But on the other hand there are ways that are very easy to play, and others which need more planning skills.
I find it the easiest to first try to upgrade the two starting villages to towns, thus on average doubling your income. It only takes 5 cards of 2 types (ore and crops) for one additional point, and it's more easy to get than the 6 cards (one road, one village) you need at least to get a new source of income. Further more it's more easy to get good spots at the beginning. Upgrading them pays more than settling at lesser spots later in the game. Concentrating on ore and crops just speeds up your development. Usually wool tends to be easy to get later by exchanging cards, and with ore and crops you can buy development cards and get control of the robber and the largest army.
This is one account of the discovery of the corpses (it's german, I am living in Austria after all). I guess you will understand that I won't give more details on a public website.
Ok. So tell me what I should do about a woman who lives not far from my house. As far as we know she has murdered three times, thirty years ago. The victims were her own children. Just recently (this summer) the remainings of the dead toddlers were discovered in the cellar of a house where she lived at the time. Until then no one ever knew about this.
It sounds fine if you are far away. It gets quite messy when you know the persons.
I am pro death penalty but provided technical consulting services to them at a discount. At least as long as you can built a career on demanding the death penalty, I am against it. (I am also against it for another more basic ground: Sentencing to death means to me that the society has given up on the delinquent.)
By the same logic, rape is following the basic urge to have sex, and thus shouldn't be punishable by law. No. It's legal to have sex. So having sex is not punishable. Just forcing someone else to have sex with you is punishable.
It's legal to be free. It's not punishable to try to become free. Just blowing up or killing people to get free is punishable.
First I tried to avoid any Notreally-CDs. Then I realized that I am in fact rather nonmusical. I just gave up on listening to CDs altogether. I was never listening to music radio stations anyway. So I didn't buy any CDs since about ten years, and I never missed it.
And yes. I don't have ANY music files on all my PCs execpt for those that came with the games I installed. And I don't own an MP3 player.
The point is about what should be done. The point is that people should not write Wikipedia articles just for the sake of writing Wikipedia articles (or passing a course) Why not? I think, that's a rather brilliant idea.
Dual citizenship basically means you're not loyal to either, nor subscribe to their customs, culture, values, or rights. you can't both be American and Canadian, at least in spirit since while similar are very different nations in terms of laws and rights. I never saw any problem in having dual citizenship. It hurts you, who has a single one, exactly how?
They shaved the monkeys and dressed them up to look like [inser favourite politician] first. I would prefer them dressed up as my least favourite politician.
If a blogger wants to call themself a journalist, they'll have to earn it - just like someone working for a print publication.
It's interesting to listen to your statement about journalists, but it just describes how you define a journalist.
I don't know the legal situation in the U.S. that much, but at least in Germany journalist is not a protected profession. Everyone and his dog has the right to call themselves "journalist". If you write for a respected magazine or for the unregurarily edited paper of the local sunflower growers association, doesn't matter. You don't even need to have published anything and are still allowed to call yourself a journalist.
I wasn't dumb enough to believe Saddam was supporting Al-Queda, or that our administration had nothing but good motives behind the invasion, but I knew Saddam was a horrible monster that had been a serious threat to his neighbors and stability in the region. What about having the people of Iraq sort Saddam Hussein out themselves? I have lived during a dictatorship that felt down just because the people started to quit it (I was one of them who had quit it;) ). I strongly believe in the inalienable right of every people to deal with its dictators on its own. I think the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq actually made things worse. Basicly the U.S. betrayed the people of Iraq of the ability to free themselves. They just replaced the Saddam Hussein dictatorship, which was trying to get into each single corner of Iraq and care for everything, with the Paul Bremer dictatorship, which was caring about nothing exept for providing contracts to Bush-Cheney-buddies. This was then called "Freedom", for which 30000-50000 Iraqis died in an onesided war. What an achievement!
If you ever compare video footage of the toppling of Saddam's statue in Bagdad with the video footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, you might understand what I mean: The people watching the Saddam Statue falling could have also been watching the demolition of an old building on a construction site. It was just something to watch, but nothing to cheer about. The overall feeling was bleak, with some apathy and a little bit mocking about the 12 youths who were trying to actually get the statue down, which didn't work until an U.S. tank was gong to help by pulling the statue down.
I wouldn't be surprised if this issue ending up being so that nobody would sell you a computer before you have signed an agreement stating that you agree w/having Windows etc. in there. But that's actually the point! You can't read the EULA before you fire up the computer for the first time, and that's after the actual sale has happened. And the EULA explicitely states that it only covers software, documentation and services, but doesn't mention the hardware.
That's why the court says: This little piece of text doesn't affect the transfer of hardware for money.
If the EULA was printed out before the actual sale and had to be agreed upon as part of the sale, we had a completely different case.
Ford supply their own engine in their car, its not like theyre fitting a third party engine into their vehicles. In fact they do. The smaller engines are either Yamaha or Mazda engines. And the Diesels (ok, not so interesting for the U.S. right now) are using FIAT/Peugeot technology.
If she was posting this on her own non-commercial website, I doubt anyone would have cared. But then still her hoster would make money of it, your Internet provider makes money because you pay for the ability to download it, your computer maker makes money of it etc.pp.
Don't fall for the theory that just because someone provided the means he is actually a profiteur or a collaborateur. Otherwise the road authority would be responsible for every criminal fleeing along public roads.
Without patents, large companies could steal the technology and there would be no monetary reward for small inventors.
This can easily happen even with patents. Either large company says "see you in court" or they say "you might have a patent, but we have 20 applicable to your invention"... That's why people and companies have resorted to not manufacture anymore, but sit on patents and sue infringers. Because they don't sell any product themselves, they are not infringing on anyone else's patents. Patent Trolls are a direct reaction to patent warchests of big patent holders.
So if I drive a large truck (40 tons), I torture everyone nearby a little with the noise the engine makes. During my livetime I'll drive about 1,5 mio miles, and at each mile I disturb maybe 1200 people shortly (three seconds) with my noise. According to your argumentation I should then be forced to endure 1,5 mio hrs of traffic noise as a punishment? And because after retirement I won't live another 1,5 mio hrs (a year only has 8760 or 8784 hrs), we just increase the intensity of the noise? About one year with 200 trucks around me?
You might not be allowed to send bombs by the U.S. Postal Service, but the fact doesn't allow U.S. Postal to go through all your mail and check for bombs. In fact there is a constitutional barrier against exactly that. Why should be Kiddie Porn and Terrorism any different?
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But on the other hand there are ways that are very easy to play, and others which need more planning skills.
I find it the easiest to first try to upgrade the two starting villages to towns, thus on average doubling your income. It only takes 5 cards of 2 types (ore and crops) for one additional point, and it's more easy to get than the 6 cards (one road, one village) you need at least to get a new source of income. Further more it's more easy to get good spots at the beginning. Upgrading them pays more than settling at lesser spots later in the game. Concentrating on ore and crops just speeds up your development.
Usually wool tends to be easy to get later by exchanging cards, and with ore and crops you can buy development cards and get control of the robber and the largest army.
This is one account of the discovery of the corpses (it's german, I am living in Austria after all). I guess you will understand that I won't give more details on a public website.
Ok. So tell me what I should do about a woman who lives not far from my house.
As far as we know she has murdered three times, thirty years ago. The victims were her own children. Just recently (this summer) the remainings of the dead toddlers were discovered in the cellar of a house where she lived at the time. Until then no one ever knew about this.
It sounds fine if you are far away. It gets quite messy when you know the persons.
You mean: Like me? Who isn't listening to music anyway?
Me too.
I certainly would have.
I would have been wondering: If we are about to crash so badly that we will die anyway, who will be able to recover the filled out forms later?It's legal to be free. It's not punishable to try to become free. Just blowing up or killing people to get free is punishable.
First I tried to avoid any Notreally-CDs. Then I realized that I am in fact rather nonmusical. I just gave up on listening to CDs altogether. I was never listening to music radio stations anyway. So I didn't buy any CDs since about ten years, and I never missed it.
And yes. I don't have ANY music files on all my PCs execpt for those that came with the games I installed. And I don't own an MP3 player.
I don't know the legal situation in the U.S. that much, but at least in Germany journalist is not a protected profession. Everyone and his dog has the right to call themselves "journalist". If you write for a respected magazine or for the unregurarily edited paper of the local sunflower growers association, doesn't matter. You don't even need to have published anything and are still allowed to call yourself a journalist.
If you ever compare video footage of the toppling of Saddam's statue in Bagdad with the video footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, you might understand what I mean: The people watching the Saddam Statue falling could have also been watching the demolition of an old building on a construction site. It was just something to watch, but nothing to cheer about. The overall feeling was bleak, with some apathy and a little bit mocking about the 12 youths who were trying to actually get the statue down, which didn't work until an U.S. tank was gong to help by pulling the statue down.
That's why the court says: This little piece of text doesn't affect the transfer of hardware for money.
If the EULA was printed out before the actual sale and had to be agreed upon as part of the sale, we had a completely different case.
Don't fall for the theory that just because someone provided the means he is actually a profiteur or a collaborateur. Otherwise the road authority would be responsible for every criminal fleeing along public roads.
Actually German uses "Wort" in two different meanings: 1. word 2. saying. The first one has the plural "Wörter", the second one the plural "Worte".
I like to use the comparition with the deaths by choking on a fishbone.
The numbers for Germany are:
700 deads/yr by fishbone choking.
3-4 deads/yr by terrorism.
Basicly eating non filleted fish is about 200 times as dangerous as terrorism.
In Germany we have a word for that: "Catch the thief, he has my knife in his back!"
Which is rather cool given the house I live in was built 183 years ago... Must then be one of the oldest human buldings of the world :)
Anyone who calls priviledges "property" is a poorly trained economist. They might be assets, though.
This can easily happen even with patents. Either large company says "see you in court" or they say "you might have a patent, but we have 20 applicable to your invention"... That's why people and companies have resorted to not manufacture anymore, but sit on patents and sue infringers. Because they don't sell any product themselves, they are not infringing on anyone else's patents. Patent Trolls are a direct reaction to patent warchests of big patent holders.
You are the state. It's a democracy. Deal with it. Or lobby to change the law.
So if I drive a large truck (40 tons), I torture everyone nearby a little with the noise the engine makes. During my livetime I'll drive about 1,5 mio miles, and at each mile I disturb maybe 1200 people shortly (three seconds) with my noise. According to your argumentation I should then be forced to endure 1,5 mio hrs of traffic noise as a punishment? And because after retirement I won't live another 1,5 mio hrs (a year only has 8760 or 8784 hrs), we just increase the intensity of the noise? About one year with 200 trucks around me?
You might not be allowed to send bombs by the U.S. Postal Service, but the fact doesn't allow U.S. Postal to go through all your mail and check for bombs. In fact there is a constitutional barrier against exactly that. Why should be Kiddie Porn and Terrorism any different?