Ya, it's dangerous. And they don't want to admit it. Every year see someone else with a black eye or broken arm or major road rash. I used to ride a small motorcycle, and I realized pretty quick that there was a higher than normal probability of being in a very bad accident that was not at all my own fault. And then I see a significant number of cyclists not even in the bike lanes or who are staying right on that painted white line.
People have asked me why I don't bike. Never mind the obvious answer that I haven't biked in decades and won't be joining their all day mountain ride anytime soon. My first answer I give is often "there's no safe route for me" and then they look at me like I was spouting nonsense.
I do agree that I should take my car to work less often, but that means using mass transit (which also means getting more exercise).
I don't hate people who ride bicycles to work. However 'cyclists', meaning the self-identified militant cult member, are annoying. Proselytizing to everyone ("here's a map of routes you can take"), lying ("it's safe", "it's easy", "it's convenient"), and bragging ("I wasn't feeling well so I only biked 50 miles this weekend").
A thief breaks into the crypt of Beethoven, and is surprised to see an undead Beethoven moving about and tearing up sheet music. He cries out "Beethoven, what are you doing?". The corpse answers "I'm decomposing."
Even when thrown into a pile to rot as it likes, the rot will eventually stop and it will become soil. No one goes into the forests to be sure all the dead animals end up composted. A lot gets recycled (eaten by insects, scavengers, etc) but a fraction just rots. Although since rot is about being eaten by bacteria, it's all about being eaten by something anyway.
Ah, but then someone says "hey, who can fix this OSX code?" and they say "Frank is the only guy who understands it, but you laid him off a couple weeks ago." Eventually the VP of engineering (who after layoffs is also VP of IT and Facilities) says "just hire an intern, how hard can this stuff be?"
Because they grew fast. They've got a nice building too (not sure if leased). But after awhile you end up with many more users than you expected, more revenue than you expected, and you have to expand to get more servers and and more support and more sales. And because people want to see new features and such, you need more devs too. Then one day they find out they should have stopped growing a few months back.
Also, while I may not NEED a headphone jack, I WANT a headphone jack. If we're talking about NEED here, then you actually do not NEED a smartphone PERIOD.
Apple should make what customers want, and there was a loud and angry outcry when the headphone jack went away. Smartphones are consumer oriented luxury items, and so should reflect what the consumer wants.
Why don't we need one? I use the one on my iphone 6s now and then. What alternative is there other than buying some expensive adapter or going with silly bluetooth? Bluetooth sucks because it all needs batteries, and wired headphones are much better than wireless headphones that requires toxic batteries and regular recharging (about as stupid as wireless keyboards and mice). Expensive dongles doesn't eliminate the headphone usage, it just gives extra money to Apple.
MMOs almost always have some sort of extended 'grind' that you don't see in single player games. The rationale here being that if you finish up all the tasks in the MMO and then there's nothing left to do then you might unsubscribe. To prevent that loss of customer these games will have you earn more reputation with factions, run multiple variants of the same instance to get slightly better gear, play the festival events for a few weeks to earn a goodie or two, and so forth. For a single player RPG you play, get to the end, then play/buy a new game, and so the mechanics are very different.
One aspect that stuck out for me is that many MMOs have a very complicated set of player stats and attributes. This means it's harder to get geared up and optimized. Single player computer RPGs on the other hand tend to have gone the route of simplifying attributes - ie compare Morrowind to Skyrim.
But it wasn't even a nefarious "second meaning". It was a nefarious highly obscure meaning that no one in today's world knows of or uses. The article seems absurd in implying that the modern neo-Nazis still use the term.
Some writers are on the far fringe and should just be ignored, so maybe the problem is the Gizmodo editor that let the story through.
There is almost no racist overtones at all. "Thule" has been used as a name since antiquity and the obscure fact that some Nazi occultists believed it to be the original Aryan homeland should be nothing more than a minor footnote. "Thule" has meant for ages the furthest land that can be mapped, and "ultima Thule" means it's even further away than that. It's an obscure and geeky name, reflecting the nerddom that is alive and well within NASA with no racist connotations.
Don't confuse "American cheese" with cheese made in America. They've got some awesome cheeses in Wisconsin. Though they don't make Casu Marzu or Stinking Bishop.
You have source for this? Kennedy was in a big standoff with Kruschev over the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and Krushchev got the much better outcome after the Vienna summit. There doesn't seem to have been much time after that to create a good relationship.
This issue has nothing to do with homosexuality. It would be equally wrong if the priests were diddling little girls. Focusing on homosexuality is a diversion from the actual problem.
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Ya, it's dangerous. And they don't want to admit it. Every year see someone else with a black eye or broken arm or major road rash. I used to ride a small motorcycle, and I realized pretty quick that there was a higher than normal probability of being in a very bad accident that was not at all my own fault. And then I see a significant number of cyclists not even in the bike lanes or who are staying right on that painted white line.
People have asked me why I don't bike. Never mind the obvious answer that I haven't biked in decades and won't be joining their all day mountain ride anytime soon. My first answer I give is often "there's no safe route for me" and then they look at me like I was spouting nonsense.
I do agree that I should take my car to work less often, but that means using mass transit (which also means getting more exercise).
I don't hate people who ride bicycles to work. However 'cyclists', meaning the self-identified militant cult member, are annoying. Proselytizing to everyone ("here's a map of routes you can take"), lying ("it's safe", "it's easy", "it's convenient"), and bragging ("I wasn't feeling well so I only biked 50 miles this weekend").
A thief breaks into the crypt of Beethoven, and is surprised to see an undead Beethoven moving about and tearing up sheet music. He cries out "Beethoven, what are you doing?". The corpse answers "I'm decomposing."
Why would the microorganisms in the human body be worse than the microorganisms in rats, deer, insects, etc?
Even when thrown into a pile to rot as it likes, the rot will eventually stop and it will become soil. No one goes into the forests to be sure all the dead animals end up composted. A lot gets recycled (eaten by insects, scavengers, etc) but a fraction just rots. Although since rot is about being eaten by bacteria, it's all about being eaten by something anyway.
Jains.
Ah, but then someone says "hey, who can fix this OSX code?" and they say "Frank is the only guy who understands it, but you laid him off a couple weeks ago." Eventually the VP of engineering (who after layoffs is also VP of IT and Facilities) says "just hire an intern, how hard can this stuff be?"
Because they grew fast. They've got a nice building too (not sure if leased). But after awhile you end up with many more users than you expected, more revenue than you expected, and you have to expand to get more servers and and more support and more sales. And because people want to see new features and such, you need more devs too. Then one day they find out they should have stopped growing a few months back.
Also, while I may not NEED a headphone jack, I WANT a headphone jack. If we're talking about NEED here, then you actually do not NEED a smartphone PERIOD.
Apple should make what customers want, and there was a loud and angry outcry when the headphone jack went away. Smartphones are consumer oriented luxury items, and so should reflect what the consumer wants.
Why don't we need one? I use the one on my iphone 6s now and then. What alternative is there other than buying some expensive adapter or going with silly bluetooth? Bluetooth sucks because it all needs batteries, and wired headphones are much better than wireless headphones that requires toxic batteries and regular recharging (about as stupid as wireless keyboards and mice). Expensive dongles doesn't eliminate the headphone usage, it just gives extra money to Apple.
MMOs almost always have some sort of extended 'grind' that you don't see in single player games. The rationale here being that if you finish up all the tasks in the MMO and then there's nothing left to do then you might unsubscribe. To prevent that loss of customer these games will have you earn more reputation with factions, run multiple variants of the same instance to get slightly better gear, play the festival events for a few weeks to earn a goodie or two, and so forth. For a single player RPG you play, get to the end, then play/buy a new game, and so the mechanics are very different.
One aspect that stuck out for me is that many MMOs have a very complicated set of player stats and attributes. This means it's harder to get geared up and optimized. Single player computer RPGs on the other hand tend to have gone the route of simplifying attributes - ie compare Morrowind to Skyrim.
Well, it's easier to get your subliminal orders from the secret world government by watching TV with a slack jaw.
Well, I wouldn't trust anything that's in the cloud.
And there were so many other news articles they could have linked to instead of this lousy one.
He could be a politician.
Ignoring is best. The worst response though is suddenly being full of outrage and declaring "that is how all feminists think!"
But it wasn't even a nefarious "second meaning". It was a nefarious highly obscure meaning that no one in today's world knows of or uses. The article seems absurd in implying that the modern neo-Nazis still use the term.
Some writers are on the far fringe and should just be ignored, so maybe the problem is the Gizmodo editor that let the story through.
Don't be ediotic.
Next up, beer will have racist connotations because the Nazis liked beer.
There is almost no racist overtones at all. "Thule" has been used as a name since antiquity and the obscure fact that some Nazi occultists believed it to be the original Aryan homeland should be nothing more than a minor footnote. "Thule" has meant for ages the furthest land that can be mapped, and "ultima Thule" means it's even further away than that. It's an obscure and geeky name, reflecting the nerddom that is alive and well within NASA with no racist connotations.
Don't confuse "American cheese" with cheese made in America. They've got some awesome cheeses in Wisconsin. Though they don't make Casu Marzu or Stinking Bishop.
This means that China now has advanced their sciences enough to have cloned Stanley Kubrick.
You have source for this? Kennedy was in a big standoff with Kruschev over the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and Krushchev got the much better outcome after the Vienna summit. There doesn't seem to have been much time after that to create a good relationship.
And our Apollo program was funded in large part for military and political purposes as well.
This issue has nothing to do with homosexuality. It would be equally wrong if the priests were diddling little girls. Focusing on homosexuality is a diversion from the actual problem.