Me, too. And I don't know which is worse, that her mom is so crazy with paranoia that she called the police, or that I may actually be willing to ignore my parental/humanist instincts and refuse to help out an adolescent in need due to fear of the consequences.
So, from personal experience, you should be able to understand why so many people responding to you think that the policy of branding any adult with an adolescent's phone number as a pedophile is ridiculous, yet your comments seem to indicate that you support it.
A month or so ago my neighbor's daughter knocked on my door. It was raining and cold and she had been locked out of her house. I have a daughter who does not live with me full time, so I let the neighbor girl in and sent her to my daughter's room to change into dry clothes and hang out until her mom to got home.
An hour or so later her mom arrives home and was very grateful... until she learned that my daughter wasn't living with me that week. My thanks? She called the police. I wasn't arrested or charged with anything, but an officer did arrive to take statements.
Next time her kid gets locked out, she can catch pneumonia.
First off, I was responding to the ridiculous claim was that there have been 12 Mario games released in the last 21 years. I have absolutely shown how false that statement is. Without even breaking a sweat, here's 59 Mario franchise releases... that's 5 more than the Wikipedia list of FF releases you pointed me to. Not a SINGLE ONE of these is a "Let's give Mario and his pals some extra out-of-franchise screen time."
Unlike the FF Wikipedia list of releases that you use to back up your retarded claim, I DIDN'T include ANY anthologies like the 3 All-Stars and 4 Mario Advance releases, rereleases, ports etc.
I also didn't include ANY of the 23 Mario sports titles, 3 fighting games, the educational games, games that have an appearance of Mario characters but is not based in the Mario universe, pinball games, rail shooters, rhythm games, or puzzle games. I didn't even include the original arcade games in this list!
Also, all these games were released on a total of 10 systems making their releases extremely console dense. While the FF games have sold more copies, they have been released on nearly every system ever made, including PCs and mobile phones.
Finally, this is ONE... ONE of the handful of franchises that Nintendo has milked absolutely to death.
Seriously... how fucking dense are you??
Super Mario Bros Super Mario Bros - The Lost Levels Super Mario Bros 2 Super Mario Bros 3 Super Mario Land Super Mario Land 2 Super Mario World Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island DS Yoshi's Story Mario Clash Virtual Boy Wario Land Wario Land 2 Wario Land 3 Wario Land 4 Super Mario 64 Super Mario Sunshine Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Galaxy 2 New Super Mario Bros New Super Mario Bros Wii Super Mario 3D Land Super Princess Peach
Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Country 2 Donkey Kong Country 3 Donkey Kong Land Donkey Kong Land 2 Donkey Kong Land 3 Donkey Kong 64
Super Mario RPG Paper Mario Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door Super Paper Mario
Super Mario Kart Mario Kart 64 Mario Kart Super Circuit Mario Kart Double Dash Mario Kart DS Mario Kart Wii Mario Kart 7 Mario Kart GP Mario Kart GP2 Diddy Kong Racing Diddy Kong Racing DS
Mario Party Mario Party DS Mario Party Advance Mario Party 2 Mario Party 3 Mario Party 4 Mario Party 5 Mario Party 6 Mario Party 7 Mario Party 8
Luigi's Mansion Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga Mario and Luigi Partners in Time Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story
FF has also been released for a couple dozen different platforms, including iOS and other mobile phones. Wikipedia lists a TOTAL of 54 FF releases, INCLUDING spin-offs, collections, and compilations.
Sure, I wouldn't have argued otherwise. The FF franchise would STILL have a long, long ways to go before reaching the levels to which Nintendo has milked the Mario franchise (let alone the Zelda, Pokemon, and Metroid franchises).
You are really, really leaving out a bunch of titles if you only come up with 12....
Super Mario Bros Super Mario Bros 2 Super Mario Bros 3 Super Mario Land Super Mario Land 2 Super Mario World Super Mario World 2 Super Mario 64 Super Mario Sunshine New Super Mario Bros New Super Mario Bros Wii Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Galaxy 2
These are JUST the sidescroller / platformers that star Mario. You can also include the following platformers, although the first 2 arcade games lack side scrolling and the others add RPG elements, but all of these star Mario:
Donkey Kong Mario Bros Super Mario RPG Paper Mario Super Paper Mario
We're up to 18 now. Other games that star / costar Mario, but are of various other genres:
Dr Mario Mario Puzzle Party Mario vs Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Tale
Now we're at 23... I can't think of any more that star Mario off the top of my head, but I know there were some Mario pinball games and a few other Mario puzzle games. And where do you even put Mario Paint?
Now, if you include other Nintendo platformers that don't STAR Mario, but do have platformer mechanics that are somewhat similar to the Super Mario series and star other prominent Mario universe characters, like Wario, Peach, Yoshi, and Donkey Kong you get:
Yoshi's Story Yoshi's Island DS Super Princess Peach VB Wario Land Wario Land 2 Wario Land 3 Wario World Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Country 2 Donkey Kong Country 3 Donkey Kong Country 64 Donkey Kong Country Returns
These are just the sidescroller / platformers based on Mario and his ilk. I'm sure I'm missing at least a few in there as well. I'm not going to count all the puzzle games, board games, mini game collections, racing games, sports games, fighting games, and other misc action games that don't star Mario per say, but are based on the characters in the Mario universe.
This is JUST ONE of Nintendo's franchises. You can complain about COD, Halo, and even FF until the cows come home, but the fact is, nobody, and I mean NOBODY, milks their franchises the way Nintendo does.
When you differentiate between microevolution and macroevolution in a way that no biologist actively does, and offer no explanations as to what mechanisms could possibly prevent compounded microevolution events from becoming macroevolution, you're showing that you don't understand evolution at all.
There are likewise many, many disadvantages to being bipedal, which is why it has not become commonly seen outside of dinosaurs (and their avian ancestors) and primates.
Overpriced? Yeah, I'll agree that it is overpriced, but arbitrarily throwing out numbers that you pulled out of your ass sure doesn't help your credibility.
Likewise, your explanation is possibly apocryphal.
From Steve Jobs' biography:
"He had a great Mercedes sports coupe with no license plate on it, that was his affectation. He always believed-- I said, "Why don't you have a license plate?" He said, "Well, I don't want people following me." I said, "Well not having a license plate is probably more noticeable." He said, "Yah, you're probably right. You know why I don't have a license plate?" I said, "Why?" He said, "Because I don't have a license plate." I think he felt the normal rules just shouldn't apply to him. And he had his little every day acts of rebellion that were showing: Hey, I'm a little bit different."
Atheism and agnosticism are not mutually exclusive. Atheism is the lack of belief in a god, or the belief that there is no god. It is the opposite of theism.
Agnosticism is the stance (with regards to religion, anyways) that gods' or god's existence or non-existance is unknowable. It is the opposite of gnosticism.
A gnostic atheist 'knows' that there are no gods. They make a claim of absolute knowledge. An agnostic atheist does not believe in a god, but cannot rationally state that they know this with 100% certainty. They simply aren't convinced of the existence of gods. Most atheists fall into the latter category.
I thought that atheists were people who have faith (aka a belief absent of evidence) that all religion is wrong and there is definitely not a god. They are 100% certain this is true, having faith that it must be true.
What you are describing is gnostic, hard, or positive atheism.
Ah, ok I see what you meant in your original comment; I thought you were confused as to the overall 'goal' of photosynthesis (in green plants, anyways) in which there is no NET production of ATP and NADPH.
The sun doesn't "help" plants grow. The sun provides energy that drives an electron cascade. The plant uses this energy to synthesise ATP. If you remove this source of energy, the plant cannot do this, so it's essential (in the absence of artificial light) not just "a help".
I know I'm going deep into off topic territory here, but I'd like to correct your understanding of photosynthesis.
Simply put, the energy gathered from sunlight is used to create high-energy carbon-carbon bonds between carbon dioxide molecules to form carbohydrates such as glucose, a 6 carbon chain. These carbohydrates are then used as energy storage and in the physical structure of the plant, among other things.
During respiration, in exactly the same was as we do, plants break the high-energy carbon-carbon bonds in carbohydrates and the freed electrons are pulled through the electron transport chain using oxygen as an attractor, resulting in the formation of ATP.
Photosynthesis -> Plant uses the sun's energy to make sugar. Respiration -> Plant uses sugar to make ATP.
What bothers me is if a bunch of ignorant anti-Apple zealots want to insist that the entire Apple/Samsung lawsuit simply revolves around rounded corners and click to unlock.
There is a difference between designing your product to look and function similarly to your competitors and simply ripping off every single design element, from the look and shape of the packaging, power adapter, the color and shape of the icons, the design of the built-in apps, and yes, the appearance of your product.
I recently (2 months ago) moved cross country. Sold ALL of my furniture and probably 90% of my personal possessions. Everything I now own fit into the back of a Chevy S-10 pickup. I used the money earned from my yard/ebay sales to pay for gas and 1st month's rent/deposit on a cheap apartment and utils. Total cost to move = $0. Sure, I still have to sit/sleep/eat on the floor and will for the next couple months, but at least I have a job.
If any competitor could have done it, why didn't they? Packing together several existing ideas into a nice package coupled with a fantastic user interface *IS* innovation. If it's so simple and easy to do, as you seem to indicate, why is Apple one of the very few companies that does it with any consistency?
Sooo let me get this straight... Apple demands that it's suppliers treat their workers with a certain amount of respect and dignity, then performs its own investigation to make sure its suppliers are meeting this demands and finds that they are coming up short.
Because of this, you've decided to boycott Apple's products. All the other tech companies in America don't give a rat's ass about how their suppliers treat their employees, but THAT'S ok with you?? You have a very odd set of morals...
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Me, too. And I don't know which is worse, that her mom is so crazy with paranoia that she called the police, or that I may actually be willing to ignore my parental/humanist instincts and refuse to help out an adolescent in need due to fear of the consequences.
So, from personal experience, you should be able to understand why so many people responding to you think that the policy of branding any adult with an adolescent's phone number as a pedophile is ridiculous, yet your comments seem to indicate that you support it.
I've been in a situation just as you describe.
A month or so ago my neighbor's daughter knocked on my door. It was raining and cold and she had been locked out of her house. I have a daughter who does not live with me full time, so I let the neighbor girl in and sent her to my daughter's room to change into dry clothes and hang out until her mom to got home.
An hour or so later her mom arrives home and was very grateful... until she learned that my daughter wasn't living with me that week. My thanks? She called the police. I wasn't arrested or charged with anything, but an officer did arrive to take statements.
Next time her kid gets locked out, she can catch pneumonia.
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First off, I was responding to the ridiculous claim was that there have been 12 Mario games released in the last 21 years. I have absolutely shown how false that statement is. Without even breaking a sweat, here's 59 Mario franchise releases... that's 5 more than the Wikipedia list of FF releases you pointed me to. Not a SINGLE ONE of these is a "Let's give Mario and his pals some extra out-of-franchise screen time."
Unlike the FF Wikipedia list of releases that you use to back up your retarded claim, I DIDN'T include ANY anthologies like the 3 All-Stars and 4 Mario Advance releases, rereleases, ports etc.
I also didn't include ANY of the 23 Mario sports titles, 3 fighting games, the educational games, games that have an appearance of Mario characters but is not based in the Mario universe, pinball games, rail shooters, rhythm games, or puzzle games. I didn't even include the original arcade games in this list!
Also, all these games were released on a total of 10 systems making their releases extremely console dense. While the FF games have sold more copies, they have been released on nearly every system ever made, including PCs and mobile phones.
Finally, this is ONE... ONE of the handful of franchises that Nintendo has milked absolutely to death.
Seriously... how fucking dense are you??
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros - The Lost Levels
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2
Yoshi's Island DS
Yoshi's Story
Mario Clash
Virtual Boy Wario Land
Wario Land 2
Wario Land 3
Wario Land 4
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
New Super Mario Bros
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Super Mario 3D Land
Super Princess Peach
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Donkey Kong Land
Donkey Kong Land 2
Donkey Kong Land 3
Donkey Kong 64
Super Mario RPG
Paper Mario
Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door
Super Paper Mario
Super Mario Kart
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart Super Circuit
Mario Kart Double Dash
Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart 7
Mario Kart GP
Mario Kart GP2
Diddy Kong Racing
Diddy Kong Racing DS
Mario Party
Mario Party DS
Mario Party Advance
Mario Party 2
Mario Party 3
Mario Party 4
Mario Party 5
Mario Party 6
Mario Party 7
Mario Party 8
Luigi's Mansion
Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga
Mario and Luigi Partners in Time
Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story
FF has also been released for a couple dozen different platforms, including iOS and other mobile phones. Wikipedia lists a TOTAL of 54 FF releases, INCLUDING spin-offs, collections, and compilations.
Compare that to the Mario releases:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_featuring_Mario
FF still has a LONG way to go...
Not even close, bud.
Sure, I wouldn't have argued otherwise. The FF franchise would STILL have a long, long ways to go before reaching the levels to which Nintendo has milked the Mario franchise (let alone the Zelda, Pokemon, and Metroid franchises).
Mario was in 12 games starring him in 21 years.
You are really, really leaving out a bunch of titles if you only come up with 12....
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Sunshine
New Super Mario Bros
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
These are JUST the sidescroller / platformers that star Mario. You can also include the following platformers, although the first 2 arcade games lack side scrolling and the others add RPG elements, but all of these star Mario:
Donkey Kong
Mario Bros
Super Mario RPG
Paper Mario
Super Paper Mario
We're up to 18 now. Other games that star / costar Mario, but are of various other genres:
Dr Mario
Mario Puzzle Party
Mario vs Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Tale
Now we're at 23... I can't think of any more that star Mario off the top of my head, but I know there were some Mario pinball games and a few other Mario puzzle games. And where do you even put Mario Paint?
Now, if you include other Nintendo platformers that don't STAR Mario, but do have platformer mechanics that are somewhat similar to the Super Mario series and star other prominent Mario universe characters, like Wario, Peach, Yoshi, and Donkey Kong you get:
Yoshi's Story
Yoshi's Island DS
Super Princess Peach
VB Wario Land
Wario Land 2
Wario Land 3
Wario World
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Donkey Kong Country 64
Donkey Kong Country Returns
These are just the sidescroller / platformers based on Mario and his ilk. I'm sure I'm missing at least a few in there as well. I'm not going to count all the puzzle games, board games, mini game collections, racing games, sports games, fighting games, and other misc action games that don't star Mario per say, but are based on the characters in the Mario universe.
This is JUST ONE of Nintendo's franchises. You can complain about COD, Halo, and even FF until the cows come home, but the fact is, nobody, and I mean NOBODY, milks their franchises the way Nintendo does.
When you differentiate between microevolution and macroevolution in a way that no biologist actively does, and offer no explanations as to what mechanisms could possibly prevent compounded microevolution events from becoming macroevolution, you're showing that you don't understand evolution at all.
It's a bit dishonest to say that 'you can still see Amiga graphics' when they were using Video Toasters for those special effects.
Video Toasters came with the still poplar and still supported LightWave 3D, not early versions of Photoshop.
So, they are estimating that the number of comets destroyed daily by collisions is somewhere between 0 and 999,999. A little vague, don't you think?
There are likewise many, many disadvantages to being bipedal, which is why it has not become commonly seen outside of dinosaurs (and their avian ancestors) and primates.
Woz wanted to give away the Apple I schematics for free... I don't think he's the Apple founder you should be bashing.
Overpriced? Yeah, I'll agree that it is overpriced, but arbitrarily throwing out numbers that you pulled out of your ass sure doesn't help your credibility.
it’s a theory at best.
I'm going to go out on a limb and bet that you use the same argument against evolution.
Likewise, your explanation is possibly apocryphal.
From Steve Jobs' biography:
"He had a great Mercedes sports coupe with no license plate on it, that was his affectation. He always believed-- I said, "Why don't you have a license plate?" He said, "Well, I don't want people following me." I said, "Well not having a license plate is probably more noticeable." He said, "Yah, you're probably right. You know why I don't have a license plate?" I said, "Why?" He said, "Because I don't have a license plate." I think he felt the normal rules just shouldn't apply to him. And he had his little every day acts of rebellion that were showing: Hey, I'm a little bit different."
Atheism and agnosticism are not mutually exclusive. Atheism is the lack of belief in a god, or the belief that there is no god. It is the opposite of theism.
Agnosticism is the stance (with regards to religion, anyways) that gods' or god's existence or non-existance is unknowable. It is the opposite of gnosticism.
A gnostic atheist 'knows' that there are no gods. They make a claim of absolute knowledge. An agnostic atheist does not believe in a god, but cannot rationally state that they know this with 100% certainty. They simply aren't convinced of the existence of gods. Most atheists fall into the latter category.
I thought that atheists were people who have faith (aka a belief absent of evidence) that all religion is wrong and there is definitely not a god. They are 100% certain this is true, having faith that it must be true.
What you are describing is gnostic, hard, or positive atheism.
Ah, ok I see what you meant in your original comment; I thought you were confused as to the overall 'goal' of photosynthesis (in green plants, anyways) in which there is no NET production of ATP and NADPH.
The sun doesn't "help" plants grow. The sun provides energy that drives an electron cascade. The plant uses this energy to synthesise ATP. If you remove this source of energy, the plant cannot do this, so it's essential (in the absence of artificial light) not just "a help".
I know I'm going deep into off topic territory here, but I'd like to correct your understanding of photosynthesis.
Simply put, the energy gathered from sunlight is used to create high-energy carbon-carbon bonds between carbon dioxide molecules to form carbohydrates such as glucose, a 6 carbon chain. These carbohydrates are then used as energy storage and in the physical structure of the plant, among other things.
During respiration, in exactly the same was as we do, plants break the high-energy carbon-carbon bonds in carbohydrates and the freed electrons are pulled through the electron transport chain using oxygen as an attractor, resulting in the formation of ATP.
Photosynthesis -> Plant uses the sun's energy to make sugar. Respiration -> Plant uses sugar to make ATP.
What bothers me is if a bunch of ignorant anti-Apple zealots want to insist that the entire Apple/Samsung lawsuit simply revolves around rounded corners and click to unlock.
There is a difference between designing your product to look and function similarly to your competitors and simply ripping off every single design element, from the look and shape of the packaging, power adapter, the color and shape of the icons, the design of the built-in apps, and yes, the appearance of your product.
This is a visual guide to the IP that Apple claims Samsung infringed upon. Read through it and then come back here and claim, with a straight face, that the lawsuit is just about rounded corners:
http://peanutbuttereggdirt.com/e/2011/05/03/apple-vs-samsung-a-visual-guide-to-apples-ip-claims-hardware-icons-packaging/
I recently (2 months ago) moved cross country. Sold ALL of my furniture and probably 90% of my personal possessions. Everything I now own fit into the back of a Chevy S-10 pickup. I used the money earned from my yard/ebay sales to pay for gas and 1st month's rent/deposit on a cheap apartment and utils. Total cost to move = $0. Sure, I still have to sit/sleep/eat on the floor and will for the next couple months, but at least I have a job.
They actually hired 1 man and 999,999 poorly made clones.
No, it's just not very creative or funny.
If any competitor could have done it, why didn't they? Packing together several existing ideas into a nice package coupled with a fantastic user interface *IS* innovation. If it's so simple and easy to do, as you seem to indicate, why is Apple one of the very few companies that does it with any consistency?
Sooo let me get this straight... Apple demands that it's suppliers treat their workers with a certain amount of respect and dignity, then performs its own investigation to make sure its suppliers are meeting this demands and finds that they are coming up short. Because of this, you've decided to boycott Apple's products. All the other tech companies in America don't give a rat's ass about how their suppliers treat their employees, but THAT'S ok with you?? You have a very odd set of morals...