I'd say that long term viability should be the highest priority for business. Profit helps with that, but it's not the be-all end-all. You can fire all your employees and make a really good bottom line at the end of the year, but you'll be broke the next. The people that care about such things like privacy and security are also the professionals that judge internet companies like Google. Those people are also Google's employee base. So I'd imagine that not being evil is really vital to Google. I'd say they would even pay large sums of money, or fore-go large sums of profit, to maintain their good image. Because without it, I'd go elsewhere, and turn on adblock for google.
bloody hell! I was just about to rant about the need for this exact feature as all the graphics of civ4, while astonishing at the time, are completely ignored after about 10 hours of gameplay.
It's like I think it and it comes true...
Quickly new found super-power activate! : Procedurally generated tech-trees with meaningful game-play changes that still jive with history!
Way beyond. While a vacume is a lot lighter then air, the amount of titanium/whatever needed to deal with that pressure difference is heavier then the lift it provides. But would be pretty awesome to have a titanium balloon.
That's because it's chat with a couple of features.
Now, the feature where you can chat in between previous lines of chat is nice and all, but what killed the wave is that starry-eyed marketers got a hold of it and sold it as the new revolution.
Like sharepoint. It's a web framework with some extra features. Or, it's a collection of prebuilt web pages with an SQL backend. But they don't sell it as that. They load it with 200% of Marketese and Weaselish and it can bring you a sandwich. (Just not out of the box).
I could argue that the person doing day trading also performs the service of moving around a good that some people need to buy and some others need to sell (even if minutes/hours later).
And you would have a bad argument. Day traders, by and far, make random actions on the stock market in an effort to milk the system for money. They don't really provide a service. They are not beneficial to society on the whole.
More so with these bots and the people running these bots.
Yeah, "bettered done"?
I was JUST ranting about how we shouldn't care about trivial things like spacing after periods, but this is just a sad excuse for journalism.
"beaten"
"surpassed"
"out done"
"blown out of the water"
And while it seems a little old-fashioned, "bested" would work.
Come on people, read it twice before submitting for millions to read.
Git 'er bettered done'ed!
I'm all for passionately taking a position in a debate that doesn't really warrant a debate. Like "pop" vs. "coke" vs. "soda". (it's "pop" you vile heritics!). It's a joke though. The entire root cause of the battle is trivial and meaningless. The entire thing is a satirical play on a minor regional linguistic nuance. I do it for a laugh.
And so as to the question upon the numberings of the spaces between sentences, verily I say unto thee: Who gives a damn?
If you really passionately care about such a minor thing as this, then you are an anal nit-picker. Now piss off and do something awesome.
I know it's been a long road for some, and far too delayed for others, but the future is here. Alas, I regret to inform you that a complete direct neural interface is still a ways off, and neural replication far beyond. The reaper will still take his due for us all.
But a toast to all those who helped haul humanity into the future, kicking and screaming all the way. I only wish I could have helped more.
Yeah, that's pretty much my views on Germany. But for Japan, I think you're thinking of the 1951 treaty where we limited their military. The treaty you're linking does indeed bind us into having a base in Japan, but it expired after 10 years in 1970. We're not bound by it anymore. Korea is, yeah, Korea is special. Crazy nation to the north. BUT we could simply say, "We will defend S. Korea". We really don't need troops there as a twisted sort of down payment. Those big floating target ARE bases. I'm pretty sure that S. Korea would let us dock and fuel up.
policy called "Global Reach"
Well yeah. But what has that really gotten us? This is one of the reasons that the rest of the world sees us as bullies. This is why our military costs what it does. This is dangerously close of making us the "bad guy".
, but I don't hear anyone claiming that China has been doing much saber rattling.
Well.... depends where you listen. Among the gun-nut types, China is the obvious next big enemy where all their paranoia is being directed. And there have been incidents: Surfacing a sub in the midst of our carrier group. Blinding spy satellites. State sponsored hacking. The usual tech espionage. There was that flyboy who crashed into ours. Most of it isn't quite saber rattling, but showing off that China is a modern military might.
Yeah, about that. How much is that costing us anyway?
And for what?
I understand that we, you know, conquered Germany and Japan. And poured money into rebuilding them. Part of that was establishing our dominance over them and all that jazz. That portion is over. We are no longer keeping the huns down. The emperor will not rise again. And if they do, they'll be allies.
So really, what purpose are the foreign military bases serving?
Attack what? The primary point of attack has been convoys, on the road. Essentially laying mines and waiting for people to drive over them. If our troops are in bunkers, they'll be safe. Now, if they attack the military bases, They Are Going To Lose. In fact, such a case would be readily welcomed by our military tacticians. We'd love if they just came out into the open and opened fire at our guys. Because they'd survive, return fire, and liberate the fuck out of them.
Also, just why do you think there are "few remaining insurgent groups" left? There are still a lot of Iraqi's in Iraq, and as long as they return fire, look menacing enough, or simply get in the way, they're going to be labeled as insurgents. So we can shoot them. Just as in Vietnam, the question "who is the enemy" has becomed muddled. And that's one of the big reasons that the occupation of Iraq is coming to an end.
Tomorrow I'm going to dine n dash and but I will tell 10 people about the restaurant to make up for it.
A poor beggar was walking down the streets of Bombay when he smelled a delicious feast. Since he could not afford the curry in the restaurant, he sat outside and pretended his bread and gruel was the delicious curry served inside. The owner saw this and got angry and demanded to be paid for the smells. The beggar refused. A policeman broke up the argument and listened to their story. In the end, he turned to the beggar and demanded his coinpurse. The beggar saddly complied.
"How much do you charge for your curries?" asked the policeman.
"5 coppers" said the owner
The policeman held up the coinpurse and rattled it five times, and gave it back to the beggar.
"There, now you have been paid"
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So, in your head, do the Chinese all wear top hats, have long mustaches, with a penchant to laugh diabolically.
I'd say that long term viability should be the highest priority for business. Profit helps with that, but it's not the be-all end-all. You can fire all your employees and make a really good bottom line at the end of the year, but you'll be broke the next. The people that care about such things like privacy and security are also the professionals that judge internet companies like Google. Those people are also Google's employee base. So I'd imagine that not being evil is really vital to Google. I'd say they would even pay large sums of money, or fore-go large sums of profit, to maintain their good image. Because without it, I'd go elsewhere, and turn on adblock for google.
Whew! Man, that was close.
bloody hell! I was just about to rant about the need for this exact feature as all the graphics of civ4, while astonishing at the time, are completely ignored after about 10 hours of gameplay.
It's like I think it and it comes true...
Quickly new found super-power activate! : Procedurally generated tech-trees with meaningful game-play changes that still jive with history!
Otherwise, passengers and freight get off, thing heads rapidly skywards. Not good.
Dude, you rope it off when loading. Duh.
Planes have, you know, landing gear, even though it's not aerodynamic.
Way beyond. While a vacume is a lot lighter then air, the amount of titanium/whatever needed to deal with that pressure difference is heavier then the lift it provides. But would be pretty awesome to have a titanium balloon.
try maptool instead.
I claim sharepoint SHOULD be dead.
Wow, whoops. You see this is what I get for assuming the new york stock exchange is in new york. Thanks yo.
That's because it's chat with a couple of features.
Now, the feature where you can chat in between previous lines of chat is nice and all, but what killed the wave is that starry-eyed marketers got a hold of it and sold it as the new revolution.
Like sharepoint. It's a web framework with some extra features. Or, it's a collection of prebuilt web pages with an SQL backend. But they don't sell it as that. They load it with 200% of Marketese and Weaselish and it can bring you a sandwich. (Just not out of the box).
I could argue that the person doing day trading also performs the service of moving around a good that some people need to buy and some others need to sell (even if minutes/hours later).
And you would have a bad argument. Day traders, by and far, make random actions on the stock market in an effort to milk the system for money. They don't really provide a service. They are not beneficial to society on the whole.
More so with these bots and the people running these bots.
Hell, even Jersey bots are out of luck. Real estate near the NYSE has sky-rocketed just so people running bots can get a lower ping.
Yeah, "bettered done"?
I was JUST ranting about how we shouldn't care about trivial things like spacing after periods, but this is just a sad excuse for journalism.
"beaten"
"surpassed"
"out done"
"blown out of the water"
And while it seems a little old-fashioned, "bested" would work.
Come on people, read it twice before submitting for millions to read.
Git 'er bettered done'ed!
And Shadowrun shows that even if you do upgrade to wireless, everyone will live in Faraday cages.
I'm all for passionately taking a position in a debate that doesn't really warrant a debate. Like "pop" vs. "coke" vs. "soda". (it's "pop" you vile heritics!). It's a joke though. The entire root cause of the battle is trivial and meaningless. The entire thing is a satirical play on a minor regional linguistic nuance. I do it for a laugh.
And so as to the question upon the numberings of the spaces between sentences, verily I say unto thee: Who gives a damn?
If you really passionately care about such a minor thing as this, then you are an anal nit-picker. Now piss off and do something awesome.
Welcome to the future.
I know it's been a long road for some, and far too delayed for others, but the future is here. Alas, I regret to inform you that a complete direct neural interface is still a ways off, and neural replication far beyond. The reaper will still take his due for us all.
But a toast to all those who helped haul humanity into the future, kicking and screaming all the way. I only wish I could have helped more.
policy called "Global Reach"
Well yeah. But what has that really gotten us? This is one of the reasons that the rest of the world sees us as bullies. This is why our military costs what it does. This is dangerously close of making us the "bad guy".
, but I don't hear anyone claiming that China has been doing much saber rattling.
Well.... depends where you listen. Among the gun-nut types, China is the obvious next big enemy where all their paranoia is being directed. And there have been incidents:
Surfacing a sub in the midst of our carrier group.
Blinding spy satellites.
State sponsored hacking.
The usual tech espionage.
There was that flyboy who crashed into ours.
Most of it isn't quite saber rattling, but showing off that China is a modern military might.
And it costs less on upkeep when they don't get holes in them.
Plus, you know, THEY DON'T GET HOLES IN THEM.
You mean the Iraqi's and the pissed off Iraqi's?
huh, well for starters, I think the troops should stop making plywood out of mahogany. Really, what were they thinking?
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Yeah, about that. How much is that costing us anyway?
And for what?
I understand that we, you know, conquered Germany and Japan. And poured money into rebuilding them. Part of that was establishing our dominance over them and all that jazz. That portion is over. We are no longer keeping the huns down. The emperor will not rise again. And if they do, they'll be allies.
So really, what purpose are the foreign military bases serving?
Attack what? The primary point of attack has been convoys, on the road. Essentially laying mines and waiting for people to drive over them. If our troops are in bunkers, they'll be safe.
Now, if they attack the military bases, They Are Going To Lose. In fact, such a case would be readily welcomed by our military tacticians. We'd love if they just came out into the open and opened fire at our guys. Because they'd survive, return fire, and liberate the fuck out of them.
Also, just why do you think there are "few remaining insurgent groups" left? There are still a lot of Iraqi's in Iraq, and as long as they return fire, look menacing enough, or simply get in the way, they're going to be labeled as insurgents. So we can shoot them. Just as in Vietnam, the question "who is the enemy" has becomed muddled. And that's one of the big reasons that the occupation of Iraq is coming to an end.
Why won't anyone think about the poor yacht salesmen!?
Tomorrow I'm going to dine n dash and but I will tell 10 people about the restaurant to make up for it.
A poor beggar was walking down the streets of Bombay when he smelled a delicious feast. Since he could not afford the curry in the restaurant, he sat outside and pretended his bread and gruel was the delicious curry served inside. The owner saw this and got angry and demanded to be paid for the smells. The beggar refused. A policeman broke up the argument and listened to their story. In the end, he turned to the beggar and demanded his coinpurse. The beggar saddly complied.
"How much do you charge for your curries?" asked the policeman.
"5 coppers" said the owner
The policeman held up the coinpurse and rattled it five times, and gave it back to the beggar.
"There, now you have been paid"
Aye, to Mr. Vogel,
May be all be so lucky to do what we love for a living.