Actually, it's more of us and them. And the blood elves are on the Horde side. Also, it's a lot more lived in of a world, and it has a healty dose of steampunk from the goblins and gnomes. Even an Orc can be the hero of his own story in WoW.
Funny that, we give the most subsidies to the crops we export the most, and therefore need to control the production of the most. And if you think farm subsidies are about helping farmers, I've got some bottom land in Michigan to sell you. That said, the poisoning of the land I mentioned in my post, that's why they subsidise tobacco. Nothing else will grow where tobacco grows. It's not just a way of life issue for the tobacco farmers, it's a matter that there is nothing else that they can grow. If it were not for the addictive drug in it tobacco would be a weed that we would try to eradicate at any costs. It poisons all that it touches, and yet because it is euphoric, and allows us to deal with stress, we keep growing, grooming, harvesting, and replanting it.
Tobacco also poisons the soil, has to be cured, and in general isn't something you want to just put willy-nilly anywhere. That said, if you reduce the risk of growing marajuana, you also reduce the price of the marajuana, and yes, these numbers would be overinflated. I honestly don't know how much legal marajuana grown in the US would cost, especially if the growers wanted subsidies similar to most other agricultural products in the US.
I'd give you a very strong probably on that. You'd still need to have a USB Hub to attach more than one device to this particular plug computer. But with Samba and CUPS you could set it up to share files and printing to the windows machines. Then attach a hard drive and the printer, and all will be good.
Ummmm... the procedure for hard drives seems a little overdone to me. Wouldn't a thermite grenade out in the middle of nowhere mean that the drive would be destroyed with less risk of interception than shipping it back to where it can be "properly" destoryed?
100*40 gigs=100 drives each of which is capable of holding the operating system for a workstation. Also since he mentioned CD drives, maybe he is selling the entire used system. Also depending on drive technology, you may be able to work them into a RAID array, or the buyer might just want to slag them anyway for the component material.
Ok, you're not the first to cast the Klingons as the Soviets, and yes, there was a lot of US - Soviet drama examined as the fight between the Klingons and the Americans. But, the Klingons, the Borg, and the Ferengi were all based on aspects of America that Rodenberry didn't like. The federation was a utopian comunist society. You get less of that in the series that he didn't directly touch. Remember that Gene Rodenberry was a card carrying member of the comunist party. This isn't an attack on his work, regardless of his politics it stands as a work of art in its own right, But please, at least try to understand where the author was coming from.
You fail at math. Because the absolute numbers of gamers are going up that means that the percentage of those gamers who are hardcore gamers is going down, even if the absolute numbers of hardcore gamers is steady, or even growing at an "insuficent" rate. By adding casual gamers to the mix you make the market larger, making it require more units to be at the same market share. Thank you for trying.
Um, excuse me, but you are without a doubt a stupid sack of shit. As individuals, no we do not have a great "need" for electrical power, or power of any type. But as a society we do. The numbers of humans we have would be unable to survive without the following.
1. Agriculture. Hunter-gatherers simply require too much space, and there isn't enough room on earth, nor game, nor forragable vegetables for the current population to be sustained as hunter-gatherers.
2. Transportation. Just because we can grow the food doesn't me we can get it where it needs to be. Look at the USSR durring the cold war. Their food production was wonderful, some of the best in the world, and yet in the cities there were still bread lines because there was no way to get wheat to market.
3. Refridgeration. Most food goes bad, and goes bad quickly. Refridgeration retards the spoilage, so that food can be transported from far off parts of the world to your plate.
4. Employment. Farmers work hard, they want to be rewarded for their work, so you must have employment so that you can get the money to pay the farmers to allow them the rewards for their labor, so that they will continue to feed hundreds to thousands of people each.
5. Heavy machinery. Farming takes heavy machinery. Moving food takes heavy machinery. building the roads over which food is moved takes... wait for it.... heavy machinery. It also takes heavy machinery to make heavy machinery. It takes work to design the machiery, to build it, to move it. All of this also takes energy.
I could go on, but I'm not going to. The point is that yes, contries have energy NEEDS. Even when energy may be used on what can be considered luxuries for individuals that is an essential part of the production and maintenace of the full population. Yes individuals can restrict their energy usage, but consumer consumption isn't a gnat's fart in a skyscraper compared to the genuine needs of a modern society.
My point is that simply by giving them a diffrent label doesn't change things. If we way that invisible demons make us sick, or that bacteria make us sick, there isn't a lot of diffrence. There are other things that "demons" are purported to do, and we can consider them diffrently, but for making cheese, causing illness, making wounds fester, and a myraid of other things, one label is as good as another.
Demons, bacteria, what's the real diffrence. Both are things that you can't observe with the naked eye that you have to take a shaman's word for existing. You can sometimes see the effects of them, like milk going sour, or meat rotting, but you can't directly observe either without mystical tools.
I know that you're not supopsed to use tertiary sources, but I'm too lazy to find any primary sources. But, let's just go with This tertiary source as proof that you can use torture to get people to do things that they otherwise would not do, incluing confessing to something that will get them hanged.
Um, that's pretty easy actually. Sign this, or we make you watch the movie again. Sign this and we'll put some sugar on your rice today. Sign this and we won't put in in stress positions. Sign this and you can have $random_comfort. Sign this and we we'll let you sleep...
Torture works. Also, it's possible that he did have a sense of humor. People somtimes do things for strange reasons, and after the bug hunt there is pretty good evidence he was a bit cracked before the US got ahold of him.
Playing with your dog food analogy. If your dog rejects the food, it doesn't matter how pretty it looks, you'll buy another dog food. If the readers reject the newspaper, it doesn't matter how "Advertiser Centric" the paper is, they'll shop their business until they find one that their "dog" actually eats. This is like a dog food company replacing half the beef or lamb in its formula with soy, and then complaining that they are loosing business to a company that makes higher quality dog food, and then suing a vetrenarian for recomending the better quality dog food.
I don't know where you get that farmers don't care about cattle. A single steer represents a sizeable investment, and a sizable return. Yes they try to avoid emotional attachment to the steer, but the health and wellbeing of the steer is quite important. The live price of beef is $.8250 per pound for a beef steer weighing 1300 lbs (Normal butchering weight for a beef steer). That means that the total steer is worth about $1100 This explains why ranchers are so eager to do anything they can, including artificial insemination, hormone implants, and factory farming to get their beef up to weight as quickly as possible. Dairy cattle are even more valuable, at least, the cows are. The steers are considered a byproduct, and typically sold at firesale prices and used by family farmers for personal consumption. Brood cows and proven stud bulls have even higher values than steers, because they are used to produce more steers. Also, happy beef tastes better. For beef for market most ranchers do not consider this to be a worry, since the market does not currently have a way to differentiate on that unless the farmer is selling directly to a high end reseraunt, on the other hand, if a farmer or rancher intends a particular steer, or cow, for their personal consumption, you can be sure that they will give that animal extra special attention. Getting back to newspapers with this, no, they newspaper doesn't care about its readers as readers, they care about them as eyes for the advertisments. Happy readers are more receptive of advertising, especially if, as is possible on the internet, the advertising is relevant to their interests. As their readership declines they have less and less to sell to the advertisers, just as if a steer gets ill, and starts to lose weight the rancher will have less and less to sell to the butcher. By attacking aggragators the newspapers are freaking out as if this is something that could destroy their entire herd, instead of something that means they need to treat the steer with penecillin (which I guess with this analogy is more interesting stories). Anyway, I think I've taken this analogy as far as I can, and much farther than I should have. Please pick a better analogy in the future.
It's not rocket science to set up a server to NOT federate. Unless you federate, no connecting to the outside. Restricting users to only the settings you want them to have access to with group policies can make your life a little easier as an admin.
Um... I think you missed the point. The GP specifically stated that the US killed more civilians than Gemany, but was PERCEIVED as the humanitarians. Also Fallujah held on a hell of a long time after the war was clearly lost. Bad things happen. All the deaths in that city were for more or less the same reason as until the 19th century the standard laws of war allowed a complete sack of any town that resisted beyond a practiable breach. There was no longer any chance to win, only to inflict more casualties on the victor, so as a deterrant a city that continued to resist would be destoyed. As the aggressors in the war there are certain standars that we should be held to, but those standards should not include a requirment to lose.
Terrorists kill buildings. Nations kill clans, tribes, and cities. The reason there is terrorism is that some types of it work. Terrorism works if your willingness and ability to inflict it upon your enemies is greather than their willingness to suffer it. If your own willingness or ability is inadequate it just really pisses the enemies off, and that is when nations destroy nations. Happened with Japan in WWII, happend with Al Queida and the Taliban after 9/11.
Actually, it's not a ZOMG, just explain to the owner that you have certain ethical standards, and that you will not break the law for your job. Then put together an itemised list of licences needed to bring the company into compliance, with prices. If they are unwilling to pay, provide itemised list 2, which has FOSS options that can be migrated to, with an estimate of how long it would take you to do so, and how much downtime would be involved. If they are unwilling to go with either option, "You don't want to sell him death sticks. You want to go home and rethink your life."
Pulled or cut out? Actually getting them pulled (normal extraction) carries far less risk of complications. OTOH, if they are coming in so that normal extraction is possible, there usually isn't a need to pull them.
Rat Terriers will go into holes. For that matter so will daschunds. And they are naturally aggressive. Miniature daschunds were even bread for fighting that size of prey in its hole. There's even a non-blood sport to test their abilities, called ground dog trials. If you want to use predation on the little buggers, ground dogs are the way to go.
Actually, they are. With a machine gun you get something that is usefull, that has a real physical presence, and which can help to either prop up your government, or overthrow it, depending on who is doing the buying. It can assist you in getting food, mates, status, and a nice warm fuzzy. It can defend your village, or it can be used to raid other villages. All in all, the machine gun sounds like a much better purchase. Now, no, this isn't the way to make the world a better place, but the logic is sound. The same money that would e spend on Windows licences can also be spent on food, on clothing, on soldiers, on graft, on construction projects to gloify the Great Leader, or any number of other things. Some of these things matter to the citizens, some matter to the government. Either way, Windows seems like a bad investment to me.
Um.... No. Not at all. The GPL goes into effect when you UPLOAD the software. When you distribute it. It doesn't cover use at all. Please re-read the GPL. The consideration is the ability to modify and distribute the software. The cosideration you give up is that you distribute the source code as well, in the case of the GPL, or that you give credit where credit is due, in the case of the BSD licence. Neither licence controls use, because copyright does not control use, and by having legally attained the software you have the right to use it. Just like you have the right to read a book, even if you picked it up at the library.
OOOH, and even better, the sequals have nothing to do with the original story in the case of Ender's game. So you can have a beloved(?) character in an utterly new situation for the next two movies, and then milk it for three more by following a supporting character. Maybe even 4, like the author did with the books.
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Actually, it's more of us and them. And the blood elves are on the Horde side. Also, it's a lot more lived in of a world, and it has a healty dose of steampunk from the goblins and gnomes. Even an Orc can be the hero of his own story in WoW.
Funny that, we give the most subsidies to the crops we export the most, and therefore need to control the production of the most. And if you think farm subsidies are about helping farmers, I've got some bottom land in Michigan to sell you. That said, the poisoning of the land I mentioned in my post, that's why they subsidise tobacco. Nothing else will grow where tobacco grows. It's not just a way of life issue for the tobacco farmers, it's a matter that there is nothing else that they can grow. If it were not for the addictive drug in it tobacco would be a weed that we would try to eradicate at any costs. It poisons all that it touches, and yet because it is euphoric, and allows us to deal with stress, we keep growing, grooming, harvesting, and replanting it.
Tobacco also poisons the soil, has to be cured, and in general isn't something you want to just put willy-nilly anywhere. That said, if you reduce the risk of growing marajuana, you also reduce the price of the marajuana, and yes, these numbers would be overinflated. I honestly don't know how much legal marajuana grown in the US would cost, especially if the growers wanted subsidies similar to most other agricultural products in the US.
I'd give you a very strong probably on that. You'd still need to have a USB Hub to attach more than one device to this particular plug computer. But with Samba and CUPS you could set it up to share files and printing to the windows machines. Then attach a hard drive and the printer, and all will be good.
Ummmm... the procedure for hard drives seems a little overdone to me. Wouldn't a thermite grenade out in the middle of nowhere mean that the drive would be destroyed with less risk of interception than shipping it back to where it can be "properly" destoryed?
100*40 gigs=100 drives each of which is capable of holding the operating system for a workstation. Also since he mentioned CD drives, maybe he is selling the entire used system. Also depending on drive technology, you may be able to work them into a RAID array, or the buyer might just want to slag them anyway for the component material.
Ok, you're not the first to cast the Klingons as the Soviets, and yes, there was a lot of US - Soviet drama examined as the fight between the Klingons and the Americans. But, the Klingons, the Borg, and the Ferengi were all based on aspects of America that Rodenberry didn't like. The federation was a utopian comunist society. You get less of that in the series that he didn't directly touch. Remember that Gene Rodenberry was a card carrying member of the comunist party. This isn't an attack on his work, regardless of his politics it stands as a work of art in its own right, But please, at least try to understand where the author was coming from.
You fail at math. Because the absolute numbers of gamers are going up that means that the percentage of those gamers who are hardcore gamers is going down, even if the absolute numbers of hardcore gamers is steady, or even growing at an "insuficent" rate. By adding casual gamers to the mix you make the market larger, making it require more units to be at the same market share. Thank you for trying.
Um, excuse me, but you are without a doubt a stupid sack of shit. As individuals, no we do not have a great "need" for electrical power, or power of any type. But as a society we do. The numbers of humans we have would be unable to survive without the following. 1. Agriculture. Hunter-gatherers simply require too much space, and there isn't enough room on earth, nor game, nor forragable vegetables for the current population to be sustained as hunter-gatherers. 2. Transportation. Just because we can grow the food doesn't me we can get it where it needs to be. Look at the USSR durring the cold war. Their food production was wonderful, some of the best in the world, and yet in the cities there were still bread lines because there was no way to get wheat to market. 3. Refridgeration. Most food goes bad, and goes bad quickly. Refridgeration retards the spoilage, so that food can be transported from far off parts of the world to your plate. 4. Employment. Farmers work hard, they want to be rewarded for their work, so you must have employment so that you can get the money to pay the farmers to allow them the rewards for their labor, so that they will continue to feed hundreds to thousands of people each. 5. Heavy machinery. Farming takes heavy machinery. Moving food takes heavy machinery. building the roads over which food is moved takes... wait for it.... heavy machinery. It also takes heavy machinery to make heavy machinery. It takes work to design the machiery, to build it, to move it. All of this also takes energy. I could go on, but I'm not going to. The point is that yes, contries have energy NEEDS. Even when energy may be used on what can be considered luxuries for individuals that is an essential part of the production and maintenace of the full population. Yes individuals can restrict their energy usage, but consumer consumption isn't a gnat's fart in a skyscraper compared to the genuine needs of a modern society.
My point is that simply by giving them a diffrent label doesn't change things. If we way that invisible demons make us sick, or that bacteria make us sick, there isn't a lot of diffrence. There are other things that "demons" are purported to do, and we can consider them diffrently, but for making cheese, causing illness, making wounds fester, and a myraid of other things, one label is as good as another.
Demons, bacteria, what's the real diffrence. Both are things that you can't observe with the naked eye that you have to take a shaman's word for existing. You can sometimes see the effects of them, like milk going sour, or meat rotting, but you can't directly observe either without mystical tools.
I know that you're not supopsed to use tertiary sources, but I'm too lazy to find any primary sources. But, let's just go with This tertiary source as proof that you can use torture to get people to do things that they otherwise would not do, incluing confessing to something that will get them hanged.
Um, that's pretty easy actually. Sign this, or we make you watch the movie again. Sign this and we'll put some sugar on your rice today. Sign this and we won't put in in stress positions. Sign this and you can have $random_comfort. Sign this and we we'll let you sleep...
Torture works. Also, it's possible that he did have a sense of humor. People somtimes do things for strange reasons, and after the bug hunt there is pretty good evidence he was a bit cracked before the US got ahold of him.
Playing with your dog food analogy. If your dog rejects the food, it doesn't matter how pretty it looks, you'll buy another dog food. If the readers reject the newspaper, it doesn't matter how "Advertiser Centric" the paper is, they'll shop their business until they find one that their "dog" actually eats. This is like a dog food company replacing half the beef or lamb in its formula with soy, and then complaining that they are loosing business to a company that makes higher quality dog food, and then suing a vetrenarian for recomending the better quality dog food.
I don't know where you get that farmers don't care about cattle. A single steer represents a sizeable investment, and a sizable return. Yes they try to avoid emotional attachment to the steer, but the health and wellbeing of the steer is quite important. The live price of beef is $.8250 per pound for a beef steer weighing 1300 lbs (Normal butchering weight for a beef steer). That means that the total steer is worth about $1100 This explains why ranchers are so eager to do anything they can, including artificial insemination, hormone implants, and factory farming to get their beef up to weight as quickly as possible. Dairy cattle are even more valuable, at least, the cows are. The steers are considered a byproduct, and typically sold at firesale prices and used by family farmers for personal consumption. Brood cows and proven stud bulls have even higher values than steers, because they are used to produce more steers. Also, happy beef tastes better. For beef for market most ranchers do not consider this to be a worry, since the market does not currently have a way to differentiate on that unless the farmer is selling directly to a high end reseraunt, on the other hand, if a farmer or rancher intends a particular steer, or cow, for their personal consumption, you can be sure that they will give that animal extra special attention. Getting back to newspapers with this, no, they newspaper doesn't care about its readers as readers, they care about them as eyes for the advertisments. Happy readers are more receptive of advertising, especially if, as is possible on the internet, the advertising is relevant to their interests. As their readership declines they have less and less to sell to the advertisers, just as if a steer gets ill, and starts to lose weight the rancher will have less and less to sell to the butcher. By attacking aggragators the newspapers are freaking out as if this is something that could destroy their entire herd, instead of something that means they need to treat the steer with penecillin (which I guess with this analogy is more interesting stories). Anyway, I think I've taken this analogy as far as I can, and much farther than I should have. Please pick a better analogy in the future.
It's not rocket science to set up a server to NOT federate. Unless you federate, no connecting to the outside. Restricting users to only the settings you want them to have access to with group policies can make your life a little easier as an admin.
Um... I think you missed the point. The GP specifically stated that the US killed more civilians than Gemany, but was PERCEIVED as the humanitarians. Also Fallujah held on a hell of a long time after the war was clearly lost. Bad things happen. All the deaths in that city were for more or less the same reason as until the 19th century the standard laws of war allowed a complete sack of any town that resisted beyond a practiable breach. There was no longer any chance to win, only to inflict more casualties on the victor, so as a deterrant a city that continued to resist would be destoyed. As the aggressors in the war there are certain standars that we should be held to, but those standards should not include a requirment to lose.
Terrorists kill buildings. Nations kill clans, tribes, and cities. The reason there is terrorism is that some types of it work. Terrorism works if your willingness and ability to inflict it upon your enemies is greather than their willingness to suffer it. If your own willingness or ability is inadequate it just really pisses the enemies off, and that is when nations destroy nations. Happened with Japan in WWII, happend with Al Queida and the Taliban after 9/11.
Actually, it's not a ZOMG, just explain to the owner that you have certain ethical standards, and that you will not break the law for your job. Then put together an itemised list of licences needed to bring the company into compliance, with prices. If they are unwilling to pay, provide itemised list 2, which has FOSS options that can be migrated to, with an estimate of how long it would take you to do so, and how much downtime would be involved. If they are unwilling to go with either option, "You don't want to sell him death sticks. You want to go home and rethink your life."
Pulled or cut out? Actually getting them pulled (normal extraction) carries far less risk of complications. OTOH, if they are coming in so that normal extraction is possible, there usually isn't a need to pull them.
Rat Terriers will go into holes. For that matter so will daschunds. And they are naturally aggressive. Miniature daschunds were even bread for fighting that size of prey in its hole. There's even a non-blood sport to test their abilities, called ground dog trials. If you want to use predation on the little buggers, ground dogs are the way to go.
Actually, they are. With a machine gun you get something that is usefull, that has a real physical presence, and which can help to either prop up your government, or overthrow it, depending on who is doing the buying. It can assist you in getting food, mates, status, and a nice warm fuzzy. It can defend your village, or it can be used to raid other villages. All in all, the machine gun sounds like a much better purchase. Now, no, this isn't the way to make the world a better place, but the logic is sound. The same money that would e spend on Windows licences can also be spent on food, on clothing, on soldiers, on graft, on construction projects to gloify the Great Leader, or any number of other things. Some of these things matter to the citizens, some matter to the government. Either way, Windows seems like a bad investment to me.
Um.... No. Not at all. The GPL goes into effect when you UPLOAD the software. When you distribute it. It doesn't cover use at all. Please re-read the GPL. The consideration is the ability to modify and distribute the software. The cosideration you give up is that you distribute the source code as well, in the case of the GPL, or that you give credit where credit is due, in the case of the BSD licence. Neither licence controls use, because copyright does not control use, and by having legally attained the software you have the right to use it. Just like you have the right to read a book, even if you picked it up at the library.
OOOH, and even better, the sequals have nothing to do with the original story in the case of Ender's game. So you can have a beloved(?) character in an utterly new situation for the next two movies, and then milk it for three more by following a supporting character. Maybe even 4, like the author did with the books.