You don't think that an intelligence agency would be interested in "how people in a culture define and understand the world around them" for pretty much every country in the world?
We have these things called ambulances, they have these flashing lights and sirens to let other drivers know to get out of the damn way because there is an emergency and they need to get where they are going fast.
Though I guess you probably don't, since the ranting I hear about your health system probably means you only get an ambulance if you have a credit card handy.
While I'm sure you have a very interesting back yard.
I don't have a copper mine in my yard. Let alone a smelter. Or a chip fabrication plant. Or the coal mine/oil well/whatever to provide the fuel to run them.
And hence rather than doing everything myself I do a few things quite well and then I trade with others for the things that the do quite well that I need.
So you only spend your money on things that make your feel terrible about yourself?
Pretty much everything I spend my "disposable income" on (i.e. not paying the bills...) is stuff that makes me feel good or feel good about myself. Or that I think will make others feed good. Actually pretty much everything I do is attempts to make myself feel good or to allow me to do other things that make me feel good.
You just spend your whole life feeling miserable I take it?
How is that not "ending". Only a moron would think they could stop using nuclear power overnight, so obviously deciding "to end use of nuclear power" can't mean anything but deciding to not use it at some point in the future, likely bu not building new plants so that when the existing ones reach their EOL you have "ended".
And you do realise there is more than just fossil fuels and nuclear power generation, right? Right?
You have ten weeks to walk, and if you can't, you get an F and you're not allowed to try to walk anymore
No it's like giving them ten weeks to walk and if they can't then they can try for ten weeks again. We don't stop them from trying to walk anymore, we stop them from trying to run until they get that walking thing down.
Or does he seriosuly not let people who fail a course try it again next semester?
That some games are good and have long lifetimes is irrelevant to the point.
Right now you can buy a new AAA game and it will run on a 3 year old PC, that wasn't cutting edge when it was bought and has had no upgrades at all, just fine. That was unheard of not that long ago.
Obviously a 5 year old game will run on a 5 year old PC (well ignoring the odd game famous for needing super hardware).
I'm as sure that tomorrow isn't the rapture as I am that the Moon won't sponteneously turn into cheese tomorrow, and that my house won't become a monster and eat the local children tomorrow, and that the sun won't go supernova tomorrow, and that 1+1 will still equal 2 tomorrow.
Yes I could be wrong on any of those, but if you are going to say I can't be "sure", then the word is meaningless since no one can be sure of anything.
Though I don't think it was, the "gross" and "budget" numbers on the wikipedia page for it show it having a ROI of over 40% (though I know nothing about movie accounting and what budget actually includes) which doesn't seem like losing to me...
And the CDC is arguably more important than the US Military, and neglected. Which is REALLY a bigger threat to us, the military power of any foreign adversary, or a highly contagious disease that knows no borders?
A person trying to kill you is infinitely more dangerous than a virus.
How many people were killed in the last year by other people?
How many people died from contagious diseases?
I'm putting my money on that second one being larger.
I am much more likely to die from an inectious disease than from someone intentionally killing me.
Note: I'm not contesting the benefits the US military brings or that without one those chances might reverse. I'm just contesting that "infinitely more dangerous" claim.
Some people will buy the game who wouldn't have otherwise because they can sell it to someone else once they are done with it. So money goes to the dev that wouldn't have if there was no second hand sales of games.
Some people will sell some other game they own and use the money they get as part of the payment of buying their new game. So money goes to the dev that wouldn't have if there was no second hand sales of games.
So there's gains and losses, and they likely have no idea what the relative value of them are.
Of course there's something they can do about it. Sell the game for $50 with codes for DLC that you charge $100 for otherwise. And make the that DLC provide something essential to the game. There you go second hand market destroyed.
Clck that Account link in slashdot. Note there's a place for an AIM value which is so important you might want to give it to slashdot without making it public...
Yes, if you ignore the decaf drinkers were the same as the normal coffee drinkers and hence the abstract finishes with: "The association appears to be related to non-caffeine components of coffee."
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You don't think that an intelligence agency would be interested in "how people in a culture define and understand the world around them" for pretty much every country in the world?
Yes, delete them all except for the Standard Chinese and the Hindi ones.
or fix it, that works really well too.
We have these things called ambulances, they have these flashing lights and sirens to let other drivers know to get out of the damn way because there is an emergency and they need to get where they are going fast.
Though I guess you probably don't, since the ranting I hear about your health system probably means you only get an ambulance if you have a credit card handy.
God damn it. I really need a better secretary...
Yeah I think you'd take the scholtech type variant there :)
ruin you both and you want to add equity to the mix just to remove any doubt at all that your "contractor" status is pure tax evasion.
That doesn't seem such a wonderful idea.
That you exit your browser is completely irrelevant to the person who has a copy of the cookie you sent in the clear already.
While I'm sure you have a very interesting back yard.
I don't have a copper mine in my yard. Let alone a smelter. Or a chip fabrication plant. Or the coal mine/oil well/whatever to provide the fuel to run them.
And hence rather than doing everything myself I do a few things quite well and then I trade with others for the things that the do quite well that I need.
The rest of us have kept up with English usage changes.
Why is something else of more value?
Your opinions on the relative worth of leisure activities are the gold standard now?
Yeah, because "X Institute if Technology" is such an uncommon name.
It's not like there's IIT in Illinios of FIT in Florida or OIT in Oregan. Or a dozens of others of the form XIT and XYIT.
And if they used the other alternative "tech" they'd be copying caltech right?
TFA has that quote in it, so I guess you're doing einsteinfanboying if they are.
That is the core of the joke being made after all.
So you only spend your money on things that make your feel terrible about yourself?
Pretty much everything I spend my "disposable income" on (i.e. not paying the bills...) is stuff that makes me feel good or feel good about myself. Or that I think will make others feed good. Actually pretty much everything I do is attempts to make myself feel good or to allow me to do other things that make me feel good.
You just spend your whole life feeling miserable I take it?
How is that not "ending". Only a moron would think they could stop using nuclear power overnight, so obviously deciding "to end use of nuclear power" can't mean anything but deciding to not use it at some point in the future, likely bu not building new plants so that when the existing ones reach their EOL you have "ended".
And you do realise there is more than just fossil fuels and nuclear power generation, right? Right?
No it's like giving them ten weeks to walk and if they can't then they can try for ten weeks again. We don't stop them from trying to walk anymore, we stop them from trying to run until they get that walking thing down.
Or does he seriosuly not let people who fail a course try it again next semester?
That some games are good and have long lifetimes is irrelevant to the point.
Right now you can buy a new AAA game and it will run on a 3 year old PC, that wasn't cutting edge when it was bought and has had no upgrades at all, just fine. That was unheard of not that long ago.
Obviously a 5 year old game will run on a 5 year old PC (well ignoring the odd game famous for needing super hardware).
I'm as sure that tomorrow isn't the rapture as I am that the Moon won't sponteneously turn into cheese tomorrow, and that my house won't become a monster and eat the local children tomorrow, and that the sun won't go supernova tomorrow, and that 1+1 will still equal 2 tomorrow.
Yes I could be wrong on any of those, but if you are going to say I can't be "sure", then the word is meaningless since no one can be sure of anything.
By costing too much to make.
Though I don't think it was, the "gross" and "budget" numbers on the wikipedia page for it show it having a ROI of over 40% (though I know nothing about movie accounting and what budget actually includes) which doesn't seem like losing to me...
But no one gives a shit about Europe anyway.
How many people were killed in the last year by other people?
How many people died from contagious diseases?
I'm putting my money on that second one being larger.
I am much more likely to die from an inectious disease than from someone intentionally killing me.
Note: I'm not contesting the benefits the US military brings or that without one those chances might reverse. I'm just contesting that "infinitely more dangerous" claim.
Some people will buy the game who wouldn't have otherwise because they can sell it to someone else once they are done with it. So money goes to the dev that wouldn't have if there was no second hand sales of games.
Some people will sell some other game they own and use the money they get as part of the payment of buying their new game. So money goes to the dev that wouldn't have if there was no second hand sales of games.
So there's gains and losses, and they likely have no idea what the relative value of them are.
Of course there's something they can do about it. Sell the game for $50 with codes for DLC that you charge $100 for otherwise. And make the that DLC provide something essential to the game. There you go second hand market destroyed.
Obviously "get prostate cancer" means "gets diagnosed with prostate cancer" in this context.
Or do you think the researchers had magical powers to determine how many people (that they never met) in their study had undiagnosed prostate cancer?
Clck that Account link in slashdot. Note there's a place for an AIM value which is so important you might want to give it to slashdot without making it public...
Yes, if you ignore the decaf drinkers were the same as the normal coffee drinkers and hence the abstract finishes with: "The association appears to be related to non-caffeine components of coffee."