Better prices and selection through bricklink. It's not just used parts, there are tons of brand new pieces there too (I presume bought in bulk from Lego stores).
Usually the "adult" label is used not for actual weighty content geared for an adult audience with mature tastes, but just a repository for those things that traditionally children shouldn't be exposed to. Sorry, that doesn't make it adult-oriented, that just makes it non-kid-friendly, and typically can be best described as adolescent (boobs, explosions, gore, swearing, "gritty", "edgy", etc) content that would make Beavis and Butthead proud.
In my case, I've left all the AAA titles and tended towards puzzle games, where at least I'm challenged to expand my thought processes and puzzle solving abilities. There are some plot-heavy RPGs and FPSes nowadays with some challenging concepts or unexpected twists, but they still tend to be buried in adolescence to make them marketable, ignoring the amount of >30yo and female gamers who are no longer enticed by such or are even turned off by it.
I do commend Nintendo for putting a lot of focus on basic fun, party, family-enjoyable games which have been explosively popular without the adolescent slant, but they still do leave the adult-minded player wishing to be challenged at a more cerebral level.
I don't think the solicitor general has ever heard children talking to each other on the playground. Seriously, prime time TV is a paragon of innocence compared to what the mind of a child can come up with!
Since when is basic funcionality a sacrifice? Somebody who pays $20 for a USB storage device MP3 player, and <$10 per month for a prepaid phone is not "sacrificing", unless ringtones, handheld games and all that crap somehow became a necessity while I wasn't looking.
What do you think of when you hear the word "corruption" as it pertains to government? Typically two things:
Power mongering
Taking bribes
#1 is capable of some self-regulation in non-dictatorships, especially with our system based on checks and balances, but #2 is the modus operandi in the USA for no good reason. Lobbying is bribery, and should be punished as such, both for those offering the bribes and those taking them. To up the ante, since bribery of government officials is inciting governmental corruption, it could be construed as treasonous.
There will always be some measure of judgment involved for determining what counts as bribery and what doesn't, but as we are now, our levels of corruption via bribery make are enough to turn banana republics green with envy.
I'm asking this as an honest question from a non-Muslim:
Tons of member spokespeople have stood out and strongly separated themselves from the small extremist groups of their respective ideologies.
Televangelist money grabbing, priests raping altar boys, the "God hates fags" people, etc, have been strongly spoken against by representative Christians, and there are other examples I've read but can't cite from other religions, Christianity just being the most common around here.
Racially, there have been influential whites, blacks, natives, and all sorts of others condemning those of their own race for violent pursuits of racial causes.
There is even the pendulum of mudslinging and same-party backlash against those tactics in the political realms.
Shortly after 9/11 happened, there were a number of journalists who looked for and simply could not find instances where influential representatives of Islam stood up and spoke against the violent extremists of their faith. The conclusion has typically been a perception of "They won't condemn them because they are actually following their religion, not a spin-off perversion of it."
Again, as an honest question, can you please give any source or indication that Islam at large at least condemns the acts and rationalizations of the violent radicals, or would work to prevent them? We always hear about the violent radicals being such a small minority, but we never hear the rest of Islam actually condemning that behavior, except from an occasional non-representative individual lay person who is typically from a pretty liberal country.
If there are plenty of examples that you can point out that I simply haven't seen, then great, I can use it to level the playing field when people bring this up. But as it stands right now, it's a very serious implication of general Islam, not just the extremists.
Wow, either you live somewhere seriously shitty or are projecting. The majority of people are honest, trustworthy and non-violent (but I agree on the hypocritical). If the majority really were dishonest, untrustworthy and violent society just wouldn't function.
I agree with the GP here. The problem is, most people are "honest, trustworthy and non-violent" with people who are like themselves. Your peers, neighbors, coworkers, those that share the same ideologies as you, you treat like "normal" upstanding citizens.
There is a streak of xenophobia (not just racial) throughout all of humanity, though, and when different people, ways of life, or ways of thinking come through, all bets are off. Again, inside any cluster of people, they will tend to consider themselves and "the majority of people" in a positive light, since the rest are just outliers.
Think about it. Copy "rights" only exist because governments invent them to provide incentive to create new works. This sort of thinking don't exist in nature or even in commonlaw AFAIK. The only "damage" that takes places is against those invented "rights", not against anything tangible.
and some extra "quotation marks" for good measure.
What is wrong with coasting that couldn't go wrong with the car in gear?
If you're in neutral and hit the brakes hard, you can easily lock up your wheels and skid. If you're in gear, the engine acts as a flyweight and keeps your wheels from stopping instantly.
Of course, ABS mitigates this, but you still have better control of the car while in gear.
Unless you plan on shifting into first and engine braking while you're going 65+, in which case you will be driving over your transmission as fast as you shift into gear.
A bit offtopic, but I did exactly that once early in my driving years. Freeway, little Chevy Sprint, wanted to go from 5th to 3rd to zip past a slowpoke, but missed and dropped the clutch full-tilt into 1st. The car almost planted its nose into the ground, but it didn't actually break anything.
Then again, a Sprint's internals are really too small to break; they just bounce right along.
When you have a better solution that doesn't have as many limitations, get back to us.
Here's my idea: bike + gravity-fed-through-filter tank. I still don't get why they need pedal power to push the water through the filter. I mean, they already need to lift the water to pour into the tank in the first place.
IIRC, the PS3 offers 7 SPEs, so they can increase their yield by letting those with one blown/bad SPE still ship, reserving the full 8-working SPE units to more expensive applications. So the chips in these cards are so bad that they have up to 4 dead SPEs and a dead PPE as well?
I wouldn't think that there'd be enough of a market segment to create a separate, more limited version of this chip just for applications like this. This have got to be their mitigation strategy for incredibly low yield.
If the client's eyeballs aren't physically present at the receiving server, how can you trust that the scan you're receiving over the wire is actually of the person on the other end?
There are companies out there (usually in 3rd world countries) that provide CAPTCHA-breaking services, simply by paying some worker a penny or two per CAPTCHA bypassed.
Anything any human can be expected to do, they can get through as well.
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I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
Better prices and selection through bricklink. It's not just used parts, there are tons of brand new pieces there too (I presume bought in bulk from Lego stores).
A bit of googling and nosing through NASA's and UofA's sites revealed the final logs:
before communications went unexpectedly silent.
Maybe they meant power consumption! :-D
Hopefully it'll be better than the Atari 2600 version! (starting at 5:30 of the video)
Usually the "adult" label is used not for actual weighty content geared for an adult audience with mature tastes, but just a repository for those things that traditionally children shouldn't be exposed to. Sorry, that doesn't make it adult-oriented, that just makes it non-kid-friendly, and typically can be best described as adolescent (boobs, explosions, gore, swearing, "gritty", "edgy", etc) content that would make Beavis and Butthead proud.
In my case, I've left all the AAA titles and tended towards puzzle games, where at least I'm challenged to expand my thought processes and puzzle solving abilities. There are some plot-heavy RPGs and FPSes nowadays with some challenging concepts or unexpected twists, but they still tend to be buried in adolescence to make them marketable, ignoring the amount of >30yo and female gamers who are no longer enticed by such or are even turned off by it.
I do commend Nintendo for putting a lot of focus on basic fun, party, family-enjoyable games which have been explosively popular without the adolescent slant, but they still do leave the adult-minded player wishing to be challenged at a more cerebral level.
I don't think the solicitor general has ever heard children talking to each other on the playground. Seriously, prime time TV is a paragon of innocence compared to what the mind of a child can come up with!
Since when is basic funcionality a sacrifice? Somebody who pays $20 for a USB storage device MP3 player, and <$10 per month for a prepaid phone is not "sacrificing", unless ringtones, handheld games and all that crap somehow became a necessity while I wasn't looking.
and wolf/dragon shirts. LOTS of wolf/dragon shirts.
and who are you to have the authority to decide who can and can not confer harm to whom elsewhere in the world?
What do you think of when you hear the word "corruption" as it pertains to government? Typically two things:
#1 is capable of some self-regulation in non-dictatorships, especially with our system based on checks and balances, but #2 is the modus operandi in the USA for no good reason. Lobbying is bribery, and should be punished as such, both for those offering the bribes and those taking them. To up the ante, since bribery of government officials is inciting governmental corruption, it could be construed as treasonous.
There will always be some measure of judgment involved for determining what counts as bribery and what doesn't, but as we are now, our levels of corruption via bribery make are enough to turn banana republics green with envy.
This is the video game industry we're talking about. If you truly agree what you say there, you should be boycotting the entire industry.
Yet video game manufacturers still strive to be the most offensive in every other category, including other religions.
I'm no Catholic, but those guys seem to ALWAYS be portrayed as evil in video games (and most movies).
I'm asking this as an honest question from a non-Muslim:
Tons of member spokespeople have stood out and strongly separated themselves from the small extremist groups of their respective ideologies.
Shortly after 9/11 happened, there were a number of journalists who looked for and simply could not find instances where influential representatives of Islam stood up and spoke against the violent extremists of their faith. The conclusion has typically been a perception of "They won't condemn them because they are actually following their religion, not a spin-off perversion of it."
Again, as an honest question, can you please give any source or indication that Islam at large at least condemns the acts and rationalizations of the violent radicals, or would work to prevent them? We always hear about the violent radicals being such a small minority, but we never hear the rest of Islam actually condemning that behavior, except from an occasional non-representative individual lay person who is typically from a pretty liberal country.
If there are plenty of examples that you can point out that I simply haven't seen, then great, I can use it to level the playing field when people bring this up. But as it stands right now, it's a very serious implication of general Islam, not just the extremists.
I agree with the GP here. The problem is, most people are "honest, trustworthy and non-violent" with people who are like themselves. Your peers, neighbors, coworkers, those that share the same ideologies as you, you treat like "normal" upstanding citizens.
There is a streak of xenophobia (not just racial) throughout all of humanity, though, and when different people, ways of life, or ways of thinking come through, all bets are off. Again, inside any cluster of people, they will tend to consider themselves and "the majority of people" in a positive light, since the rest are just outliers.
Think about it. Copy "rights" only exist because governments invent them to provide incentive to create new works. This sort of thinking don't exist in nature or even in commonlaw AFAIK. The only "damage" that takes places is against those invented "rights", not against anything tangible.
and some extra "quotation marks" for good measure.
Wait a sec, you're calling MacGyver "garbage" on a nerd website?
If you're in neutral and hit the brakes hard, you can easily lock up your wheels and skid. If you're in gear, the engine acts as a flyweight and keeps your wheels from stopping instantly.
Of course, ABS mitigates this, but you still have better control of the car while in gear.
A bit offtopic, but I did exactly that once early in my driving years. Freeway, little Chevy Sprint, wanted to go from 5th to 3rd to zip past a slowpoke, but missed and dropped the clutch full-tilt into 1st. The car almost planted its nose into the ground, but it didn't actually break anything.
Then again, a Sprint's internals are really too small to break; they just bounce right along.
Here's my idea: bike + gravity-fed-through-filter tank. I still don't get why they need pedal power to push the water through the filter. I mean, they already need to lift the water to pour into the tank in the first place.
...but you can't quite say the same thing about your USB device.
Not exactly the same, but the T-Rex has fairly similar looks.
And of course, a body-heat powered vehicle (or whatever it was) is a really stupid idea IMO, even if the Nike One does look pretty cool. ;-)
IIRC, the PS3 offers 7 SPEs, so they can increase their yield by letting those with one blown/bad SPE still ship, reserving the full 8-working SPE units to more expensive applications. So the chips in these cards are so bad that they have up to 4 dead SPEs and a dead PPE as well?
I wouldn't think that there'd be enough of a market segment to create a separate, more limited version of this chip just for applications like this. This have got to be their mitigation strategy for incredibly low yield.
If the client's eyeballs aren't physically present at the receiving server, how can you trust that the scan you're receiving over the wire is actually of the person on the other end?
There are companies out there (usually in 3rd world countries) that provide CAPTCHA-breaking services, simply by paying some worker a penny or two per CAPTCHA bypassed.
Anything any human can be expected to do, they can get through as well.