Maybe he's talking about Atlantis, in which case he's wrong anyway. Atlantis didn't erode, it sunk. The various Namor, the Sub-Mariner comics go into it in detail.
I guess, any more, I can't help but to find these attempts to interpret a meaningless 3,000 year old text not much different from trying to reconstruct some Vulcan matron's philosophical works and the meaning of life from a few disparate episodes of varies Trek series.
On the Star Trek side, that was probably an intentional parallel.
You don't solve the dangers of science by killing scientists. This is the same sort of crap that the Israeli and US government is sponsoring in Iran.
IMO, it was a good idea, but executed far too late. You might make the case that once you hear "Iran is researching nuclear weapons" on the nightly news, it's already too late.
You absolutely can at least mitigate the problems of science by killing scientists, but it has to be done early enough, before the research is successfully carried out.
Anarchy is not a form of government......It's merely an interim state until a large enough coalition forms to impose their will on others and forms a new state.
I learned this in Civilization II. When you switch government-types, there is a period of anarchy until your unhappiness level rises above 0. Raise your spending on Luxuries and decrease spending on Science to reduce the number of turns anarchy persists.
Oh God, I wish I hadn't posted in this story already. I have mod points, and I want to mod this up to 11. Or at least increase it until you get a "We Love the President's Day."
Damn, kick Barack Obama out, let Mitt Romney know in no uncertain terms he also will be kicked out if he fails to put an end to the drug war and you immediately release something like 50,000 law enforcement agents to tackle a few radical anarchists, as well as a bunch of crooked oil executives and a whole pack of conspiratorial bankers, people who Barack Obama has also ignored (not to forget a false war and torturers) to focus on the great arch (Saturday afternoon cartoon) criminal Kim Dotcom in the great collapsing megaupload case, well down Obama.
Do you seriously think Obama has dropped everything to go after Kim Dotcom? Do you seriously think that the effort to go after Kim Dotcom is anything but a microfraction of the effort spent on oil and banking issues? I'd be surprised if he even heard who Kim Dotcom is. Obama, like all Presidents, delegates.
And that's why not everyone is homosexual. There are lots of species of which a significant number are homosexual. That means there must be a benefit of some kind to homosexuality, so the truth is likely the exact opposite of what you said.
It doesn't mean there's a benefit, it just means the negatives aren't enough to have any meaningful impact. That changes a lot if a species is rarer or has more competition for territory (like mammalian or avian predators). An animal from such a group in the wild that doesn't reproduce is called a "black hole" in the ecosystem -- it consumes resources but doesn't produce (ie, offspring). In nature, homosexuality isn't a problem for successful species that don't suffer if individuals don't breed. Saying that homosexuality is a "survival risk" for humans is laughable on the face of it, humanity has the exact opposite problem than underpopulation.
Sure the music might be locally produced, but what's stopping it from reaching audiences around the globe?
For the most part, advertising and promotion. It's not enough for good music to exist and for it to be available. You need a way for it to break through the din created by movies, video games, Facebook, and the thousands of other musicians who do have the force of industry behind them.
You guys are both kind of right. Beiber is a very good example of sucker making bank.
Just Beiber is actually quite talented. Well, not as a singer, and he only impresses teenage girls and their immense amounts of disposable income with his performing skills.
No, his real talent is in drumming. If he sticks with that he might actually be good some day.
Well, it was *SUPPOSED* to be different in America. Or at least according to some crusty old documents...
That didn't last very long, not even a decade. The Sedition Act was the first major blow, coming when the Constitution was barely a decade old. Egregious examples culled from Wikipedia: "Luther Baldwin, a private citizen, was indicted for a comment he made during a visit by President Adams to Newark, New Jersey. The President was greeted by a crowd and by a committee that saluted him by firing a cannon. A bystander said, "There goes the President and they are firing at his ass." Baldwin replied that he did not care "if they fired through his ass." He was convicted in the federal court for speaking "seditious words tending to defame the President and Government of the United States" and fined $100."
"In November 1798, David Brown led a group in Dedham, Massachusetts in setting up a liberty pole with the words, "No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America; peace and retirement to the President; Long Live the Vice President". Brown was arrested in Andover, Massachusetts, but because he could not afford the $4,000 bail, he was taken to Salem for trial. Brown was tried in June 1799. Brown pled guilty but Justice Samuel Chase asked him to name others who had assisted him. Brown refused, was fined $480, and sentenced to eighteen months in prison, the most severe sentence ever imposed under the Sedition Act."
And, a way to ensure that you only ever have access the latest approved version of the app, and a way to deny you use of the app at any time for any reason.
This is about switching to the "software as a continuing service" model rather than give you programs that you could run as they are in 10 years.
I'm not sure how you would play it, though. Much of game is actually implemented in the server and not the client. You might be able to look at the art, but it's the server that sets the maps, orders the AI of the monsters, and many other basic things.
Technically you don't 'need' more than 10 slots, usually. The D2/D3 differences:
*) D2 didn't let you switch skills (very often). Play an ice sorceress and want to play a fire sorceress? Time to roll a new character! In D3, you can just swap character skills. *) The Diablo games don't soulbind equipment, so you can just take one character's equipment and give it all to another. *) What is the difference between two wizards? The skills and gear.
The only thing I needed lots of characters for in Diablo 2 were for item mules. I'm hoping the larger, shared stash in D3 eliminates that need.
The answer is that it would be the same things placed in the box 13 billion years ago, in the same exact position.
But we know that's not the case either. Read up on Hawking's work; we have observed that literally from nothing, a particle and its anti-particle will appear and then immediately annihilate.
If what you say were true, the average deficit under Bush, with the Republican controlled Congress he had for the first six years of his term, would have been more than $250 billion. Instead, it was around $250 billion. Obama's average deficit is around $1250 billion. So it's not the wars. It's not the tax cuts. You are full of shit.
It's all of the above, plus the Keynsian notion that you spend your way of a recession/depression.
Come now, the Democrats would have invaded Afghanistan too, don't think they wouldn't. It's the closest the US has come to a "just" war since WWII. It might have gone a lot differently though without the distraction of Iraq.
However, Obama had this for the first two years of his term.
He didn't though, that was his biggest problem. Just because a senator is a Democrat doesn't mean that person will vote for Obama's proposals, nor will they cave under party pressure. The Republicans are good about whipping their members into line, the Democrats are terrible at it, and that's why the health care bill was an over-compromised mess that no one from either side is happy with.
Solyndra was a failure, no getting around that. Something will have to be done about China, but people should have recognized that and accounted for it. NUMMI failed? GM imploded so they pulled out. You can hardly blame NUMMI for that. The plant reopened and is making super-expensive Tesla Motors cars. Whether that will win out in the long term is up for debate. Sun Microsystems was a leader in the field for years for years, and they were eventually bought. Don't know about the Mac factory, I'll take your word for it.
Democrats still control the Senate and the White House
But as you mention, bills have to pass both houses. So all a party needs is just one of the House, Senate, and Presidency. With only one they can't really pass anything radical, but they can be obstructionist. They can be obstructionist very well.
And I don't really believe the "democrats control the Senate" line either. It's technically true, but doesn't explain the reality of the situation, which is that the Democrats are a pretty Big Tent party and have no sense of unity and cohesion. Obama can rarely get anything from his agenda through the Senate, which supposedly "his party" controls, to say nothing of the House!
It's a formula at the moment for gridlock, or notions so popular no one opposes it.
Some of the allegedly unfair blocks include censorship of the 'Tor' system, a privacy tool used by activists and campaigners across the globe
That's a bit of a white-wash. What Tor is is a network allowing for file exchange which makes it impossible or very difficult to tell the identity of the file sharers. It should come as no surprise that a filtering scheme would block a network that allowed for content of any type that the filter cannot operate on. It's not 'unfair' in that this is mistakenly being filtered, it's 'unfair' in that unfilterable networks that allow any content will be casualties of any filter worth its salt.
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Maybe he's talking about Atlantis, in which case he's wrong anyway.
Atlantis didn't erode, it sunk. The various Namor, the Sub-Mariner comics go into it in detail.
I guess, any more, I can't help but to find these attempts to interpret a meaningless 3,000 year old text not much different from trying to reconstruct some Vulcan matron's philosophical works and the meaning of life from a few disparate episodes of varies Trek series.
On the Star Trek side, that was probably an intentional parallel.
You don't solve the dangers of science by killing scientists. This is the same sort of crap that the Israeli and US government is sponsoring in Iran.
IMO, it was a good idea, but executed far too late. You might make the case that once you hear "Iran is researching nuclear weapons" on the nightly news, it's already too late.
You absolutely can at least mitigate the problems of science by killing scientists, but it has to be done early enough, before the research is successfully carried out.
Anarchy is not a form of government... ...It's merely an interim state until a large enough coalition forms to impose their will on others and forms a new state.
I learned this in Civilization II. When you switch government-types, there is a period of anarchy until your unhappiness level rises above 0. Raise your spending on Luxuries and decrease spending on Science to reduce the number of turns anarchy persists.
Oh God, I wish I hadn't posted in this story already. I have mod points, and I want to mod this up to 11. Or at least increase it until you get a "We Love the President's Day."
Damn, kick Barack Obama out, let Mitt Romney know in no uncertain terms he also will be kicked out if he fails to put an end to the drug war and you immediately release something like 50,000 law enforcement agents to tackle a few radical anarchists, as well as a bunch of crooked oil executives and a whole pack of conspiratorial bankers, people who Barack Obama has also ignored (not to forget a false war and torturers) to focus on the great arch (Saturday afternoon cartoon) criminal Kim Dotcom in the great collapsing megaupload case, well down Obama.
Do you seriously think Obama has dropped everything to go after Kim Dotcom? Do you seriously think that the effort to go after Kim Dotcom is anything but a microfraction of the effort spent on oil and banking issues? I'd be surprised if he even heard who Kim Dotcom is.
Obama, like all Presidents, delegates.
And that's why not everyone is homosexual. There are lots of species of which a significant number are homosexual. That means there must be a benefit of some kind to homosexuality, so the truth is likely the exact opposite of what you said.
It doesn't mean there's a benefit, it just means the negatives aren't enough to have any meaningful impact.
That changes a lot if a species is rarer or has more competition for territory (like mammalian or avian predators).
An animal from such a group in the wild that doesn't reproduce is called a "black hole" in the ecosystem -- it consumes resources but doesn't produce (ie, offspring).
In nature, homosexuality isn't a problem for successful species that don't suffer if individuals don't breed. Saying that homosexuality is a "survival risk" for humans is laughable on the face of it, humanity has the exact opposite problem than underpopulation.
Mass infertility in the human species is a program already underway. If you listen to the Agenda 21 conspiracies, anyway
One of the many reasons why you shouldn't listen to the Agenda 21 conspiracies, or any other super-conspiracy peddler, for that matter.
AIDS isn't a downside?
The problem isn't homosexuality, it's promiscuity.
What a reference. :-)
Sure the music might be locally produced, but what's stopping it from reaching audiences around the globe?
For the most part, advertising and promotion. It's not enough for good music to exist and for it to be available. You need a way for it to break through the din created by movies, video games, Facebook, and the thousands of other musicians who do have the force of industry behind them.
You guys are both kind of right. Beiber is a very good example of sucker making bank.
Just Beiber is actually quite talented. Well, not as a singer, and he only impresses teenage girls and their immense amounts of disposable income with his performing skills.
No, his real talent is in drumming. If he sticks with that he might actually be good some day.
Well, it was *SUPPOSED* to be different in America. Or at least according to some crusty old documents...
That didn't last very long, not even a decade. The Sedition Act was the first major blow, coming when the Constitution was barely a decade old. Egregious examples culled from Wikipedia:
"Luther Baldwin, a private citizen, was indicted for a comment he made during a visit by President Adams to Newark, New Jersey. The President was greeted by a crowd and by a committee that saluted him by firing a cannon. A bystander said, "There goes the President and they are firing at his ass." Baldwin replied that he did not care "if they fired through his ass." He was convicted in the federal court for speaking "seditious words tending to defame the President and Government of the United States" and fined $100."
"In November 1798, David Brown led a group in Dedham, Massachusetts in setting up a liberty pole with the words, "No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America; peace and retirement to the President; Long Live the Vice President". Brown was arrested in Andover, Massachusetts, but because he could not afford the $4,000 bail, he was taken to Salem for trial. Brown was tried in June 1799. Brown pled guilty but Justice Samuel Chase asked him to name others who had assisted him. Brown refused, was fined $480, and sentenced to eighteen months in prison, the most severe sentence ever imposed under the Sedition Act."
Once you make enough money, you never ever need to be lonely and miserable. At that point it just becomes a choice.
Miserable? Maybe. Lonely? Certainly not.
And, a way to ensure that you only ever have access the latest approved version of the app, and a way to deny you use of the app at any time for any reason.
This is about switching to the "software as a continuing service" model rather than give you programs that you could run as they are in 10 years.
I'm not sure how you would play it, though. Much of game is actually implemented in the server and not the client. You might be able to look at the art, but it's the server that sets the maps, orders the AI of the monsters, and many other basic things.
Technically you don't 'need' more than 10 slots, usually. The D2/D3 differences:
*) D2 didn't let you switch skills (very often). Play an ice sorceress and want to play a fire sorceress? Time to roll a new character! In D3, you can just swap character skills.
*) The Diablo games don't soulbind equipment, so you can just take one character's equipment and give it all to another.
*) What is the difference between two wizards? The skills and gear.
The only thing I needed lots of characters for in Diablo 2 were for item mules. I'm hoping the larger, shared stash in D3 eliminates that need.
The answer is that it would be the same things placed in the box 13 billion years ago, in the same exact position.
But we know that's not the case either. Read up on Hawking's work; we have observed that literally from nothing, a particle and its anti-particle will appear and then immediately annihilate.
"Disregard that, I suck cocks?" >_>
If what you say were true, the average deficit under Bush, with the Republican controlled Congress he had for the first six years of his term, would have been more than $250 billion. Instead, it was around $250 billion. Obama's average deficit is around $1250 billion. So it's not the wars. It's not the tax cuts. You are full of shit.
It's all of the above, plus the Keynsian notion that you spend your way of a recession/depression.
Namely, two unpaid for (and unnecessary wars),
Come now, the Democrats would have invaded Afghanistan too, don't think they wouldn't.
It's the closest the US has come to a "just" war since WWII.
It might have gone a lot differently though without the distraction of Iraq.
However, Obama had this for the first two years of his term.
He didn't though, that was his biggest problem. Just because a senator is a Democrat doesn't mean that person will vote for Obama's proposals, nor will they cave under party pressure. The Republicans are good about whipping their members into line, the Democrats are terrible at it, and that's why the health care bill was an over-compromised mess that no one from either side is happy with.
Solyndra was a failure, no getting around that. Something will have to be done about China, but people should have recognized that and accounted for it.
NUMMI failed? GM imploded so they pulled out. You can hardly blame NUMMI for that. The plant reopened and is making super-expensive Tesla Motors cars. Whether that will win out in the long term is up for debate.
Sun Microsystems was a leader in the field for years for years, and they were eventually bought.
Don't know about the Mac factory, I'll take your word for it.
The lion's share of the fault belongs to Congress.
Given Congress's approval rating is typically well below the President's (any president), maybe the public has the right idea after all.
Democrats still control the Senate and the White House
But as you mention, bills have to pass both houses. So all a party needs is just one of the House, Senate, and Presidency. With only one they can't really pass anything radical, but they can be obstructionist. They can be obstructionist very well.
And I don't really believe the "democrats control the Senate" line either. It's technically true, but doesn't explain the reality of the situation, which is that the Democrats are a pretty Big Tent party and have no sense of unity and cohesion. Obama can rarely get anything from his agenda through the Senate, which supposedly "his party" controls, to say nothing of the House!
It's a formula at the moment for gridlock, or notions so popular no one opposes it.
Some of the allegedly unfair blocks include censorship of the 'Tor' system, a privacy tool used by activists and campaigners across the globe
That's a bit of a white-wash. What Tor is is a network allowing for file exchange which makes it impossible or very difficult to tell the identity of the file sharers. It should come as no surprise that a filtering scheme would block a network that allowed for content of any type that the filter cannot operate on. It's not 'unfair' in that this is mistakenly being filtered, it's 'unfair' in that unfilterable networks that allow any content will be casualties of any filter worth its salt.