Who needs electricity, just use good ol' mechanical force and launch them across the freeway, some may prefer to throw them, use a bat or even make an elaborate catapult (frogapult?) I find a tennis racquet works quite well.
It's not like I hate FPS's (it's pretty much all my friends play) it's just that I have been military trained to do a lot of the stuff for real and just do not care for the re-spawning, weapons positions limitations and health regeneration. I did really enjoy the New Medal of Honor Zombie mod.
My friends suggested that I would probably prefer deathmatch w/ friendly fire vs. CTF (softcore) that most people seem to play. Generally, I enjoy the Empire Earth style RTS games (where decisions per minute/hotkeys make a winner) vs. FPS (fast twitch, mouse/joystick control.) Anymore, I have difficulty finding anyone who wants to LAN up a good RTS. It also makes a big difference to me about team coordination vs. run and gun, I recently played 4 player same screen co/op COD (Xbox) at a buddies place vs. max bots on hardest lvl and we had a blast. Although, I am primarily a PC gamer.
I played FO 1 & 2 as they came out and loved them, being more of a RTS/TBS and overhead RPG gamer. I am not as big a fan of the FPS games, I was quite disappointed by the ads and reviews I could find about FO 3 and so far have avoided it.
I am hoping they do not screw up Diablo 3, I have already read that they are making changes to item sets, attributes and the skill web. Seems like a bad idea to me, those were some of the best features created in Diablo 2.
I would have suggested: "Thousands of Dead Blackbirds Fall From Sky."
I see no good reason for the adjective to follow the indirect object vs. prefixing the direct object, such as the other adjective in the statement (quantity.)
Or you could do a Yoda: "From Sky Fall Blackbirds, Thousands Dead There Are"
Exactly my point, Prior to my stint in the Navy as an electronics tech, I worked in quite a few factories (joined the Navy at 26), being a Detroiter it was easy work to get.
From what I have read and seen the extra production capacity is also used as leverage to break labor unions, the prime example being Caterpillar, where they opened factories in other counties that have 150% production capacity compared to previous plants. It only takes 2 of them for them to be able to close down a union plant and they then open a new one just miles away and hire on all the same people but without organized labor by bringing them all in as temps with individual contracts.
I saw it happen a few years back to a TRW plant my mother worked shipping/receiving at. Closed the plant, laid everyone off, reopened one 5 miles away, anyone that migrated had to reapply for the same jobs at the new plant. All their floor staff are temps. from a contract house. So instead of having to join a union for a job, you have to work for a personnel contract house used exclusively by the manufacturer for their labor needs.
but God said we should subsidize (random company name with no sense of consumer loyalty) so they can increase their bottomline.
For too long only people could create value, automation will eventually fix that. When that happens only those who can afford to own automation will have a affluent lifestyle. Everyone else will be left in the dust, I guess the rest of us will have to squeak by just creating content or fixing their machines.
Same here, I spent late '98 to late '99 traveling site by site auditing IT equipment and running a Y2K fix program wherever needed. Primarily Bell-South both their business side (in the cube farms) and at their switching and data storage stations.
Exactly, they are an organization designed to make a profit and we are individuals intending to increase our quality of life. They do not give a damn about our quality of life and we (as least I) don't give a damn about their profit margin. So such arguments are moot.
I care about price fixing, corporate collusion and those not providing the service they sold as such things affect our quality of life.
There are lots of factors other than infant mortality that have improved over that time: safer working conditions, access to health care, even refrigeration (an astonishing number of people died of food poisoning in the "the good old days" speaking of "crap we try to kill ourselves with").
I would also suggest that having less children will ensure that each child has a greater chance of surviving into adulthood as each child can receive more care from their parents and surrounding support group, I would say it would compare to education levels and the teacher/student ratio.
Additionally, I think that the increase in the average human life span over the centuries is more directly coupled with the removal of long term harmful components in our lives verses medical treatment. For example, lead-based face powder or the Romans use of "Sugar of Lead" where they would put vinegar in a lead pot and drink it.
Reminds me of the time a Senator visited my ship. The day before I was tasked to paint a bathroom. The bathroom had been painted a few months earlier and there was nothing wrong with it. The plan was: if the Senator needed to use the head they would lead him to a particular bathroom and the one I painted was the backup in case the one they led him to was broken.
I really doubt the average life expectancy in any of the locations is zero, if it was then it would not be represented. Chances are none of the average life expectancies were less than 25, so in that case you can use that as a base line.
The whole point is to show the relationships between the points over time and not their relationship to a zero line.
Personally, I attribute much of this to quality of life when a person reaches an advanced or non-producing age.
People who are affluent are reassured by their wealth that they are going to be able to use their wealth to maintain their post-productive quality of life, where those who live a more fiscally poorer/agrarian lifestyle need to have more children in order to assure that enough will survive or stick around in order to care for them in their advanced age.
Don't take this as a personal idea that the elderly are not productive or useful members of society, they are just like mothers, teachers, military members, police and certain other professions; they are generally not rewarded by society financially in a manner that is comparable to the service to society that they provide.
Classic logic problem: invalidating part of the sentence invalidates all of it. Once the wrong people know it, it's pointless to keep the knowledge from people who would not use it to harm the United States.
I agree, it is a flaw in the methodology. As I posted above, I just see this as the USAF being pedantic.
It is a matter of lack of control of those decision makers who control/regulate who is allowed to know some piece of information. I have a copy of "Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry" which outline all the "secret" practices of the Freemasons. I'm sure the Masons would love to remove this book from being published or sold, but there is not a damn thing they can do about it. Any pretension on their part that the information included in it is still a secret is just an example of an organization being self-deluded. The same goes for the USAF.
The methodology is flawed. A secret everybody knows becomes common knowledge and is therefore not a secret. It does not even have the pretension of being a secret everybody knows but does not discuss because everyone thinks that it is still a secret and wants to keep it secret from others. The wikileak is known by everyone to be known by everyone so the point of hiding it anymore becomes moot.
Personally, I just see this as the USAF being pedantic.
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Who needs electricity, just use good ol' mechanical force and launch them across the freeway, some may prefer to throw them, use a bat or even make an elaborate catapult (frogapult?) I find a tennis racquet works quite well.
Interesting graph, I wonder where "Army of Darkness" would place on it compared to "Evil Dead" and "Evil Dead II."
I looked for it and didn't see it, but I assume that it would not be there as it is a triquel and a "B' movie.
Then bearded Fonzie can jump the anti-sharks with lasers.
How about something useful like: cubits per epoch, spans per generation or paces per age.
Does the pope shit in the woods?
Thanks for the info, I will definitely try FO:NV.
It's not like I hate FPS's (it's pretty much all my friends play) it's just that I have been military trained to do a lot of the stuff for real and just do not care for the re-spawning, weapons positions limitations and health regeneration. I did really enjoy the New Medal of Honor Zombie mod.
My friends suggested that I would probably prefer deathmatch w/ friendly fire vs. CTF (softcore) that most people seem to play. Generally, I enjoy the Empire Earth style RTS games (where decisions per minute/hotkeys make a winner) vs. FPS (fast twitch, mouse/joystick control.) Anymore, I have difficulty finding anyone who wants to LAN up a good RTS. It also makes a big difference to me about team coordination vs. run and gun, I recently played 4 player same screen co/op COD (Xbox) at a buddies place vs. max bots on hardest lvl and we had a blast. Although, I am primarily a PC gamer.
I played FO 1 & 2 as they came out and loved them, being more of a RTS/TBS and overhead RPG gamer. I am not as big a fan of the FPS games, I was quite disappointed by the ads and reviews I could find about FO 3 and so far have avoided it.
I am hoping they do not screw up Diablo 3, I have already read that they are making changes to item sets, attributes and the skill web. Seems like a bad idea to me, those were some of the best features created in Diablo 2.
I would have suggested: "Thousands of Dead Blackbirds Fall From Sky."
I see no good reason for the adjective to follow the indirect object vs. prefixing the direct object, such as the other adjective in the statement (quantity.)
Or you could do a Yoda: "From Sky Fall Blackbirds, Thousands Dead There Are"
So, they finally automated blowing smoke up peoples asses. Think of all the labor costs saved by not having to employ an army of smokers with straws.
Exactly my point, Prior to my stint in the Navy as an electronics tech, I worked in quite a few factories (joined the Navy at 26), being a Detroiter it was easy work to get.
From what I have read and seen the extra production capacity is also used as leverage to break labor unions, the prime example being Caterpillar, where they opened factories in other counties that have 150% production capacity compared to previous plants. It only takes 2 of them for them to be able to close down a union plant and they then open a new one just miles away and hire on all the same people but without organized labor by bringing them all in as temps with individual contracts.
I saw it happen a few years back to a TRW plant my mother worked shipping/receiving at. Closed the plant, laid everyone off, reopened one 5 miles away, anyone that migrated had to reapply for the same jobs at the new plant. All their floor staff are temps. from a contract house. So instead of having to join a union for a job, you have to work for a personnel contract house used exclusively by the manufacturer for their labor needs.
but God said we should subsidize (random company name with no sense of consumer loyalty) so they can increase their bottomline.
For too long only people could create value, automation will eventually fix that. When that happens only those who can afford to own automation will have a affluent lifestyle. Everyone else will be left in the dust, I guess the rest of us will have to squeak by just creating content or fixing their machines.
Republicans = corporations
I would amend it to:
Republicans = corporations + mainstream religion
Democrats = a bunch of disorganized do-gooders that each have their own concept of what is "just" and try to shove it down your throat
Libertarians = every person is king/queen of their castle/bailiwick (it's OK if corporations are considered a "person" in this context)
personally I think more people are interested in politics (their local sports team is "their" team) vs. appropriate governance.
Same here, I spent late '98 to late '99 traveling site by site auditing IT equipment and running a Y2K fix program wherever needed. Primarily Bell-South both their business side (in the cube farms) and at their switching and data storage stations.
Exactly, they are an organization designed to make a profit and we are individuals intending to increase our quality of life. They do not give a damn about our quality of life and we (as least I) don't give a damn about their profit margin. So such arguments are moot.
I care about price fixing, corporate collusion and those not providing the service they sold as such things affect our quality of life.
Like this: Windows Help Search, but on the internets.
All you need is an aether anchor, drop that sucker in space and watch the cosmos fly by!
There are lots of factors other than infant mortality that have improved over that time: safer working conditions, access to health care, even refrigeration (an astonishing number of people died of food poisoning in the "the good old days" speaking of "crap we try to kill ourselves with").
I would also suggest that having less children will ensure that each child has a greater chance of surviving into adulthood as each child can receive more care from their parents and surrounding support group, I would say it would compare to education levels and the teacher/student ratio.
Additionally, I think that the increase in the average human life span over the centuries is more directly coupled with the removal of long term harmful components in our lives verses medical treatment. For example, lead-based face powder or the Romans use of "Sugar of Lead" where they would put vinegar in a lead pot and drink it.
Lead Acetate
You have a point there.
Reminds me of the time a Senator visited my ship. The day before I was tasked to paint a bathroom. The bathroom had been painted a few months earlier and there was nothing wrong with it. The plan was: if the Senator needed to use the head they would lead him to a particular bathroom and the one I painted was the backup in case the one they led him to was broken.
It sucked living on a flagship.
What would be the point?
I really doubt the average life expectancy in any of the locations is zero, if it was then it would not be represented. Chances are none of the average life expectancies were less than 25, so in that case you can use that as a base line.
The whole point is to show the relationships between the points over time and not their relationship to a zero line.
Personally, I attribute much of this to quality of life when a person reaches an advanced or non-producing age.
People who are affluent are reassured by their wealth that they are going to be able to use their wealth to maintain their post-productive quality of life, where those who live a more fiscally poorer/agrarian lifestyle need to have more children in order to assure that enough will survive or stick around in order to care for them in their advanced age.
Don't take this as a personal idea that the elderly are not productive or useful members of society, they are just like mothers, teachers, military members, police and certain other professions; they are generally not rewarded by society financially in a manner that is comparable to the service to society that they provide.
Better yet:
Turnabout is fair play offer to:
fondle those who fondle you
it's the least that you can do.
Classic logic problem: invalidating part of the sentence invalidates all of it. Once the wrong people know it, it's pointless to keep the knowledge from people who would not use it to harm the United States.
I agree, it is a flaw in the methodology. As I posted above, I just see this as the USAF being pedantic.
It is a matter of lack of control of those decision makers who control/regulate who is allowed to know some piece of information. I have a copy of "Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry" which outline all the "secret" practices of the Freemasons. I'm sure the Masons would love to remove this book from being published or sold, but there is not a damn thing they can do about it. Any pretension on their part that the information included in it is still a secret is just an example of an organization being self-deluded. The same goes for the USAF.
I am ex-military and held a secret clearance.
The methodology is flawed. A secret everybody knows becomes common knowledge and is therefore not a secret. It does not even have the pretension of being a secret everybody knows but does not discuss because everyone thinks that it is still a secret and wants to keep it secret from others. The wikileak is known by everyone to be known by everyone so the point of hiding it anymore becomes moot.
Personally, I just see this as the USAF being pedantic.
Yeah, the old "I'm not responsible for my actions because I was drunk." defense.
In Soviet Russia, jokes poop you.