Does Terry Pratchett still sound like something very important?
If someone has read Pterry and mistaken it for Dostoevsky? Hell yes, that sounds like an important author to get to know.
Perhaps your misunderstanding derives from the mistaken impression that the GP was trying to aggrandize himself, when it is more likely he was celebrating a great (if accidental) complement to a beloved writer.
Think about what you just said, and try to see through it. Just because most people don't care about an author doesn't detract from his talent or insight.
It is, and as a Pro-Life, I'd rather the mother of my to-be-child didn't abort them, but since I cannot take the burden of pregnancy away from her, I have no right to force her to.
Which is why I'm also Pro-Choice - it's not MY burden to bear.
Thank god someone gets it. Pro-life is a choice fully supported by pro-choice.
There is no such thing as a pro-abortion movement.
Saying that you're going to stab someone in the throat with an embalming instrument sounds like a 'I'm going to kill you' threat to me.
She wrote a threat in a public forum, directly relating violence to her classroom. There are no First Amendment violations here, there is no lurking Big Brother.
I'm constantly telling my ex how much I look forward to killing her. She says the same thing to me, all the time. Usually when I'm right about something and she doesn't want to admit it. Sometimes she says she's going to eat my brain, too.
She told her Facebook friends she wanted to stab a "certain someone in the throat" with an embalming instrument."
That's a threat.
If you say that to a close friend who can see your face and judge your affect, they would understand that you are not going to follow through.
If you post it up on a web page without any context, people are forced to consider the possibility that you're about to go postal.
And the only responsible thing to do at that point is call the police and ban her from campus.
Oh wait. That's insane. Make a phone call, have a counselor sit down with her. Lesson learned, and they aren't giving a student a criminal record for blowing off steam by shooting her mouth off.
This shit really gets under my skin. The school had every "right" to do what they did, but the actions they chose were the most destructive ones they had available to them.
The technology doesn't appear out of a vacuum, it comes from decades of research and development. That R&D won't happen unless we put money into it now.
I applaud your enthusiastic support for the space program, but I feel you still miss the point entirely.
Space research and study can be accomplished with robotic probes. Human sustainability projects can be synthesized down here on old terra firma. We can even briefly simulate weightlessness, and closed systems and solar techs are actively being studied. Based on the numbers just pulled directly out of my ass, it would be cheaper by an order of magnitude to do both of these things separately than to do them both together with manned spaceflights.
It's about choosing between grandstanding and using resources efficiently.
Any changes to levels below 10 are inconsequential, that's about 3 hours of playtime.
0-10 is about 20 minutes of gameplay, my good man. At least, that's true of the BC starting areas, and it will be true of all (4) of the rest in Cataclysm.
Zoom!
These changes don't make much of a difference to experienced players, they are simply to grade the curve for new players. Love it or hate it, this is the direction Blizzard chose long ago, so none of it should be much of a surprise.
There's a lot more going on in WoW than in EVE, which is just static ship models drifting around. WoW is essentially a 3D action game with terrain and line-of-sight, and you have to deal with all the network traffic and server-side processing that entails.
I agree, and I enjoy it, but I really REALLY wish they'd implement true line of sight. Shooting through trees vexes me.
It's not hard to avoid lag when all that's going on is moving little static ship models around. There isn't even physical terrain with obstacles and line-of-sight to check for.
I really can't believe EVE fans are even trying to make this comparison.
EVE players froth at the mouth and go into convulsions when anyone mentions WoW. I think it's because EVE largely serves, to use the vernacular, ethugs and not carebears.
In other words, they're mostly internet tough guys and the bright colors of WoW make them feel like less than men, I guess.
Just reroll like the rest of us. If your friend really likes hanging out with you, he'll level a character with you. That's what I did. Left a large raiding guild on one server to play with RL friends on another. One of them leveled with me, and it's now his favorite character.
Friends undertake endeavors together. Without RL friends playing WoW, I would have quit and never come back years ago.
I'm surprised that they locked someone up for two days, and are making them face up to three years. I think the defendant in this case should be looking to sue the MPAA over this... Maybe even a violation of due process? Sadly, IANAL...
I know in Texas at least you can be held for something like 3 days without even being told a charge. They have to have something to put on the paperwork but you don't have to know what it is.
When I hear things like this, I sometimes wonder if texans are really living in some latter-day eden, a cultural mecca, and they just don't want anyone else to know so they spread horrifying rumors about the state.
Then I remember that I know too many texans that just aren't that great at cooperating, and go back to being sad.
Just because they're a nut job cult doesn't mean they're automatically guilty of every offense they're accused of.
No, but the fact that they're a nutjob cult does in fact mean they're automatically nutjobs - which was the point of the post to which you are replying.
At the risk of getting modded down, parent isn't a troll - he or she is just making a bad joke based on a Monty Python sketch. Technically, it isn't even off-topic.
No it's not. Car analogy: You are running at full speed, about to hit a tree; the two people in the front seat now start squabbling whether to turn the steering wheel left or right while still pumping the throttle...
What type of car is this? If it's a laden VW bus in need of a tune-up going up hill I don't think there's much to worry about. Also, can you please explain what the tree represents in your analogy?
If I read the analogy correctly, the tree represents a coconut and the bridgekeeper just went over the edge.
Interesting fine print you have there. Here's a fun fact! Median household income in the US for 2008 was $50,233, whereas only about 15% of households made more than $100,000.
Your false concern about your fellow countrymen is a poor smokescreen for your agenda. "productive working middle class" indeed.
It sounds like the "LOL vaginas are, like, retarded and junk" mentality of someone between the ages of 12-14. Evidently, the OP thinks Google provides internet access.
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Does Terry Pratchett still sound like something very important?
If someone has read Pterry and mistaken it for Dostoevsky? Hell yes, that sounds like an important author to get to know.
Perhaps your misunderstanding derives from the mistaken impression that the GP was trying to aggrandize himself, when it is more likely he was celebrating a great (if accidental) complement to a beloved writer.
Think about what you just said, and try to see through it. Just because most people don't care about an author doesn't detract from his talent or insight.
maybe I'll get a chance to give you a good deep-dicking as well.
Sorry fellah, not without a ring.
But bring over a nice red wine and some astroglide and we'll talk.
It is, and as a Pro-Life, I'd rather the mother of my to-be-child didn't abort them, but since I cannot take the burden of pregnancy away from her, I have no right to force her to.
Which is why I'm also Pro-Choice - it's not MY burden to bear.
Thank god someone gets it. Pro-life is a choice fully supported by pro-choice.
There is no such thing as a pro-abortion movement.
Saying that you're going to stab someone in the throat with an embalming instrument sounds like a 'I'm going to kill you' threat to me.
She wrote a threat in a public forum, directly relating violence to her classroom. There are no First Amendment violations here, there is no lurking Big Brother.
I'm constantly telling my ex how much I look forward to killing her. She says the same thing to me, all the time. Usually when I'm right about something and she doesn't want to admit it. Sometimes she says she's going to eat my brain, too.
Maybe I should call the cops?
That's a threat.
If you say that to a close friend who can see your face and judge your affect, they would understand that you are not going to follow through.
If you post it up on a web page without any context, people are forced to consider the possibility that you're about to go postal.
And the only responsible thing to do at that point is call the police and ban her from campus.
Oh wait. That's insane. Make a phone call, have a counselor sit down with her. Lesson learned, and they aren't giving a student a criminal record for blowing off steam by shooting her mouth off.
This shit really gets under my skin. The school had every "right" to do what they did, but the actions they chose were the most destructive ones they had available to them.
You can have both malice and incompetence, one doesn't rule out the other.
But sufficient levels of either make them basically indistinguishable.
Now, nobody's saying that marketers are less than human and deserve to be marched into the ocean
I am.
Why?
After all it seems to defy the whole idea of using facebook
Sometimes the answer is found within the question.
The technology doesn't appear out of a vacuum, it comes from decades of research and development. That R&D won't happen unless we put money into it now.
I applaud your enthusiastic support for the space program, but I feel you still miss the point entirely.
Space research and study can be accomplished with robotic probes. Human sustainability projects can be synthesized down here on old terra firma. We can even briefly simulate weightlessness, and closed systems and solar techs are actively being studied. Based on the numbers just pulled directly out of my ass, it would be cheaper by an order of magnitude to do both of these things separately than to do them both together with manned spaceflights.
It's about choosing between grandstanding and using resources efficiently.
Any changes to levels below 10 are inconsequential, that's about 3 hours of playtime.
0-10 is about 20 minutes of gameplay, my good man. At least, that's true of the BC starting areas, and it will be true of all (4) of the rest in Cataclysm.
Zoom!
These changes don't make much of a difference to experienced players, they are simply to grade the curve for new players. Love it or hate it, this is the direction Blizzard chose long ago, so none of it should be much of a surprise.
There's a lot more going on in WoW than in EVE, which is just static ship models drifting around. WoW is essentially a 3D action game with terrain and line-of-sight, and you have to deal with all the network traffic and server-side processing that entails.
I agree, and I enjoy it, but I really REALLY wish they'd implement true line of sight. Shooting through trees vexes me.
It's not hard to avoid lag when all that's going on is moving little static ship models around. There isn't even physical terrain with obstacles and line-of-sight to check for.
I really can't believe EVE fans are even trying to make this comparison.
EVE players froth at the mouth and go into convulsions when anyone mentions WoW. I think it's because EVE largely serves, to use the vernacular, ethugs and not carebears.
In other words, they're mostly internet tough guys and the bright colors of WoW make them feel like less than men, I guess.
Just reroll like the rest of us. If your friend really likes hanging out with you, he'll level a character with you. That's what I did. Left a large raiding guild on one server to play with RL friends on another. One of them leveled with me, and it's now his favorite character.
Friends undertake endeavors together. Without RL friends playing WoW, I would have quit and never come back years ago.
In WoW nobody cares if their character dies, because it has no consequence.
Unless it's on a group escort quest, or in a battleground. Or on an instance or raid boss..
Or if you die in an extremely amusing way, like walking out the drain pipe under Dalaran like I did once. I felt like Wile E Coyote.
Art? Dignity? Our humanity? ...yeah, yeah, bad taste shouldn't be a felony, etc.
Excuse me? Sexual urges cost us our humanity?
I don't think that word means what you think it means...
I'm surprised that they locked someone up for two days, and are making them face up to three years. I think the defendant in this case should be looking to sue the MPAA over this... Maybe even a violation of due process? Sadly, IANAL...
I know in Texas at least you can be held for something like 3 days without even being told a charge. They have to have something to put on the paperwork but you don't have to know what it is.
When I hear things like this, I sometimes wonder if texans are really living in some latter-day eden, a cultural mecca, and they just don't want anyone else to know so they spread horrifying rumors about the state.
Then I remember that I know too many texans that just aren't that great at cooperating, and go back to being sad.
Oh, it's not meant literally. It's a well-known Hungarian expression.
Along with the infrequently-used "my hovercraft is full of eels".
Just because they're a nut job cult doesn't mean they're automatically guilty of every offense they're accused of.
No, but the fact that they're a nutjob cult does in fact mean they're automatically nutjobs - which was the point of the post to which you are replying.
At the risk of getting modded down, parent isn't a troll - he or she is just making a bad joke based on a Monty Python sketch. Technically, it isn't even off-topic.
...Iraq, without any provocation from them...
What? Ever hear of 9/11? The Taliban?
Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.
given what they want to do, that's a good thing.
No it's not. Car analogy: You are running at full speed, about to hit a tree; the two people in the front seat now start squabbling whether to turn the steering wheel left or right while still pumping the throttle...
What type of car is this? If it's a laden VW bus in need of a tune-up going up hill I don't think there's much to worry about. Also, can you please explain what the tree represents in your analogy?
If I read the analogy correctly, the tree represents a coconut and the bridgekeeper just went over the edge.
It tricked me, and I clicked on one. That is reprehensible behavior, and not the kind of thing I'd expect from a large multinational corporation.
Tired meme, or +1 funny? I choose...
You must be new here...
* Assuming you have a $100,000 a year job
Interesting fine print you have there. Here's a fun fact! Median household income in the US for 2008 was $50,233, whereas only about 15% of households made more than $100,000.
Your false concern about your fellow countrymen is a poor smokescreen for your agenda. "productive working middle class" indeed.
have not read TFA but anything the teleco's HATE must not be all that bad...
Hmmm... commenter doesn't RTFA and makes judgment based on previous bias, and gets moderated +5 Insightful? Wow.
You see judgment and previous bias, I see a hypothesis based on informed opinion.
When you can't see through a dirty window, don't blame the sun.
Wooosh... So BD&M, Cumfast and Vagizon
What in the hell? Seriously.
It sounds like the "LOL vaginas are, like, retarded and junk" mentality of someone between the ages of 12-14. Evidently, the OP thinks Google provides internet access.
Wait, they don't yet, do they? the horror...