Don't the royals essentially pay for themselves through tourism, appearance fees, etc? Don't get me wrong, I find the concept of a royal family in this day and age ludicrous. But, like college football, if it's bringing enough money to pay for itself, who cares.
A 6 hour, single-player, shitfest that's only around to serve as a DLC platform for $60, or Banjo Kazooie for $80. I know what I'd go for. "This is a fine time to be a gamer" my ass.
But today you can choose between the single player shitfest for $60, or Banjo Kazooie for $10. That's certainly better than being stuck with Banjo Kazooie for $80.
Go down to your local Goodwill. In the past couple week's I've bought Outpost 2, both Aces games, Tie Fighter, Dark Colony, Return to Krondor, and Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego. All complete, in great condition, for $2.99 or less. Now really is a cheap time to be a gamer.
Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.
-Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle, 1863
Replace "newspaper" with "blog" and "post-office" with "facebook" and it applies perfectly today.
Probably because the person being stalked won't be getting creeped out as you say.
I find ubiquitous cameras to be even creepier than being constantly followed around. At least you can try to lose someone who's following you. Cameras are everywhere and they never forget. (unless you're a cop)
Yes, they're in public. But there are privacy expectations even in public. Next time you're in public, pick someone out and follow them around all day. Do this day after day, every time they go out in public, there you are watching them. Any reasonable person would be creeped the fuck out, and you'd be guilty of stalking in many jurisdictions. Why is it OK when the stalker is hidden behind a network of cameras?
If you do what you want based on what you feel is right, we might just not have any laws at all.
When the average person is more likely to be victimized by the law than protected, and the average villain is more likely to use the law as a weapon than fear it, that doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
There is a reason why the laws are created by the society as whole and not a single person or a group with single interest.
What gets me is that there's more public outcry over the name of a team in a game than there is over an actual war. If these people their voices heard by the President and their representatives instead of a video game maker, they might actually save some lives.
I've never found real time normalization to be desirable. There's always the potential for clipping. The only way to do normalization correctly is to know in advance the peak level. And even then, normalization isn't great. Quite often you want some scenes to be quieter or louder than others.
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Don't the royals essentially pay for themselves through tourism, appearance fees, etc? Don't get me wrong, I find the concept of a royal family in this day and age ludicrous. But, like college football, if it's bringing enough money to pay for itself, who cares.
I can easily see Verizon's version of the iPhone as being the first smartphone with bloatware on it
All smartphones have bloatware on them. It's what makes them smartphones instead of just phones.
All conservatives are the same fundamentally. Sharia is to Libya/Afghanistan/Iraq what "family values" is to Texas, etc.
How do you figure? Rat brains are biological machines.
A 6 hour, single-player, shitfest that's only around to serve as a DLC platform for $60, or Banjo Kazooie for $80. I know what I'd go for. "This is a fine time to be a gamer" my ass.
But today you can choose between the single player shitfest for $60, or Banjo Kazooie for $10. That's certainly better than being stuck with Banjo Kazooie for $80.
If you're making minimum wage, video games are still one of the cheapest forms of entertainment when you figure it in dollars per hour.
Go down to your local Goodwill. In the past couple week's I've bought Outpost 2, both Aces games, Tie Fighter, Dark Colony, Return to Krondor, and Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego. All complete, in great condition, for $2.99 or less. Now really is a cheap time to be a gamer.
minor "offenses". Like disliking having a mosque near Ground Zero
Religious bigotry is no minor offense.
If you could reason with crazy people, there would be no crazy people.
-Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle, 1863
Replace "newspaper" with "blog" and "post-office" with "facebook" and it applies perfectly today.
keeps requesting my long-polling technique.
All torrent clients are also servers.
Maybe he's rotating it left instead of right.
Probably because the person being stalked won't be getting creeped out as you say.
I find ubiquitous cameras to be even creepier than being constantly followed around. At least you can try to lose someone who's following you. Cameras are everywhere and they never forget. (unless you're a cop)
That makes about as much sense as Guam flipping over.
Hm, maybe we could attach turbines to Guam.
Yes, they're in public. But there are privacy expectations even in public. Next time you're in public, pick someone out and follow them around all day. Do this day after day, every time they go out in public, there you are watching them. Any reasonable person would be creeped the fuck out, and you'd be guilty of stalking in many jurisdictions. Why is it OK when the stalker is hidden behind a network of cameras?
I feel safer knowing that if someone does pull some shit, there's at least a possibility that there'll be some footage of it...
Unless it was a cop that did it, in which case the tape will be "lost".
If you do what you want based on what you feel is right, we might just not have any laws at all.
When the average person is more likely to be victimized by the law than protected, and the average villain is more likely to use the law as a weapon than fear it, that doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
There is a reason why the laws are created by the society as whole and not a single person or a group with single interest.
Hahahaha, welcome to America.
I'd rather have the Vera Sans Mono.
Coal is so old fashioned.
This is West Virginia, chances are it's moonshine stills.
Where are the families of the dead Taliban soldiers
They're in Afghanistan, probably not playing video games.
What gets me is that there's more public outcry over the name of a team in a game than there is over an actual war. If these people their voices heard by the President and their representatives instead of a video game maker, they might actually save some lives.
I've never found real time normalization to be desirable. There's always the potential for clipping. The only way to do normalization correctly is to know in advance the peak level. And even then, normalization isn't great. Quite often you want some scenes to be quieter or louder than others.
The Laws of Physics don't form a complete, formal logical system
The universe contains complete, formal, logical systems (e.g. computers). Are they not governed by the laws of physics?
The set of mathematical axioms used to describe the physical world doesn't need to be complete in order to be logically coherent
But then it's not a Theory of Everything.