Having lived in a place that changed time zones no less than three times while I lived there, I'd like to call BS on that.
You look at one option: local time only. Go global. One time for the entire world. Yeah, sun wouldn't be overhead at noon for the vast majority of the world, but who cares? I can't think of any jobs that require that the local time be linked to the sun's position.
Honestly? No, I really don't. Then again, I don't mind the idea of waking up at the crack of dawn to a clock that reads 2200, either. Why? Because it's going to read within a minute or so of the same time when the sun rises the next day. I'm also not a fan of AM/PM.
24 hour time, one world time zone, and none of this DST crap. Now that people are routinely interacting with areas far outside their local time zone, I really don't see the point of keeping what more often than not simply complicates matters further.
Last time I looked (a few years back) there weren't any T1 Renegades servers up. There were the lame Ultra Renegades servers, or whatever, but no regular ones. Sucked.
I also didn't much care for the mod the Renegades team made for T2, so I'm pretty cool on the idea of them making a game. Might work well, might not. Thanks for pointing it out though.
Damn straight. DST is one of the dumbest things I've ever encountered. It's shocking how many people think that there's an hour of extra light automagically generated by a time change.
Oh, God no. Stay away from Covad. I deal with them multiple times a week through work, and they're utterly mired in corporate bureaucracy. You can't get anything done in an expedient manner without devine intervention, or a friend who is a VP. They've sent almost all of their support department to India, as well, which means you end up dealing with script drones which you may or may not be able to understand. It's simply awful.
As for dispatches, you'd be better off just laying new copper/fiber yourself and starting your own company. It'd certainly be less painful that way. Turnaround times are generally pretty lousy, and Covad techs seem eager to blow off appointments for any reason they can.
No, it's the new instant-rot flesh we've been issuing to the insurgents. You know, one scratch and it instantly decays to a point where it smells like a month-old side of beef wrapped in gym socks with a nice rotting fish sauce on top. You can smell it all the way from New Jersey!
I've got to wonder if that's not the case in a lot of 'mediocre' schools. I had more than a few classes where 70-75% of the final grade was determined by homework. It always struck me as a way to reward those who might not have an excellent grip on everything and wouldn't do too hot on tests, but were willing to grind away at homework. I always hated those classes, and I'll admit that I "cheated" on a daily basis by copying somebody else's homework. I always introduced a few more errors to be on the safe side, but hey, I didn't much care about my final grade as long as it was "average" or above. Tests usually more than picked up the slack.
My personal favorites were some of the chem/physics classes, which were generally big on tests and labwork, with homework playing a minimal part. Those were not only fairly fun, but easy to pass without the homework timesink.
Yes. You're completely right. Because, you know, having friendly locals who can communicate with you, who know that you _personally_ are not a bad person, and who might just attempt to warn you is no help at all.
Or, hey, if you can't swing that...there's always the ability to be able to understand that the people talking over there are planning the best way to hit your troops fourty-five seconds from now. That's got no tactical value at all, right?
We need both good tech that does the job AND soldiers who can talk effectively with the locals. Let's face it.
It's about time somebody stepped up and said it. Good on you.
This anti-fetal-stem-cell junk is a bunch of BS. Firstly, no fetuses are destroyed simply to gather stem cells. The stem cells that _would_ be used come from fetuses that are going to be destroyed anyway. We're not looking at evil doctors running around downtown NYC in the middle of the night kidnapping pregnant women for harvesting here, folks.
Secondly, the whole "Fetal stem cell research hasn't produced anything worthwhile!" argument is also BS. Of course there isn't much that has been produced. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's a little hard to DO THE WORK. It's like taking a gold medal swimmer and pouring concrete around their feet, then dumping them in the ocean and criticizing their swimming.
Lastly, there's the overpopulation issue. We are facing overpopulation, so what's wrong with early abortions? That might turn into one more human to tax things, and if the parent wants to have it aborted, there's a good chance that the baby-that-might-have-been is going to have a pretty crappy future anyway.
So yeah, to the parent of this comment: You're pretty much spot on. I'd just like to add that not only would I not be around to care about it, had my mother had an abortion, but the world would probably be better off in a very minor way. I haven't made any great contributions to society. The same is true for the vast majority of people, and more often than not includes those asking the question. I have no problems admitting it, they often do.:)
My question is, why could the devs do this sort of stuff on the production server anyway? For troubleshooting purposes, use the freaking test server. Anything spawned on the production server should be logged. Any time you allow people with infinite power to play with the average joes, this sort of stuff is going to happen. Either A) Remove their ability to play, or (much better) B) Remove that infinite power from the area where regular players are.
There's no way that spawning multiple T2 BPO's for BoB should've gone unnoticed. Given the rarity of T2 BPO's, spawning one should throw up a red flag worth at least token investigation. Spawning more than one for a single corp or player should almost never happen.
M2? You've got an operational ma deuce? How much did THAT set you back?
Me an' my FsN (and friends) will be covered under 0 national ID's. I don't just stand for the 2A, I stand for all of them...that includes good old number 10, which I believe this violates.
A lot of us view this as bad simply because it gives the federal government more power, and any time the feds get more power it means that either the states or the people are losing it. Sometimes both. The 10th ammendment to the US constitution is getting walked on, at any rate.
Others view that it is a bad thing because it offers a central point of failure. Some will argue this, stating that it has specific uses. Practically, though, that argument is pretty lousy. The same thing could be said about SSN's, but look at all the companies and such that collect that information. If it is good enough to ID you to the federal government, many companies will adopt it for the same reason. When a flaw is found, the belief in it being 'secure' will only make the damage that can be done even worse.
Yet another concern is that embeded RFID or what-have-you may eventually be used to track people. As others have pointed out, it isn't nearly as demanding as you might think. It's a legitimate privacy concern, even if it does lean a bit to the paranoid side.
There are no doubt other reasons, but I think that those three sum up a lot of the dissent. Personally, I find all three to be good enough to scrap the plan by themselves.
Take a good hard look at what your SSN is _supposed_ to be for. Now look at what all it gets used in.
Also, bear in mind that the RealID card is already being played up to have big restrictions to what people can do that the SSN never did. Extrapolate from there, and MAYBE you'll see why people are worried. Or you can continue to wear your blinders and take what the government says at face value.
Remember that Federal buildings are staffed by local citizens. If the local area doesn't like RealID, it won't be enforced there. Airlines are likely to be a different matter entirely, though.
Better yet, don't just not accept it, actively fight it. If you happen to be well-off enough to have a private jet or airplane, consider using it to transport people who don't go with the RealID scheme. You probably won't turn a profit, but at least you can genuinely do something until they bust you.
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Having lived in a place that changed time zones no less than three times while I lived there, I'd like to call BS on that.
You look at one option: local time only. Go global. One time for the entire world. Yeah, sun wouldn't be overhead at noon for the vast majority of the world, but who cares? I can't think of any jobs that require that the local time be linked to the sun's position.
Honestly? No, I really don't. Then again, I don't mind the idea of waking up at the crack of dawn to a clock that reads 2200, either. Why? Because it's going to read within a minute or so of the same time when the sun rises the next day. I'm also not a fan of AM/PM.
24 hour time, one world time zone, and none of this DST crap. Now that people are routinely interacting with areas far outside their local time zone, I really don't see the point of keeping what more often than not simply complicates matters further.
I wouldn't worry too much about that. There's a whole lot of people that don't want to live in the midwest simply because it is the midwest.
Last time I looked (a few years back) there weren't any T1 Renegades servers up. There were the lame Ultra Renegades servers, or whatever, but no regular ones. Sucked.
I also didn't much care for the mod the Renegades team made for T2, so I'm pretty cool on the idea of them making a game. Might work well, might not. Thanks for pointing it out though.
Damn straight. DST is one of the dumbest things I've ever encountered. It's shocking how many people think that there's an hour of extra light automagically generated by a time change.
Personally, I'm setting all my clocks to GMT.
It's a pity Tribes 2 sucked as hard as it did. Tribes was awesome...
Any idea if there are any plain-old Renegades servers out there? It was by far the best mod IMO. Kinda like Team Fortress for Tribes.
Oh, God no. Stay away from Covad. I deal with them multiple times a week through work, and they're utterly mired in corporate bureaucracy. You can't get anything done in an expedient manner without devine intervention, or a friend who is a VP. They've sent almost all of their support department to India, as well, which means you end up dealing with script drones which you may or may not be able to understand. It's simply awful.
As for dispatches, you'd be better off just laying new copper/fiber yourself and starting your own company. It'd certainly be less painful that way. Turnaround times are generally pretty lousy, and Covad techs seem eager to blow off appointments for any reason they can.
No, it's the new instant-rot flesh we've been issuing to the insurgents. You know, one scratch and it instantly decays to a point where it smells like a month-old side of beef wrapped in gym socks with a nice rotting fish sauce on top. You can smell it all the way from New Jersey!
I've got to wonder if that's not the case in a lot of 'mediocre' schools. I had more than a few classes where 70-75% of the final grade was determined by homework. It always struck me as a way to reward those who might not have an excellent grip on everything and wouldn't do too hot on tests, but were willing to grind away at homework. I always hated those classes, and I'll admit that I "cheated" on a daily basis by copying somebody else's homework. I always introduced a few more errors to be on the safe side, but hey, I didn't much care about my final grade as long as it was "average" or above. Tests usually more than picked up the slack.
My personal favorites were some of the chem/physics classes, which were generally big on tests and labwork, with homework playing a minimal part. Those were not only fairly fun, but easy to pass without the homework timesink.
That's when they stopped the timer. They called for an abort and began raising the support arm at T-1:30 or so.
Anyone know why yet?
Yes. You're completely right. Because, you know, having friendly locals who can communicate with you, who know that you _personally_ are not a bad person, and who might just attempt to warn you is no help at all.
Or, hey, if you can't swing that...there's always the ability to be able to understand that the people talking over there are planning the best way to hit your troops fourty-five seconds from now. That's got no tactical value at all, right?
We need both good tech that does the job AND soldiers who can talk effectively with the locals. Let's face it.
Wait...AC...oh, snap! I just got trolled.
It's about time somebody stepped up and said it. Good on you.
:)
This anti-fetal-stem-cell junk is a bunch of BS. Firstly, no fetuses are destroyed simply to gather stem cells. The stem cells that _would_ be used come from fetuses that are going to be destroyed anyway. We're not looking at evil doctors running around downtown NYC in the middle of the night kidnapping pregnant women for harvesting here, folks.
Secondly, the whole "Fetal stem cell research hasn't produced anything worthwhile!" argument is also BS. Of course there isn't much that has been produced. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's a little hard to DO THE WORK. It's like taking a gold medal swimmer and pouring concrete around their feet, then dumping them in the ocean and criticizing their swimming.
Lastly, there's the overpopulation issue. We are facing overpopulation, so what's wrong with early abortions? That might turn into one more human to tax things, and if the parent wants to have it aborted, there's a good chance that the baby-that-might-have-been is going to have a pretty crappy future anyway.
So yeah, to the parent of this comment: You're pretty much spot on. I'd just like to add that not only would I not be around to care about it, had my mother had an abortion, but the world would probably be better off in a very minor way. I haven't made any great contributions to society. The same is true for the vast majority of people, and more often than not includes those asking the question. I have no problems admitting it, they often do.
My question is, why could the devs do this sort of stuff on the production server anyway? For troubleshooting purposes, use the freaking test server. Anything spawned on the production server should be logged. Any time you allow people with infinite power to play with the average joes, this sort of stuff is going to happen. Either A) Remove their ability to play, or (much better) B) Remove that infinite power from the area where regular players are.
There's no way that spawning multiple T2 BPO's for BoB should've gone unnoticed. Given the rarity of T2 BPO's, spawning one should throw up a red flag worth at least token investigation. Spawning more than one for a single corp or player should almost never happen.
Mr. President, we must not allow...a P2P network gap!
Hot spare?
So you're saying one of the repairbots will be a fembot? Sweet...until they hook up and spawn a lot of minibots and take over the world...FROM SPACE!
Precisely my point. I don't know why the OP refuses to see this.
M2? You've got an operational ma deuce? How much did THAT set you back?
Me an' my FsN (and friends) will be covered under 0 national ID's. I don't just stand for the 2A, I stand for all of them...that includes good old number 10, which I believe this violates.
A lot of us view this as bad simply because it gives the federal government more power, and any time the feds get more power it means that either the states or the people are losing it. Sometimes both. The 10th ammendment to the US constitution is getting walked on, at any rate.
Others view that it is a bad thing because it offers a central point of failure. Some will argue this, stating that it has specific uses. Practically, though, that argument is pretty lousy. The same thing could be said about SSN's, but look at all the companies and such that collect that information. If it is good enough to ID you to the federal government, many companies will adopt it for the same reason. When a flaw is found, the belief in it being 'secure' will only make the damage that can be done even worse.
Yet another concern is that embeded RFID or what-have-you may eventually be used to track people. As others have pointed out, it isn't nearly as demanding as you might think. It's a legitimate privacy concern, even if it does lean a bit to the paranoid side.
There are no doubt other reasons, but I think that those three sum up a lot of the dissent. Personally, I find all three to be good enough to scrap the plan by themselves.
Take a good hard look at what your SSN is _supposed_ to be for. Now look at what all it gets used in.
Also, bear in mind that the RealID card is already being played up to have big restrictions to what people can do that the SSN never did. Extrapolate from there, and MAYBE you'll see why people are worried. Or you can continue to wear your blinders and take what the government says at face value.
Remember that Federal buildings are staffed by local citizens. If the local area doesn't like RealID, it won't be enforced there. Airlines are likely to be a different matter entirely, though.
Better yet, don't just not accept it, actively fight it. If you happen to be well-off enough to have a private jet or airplane, consider using it to transport people who don't go with the RealID scheme. You probably won't turn a profit, but at least you can genuinely do something until they bust you.
Holy cow. California is actually doing something right for a change. That's impressive.
I bet they fold first.
...yet.
In case you missed the recent fad, it's all the rage to blame terrorist for all our ills, then enact more restrictive laws. Just give it some time.
Meek...inheriting...earth.
So you're saying Christianity is on the way out?
Quick! Everyone send a complaint email to GoDaddy. I bet we can get their sites pulled for no real reason at all. That's GoDaddy's policy, right?
Wonder if we can hit all of 'em in the same email.