Well, you are right that HOI / Victoria don't capture the atrocities of the wars of those periods very well, however that was deliberate on the part of the developers for their reasons. However, I would like to point out that the Nanking Massacare was included in HOI, which does acknowledge the Japanese role in said atrocity.
It's most certainly not bad for Paradox; it's a small company whose major market share is definately not China. If anything, this is great for them just for the free press, as you pointed out. As for conspiracy, well, those Swedes are tricky you know.:)
I highly recommend their games if you like Grand Strategy: Europa Universalis I & II, Hearts of Iron, Victoria, Crusader Kings...all works of beauty (and complex)!:)
"..Even as a small child when 8-bit micros had speech synthesizers, I wondered why, in the technologically advanced Star Wars society that damned robot couldn't speak in a human (or whatever) language. Look at C3PO. 3 million languages?..."
I'm pretty sure it was a marketing gimmic in the Star Wars universe. I can just imagine a droid salesman on Courscant:
"Sure, you can buy this astromech droid for a few hundred credits, a great droid! Highly recommended. Unfortunately you'll never know what he's saying, we just don't have that kind of technology to allow him speak Basic [cough]. However, if you buy the full protocal droid/astromech droid package for only a few thousand credits more, you'll experience what it's like to be a true droid-owning citizen. So what's it going to take to hook you up with these droids today?"
Everything you ever wanted to know about psychoactive agents is there. As for DMT, there are no negative phsyical side effects: no addiction possibility, you can't lethally overdose (it would take an insane amount injected all at once). Mentally, one should be prepared for a DMT trip. Definately not a party drug. People with a family history of scizophrenia or other mental illness should exercise caution. What I find most interesting about DMT, and other tryptamines, is how similar its chemical structure is to the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is in many ways the sine qua non of the brain. Interesting stuff.
In mathematics, nothing is ever considered proven until it can be shown that it is true (or false) for the entire system that it deals with. In this case, the Reimann Hypothesis can not be considered mathematically proven until it is shown to be true for all prime numbers. And since there are an infinite number of primes, proof by experimental evidence won't cut it.
Now physics, on the other hand, and the other physical sciences, you could get away with proof by experimental evidence. But mathematicians are a strange breed, haha.
Pah, this isn't news; these pictures and videos of the wedding have been available on the streets of Shanghai for two weeks now! ; D But in all seriousness, congratulations and happiness to the lucky couple!
"...Batman knows what's coming and has prepared for the inevitable. He's got himself a nifty exoskeleton with a pocketful of kryptonite..."
Holy shit, if I were Superman I'd be scared of "A Pocket Full of Krpytonite" too! What a terrible album! Kudos to Batman for thinking all of this through; I never would have guessed he was a Spin Doctors fan.
p.s. I heard rumours that Batman also had a New Kids on the Block album on standby just in case.
"...For instance, some [entertainment companies] have hired companies to distribute "decoy" files labeled with the names of movies or songs. The idea is to frustrate illicit downloaders with dummy files that don't work...."
This got me thinking; why should it stop with dummy files? Wouldn't the best way to put a P2P system out of commission is to attack the components of such a system directly, namely the individual computers and files therein? And one good way I can think of for doing that is virii; put enough mock executables online loaded with a destructive strain (or maybe even find a way to distribute a virus through the.mp3 format), and take out a sizeable part of the community. Just another way to instill fear. I'm sure there are flaws in this I haven't thought of, and maybe the RIAA wouldn't have the balls to attempt something like this, but then again, you never know. The ends justifies the means, right? That seems to be the party line of the RIAA. And a lot of other groups in history that I am not mentioning here.
Excellent. Now if they'll just cancel the Simpsons (which actually should have cancelled before futurama), I can be truly happy. I know no one else will be, but hey, it's hard to please everyone. Besides, if they cancel the simpsons, there will then be absolutely no reason for FOX to exist! Isn't that enough happiness for everyone?
"...Instead, I just sit in front of a monitor, pretending to work while I read Slashdot...."
ha, i'm doing the same thing right now, often do. in fact, i have a sneaking suspicion that most people who work in such an office environment do the same thing...how does anything ever get done?
the obvious answer is that, it doesn't.
maybe it's time for a new job, or maybe no job at all. there's only so much slashdot in a day i can read. haha.
I know there's a cid in FF2/4, and again he's the airship/engineer type, the "scotty" of FF. I don't think there's a cid in FF1 however, since the only characters you get in that game are the four you start out with, though it's been a LONG time and i could be wrong.
Man, I don't know why they keep doing this; this will be 3 RTS Dune games now that are exactly the same. Have you looked at the previews for the units for each side? Turrets, the Harkonnen Devastator tank, the Atredies sonic weapons (which were not in the books, only in the Lynch movie, and frankly beginning to get irritated with that); it all sounds pretty familiar. And the houses? Atreides, Harkonnen, and ORDOS (which, again, was not in the books). The very same as the last two games. Why not more houses? Different units? Maybe some variation on this overplayed theme that isn't exciting or interesting anymore. And I don't know about the "plot" of the new game, if there is one, but I hope that at least will somewhat vary from the previous games.
Hopefully I'm proved wrong though; despite the above, there is nothing I would love more than a really cool dune game (besides the first which, yes, was pretty cool).
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Well, you are right that HOI / Victoria don't capture the atrocities of the wars of those periods very well, however that was deliberate on the part of the developers for their reasons. However, I would like to point out that the Nanking Massacare was included in HOI, which does acknowledge the Japanese role in said atrocity.
It's most certainly not bad for Paradox; it's a small company whose major market share is definately not China. If anything, this is great for them just for the free press, as you pointed out. As for conspiracy, well, those Swedes are tricky you know. :)
:)
I highly recommend their games if you like Grand Strategy: Europa Universalis I & II, Hearts of Iron, Victoria, Crusader Kings...all works of beauty (and complex)!
So let's ponder this for a moment:
College professors earn tens of thousands of dollars per year as their salary.
College students pay tens of thousands of dollars per year as their draconian penance for learning.
Seems to me the person paying should have access to reviews of the product being purchased (forgive the crude analogy).
"The real reason they want to keep people out of there, is The Mountains of Madness, of course."
Are those like the Cliffs of Insanity?
Whoops, you're quite right regarding the name; it's been a while since I've played, unfortunately. :)
Sounds like a democratic version of Flux; personally I like Flux for its totalitarian implications.
"..Even as a small child when 8-bit micros had speech synthesizers, I wondered why, in the technologically advanced Star Wars society that damned robot couldn't speak in a human (or whatever) language. Look at C3PO. 3 million languages?..."
I'm pretty sure it was a marketing gimmic in the Star Wars universe. I can just imagine a droid salesman on Courscant:
"Sure, you can buy this astromech droid for a few hundred credits, a great droid! Highly recommended. Unfortunately you'll never know what he's saying, we just don't have that kind of technology to allow him speak Basic [cough]. However, if you buy the full protocal droid/astromech droid package for only a few thousand credits more, you'll experience what it's like to be a true droid-owning citizen. So what's it going to take to hook you up with these droids today?"
Everything you ever wanted to know about psychoactive agents is there. As for DMT, there are no negative phsyical side effects: no addiction possibility, you can't lethally overdose (it would take an insane amount injected all at once). Mentally, one should be prepared for a DMT trip. Definately not a party drug. People with a family history of scizophrenia or other mental illness should exercise caution. What I find most interesting about DMT, and other tryptamines, is how similar its chemical structure is to the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is in many ways the sine qua non of the brain. Interesting stuff.
Pry open that thrid eye!
Now physics, on the other hand, and the other physical sciences, you could get away with proof by experimental evidence. But mathematicians are a strange breed, haha.
I used to own that computer. Always wondered what happened to it. Curse you, Commander Taco!
I wish I had points to mod you up; I'm no physicist, but that seems an intersting idea!
Holy shit, if I were Superman I'd be scared of "A Pocket Full of Krpytonite" too! What a terrible album! Kudos to Batman for thinking all of this through; I never would have guessed he was a Spin Doctors fan.
p.s. I heard rumours that Batman also had a New Kids on the Block album on standby just in case.
This got me thinking; why should it stop with dummy files? Wouldn't the best way to put a P2P system out of commission is to attack the components of such a system directly, namely the individual computers and files therein? And one good way I can think of for doing that is virii; put enough mock executables online loaded with a destructive strain (or maybe even find a way to distribute a virus through the
I think we all know what Crow thinks:
"I want to decide who lives and dies!"
I think a poll of this nature would be unrevealing. But I've been wrong before.
ha, i'm doing the same thing right now, often do. in fact, i have a sneaking suspicion that most people who work in such an office environment do the same thing...how does anything ever get done?
the obvious answer is that, it doesn't.
maybe it's time for a new job, or maybe no job at all. there's only so much slashdot in a day i can read. haha.
How about contraception?
I know there's a cid in FF2/4, and again he's the airship/engineer type, the "scotty" of FF. I don't think there's a cid in FF1 however, since the only characters you get in that game are the four you start out with, though it's been a LONG time and i could be wrong.
DRY LAND IS NOT A MYTH! I'VE SEEN IT! Kevin Costner, Waterworld; I don't know what all the fuss was about, I saw that movie seven times, it ruled!!