Not really. Why would they go for the U.S. first? Regardless of who you are, it's easier to conquer your neighbors before trying to cross a rather large ocean.
Well, I'm pretty sure I can, cause I worked my way through college working for a residential electrician, and I've done quite a bit of work on my house. But one of my relatives managed to sprain his ankle trying to pull cable through his attic to set up a home network. The point is that the GP said it was trivial for anyone who wasn't disabled... and that's patently untrue.
The profits from the visa auctions could be used to retrain/pay unemployment for the workers getting replaced. Just like the 'lotteries paying for school' thing all those states do. And we know they'd never, ever raid that cash for other stuff... right?
So the church acknowledges that people come from sex ?
The Church acknowledges the human body comes from sex, evolution, monkeys, tiny shrew-like things, some ugly lizards, frogs, fish, and eventually bacteria. The physical sciences are generally quite well accepted amongst the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
I don't know why the WTO was founded. I don't care. No real American would care; and I might argue that no real patriot anywhere should care. Don't get me wrong, I've got no problem with the US signing and honoring treaties with individual nations; but this business of having sweeping international agreements and organizations to govern the way we behave is contrary to the whole concept of the US
This is just... goofy. You admit to not understanding the purpose of something, and then spout off about it being contrary to the concept of a nation?
Seriously, this is the internet - you can find at least basic information on almost anything with a minimum of effort. The whole point of the WTO is to have a negotiating forum for international trade, and a place to bring disputes when one nation isn't living up to its agreements. Don't see how you get monolithic-one-world-government from that.
Tiny nation states like Antigua have always been the kinds of places where people from other nation-states go to get away from laws they don't like. Only difference now is that Emily Post, in the form of the WTO, is telling us that it's not polite.
No, actually... what the WTO is saying is that if you have a free-trade agreement, you can't try to end-run around it without it not really being free trade anymore.
This is a law on U.S. banking, not internation gambling. All you idiot can grumble now, but the WTO has no authority on U.S. banking regulation.
So you can't make a proper plural, or spell international, but we're the idiots?
You're right, the law is actually banning the money transfer, not the gambling itself. But if you look at the phrase "de facto" in the article & the summary, and understand what that means in this context...
It's okay, I'll wait for you to go look it up...
Oh, so in this context, it means a law against a specific thing that is effectively making something else illegal as well? Oh, wait, and that would be a protectionist measure, contrary to the free-trade agreements the US & Antigua have?
If you're talking about most places in the US, then, no, they don't. Not hard liquor, anyway - you can make your own beer & wine, (up to 100 gallons a year) tax-free... but you need a permit to run a distillery.
However, the AI does have the advantage of being able to accurately micromanage every planet every turn to produce the best combination of production, research, and cashflow.
Considering most Civtypes operate on a fairly simply set of rules, this isn't, really, all that complex.
The only thing stopping a human with a reasonable amount of experience in the game from doing this same thing is the time involved. If you actually went through each planet/city/whatever, every turn, and took the time to min/max it, by the game mid-point you'd be spending a decent work-week per game turn.
but sometimes you'll be in a room with no enemies and than the next second there's 4 elites firing at you. I've noticed this in almost every FPS I've ever played.
It's not just FPS, it's... well, almost every category of game has something like this, at some point. It's pretty much going to happen whenever you have a story line to follow. True, in some games, you can affect what spawns, and sometime there's some degree of randomness... but that doesn't have anything to do with AI. It's just the people in charge of the story wanting you to think you've won, and suddenly get attacked by a superior force, for instance.
Don't get me wrong, I love Oblivion. (In fact, I'm just taking a break from Shivering Isles right now.) But there's plenty of problems with the AI. Two things come to mind - (both pathfinding related) -
1.) Jumping (or lack thereof) There's plenty of spots you can only reach by jumping, but the monsters won't ever follow you there... even ones without any ranged attack. They'll just hang out and let you plink away at them.
2.)Traps. I like the fact that so many of the dungeons have traps. But there's plenty of spots where the mobs don't seem to remember where they set them, and they'll set off the traps themselves. Amusing, but not very realistic.
Although I did like the riot at the pub. Had a similair instance... shortly after finishing the main questline (so everybody loves you) I stole something out of one of the stores. The shopkeeper calls out thief, the guards come, I resist arrest... and the shopkeeper comes to my defense when the guards start attacking. I run outside, cast invisible... and watch the entire town of Cheydinhal going up against the guards.
Lets encourage most of the industrialized world to go to war with each other again and destroy most of what they have again so they have to buy from good 'ol USA again.
Car companies are far more likely to decide simply to not sell cars in CT than CA.
Many car companies might, this is true. But I'd be willing to bet that some car companies would make it an option, albiet an expensive one.
So CA gets to decide what level is correct, and all the other states have to go along for the ride.
As other posters have pointed out, there are cars sold that don't meet the CA standard. There's packages of solder that don't contain the "This product blah blah state of California blah blah" label. The point is, CA is deciding what's best for it, not for anyone else. It's not their fault if many large companies go along for the ride.
I don't see this being a problem with California, per se. I'd say it was more a problem of large corporations. Economy of scale is a great thing. But when a company reaches the 'counting drops of solder to close the barrel' stage, a lot of individual choice type options might vanish.
And, wait... are you complaining that your car has stricter emissions standards? I'm certainly not, living in the second-most smog infested state in the US. If it weren't for CA emissions being standard on so many vehicles sold outside that state, it might be even worse here...
One principal of a democracy is that everyone can verify the counting of votes.
Umm... this is a new one to me. I mean, it sounds like a good idea, and all... but then again, if we're using the old punch-card type of voting machines, being able to verify them requires being able to read them, which many people can't do anyway. Besides the fact that in a typical presidential election, there's, what, nearly a hundred million votes cast? It's physically impossible for a single person to check that many ballots in a reasonable amount of time.
Now unless you teach everyone how to program I don't see how you can preserve this principal.
Why is that a bad idea? Since more & more of our lives depend on computers, giving everyone at least a basic knowledge of how they actually function seems like an excellent idea.
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I thought we (The US) doesn't use breeder reactors because they can be used to create weapons grade uranium/plutonium(?), and as a result were permenantly banned by president Regan. Since loosening nuclear power laws is political suicide, nobody's tried reversing that decision in 20 years.
It wasn't actually a law, and it wasn't Reagan... I think it was actually Carter, but I'm not sure. Here's a relevant article about some consideration by the current administration to change said rules, allowing the reprocessing.
a.)Manufacturer telling retailer "You must sign a contract to sell at this price, and if you sell below that afterwards, we sue you" is illegal.
b.)Manufacturer telling retailer, "You can't advertise at cheaper than this price, or we won't sell to you anymore" is legal. According to the ACSBlog people, the net effect of the case in point would be to make both legal.
I am sure there are docs and press releases from google inc that search results from google are machine-only, that can be seen as a pledge that they don't mess with them.
These facts are about as related as the color of my car & its make & model. (As in, they're kinda related, but no, not really.)
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I think he's talking about the inconvience of having to email everyone you know & tell them that you've got a new email address.
Not really. Why would they go for the U.S. first? Regardless of who you are, it's easier to conquer your neighbors before trying to cross a rather large ocean.
Well, I'm pretty sure I can, cause I worked my way through college working for a residential electrician, and I've done quite a bit of work on my house. But one of my relatives managed to sprain his ankle trying to pull cable through his attic to set up a home network. The point is that the GP said it was trivial for anyone who wasn't disabled... and that's patently untrue.
The profits from the visa auctions could be used to retrain/pay unemployment for the workers getting replaced. Just like the 'lotteries paying for school' thing all those states do. And we know they'd never, ever raid that cash for other stuff... right?
The fact that there's more "funny" than "insightful" mods on this comment worries me.
Did ya ever notice how any time somebody uses this line, the 'sorry' is purely formal, and not actually meant?
The Church acknowledges the human body comes from sex, evolution, monkeys, tiny shrew-like things, some ugly lizards, frogs, fish, and eventually bacteria. The physical sciences are generally quite well accepted amongst the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
This is just... goofy. You admit to not understanding the purpose of something, and then spout off about it being contrary to the concept of a nation?
Seriously, this is the internet - you can find at least basic information on almost anything with a minimum of effort. The whole point of the WTO is to have a negotiating forum for international trade, and a place to bring disputes when one nation isn't living up to its agreements. Don't see how you get monolithic-one-world-government from that.
No, actually... what the WTO is saying is that if you have a free-trade agreement, you can't try to end-run around it without it not really being free trade anymore.
So you can't make a proper plural, or spell international, but we're the idiots?
You're right, the law is actually banning the money transfer, not the gambling itself. But if you look at the phrase "de facto" in the article & the summary, and understand what that means in this context...
It's okay, I'll wait for you to go look it up...
Oh, so in this context, it means a law against a specific thing that is effectively making something else illegal as well? Oh, wait, and that would be a protectionist measure, contrary to the free-trade agreements the US & Antigua have?
If you're talking about most places in the US, then, no, they don't. Not hard liquor, anyway - you can make your own beer & wine, (up to 100 gallons a year) tax-free... but you need a permit to run a distillery.
So you're one of the guys who makes the PHP code that looks like somebody was just caressing the keyboard...
Considering most Civtypes operate on a fairly simply set of rules, this isn't, really, all that complex.
The only thing stopping a human with a reasonable amount of experience in the game from doing this same thing is the time involved. If you actually went through each planet/city/whatever, every turn, and took the time to min/max it, by the game mid-point you'd be spending a decent work-week per game turn.
It's not just FPS, it's... well, almost every category of game has something like this, at some point. It's pretty much going to happen whenever you have a story line to follow. True, in some games, you can affect what spawns, and sometime there's some degree of randomness... but that doesn't have anything to do with AI. It's just the people in charge of the story wanting you to think you've won, and suddenly get attacked by a superior force, for instance.
1.) Jumping (or lack thereof) There's plenty of spots you can only reach by jumping, but the monsters won't ever follow you there... even ones without any ranged attack. They'll just hang out and let you plink away at them.
2.)Traps. I like the fact that so many of the dungeons have traps. But there's plenty of spots where the mobs don't seem to remember where they set them, and they'll set off the traps themselves. Amusing, but not very realistic.
Although I did like the riot at the pub. Had a similair instance... shortly after finishing the main questline (so everybody loves you) I stole something out of one of the stores. The shopkeeper calls out thief, the guards come, I resist arrest... and the shopkeeper comes to my defense when the guards start attacking. I run outside, cast invisible... and watch the entire town of Cheydinhal going up against the guards.
blah blah something about video games being worse the movies/books/etc because they're 'immersive' blah blah blah
You, sir, are a master of the obvious.
Many car companies might, this is true. But I'd be willing to bet that some car companies would make it an option, albiet an expensive one.
As other posters have pointed out, there are cars sold that don't meet the CA standard. There's packages of solder that don't contain the "This product blah blah state of California blah blah" label. The point is, CA is deciding what's best for it, not for anyone else. It's not their fault if many large companies go along for the ride.
And, wait... are you complaining that your car has stricter emissions standards? I'm certainly not, living in the second-most smog infested state in the US. If it weren't for CA emissions being standard on so many vehicles sold outside that state, it might be even worse here...
Umm... this is a new one to me. I mean, it sounds like a good idea, and all... but then again, if we're using the old punch-card type of voting machines, being able to verify them requires being able to read them, which many people can't do anyway. Besides the fact that in a typical presidential election, there's, what, nearly a hundred million votes cast? It's physically impossible for a single person to check that many ballots in a reasonable amount of time.
Why is that a bad idea? Since more & more of our lives depend on computers, giving everyone at least a basic knowledge of how they actually function seems like an excellent idea.
It wasn't actually a law, and it wasn't Reagan... I think it was actually Carter, but I'm not sure. Here's a relevant article about some consideration by the current administration to change said rules, allowing the reprocessing.
a.)Manufacturer telling retailer "You must sign a contract to sell at this price, and if you sell below that afterwards, we sue you" is illegal.
b.)Manufacturer telling retailer, "You can't advertise at cheaper than this price, or we won't sell to you anymore" is legal. According to the ACSBlog people, the net effect of the case in point would be to make both legal.
These facts are about as related as the color of my car & its make & model. (As in, they're kinda related, but no, not really.)