As good as a mouse and keyboard are for first person shooters, they are less than useless for third-person over the shoulder games like Mass Effect and Gears of War.
Wha...ME with a gamepad? Are we talking about the same game where you use a reticle to aim at enemies?
With your system, can you give people money by only knowing their name, like you can with checks? I have to look up the spelling of my landlord's name every month in the school directory when I write my check (though I could set my bank to snail mail a printed check automatically every month). Do you need to know more than that, like the recipient's bank account number?
No, we can't, or at least not here in the Netherlands. You need a name, the town where the recipient banks and account number to transfer money. However, since most money transfers are the direct result of some sort of contract, it is normal that this information is provided on the correspondence of the other party and contract itself.
And yes, typical way of paying rent (for those who have their finances sorted out anyway) is to input a monthly transfer, often through online banking. Costs that fluctuate like energy bills etc. are usually paid through Direct Debit.
Heck, I'm 31 and I haven't ever used a cheque in my life. Quaint antiquated concept tbh. So United Kingdom banking establishment, welcome to the 1980's!
Now I understand some sysadmins aspire to be the best BOFH's they can be, but having to do an exorcism each time you fire one seems a little...over the top?
If you only look at cost, sure. Except that the US costs the most because we train the best doctors, have the best research institutes, and develop most of the new medicines -- all of which cost a metric shit ton of money.
If you'd rather pay less and have crappy treatment, be my guest. I'm crazy enough to think it's worth spending more money if it means I get top of the line medical treatment.
Yah, you go on believing that. The real reason it's so expensive is not because of expensive doctors, but because these days your chief national product seems to be lawyers.
I wonder if it's possible to base an entire economy on constantly suing one another...surely if you fudge the numbers enough it'll work?
There's 1 teeny tiny issue with your post. You're making the assumption that the games, the substance the addict is hooked on, are the root cause of the problem. How do you know your brother wouldn't have gotten hooked on something else instead? There's plenty of other activities people can become completely engrossed in, causing them to miss classes, skip sleep and otherwise fuck up their life.
For the record, I spend a big chunk of my time playing video games, and I do on occasion choose to play over engaging in face-to-face social contact or getting a full night of sleep. My uncle had a similar personality, only his drugs of choice were booze and heroin, so he's dead at this point.
Some people have personalities prone to addiction. Either they learn to control themselves, or they don't. There's stuff out there that's a lot worse to get hooked on than video games...
On a desert island, I certainly own the work of my hands and mind. Why should I give up that control just because someone thinks themself my neighbor?
Because we are neighbours. The global village is getting smaller every day. And what you Randians seem to keep missing is that you don't, in fact, live on desert islands. (We wish...)
If we weren't neighbours, why bother with treaties in the first place? You keep your laws, we keep ours.
Now, unlike the misguided collectivists who beleive that "the workers" produce and therefore should "own" the wealth of the world, hands are of marginal importance compared to minds. My hands are no stronger or more durable than were the first entites that could be rightly called human hands thousands of years ago. The difference between me and them is the foundation of _mental_ output.
Way to misrepresent things...the most common argument is that perhaps the mere fact that someone is born well-connected, in the right place or with more intelligence than another man doesn't mean it's "fair" that the relative difference in income needs to be expressed in terms of 10 to the nth degree.
Ideas are what matter. Ideas are what have value. Ideas -- and nothing more than ideas -- are the difference between a humanity full of sky scrapers, planes, a lifespan longer than 40 years, and the cavemen who didn't know how to make fire.
Intellectual Property is the basic realization that ideas are the most valuable things in human history, and that a man ought to be free to own his ideas -- just like he is when he's alone on an island.
Excellent. Don't write them down on paper or tell the rest of us about them, just like on your desert island. Good luck working on that coconut detection device!
Two tell tale signs of an parent that is abusive, lazy, or both, is if you hear them count at their child as a threat, or call their punishment "Time Out".
Time-outs can actually quite effective, if done properly. Making a child go and sit by him/herself in a room where there's no toys, books or otherwise anything to distract it for a certain period of time really works quite well as a form of punishment.
Besides, it actually conveys the message you're trying to get across: "your behavior is unacceptable to us, and as long as you continue to behave this way you're not welcome in our company. have your temper tantrums by yourself or act normally, your choice."
Depends a bit on the country but yes, generally speaking, 90%(number drawn from ass, don't ask for citations) of the stuff you see in cinema's over here comes from the US.
The interesting thing is that an environment like that, there are 2 political messages that become a lot more appealing: 1) blame some minority group of people for all your woes: Mexican immigrants, black people, communists, Jews, Muslims, etc. In short, fascism. 2) band together with the other exploited workers to put a stop to oppressive management. Workers of the world, unite! In short, communism
Wow, a +3 insightful, for only being able to see the extreme edges of the possible spectrum. Well done.
For the record, the normal term used for 2) would be a "union" or a "workers council", which, although also leaning towards the left, is a little more feasible in a modern capitalist society than switching to the state owning all means of production. A company may be able to replace a single cog, but if all the cogs get together and give management a big hearty fuck you, they tend to react somewhat differently (doesn't stop them from trying to get rid of the ringleader a little while later ofc).
I have an IQ of about 142, and seeing certain friends of mine struggle to understand things that come completely intuitively to me, like programming a tv without a manual (or even with one!), grasping the concepts of levers and gearing things up/down, logic puzzles, etc. I wonder how a person significantly more intelligent than me views the world we live in.
I've often wondered just how much the ability to do these things has to do with intelligence and if it isn't an issue of confidence and experience. Many of the people I know that struggle with your example of programming a tv are convinced they're bad at it before even trying. Now this might be a conclusion drawn from past experiences, but I can't help but shake the feeling that it's also some sort of cultural thing. You know, the whole I'm too old/female/inept/whatever to do that kinda thing. And when you take them by the hand in a lot of cases it turns out to be really quite simple once they've wrapped their head around the logic being used.
You know what's going on, you can analyse and understand it, but you're not really part of it. You don't have an intuitive feel for it like others do.
Bleh, I wish. Analyzing and understanding both require observing something to begin with, took me years just to get that part sorted out. Only then do you get to the slightly more fun part where you actually have to decode all the unspoken or encrypted messages flying back and forth (Honey, when you say "it's ok", does that mean you're not gonna be pissed off when I spend half the night playing games? No, not really? Ok, so why didn't you just fucking say so in the first place? Cue more passive-aggressive relationship stuff...)
One of my favorite examples of Aspergers is the guy that you meet in the street that you vaguely know and greet with "hey man, how you doing", who then walks over to you and starts telling you his life's story. Most people learn relatively quickly that some expressions are just that, expressions. Just because I ask you how you're doing doesn't mean I want to know or even that I give a damn, I'm just being polite. And I, ehmmm, am in a really big hurry to get to work. Yes, on a sunday afternoon. Wearing what is clearly casual clothing. See ya!
Hold on, the Higgs Boson wants to prevent us from finding the LHC? Isn't that thing, like, pretty damn huge? Needs more than 1 country to fit under kinda huge?
How is that? Aside from i think some of the tutorial missions that have been locked down from intruders, pretty much anything else can be found and entered by other players.
And that's how a pirate can turn into a paying customer.
And why I, a legitimate customer, can't play Dragon Age if my net connection is down, because the game checks if I'm really entitled to start that savegame with DLC content in it.
In other news, the amount of legitimate Dragon Age + DLC owners planning on getting a pirate copy of Mass Effect just increased by 1.
Any clued neighbor wouldn't be allowing others onto their wi-fi.
Considering my neighbour is hot, blonde and single, if she wants to use my connection to download pr0n I'm sure we can come to some sort of arrangement...
I don't know what world you live in, but the one I live in, regardless of whether or not they go to school or have a career, most (not all) women eventually want to raise children of their own. In an ideal world, women could raise children AND have a career. We live far away from an ideal world on a place called Earth, where months out of work are a serious setback, and where raising kids well AND dealing with workplace responsibilities is impossible unless you sleep 2 hours a day.
Actually, over here in pinko commie europe where politicians fart unicorns, there's quite a few laws in place to ensure both that the mother does not suffer in her workplace from...well...becoming a mother and that there is ample opportunity for dad to actually chip in(paternity leave, etc). Especially the Scandinavian countries are quite enlightened in that respect. Then again the women around here are 6 foot tall blondes that'll tear your head off if you keep insisting on paying for their dinner.
Indeed, that's my reaction. While an infant doesn't have the ability to store the memories of the pain or loss in a way that can be recalled later.
As for HIV...have you tried sex with a condom? It doesn't feel that good. Bareback is immensely better.
So? Use a condom for short-term flings and get tested together for longer term relationships, it's really not that difficult.
As for people relying on not being circumcized for not contracting HIV...let's hope natural selection stops them in their tracks *before* they toss out some offspring that ends up equally ignorant.
Deliveries could get really personalized once you fill out this page: http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd?action=viewpage§ion=frealdoll2 [realdoll.com] Be sure and check the shipping container for signs of tampering, because in this case the "handling" in "shipping and handling" may have deeper meaning.
Holy crap...6k US$ for a piece of plastic with a hole in it... I'm not sure what's scarier, the price tag or the fact that apparently there's actually people willing to pay that kind of money or they'd have gone out of business.
"How do you refuse when they are backed with the full force of law?"
You do something illegal. Very simple. Armed rebellion IS a legitimate choice.
I'm surprised to hear all of this "I want to change the government because it is poor and doesn't represent my interests.... but I won't do anything illegal". FUCKING PICK ONE. Either put up with the bullshit, or do something about it, don't sit there and bitch like a whiney fuck.
Bah, you americans.
What is required is an informed populace that gives a damn. Either people give a shit, and in that case they can use legal means to oust the jackasses, or they don't and in that case what good are guns gonna do them?
The reason people bitch on/. instead of actually being able to change anything is because as people who care about this particular issue we're in the minority. So are you suggesting that we pick up guns and force our values on the rest of our countries? Maybe start a little dictatorship of enlightened slashdotians while we're at it?
Guns come into play once a government refuses to leave even though they've been replaced through elections, or elections are getting rigged. And at that point the army gets involved on one side or the other anyway, and either things are over real quick (military sides with the populace) or you're looking at a drawn out civil war(military supports the jackasses).
But do keep waving that awesome 2nd amendment in our faces. Fat lot of good that AK is gonna do you in the long run.
Pah, amateur. As soon as I finish building my Punisher frigate and save up enough money for an Amarr Frigate skillbook, I'm a gonna take off from this damn planet before it floods and head off to lowsec!
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As good as a mouse and keyboard are for first person shooters, they are less than useless for third-person over the shoulder games like Mass Effect and Gears of War.
Wha...ME with a gamepad? Are we talking about the same game where you use a reticle to aim at enemies?
Ewwwwwwwww.
With your system, can you give people money by only knowing their name, like you can with checks? I have to look up the spelling of my landlord's name every month in the school directory when I write my check (though I could set my bank to snail mail a printed check automatically every month). Do you need to know more than that, like the recipient's bank account number?
No, we can't, or at least not here in the Netherlands. You need a name, the town where the recipient banks and account number to transfer money. However, since most money transfers are the direct result of some sort of contract, it is normal that this information is provided on the correspondence of the other party and contract itself.
And yes, typical way of paying rent (for those who have their finances sorted out anyway) is to input a monthly transfer, often through online banking. Costs that fluctuate like energy bills etc. are usually paid through Direct Debit.
Heck, I'm 31 and I haven't ever used a cheque in my life. Quaint antiquated concept tbh. So United Kingdom banking establishment, welcome to the 1980's!
Now I understand some sysadmins aspire to be the best BOFH's they can be, but having to do an exorcism each time you fire one seems a little...over the top?
If you only look at cost, sure. Except that the US costs the most because we train the best doctors, have the best research institutes, and develop most of the new medicines -- all of which cost a metric shit ton of money.
If you'd rather pay less and have crappy treatment, be my guest. I'm crazy enough to think it's worth spending more money if it means I get top of the line medical treatment.
Yah, you go on believing that. The real reason it's so expensive is not because of expensive doctors, but because these days your chief national product seems to be lawyers.
I wonder if it's possible to base an entire economy on constantly suing one another...surely if you fudge the numbers enough it'll work?
There's 1 teeny tiny issue with your post. You're making the assumption that the games, the substance the addict is hooked on, are the root cause of the problem. How do you know your brother wouldn't have gotten hooked on something else instead? There's plenty of other activities people can become completely engrossed in, causing them to miss classes, skip sleep and otherwise fuck up their life.
For the record, I spend a big chunk of my time playing video games, and I do on occasion choose to play over engaging in face-to-face social contact or getting a full night of sleep. My uncle had a similar personality, only his drugs of choice were booze and heroin, so he's dead at this point.
Some people have personalities prone to addiction. Either they learn to control themselves, or they don't. There's stuff out there that's a lot worse to get hooked on than video games...
On a desert island, I certainly own the work of my hands and mind. Why should I give up that control just because someone thinks themself my neighbor?
Because we are neighbours. The global village is getting smaller every day. And what you Randians seem to keep missing is that you don't, in fact, live on desert islands. (We wish...)
If we weren't neighbours, why bother with treaties in the first place? You keep your laws, we keep ours.
Now, unlike the misguided collectivists who beleive that "the workers" produce and therefore should "own" the wealth of the world, hands are of marginal importance compared to minds. My hands are no stronger or more durable than were the first entites that could be rightly called human hands thousands of years ago. The difference between me and them is the foundation of _mental_ output.
Way to misrepresent things...the most common argument is that perhaps the mere fact that someone is born well-connected, in the right place or with more intelligence than another man doesn't mean it's "fair" that the relative difference in income needs to be expressed in terms of 10 to the nth degree.
Ideas are what matter. Ideas are what have value. Ideas -- and nothing more than ideas -- are the difference between a humanity full of sky scrapers, planes, a lifespan longer than 40 years, and the cavemen who didn't know how to make fire.
Intellectual Property is the basic realization that ideas are the most valuable things in human history, and that a man ought to be free to own his ideas -- just like he is when he's alone on an island.
Excellent. Don't write them down on paper or tell the rest of us about them, just like on your desert island. Good luck working on that coconut detection device!
Hope he(?) enjoys the gay sex scene!
Actually, better to just play with a female character, more fun that way anyway.
Two tell tale signs of an parent that is abusive, lazy, or both, is if you hear them count at their child as a threat, or call their punishment "Time Out".
Time-outs can actually quite effective, if done properly. Making a child go and sit by him/herself in a room where there's no toys, books or otherwise anything to distract it for a certain period of time really works quite well as a form of punishment.
Besides, it actually conveys the message you're trying to get across: "your behavior is unacceptable to us, and as long as you continue to behave this way you're not welcome in our company. have your temper tantrums by yourself or act normally, your choice."
Depends a bit on the country but yes, generally speaking, 90%(number drawn from ass, don't ask for citations) of the stuff you see in cinema's over here comes from the US.
The interesting thing is that an environment like that, there are 2 political messages that become a lot more appealing:
1) blame some minority group of people for all your woes: Mexican immigrants, black people, communists, Jews, Muslims, etc. In short, fascism.
2) band together with the other exploited workers to put a stop to oppressive management. Workers of the world, unite! In short, communism
Wow, a +3 insightful, for only being able to see the extreme edges of the possible spectrum. Well done.
For the record, the normal term used for 2) would be a "union" or a "workers council", which, although also leaning towards the left, is a little more feasible in a modern capitalist society than switching to the state owning all means of production. A company may be able to replace a single cog, but if all the cogs get together and give management a big hearty fuck you, they tend to react somewhat differently (doesn't stop them from trying to get rid of the ringleader a little while later ofc).
Make sure you get the "Norwegian Cloud" as well(entire datacenter explodes in an impressive display of shiny colors).
I have an IQ of about 142, and seeing certain friends of mine struggle to understand things that come completely intuitively to me, like programming a tv without a manual (or even with one!), grasping the concepts of levers and gearing things up/down, logic puzzles, etc. I wonder how a person significantly more intelligent than me views the world we live in.
I've often wondered just how much the ability to do these things has to do with intelligence and if it isn't an issue of confidence and experience. Many of the people I know that struggle with your example of programming a tv are convinced they're bad at it before even trying. Now this might be a conclusion drawn from past experiences, but I can't help but shake the feeling that it's also some sort of cultural thing. You know, the whole I'm too old/female/inept/whatever to do that kinda thing. And when you take them by the hand in a lot of cases it turns out to be really quite simple once they've wrapped their head around the logic being used.
You know what's going on, you can analyse and understand it, but you're not really part of it. You don't have an intuitive feel for it like others do.
Bleh, I wish. Analyzing and understanding both require observing something to begin with, took me years just to get that part sorted out. Only then do you get to the slightly more fun part where you actually have to decode all the unspoken or encrypted messages flying back and forth (Honey, when you say "it's ok", does that mean you're not gonna be pissed off when I spend half the night playing games? No, not really? Ok, so why didn't you just fucking say so in the first place? Cue more passive-aggressive relationship stuff...)
One of my favorite examples of Aspergers is the guy that you meet in the street that you vaguely know and greet with "hey man, how you doing", who then walks over to you and starts telling you his life's story. Most people learn relatively quickly that some expressions are just that, expressions. Just because I ask you how you're doing doesn't mean I want to know or even that I give a damn, I'm just being polite. And I, ehmmm, am in a really big hurry to get to work. Yes, on a sunday afternoon. Wearing what is clearly casual clothing. See ya!
I don't visit sites that are prone to malware, and I use safe searching habits.
Such as...say, using another browser besides the one that came with the operating system? An open source one, perhaps?
Hold on, the Higgs Boson wants to prevent us from finding the LHC? Isn't that thing, like, pretty damn huge? Needs more than 1 country to fit under kinda huge?
How is that? Aside from i think some of the tutorial missions that have been locked down from intruders, pretty much anything else can be found and entered by other players.
And that's how a pirate can turn into a paying customer.
And why I, a legitimate customer, can't play Dragon Age if my net connection is down, because the game checks if I'm really entitled to start that savegame with DLC content in it.
In other news, the amount of legitimate Dragon Age + DLC owners planning on getting a pirate copy of Mass Effect just increased by 1.
Ehmm, which part of "coming to some sort of arrangement" is creepy? I was kidding along the lines of a shared network drive or something.
If I wanted to eavesdrop I'd just throw it wide open and sit back and watch the traffic roll.
Any clued neighbor wouldn't be allowing others onto their wi-fi.
Considering my neighbour is hot, blonde and single, if she wants to use my connection to download pr0n I'm sure we can come to some sort of arrangement...
I don't know what world you live in, but the one I live in, regardless of whether or not they go to school or have a career, most (not all) women eventually want to raise children of their own. In an ideal world, women could raise children AND have a career. We live far away from an ideal world on a place called Earth, where months out of work are a serious setback, and where raising kids well AND dealing with workplace responsibilities is impossible unless you sleep 2 hours a day.
Actually, over here in pinko commie europe where politicians fart unicorns, there's quite a few laws in place to ensure both that the mother does not suffer in her workplace from...well...becoming a mother and that there is ample opportunity for dad to actually chip in(paternity leave, etc). Especially the Scandinavian countries are quite enlightened in that respect. Then again the women around here are 6 foot tall blondes that'll tear your head off if you keep insisting on paying for their dinner.
Indeed, that's my reaction. While an infant doesn't have the ability to store the memories of the pain or loss in a way that can be recalled later.
As for HIV...have you tried sex with a condom? It doesn't feel that good. Bareback is immensely better.
So? Use a condom for short-term flings and get tested together for longer term relationships, it's really not that difficult.
As for people relying on not being circumcized for not contracting HIV...let's hope natural selection stops them in their tracks *before* they toss out some offspring that ends up equally ignorant.
Call me Mr Grumpy Pants, but my ideal woman is not someone whose idea of a fulfilling life is playing some stupid flash game.
Excellent. Means there's more to go around for the rest of us.
And in other news...never, ever, let your new gf play plants vs zombies on your pc. You'll have to buy a second pc just to be able to browse slashdot.
Deliveries could get really personalized once you fill out this page:
http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd?action=viewpage§ion=frealdoll2 [realdoll.com]
Be sure and check the shipping container for signs of tampering, because in this case the "handling" in "shipping and handling" may have deeper meaning.
Holy crap...6k US$ for a piece of plastic with a hole in it... I'm not sure what's scarier, the price tag or the fact that apparently there's actually people willing to pay that kind of money or they'd have gone out of business.
"How do you refuse when they are backed with the full force of law?"
You do something illegal. Very simple. Armed rebellion IS a legitimate choice.
I'm surprised to hear all of this "I want to change the government because it is poor and doesn't represent my interests.... but I won't do anything illegal". FUCKING PICK ONE. Either put up with the bullshit, or do something about it, don't sit there and bitch like a whiney fuck.
Bah, you americans.
What is required is an informed populace that gives a damn. Either people give a shit, and in that case they can use legal means to oust the jackasses, or they don't and in that case what good are guns gonna do them?
The reason people bitch on /. instead of actually being able to change anything is because as people who care about this particular issue we're in the minority. So are you suggesting that we pick up guns and force our values on the rest of our countries? Maybe start a little dictatorship of enlightened slashdotians while we're at it?
Guns come into play once a government refuses to leave even though they've been replaced through elections, or elections are getting rigged. And at that point the army gets involved on one side or the other anyway, and either things are over real quick (military sides with the populace) or you're looking at a drawn out civil war(military supports the jackasses).
But do keep waving that awesome 2nd amendment in our faces. Fat lot of good that AK is gonna do you in the long run.
Pah, amateur. As soon as I finish building my Punisher frigate and save up enough money for an Amarr Frigate skillbook, I'm a gonna take off from this damn planet before it floods and head off to lowsec!