That is a bit closer to what you are describing instead of Risk. Of course any of the good board games from years gone by, like Axis and Allies, could be placed on Google Maps. All we are doing is adding a "dynamic" map.
Now of course I am sure there are people who would take great offense with a war game using Google Maps... like Google, but its just fluff. If the game was good before the use of the Google Maps then it will be good afterward...
Look to the party in power, they control both sides of the aisle and the White House. They are not nuclear friendly.
Sure they may have one or two but as a party they are co-opted by their fringe side. Nuclear does not stand a chance unless Obama pushes for it and I don't see his current select group of fringe members doing so. Sorry, but he has too many border line people as it is, and I am quite more nuts abound than the recently punted "Green Czar" - which in itself implies no nukes.
if there is any comparison to projects I have been around, HR3200 is done by those fools who scope out a project by figuring out what they can do before they figure out what they need to do.
Politics not aside, isn't amazing how big bills are when money is no object? How many future generations are we going to saddle with the greed of our current politicians?
because as most people who know anything about homeschooling are going to be more than willing to tell you.
They submit to more rigorous requirements than the majority of public school children. Quarterly reports and tests in many districts. I would submit that more children are ill served by percentage or numbers by the public system than home schooling. Why? Because the later already demonstrates more involvement in a child's life than the former. What I have usually found in the anti brigade is either jealousy or religious bigotry. The first being they are upset someone has the means to stay home; totally ignoring the sacrifices many make to do so; and the later being the typical home "schoolers" are just a bunch of religious nuts.
So, next time you see that national spelling bee, geography, etc, champ, pretend to ignore the fact that many are home schooled. Whats next, claiming that private schools are just as bad ? They would be next on the chopping block if home school got the axe.
If anything, unschooling is the perfect description of what the public suffers through today.
because we seem to going overboard in finding new ways to feel guilty about our lifestyle through the ages and even more absurd ways to deal with it.
Suddenly its the pain the animal feels before it dies, sorry, but hello, its the fact we killed it that should cause more guilt than the pain it felt getting to that end result.
If you object to the first but not the latter you need to grow up and accept how you live your life or give up food products requiring the death of a living creature.
Yes I am a meat eater. So while I do think "unnecessary" pain/cruelty should be avoided the whole idea of removing their ability to feel pain just so "I can sleep better" borders on being sick.
Its like having a death penalty that doesn't hurt. I mean, if your going to kill them for their crimes they why care? Their crimes certainly had to be gross enough for you to consider killing them in the first place, why are you suffering more about your decision than they will feel in death?
So, whatever... whats next, feeling remorse for stealing unborn chicks from hens and serving them with a potato you yanked from the ground before mercilessly dicing into itty bitty bits?
Because in the US that is what hate speech laws are being used for. Get off from a high profile case that "bothers" some politicians and you can be sure a hate speech charge will crop up. Been done in a few visible crimes around Atlanta, suddenly the Feds are brought in because there was enough to convict on the real accused crime.
The other point is that prosecuting under the guise of a hate crime can devalue the real crime. I don't care why they selected someone's house to rob/burn/etc, all reasons should be treated the same : equally bad. Yet we try to differentiate the crimes by assigning severity based on what they were thinking or what we think they were thinking?
Fortunately in both countries we can still each have our opinions, I just hope the Supremes start tossing the US version out as well... which reminds me, did the group who declared it wrong in Canada have the last voice on that?
because as soon we started restrictions on importation of certain types of wood the places where they grow chopped them down to never replant and instead turned the forested areas into farms.
Recently a large tract in my area was clear cut but is already being prepped for its next batch of trees. I fully agree that planting more trees is helpful but don't forget that they are a renewable resource and when managed properly and encouragement is given for their use we actually end up with more trees.
Its the restrictive trade in certain types of wood that have doomed more acres of forest land than anything.
its not like they are out to be serious. If they were the same government promising more openness would not be ramming near trillion dollar bills through Congress without a chance for public discussion, let alone reading of by the voting parties.
You are free to ignore their terms. The 130 box which includes iLife and iWork is for those who did not adhere to the terms of the $30 upgrade price. In other words.. If you didn't upgrade to Leopard when you had the opportunity your saving money because the upgrade straight to SL is only $130. So again, why give credit to $30 OS when it really should be seen as $160. Again, for only those who adhered to their rules. Since I paid for Leopard for my iMac this is now a 130+ portion of family pack cost upgrade for that machine and portion of family pack for my MBP which came pre-installed with Leopard.
As I posted before, it is a full disc. Some of us are just anal about following the rules. If I did not have leopard I would have bought the suggested upgrade, which is the $130 box with iLife/iWork.
On a side note, install was painless on the MBP. I will do the iMac later in the week pending a few days of smooth running on the MBP. Took about 35 minutes though the screen stated 45 when I started.
Its only 30 if you forked out 130 for the last one, so you could really call it 160.
The place where I do give them kudos is the family pack, I can upgrade five machines for $50... only have two currently.
OK, so I have a second kudo, they don't have some weird multiple available configurations locked to a DVD like windows, I can install SL on a fresh machine using the same disc as I did for the upgrade without giving it a second thought.
But giving it points for being only $30, look if it is such a minimal upgrade; for some its a total no go as they cannot install it because they run PowerPC; makes me wonder, why didn't it just download and install like the patch it comes across as?
I remember the stories about Corn Flakes, as in less than 10% of the cost of a box of corn flakes was for the corn.
In regards to EA and their like, I wonder if its related to accounting similar to Hollywood accounting. Get in lots of subs to spread out expenses which only pad select people's paychecks
but it damn well won't stop the "consensus" train.
The only good thing about N2O is that its not something you can tax the population over, at least directly. Can't wait to see who the N2O bogeymen are going to be.
So what I figure is, they knew that the current charges would most likely not stick so they crafted a law to handle the situation. The new law is worse that than even the laws they attempted to prosecute Lori Drew under the first time. They are just too open to interpretation.
able to leap tall buildings and being bullet proof...
I am not overly worried about its resilience, I am more worried about how the surface drains water and traction on when wet. Being an avid motorcyclist I dread new roadway compounds because half the time they forget that two wheelers exist. Rubber directional signs applied to road surfaces are already not friendly, I don't need more.
the number of mac users who already reflexively type in their password when prompted.
One thing exposure to user groups does is show you that there is a sizable number of computer novices with poor security habits regardless of popular commercial platform.
Because if you look the on the ISS page of Wiki it shows the US as financing three of the four euro modules.
So who is going to save money? Can we realistically expect that nations contribute equally or of their means? With regards to that last part I don't see how we have means, unless we are totally accepting of the fact we can spend money we never had.
Seen the fall out from Lori Drew case? Cause emotional distress to a minor and your violating the law. Granted the example cited on volokh is downright not nice but some of the clauses, like four and six, are so vague as to play into any prosecutor's hands.
What is means is that Blizzard recognizes that people don't like to wait to do end game content. While I expect the time requirement between levels to be higher I fully expect that they merely compressed eight to ten levels into five. It also is probably a method to bring back WOW from the rampant gear inflation it is suffering. Both expansions seriously ramped gear up to major importance over the previous. It is nearly monty hall in effect.
The level of 85 also makes it possible to increment levels between expansions. They can slowly add a level or two requiring play to reach newer raids and gear. Right now the problem is that all top end gear is level 80. This means each new raid just expands on level 80 gear making the game solely revolving around gear. The problem is that "why hate gear X at level 80 when gear Y is there as well?" It invalidates similarly level gear and the content that provides it. Will they do this? Who knows, but they have headroom to act should they choose.
Plus redoing the old world allows the overcome one major problem people had with it, no flying.
Its the race card. Taking offense is a given. People took offense when Bush was characterized in less colorful means but the difference here is purely race. Mostly its the fear of being portrayed as racist and that is a valid fear where there is no shortage of people looking for offense or those whose life is perpetuated by finding racial overtones in any action.
Any disagreement eventually gets twisted into race. Obama uses that to his advantage as do his handlers. There have been stories on major cable news about how this is all about race; health care.
It is a new cop out that was called early in the election cycle. Basically the card would be used to redirect any discussion he was on the losing side of. One thing people cannot handle, this is especially true of politicians, is that people don't like them or their ideas. Hence they look for a reason so they can portray those who criticize in the least favorable light.
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That is a bit closer to what you are describing instead of Risk. Of course any of the good board games from years gone by, like Axis and Allies, could be placed on Google Maps. All we are doing is adding a "dynamic" map.
Now of course I am sure there are people who would take great offense with a war game using Google Maps... like Google, but its just fluff. If the game was good before the use of the Google Maps then it will be good afterward...
Look to the party in power, they control both sides of the aisle and the White House. They are not nuclear friendly.
Sure they may have one or two but as a party they are co-opted by their fringe side. Nuclear does not stand a chance unless Obama pushes for it and I don't see his current select group of fringe members doing so. Sorry, but he has too many border line people as it is, and I am quite more nuts abound than the recently punted "Green Czar" - which in itself implies no nukes.
if there is any comparison to projects I have been around, HR3200 is done by those fools who scope out a project by figuring out what they can do before they figure out what they need to do.
Politics not aside, isn't amazing how big bills are when money is no object? How many future generations are we going to saddle with the greed of our current politicians?
so if they claimed credit why can't we put them all under the jail? At least the office staff claiming credit.
Really, if they want credit then give them responsibility too.
because as most people who know anything about homeschooling are going to be more than willing to tell you.
They submit to more rigorous requirements than the majority of public school children. Quarterly reports and tests in many districts. I would submit that more children are ill served by percentage or numbers by the public system than home schooling. Why? Because the later already demonstrates more involvement in a child's life than the former. What I have usually found in the anti brigade is either jealousy or religious bigotry. The first being they are upset someone has the means to stay home; totally ignoring the sacrifices many make to do so; and the later being the typical home "schoolers" are just a bunch of religious nuts.
So, next time you see that national spelling bee, geography, etc, champ, pretend to ignore the fact that many are home schooled. Whats next, claiming that private schools are just as bad ? They would be next on the chopping block if home school got the axe.
If anything, unschooling is the perfect description of what the public suffers through today.
because we seem to going overboard in finding new ways to feel guilty about our lifestyle through the ages and even more absurd ways to deal with it.
Suddenly its the pain the animal feels before it dies, sorry, but hello, its the fact we killed it that should cause more guilt than the pain it felt getting to that end result.
If you object to the first but not the latter you need to grow up and accept how you live your life or give up food products requiring the death of a living creature.
Yes I am a meat eater. So while I do think "unnecessary" pain/cruelty should be avoided the whole idea of removing their ability to feel pain just so "I can sleep better" borders on being sick.
Its like having a death penalty that doesn't hurt. I mean, if your going to kill them for their crimes they why care? Their crimes certainly had to be gross enough for you to consider killing them in the first place, why are you suffering more about your decision than they will feel in death?
So, whatever... whats next, feeling remorse for stealing unborn chicks from hens and serving them with a potato you yanked from the ground before mercilessly dicing into itty bitty bits?
long enough to exceed the lifetime expectancy of the flash?
While pretty woman affect men to distraction good looking men can do the same right back, even to the prettiest of women.
Seems to me the study simply points out, we are distracted by things we find pleasing.
Because in the US that is what hate speech laws are being used for. Get off from a high profile case that "bothers" some politicians and you can be sure a hate speech charge will crop up. Been done in a few visible crimes around Atlanta, suddenly the Feds are brought in because there was enough to convict on the real accused crime.
The other point is that prosecuting under the guise of a hate crime can devalue the real crime. I don't care why they selected someone's house to rob/burn/etc, all reasons should be treated the same : equally bad. Yet we try to differentiate the crimes by assigning severity based on what they were thinking or what we think they were thinking?
Fortunately in both countries we can still each have our opinions, I just hope the Supremes start tossing the US version out as well... which reminds me, did the group who declared it wrong in Canada have the last voice on that?
because as soon we started restrictions on importation of certain types of wood the places where they grow chopped them down to never replant and instead turned the forested areas into farms.
Recently a large tract in my area was clear cut but is already being prepped for its next batch of trees. I fully agree that planting more trees is helpful but don't forget that they are a renewable resource and when managed properly and encouragement is given for their use we actually end up with more trees.
Its the restrictive trade in certain types of wood that have doomed more acres of forest land than anything.
its not like they are out to be serious. If they were the same government promising more openness would not be ramming near trillion dollar bills through Congress without a chance for public discussion, let alone reading of by the voting parties.
then again, change might mean soliciting bids for a system to systematically scrape all non-hidden data on popular sites like facebook and myspace https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=eec856940efb75b2b1c11e2b1d5660a4&tab=core&_cview=0&cck=1&au=&ck=
Change we can believe in, with all these CZARs the only thing apparent is that the public isn't paying attention to the other hand
You are free to ignore their terms. The 130 box which includes iLife and iWork is for those who did not adhere to the terms of the $30 upgrade price. In other words.. If you didn't upgrade to Leopard when you had the opportunity your saving money because the upgrade straight to SL is only $130. So again, why give credit to $30 OS when it really should be seen as $160. Again, for only those who adhered to their rules. Since I paid for Leopard for my iMac this is now a 130+ portion of family pack cost upgrade for that machine and portion of family pack for my MBP which came pre-installed with Leopard.
As I posted before, it is a full disc. Some of us are just anal about following the rules. If I did not have leopard I would have bought the suggested upgrade, which is the $130 box with iLife/iWork.
On a side note, install was painless on the MBP. I will do the iMac later in the week pending a few days of smooth running on the MBP. Took about 35 minutes though the screen stated 45 when I started.
Its only 30 if you forked out 130 for the last one, so you could really call it 160.
The place where I do give them kudos is the family pack, I can upgrade five machines for $50... only have two currently.
OK, so I have a second kudo, they don't have some weird multiple available configurations locked to a DVD like windows, I can install SL on a fresh machine using the same disc as I did for the upgrade without giving it a second thought.
But giving it points for being only $30, look if it is such a minimal upgrade; for some its a total no go as they cannot install it because they run PowerPC; makes me wonder, why didn't it just download and install like the patch it comes across as?
I remember the stories about Corn Flakes, as in less than 10% of the cost of a box of corn flakes was for the corn.
In regards to EA and their like, I wonder if its related to accounting similar to Hollywood accounting. Get in lots of subs to spread out expenses which only pad select people's paychecks
but it damn well won't stop the "consensus" train.
The only good thing about N2O is that its not something you can tax the population over, at least directly. Can't wait to see who the N2O bogeymen are going to be.
Missouri has made harassing a minor a felony, http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_08_16-2009_08_22.shtml#1250896617
So what I figure is, they knew that the current charges would most likely not stick so they crafted a law to handle the situation. The new law is worse that than even the laws they attempted to prosecute Lori Drew under the first time. They are just too open to interpretation.
able to leap tall buildings and being bullet proof...
I am not overly worried about its resilience, I am more worried about how the surface drains water and traction on when wet. Being an avid motorcyclist I dread new roadway compounds because half the time they forget that two wheelers exist. Rubber directional signs applied to road surfaces are already not friendly, I don't need more.
far more than we love hearing
that is what I want to know.
the number of mac users who already reflexively type in their password when prompted.
One thing exposure to user groups does is show you that there is a sizable number of computer novices with poor security habits regardless of popular commercial platform.
Because if you look the on the ISS page of Wiki it shows the US as financing three of the four euro modules.
So who is going to save money? Can we realistically expect that nations contribute equally or of their means? With regards to that last part I don't see how we have means, unless we are totally accepting of the fact we can spend money we never had.
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_08_16-2009_08_22.shtml#1250896617
Seen the fall out from Lori Drew case? Cause emotional distress to a minor and your violating the law. Granted the example cited on volokh is downright not nice but some of the clauses, like four and six, are so vague as to play into any prosecutor's hands.
Lori Drew stories on /. include
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/02/2017217/Judge-Tentatively-Dismisses-Case-Against-Lori-Drew?art_pos=1
http://news.slashdot.org/story/08/11/30/2014248/Groklaw-Summarizes-the-Lori-Drew-Verdict?art_pos=5
What is means is that Blizzard recognizes that people don't like to wait to do end game content. While I expect the time requirement between levels to be higher I fully expect that they merely compressed eight to ten levels into five. It also is probably a method to bring back WOW from the rampant gear inflation it is suffering. Both expansions seriously ramped gear up to major importance over the previous. It is nearly monty hall in effect.
The level of 85 also makes it possible to increment levels between expansions. They can slowly add a level or two requiring play to reach newer raids and gear. Right now the problem is that all top end gear is level 80. This means each new raid just expands on level 80 gear making the game solely revolving around gear. The problem is that "why hate gear X at level 80 when gear Y is there as well?" It invalidates similarly level gear and the content that provides it. Will they do this? Who knows, but they have headroom to act should they choose.
Plus redoing the old world allows the overcome one major problem people had with it, no flying.
Its the race card. Taking offense is a given. People took offense when Bush was characterized in less colorful means but the difference here is purely race. Mostly its the fear of being portrayed as racist and that is a valid fear where there is no shortage of people looking for offense or those whose life is perpetuated by finding racial overtones in any action.
Any disagreement eventually gets twisted into race. Obama uses that to his advantage as do his handlers. There have been stories on major cable news about how this is all about race; health care.
It is a new cop out that was called early in the election cycle. Basically the card would be used to redirect any discussion he was on the losing side of. One thing people cannot handle, this is especially true of politicians, is that people don't like them or their ideas. Hence they look for a reason so they can portray those who criticize in the least favorable light.
Intimidation short and simple
and use the power of your office to intimidate others.
There are all sorts of way to have power over people but none are as rewarding as having that power because they choose to work for and with you.