Interesting Ideals. Any greater theory you're pulling from or a pet theory of your own?
I do notice you speak of responsibility a lot. It is something that I find lacking in our modern world. Why we somehow thought that no one should be taken to task(now you got that phrase stuck in my head) for screwing up. That maybe the one thing that makes any system hard to implement today, the lack of personal responsibility.
People owning up to what they've done is really rare these days. Oddly watching our current President saying "I screwed up" made me a bit teary eyed. I wish some other people in high places would say "Sorry guy's we went over to this place thinking we could find some naughty stuff and made a mess of everything, we're going to try and make it right now" would probably give me a heart attack.
First, I love your sig. Second I agree that part of the problem lay with the politicians as well. Part off the problem lay with our obsession with investing all of the power into our new King.. err Emperor.. ahh Dictator ?? President!! yeah that one. The Executive has expanded to insane proportions and Congress has for some odd reason been happy to give away its power. A lot of the shifts in power really get to me. Like our change of Senators being chosen by the state legislatures to being elected from the general populous. Senators are supposed to fight for the rights of the State they represent, not the people of the state directly but for the State Government, and by extension then the people of said state. What I really see is the power structures being moved from the positions they were set up to every greasy, unfair for me to say yes, hand in the country. The System was supposed to be a set of checks and balances against each other, if everyone is elected by the same people they system becomes homogenized and the differences that made it work are no longer there. Right now there is no real difference between the Senate and the House. Both directly represent the people of their state, with the minute difference that the Senators represent the people of the state as a whole and the House Reps the smaller local areas of the state, which combined represent the state as a whole. Why bother with them then?
A completely direct election would not protect us from special-interest groups or lobbyists at all. They would still be able to push their influence upon the under-informed and barely educated populous and with greater ease!
If you're going to throw out a straw man like that please present an different option as well.
Implying that our choices are the common man and lobbyists is irresponsible at best.
I side with the Founding Fathers on this issue. The common man, even 200+ years later, is not educated enough, or even intelligent enough, to make an informed decision about who should lead the US.
All you have to do is watch the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and catch his, I believe its called Jay Walking now but I recall it as "The Great American Pop Quiz", quiz of the common man on the streets of NYC to see that the vast majority of Americans have NO business selecting who should lead the US.
No, not just maples, oaks and others. By seen I mean walked up to and touched and marveled that a tree could explode like that. Not seen as in looked at pictures.
I've seen trees explode(well the aftermath) here in upstate NY. It usually only happens when you get a cold snap BEFORE winter. Before the trees have enough time to pull all the sap out of them selves. Trees with tons of sap still in their trunks, sap made up of mostly water that expands when it gets cold, that suddenly drop to teens F and single digits F will make a tree explode.
Well if you take EVE Online as an example where they have only about 250K to 300K accounts. Pretty hardcore game with an economist on the payroll. They seem to be expanding and have been since release when there was only like 50k accounts. With 500K accounts should be 750K per month in fees, sounds like more than enough to keep a game running. With 50k accounts getting 75k per month, well that's a bit harder. This isn't counting the monies from the initial box sales which should have been used to cover the initial dev costs.
not sure how this follows, i got it for free as a 40 man raid in wow, i played it, i got many hours of enjoyment out of it, no supposedly there at all. Now i've paid for it though its since been overhauled and retooled. Naxx in wow and Naxx in wrath while they share the same layout, some graphics and a lot of the same names is not the same exact instance. granted they are not hugely different but they are not exactly the same. so getting a 10 man version, a 25man version paid for and a 40 man version for free isnt so bad.
my friends and i have been complaining that the new instances and heroics are way to easy, way too casual. people are running around with purples like they were running around in blues at release.
also 700 dollars for 4+ years of entertainment, I've logged only around 200-250 hours(i'm low balling it) on my account so 700 dollars for that sort of time (i took most of 2008 off so you could cut 180 off that for me) is a good deal, to spend the same amount of time in a movie theater would have cost me a great deal more.
why not just put in a odd answer? for city of birth put the city of your fathers/mothers birth, or the name of your first pet? and for your mothers maiden name your grandmothers maiden name or the city of your birth? or the title of your favorite book, or the name of your favorite author. so long as you know what to substitute all should be fine.
I've always wondered how easy it really is to type in chinese on a keyboard. Also what keyboard developed solely for chinese would look like. how complex would it really be?
I agree that the idea that each pirated copy is a lost sale is not true. the vast majority of pirated copies would not result in a sale other wise. I'm not sure if there are any real concrete numbers out there that shows # of pirated games A vs # of retail sold game A. I personally believe that there is a fair deal of piracy going on for games. I do wonder at the comparative sizes of the two communities.
I confess I am a bit confused about your reply. I think you are trying to say that IF the game companies can do what TFS states then the CEO's feel, err know, that every pirate will be forced to play on their networks, these 'guaranteed' sales would mean billions more dollars to their businesses. I'm not sure what you mean by there being no other way to think about it. Are you saying that because the CEOs know that these changes will bring them more money that they feel there is no other way for them to think about it?
I am sorry but I am honestly having a hard time parsing your reply.
isn't it the position off the game companies that their games are pirated so much that they are loosing most of their sales to pirates? wouldn't that mean the pirate community is larger than the legitimate community? wouldn't that mean you could conceivably have a larger network of people on the pirated version? this applies more to the pc versions of games atm i suppose.
The Fair Tax plan is supposed to send a check to cover the sales tax on all goods and services needed to maintain at least the poverty level. so if the poverty level is 20k/year then you get a check for the sales tax you would have payed on that 20k of goods and services. that way you get a minimum standard of living for everyone. in essence you pay taxes only on stuff above and beyond that.
I don't have to but since I don't drink soda in huge quantities and my effective choices for soda are the taxed kind I can drink and the untaxed kind I can't then wth am I to do? Why am I being punished because others can't regulate their own intake of sugared beverages? what happens if i run into a restaurant that serves only soda(unlikely yes), I have to pay taxes on the only beverage that wont send me to the hospital? oh, i suppose i could drink tap water. If you're going to tax this stuff do it evenly, if at all, please.
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Interesting Ideals. Any greater theory you're pulling from or a pet theory of your own?
I do notice you speak of responsibility a lot. It is something that I find lacking in our modern world. Why we somehow thought that no one should be taken to task(now you got that phrase stuck in my head) for screwing up. That maybe the one thing that makes any system hard to implement today, the lack of personal responsibility.
People owning up to what they've done is really rare these days. Oddly watching our current President saying "I screwed up" made me a bit teary eyed. I wish some other people in high places would say "Sorry guy's we went over to this place thinking we could find some naughty stuff and made a mess of everything, we're going to try and make it right now" would probably give me a heart attack.
If I had mod points I'd give them all to you!
As long as the beds don't have sheets we're all good right?
First, I love your sig. Second I agree that part of the problem lay with the politicians as well. Part off the problem lay with our obsession with investing all of the power into our new King .. err Emperor .. ahh Dictator ?? President!! yeah that one. The Executive has expanded to insane proportions and Congress has for some odd reason been happy to give away its power. A lot of the shifts in power really get to me. Like our change of Senators being chosen by the state legislatures to being elected from the general populous. Senators are supposed to fight for the rights of the State they represent, not the people of the state directly but for the State Government, and by extension then the people of said state. What I really see is the power structures being moved from the positions they were set up to every greasy, unfair for me to say yes, hand in the country. The System was supposed to be a set of checks and balances against each other, if everyone is elected by the same people they system becomes homogenized and the differences that made it work are no longer there. Right now there is no real difference between the Senate and the House. Both directly represent the people of their state, with the minute difference that the Senators represent the people of the state as a whole and the House Reps the smaller local areas of the state, which combined represent the state as a whole. Why bother with them then?
A completely direct election would not protect us from special-interest groups or lobbyists at all. They would still be able to push their influence upon the under-informed and barely educated populous and with greater ease!
If you're going to throw out a straw man like that please present an different option as well.
Implying that our choices are the common man and lobbyists is irresponsible at best.
I side with the Founding Fathers on this issue. The common man, even 200+ years later, is not educated enough, or even intelligent enough, to make an informed decision about who should lead the US.
All you have to do is watch the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and catch his, I believe its called Jay Walking now but I recall it as "The Great American Pop Quiz", quiz of the common man on the streets of NYC to see that the vast majority of Americans have NO business selecting who should lead the US.
No, not just maples, oaks and others. By seen I mean walked up to and touched and marveled that a tree could explode like that. Not seen as in looked at pictures.
I was just checking, I mean cause sweaters on trees might be a good idea. ^__^
non judicious trees
not to be too much of a nazi but do you mean Deciduous Trees?
I've seen trees explode(well the aftermath) here in upstate NY. It usually only happens when you get a cold snap BEFORE winter. Before the trees have enough time to pull all the sap out of them selves. Trees with tons of sap still in their trunks, sap made up of mostly water that expands when it gets cold, that suddenly drop to teens F and single digits F will make a tree explode.
Well if you take EVE Online as an example where they have only about 250K to 300K accounts. Pretty hardcore game with an economist on the payroll. They seem to be expanding and have been since release when there was only like 50k accounts. With 500K accounts should be 750K per month in fees, sounds like more than enough to keep a game running. With 50k accounts getting 75k per month, well that's a bit harder. This isn't counting the monies from the initial box sales which should have been used to cover the initial dev costs.
except that you couldn't keep the sphere together, all the norths in the center would repel and blow the sphere apart.
not sure how this follows, i got it for free as a 40 man raid in wow, i played it, i got many hours of enjoyment out of it, no supposedly there at all. Now i've paid for it though its since been overhauled and retooled. Naxx in wow and Naxx in wrath while they share the same layout, some graphics and a lot of the same names is not the same exact instance. granted they are not hugely different but they are not exactly the same. so getting a 10 man version, a 25man version paid for and a 40 man version for free isnt so bad.
errr Naxx was first released before BC was released, see patch 1.11 http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/implemented/1p11.html
also 700 dollars for 4+ years of entertainment, I've logged only around 200-250 hours(i'm low balling it) on my account so 700 dollars for that sort of time (i took most of 2008 off so you could cut 180 off that for me) is a good deal, to spend the same amount of time in a movie theater would have cost me a great deal more.
why not just put in a odd answer? for city of birth put the city of your fathers/mothers birth, or the name of your first pet? and for your mothers maiden name your grandmothers maiden name or the city of your birth? or the title of your favorite book, or the name of your favorite author. so long as you know what to substitute all should be fine.
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I've always wondered how easy it really is to type in chinese on a keyboard. Also what keyboard developed solely for chinese would look like. how complex would it really be?
maybe he's a software engineer who wants to be successful like a few of these gentlemen?
I agree that the idea that each pirated copy is a lost sale is not true. the vast majority of pirated copies would not result in a sale other wise. I'm not sure if there are any real concrete numbers out there that shows # of pirated games A vs # of retail sold game A. I personally believe that there is a fair deal of piracy going on for games. I do wonder at the comparative sizes of the two communities.
I confess I am a bit confused about your reply. I think you are trying to say that IF the game companies can do what TFS states then the CEO's feel, err know, that every pirate will be forced to play on their networks, these 'guaranteed' sales would mean billions more dollars to their businesses. I'm not sure what you mean by there being no other way to think about it. Are you saying that because the CEOs know that these changes will bring them more money that they feel there is no other way for them to think about it?
I am sorry but I am honestly having a hard time parsing your reply.
isn't it the position off the game companies that their games are pirated so much that they are loosing most of their sales to pirates? wouldn't that mean the pirate community is larger than the legitimate community? wouldn't that mean you could conceivably have a larger network of people on the pirated version? this applies more to the pc versions of games atm i suppose.
The Fair Tax plan is supposed to send a check to cover the sales tax on all goods and services needed to maintain at least the poverty level. so if the poverty level is 20k/year then you get a check for the sales tax you would have payed on that 20k of goods and services. that way you get a minimum standard of living for everyone. in essence you pay taxes only on stuff above and beyond that.
I don't have to but since I don't drink soda in huge quantities and my effective choices for soda are the taxed kind I can drink and the untaxed kind I can't then wth am I to do? Why am I being punished because others can't regulate their own intake of sugared beverages? what happens if i run into a restaurant that serves only soda(unlikely yes), I have to pay taxes on the only beverage that wont send me to the hospital? oh, i suppose i could drink tap water. If you're going to tax this stuff do it evenly, if at all, please.
most of NYS doesn't have taxi service >>