Why you should care is that the chance that the money you spend here is again spent here is pretty high. And money spent here may well be spent on you or your business.
Getting away with it? You can bet any amount of money that immediately after someone as much as thinks about starting a riot, police is there to round up everyone. It's almost like they wait for the police to be good to go before hurling the first stone.
If it's strategy you're after, Supreme Commander (plus expansion) may be your game. So far the only game ever where maps are large enough that air transport makes sense and where strategic planning isn't just called strategic because people can't tell strategy from tactics.
Yes, but oddly there's a lot of people who want to give me everything and their soul for those oddly colored rectangular pieces of paper. And as long as they do, it has a value.
Money is a commodity like any other. Its value is not what you attribute to it but what someone else is willing to give you for it.
The idea was to oversimplify the problem to get the 5 second attention span millennials to actually listen for a change...
The problem of the communist model wasn't wellfare. It was basically what you said: No matter how hard you worked, it didn't matter. So people didn't. They took the GDR party slogan "We have to squeeze everything from our factories" to the heart and did exactly that. The consideration for the average worker was no longer how to produce more but how to get more out of it for himself. Since that wasn't possible by working more, and working less was not really punished either, people simply put up some work spectacle. Twice so when they noticed that due to the usual shortages working quickly when raw materials arrived meant not having to work at all at the end of the month when there were no raw materials left to work with.
That was, by the way, similar when the East Bloc fell and the workers were taken over by West companies. The companies were delighted to see their new workforce work with incredible zeal, which plummeted instantly once they noticed that burning through the raw materials by the 5th didn't mean slacking for the rest of the month but instead getting a new stack of raw material...
So don't worry. I know both systems. Quite intimately.
Updating Linux has become quite painless by now, at least for the Desktop distributions. Basically it's like with Win10, just that you can decide not to if you feel like and it usually doesn't shoot your system in the boot.
And before I answer it, one thing in advance: It won't go without "tweaking". Yes, Linux went a long way from its "CLI only" days that became "CLI only, but we have some kinda-sorta frontends for some of the things, and a few of them actually work" to what we have now, a system that you can mostly configure without ever touching a command line.
Linux is still, though, an operating system that retails its command line roots. In other words, every GUI does, CLI can do better. Or easier. Or faster. Or with more options. Eventually, you will open that terminal window. We know you will.
Linux is also not a "fake it 'til you make it" OS where you guess your way through the menus, hoping that eventually you will find a way that lets you do what you want to do. Unlike Windows, where there are usually a few ways you can reach a goal, some more intelligent and efficient, some less, there is usually only one way to do something in Linux, and it needn't be the most intuitive one depending on the angle you're approaching from.
So, with this all said, the question which Linux distro is the right one for a newbie is answered by answering two questions:
1. With what Linux distribution will access to webpages on the internet work out of the box with near 100% certainty? 2. Which Linux distribution has the most informative and best Google-findable "how do I do stuff" pages?
The answer to those two questions would be Ubuntu. Yes, Mint works too, but Mint is a tiny bit different, and the last thing you need as a newbie is to wonder whether some cookbook you just follow is wrong, whether it's something on your end or whether it's one of the few things that differ between the textbook and your copy. And yes, Mint is a good system and in some areas actually better than Ubuntu, especially when it comes to support and tweaks for home entertainment, but I'd still stick with Ubuntu. Simply because you have a solid amount of good and helpful advice at your disposal that works for YOUR system.
There is like a million games like it out right now, most of them in the 10 bucks bin, or simply from some indie dev altogether. Why the fuck would I want to buy a 20 year old game just because "Ohhh, 4k resolution!"?
I ask you something: Imagine me coming into your church and telling everyone about the advantages of buttfucking and how your imaginary buddy is an imagination, using the bible to show you that most of it is bullshit. Will I be allowed to speak? Or will I be shown the door?
Nobody cares whether you're Christian. Basically, for all I care, believe in Zeus or Ra or both of them at the same time. Just one thing: Don't get on my fucking nerves and keep your delusion to yourself.
You're dead now and don't need your wallet anymore. Hey, if the alternative is starving to death, I take my chance killing you and only MAYBE get killed for that.
Great! You have a couple thousand jobs that you didn't tell anyone about, please tell the people! If you think that everyone who wants a job can get one, I'm pretty sure you can point us to them!
And buy what instead? It's not like Epson, Brother or of all the patent-mongers HP is any better.
What printer company sells me a printer and OFFERS me cartridges instead of doing the printer equivalent of a dealer doing his "first one is free" pitch?
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Why you should care is that the chance that the money you spend here is again spent here is pretty high. And money spent here may well be spent on you or your business.
I wasn't informed that porn counts as opinion now.
Freedom for boobs! First amendment!
Getting away with it? You can bet any amount of money that immediately after someone as much as thinks about starting a riot, police is there to round up everyone. It's almost like they wait for the police to be good to go before hurling the first stone.
That's nice for S Korea.
It runs fine on current hardware, even with multiple big battles going on at the same time.
If it's strategy you're after, Supreme Commander (plus expansion) may be your game. So far the only game ever where maps are large enough that air transport makes sense and where strategic planning isn't just called strategic because people can't tell strategy from tactics.
Just watch the cutscenes on YouTube between battles...
So it only took 100 or 120 bucks to be on par with a game that's been in the bargain bin for over a decade?
Yes, but oddly there's a lot of people who want to give me everything and their soul for those oddly colored rectangular pieces of paper. And as long as they do, it has a value.
Money is a commodity like any other. Its value is not what you attribute to it but what someone else is willing to give you for it.
The idea was to oversimplify the problem to get the 5 second attention span millennials to actually listen for a change...
The problem of the communist model wasn't wellfare. It was basically what you said: No matter how hard you worked, it didn't matter. So people didn't. They took the GDR party slogan "We have to squeeze everything from our factories" to the heart and did exactly that. The consideration for the average worker was no longer how to produce more but how to get more out of it for himself. Since that wasn't possible by working more, and working less was not really punished either, people simply put up some work spectacle. Twice so when they noticed that due to the usual shortages working quickly when raw materials arrived meant not having to work at all at the end of the month when there were no raw materials left to work with.
That was, by the way, similar when the East Bloc fell and the workers were taken over by West companies. The companies were delighted to see their new workforce work with incredible zeal, which plummeted instantly once they noticed that burning through the raw materials by the 5th didn't mean slacking for the rest of the month but instead getting a new stack of raw material...
So don't worry. I know both systems. Quite intimately.
Updating Linux has become quite painless by now, at least for the Desktop distributions. Basically it's like with Win10, just that you can decide not to if you feel like and it usually doesn't shoot your system in the boot.
And before I answer it, one thing in advance: It won't go without "tweaking". Yes, Linux went a long way from its "CLI only" days that became "CLI only, but we have some kinda-sorta frontends for some of the things, and a few of them actually work" to what we have now, a system that you can mostly configure without ever touching a command line.
Linux is still, though, an operating system that retails its command line roots. In other words, every GUI does, CLI can do better. Or easier. Or faster. Or with more options. Eventually, you will open that terminal window. We know you will.
Linux is also not a "fake it 'til you make it" OS where you guess your way through the menus, hoping that eventually you will find a way that lets you do what you want to do. Unlike Windows, where there are usually a few ways you can reach a goal, some more intelligent and efficient, some less, there is usually only one way to do something in Linux, and it needn't be the most intuitive one depending on the angle you're approaching from.
So, with this all said, the question which Linux distro is the right one for a newbie is answered by answering two questions:
1. With what Linux distribution will access to webpages on the internet work out of the box with near 100% certainty?
2. Which Linux distribution has the most informative and best Google-findable "how do I do stuff" pages?
The answer to those two questions would be Ubuntu. Yes, Mint works too, but Mint is a tiny bit different, and the last thing you need as a newbie is to wonder whether some cookbook you just follow is wrong, whether it's something on your end or whether it's one of the few things that differ between the textbook and your copy. And yes, Mint is a good system and in some areas actually better than Ubuntu, especially when it comes to support and tweaks for home entertainment, but I'd still stick with Ubuntu. Simply because you have a solid amount of good and helpful advice at your disposal that works for YOUR system.
There is like a million games like it out right now, most of them in the 10 bucks bin, or simply from some indie dev altogether. Why the fuck would I want to buy a 20 year old game just because "Ohhh, 4k resolution!"?
They almost had me when they said I was supposed to "Allow Jesus to enter me", but then they killed it all when they said that buttfucking is a nono.
Kinda mixed messages there...
I ask you something: Imagine me coming into your church and telling everyone about the advantages of buttfucking and how your imaginary buddy is an imagination, using the bible to show you that most of it is bullshit. Will I be allowed to speak? Or will I be shown the door?
Nobody cares whether you're Christian. Basically, for all I care, believe in Zeus or Ra or both of them at the same time. Just one thing: Don't get on my fucking nerves and keep your delusion to yourself.
The communist model didn't work for the same reason this one is failing: People want money. Not a job. The job is the necessary evil for money.
The communist model failed because people noticed that they could get money without working.
This one is failing because people are noticing that even if they were working they cannot get enough money.
I found a thing better than starving.
BANG
You're dead now and don't need your wallet anymore. Hey, if the alternative is starving to death, I take my chance killing you and only MAYBE get killed for that.
Great! You have a couple thousand jobs that you didn't tell anyone about, please tell the people! If you think that everyone who wants a job can get one, I'm pretty sure you can point us to them!
It doesn't. Mostly because it doesn't look like it can easily move that shield out of the way of an obstacle that's trivial to place on the street.
The lucky ones that did it before governments found a neat way to end protests in a way that has the support of the general population.
It's not like a lot of protesters riot.
But ... well, let's put it that way: Rioters give the authorities a good excuse to end a protest. Draw your own conclusions.
Well, technically it was designed as a flashbang, but a lot of people had to learn the hard way that it can explode rather violently if tampered with.
Try, just TRY to disallow imports from China.
And buy what instead? It's not like Epson, Brother or of all the patent-mongers HP is any better.
What printer company sells me a printer and OFFERS me cartridges instead of doing the printer equivalent of a dealer doing his "first one is free" pitch?
Would you please stop giving them stupid ideas?