Did you not pay attention to the article? How, pray tell, do we, the people, get a constitutional amendment passed through Congress, when our options are :
1. Vote for politicians who are all going to be against amendments that benefit the people and we are being psychologically manipulated by both the media and political parties away from such ideas or third parties. 2. Armed rebellion, which complacent Americans don't want, radical Americans can be framed or spun as domestic terrorists, and is an option only as long as gun rights remain intact..
This is the problem with the oligarchy. No matter what you or I *feel* should be done, we have no say in the matter anyways.
That post was written on my phone's keyboard, which auto corrects words into whatever it feels like. I probably typed 'thwn' or 'thsn', both of which autocorrect to 'then' instead of than. If I didn't notice it while watching the keyboard, it would not have gotten fixed..
I have more of a problem with you cherry picking Canada, Australia, NZ, and England, despite those countries having very little in common with the U.S. and causes for violent crime.
The U.S. falls into the category of large, moderately urbanized countries with large open borders to less industrialized countries, high wealth and wealth disparity, and ethnically diverse populations. Most of the western world is not that way at all, and those properties breed the root cause of the majority of violent crime in those countries, which is the illegal drug trade.
Countries that share those features include Russia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and China. Surprise, surprise, those other countries are all at least or much worse off then the U.S. is, despite some having the strictest gun ownership laws in the world (Russia), all having socialized healthcare, and the US. Actually having a pretty good education system for most of the country (not underserved inner-city areas) when reported the same way other countries are.
China is the outlier, in that it does not have either high violent crime rates or a violent drug trade, but my theory is that this is because the vast majority of the country lives in squalor and acts as a buffer to help shield the cities, and those cities have their crime rates dilutes by the shield.
Simple facts are that gun control reduces gun crime but increase violent crime. Education and healthcare raise the standard of living, but don't provide disincentive for crime in the drug trade. You are right about inequality as a facet of this.
Most of their populations are in the hundreds, which is long term sustainable.
One example, off the top of my head, is the North Sentinelese, who have lived, mostly uncontacted (certainly so by white people), for a long, long time (some estimates have been in the 60,000 year range).
And Elon Musk would be whining about how the media was unfairly targeting Tesla, making misleading claims about a correlation between toppings and high speed crashes, claiming Teslas are not tipped more than any other car in the city, all the while designing titanium tipping resistant body panels as implicit acknowledgment of reality. And Slashdot would be a boiling kettle of fanboys defending Tesla and group thinking (par for the course).
I should say, I am biased, being a Tesla stockholder.
Isn't it obvious? This is why Elephants, Rhinos, Spring bucks, Antelopes, Giraffes, and Buffalo all have stripes too.
And their stripe pattern has nothing to do with large, sight base feline predators like lions and tigers in Africa, or jaguars in South America. The selective pressure from being bitten by flies is way stronger than being eaten, especially since equines don't have to rely on camoflauge because they have armored skin, horns, and blazing speed like other potential prey species.
Yea, but I am pretty sure anyone would sell their soul (metaphorically) when the buyer is offer in somewhere between 100 and 1000x what you are actually worth.
Consider Oculus is "just another" VR company, with their biggest innovation being that they were crowd funded, and their product barely released and with a fairly small audience (due to price, interest, motion sickness, etc).
Being bought for more than what Google paid for YouTube.
Being bought for at least 100x more than what FB could have developed for themselves, closer inline with what FB wants to do with the product.
Ahahaha... you thought the cost of producing something was the same as the cost of the materials
What a laugh.
No, the cost of something is the labor, equipment cost, power/energy use, time involved, production capacity, and the cost of materials. And injection molding has 3D printing beat in all those areas, except (and probably not even except) the raw material cost.
Actually, just like with dollars, the creator can choose to inject more BTC into thesystem at any time. That feature was designed into the currency.
And holding some fixed share oof something is not a good thing. That just means it is easy to manipulate by speculators (also just like gold) in comparison to real currencies in which a stable purchasing power is desired.
As for the "many" geeks turned millionaires, that is hogwash. There were a handful of accidental millionaires, but nobody predicted the heights of the bubbles and while many made some money, with the exception of the accidents, all others liquidated at 2-3x value, not 1000-10000x value.
Bow hunting is for unethical assholes. Humane hunters and those that respect wildlife use firearms.
No matter how good of a bow hunter you are or how good your aim is, simple fact is that an arrow travels at a third the speed of sound, meaning game can both see and hear your shot long before the arrow arrives. Every bow hunting season, forums are slammed by bow hunters that take a heart shot, the buck digs off at first sound, and the arrow ends up in its gut because it had time to travel the foot and a half or so to turn a good shot into an ethical hunter's worst nightmare.
Rifles do not have that problem. Bullet arrives too soon after first flash for game to react ( usually traveling 10x faster than an arrow ).
Anyways, as for drones, I don't mind so much that it allows hunters to find game, as infrared does a similar job. The problem I have is that it allows a hunter to know about game that is far away or hidden, encouraging long-distance shots (as soon as distanced game becomes visible), and thereby decreasing the chance of a clean kill.
If Google Glass ever becomes popular, I hope http://www.amazon.com/Mato-Hash-Military-Shemagh-Tactical/dp/B008G3O45U/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1395615480&sr=8-6&keywords=shemagh
I think the problem was multifaceted. Starting with making the combat system as generic as possible. Combat is one of the areas where real creativity can shine. Just look at the varied systems between pre-EOC Runescape(no class concept, multiple level trees for different combat styles, weapon based special attacks, and mixing gear types for the situation and on the fly) versus Guild Wars (initially top tier gear was diverse in graphics only, attacks based on weapons with some influence from skill trees) versus WoW (expectation is everyone on max level with only distinguishing features being gear and skill trees) versus FFXIV ( generic level system, only diversity coming with raising multiple classes to high level and mixing skills, no useful auto-attack, meaning all combat is tedious number key mashing).
I raised a max character in RS (took years), SWTOR (took months, mildly tedious, nothing to do end game), GW (took weeks-low months, less tedious, but little to do afterwards at the time), but could only manage to play FFXIV even after relaunch for a month or so before I was so bored I couldn't play anymore and moved on to Starbound.
That is pretty bad with an 2D indie mine craft clone can beat out a super expensive MMO on my interest levels because of being too generic and tedious.
Doesn't really matter to the argument that because of ink absorption causing blurring, and the fact that most people using phones are doing so at 1/3-1/4 the distance of looking at printed images, that your comparison of PPI on phone screens and image DPI that will be used in high LPI printers really isn't equivalent or analogous at all.
Their own example show poor results. The only thing that kinda matched was the nose. Everything else was unrecognisably different, including ethnicity.
I doubt the U.S. would be goaded into a nuclear war. When pitting dead-hand versus a nuclear MIRV arsenal at sea, everybody loses.
Unconfirmed weaponized H1N1 (bird flu) with 80% mortality rate, undetectable delivery, an easy/excusable way to prevent collateral damage (closing borders, which is already the plan if a non-weaponized strain is detected), and an extreme difficulty in tracing the aggressor (missiles can be tracked by RADAR, viruses can't) make nuclear war a non-option.
I the U.S. wanted to destroy Russia, the first and final attack would be a tourist (or cell) wiping their gloves on a railing at a national monument at lunch time.
That is probably so, but Titanfall isn't a game of the future. It is a neat game with a neat concept, but dated technology behind it. Especially so if it has 35 GB of uncompressed audio (meaning the rest of the game fits within 13 GB).
"compromises are bigger than you'd expect for a newly-released console"
No, they aren't. They are big and that is exactly what I'd expect from a newley released console designed for low power usage and a low price point compared to a gaming rig designed at 2-3x the price and 2-3x the power use.
They were only mildly competitive in the past (like when the 360 was released) because then, most GPUs were not as power hungry (I even had a passively cooled high end gaming card) so the gap between a high end discrete card and the chip in the console was not as large. Plus, consoles were running PowerPC, meaning they could be more powerful for the amount of power they drew, and dramatically optimized. The newer gen x86 consoles are all about lowering development costs and game production costs, at the expense of efficiency and optimization.
"least stressed component (disk space) is an abundant resource even on most of the worst specced machines."
Welcome to 2010 and later, when most mid-high end gaming rigs have a large HDD for storing miscellaneous stuff, and a small SSD for the OS and game installs. Or are running off SSDs only.
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Did you not pay attention to the article? How, pray tell, do we, the people, get a constitutional amendment passed through Congress, when our options are :
1. Vote for politicians who are all going to be against amendments that benefit the people and we are being psychologically manipulated by both the media and political parties away from such ideas or third parties.
2. Armed rebellion, which complacent Americans don't want, radical Americans can be framed or spun as domestic terrorists, and is an option only as long as gun rights remain intact..
This is the problem with the oligarchy. No matter what you or I *feel* should be done, we have no say in the matter anyways.
Maybe the problem is that you don't know which countries are first world countries.
That post was written on my phone's keyboard, which auto corrects words into whatever it feels like. I probably typed 'thwn' or 'thsn', both of which autocorrect to 'then' instead of than. If I didn't notice it while watching the keyboard, it would not have gotten fixed..
I have more of a problem with you cherry picking Canada, Australia, NZ, and England, despite those countries having very little in common with the U.S. and causes for violent crime.
The U.S. falls into the category of large, moderately urbanized countries with large open borders to less industrialized countries, high wealth and wealth disparity, and ethnically diverse populations. Most of the western world is not that way at all, and those properties breed the root cause of the majority of violent crime in those countries, which is the illegal drug trade.
Countries that share those features include Russia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and China. Surprise, surprise, those other countries are all at least or much worse off then the U.S. is, despite some having the strictest gun ownership laws in the world (Russia), all having socialized healthcare, and the US. Actually having a pretty good education system for most of the country (not underserved inner-city areas) when reported the same way other countries are.
China is the outlier, in that it does not have either high violent crime rates or a violent drug trade, but my theory is that this is because the vast majority of the country lives in squalor and acts as a buffer to help shield the cities, and those cities have their crime rates dilutes by the shield.
Simple facts are that gun control reduces gun crime but increase violent crime. Education and healthcare raise the standard of living, but don't provide disincentive for crime in the drug trade. You are right about inequality as a facet of this.
That last statement is utterly false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
Most of their populations are in the hundreds, which is long term sustainable.
One example, off the top of my head, is the North Sentinelese, who have lived, mostly uncontacted (certainly so by white people), for a long, long time (some estimates have been in the 60,000 year range).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island
They also survived the 2004 Tsunami, apparently unaffected.
If the Indian government continues to protect the island from outsiders, I certainly expect them to outlast western civilization.
And Elon Musk would be whining about how the media was unfairly targeting Tesla, making misleading claims about a correlation between toppings and high speed crashes, claiming Teslas are not tipped more than any other car in the city, all the while designing titanium tipping resistant body panels as implicit acknowledgment of reality. And Slashdot would be a boiling kettle of fanboys defending Tesla and group thinking (par for the course).
I should say, I am biased, being a Tesla stockholder.
Isn't it obvious? This is why Elephants, Rhinos, Spring bucks, Antelopes, Giraffes, and Buffalo all have stripes too.
And their stripe pattern has nothing to do with large, sight base feline predators like lions and tigers in Africa, or jaguars in South America. The selective pressure from being bitten by flies is way stronger than being eaten, especially since equines don't have to rely on camoflauge because they have armored skin, horns, and blazing speed like other potential prey species.
...? That isn't what a Ponzi scheme is. That is just fraud.
Yea, but I am pretty sure anyone would sell their soul (metaphorically) when the buyer is offer in somewhere between 100 and 1000x what you are actually worth.
Consider Oculus is "just another" VR company, with their biggest innovation being that they were crowd funded, and their product barely released and with a fairly small audience (due to price, interest, motion sickness, etc).
Being bought for more than what Google paid for YouTube.
Being bought for at least 100x more than what FB could have developed for themselves, closer inline with what FB wants to do with the product.
Mind boggling.
Ahahaha... you thought the cost of producing something was the same as the cost of the materials
What a laugh.
No, the cost of something is the labor, equipment cost, power/energy use, time involved, production capacity, and the cost of materials. And injection molding has 3D printing beat in all those areas, except (and probably not even except) the raw material cost.
Not until you are legally an adult (18).
That is pretty uncontroversial.
Actually, just like with dollars, the creator can choose to inject more BTC into thesystem at any time. That feature was designed into the currency.
And holding some fixed share oof something is not a good thing. That just means it is easy to manipulate by speculators (also just like gold) in comparison to real currencies in which a stable purchasing power is desired.
As for the "many" geeks turned millionaires, that is hogwash. There were a handful of accidental millionaires, but nobody predicted the heights of the bubbles and while many made some money, with the exception of the accidents, all others liquidated at 2-3x value, not 1000-10000x value.
Bow hunting is for unethical assholes. Humane hunters and those that respect wildlife use firearms.
No matter how good of a bow hunter you are or how good your aim is, simple fact is that an arrow travels at a third the speed of sound, meaning game can both see and hear your shot long before the arrow arrives. Every bow hunting season, forums are slammed by bow hunters that take a heart shot, the buck digs off at first sound, and the arrow ends up in its gut because it had time to travel the foot and a half or so to turn a good shot into an ethical hunter's worst nightmare.
Rifles do not have that problem. Bullet arrives too soon after first flash for game to react ( usually traveling 10x faster than an arrow ).
Anyways, as for drones, I don't mind so much that it allows hunters to find game, as infrared does a similar job. The problem I have is that it allows a hunter to know about game that is far away or hidden, encouraging long-distance shots (as soon as distanced game becomes visible), and thereby decreasing the chance of a clean kill.
If Google Glass ever becomes popular, I hope
http://www.amazon.com/Mato-Hash-Military-Shemagh-Tactical/dp/B008G3O45U/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1395615480&sr=8-6&keywords=shemagh
Becomes trendy as well.
I think the problem was multifaceted. Starting with making the combat system as generic as possible. Combat is one of the areas where real creativity can shine. Just look at the varied systems between pre-EOC Runescape(no class concept, multiple level trees for different combat styles, weapon based special attacks, and mixing gear types for the situation and on the fly) versus Guild Wars (initially top tier gear was diverse in graphics only, attacks based on weapons with some influence from skill trees) versus WoW (expectation is everyone on max level with only distinguishing features being gear and skill trees) versus FFXIV ( generic level system, only diversity coming with raising multiple classes to high level and mixing skills, no useful auto-attack, meaning all combat is tedious number key mashing).
I raised a max character in RS (took years), SWTOR (took months, mildly tedious, nothing to do end game), GW (took weeks-low months, less tedious, but little to
do afterwards at the time), but could only manage to play FFXIV even after relaunch for a month or so before I was so bored I couldn't play anymore and moved on to Starbound.
That is pretty bad with an 2D indie mine craft clone can beat out a super expensive MMO on my interest levels because of being too generic and tedious.
Doesn't really matter to the argument that because of ink absorption causing blurring, and the fact that most people using phones are doing so at 1/3-1/4 the distance of looking at printed images, that your comparison of PPI on phone screens and image DPI that will be used in high LPI printers really isn't equivalent or analogous at all.
Their own example show poor results. The only thing that kinda matched was the nose. Everything else was unrecognisably different, including ethnicity.
I would oblige them. Give I.D.ERS equal time... just, give it to the Luciferians. I am sure the Creationists will shut up mighty quick.
*Swine flu, mixed the two up.
I doubt the U.S. would be goaded into a nuclear war. When pitting dead-hand versus a nuclear MIRV arsenal at sea, everybody loses.
Unconfirmed weaponized H1N1 (bird flu) with 80% mortality rate, undetectable delivery, an easy/excusable way to prevent collateral damage (closing borders, which is already the plan if a non-weaponized strain is detected), and an extreme difficulty in tracing the aggressor (missiles can be tracked by RADAR, viruses can't) make nuclear war a non-option.
I the U.S. wanted to destroy Russia, the first and final attack would be a tourist (or cell) wiping their gloves on a railing at a national monument at lunch time.
That is probably so, but Titanfall isn't a game of the future. It is a neat game with a neat concept, but dated technology behind it. Especially so if it has 35 GB of uncompressed audio (meaning the rest of the game fits within 13 GB).
"compromises are bigger than you'd expect for a newly-released console"
No, they aren't. They are big and that is exactly what I'd expect from a newley released console designed for low power usage and a low price point compared to a gaming rig designed at 2-3x the price and 2-3x the power use.
They were only mildly competitive in the past (like when the 360 was released) because then, most GPUs were not as power hungry (I even had a passively cooled high end gaming card) so the gap between a high end discrete card and the chip in the console was not as large. Plus, consoles were running PowerPC, meaning they could be more powerful for the amount of power they drew, and dramatically optimized. The newer gen x86 consoles are all about lowering development costs and game production costs, at the expense of efficiency and optimization.
"least stressed component (disk space) is an abundant resource even on most of the worst specced machines."
Welcome to 2010 and later, when most mid-high end gaming rigs have a large HDD for storing miscellaneous stuff, and a small SSD for the OS and game installs. Or are running off SSDs only.
48 GB is unacceptable.
The bizarre irony is that most would characterize B. Gates as an over sung antihero.
Fortunately, Melinda is there to spend the stolen/cheated money on good causes, so maybe karma will one day even out.
Dear Kevin,
That is pretty cool, I guess. Not that I care what you think.
Signed,
Everyone else