I don't know if 'a rocket fueled with 12 tonnes of liquid oxygen and alcohol' qualifies as 'high explosive' either, but the time to be asking about regulatory and legal issues is LONG past.
How about '8.1 just totally broke explorer?' Cookies don't work properly (i.e. log in on main page, go to sub page, and hey, you're not logged in!) the 'open/save' dialogue just kinda ignores button presses, download links aren't resolved through (instead of asking if you'd like to open or save foo.zip, it asks if you'd like to open or save download.php?fileid=1345 and then ignores your button presses).
Resetting doesn't help. Removing/adding from windows features doesn't help. Can't reinstall, as it's baked in. Firefox works fine.
Ok, let me state more broadly. Governance by the people is better than pretty much anything else; governance by force, by divine mandate, by claim to lineage, by possession of the Mighty Axe of Rulership.
Not sure why you'd ask what is meant by 'theocracy, specifically.' It's not really a term that's up to debate.
Theocracy: A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
By definition, this is a bad idea. The citizen has no recourse to any unjust action or edict; it's in God's name. Even should the ruling class later decide an action or edict is, in fact, unjust, the same issues apply in reversing it; was God wrong previously, or now? Or is it the priests that are wrong? If so, how can they continue to claim divine mandate?
You talk about 'formative unterpinnings' and what not; those don't matter all that much, if at all. Who cares if, say, the American government was founded by Deists, Christians, Muslims, Pastafarians, or UFOlogists? At the end of the day, the religious beliefs of one of the authors of the Constitution don't impact the ability of the populace to elect leaders, recall leaders, and so on.
You're arguing that theocracies aren't inherently a bad idea?
Ok. Look at it from this angle. In a theocracy, power is derived from some form of divine mandate, interpreted by the priestly class. The citizen has no recourse against any law or action, by definition.
You know in games like Call of Cthulu, or more germane, games like Delta Green or Cthulutech, where doing research into 'extra dimensional science' or whatever other terms they use to describe the eldritch magics and alien geometries, drives the researchers insane?
I still chuckle when I read the old Clancy books mentioning the super secret NavStar system, for targeting sub launched nukes to a cep of 164 feet, and reflecting that, nowadays, I use it so I don't have to tell my weather app my postal code just to get my local weather.
Can you enumerate the differences? The XBOne version allowed you to designate friends/family who could play your games, with the option for them to go ahead and buy. I don't see any difference with the Steam version.
An exercise bike with the generator dynamos to produce electricity, a television tuned to a Here Comes Honey Boo Boo marathon, and a volt meter that turns the television on if the output from the bike drops below a certain level.
Do either of those two projects you mentioned materially help the sick child, right now? In five years? Ten? When will they bear tangible fruits for the impoverished?
It's awfully easy to build a bang stick with parts you can get at home depot (and a shotgun shell, but I guess we're talking America, so that's easy enough to get at Wal-Mart.)
FFVII on the PC, back in the day, looked great, because there were so few textures. It was all shaded polygons, so when you bumped up the resolution, you just got sharper polygons and more shading. Barrett's tattoo looked horrible, as it was a texture, and was just upscaled.
FFVIII for the PC, however, was all textures, and didn't take the resolution bump quite as well.
So you target STANDARDS. OGL/OGLES is a universal standard, even Apple supports it.
So, not only do you mention two separate implementations, but you handily leave out the various extensions that are required for various cards to do the same thing.
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They refuse to privilege, in any way, expertise, so why should they engage in demotion of non-expertise?
Except that it's not, as part of the standard is that you register with the USB-IF, are assigned a VID, and so on.
I don't know if 'a rocket fueled with 12 tonnes of liquid oxygen and alcohol' qualifies as 'high explosive' either, but the time to be asking about regulatory and legal issues is LONG past.
And if by 'suddenly,' you mean 'since 1967.'
How about '8.1 just totally broke explorer?' Cookies don't work properly (i.e. log in on main page, go to sub page, and hey, you're not logged in!) the 'open/save' dialogue just kinda ignores button presses, download links aren't resolved through (instead of asking if you'd like to open or save foo.zip, it asks if you'd like to open or save download.php?fileid=1345 and then ignores your button presses).
Resetting doesn't help. Removing/adding from windows features doesn't help. Can't reinstall, as it's baked in. Firefox works fine.
Ok, but you haven't refuted my statement.
Governance of the people by themselves is better, for the people, than governance of the people by a select few, with no input from the people.
Ok, let me state more broadly. Governance by the people is better than pretty much anything else; governance by force, by divine mandate, by claim to lineage, by possession of the Mighty Axe of Rulership.
Governance of 'cuz I said so' is bad.
Not sure why you'd ask what is meant by 'theocracy, specifically.' It's not really a term that's up to debate.
Theocracy: A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
By definition, this is a bad idea. The citizen has no recourse to any unjust action or edict; it's in God's name. Even should the ruling class later decide an action or edict is, in fact, unjust, the same issues apply in reversing it; was God wrong previously, or now? Or is it the priests that are wrong? If so, how can they continue to claim divine mandate?
You talk about 'formative unterpinnings' and what not; those don't matter all that much, if at all. Who cares if, say, the American government was founded by Deists, Christians, Muslims, Pastafarians, or UFOlogists? At the end of the day, the religious beliefs of one of the authors of the Constitution don't impact the ability of the populace to elect leaders, recall leaders, and so on.
You're arguing that theocracies aren't inherently a bad idea?
Ok. Look at it from this angle. In a theocracy, power is derived from some form of divine mandate, interpreted by the priestly class. The citizen has no recourse against any law or action, by definition.
You know in games like Call of Cthulu, or more germane, games like Delta Green or Cthulutech, where doing research into 'extra dimensional science' or whatever other terms they use to describe the eldritch magics and alien geometries, drives the researchers insane?
That's what quantum physics is like.
I personally subscribe to the theory that sociopathy is a requirement to run a large company.
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I still chuckle when I read the old Clancy books mentioning the super secret NavStar system, for targeting sub launched nukes to a cep of 164 feet, and reflecting that, nowadays, I use it so I don't have to tell my weather app my postal code just to get my local weather.
Think Windows NT secure login prompt.
I guess I wasn't a bad enough dude to save the President.
I think I'll go read Game Over (Press Start to Continue) again.
Can you enumerate the differences? The XBOne version allowed you to designate friends/family who could play your games, with the option for them to go ahead and buy. I don't see any difference with the Steam version.
So, it's exactly like the XBOne feature that the Internet howled SO derisively at, that Microsoft dropped it, despite it being a fantastic idea?
Oh, wait, you can't spell Valve with a dollar sign. I don't know, could we start calling it $team?
An exercise bike with the generator dynamos to produce electricity, a television tuned to a Here Comes Honey Boo Boo marathon, and a volt meter that turns the television on if the output from the bike drops below a certain level.
Do either of those two projects you mentioned materially help the sick child, right now? In five years? Ten? When will they bear tangible fruits for the impoverished?
It's awfully easy to build a bang stick with parts you can get at home depot (and a shotgun shell, but I guess we're talking America, so that's easy enough to get at Wal-Mart.)
FFVII on the PC, back in the day, looked great, because there were so few textures. It was all shaded polygons, so when you bumped up the resolution, you just got sharper polygons and more shading. Barrett's tattoo looked horrible, as it was a texture, and was just upscaled.
FFVIII for the PC, however, was all textures, and didn't take the resolution bump quite as well.
Hah. I never thought about it that way, but you're right; the Wii U should have been called the WiiDS.
So, not only do you mention two separate implementations, but you handily leave out the various extensions that are required for various cards to do the same thing.
Came to say this. Left satisfied.
This is a Warhammer 40K comment waiting to happen. Blah blah appease the machine spirits blah blah.