Yep, I know. Icelandic, whilst ignoring funny characters, is not too hard to read. I can usually get the gist of what's being said, since it looks like New-Norwegian.
Don't use umlaut on the word "fjord". We don't in Norway and neither should you. In fact, umlaut are not even used in Norwegian. If you are thinking of ø or æ or å they are Norwegian vowels but do not apply in this case.
Oh you! No, American cars are about as common as Russian ones. The only American car here that isn't a bag of dicks is Ford (and lo, they are made in Germany, funny that!) Sorry to burst your bubble, but the old American "no replacement for displacement" does not fit the world economy what with today's fuel prices. We also like our cars to last longer than 3 years.
How odd. I thought we were talking about education, not brainwashing. Because a truly educated man (or woman) would read enough history to know that every time socialism is tried it always devolves into tens (or hundreds of millions) dead and the state standing on your throat.
Seems to work pretty well for us here in Norway. Or did you mean communism?
I don't think so, it seems pretty evenly split AFAIK. Mind, most of the iPhone complaints seem to come from one very vocal girl who has, from what I remember, worked her way through three iphones before giving up on them. I dont know if this is just from neglectful use or if they are badly built, I have never owned one.
As a "young person", I do not see how anyone can claim Android is "baffling"... to begin with it was more of an engineer/dev/nerd phone but it quickly changed and now IIRC is the most popular phone OS. My facebook news feed often contains complaints or questions about "why is my iphone xxx" but not once have I seen any of them asking for help with a droid.
I don't know about all that, I live in the UK. I would guess that my monthly insurance is more costly than a bus pass, but you are paying for a certain privilege (such as the aforementioned situation, I would hate to rely on someone/something else to go somewhere). Factor in the fact that our fuel costs 4x more than yours, yes it is costly, but worth it IMO. It is my one luxury in life, though it still doesn't feel like much of a luxury.
Not a troll at all. Do you believe soldiers are defending their home country? If not, I do not see why you would object to PMCs any more than normal soldiers.
I had a feeling that might be the case. So that's Iraq out, since Norway never did have much presence there, and certainly do not anymore. Possibly there could be some stuff in Afghan then, since there is still a sizeable Norwegian presence there. Thanks for the insight.
Not only that, but if they are indeed sharing, you could argue that all the stuff you have downloaded were from their IPs, so really the rightsholders were giving it out for free.
I cannot play Youtube videos. I cannot even load an animated.gif without waiting. This is the state of broadband in so-called "western" and "civilised" countries. This is why OnLive and the like cannot work, and why optical disks are still necessary.
In your example, HDD space is irrelevant. Whether you buy it and use through Steam or download it, you still need to install it, and after that you don't use the DVD anymore anyway (I do this often, since my connection sits between 0.75 and 1.0Mb/s).
Perhaps we are not yet at the point where it is practical to download 30GB of game data, but with incremental background downloads it might be feasible in the 720's timeframe.
You're damn right it's impractical. WolframAlpha says 30GB on my connection will take over 3 days. Not ideal, when it takes me 25 minutes to drive to the store and buy the game.
Source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=30GB+at+94kB%2Fs
I struggle with this too. I support the troops, because in my naivete I believe they are just doing a job, and did not choose their deployment, and indeed have an actual desire to do good. For this reason I donate to Help4Heroes, which helps wounded soldiers recover. I do all this, whilst opposing both wars. My would-be brother in law is enlisted, been briefly to Afghan. My best friend did two tours. I see them just as people doing a job. What I don't like is the attitude by some that the soldiers should be treated as gods, because they sacrificed so much. What I think about that is, there is no draft, they do this because they want to not because they have to. Essentially the same as a fireman or policeman.
Damn, what's your euphemism for the scum that work for Blackwater and DynCorp?
Just a soldier, but paid what he deserves. PMCs and normal enlisted, they both work to serve corporations' interests. The difference is, PMCs know that, and opt to at least make some decent money from it. Soldiers do it because they think they are serving their country.
You sound like you have first hand experience, have you done contract work in Iraq? What are the laws regarding employment? Do you work for an American company under American laws, or can a non-American get work there?
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One wants to play soccer. Another wants to play football. Who gets to use it? :)
They can just play together, they are the same sport
Better still, don't build the system at all. If it doesn't exist, it cannot possibly be compromised.
Yep, I know. Icelandic, whilst ignoring funny characters, is not too hard to read. I can usually get the gist of what's being said, since it looks like New-Norwegian.
Don't use umlaut on the word "fjord". We don't in Norway and neither should you. In fact, umlaut are not even used in Norwegian. If you are thinking of ø or æ or å they are Norwegian vowels but do not apply in this case.
Aw, don't say that! I just committed my first bit of code to the repo last week, and deployed to prod this week.
AFAIK, .me (Montenegro) is another TLD that the US cannot touch.
drive an American car
Oh you! No, American cars are about as common as Russian ones. The only American car here that isn't a bag of dicks is Ford (and lo, they are made in Germany, funny that!) Sorry to burst your bubble, but the old American "no replacement for displacement" does not fit the world economy what with today's fuel prices. We also like our cars to last longer than 3 years.
How odd. I thought we were talking about education, not brainwashing. Because a truly educated man (or woman) would read enough history to know that every time socialism is tried it always devolves into tens (or hundreds of millions) dead and the state standing on your throat.
Seems to work pretty well for us here in Norway. Or did you mean communism?
I don't think so, it seems pretty evenly split AFAIK. Mind, most of the iPhone complaints seem to come from one very vocal girl who has, from what I remember, worked her way through three iphones before giving up on them. I dont know if this is just from neglectful use or if they are badly built, I have never owned one.
As a "young person", I do not see how anyone can claim Android is "baffling"... to begin with it was more of an engineer/dev/nerd phone but it quickly changed and now IIRC is the most popular phone OS. My facebook news feed often contains complaints or questions about "why is my iphone xxx" but not once have I seen any of them asking for help with a droid.
I don't know about all that, I live in the UK. I would guess that my monthly insurance is more costly than a bus pass, but you are paying for a certain privilege (such as the aforementioned situation, I would hate to rely on someone/something else to go somewhere). Factor in the fact that our fuel costs 4x more than yours, yes it is costly, but worth it IMO. It is my one luxury in life, though it still doesn't feel like much of a luxury.
Not a troll at all. Do you believe soldiers are defending their home country? If not, I do not see why you would object to PMCs any more than normal soldiers.
I have no cap. But I do have a car.
I had a feeling that might be the case. So that's Iraq out, since Norway never did have much presence there, and certainly do not anymore. Possibly there could be some stuff in Afghan then, since there is still a sizeable Norwegian presence there. Thanks for the insight.
Sorry about that, must remember to read more carefully. I think perhaps I was on my 2nd thermos of coffee and posting in a frenzy.
Not only that, but if they are indeed sharing, you could argue that all the stuff you have downloaded were from their IPs, so really the rightsholders were giving it out for free.
I cannot play Youtube videos. I cannot even load an animated .gif without waiting. This is the state of broadband in so-called "western" and "civilised" countries. This is why OnLive and the like cannot work, and why optical disks are still necessary.
Hard disk space might be an issue though
In your example, HDD space is irrelevant. Whether you buy it and use through Steam or download it, you still need to install it, and after that you don't use the DVD anymore anyway (I do this often, since my connection sits between 0.75 and 1.0Mb/s).
Perhaps we are not yet at the point where it is practical to download 30GB of game data, but with incremental background downloads it might be feasible in the 720's timeframe.
You're damn right it's impractical. WolframAlpha says 30GB on my connection will take over 3 days. Not ideal, when it takes me 25 minutes to drive to the store and buy the game.
Source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=30GB+at+94kB%2Fs
To avoid the inevitable torrent of troll victims; this is an old meme (just google the phrase).
I struggle with this too. I support the troops, because in my naivete I believe they are just doing a job, and did not choose their deployment, and indeed have an actual desire to do good. For this reason I donate to Help4Heroes, which helps wounded soldiers recover. I do all this, whilst opposing both wars. My would-be brother in law is enlisted, been briefly to Afghan. My best friend did two tours. I see them just as people doing a job. What I don't like is the attitude by some that the soldiers should be treated as gods, because they sacrificed so much. What I think about that is, there is no draft, they do this because they want to not because they have to. Essentially the same as a fireman or policeman.
No, it's a hat.
Damn, what's your euphemism for the scum that work for Blackwater and DynCorp?
Just a soldier, but paid what he deserves. PMCs and normal enlisted, they both work to serve corporations' interests. The difference is, PMCs know that, and opt to at least make some decent money from it. Soldiers do it because they think they are serving their country.
I think he was implying that by working for the army in Iraq (regardless of what it is you do) contributes towards killing.
You sound like you have first hand experience, have you done contract work in Iraq? What are the laws regarding employment? Do you work for an American company under American laws, or can a non-American get work there?