I think a lot of people grew up with the original trilogy, and as such still see it through the eyes of a child. I, on the other hand, grew up with the prequel trilogy, and so I view them thruogh the eyes of a child. I know hayden christensen can't act, and I know there were other problems with it, but for some reason I can't shake that idea that they were amazing. I think those movies were my first experience with laser-shooting robots and Jedi.... Maybe that's why.
So are you saying that a kindergarten teacher shouldn't be allowed to have beauty surgery because she teaches little children? I'm not saying you're wrong, just making sure I understand what you're implying here.
You know, the DMV where I took my drivers test actually does have a red light on the road right outside (its just a solid light though, telling you to stop). I didn't notice it when I took my test and went right through it. Strangely enough the tester didn't notice it either... Or at least she didn't say anything, and she certainly mentioned everything else I did wrong.
When I drive I generally drive at around 5 above the speed limit. I say generally because if I'm trying to go 75, almost never am I actually going 75. I'm going anywhere between 72 and 77. Those limits may change if I'm gauging my speed based on someone driving in front of me rather then constantly looking at my speedometer. It's almost impossible to keep a car on a certain speed unless you've managed to find the perfect inclination of the accelerator on a perfectly flat road (hint, perfect flat roads are pretty rare most places I drive). Even with cruise control the speed of the car can vary slightly.
If people got stiff fines for going over 1 mph (km where you are), then the amount of drivers on the roads would drop significantly. People would start driving UNDER the speed limit, which kinda defeats the point.
Plus, speed limits are a little out of date. There's a highway near me that has corners with a speed recommendation of 40. I tend to go around them at 60 because my car and tires can handle it. (wouldn't do that while it's raining though...) Modern vehicles can go faster than posted speed limits because of advances in technology. So we drive faster.
I highly doubt that Apple would allow the carriers to dictate what is on the phone. If they did it would be filled with crapware like most Android devices.
Android? With a little looking and forethought, you can replace the "Angry Backstabbing Murderer" with a "cute blonde". You can even tweak the Blonde to have bigger boobs if you want.
I wish those were real settings you could tweak on an Android device.
I learned programming by taking classes in C and Intel x86 assembly. I think it's not unreasonable to expect others to do the same, though I'd accept Java as a substitute for C. If you have the ability to learn to program, then the basics of C won't be that difficult to grasp (I said the basics. Some of the more advanced topics of C can take a while to learn, but you can still write programs without knowing them-they'll just be more inefficient).
I agree with your second point, but not your first. Ruby is not a horrible language. On the other hand, I see no need to learn Ruby when I can already do everything I need in perl/php. I guess it's a simpler language though, at least from what I can tell. At least simpler than perl (not like that's a high bar). So I can see why some people would enjoy using it. Same with Python. I don't use it myself. Learned it, decided it was basically PHP only a little prettier.
If you're taking about legally being recognized as a religion, that I can't comment on (because I don't know) but a bona fide religion can be as small as a dozen people. The point is that the rest of the world does not have to recognize it as a religion for it to be a religion.
Religion: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
By that definition, the Church of Google, http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/, is a religion. Jediism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jediism) is a religion. Just because very few people take it seriously does not make it any less of a real religion. Note that also doesn't mean that it's something that people SHOULD take seriously.
Of course then you have those little things like rent (because some of us don't live in our mom's basement), bills, food, ect. And if you're making $800 in two weeks at McDonalds then you aren't a standard worker, you're probably manger. (http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=McDonald's_Corporation/Hourly_Rate)
As a basic fast food worker, average pay, according to the website above, is $7.56. Multiply by the standard hours in a working week (40) and you get $604.80. And that's assuming they keep you on full time. I would guess (don't know for sure since I've never worked in a fast food place) that they keep workers under 32 hours a week so they don't have to pay benefits. So it's probably more like $468.72 for two weeks ($756*31*2). So yes, if every single expense is taken care of for them, an average McDonalds worker can probably afford an ESRB rating after working a month. But I would imagine that is generally not the case for most people who develop apps.
you have to enter your DOB before you can view an age restricted game
Every single time. You'd think after the tenth time it would remember me how old I am. I always just tell it I was born in 1925 anyway, so it's really not that good of a protection.
Well is it better to keep 10% of your income (which you don't really have to spend on much since almost everything is provided by government, thanks to that 90% tax rate), or have none because you have no job? 10% > 0% in most cases.
I suppose it would depend on if they are having to go through external servers. If they were using battle.net for SC2 then they would have to go through b.net servers, but SC2 still has a LAN option, doesn't it? And 10 Mbps should be enough, as long as there's a decent amount of upload speed as well as down. Most modern games are designed to work within the context of a standard Broadband connection, which is around 10 Mbps AFAIK (at least it is in my area, can't speak for the rest of the world of course)
Every comment here should begin and end with "How can I help?"
The attitude that we should just say "oh they say it helps people so we should help them do it" is incredibly naive, and in fact a very dangerous idea to have. If someone is proposing to eradicate an entire species, then we really SHOULD think about if it's a good idea, not just say "well it will fix some problems so lets do it!"
I have no problem telling that to a victim. I fully agree that we need to find some way to deal with the malaria and West Nile and all the other horrible things mosquitoes carry, but I think we can find a way to do that without ripping apart the food chain and doing God knows what to the ecology.
And don't use "think of the children" as a defense. Around here that's just going to get you mocked, at at best ignored.
To a point, yes. But mosquito can't handle high heat either. That's why they generally come out during the evening in hot places, when the temperature cools to a point where they won't fry.
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They must be using neutrinos.
I think a lot of people grew up with the original trilogy, and as such still see it through the eyes of a child. I, on the other hand, grew up with the prequel trilogy, and so I view them thruogh the eyes of a child. I know hayden christensen can't act, and I know there were other problems with it, but for some reason I can't shake that idea that they were amazing. I think those movies were my first experience with laser-shooting robots and Jedi.... Maybe that's why.
So are you saying that a kindergarten teacher shouldn't be allowed to have beauty surgery because she teaches little children? I'm not saying you're wrong, just making sure I understand what you're implying here.
... how? (if your post was sarcasm then I didn't get it)
GP's sentence was correct-there currently are no cannons with xerox machines built in.
You know, the DMV where I took my drivers test actually does have a red light on the road right outside (its just a solid light though, telling you to stop). I didn't notice it when I took my test and went right through it. Strangely enough the tester didn't notice it either... Or at least she didn't say anything, and she certainly mentioned everything else I did wrong.
The easiest way to reduce red light running is to remove red lights entirely. (Sarcasm, for those of you too stupid to get sarcasm)
When I drive I generally drive at around 5 above the speed limit. I say generally because if I'm trying to go 75, almost never am I actually going 75. I'm going anywhere between 72 and 77. Those limits may change if I'm gauging my speed based on someone driving in front of me rather then constantly looking at my speedometer. It's almost impossible to keep a car on a certain speed unless you've managed to find the perfect inclination of the accelerator on a perfectly flat road (hint, perfect flat roads are pretty rare most places I drive). Even with cruise control the speed of the car can vary slightly.
If people got stiff fines for going over 1 mph (km where you are), then the amount of drivers on the roads would drop significantly. People would start driving UNDER the speed limit, which kinda defeats the point.
Plus, speed limits are a little out of date. There's a highway near me that has corners with a speed recommendation of 40. I tend to go around them at 60 because my car and tires can handle it. (wouldn't do that while it's raining though...) Modern vehicles can go faster than posted speed limits because of advances in technology. So we drive faster.
I highly doubt that Apple would allow the carriers to dictate what is on the phone. If they did it would be filled with crapware like most Android devices.
Android? With a little looking and forethought, you can replace the "Angry Backstabbing Murderer" with a "cute blonde". You can even tweak the Blonde to have bigger boobs if you want.
I wish those were real settings you could tweak on an Android device.
It's a joke, cupcake (note the score:5, Funny). Calm down.
I learned programming by taking classes in C and Intel x86 assembly. I think it's not unreasonable to expect others to do the same, though I'd accept Java as a substitute for C. If you have the ability to learn to program, then the basics of C won't be that difficult to grasp (I said the basics. Some of the more advanced topics of C can take a while to learn, but you can still write programs without knowing them-they'll just be more inefficient).
I agree with your second point, but not your first. Ruby is not a horrible language. On the other hand, I see no need to learn Ruby when I can already do everything I need in perl/php. I guess it's a simpler language though, at least from what I can tell. At least simpler than perl (not like that's a high bar). So I can see why some people would enjoy using it. Same with Python. I don't use it myself. Learned it, decided it was basically PHP only a little prettier.
I dunno why this was modded offtopic-seems very on-topic to me.
If you're taking about legally being recognized as a religion, that I can't comment on (because I don't know) but a bona fide religion can be as small as a dozen people. The point is that the rest of the world does not have to recognize it as a religion for it to be a religion.
Religion: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
By that definition, the Church of Google, http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/, is a religion. Jediism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jediism) is a religion. Just because very few people take it seriously does not make it any less of a real religion. Note that also doesn't mean that it's something that people SHOULD take seriously.
Of course then you have those little things like rent (because some of us don't live in our mom's basement), bills, food, ect. And if you're making $800 in two weeks at McDonalds then you aren't a standard worker, you're probably manger. (http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=McDonald's_Corporation/Hourly_Rate)
As a basic fast food worker, average pay, according to the website above, is $7.56. Multiply by the standard hours in a working week (40) and you get $604.80. And that's assuming they keep you on full time. I would guess (don't know for sure since I've never worked in a fast food place) that they keep workers under 32 hours a week so they don't have to pay benefits. So it's probably more like $468.72 for two weeks ($756*31*2). So yes, if every single expense is taken care of for them, an average McDonalds worker can probably afford an ESRB rating after working a month. But I would imagine that is generally not the case for most people who develop apps.
you have to enter your DOB before you can view an age restricted game
Every single time. You'd think after the tenth time it would remember me how old I am. I always just tell it I was born in 1925 anyway, so it's really not that good of a protection.
Do they have connectivity in the tents as well?
Well is it better to keep 10% of your income (which you don't really have to spend on much since almost everything is provided by government, thanks to that 90% tax rate), or have none because you have no job? 10% > 0% in most cases.
I suppose it would depend on if they are having to go through external servers. If they were using battle.net for SC2 then they would have to go through b.net servers, but SC2 still has a LAN option, doesn't it? And 10 Mbps should be enough, as long as there's a decent amount of upload speed as well as down. Most modern games are designed to work within the context of a standard Broadband connection, which is around 10 Mbps AFAIK (at least it is in my area, can't speak for the rest of the world of course)
I think they ceased to become LAN parties once you went outside. Still sounds like a lot of fun though.
The jets in the video have the same logo as the jetman. Possibly he or the company sponsoring it owns them?
Depends on how you harness the energy I would imagine... Though I'm not very familiar with electrical systems.
Every comment here should begin and end with "How can I help?"
The attitude that we should just say "oh they say it helps people so we should help them do it" is incredibly naive, and in fact a very dangerous idea to have. If someone is proposing to eradicate an entire species, then we really SHOULD think about if it's a good idea, not just say "well it will fix some problems so lets do it!"
I have no problem telling that to a victim. I fully agree that we need to find some way to deal with the malaria and West Nile and all the other horrible things mosquitoes carry, but I think we can find a way to do that without ripping apart the food chain and doing God knows what to the ecology.
And don't use "think of the children" as a defense. Around here that's just going to get you mocked, at at best ignored.
To a point, yes. But mosquito can't handle high heat either. That's why they generally come out during the evening in hot places, when the temperature cools to a point where they won't fry.