2. Oil and gas production is at or near peak, and we get 85% of our energy from it, and Coal is not a "good idea".
It might not be a good idea, but everything you buy from China is built using mostly coal power, and shipped using extremely dirty diesel in very old engines, the end result being that I cannot ever see the true color of the sky.
Maybe we should add "buying shitloads of useless crap from China" to the list of bad ideas?
The only reason not to do this, is lack of information or lack of computing power.
Lack of information about future events? Surely you can find a way to solve that problem with the right kind of database.
You're falling in the same trap as the quants did, assuming that all data is manageable and/or known. The ability of a borrower to pay can change drastically from one day to the next, depending on whether or not they get shot in the head, laid off, or just say "fuck this shit", quit their jobs and become a ski bum.
Haha, never played Mario Kart online, but I got really good at the single player. Seems like for multiplayer it would be a good idea to not give out any blue shells unless 2nd place is more than X time behind. X = the amount of time you lose from getting hit.
Out of curiosity, is you or your 2v2 partner a druid? If so then you're playing on easy mode. Resto druids are so much more powerful for 2v2 than any other healer it just made me want to delete my priest.
TFA: The project's goal is to prove that is possible to make a competitive racing car using environmentally sustainable and renewable materials.
Competitive against what? Wind powered sail cars? They still haven't solved the basic problem that racing huge machines is wasteful no matter what you use to do it with. There is an opportunity cost to all those potatoes going uneaten.
Why does everybody here so readily discount the value of watching it on a HUGE screen? Especially for action/effects based movies, this is the main reason I like going to the theater. Lord of the Rings was 10x better in the theater than my friend's HD surround setup.
Most comic book/action movies don't really interest me at all on an intellectual level, but if my friends want to go watch it at the theater I don't mind paying to go with, if I'm in the mood for some eye candy. These are movies I would never think about renting or buying. So yes, there is value in movie theaters, I don't know why everyone here thinks HDTV = Theater. They are two totally different experiences.
We've gotta cut the bullshit, And show the proof, Rip the tree out of the ground, And expose the roots, Cause the people that found, That we on the approach, Then they keep held us down, It's the chosen few, Just sit, get rich, What we're going through, Cause 9-5 slaves slave for these corporate fools, And try to deny that they distort the rules, Inside minds built pages and forced the youth, In the schools have been trained to ignore the truth, In the nation where the threat that approaches you, Before you take another test, Know the joke's on you, They only gave you the textbooks to mold your views, Living with your soul confused, Some people don't believe they got us on the loose, Runnin' around chasin' after golden shoes, Livin their whole lives doin what they're told you to.
If I only knew what the way was, What would I do? If you knew what you knew could save us, Would you try to? Cause we're living in a Truman Show, There's a limit to what you can know, Shit is different than what you've been told, You've been sold second hand human souls.
We think that we see, When we don't see the half, We think that we've learned, But we can't do the math, We think that we know, Let yourself go, let yourself go, let yourself go.
We live in a Truman Show
I see that you recognize the vast differences; Quake was also a multi-player game, that's why I brought it up. I've never played the single player version of any FPS games for more than 5 minutes at a friend's house. Too boring. "I gotta shoot 100 of these bots before they shoot me!"
The only single player games I like along those lines are ones like Thief or that Gladiator game for the PS2 (can't remember the name, it was my friend's PS2). They mix problem solving with interesting combat systems. FPS are all point and shoot, it's apparently too difficult to write AI that is fun to play against(from my POV).
Without a story there isn't much difference between shooters.
Strongly disagree. I hated Quake but loved BF1942. It had nothing to do with the story lines in either. The teamwork and gameplay of BF1942 was just so much more fun.
The game presupposes that taking Objectivism to it's full potential leads only to collapse and failure.
Thanks for the quick recap. +5 Informative. You just sparked my interest in the story. Anyone who rips on Rand's philosophy is cool with me.
Then again, every economic philosophy leads to collapse at some point, depending on your definition of collapse. We're all dead in the long run, right? Even if the Chinese become the next superpower it's just a question of "For how long?" After all, world population can't keep doubling ad infinitum, we will run out of resources at some point.
I'm drunk and tired waiting for the English Premier League games to come on, no claims to being super insightful right now. I just meant that it pisses me off even more than it already does. If that makes any sense.
The big issue here is what Lessig talked about years ago: Free Culture
Then a car commercial parody I made (arguably one of my better videos) was taken down because I used an unlicensed song. That pissed me off. I couldn't easily go back and re-edit the video to remove the song, as the source media had long since been archived in a shoebox somewhere. And I couldn't simply re-upload the video, as it got identified and taken down every time. I needed to find a way to outsmart the fingerprinter. I was angry and I had a lot of free time. Not a good combination.
The guy who wrote TFA is upset that his largely unviewed videos didn't pass an automated test.
My beef with the system is that when culurally significant videos such as the Chinese "Caonima" get taken down because the song violates some copyright of a company I've never heard of on a song I've never in a million years think of buying.
Hope that link works, I had to copy it from Google since I can't even access Youtube anymore here in China.
Personally, I would have loved to have seen a real prequel, where you see an Ayn Randian utopia slowly fall apart, where you help businessmen reach their highest potential, which eventually leads to the collapse of rapture.
I never played Bioshock, and you just made me happy with that decision. Randian utopia? *Gag* Help businessmen reach their highest potential? *Bangs head against wall* "Collapse of Rapture"??? WTF is that?
No wonder I always try ignore the stories in video games.
Maybe, just possibly, because people were worried, and therefore monitored what MS was doing, and made sure MS wasn't allowed to leverage their desktop monopoly advantage?
Or maybe, just possibly, because Microsoft's internet apps all sucked, and therefore no one used it, and made sure to tell all their friends to use Google, Youtube, and Wikipedia.
I live in China, Youtube here was blocked recently. I saw a bunch of references to Susan Boyle lately so I wanted to see what all the hubbub was about. I tried to view her video on MSN's version of Youtube. Couldn't do it. All I got was MSN's coverage of her, not the original song. If they can fuck up such a basic service so badly then I'm not worried about them gaining market share in things I care about anytime soon.
I ended up having to download the torrent because that's apparently the only thing that works as expected these days.
The medical community now makes a careful theoretical distinction between physical dependence (characterized by symptoms of withdrawal) and psychological dependence (or simply addiction). Addiction is now narrowly defined as "uncontrolled, compulsive use"; if there is no harm being suffered by, or damage done to, the patient or another party, then clinically it may be considered compulsive, but to the definition of some it is not categorized as 'addiction'. In practice, the two kinds of addiction are not always easy to distinguish. Addictions often have both physical and psychological components.
The medical community now makes a careful theoretical distinction between physical dependence (characterized by symptoms of withdrawal) and psychological dependence (or simply addiction). Addiction is now narrowly defined as "uncontrolled, compulsive use"; if there is no harm being suffered by, or damage done to, the patient or another party, then clinically it may be considered compulsive, but to the definition of some it is not categorized as 'addiction'. In practice, the two kinds of addiction are not always easy to distinguish. Addictions often have both physical and psychological components.
Gee, if the alternative is living a boring, dull life where I'm treated like shit, starving to death playing videogames doesn't seem too bad, does it?
People find all kinds of ways to kill themselves, most don't due to their survival instinct. The problem is that addictions tend to override instincts and/or good decision making. Why didn't slaves constantly revolt or commit suicide? Maybe because no matter how much they hated their lives they still enjoyed seeing the sun rise.
Thank God some of us have the ability to find areas where we enjoy our work, and the skill to succeed at it. Sincerely, someone who prefered playing videogames over doing homework and, all things considered, is doing quite well on his life. Sucks to be you.
I enjoyed playing video games more than doing homework too, my point is that most people can't only play video games and still survive.
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If no one can find porn on Google Books, they're driving away 90% of their potential customers.
"I have a lot of free educational content in the form of audio lectures and text"
Are you by any chance an Amway salesman trying to get attention?
2. Oil and gas production is at or near peak, and we get 85% of our energy from it, and Coal is not a "good idea".
It might not be a good idea, but everything you buy from China is built using mostly coal power, and shipped using extremely dirty diesel in very old engines, the end result being that I cannot ever see the true color of the sky.
Maybe we should add "buying shitloads of useless crap from China" to the list of bad ideas?
The only reason not to do this, is lack of information or lack of computing power.
Lack of information about future events? Surely you can find a way to solve that problem with the right kind of database.
You're falling in the same trap as the quants did, assuming that all data is manageable and/or known. The ability of a borrower to pay can change drastically from one day to the next, depending on whether or not they get shot in the head, laid off, or just say "fuck this shit", quit their jobs and become a ski bum.
$13 per 1000G? In China it's $4 for 2400. WotLK hasn't even been released yet either.
Haha, never played Mario Kart online, but I got really good at the single player. Seems like for multiplayer it would be a good idea to not give out any blue shells unless 2nd place is more than X time behind. X = the amount of time you lose from getting hit.
Out of curiosity, is you or your 2v2 partner a druid? If so then you're playing on easy mode. Resto druids are so much more powerful for 2v2 than any other healer it just made me want to delete my priest.
TFA: The project's goal is to prove that is possible to make a competitive racing car using environmentally sustainable and renewable materials.
Competitive against what? Wind powered sail cars? They still haven't solved the basic problem that racing huge machines is wasteful no matter what you use to do it with. There is an opportunity cost to all those potatoes going uneaten.
Why does everybody here so readily discount the value of watching it on a HUGE screen? Especially for action/effects based movies, this is the main reason I like going to the theater. Lord of the Rings was 10x better in the theater than my friend's HD surround setup.
Most comic book/action movies don't really interest me at all on an intellectual level, but if my friends want to go watch it at the theater I don't mind paying to go with, if I'm in the mood for some eye candy. These are movies I would never think about renting or buying. So yes, there is value in movie theaters, I don't know why everyone here thinks HDTV = Theater. They are two totally different experiences.
We've gotta cut the bullshit,
And show the proof,
Rip the tree out of the ground,
And expose the roots,
Cause the people that found,
That we on the approach,
Then they keep held us down,
It's the chosen few,
Just sit, get rich,
What we're going through,
Cause 9-5 slaves slave for these corporate fools,
And try to deny that they distort the rules,
Inside minds built pages and forced the youth,
In the schools have been trained to ignore the truth,
In the nation where the threat that approaches you,
Before you take another test,
Know the joke's on you,
They only gave you the textbooks to mold your views,
Living with your soul confused,
Some people don't believe they got us on the loose,
Runnin' around chasin' after golden shoes,
Livin their whole lives doin what they're told you to.
If I only knew what the way was,
What would I do?
If you knew what you knew could save us,
Would you try to?
Cause we're living in a Truman Show,
There's a limit to what you can know,
Shit is different than what you've been told,
You've been sold second hand human souls.
We think that we see,
When we don't see the half,
We think that we've learned,
But we can't do the math,
We think that we know,
Let yourself go, let yourself go, let yourself go. We live in a Truman Show
I see that you recognize the vast differences; Quake was also a multi-player game, that's why I brought it up. I've never played the single player version of any FPS games for more than 5 minutes at a friend's house. Too boring. "I gotta shoot 100 of these bots before they shoot me!"
The only single player games I like along those lines are ones like Thief or that Gladiator game for the PS2 (can't remember the name, it was my friend's PS2). They mix problem solving with interesting combat systems. FPS are all point and shoot, it's apparently too difficult to write AI that is fun to play against(from my POV).
Without a story there isn't much difference between shooters.
Strongly disagree. I hated Quake but loved BF1942. It had nothing to do with the story lines in either. The teamwork and gameplay of BF1942 was just so much more fun.
The game presupposes that taking Objectivism to it's full potential leads only to collapse and failure.
Thanks for the quick recap. +5 Informative. You just sparked my interest in the story. Anyone who rips on Rand's philosophy is cool with me.
Then again, every economic philosophy leads to collapse at some point, depending on your definition of collapse. We're all dead in the long run, right? Even if the Chinese become the next superpower it's just a question of "For how long?" After all, world population can't keep doubling ad infinitum, we will run out of resources at some point.
Admittedly, I don't bring much, but I did learn something from flitty's post below.
I'm drunk and tired waiting for the English Premier League games to come on, no claims to being super insightful right now. I just meant that it pisses me off even more than it already does. If that makes any sense.
It's 2:30 AM, srry typos
Then a car commercial parody I made (arguably one of my better videos) was taken down because I used an unlicensed song. That pissed me off. I couldn't easily go back and re-edit the video to remove the song, as the source media had long since been archived in a shoebox somewhere. And I couldn't simply re-upload the video, as it got identified and taken down every time. I needed to find a way to outsmart the fingerprinter. I was angry and I had a lot of free time. Not a good combination.
The guy who wrote TFA is upset that his largely unviewed videos didn't pass an automated test.
My beef with the system is that when culurally significant videos such as the Chinese "Caonima" get taken down because the song violates some copyright of a company I've never heard of on a song I've never in a million years think of buying.
Hope that link works, I had to copy it from Google since I can't even access Youtube anymore here in China.
Personally, I would have loved to have seen a real prequel, where you see an Ayn Randian utopia slowly fall apart, where you help businessmen reach their highest potential, which eventually leads to the collapse of rapture.
I never played Bioshock, and you just made me happy with that decision. Randian utopia? *Gag* Help businessmen reach their highest potential? *Bangs head against wall* "Collapse of Rapture"??? WTF is that?
No wonder I always try ignore the stories in video games.
Maybe, just possibly, because people were worried, and therefore monitored what MS was doing, and made sure MS wasn't allowed to leverage their desktop monopoly advantage?
Or maybe, just possibly, because Microsoft's internet apps all sucked, and therefore no one used it, and made sure to tell all their friends to use Google, Youtube, and Wikipedia.
I live in China, Youtube here was blocked recently. I saw a bunch of references to Susan Boyle lately so I wanted to see what all the hubbub was about. I tried to view her video on MSN's version of Youtube. Couldn't do it. All I got was MSN's coverage of her, not the original song. If they can fuck up such a basic service so badly then I'm not worried about them gaining market share in things I care about anytime soon.
I ended up having to download the torrent because that's apparently the only thing that works as expected these days.
Only if you eradicate the ewoks first. God those things are annoying. But hopefully tasty.
Quit karma-whoring. This article is boring as shit and you know it.
This comment would be at least +4 Funny if you had just stopped there.
The medical community now makes a careful theoretical distinction between physical dependence (characterized by symptoms of withdrawal) and psychological dependence (or simply addiction). Addiction is now narrowly defined as "uncontrolled, compulsive use"; if there is no harm being suffered by, or damage done to, the patient or another party, then clinically it may be considered compulsive, but to the definition of some it is not categorized as 'addiction'. In practice, the two kinds of addiction are not always easy to distinguish. Addictions often have both physical and psychological components.
As someone in your same boat, /agree completely. But if MMOs are the problem, what is the solution? Thoughts anyone?
The medical community now makes a careful theoretical distinction between physical dependence (characterized by symptoms of withdrawal) and psychological dependence (or simply addiction). Addiction is now narrowly defined as "uncontrolled, compulsive use"; if there is no harm being suffered by, or damage done to, the patient or another party, then clinically it may be considered compulsive, but to the definition of some it is not categorized as 'addiction'. In practice, the two kinds of addiction are not always easy to distinguish. Addictions often have both physical and psychological components.
Gee, if the alternative is living a boring, dull life where I'm treated like shit, starving to death playing videogames doesn't seem too bad, does it?
People find all kinds of ways to kill themselves, most don't due to their survival instinct. The problem is that addictions tend to override instincts and/or good decision making. Why didn't slaves constantly revolt or commit suicide? Maybe because no matter how much they hated their lives they still enjoyed seeing the sun rise.
Thank God some of us have the ability to find areas where we enjoy our work, and the skill to succeed at it. Sincerely, someone who prefered playing videogames over doing homework and, all things considered, is doing quite well on his life. Sucks to be you.
I enjoyed playing video games more than doing homework too, my point is that most people can't only play video games and still survive.