That's one of the reasons that I love anime so much. They break the conventions our American shows have made and added darker, more thought provoking materials. A dark series about the rise of the empire and the sweeping away of the resistance and the rise of the rebellion would have a lot of interesting possibilities.
The only problem with that logic is that you're assuming life can't develop in any form other than what we have here on earth. However, many scientists think silicon could make a serviceable substitute for carbon as the building block of life elsewhere, and that still assumes a similarity to the life here on earth.
However, if it's possible for life to develop in other environments, then it looks like there's going to be a lot of company in this little galaxy of ours.
Your slavish repetition of these canards makes it clear that you're not in the game for any sort of self-enlightenment, or desire to get at the truth, but simply to score points and massage your bruised ego by screaming at the George Soroses of the world. You're shouting at cars. Why? A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Your slavish ass-like behavior makes it clear that you're not in the game for any kind of truth spreading or to keep minds from being wasted.
You may think that you're all awesome and "score points" by being an ass, but civil discourse is the best way to change someones mind. So what if the guy hasn't read everything you have? So what if the guy has a point of view that isn't the same as yours? Being condescending hurts your argument, no matter how right you may be.
According to the timelines I've seen, they had to spend years tracking down and killing all the jedi. Some seriously kick-ass battles are possible with Darth Vader hunting down random jedi.
Yeah, I would guess that the next great party to come out will be extremely fiscally conservative since that's the niche that neither party fills right now.
The problem is that the south has votes and, therefore, helps sway the election. For better or for worse, if the south decides who wins and who loses, and the south votes for the people who are, as you say, "fascists," then we'll be going further and further that way. Living in a republic's a bitch.
Of all the reasons to not use MySQL, and there are a lot, the licensing is probably the least likely to convince someone to use or not to use it. And the author presented those reasons in a stupid way, giving ridiculously stupid ways the licensing could effect you.
What does Nintendo fail to do for third party developers that the PS3 or XBox don't fail to do?
Further, the DS actually has great third party titles, especially considering that most of their most famous games (brain age, phoenix wright, trauma center, etc) are third party. I think that developers have avoided developing for the gamecube and the wii for a few reasons:
Nintendo has a tendency to put out the highest quality and best selling games, creating stiff competition.
The hardware isn't as good as other consoles, and you don't get famous making kids games in today's market.
Nintendo has an image of being a console for kids, see #2
Nintendo hasn't sold as well as other consoles. When the GBA and DS cleared that up, the developers came in spite of the problems.
It's true that Nintendo's competition in games hurts, but I think that it's just one of many factors and, as the DS and GBA have shown, third party support will still follow.
For me, the killer app for the wii will definitely be smash brothers, so I find it very discouraging that they won't even give a release date.
Right now the wii suffers from a lack of good games, especially games that are sequels to earlier blockbusters. Paper mario was good, but it wasn't the level of smash brothers, any super mario brothers or metroid. The Wii's sale numbers are spectacular, but it's still not getting the respect it deserves. Nintendo needs to put out a few serious, long titles exclusively for the Wii and shut the critics up.
I'm surprised nobody's excited about the part where Bill Gates walks towards a table of Apple gear and Steve Jobs stops him, yelling, "You shall not pass!"
Again, simple question, not trying to flame and maybe playing the devil's advocate a bit, but wouldn't the sexist assumption be the opposite? Putting aside political correctness and the feminist movement, we know that men and women are different at many, many levels; we also know that many of these aren't cultural, they're biological. Could it possibly be that the sexist assumption is that men are so good at math and science because of cultural traits? Shouldn't we also then say that men have a higher rate of color blindness because of cultural factors?
Those two examples are very obviously different in that we can point to the exact causes of color blindness, but I've never seen any evidence that even suggests that men and women are equal in their mental capacities, quite the opposite. I can run rings around any girl that I've met at math (and I know there are many women that are better at math than I am, I've just never gotten the opportunity to be schooled by them). By that same token, I've never known a girl who was interested in literature and didn't run rings around me.
Is there any evidence that men and women are equally capable at all intellectual pursuits, or is the argument still revolving around assumptions?
Why do we care why women do or do not go into IT? I don't mean this as a flame, I'm just curious, because all the tools are there for women that are there for men. Computers cost as much for a woman as they do for a man, google searches work as well for women as for men, and O'Reilly books are as easily opened by women as by men. Why separate these studies on the lines of gender?
I wish more people thought like we do. Millions die in Africa because we "enlightened" countries decided, based on a flawed book debunked years ago, that any country using DDT was to be stigmatized.
Hmm, apparently you're not familiar with the writing climate when Shakespeare was around, where it basically guarantees that, first off, Shakespeare's plays were helped along by multiple other people and that they were probably rewritten many times by people other than Shakespeare by the time we got them.
The same thing occurs with good innovations. The best innovations I've seen were when someone walked up to a whiteboard and five of us critiqued his idea, trimmed and added to it until it was a truly great idea.
I think that we're ignoring one vital aspect of this argument, that knowledge of cars is ubiquitous and that nearly everyone who now drives a car grew up with their parents driving one. A car is a fairly complicated thing (especially if it's a manual), but cars are commonplace and knowledge is everywhere.
Also, we're missing the fact that cars are still frequently misunderstood by people. I guarantee that my sister couldn't add oil if her life depended on it. She's an extremely intelligent girl, she just doesn't need to know those things.
Computers should also be designed for everyone to be able to use...make a computer that is as easy for any person off the street to use as a car is I disagree on that point. The reason that computers work is that they're so versatile, if you make them more simple you lose the versatility. Besides, as mentioned above, most problems are with familiarity, and from what I've seen people tend to learn computers fairly well when given the chance.
It may be true that Microsoft can run any individual open source company into the ground, but if every company that uses linux were to contribute to the legal fund it would be a real fight. Think of Microsoft against Google (who uses TONS of open source and is developing products that could fall under MS patents), Novell, IBM, Sun, MySQL, Redhat, Mozilla, etc. Add to that the open source developers not associated with the above companies (maybe they couldn't do the money, but that's a lot of eyes and hands for manipulating code).
If the open source community's smart about it, and if a competent first opponent is chosen (ie someone that will ask for help and put up a good defense), this could be the first catastrophic blow to the Windows monopoly.
I'm not saying you should be forgiving, but what good does not forgiving this man do? Let's say he stops doing PCP, cleans up his life and is mortified at what he did and wants to do nothing more than make reparations. At that point are there any good choices?
I don't know where I personally stand on the issue, but I'm absolutely certain that letting people out of prison but not letting them continue their lives is worse than either letting them completely free or keeping them in prison.
Ask someone who was raped, and get back with me on that To actually make that accurate, you'd also have to ask someone who'd died, and preferably someone who'd gone through both.
If gasoline had to go through the same scrutiny hydrogen is being faced with today, it would never have been approved as a fuel, much less become widespread. That's kind of an understatement. OSHA requirements say that in the US, if you handle gasoline on the job you have to have a face mask and gloves.
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That's one of the reasons that I love anime so much. They break the conventions our American shows have made and added darker, more thought provoking materials. A dark series about the rise of the empire and the sweeping away of the resistance and the rise of the rebellion would have a lot of interesting possibilities.
The only problem with that logic is that you're assuming life can't develop in any form other than what we have here on earth. However, many scientists think silicon could make a serviceable substitute for carbon as the building block of life elsewhere, and that still assumes a similarity to the life here on earth.
However, if it's possible for life to develop in other environments, then it looks like there's going to be a lot of company in this little galaxy of ours.
You may think that you're all awesome and "score points" by being an ass, but civil discourse is the best way to change someones mind. So what if the guy hasn't read everything you have? So what if the guy has a point of view that isn't the same as yours? Being condescending hurts your argument, no matter how right you may be.
According to the timelines I've seen, they had to spend years tracking down and killing all the jedi. Some seriously kick-ass battles are possible with Darth Vader hunting down random jedi.
Yeah, I would guess that the next great party to come out will be extremely fiscally conservative since that's the niche that neither party fills right now.
The problem is that the south has votes and, therefore, helps sway the election. For better or for worse, if the south decides who wins and who loses, and the south votes for the people who are, as you say, "fascists," then we'll be going further and further that way. Living in a republic's a bitch.
It's true. For better or for worse, the easiest way for an incumbent to lose their next race is to piss off the NRA.
Of all the reasons to not use MySQL, and there are a lot, the licensing is probably the least likely to convince someone to use or not to use it. And the author presented those reasons in a stupid way, giving ridiculously stupid ways the licensing could effect you.
You're right, my apologies.
Further, the DS actually has great third party titles, especially considering that most of their most famous games (brain age, phoenix wright, trauma center, etc) are third party. I think that developers have avoided developing for the gamecube and the wii for a few reasons:
- Nintendo has a tendency to put out the highest quality and best selling games, creating stiff competition.
- The hardware isn't as good as other consoles, and you don't get famous making kids games in today's market.
- Nintendo has an image of being a console for kids, see #2
- Nintendo hasn't sold as well as other consoles. When the GBA and DS cleared that up, the developers came in spite of the problems.
It's true that Nintendo's competition in games hurts, but I think that it's just one of many factors and, as the DS and GBA have shown, third party support will still follow.Lol, I'm nearly 23 thank you very much ;)
For me, the killer app for the wii will definitely be smash brothers, so I find it very discouraging that they won't even give a release date.
Right now the wii suffers from a lack of good games, especially games that are sequels to earlier blockbusters. Paper mario was good, but it wasn't the level of smash brothers, any super mario brothers or metroid. The Wii's sale numbers are spectacular, but it's still not getting the respect it deserves. Nintendo needs to put out a few serious, long titles exclusively for the Wii and shut the critics up.
I'm surprised nobody's excited about the part where Bill Gates walks towards a table of Apple gear and Steve Jobs stops him, yelling, "You shall not pass!"
Again, simple question, not trying to flame and maybe playing the devil's advocate a bit, but wouldn't the sexist assumption be the opposite? Putting aside political correctness and the feminist movement, we know that men and women are different at many, many levels; we also know that many of these aren't cultural, they're biological. Could it possibly be that the sexist assumption is that men are so good at math and science because of cultural traits? Shouldn't we also then say that men have a higher rate of color blindness because of cultural factors?
Those two examples are very obviously different in that we can point to the exact causes of color blindness, but I've never seen any evidence that even suggests that men and women are equal in their mental capacities, quite the opposite. I can run rings around any girl that I've met at math (and I know there are many women that are better at math than I am, I've just never gotten the opportunity to be schooled by them). By that same token, I've never known a girl who was interested in literature and didn't run rings around me.
Is there any evidence that men and women are equally capable at all intellectual pursuits, or is the argument still revolving around assumptions?
Why do we care why women do or do not go into IT? I don't mean this as a flame, I'm just curious, because all the tools are there for women that are there for men. Computers cost as much for a woman as they do for a man, google searches work as well for women as for men, and O'Reilly books are as easily opened by women as by men. Why separate these studies on the lines of gender?
I wish more people thought like we do. Millions die in Africa because we "enlightened" countries decided, based on a flawed book debunked years ago, that any country using DDT was to be stigmatized.
Hmm, apparently you're not familiar with the writing climate when Shakespeare was around, where it basically guarantees that, first off, Shakespeare's plays were helped along by multiple other people and that they were probably rewritten many times by people other than Shakespeare by the time we got them.
The same thing occurs with good innovations. The best innovations I've seen were when someone walked up to a whiteboard and five of us critiqued his idea, trimmed and added to it until it was a truly great idea.
Also, we're missing the fact that cars are still frequently misunderstood by people. I guarantee that my sister couldn't add oil if her life depended on it. She's an extremely intelligent girl, she just doesn't need to know those things. Computers should also be designed for everyone to be able to use...make a computer that is as easy for any person off the street to use as a car is I disagree on that point. The reason that computers work is that they're so versatile, if you make them more simple you lose the versatility. Besides, as mentioned above, most problems are with familiarity, and from what I've seen people tend to learn computers fairly well when given the chance.
It may be true that Microsoft can run any individual open source company into the ground, but if every company that uses linux were to contribute to the legal fund it would be a real fight. Think of Microsoft against Google (who uses TONS of open source and is developing products that could fall under MS patents), Novell, IBM, Sun, MySQL, Redhat, Mozilla, etc. Add to that the open source developers not associated with the above companies (maybe they couldn't do the money, but that's a lot of eyes and hands for manipulating code).
If the open source community's smart about it, and if a competent first opponent is chosen (ie someone that will ask for help and put up a good defense), this could be the first catastrophic blow to the Windows monopoly.
I'm not saying you should be forgiving, but what good does not forgiving this man do? Let's say he stops doing PCP, cleans up his life and is mortified at what he did and wants to do nothing more than make reparations. At that point are there any good choices?
I don't know where I personally stand on the issue, but I'm absolutely certain that letting people out of prison but not letting them continue their lives is worse than either letting them completely free or keeping them in prison.
Blizzard.com is both funny and informative, best source I've found. Check it out.
Too bad they haven't mastered it enough to score some serious points ;)