Sounds like a good idea but personally I am against it. It is a disease of the modern society that everything you do has to be fun. If you make everything "fun", people will be more likely to refuse doing something because it lacks fun. People need do things because they need to do things. You need to learn how to calculate if you want to do anything that involves numbers(like filling in your tax papers). Having the knowledge should be its own reward.
Note, I didn't post this because it is fun, I posted it because I felt like I needed to respond to you.
Unfortunately no. I was in Berlin a few weeks ago. Nobody could tell me where the Stasi Museum was. Not even when we were closer than 1km. And the Stasi museum is part of a HUGE complex.
True, proper archiving takes huge amounts of time since it adds overhead to your operation.
In an ideal world, everything that you store is automatically labeled and old data will automagically be purged. But storing all kinds of shit is just that much easier. It also doesn't help that data storage is so dirtcheap. 1TB can be bought for around $100 if I am not mistaken. It doesn't pay to kill old useless stuff you have floating on your hard disk.
"And the leaders of that war weren't celebrities. Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were all larger-than-life figures. Memorable. Charismatic. The leaders of WW1 were nowhere near so media-friendly."
Celebrities are made, not born. From the age of around 8 you have been drowned in information about World War II. You are taught by teachers in schools, by going to musea, from television(documentaries) and newspapers(which desribe WWII as a major turning point). World War II is everywhere. No wonder that the people who were involved in WW2 Are many times more famous than people involved in WW1. If people had forgotten about WW1 after a few years, we wouldn't have had WW2.
And true, WW1 was complex but if nobody decides to teach you about it how are you supposed to know about it? WW1 does not exist as far as the media is concerned.
The so called "disadvantage" isn't a real disadvantage. Why? People forget, generations go past. Old people die, young people are born. World War II will be a lesson as long as people who have lived during that era can tell something about it. That may be possible now but in about 30 years almost all people who went through that period will have died. Then, nobody can tell us about the horrors of WWII, the brutalities, the bombing raids, the razzias.
World War II will become like World War I, a forgotten war. As a joke I always use "Wilhelm II" as my avatar on every forum I am a member of. Nobody knows who "the guy with the weird moustache" is. Nobody is offended because it happened before any of us lived. The shockeffect is gone. 40 million people DIED in that war and I bet not even 1% can tell you who fought who.
It's a tragedy. And the tragedy will return, but as a farce.
Nobody is safe from failings, people thinking that they are immune to making mistakes are wrong. You WILL support the wrong guy and he will take away your freedoms. You WILL cheer for the soldiers sent into a useless and bloody war. And the lessons will be learned by you and forgotten by your children.
True, but that's like saying the 100 meter sprint is unfair because other people might have practised sprinting the 100 meter more. Putting in you own time into a game is part of the actual game and if you play longer, you will get more.
Wouldn't you be upset if an athlete could give $1000 to an official so he'd get a 10 meter headstart?
"Outside the game" activities(giving money) shouldn't trump over "inside the game" activities(grinding,leveling,training) because you are reducing the importance of the second in favour of the first. The 100-meter sprint is about 100 meters of sprinting in which you reduce the time you need for it by training. Online games should be about training and fighting ingame to become the best ingame(if that is your goal).
How the hell can he predict whether his post is the second one or not? Unless you struck a deal with/. admins or omniscient you can never know. But somehow you are capable of convienently forgetting this fact.
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Sounds like a good idea but personally I am against it. It is a disease of the modern society that everything you do has to be fun. If you make everything "fun", people will be more likely to refuse doing something because it lacks fun. People need do things because they need to do things. You need to learn how to calculate if you want to do anything that involves numbers(like filling in your tax papers). Having the knowledge should be its own reward.
Note, I didn't post this because it is fun, I posted it because I felt like I needed to respond to you.
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Unfortunately no. I was in Berlin a few weeks ago. Nobody could tell me where the Stasi Museum was. Not even when we were closer than 1km. And the Stasi museum is part of a HUGE complex.
Nothing Big Brother can't change
True, proper archiving takes huge amounts of time since it adds overhead to your operation.
In an ideal world, everything that you store is automatically labeled and old data will automagically be purged. But storing all kinds of shit is just that much easier. It also doesn't help that data storage is so dirtcheap. 1TB can be bought for around $100 if I am not mistaken. It doesn't pay to kill old useless stuff you have floating on your hard disk.
"but he wasn't exactly an Architect of Evil either."
Leave Albert Speer out of this! ~
"And the leaders of that war weren't celebrities. Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were all larger-than-life figures. Memorable. Charismatic. The leaders of WW1 were nowhere near so media-friendly."
Celebrities are made, not born. From the age of around 8 you have been drowned in information about World War II. You are taught by teachers in schools, by going to musea, from television(documentaries) and newspapers(which desribe WWII as a major turning point). World War II is everywhere. No wonder that the people who were involved in WW2 Are many times more famous than people involved in WW1. If people had forgotten about WW1 after a few years, we wouldn't have had WW2.
And true, WW1 was complex but if nobody decides to teach you about it how are you supposed to know about it? WW1 does not exist as far as the media is concerned.
The problem is, if you DO allow it the door will be opened for every trivial matter you can think of.
I for one, welcome an article about my daily morning routine.
The so called "disadvantage" isn't a real disadvantage. Why? People forget, generations go past. Old people die, young people are born. World War II will be a lesson as long as people who have lived during that era can tell something about it. That may be possible now but in about 30 years almost all people who went through that period will have died. Then, nobody can tell us about the horrors of WWII, the brutalities, the bombing raids, the razzias.
World War II will become like World War I, a forgotten war. As a joke I always use "Wilhelm II" as my avatar on every forum I am a member of. Nobody knows who "the guy with the weird moustache" is. Nobody is offended because it happened before any of us lived. The shockeffect is gone. 40 million people DIED in that war and I bet not even 1% can tell you who fought who.
It's a tragedy.
And the tragedy will return, but as a farce.
Nobody is safe from failings, people thinking that they are immune to making mistakes are wrong. You WILL support the wrong guy and he will take away your freedoms. You WILL cheer for the soldiers sent into a useless and bloody war. And the lessons will be learned by you and forgotten by your children.
I feel sorry for humanity.
There goes my plan for a hamster powered car entering the race.
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True, but that's like saying the 100 meter sprint is unfair because other people might have practised sprinting the 100 meter more. Putting in you own time into a game is part of the actual game and if you play longer, you will get more.
Wouldn't you be upset if an athlete could give $1000 to an official so he'd get a 10 meter headstart?
"Outside the game" activities(giving money) shouldn't trump over "inside the game" activities(grinding,leveling,training) because you are reducing the importance of the second in favour of the first. The 100-meter sprint is about 100 meters of sprinting in which you reduce the time you need for it by training. Online games should be about training and fighting ingame to become the best ingame(if that is your goal).
where's the Bonaccio edition?
I don't know! Waaaaarrrrrggghhhhh!!!
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That should solve the issues ;)
How the hell can he predict whether his post is the second one or not? Unless you struck a deal with /. admins or omniscient you can never know. But somehow you are capable of convienently forgetting this fact.
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They are usually dog slow but at least they think your message comes from Argentina or South Africa.
first: he was talking about the post not his UID
second:
His UID factors into
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