Also look how a lot of old fiction doesn't. If you were to sit down and write a thousand scientific predictions then I bet you'd get a few right. If you wrote them down cryptically and did a few parlor tricks while alive then people would eventually decide that you got more than a few right.
So that whole, search your feelings nonsense is... nonsense?
How'd the emperor know that Luke was Vader's son? Are they the only ones with the last name, "Skywalker"? If so then it was pretty stupid of Obiwan to "hide" Luke that way.
If you disagree with someones race, religion, sexual orientation or gender, you are a bigot. Disagreeing with an unproven theory is not being a bigot. It's called "peer review".
You are only a bigot if you are intolerant, not if you disagree. I can disagree with modern Christianity all I want and not be a bigot. When I become unwilling to listen to differing opinions, then I'd be a bigot.
Wow, sleep through a lot of sociology classes or what? That summarization is overly simplistic, but I guess par for the course for Star Wars.
Their differences appeared to be totally social. There are clearly genetic differences as well.
It stands to reason that there would be a demarcation of the resources that they consumed. I urge you to consider the fishing and whaling industries. Even intelligent species we do not directly harvest are affected (e.g. dolphins).
The Naboo didn't trust the Gungans because they kept a standing army. What do the Naboo care if there is a demarcation of resources and, apparently, communication?
And the Gungans thought the Naboo thought themselves superior. That's just what the king Gungan said, one man accurately speaks for an entire society? If so then the Naboo would be right to think themselves superior.
What I find extremely odd is that the Gungans breathed atmosphere, yet lived underwater in a seemingly unnatural (i.e. gungan-made) underwater city. Are they just the evolution of a penal colony?
It's got like a hundred pages, and I have to read them all!
And analyze the critical themes and motifs in said work and produce a 25 page critical essay discussing their past and present, actual and intended social perception. Did the author intend this work as a critical allegory of social life, as it was widely interpreted? Has the work been re-interpreted in the present day, what social changes have occured to bring this change about, if any? (Note, an assignment this specific would only be in a lower level undergraduate course. In the higher levels you'd be expected to come up with your own method of analysis.)
Give a brief ten page outline of the political ramifications to Chinese history if Zhu De had not met Zhou Enlai.
Prior to 1945, which Chinese political group deserved the Mandate of Heaven?
Analyze "The Black Cottage" by Robert Frost. Twenty pages.
Draw a lighting schematic and cue designs for the upcoming stage production of "Noises Off".
Belittling a field of study is silly. Unless you are making fun of mathematicians: "It's trivial, trivial!"
Yes it bothers me when my doctor does it too, and anyone else for that matter except for people that I already know and like. Body motion and conversation tricks are not enough.
That only works on a subset of people that aren't already watching what you are doing. While this kind of stuff does work, more often than not it doesn't.
I really hate it when someone tries to sell me something using these techniques. Especially bad with realtors and mortgage officers. Though the most despicable selling techniques I've run into were used by engagement ring salespeople.
I've made the switch to Mac work and console games. It was suprisingly easy. I still use the Mac for some games like Railroad Tycoon 3. But the XBox and Gamecube haven't left me wanting for much, especially in the graphics department--check out Ninja Gaiden and Splinter Cell 3!
But I haven't been much of an FPS gamer since Quake 3 and Half-Life. I don't even have Halo 1 or 2. I might pick up HL2 for the XBox 360 because I've heard so many good things, but that will be out of the bargin bin.
Kingdom Under Fire, Burnout 3, Splinter Cell, Resident Evil 4 (oh, I guess that's kind of an FPS), Jade Empire, etc.
Try playing an RTS like Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders on a PC. Lead your unit from the battlefield itself. Works like an RTS until you get swept up into the battle and then as an action game.
3D map manipulation just doesn't work well on the PC. Instead of two joysticks you go to one mouse; kinda hard to do stuff like pan+rotate quickly in the heat of battle.
Why? What's the difference between upgrading a PC or upgrading to a new console? Each is $150-$300 bucks depending on where you want to be in the technology curve.
Or, do you need to be the one with just a little more power (more memory, more disk space, etc) than your friends?
The consoles do a great job of leveling the playing field.
They had a copy of your debit card number. If you shop with your debit card, then your number is already strung around a million and one databases: including Target and Wal-Mart. At every retail store I've ever worked at, the transaction system kept copies of all the credit card numbers (including debit cards of course) tied to each transaction.
Have you ever returned something to Target and gotten the price credited back to your card without even swiping it? That's how that works.
One store I worked at a couple years ago kept CC numbers tied to the unrestricted transaction database. Any employee could look up transactions and search them for various criteria (i.e. all transactions that day, within a few minutes, for such and such an amount, etc.) and all info would display including CC#, your name, your address (if on file), etc. Were I unscrupulous I could have done some real scamming.
Don't be too worried about that one store though. There are many other easy ways to snag your CC number as a retail employee that have nothing to do with unsecured databases.
So either pay in cash, or just keep an eye on your accounts and credit (which you should do anyway!).
Because its silly to force app developers to comply to an arbitrary rule. And the OS should handle the spaces in directory names, not each application.
"Ha ha, our filesystem is broken; but you have to fix it yourselves because we're forcing you to!"
If you had truly read The Zombie Survival Guide then you'd know that any zombie seen on screen is an example of the "hollywood zombie" and thus unreliable for critical survival analysis.
Also, movement during an outbreak from an urban to a rural area depends on the situation. If you are in an urban area and are unaware of a growing outbreak until it hits then news, then it is probably too late to safely evacuate the area. Your best bet would be to hope that the outbreak is still containable by authorities and that such containment does not include razing the city.
Almost every route out of a city involves moving past significant choke points and biomass. Both of which add up to a zombie party. To truly prepare: plan an unorthodox escape route now and make routine tests of its effectiveness. Or simply move to a rural or semi-rural area now, while its still safe.
If you are in a semi-rural area then you still have movement options once an outbreak occurs. Obviously roadways are suspect (thus motorcycles are an awful choice for their use of roads, gas, and noise generation), but you can generally use land routes (where a mountain bike could possibly be handy) and choke points are eliminated.
If you are in a very rural area then you have to assume that you will be on your own if an outbreak occurs. You will be out of the eye of authorities until the outbreak is contained, and that may mean that you will have to deal with zombies on your own should they wander into your vicinity. DON'T kill them out of hand, it would be best if they believe that your home is abandoned. If you are detected then kill them quickly but more importantly silently. Where there is one zombie there can be many, and noise attracts them.
Now read The Zombie Survival Guide for full preparation. If you are on thefacebook.com join the Anti-Zombie League and watch the news for suspicious reports that may indicate an initial outbreak. E.G. stories about strange murders where one family member kills the rest and is then killed by police; murders involving decapitation or severe head trauma (often the ones that stop an outbreak are then indicted for their trouble); etc.
Of course I use iPhoto 5. I buy every iLife suite they day its release (iWork is totally awesome too). But nothing beats searching by keyword through spotlight, you don't even have to launch iPhoto. It's perfect for deomonstrating spotlight and os x to the uninitiated.
Numbers: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, some of 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, and 18 are all well answered by the Splinter Cell series, especially SC3 (the squad tactics used against the player in SC3 are scary. I remember one mission where two enemy combatants alternatively laid down suppressing fire while the third came up and flanked me). It seems like this guy has been doing too much lame gaming on the PS2 and older PC games.
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Also look how a lot of old fiction doesn't. If you were to sit down and write a thousand scientific predictions then I bet you'd get a few right. If you wrote them down cryptically and did a few parlor tricks while alive then people would eventually decide that you got more than a few right.
We are clever, clever animals. Always have been, always will be.
If we had to pick one Olympian god to be our accurate representation as a species, then it would be Hermes.
So that whole, search your feelings nonsense is ... nonsense?
How'd the emperor know that Luke was Vader's son? Are they the only ones with the last name, "Skywalker"? If so then it was pretty stupid of Obiwan to "hide" Luke that way.
Wow, way to rebuke the most minor of his criticisms. Care to address any of the others?
If you disagree with someones race, religion, sexual orientation or gender, you are a bigot. Disagreeing with an unproven theory is not being a bigot. It's called "peer review".
You are only a bigot if you are intolerant, not if you disagree. I can disagree with modern Christianity all I want and not be a bigot. When I become unwilling to listen to differing opinions, then I'd be a bigot.
Wow, sleep through a lot of sociology classes or what? That summarization is overly simplistic, but I guess par for the course for Star Wars.
Their differences appeared to be totally social. There are clearly genetic differences as well.
It stands to reason that there would be a demarcation of the resources that they consumed. I urge you to consider the fishing and whaling industries. Even intelligent species we do not directly harvest are affected (e.g. dolphins).
The Naboo didn't trust the Gungans because they kept a standing army. What do the Naboo care if there is a demarcation of resources and, apparently, communication?
And the Gungans thought the Naboo thought themselves superior. That's just what the king Gungan said, one man accurately speaks for an entire society? If so then the Naboo would be right to think themselves superior.
Just like Whales and Humans?
What I find extremely odd is that the Gungans breathed atmosphere, yet lived underwater in a seemingly unnatural (i.e. gungan-made) underwater city. Are they just the evolution of a penal colony?
It's got like a hundred pages, and I have to read them all!
And analyze the critical themes and motifs in said work and produce a 25 page critical essay discussing their past and present, actual and intended social perception. Did the author intend this work as a critical allegory of social life, as it was widely interpreted? Has the work been re-interpreted in the present day, what social changes have occured to bring this change about, if any? (Note, an assignment this specific would only be in a lower level undergraduate course. In the higher levels you'd be expected to come up with your own method of analysis.)
Give a brief ten page outline of the political ramifications to Chinese history if Zhu De had not met Zhou Enlai.
Prior to 1945, which Chinese political group deserved the Mandate of Heaven?
Analyze "The Black Cottage" by Robert Frost. Twenty pages.
Draw a lighting schematic and cue designs for the upcoming stage production of "Noises Off".
Belittling a field of study is silly. Unless you are making fun of mathematicians: "It's trivial, trivial!"
And Christianity and Islam are more similar to each other than Christianity and Judaism.
Most people don't want to acknowledge that Muslims belive in all of the "Christian" prophets. They just have more.
Yes it bothers me when my doctor does it too, and anyone else for that matter except for people that I already know and like. Body motion and conversation tricks are not enough.
That only works on a subset of people that aren't already watching what you are doing. While this kind of stuff does work, more often than not it doesn't.
I really hate it when someone tries to sell me something using these techniques. Especially bad with realtors and mortgage officers. Though the most despicable selling techniques I've run into were used by engagement ring salespeople.
I've made the switch to Mac work and console games. It was suprisingly easy. I still use the Mac for some games like Railroad Tycoon 3. But the XBox and Gamecube haven't left me wanting for much, especially in the graphics department--check out Ninja Gaiden and Splinter Cell 3!
But I haven't been much of an FPS gamer since Quake 3 and Half-Life. I don't even have Halo 1 or 2. I might pick up HL2 for the XBox 360 because I've heard so many good things, but that will be out of the bargin bin.
Kingdom Under Fire, Burnout 3, Splinter Cell, Resident Evil 4 (oh, I guess that's kind of an FPS), Jade Empire, etc.
Try playing an RTS like Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders on a PC. Lead your unit from the battlefield itself. Works like an RTS until you get swept up into the battle and then as an action game.
3D map manipulation just doesn't work well on the PC. Instead of two joysticks you go to one mouse; kinda hard to do stuff like pan+rotate quickly in the heat of battle.
Better games, more games, more varied games.
The PC has an edge on FPSs, RTSs, and RPGs. There's a lot more out there.
Why? What's the difference between upgrading a PC or upgrading to a new console? Each is $150-$300 bucks depending on where you want to be in the technology curve.
Or, do you need to be the one with just a little more power (more memory, more disk space, etc) than your friends?
The consoles do a great job of leveling the playing field.
They had a copy of your debit card number. If you shop with your debit card, then your number is already strung around a million and one databases: including Target and Wal-Mart. At every retail store I've ever worked at, the transaction system kept copies of all the credit card numbers (including debit cards of course) tied to each transaction.
Have you ever returned something to Target and gotten the price credited back to your card without even swiping it? That's how that works.
One store I worked at a couple years ago kept CC numbers tied to the unrestricted transaction database. Any employee could look up transactions and search them for various criteria (i.e. all transactions that day, within a few minutes, for such and such an amount, etc.) and all info would display including CC#, your name, your address (if on file), etc. Were I unscrupulous I could have done some real scamming.
Don't be too worried about that one store though. There are many other easy ways to snag your CC number as a retail employee that have nothing to do with unsecured databases.
So either pay in cash, or just keep an eye on your accounts and credit (which you should do anyway!).
Sure it isn't legal, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Because its silly to force app developers to comply to an arbitrary rule. And the OS should handle the spaces in directory names, not each application.
"Ha ha, our filesystem is broken; but you have to fix it yourselves because we're forcing you to!"
If you had truly read The Zombie Survival Guide then you'd know that any zombie seen on screen is an example of the "hollywood zombie" and thus unreliable for critical survival analysis.
Also, movement during an outbreak from an urban to a rural area depends on the situation. If you are in an urban area and are unaware of a growing outbreak until it hits then news, then it is probably too late to safely evacuate the area. Your best bet would be to hope that the outbreak is still containable by authorities and that such containment does not include razing the city.
Almost every route out of a city involves moving past significant choke points and biomass. Both of which add up to a zombie party. To truly prepare: plan an unorthodox escape route now and make routine tests of its effectiveness. Or simply move to a rural or semi-rural area now, while its still safe.
If you are in a semi-rural area then you still have movement options once an outbreak occurs. Obviously roadways are suspect (thus motorcycles are an awful choice for their use of roads, gas, and noise generation), but you can generally use land routes (where a mountain bike could possibly be handy) and choke points are eliminated.
If you are in a very rural area then you have to assume that you will be on your own if an outbreak occurs. You will be out of the eye of authorities until the outbreak is contained, and that may mean that you will have to deal with zombies on your own should they wander into your vicinity. DON'T kill them out of hand, it would be best if they believe that your home is abandoned. If you are detected then kill them quickly but more importantly silently. Where there is one zombie there can be many, and noise attracts them.
Now read The Zombie Survival Guide for full preparation. If you are on thefacebook.com join the Anti-Zombie League and watch the news for suspicious reports that may indicate an initial outbreak. E.G. stories about strange murders where one family member kills the rest and is then killed by police; murders involving decapitation or severe head trauma (often the ones that stop an outbreak are then indicted for their trouble); etc.
That's voodoo zombies, different from infected zombies. If you had read The Zombie Survival Guide then you'd know the difference.
Too much Star Wars, watched he has.
BTW, the Yoda speak got insanely out of hand in EpsI-III.
In ESB Yoda said: "No, there is another." NOT "No, another there is." His phrase reversal was a quirk, not a constant like in EpsI-III.
So you would start the engine and start rolling?
Or was this an automatic and you just had it in "D"?
You don't hear bling bling. Bling bling is.
Of course I use iPhoto 5. I buy every iLife suite they day its release (iWork is totally awesome too). But nothing beats searching by keyword through spotlight, you don't even have to launch iPhoto. It's perfect for deomonstrating spotlight and os x to the uninitiated.
Numbers: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, some of 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, and 18 are all well answered by the Splinter Cell series, especially SC3 (the squad tactics used against the player in SC3 are scary. I remember one mission where two enemy combatants alternatively laid down suppressing fire while the third came up and flanked me). It seems like this guy has been doing too much lame gaming on the PS2 and older PC games.