First off, CON is never a dump stat. Survivability is very important.
CHR is important for UMD, though I suspect this is a poorly thought out mechanic. This does however explain why media people think they can call themselves geeks.
I KNEW there was a fox-rabbit analogy guy in here somewhere. However, rabbits reproduce like, well, rabbits. It's pretty rare to hear about them going extinct. usually it's the other way around because humans tend to destroy all predators in areas they inhabit in a wide swath around the area where they live.
Look to Arizona for a perfect example where coyotes and rattlesnakes are all but extinct around the Phoenix area. The rodents are out of control... and that was back in the early 90's. I'm sure it's a lot worse now.
in other words God helps those that help themselves. This means people should be given a hand, to get on their own two feet, not live of of others for their entire lives.
Liberals are against choice and that's what charities provide. They want you to support THEIR programs because in their own self righteous way they've decided what's best to spend everyone else's money on and ram their own morality down our collective throats via taxes so they can buy votes from poor people. At least the Christians don't force anyone to support their charities.
The programs they set up get exploited by people that don't really need the money. They just work under the table and don't report the money to the gov, then collect welfare, drive cadillacs, get brand new section 8 houses on prime real estate for $50 a month. I grew up in the inner city and I've seen people buying lobster with food stamps, wearing $120 jeans, Nike Air Jordans and more gold than mr. T when my parents worked for a living, didn't get assistance and I'm wearing clothes from value village and have tennis shoes with holes in the sole because we can't afford new ones. I got turned down for college grants because I was white and my parents made more than 25k.
Never mind the work that all the christian charities do outside of government support and the fact that conservatives give roughly 30% more than liberals do on average.
Fuck liberals. That's why I hate them. I'm paying for lazy people that exploit the system and the abuse is quite widespread. The whole situation stinks.
For every person that actually needs assistance there are 10 otherwise able bodied losers that refused to go to school and dealt drugs. now they are fucked and live off the same system that they got offered a free education from, and turned down the opportunity. They deserve to be homeless.
I paid my own way and made something of myself. If I can do it anyone can. I'm so tired of hearing about the minority condition and affirmative action. It's total bs. The time for that has come and gone. Everyone needs to be treated equal by the government and educational institutions.
actually I bought an EEE for my son. it's powerful enough to play the popular Wizard 101 game.
Can it play DDO or the like? no way... He uses the hell out of it though, and for a lot more than gaming. he's 10 and the keyboard fits his hands perfectly. We got a matching one for my stepdaughter. She uses it a lot too but prefers mommies laptop.
I think netbooks are great for kids as a first computer. I use them here and there to look things up, and also use my son's when we go on vacation.
The first is actually simple to solve. You can make a grid of gps coordinates and assign a speed to each. Reading speed limit signs would be the worst way to tell the car's computer what the speed is, since they are often defaced, removed, or even shot up by drunk teenagers. There's already tech to tell you, via gps database, what the speed limit is. I have an app on my phone that does this. It's a HUD app that warns me when I'm speeding.
As far as a left turn into a busy street goes, the car could send a signal to central that it needs to turn and the cars could be slowed to allow a space. Call it the "courteous driver" routine. This would be fairly easy to coordinate and use algorithms similar to what the new york subway uses to give trains space to merge from one track to another.
This alone is worth automating cars. People are such dicks sometimes. Just about _every_ time I put my turn signal on to switch lanes, like to get to an exit, if there's a car anywhere near me, literally doing the same speed in formation, they put the pedal to the floor to try and keep me from changing lanes.
Soooo tired of this kind of behavior. The worst is when you go to pass someone and they speed up because you are passing them, you drop back and get behind them again and they slow down to where they were before. You go to pass them and they do it again. WHAT THE FUCK.
I just wish people would use the automation already available, cruise control. Set a goddamned speed and stay there. That alone would just about eliminate congestion on highways. The idiots that don't, slow down and speed up, they don't pick a speed and stay there because they are talking on the phone or playing with their ipod. This causes a great deal of problems by itself. It causes people that are less patient than myself to do stupid shit due to road rage which leads to accidents.
I wish they'd all die in a fire or something and get the fuck off the road. Cruise control by itself solves a lot of problems. I just wish everyone would use it.
the point I'm making is google owns them after you upload them. Therefore you shared them with google, and if google shares them (intentionally or not) with someone else, you started the chain of sharing.
The RIAA will be all over this like flies on shit. It
Putting on my tin foil hat.... You no longer own the data you load into Google's cloud. Google does. If you upload music to Google's cloud music service, you just distributed a copy of all of your music to Google. What happens if Google makes the cloud searchable and allows people to download out of it? They could. Will they? who knows. Do you really want to leave your financial well being in the hands of the cloud?
What if some hacker group hacks Google's cloud and links up torrents to everything in the cloud. Who is responsible for whatever they share out to the masses out of your account? Google didn't upload the data, you did.
This is a form of sharing. IMHO RIAA will find a way to prosecute or sue people that have large amounts of music here.
The RIAA could make the argument that you are sharing your music with Google, which you are, and prosecute your ass. You don't own your data in the cloud. That makes it Google's once you upload it. Is it really worth the risk to use this service? Do not underestimate what the RIAA can/will do with this.
I think what he means is microsoft poorly documented the api, as well as changed the api constantly and there was severe lag updating documentation. So the win api was always changing, the documentation was never right and trying to write a compiler for windows was a little like trying to climb into a car that was moving at 90mph and zig zagging randomly.
--I'll probably just cancel and look for alternatives. And get stuck in a contract with a cell provider that does the same thing verizon is doing now, in a few months.
If verizon does it it lowers the bar for att and cricket to do the same thing. I'd lay a testicle on a bet that you see all of the carriers follow suit on tiered limited service. Why? no competition. You are probably better off sticking with verizon for now and seeing how this shakes out. At least you will have better service. I'm an ATT user, and am steeling myself for the same treatment...
or don't use a vhost, rent a whole rack or colo one. If this disruption ends up costing you as much as renting a whole rack, it's worth it, if for nothing else, so your customers don't lose faith in you and your reputation for reliability doesn't take a hit. Don't use the cloud; here's a perfect example of one reason why the cloud is a bad idea for anything that's mission critical (proprietary lock-in being another damned good reason)
Sounds like someone in a vhost/cloud was doing something illegal so they took the whole rack of equipment.
An interesting point is that just about everything at mcdonalds is made from corn (either directly or indirectly), except the buns and batters.
Everything is fried in corn (canola) oil or a soy/corn oil mixture, the drinks are made with corn syrup, the printed cups, boxes etc are printed with ink made from corn, the cows and chickens used to make the sandwiches and nuggets are fed corn.
Yup, it's a wasteful enterprise and only serves to drive up the cost of both food and gasoline. I've read the paper. You simply cannot create more fuel than you start with. Here is an incomplete list of the petroleum products required to create ethanol: Diesel to carry the corn around and ship the finished product too petroleum refineries Diesel to run farm equipment and harvest Petroleum based fertilizer to grow the corn Petroleum based pesticides Energy to ferment and process the corn
Humans affect the climate about as much as I affect the ocean when I take a piss in it. The glaciers used to extend all the way down to New York State and France, to the tune of 5-7 km thick ice. They started melting over 10000 years ago, long before Chevrolet made their first Suburban. They've never stopped melting since. Before these glaciers existed, the earth was way hotter than it is now.
Sure we're warming, but it's been happening for thousands of years, long before Homo Sapiens emerged as a species. Eventually it will freeze up again. The sun is constantly changing temperature and is the biggest component of our climate, not people and CO2 emissions. It's very arrogant to think we are responsible for climate change on earth when the rest of the planets in the solar system are also warming.
You can cook your food. It's not rocket science. If you know there's an E.Coli outbreak and you don't cook everything you eat, you deserve whatever you get.
Yea but you can prevent E.Coli poisoning by cooking your food to 155 degrees F and washing the shit off of your hands after you take a dump. You can't prevent radiation poisoning quite so easily.
This comparison is retarded. E.Coli poisoning is self inflicted. You don't have any control over radiation poisoning during a nuclear accident.
...this is what the Organic Trade Association (OTA) has to say about E.coli: “Statistics from CDC (U.S. Center for Disease Control) show that a vast majority of food-borne disease is associated with cross-contamination and handling later in the distribution chain and in the home. According to the CDC, most illness from E. coli O157:H7 has been associated with eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef. In recent years, E. coli O157:H7 has been identified in outbreaks of foodborne illness linked to fresh produce.”
"US coal power fleet kills 10,000 a year; Fukushima will kill under 100, total, as a direct result of being exposed to high levels of radiation from this accident. We are very bad at evaluating risks and we don't know the long term health effects on existing people and babies yet to be born, that the Fukushima radiation leaks will have on the Japanese people through food, air, and water contamination."
There, all fixed and now, complete! You don't even have to be rational to realize that Japan will be feeling the fallout (no pun intended) from this accident for centuries.
How does giving you the tools to drive impaired and avoid being caught doing so make the roads safer? Seriously, what kind of doublethink does it take to think that "I'm too buzzed to risk a field sobriety test, but I'm still a safe driver"* is a reasonable statement?.* ++++++++++ Like he said, he'd take a cab.
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First off, CON is never a dump stat. Survivability is very important.
CHR is important for UMD, though I suspect this is a poorly thought out mechanic. This does however explain why media people think they can call themselves geeks.
edit: rabbits are lagomorphs not rodents, but they do the same type of damage...
I KNEW there was a fox-rabbit analogy guy in here somewhere. However, rabbits reproduce like, well, rabbits. It's pretty rare to hear about them going extinct. usually it's the other way around because humans tend to destroy all predators in areas they inhabit in a wide swath around the area where they live.
Look to Arizona for a perfect example where coyotes and rattlesnakes are all but extinct around the Phoenix area. The rodents are out of control... and that was back in the early 90's. I'm sure it's a lot worse now.
in other words God helps those that help themselves. This means people should be given a hand, to get on their own two feet, not live of of others for their entire lives.
Liberals are against choice and that's what charities provide. They want you to support THEIR programs because in their own self righteous way they've decided what's best to spend everyone else's money on and ram their own morality down our collective throats via taxes so they can buy votes from poor people. At least the Christians don't force anyone to support their charities.
The programs they set up get exploited by people that don't really need the money. They just work under the table and don't report the money to the gov, then collect welfare, drive cadillacs, get brand new section 8 houses on prime real estate for $50 a month. I grew up in the inner city and I've seen people buying lobster with food stamps, wearing $120 jeans, Nike Air Jordans and more gold than mr. T when my parents worked for a living, didn't get assistance and I'm wearing clothes from value village and have tennis shoes with holes in the sole because we can't afford new ones. I got turned down for college grants because I was white and my parents made more than 25k.
Never mind the work that all the christian charities do outside of government support and the fact that conservatives give roughly 30% more than liberals do on average.
Fuck liberals. That's why I hate them. I'm paying for lazy people that exploit the system and the abuse is quite widespread. The whole situation stinks.
For every person that actually needs assistance there are 10 otherwise able bodied losers that refused to go to school and dealt drugs. now they are fucked and live off the same system that they got offered a free education from, and turned down the opportunity. They deserve to be homeless.
I paid my own way and made something of myself. If I can do it anyone can. I'm so tired of hearing about the minority condition and affirmative action. It's total bs. The time for that has come and gone. Everyone needs to be treated equal by the government and educational institutions.
"People who died as a result of the nuclear power plant incidents _this_year_: 0"
there all fixed. We'll have to check back in 20 years from now when we can gauge the long term effects.
actually I bought an EEE for my son. it's powerful enough to play the popular Wizard 101 game.
Can it play DDO or the like? no way... He uses the hell out of it though, and for a lot more than gaming. he's 10 and the keyboard fits his hands perfectly. We got a matching one for my stepdaughter. She uses it a lot too but prefers mommies laptop.
I think netbooks are great for kids as a first computer. I use them here and there to look things up, and also use my son's when we go on vacation.
The first is actually simple to solve. You can make a grid of gps coordinates and assign a speed to each. Reading speed limit signs would be the worst way to tell the car's computer what the speed is, since they are often defaced, removed, or even shot up by drunk teenagers. There's already tech to tell you, via gps database, what the speed limit is. I have an app on my phone that does this. It's a HUD app that warns me when I'm speeding.
As far as a left turn into a busy street goes, the car could send a signal to central that it needs to turn and the cars could be slowed to allow a space. Call it the "courteous driver" routine. This would be fairly easy to coordinate and use algorithms similar to what the new york subway uses to give trains space to merge from one track to another.
This alone is worth automating cars. People are such dicks sometimes. Just about _every_ time I put my turn signal on to switch lanes, like to get to an exit, if there's a car anywhere near me, literally doing the same speed in formation, they put the pedal to the floor to try and keep me from changing lanes.
Soooo tired of this kind of behavior. The worst is when you go to pass someone and they speed up because you are passing them, you drop back and get behind them again and they slow down to where they were before. You go to pass them and they do it again. WHAT THE FUCK.
I just wish people would use the automation already available, cruise control. Set a goddamned speed and stay there. That alone would just about eliminate congestion on highways. The idiots that don't, slow down and speed up, they don't pick a speed and stay there because they are talking on the phone or playing with their ipod. This causes a great deal of problems by itself. It causes people that are less patient than myself to do stupid shit due to road rage which leads to accidents.
I wish they'd all die in a fire or something and get the fuck off the road. Cruise control by itself solves a lot of problems. I just wish everyone would use it.
the point I'm making is google owns them after you upload them. Therefore you shared them with google, and if google shares them (intentionally or not) with someone else, you started the chain of sharing.
The RIAA will be all over this like flies on shit. It
Putting on my tin foil hat....
You no longer own the data you load into Google's cloud.
Google does.
If you upload music to Google's cloud music service, you just distributed a copy of all of your music to Google. What happens if Google makes the cloud searchable and allows people to download out of it? They could. Will they? who knows. Do you really want to leave your financial well being in the hands of the cloud?
What if some hacker group hacks Google's cloud and links up torrents to everything in the cloud. Who is responsible for whatever they share out to the masses out of your account? Google didn't upload the data, you did.
This is a form of sharing. IMHO RIAA will find a way to prosecute or sue people that have large amounts of music here.
DON'T USE THE CLOUD
There I said it.
You are asking for it if you do.
The RIAA could make the argument that you are sharing your music with Google, which you are, and prosecute your ass. You don't own your data in the cloud. That makes it Google's once you upload it. Is it really worth the risk to use this service? Do not underestimate what the RIAA can/will do with this.
I think what he means is microsoft poorly documented the api, as well as changed the api constantly and there was severe lag updating documentation. So the win api was always changing, the documentation was never right and trying to write a compiler for windows was a little like trying to climb into a car that was moving at 90mph and zig zagging randomly.
why not use WiFi for downloading podcasts? Just sayin'. A very small change in your behavior completely mitigates this as a problem for you.
--I'll probably just cancel and look for alternatives.
And get stuck in a contract with a cell provider that does the same thing verizon is doing now, in a few months.
If verizon does it it lowers the bar for att and cricket to do the same thing. I'd lay a testicle on a bet that you see all of the carriers follow suit on tiered limited service. Why? no competition. You are probably better off sticking with verizon for now and seeing how this shakes out. At least you will have better service. I'm an ATT user, and am steeling myself for the same treatment...
good point. I use my data plan like, rarely. I send an email once in a while on it. Whenever I'm at home, or any place else just about, I use WiFi.
or don't use a vhost, rent a whole rack or colo one. If this disruption ends up costing you as much as renting a whole rack, it's worth it, if for nothing else, so your customers don't lose faith in you and your reputation for reliability doesn't take a hit. Don't use the cloud; here's a perfect example of one reason why the cloud is a bad idea for anything that's mission critical (proprietary lock-in being another damned good reason)
Sounds like someone in a vhost/cloud was doing something illegal so they took the whole rack of equipment.
An interesting point is that just about everything at mcdonalds is made from corn (either directly or indirectly), except the buns and batters.
Everything is fried in corn (canola) oil or a soy/corn oil mixture, the drinks are made with corn syrup, the printed cups, boxes etc are printed with ink made from corn, the cows and chickens used to make the sandwiches and nuggets are fed corn.
The price of corn affects _everything_.
Yup, it's a wasteful enterprise and only serves to drive up the cost of both food and gasoline. I've read the paper. You simply cannot create more fuel than you start with. Here is an incomplete list of the petroleum products required to create ethanol:
Diesel to carry the corn around and ship the finished product too petroleum refineries
Diesel to run farm equipment and harvest
Petroleum based fertilizer to grow the corn
Petroleum based pesticides
Energy to ferment and process the corn
You end up with a less fuel than you start with.
Humans affect the climate about as much as I affect the ocean when I take a piss in it. The glaciers used to extend all the way down to New York State and France, to the tune of 5-7 km thick ice. They started melting over 10000 years ago, long before Chevrolet made their first Suburban. They've never stopped melting since. Before these glaciers existed, the earth was way hotter than it is now.
Sure we're warming, but it's been happening for thousands of years, long before Homo Sapiens emerged as a species. Eventually it will freeze up again. The sun is constantly changing temperature and is the biggest component of our climate, not people and CO2 emissions. It's very arrogant to think we are responsible for climate change on earth when the rest of the planets in the solar system are also warming.
You can cook your food. It's not rocket science. If you know there's an E.Coli outbreak and you don't cook everything you eat, you deserve whatever you get.
Yea but you can prevent E.Coli poisoning by cooking your food to 155 degrees F and washing the shit off of your hands after you take a dump. You can't prevent radiation poisoning quite so easily.
This comparison is retarded. E.Coli poisoning is self inflicted. You don't have any control over radiation poisoning during a nuclear accident.
...this is what the Organic Trade Association (OTA) has to say about E.coli:
“Statistics from CDC (U.S. Center for Disease Control) show that a vast majority of food-borne disease is associated with cross-contamination and handling later in the distribution chain and in the home. According to the CDC, most illness from E. coli O157:H7 has been associated with eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef. In recent years, E. coli O157:H7 has been identified in outbreaks of foodborne illness linked to fresh produce.”
"US coal power fleet kills 10,000 a year; Fukushima will kill under 100, total, as a direct result of being exposed to high levels of radiation from this accident. We are very bad at evaluating risks and we don't know the long term health effects on existing people and babies yet to be born, that the Fukushima radiation leaks will have on the Japanese people through food, air, and water contamination."
There, all fixed and now, complete! You don't even have to be rational to realize that Japan will be feeling the fallout (no pun intended) from this accident for centuries.
There's no such thing as a "good, solid IDE".
How does giving you the tools to drive impaired and avoid being caught doing so make the roads safer? Seriously, what kind of doublethink does it take to think that "I'm too buzzed to risk a field sobriety test, but I'm still a safe driver"* is a reasonable statement?.*
++++++++++
Like he said, he'd take a cab.
as well the people that get hammered and drive regularly, will be too liquored up to think of using this app in the first place.