It's not a game for everyone. I play it casually, probably 3,4 times a week for an hour or so each time. It requires an active imagination and setting your own goals. Much like the Sims, you'll get quickly bored with it if you're looking for a lot of game play. Once you learn how to make the couple of items you need to survive, it's easy to reach a level of security where you're not worried about dying anymore(unless you get pushed into a pit of lava by a cow). The rest is all about invention & exploration. Personally I would welcome some more RPG elements to simply give me a reason to care about discovering more gold or iron. The game is what you make of it and I wish more games did that.
Wait, he works as a tax assessor for the government, and they call that "welfare"? Do we call corporate accountants "beggars" now too because they accept hand-outs from corporations for their whole life?
Yes, all government workers are beggars, because their salaries are paid from taxes. Rather than producing something of value that can be sold in the open market, they rely on forcibly robbing people of their hard earned money via taxes. Especially those pesky regulators.
It's the logical extreme of the current big business sponsored rhetoric.
The time it took him to write the book is a sunk cost and can only be compared against what other opportunity costs he might had incurred if had he chosen to spend his time doing something else. I didn't RTFA, but if this wasn't his primary income, then this is a good way to set up a passive income stream, aside from whatever marketing he needs to do. If he is good enough to write a passable book, then he should be working in the industry to pay his bills. There is something to be said for knowing you will bring home $X,XXX every week.
It certainly is a better use of time than sitting around pounding your pud to Christie Allie on DTWS and not getting paid. It also opens the door to other opportunities or a better selling next book.
Or you could buy a $50 graphics card that would blow away your onboard integrated graphics. I'm still happy with my Nvidia 8800 & 9800 cards, though I didn't buy them for $50 at the time. Fallout 3 runs fine on the 9800 and the 8800 is over kill for what I use it for, but it's nice to be able to support many open windows.
therefore, the only real emergency solutions i see, correct me if i am wrong, is either: 1. get some new backup generators there asap, or 2. run some emergency electrical lines to the power plant asap
Incidentally, this is what they are doing. But since power isn't restored just by clapping your hands, they're doing whatever they can to delay meltdowns and spread of radiation.
Has anyone tried clapping their hands? Maybe the backup generators have a clapper on them. or as known in Japan, a 'Crapper'
So are the reactors continuing to generate heat? or are those things just so hot that they are extremely difficult to cool without active cooling It seems any cooling done would produce a slow but steady lower temperature. Do they just not have enough time to let things cool down with the sea water that flashes into steam because the heat is damaging the containment vessel?
I keep thinking about it in terms of my water cooled computers if the pump broke. Sure there is water in the system, but if it doesn't move it gets hot quickly and doesn't cool, then one of the lines break. But can you turn off the computer? or does it matter?
Very similar story here. I missed 20-40 days each year, yet I kept good grades. My teachers and the administration were frustrated and angry with me because I ignored their rules, but at the end of the day I knew the material. Once I had a teacher that just couldn't stand things not being done their way and threatened to fail me for poor attendance. I walked out of the classroom, went straight to the principal and demanded to take the final right then. It was November, so we weren't even half way through the school year. After much arguing I was allowed to take the final and the Regents exam in December, which I aced. I didn't have to go to that class anymore for the rest of the year.
I've done very well, I've started several Internet companies and sold some of them. I own my own business now. I credit my success to all the free time I had to really learn while my peers were filling out dittos in class.
I feel very sorry for this next generation who are growing up prisoners in their schools and in their homes. Nobody is allowed to go out unattended anymore. Kids are taught to blindly follow stupid "zero tolerance" rules for the sake of following authority.We are training sheep. Where will our next generation of thinkers and leaders come from?
Just the idea that the school and police would have made me carry a GPS tracker like a criminal is infuriating me even now. I would have made it my mission in life to hack that thing to report me located in the Principal's bedroom whenever he's not at home.
Also a similar story, although I wish I could had taken finals early. I missed 28 days, 4 separate weeks, of excused absences in 6th grade. My teacher grumbled at me a lot about as if I were cheating the system and threatened to fail me if I missed anymore. I was far ahead in the class and blew through the work he assigned. As petty as it sounds I think he resented me. Each excused week of absence he assigned me a ton of work that no one else had to do and he never bothered to check it when I returned. The unintended lessons that taught me were numerous.
It's not about learning, it's about training kids to be profitable worker bees. High attendance rates in school train them to come to work on time every day. When company's can count on 100% attendance they can hire less employees because they don't have to worry about covering shifts.
Exactly. A large amount of effort is made to get the kid into the classroom. A much smaller effort goes into actually educating them.
That's stupid. 8pm is when high schoolers should be at a friend's house getting a blow job, lest they wind up like sexually defunct college kids that had their entire sexual maturation period suppressed until it was over, fixating them into a cycle of sexual discomfort.
You all know that guy. You knew him in college. You felt sorry for him 'cause he never got laid. Then you got him a girl and he damn near had a heart attack. Today he's an astrophysicist making $$$bazillions, but he still can't get comfortable in bed.
You all know the girls too. They're the "all sex is rape" femenists and the complete dorm sluts that finally lost their virginity their first day freshman year and fucked damn near everyone. They fall one way or the other eh?
Those are some serious issues you have there. Since we're in the mood for generalizations; you'll either mellow in time and perspective or become more bitter and fixed on how you were screwed over in life.
At the very least, it somehow cuts way down on the blowjobs you will receive from her. At least...my married friends tell me that.
My experience is the opposite. Married almost ten years now. I suppose I should show my appreciation for deviating from the norm and get her one of those chocolate diamond rings she asked for.
Most of the teachers I had were just doing their job, cycling yet another year of students through their class while collecting a pay check on their way to retirement. Not too different from the corporate environment I inhabit now. There were a few really good teachers and a couple of heavy duty slackers who no longer made any pretense of caring if we learned. Of course there were a special few who saw the class room as their private domain to reign over their students as the mighty overlords they imagined themselves to be. Yeah pretty close to my experiences of 20+ years of life after university.
So I guess 'bad teachers' do contribute, but seriously, this is a rationalization from someone trying to convince you to eat shit and smile about it because they can't change the system.
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It's not a game for everyone. I play it casually, probably 3,4 times a week for an hour or so each time. It requires an active imagination and setting your own goals. Much like the Sims, you'll get quickly bored with it if you're looking for a lot of game play. Once you learn how to make the couple of items you need to survive, it's easy to reach a level of security where you're not worried about dying anymore(unless you get pushed into a pit of lava by a cow). The rest is all about invention & exploration. Personally I would welcome some more RPG elements to simply give me a reason to care about discovering more gold or iron. The game is what you make of it and I wish more games did that.
Wait, he works as a tax assessor for the government, and they call that "welfare"? Do we call corporate accountants "beggars" now too because they accept hand-outs from corporations for their whole life?
Yes, all government workers are beggars, because their salaries are paid from taxes. Rather than producing something of value that can be sold in the open market, they rely on forcibly robbing people of their hard earned money via taxes. Especially those pesky regulators.
It's the logical extreme of the current big business sponsored rhetoric.
The time it took him to write the book is a sunk cost and can only be compared against what other opportunity costs he might had incurred if had he chosen to spend his time doing something else. I didn't RTFA, but if this wasn't his primary income, then this is a good way to set up a passive income stream, aside from whatever marketing he needs to do. If he is good enough to write a passable book, then he should be working in the industry to pay his bills. There is something to be said for knowing you will bring home $X,XXX every week.
It certainly is a better use of time than sitting around pounding your pud to Christie Allie on DTWS and not getting paid. It also opens the door to other opportunities or a better selling next book.
Or you could buy a $50 graphics card that would blow away your onboard integrated graphics.
I'm still happy with my Nvidia 8800 & 9800 cards, though I didn't buy them for $50 at the time.
Fallout 3 runs fine on the 9800 and the 8800 is over kill for what I use it for, but it's nice to be able to support many open windows.
Which is why he was so fucking cool.
"Sorry about the mess"
therefore, the only real emergency solutions i see, correct me if i am wrong, is either: 1. get some new backup generators there asap, or 2. run some emergency electrical lines to the power plant asap
Incidentally, this is what they are doing. But since power isn't restored just by clapping your hands, they're doing whatever they can to delay meltdowns and spread of radiation.
Has anyone tried clapping their hands? Maybe the backup generators have a clapper on them.
or as known in Japan, a 'Crapper'
So are the reactors continuing to generate heat? or are those things just so hot that they are extremely difficult to cool without active cooling It seems any cooling done would produce a slow but steady lower temperature. Do they just not have enough time to let things cool down with the sea water that flashes into steam because the heat is damaging the containment vessel?
I keep thinking about it in terms of my water cooled computers if the pump broke. Sure there is water in the system, but if it doesn't move it gets hot quickly and doesn't cool, then one of the lines break. But can you turn off the computer? or does it matter?
Very similar story here. I missed 20-40 days each year, yet I kept good grades. My teachers and the administration were frustrated and angry with me because I ignored their rules, but at the end of the day I knew the material. Once I had a teacher that just couldn't stand things not being done their way and threatened to fail me for poor attendance. I walked out of the classroom, went straight to the principal and demanded to take the final right then. It was November, so we weren't even half way through the school year. After much arguing I was allowed to take the final and the Regents exam in December, which I aced. I didn't have to go to that class anymore for the rest of the year.
I've done very well, I've started several Internet companies and sold some of them. I own my own business now. I credit my success to all the free time I had to really learn while my peers were filling out dittos in class.
I feel very sorry for this next generation who are growing up prisoners in their schools and in their homes. Nobody is allowed to go out unattended anymore. Kids are taught to blindly follow stupid "zero tolerance" rules for the sake of following authority.We are training sheep. Where will our next generation of thinkers and leaders come from?
Just the idea that the school and police would have made me carry a GPS tracker like a criminal is infuriating me even now. I would have made it my mission in life to hack that thing to report me located in the Principal's bedroom whenever he's not at home.
Also a similar story, although I wish I could had taken finals early. I missed 28 days, 4 separate weeks, of excused absences in 6th grade. My teacher grumbled at me a lot about as if I were cheating the system and threatened to fail me if I missed anymore. I was far ahead in the class and blew through the work he assigned. As petty as it sounds I think he resented me. Each excused week of absence he assigned me a ton of work that no one else had to do and he never bothered to check it when I returned. The unintended lessons that taught me were numerous.
It's not about learning, it's about training kids to be profitable worker bees. High attendance rates in school train them to come to work on time every day. When company's can count on 100% attendance they can hire less employees because they don't have to worry about covering shifts.
Exactly. A large amount of effort is made to get the kid into the classroom. A much smaller effort goes into actually educating them.
That's stupid. 8pm is when high schoolers should be at a friend's house getting a blow job, lest they wind up like sexually defunct college kids that had their entire sexual maturation period suppressed until it was over, fixating them into a cycle of sexual discomfort.
You all know that guy. You knew him in college. You felt sorry for him 'cause he never got laid. Then you got him a girl and he damn near had a heart attack. Today he's an astrophysicist making $$$bazillions, but he still can't get comfortable in bed.
You all know the girls too. They're the "all sex is rape" femenists and the complete dorm sluts that finally lost their virginity their first day freshman year and fucked damn near everyone. They fall one way or the other eh?
Those are some serious issues you have there.
Since we're in the mood for generalizations; you'll either mellow in time and perspective or become more bitter and fixed on how you were screwed over in life.
Deposit your nickel in the can please.
I googled "hacking" once. Now I am one!
Speaking from personal experience, fat girls "try harder". And I for one appreciate that.
So thanks for being such an asshole.
At the very least, it somehow cuts way down on the blowjobs you will receive from her. At least...my married friends tell me that.
My experience is the opposite. Married almost ten years now. I suppose I should show my appreciation for deviating from the norm and get her one of those chocolate diamond rings she asked for.
At least it got them out of those god awful woods and kicked the plot into motion.
even if it's from a squat 300 pound lady with a peg leg, a patch over one eye and a neatly trimmed beard? Oh who happens to be your boss's wife?
Stick it through a knot hole in the fence if you're that desperate. Some of us happen to have significant others.
Re: your sig -- "In volume and color"
Most of the teachers I had were just doing their job, cycling yet another year of students through their class while collecting a pay check on their way to retirement. Not too different from the corporate environment I inhabit now.
There were a few really good teachers and a couple of heavy duty slackers who no longer made any pretense of caring if we learned. Of course there were a special few who saw the class room as their private domain to reign over their students as the mighty overlords they imagined themselves to be. Yeah pretty close to my experiences of 20+ years of life after university.
So I guess 'bad teachers' do contribute, but seriously, this is a rationalization from someone trying to convince you to eat shit and smile about it because they can't change the system.