It's been said before in this thread, if you split up the existing Communist Party into red and blue teams, how would it be different from American representative democracy? Sure they have wildly different policies but the political system would be very similar. Two parties to choose from with representative voting, the two sides may even differ slightly, but have basically the same goals and can and DO run roughshod over the will of the population.
Most non-Americans don't hate their government - most are not happy about it, but unconditional, pathological hatred and distrust of government is a uniquely American trait.
Came here to check this. It's the only thing about the pope worth caring about, is he still going to support bigotry and overpopulation (as in the creation of the very same starving kids he will later cry about) or not?
And I guess all the people who "died" in these attacks and their relatives are just actors and the bodies were props.
I didn't think there was an unexplored gap in the madness between moon landing denialism and Time Cube-like abstract crazy...but there is - the "gun control false flag" conspiracies.
There was (probably, still is) a tribe in Africa that had a "magic needle" in the Justice God's dark hut. Difficult cases had the suspects introduced one at a time. When the guilty individual stepped in, the magic needle would jump to life and start attacking the suspect all over - until he confessed. Or, at least, that is what the locals and a few other outsiders claimed to have seen.
I guess this is meant to play on the guilt of the guilty party? They're brought up all their life to believe in the magic needle, they know they're guilty, they step into the hut while shitting bricks and start to feel phantom pin pricks all over, scream and run out...it would never work against psychopaths, pathological liars, or people who don't believe in the needle.
One day I caught her rotating the mouse horizontally, because she wanted the little penguin to lay down instead of standing, and she was complaining it was not working.
Hahaha well you gotta give her points for that idea! XD
Chell barely gets mentioned in the game and I think the only place you actually see her in the game, is in the cinematic at the end of Portal 2 (or if you set up some portals like a mirror). Chell is more anonymous than Doom Guy, at least you can see his face in the status bar and there's a pic of him in the menu screen.
I would argue she's not. Not a "strong leading female character" either (used as damsel in distress and then killed off early to create a sad moment for the leading male - and the player), but definitely not a sex object.
It also shipped with the ability to download files through the browser, copy & paste, later OSes had some multitasking ability, and best of all, the OS never had any of that curation bullshit. You were free to download, install, compile and run whatever you wanted.
But let's wait for the Apple fanboys to storm in with their historical revisionism...
Are you serious? The image Palm had back in the day was "only used by nerds," and their later devices switched to a thumb keyboard and wouldn't even let you use the Graffiti writing system without modding the OS. Nobody thought having to learn a special writing system was cool. It was the computer nerd equivalent of learning Klingon.
They were making the best PDA/smartphones until around the time the Treo 650 came out, and then they started to stagnate, and soon after accepted the Microsoft kiss of death.
On the 650 I'd been doing things that the iPhone didn't have for a few years after launch, years before the iPhone came out.
I kept using my 650 for a long time, only replaced it when the Nokia N900 came out. And now the prospects for upgrading are looking even worse, I'll have to see what Jolla comes out with.
The biggest surprise for me is that physicists have groupies! Do you have to be a rich successful physicist or just a competent physicist? Because it's not too late for me to change careers.
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It's been said before in this thread, if you split up the existing Communist Party into red and blue teams, how would it be different from American representative democracy? Sure they have wildly different policies but the political system would be very similar. Two parties to choose from with representative voting, the two sides may even differ slightly, but have basically the same goals and can and DO run roughshod over the will of the population.
Most non-Americans don't hate their government - most are not happy about it, but unconditional, pathological hatred and distrust of government is a uniquely American trait.
I was talking about how they push an anti-contraception agenda in 3rd-world hellholes:
http://www.globalization101.org/the-battle-over-birth-control-for-developing-nations/#o5
Came here to check this. It's the only thing about the pope worth caring about, is he still going to support bigotry and overpopulation (as in the creation of the very same starving kids he will later cry about) or not?
Aaaand the answer's yes :-(
So you'd grant an indefinite delay in execution to all psychopaths, pathological liars and people who have been trained to cheat polygraphs?
The US government put it there, duh!
And I guess all the people who "died" in these attacks and their relatives are just actors and the bodies were props.
I didn't think there was an unexplored gap in the madness between moon landing denialism and Time Cube-like abstract crazy...but there is - the "gun control false flag" conspiracies.
There was (probably, still is) a tribe in Africa that had a "magic needle" in the Justice God's dark hut. Difficult cases had the suspects introduced one at a time. When the guilty individual stepped in, the magic needle would jump to life and start attacking the suspect all over - until he confessed. Or, at least, that is what the locals and a few other outsiders claimed to have seen.
I guess this is meant to play on the guilt of the guilty party? They're brought up all their life to believe in the magic needle, they know they're guilty, they step into the hut while shitting bricks and start to feel phantom pin pricks all over, scream and run out...it would never work against psychopaths, pathological liars, or people who don't believe in the needle.
I've seen too many of them, might be this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk
You're right. I was probably confusing it with a fan film recreation of the "cornfield" scene that showed her from the 3rd-person perspective.
One day I caught her rotating the mouse horizontally, because she wanted the little penguin to lay down instead of standing, and she was complaining it was not working.
Hahaha well you gotta give her points for that idea! XD
Chell barely gets mentioned in the game and I think the only place you actually see her in the game, is in the cinematic at the end of Portal 2 (or if you set up some portals like a mirror). Chell is more anonymous than Doom Guy, at least you can see his face in the status bar and there's a pic of him in the menu screen.
I would argue she's not. Not a "strong leading female character" either (used as damsel in distress and then killed off early to create a sad moment for the leading male - and the player), but definitely not a sex object.
Forget that, he put Rayne on the list. To be more of a sex object she'd have to start taking off the stripper outfit she's wearing.
The only nostalgia I feel for them is for the days before curated computing. We were in a golden age of computing and didn't realize it.
It also shipped with the ability to download files through the browser, copy & paste, later OSes had some multitasking ability, and best of all, the OS never had any of that curation bullshit. You were free to download, install, compile and run whatever you wanted.
But let's wait for the Apple fanboys to storm in with their historical revisionism...
Are you serious? The image Palm had back in the day was "only used by nerds," and their later devices switched to a thumb keyboard and wouldn't even let you use the Graffiti writing system without modding the OS. Nobody thought having to learn a special writing system was cool. It was the computer nerd equivalent of learning Klingon.
Are you pulling these memories out of your ass?
They were making the best PDA/smartphones until around the time the Treo 650 came out, and then they started to stagnate, and soon after accepted the Microsoft kiss of death.
On the 650 I'd been doing things that the iPhone didn't have for a few years after launch, years before the iPhone came out.
I kept using my 650 for a long time, only replaced it when the Nokia N900 came out. And now the prospects for upgrading are looking even worse, I'll have to see what Jolla comes out with.
I'm willing to call "perfect infinite crowd-funded surveillance of everyone and everything" a bad thing. It's a bold move, but I stand behind it.
Yes yes, you majored in English instead of something interesting like physics, the regret must be crushing...but do try to keep it to yourself.
There are some places in Africa where you would be very happy.
I risked being goatse'd to see that pic...but it was totally worth it.
The biggest surprise for me is that physicists have groupies! Do you have to be a rich successful physicist or just a competent physicist? Because it's not too late for me to change careers.
Sides who won't be happy: The coal industry, anti-nuclear nuts, NIMBYs.
The big problem with this is that we're warming up while we should be going into another ice age.
Here's why you should care:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-positives-negatives-intermediate.htm