Exclusion of the capital cities ruins the whole race vs race war aspect of the game; it turns something that could have been really deep into a WoW clone. Sigh. Hopefully it'll add back in later.
O.k., I can understand "Apple Pie" spiking every fall, presumably people looking up recipes. But wtf is up with the enormous spike in searches for "orgy" in Sept. 2006? It's as if everyone in Pensacola had a mass orgy meme sweep through the community. Must have been a mess month.
Oh yeah, 'cause it's human nature to chat with a robot. Puleeze. If some idiot had one of these rolling around our lab, it'd have a 12" purple dong duct taped to the front of it, conveniently out the camera's field of view. Now that would be funny.
Can you forward to me the divinely-annotated version of the bible? Because it doesn't seem obvious to me which stories/rules/etc are supposed to be taken literally, and which ones are illustrations. I.e. homosexuality-- forbidden, punishment death. Disobeying one's parents-- forbidden, punishment death (Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Leviticus 20:9, Matthew 15:4). I'd love to see the version where which rules are actually supposed to be followed is clearly marked up.
Yes, it is a small number, compared to the 4 billion believers.
If you want to tie other religions into it, the number of literal believers is going to go way way up. About 38% of your 4e9 believers are Muslim, and non-heretical Muslims believe the Qur'an (in the original Arabic) to be the literal word of God (as part of the Aqidah). As many of the older Jewish & Christian biblical stories are recounted in the Qur'an, I'd suggest that whether or not you consider 100 million people to be a tiny number, it is difficult to consider a fourth of the world's population to be tiny.
The other trick is, of course, that God put the dinosaurs there, messed with radioisotope levels, etc etc etc to test the faithful. Nice argument that can't be rebutted.
FYI it's a very tiny number of believers that think the creation is literal.
The Gallup poll says otherwise. Average of '05, '06, & '07 polls indicated 31% of Americans believed that the bible is the "Actual word of God, to be taken literaly".
Yes, and we've seen just how fast the FBI has been jumping all over folks who issue DMCA claims under false pretenses. That has got to be the most toothless part of federal law.
I'm definitely not a windows fanboy (Mac at home & work, had to push at work to get a mac in an XP shop). But windows 95 was not bad at all. In many ways more functional & easier to get stuff done that MacOS at the time. Did you install linux back in 95? Because I remember all sorts of fun in getting Slackware to fire on my Gateway. Compared to a modern linux or OSX, it's a dog. But in the day it wasn't that bad. I'd even go along with calling it a high point (especially when followed by ME)
File vault is way overkill, and not the most useful way to protect your data on a laptop. Why encrypt your browser cache? Or your iTunes library? No need to take the performance hit on those.
One (I think better) way is to use disk utility to create an encrypted disk image (AES, 128 or 256 bit key), using a fully random password. Mount the disk image, type in the password, store all your confidential documents in it. When you're ready to pack up & move, eject the drive & it goes back to being a fully encrypted file. No logging out necessary, time machine will back it up just fine (as long as you've shut it).
Here in San Diego the local Costco branches carry several of the Stone brews (from Escondido). You can tour their facility (& get Free Beer), it's definitely a Micro. Make some damn fine ales, Levitation is fantastic.
Then you must not know too many tech savvy families w/ kids. My kids never get an original DVD in their grimy little fingers. New DVD -> Handbrake -> iDVD (usually, two or three movies into iDVD) -> burned disc. If the kids get ahold of it & scratch it up, no big deal, just re-burn it. Original stays safely stored away in the cabinet. Once I showed a couple of other guys how to do this, they've dramatically reduced their DVD repurchasing budget.
On the upside, it's a great way to get you out of Federal Jury duty. I got called up last year for a case involving a family member smuggling a kid into the US from Mexico. During voir dire, they asked if anyone had had negative experiences with Customs and Immigration. I swear, half of us got rejected as jurors after that one.
I don't think in most cases it's about money. As a parent, there's a very low-level part of the brain that has a real need to defend one's child, and that means identifying threats to them and protecting them. When something goes wrong, there's a huge emotional drive to figure out what caused it, and to protect any other children from that threat. I'm sure there are a few folks who are in it for the money, but I think most of them just feel a need to figure out what caused harm to their child. Have a little compassion, these folks are having to deal with enormous life changes for both their child and themselves.
Did you play KOTOR? And KOTOR 2? And you can say with a straight face that Obsidian is "the Honda to their GM"?? Jeezus, KOTOR was a terribly fun game, and ran pretty well on the Xbox. KOTOR 2 ran horribly, had major, game ending bugs, apparently used five year olds as the level designers, and left more plot lines dangling than a daytime soap, and made the Sopranos look like a well-thought out, complete ending. To top it all off, they left all the voice acting to a fantastic, unimplemented ending in the final product, rubbing it in for us. Bioware's not the best ever, but if Bioware is GM, I'd suggest Obsidian is Zastava (maker of the famous Yugo).
How exactly is Nintendo dropping the ball when they're vastly outperforming the PS2, widely regarded as the greatest success seen so far in the game industry?
Because a year after the PS2 was released, I could go into a store and buy one. In San Diego, at least, a year after the Wii was released I cannot go into a store and buy one. They're leaving a lot of money on the table by not being able to fulfill demand (I would have bought one this Xmas for my kids, but I'm not paying $500 for Wii plus eight games I care less about). They're also on the receiving end of a ton of bad PR b/c of this bundling making their $250 console w/o HD capabilities or DVD playback cost more than a PS3. I've read that they're trying to deal w/ the bundlers, but as far as I can tell it's had no effect. Ah well, the kids may not like it as much, but I'm enjoying the new PS3;().
we piece the illusion via overloading the system with computations it must perform, the creator may be forced to start "simplifying" the laws of physics in observable ways.
When I'm running a simulation, I don't change the "rules" in mid-run if it goes wonky, I kill it & re-start after fixing the problem. So let's not run this particular experiment, m'kay?
No, he gets to write signing statements & executive orders that have the same effect as laws, without all that nasty public review & judicial oversight. I honestly believe that G.W.B. may be the first president to pardon himself before leaving office.
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prying the little rugrat out of her dilated vagoogoo.
(My apologies to my as-yet-unconceived (I hope) second child).
As long as you are calling it a 'vagoogoo' you are to young to have a first child, never mind a second.
As long as you are mistaking "to" for "too", you ought not be complaining about the spelling in other posts.
Exclusion of the capital cities ruins the whole race vs race war aspect of the game; it turns something that could have been really deep into a WoW clone. Sigh. Hopefully it'll add back in later.
21,000,000 people bought the game; 3000 have claimed their settlement. So there are more than 20 million rational people left.
O.k., I can understand "Apple Pie" spiking every fall, presumably people looking up recipes. But wtf is up with the enormous spike in searches for "orgy" in Sept. 2006? It's as if everyone in Pensacola had a mass orgy meme sweep through the community. Must have been a mess month.
No, they'll just do their best to turn all adults back into children, so there's just one group of people and they can all be protected together.
To my eye, looks like it's been pretty successful so far.
You've obviously never driven through Eastern Washington
Humor aside, the area around Moses lake is mainly dust and exposed lava rock. Would think it'd make a pretty good proxy for the moon's surface.
Twitter, is that you?
You misspelled that. It's:
- Rep. Howard Berman (D-Hollywood)
Considering how big Amazon is, it's more like using a fire hose on an aircraft carrier, I think.
Oh yeah, 'cause it's human nature to chat with a robot. Puleeze. If some idiot had one of these rolling around our lab, it'd have a 12" purple dong duct taped to the front of it, conveniently out the camera's field of view. Now that would be funny.
Can you forward to me the divinely-annotated version of the bible? Because it doesn't seem obvious to me which stories/rules/etc are supposed to be taken literally, and which ones are illustrations. I.e. homosexuality-- forbidden, punishment death. Disobeying one's parents-- forbidden, punishment death (Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Leviticus 20:9, Matthew 15:4). I'd love to see the version where which rules are actually supposed to be followed is clearly marked up.
The other trick is, of course, that God put the dinosaurs there, messed with radioisotope levels, etc etc etc to test the faithful. Nice argument that can't be rebutted.
The Gallup poll says otherwise. Average of '05, '06, & '07 polls indicated 31% of Americans believed that the bible is the "Actual word of God, to be taken literaly".
~100,000,000 people is not a very tiny number.
Yes, and we've seen just how fast the FBI has been jumping all over folks who issue DMCA claims under false pretenses. That has got to be the most toothless part of federal law.
I'm definitely not a windows fanboy (Mac at home & work, had to push at work to get a mac in an XP shop). But windows 95 was not bad at all. In many ways more functional & easier to get stuff done that MacOS at the time. Did you install linux back in 95? Because I remember all sorts of fun in getting Slackware to fire on my Gateway. Compared to a modern linux or OSX, it's a dog. But in the day it wasn't that bad. I'd even go along with calling it a high point (especially when followed by ME)
File vault is way overkill, and not the most useful way to protect your data on a laptop. Why encrypt your browser cache? Or your iTunes library? No need to take the performance hit on those.
One (I think better) way is to use disk utility to create an encrypted disk image (AES, 128 or 256 bit key), using a fully random password. Mount the disk image, type in the password, store all your confidential documents in it. When you're ready to pack up & move, eject the drive & it goes back to being a fully encrypted file. No logging out necessary, time machine will back it up just fine (as long as you've shut it).
Here in San Diego the local Costco branches carry several of the Stone brews (from Escondido). You can tour their facility (& get Free Beer), it's definitely a Micro. Make some damn fine ales, Levitation is fantastic.
Then you must not know too many tech savvy families w/ kids. My kids never get an original DVD in their grimy little fingers. New DVD -> Handbrake -> iDVD (usually, two or three movies into iDVD) -> burned disc. If the kids get ahold of it & scratch it up, no big deal, just re-burn it. Original stays safely stored away in the cabinet. Once I showed a couple of other guys how to do this, they've dramatically reduced their DVD repurchasing budget.
On the upside, it's a great way to get you out of Federal Jury duty. I got called up last year for a case involving a family member smuggling a kid into the US from Mexico. During voir dire, they asked if anyone had had negative experiences with Customs and Immigration. I swear, half of us got rejected as jurors after that one.
Anyone else think of the Yamato? Massive ship mounted canon, use all your energy for one shot? Nice....
I don't think in most cases it's about money. As a parent, there's a very low-level part of the brain that has a real need to defend one's child, and that means identifying threats to them and protecting them. When something goes wrong, there's a huge emotional drive to figure out what caused it, and to protect any other children from that threat. I'm sure there are a few folks who are in it for the money, but I think most of them just feel a need to figure out what caused harm to their child. Have a little compassion, these folks are having to deal with enormous life changes for both their child and themselves.
Did you play KOTOR? And KOTOR 2? And you can say with a straight face that Obsidian is "the Honda to their GM"?? Jeezus, KOTOR was a terribly fun game, and ran pretty well on the Xbox. KOTOR 2 ran horribly, had major, game ending bugs, apparently used five year olds as the level designers, and left more plot lines dangling than a daytime soap, and made the Sopranos look like a well-thought out, complete ending. To top it all off, they left all the voice acting to a fantastic, unimplemented ending in the final product, rubbing it in for us. Bioware's not the best ever, but if Bioware is GM, I'd suggest Obsidian is Zastava (maker of the famous Yugo).
Because a year after the PS2 was released, I could go into a store and buy one. In San Diego, at least, a year after the Wii was released I cannot go into a store and buy one. They're leaving a lot of money on the table by not being able to fulfill demand (I would have bought one this Xmas for my kids, but I'm not paying $500 for Wii plus eight games I care less about). They're also on the receiving end of a ton of bad PR b/c of this bundling making their $250 console w/o HD capabilities or DVD playback cost more than a PS3. I've read that they're trying to deal w/ the bundlers, but as far as I can tell it's had no effect. Ah well, the kids may not like it as much, but I'm enjoying the new PS3
When I'm running a simulation, I don't change the "rules" in mid-run if it goes wonky, I kill it & re-start after fixing the problem. So let's not run this particular experiment, m'kay?
No, he gets to write signing statements & executive orders that have the same effect as laws, without all that nasty public review & judicial oversight. I honestly believe that G.W.B. may be the first president to pardon himself before leaving office.