That's a pretty limited view of things, the Russians carried most of the war and while they lost more soldiers, they achieved more, took more land, and managed to completely open a new front on the other side of the continent in as little as 2 weeks after they finished taking their zone of Germany while the western allies were still ploughing along. On the other hand, strategic bombing barely made a dent in Germany and would probably have had similar results in Japan without a thorough blockade of a country dependent on external sources of oil.
That's why I didn't say corrected, I said that it was more accurate, nuance - I see what you meant, and I'm saying you're partially wrong. No, it has, they just have less of a veneer. Which is understandable, they've been in civil war since the fall of the monarchy with short phases of dictatorship in between, it's a breeding ground for a return to old style politics - besides we don't notice it as such elsewhere, but in a lot of places the "state" is just a fancy thing a local tribe did - see how many of the world's countries are just a tribe with a constitution.
I'd be tempted to say there's a good half of the west that doesn't have this luxurious blindspot America has. If anything big we to happen, they were on the frontline. Casualty previsions from the cold war in European countries basically ran in the high 80% range, and I'm pretty sure most major powers (India, China, Japan, the Soviets) in Eurasia had pretty similar things - sure, there's probably some of it in what are considered "side conflicts", but that blind spot is something you can't afford to have when you're not sitting an ocean away from where the shit will inevitably hit the fan.
Also, a war where air power achieves long term goals alone - sure a hell of a lot of the Yugoslav conflict was resolved in the air, until you realize that neither side took any long term losses from it - Serbia seemingly lost a tank force twice the size of what it even had and its entire airforce, and months after the peace it was operational again.
The war was nowhere on the way to be lost. Japan was desperate and the Russians were in Korea already, it took them two weeks to bring the borders of Japan back to 1910.
I'm rather amazed they actually may have gotten better about it considering it used to be pretty common that they'd disable it. Mod parent informative I guess.
The Linux only versions have been gutted in hardware - HP and Asus are the only OEM that don't make their linux offerings the red-headed stepchild of the lot, unless Acer changed dramatically and Lenovo started bothering to advertise it.
Unless Verizon switches to its GSM-compatible network quick, it will take some time for an Android-phone maker to give a damn, none of those made to this point are and Verizon is not exactly good phone friendly - even if it had the best CDMA smartphone on the market, it would bungle it and turn it into a piece of shit by blocking functionality.
A number of ISP have taking to breaking that kind of functionality - at least in Canada, Rogers and Bell do it, and half the time redirect you to their stupid search portal.
To be fair, the bar for indy development on PC is much lower - see Penumbra (yes, it's a FPS engine, but it's a First-Person-WHATTHEHELLISTHATRUNAWAYAAAAAGH, and for that it's pretty awesome, even if, yes, horror survival is nothing new). Introversion also has a lot of awesome stuff under their belt in terms of innovative, and there's the "game as art" lot, even if a few of those later had console ports (and of course, there's the game everyone seems to be trying to clone, like Patapon (initially for the PSP), and that seems to spring up on pretty much on anything every once in a while)
Portal was the same, but was first launched on console, while some of the more innovative strategy games (early 4x ers, grand strategy, breaking from tactical leverl gaming) have been on PC, it's a question of interfaces and input, Konami's strategy games were cute (I less-than-threed them a lot), but oh so fucking limited. A lot of Sierra's awesome but slightly broken ideas (Homeworld, Outpost (bug-ridden piece of crap but superb idea)) have yet to have anything on console, or anything retaking their ideas on any platform at all really (okay, not true with Homeworld, Star Wolf did try to bring some of its elements on the table)
But, true, so long as corps like EA, Blizzard or Ubisoft (even if they had a few great things) exist in both fields, there's no way mainstream gaming is innovative anywhere, period. Besides, like in movies, I'm no pedant - I like some arthouse stuff and I like some of the commercial schlock, for different reasons.
And sadly, since our elected officials and corporate overlords are often childhood peers (I'd know, my high school was the kind of selective private high school that's the breeding ground for the world's overlords, the type every major city has a few of where the kids of the upper class mingle and live in the bubble), we may need more than standard elections to get better ones.
I heard rumors of the early days when Dell was not even half-assedly supporting their linux sales, and people got the "your warranty is voided" speech from the hell desk monkeys.
You can run anything on a mac, the problem they have is when you try to use their OS on another computer, and the only thing they can do is a) deny support and b) sue corps who try to sell their OS unlicensed by pretending corporate law doesn't apply to them.
Excuse me, but if your only reaction is to say man up, then you completely missed the point. Also, every physical abuse is mental abuse, in fact, the part that hurts the most is usually mental.
Also, you decided to build a strawman in the name of women who were abused, I replied angrily because I am a woman who used to deal with people (men, women, intersex, other, wev) who were abused, and I have been abused at a later date, if you think the worst part is not mental, you've probably never dealt with abuse or rape survivors.
Also, it's not just about attitude on internet groups, but even there, why should this behavior be tolerated, because the person abused is anonymous? Because the internet is somehow less real? Both are bullshit - there are FOSS conferences and this abuse is continued. There's email stalking that gets done, there's a real world community it leads to, if you can't see how the internet extends to the real world when there's communities forming about something both IRL and URL that have the same people, I suggest you completely, utterly miss the point of Internet as a communication system.
You are not an equalist, you are a bullshitter who bases his theories on strawmen and presents fictional characters and psychos as the examples of true feminism.
Lineage only really matters in hierarchic societies, few if any have ever been dominated by men. And evolution isn't something that happens to the individual, but to groups.
Women certainly are making the rule that men needs to be macho.
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That's a pretty limited view of things, the Russians carried most of the war and while they lost more soldiers, they achieved more, took more land, and managed to completely open a new front on the other side of the continent in as little as 2 weeks after they finished taking their zone of Germany while the western allies were still ploughing along. On the other hand, strategic bombing barely made a dent in Germany and would probably have had similar results in Japan without a thorough blockade of a country dependent on external sources of oil.
That's why I didn't say corrected, I said that it was more accurate, nuance - I see what you meant, and I'm saying you're partially wrong.
No, it has, they just have less of a veneer. Which is understandable, they've been in civil war since the fall of the monarchy with short phases of dictatorship in between, it's a breeding ground for a return to old style politics - besides we don't notice it as such elsewhere, but in a lot of places the "state" is just a fancy thing a local tribe did - see how many of the world's countries are just a tribe with a constitution.
I know, replying to oneself is tacky, but "basically ran in the high 80% range" - for first strike estimates and one week after, they got worse.
I'd be tempted to say there's a good half of the west that doesn't have this luxurious blindspot America has. If anything big we to happen, they were on the frontline. Casualty previsions from the cold war in European countries basically ran in the high 80% range, and I'm pretty sure most major powers (India, China, Japan, the Soviets) in Eurasia had pretty similar things - sure, there's probably some of it in what are considered "side conflicts", but that blind spot is something you can't afford to have when you're not sitting an ocean away from where the shit will inevitably hit the fan.
Society in the world is heavily based on tribal politics.
Deep down, that is the accurate version.
Also, a war where air power achieves long term goals alone - sure a hell of a lot of the Yugoslav conflict was resolved in the air, until you realize that neither side took any long term losses from it - Serbia seemingly lost a tank force twice the size of what it even had and its entire airforce, and months after the peace it was operational again.
The war was nowhere on the way to be lost. Japan was desperate and the Russians were in Korea already, it took them two weeks to bring the borders of Japan back to 1910.
I'm rather amazed they actually may have gotten better about it considering it used to be pretty common that they'd disable it. Mod parent informative I guess.
1. It loads in Safari. Also checked in other webkit browsers
2. Tested the RC on Netbook level hardware, it's a dog.
The Linux only versions have been gutted in hardware - HP and Asus are the only OEM that don't make their linux offerings the red-headed stepchild of the lot, unless Acer changed dramatically and Lenovo started bothering to advertise it.
Unless Verizon switches to its GSM-compatible network quick, it will take some time for an Android-phone maker to give a damn, none of those made to this point are and Verizon is not exactly good phone friendly - even if it had the best CDMA smartphone on the market, it would bungle it and turn it into a piece of shit by blocking functionality.
A number of ISP have taking to breaking that kind of functionality - at least in Canada, Rogers and Bell do it, and half the time redirect you to their stupid search portal.
To be fair, the bar for indy development on PC is much lower - see Penumbra (yes, it's a FPS engine, but it's a First-Person-WHATTHEHELLISTHATRUNAWAYAAAAAGH, and for that it's pretty awesome, even if, yes, horror survival is nothing new). Introversion also has a lot of awesome stuff under their belt in terms of innovative, and there's the "game as art" lot, even if a few of those later had console ports (and of course, there's the game everyone seems to be trying to clone, like Patapon (initially for the PSP), and that seems to spring up on pretty much on anything every once in a while)
Portal was the same, but was first launched on console, while some of the more innovative strategy games (early 4x ers, grand strategy, breaking from tactical leverl gaming) have been on PC, it's a question of interfaces and input, Konami's strategy games were cute (I less-than-threed them a lot), but oh so fucking limited. A lot of Sierra's awesome but slightly broken ideas (Homeworld, Outpost (bug-ridden piece of crap but superb idea)) have yet to have anything on console, or anything retaking their ideas on any platform at all really (okay, not true with Homeworld, Star Wolf did try to bring some of its elements on the table)
But, true, so long as corps like EA, Blizzard or Ubisoft (even if they had a few great things) exist in both fields, there's no way mainstream gaming is innovative anywhere, period. Besides, like in movies, I'm no pedant - I like some arthouse stuff and I like some of the commercial schlock, for different reasons.
That, wholeheartedly.
And sadly, since our elected officials and corporate overlords are often childhood peers (I'd know, my high school was the kind of selective private high school that's the breeding ground for the world's overlords, the type every major city has a few of where the kids of the upper class mingle and live in the bubble), we may need more than standard elections to get better ones.
I heard rumors of the early days when Dell was not even half-assedly supporting their linux sales, and people got the "your warranty is voided" speech from the hell desk monkeys.
You can run anything on a mac, the problem they have is when you try to use their OS on another computer, and the only thing they can do is a) deny support and b) sue corps who try to sell their OS unlicensed by pretending corporate law doesn't apply to them.
Excuse me, but if your only reaction is to say man up, then you completely missed the point. Also, every physical abuse is mental abuse, in fact, the part that hurts the most is usually mental.
Also, you decided to build a strawman in the name of women who were abused, I replied angrily because I am a woman who used to deal with people (men, women, intersex, other, wev) who were abused, and I have been abused at a later date, if you think the worst part is not mental, you've probably never dealt with abuse or rape survivors.
Also, it's not just about attitude on internet groups, but even there, why should this behavior be tolerated, because the person abused is anonymous? Because the internet is somehow less real? Both are bullshit - there are FOSS conferences and this abuse is continued. There's email stalking that gets done, there's a real world community it leads to, if you can't see how the internet extends to the real world when there's communities forming about something both IRL and URL that have the same people, I suggest you completely, utterly miss the point of Internet as a communication system.
Seconded, mod GP troll.
And yet you just did, funny that.
You are not an equalist, you are a bullshitter who bases his theories on strawmen and presents fictional characters and psychos as the examples of true feminism.
also, phobe also means repulsed by
You're looking for the word creationnist, or moron, are you, perchance, opposed to gravity?
*correction* - few if any have ever been dominated by women
the top price of life - creating a family.
Lineage only really matters in hierarchic societies, few if any have ever been dominated by men. And evolution isn't something that happens to the individual, but to groups.
Women certainly are making the rule that men needs to be macho.
No, funny how the "nice guy" comes out heh
You missed the point - it's only sexist if there is power involved.