It's a factual rule of thumb. If you wander back though all of the media in the last decade, or even the last 20 years you'll quickly see that if it's any democrat related scandal/gaffe/offending comment/etc it in the vast majority of cases from municipal all the way up to the senate, that they won't list that they belong to the democrat party. However, if it's a republican/tea partier/libertarian/etc, you can bet that it'll be listed, and that the media will be hot on the heels to dig up anything else they can on them.
You want to play ignorant on politics, fine by me. But as an outsider in Canadaland, I've seen the US media do this plenty of times. And it's only gotten worse since Obama has gotten into office, and when hardcore liberals in the media say that, perhaps...just perhaps, there's something to it.
Sure, if you are satisfied by most of the top 200 movies on IMDB not being available there...
Welcome to living in Canada with the benefit of "Cancon" dictating your movie viewing habits. I should add, it's just like living in any other country that isn't the US...isn't it so nice? Well anyway, netflix is perfectly fine and for someone who cut the cord and wants to watch something and doesn't really give a rats ass about "trendy award winner" it continues to be just fine. Then again, I can't get things like hulu, or amazon, or itunes(the viewing stuff) up here because of "viewership" rules anyway.
Yep, no talking points coming from this guy. It's almost like you get your information directly from Media Matters and OFA. I actually liked the last two sentences in the last paragraph, in an attempt to give the "but really, it's the same but different..."
Of course I'm sure that you'd also be in lock step with the view that a group like the tea party is a bunch of racists, just like what the media tells you. Funny how an outsiders view of american politics and pick all this out fairly easily.
Don't forget under loot 2.0 you're guaranteed a legendary now every 2ish-hrs of gameplay. I'd hunt down the blue post on it if I wasn't so lazy, but they want to make sure that people have the mats to craft gear, and have a chance for good upgrades for higher levels of difficulty. If you're trying to play higher than torment 3 with your basic rares, and non-crafted legendaries or set items you're going to be in for a world of hurt.
I'm guessing you actually haven't played the game since 2.0 rolled out. And while what you said was semi-true before the AH was removed it's not now. Otherwise you'd know that loot is rolled based on the character you're playing. While you'll see an "off" stat like "arcane orb" on your "pew-pew disintegrate" build, you're not going to see +133str on your offhand anymore. So that pretty much guts the whole "flavor of the month" thing. There really isn't a pure build out that kicks ass anyway for any class atm.
Your complaint on the story? Meh. It's the same writer as Warcraft, Diablo, and everything else. There's plenty however for you to experiment with different builds for your playstyle. For quite a while I was a orb launcher, now I'm a destrobeam wizard. On several of the bosses, on torment there was no way I could beat them without using hydra's either.
Odd that you say the game doesn't have staying power. If you base that on the number of people playing it seems to be just fine. Then again, the only thing that kept people going back to D2, was that they could hack their way to happiness.
Depends on where you are. If you're in northern ontario not much chance of growing much of anything, if you're in manitoba, saskatchawan, alberta or the southern half of BC, you're in as much prime farm land as the US plains or southern ontario. About 70% of the wheat, rye and barley we grow in Canada is exported to Europe, Russia and China.
You mean to the point when the basins and reservoirs were full they decided to half empty them, are the definition of "carefully managing them?" Or diverting water away in order to protect a 3" minnow.
You mean the artificially created drought in the central valley? Between the politicians and the EPA, we're going to reap the stupidity of those who would rather dump fresh water into the ocean(among other things).
I'm not surprised. Here in reality, we don't believe in the boogie man (or woman, in your case).
One doesn't have to "name one" or even a "single one" when one has actually seen more than one to know they exist. You're running with a really nice logical fallacy. After all, if I can plug militant feminist into google and find oh several hundred thousand hits. I'm sure that you can find them too.
Here's the reality, you're arguing for the sake of arguing because your head is buried in the sand. Believing that "because I don't name a person" doesn't make it real in your mind, even though a basic search disproves that. If you want intellectually lazy, you're doing a bang up job. If you want to live in a fantasy land, don't go to university.
WTF are you talking about? Who are these mysterious "miltant" feminists? Can you name even one?
Now why would I even bother to name one, when I can point to the entire ideology. Perhaps it's time for you to grow up a little bit, and realize just what it's like living in a land of reality, where fluffy bunnies don't exist.
No pretty sure it's modern day militant feminism. And it's desire to piss all over anything that doesn't fit their tidy little view of the world. And should you point it out, you're: Sexist, racist, rapist, molester, pedophile, and/or committing sexual harassment.
Very possible. Back when I was interested in the scene(aka warez in the mid 90's), and was following a lot of the underground news there was always some government ftp server somewhere that wasn't compromised but "opened" to allow access by someone. My theory on it was, it wasn't a honey pot but someone on the inside serving to select people, and serving to friends on the inside. Whether it still holds true today, I have no idea.
Corps are the only buyers who need enterprise integration and management.
You mean corps and governments right? Well even the government agencies I've dealt with out in western canada are dumping symantic fully for just about anything else. Sadly though, I remember when Norton was the best AV product on the market, and I can remember when F-Prot kicked them out of it, then kicked them while they were down. Well that was almost 20 years ago now too, it's been on a screaming decline since then. The biggest killer of course is just how top-heavy and resource hungry their AV suite is compared to everything else on the market.
But neither magic mushrooms nor marihuana were ever banned with the argument they would be natural cures and thus should be banned. Their positive health effects didn't play any role when banning them.
Right, marihuana was banned because of scare tactics(the drugs made me do it), and racism. With a heavy dash of protectionism.
When you keep crying "wolf, wolf, wolf" or "benghazi, benghazi, benghazi"... *ugh* how stupid do you think anyone with half a brain is?
Apparently anyone with half a brain would be paying attention to the hearings on it. If you did, then you'd also know exactly how much lying and how much of a coverup the current administration is engaged in over it. My favorite so far, was that the administration knew it was a terrorist attack but blamed it on a youtube video anyway. My second favorite was that they had a confirmed through secondary sources of an impending terrorist attack, and did nothing.
So, I guess those "right wingers who are bat shit insane" seem to have picked up on something that many, including you are burying their head in the sand over. Perhaps it's time to check your reasoning on the issue.
In theory, that would be the job of the free press.
Well you guys have a free press in the US, the only problem is...it's sucking the Obama admin's nutsack. The people writing the majority of the articles are happy to roll over for any request, and they'll take anything including OFA/Media Matters talking points as gospel truth. And people on that side of the spectrum, refuse to listen to this, believing it to be "lies" or "disinformation" because they're blinded by partisanship. Or they simply believe the talking points that it's "all about race." That's probably my favorite one, seriously...these are the same people who were moaning and bitching about the Iraq war, but are no where to be seen after this administration launched several new ones.
No, but both Palin and Romney could tell several years ago that Russia was an actual problem. Unlike Obama and his red line fickleness. Well that's alright, he's off to his what? 197th round of golf, and later today he'll be flying out to Hollywood for his 290th fundraising event. Pressing issues you know.
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So what's your plan going forward? Will you use XP ten or twenty years from now?
Why not? We've still got mission critical systems that use fortran and cobol in use.
Should I keep going? A few more posts perhaps?
It's cute that you think you personal observation actually has Merritt or is accurate in any way.
Keep on thinking that. And I can keep on finding stories.
That's an idiotic "rule of thumb."
It's a factual rule of thumb. If you wander back though all of the media in the last decade, or even the last 20 years you'll quickly see that if it's any democrat related scandal/gaffe/offending comment/etc it in the vast majority of cases from municipal all the way up to the senate, that they won't list that they belong to the democrat party. However, if it's a republican/tea partier/libertarian/etc, you can bet that it'll be listed, and that the media will be hot on the heels to dig up anything else they can on them.
You want to play ignorant on politics, fine by me. But as an outsider in Canadaland, I've seen the US media do this plenty of times. And it's only gotten worse since Obama has gotten into office, and when hardcore liberals in the media say that, perhaps...just perhaps, there's something to it.
Sure, if you are satisfied by most of the top 200 movies on IMDB not being available there...
Welcome to living in Canada with the benefit of "Cancon" dictating your movie viewing habits. I should add, it's just like living in any other country that isn't the US...isn't it so nice? Well anyway, netflix is perfectly fine and for someone who cut the cord and wants to watch something and doesn't really give a rats ass about "trendy award winner" it continues to be just fine. Then again, I can't get things like hulu, or amazon, or itunes(the viewing stuff) up here because of "viewership" rules anyway.
Funny how you're modded troll for pointing out the truth. I guess someone on /. doesn't like having their sensibilities hurt.
Yep, no talking points coming from this guy. It's almost like you get your information directly from Media Matters and OFA. I actually liked the last two sentences in the last paragraph, in an attempt to give the "but really, it's the same but different..."
Of course I'm sure that you'd also be in lock step with the view that a group like the tea party is a bunch of racists, just like what the media tells you. Funny how an outsiders view of american politics and pick all this out fairly easily.
Don't forget under loot 2.0 you're guaranteed a legendary now every 2ish-hrs of gameplay. I'd hunt down the blue post on it if I wasn't so lazy, but they want to make sure that people have the mats to craft gear, and have a chance for good upgrades for higher levels of difficulty. If you're trying to play higher than torment 3 with your basic rares, and non-crafted legendaries or set items you're going to be in for a world of hurt.
I'm guessing you actually haven't played the game since 2.0 rolled out. And while what you said was semi-true before the AH was removed it's not now. Otherwise you'd know that loot is rolled based on the character you're playing. While you'll see an "off" stat like "arcane orb" on your "pew-pew disintegrate" build, you're not going to see +133str on your offhand anymore. So that pretty much guts the whole "flavor of the month" thing. There really isn't a pure build out that kicks ass anyway for any class atm.
Your complaint on the story? Meh. It's the same writer as Warcraft, Diablo, and everything else. There's plenty however for you to experiment with different builds for your playstyle. For quite a while I was a orb launcher, now I'm a destrobeam wizard. On several of the bosses, on torment there was no way I could beat them without using hydra's either.
Odd that you say the game doesn't have staying power. If you base that on the number of people playing it seems to be just fine. Then again, the only thing that kept people going back to D2, was that they could hack their way to happiness.
Depends on where you are. If you're in northern ontario not much chance of growing much of anything, if you're in manitoba, saskatchawan, alberta or the southern half of BC, you're in as much prime farm land as the US plains or southern ontario. About 70% of the wheat, rye and barley we grow in Canada is exported to Europe, Russia and China.
You mean to the point when the basins and reservoirs were full they decided to half empty them, are the definition of "carefully managing them?" Or diverting water away in order to protect a 3" minnow.
You mean the artificially created drought in the central valley? Between the politicians and the EPA, we're going to reap the stupidity of those who would rather dump fresh water into the ocean(among other things).
So you can't name a single one, eh?
I'm not surprised. Here in reality, we don't believe in the boogie man (or woman, in your case).
One doesn't have to "name one" or even a "single one" when one has actually seen more than one to know they exist. You're running with a really nice logical fallacy. After all, if I can plug militant feminist into google and find oh several hundred thousand hits. I'm sure that you can find them too.
Here's the reality, you're arguing for the sake of arguing because your head is buried in the sand. Believing that "because I don't name a person" doesn't make it real in your mind, even though a basic search disproves that. If you want intellectually lazy, you're doing a bang up job. If you want to live in a fantasy land, don't go to university.
You think that's bad? Wait until you run across the issue where your ISP doesn't even both to set up basic passwords on your wireless hub.
WTF are you talking about? Who are these mysterious "miltant" feminists? Can you name even one?
Now why would I even bother to name one, when I can point to the entire ideology. Perhaps it's time for you to grow up a little bit, and realize just what it's like living in a land of reality, where fluffy bunnies don't exist.
No pretty sure it's modern day militant feminism. And it's desire to piss all over anything that doesn't fit their tidy little view of the world. And should you point it out, you're: Sexist, racist, rapist, molester, pedophile, and/or committing sexual harassment.
Very possible. Back when I was interested in the scene(aka warez in the mid 90's), and was following a lot of the underground news there was always some government ftp server somewhere that wasn't compromised but "opened" to allow access by someone. My theory on it was, it wasn't a honey pot but someone on the inside serving to select people, and serving to friends on the inside. Whether it still holds true today, I have no idea.
Does anyone under 25 even know who Peter Norton is/was?
That's like asking them if they know who Kevin Mitnick is.
Corps are the only buyers who need enterprise integration and management.
You mean corps and governments right? Well even the government agencies I've dealt with out in western canada are dumping symantic fully for just about anything else. Sadly though, I remember when Norton was the best AV product on the market, and I can remember when F-Prot kicked them out of it, then kicked them while they were down. Well that was almost 20 years ago now too, it's been on a screaming decline since then. The biggest killer of course is just how top-heavy and resource hungry their AV suite is compared to everything else on the market.
Must have been the Microsoft, New Jersey or Washington, DC office.
But neither magic mushrooms nor marihuana were ever banned with the argument they would be natural cures and thus should be banned. Their positive health effects didn't play any role when banning them.
Right, marihuana was banned because of scare tactics(the drugs made me do it), and racism. With a heavy dash of protectionism.
Considering how inefficient schools are now with the funding they have? I don't think they need anymore help with that one.
When you keep crying "wolf, wolf, wolf" or "benghazi, benghazi, benghazi"... *ugh* how stupid do you think anyone with half a brain is?
Apparently anyone with half a brain would be paying attention to the hearings on it. If you did, then you'd also know exactly how much lying and how much of a coverup the current administration is engaged in over it. My favorite so far, was that the administration knew it was a terrorist attack but blamed it on a youtube video anyway. My second favorite was that they had a confirmed through secondary sources of an impending terrorist attack, and did nothing.
So, I guess those "right wingers who are bat shit insane" seem to have picked up on something that many, including you are burying their head in the sand over. Perhaps it's time to check your reasoning on the issue.
In theory, that would be the job of the free press.
Well you guys have a free press in the US, the only problem is...it's sucking the Obama admin's nutsack. The people writing the majority of the articles are happy to roll over for any request, and they'll take anything including OFA/Media Matters talking points as gospel truth. And people on that side of the spectrum, refuse to listen to this, believing it to be "lies" or "disinformation" because they're blinded by partisanship. Or they simply believe the talking points that it's "all about race." That's probably my favorite one, seriously...these are the same people who were moaning and bitching about the Iraq war, but are no where to be seen after this administration launched several new ones.
No, but both Palin and Romney could tell several years ago that Russia was an actual problem. Unlike Obama and his red line fickleness. Well that's alright, he's off to his what? 197th round of golf, and later today he'll be flying out to Hollywood for his 290th fundraising event. Pressing issues you know.