You know what's gonna remove blue laws? Successive generations.
The politicians of today are fighting against two things they can not possibly win against: time, and Big Bird.
Yes, Big Bird.
Most of us here - regardless of country - grew up watching Sesame Street and other children's programs. You know, the stuff that taught us about sharing and respecting others? This is why I believe in 20 years or less gay marriage will not only be the norm nationwide, but it will be common. Big Bird told us not to judge people based on their beliefs, appearance, etc. and by the furry grace of Elmo we listened.
The second enemy - time. People are travelling around the world more and more. Information is spreading and its getting nigh-impossible for the government to control it. I'd say most teenagers think weed being illegal is bullshit. They just tune out the "anti-drug" crap and other lies as if it were their English teacher in high school.
These kids are going to go to high school with other kids who won't have to live in fear of being openly gay, or Atheist, or Muslim, or do or believe whatever they want that doesn't infringe on the rights of others. And one day, these kids will be able to vote. The idiotic laws will be repealed to some degree. It's just a matter of time.
Add to that you can avoid defective parts with some research.
Power supplies from company X catch fire? Buy from company Y. Laptops, you usually only find out about the lap melters a few months after release, if not longer.
We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own and release it under the GPL. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Let's say I have a job where I need someone to work Thursday-Monday. There are sects of Jews that won't work on the Sabbath. Is it religious discrimination for not hiring them because they can't meet the qualifications of the job as a result of their beliefs?
The only major feature Steam is lacking IMO is storing and being able to download your save games. Having your game installed at your buddy's house doesn't really matter much if you can't pick up where you left off.
Yes, you could just copy the save game files and take them with you, but it's something that could easily be seamless on Steam's part and should be.
I'm 193cm tall. What bothers me more than anything else is the orientation of touch screens.
I go to take out $10 on my local ATM machine and I hit the friggin' button for $50. I have to crouch down a bit so my finger is properly oriented with the crappy screen.
Let's see. The Wormhole Aliens lived outside of time, they could pretty much pluck anyone out of the wormhole and into their realm (maybe even reach people outside the wormhole), communicate telepathically with people even when they are light years away (Sisko had visions while he was on Earth), use relics (the orbs) to guide their people and their people's culture...
I'm an Atheist too, but the Prophets were about as close to Gods as you can get. And nothing they've done hasn't been done in the series before: noncorporeal aliens, teleportation, time travel, possession of others, strange alien devices... the only "new" thing as far as I know is the fact that they don't understand the concept of time.
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You know what's gonna remove blue laws? Successive generations.
The politicians of today are fighting against two things they can not possibly win against: time, and Big Bird.
Yes, Big Bird.
Most of us here - regardless of country - grew up watching Sesame Street and other children's programs. You know, the stuff that taught us about sharing and respecting others? This is why I believe in 20 years or less gay marriage will not only be the norm nationwide, but it will be common. Big Bird told us not to judge people based on their beliefs, appearance, etc. and by the furry grace of Elmo we listened.
The second enemy - time. People are travelling around the world more and more. Information is spreading and its getting nigh-impossible for the government to control it. I'd say most teenagers think weed being illegal is bullshit. They just tune out the "anti-drug" crap and other lies as if it were their English teacher in high school.
These kids are going to go to high school with other kids who won't have to live in fear of being openly gay, or Atheist, or Muslim, or do or believe whatever they want that doesn't infringe on the rights of others. And one day, these kids will be able to vote. The idiotic laws will be repealed to some degree. It's just a matter of time.
Don't bother, our ears haven't evolved to the level where we can hear the high Hertz sound of whooshing.
How does it handle the problem of "CAPTCHA farms" in India and China where they get $2 per 1,000 or so spam messages they post by hand?
Essentially, texting gets the same job done faster and with less hassle.
Yes, but if people used cheap texting over making phone calls, how would the phone companies gouge us when we go over our limits?
Why should the population of the US prop up an industry which has had many many decades to compete on the world market.
They shouldn't (in any case), but generally the people who make these decisions get a lot of money from these industries.
We can just replace the minerals with garbage of equal mass. TWO PROBLEMS SOLVED.
Or, we could just strap a ton of garbage into a rocket and shoot it into the sun.
They haven't had my business since their phones started sucking anyway. This just adds to the incentive to never buy from them.
So all a terrorist has to do is come into the States under the auspices of being a tourist or student. Lovely.
Add to that you can avoid defective parts with some research.
Power supplies from company X catch fire? Buy from company Y. Laptops, you usually only find out about the lap melters a few months after release, if not longer.
There's a joke about blade servers in there somewhere, but so many come to mind and I can't quite decide.
Couldn't someone hack the factory to build a gun that shoots you when you open up the door to take out whatever you were building?
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A one year cooldown? And I thought the new profession skills in WotLK were bad!
Be positive, it won't be much at all.
We, are Ubuntu.
You forgot the rest:
We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own and release it under the GPL. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Let's say I have a job where I need someone to work Thursday-Monday. There are sects of Jews that won't work on the Sabbath. Is it religious discrimination for not hiring them because they can't meet the qualifications of the job as a result of their beliefs?
Refer again to the bolded part of my statement.
Latin is not going to really earn you any money except as, what, a Latin teacher? Maybe a translation gig?
IF they put any more spin on their press releases it's going to throw the Earth's rotation outta whack.
On one or two of their proprietary games, yes. I'm talking the saves of every game you have, Valve or non-Valve.
The only major feature Steam is lacking IMO is storing and being able to download your save games. Having your game installed at your buddy's house doesn't really matter much if you can't pick up where you left off.
Yes, you could just copy the save game files and take them with you, but it's something that could easily be seamless on Steam's part and should be.
I'm 193cm tall. What bothers me more than anything else is the orientation of touch screens.
I go to take out $10 on my local ATM machine and I hit the friggin' button for $50. I have to crouch down a bit so my finger is properly oriented with the crappy screen.
What does that have to do with what he said?
Borders open up, more people get out into the world, language spreads further. Film at 11.
Let's see. The Wormhole Aliens lived outside of time, they could pretty much pluck anyone out of the wormhole and into their realm (maybe even reach people outside the wormhole), communicate telepathically with people even when they are light years away (Sisko had visions while he was on Earth), use relics (the orbs) to guide their people and their people's culture...
I'm an Atheist too, but the Prophets were about as close to Gods as you can get. And nothing they've done hasn't been done in the series before: noncorporeal aliens, teleportation, time travel, possession of others, strange alien devices... the only "new" thing as far as I know is the fact that they don't understand the concept of time.
I think they've taken a page from the City-Dwelling Pidgeon's Handbook.
You know, Chapter 2? "Shit all over the people that feed you."