...it leads to a monopolized market, which is bad for everybody except the monopoly supplier.
This is not necessarily true. A more correct statement would be "it leads to a monopolized market, which is only as good as the monopoly supplier allows it to be."
If a monopolistic company provides excellent service, low price, and a good product, then there really isn't a problem. A lack of competition doesn't necessarily stifle innovation, either. Look at Bell Labs.;)
I find that if I consume too much food, my ability to focus is diminished. This is particularly true for sugars, caffeine, and simple carbs. I can feel my blood sugar getting high, and then the weird antsy hyper mentality kicks in, and I'd be better suited for writing off the wall humor.
If I snack, I have to make sure that it is not the stuff that comes out of a vending machine. What I typically do, or would like to, given the amount of self-control that I have on certain days, is to eat half the sandwich for lunch, wait a couple of hours, and then eat the other half of the sandwich. That way, it ensures that I am never too hungry, but also makes it so that I don't overload on things that will make my brain flighty.
Another helpful thing is exercise. If I keep to a regular workout schedule, I find that my blood sugar is better regulated, and that I am able to really concentrate on things.
I find it amusing that there is actually a serious discussion of Pallies and dps. The protection and holy trees are the only trees worth using, because any thought of increasing a pally's dps is completely, and utterly stupid.
If you wanted a dps class, you should have rolled a rogue, warrior, shadow priest, or mage. Hunters figure in there somewhere, too.
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Aim rockets at their feet. Then, when they jump, they'll go way further than they thought, then you can frag them in their confusion.
How did we do it before the advent of the internal combustion engine? Oh, right. horses, mules, oxen. The good thing about farming is that it doesn't have to be high tech. Plants don't care if their soil was tilled by a tractor with 48 inch rims, or by a horse pulling a plow.
They are responsible for their actions, and their position reviews are held every 4-6 years. Unfortunately, not enough people are in the know or care enough, and far too many are too lazy to try.
I don't think any of those are quite as bad as "same difference." I hate that usage, since it really ought to be "no difference," given the actual intent of meaning.
But like I tell lots of customers, I'd *much* rather being doing something else for my money.
What is stopping you? Do you have some sort of obligation to charge people to take spyware off of their computers? Why not just get a new job, that you would *much* rather be doing?
I'd rather they produce new game content, instead of working on an expansion. There are over 30 locations that still need to be added to the game, and this isn't even including the actual walled off areas that appear on the map, but are not accessible in-game.
Then again, it would be nice to see the level cap raised a bit.
bt.com, eh? That's a telecommunication's company that is fairly large. If he were suspicious of phishing, why from that site, of all places? Sounds like he got caught with his hands in someone's pocket, looking around for credit card numbers, and is pissing in his pants scared.
It depends on the speed limit. If the speed limit of said public road were 35 mph, then driving 100 mph is most certainly illegal. You are charged with reckless driving, which is a misdemeanor (and can be a felony), and yes, you are entitled to a lawyer.
Make up your mind, either you follow what UN says and you don't invade, or you invade and take responsibility for your own action without blaming the UN. Show some balls.
Fascinating. So... if Iraq doesn't follow the UN, what happens? Do we lay even more sanctions on that country, ones which were quite unsuccessful in the past?
Sitting around passing resolutions about whether you are happy about something or not, is really quite useless. If I said "it is illegal for you to argue on/.," how would I ever enforce it? Would I actually expect you to abide by it? The UN, as an organization, has no meat to it. It was easy for Iraq to just say "no." Essentially, Iraq threw the gauntlet down, and said "what are you going to do about it?"
Do you know what the UN did? They whined. There was no action, no movement of force. Perhaps this was caused by the corrupt nature of the leaders of the UN, or just because the countries were just paying lip service to the problem in the first place.
From my point of view, the UN amounts to nothing more than a bunch of arrogant snobs that love to gaze at their navels.
I find it amusing that every argument against Christianity comes from the OT. Were it not for the events in the NT, Christianity would not exist. Those arguments are more against Judaism than they are against Christianity.
Before you say "Christianity *is* Judaism," you should really take into account that the theology of the testaments are very different. The God of Judaism is the conqueror and king, the God of Christianity is the compassionate and forgiving ruler. "This is the new testament of my blood, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins." There is nothing in the old testament that even comes close to that face of God.
Since when did the UN usurp the sovreignity of a nation? The only thing we need to go to war, is a declaration of war by our congress.
The UN serves to paint a fake smiling face on the heads of the selfish. It started as a way to further relations between nation states, but has now turned into a way of trying to control the US. The rest of the world needs the US, because the US economy is the one with the money.
Face it. If the rest of the world wants its own DNS system, let the rest of the world start using its own DNS system. It was not the choice of the US for every other country to start using the system designed and created in the US, by the US, and for the US.
The UN is just whining "me me me," and the US really just has to show the back of its hand.
You have too much faith in humanity. I think you just need someone to point at and whine about. People are stupid when frightened, not organized. They turn into sheep. Just look at the tramplings that occur when fires erupt around large crowds, or whatever. Look at what happened on the other side of the world, when the tsunami hit. Something else doesn't happen, and it will never be oranized.
Catholicism also has heaps of dogma that litter its teaching material, such that many sections of it are remnants of the church, not from the faith. Man's ultimate purpose of existence, from a Christian perspective, would be to serve God, and to serve others. This is exemplified in how Christ lived his life, which was pure.
If it doesn't come from the Bible, it is best to be circumspect of it.
And the Spanish allow wild bulls to run through their streets. What's your point, other than to point out an event that would be identical wherever it may have occured. Humans aren't all that different, be they from New Orleans, Tokyo, or Sidney.
You assume that you are somehow entitled to use the internet, just because the US allows you access. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. The rest of the world can go set up their own network, for all I care. I highly doubt that they'd get anywhere past "passing an initiative," though.
As far as control over the root servers go, the UN can go pound sand.
I do say, sir, that this is ridiculous. Any usage other than work that you get out of your work computer is a privilege, nothing more. I don't think that you will administer your home computer in such a way that you limit your usage rights to it.
Work computers are there for work. When you own the computer, then you will have a right to say something about its use or not.
This is also not a ploy by MS to suck you in. I know that the company I work for would rather have every business application run out of a browser. The reason is that it simplifies the work we have to do, because it minimizes complexity. We wouldn't have to deal with setting up each machine with a certain database driver, a specially mapped drive, and we also wouldn't have to ensure DOS compatibility. This has absolutely nothing to do with MS, and everything to do with cost.
The blackrock war, the infiltration of the human capital by Onyxia, the waterlord war against the fire elementals, the bloodelf-naga-satyr history and connection, the steamwheedle war against the bloodsails, the entire history of Arthas, Kel'Thuzad, Forsaken, etc. Hell, the Defias quests were very interesting, and also were tied into the history of the war against the undead. Duskwood has a great little storyline too.
The history is there, the game is fairly rich in content. The problem is that the quests are hardly ever read, so it amounts to "go here, kill this, come back and I give you stuff." Sure, you can do that without reading, but when you do read, you know why you are doing the quest... and your immersion is more complete.
All that, and I've really only concentrated on Alliance lines.
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This is not necessarily true. A more correct statement would be "it leads to a monopolized market, which is only as good as the monopoly supplier allows it to be."
If a monopolistic company provides excellent service, low price, and a good product, then there really isn't a problem. A lack of competition doesn't necessarily stifle innovation, either. Look at Bell Labs. ;)
I've always been able to tell when I'm low and high.
I find that if I consume too much food, my ability to focus is diminished. This is particularly true for sugars, caffeine, and simple carbs. I can feel my blood sugar getting high, and then the weird antsy hyper mentality kicks in, and I'd be better suited for writing off the wall humor.
If I snack, I have to make sure that it is not the stuff that comes out of a vending machine. What I typically do, or would like to, given the amount of self-control that I have on certain days, is to eat half the sandwich for lunch, wait a couple of hours, and then eat the other half of the sandwich. That way, it ensures that I am never too hungry, but also makes it so that I don't overload on things that will make my brain flighty.
Another helpful thing is exercise. If I keep to a regular workout schedule, I find that my blood sugar is better regulated, and that I am able to really concentrate on things.
Wow. If caffeine makes you spell and type like that, perhaps it is best to lay off of it.
Line breaks are your friend!
I find it amusing that there is actually a serious discussion of Pallies and dps. The protection and holy trees are the only trees worth using, because any thought of increasing a pally's dps is completely, and utterly stupid.
If you wanted a dps class, you should have rolled a rogue, warrior, shadow priest, or mage. Hunters figure in there somewhere, too.
Aim rockets at their feet. Then, when they jump, they'll go way further than they thought, then you can frag them in their confusion.
How did we do it before the advent of the internal combustion engine? Oh, right. horses, mules, oxen. The good thing about farming is that it doesn't have to be high tech. Plants don't care if their soil was tilled by a tractor with 48 inch rims, or by a horse pulling a plow.
They are responsible for their actions, and their position reviews are held every 4-6 years. Unfortunately, not enough people are in the know or care enough, and far too many are too lazy to try.
I don't think any of those are quite as bad as "same difference." I hate that usage, since it really ought to be "no difference," given the actual intent of meaning.
Mmm... I appreciate a highly modded troll every now and then. It is delectable, like a fine wine.
But like I tell lots of customers, I'd *much* rather being doing something else for my money.
What is stopping you? Do you have some sort of obligation to charge people to take spyware off of their computers? Why not just get a new job, that you would *much* rather be doing?
I'd rather they produce new game content, instead of working on an expansion. There are over 30 locations that still need to be added to the game, and this isn't even including the actual walled off areas that appear on the map, but are not accessible in-game.
Then again, it would be nice to see the level cap raised a bit.
To be honest, this site hasn't changed a whole lot since I joined. SSDD.
bt.com, eh? That's a telecommunication's company that is fairly large. If he were suspicious of phishing, why from that site, of all places? Sounds like he got caught with his hands in someone's pocket, looking around for credit card numbers, and is pissing in his pants scared.
It depends on the speed limit. If the speed limit of said public road were 35 mph, then driving 100 mph is most certainly illegal. You are charged with reckless driving, which is a misdemeanor (and can be a felony), and yes, you are entitled to a lawyer.
Make up your mind, either you follow what UN says and you don't invade, or you invade and take responsibility for your own action without blaming the UN. Show some balls.
Fascinating. So... if Iraq doesn't follow the UN, what happens? Do we lay even more sanctions on that country, ones which were quite unsuccessful in the past?
Sitting around passing resolutions about whether you are happy about something or not, is really quite useless. If I said "it is illegal for you to argue on /.," how would I ever enforce it? Would I actually expect you to abide by it? The UN, as an organization, has no meat to it. It was easy for Iraq to just say "no." Essentially, Iraq threw the gauntlet down, and said "what are you going to do about it?"
Do you know what the UN did? They whined. There was no action, no movement of force. Perhaps this was caused by the corrupt nature of the leaders of the UN, or just because the countries were just paying lip service to the problem in the first place.
From my point of view, the UN amounts to nothing more than a bunch of arrogant snobs that love to gaze at their navels.
I find it amusing that every argument against Christianity comes from the OT. Were it not for the events in the NT, Christianity would not exist. Those arguments are more against Judaism than they are against Christianity.
Before you say "Christianity *is* Judaism," you should really take into account that the theology of the testaments are very different. The God of Judaism is the conqueror and king, the God of Christianity is the compassionate and forgiving ruler. "This is the new testament of my blood, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins." There is nothing in the old testament that even comes close to that face of God.
Since when did the UN usurp the sovreignity of a nation? The only thing we need to go to war, is a declaration of war by our congress.
The UN serves to paint a fake smiling face on the heads of the selfish. It started as a way to further relations between nation states, but has now turned into a way of trying to control the US. The rest of the world needs the US, because the US economy is the one with the money.
Face it. If the rest of the world wants its own DNS system, let the rest of the world start using its own DNS system. It was not the choice of the US for every other country to start using the system designed and created in the US, by the US, and for the US.
The UN is just whining "me me me," and the US really just has to show the back of its hand.
not having benchmarked them, i would guess that sql server would be faster on the same hardware.
rofl.
Not having voted, or watched television, I would guess that Hilary Clinton won the last election.
You have too much faith in humanity. I think you just need someone to point at and whine about. People are stupid when frightened, not organized. They turn into sheep. Just look at the tramplings that occur when fires erupt around large crowds, or whatever. Look at what happened on the other side of the world, when the tsunami hit. Something else doesn't happen, and it will never be oranized.
Catholicism also has heaps of dogma that litter its teaching material, such that many sections of it are remnants of the church, not from the faith. Man's ultimate purpose of existence, from a Christian perspective, would be to serve God, and to serve others. This is exemplified in how Christ lived his life, which was pure.
If it doesn't come from the Bible, it is best to be circumspect of it.
And the Spanish allow wild bulls to run through their streets. What's your point, other than to point out an event that would be identical wherever it may have occured. Humans aren't all that different, be they from New Orleans, Tokyo, or Sidney.
You assume that you are somehow entitled to use the internet, just because the US allows you access. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. The rest of the world can go set up their own network, for all I care. I highly doubt that they'd get anywhere past "passing an initiative," though.
As far as control over the root servers go, the UN can go pound sand.
I do say, sir, that this is ridiculous. Any usage other than work that you get out of your work computer is a privilege, nothing more. I don't think that you will administer your home computer in such a way that you limit your usage rights to it.
Work computers are there for work. When you own the computer, then you will have a right to say something about its use or not.
This is also not a ploy by MS to suck you in. I know that the company I work for would rather have every business application run out of a browser. The reason is that it simplifies the work we have to do, because it minimizes complexity. We wouldn't have to deal with setting up each machine with a certain database driver, a specially mapped drive, and we also wouldn't have to ensure DOS compatibility. This has absolutely nothing to do with MS, and everything to do with cost.
Hmm...
The blackrock war, the infiltration of the human capital by Onyxia, the waterlord war against the fire elementals, the bloodelf-naga-satyr history and connection, the steamwheedle war against the bloodsails, the entire history of Arthas, Kel'Thuzad, Forsaken, etc. Hell, the Defias quests were very interesting, and also were tied into the history of the war against the undead. Duskwood has a great little storyline too.
The history is there, the game is fairly rich in content. The problem is that the quests are hardly ever read, so it amounts to "go here, kill this, come back and I give you stuff." Sure, you can do that without reading, but when you do read, you know why you are doing the quest... and your immersion is more complete.
All that, and I've really only concentrated on Alliance lines.