Oh shut the fuck up. I don't mean to be rude, but that is the highest test of bad leadership. I may have missed the sarcasm, but that is terrible.
Fuck Y'all I'm invading Iraq. Fuck y'all I'm getting houses to the poor. Fuck y'all deficits don't mater. Seems to me that every time a leader decides to say Fuck y'all and then invade Cuba or something, history tends to call them things like "terrible" or "Worst ever."
That would fall under what, which is: forced me to have sex.
I worked as a security guard we learned quickly what key points were in an incident and what Exact phrases used were. The cop must have had better training then us. He knew, he was just made complacent by a technological crutch.
Yeah you are. I don't get people like you, see I was talking about companions and substitution, two basic concepts in economics. I didn't state anything as fact but the theory is sound.
Imagine you have two countries, country A is wealthy and drinks wine, while country B is poor and drinks beer. The Wine costs $30 to get drunk. while the beer 0nly costs $10 to get drunk. Now the poor people start to get a little money and the quality of their beer goes up, because they still can't afford to switch to wine, and soon the quality of beer produced in country B surpass that of beer made in country A. Country B takes this as a sign that they have, in some way, beaten country A. while in fact it is actually proof that they have not.
I was suggesting that, maybe, cellphones are nicer in other countries because in the US we all have laptops and the phone is secondary, which is a valid theory, despite your anti-rational stance that disagreement = wrong.
Sure, but what does that say about the members of the EU then? And all the countries that were states to the USSR several years ago? I think we all should think more in terms of culture. I have a Turkish roommate that comes from the same country as a Turkish professor, one is from Istanbul the other from god knows where, and I would never have guessed they were from the same country.
I was more talking about this "name the country" or "random European fact" game some of the less savory exchange students at my school engaged in to prove their intelligence. I know it's a bad example. Basically that example is from when some Greek jerk challenged me then called me a stupid American for missing Bulgaria, despite his inability to name one, ONE, state on the Great Lakes and his statement that "they don't matter."
No one has called me on the biggest flaw in my statement, which is that most of the countries that border the Black Sea aren't technically in Europe.
I guess you are among those who do not believe that some of these so called 3rd world countries are *slightly* ahead of us especially in what a cellphone can be used for.
You mean like in bombs as the trigger device? I know they do that a lot in some third world countries.
BTW adding more features to a cellphone could actually be a further sign of poverty. In a developed country people buy a PDA and a cell phone, they don't need to save money by getting a super cell. Though they do that now with the Smart phones, which are as good, and available in the US, as any cell phones in the world.
OH MY GOD! That explains why the cops in the background were the same three guys just repeated! And why the interviewing officer wasn't looking at the suspect but a few feet over. That also explains why they were tolerating that annoying officer with the Jamaican accent!
You know, I've recorded 100's of hours of material and I never had that problem. Maybe when peoples lives are on the line they should stick to more proven analog technology and let it be the family that loses their trip to Disneyland to test the waters of the new tech?
Or they could stick to the analog media that is near failure proof. They probably knew how it worked, it just probably didn't. Write error that wasn't detected, minor corruption in the disk, things that can't be planned for. After having lost 2 years worth of photos to two minor technical issues I'm starting to doubt this whole digital thing. A box of analog photos, while harder to share, is a lot less likely to fail then a hard drive.
I hope you never go into journalism. You fail paraphrasing 101.
If I meant foreigners I would have said foreigners. I said, and I meant, Eurotrash. A pejorative term used to signify a special class of yuppie scum. Who, in my experience, are actually quite ignorant and anti-semitic while believing themselves smarter by virtue of having an accent.
I do hate ethnocentrism and not only when it's other peoples. If you wanted to get at what I was saying you might have tried: "American culture is inferior then ours because Americans positively value their culture over others." Why just today, I ran into someone who put out an Ethnocentric view that a country in Europe is equal to a continent, while a State in the US is equal to a street, yet then went on to insinuate that I was biased for believing otherwise.
I really don't know what you were trying to prove, but you have convinced me that you are actually quite biased, as such, I can't trust your opinion.
Not really, I used XP for years and the biggest shift was having to click a tool bar at the top of the screen instead of one at the bottom. Trying to use Ubuntu was easier then trying to use vista. Setting up my home network is easier, interfacing with external hardware is easier, and installing drivers is easier. I know in the older linux's you had to install things from the console, but I've never had to do that.
You and that other guy seem to be thinking about the files or whatever goes on inside the OS, but I don't give a shit about that. I know I click things and they install, and with less trouble then vista. And when I need to find something its a easy text directory, not some esoteric mediaglyphs. Maybe the engine between XP and vista is the same, but the user interface is a lot more cluttered and annoying then I could ever stand in vista.
I don't know what word perfect is, but have you seen the new Microsoft Word? Load it up, I dare you to figure out how to set 1" margins, double space the text and then past Unicode text into the document with out crying. They removed all text its now pretty pictures, you guess what everything does, it is awful. Open office is easier to use.
Well, I work in a news room and just because a story leaks and the people whose face is red come out the next day calling them a lier doesn't mean shit, it means they got caught and are trying to back-peddle. When they win a lawsuit, then I'll be convinced.
There's one problem with that line of thought though. See, it's not force everyone, it's force the 49% percent that voted the other way. Which assumes it would be 49% and not 15% objecting. Believe it or not, most people like Soc. Security. It's called democracy where people decide what they do with themselves, but I'm sure you don't Think people should be able to decide what they do with their lives, and the government should make their choices for them.
Umm... I just switched to Ubuntu 3 months ago and well, you're fucking wrong, you are very, very, fucking wrong. Ubuntu was easier and more familiar to use then vista, and what MS did to word is still causing me to pull out hair.
I guess you were one of the guys who were hanging with that teacher in college "trying Linux" behind the gym.
Exactly. Thats one of the things that always pissed me off about Euro trash, you get these guys who are 'like dumb Americans don't know geography' because people don't know what countries border the Black Sea, yet when you ask them what states border the Great Lakes they are like 'whats it matter.' I hate ethnocentrism, especially when its ethnocentrism bashing other countries for being ethnocentric. Maybe people just don't stare at maps all day?
randomized maps, using fractals and simple weather systems and simulated continental drift to create the layout, it might take a few minutes to generate but worth it, and let the players run the game. China very well could have (and may still) been the dominant power, and if crops were randomized the Native Americans could have held a better chance for survival.
Plus not all maps need to have two separate continents, and the Chinese were powned for years by the Europeans, but they are coming up, which is something that could never happen in civ. That might actually be fun, if you end up being a civ that wasn't able to grow a lot of food using old tech you could still do well with modern innovations,(like tropical climates)and now you have to try to rise to global power by global trade and reverse engineering tech. Thats why I hate the game, the Japanese were able to go from middle ages to world power in 70 years. But in civ losing one city is a death blow.
And thats why I and everyone I know haven't played civilization since 3 came out. Seriously that game has not changed at all, which means with greater understanding and computer power means it has actually gone backwards. As a kid playing civ I knew it wasn't realistic, but I forgave them becuase of the limitations at the time. Now it's gotten simpler, and they have no excuse.
The way the cities grow piss me off the most. Historically if you look at city growth the cities and country side tended to support the maximum available at that level of tech, and population levels grew as better techniques came about. Where as in civ, your cities population is due completely to the "improvements." And the way tech advances is painful. Why does it take ten turns to develop something only to have it do nothing? Would it be that hard to design between units rather then lame jumps from cavalry to tanks? And what is with the construction? Do they really expect me to believe that it takes 120 years to build a library? cities support all they can and build it in what historically amounts to one turn.
I would like to see them make the game where your city sizes are about constant and the only way to grow them is through tech, conquest leading to imports, or changes in social organization or institutions. That is, when you discover heavy plows you get an extra food per grassland, leading to an extra urbanite that contributes more to tech and helps maintain more buildings or social institutions, slowly leading to the exponential growth curve, or can be conscripted in times of war. Or how about when you discover stirrups, you get mounted cavalry, and as you develop better things the unit improves, like steal, or improved bits, which also helps with production.
I'm tired of Sid Meier's civilization, I want to play Jared Diamond's civilization and actually have an evolutionary approach to growth not some magic "top down" over glorified chess game.
Yeah that is right. It's a monopoly, as destructive and coercive as any robber baron ever was. Bad teaching, like bad domestic cars from government protected business, bad loans from government protected banks, and bad telephone service from government funded telecoms all are allowed to flourish when the government hands out cash based on the needs of lobbyists.
So tell me, which agency keeps out merit pay? which prohibits school choice or any ranking? which makes it very hard to fire inept teachers? which forces higher levels of certification with the expressed goals of restricting the number of teachers so they can get higher pay? Which agency forces people to join it's ranks and bends over like a whore for cash to funnel towards lobbying, all with the stated goal of milking the educational system for every penny, quality be damned? The Teachers Unions.
Why don't you actually read up on all the wonderful education reforms that have been proposed and then read the small print where it says the union threatened to strike if it was implemented. We spend more money and get less, you can blame parents, you can blame students, but I like to look at things as feedback loops, so I blame the group that positions themselves as a middleman and tries to distort the system for profit. http://teachersunionexposed.com/
they'll hire anyone with a heartbeat and a teaching cert.
See, thats the problem right there. Would it be better to hire a certified idiot or an uncertified citizen of average intelligence? I, and most people in the privet sector know the answer, but God forbid society benefit at the cost of the Teachers Union.
I've read enough articles from reputable news sources about people claiming to be university trained...
Universities are a joke in the US. Everything I know I learned from books I read outside of my university, and everything I do at work I learned through outside vocational programs. I dumped $10k and 4 years so I could could get an internship and some useless paper, because top down rules from the unions to Congress decided it should be that way.. And people wonder why America is hurting.
yes, because spending money to repair crumbling infrastructure that threatens lives and the economy is the same as throwing money down a hole to get votes from vocal minorities. There is a difference between "Pork," "Fiscal stimulus" and "public goods."
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Oh shut the fuck up. I don't mean to be rude, but that is the highest test of bad leadership. I may have missed the sarcasm, but that is terrible.
Fuck Y'all I'm invading Iraq. Fuck y'all I'm getting houses to the poor. Fuck y'all deficits don't mater. Seems to me that every time a leader decides to say Fuck y'all and then invade Cuba or something, history tends to call them things like "terrible" or "Worst ever."
yeah I hate math too.
Use the 5 W's: who, what, where, when, why.
That would fall under what, which is: forced me to have sex.
I worked as a security guard we learned quickly what key points were in an incident and what Exact phrases used were. The cop must have had better training then us. He knew, he was just made complacent by a technological crutch.
Yeah you are. I don't get people like you, see I was talking about companions and substitution, two basic concepts in economics. I didn't state anything as fact but the theory is sound.
Imagine you have two countries, country A is wealthy and drinks wine, while country B is poor and drinks beer. The Wine costs $30 to get drunk. while the beer 0nly costs $10 to get drunk. Now the poor people start to get a little money and the quality of their beer goes up, because they still can't afford to switch to wine, and soon the quality of beer produced in country B surpass that of beer made in country A. Country B takes this as a sign that they have, in some way, beaten country A. while in fact it is actually proof that they have not.
I was suggesting that, maybe, cellphones are nicer in other countries because in the US we all have laptops and the phone is secondary, which is a valid theory, despite your anti-rational stance that disagreement = wrong.
Sure, but what does that say about the members of the EU then? And all the countries that were states to the USSR several years ago? I think we all should think more in terms of culture. I have a Turkish roommate that comes from the same country as a Turkish professor, one is from Istanbul the other from god knows where, and I would never have guessed they were from the same country.
I was more talking about this "name the country" or "random European fact" game some of the less savory exchange students at my school engaged in to prove their intelligence. I know it's a bad example. Basically that example is from when some Greek jerk challenged me then called me a stupid American for missing Bulgaria, despite his inability to name one, ONE, state on the Great Lakes and his statement that "they don't matter."
No one has called me on the biggest flaw in my statement, which is that most of the countries that border the Black Sea aren't technically in Europe.
More then one copy? How about someone writing what she said, or at least the key points like whether or not she used the word forced.
I guess you are among those who do not believe that some of these so called 3rd world countries are *slightly* ahead of us especially in what a cellphone can be used for.
You mean like in bombs as the trigger device? I know they do that a lot in some third world countries.
BTW adding more features to a cellphone could actually be a further sign of poverty. In a developed country people buy a PDA and a cell phone, they don't need to save money by getting a super cell. Though they do that now with the Smart phones, which are as good, and available in the US, as any cell phones in the world.
OH MY GOD! That explains why the cops in the background were the same three guys just repeated! And why the interviewing officer wasn't looking at the suspect but a few feet over. That also explains why they were tolerating that annoying officer with the Jamaican accent!
You know, I've recorded 100's of hours of material and I never had that problem. Maybe when peoples lives are on the line they should stick to more proven analog technology and let it be the family that loses their trip to Disneyland to test the waters of the new tech?
Or they could stick to the analog media that is near failure proof. They probably knew how it worked, it just probably didn't. Write error that wasn't detected, minor corruption in the disk, things that can't be planned for. After having lost 2 years worth of photos to two minor technical issues I'm starting to doubt this whole digital thing. A box of analog photos, while harder to share, is a lot less likely to fail then a hard drive.
I hope you never go into journalism. You fail paraphrasing 101.
If I meant foreigners I would have said foreigners. I said, and I meant, Eurotrash. A pejorative term used to signify a special class of yuppie scum. Who, in my experience, are actually quite ignorant and anti-semitic while believing themselves smarter by virtue of having an accent.
I do hate ethnocentrism and not only when it's other peoples. If you wanted to get at what I was saying you might have tried: "American culture is inferior then ours because Americans positively value their culture over others." Why just today, I ran into someone who put out an Ethnocentric view that a country in Europe is equal to a continent, while a State in the US is equal to a street, yet then went on to insinuate that I was biased for believing otherwise.
I really don't know what you were trying to prove, but you have convinced me that you are actually quite biased, as such, I can't trust your opinion.
Not really, I used XP for years and the biggest shift was having to click a tool bar at the top of the screen instead of one at the bottom. Trying to use Ubuntu was easier then trying to use vista. Setting up my home network is easier, interfacing with external hardware is easier, and installing drivers is easier. I know in the older linux's you had to install things from the console, but I've never had to do that.
You and that other guy seem to be thinking about the files or whatever goes on inside the OS, but I don't give a shit about that. I know I click things and they install, and with less trouble then vista. And when I need to find something its a easy text directory, not some esoteric mediaglyphs. Maybe the engine between XP and vista is the same, but the user interface is a lot more cluttered and annoying then I could ever stand in vista.
I don't know what word perfect is, but have you seen the new Microsoft Word? Load it up, I dare you to figure out how to set 1" margins, double space the text and then past Unicode text into the document with out crying. They removed all text its now pretty pictures, you guess what everything does, it is awful. Open office is easier to use.
Well, I work in a news room and just because a story leaks and the people whose face is red come out the next day calling them a lier doesn't mean shit, it means they got caught and are trying to back-peddle. When they win a lawsuit, then I'll be convinced.
There's one problem with that line of thought though. See, it's not force everyone, it's force the 49% percent that voted the other way. Which assumes it would be 49% and not 15% objecting. Believe it or not, most people like Soc. Security. It's called democracy where people decide what they do with themselves, but I'm sure you don't Think people should be able to decide what they do with their lives, and the government should make their choices for them.
Umm... I just switched to Ubuntu 3 months ago and well, you're fucking wrong, you are very, very, fucking wrong. Ubuntu was easier and more familiar to use then vista, and what MS did to word is still causing me to pull out hair.
I guess you were one of the guys who were hanging with that teacher in college "trying Linux" behind the gym.
Exactly. Thats one of the things that always pissed me off about Euro trash, you get these guys who are 'like dumb Americans don't know geography' because people don't know what countries border the Black Sea, yet when you ask them what states border the Great Lakes they are like 'whats it matter.' I hate ethnocentrism, especially when its ethnocentrism bashing other countries for being ethnocentric. Maybe people just don't stare at maps all day?
randomized maps, using fractals and simple weather systems and simulated continental drift to create the layout, it might take a few minutes to generate but worth it, and let the players run the game. China very well could have (and may still) been the dominant power, and if crops were randomized the Native Americans could have held a better chance for survival. Plus not all maps need to have two separate continents, and the Chinese were powned for years by the Europeans, but they are coming up, which is something that could never happen in civ. That might actually be fun, if you end up being a civ that wasn't able to grow a lot of food using old tech you could still do well with modern innovations,(like tropical climates)and now you have to try to rise to global power by global trade and reverse engineering tech. Thats why I hate the game, the Japanese were able to go from middle ages to world power in 70 years. But in civ losing one city is a death blow.
That depends on what your definition of bad is.
And thats why I and everyone I know haven't played civilization since 3 came out. Seriously that game has not changed at all, which means with greater understanding and computer power means it has actually gone backwards. As a kid playing civ I knew it wasn't realistic, but I forgave them becuase of the limitations at the time. Now it's gotten simpler, and they have no excuse.
The way the cities grow piss me off the most. Historically if you look at city growth the cities and country side tended to support the maximum available at that level of tech, and population levels grew as better techniques came about. Where as in civ, your cities population is due completely to the "improvements." And the way tech advances is painful. Why does it take ten turns to develop something only to have it do nothing? Would it be that hard to design between units rather then lame jumps from cavalry to tanks? And what is with the construction? Do they really expect me to believe that it takes 120 years to build a library? cities support all they can and build it in what historically amounts to one turn.
I would like to see them make the game where your city sizes are about constant and the only way to grow them is through tech, conquest leading to imports, or changes in social organization or institutions. That is, when you discover heavy plows you get an extra food per grassland, leading to an extra urbanite that contributes more to tech and helps maintain more buildings or social institutions, slowly leading to the exponential growth curve, or can be conscripted in times of war. Or how about when you discover stirrups, you get mounted cavalry, and as you develop better things the unit improves, like steal, or improved bits, which also helps with production.
I'm tired of Sid Meier's civilization, I want to play Jared Diamond's civilization and actually have an evolutionary approach to growth not some magic "top down" over glorified chess game.
Yeah that is right. It's a monopoly, as destructive and coercive as any robber baron ever was. Bad teaching, like bad domestic cars from government protected business, bad loans from government protected banks, and bad telephone service from government funded telecoms all are allowed to flourish when the government hands out cash based on the needs of lobbyists.
So tell me, which agency keeps out merit pay? which prohibits school choice or any ranking? which makes it very hard to fire inept teachers? which forces higher levels of certification with the expressed goals of restricting the number of teachers so they can get higher pay? Which agency forces people to join it's ranks and bends over like a whore for cash to funnel towards lobbying, all with the stated goal of milking the educational system for every penny, quality be damned? The Teachers Unions.
Why don't you actually read up on all the wonderful education reforms that have been proposed and then read the small print where it says the union threatened to strike if it was implemented. We spend more money and get less, you can blame parents, you can blame students, but I like to look at things as feedback loops, so I blame the group that positions themselves as a middleman and tries to distort the system for profit. http://teachersunionexposed.com/
they'll hire anyone with a heartbeat and a teaching cert.
See, thats the problem right there. Would it be better to hire a certified idiot or an uncertified citizen of average intelligence? I, and most people in the privet sector know the answer, but God forbid society benefit at the cost of the Teachers Union.
I've read enough articles from reputable news sources about people claiming to be university trained...
Universities are a joke in the US. Everything I know I learned from books I read outside of my university, and everything I do at work I learned through outside vocational programs. I dumped $10k and 4 years so I could could get an internship and some useless paper, because top down rules from the unions to Congress decided it should be that way.. And people wonder why America is hurting.
but since the Earth masses a lot more than most rockets...
You have sparked my interest. What are these other rockets, and where can I buy them.
yes, because spending money to repair crumbling infrastructure that threatens lives and the economy is the same as throwing money down a hole to get votes from vocal minorities. There is a difference between "Pork," "Fiscal stimulus" and "public goods."
3=/= for arm, 0=/= for foot. As a side note, )S) is the emoticon for a tape worm.