By that logic, artillery fire or missile attacks are preferable to sniper attacks. Snipers are still direct fire, just from an extreme distance. You have to have line of sight in order to strike your target. Now artillery or missiles on the other hand, I don't need to see you to blow your ass away.
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough, And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick, But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point. We go 'round every two hundred million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
1. You get a new hard drive, so you transfer all your data to the new hard drive, and data wipe the old one. 2. Feds suspect you of something. 3. Feds monitor your behavior. 4. Feds get warrant to raid your house and seize computer with new hard drive. 5. Feds perform forensic investigate on clone of new encrypted hard drive. 6. Old hard drive sits in trash wiped. 7. ??? 8. Profit!
Unless you work for the government or military, no one would be interested enough in the data on your drives to go through the effort and cost of doing the forensic investigation to find out what was on your hard drive before the wipe.
For those of you in Rio Linda, nobody cares about you, or your data, unless you work for the government or military.
I hate doing this because I'm not a Christian, but there is a lot of FUD among atheists with regard to the Bible. They use bad translations and don't interpret the text with the proper context, they just pick and choose specific lines and say here, this is proof of contradiction (ironically this is not so dissimilar of the behavior which they accuse Christians of only picking and choosing which parts to follow). You have to remember that the style of writing was vastly different than the style of today, so using modern day context to interpret a nearly 2000 year old text is just plain stupid. Even beyond the context of the chapter/book/testament they ignore the differences between the Old and New Covenants.
So atheists, until you actually go and bother to read the Bible and are willing to understand it within context it is presented, please stop passing this FUD around. On the other hand, criticizing the belief in religion is just fine and dandy. Trying to use evidence from a specific religion when you can't even interpret it in the proper context is just plain stupid.
Try around 45 federal agencies that conduct criminal investigations, doesn't really classify as mega-bureaucracy. I'd almost say we should combine these together and cut down on some waste. DHS USCG CBP USBP ICE FAMS FPS USSS TSA ATF DEA FBI BOP USMS DSS (Part of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security) IRS TIGTA USMP United States Treasury Police DCIS USPPD Army CID US Army Miliary Police Corp Air Force OSI Air Force Security Forces NCIS ONI Police CGIS Marine Corps Provost Marshal's Office OIG FDA USDA USDI National Parks Service Federal Reserve Police Library of Congress Police National Oceanic and Atmosphereic Administration Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement NSA Smithsonian National Zoological Park Police USCP USPIS United States Supreme Court Police Veteren Affairs Police
While some health care agencies are converting, mostly this will be big hospital networks, a lot are waiting for either them to succeed or a 3rd party to provide the software for them to digitize records. When I was job hunting, one of the companies I applied and interviewed at was working on one such application. It was designed to be implemented across a geographical region. For instance, if this company was based in southern Florida, it was designed to accessible to all of southern Florida.
I actually like this solution, because it makes a lot of sense, not perfect sense, but close. Geographical regions for health care can be mapped out. While you live in the region, you're only going to be visiting health care providers in that area, and if they're all on this system records can be shared quickly and effectively. The only reason I say it doesn't make perfect sense is due to the fact that there's no guarantee that it will be easier to get records across the nation if you should move, but it should be a relatively easy task to request your records to take with you.
Even so, I'm kind of leery of having a nation wide health network. I don't see any reason why some health care facility in California should be able to easily get to my health data on such a network. It's not as though it's hard to carry a card with you that indicates your medical conditions and any allergies to medicines.
All the Hoover Dam, and like projects, did was to get money into hands that was only spent on necessities, people couldn't afford to spend the excess money because they may not have another job when that project ended. The money sat and did nothing until the economy came out of the depression. That doesn't help you get out of a recession or depression, it just gives excess money lying around once the recession/depression is over to give a nice kick start.
The point is, unemployment needs to go down, and it can't be due to temporary jobs. People need to feel confident that they will retain their jobs, otherwise they won't spend income on non-necessities.
Ask them what they pay for malpractice insurance and if there would be better ways they could spend that money.
The level of inefficiency and waste in American medicine borders on criminal
I agree. I've just never heard of Government as a solution for inefficiency and waste.......
I'm fairly certain that the ease of malpractice suits and the rate at which they crop up is a huge reason for increased health costs. American society is pretty lawsuit giddy, there's a lot of tort suits out there that really shouldn't happen. Any lawsuit, whether successful or not increases costs of the individual who was sued, which in turn has to be passed downstream often to avoid going out of business.
Honestly, I want to see tort reform and how much that impacts health costs before I even see any sort of nationalization effort.
Mind you, I was speaking of lv 1 characters. The primary and secondary power sets are fairly well balanced against each other in that you can take any pairing and be just as good as any other character of that class. There's 575 combinations of Primary and Secondary powers, the reason I list 1150 is because you choose one of two of the powers from your primary set. As you get higher in level, yes you have the option to take powers that don't give you as much effectiveness as other powers, but like I said that's later on. If you want to be a min-maxer, yes certain combinations are going to be far more effective when tweaked, but in reality the player base isn't as much concerned about that like in FFXI where the Japanese set the defacto standard for what is acceptable.
As for the combinations available for FFXI characters, well first you have to unlock your sub-job ability, then you have to actually level your subjob, and that only provides you with 30 combinations.
The other thing you have to keep in mind is that these are combinations within a class rather that combinations of classes. That's why certain Job/Sub Job combinations don't work in FFXI, the classes are too dissimilar to work. On the other hand the primary/secondary power combinations for CoX are designed with in the class.
The mammal was filmed in the summer of 2008 during a month-long expedition to the Dominican Republic â" one of only two countries where this nocturnal, insect-eating animal (Solenodon paradoxus) can be found (the other is Haiti).
I'd be a little perplexed if Haiti didn't have the animal in it, IT SHARES THE SAME GOD DAMN ISLAND with the Dominican Republic.
Even if global warming does turn out to be untrue or isn't a big enough problem to worry about, energy use and pollution are issues that should be taken care of.
When you take care of them, you'll reduce carbon emissions anyways, and probably a lot more long term than buying carbon credits ever will.
I doubt you would be able to find a single person who believes global warming isn't man-made who also believes we shouldn't reduce energy use and pollution. I'm all for it since it means a potentially healthier life as well as reduced electrical bills due to lower consumption.
What you need to realize is that the debate doesn't really concern itself with the science. It's a political debate, not a scientific one. Those on one side want the government to implement all these policies like carbon credits and cap and trade, while the other side doesn't. Back before this recession I was wary of implementing all this legislature that would directly increase the costs of business or reduce their opportunities. Now with the recession I'm right against most of these policy ideas since I don't believe our economy could afford to take them on right now.
Further, I believe the "think of the children" argument as applied to global warming is utter BS. Since when have our politicians ever done anything for the children. If they did care about the children, they'd go and fix the fucking social security system so their children can collect from it when they get old.
At some point the amount of new phishers entering the phishing industry balances out with the number of phishers dying from starvation and you achieve equilibrium.
Wouldn't this be a good thing? You get blights on society destroying themselves. This means one of two things the ones that continue to die out are the new and bad ones, leaving only the good ones to fester, or the old ones die out as the new ones will accept lower payments, thus taking talent out of the phishing pool.
I quit during Treasures. The problem with grouping with your LS is that your LS had to want to level jobs around your level. When you're stuck at lv30 something and your LS is all trying to get lv60 ish leveling done, you're kind of SoL.
The thing is, adding new features to make it easier isn't likely going to attract old players back, it's going to make new players easier to integrate in and match up to the old players that still play.
Actually, the most intriguing leveling feature I've seen so far has been added in the newest issue of City of Heroes. It's called Leveling Pact, the system allows you and a friend to create new characters and have your XP be permanently in sync, whether both characters are online or not. You will always be the same level, even if your friend plays ten times more often than you do! It's sort of like "Extreme Sidekicking."
Essentially, you split all your experience rewards with your friend.
The amount of customization they throw at you for your character (character model not included in this) is staggering.
For example, with just 10 character classes (5 heroes, 5 villains), there's 1150 different possible Lv1 characters. Halve that number for the possible number of primary/secondary power set combinations. You'd need a mathematician to figure out how many unique characters can be made with their system once you factor in ancillary powers and the lv40 power sets that become available.
I have a friend who had a lot of low level characters because of that level of flexibility.
Honestly, I'll give FFXI kudos for staying alive all this time, but personally I found that requiring players to party in groups of 6 to level up was a bad idea. When you can log in, and want to be leveling dragoon, then sit at the zone entrance with your looking for party tag up for 30-60 minutes before you get a message for a party invite, then travel out to the party only to have it disband after 1 kill. Yeah that's pretty dumb.
FFXI major flaw, in my humble opinion, was the inability to do anything on your own if you wanted to. There is no progressing your character if you can't find a group.
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By that logic, artillery fire or missile attacks are preferable to sniper attacks. Snipers are still direct fire, just from an extreme distance. You have to have line of sight in order to strike your target. Now artillery or missiles on the other hand, I don't need to see you to blow your ass away.
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
1. You get a new hard drive, so you transfer all your data to the new hard drive, and data wipe the old one.
2. Feds suspect you of something.
3. Feds monitor your behavior.
4. Feds get warrant to raid your house and seize computer with new hard drive.
5. Feds perform forensic investigate on clone of new encrypted hard drive.
6. Old hard drive sits in trash wiped.
7. ???
8. Profit!
You've never seen the brain reading device.
Unless you work for the government or military, no one would be interested enough in the data on your drives to go through the effort and cost of doing the forensic investigation to find out what was on your hard drive before the wipe.
For those of you in Rio Linda, nobody cares about you, or your data, unless you work for the government or military.
Dinosaurs.
I hate doing this because I'm not a Christian, but there is a lot of FUD among atheists with regard to the Bible. They use bad translations and don't interpret the text with the proper context, they just pick and choose specific lines and say here, this is proof of contradiction (ironically this is not so dissimilar of the behavior which they accuse Christians of only picking and choosing which parts to follow). You have to remember that the style of writing was vastly different than the style of today, so using modern day context to interpret a nearly 2000 year old text is just plain stupid. Even beyond the context of the chapter/book/testament they ignore the differences between the Old and New Covenants.
So atheists, until you actually go and bother to read the Bible and are willing to understand it within context it is presented, please stop passing this FUD around. On the other hand, criticizing the belief in religion is just fine and dandy. Trying to use evidence from a specific religion when you can't even interpret it in the proper context is just plain stupid.
I'd take a bit of a pay cut to go from 5x9 hours to 4x9 hours a week.
Try around 45 federal agencies that conduct criminal investigations, doesn't really classify as mega-bureaucracy. I'd almost say we should combine these together and cut down on some waste.
DHS
USCG
CBP
USBP
ICE
FAMS
FPS
USSS
TSA
ATF
DEA
FBI
BOP
USMS
DSS (Part of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security)
IRS
TIGTA
USMP
United States Treasury Police
DCIS
USPPD
Army CID
US Army Miliary Police Corp
Air Force OSI
Air Force Security Forces
NCIS
ONI Police
CGIS
Marine Corps Provost Marshal's Office
OIG
FDA
USDA
USDI
National Parks Service
Federal Reserve Police
Library of Congress Police
National Oceanic and Atmosphereic Administration Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement
NSA
Smithsonian National Zoological Park Police
USCP
USPIS
United States Supreme Court Police
Veteren Affairs Police
Godwin's Law.
It's either that or start moving forward your evil overlord plans. I know I have plenty of sharks, Fonzies, lasers and pools.
While some health care agencies are converting, mostly this will be big hospital networks, a lot are waiting for either them to succeed or a 3rd party to provide the software for them to digitize records. When I was job hunting, one of the companies I applied and interviewed at was working on one such application. It was designed to be implemented across a geographical region. For instance, if this company was based in southern Florida, it was designed to accessible to all of southern Florida.
I actually like this solution, because it makes a lot of sense, not perfect sense, but close. Geographical regions for health care can be mapped out. While you live in the region, you're only going to be visiting health care providers in that area, and if they're all on this system records can be shared quickly and effectively. The only reason I say it doesn't make perfect sense is due to the fact that there's no guarantee that it will be easier to get records across the nation if you should move, but it should be a relatively easy task to request your records to take with you.
Even so, I'm kind of leery of having a nation wide health network. I don't see any reason why some health care facility in California should be able to easily get to my health data on such a network. It's not as though it's hard to carry a card with you that indicates your medical conditions and any allergies to medicines.
All the Hoover Dam, and like projects, did was to get money into hands that was only spent on necessities, people couldn't afford to spend the excess money because they may not have another job when that project ended. The money sat and did nothing until the economy came out of the depression. That doesn't help you get out of a recession or depression, it just gives excess money lying around once the recession/depression is over to give a nice kick start.
The point is, unemployment needs to go down, and it can't be due to temporary jobs. People need to feel confident that they will retain their jobs, otherwise they won't spend income on non-necessities.
Ask them what they pay for malpractice insurance and if there would be better ways they could spend that money.
The level of inefficiency and waste in American medicine borders on criminal
I agree. I've just never heard of Government as a solution for inefficiency and waste.......
I'm fairly certain that the ease of malpractice suits and the rate at which they crop up is a huge reason for increased health costs. American society is pretty lawsuit giddy, there's a lot of tort suits out there that really shouldn't happen. Any lawsuit, whether successful or not increases costs of the individual who was sued, which in turn has to be passed downstream often to avoid going out of business.
Honestly, I want to see tort reform and how much that impacts health costs before I even see any sort of nationalization effort.
Mind you, I was speaking of lv 1 characters. The primary and secondary power sets are fairly well balanced against each other in that you can take any pairing and be just as good as any other character of that class. There's 575 combinations of Primary and Secondary powers, the reason I list 1150 is because you choose one of two of the powers from your primary set. As you get higher in level, yes you have the option to take powers that don't give you as much effectiveness as other powers, but like I said that's later on. If you want to be a min-maxer, yes certain combinations are going to be far more effective when tweaked, but in reality the player base isn't as much concerned about that like in FFXI where the Japanese set the defacto standard for what is acceptable.
As for the combinations available for FFXI characters, well first you have to unlock your sub-job ability, then you have to actually level your subjob, and that only provides you with 30 combinations.
The other thing you have to keep in mind is that these are combinations within a class rather that combinations of classes. That's why certain Job/Sub Job combinations don't work in FFXI, the classes are too dissimilar to work. On the other hand the primary/secondary power combinations for CoX are designed with in the class.
The mammal was filmed in the summer of 2008 during a month-long expedition to the Dominican Republic â" one of only two countries where this nocturnal, insect-eating animal (Solenodon paradoxus) can be found (the other is Haiti).
I'd be a little perplexed if Haiti didn't have the animal in it, IT SHARES THE SAME GOD DAMN ISLAND with the Dominican Republic.
Even if global warming does turn out to be untrue or isn't a big enough problem to worry about, energy use and pollution are issues that should be taken care of.
When you take care of them, you'll reduce carbon emissions anyways, and probably a lot more long term than buying carbon credits ever will.
I doubt you would be able to find a single person who believes global warming isn't man-made who also believes we shouldn't reduce energy use and pollution. I'm all for it since it means a potentially healthier life as well as reduced electrical bills due to lower consumption.
What you need to realize is that the debate doesn't really concern itself with the science. It's a political debate, not a scientific one. Those on one side want the government to implement all these policies like carbon credits and cap and trade, while the other side doesn't. Back before this recession I was wary of implementing all this legislature that would directly increase the costs of business or reduce their opportunities. Now with the recession I'm right against most of these policy ideas since I don't believe our economy could afford to take them on right now.
Further, I believe the "think of the children" argument as applied to global warming is utter BS. Since when have our politicians ever done anything for the children. If they did care about the children, they'd go and fix the fucking social security system so their children can collect from it when they get old.
I'm a pre-Miranda rural sheriff, and I find it insulting to be compared to a Canadian Mountie, you insensitive clod.
At some point the amount of new phishers entering the phishing industry balances out with the number of phishers dying from starvation and you achieve equilibrium.
Wouldn't this be a good thing? You get blights on society destroying themselves. This means one of two things the ones that continue to die out are the new and bad ones, leaving only the good ones to fester, or the old ones die out as the new ones will accept lower payments, thus taking talent out of the phishing pool.
It's a win-win either way.
My work here is done.
I quit during Treasures. The problem with grouping with your LS is that your LS had to want to level jobs around your level. When you're stuck at lv30 something and your LS is all trying to get lv60 ish leveling done, you're kind of SoL.
The thing is, adding new features to make it easier isn't likely going to attract old players back, it's going to make new players easier to integrate in and match up to the old players that still play.
Actually, the most intriguing leveling feature I've seen so far has been added in the newest issue of City of Heroes. It's called Leveling Pact, the system allows you and a friend to create new characters and have your XP be permanently in sync, whether both characters are online or not. You will always be the same level, even if your friend plays ten times more often than you do! It's sort of like "Extreme Sidekicking."
Essentially, you split all your experience rewards with your friend.
Then you must cut the one ring from Sauron's hand, carry it to the fire of Mt. Doom and cast it into the cauldron.
Have you tried City of Heroes/Villains?
The amount of customization they throw at you for your character (character model not included in this) is staggering.
For example, with just 10 character classes (5 heroes, 5 villains), there's 1150 different possible Lv1 characters. Halve that number for the possible number of primary/secondary power set combinations. You'd need a mathematician to figure out how many unique characters can be made with their system once you factor in ancillary powers and the lv40 power sets that become available.
I have a friend who had a lot of low level characters because of that level of flexibility.
Honestly, I'll give FFXI kudos for staying alive all this time, but personally I found that requiring players to party in groups of 6 to level up was a bad idea. When you can log in, and want to be leveling dragoon, then sit at the zone entrance with your looking for party tag up for 30-60 minutes before you get a message for a party invite, then travel out to the party only to have it disband after 1 kill. Yeah that's pretty dumb.
FFXI major flaw, in my humble opinion, was the inability to do anything on your own if you wanted to. There is no progressing your character if you can't find a group.