You're right, and much of the old laws of bible are rooted in real life observations. Religion's purpose has always been to bridge the gap between what is apparent, and what we actually know about something (the "why" so to speak). Take the law of not eating shellfish, or the restrictions on "clean" meats, or handling dead bodies. These were religious laws that the faithful trusted and obeyed because they thought God commanded it, not because they, or even the people who wrote the law understood the cause and effects. Consequently they probably helped keep a lot of people from getting deathly ill because they didn't know about trichinella.
I remember this same episode, and I believe his experience was also testament to the actual fear of driving a real 3,000lb vehicle to the absolute brink; it not that he was physically unable to brake late in real life... he wasn't mentally able to so the way he had in the game. The most crucial thing a game like gran turismo omits is the g-forces exerted on the driver. This whole experience also goes to show the amount of skill, patience, and fearlessness a professional race driver has to push a car to the limits that even an above average driver (at least in terms of experiencing overpowered vehicles) like Jeremy Clarkston is unable to.
I'm pretty sure he/she means with the window/windsheild defrosters, where I live (Michigan, US) its fairly common practice to start your car (outdoors) and let it run until the heat is blowing warm and defrosting all your windows. Even -25 deicer windshield cleaner will freeze some mornings. It's better for the vehicle too, because you're letting all the engine components come up to their optimal operating temperatures.
I agree with you there, my girlfriend's younger brother is still in high school and it amazes me that his friends and him have so little interaction, even when they are sitting in the same room; phones always in hand.
My disgust isn't entirely the volume of text messages... it's more that an almost 40 year old man who should be busy being Mayor (albeit one of the worst, and in the worst city in the US) doesn't need to be averaging over 50 text messages a day to one person. I don't even want to know how many he was sending a day to the rest of his phone book.
After someone like Kwame Kilpatrick (former mayor of Detroit) exchanged 14,000 text messages with his chief of staff (both married to other people), most of which were related to their sexual affair with one another and others which were about illegally firing another government employee and I believe a bribery scandal (this has been local news here for a while), I'm not surprised they are finally doing this.
What I'd really like to know, is how the hell someone could send 14k text messages between September/October 2002 and April/May 2003. All the illegal and corrupt stuff aside... If that time period is accurate that means they were exchanging over 50 text messages a day... what the fuck.
More like. If you forgot to close your blinds your neighbors can see how your furniture is arranged (maybe even photograph it). But, they can't sit in it, rearrange it, or take it from your house.
US Constitution doesn't allow the federal government to arbitrarily detain people for potential crimes.
Not that our government should be allowed to... but all we'd have to do is label them potential (eco?) terrorists and we'd be able to lock them up for years without trial or substantial evidence.
Then price it like electricity. Does anyone pre-pay for electricity?
Fortunately my power company doesn't rape my wallet if I use a few extra watts. At 25 dollars per 2gb then they should only charge you.0122 dollars per mb you go over right? Hell they should just charge you that rate regardless of what plan you buy.
Granted in his case the main thing that helped him was practicing consistency in hitting braking points and adherence to a proper racing line. I doubt the game actually improved his physical ability behind the wheel.
The idea behind it is consistency and predictability. In police forces and basic military forces the officers aren't trained to think for themselves. They are trained to follow procedures, exactly. Not that a highly intelligent person cannot conform, but having outliers (stupid, or really smart people) make the group less uniform.
To be a bit cynical about it, they don't want someone who 'thinks' they know a better way to do something. They want someone who just does what they were trained to do without asking too many questions.
but I'm more inclined to think they have people who do nothing but figure out what approach will make the most money.
How evil! How dare they try to make the most money from their products!
That wasn't my point. I don't think they are _evil_. I was pointing out that they are a business. They aren't artists, they aren't social workers, and the ones who make decisions aren't passionate developers either... they market and sell products and answer to investors. Those answers are in dollars and cents, not "We felt a release of COD14 wouldn't have done justice to the franchise, so we canceled it."
As a business do they really care about over-saturating a brand if they can get rich doing it? I'd like to think they do, but I'm more inclined to think they have people who do nothing but figure out what approach will make the most money. In the end those conclusions drive development.
Absolutely correct. Another thing to remember is that they would be trapping the water so that they could USE it. The water will end up as run off regardless.
I doubt any would _require_ multiple screens, but reducing clutter on the main screen would make any almost game better. And as the technology, and multi-screen set ups become more common, game developers will find ways to use the extra space.
Most MMORPG's could take advantage for things like inventory, abilities, chat logs, damage statistics, group party members... I can think of some bad-ass things you could do with simulator games too. Like mimicking the cockpit of a military vehicle, ect.
I can see this being used for advanced user interfaces, where one monitor displays the game action or whatever graphics in full screen. The additional screens would be used for tool bars, statistics, messaging, or whatever else would useful for the game.
Until monitors without bezels are ubiquitous, and affordable, I can't see someone enjoying a game played like this.
Before anyone points out that the insurance companies play a big role in the insane cost inflation... I agree. My point is that simply replacing insurance companies with government socialization will not fix the problem. It needs to be completely restructured, and eventually have health insurance completely eliminated.
Absolutely correct. Solely blaming big bad insurance companies is political at best. The entire system is broken.
For example: Recently I got high-sticked playing hockey. I went to a 24hr walk in clinic (knowing better than to go to the ER). I was in and out in 20 minutes with 6 stitches in my eyebrow. They gave me a tetanus shot because it had been 10 years since my last one. This is a rough breakdown of my bill.
$150 office visit
$250 stitches
$25 tetanus shot
$28 administration of tetanus shot
Some other small administrative cost
With costs like this for 6 very simple stitches, it should be no wonder why we pay twice as much for health care.
Hahah. Woops, I was probably going between talking on the phone or reading something and screwed that up somehow. I'm a native English speaker, just a silly error.
I just want Bing to actually index sites. I have a relatively new site (3 months) that has been submitted to Bing with a site map for a couple months.
The site is 100% english and is getting traffic from Yandex, and Baidu... but if I type the title of the site, or the URL into bing. It doesn't even show up.
Wait to go microsoft, an exclusively Chinese search engine is faster at indexing English websites.
Legit squatting sites are no different than a billboard you see after you make a wrong turn while driving.
Like others have said, as long as they aren't a phishing site or trying to trick you into believing you are where you are not, then it sounds like there is no foul.
Instead of looking where women and black people AREN'T, I think it would be better to look where women and black people ARE and to see why they are happy (?) where they are.
I want to add to this that a good place to start is entertainment and sports for blacks. (I will avoid gender all together, because obviously we forced women to be over represented in ares do to our patriarchal society...) People might complain that [this group] or [that group] is underrepresented in [career field] relative to their representation in general populace, but if you look at other areas like sports blacks are heavily over represented and seem to out perform other races.
We are all different, like it or not. Instead of making a fuss about it, why don't we don't utilize our differences to make a better team?... Let the forwards score, the defense defend and the goaltender be weird, because we all know they are strange people.
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You're right, and much of the old laws of bible are rooted in real life observations. Religion's purpose has always been to bridge the gap between what is apparent, and what we actually know about something (the "why" so to speak). Take the law of not eating shellfish, or the restrictions on "clean" meats, or handling dead bodies. These were religious laws that the faithful trusted and obeyed because they thought God commanded it, not because they, or even the people who wrote the law understood the cause and effects. Consequently they probably helped keep a lot of people from getting deathly ill because they didn't know about trichinella.
We know better now.
I remember this same episode, and I believe his experience was also testament to the actual fear of driving a real 3,000lb vehicle to the absolute brink; it not that he was physically unable to brake late in real life... he wasn't mentally able to so the way he had in the game. The most crucial thing a game like gran turismo omits is the g-forces exerted on the driver. This whole experience also goes to show the amount of skill, patience, and fearlessness a professional race driver has to push a car to the limits that even an above average driver (at least in terms of experiencing overpowered vehicles) like Jeremy Clarkston is unable to.
I'm pretty sure he/she means with the window/windsheild defrosters, where I live (Michigan, US) its fairly common practice to start your car (outdoors) and let it run until the heat is blowing warm and defrosting all your windows. Even -25 deicer windshield cleaner will freeze some mornings. It's better for the vehicle too, because you're letting all the engine components come up to their optimal operating temperatures.
I agree with you there, my girlfriend's younger brother is still in high school and it amazes me that his friends and him have so little interaction, even when they are sitting in the same room; phones always in hand.
My disgust isn't entirely the volume of text messages... it's more that an almost 40 year old man who should be busy being Mayor (albeit one of the worst, and in the worst city in the US) doesn't need to be averaging over 50 text messages a day to one person. I don't even want to know how many he was sending a day to the rest of his phone book.
After someone like Kwame Kilpatrick (former mayor of Detroit) exchanged 14,000 text messages with his chief of staff (both married to other people), most of which were related to their sexual affair with one another and others which were about illegally firing another government employee and I believe a bribery scandal (this has been local news here for a while), I'm not surprised they are finally doing this.
What I'd really like to know, is how the hell someone could send 14k text messages between September/October 2002 and April/May 2003. All the illegal and corrupt stuff aside... If that time period is accurate that means they were exchanging over 50 text messages a day... what the fuck.
More like. If you forgot to close your blinds your neighbors can see how your furniture is arranged (maybe even photograph it). But, they can't sit in it, rearrange it, or take it from your house.
US Constitution doesn't allow the federal government to arbitrarily detain people for potential crimes.
Not that our government should be allowed to... but all we'd have to do is label them potential (eco?) terrorists and we'd be able to lock them up for years without trial or substantial evidence.
Then price it like electricity. Does anyone pre-pay for electricity?
.0122 dollars per mb you go over right? Hell they should just charge you that rate regardless of what plan you buy.
Fortunately my power company doesn't rape my wallet if I use a few extra watts. At 25 dollars per 2gb then they should only charge you
The human body has no thermal energy? Ahh... thats why I have to lay in the sun to get my body temp up to ~98 F (~36C).
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/12/04/1516204/Gran-Turismo-Gamer-Becomes-Pro-Race-Driver
Granted in his case the main thing that helped him was practicing consistency in hitting braking points and adherence to a proper racing line. I doubt the game actually improved his physical ability behind the wheel.
The idea behind it is consistency and predictability. In police forces and basic military forces the officers aren't trained to think for themselves. They are trained to follow procedures, exactly. Not that a highly intelligent person cannot conform, but having outliers (stupid, or really smart people) make the group less uniform.
To be a bit cynical about it, they don't want someone who 'thinks' they know a better way to do something. They want someone who just does what they were trained to do without asking too many questions.
but I'm more inclined to think they have people who do nothing but figure out what approach will make the most money.
How evil! How dare they try to make the most money from their products!
That wasn't my point. I don't think they are _evil_. I was pointing out that they are a business. They aren't artists, they aren't social workers, and the ones who make decisions aren't passionate developers either... they market and sell products and answer to investors. Those answers are in dollars and cents, not "We felt a release of COD14 wouldn't have done justice to the franchise, so we canceled it."
What if 'killing' the brand is slow, painful, and yields hundreds of millions of dollars?
As a business do they really care about over-saturating a brand if they can get rich doing it? I'd like to think they do, but I'm more inclined to think they have people who do nothing but figure out what approach will make the most money. In the end those conclusions drive development.
Absolutely correct. Another thing to remember is that they would be trapping the water so that they could USE it. The water will end up as run off regardless.
Light and Tan.
I doubt any would _require_ multiple screens, but reducing clutter on the main screen would make any almost game better. And as the technology, and multi-screen set ups become more common, game developers will find ways to use the extra space.
Most MMORPG's could take advantage for things like inventory, abilities, chat logs, damage statistics, group party members... I can think of some bad-ass things you could do with simulator games too. Like mimicking the cockpit of a military vehicle, ect.
I can see this being used for advanced user interfaces, where one monitor displays the game action or whatever graphics in full screen. The additional screens would be used for tool bars, statistics, messaging, or whatever else would useful for the game.
Until monitors without bezels are ubiquitous, and affordable, I can't see someone enjoying a game played like this.
Before anyone points out that the insurance companies play a big role in the insane cost inflation... I agree. My point is that simply replacing insurance companies with government socialization will not fix the problem. It needs to be completely restructured, and eventually have health insurance completely eliminated.
Absolutely correct. Solely blaming big bad insurance companies is political at best. The entire system is broken.
For example: Recently I got high-sticked playing hockey. I went to a 24hr walk in clinic (knowing better than to go to the ER). I was in and out in 20 minutes with 6 stitches in my eyebrow. They gave me a tetanus shot because it had been 10 years since my last one. This is a rough breakdown of my bill.
$150 office visit
$250 stitches
$25 tetanus shot
$28 administration of tetanus shot
Some other small administrative cost
With costs like this for 6 very simple stitches, it should be no wonder why we pay twice as much for health care.
Hahah. Woops, I was probably going between talking on the phone or reading something and screwed that up somehow. I'm a native English speaker, just a silly error.
I just want Bing to actually index sites. I have a relatively new site (3 months) that has been submitted to Bing with a site map for a couple months.
The site is 100% english and is getting traffic from Yandex, and Baidu... but if I type the title of the site, or the URL into bing. It doesn't even show up.
Wait to go microsoft, an exclusively Chinese search engine is faster at indexing English websites.
Legit squatting sites are no different than a billboard you see after you make a wrong turn while driving.
Like others have said, as long as they aren't a phishing site or trying to trick you into believing you are where you are not, then it sounds like there is no foul.
I want to add to this that a good place to start is entertainment and sports for blacks. (I will avoid gender all together, because obviously we forced women to be over represented in ares do to our patriarchal society...) People might complain that [this group] or [that group] is underrepresented in [career field] relative to their representation in general populace, but if you look at other areas like sports blacks are heavily over represented and seem to out perform other races.
We are all different, like it or not. Instead of making a fuss about it, why don't we don't utilize our differences to make a better team?... Let the forwards score, the defense defend and the goaltender be weird, because we all know they are strange people.