That might be hard to balance out different characters. Blizzard has enough issues with PvP and PvE balance for humanoid characters in WoW. For example, if you are an Ultralisk you can pretty much stomp on any other ground based character but completely helpless against some aircraft.
Maybe, but even in WoW it's freely acknowledged by the developers that that 1 vs 1 combat is not balanced, that some classes will just be BETTER than other classes, but that together they achieve some sort of form of balance. Starcraft works along the same lines, though because of Starcraft's resource feature the 1on1 imbalances are more acute. An MMO would have to have a different style of combat system to make up for that, or scrap the whole imbalance entirely.
I think the GP has a point. Of Apple defied the order what would happen? Tim Cook in handcuffs?
There's no reason to be so heavy handed. They would just get a bad reputation on the federal level as a company which refused to cooperate with investigators on terrorism manners. Contracts would start to dry up. Departments that used macs would start to switch to Linux. iphones would be replaced with Android or something more custom.
Congress passed the "National Minimum Drinking Age Act," a matter which constitutionally they should have little authority over. When some states showed little interest in raising the drinking age to 21, the ATF didn't go in with guns and demand the state legislature to change their mind. Instead, they said "look, the act authorizes us to cut the amount of federal highway funds that go to your state. That's what will happen if you don't raise the minimum legal drinking age." Lo and behold, within a few years, all 50 states and the District of Columbia had "voluntarily raised" the drinking age to 21. That's how things get done: not with the stick, but that they legally offer a lot of carrots that states can't afford to turn down, and then attach strings to those carrots to get states to do things that Congress shouldn't have authority over.
It would be risky but if they really stand by their principals like they say they do...
What would happen if they stood by their principals is little more than an extremely large entity giving its business to their competitors. Very little would happen that could give those in charge direct bad press.
Custer was about the US Army's charge to push the American Indians of the area onto their assigned reservations. One can argue the morality of this, but since this time the courts have ordered restitution to the descendants of the Native Americans who where displaced. This payment, which represents the value of the Black Hills land at the time it was taken with interest sits unclaimed in escrow with a value approaching about a billion dollars. So, at lest in the case of Custer and the campaign he was involved in, the USA is making restitution for their actions.
Forcing someone off of their land and paying them a pittance for it is still kicking someone off of their land. It doesn't make it much less of an ignoble crime.
If I were to listen to all of them, nobody would be a Muslim
This works for Christians too, you know! Jack Chick of the Chick Tracts fame obviously has it out for the Roman Catholics (he has explicitly claimed that the Roman Catholic Church was started by Satan himself) and that only his brand of evangelical Protestantism could bring you to Jesus. And on the other side, I attended a Catholic high school and had a religion professor tell me that all non-Catholic denominations were cults set to take your soul.
That's just what happens when you listen to the extremists.
While I don't see the need for a 3-d printer for myself, right now, I'd love to be able to walk into a place, scan a broken part, and have them print a new plastic one.
On my outdoor shed, there's a plastic proprietary piece of plastic that holds the door off the ground and lets it slide. The plastic broke, and I have no chance of just being able to get a replacement part. I wouldn't even know where to begin to look! But if I had access to a 3-d printer, I could glue the part back together, scan it, and get a new, stronger one printed out.
There really is no reason to distinguish between republicans and democrats
Of course there is. There's no reason to distinguish between them if you're a single-issue voter (where one issue greatly outweighs any others) and both parties agree on that issue.
If you're a single woman on welfare, and Republicans want to cut your monthly benefits, you're going to think there's a huge difference between the parties.
If you're an evangelical Christian and you think that gay marriage is a state-sponsored affront to God, you're going to think there's a huge difference between the parties.
If you think climate change is a bunch of BS and that your company shouldn't have its carbon emissions regulated, you're going to think there's a huge difference between the parties.
If your first concern is whether the government overreaches in surveillance efforts, you may not think there's much difference between the parties.
It's a difference of perspective, what is important to you.
The move to the Republican party is actually fairly recent. Hell, when I moved down here about twenty years ago, the bible belt was still Dixiecrat territory. After all, that's where you get Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, etc.
Political change can take a long time, usually for the old generation still in power to actually die off.
That's the line I use to explain to people why I'm not afraid of heights. Specifically, I'm not worried about falling. Off a ledge, out of a high tree, over a cliff, and so on.
Most don't understand the usefulness of that outlook.
I am... not so sure if it's that useful, long-term. If I'm walking on a curb that's 5 inches off the ground, I'll certainly feel much less fear than if that drop was 100 feet, and it's because the consequences of the most minor of mistakes, the most minor of mental lapses are so much more dire. The fear tells us not to get into those situations, not to do really stupid things.
Sometimes I'll hear someone say "wouldn't it be great if we never felt pain?" Like that would turn them into an unstoppable super-soldier. Too many movies and TV shows have promoted that fantasy, but the truth is that fear and pain are useful. Pain tells us something is wrong, pain guides our actions towards survival. Fear tells us to avoid situations which could kill us. Fear and pain help us survive, and the creatures that couldn't feel them didn't live.
All you need to do is to present your signal 10x stronger. Then your base station will win - no matter what. Talk to a radio engineer if you dont grok that
It's basically how all those "FM radio car adapters" for iPods worked. Pick a frequency and hope that it's local signal is stronger than any others around you. Of course those things were pretty damned weak, so it wasn't easy to find an unused frequency. Also, if you travel more than, say, 10 miles, you had to pull over, try to find another frequency... any sort of trip required constant fiddling. Those things were terrible, since FCC regulations limited the radio power output.
Ebola is fast and lethal, and that's one of the reasons why it's tougher for it to spread than, say, the Spanish Flu was. Ebola's a super-scary disease, but it's not contagious until you exhibit Ebola-like symptoms, as opposed to a cold or the flu where you can spread the disease while being in the symptomatic period (I was told, though I don't know if this is just hearsay, that the common cold is MORE virulent before the sneezing/coughing period, though I'm not sure how that would be the case).
News for ya, in America, everyone's opinion is worth something and is ultimately expressed through the ballot box.
Your ignorance is not equivalent to someone else's expertise. "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Science doesn't get to say "Do this, for I have obtained a 95% confidence level!"
Sure they can, and people are of course, free to listen to them, or free not to.
Excessive water use in the Midwest, West, and central US have seriously drained the underground aquifers. In many areas you can't just dig a well to get water, you have to go much deeper. And even then it might be polluted thanks to our fracking craze.
Why is causing pain to others bad? Why do you care about what other people feel? Yes, most of us agree that it's wrong to willfully hurt others, but why? If you think that we're just collections of cells, then the only thing you should care about is your own personal survival and comfort, and nothing else.
Because I'm interested in the long-term good of society, because that's where I'll live. If I do not treat others well, then I can't expect them to treat me well, and I'd like them to treat me well.
At some point it will happen, should uselessd get any traction. It has all the hallmarks of a school-yard taunt, and eventually distro maintainers will ask them to grow up.
In case you haven't noticed, Users (remember them? Lots more Users than Admins, right?) who grew up primarily in a Windows Desktop environment, are pretty much ingrained with the philosophy of "Bootup each morning; Shutdown (not Sleep) each night." For them, Boot times do count.
Do you REALLY think that's a big selling point? Really?
It doesn't come anywhere close to importance as applications, window manager, actual tasks that people do once the computer boots.
Also, pay attention to what your doctor says. If he administers a test for Coeliac Disease and you're positive, then all the probiotics and bacteria munging and anything else along those lines won't help you, and continuing to ingest gluten can cause long-term harm.
Wait, so the group that has taken over large amounts of land and imposed the laws that they want and believe in is LESS EFFECTIVE than the small terrorist group that hides in caves?
Do you think that ISIS has a long-term future? We're not talking about short-term gains, here, we're talking about whether a philosophy of terrorism is effective in the long term.
4. Regardless of its other content, any poster that says "I'm gonna get modded down for TELLLIN' IT LIKE IT IS, MAN!" deserves all the downmods they get, and they know it.
I don't think they 'know' that they deserve it, but lots of people LOVE being martyrs for their cause. They like to get up on the cross before anyone else can put them there.
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That might be hard to balance out different characters. Blizzard has enough issues with PvP and PvE balance for humanoid characters in WoW. For example, if you are an Ultralisk you can pretty much stomp on any other ground based character but completely helpless against some aircraft.
Maybe, but even in WoW it's freely acknowledged by the developers that that 1 vs 1 combat is not balanced, that some classes will just be BETTER than other classes, but that together they achieve some sort of form of balance. Starcraft works along the same lines, though because of Starcraft's resource feature the 1on1 imbalances are more acute. An MMO would have to have a different style of combat system to make up for that, or scrap the whole imbalance entirely.
I think the GP has a point. Of Apple defied the order what would happen? Tim Cook in handcuffs?
There's no reason to be so heavy handed. They would just get a bad reputation on the federal level as a company which refused to cooperate with investigators on terrorism manners. Contracts would start to dry up. Departments that used macs would start to switch to Linux. iphones would be replaced with Android or something more custom.
Congress passed the "National Minimum Drinking Age Act," a matter which constitutionally they should have little authority over. When some states showed little interest in raising the drinking age to 21, the ATF didn't go in with guns and demand the state legislature to change their mind. Instead, they said "look, the act authorizes us to cut the amount of federal highway funds that go to your state. That's what will happen if you don't raise the minimum legal drinking age." Lo and behold, within a few years, all 50 states and the District of Columbia had "voluntarily raised" the drinking age to 21. That's how things get done: not with the stick, but that they legally offer a lot of carrots that states can't afford to turn down, and then attach strings to those carrots to get states to do things that Congress shouldn't have authority over.
It would be risky but if they really stand by their principals like they say they do...
What would happen if they stood by their principals is little more than an extremely large entity giving its business to their competitors. Very little would happen that could give those in charge direct bad press.
Obviously they are not hipster enough for Apple products, ironic beards not withstanding.
I don't think they're going for -irony- with those beards.
You would be correct though in stating that both hipsters and terrorists try to make statements with their beards.
Custer was about the US Army's charge to push the American Indians of the area onto their assigned reservations. One can argue the morality of this, but since this time the courts have ordered restitution to the descendants of the Native Americans who where displaced. This payment, which represents the value of the Black Hills land at the time it was taken with interest sits unclaimed in escrow with a value approaching about a billion dollars. So, at lest in the case of Custer and the campaign he was involved in, the USA is making restitution for their actions.
Forcing someone off of their land and paying them a pittance for it is still kicking someone off of their land. It doesn't make it much less of an ignoble crime.
If I were to listen to all of them, nobody would be a Muslim
This works for Christians too, you know! Jack Chick of the Chick Tracts fame obviously has it out for the Roman Catholics (he has explicitly claimed that the Roman Catholic Church was started by Satan himself) and that only his brand of evangelical Protestantism could bring you to Jesus. And on the other side, I attended a Catholic high school and had a religion professor tell me that all non-Catholic denominations were cults set to take your soul.
That's just what happens when you listen to the extremists.
Doesn't bestow riches or anything on this dirtball planet. Yet legions are running around claiming anything they do is because Allah wills it.
Sounds like they're really worshiping Tash.
While I don't see the need for a 3-d printer for myself, right now, I'd love to be able to walk into a place, scan a broken part, and have them print a new plastic one.
On my outdoor shed, there's a plastic proprietary piece of plastic that holds the door off the ground and lets it slide. The plastic broke, and I have no chance of just being able to get a replacement part. I wouldn't even know where to begin to look! But if I had access to a 3-d printer, I could glue the part back together, scan it, and get a new, stronger one printed out.
There really is no reason to distinguish between republicans and democrats
Of course there is. There's no reason to distinguish between them if you're a single-issue voter (where one issue greatly outweighs any others) and both parties agree on that issue.
If you're a single woman on welfare, and Republicans want to cut your monthly benefits, you're going to think there's a huge difference between the parties.
If you're an evangelical Christian and you think that gay marriage is a state-sponsored affront to God, you're going to think there's a huge difference between the parties.
If you think climate change is a bunch of BS and that your company shouldn't have its carbon emissions regulated, you're going to think there's a huge difference between the parties.
If your first concern is whether the government overreaches in surveillance efforts, you may not think there's much difference between the parties.
It's a difference of perspective, what is important to you.
No true muslim.
Are you making the claim that most muslims and Islamic texts support terrorism, beheadings, mass executions, etc?
The move to the Republican party is actually fairly recent. Hell, when I moved down here about twenty years ago, the bible belt was still Dixiecrat territory. After all, that's where you get Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, etc.
Political change can take a long time, usually for the old generation still in power to actually die off.
That's the line I use to explain to people why I'm not afraid of heights. Specifically, I'm not worried about falling. Off a ledge, out of a high tree, over a cliff, and so on.
Most don't understand the usefulness of that outlook.
I am... not so sure if it's that useful, long-term. If I'm walking on a curb that's 5 inches off the ground, I'll certainly feel much less fear than if that drop was 100 feet, and it's because the consequences of the most minor of mistakes, the most minor of mental lapses are so much more dire. The fear tells us not to get into those situations, not to do really stupid things.
Sometimes I'll hear someone say "wouldn't it be great if we never felt pain?" Like that would turn them into an unstoppable super-soldier. Too many movies and TV shows have promoted that fantasy, but the truth is that fear and pain are useful. Pain tells us something is wrong, pain guides our actions towards survival. Fear tells us to avoid situations which could kill us. Fear and pain help us survive, and the creatures that couldn't feel them didn't live.
All you need to do is to present your signal 10x stronger. Then your base station will win - no matter what. Talk to a radio engineer if you dont grok that
It's basically how all those "FM radio car adapters" for iPods worked. Pick a frequency and hope that it's local signal is stronger than any others around you. Of course those things were pretty damned weak, so it wasn't easy to find an unused frequency. Also, if you travel more than, say, 10 miles, you had to pull over, try to find another frequency... any sort of trip required constant fiddling. Those things were terrible, since FCC regulations limited the radio power output.
Ebola is fast and lethal, and that's one of the reasons why it's tougher for it to spread than, say, the Spanish Flu was. Ebola's a super-scary disease, but it's not contagious until you exhibit Ebola-like symptoms, as opposed to a cold or the flu where you can spread the disease while being in the symptomatic period (I was told, though I don't know if this is just hearsay, that the common cold is MORE virulent before the sneezing/coughing period, though I'm not sure how that would be the case).
They don't have many music players over there. Once we can really get some exports of U2's music down there, it will result in mass depopulation.
News for ya, in America, everyone's opinion is worth something and is ultimately expressed through the ballot box.
Your ignorance is not equivalent to someone else's expertise. "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Science doesn't get to say "Do this, for I have obtained a 95% confidence level!"
Sure they can, and people are of course, free to listen to them, or free not to.
Water evaporates. Then it falls back dow to the ground as fresh water.
Where it mostly goes into rivers and out into the sea. The underground reserviors take a long time to refill.
Excessive water use in the Midwest, West, and central US have seriously drained the underground aquifers. In many areas you can't just dig a well to get water, you have to go much deeper. And even then it might be polluted thanks to our fracking craze.
Ugh. That guy. I'm not sure I would trust Paul Krugman on the economics of global warming any more than I would take my talking points from Fox News.
Why is causing pain to others bad? Why do you care about what other people feel? Yes, most of us agree that it's wrong to willfully hurt others, but why? If you think that we're just collections of cells, then the only thing you should care about is your own personal survival and comfort, and nothing else.
Because I'm interested in the long-term good of society, because that's where I'll live. If I do not treat others well, then I can't expect them to treat me well, and I'd like them to treat me well.
At some point it will happen, should uselessd get any traction.
It has all the hallmarks of a school-yard taunt, and eventually distro maintainers will ask them to grow up.
In case you haven't noticed, Users (remember them? Lots more Users than Admins, right?) who grew up primarily in a Windows Desktop environment, are pretty much ingrained with the philosophy of "Bootup each morning; Shutdown (not Sleep) each night." For them, Boot times do count.
Do you REALLY think that's a big selling point? Really?
It doesn't come anywhere close to importance as applications, window manager, actual tasks that people do once the computer boots.
Also, pay attention to what your doctor says. If he administers a test for Coeliac Disease and you're positive, then all the probiotics and bacteria munging and anything else along those lines won't help you, and continuing to ingest gluten can cause long-term harm.
You know, you can impart knowledge without being an asshole who belittles the person you're responding to every other sentence. Please try it.
Wait, so the group that has taken over large amounts of land and imposed the laws that they want and believe in is LESS EFFECTIVE than the small terrorist group that hides in caves?
Do you think that ISIS has a long-term future? We're not talking about short-term gains, here, we're talking about whether a philosophy of terrorism is effective in the long term.
4. Regardless of its other content, any poster that says "I'm gonna get modded down for TELLLIN' IT LIKE IT IS, MAN!" deserves all the downmods they get, and they know it.
I don't think they 'know' that they deserve it, but lots of people LOVE being martyrs for their cause. They like to get up on the cross before anyone else can put them there.