Ultimately only you are responsible for your own health and happiness. If you're not willing to do whatever it takes to secure those things for yourself, do not blame others. It's your choice not to act.
And that, in a nutshell, is why a lot of people can't stop scratching their heads about the way things are done in the good ol' US of A.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's immoral or wrong in any way, just that a good chunk of the rest of the western world feels there's such a thing as the common good which supercedes the individual.
And to put this in economical terms, what's the cost/benefit of providing the GGP with socially funded medicine, which most likely means he'll be able to function as a tax-paying, consuming, creditcard-using citizen instead of having to sit at home being a drain on society through other channels? In many cases a short-term investment in people that have fallen "through the system", so to speak, can make a huge difference both to their own welfare as well as their ability to contribute to society as opposed to having to depend on it.
Sorry, but what does being able to answer 9x10 and 9x4 have to do with intelligence? Just a matter of practicing enough to know a number of basic multiplications and divisions by heart at some point.
World of Warcraft and MMOs in general are another.
Hardly...since these days the wives, mothers and managers of ubergeeks, or for that matter anyone, can be found in WoW. 1995 called and it wants its stereotypes back;-)
part time jobs, extracurricular activites (band, football, math club, chess club), to feed themselves, to take the burden off parents who work 2-4 hours away by picking up their younger siblings at school/daycare.
Once again, you don't seem to get how spread out the burbs are in the majority of states.
Ok, so what distances are we *really* talking about? I did all this stuff when I was that age, and I still don't have a driver's license. Some things I did on foot, a lot of it by bicycle(not an option in a lot of countries, I know) and for longer distances that didn't have proper public transport a moped that does just a bit less than 30MPH, which is a normal inner-city speed around here.
If we can't do it for real, can we at least grab the source for jagged alliance 2 and use that to create a spammer assassin game? Would be soooooo much fun:P
1) Write a Perl script that knows how to write more Perl 2) Wait till it evolves the ability to access and read the internet 3) ???? 4) Emigrate to Mars
Depends on the format. Unencoded.avi ran just fine on my good old P90 with 48MB of fast-page ram. Heck, back in those days some games had cd's full of the stuff so the cpu would be able to handle it.
Funny thing is that your example is a typical case of horrible design that makes me wonder whether whoever came up with it ever spends any time communicating with human beings.
The document "Untitled1" has been modified. Do you want to save your changes? is the kind of question to which there are only 3 appropriate answers:
- Yes - No - I have no idea WTF you mean, please explain?
Furthermore, it still makes assumptions about how much a user knows. What happens when I press discard? What happens when I press Cancel? What kind of way is this of speakin to a human being?
Now, if you want to be foolproof, how about actually describing what an action does? Judging from the dialog it looks like what you get when closing a document/application without saving beforehand, which would mean a dialog along the lines of:
"You have chosen to close WordApp. The document you were working on has been modified since it was last saved.
Please make a choice: * Save document and then close WordApp. * Don't save document and close WordApp. * Continue working on document .
Of course this would make for huge buttons, but at least it's telling me what is going on and what my possible choices are.
This is insane - if I was this kids parent I would BEG the school to treat this as a internal disciplinary matter rather than use legal means of redress. The principal is doing this student a FAVOR by acting as a calm responsible adult in this situation and showing that there are consequences for actions.
If you were the kid's parent how about dealing with it yourself? Which is exactly what should have happened in this case. The principal gets in touch with the parents. The parents teach the little brat the difference between right and wrong. Should the parents choose to support their lovely little brat then sue them, as the adult supervisors of the offender, for libel or slander, whichever is applicable.
Make no mistake - drug empires are self funding in the extreme - so explain why would anyone want to take the time out from this lucrative trade just to knock out a few Indiana Jones DVD's?
They're trying to attain optimal synergy while remaining firmly focused on their core business?
I believe you are completely wrong about that. However, most Europeans view McCain as a religious nutcase stuck in the middle ages, and the world seems to have too many of them as leaders already.
I thought Palin was the religious nutcase and McCain is just the babbling mouthpiece?
Long story short, I don't really feel I can trust Obama. I *know* I can't trust McCain. It's up to you guys to stop voting for the lesser evil. The US electorate and media have created a situation where during a campaign candidates can't say anything but what the voters want to hear. "I will lower taxes!". Seriously, WTF, you guys not far enough in debt already? Meanwhile you guys squabble over the most trivial things, while the real issues remain untouched.
Heck, Putin is more credible as a politician from my point of view. He looks and acts like a charismatic throat-cutting asshole, and guess what, that's exactly what he is. A guy like Ron Paul, no matter how much I disagree with his political positions(pretty much everywhere) at least manages to convey to me the feeling that he actually believes what he's saying.
So yes, given the choice between the 2, as a European I'd have to say Obama. The lesser of two evils.
In 2001 I worked as a supervisor in a callcenter(by now bankrupt and bought out) that specialized in tech-support for consumer software and hardware. At one point our recruiter asked me to test an applicant she didn't have a good feeling about. The applicant had numerous impressive looking certifications on her resume and quite a confident demeanor about her abilities. She claimed to be specialized in Microsoft operating systems. Note that this was your typical callcenter full of pc enthusiasts, many of whom had no formal education in IT whatsoever.
Long story short, at the time we also did support for a company that distributed a number of very popular pc games, so I gave the applicant a game consisting of 3 cd-roms and asked her to install it on a typical win98 workstation. After watching her struggle for about 10 minutes, while completely ignoring the big autorun window with the huge "Install game" button on it, we decided perhaps hiring her would not be such a good idea after all...
Brings to mind a rather memorable mass suicide, where a large number of gentleman remained upon a sinking ship so that the women and children could use the too few lifeboats and survive. Ones wonders whether that would happen any more in today's modern society or would they all behave like a pack of panicked wild animals attempting to survive for every possible moment.
Suicide = taking your own life.
What you described = sacrificing your life to save another.
Well, unless it goes into the Bible; then we pretend there's no proven validity to it, call it quaint and decide our line of thinking no longer has value. The Bible is such a show-stopper.
Yeah, this is why I have such bad 'karma' on this site. Almost no one reads me, my input is disturbing.
Sorry, but that's a lot of rot. There are a lot of events being described in the bible that could indeed serve as the foundation for a hypothesis. Old cities, floods, animals and plants being around in certain era's, all of it we can try to determine and test. What drives people nuts is when the link is made between "according to the bible there was a flood, and we think this happened around x years ago" and "according to the bible God caused a flood". The first statement can be subjected to the scientific method, the second can't.
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Spore is, in many ways, a spinoff from The Sims, which was aimed squarely at the more casual gamer crowd.
Thing is, during the first stages this is really true. Especially the Creature stage is, imo, a lot of fun, and you get the chance to see a little being you've created act funny, silly and at times downright adorable. However, the next 2 stages really aren't all that much fun and once you get into space all of a sudden things get complicated, hectic and I started to seriously suffer from information overload. I can't see the same people that go "awwwwwww" over the creature stage actually really enjoy the space stage, or vice versa.
But the weapon overheating problem is a bug in mass effect.
Which the crack fixes, but the official patches don't...so the choice comes down to using the crack and not having access to the Bring down the Sky content, or not using it and having your weapons overheat at the silliest moments.
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Ultimately only you are responsible for your own health and happiness. If you're not willing to do whatever it takes to secure those things for yourself, do not blame others. It's your choice not to act.
And that, in a nutshell, is why a lot of people can't stop scratching their heads about the way things are done in the good ol' US of A.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's immoral or wrong in any way, just that a good chunk of the rest of the western world feels there's such a thing as the common good which supercedes the individual.
And to put this in economical terms, what's the cost/benefit of providing the GGP with socially funded medicine, which most likely means he'll be able to function as a tax-paying, consuming, creditcard-using citizen instead of having to sit at home being a drain on society through other channels? In many cases a short-term investment in people that have fallen "through the system", so to speak, can make a huge difference both to their own welfare as well as their ability to contribute to society as opposed to having to depend on it.
Sorry, but what does being able to answer 9x10 and 9x4 have to do with intelligence? Just a matter of practicing enough to know a number of basic multiplications and divisions by heart at some point.
World of Warcraft and MMOs in general are another.
Hardly...since these days the wives, mothers and managers of ubergeeks, or for that matter anyone, can be found in WoW. 1995 called and it wants its stereotypes back ;-)
part time jobs, extracurricular activites (band, football, math club, chess club), to feed themselves, to take the burden off parents who work 2-4 hours away by picking up their younger siblings at school/daycare.
Once again, you don't seem to get how spread out the burbs are in the majority of states.
Ok, so what distances are we *really* talking about? I did all this stuff when I was that age, and I still don't have a driver's license. Some things I did on foot, a lot of it by bicycle(not an option in a lot of countries, I know) and for longer distances that didn't have proper public transport a moped that does just a bit less than 30MPH, which is a normal inner-city speed around here.
Well, let's see how "professional journalism" is doing over at the National Inquirer. Today's headlines:
* "Patrick Swayze takes turn for worse - TV show shuts down!"
* "Sleazemaster Larry Flynt XXX 'Palin' flick."
* "Feds eye steamy Lara Logan 'war crimes'."
"Got Gossip? We'll pay big bucks. Click or email us. Click here. [nationalenquirer.com]"
Hey, some of us like to keep informed of upcoming Palin Porn, you insensitive clod!
Hmmm, short memories on slashdot....doesn't anyone remember the Windows 95 clouds?
If we can't do it for real, can we at least grab the source for jagged alliance 2 and use that to create a spammer assassin game? Would be soooooo much fun :P
1) Write a Perl script that knows how to write more Perl
2) Wait till it evolves the ability to access and read the internet
3) ????
4) Emigrate to Mars
Hey, all we need is a second LHC in the Mars core and the black holes will do the rest, right? Right?
And then got himself made President of the human fleet and promptly made a deal with the Cylons. I *knew* that guy was evil!
Depends on the format. Unencoded .avi ran just fine on my good old P90 with 48MB of fast-page ram. Heck, back in those days some games had cd's full of the stuff so the cpu would be able to handle it.
Funny thing is that your example is a typical case of horrible design that makes me wonder whether whoever came up with it ever spends any time communicating with human beings.
The document "Untitled1" has been modified. Do you want to save your changes? is the kind of question to which there are only 3 appropriate answers:
- Yes
- No
- I have no idea WTF you mean, please explain?
Furthermore, it still makes assumptions about how much a user knows. What happens when I press discard? What happens when I press Cancel? What kind of way is this of speakin to a human being?
Now, if you want to be foolproof, how about actually describing what an action does? Judging from the dialog it looks like what you get when closing a document/application without saving beforehand, which would mean a dialog along the lines of:
"You have chosen to close WordApp. The document you were working on has been modified since it was last saved.
Please make a choice:
* Save document and then close WordApp.
* Don't save document and close WordApp.
* Continue working on document .
Of course this would make for huge buttons, but at least it's telling me what is going on and what my possible choices are.
Please tell me that's a 1.02 for either Mass Effect or Spore?
Goddamn EA...
This is insane - if I was this kids parent I would BEG the school to treat this as a internal disciplinary matter rather than use legal means of redress. The principal is doing this student a FAVOR by acting as a calm responsible adult in this situation and showing that there are consequences for actions.
If you were the kid's parent how about dealing with it yourself? Which is exactly what should have happened in this case. The principal gets in touch with the parents. The parents teach the little brat the difference between right and wrong. Should the parents choose to support their lovely little brat then sue them, as the adult supervisors of the offender, for libel or slander, whichever is applicable.
You can get an NPC to turn you into a pirate today in WoW. Not sure how long it lasts.
In Eve Online you can be a pirate anytime you bloody well please ;-)
Make no mistake - drug empires are self funding in the extreme - so explain why would anyone want to take the time out from this lucrative trade just to knock out a few Indiana Jones DVD's?
They're trying to attain optimal synergy while remaining firmly focused on their core business?
I believe you are completely wrong about that. However, most Europeans view McCain as a religious nutcase stuck in the middle ages, and the world seems to have too many of them as leaders already.
I thought Palin was the religious nutcase and McCain is just the babbling mouthpiece?
Long story short, I don't really feel I can trust Obama. I *know* I can't trust McCain. It's up to you guys to stop voting for the lesser evil. The US electorate and media have created a situation where during a campaign candidates can't say anything but what the voters want to hear. "I will lower taxes!". Seriously, WTF, you guys not far enough in debt already? Meanwhile you guys squabble over the most trivial things, while the real issues remain untouched.
Heck, Putin is more credible as a politician from my point of view. He looks and acts like a charismatic throat-cutting asshole, and guess what, that's exactly what he is. A guy like Ron Paul, no matter how much I disagree with his political positions(pretty much everywhere) at least manages to convey to me the feeling that he actually believes what he's saying.
So yes, given the choice between the 2, as a European I'd have to say Obama. The lesser of two evils.
In 2001 I worked as a supervisor in a callcenter(by now bankrupt and bought out) that specialized in tech-support for consumer software and hardware. At one point our recruiter asked me to test an applicant she didn't have a good feeling about. The applicant had numerous impressive looking certifications on her resume and quite a confident demeanor about her abilities. She claimed to be specialized in Microsoft operating systems. Note that this was your typical callcenter full of pc enthusiasts, many of whom had no formal education in IT whatsoever.
Long story short, at the time we also did support for a company that distributed a number of very popular pc games, so I gave the applicant a game consisting of 3 cd-roms and asked her to install it on a typical win98 workstation. After watching her struggle for about 10 minutes, while completely ignoring the big autorun window with the huge "Install game" button on it, we decided perhaps hiring her would not be such a good idea after all...
Brings to mind a rather memorable mass suicide, where a large number of gentleman remained upon a sinking ship so that the women and children could use the too few lifeboats and survive. Ones wonders whether that would happen any more in today's modern society or would they all behave like a pack of panicked wild animals attempting to survive for every possible moment.
Suicide = taking your own life.
What you described = sacrificing your life to save another.
Tiny difference?
Well, unless it goes into the Bible; then we pretend there's no proven validity to it, call it quaint and decide our line of thinking no longer has value. The Bible is such a show-stopper.
Yeah, this is why I have such bad 'karma' on this site. Almost no one reads me, my input is disturbing.
Sorry, but that's a lot of rot. There are a lot of events being described in the bible that could indeed serve as the foundation for a hypothesis. Old cities, floods, animals and plants being around in certain era's, all of it we can try to determine and test. What drives people nuts is when the link is made between "according to the bible there was a flood, and we think this happened around x years ago" and "according to the bible God caused a flood". The first statement can be subjected to the scientific method, the second can't.
Which....is getting cancelled after this season.
Spore is, in many ways, a spinoff from The Sims, which was aimed squarely at the more casual gamer crowd.
Thing is, during the first stages this is really true. Especially the Creature stage is, imo, a lot of fun, and you get the chance to see a little being you've created act funny, silly and at times downright adorable. However, the next 2 stages really aren't all that much fun and once you get into space all of a sudden things get complicated, hectic and I started to seriously suffer from information overload. I can't see the same people that go "awwwwwww" over the creature stage actually really enjoy the space stage, or vice versa.
But the weapon overheating problem is a bug in mass effect.
Which the crack fixes, but the official patches don't...so the choice comes down to using the crack and not having access to the Bring down the Sky content, or not using it and having your weapons overheat at the silliest moments.
Civ4 cultural victory?
Those solutions were found quite a long ago. We split them into 2 principles, "freedom of religion" and "separation of church and state".
Unfortunately in the USA neither principle is given a lot of attention.