This line of reasoning is rather dangerous as it tries to substitute content
The taxpayers weren't paying for clean air, or water or whatever hurrah words you can string in (compare religious right asking whether you are against the family and patriotism when you oppose them), they were paying for a technology firm which didn't deliver.
Now, i am not opposed to government subsidies at all (in fact i think it should have a much greater role in research and development these days) but not everything with the label "green" or "solar" or whatever tacked onto it should be thrown money at. Promising ways of getting the energy we need without fossil/ other rare fuels seem at the moment to be a) nuclear power (breeders and thorium cycle mainly)
b) superconductor wires allowing building of mass solar power in luminous uninhabitable areas due to improving HVDC transfer efficiency , but that's further on
Silly thing like wind plants and photoelectric cells in small scale produce remarkably little power (in the case of wind, not even reliably) and are just a kind of banner solution - it's the sort of Flintstones family like thing where there is a superficially plausible mechanism , just that it wouldn't work with the numbers in (like, the Flintstones had a stone age shop, work at quarrry and other modern life elements which were scaled back to ancient technology - it's just when you look at how much effort does feeding a family in such conditions take that you see that very much most people in a human group had to be occupied by getting food)
In other words, this failure should remind us that green tech shouldn't have any special status in actually trying to claim government money - it should be double-checked that what whoever is promising he seems likely to deliver
After all, the money would have benefitted society more had it gone towards the governement 's medical program, or public education.
In one case, someone recording the police (who are public office and should as such reasonably expect no secrecy while in public) is wiretapping, but someone who rents a laptop and is recorded without his consent isn't?
I see, if i'll ever rent a laptop i'll print out goatse and slap it in app. distance from the camera.
Really?
For one, it wasn't him but the people who *didn't* believe in nonviolence and who he was containing barely calmed that were why the british backed off. It saved lives, sure,but only was able to do so because of the implicit threat of violence that was behind it.
And not being evil... the man was a fan of german fascists, and as such i don't like him at all. India has many more revolutionary heroes of far better character
Although the army did have explicit order not to harm civillians back then.
Interestingly , the whole overblowing of the Tianamen square events has only recently been exposed by wikileaks
As an aside, passive resistance has never accomplished much. Worker's movement didn't achieve 8 hour working time by bending down their heads and politely voicing discontent, for example - they did so by a series of massive strikes.
I expect you are going to come up with Gandhi, but even he didn't.. the British preferred not to confront him because they realised he was the last barrier holding much more radically minded people at bay, and if he's removed, there will be an open, violent revolution. A threat of force is often more effective than the force itself after all.
When you say "A" say "B" as well. Rebekah Brooks was released on bail IIRC, besides, interestingly , the whistleblower of the whole mess was very conveniently found dead.
If you expect the guy who has been put on handcuffs will be released in a few hours, then smacking him is totally understandable
Apropos, they released the corporate emails. If we are to go by the philosophy the american government is trying to push in the last decade at least, if they are otherwise honest and innocent, not much bad will happen to them out of that, right?
What you have stated above is the philosophy of the coward (perhaps an anonymous one like yourself?) and the slave - yielding to evil without resistance and considering it a virtue. A world that is blind is still better than a world where only the wrongdoers keep their eyes, after all. As a wise man has said,
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
ATI proprietary driver for linux, at least the Radeon 5x mobile whatever that is in laptops is utter FAIL.
Yeah, it has nice fast performance of glxgears, but that's about it. All the games i have played with an NVIDIA card under WINE, like World of Tanks, and Starcraft II... they become either unplayable due to texture corruption, or outright crash when executing. The second it was a hell to install simply due to failure to render the fancy installation graphics. Well, that'd have been somewhat bearable, only non-native apps... but , MapTool , the program i use for DnD sessions... nothing fancy , just a map with a bunch of simple.png objects, a chat window that can roll dice... with the ATI Catalyst driver , once the map got bigger, it didn't bother to redraw screen in places, leading to new messages in chat being hard to notice without constantly messing with the window and corruption of graphics elsewhere...
The opensource one for this series was slow as hell, (tenth of performance) and somewhat buggy too, but at least the above program worked.
We already have such an I.D. device - it's called a National ID card.
If the police stops you and you aren't carrying one, it's fully within their right to ask you to go along to the station and get identified there plus whatever bacground checks needed.
Spotting got fixed just about when the game came out, yeah.
As for russian tanks being better, i call BS Yes, i do play russian only most of the time, but it depends on playing style a lot. The guy who first got me into the game can't say a bad word about PzkpfwIV, and apparently eats KV's for lunch with it - the 75L/70 fires a LOT more often than a 107mm, and you are far more mobile.
On the other hand, i ate PzIV's for lunch with the 122mm as well... once again, the real difference there is that germans get a heavy tank one tier later, and you are comparing them as if both were heavies.
If i were to bring up stuff like this.. lower tier german tanks are head and shoulders better than lower tier soviet ones.. maybe except T-28 when it gets the 85mm gun, but even then it's a glass cannon
T1..That one i'd say is bad *nods*.
T29 is extremely strong tank... unless you hit low sides or back , don';t even dream of killing one. If you were to complain at something , Tigers would be a lot better grave to cry on as KV-3 can grind them up, and so can IS.
As for TD's, i never played those a lot, but from my practice i seem to be killing both german and soviet (or getting killed by them) about equally often. A lot of what you says goes away when you think that a SU-85 has more-less the same guns as a KV, but it lacks armour or a turret.
And the abominable failure a SU-5 SPG is - actually being worse than its predecessor in series... compare that with what germans get.
In fact,this is all somewhat realistic.. Soviets had barely any selfpropelled artillery, but some of the best tanks (IRL, KV and T-34)
Oh, and american TD's came out in last patch.. some of them have a turret even. They have great guns but are total paper it seems.
I was playing that game since closed beta and it's perfectly well playable without spending a dime.
Sure, those who pay will be able to use slightly better premium ammo, but that's not a gamebreaker. Sure, they'll be able to support higher tier tanks without having to use tier 5 as a money maker all the time due to premium (FYI, that's the real value of a premium account - the double money makes tanks self-sustained up to tier 7,at least for a not too skilled but not a n00b like i was in the beta (back then we'd get some free gold) ) Sure they can get crew skills to 100 % straight off Sure, they can platoon up with friends (the only thing that pisses me off, but then, WoT staff said they are going to put in free platooning in an update soon).
But guess what. asides from the last bit, (and that'll get fixed) i feel none of that is crippling trouble as a person who plays for free. I don't mind playing my KV and KV-3 more often than higher tier tanks, and the other advantages aren't that huge. Better ammo? Hell, i've killed people who had a better *tank*. Sure, it is an edge, but looking at how tank tiers mix in every game, it's the least of your worries as a free player. And premium tanks themselves aren't that great compared to same tier tanks fully upgraded (in some cases, outright worse) - they are mainly money makers. In this way you can go through every paid advantage and see that in the end it doesn't amount to all that much.
tl;dr version: WoT does it right because unlike MMORPGs it relies a lot more on player skill, unlike FPS, the playing field is nothing close to level even without paid items, and there's little you can't do with free access.
. IMO the mandate would include a direct attack on Gaddafi as well since he has proven himself to pose quite a threat to the civilian population.
I bet this comes from the same idea dump as that drone-bombing isn't an act of war, just a support role,and as such there's no need for a congress mandate.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html
And messing up Libya? Libya was up to now one of the more prosperous African countries, with a semi-decent standard of living, even compared to places like south african republic. It also has a large amount of gold, and also wasn't particularly happy about selling oil to the americans. This , as usual is just another instance of installing a government that is at least for now supposed to have deep ties to CIA and as such will bow to US whims.
As for the elections... that points a flaw in so-called "democracy" in the USA, and definitely isn't an argument for the insurgents. You might as well be telling that being fat is healthy since a large amount of americans is obese.
And aiding a bunch of filthy "rebels" , which are a minority and quite the chunk of them are religious fanatics on par with those in pakistan and afghanistan.
Besides, tell me, how is bombarding Tripolis in the OSN mandate which was to prevent civillian losses?
they should pay the guy compensation - they fucked up, he found it and prevented it from being lost. But instead of owning up, they try to hide their messup by making him look bad
If someone tried this shit on me, i'd probably make a cheap lookalike, and toss the real thing somewhere, or just straight out lose it, just to spite them.
If the guy was as profit oriented as you lot claim he'd have sold it to some private collector long ago anyways.
It's their message board.
In the same way an author of a software project can name it whatever he wants, and if people don't like it they are more than welcome to say so, and perhaps go work elsewhere
Yet another storm at the bottom of a chamberpot has emerged.
parodied here is pretty much only present in western science fiction. Eastern block (both COMECON countries and Jugoslavijan) science fiction rarely has technologically brought on disasters, unless it's by abuse of such technology , quite often intentionally.
Shows quite a difference in mindset, eh?
Stop hiding behind the "we" and state who really needs it - manufacturers and sellers of DAB, and assorted companies to carry out the conversion of emitter stations...
Even though some problems can be addressed, things like inherent high power consumption of digital devices and the fact that a digital signal doesn't degrade well (and having more error recover codes means you have to transmit more signal per second worsening the first problem) will stay here no matter what you use. (the last will probably force building more emitters... or doing it the US way of not giving a crap about those too far)
And why the fuck is "analog age coming to an end" ? I thought it's best to use whatever technology does the best job.. but then i have the outdated 20th century belief that technology should serve man and not the opposite.
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This line of reasoning is rather dangerous as it tries to substitute content
The taxpayers weren't paying for clean air, or water or whatever hurrah words you can string in (compare religious right asking whether you are against the family and patriotism when you oppose them), they were paying for a technology firm which didn't deliver.
Now, i am not opposed to government subsidies at all (in fact i think it should have a much greater role in research and development these days) but not everything with the label "green" or "solar" or whatever tacked onto it should be thrown money at.
Promising ways of getting the energy we need without fossil/ other rare fuels seem at the moment to be a) nuclear power (breeders and thorium cycle mainly) b) superconductor wires allowing building of mass solar power in luminous uninhabitable areas due to improving HVDC transfer efficiency , but that's further on
Silly thing like wind plants and photoelectric cells in small scale produce remarkably little power (in the case of wind, not even reliably) and are just a kind of banner solution - it's the sort of Flintstones family like thing where there is a superficially plausible mechanism , just that it wouldn't work with the numbers in (like, the Flintstones had a stone age shop, work at quarrry and other modern life elements which were scaled back to ancient technology - it's just when you look at how much effort does feeding a family in such conditions take that you see that very much most people in a human group had to be occupied by getting food)
In other words, this failure should remind us that green tech shouldn't have any special status in actually trying to claim government money - it should be double-checked that what whoever is promising he seems likely to deliver
After all, the money would have benefitted society more had it gone towards the governement 's medical program, or public education.
As opposed to oligohedral perhaps?
Is Google+ rendered redundant by Twitter?
In one case, someone recording the police (who are public office and should as such reasonably expect no secrecy while in public) is wiretapping, but someone who rents a laptop and is recorded without his consent isn't?
I see, if i'll ever rent a laptop i'll print out goatse and slap it in app. distance from the camera.
Really? For one, it wasn't him but the people who *didn't* believe in nonviolence and who he was containing barely calmed that were why the british backed off. It saved lives, sure ,but only was able to do so because of the implicit threat of violence that was behind it.
And not being evil... the man was a fan of german fascists, and as such i don't like him at all. India has many more revolutionary heroes of far better character
neither do the two quotes to which i replied. So it's kinda even >:3
Although the army did have explicit order not to harm civillians back then.
.. the British preferred not to confront him because they realised he was the last barrier holding much more radically minded people at bay, and if he's removed, there will be an open, violent revolution. A threat of force is often more effective than the force itself after all.
Interestingly , the whole overblowing of the Tianamen square events has only recently been exposed by wikileaks
As an aside, passive resistance has never accomplished much. Worker's movement didn't achieve 8 hour working time by bending down their heads and politely voicing discontent, for example - they did so by a series of massive strikes.
I expect you are going to come up with Gandhi, but even he didn't
When you say "A" say "B" as well. Rebekah Brooks was released on bail IIRC, besides, interestingly , the whistleblower of the whole mess was very conveniently found dead.
If you expect the guy who has been put on handcuffs will be released in a few hours, then smacking him is totally understandable
Apropos, they released the corporate emails. If we are to go by the philosophy the american government is trying to push in the last decade at least, if they are otherwise honest and innocent, not much bad will happen to them out of that, right?
What you have stated above is the philosophy of the coward (perhaps an anonymous one like yourself?) and the slave - yielding to evil without resistance and considering it a virtue.
A world that is blind is still better than a world where only the wrongdoers keep their eyes, after all.
As a wise man has said, All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
ATI proprietary driver for linux, at least the Radeon 5x mobile whatever that is in laptops is utter FAIL.
.png objects, a chat window that can roll dice... with the ATI Catalyst driver , once the map got bigger, it didn't bother to redraw screen in places, leading to new messages in chat being hard to notice without constantly messing with the window and corruption of graphics elsewhere...
Yeah, it has nice fast performance of glxgears, but that's about it. All the games i have played with an NVIDIA card under WINE, like World of Tanks, and Starcraft II... they become either unplayable due to texture corruption, or outright crash when executing.
The second it was a hell to install simply due to failure to render the fancy installation graphics.
Well, that'd have been somewhat bearable, only non-native apps... but , MapTool , the program i use for DnD sessions... nothing fancy , just a map with a bunch of simple
The opensource one for this series was slow as hell, (tenth of performance) and somewhat buggy too, but at least the above program worked.
Yeah, we are the new vampires. Scary, intelligent and hungry.
And we don't even sparkle.
We already have such an I.D. device - it's called a National ID card.
If the police stops you and you aren't carrying one, it's fully within their right to ask you to go along to the station and get identified there plus whatever bacground checks needed.
Komarin wasn't so bad, and isn't even now... Malinovka, El Halluf and to some extent Murovanka (forest) are the most campy maps.
Spotting got fixed just about when the game came out, yeah.
,this is all somewhat realistic.. Soviets had barely any selfpropelled artillery, but some of the best tanks (IRL, KV and T-34)
As for russian tanks being better, i call BS
Yes, i do play russian only most of the time, but it depends on playing style a lot. The guy who first got me into the game can't say a bad word about PzkpfwIV, and apparently eats KV's for lunch with it - the 75L/70 fires a LOT more often than a 107mm, and you are far more mobile.
On the other hand, i ate PzIV's for lunch with the 122mm as well... once again, the real difference there is that germans get a heavy tank one tier later, and you are comparing them as if both were heavies.
If i were to bring up stuff like this.. lower tier german tanks are head and shoulders better than lower tier soviet ones.. maybe except T-28 when it gets the 85mm gun, but even then it's a glass cannon
T1..That one i'd say is bad *nods*.
T29 is extremely strong tank... unless you hit low sides or back , don';t even dream of killing one. If you were to complain at something , Tigers would be a lot better grave to cry on as KV-3 can grind them up, and so can IS.
As for TD's, i never played those a lot, but from my practice i seem to be killing both german and soviet (or getting killed by them) about equally often. A lot of what you says goes away when you think that a SU-85 has more-less the same guns as a KV, but it lacks armour or a turret.
And the abominable failure a SU-5 SPG is - actually being worse than its predecessor in series... compare that with what germans get.
In fact
Oh, and american TD's came out in last patch.. some of them have a turret even. They have great guns but are total paper it seems.
I was playing that game since closed beta and it's perfectly well playable without spending a dime.
Sure, those who pay will be able to use slightly better premium ammo, but that's not a gamebreaker.
Sure, they'll be able to support higher tier tanks without having to use tier 5 as a money maker all the time due to premium (FYI, that's the real value of a premium account - the double money makes tanks self-sustained up to tier 7,at least for a not too skilled but not a n00b like i was in the beta (back then we'd get some free gold) )
Sure they can get crew skills to 100 % straight off
Sure, they can platoon up with friends (the only thing that pisses me off, but then, WoT staff said they are going to put in free platooning in an update soon).
But guess what. asides from the last bit, (and that'll get fixed) i feel none of that is crippling trouble as a person who plays for free. I don't mind playing my KV and KV-3 more often than higher tier tanks, and the other advantages aren't that huge. Better ammo? Hell, i've killed people who had a better *tank*. Sure, it is an edge, but looking at how tank tiers mix in every game, it's the least of your worries as a free player. And premium tanks themselves aren't that great compared to same tier tanks fully upgraded (in some cases, outright worse) - they are mainly money makers.
In this way you can go through every paid advantage and see that in the end it doesn't amount to all that much.
tl;dr version: WoT does it right because unlike MMORPGs it relies a lot more on player skill, unlike FPS, the playing field is nothing close to level even without paid items, and there's little you can't do with free access.
. IMO the mandate would include a direct attack on Gaddafi as well since he has proven himself to pose quite a threat to the civilian population. I bet this comes from the same idea dump as that drone-bombing isn't an act of war, just a support role ,and as such there's no need for a congress mandate.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html
And messing up Libya? Libya was up to now one of the more prosperous African countries, with a semi-decent standard of living, even compared to places like south african republic. It also has a large amount of gold, and also wasn't particularly happy about selling oil to the americans. This , as usual is just another instance of installing a government that is at least for now supposed to have deep ties to CIA and as such will bow to US whims.
As for the elections... that points a flaw in so-called "democracy" in the USA, and definitely isn't an argument for the insurgents. You might as well be telling that being fat is healthy since a large amount of americans is obese.
And aiding a bunch of filthy "rebels" , which are a minority and quite the chunk of them are religious fanatics on par with those in pakistan and afghanistan.
Besides, tell me, how is bombarding Tripolis in the OSN mandate which was to prevent civillian losses?
And messing up Libya. I wonder what that tells about them.
they should pay the guy compensation - they fucked up, he found it and prevented it from being lost. But instead of owning up, they try to hide their messup by making him look bad
If someone tried this shit on me, i'd probably make a cheap lookalike, and toss the real thing somewhere, or just straight out lose it, just to spite them.
If the guy was as profit oriented as you lot claim he'd have sold it to some private collector long ago anyways.
It's their message board.
In the same way an author of a software project can name it whatever he wants, and if people don't like it they are more than welcome to say so, and perhaps go work elsewhere
Yet another storm at the bottom of a chamberpot has emerged.
Sure, if they punched me in a way that didn't interact with me physically. (because the action this was named after involves no contact either)
parodied here is pretty much only present in western science fiction. Eastern block (both COMECON countries and Jugoslavijan) science fiction rarely has technologically brought on disasters, unless it's by abuse of such technology , quite often intentionally. Shows quite a difference in mindset, eh?
GIMP is pretty awesome program actually, and i know a few webcomics made in it.
Stop hiding behind the "we" and state who really needs it - manufacturers and sellers of DAB, and assorted companies to carry out the conversion of emitter stations...
Even though some problems can be addressed, things like inherent high power consumption of digital devices and the fact that a digital signal doesn't degrade well (and having more error recover codes means you have to transmit more signal per second worsening the first problem) will stay here no matter what you use. (the last will probably force building more emitters... or doing it the US way of not giving a crap about those too far)
And why the fuck is "analog age coming to an end" ? I thought it's best to use whatever technology does the best job.. but then i have the outdated 20th century belief that technology should serve man and not the opposite.