I only played a couple hours since it's a work day.. but it's the first Fallout I've played where the preload unlocked on time, both audio and video worked without having to mess with ini files or go searching for specific driver versions, and it didn't crash. So.. maybe they're getting better. I think it was Fallout 3 where I couldn't even play it for a couple of days waiting on a patch to let me launch it.
I've heard this claim before. It may have been true in the past, but it isn't now. I work for a fairly big company that is headquartered in Texas. My title ends with "software engineer" just the same as my peers that actually work out of the Texas office. We have a competent legal team, so if there were such a restriction, we would honor it.
How many times are bombs found after a bomb threat is called in? Has it ever happened? The people that are actually going to carry out acts of violence aren't going to advertise their plans ahead of time.
You want to go back to the earlier standard that denied equal rights to non-whites and non-property-owners? That's not going to happen. The attic bit is handled by the states, some require trigger locks, gun safes, or other measures.
I don't want to get into "my country is better than your country". If you like Canada, you can keep your Canada. I like the government the Constitution lays out and I hope some day the US will return to it. I'm not in favor of denying groups like the NRA or even labor unions from having their voices heard when it comes to politics. That would deny people their right to assemble and their right to free speech. I find it amusing that the supposedly pro-tolerance left always wants to silence everyone on the "evil right". Try honoring your own principles.
Gun control is dead-on-arrival unless you plan to amend the Constitution. I don't see it ever happening in the US in our lifetimes. Many people don't want to live in a country where the laws demand that they be defenseless, especially in a nation vast enough that for all practical purposes, there are no authorities to get immediate assistance from. What you're suggesting is no less of a change than suggesting that freedom of speech be taken away.
At least some of those people already had a history of mental health issues. It's how we care for those individuals and how we protect society from them that are the parts that are desperately in need of work.
Yea, that was a slick move. They got rid of the over the counter inhaler that way, and jacked the price of albuterol inhalers tremendously. It's another life saving medicine that went from being incredibly cheap to being quite expensive. Anyone looked at the price of epi auto injectors lately? Same damn thing.
Why do you think Trump is polling so well? The rotting corpse of the GOP sunk its teeth into the TEA Party. There's no one useful to vote for, so people are choosing to light the whole mess on fire by voting for the one self serving asshole that's at least honest about being a self serving asshole.
Rand is shooting himself in the foot by being such a wimp about taking the speaker role. We don't need someone who's afraid of fighting for something being the leader of our nation. Maybe the exiting speaking can hand him a box of tissues on his way out.
There are no TEA Party candidates since the TEA Party never managed to become an actual political party. The GOP saw their eminent demise and decided to pretend they were it, and somehow they've been allowed to do so unchallenged.
The TEA Party didn't even exist back when those things were going on..
I'm sure conservative means different things to different people, but I don't personally know of any that supported the formation of the DHS, the groping of the TSA, nor any of the domestic spying that's been exposed. The Constitution doesn't agree with much of that either. Torture may get some wiggle room, depending on whose definition you go by. You don't truly believe that the entire population of conservatives were completely on board with Dubya, do you? From "Ashcroft's army" to those "free speech zones", there was plenty that both sides could go against.
I get your back and forth point. I think part of it is the lengths the current President went to push "hope and change" and things like transparency. When you push those types of things as hard as he did, people are really going to recoil when they're not achieved. Sort of like "mission accomplished".
Long term disability coverage is meant to protect you in situations like that. Every employer I've ever worked for either provided it outright, or at least offered it. You can also get such a plan yourself, do it when you're young and it won't cost much.
Unions are great if you're dead weight and want to be protected. Those with marketable skills generally don't have need of them, nor want of them. Do you want to pay dues to an org that's going to fight to keep the dead weight around? I don't.
That drone isn't doing anything to the plane that a large bird can't. IMO, that's a design flaw of the plane. Worse, if that's really such a risk, it's an obvious way for a terrorist to bring down an airliner. They're not going to care about drone regulations.
I get your point about bicycles and skis, but the flip side is that the airliner example is probably a one-in-a-million chance, whereas cycling and skis do routinely get both the operator and bystanders hurt or even killed. Yea, they're not going to take out more than two or three people at once, but the likelihood is far greater.
They still act irresponsibly, that's the point. If a majority of motorists don't obey the rules, why would drone operators do so? There are traffic cops watching for motor vehicle violations, there aren't any sky cops. It would be mostly honor system, except perhaps over large populations or very sensitive areas. The idiots will see that and do whatever the hell they want and 99.99% of the time get away with it.
Yet we don't have a bicycle license or regulation scheme (in most places). We don't have skiing licenses or regulation. There are far more dangerous things that people do than fly little drones. It's a free country. Rather than regulate every bad idea a person can have (which is infinite), use the laws we have and punish some to serve as warnings for the others.
I think that's why it's now at the mercy of the carrier. The carrier wants to ensure a seamless upgrade, so they want to validate major releases first and then make them available for their customers' phones to grab. Carriers aren't exactly in a hurry though, so why Google would let them do this is beyond me. What's annoying is that if you're using an MVNO, you're not technically the carrier's customer yet you're on hold for the OTA upgrade until they bless it.
It's convenience. It's easier to lay your phone on the charging pad in a car, for example, than plugging in a micro-USB cable. Plus you don't have cables lying around everywhere, in the car, in the house, at work, etc.
Only if you side-load it yourself. The Nexus updates are now at the mercy of the carriers, even if they're unlocked phones purchased from Google directly, even on a prepaid monthly plan.
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I only played a couple hours since it's a work day.. but it's the first Fallout I've played where the preload unlocked on time, both audio and video worked without having to mess with ini files or go searching for specific driver versions, and it didn't crash. So.. maybe they're getting better. I think it was Fallout 3 where I couldn't even play it for a couple of days waiting on a patch to let me launch it.
I've heard this claim before. It may have been true in the past, but it isn't now. I work for a fairly big company that is headquartered in Texas. My title ends with "software engineer" just the same as my peers that actually work out of the Texas office. We have a competent legal team, so if there were such a restriction, we would honor it.
Unaffiliated. Would be conservative if there was such a party.
How many times are bombs found after a bomb threat is called in? Has it ever happened? The people that are actually going to carry out acts of violence aren't going to advertise their plans ahead of time.
You want to go back to the earlier standard that denied equal rights to non-whites and non-property-owners? That's not going to happen. The attic bit is handled by the states, some require trigger locks, gun safes, or other measures.
I don't want to get into "my country is better than your country". If you like Canada, you can keep your Canada. I like the government the Constitution lays out and I hope some day the US will return to it. I'm not in favor of denying groups like the NRA or even labor unions from having their voices heard when it comes to politics. That would deny people their right to assemble and their right to free speech. I find it amusing that the supposedly pro-tolerance left always wants to silence everyone on the "evil right". Try honoring your own principles.
Gun control is dead-on-arrival unless you plan to amend the Constitution. I don't see it ever happening in the US in our lifetimes. Many people don't want to live in a country where the laws demand that they be defenseless, especially in a nation vast enough that for all practical purposes, there are no authorities to get immediate assistance from. What you're suggesting is no less of a change than suggesting that freedom of speech be taken away.
You had a guy rampage through parliament a while back and there was what, one good guy with a tiny pistol to stop him? That doesn't sound ideal.
Taking rights away from people with mental issues will encourage those same people to not seek help in the first place. It's a tricky issue.
At least some of those people already had a history of mental health issues. It's how we care for those individuals and how we protect society from them that are the parts that are desperately in need of work.
Yea, that was a slick move. They got rid of the over the counter inhaler that way, and jacked the price of albuterol inhalers tremendously. It's another life saving medicine that went from being incredibly cheap to being quite expensive. Anyone looked at the price of epi auto injectors lately? Same damn thing.
Why do you think Trump is polling so well? The rotting corpse of the GOP sunk its teeth into the TEA Party. There's no one useful to vote for, so people are choosing to light the whole mess on fire by voting for the one self serving asshole that's at least honest about being a self serving asshole.
Rand is shooting himself in the foot by being such a wimp about taking the speaker role. We don't need someone who's afraid of fighting for something being the leader of our nation. Maybe the exiting speaking can hand him a box of tissues on his way out.
There are no TEA Party candidates since the TEA Party never managed to become an actual political party. The GOP saw their eminent demise and decided to pretend they were it, and somehow they've been allowed to do so unchallenged.
The TEA Party didn't even exist back when those things were going on..
I'm sure conservative means different things to different people, but I don't personally know of any that supported the formation of the DHS, the groping of the TSA, nor any of the domestic spying that's been exposed. The Constitution doesn't agree with much of that either. Torture may get some wiggle room, depending on whose definition you go by. You don't truly believe that the entire population of conservatives were completely on board with Dubya, do you? From "Ashcroft's army" to those "free speech zones", there was plenty that both sides could go against.
I get your back and forth point. I think part of it is the lengths the current President went to push "hope and change" and things like transparency. When you push those types of things as hard as he did, people are really going to recoil when they're not achieved. Sort of like "mission accomplished".
You're confusing the TEA Party with the GOP. They're not the same thing, no matter how much the GOP tries to suggest otherwise.
Long term disability coverage is meant to protect you in situations like that. Every employer I've ever worked for either provided it outright, or at least offered it. You can also get such a plan yourself, do it when you're young and it won't cost much.
Unions are great if you're dead weight and want to be protected. Those with marketable skills generally don't have need of them, nor want of them. Do you want to pay dues to an org that's going to fight to keep the dead weight around? I don't.
The group that's against a large, invasive federal government somehow supports illegal wiretapping? Going to have to call BS on that one.
When it looks like an IED, yes! Columbine, anyone?
That drone isn't doing anything to the plane that a large bird can't. IMO, that's a design flaw of the plane. Worse, if that's really such a risk, it's an obvious way for a terrorist to bring down an airliner. They're not going to care about drone regulations.
I get your point about bicycles and skis, but the flip side is that the airliner example is probably a one-in-a-million chance, whereas cycling and skis do routinely get both the operator and bystanders hurt or even killed. Yea, they're not going to take out more than two or three people at once, but the likelihood is far greater.
They still act irresponsibly, that's the point. If a majority of motorists don't obey the rules, why would drone operators do so? There are traffic cops watching for motor vehicle violations, there aren't any sky cops. It would be mostly honor system, except perhaps over large populations or very sensitive areas. The idiots will see that and do whatever the hell they want and 99.99% of the time get away with it.
Yet we don't have a bicycle license or regulation scheme (in most places). We don't have skiing licenses or regulation. There are far more dangerous things that people do than fly little drones. It's a free country. Rather than regulate every bad idea a person can have (which is infinite), use the laws we have and punish some to serve as warnings for the others.
Some cars have them built in now. There are also companies building them into furniture for home and office. It's 2015, welcome to the future.
I think that's why it's now at the mercy of the carrier. The carrier wants to ensure a seamless upgrade, so they want to validate major releases first and then make them available for their customers' phones to grab. Carriers aren't exactly in a hurry though, so why Google would let them do this is beyond me. What's annoying is that if you're using an MVNO, you're not technically the carrier's customer yet you're on hold for the OTA upgrade until they bless it.
It's convenience. It's easier to lay your phone on the charging pad in a car, for example, than plugging in a micro-USB cable. Plus you don't have cables lying around everywhere, in the car, in the house, at work, etc.
Only if you side-load it yourself. The Nexus updates are now at the mercy of the carriers, even if they're unlocked phones purchased from Google directly, even on a prepaid monthly plan.