You've got to be trolling. If North Korea nukes anybody they are fucked immediately. In that scenario, it wouldn't matter if Obama was a robot sent from North Korea with the express mission of sabotaging the United States.
Not firing a test missile on a particular day is not even *remotely* appeasement. Chamberlain ceded territory to Hitler.
For that matter, Chamberlain is the one who actually declared war against the Nazis. The US sat it out for years. He takes a lot of flack for somebody who was only a middling appeaser.
Kim Jong Un is batshit insane and the shame of it is, he just might take millions of people down with him. Though in a sense, he already has.
It's not uncommon to have electricity at camp sites. It really wasn't difficult in the 80s (you could use it for cooking, for electric lighting, possibly for the radio), and it's even less difficult now in an age when cellphone coverage while camping is a plausible safety feature.
Why do you care about people having fun the wrong way anyway? Some people may go camping to "get away from" these things. Some people go camping to go to other things they like, or as a common meeting place between individuals who don't live super close together. But you can do more than one thing in a day, and some of the things you can do when camping are much more dangerous at night.
Playing board games and card games while camping has always been incredibly common, and those things have no "outdoors-only" requirement either.
A guy was fired for telling a joke to his friend, and a girl was fired and deluged with death threats and hate for complaining about these inappropriate jokes.
It's ridiculous to complain that the former was disproportionate response but the latter was not.
His explanation didn't at all involve MSNBC being unbiased. It involved it being exactly as biased as the study claims, but Fox more biased than the study claims, while still not necessarily being as biased as MSNBC.
Possibly. I use neither as news sources (and I definitely lean liberal, but I try to get news from non-ridiculous conservative news sources to have an understanding of why people think differently).
Until you have *all* legal transactions monitored (or so class to all legal transactions as to make no difference), it's worthless for your scenarios. It's really easy to claim you resold something for cash or via paypal, or donated your campbell's tomato soup to a food drive instead of putting it in your crazy-man bunker. The exception is guns where legal transactions are already monitored, so resale is an admission of guilt anyway.
Map reading is almost instinctive - you just have to imagine seeing a place from the point of view of a bird. Map labelling is often kind of stupid though, and I find bus maps frequently very difficult to read, while subway maps tend to be much simplified but out of scale to the point where if you don't already know your destination stop's name, you're not going to find your route.
An analog clock is very different. There's nothing intuitive about it at all. Why do circles measure time? It kind of makes sense for the hour hand if you imagine it following the sun around the Earth in a geocentric universe where you live at the equator, but the other hands? Why are there three different hands and which one represents what? You absolutely have to learn how to read an analog clock. It's not difficult, but it's not a basic tenet of literacy either, and I predict that the ability to read analog clocks will fade now that digital readouts are ubiquitous, even if I personally prefer an analog watch.
The l is close to the o, you could easily slip with your right hand while your left is dealing with g and e.
I doubt I'd ever make that particular typo though. Especially twice. And especially when clearly trying to rhyme with Google and "you-gle".
I doubt they are an MS shill though. More likely an unaligned troll, or possibly an MS fanboy. I just don't think anybody can possible believe scroogle will come into popular parlance. Although they did release that godawful commercial, so who knows.
What an interesting view. I find the mindless action games that don't require planning and forethought are more like a job, because when I'm doing a job I sometimes have tasks where I don't engage my mind as much as I'd like, and when I'm not doing a job I get to avoid those things.
It's not that my job doesn't have planning and forethought -- it does, a lot, that's why I went for that job -- it's that I can almost never get enough of that. So I guess what we have in common is that we're avoiding the things we don't like from a job, but completely opposite on what it is that is like a job that we're avoiding.
Having any immigration policy other than "the doors are open to everyone" is politics mixing with the economic system. There's no way to talk about immigration, especially employment-based immigration, without talking about the economic system.
I'm not sure that argument really holds, because you aren't actually changing the long-term rate of change by electing older popes. In the short term, you're just converting what used to be an immediate front-loaded step-function change into the same change amortized over a much longer period of time, so it's just worse.
The one case where it works is if there's a flash in the pan idea that sweeps a generation born within a 5 year period before we discard that idea and go back to what we did before, but you elected one of those guys. But that's a different story. And I think there's more to it than just generational gaps, especially when the electors are potentially of a different generation than the electee.
The problem is that Simcity seems almost trivial to make single-player. There's an almost-wholly-single-player mode that just needs some random variables for the global economy and you're done. When you're online you can even download real trendlines.
Sure, taking the city out of online and back in is prone to cheating. So don't let them do that.
Well, not with absolute certainty. There's still the superdeterminism loophole. It's just that this is even weirder and less satisfying to many people than just dropping determinism, especially since, philosophically, it suggests that science is meaningless and anything we discover through the scientific method is coincidence that could change tomorrow, because literally every experimental result you've ever had is a part of a vast conspiracy of all the particles in the Universe.
I cut my meat all at once, so that I can let go of my knife. The meat doesn't get cold because it doesn't take me so long to eat that meat becomes unpleasant -- how long does it take people to eat? Or are people just super sensitive to that one degree difference?
When I'm trying to be formal I do what they call European style (or if I'm just so hungry I don't want to finish cutting the meat before having my first few bites), but I'd rather do my cutting at once and have done with it.
R. A. Salvatore struggles to be a mediocre writer on a good day. If he can write a chapter without the phrase "purely on instinct" it feels novel, though he probably ruined it with one of his other thousand writing tics. I kept a count in one book, and was annoyed to almost the point of physically illness when that phrase appeared three times in three pages referring to three different characters. You can basically only read one book or short series of his if you're an adult. He's the Harry Turtledove of Fantasy.
I'll grant that Salvatore writes those novels for a young teen audience, so he might do better if he tried for an older work. But I see no reason to assume he would. I'll also grant that he's a million times better than the likes of Ed Greenwood. Jesus. I only ever read the Kingless Land, but I find it difficult to believe that anybody who penned that monstrosity could ever produce a worthy book. And while Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman are much better authors than Salvatore (still not great authors, but readable and they can make interesting settings), at least Salvatore never tried to make the rapist a good guy. Fucking Skylan. I now have a policy of avoiding authors known for D&D or Star Wars books until I get an explicit recommendation otherwise, even though I was already avoiding the D&D and Star Wars books themselves.
If they stay at home instead of working, then they aren't motivated by the money they could earn.
Capitalism runs on the assumption that people are motivated by the marginal differences in income between jobs. This continues to operate under the universal basic income scenario. Otherwise, there can only be intra-industry salary competition and never inter-industry.
This reminds me of an economist's thought experiment -- let's say there are two widgets, a premium one for $200 and a knock-off for $100. The premium one is legitimately better, so you intend to buy that one, but the knock-off would do and if you were tight on money you could get by with that. You will only ever need one of these widgets.
You get to the store, and actually find that there's an ill-conceived doorcrasher sale. Widgets are all uniformly $100 cheaper. The knock-off is now free and the premium one is now $100. What do you get now?
A lot of people instinctively say they'd take the knock-off because it's free, but if you're a rational actor you should stick with your original choice, because the difference between the knock-off and the premium one, both in terms of costs and benefits, has not changed at all, whatsoever.
In reality, people aren't rational, so they will shift to the knock-off sometimes. But we also aren't talking about a one-day-only sale. People want luxuries, so they'll work.
There have been some positive experiments with this in the past (eg. Canada tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome and came out with some pretty positive results, although they knew this was not permanent so that could affect behaviour) and there are lots of places that have a partial basic income guarantee without imploding, though long term full basic income guarantees in otherwise-capitalist-leaning countries are scarce. An experiment in a poorer nation actually registered an increase in economic activity: http://www.bignam.org/BIG_pilot.html.
I have no doubt there are downsides to this, or even really advocating for it, I'm just trying to counter the "dumbest idea" that you put forward. Like most economic ideas, it's not obviously stupid or obviously smart, because just about nothing about economics is simple.
Platform update does say "there's a list on our website if you're interesting" right there in Windows Update. The link is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2670838. It looks like it's mostly imaging and video component support brought back from Windows 8, plus something for XPS documents:
Direct2D DirectWrite Direct3D Windows Imaging Component (WIC) Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) Windows Animation Manager (WAM) XPS Document API H.264 Video Decoder JPEG XR codec
How is using the term "platform" less insulting to audiences than using the term "bunch of other stuff"? How can the latter possibly be considered less of a "process of handwaving and ignorance with a healthy dollop of disdain for the user". The term platform is used to refer to a collection of things that are incredibly tedious to say together. Much like you say you're a Linux user, or Gnome user or GNU/Linux user or Ubuntu user, but you certainly don't say you're an ssh/bash/Gnome/Linux/OpenOffice/World Of Warcraft/Logitech mouse driver/Generic keyboard driver/PS/2/USB/HDMI/NVidia binary blob video driver/audio mixer/[...] user, nor do you say "I use computers and stuff" as though saying Linux would be an insult to anybody's intelligence.
The part where you explain how selective unmuting isn't a huge pain in the ass? Whatever selective unmuting UI is created will have to be something fiddly, since background tabs don't have a lot of screen real estate and all the mouse buttons are allocated.
Myself, I'd adapt by dragging those tabs into a new window, rather than fiddling with some control. Still, I think for a general audience, selective muting will be way more palatable than selective unmuting*. As a user, I don't expect Pandora to mute when I switch tabs and I also don't expect there to exist an "unmute" button, anymore than I expect it to mute when I minimize an application, or hit alt-tab, or something like that.
With that said, tablets are causing people to adapt their expectations. I think that pisses people off fairly often, though.
* you might even be able to justify having some buried config option for mute-by-default for those really desperate for that behaviour.
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You've got to be trolling. If North Korea nukes anybody they are fucked immediately. In that scenario, it wouldn't matter if Obama was a robot sent from North Korea with the express mission of sabotaging the United States.
Not firing a test missile on a particular day is not even *remotely* appeasement. Chamberlain ceded territory to Hitler.
For that matter, Chamberlain is the one who actually declared war against the Nazis. The US sat it out for years. He takes a lot of flack for somebody who was only a middling appeaser.
Kim Jong Un is batshit insane and the shame of it is, he just might take millions of people down with him. Though in a sense, he already has.
From the plug.
It's not uncommon to have electricity at camp sites. It really wasn't difficult in the 80s (you could use it for cooking, for electric lighting, possibly for the radio), and it's even less difficult now in an age when cellphone coverage while camping is a plausible safety feature.
Why do you care about people having fun the wrong way anyway? Some people may go camping to "get away from" these things. Some people go camping to go to other things they like, or as a common meeting place between individuals who don't live super close together. But you can do more than one thing in a day, and some of the things you can do when camping are much more dangerous at night.
Playing board games and card games while camping has always been incredibly common, and those things have no "outdoors-only" requirement either.
Don't even try to argue that bitch is not a gendered insult. It may not be inherent sexism but it was sexism in these uses.
A guy was fired for telling a joke to his friend, and a girl was fired and deluged with death threats and hate for complaining about these inappropriate jokes.
It's ridiculous to complain that the former was disproportionate response but the latter was not.
His explanation didn't at all involve MSNBC being unbiased. It involved it being exactly as biased as the study claims, but Fox more biased than the study claims, while still not necessarily being as biased as MSNBC.
Possibly. I use neither as news sources (and I definitely lean liberal, but I try to get news from non-ridiculous conservative news sources to have an understanding of why people think differently).
If that were the case, they could scale the PayPal fee structure according to the aggregate PayPall loss rate.
This article is literally about scaling the PayPal fee structure. You can't just say "nope".
Until you have *all* legal transactions monitored (or so class to all legal transactions as to make no difference), it's worthless for your scenarios. It's really easy to claim you resold something for cash or via paypal, or donated your campbell's tomato soup to a food drive instead of putting it in your crazy-man bunker. The exception is guns where legal transactions are already monitored, so resale is an admission of guilt anyway.
Map reading is almost instinctive - you just have to imagine seeing a place from the point of view of a bird. Map labelling is often kind of stupid though, and I find bus maps frequently very difficult to read, while subway maps tend to be much simplified but out of scale to the point where if you don't already know your destination stop's name, you're not going to find your route.
An analog clock is very different. There's nothing intuitive about it at all. Why do circles measure time? It kind of makes sense for the hour hand if you imagine it following the sun around the Earth in a geocentric universe where you live at the equator, but the other hands? Why are there three different hands and which one represents what? You absolutely have to learn how to read an analog clock. It's not difficult, but it's not a basic tenet of literacy either, and I predict that the ability to read analog clocks will fade now that digital readouts are ubiquitous, even if I personally prefer an analog watch.
The l is close to the o, you could easily slip with your right hand while your left is dealing with g and e.
I doubt I'd ever make that particular typo though. Especially twice. And especially when clearly trying to rhyme with Google and "you-gle".
I doubt they are an MS shill though. More likely an unaligned troll, or possibly an MS fanboy. I just don't think anybody can possible believe scroogle will come into popular parlance. Although they did release that godawful commercial, so who knows.
What an interesting view. I find the mindless action games that don't require planning and forethought are more like a job, because when I'm doing a job I sometimes have tasks where I don't engage my mind as much as I'd like, and when I'm not doing a job I get to avoid those things.
It's not that my job doesn't have planning and forethought -- it does, a lot, that's why I went for that job -- it's that I can almost never get enough of that. So I guess what we have in common is that we're avoiding the things we don't like from a job, but completely opposite on what it is that is like a job that we're avoiding.
Having any immigration policy other than "the doors are open to everyone" is politics mixing with the economic system. There's no way to talk about immigration, especially employment-based immigration, without talking about the economic system.
I'm not sure that argument really holds, because you aren't actually changing the long-term rate of change by electing older popes. In the short term, you're just converting what used to be an immediate front-loaded step-function change into the same change amortized over a much longer period of time, so it's just worse.
The one case where it works is if there's a flash in the pan idea that sweeps a generation born within a 5 year period before we discard that idea and go back to what we did before, but you elected one of those guys. But that's a different story. And I think there's more to it than just generational gaps, especially when the electors are potentially of a different generation than the electee.
They might have had better PR if they just announced StarCraft 2, StarCraft 3, and StarCraft 4, and released them all as standalones.
The problem is that Simcity seems almost trivial to make single-player. There's an almost-wholly-single-player mode that just needs some random variables for the global economy and you're done. When you're online you can even download real trendlines.
Sure, taking the city out of online and back in is prone to cheating. So don't let them do that.
Well, not with absolute certainty. There's still the superdeterminism loophole. It's just that this is even weirder and less satisfying to many people than just dropping determinism, especially since, philosophically, it suggests that science is meaningless and anything we discover through the scientific method is coincidence that could change tomorrow, because literally every experimental result you've ever had is a part of a vast conspiracy of all the particles in the Universe.
Interesting. I'd never thought of them as similar. Mask of the Betrayer is a bit more game-y and PS:T a bit more novel-y.
I cut my meat all at once, so that I can let go of my knife. The meat doesn't get cold because it doesn't take me so long to eat that meat becomes unpleasant -- how long does it take people to eat? Or are people just super sensitive to that one degree difference?
When I'm trying to be formal I do what they call European style (or if I'm just so hungry I don't want to finish cutting the meat before having my first few bites), but I'd rather do my cutting at once and have done with it.
R. A. Salvatore struggles to be a mediocre writer on a good day. If he can write a chapter without the phrase "purely on instinct" it feels novel, though he probably ruined it with one of his other thousand writing tics. I kept a count in one book, and was annoyed to almost the point of physically illness when that phrase appeared three times in three pages referring to three different characters. You can basically only read one book or short series of his if you're an adult. He's the Harry Turtledove of Fantasy.
I'll grant that Salvatore writes those novels for a young teen audience, so he might do better if he tried for an older work. But I see no reason to assume he would. I'll also grant that he's a million times better than the likes of Ed Greenwood. Jesus. I only ever read the Kingless Land, but I find it difficult to believe that anybody who penned that monstrosity could ever produce a worthy book. And while Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman are much better authors than Salvatore (still not great authors, but readable and they can make interesting settings), at least Salvatore never tried to make the rapist a good guy. Fucking Skylan. I now have a policy of avoiding authors known for D&D or Star Wars books until I get an explicit recommendation otherwise, even though I was already avoiding the D&D and Star Wars books themselves.
How do you define bettering your life if not in achieving happiness and/or contentment?
Water resistance is nontrivial too, if you live anywhere near a swimmable beach (or even vacation near one).
If they stay at home instead of working, then they aren't motivated by the money they could earn.
Capitalism runs on the assumption that people are motivated by the marginal differences in income between jobs. This continues to operate under the universal basic income scenario. Otherwise, there can only be intra-industry salary competition and never inter-industry.
This reminds me of an economist's thought experiment -- let's say there are two widgets, a premium one for $200 and a knock-off for $100. The premium one is legitimately better, so you intend to buy that one, but the knock-off would do and if you were tight on money you could get by with that. You will only ever need one of these widgets.
You get to the store, and actually find that there's an ill-conceived doorcrasher sale. Widgets are all uniformly $100 cheaper. The knock-off is now free and the premium one is now $100. What do you get now?
A lot of people instinctively say they'd take the knock-off because it's free, but if you're a rational actor you should stick with your original choice, because the difference between the knock-off and the premium one, both in terms of costs and benefits, has not changed at all, whatsoever.
In reality, people aren't rational, so they will shift to the knock-off sometimes. But we also aren't talking about a one-day-only sale. People want luxuries, so they'll work.
There have been some positive experiments with this in the past (eg. Canada tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome and came out with some pretty positive results, although they knew this was not permanent so that could affect behaviour) and there are lots of places that have a partial basic income guarantee without imploding, though long term full basic income guarantees in otherwise-capitalist-leaning countries are scarce. An experiment in a poorer nation actually registered an increase in economic activity: http://www.bignam.org/BIG_pilot.html.
I have no doubt there are downsides to this, or even really advocating for it, I'm just trying to counter the "dumbest idea" that you put forward. Like most economic ideas, it's not obviously stupid or obviously smart, because just about nothing about economics is simple.
It didn't get popular until long after Firefox got popular.
Platform update does say "there's a list on our website if you're interesting" right there in Windows Update. The link is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2670838. It looks like it's mostly imaging and video component support brought back from Windows 8, plus something for XPS documents:
Direct2D
DirectWrite
Direct3D
Windows Imaging Component (WIC)
Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP)
Windows Animation Manager (WAM)
XPS Document API
H.264 Video Decoder
JPEG XR codec
How is using the term "platform" less insulting to audiences than using the term "bunch of other stuff"? How can the latter possibly be considered less of a "process of handwaving and ignorance with a healthy dollop of disdain for the user". The term platform is used to refer to a collection of things that are incredibly tedious to say together. Much like you say you're a Linux user, or Gnome user or GNU/Linux user or Ubuntu user, but you certainly don't say you're an ssh/bash/Gnome/Linux/OpenOffice/World Of Warcraft/Logitech mouse driver/Generic keyboard driver/PS/2/USB/HDMI/NVidia binary blob video driver/audio mixer/[...] user, nor do you say "I use computers and stuff" as though saying Linux would be an insult to anybody's intelligence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing_platform
* I have no fucking idea whether Logitech distributes binary blobs; work with me here.
The part where you explain how selective unmuting isn't a huge pain in the ass? Whatever selective unmuting UI is created will have to be something fiddly, since background tabs don't have a lot of screen real estate and all the mouse buttons are allocated.
Myself, I'd adapt by dragging those tabs into a new window, rather than fiddling with some control. Still, I think for a general audience, selective muting will be way more palatable than selective unmuting*. As a user, I don't expect Pandora to mute when I switch tabs and I also don't expect there to exist an "unmute" button, anymore than I expect it to mute when I minimize an application, or hit alt-tab, or something like that.
With that said, tablets are causing people to adapt their expectations. I think that pisses people off fairly often, though.
* you might even be able to justify having some buried config option for mute-by-default for those really desperate for that behaviour.
Words mean things. It has nothing to do with whether you think independently. It has to do with whether you communicate effectively.
You have invented your own deviant definition of citizen but, appropriately, it has been democratically rejected.