While I generally agree with you, I also have to take into account just how asinine most "crimes" actually are. The prison system is big business, which makes actual deterrents and thoughtful laws undesirable.
It’s worth noting that when you “turn off” IE 10 in the Windows 8 Developer Preview, you also turn off the Metro interface. No IE 10, no Metro apps.
That sounds like a very simple and elegant solution to both the problem of having Metro and Internet Explorer on a machine. Windows 8 might be worth using after all.:)
Forget that streaming crap. It's tied up too tight by companies that own it and want it to fail (studios, cable companies, etc). Discs have a far wider availability and selection, visually look better, and don't eat into the bandwidth which will surely start to be limited by (once again) vengeful cable companies.
Sadly, it's pretty obvious that Netflix wants to dump the discs altogether, as shown by the initial idea of Qwikster. It was an obvious plan to eventually kill the whole thing off. I'm sure they get more customer from streaming (go figure) but the licensing costs and contract negotiations make for a very pitiful service that's at the mercy of its own competition.
No thanks. (Besides, it's harder to rip the streaming stuff to my hard drive.)
All too often you find parents using school as little more than a tax-funded babysitter. They stick their kids out at the bus stop and don't bother to even think about them again until dinner (if the family even has dinner together). They don't help them study or balance the insane workload that homework presents for a modern child.
This general indifference seems to largely be a side effect of the "American Dream". Both parents work full time. The family is in debt up to their eyes because they just had to have those two brand new cars, the freshly built suburban home with the green-green lawn, and all of big screen televisions they could manage to cram into it. Hell, the parents probably only had children to begin with because it's what society expects of you... Go to college, pair up, get married, pop out two or three kids, and spend the rest of your life running from financial ruin.
That certainly doesn't leave a lot of time to have a real family.:(
Only if by hardy, you actually mean fat. I suppose that excess fat will keep American alive a few weeks longer. They'll all die off within a few months though, at best. Assuming they don't starve because the grocery stores are closed, or freeze to death because their electric heaters won't come on, then they'll be killed by one of the more intelligent looters that see than as a potential threat and/or competition for survival.
You don't learn how to survive by mowing your lawn twice a week, or making sure that your brand new car is waxed and waxed and waxed!
Miles and miles of land squandered for the sole purpose of growing food... for livestock. It's not very efficient for society, nor is it beneficial for the environment.
Most people in the Western World (tm) would simply curl up and die if their electricity went out for any meaningful amount of time. That's not even getting into the prospect of actually having to secure food and fend off looters.
Sure, we would no longer have a culture and all music would sound like perfect shit, but hey, a small price to pay for making sure all music is original!
This plan must have already been put into action, since we currently have no culture and all modern music sounds like perfect shit.:)
He had an invasion (not illegal), wiped out all his legal crops leaving only the crops he knew to be patent protected, and then used the patent protected crops to almost exclusively plant his next year's crops. He knew he was breaking patent law.
He was breaking the law? So fucking what? I seriously hope you don't actually believe that seeds should be protected as trade secrets, let alone controlled to the extent that Monsanto does. If anything, you just helped to illustrate exactly why no one trusts Monsanto. They want to control something as simple as food and create a Soylent Green-esque future of poverty-stricken riots and rations.
Good. Computers aren't needed outside of performing some research, actually typing out that essay, or putting together that presentation. You don't need fancy buildings and whizzbang gadgets to teach, you simply need inspiring people. Sadly, those type of people are at a premium nowadays. Even when you do find and employ them, the system generally does everything it can to get in their way and make their presence all but useless. This is a private school. so perhaps the rules are different. Maybe they can teach students how to do something other than fill in test bubbles.
Ah, that makes sense. Though I wonder why they don't just update Hammer? Editors like Radiant and UnrealEd have sometimes wildly different setups based on the game profile. The way I read the article, it sounds as if they're shooting for a fairly simplistic editor to be included in game. While something along the lines of Halo's Forge may be alright for a basic series of rooms, I doubt it'd be flexible enough to accommodate the extremes of the community.
Hard to use? I assumed it just used Hammer. If that's the case, then I can't really see it being too difficult to use. Certainly more so than something like Radiant, but I'm probably biased in that regard.
It's my understanding that David Lynch was forced to wrap up Laura Palmer's death, and left the show because of it. The majority of the second season was largely shit. If for no other reason than the focus on Donna and James' soap opera exploits. Lynch had returned to wrap up the second season, however. He once more made it interesting with the introduction of the White Lodge. Sadly, the show was cancelled on one helluva cliffhanger. It's unfortunate that Lynch decided to retread the Palmer case in the film, as opposed to wrapping up the show's loose threads.
The ammo system is the only thing you can think of to crap on from the second game? How about going back and making it an RPG again, instead of dumbing it down to the likes of a Gears of War knock-off like they did in ME2?
What about them? Batman never was and never will be a superhero. It must really suck for him being in the Justice League, around real superheroes. At least characters like Iron Man can keep up with his peers byway of mech suit. Batman's only real gadget is a grappling hook.:P
Yeah, they're really changing things up there in New York by obeying the laws. Nothing gets under the skin of the system more than keeping your peaceful demonstrations relegated to the "free speech zone" and making sure that the DHS has everyone's faces on file.
Obviously, with his new found UV-vision powers, he is ready to decode the hidden alien propaganda spread throughout our daily lives. Him and Roddy Piper should get together and finally put a stop to the ruling class of alien invaders!
I agree. People take photos of the most inane baby things, and it only gets worse when it's all digital. You don't have to pick and choose your shots like you would with film. Instead of backing up thousands of generally mundane pictures, I would suggest you select the ones that really matter and simply have them developed. Keep an actual, physical photo album.
As for video? Edit it down to just the meat and potatoes. You don't need twenty minutes of your baby sleeping just for a few seconds of something cute or interesting. Furthermore, no one is really ever going to want to watch more than a few hours worth of home movies... and that's assuming they are in the right mood and the content actually serves a purpose.
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While I generally agree with you, I also have to take into account just how asinine most "crimes" actually are. The prison system is big business, which makes actual deterrents and thoughtful laws undesirable.
Panic can only come from ignorance.
Doesn't sound any different than the radical Christians running around.
It’s worth noting that when you “turn off” IE 10 in the Windows 8 Developer Preview, you also turn off the Metro interface. No IE 10, no Metro apps.
That sounds like a very simple and elegant solution to both the problem of having Metro and Internet Explorer on a machine. Windows 8 might be worth using after all. :)
Forget that streaming crap. It's tied up too tight by companies that own it and want it to fail (studios, cable companies, etc). Discs have a far wider availability and selection, visually look better, and don't eat into the bandwidth which will surely start to be limited by (once again) vengeful cable companies.
Sadly, it's pretty obvious that Netflix wants to dump the discs altogether, as shown by the initial idea of Qwikster. It was an obvious plan to eventually kill the whole thing off. I'm sure they get more customer from streaming (go figure) but the licensing costs and contract negotiations make for a very pitiful service that's at the mercy of its own competition.
No thanks.
(Besides, it's harder to rip the streaming stuff to my hard drive.)
You're referring to "parents", right?
Parents are certainly included! :)
All too often you find parents using school as little more than a tax-funded babysitter. They stick their kids out at the bus stop and don't bother to even think about them again until dinner (if the family even has dinner together). They don't help them study or balance the insane workload that homework presents for a modern child.
This general indifference seems to largely be a side effect of the "American Dream". Both parents work full time. The family is in debt up to their eyes because they just had to have those two brand new cars, the freshly built suburban home with the green-green lawn, and all of big screen televisions they could manage to cram into it. Hell, the parents probably only had children to begin with because it's what society expects of you... Go to college, pair up, get married, pop out two or three kids, and spend the rest of your life running from financial ruin.
That certainly doesn't leave a lot of time to have a real family. :(
Only if by hardy, you actually mean fat. I suppose that excess fat will keep American alive a few weeks longer. They'll all die off within a few months though, at best. Assuming they don't starve because the grocery stores are closed, or freeze to death because their electric heaters won't come on, then they'll be killed by one of the more intelligent looters that see than as a potential threat and/or competition for survival.
You don't learn how to survive by mowing your lawn twice a week, or making sure that your brand new car is waxed and waxed and waxed!
Miles and miles of land squandered for the sole purpose of growing food... for livestock. It's not very efficient for society, nor is it beneficial for the environment.
I'll go one farther.
Most people in the Western World (tm) would simply curl up and die if their electricity went out for any meaningful amount of time. That's not even getting into the prospect of actually having to secure food and fend off looters.
Sure, we would no longer have a culture and all music would sound like perfect shit, but hey, a small price to pay for making sure all music is original!
This plan must have already been put into action, since we currently have no culture and all modern music sounds like perfect shit. :)
He had an invasion (not illegal), wiped out all his legal crops leaving only the crops he knew to be patent protected, and then used the patent protected crops to almost exclusively plant his next year's crops. He knew he was breaking patent law.
He was breaking the law? So fucking what? I seriously hope you don't actually believe that seeds should be protected as trade secrets, let alone controlled to the extent that Monsanto does. If anything, you just helped to illustrate exactly why no one trusts Monsanto. They want to control something as simple as food and create a Soylent Green-esque future of poverty-stricken riots and rations.
Good. Computers aren't needed outside of performing some research, actually typing out that essay, or putting together that presentation. You don't need fancy buildings and whizzbang gadgets to teach, you simply need inspiring people. Sadly, those type of people are at a premium nowadays. Even when you do find and employ them, the system generally does everything it can to get in their way and make their presence all but useless. This is a private school. so perhaps the rules are different. Maybe they can teach students how to do something other than fill in test bubbles.
Ah, that makes sense. Though I wonder why they don't just update Hammer? Editors like Radiant and UnrealEd have sometimes wildly different setups based on the game profile. The way I read the article, it sounds as if they're shooting for a fairly simplistic editor to be included in game. While something along the lines of Halo's Forge may be alright for a basic series of rooms, I doubt it'd be flexible enough to accommodate the extremes of the community.
Hard to use? I assumed it just used Hammer. If that's the case, then I can't really see it being too difficult to use. Certainly more so than something like Radiant, but I'm probably biased in that regard.
Or just go join the military and let them pay for everything.
Isn't that the plan?
General wage slaves aren't good enough. The government wants to own you outright. Debt is nothing more than a leash that people tie themselves to.
It's my understanding that David Lynch was forced to wrap up Laura Palmer's death, and left the show because of it. The majority of the second season was largely shit. If for no other reason than the focus on Donna and James' soap opera exploits. Lynch had returned to wrap up the second season, however. He once more made it interesting with the introduction of the White Lodge. Sadly, the show was cancelled on one helluva cliffhanger. It's unfortunate that Lynch decided to retread the Palmer case in the film, as opposed to wrapping up the show's loose threads.
Fuck that, I want Twin Peaks.
The ammo system is the only thing you can think of to crap on from the second game? How about going back and making it an RPG again, instead of dumbing it down to the likes of a Gears of War knock-off like they did in ME2?
What about them? Batman never was and never will be a superhero. It must really suck for him being in the Justice League, around real superheroes. At least characters like Iron Man can keep up with his peers byway of mech suit. Batman's only real gadget is a grappling hook. :P
Time to drop PS360 support then? :)
Resident Evil 5?
Yeah, they're really changing things up there in New York by obeying the laws. Nothing gets under the skin of the system more than keeping your peaceful demonstrations relegated to the "free speech zone" and making sure that the DHS has everyone's faces on file.
It worked great for the Volkswagen Beetle as well.
Obviously, with his new found UV-vision powers, he is ready to decode the hidden alien propaganda spread throughout our daily lives. Him and Roddy Piper should get together and finally put a stop to the ruling class of alien invaders!
I agree. People take photos of the most inane baby things, and it only gets worse when it's all digital. You don't have to pick and choose your shots like you would with film. Instead of backing up thousands of generally mundane pictures, I would suggest you select the ones that really matter and simply have them developed. Keep an actual, physical photo album.
As for video? Edit it down to just the meat and potatoes. You don't need twenty minutes of your baby sleeping just for a few seconds of something cute or interesting. Furthermore, no one is really ever going to want to watch more than a few hours worth of home movies... and that's assuming they are in the right mood and the content actually serves a purpose.