He sounds like a politician. Obviously he is so much smarter than us that he knows the solution, of course he says the solution is not desirable, but y'know, we just forced it on him. Really, we are just too stupid to be on his world.
Sounds like a member of Congress here. They do not consider us smart enough to decide what we like or dislike, hence they ram laws through under the guise of it will help us and once we see it we will like it. If not that, its for the children
the new folks at the EPA are seeing all sorts of new ways to leverage laws at their disposal to expand into areas where they don't belong. Believe it, when they find out that they can monitor with this much ease they will. We already have regulations against incandescent bulbs, how long before we have legislation against exceeding government defined thresholds for healing and cooling one's home? After all, just because you can afford below 78 in the summer doesn't mean you should be allowed to, think of the environment, think of the children.
I love some of the new technology out there, the problem is we are being forced into a nanny state, one where people want everything given to them and that old saying ain't far off, if they can provide it all they can take it all; or monitor it all.
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Honestly, unless the product is something reviewed on Anandtech or "trusted" computer site it always comes across as if the submitter works for the group in the story.
I have a Tandy TX (80286 on a XT motherboard) just so I can have access to this game. The sequel Starflight II was almost as good as the original and introduced a race whose appearance and actions changed based on their planet's solar cycle. Lots of science fiction goodies for the geek, like an encounter with an obvious Enterprise star ship.
Worlds that were unique through ingenious programming and even noted which you visited and gathered resources from so if you went back you had to land elsewhere, even Earth looked right from space using this system.
All and all an impressive game done on those 2 360k discs that many have not surpassed using DVD
so yeah, while anyone can do X my bet is on they won't.
It is far easier to sit on the side line and bitch.
Making a choice that no one cares about; ie making your own tree; isn't truly democracy, unless you count the loons who stand on the fringes screaming about how they have made a choice even though no one is listening.
So, yeah, you can fork it, but who will care? Is a moral victory of any import if no one knows who you are let alone what you did?
Really, many people will file bankruptcy because for many it
1) Holds this silver bullet mythical like properties
2) Punch the reset button
3) Stick it to "the man" - whomever that may be.
One of my ex college buddies; as in I don't associate much if at all with him anymore; did the #3 route. Worse this seems to be the prevalent mindset these days among a lot of people. They don't care that other people have to foot the bill because they won't see them.
1) To sell people on the idea of possible market places
2) When trying to dilute negative actions by the government on a per capita basis, like how they claim to be very environmentally friendly on a per capita basis.
I do find it humorous all the people mentioning that Bing(MS)/Yahoo will go as they have no morals, I wonder how many read about the story in angst while using products wholly or partially made in China.
Seriously, its under $500, does what it does very very well.
3G jacks up its cost, probably not as much as Apple will hit iPad users for it, but it is no small part of the price. Let alone many people will piss away more money in frivolous purchases they cannot recall than on something like this.
I know people who would bitch at $150 yet will pay that in two months for the phones. Go figure. Its relative. The e-readers are niche products because people haven't seen a need for them. If the books were cheaper on the readers by a good amount than what you pay for the paper versions people might jump, but that option may be out the window as Apple seems willing to throw the consumer under the bus and have publishers set what price they want.
a whole lot more on the people to identify them from those three pieces of information.
As in, you would need to know which house has the account, then guess among all the netflix in that zipcode.
I suppose you could stand outside, but I doubt that there is 87% chance unless you know other supposedly private information.
I don't see how exact birthdate matters, how would you confirm it when looking at people? Birthdate x/y/z lives at 144 Amazing avenue? Really? and what gave that away?
this is old school politically connected rich. You want to see who has the best pensions, health care, and similar, look to those in government or connected to it.
The surest way to stay poor or just plain upset with life is to compare what you have to others, the first symptom is directing blame to those who are better off.
I am quite sure a garbage can surfer is not a/. surfer, if they are it probably explains the previous. Let alone, Obama and Co. decided trickle down was too inefficient of means to get money to Wall Street so they just send the checks directly.
While overplayed it does work. Just Google for it, there are many stories on the technique. Google stores about a bic pen insert and a major lock company. Then to top it off realize that many Ford owners can either unlock or start older Ford cars other people own, most likely works for the majority of brands. Newer keys with embedded micro chips at least stop people from starting your car but rarely do they stop someone from unlocking your car.
Motor Trend's own test of a Camry found that even with the accelerator wide open the brakes can overcome the engine, easily in fact. Better yet, it still stopped shorter than the Taurus with no accelerator problems!
A disk less DVD player... a method to allow major publishers to jack up the costs for books and movies I want to buy and download. I am curious how much Apple gets for each sale, it has to be substantial if they are willing to sell us out to the publishers. We knew it was coming when they broke the 99 cent price limit on songs trying to convince us it was okay because the quality was better.
When I saw it had a TFT screen I realized, it ain't going to work for books let alone outside.
Never buy the first revision, especially this time. It is so obviously rushed and missing features people want that version 2 will come all that faster if version one tanks.
Also casual gamers are much more likely to be robbed, and much less likely to be back.
Fixed it for you.
The article is typical, things are best remembered than experienced. I played UO at launch, got banned for posting a gold dupe bug with such outlandish steps as to openly declare what you were doing, only to be unbanned by a week or so later and yet I still only like the old game as it was, minus the PvP. The Chessie two step lag and such were such fun, green acres hacks and the like were what made UO interesting. Housing on mob spawn points got to be silly, the game turning into a trailer park. No, better remembered.
Yes, you could lure people into guards, yes you could get ganked outside, but it wasn't nearly as much fun or prevalent as people suggest. It became so when people got to gear and skill levels which made it more likely they would win. The common denominator with PvP I have found is that people glorify it only when they win. Otherwise its "gank fest". When they win its great!!!!
Why should people pay to be griefed? Hell at least in WOW you could be on PvP servers and not be flagged PvP if you choose (they may have changed that later).
PvP in a MMORPG is just plain dumb. It is like having the seniors being able to play games against the first graders.
too many of their articles encourage you to go online to view even more in depth content, content that apparently is free and if not bugmenot can do it (they don't charge for it)
Another reason the print side is more costly, more union involvement at each stage. I am curious how they transition to digital without maintaining the legacy costs
Will be really good to know if they were biased based on sex too... as in watching female students in general and nailing only a few of the males or minorities.
Yes, I know the statement is loaded but I didn't want to go back and fix it.
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Therein lies the problem.
He sounds like a politician. Obviously he is so much smarter than us that he knows the solution, of course he says the solution is not desirable, but y'know, we just forced it on him. Really, we are just too stupid to be on his world.
Sounds like a member of Congress here. They do not consider us smart enough to decide what we like or dislike, hence they ram laws through under the guise of it will help us and once we see it we will like it. If not that, its for the children
if we delude ourselves in thinking the other side of the iron curtain is any better.
the new folks at the EPA are seeing all sorts of new ways to leverage laws at their disposal to expand into areas where they don't belong. Believe it, when they find out that they can monitor with this much ease they will. We already have regulations against incandescent bulbs, how long before we have legislation against exceeding government defined thresholds for healing and cooling one's home? After all, just because you can afford below 78 in the summer doesn't mean you should be allowed to, think of the environment, think of the children.
I love some of the new technology out there, the problem is we are being forced into a nanny state, one where people want everything given to them and that old saying ain't far off, if they can provide it all they can take it all; or monitor it all.
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Honestly, unless the product is something reviewed on Anandtech or "trusted" computer site it always comes across as if the submitter works for the group in the story.
I still am amazed what can be accomplished on two 360K Floppy CDs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight
I have a Tandy TX (80286 on a XT motherboard) just so I can have access to this game. The sequel Starflight II was almost as good as the original and introduced a race whose appearance and actions changed based on their planet's solar cycle. Lots of science fiction goodies for the geek, like an encounter with an obvious Enterprise star ship.
Worlds that were unique through ingenious programming and even noted which you visited and gathered resources from so if you went back you had to land elsewhere, even Earth looked right from space using this system.
All and all an impressive game done on those 2 360k discs that many have not surpassed using DVD
Probably because it is about as substantive as many of the other submissions?
so yeah, while anyone can do X my bet is on they won't.
It is far easier to sit on the side line and bitch.
Making a choice that no one cares about; ie making your own tree; isn't truly democracy, unless you count the loons who stand on the fringes screaming about how they have made a choice even though no one is listening.
So, yeah, you can fork it, but who will care? Is a moral victory of any import if no one knows who you are let alone what you did?
to convince you to file bankruptcy for.
Really, many people will file bankruptcy because for many it
1) Holds this silver bullet mythical like properties
2) Punch the reset button
3) Stick it to "the man" - whomever that may be.
One of my ex college buddies; as in I don't associate much if at all with him anymore; did the #3 route. Worse this seems to be the prevalent mindset these days among a lot of people. They don't care that other people have to foot the bill because they won't see them.
I am not sure where you came off with the 1K value, but this page http://www.bankruptcylawinformation.com/index.cfm?event=dspStats suggests differently.
like the FBI and Secret Service.
I wonder who has the bigger body count of American citizens.
that number is really good when used two ways.
1) To sell people on the idea of possible market places
2) When trying to dilute negative actions by the government on a per capita basis, like how they claim to be very environmentally friendly on a per capita basis.
I do find it humorous all the people mentioning that Bing(MS)/Yahoo will go as they have no morals, I wonder how many read about the story in angst while using products wholly or partially made in China.
Whats wrong, no Apple logo?
Seriously, its under $500, does what it does very very well.
3G jacks up its cost, probably not as much as Apple will hit iPad users for it, but it is no small part of the price. Let alone many people will piss away more money in frivolous purchases they cannot recall than on something like this.
I know people who would bitch at $150 yet will pay that in two months for the phones. Go figure. Its relative. The e-readers are niche products because people haven't seen a need for them. If the books were cheaper on the readers by a good amount than what you pay for the paper versions people might jump, but that option may be out the window as Apple seems willing to throw the consumer under the bus and have publishers set what price they want.
Oh I am sure I too can come up with any contrived reason to prove my point.
It comes down to one thing, people who don't step up to the plate are offended that those who do get some kind of benefit.
It is a great example of what is wrong with society these days, everyone wants everything they just don't want to earn it.
a whole lot more on the people to identify them from those three pieces of information.
As in, you would need to know which house has the account, then guess among all the netflix in that zipcode.
I suppose you could stand outside, but I doubt that there is 87% chance unless you know other supposedly private information.
I don't see how exact birthdate matters, how would you confirm it when looking at people? Birthdate x/y/z lives at 144 Amazing avenue? Really? and what gave that away?
this is old school politically connected rich. You want to see who has the best pensions, health care, and similar, look to those in government or connected to it.
The surest way to stay poor or just plain upset with life is to compare what you have to others, the first symptom is directing blame to those who are better off.
I am quite sure a garbage can surfer is not a /. surfer, if they are it probably explains the previous. Let alone, Obama and Co. decided trickle down was too inefficient of means to get money to Wall Street so they just send the checks directly.
I would not mind a free version of this classic. You cannot get much simpler and still be involving.
CIV4 has environmentalism to the level it might as well be religion.
So making 3 gorges dam gives me negative points... guess dams were not on the developer approved list of clean resources.
While overplayed it does work. Just Google for it, there are many stories on the technique. Google stores about a bic pen insert and a major lock company. Then to top it off realize that many Ford owners can either unlock or start older Ford cars other people own, most likely works for the majority of brands. Newer keys with embedded micro chips at least stop people from starting your car but rarely do they stop someone from unlocking your car.
Nothing secure where there is a will.
Mac.
Its far cheaper to buy it all for PC than buy the whole shebang for Mac still.
and here is to hoping CIV5 has a Mac client at release
they donate to politicians?
Seems to be the difference between acceptable and not acceptable is how in favor you are with the politicians who write the laws.
the car even with the throttle wide open.
Motor Trend's own test of a Camry found that even with the accelerator wide open the brakes can overcome the engine, easily in fact. Better yet, it still stopped shorter than the Taurus with no accelerator problems!
http://forums.motortrend.com/70/8007011/the-general-forum/c-d-toyota-dealing-with-unintended-acceleration-te/index.html
so take the update, its not like your car hasn't already have a program, one declared defective.
A disk less DVD player... a method to allow major publishers to jack up the costs for books and movies I want to buy and download. I am curious how much Apple gets for each sale, it has to be substantial if they are willing to sell us out to the publishers. We knew it was coming when they broke the 99 cent price limit on songs trying to convince us it was okay because the quality was better.
When I saw it had a TFT screen I realized, it ain't going to work for books let alone outside.
Never buy the first revision, especially this time. It is so obviously rushed and missing features people want that version 2 will come all that faster if version one tanks.
Beat netbooks? At what? Playing movies, maybe.
Also casual gamers are much more likely to be robbed, and much less likely to be back.
Fixed it for you.
The article is typical, things are best remembered than experienced. I played UO at launch, got banned for posting a gold dupe bug with such outlandish steps as to openly declare what you were doing, only to be unbanned by a week or so later and yet I still only like the old game as it was, minus the PvP. The Chessie two step lag and such were such fun, green acres hacks and the like were what made UO interesting. Housing on mob spawn points got to be silly, the game turning into a trailer park. No, better remembered.
Yes, you could lure people into guards, yes you could get ganked outside, but it wasn't nearly as much fun or prevalent as people suggest. It became so when people got to gear and skill levels which made it more likely they would win. The common denominator with PvP I have found is that people glorify it only when they win. Otherwise its "gank fest". When they win its great!!!!
Why should people pay to be griefed? Hell at least in WOW you could be on PvP servers and not be flagged PvP if you choose (they may have changed that later).
PvP in a MMORPG is just plain dumb. It is like having the seniors being able to play games against the first graders.
too many of their articles encourage you to go online to view even more in depth content, content that apparently is free and if not bugmenot can do it (they don't charge for it)
Another reason the print side is more costly, more union involvement at each stage. I am curious how they transition to digital without maintaining the legacy costs
Will be really good to know if they were biased based on sex too... as in watching female students in general and nailing only a few of the males or minorities.
Yes, I know the statement is loaded but I didn't want to go back and fix it.
and companies providing location services as they are more likely to have money.