Leader of the first world? Only in his fucking delusions. Did you see how this "leader" was treated at the G12 summit once they knew his ass was gone? Plus I don't think a whole bunch of "first world" countries condemning your decisions really gives much credence to him being leader of any damn thing outside of his own mind.
At the time of this reply, you are only at +4, Insightful.
I wish I had mod points. (But then I couldn't post this.) That boils this all down perfectly to the core of the issue. Legislation saying what we can and can't buy to light our homes (regardless of health and safety issues caused by said "allowed" lighting) and other stupid government interference... New York had the right damn idea. "Over to you, boffins. We're stumped!"
Instead now we get endless meeting and think tanks and committees and bureaucracy burning tax payers money just to say "We can't let you have these bulbs anymore because of the power they use. Instead you can have these which contain toxic levels of lots of fun chemicals which mean you can't just toss them in the garbage, but of course you will, meaning these toxins will seep into the water table, but HEY! We appear to be doing something worthwhile and that might get us voted in next election, so fuck it, eh?!"
Nice! I grow weary of this "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" nonsense. Clearly we're not. It's bullshit speculation like this (and that is all this is) that leads to kneejerk legislation like ban incandescent bulbs despite the MULTIPLE hazards and health issues with the only viable replacement. (Which really isn't viable at all, due to those exact issues of disposal, health etc... For example I'm one of the "lucky" ones who gets headaches from the damn things.)
The big problem is on EITHER side of the global warming argument you've got bloody great piles of cash and interested parties trying to push their agenda. For every scientist that says "WE'RE ALL DOOMED!" another one says "Erm... No we're not." Just like "video games causes violent behaviour" and "video games don't cause violent behaviour".
It's also very hard to take to any talk of global warming that seriously when a large chunk of the northern hemisphere is freezing its ass off.
Purely for my own edification I pulled together weather records for where I live. I realise there's nothing scientific to it, but I was curious, since you'd assume if things are as bad as some claim, there's be some sign. Some indication that there was an increase in temperatures, even if only a degree or two. I looked at average temperatures by month for as long as they have records for. (Goes back to the late 1800's.) What did I find?
The average temperature was actually quite a bit hotter and peaked in the 1930's. The average cold temperature is about the same. In short, the cold weather now is largely the same. The hot weather is actually slightly cooler on average than it was 70+ years ago.
Then there's the United Kingdom. The Roman's used to grow grapes there. Now if people grew grapes there today folk would say "Look, global warming! There's your proof." Only this occurred hundreds of years before the Industrial Revolution...
And Manhattan is full of shit. Just not the kind they predicted.
I was using MC just two days ago for moving a bunch of files around. Sure you can use commandline stuff for a few files, but if you're working with a large number of files, like I was, MC was the easiest way to do it.
I've yet to find a graphical file manager in Linux I actually like.
Priceless. Dead as a doornail. *sigh* Still, it's nice to see MC being developed again. (Or not see in the case of what we've done to the server. See? This is why we can't have nice things!)
MC is always my go to file manager in Linux. I've tried other graphical clients, and none cut it for ease of use and simplicity.
Oh don't be such a douche nozzle. It's like buying certain blank media here in Canada. The RIAA (CRIA actually, their Canadian militia) get money from it. A levy that's placed on top of the actual cost.
So yeah, that is ass raping IMO. Stuff you need (and fuck off with your "discretionary" shit as everything but food is "discretionary") with extra crap on top you have to pay for that you receive absolutely no benefit from.
By which time a new standard for TV called UHD (UBER-HI-DEF!!!!) will exist, and your "new" TV you're waiting to reap the benefits with will be a 60" paperweight.
Well CF is a bad horse to back due to the toxic chemicals. It's trading short term benefits for long term failure. (Rather like burying nuclear waste for future generations to worry about.) People are not going to listen to the special disposal instructions and all that toxic crap in the CF lights will wind up in our landfills, water table etc... Not to mention the health effects of the lights themselves. (Migraines and other problems.)
LED lighting may be an idea, but I believe it's got a long way to go yet to be viable. Which is I shame, as I like the glow from a nice LED.
One of the leading anti-vax proponents has a standing offer to ANY medical professional who promotes the safety of vaccines. They will scale up the quantities of toxins in the vaccines so the dose they get would be the equivalent of what they say is safe for a baby to have injected. They will give them $10,000 if they will willing submit to having these "safe for a baby" chemicals injected into them.
They have even contacted some of the more vocal proponents directly, and met with zero response. Now wouldn't you think that someone, somewhere would take the ten large ones on offer and shut these people up?
I've had a 106 degree fever once in my life. I had measles when I had it.
The thing that bugs me with all these arguments is, in my experience, the people arguing that they're fine have done NO RESEARCH AT ALL other than anecdotal. My wife and I have read innumerable books, research studies, ACTUAL FDA AND CDC data on the subject, listened to lectures from Doctors such as Sherri Tenpenny who backs up ALL of her lectures with actual data from official sources. Fully cited, and where available online, provides the links to FDA and CDC documents (on the actual government websites.)
The less educated people are on vaccines, the more they defend them. I've spent years reading medical texts, government documents, books, listening to lectures etc... Just how much time have you vaccine defenders spent researching the issue I wonder? Probably a few minutes on Google to come up with your internet assembled vaccine philosophy.
I find the fact that someone gets modded up as +5 insightful for basically saying vaccines aren't harmful extremely disturbing.
Newspapers are actually always reporting on how wonderful vaccines are. Yes they mention deaths because if it bleeds, it leads, but the majority of press for vaccines is extremely positive. I bet your local newspaper has been telling you to get a flu shot.
Why wouldn't it stay? Of course it'll be there. And the game will still have the inevitable DLC for it that costs more money, and the game will no doubt retail at or around the main price point.
I held Blizz up as the best of game development until WOW. There is so much frustrating and annoying about that game, and they just don't give a shit, and they're too scared to do anything major lest it upset the customer base too much. Their huge success is also their biggest failing.
Then they said "Starcraft 2 will see 3 different games, but we're not milking you, honest!" Like they won't include multiplayer content exclusive to each one to leverage the additional releases. Anyone who thinks Blizz are doing gamers a favour by giving us a "trilogy" and won't make it damn near mandatory to buy all 3 is deluding themselves.
As for the advertising... If it saw a discount in the cost, then fine (within limits), but it doesn't. The games will still cost the same. In other words, we're being fleeced. And before someone comes back with TV, ads are in a very rigid place on TV and you can easily avoid them if you so desire. In video games they are becoming so entangled with the core of the games that it's impossible to avoid them. Which is of course EXACTLY what advertisers want. To force you to stare at their stupid commercials now missing them on TV is so easy, and the software industry will just count their ill gotten gains without passing ANY of the financial benefits onto the customer.
As far as I'm concerned, having advertising rammed down your throats in a game that retails for $60 is adequate grounds for piracy. After all they're still going to make money off of you.
How am I killing the industry by BUYING the fucking game? Really, did any of you even READ my post? I said I grabbed the pirate version but didn't install it, choosing to wait for the retail release, then installed from that, and used the crack to avoid the Securom crap.
So please explain how that is me "killing the games industry".
I have only ever found ONE place that rented PC games. Sadly it was miles and miles away and really hard to get too. Went there once.
I can't rent movies. Small mailboxes and idiot postman negate Netflix style arrangements. The only video rental store near me has closed down. There's a Blockbuster about 30 minutes walk away, but they're very small and only have mainstream stuff.
And iTunes lets you listen to 30 seconds of a song. Which is awesome on songs less than 30 seconds long:)
Buying new software is a form of gambling. You're betting your $50 that it'll work and not be utter crap.
I had that "every disk fail to burn" crap happen thanks to Starforce. Disks hadn't actually failed, only Windows thought they had due to Starforce. Tossed loads of disks that I figured were bad, probably $20+ worth, before I learned about Starforce and started checking the disks on another system and discovered they were actually fine.
I'm never buying a game on release day again unless it's from a developer I trust. (Stardock for example.) GTA IV is the latest example of customers being absolutely screwed, treated like dirt, and generally being abused.
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Leader of the first world? Only in his fucking delusions. Did you see how this "leader" was treated at the G12 summit once they knew his ass was gone? Plus I don't think a whole bunch of "first world" countries condemning your decisions really gives much credence to him being leader of any damn thing outside of his own mind.
At the time of this reply, you are only at +4, Insightful.
I wish I had mod points. (But then I couldn't post this.) That boils this all down perfectly to the core of the issue. Legislation saying what we can and can't buy to light our homes (regardless of health and safety issues caused by said "allowed" lighting) and other stupid government interference... New York had the right damn idea. "Over to you, boffins. We're stumped!"
Instead now we get endless meeting and think tanks and committees and bureaucracy burning tax payers money just to say "We can't let you have these bulbs anymore because of the power they use. Instead you can have these which contain toxic levels of lots of fun chemicals which mean you can't just toss them in the garbage, but of course you will, meaning these toxins will seep into the water table, but HEY! We appear to be doing something worthwhile and that might get us voted in next election, so fuck it, eh?!"
Nice! I grow weary of this "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" nonsense. Clearly we're not. It's bullshit speculation like this (and that is all this is) that leads to kneejerk legislation like ban incandescent bulbs despite the MULTIPLE hazards and health issues with the only viable replacement. (Which really isn't viable at all, due to those exact issues of disposal, health etc... For example I'm one of the "lucky" ones who gets headaches from the damn things.)
The big problem is on EITHER side of the global warming argument you've got bloody great piles of cash and interested parties trying to push their agenda. For every scientist that says "WE'RE ALL DOOMED!" another one says "Erm... No we're not." Just like "video games causes violent behaviour" and "video games don't cause violent behaviour".
It's also very hard to take to any talk of global warming that seriously when a large chunk of the northern hemisphere is freezing its ass off.
Purely for my own edification I pulled together weather records for where I live. I realise there's nothing scientific to it, but I was curious, since you'd assume if things are as bad as some claim, there's be some sign. Some indication that there was an increase in temperatures, even if only a degree or two. I looked at average temperatures by month for as long as they have records for. (Goes back to the late 1800's.) What did I find?
The average temperature was actually quite a bit hotter and peaked in the 1930's. The average cold temperature is about the same. In short, the cold weather now is largely the same. The hot weather is actually slightly cooler on average than it was 70+ years ago.
Then there's the United Kingdom. The Roman's used to grow grapes there. Now if people grew grapes there today folk would say "Look, global warming! There's your proof." Only this occurred hundreds of years before the Industrial Revolution...
And Manhattan is full of shit. Just not the kind they predicted.
I was using MC just two days ago for moving a bunch of files around. Sure you can use commandline stuff for a few files, but if you're working with a large number of files, like I was, MC was the easiest way to do it.
I've yet to find a graphical file manager in Linux I actually like.
Priceless. Dead as a doornail. *sigh* Still, it's nice to see MC being developed again. (Or not see in the case of what we've done to the server. See? This is why we can't have nice things!)
MC is always my go to file manager in Linux. I've tried other graphical clients, and none cut it for ease of use and simplicity.
All hail Midnight Commander's victorious return!
Screw all the C variants. Where did Fortran place?
Perhaps that's the joke. GeekSquad aren't very bright.
Yep. Had a perfectly lovely YouTube experience on my iPod Touch for over a year now.
Oh don't be such a douche nozzle. It's like buying certain blank media here in Canada. The RIAA (CRIA actually, their Canadian militia) get money from it. A levy that's placed on top of the actual cost.
So yeah, that is ass raping IMO. Stuff you need (and fuck off with your "discretionary" shit as everything but food is "discretionary") with extra crap on top you have to pay for that you receive absolutely no benefit from.
By which time a new standard for TV called UHD (UBER-HI-DEF!!!!) will exist, and your "new" TV you're waiting to reap the benefits with will be a 60" paperweight.
Well CF is a bad horse to back due to the toxic chemicals. It's trading short term benefits for long term failure. (Rather like burying nuclear waste for future generations to worry about.) People are not going to listen to the special disposal instructions and all that toxic crap in the CF lights will wind up in our landfills, water table etc... Not to mention the health effects of the lights themselves. (Migraines and other problems.)
LED lighting may be an idea, but I believe it's got a long way to go yet to be viable. Which is I shame, as I like the glow from a nice LED.
LOL! Probably. A whole $18 a year? WOW! Folk will be able to buy a WHOLE KING SIZE MARS BAR A MONTH with those savings!!!!!
First to finish is not always a good thing. Just ask your girlfriend.
Absolutely.
I'd hit it... ... with a car.
He says a baseline Dell. Ain't no way a baseline Dell is running RA3.
Give them the computer and a Demonoid invite.:)
Hitler would have fit right in on 4Chan.
Taste the rainbow!
Mmmm... Goodness.
One of the leading anti-vax proponents has a standing offer to ANY medical professional who promotes the safety of vaccines. They will scale up the quantities of toxins in the vaccines so the dose they get would be the equivalent of what they say is safe for a baby to have injected. They will give them $10,000 if they will willing submit to having these "safe for a baby" chemicals injected into them.
They have even contacted some of the more vocal proponents directly, and met with zero response. Now wouldn't you think that someone, somewhere would take the ten large ones on offer and shut these people up?
I've had a 106 degree fever once in my life. I had measles when I had it.
The thing that bugs me with all these arguments is, in my experience, the people arguing that they're fine have done NO RESEARCH AT ALL other than anecdotal. My wife and I have read innumerable books, research studies, ACTUAL FDA AND CDC data on the subject, listened to lectures from Doctors such as Sherri Tenpenny who backs up ALL of her lectures with actual data from official sources. Fully cited, and where available online, provides the links to FDA and CDC documents (on the actual government websites.)
The less educated people are on vaccines, the more they defend them. I've spent years reading medical texts, government documents, books, listening to lectures etc... Just how much time have you vaccine defenders spent researching the issue I wonder? Probably a few minutes on Google to come up with your internet assembled vaccine philosophy.
I find the fact that someone gets modded up as +5 insightful for basically saying vaccines aren't harmful extremely disturbing.
Newspapers are actually always reporting on how wonderful vaccines are. Yes they mention deaths because if it bleeds, it leads, but the majority of press for vaccines is extremely positive. I bet your local newspaper has been telling you to get a flu shot.
Why wouldn't it stay? Of course it'll be there. And the game will still have the inevitable DLC for it that costs more money, and the game will no doubt retail at or around the main price point.
Capitalism rocks!
I held Blizz up as the best of game development until WOW. There is so much frustrating and annoying about that game, and they just don't give a shit, and they're too scared to do anything major lest it upset the customer base too much. Their huge success is also their biggest failing.
Then they said "Starcraft 2 will see 3 different games, but we're not milking you, honest!" Like they won't include multiplayer content exclusive to each one to leverage the additional releases. Anyone who thinks Blizz are doing gamers a favour by giving us a "trilogy" and won't make it damn near mandatory to buy all 3 is deluding themselves.
As for the advertising... If it saw a discount in the cost, then fine (within limits), but it doesn't. The games will still cost the same. In other words, we're being fleeced. And before someone comes back with TV, ads are in a very rigid place on TV and you can easily avoid them if you so desire. In video games they are becoming so entangled with the core of the games that it's impossible to avoid them. Which is of course EXACTLY what advertisers want. To force you to stare at their stupid commercials now missing them on TV is so easy, and the software industry will just count their ill gotten gains without passing ANY of the financial benefits onto the customer.
As far as I'm concerned, having advertising rammed down your throats in a game that retails for $60 is adequate grounds for piracy. After all they're still going to make money off of you.
How am I killing the industry by BUYING the fucking game? Really, did any of you even READ my post? I said I grabbed the pirate version but didn't install it, choosing to wait for the retail release, then installed from that, and used the crack to avoid the Securom crap.
So please explain how that is me "killing the games industry".
I have only ever found ONE place that rented PC games. Sadly it was miles and miles away and really hard to get too. Went there once.
I can't rent movies. Small mailboxes and idiot postman negate Netflix style arrangements. The only video rental store near me has closed down. There's a Blockbuster about 30 minutes walk away, but they're very small and only have mainstream stuff.
And iTunes lets you listen to 30 seconds of a song. Which is awesome on songs less than 30 seconds long:)
Buying new software is a form of gambling. You're betting your $50 that it'll work and not be utter crap.
I had that "every disk fail to burn" crap happen thanks to Starforce. Disks hadn't actually failed, only Windows thought they had due to Starforce. Tossed loads of disks that I figured were bad, probably $20+ worth, before I learned about Starforce and started checking the disks on another system and discovered they were actually fine.
I'm never buying a game on release day again unless it's from a developer I trust. (Stardock for example.) GTA IV is the latest example of customers being absolutely screwed, treated like dirt, and generally being abused.