A debatable thing. Here's why: Say some dude has a game idea. It's a fairly complex space-based strategy MMO. The dude starts working on a design plan, because he's good at that. He lays in the design foundation of the game: all items, all ships, all celestials, game mechanics, skill tree, interactions, timers, formulas, everything design-related. He even builds a database and generates the "universe" in which the game takes place. That's a few hundred work hours right there.
But the dude has no development skills and not nearly enough funding to hire a team and actually starting to produce content. He would think Kickstarter would be a good place to sell his idea and maybe get enough funding to start working on a prototype. But wait, everybody expects a working prototype, so where does that lead us? It's a rock-paper-scissors thing.
I understand why a potential backer would want to see something palpable before committing, but at the same time something palpable can't be built unless backers commit. What would be the alternative? is there a way out of this?
Agreed, nut I'd really see an advantage of having a "hybrid" driving car. Imagine a long trip which starts in a city and then you have to drive through a long straight highway stretch which involves little to do. You could let your car drive in autonomous mode while you relax and look around, and take control back towards the end of the trip.
Could it be because the wimps didn't procreate, or if they did, their offspring would likely not reach an age where they could procreate themselves? Nowadays, with the advancements in medicine, you could live long enough to procreate and have offspring with genetically bad health and risks of various diseases, which 100+ years ago were being removed from the gene pool automatically.
TL;DR: people who a century ago would have died at young age now live enough to generate offspring with inherited bad genetic traits.
No-one was condemned to an insane asylum in the US or condemned to prison with all their belongings confiscated by the government for merely daring to oppose the ruling party, so no, it's not like the Patriot act.
With that being said... there's a huge difference between a socioeconomic systems on paper and socioeconomic systems in practice. In theory (aka on paper), communism is great. So is democracy. So is monarchy, for that matter. The problem is how (and by whom) they're implemented. Communism (in its purest form) exists in nature for plenty of species which successfully apply it (e.g. bees, ants to name a few). People, well, that's a totally different thing. People will lie and cheat and play dirty to get a better piece of the pie. There's always going to be few who fuck many in their collective ass, no matter which system we are talking about. For communism, it's the tip of the party. For democracy, it's the corporations and their boards of directors. For Monarchy, it's the nobility. For a dictatorship, it's the dictator and his cronies.
45 years of communism drastically changed the behavior of my people as a whole. It would probably take all people who lived under communism to die of old age along with their children as well for the country to really be cleansed of behaviors which that system forced us to adopt. That's the amount of damage it did to my countrymen.
Not that applied democracy is much better, to be honest. It might be a step forward but it has a tendency to slide towards extremes, and that's rather obvious nowadays. I think any socioeconomic system should be completely overturned and replaced with a different one every 2-3 generations. Take the old guard out, replace it with a new one. Shake the rotten foundations of an originally good system and replace it with a fresh one which will gradually rot as well, rinse and repeat. Might sound extreme until you think about it and corroborate with what's happening today.
Laws dealing with online interactions are vague and confusing, well, I guess it's the other way around. Linking a nickname to a real person is more difficult, investigating what happened takes more time and resources, etc. You don't just "go talk to the neighbors".
True. I play games and never heard of those people before. HOWEVER. I also walk on the street and never got mugged or shot at, it doesn't mean it's not happening somewhere else. The fact it's not important to everyone doesn't mean it's not important at all. Laws are created based on events that might only have happened to a small number of people, and while the vast majority never heard of those laws, they still exist.
A vertical is your daily dick at 20 when you wake up. A horizontal is your weekly dick at 50 (if you're lucky) when you wake up. A reversed vertical is your dick at 70 (if you're lucky enough to be alive) at all times.
Now seriously, if you want to develop malware, you'd first think of "how many potential victims would I have?". Also... a Linux box is a Linux box. The difference between "server" and "desktop" lies in which software it runs, period. One could become the other just by installing something or enabling something.
Question for you: if I have a Linux server and install KDE on it, or X - would you name it a "Desktop"? Or is it still a server? Or both? I'm confused.
I'm Romanian, and I hate Russia more than any US citizen does, because we were directly affected by communism for almost 5 decades. And yes, in my language it's "Irak". Sorry if that offends you.
Also that feeling of entitlement "USA should be police of the world" is the sole reason so many countries hate the USA with a passion. Civil wars are civil wars. Dictatorships are dictatorships. Yes, that sucks for the population, but it's an internal affair. No foreign country has any right to set foot on any other country's sovereign territory unless the latter attacks another country and the attacked one officially asks for support. Furthermore, once the invader has been driven off, the activity should stop there. Yes, impose sanctions if you wish, embargo the shit out of them, but don't set foot on their territory.
The USA has meddled with too many countries' internal affairs for unilateral reasons. "We think you're uncivilized so we're gonna civilize you according to our views". No. That's wrong. It might uplift them (or so you'd think) but it would trample their (probably weird and backward, to you) way of living. Let them be "uncivilized" if they wish so. But no, you haven't, and billions of people dislike you now, and it will take decades for that dislike to wear off, provided, of course, the USA would stop further meddling activity completely.
I think there's more people in the world who dislike the USA than people who dislike Russia. Think about that. Freebie food for thought: http://thomasswan.hubpages.com...
(Disclaimer: I don't hate, dislike, loathe USA. I surely hate, dislike, loathe Russia)
" Support for Putin in Russia shot up when he invaded the "brotherly nation"."
Same was for Bush support when he decided to send troops to Irak. Average people rejoice when they smell blood. It's the same for pretty much every nation out there. When YOUR people invade OTHER people, it's a good thing. When OTHER people invade YOUR people, it's a bad thing. When neither are YOUR people, you support the ones who you like more (or hate less, or bring you more power, or are allied to, etc)
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My goal was getting you to read it.
You sir, have just been subtly trolled.
Sorry.
"asshole"?
People with great ideas but lacking funding are now assholes? Wow.
A debatable thing. Here's why:
Say some dude has a game idea. It's a fairly complex space-based strategy MMO. The dude starts working on a design plan, because he's good at that. He lays in the design foundation of the game: all items, all ships, all celestials, game mechanics, skill tree, interactions, timers, formulas, everything design-related. He even builds a database and generates the "universe" in which the game takes place. That's a few hundred work hours right there.
But the dude has no development skills and not nearly enough funding to hire a team and actually starting to produce content. He would think Kickstarter would be a good place to sell his idea and maybe get enough funding to start working on a prototype. But wait, everybody expects a working prototype, so where does that lead us? It's a rock-paper-scissors thing.
I understand why a potential backer would want to see something palpable before committing, but at the same time something palpable can't be built unless backers commit. What would be the alternative? is there a way out of this?
"People" also want shitty SOAPs, crappy entertainment and retarded music. Your point being?
doh, typo. nut = but
Agreed, nut I'd really see an advantage of having a "hybrid" driving car. Imagine a long trip which starts in a city and then you have to drive through a long straight highway stretch which involves little to do. You could let your car drive in autonomous mode while you relax and look around, and take control back towards the end of the trip.
Please start typing, because I make no sense of what you just said.
Could it be because the wimps didn't procreate, or if they did, their offspring would likely not reach an age where they could procreate themselves?
Nowadays, with the advancements in medicine, you could live long enough to procreate and have offspring with genetically bad health and risks of various diseases, which 100+ years ago were being removed from the gene pool automatically.
TL;DR: people who a century ago would have died at young age now live enough to generate offspring with inherited bad genetic traits.
No-one was condemned to an insane asylum in the US or condemned to prison with all their belongings confiscated by the government for merely daring to oppose the ruling party, so no, it's not like the Patriot act.
You might want to read this: http://skemman.is/stream/get/1...
I'm Romanian and I support your point of view.
With that being said... there's a huge difference between a socioeconomic systems on paper and socioeconomic systems in practice.
In theory (aka on paper), communism is great. So is democracy. So is monarchy, for that matter. The problem is how (and by whom) they're implemented.
Communism (in its purest form) exists in nature for plenty of species which successfully apply it (e.g. bees, ants to name a few). People, well, that's a totally different thing. People will lie and cheat and play dirty to get a better piece of the pie. There's always going to be few who fuck many in their collective ass, no matter which system we are talking about.
For communism, it's the tip of the party. For democracy, it's the corporations and their boards of directors. For Monarchy, it's the nobility. For a dictatorship, it's the dictator and his cronies.
45 years of communism drastically changed the behavior of my people as a whole. It would probably take all people who lived under communism to die of old age along with their children as well for the country to really be cleansed of behaviors which that system forced us to adopt. That's the amount of damage it did to my countrymen.
Not that applied democracy is much better, to be honest. It might be a step forward but it has a tendency to slide towards extremes, and that's rather obvious nowadays. I think any socioeconomic system should be completely overturned and replaced with a different one every 2-3 generations. Take the old guard out, replace it with a new one. Shake the rotten foundations of an originally good system and replace it with a fresh one which will gradually rot as well, rinse and repeat. Might sound extreme until you think about it and corroborate with what's happening today.
For the latter, I heard there are some sharks which could do it...
hat should help them finally tease apart the origins
How do you "tease" something apart?
Sorry, CIG built one such site already, and guess what, they exceeded 52M bucks received.
Laws dealing with online interactions are vague and confusing, well, I guess it's the other way around. Linking a nickname to a real person is more difficult, investigating what happened takes more time and resources, etc. You don't just "go talk to the neighbors".
Three words: fuck political correctness.
People need to grow a pair and not feel offended by talk.
Threats are a different thing.
Example of "just talk": yo' momma sucks dicks for coupons.
Example of threat: "I'm gonna choke yo' momma to death."
People are resourceful.
People who slept with her might bring some light to the matter. If they did, that is.
True. I play games and never heard of those people before.
HOWEVER.
I also walk on the street and never got mugged or shot at, it doesn't mean it's not happening somewhere else. The fact it's not important to everyone doesn't mean it's not important at all.
Laws are created based on events that might only have happened to a small number of people, and while the vast majority never heard of those laws, they still exist.
Are porn sites part of "entertainment industry"? If so, this is a serious threat and it needs dealt with ASAP.
A vertical is your daily dick at 20 when you wake up.
A horizontal is your weekly dick at 50 (if you're lucky) when you wake up.
A reversed vertical is your dick at 70 (if you're lucky enough to be alive) at all times.
What, none of all 5 of them?
Now seriously, if you want to develop malware, you'd first think of "how many potential victims would I have?".
Also... a Linux box is a Linux box. The difference between "server" and "desktop" lies in which software it runs, period. One could become the other just by installing something or enabling something.
Question for you: if I have a Linux server and install KDE on it, or X - would you name it a "Desktop"? Or is it still a server? Or both? I'm confused.
...Or they should gave gentoo'd their installations.
I'm Romanian, and I hate Russia more than any US citizen does, because we were directly affected by communism for almost 5 decades. And yes, in my language it's "Irak". Sorry if that offends you.
Also that feeling of entitlement "USA should be police of the world" is the sole reason so many countries hate the USA with a passion.
Civil wars are civil wars. Dictatorships are dictatorships. Yes, that sucks for the population, but it's an internal affair. No foreign country has any right to set foot on any other country's sovereign territory unless the latter attacks another country and the attacked one officially asks for support. Furthermore, once the invader has been driven off, the activity should stop there. Yes, impose sanctions if you wish, embargo the shit out of them, but don't set foot on their territory.
The USA has meddled with too many countries' internal affairs for unilateral reasons. "We think you're uncivilized so we're gonna civilize you according to our views". No. That's wrong. It might uplift them (or so you'd think) but it would trample their (probably weird and backward, to you) way of living. Let them be "uncivilized" if they wish so. But no, you haven't, and billions of people dislike you now, and it will take decades for that dislike to wear off, provided, of course, the USA would stop further meddling activity completely.
I think there's more people in the world who dislike the USA than people who dislike Russia. Think about that.
Freebie food for thought: http://thomasswan.hubpages.com...
(Disclaimer: I don't hate, dislike, loathe USA. I surely hate, dislike, loathe Russia)
" Support for Putin in Russia shot up when he invaded the "brotherly nation"."
Same was for Bush support when he decided to send troops to Irak.
Average people rejoice when they smell blood. It's the same for pretty much every nation out there.
When YOUR people invade OTHER people, it's a good thing. When OTHER people invade YOUR people, it's a bad thing. When neither are YOUR people, you support the ones who you like more (or hate less, or bring you more power, or are allied to, etc)
Yey, I have a stalker! Woo-hoo!