Cost of contracts for military hardware awarded (as F-35 project shows, these are essentially risk free grants, not even loans and will be increased if initial designs fail until they don't), OR cost of RD if it was done independently (RD costs are most definitely found on company books).
Both are likely to eclipse "risk free" airbus loans by a wide margin.
One is about pollution of local drinking water. This is unlikely due to depth to where fracking fluid is pumped. It is remotely possible in case of catastrophic failure of piping, but likelihood of it happening is quite remote.
Other is about local earthquakes. This one is real, observed in several different regions and somewhat of an unknown on both how it happens and how to avoid it. Until this one is solved, I would consider avoiding fracking in the areas with significant human population so we don't end up like the old coal mines causing sudden collapses in the middle of towns killing people and destroying property seemingly at random. And of course, these earthquakes may serve as the cause of aforementioned catastrophic failure of piping in some scenarios.
I'm not entirely sure what kind of "scientific evidence" you're looking for that hasn't been provided through direct observation of current fracking methods and their consequences. Unless you're arguing that since we do not understand the exact mechanisms behind fracking causing earthquakes, we do not have scientific evidence to back it up. Which is simply a gross misunderstanding of scientific methods.
Germany is trotting along quite nicely. Much better then US in fact, and would've been fucked on currency value if not for PIIGS dragging euro down.
Why do you think they keep funding the entire mess? Without it their exports would be much lower due to potential new DM exploding in value.
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"Separate entity with entirely independent management" as in their managers won't be fired and replaced with activision's.
Not as in "company CEO won't be telling you what to do and you get to choose how to do it". Just that Blizzard's own managerial structure stays the same. Until Kotick tells them otherwise (which he already openly admitted he did, with his "bringing culture of thrift to blizzard" talk to investors).
Try to understand the difference. These are two very different kinds of freedoms.
You're taking the argument too far. Essentially by your standards a judge who did anything related to murder investigation could not preside over a murder case. A judge that ever sold a house could not preside over a real estate dispute. Etc.
It's inane. Judge cannot preside over a case in which he has a significant interest over, such as a murder case he had to experience personally or witness. But not all murder cases in general.
Same here. Judge who understands coding could and should preside over a case that has code-related disputes. He should not however preside over a case if he has coded anything actually disputed. A base experience in the case field is not only allowed, it's recommended for judges.
US "Government", no. But certain intelligence agencies would have to be stupid beyond comprehension not to use Anonymous and their reputation as a great tool.
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Bobby Kotick disagrees rather strongly. So does Mike Morhaime himself.
Kotick is the CEO of Activision Blizzard. Mike Morhaime is chief of Blizzard part of the company and reports directly to CEO.
This is literally examining the molecules on the wall to find out why the room stinks when there's an elephant in the middle of the room shitting all over the floor. You may find some residual fecal matter from someone not washing their hands properly after leaving the bathroom. But that won't be the main reason for the stink. In fact, it won't be stinking because there won't be enough of them to register in anyone's noses.
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Question: who does blizzard CEO answer to, and who sets strategic goals as well as general policies in the company.
Hint: not an employee of a company that starts with a B.
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I was referring to "retro games" not being attractive, not shutting down servers. Activision isn't known to be nice to things that don't bring in money.
So I was playing GW2 during launch and...
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Fun little tidbit. Guild Wars 2 stress test was tonight and it overlapped with D3 launch (started a few hours before D3 launch and ended a few hours after it).
When D3 launch moment came, you could see many people basically vanished from the game. You suddenly didn't have full servers anymore, structured PvP had a whole lot less games available and so on.
Considering that D3 launch was done terribly, I heard several guildies complain loudly on the voice comm about not being able to get into the game at all, and the fact that GW2 was only available for a few hours, you can tell just how immensely popular D3 is.
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I'd rather it didn't FOAD just because of this game. I'm still enjoying SC2 custom maps, I'll likely be buying HoS expansion when it comes out unless they institute similar lame DRM as D3 (unlikely) and I'll probably play MoP.
I won't be playing D3 because the DRM model and RMAH leave a bad taste in my mouth.
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D2 was actively played until D3's release. That's what, 12 years now?
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Actually most of the "private" WoW servers are carbon copies of blizzard's own servers. Blizzard leaks a whole lot of code server side apparently.
The reason for "different experience" lies in various modifiers applied to servers (like gaining way more exp) as well as oftentimes asshole-ish owners.
First works as a reason to pull over. Second works if the person refuses, he searches and finds nothing.
That said, most police officers prefer not to waste their time doing pointless shit like that, so they will likely not bother with searching if the guy is obviously innocent (i.e. presents a doctor's note). If you think otherwise, turn off the TV and try actually talking to more then one police officer in real life.
Your last line is not just nonsense, it shows signs of either severe ignorance of how world works, or schizophrenia. Here's a one out of countless examples why:
I have a right to gain passage when turning right from the car coming against me turning left. By your statement, by being considerate, seeing a lot of traffic behind him waiting to go straight and letting him go first, I'm committing an action which would result in everyone losing their right to turn right first.
Fact is, vast majority of legal rights is something that any person can suspend for himself if he sees it as beneficial. I can decide that if a young kid fell off a bike and landed on me and is genuinely sorry, that I don't have to make a citizen arrest for causing me bodily harm and dragging him to court. I can instead accept the apology, dust myself off, slap a band aid on the scratches and move on. Heck, in my country we have a mandatory payment if we own a TV receiver. I don't have to open the door for the people who come to check for it, but they can ask for police assistance and they do have a right to come and check. That said, since I don't own a TV, I can make it easier for everyone to just invite him in to check for that TV receiver. He gets to see that I have several monitors and zero television sets in my apartment and he can go on with his job and I can go on with doing whatever I was doing.
Heck, I'm saving myself some money in making sure he works more efficiently by catching assholes who actually have TV sets and choose not to pay for them, increasing payment for those that do have one.
Except that the guy was curious and actually had nothing to hide in his car. So why not let the police officer search the car an in return ask him to show you the device that spots you to satiate your curiosity? Is that a crime in the eyes of "you must enforce your rights against pigs at all time or else..." crowd?
It's his right to choose whether to forego his rights or not. Not yours or anyone else's.
Mod parent informative. Most people simply do not understand that stuff used in medical applications are often very powerful (but short lived) gamma emitters, far more powerful then, for example, a dirty bomb in a lead briefcase.
It's that powerful on purpose, to allow for accurate imaging.
Locking into contracts does exist here, through we're likely to go the way of Danes and legally mandate maximum length of six months to such a contract sometime soon due to competition limitations of a long contract.
That said, in general, most Nordics have very affordable internet offerings due to functioning and properly mandated competition and government incentives.
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These are full fledged radeon stream processors. They kick the ever loving crap out of anything and everything else in integrated market.
Cost of contracts for military hardware awarded (as F-35 project shows, these are essentially risk free grants, not even loans and will be increased if initial designs fail until they don't), OR cost of RD if it was done independently (RD costs are most definitely found on company books).
Both are likely to eclipse "risk free" airbus loans by a wide margin.
There are usually two kinds of claims about harm.
One is about pollution of local drinking water. This is unlikely due to depth to where fracking fluid is pumped. It is remotely possible in case of catastrophic failure of piping, but likelihood of it happening is quite remote.
Other is about local earthquakes. This one is real, observed in several different regions and somewhat of an unknown on both how it happens and how to avoid it. Until this one is solved, I would consider avoiding fracking in the areas with significant human population so we don't end up like the old coal mines causing sudden collapses in the middle of towns killing people and destroying property seemingly at random. And of course, these earthquakes may serve as the cause of aforementioned catastrophic failure of piping in some scenarios.
I'm not entirely sure what kind of "scientific evidence" you're looking for that hasn't been provided through direct observation of current fracking methods and their consequences. Unless you're arguing that since we do not understand the exact mechanisms behind fracking causing earthquakes, we do not have scientific evidence to back it up. Which is simply a gross misunderstanding of scientific methods.
It's a global economy. When several players have their economy in the shitter, the rest will feel it. That's the reality of things.
Feeling it to a much lesser degree is in fact a direct indicator of a better situation.
You mean like Japan, Russia and many other big (near and over 100mil population) industrialized countries?
Worth noting that Iran meets your criteria just as well.
Germany is trotting along quite nicely. Much better then US in fact, and would've been fucked on currency value if not for PIIGS dragging euro down.
Why do you think they keep funding the entire mess? Without it their exports would be much lower due to potential new DM exploding in value.
"Separate entity with entirely independent management" as in their managers won't be fired and replaced with activision's.
Not as in "company CEO won't be telling you what to do and you get to choose how to do it". Just that Blizzard's own managerial structure stays the same. Until Kotick tells them otherwise (which he already openly admitted he did, with his "bringing culture of thrift to blizzard" talk to investors).
Try to understand the difference. These are two very different kinds of freedoms.
You're taking the argument too far. Essentially by your standards a judge who did anything related to murder investigation could not preside over a murder case. A judge that ever sold a house could not preside over a real estate dispute. Etc.
It's inane. Judge cannot preside over a case in which he has a significant interest over, such as a murder case he had to experience personally or witness. But not all murder cases in general.
Same here. Judge who understands coding could and should preside over a case that has code-related disputes. He should not however preside over a case if he has coded anything actually disputed. A base experience in the case field is not only allowed, it's recommended for judges.
US "Government", no. But certain intelligence agencies would have to be stupid beyond comprehension not to use Anonymous and their reputation as a great tool.
Bobby Kotick disagrees rather strongly. So does Mike Morhaime himself.
Kotick is the CEO of Activision Blizzard. Mike Morhaime is chief of Blizzard part of the company and reports directly to CEO.
This is literally examining the molecules on the wall to find out why the room stinks when there's an elephant in the middle of the room shitting all over the floor. You may find some residual fecal matter from someone not washing their hands properly after leaving the bathroom. But that won't be the main reason for the stink. In fact, it won't be stinking because there won't be enough of them to register in anyone's noses.
Question: who does blizzard CEO answer to, and who sets strategic goals as well as general policies in the company.
Hint: not an employee of a company that starts with a B.
I was referring to "retro games" not being attractive, not shutting down servers. Activision isn't known to be nice to things that don't bring in money.
Fun little tidbit. Guild Wars 2 stress test was tonight and it overlapped with D3 launch (started a few hours before D3 launch and ended a few hours after it).
When D3 launch moment came, you could see many people basically vanished from the game. You suddenly didn't have full servers anymore, structured PvP had a whole lot less games available and so on.
Considering that D3 launch was done terribly, I heard several guildies complain loudly on the voice comm about not being able to get into the game at all, and the fact that GW2 was only available for a few hours, you can tell just how immensely popular D3 is.
I'd rather it didn't FOAD just because of this game. I'm still enjoying SC2 custom maps, I'll likely be buying HoS expansion when it comes out unless they institute similar lame DRM as D3 (unlikely) and I'll probably play MoP.
I won't be playing D3 because the DRM model and RMAH leave a bad taste in my mouth.
D2 was actively played until D3's release. That's what, 12 years now?
Actually most of the "private" WoW servers are carbon copies of blizzard's own servers. Blizzard leaks a whole lot of code server side apparently.
The reason for "different experience" lies in various modifiers applied to servers (like gaining way more exp) as well as oftentimes asshole-ish owners.
Do you know why they call TV "idiot box"?
Look in the mirror.
First works as a reason to pull over. Second works if the person refuses, he searches and finds nothing.
That said, most police officers prefer not to waste their time doing pointless shit like that, so they will likely not bother with searching if the guy is obviously innocent (i.e. presents a doctor's note). If you think otherwise, turn off the TV and try actually talking to more then one police officer in real life.
Your last line is not just nonsense, it shows signs of either severe ignorance of how world works, or schizophrenia. Here's a one out of countless examples why:
I have a right to gain passage when turning right from the car coming against me turning left. By your statement, by being considerate, seeing a lot of traffic behind him waiting to go straight and letting him go first, I'm committing an action which would result in everyone losing their right to turn right first.
Fact is, vast majority of legal rights is something that any person can suspend for himself if he sees it as beneficial. I can decide that if a young kid fell off a bike and landed on me and is genuinely sorry, that I don't have to make a citizen arrest for causing me bodily harm and dragging him to court. I can instead accept the apology, dust myself off, slap a band aid on the scratches and move on. Heck, in my country we have a mandatory payment if we own a TV receiver. I don't have to open the door for the people who come to check for it, but they can ask for police assistance and they do have a right to come and check. That said, since I don't own a TV, I can make it easier for everyone to just invite him in to check for that TV receiver. He gets to see that I have several monitors and zero television sets in my apartment and he can go on with his job and I can go on with doing whatever I was doing.
Heck, I'm saving myself some money in making sure he works more efficiently by catching assholes who actually have TV sets and choose not to pay for them, increasing payment for those that do have one.
Except that the guy was curious and actually had nothing to hide in his car. So why not let the police officer search the car an in return ask him to show you the device that spots you to satiate your curiosity? Is that a crime in the eyes of "you must enforce your rights against pigs at all time or else..." crowd?
It's his right to choose whether to forego his rights or not. Not yours or anyone else's.
Mod parent informative. Most people simply do not understand that stuff used in medical applications are often very powerful (but short lived) gamma emitters, far more powerful then, for example, a dirty bomb in a lead briefcase.
It's that powerful on purpose, to allow for accurate imaging.
Much easier to claim he smells dope. Requires no action and if he find nothing, well, maybe the smell came from elsewhere or he was just mistaken.
In this case, they were likely being worried about a dirty bomb.
Locking into contracts does exist here, through we're likely to go the way of Danes and legally mandate maximum length of six months to such a contract sometime soon due to competition limitations of a long contract.
That said, in general, most Nordics have very affordable internet offerings due to functioning and properly mandated competition and government incentives.