Bullshit. Europe, Japan and USA are some of the most heavily populated areas on the planet, and yet they manage to feed their populations. As far as I remember, both the EU and the US export foodstuffs. The reason is a highly industrialized agricultural sector. The same countries have some of the longest life expectancies. This is due to access to clean water, ample food, warm homes and medicine. Exactly the things that the sanctions on Iraq removed from the Iraqi population. Saddam Hussein was rich, so he could pay to get whatever he needed smuggled into the country. The Iraqi masses could not, so they were dependent on the Iraqi state for whatever little they could get.
Adding to this, I would also suggest to ensure that your mouse elbow is at rest on your desk. It really helps keeping the arm relaxed when working with the mouse.
Someone will still need to work the factories needed to construct the turrets and make the ammo. Someone will still need to go to work day in and day out to make the food, clothes, walls etc for the very rich. I would be surprised if that someone had stopped being human at the end of this century. And here I have even glossed over one important point: The base of wealth of the 1% is the work and spending of the 99%.
Try looking into the Boxer Rebellion. Then take a look at Falun Gong. See the resemblence? Get why the Chinese government is proactively cracking down on Falun Gong before Falun Gong get into a position where they can stage a rebellion?
my favourite part is how they are intentionally trying to piss-off/harass criminals
Not really: Hardened criminals are unlikely to care if there is a mug shot of them on some site. The people that are going to suffer for this are the people who:
the idea that there is insufficient land is bogus as long as we are paying farmers to not grow things.
You might be able to use it now, but that might make it completely unusable in future. Land needs to recover, they'd worked that out in the middle ages.
... which is why modern farming use fertilizers;-) Oil is a key ingredient in making fertilizers, so if we ever should burn out our oil supply, we better find an alternative, though. Mulching is not enough.
Graphics are already "realistic enough" for most people, and trying to move things closer to photorealistic gameplay is probably not worth it, since the return they get is minimal, while the effort required is exorbitant. Instead, spending it on improved gameplay or other elements is a better return on their investment.
Indeed. Let the movies go for photo realism. When the tech gets cheaper and more mature, it can be used in games. Meanwhile, I look forward to an increased focus on gameplay and storytelling. Who would have thought that consoles would bring about such advancements... ?
Whenever the focus of an activity is changed, an event is called that can be used by the application to change its behavior. If an application use multiple activities, all you have to do is to keep track of which of the activities of the application have focus, and set the behavior of the application correspondingly. For a lot of applications this is enough to play nice, and there is no explicit need to get access to call state.
Putatively for storage of application data, settings etc.
There are other options for storing application settings and data that does not require access to SD cards. Internal Storage is one. Unless the app needs to save a lot of data, there is no reason to require access to the SD card.
But they actually have to say that they use those features. This allows a user to make a much more informed choice of installation than I get on my Windows 7 computer. If an app needs access to something, I do not think that it should, I just pass it up. So single player game + internet access = no-no.
Did you look at the date of the press release? February 24th 2011. It is more than a month ago, and so far very little has been in the Danish media on the subject. Something is indeed rotten...
Then tell me: How is it that the population of Western Europe has been fairly stable for the last many decades? We have insane amounts of food available to us, and yet women do not even give birth to the 2.1 children needed to reproduce the current population. The only reason that the population in Western Europe is not falling is migration.
Perjury probably. One of the things you're asked to swear to when you get married is that you're not married to anyone else.
Not being a US resident, nor being married, I cannot help asking if the oath in question does not depend on the ritual itself? That is, not all rituals have an explicit question of other marriages. Or is it a part of the mandatory paperwork?
I thought it was already settled that the Atlantis of Plato was on the Moon. I mean, we have been searching everywhere on Earth, so the next logical step is the Moon... or Mars, maybe.
The article is on honour killings, not on requirements of women having to be accompanied by men, which is the topic of this discussion. To recap (for newcomers), mr100percent noted that the vast majority of Muslim countries neither condone nor practice that women must be accompanied by a man when leaving their homes, noting that "Muslims worldwide" condemn Saudi Arabia on that practice. Icebike replied that that is nonsense because women in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan has to live under this rule. I replied to icebike that you can't look at a small, remote group and generalize their actions to a much larger group (living under much more modern conditions). Icebike did not agree, but did not argue for that position. Instead, icebike used a common retorical trick, and tried to change the topic into honour killings, which all of us find horribly wrong.
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Bullshit. Europe, Japan and USA are some of the most heavily populated areas on the planet, and yet they manage to feed their populations. As far as I remember, both the EU and the US export foodstuffs. The reason is a highly industrialized agricultural sector. The same countries have some of the longest life expectancies. This is due to access to clean water, ample food, warm homes and medicine. Exactly the things that the sanctions on Iraq removed from the Iraqi population. Saddam Hussein was rich, so he could pay to get whatever he needed smuggled into the country. The Iraqi masses could not, so they were dependent on the Iraqi state for whatever little they could get.
Not my language, dude ;-)
In Greek Opa is similar to Spanish Olé.
Adding to this, I would also suggest to ensure that your mouse elbow is at rest on your desk. It really helps keeping the arm relaxed when working with the mouse.
Someone will still need to work the factories needed to construct the turrets and make the ammo. Someone will still need to go to work day in and day out to make the food, clothes, walls etc for the very rich. I would be surprised if that someone had stopped being human at the end of this century. And here I have even glossed over one important point: The base of wealth of the 1% is the work and spending of the 99%.
Send them a download link to a free ODF 1.2 compliant office application?
or even better ... drowssap!
Some time back, I visited a site that censored "naughty" words inside other words. So, multithread became mul***hread ...
Closest and very cold (for a star).
It does not matter what I belive. What matters is what the Chinese government belives.
Try looking into the Boxer Rebellion. Then take a look at Falun Gong. See the resemblence? Get why the Chinese government is proactively cracking down on Falun Gong before Falun Gong get into a position where they can stage a rebellion?
And don't forget to invert the polerization!
my favourite part is how they are intentionally trying to piss-off/harass criminals
Not really: Hardened criminals are unlikely to care if there is a mug shot of them on some site. The people that are going to suffer for this are the people who:
You might be able to use it now, but that might make it completely unusable in future. Land needs to recover, they'd worked that out in the middle ages.
... which is why modern farming use fertilizers ;-) Oil is a key ingredient in making fertilizers, so if we ever should burn out our oil supply, we better find an alternative, though. Mulching is not enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2IxHZ9GV5A
Graphics are already "realistic enough" for most people, and trying to move things closer to photorealistic gameplay is probably not worth it, since the return they get is minimal, while the effort required is exorbitant. Instead, spending it on improved gameplay or other elements is a better return on their investment.
Indeed. Let the movies go for photo realism. When the tech gets cheaper and more mature, it can be used in games. Meanwhile, I look forward to an increased focus on gameplay and storytelling. Who would have thought that consoles would bring about such advancements ... ?
Whenever the focus of an activity is changed, an event is called that can be used by the application to change its behavior. If an application use multiple activities, all you have to do is to keep track of which of the activities of the application have focus, and set the behavior of the application correspondingly. For a lot of applications this is enough to play nice, and there is no explicit need to get access to call state.
- Your SD card
Putatively for storage of application data, settings etc.
There are other options for storing application settings and data that does not require access to SD cards. Internal Storage is one. Unless the app needs to save a lot of data, there is no reason to require access to the SD card.
But they actually have to say that they use those features. This allows a user to make a much more informed choice of installation than I get on my Windows 7 computer. If an app needs access to something, I do not think that it should, I just pass it up. So single player game + internet access = no-no.
What do you mean "Double plus good" is not copyrighted?!
Did you look at the date of the press release? February 24th 2011. It is more than a month ago, and so far very little has been in the Danish media on the subject. Something is indeed rotten ...
Then tell me: How is it that the population of Western Europe has been fairly stable for the last many decades? We have insane amounts of food available to us, and yet women do not even give birth to the 2.1 children needed to reproduce the current population. The only reason that the population in Western Europe is not falling is migration.
Perjury probably. One of the things you're asked to swear to when you get married is that you're not married to anyone else.
Not being a US resident, nor being married, I cannot help asking if the oath in question does not depend on the ritual itself? That is, not all rituals have an explicit question of other marriages. Or is it a part of the mandatory paperwork?
I thought it was already settled that the Atlantis of Plato was on the Moon. I mean, we have been searching everywhere on Earth, so the next logical step is the Moon ... or Mars, maybe.
The article is on honour killings, not on requirements of women having to be accompanied by men, which is the topic of this discussion. To recap (for newcomers), mr100percent noted that the vast majority of Muslim countries neither condone nor practice that women must be accompanied by a man when leaving their homes, noting that "Muslims worldwide" condemn Saudi Arabia on that practice. Icebike replied that that is nonsense because women in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan has to live under this rule. I replied to icebike that you can't look at a small, remote group and generalize their actions to a much larger group (living under much more modern conditions). Icebike did not agree, but did not argue for that position. Instead, icebike used a common retorical trick, and tried to change the topic into honour killings, which all of us find horribly wrong.