That's what kills me about these arguments. The USA is controlled by the people with money. Your money people decided it was time to change. If our money decides it's not cost efficient to convert, we will never convert since there is zero benefit in the daily life of an American. It makes since in scientific matters as uniformity and precision are a must. When I buy a pair of pants or a shirt, I need to know inches because that's what they're sold in. When I buy gas, the people that sell it to me measure it out in gallons. What's the chances a guy with $10k in tools is going to replace one tool at a time that is in a different system than the everything else he already has? Zero. On the personal scale, any measurement system, once learned is just as "simple" as any other because it becomes intuitive long before you're an adult. Talking shit to Americans because they use the system that our overlords demand us use is just pointless.
"This sense of America, in modern usage, is used almost exclusively to refer to the United States of America"
Thank you for referencing a wiki page that backs up my statement regarding CONSISTENT usage of the term America.
Yet another failure. There is no continent on Earth called America. There's North America and South America. A region called Central America. The only people on Earth that refer to anything as America on a consistent basis is the USA which refers to itself as America. Its called the internet. Lots of information on there to keep from looking like an idiot. You may want to look into it.
Agree 100%. With media an aggregate of thousands of people give the best idea of what I'm likely to experience. A professional may agree with many or none but the weight of their review is only equal to one of the many that have an opinion on the media. On everything else outside of media, I would never seek a professional reviewer's opinion. The main reason being that if its not the ONE product of a particular type they use everyday I couldn't care less what they thought about the product in the short time they used it before reviewing it.
Sometimes a person just gets tired of trying to deal with trolls and bullies. Cowards love to cut a person with their words or actions then act saintly when the victim caves in their face. A lot of the internet is filled with cowards and especially AC's, that's why trolling and bullying is so prevalent. Emotional scars can last forever and should be dealt with immediately and fiercely. The law provides no protection against bullies because they usually craft their attacks to be perfectly legal but then laugh at your sorrow as their reward. Sometimes you just can't reason with an asshole and when words fail, its usually both easier and more effective to translate your emotions into violence. The bully's ROI is always infinitely high because they believe there is no risk. Show them that there is indeed a risk to their actions and they probably won't be so likely to act in the same way again towards someone else.
The one thing that is extremely bothering to me is that 'sexual offender' is used to describe things that have nothing to do with what most people think it does. You ask a normal person on the street and they assume a rapist or pedophile. Some 21 year old gets a little too drunk and takes a piss behind a bush, he can be labeled a sex offender for public display of nudity. So can a person, male or female, who sends a text message with a pic of their naked body to the wrong person. I've read about people in both of those situations being labeled a sex offender and both can now be banned from playing a video game? A lot of non-predator's get screwed with laws like this but it makes since how these laws get passed. People think it makes since to keep a child rapist offline since most of these parents are too damn stupid and/or lazy to realize that their small kids have no business being alone online in the first place.
Crime rates in the USA are easily researched and point to the exact opposite. Your stupidity on the matter is mind boggling. Feel free to respond as you wish this will be the last time I expend effort on showing just how ignorant you are.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl06.xls
The number of black murderers is about the same as white murderers except there are almost 7 times as many white people as black people meaning blacks are around seven times more likely to commit murder than a white person. Please feel free to pontificate whatever nonsense you wish, the floor is yours jackass.
" In short, these people are marginalized to the point that the only options they have left are crime and return to prison."
This is by far the most racist bunch of bullshit I've read in a long time. You could throw n bombs around all day and not even come close to the level of uneducated racism we have right there. It doesn't matter what kind of garbage you wrap it in, you just marginalized every single person to do well in spite of where they grew up or the color of their skin.
The only people marginalizing them are leftists who make them out to be too stupid to fend for themselves. For every single non-white person that graduates college you have the single best proof that personal decisions make the man and nothing else. I grew up in Over the Rhine Cincinnati in a neighborhood that was over 99% black. 56 E McMicken Cincinnati, OH. Look that shit up on google maps and come back at me with your 'I read this somewhere and it sounded good' bullshit. I was one of three white kids in a graduating class of 250. My friends were never exposed to racism from whites, went to a school with more per student funding than every other public school in Cincinnati and every one of us, regardless of race had more than enough options to go to college for free because our parents had no money. The amount of help and free services to the people at my school vastly outnumbered what white kids in the suburbs get but almost no one bothered to use them. Its not suburban white culture that hurts these people its inner city black culture. People are quick to suck on that government tit to the point I had to fight my way through school because I wanted better for myself. Was it racist white people beating up my black friends for doing well in school? Was it racist white people mocking them daily because they wanted to do better? Nope it was their fellow black students. Sorry to burst your little leftist bubble but the only thing that held my neighbors back were themselves. My neighbors didn't deal drugs and rob people at gun point because it was their only choice, it was the easier choice. There's some hard working people in that neighborhood but a lot of them just don't want to work at a $14/hour job like I had when I went to school. Why bother when the government will feed you and pay 80% of your rent. The rest of anything you need can be hustled for pretty fast. That leaves you 24 hours a day to lay on your ass teaching your kids these same values.
Very true. People always try to say guns are the problem in the USA but there are too many examples where countries have less guns per capita but more murders per capita with them. Brazil is the worst where the have half as many firearms per citizen, half as many citizens but literally three times the number of firearm murders as the USA. Half of the murders here are non-firearm related so people here seem to have no problem killing people with blades or baseball bats. If you took away every gun in the world two weeks ago, this nut-job would have walked into that school with a bag full of pipe bombs. Guns are not our problem, people are.
And therein lies the falsehood spread by a lot of atheists. If it truly had no value to an atheist there would be no reason to attack it with such ferocity. Are there thousands of images mocking people with gray cars on the internet? What about people who like Colby rather than Cheddar? Nope. Pick anything that has no value to your average citizen and you're not likely to find millions of hate filled posts about the topic. People that find no value in something don't spend time attacking it or even pay attention to it in the slightest. When a commercial comes on tv for anything that has no value to me my kneejerk reaction is not to feel hatred for it while rushing off to the internet to type out some offensive garbage that has the sole intent and purpose of offending the people who do find value in it. I simply tune it out. Why? Because that's what people do when something has no value to them. It is irrelevant.
Guess I wasn't very clear before. I wasn't having trouble in Act 3 until I logged out one day needing repairs and had 10k on my guy after making some gems. A week later I come back and the normal 10-15k repair bill was over 50k. Sure I could have begged for the money. Or made another character and farmed the gold. I chose the spend my time playing something route.
I really liked this game when it first came out. Didn't have a ton of time to play but made it to Act 3 Inferno right as they decided I should be punished. Nothing like logging in one day to find repair bills were so high that you couldn't afford to repair. Sell everything you have and still have broken pieces of armor. Brilliant idea making a player decide whether they'd rather make another character in order to farm the money needed to repair your favorite character or just uninstall. Haven't played since.
The CEO's are irrelevant. CEO's are ultimately beholden to the stock holders. People have begun to expect certain returns on their investments and when they don't get that the use their holding power to get rid of people who aren't doing whatever it takes. Its part of the reason why the stock market causes so many problems in our economy. You don't have to pass an IQ test to own stock and people's emotions can cripple a good company or make a shitty company with no real future ultra rich. This ROE is also why so many corporations don't care about people or the environment.
As for the game, I don't understand any strategy that would involve shutting down a profitable anything unless they figured they could make even more money with the resources they will be freeing up.
We're talking about online German news services? I wonder how many dozens of Germans actually search Google for news. Seems like most people either go to the sites directly or use aggregate services that have lots of sources already pooled. Even if Google says fine and pays, it seems like the only thing that would change is some gov't employee would be hired to write a program that just searched German news sites on Google millions of times a day.
Texas wants this. Their state is has been under attack by illegal aliens crossing their borders and the federal government tells them to not shoot even if they are being shot at.
Just curious since I've never used it, but does RT not have cmd.exe or mklink.exe like all other recent versions of windows? If it does, why couldn't you put apps on removable storage? I've done this with windows 7 to an SD card before so was curious why they would have removed this functionality from the newest version of windows.
I hope Google does the right thing here as any good global economy participant should. If the French draft a law saying you must pay to access and display our hard work in your search results or you don't get access Google must obey this law to the letter. Forgo all search results of French media. I also really do hope there is someone at Google headquarters, right this very minute, drafting an asshole addendum to their mission statement. 'We will provide anyone access to a global search audience for free. If those terms aren't good enough for you we will happily remove those results from any search made through our service. If you want to be included at a later date, we will be happy to put your results back in for the low, low cost of $1.00 USD per result shown regardless if anyone clicks the link or not. Thank you for using Google.'
Aw! Poor little fella needs a nap I think. I can understand disappointment at someone not bothering to properly proofread a submission but anger? REALLY? Lol you are too funny in your sad, little fucked up life. Posting anonymously? Why? Stand behind your anger little bitch and if people don't like your attitude live with a lower karma score on Slashdot. Who cares? At least be a man about it.
The only problem there is that there are people who's intent is to cause emotional harm. The Canadian gov't is dealing with a girl who was harassed to the point of suicide. While most of us here on planet internet seem to be soulless assholes who have no problem ignoring most of the hate, the rest of the world that is just now catching up to us on internet usage has not had decades to slowly acclimatize themselves to it. While I don't think the above mentioned law is the way to go, something needs to be done. The only reason why the internet is so filled with hate is there are ZERO repercussions. People like to act like words don't harm a person in an even worse way than physical violence but they do. Why do you think people rarely open their mouths in public but everyone on the internet is a tough guy? That person in public you just cut deeply with your words is likely to stomp your ass into the ground and not care one bit about the consequences.
Lol, so you start your rebuttal by listing three reasons why your first post was trash and completely miss that you stated a ps3 with psn or an xbox with live was the same thing as a gaming PC with Steam. That is definitely NOT the same thing as claiming psn and live are the same thing as Steam.
Let's ignore the fact that most things on Steam cost less and multiple times a year I can get things like SR3 for 80% off.
Let's also ignore the multitudes of modding communities that extend the value of games I bought for years and still keep things fresh.
If I have a PC:
I can load maps on one monitor and play a game on another monitor.
I can turn my game off and write code for work.
I can use Skype, TS or Ventrillo and mute the horrible in game comms. Even if I lied to myself and said the in game stuff wasn't so bad I still would have to mute the legions of 8 yo kids screaming into their mics in order to hear my friends.
I can use either console's controller for ported games
2TB of storage versus 320gigs(or 20gigs if you bought early)
The 'slightly better' graphics I'm running include:
DX10 and 11 vs DX9
20% increase to resolution
Ambient Occlusion
Shading at least two generations past console.
1Gig or more of video ram versus 256Mb PS3 and 512M for xbox
Tesselation
Parallax Occlusion Mapping
16X AA versus most games not having AA at all on consoles and only those from the last couple of years having any at all.
Considering you're a console guy you might just be innocently ignorant as to why your chosen platform is far inferior but my oil change is done and I have to stop educating you now.
Obama has hit a Trillion dollar deficit per year since he took over. A lot of that money was 'stimulus' paid directly to these asshats. Its almost like when random joe public awards a giant payday to someone in court. Everyone knows its a bad idea but they do it anyway in the hopes that maybe one day they'll be the lucky one to get a free payday at someone else's expense.
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That's what kills me about these arguments. The USA is controlled by the people with money. Your money people decided it was time to change. If our money decides it's not cost efficient to convert, we will never convert since there is zero benefit in the daily life of an American. It makes since in scientific matters as uniformity and precision are a must. When I buy a pair of pants or a shirt, I need to know inches because that's what they're sold in. When I buy gas, the people that sell it to me measure it out in gallons. What's the chances a guy with $10k in tools is going to replace one tool at a time that is in a different system than the everything else he already has? Zero. On the personal scale, any measurement system, once learned is just as "simple" as any other because it becomes intuitive long before you're an adult. Talking shit to Americans because they use the system that our overlords demand us use is just pointless.
"This sense of America, in modern usage, is used almost exclusively to refer to the United States of America" Thank you for referencing a wiki page that backs up my statement regarding CONSISTENT usage of the term America.
Yet another failure. There is no continent on Earth called America. There's North America and South America. A region called Central America. The only people on Earth that refer to anything as America on a consistent basis is the USA which refers to itself as America. Its called the internet. Lots of information on there to keep from looking like an idiot. You may want to look into it.
Agree 100%. With media an aggregate of thousands of people give the best idea of what I'm likely to experience. A professional may agree with many or none but the weight of their review is only equal to one of the many that have an opinion on the media. On everything else outside of media, I would never seek a professional reviewer's opinion. The main reason being that if its not the ONE product of a particular type they use everyday I couldn't care less what they thought about the product in the short time they used it before reviewing it.
Sometimes a person just gets tired of trying to deal with trolls and bullies. Cowards love to cut a person with their words or actions then act saintly when the victim caves in their face. A lot of the internet is filled with cowards and especially AC's, that's why trolling and bullying is so prevalent. Emotional scars can last forever and should be dealt with immediately and fiercely. The law provides no protection against bullies because they usually craft their attacks to be perfectly legal but then laugh at your sorrow as their reward. Sometimes you just can't reason with an asshole and when words fail, its usually both easier and more effective to translate your emotions into violence. The bully's ROI is always infinitely high because they believe there is no risk. Show them that there is indeed a risk to their actions and they probably won't be so likely to act in the same way again towards someone else.
The one thing that is extremely bothering to me is that 'sexual offender' is used to describe things that have nothing to do with what most people think it does. You ask a normal person on the street and they assume a rapist or pedophile. Some 21 year old gets a little too drunk and takes a piss behind a bush, he can be labeled a sex offender for public display of nudity. So can a person, male or female, who sends a text message with a pic of their naked body to the wrong person. I've read about people in both of those situations being labeled a sex offender and both can now be banned from playing a video game? A lot of non-predator's get screwed with laws like this but it makes since how these laws get passed. People think it makes since to keep a child rapist offline since most of these parents are too damn stupid and/or lazy to realize that their small kids have no business being alone online in the first place.
Crime rates in the USA are easily researched and point to the exact opposite. Your stupidity on the matter is mind boggling. Feel free to respond as you wish this will be the last time I expend effort on showing just how ignorant you are. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl06.xls The number of black murderers is about the same as white murderers except there are almost 7 times as many white people as black people meaning blacks are around seven times more likely to commit murder than a white person. Please feel free to pontificate whatever nonsense you wish, the floor is yours jackass.
" In short, these people are marginalized to the point that the only options they have left are crime and return to prison." This is by far the most racist bunch of bullshit I've read in a long time. You could throw n bombs around all day and not even come close to the level of uneducated racism we have right there. It doesn't matter what kind of garbage you wrap it in, you just marginalized every single person to do well in spite of where they grew up or the color of their skin. The only people marginalizing them are leftists who make them out to be too stupid to fend for themselves. For every single non-white person that graduates college you have the single best proof that personal decisions make the man and nothing else. I grew up in Over the Rhine Cincinnati in a neighborhood that was over 99% black. 56 E McMicken Cincinnati, OH. Look that shit up on google maps and come back at me with your 'I read this somewhere and it sounded good' bullshit. I was one of three white kids in a graduating class of 250. My friends were never exposed to racism from whites, went to a school with more per student funding than every other public school in Cincinnati and every one of us, regardless of race had more than enough options to go to college for free because our parents had no money. The amount of help and free services to the people at my school vastly outnumbered what white kids in the suburbs get but almost no one bothered to use them. Its not suburban white culture that hurts these people its inner city black culture. People are quick to suck on that government tit to the point I had to fight my way through school because I wanted better for myself. Was it racist white people beating up my black friends for doing well in school? Was it racist white people mocking them daily because they wanted to do better? Nope it was their fellow black students. Sorry to burst your little leftist bubble but the only thing that held my neighbors back were themselves. My neighbors didn't deal drugs and rob people at gun point because it was their only choice, it was the easier choice. There's some hard working people in that neighborhood but a lot of them just don't want to work at a $14/hour job like I had when I went to school. Why bother when the government will feed you and pay 80% of your rent. The rest of anything you need can be hustled for pretty fast. That leaves you 24 hours a day to lay on your ass teaching your kids these same values.
A free education you mean. Why should anyone be allowed to sneak in for free if others have to pay?
Very true. People always try to say guns are the problem in the USA but there are too many examples where countries have less guns per capita but more murders per capita with them. Brazil is the worst where the have half as many firearms per citizen, half as many citizens but literally three times the number of firearm murders as the USA. Half of the murders here are non-firearm related so people here seem to have no problem killing people with blades or baseball bats. If you took away every gun in the world two weeks ago, this nut-job would have walked into that school with a bag full of pipe bombs. Guns are not our problem, people are.
And therein lies the falsehood spread by a lot of atheists. If it truly had no value to an atheist there would be no reason to attack it with such ferocity. Are there thousands of images mocking people with gray cars on the internet? What about people who like Colby rather than Cheddar? Nope. Pick anything that has no value to your average citizen and you're not likely to find millions of hate filled posts about the topic. People that find no value in something don't spend time attacking it or even pay attention to it in the slightest. When a commercial comes on tv for anything that has no value to me my kneejerk reaction is not to feel hatred for it while rushing off to the internet to type out some offensive garbage that has the sole intent and purpose of offending the people who do find value in it. I simply tune it out. Why? Because that's what people do when something has no value to them. It is irrelevant.
Guess I wasn't very clear before. I wasn't having trouble in Act 3 until I logged out one day needing repairs and had 10k on my guy after making some gems. A week later I come back and the normal 10-15k repair bill was over 50k. Sure I could have begged for the money. Or made another character and farmed the gold. I chose the spend my time playing something route.
I really liked this game when it first came out. Didn't have a ton of time to play but made it to Act 3 Inferno right as they decided I should be punished. Nothing like logging in one day to find repair bills were so high that you couldn't afford to repair. Sell everything you have and still have broken pieces of armor. Brilliant idea making a player decide whether they'd rather make another character in order to farm the money needed to repair your favorite character or just uninstall. Haven't played since.
The CEO's are irrelevant. CEO's are ultimately beholden to the stock holders. People have begun to expect certain returns on their investments and when they don't get that the use their holding power to get rid of people who aren't doing whatever it takes. Its part of the reason why the stock market causes so many problems in our economy. You don't have to pass an IQ test to own stock and people's emotions can cripple a good company or make a shitty company with no real future ultra rich. This ROE is also why so many corporations don't care about people or the environment. As for the game, I don't understand any strategy that would involve shutting down a profitable anything unless they figured they could make even more money with the resources they will be freeing up.
We're talking about online German news services? I wonder how many dozens of Germans actually search Google for news. Seems like most people either go to the sites directly or use aggregate services that have lots of sources already pooled. Even if Google says fine and pays, it seems like the only thing that would change is some gov't employee would be hired to write a program that just searched German news sites on Google millions of times a day.
This is what I think every time someone shows off a Minority Report style interface.
Texas wants this. Their state is has been under attack by illegal aliens crossing their borders and the federal government tells them to not shoot even if they are being shot at.
Just curious since I've never used it, but does RT not have cmd.exe or mklink.exe like all other recent versions of windows? If it does, why couldn't you put apps on removable storage? I've done this with windows 7 to an SD card before so was curious why they would have removed this functionality from the newest version of windows.
I hope Google does the right thing here as any good global economy participant should. If the French draft a law saying you must pay to access and display our hard work in your search results or you don't get access Google must obey this law to the letter. Forgo all search results of French media. I also really do hope there is someone at Google headquarters, right this very minute, drafting an asshole addendum to their mission statement. 'We will provide anyone access to a global search audience for free. If those terms aren't good enough for you we will happily remove those results from any search made through our service. If you want to be included at a later date, we will be happy to put your results back in for the low, low cost of $1.00 USD per result shown regardless if anyone clicks the link or not. Thank you for using Google.'
Aw! Poor little fella needs a nap I think. I can understand disappointment at someone not bothering to properly proofread a submission but anger? REALLY? Lol you are too funny in your sad, little fucked up life. Posting anonymously? Why? Stand behind your anger little bitch and if people don't like your attitude live with a lower karma score on Slashdot. Who cares? At least be a man about it.
The only problem there is that there are people who's intent is to cause emotional harm. The Canadian gov't is dealing with a girl who was harassed to the point of suicide. While most of us here on planet internet seem to be soulless assholes who have no problem ignoring most of the hate, the rest of the world that is just now catching up to us on internet usage has not had decades to slowly acclimatize themselves to it. While I don't think the above mentioned law is the way to go, something needs to be done. The only reason why the internet is so filled with hate is there are ZERO repercussions. People like to act like words don't harm a person in an even worse way than physical violence but they do. Why do you think people rarely open their mouths in public but everyone on the internet is a tough guy? That person in public you just cut deeply with your words is likely to stomp your ass into the ground and not care one bit about the consequences.
Funny that you sound EXACTLY like the Taliban and Al Queda. Great group of friends you got there.
Lol, so you start your rebuttal by listing three reasons why your first post was trash and completely miss that you stated a ps3 with psn or an xbox with live was the same thing as a gaming PC with Steam. That is definitely NOT the same thing as claiming psn and live are the same thing as Steam.
Let's ignore the fact that most things on Steam cost less and multiple times a year I can get things like SR3 for 80% off.
Let's also ignore the multitudes of modding communities that extend the value of games I bought for years and still keep things fresh.
If I have a PC:
I can load maps on one monitor and play a game on another monitor.
I can turn my game off and write code for work.
I can use Skype, TS or Ventrillo and mute the horrible in game comms. Even if I lied to myself and said the in game stuff wasn't so bad I still would have to mute the legions of 8 yo kids screaming into their mics in order to hear my friends.
I can use either console's controller for ported games
2TB of storage versus 320gigs(or 20gigs if you bought early)
The 'slightly better' graphics I'm running include:
DX10 and 11 vs DX9
20% increase to resolution
Ambient Occlusion
Shading at least two generations past console.
1Gig or more of video ram versus 256Mb PS3 and 512M for xbox
Tesselation
Parallax Occlusion Mapping
16X AA versus most games not having AA at all on consoles and only those from the last couple of years having any at all.
Considering you're a console guy you might just be innocently ignorant as to why your chosen platform is far inferior but my oil change is done and I have to stop educating you now.
I could go into the 100's of reasons why your comment is just full of fail but I'll just sum it up with LOL
Obama has hit a Trillion dollar deficit per year since he took over. A lot of that money was 'stimulus' paid directly to these asshats. Its almost like when random joe public awards a giant payday to someone in court. Everyone knows its a bad idea but they do it anyway in the hopes that maybe one day they'll be the lucky one to get a free payday at someone else's expense.