Texas gave me George W, which is plenty enough to offend. Despite that, I'm willing to admit that Texas probably isn't *completely* full of idiots. Just that, compared to (e.g. my city, Chicago) it has a much larger share.
I don't really care if Texans like me or not. Not my problem. I am the stereotypical asshole northerner who will make fun of your accent, your boots, and your hat. You know why? Because they fucking deserve it, that's why. Come on up to Chicago and make fun of the Cubs, our accent, and our obsession with Barack Obama. Because we deserve it too. Fucking Texan stiff-backed can't take a joke pride is an extremely good reason to make me want to kick you in your grinning teeth. Come up to Chicago and try that laconic country hick bullshit and get shoved into the street because we actually have things to do. Come up to Chicago and join in the reindeer games and give me as much shit as I dish back at you, and we can be friends. But fuck you if you can't take a joke, and fuck you if you think I have to like Texas.
There's probably nothing wrong with Texas. That said, there is nothing particularly right with Texas, and I have better things to do with my life than waste it anywhere south of DC.
Like, you know, post on Slashdot.
(By the way - 62% to 37% is absolutely disproportionate as compared to the country as a whole.)
I know it because Windows uses the right button for context menus, and dragging to manipulate file locations; why wouldn't right-drag bring up a context menu for file location manipulation? It isn't accident, it's actually as logical as anything gets when it comes to MS.
I grew up in Michigan; you don't have to tell me about northern rednecks, we have the Michigan Militia.
I don't really hate Texans. It's just one of those places I have no desire to go for any reason, because going there means I'm spending money I could be spending to go somewhere I actually want to go. And, oddly enough, everywhere I want to go is in the northern half of the country. Or, is in Canada, or overseas.
Besides which, I didn't say all Texans are "unthinking Republicans", just that it seems to be chock-full of them.
I pointed out that Windows does, in fact, use it, and what for. Neither better nor worse (I like OS X, quite a bit), just answering someone's question.
You want to back down a little bit before you look *entirely* like a goddamn fanboy?
If she didn't want to cross the street, then you weren't *helping* her, you were forcing her. Which is no longer a good act.
The idea that intent is all that matters is bullshit, just as much as the idea that it doesn't matter at all. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the road to heaven is definitely not paved with good acts. To use a religious metaphor, faith without works is dead. You need both. Intent and act. Anything less is a load of shit.
I dislike hot weather, I dislike southern accents, I dislike cowboy hats, I dislike unthinking Republicans (I do discern between intelligent conservatives and unthinking Republicans, let's not make this political) and Texas pretty much seems to be a confluence of many things I dislike.
If it makes you feel any better, I refuse to enter Las Vegas too. I'm not normal, and I do acknowledge this. I like Chicago. I like NYC. I like Detroit and SF. Give me cold cities with rain and snow any day.
I hear nice things about Austin, but I'd still have to set foot in Texas. And that's just not okay.
(Besides which, if I'm going to travel 800 miles, I'd just as soon go to NYC and have fun there, or out to the Badlands which are also amazing landscapes.)
I refuse to enter the state of Texas, so I have no firsthand knowledge of the climate there. (I would have refused to enter Florida, but having worked at KSC, I didn't really have an option there.)
That said, when someone is talking about the rockets in Houston, and someone else begins talking about Florida's climate, the only rational thing to do is point out that Houston is in America's soft oily underbelly, not its wang.
I'd very much like to see some of the engines that have seen huge amounts of 3rd party development go open source, games like Total Annihilation and NWN, even the engine for Tribes 2. Wait until you're basically done selling the core game (what I like to call the "$9.99" stage, where the game is now selling for damn near no money) and then just give away the source code. It'd be a nice gesture for companies whose games succeeded in large part because of community support.
Obviously, we don't need artificial muscles, we need artificial Ahnolds!
There's a terrifying thought. Imagine that wherever you turned, wherever you looked, all you saw was more Arnolds. (If you need help imagining this, just think back to the California recall.)
Considering that the API for creating NWN adventures is already "open" and there are plenty of third party modules written, I think that may be the last of Bioware's problem.
Besides which, there's always the "We own the engine, we can write an expansion feature into the next patch and use it in one of our modules to get a head start on the competition." idea.
Like I said - I would trade the sales tax for not having to pay $300,000 for a 2 bedroom condo. If anything else has to be lumped in, deal is off - except, well, if you wanted to trade your governor for ours (soulless machine bastard that he is) I might consider it. And I don't even know anything *about* your governor, except that he isn't Blagojevich.
(In other words, I recognize that the reason I have to pay that much money for real estate is because I live somewhere worth living, but you can't blame me for occasionally wishing I could afford to buy a house.)
The variation in the US is roughly 0-10% (Chicago has an 8.75% sales tax, which is the worst I can think of off the top of my head, but there may be other locations with a bit more.)
Idiot. Positive feedback loops are almost always inherently unstable, that's why nearly every real control system uses negative feedback.
I won't argue with a paranoid, and I sure as hell won't argue with a paranoid who thinks that an unstable system would be better than a stable one that will eventually drive towards economic equality worldwide.
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They did quite well.
However, they still would have lost the war without Allied help. They might have maintained Britain as a sovereign country, but France and Spain would be speaking German to this day.
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Texas gave me George W, which is plenty enough to offend. Despite that, I'm willing to admit that Texas probably isn't *completely* full of idiots. Just that, compared to (e.g. my city, Chicago) it has a much larger share.
I don't really care if Texans like me or not. Not my problem. I am the stereotypical asshole northerner who will make fun of your accent, your boots, and your hat. You know why? Because they fucking deserve it, that's why. Come on up to Chicago and make fun of the Cubs, our accent, and our obsession with Barack Obama. Because we deserve it too. Fucking Texan stiff-backed can't take a joke pride is an extremely good reason to make me want to kick you in your grinning teeth. Come up to Chicago and try that laconic country hick bullshit and get shoved into the street because we actually have things to do. Come up to Chicago and join in the reindeer games and give me as much shit as I dish back at you, and we can be friends. But fuck you if you can't take a joke, and fuck you if you think I have to like Texas.
There's probably nothing wrong with Texas. That said, there is nothing particularly right with Texas, and I have better things to do with my life than waste it anywhere south of DC.
Like, you know, post on Slashdot.
(By the way - 62% to 37% is absolutely disproportionate as compared to the country as a whole.)
He ASKED FOR AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT RIGHT-DRAG IS USED FOR. NOT IN OS X. IN ANY OS.
See? He asked - WHAT DOES IT DO. WHAT OS DOES IT DO IT IN.
And I answered him.
HOW. FUCKING. HARD. IS. THAT. TO. UNDERSTAND. YOU. FLAMING. APPLE. FANBOY.
(posted from Safari on OS X, for the record.)
I know it because Windows uses the right button for context menus, and dragging to manipulate file locations; why wouldn't right-drag bring up a context menu for file location manipulation? It isn't accident, it's actually as logical as anything gets when it comes to MS.
I grew up in Michigan; you don't have to tell me about northern rednecks, we have the Michigan Militia.
I don't really hate Texans. It's just one of those places I have no desire to go for any reason, because going there means I'm spending money I could be spending to go somewhere I actually want to go. And, oddly enough, everywhere I want to go is in the northern half of the country. Or, is in Canada, or overseas.
Besides which, I didn't say all Texans are "unthinking Republicans", just that it seems to be chock-full of them.
Whoops.
I say option-drag, I mean right-drag. Blame it on spray paint fumes.
He asked if any OS used right-drag, and for what.
I pointed out that Windows does, in fact, use it, and what for. Neither better nor worse (I like OS X, quite a bit), just answering someone's question.
You want to back down a little bit before you look *entirely* like a goddamn fanboy?
If she didn't want to cross the street, then you weren't *helping* her, you were forcing her. Which is no longer a good act.
The idea that intent is all that matters is bullshit, just as much as the idea that it doesn't matter at all. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the road to heaven is definitely not paved with good acts. To use a religious metaphor, faith without works is dead. You need both. Intent and act. Anything less is a load of shit.
Personally, I want to plug it into my 1280x720 HDTV.
Oh, wait, you forgot there were TVs that display at a decent resolution, didn't you?
In Windows, option-drag opens up a context-move menu (do you want to: move this file, copy this file, create a shortcut to this file?)
Helping her across the street remains a good act - the bad act is stealing her money.
2000 S-10, I walked out into the parking lot, got into my truck, and *started it*... only to notice that the music sucked, and there was a sunroof.
Needless to say, I had good music in the CD player and no sunroof.
I turned the car off, locked the door, and went two cars over to my truck.
If you helped an old lady across the street, *no matter your motivation*, you still helped an old lady across the street. It's still a good act.
I dislike hot weather, I dislike southern accents, I dislike cowboy hats, I dislike unthinking Republicans (I do discern between intelligent conservatives and unthinking Republicans, let's not make this political) and Texas pretty much seems to be a confluence of many things I dislike.
If it makes you feel any better, I refuse to enter Las Vegas too. I'm not normal, and I do acknowledge this. I like Chicago. I like NYC. I like Detroit and SF. Give me cold cities with rain and snow any day.
I hear nice things about Austin, but I'd still have to set foot in Texas. And that's just not okay.
(Besides which, if I'm going to travel 800 miles, I'd just as soon go to NYC and have fun there, or out to the Badlands which are also amazing landscapes.)
I refuse to enter the state of Texas, so I have no firsthand knowledge of the climate there. (I would have refused to enter Florida, but having worked at KSC, I didn't really have an option there.)
That said, when someone is talking about the rockets in Houston, and someone else begins talking about Florida's climate, the only rational thing to do is point out that Houston is in America's soft oily underbelly, not its wang.
Own, lease, whatever. :)
I'd very much like to see some of the engines that have seen huge amounts of 3rd party development go open source, games like Total Annihilation and NWN, even the engine for Tribes 2. Wait until you're basically done selling the core game (what I like to call the "$9.99" stage, where the game is now selling for damn near no money) and then just give away the source code. It'd be a nice gesture for companies whose games succeeded in large part because of community support.
Oh well, dreaming is fun, back to work.
The Saturn V in Florida is already enclosed.
They were talking about the one in Houston, at Johnson Space Center.
Obviously, we don't need artificial muscles, we need artificial Ahnolds!
There's a terrifying thought. Imagine that wherever you turned, wherever you looked, all you saw was more Arnolds. (If you need help imagining this, just think back to the California recall.)
Considering that the API for creating NWN adventures is already "open" and there are plenty of third party modules written, I think that may be the last of Bioware's problem.
Besides which, there's always the "We own the engine, we can write an expansion feature into the next patch and use it in one of our modules to get a head start on the competition." idea.
Like I said - I would trade the sales tax for not having to pay $300,000 for a 2 bedroom condo. If anything else has to be lumped in, deal is off - except, well, if you wanted to trade your governor for ours (soulless machine bastard that he is) I might consider it. And I don't even know anything *about* your governor, except that he isn't Blagojevich.
(In other words, I recognize that the reason I have to pay that much money for real estate is because I live somewhere worth living, but you can't blame me for occasionally wishing I could afford to buy a house.)
Yeah, Illinois hits me for 3% income on top of the 8.75% sales tax.
I would gladly pay an extra 1% sales tax, if I could have Tennessee style housing prices.
The variation in the US is roughly 0-10% (Chicago has an 8.75% sales tax, which is the worst I can think of off the top of my head, but there may be other locations with a bit more.)
Idiot. Positive feedback loops are almost always inherently unstable, that's why nearly every real control system uses negative feedback.
I won't argue with a paranoid, and I sure as hell won't argue with a paranoid who thinks that an unstable system would be better than a stable one that will eventually drive towards economic equality worldwide.
They did quite well.
However, they still would have lost the war without Allied help. They might have maintained Britain as a sovereign country, but France and Spain would be speaking German to this day.
You missed the point - in Israel, places where people die *are* routinely repopulated after cleanup is finished.
It is a different mindset. Desensitized, if you will.