Causing games to be more social also helps sell DLC. If your bud buys those extra maps or levels, now you are more compelled to do the same, otherwise there is no more co-op for you. It is all about being able to sell more. While religion, politics, or anything else may be tackled in games, it is not to force a point, it is to create a world/scenario that can be relevant to the player. Why? So they play it more, recommend it to friends and buy the requisite expansions. Again, all about the money.
In this case everyone was growing to expect just that, and would therefore be taking it seriously. Or at least people that could do something about it would. Now, since nothing much has happened people are lulled into a false sense of security and become lax or start considering the threat that something big was happening on 4/1 the real joke.
Now that the hype has supsided, what better time to strike? I think that dovetails nicely with GreggBZ's earlier post about the holiday weekend (for some of us).
Correction: We ostensibly invaded Iraq to... set up a supply line for it's resources..
Whew, thanks for clearing that up for me. I guess it's a really good thing we got all those resources flowing or else oil/gas prices may have spiked, er, spiked higher, or something like that. I guess they just haven't managed to bury that super-secret Iraq-to-DC oil pipeline yet.
Ok, I'll leave the whole "obviously troublesome for democracy" thing alone for now.
Why do you automatically assume the studies that are referred to are simply news articles? Do you for some reason find it hard to believe that papers published in a reputed journal might "smell fishy" to somebody? I am pretty sure that these journals publish papers for discussion, and a by product of that is some of these papers proving suspect or flat out wrong as a result.
The poster is not saying throw out your "advanced scientific techniques" but rather take those in conjunction with common sense (and maybe use a little of it to interpret them).
Thank you though for looking at that post as rather plebeian. It can only serve to make us "non-scientists" more amicable toward people like you.
That is, until governments force them to. On an individual basis most people would not, especially now that money is tighter around the industrialized world for most people. It is a lot easier to agree with these things when your standard of living is not under pressure.
You certainly have more faith in the intelligence of governments than I do.
there was about 2 million square kilometers less ice in September 2007 than in September 2003.
... yeah, or could could oh, "randomly" pick early February and golly, gee, in 2008 and 2003 the ice area was essentially the same. Using your same logic, I guess this is an upward trend.
The problem with all of this is that it is political and not science anymore. You clearly demonstrate the standard procedure... pick a data range that fits your objectives and then use it to establish a trend. What should be of more concern is where this inaccurate data has been used to influence policy (UN anybody?). I think it is incumbent upon anyone trying to prove a theory (global warming, especially being due in largest part to man, IS a theory) to use the most accurate instruments and methods available. Sure, continue using older methods so that you can compare historical data sets, but more accurate methods should be employed as well. That is simply good science.
No, sorry. Cats very much care about rodent size. I work at a shipyard in the US. Shipyards of course have quite the rat problem. The solution here (several years ago now) was to release unaltered cats throughout the yard to kill the rats. People overlooked the fact many of the rats were the size of small cats.
we can't have a system where we're talking about arresting teenagers in their bedrooms. People can rent a room in an hotel and leave with a bar of soap - there's a big difference between leaving with a bar of soap and leaving with the television.
But if you DO leave with the TV you get to go to another hotel and this time the soap comes on a rope!
To quote Theodore Roosevelt, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism." We are all Americans and I hope this Presidency can move us towards that. Anyone who continues to carry around a hyphenated state of their American identity has not truly embraced America and its promise. Have your culture and celebrate it, because the variety we have is part of what makes this country great and unique. At the end of the day though, be American, fully and whole-heartedly.
That would be the separation of church and state mentioned where in the Constitution? I saw the part about government not promoting one religion over another nor prohibiting religions, but not the whole separation thing.
Oh, well, I guess since he is President now he needs to just drop all his religious convictions so there won't be anyone that gets offended.
The founding fathers did not have you in mind when they wrote the Constitution, they had their own interests and agendas in mind.
... or you could be less cynical and see it as yeah, the Founding Fathers did what was necessary to pass the Constitution in their age, but also intelligent enough to provide a means by which it could be changed, when future generations needed to do so. If the Constitution wasn't vague then it would have been irrelevant many years ago. They saw that by building in an amendment process it could still be applicable to future generations, if that generation took it upon themselves to do so. Yes there was bickering, compromising and some self-serving desires; they were human after all. Given the circumstances and experiences of the Revolution, I dare say that they cared much more about how their actions would impact or be viewed by future generations than really cares about today.
For more information, the website for all of the events in the International Year of Astronomy is here. It really is amazing what you can see when you get away from light pollution.
The frequencies in this spectrum penetrate things like walls really well. By auctioning it off the FCC made a lot of money and freed up frequencies for use by first responders and emergency personnel as well as those blocks bought by Verizon and AT&T. Check wikipedia for 700Mhz auction.
...it's still too complicated for a lot of people. Delaying the transition because some people aren't ready is ridiculous. These are the same people that won't be ready 3 months from now.
My mother-in-law is the kind that has never seen a link she didn't want to click. She managed to switch herself over.
Grandmother-in-law doesn't even have a computer and only got her first cell phone last week and she has managed to get switched.
Sorry, but the people that aren't switched in time can just pick up their landline and their phonebook and find somebody to complain to.
Why let something as silly as a little TOS stop you, when it's so utterly pointless and stupid given the ease of acquiring a copy of the video. No one is going to begrudge you for trying to be a better citizen. Except for the politicians perhaps.
Since the politicians write the laws it could be of concern. Of course it could also be one of the first times some politicians had ever really paid attention to what is included in a TOS, for good or bad.
Excellent, now we can watch Sen. Robert Byrd sleep through votes. It scares me when the guy stops moving that long.
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Seriously though, if you actually know who your Senators and Representative are you can see how they act, if they even show up for votes, or how they conduct themselves in session. At least they are finally trying to catch up with the rest of the country on technology.
It seems that last week or so I heard mention of a bill being introduced/drawn up that votes on a budget bill couldn't be made until the full text had be posted online in an easily searchable format.
I believe that right now they deliver bills to correspondents/reporters in something like PDF but often on controversial matters it is last minute and the text is not searchable. I would consider an Obama administration at least a small success if he could get something like this accomplished. At least tech-savvy folks could be more aware of what is happening.
While it is a good thing to see more of these ludicrous John Doe cases dismissed, it could have been rather comical to see RIAA go up before a judge that had told them to stop the bundling.
I mean come on, it always works out for you when you ignore the order of several judges.
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Causing games to be more social also helps sell DLC. If your bud buys those extra maps or levels, now you are more compelled to do the same, otherwise there is no more co-op for you. It is all about being able to sell more. While religion, politics, or anything else may be tackled in games, it is not to force a point, it is to create a world/scenario that can be relevant to the player. Why? So they play it more, recommend it to friends and buy the requisite expansions. Again, all about the money.
If we do we'll have to come in on Saturday.... ummmm, yeaaaah...
So, hold on to your wallet, change is coming...
Don't you mean "Hang on to your wallet, your change is leaving"?
Whew... for a second there I thought our satellites were getting just as obese as our citizens!
In this case everyone was growing to expect just that, and would therefore be taking it seriously. Or at least people that could do something about it would. Now, since nothing much has happened people are lulled into a false sense of security and become lax or start considering the threat that something big was happening on 4/1 the real joke.
Now that the hype has supsided, what better time to strike? I think that dovetails nicely with GreggBZ's earlier post about the holiday weekend (for some of us).
Correction: We ostensibly invaded Iraq to ... set up a supply line for it's resources..
Whew, thanks for clearing that up for me. I guess it's a really good thing we got all those resources flowing or else oil/gas prices may have spiked, er, spiked higher, or something like that. I guess they just haven't managed to bury that super-secret Iraq-to-DC oil pipeline yet.
Yarrrgh! Looks like they buried the hatchet. The new conglomerate will be the Warner Pirate Brothers.
Ok, I'll leave the whole "obviously troublesome for democracy" thing alone for now.
Why do you automatically assume the studies that are referred to are simply news articles? Do you for some reason find it hard to believe that papers published in a reputed journal might "smell fishy" to somebody? I am pretty sure that these journals publish papers for discussion, and a by product of that is some of these papers proving suspect or flat out wrong as a result.
The poster is not saying throw out your "advanced scientific techniques" but rather take those in conjunction with common sense (and maybe use a little of it to interpret them).
Thank you though for looking at that post as rather plebeian. It can only serve to make us "non-scientists" more amicable toward people like you.
nobody would pay money to Gore's little scam.
That is, until governments force them to. On an individual basis most people would not, especially now that money is tighter around the industrialized world for most people. It is a lot easier to agree with these things when your standard of living is not under pressure.
You certainly have more faith in the intelligence of governments than I do.
there was about 2 million square kilometers less ice in September 2007 than in September 2003.
... yeah, or could could oh, "randomly" pick early February and golly, gee, in 2008 and 2003 the ice area was essentially the same. Using your same logic, I guess this is an upward trend.
The problem with all of this is that it is political and not science anymore. You clearly demonstrate the standard procedure... pick a data range that fits your objectives and then use it to establish a trend. What should be of more concern is where this inaccurate data has been used to influence policy (UN anybody?). I think it is incumbent upon anyone trying to prove a theory (global warming, especially being due in largest part to man, IS a theory) to use the most accurate instruments and methods available. Sure, continue using older methods so that you can compare historical data sets, but more accurate methods should be employed as well. That is simply good science.
No, sorry. Cats very much care about rodent size. I work at a shipyard in the US. Shipyards of course have quite the rat problem. The solution here (several years ago now) was to release unaltered cats throughout the yard to kill the rats. People overlooked the fact many of the rats were the size of small cats.
Now we have a rat problem AND a cat problem.
... immediately wasted on fruitless 'refunds' that did nothing to strengthen the economy
Would that be the refunds that the current President is trying to emulate on a larger scale?
But come now, those refunds were really just welfare checks for everyone, something you democrats should just pee your pants with glee over.
we can't have a system where we're talking about arresting teenagers in their bedrooms. People can rent a room in an hotel and leave with a bar of soap - there's a big difference between leaving with a bar of soap and leaving with the television.
But if you DO leave with the TV you get to go to another hotel and this time the soap comes on a rope!
To quote Theodore Roosevelt, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism." We are all Americans and I hope this Presidency can move us towards that. Anyone who continues to carry around a hyphenated state of their American identity has not truly embraced America and its promise. Have your culture and celebrate it, because the variety we have is part of what makes this country great and unique. At the end of the day though, be American, fully and whole-heartedly.
That would be the separation of church and state mentioned where in the Constitution? I saw the part about government not promoting one religion over another nor prohibiting religions, but not the whole separation thing.
Oh, well, I guess since he is President now he needs to just drop all his religious convictions so there won't be anyone that gets offended.
But I am neither optimist or pessimist, only pragmatist.
I'm a realist, it just looks like pessimism because the world sucks so much.
The founding fathers did not have you in mind when they wrote the Constitution, they had their own interests and agendas in mind.
For more information, the website for all of the events in the International Year of Astronomy is here. It really is amazing what you can see when you get away from light pollution.
The frequencies in this spectrum penetrate things like walls really well. By auctioning it off the FCC made a lot of money and freed up frequencies for use by first responders and emergency personnel as well as those blocks bought by Verizon and AT&T. Check wikipedia for 700Mhz auction.
...it's still too complicated for a lot of people. Delaying the transition because some people aren't ready is ridiculous. These are the same people that won't be ready 3 months from now.
My mother-in-law is the kind that has never seen a link she didn't want to click. She managed to switch herself over.
Grandmother-in-law doesn't even have a computer and only got her first cell phone last week and she has managed to get switched.
Sorry, but the people that aren't switched in time can just pick up their landline and their phonebook and find somebody to complain to.
Why let something as silly as a little TOS stop you, when it's so utterly pointless and stupid given the ease of acquiring a copy of the video. No one is going to begrudge you for trying to be a better citizen. Except for the politicians perhaps.
Since the politicians write the laws it could be of concern. Of course it could also be one of the first times some politicians had ever really paid attention to what is included in a TOS, for good or bad.
Seriously though, if you actually know who your Senators and Representative are you can see how they act, if they even show up for votes, or how they conduct themselves in session. At least they are finally trying to catch up with the rest of the country on technology.
I believe that right now they deliver bills to correspondents/reporters in something like PDF but often on controversial matters it is last minute and the text is not searchable. I would consider an Obama administration at least a small success if he could get something like this accomplished. At least tech-savvy folks could be more aware of what is happening.
While it is a good thing to see more of these ludicrous John Doe cases dismissed, it could have been rather comical to see RIAA go up before a judge that had told them to stop the bundling. I mean come on, it always works out for you when you ignore the order of several judges.
It's whisper-quiet. And, in Seattle, runs off hydro power.
Now if they can get it run off coffee in Seattle maybe it'll help Tesla and Starbucks out.
Then you AND your car can be hopped up on caffeine by the time you get to work!