Left wing bias would be fine. Yes I was claiming they were misusing the word. I also would like to complain about a few other misused words by the US media/government: Democratic, democracy, Republican (as you pointed out), terrorist, bias, freedom, pre-emptive, security - this is but a tiny part of the list. can we somehow revive the use of dictionaries?
I can see why they don't want to use the phrase 'left wing bias' though, people would laugh as it is so absurdly obvious (at least to the rest of the world) that there is no left wing bias in any US mainstream media.
I for one see counterfeiters as a necessary force: Reminding us of the stupidity of major-brand retail prices, and their massive disconnect from underlying value.
If you don't want to pay brand-name prices, how about not fucking buying brand-name goods?
Way to state the obvious. I have one too "if you don't want to go bust, get a working business model". Well thats my contribution to the save the obvious foundation for the week. Wait here's an even better one "drinking water makes you less thirsty". I am on fire today.
I would like to add a small note here regarding the definition of the word liberal, which it seems most US residents are unaware of.
This is princeton's somewhat muddled definition
Liberal:broad: *showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
having political or social views favoring reform and progress
tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties*
Wikipedia is more specific and defines two (three counting economic liberalism, but no one is referring to the third one when they say liberal bias) types of liberal:
"Classical liberalism is a political ideology that developed in the nineteenth century in Western Europe, and the Americas. It is committed to the ideal of limited government and liberty of individuals including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets."
"Social liberalism is the belief that liberalism should include social justice. It differs from classical liberalism in that it recognizes a legitimate role for government in addressing economic and social issues such as unemployment, health care, and education while simultaneously expanding civil rights."
So just remember that when someone says a newspaper has a liberal bias what they are saying is that the newspaper has a bias towards being broad minded, tolerant, favouring reform and progress and supporting civil liberty. This is actually what newspapers are supposed to do, it is in some cases written into their founding documents and is basically what newspapers have a mandate to be.
Everywhere with people and money will have a struggle between socialism/capitalism/liberalism/conservatism/fascism and probably a whole bunch of other *isms.
Capitalism doesn't belong on that list or any list of political ideologies, capitalism is not an alternative to socialism/liberalism/conservatism/fascism it is a feature or them. Capitalism is merely a method of regulating economies, the political structure of the society using that economy is a completely seperate question.
I would also like to reply to iskender that not all rich people are Jewish and that talking as though they are is counterproductive to efforts toward socio-economic equality, not to mention bigoted and ignorant.
And finally, on the actual topic, while we are discussing how to get everyone to drive electric cars lets not forget that they are all running on coal and gas and that unless we can get worldwide clean energy electric cars are part of the problem not part of the solution
No, they are not "sucking money out of the system". They are CIRCULATING money in the system.
Ok lets take this rationale to it's logical extreme: We should give all the money in the world to one person, who will then buy goods and services and spread it around the world.
Some people seem to labour under the misapprehension that only wealthy people can circulate money, this is however not the case. Economics 101, giving money to poor people results in quicker and more complete circulation than giving it to wealthy people, as poor people are less likely to save it. Therefore the circulation of currency is not an argument for higher salaries, the facts support the opposite position
I think this sounds like fun, and I agree with most posters that smell would be better, but I also agree with joe the dragon that there are dangers. The danger with smells is that they are immensely powerful emotional and sub-conscious triggers and the number of people that have trouble differentiating games from reality (presently an almost non existent minority) would skyrocket.
As far as this technology goes the dangers are not actually random, vague or unverifiable. Despite the post above being so. Any commercial technology that produces heat has examples that have malfunctioned and caused injury. Things that rapidly heat up are unsafe and that is a verifiable fact. Try looking up auto recalls on seat heaters in cars for example. Look up the fire departments' statistics on house fires caused by heater malfunctions and misuse
Mandate teaching those little bastards every religious idea they will probably come across and give Christianity no preferential or differential treatment..
I think this is a great idea, the school I went to actually did something like this (it was run by hippies). I also think that creationism is appropriate for philosophy classes which is something US schools seem to lack. Teaching basic thinking skills might have great benefit, imagine if the board of a certain Louisiana school had learned that in their school days. It is especially funny that they refer to it as "critical thinking and creationism" as though the two concepts have any link whatsoever. Where are their creative thinking and Islam classes? Positive thinking and Buddhism (that one actually sounds really interesting)? Analytical thinking and pastafarianism? Deductive thinking and ancient Greek mythology (wow this one too)?
In fact, while we are criticising the misleading wording people use, intelligent design is another example. Everyone believes in intelligent design, my computer is intelligently designed (although my operating system is not) and so is my car.
The great thing about not being interested in any of the things that make game development expensive: flashy graphics, big name publishers, flashy graphics, flashy graphics, is that this debate suddenly becomes a non-issue. As far as I am concerned the games industry can just lie down and die. People in their basements can make excellent games and demand very little money. People with a passion for games make them for themselves to play and then give them to the world for free. I am happy to make games in my basement (well my basement is disgusting, ill use my bedroom) with only the small amount of money I can get from social welfare to keep me alive. Games can be free and DRM can be forgotten about. It is not hard to train your mind away from this magpie like obsession with shiny graphics and lighting effects. It just takes a bit of practice. Join me, forget the DRM debate, forget gaming revenue.
On the other hand simply charging a reasonable price for games like steam (specials) works just fine too.
One doesn't use quantitative prefixes at the beginning of chemical names, it would be hydrogen monoxide or a more accurate name would be oxygen dihydrate. Dihydrogen monoxide justs sounds stupid anyway, if I want a chemical sounding name for it I usually just say hydrate, it fits with the rest of the language much better. People who try to use scientific obfuscation and fail make me laugh.
As a gamer, I was hassled at the last big lan for my "ancient and obsolete" operating system, XP pro. So I did a quick study:
Windows 7 users were unable to play about 1/5 of the games that went up due to operating system issues.
Vista users were unable to play about 1/4 of games.
No XP users had any operating system related issues with any of the games we played.
Sure, as games are released and tested for windows 7 those numbers will start to reverse, but it hasn't happened yet.
Autohotkey, it's the gateway programming language for gamers. Start off by telling them they can automate any repeptitive task in a game and then they will start thinking about bot building and it will go from there. For example you would be surprised how many games a simple f12::{down}{enter}{down}{enter}{down}{enter}{down}{enter}... script can help in. Also the good old click here 50 times rapidly script is very easy for beginners.
People act how they are treated. Societies have been set up that treated people not like cattle, but like rational independant beings, people acted accordingly. We treat each other like cattle and then we all act like cattle. Just because fox news likes to dumb down the world doesn't mean we have to buy into it. You are guillible if you believe what you said here, but not like cattle, guillible like a rational independant human being who is very capable of throwing off the guillibility any time. Please do so, for the sake of everyone.
This sounds very very bad to me, the worst fact being that security and paranoia always lead to bad decisions and breaches of rights. Even if we believe google's do no evil policy if they are pushed far enough they will become something we don't want.
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Left wing bias would be fine. Yes I was claiming they were misusing the word. I also would like to complain about a few other misused words by the US media/government: Democratic, democracy, Republican (as you pointed out), terrorist, bias, freedom, pre-emptive, security - this is but a tiny part of the list. can we somehow revive the use of dictionaries?
I can see why they don't want to use the phrase 'left wing bias' though, people would laugh as it is so absurdly obvious (at least to the rest of the world) that there is no left wing bias in any US mainstream media.
If you don't want to pay brand-name prices, how about not fucking buying brand-name goods?
Way to state the obvious. I have one too "if you don't want to go bust, get a working business model". Well thats my contribution to the save the obvious foundation for the week. Wait here's an even better one "drinking water makes you less thirsty". I am on fire today.
This is princeton's somewhat muddled definition
Liberal:broad: *showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" having political or social views favoring reform and progress tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties*
Wikipedia is more specific and defines two (three counting economic liberalism, but no one is referring to the third one when they say liberal bias) types of liberal:
"Classical liberalism is a political ideology that developed in the nineteenth century in Western Europe, and the Americas. It is committed to the ideal of limited government and liberty of individuals including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets."
"Social liberalism is the belief that liberalism should include social justice. It differs from classical liberalism in that it recognizes a legitimate role for government in addressing economic and social issues such as unemployment, health care, and education while simultaneously expanding civil rights."
So just remember that when someone says a newspaper has a liberal bias what they are saying is that the newspaper has a bias towards being broad minded, tolerant, favouring reform and progress and supporting civil liberty. This is actually what newspapers are supposed to do, it is in some cases written into their founding documents and is basically what newspapers have a mandate to be.
Everywhere with people and money will have a struggle between socialism/capitalism/liberalism/conservatism/fascism and probably a whole bunch of other *isms.
Capitalism doesn't belong on that list or any list of political ideologies, capitalism is not an alternative to socialism/liberalism/conservatism/fascism it is a feature or them. Capitalism is merely a method of regulating economies, the political structure of the society using that economy is a completely seperate question.
I would also like to reply to iskender that not all rich people are Jewish and that talking as though they are is counterproductive to efforts toward socio-economic equality, not to mention bigoted and ignorant.
And finally, on the actual topic, while we are discussing how to get everyone to drive electric cars lets not forget that they are all running on coal and gas and that unless we can get worldwide clean energy electric cars are part of the problem not part of the solution
No, they are not "sucking money out of the system". They are CIRCULATING money in the system.
Ok lets take this rationale to it's logical extreme: We should give all the money in the world to one person, who will then buy goods and services and spread it around the world.
Some people seem to labour under the misapprehension that only wealthy people can circulate money, this is however not the case. Economics 101, giving money to poor people results in quicker and more complete circulation than giving it to wealthy people, as poor people are less likely to save it. Therefore the circulation of currency is not an argument for higher salaries, the facts support the opposite position
I think this sounds like fun, and I agree with most posters that smell would be better, but I also agree with joe the dragon that there are dangers. The danger with smells is that they are immensely powerful emotional and sub-conscious triggers and the number of people that have trouble differentiating games from reality (presently an almost non existent minority) would skyrocket.
As far as this technology goes the dangers are not actually random, vague or unverifiable. Despite the post above being so. Any commercial technology that produces heat has examples that have malfunctioned and caused injury. Things that rapidly heat up are unsafe and that is a verifiable fact. Try looking up auto recalls on seat heaters in cars for example. Look up the fire departments' statistics on house fires caused by heater malfunctions and misuse
Mandate teaching those little bastards every religious idea they will probably come across and give Christianity no preferential or differential treatment..
I think this is a great idea, the school I went to actually did something like this (it was run by hippies). I also think that creationism is appropriate for philosophy classes which is something US schools seem to lack. Teaching basic thinking skills might have great benefit, imagine if the board of a certain Louisiana school had learned that in their school days. It is especially funny that they refer to it as "critical thinking and creationism" as though the two concepts have any link whatsoever. Where are their creative thinking and Islam classes? Positive thinking and Buddhism (that one actually sounds really interesting)? Analytical thinking and pastafarianism? Deductive thinking and ancient Greek mythology (wow this one too)?
In fact, while we are criticising the misleading wording people use, intelligent design is another example. Everyone believes in intelligent design, my computer is intelligently designed (although my operating system is not) and so is my car.
The great thing about not being interested in any of the things that make game development expensive: flashy graphics, big name publishers, flashy graphics, flashy graphics, is that this debate suddenly becomes a non-issue. As far as I am concerned the games industry can just lie down and die. People in their basements can make excellent games and demand very little money. People with a passion for games make them for themselves to play and then give them to the world for free. I am happy to make games in my basement (well my basement is disgusting, ill use my bedroom) with only the small amount of money I can get from social welfare to keep me alive. Games can be free and DRM can be forgotten about. It is not hard to train your mind away from this magpie like obsession with shiny graphics and lighting effects. It just takes a bit of practice. Join me, forget the DRM debate, forget gaming revenue. On the other hand simply charging a reasonable price for games like steam (specials) works just fine too.
One doesn't use quantitative prefixes at the beginning of chemical names, it would be hydrogen monoxide or a more accurate name would be oxygen dihydrate. Dihydrogen monoxide justs sounds stupid anyway, if I want a chemical sounding name for it I usually just say hydrate, it fits with the rest of the language much better. People who try to use scientific obfuscation and fail make me laugh.
As a gamer, I was hassled at the last big lan for my "ancient and obsolete" operating system, XP pro. So I did a quick study:
Windows 7 users were unable to play about 1/5 of the games that went up due to operating system issues.
Vista users were unable to play about 1/4 of games.
No XP users had any operating system related issues with any of the games we played.
Sure, as games are released and tested for windows 7 those numbers will start to reverse, but it hasn't happened yet.
Autohotkey, it's the gateway programming language for gamers. Start off by telling them they can automate any repeptitive task in a game and then they will start thinking about bot building and it will go from there. For example you would be surprised how many games a simple f12::{down}{enter}{down}{enter}{down}{enter}{down}{enter}... script can help in. Also the good old click here 50 times rapidly script is very easy for beginners.
"that fuckhead whose name escapes me" is probably Pol Pot, Cambodia
People act how they are treated. Societies have been set up that treated people not like cattle, but like rational independant beings, people acted accordingly. We treat each other like cattle and then we all act like cattle. Just because fox news likes to dumb down the world doesn't mean we have to buy into it. You are guillible if you believe what you said here, but not like cattle, guillible like a rational independant human being who is very capable of throwing off the guillibility any time. Please do so, for the sake of everyone.
This sounds very very bad to me, the worst fact being that security and paranoia always lead to bad decisions and breaches of rights. Even if we believe google's do no evil policy if they are pushed far enough they will become something we don't want.