silver coins and encouraged people and business to use them voluntarily instead of a Federal Reserve Note.
The legal tender law doesn't apply to people using other currencies in private transactions. It basically means that banks and people can't force you to pay anything but dollars on debt that you owe. However, here is a gem from the FBI Press release:
“People understand that there is only one legal currency in the United States. When groups try to replace the U.S. dollar with coins and bills that don’t hold the same value, it affects the economy. Consumers were using their hard-earned money to buy goods and services, then getting fake change in return,” said Owen Harris, the Special Agent in Charge of the Charlotte Division of the FBI. “No one in this country is above or beyond the law, and our law enforcement partners will continue to bring violators to justice.
There are so many things wrong and hilariously ironic with this statement I'll let it stand as is.
The FBI's basic argument was that the liberty dollar looked too much like "real money" and they must preserve the monopoly of the Federal Reserve to "save the economy."
Many American's, whether they are democrat or republican aren't very happy with Obama because he promised two major things with healthcare: he would not force people to buy insurance and that he would televise healthcare discussions with insurance and big pharma companies.
He did a complete 180 on both of those promises. Many democrats realize what Congressman Dennis Kucinich said, that the current healthcare bills are bailouts to the insurance companies and wall street.
On topic for the FBI; they have always broken the law in very deliberate ways. Go read about the FBI's COINTELPRO operations.
Or you can read this Church Committee Report on how the FBI illegally spied on Martin Luther King Jr. for years, using the Communist scare to justify their actions (the more things that change...)
There are plenty of legitimate reasons why people don't trust their government and it has nothing to do with what color fish people enjoy consuming. This country was founded on the principle of treating government actions with a large dose of skepticism.
"This hospital isn't giving us 20% year-over-year; it's only giving me 1%! I can get that from a damned CD! Fuhggedaboudid." And nobody bats an eyelid, everyone takes for granted that a hospital is only valuable if it's nice and profitable, otherwise it "couldn't compete" and "should" close in a free market economy.
You forget the small fact that the medical industry ceased to be a free marked in the U.S. in the late 1960's.
There is a thing called a Certificate Of Need (CON), which are aptly named. Essentially you need a CON from a person like Illinois Governor Blagojevich in order to open a hospital, increase the amount of beds, add a new wing, add any large equipment, etc.
So if you didn't grease the right people new hospitals don't get built. Demand goes up while supply doesn't and costs skyrocket. The medical industry long relied on charities like the Shriners and many others to keep hospitals running. The costs have gotten so high that all but a few charities can actually fund a hospital.
I think you've been watching too many Hospital dramas where things are run like a business, when in reality its all politics and government intervention that has screwed the healthcare industry.
Just wait for the posters who state that, just like 9/11, this was actually organized by the US Government to foster dislike of China to facilitate favorable actions by the US military.
I sure hate those damn Chinese for flying planes into the World Trade Center and the Germans for bombing Pearl Harbor.
How on earth did you get modded insightful? Oh right, I must be new here.
But Joone thinks the biggest hurdle for 3D isn't so much the cost as the glasses: people don't want to be encumbered by eyewear when viewing a film, says Joone
That's certainly what people fear most: getting caught wearing glasses while watching porn.
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Where have they said they aren't releasing a complete game at launch and where have the released their pricing scheme?
You are simply making assumptions.
It seems a little odd to be upset that they are more upfront about their plans for expansion packs and the content that will be in them. Each race will still be playable in multiplayer. There is no indication that the SCII won't have as much single player content as the original SC, albeit you'll only be able to play one races campaign.
I'd much rather wait and see more details on what it entails before passing judgement.
So when they launch a false flag attack on the internet in order to shut it down and censor it they can have a report and say, "See, we told you!"
I, for one welcome our new aquatic suicide bombing robot overlords.
The article states that he indeed, did:
Mr Atkinson was involved in introducing tough new laws to outlaw bikie gangs in South Australia several years ago.
At the time he said politicians and public officials had to put themselves "on the line" to take the gangs on.
How brave of him. Now he has to bravely face some teenager leaving a note at his door that most assuredly called him a "nigger faggot."
You are agreeing to give up your privacy. You are not losing - you surrendered.
Doesn't he know that AT&T's motto is, "Your World Delivered... to the NSA"
Then you have already won because the only winning move is not to play.
If you really want to have privacy in the digital age the only winning move is not to play. The people in control of things want to endlessly analyze every single thing they can in order to better control and shape society to their will and it is too easy to get that data through computers.
See: The Trap
George W. Bush spent most of his academic career in private schools in New England.
Translation:
"Wah, stop bashing my favorite big corporation! The other big corporations are no better, blah blah, whinge, whinge".
CLUE: intelligent people don't have "favorite" big corporations.
Where did he profess his love for any corporation? Pointing out that Google gets much of its innovation from others doesn't mean he loves Microsoft or any other large corporation. I guess an intelligent person such as yourself already knew that.
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place,
-Eric Schmidt, Google CEO.
I'm guessing Google has prior art for all of this. Although Google claims all of the information it has on you is for serving you ads, I've yet to see an ad that didn't have something to do with what was being searched for at the time.
Wrong. There is plenty of money for black budget projects and the militarization of space that'll be launched out of Air Force Space Command, just not enough for peaceful purposes.
Intel still uses it, i7 being the latest example. It also makes more sense for intel to use it considering their name beings with that letter.
Why don't we just get rid of Trademarks? If someone is trying to sell a knockoff iPod, i7, etc... then go after them with fraud laws.
So basically what you are saying is, let's find any way this can be marginally useful and attribute it to the only reason why Google is doing this and disregard everything else, thus they are not evil.
It sounds like Germany barely modified the 1938 law written by the Nazi's banning homeschooling. "Duty," to me sounds more like "obey."
I can't believe someone is defending putting people in prison for simply wanting to give their children an education.
Actually, I wouldn't expect that from them at all. The military has no real interest in spying on the civilian population. Perhaps the FBI, CIA, or NSA might do the stuff you were spouting off about, but the military is going to be focused on conducting electronic and cyber warfare, i.e. destroying the enemy's electronic infrastructure and protecting our military's infrastructure.
if you want to be hysterically paranoid, at least do it about the right things...
You're calling someone paranoid by because they aren't correctly identifying which part of the government is spying on them illegally? That's a new one.
However, you'd be wrong anyway.
In late 2008 the U.S Army Reserve spied on peaceful protests against the Federal Reserve.
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In 2005, NBC obtained a secret 400-page Defense Department document listing more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” across the country related to peaceful anti-war demonstrations. “The Defense Department document is the first inside look at how the U.S. military has stepped up intelligence collection inside this country since 9/11, which now includes the monitoring of peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups,” NBC reported.
In the wake of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon established the Counterintelligence Field Activity. CIFA illegally conducted broad domestic operations that targeted antiwar and other dissident domestic groups and logged these in the TALON database. After the unit received negative publicity, the Pentagon’s senior intelligence official, James R. Clapper, recommended to Sec. Def. Gates that the counterintelligence field office be dismantled and that some of its operations be placed under the authority of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Please be more informed before you speak. Thanks.
Nobody should act surprised. He said he was going to kill Constellation during his original campaign.
Congratulations Obama for finally keeping a promise you made during the campaign.
Yes, it is illegal. See 18 USC Chapter 25 486:
Liberty Dollars were not authorized by law, and therefore the minting of same is illegal.
It depends on the definition and meaning of "current money." Gold and silver coins and certificates have long since been minted or printed for the purpose of being put into circulation.
Since it has been awhile since silver and gold coins have been considered "current money" it would be reasonable to assume that is no longer against the law to mint, utter or pass your own for private use.
It's really only illegal if you are somewhat successful.
The FBI went after Liberty Dollar, which sold and real gold and silver coins and encouraged people and business to use them voluntarily instead of a Federal Reserve Note.
The legal tender law doesn't apply to people using other currencies in private transactions. It basically means that banks and people can't force you to pay anything but dollars on debt that you owe. However, here is a gem from the FBI Press release:
“People understand that there is only one legal currency in the United States. When groups try to replace the U.S. dollar with coins and bills that don’t hold the same value, it affects the economy. Consumers were using their hard-earned money to buy goods and services, then getting fake change in return,” said Owen Harris, the Special Agent in Charge of the Charlotte Division of the FBI. “No one in this country is above or beyond the law, and our law enforcement partners will continue to bring violators to justice.
There are so many things wrong and hilariously ironic with this statement I'll let it stand as is.
The FBI's basic argument was that the liberty dollar looked too much like "real money" and they must preserve the monopoly of the Federal Reserve to "save the economy."
Gee, thanks!
IBM did a great job for Germany in the 1930's and 40's with their control grid. Imagine what they can do for us today!
Many American's, whether they are democrat or republican aren't very happy with Obama because he promised two major things with healthcare: he would not force people to buy insurance and that he would televise healthcare discussions with insurance and big pharma companies.
He did a complete 180 on both of those promises. Many democrats realize what Congressman Dennis Kucinich said, that the current healthcare bills are bailouts to the insurance companies and wall street.
On topic for the FBI; they have always broken the law in very deliberate ways. Go read about the FBI's COINTELPRO operations.
You can watch this documentary: COINTELPRO: The FBI's war on black America
Or you can read this Church Committee Report on how the FBI illegally spied on Martin Luther King Jr. for years, using the Communist scare to justify their actions (the more things that change...)
There are plenty of legitimate reasons why people don't trust their government and it has nothing to do with what color fish people enjoy consuming. This country was founded on the principle of treating government actions with a large dose of skepticism.
Just like when running through actual minefields, others may not be as lucky as you.
"This hospital isn't giving us 20% year-over-year; it's only giving me 1%! I can get that from a damned CD! Fuhggedaboudid." And nobody bats an eyelid, everyone takes for granted that a hospital is only valuable if it's nice and profitable, otherwise it "couldn't compete" and "should" close in a free market economy.
You forget the small fact that the medical industry ceased to be a free marked in the U.S. in the late 1960's.
There is a thing called a Certificate Of Need (CON), which are aptly named. Essentially you need a CON from a person like Illinois Governor Blagojevich in order to open a hospital, increase the amount of beds, add a new wing, add any large equipment, etc.
So if you didn't grease the right people new hospitals don't get built. Demand goes up while supply doesn't and costs skyrocket. The medical industry long relied on charities like the Shriners and many others to keep hospitals running. The costs have gotten so high that all but a few charities can actually fund a hospital.
I think you've been watching too many Hospital dramas where things are run like a business, when in reality its all politics and government intervention that has screwed the healthcare industry.
It has nothing to do with the free market.
Just wait for the posters who state that, just like 9/11, this was actually organized by the US Government to foster dislike of China to facilitate favorable actions by the US military.
I sure hate those damn Chinese for flying planes into the World Trade Center and the Germans for bombing Pearl Harbor.
How on earth did you get modded insightful? Oh right, I must be new here.
But Joone thinks the biggest hurdle for 3D isn't so much the cost as the glasses: people don't want to be encumbered by eyewear when viewing a film, says Joone
That's certainly what people fear most: getting caught wearing glasses while watching porn.