I don't know, Bioware made KOTOR and that was one of the better Star Wars games ever made. Despite what people think some of the EA studios still have a bit of creativity left. (Then again after trying to play Dragon Age it may be fading fast...)
Except that may not be a symptom of the businesses (at least the ones relevant to the conference) adopting them as much as the proliferation of journalists, bloggers, and marketeers who really don't directly DO much related to the business besides go to conferences. And that being said, if you look closer they tend to be browsing the web and checking their Facebook and Twitter feeds on their tablets and phones more than paying any attention to what's going on at the conference;)
Ironically, these are usually the same journalists, bloggers, and marketeers claiming tablets will replace PCs for people who actually do real work as well...
He meant that a guy with a civilian hunting rifle is not a threat to a modern Army. But apparently he didn't notice that the assault weapons ban failed miserably so those hunting rifles can be pretty much the same thing the average US soldier carries.
This is all about economic sanctions of a Russian company, anyway, why would Russia want to compound that with economic sanctions against all of their industry? Doesn't make sense. They make SO much more money today with an open but corrupt capitalist economy than they did under Communism (Putin alone is reported to be worth $40B) that not getting the technical aid of one computer company is not going to make them sacrifice any of that.
Wow, you managed to be arrogant and ignorant in the same post, congrats.
You can't get pregnant immediately after giving birth, you could speed up the process by not breast feeding, but you still have to wait at least a month and a half for your body to get its parts back where they belong unless you want to risk complications that lead to death during your next pregancy.
I'm sure your mommy told you you can't get pregnant the first time you have sex and masturbation makes you blind, as well, but it just isn't true...
Ever hear of "Irish twins"? I have two sets of uncles who qualify alone. There are many many MANY millions of cases of siblings being born less than a year apart in the world, and plenty of cases of births 9-10 months apart.
And just how many times do you think a woman can actually give birth before her body falls apart?
Well, 19 at least. And no, it's not a conspiracy theory, it's well documented and the guy was in the Arkansas Legislature.
In fact, it was very common in the past (and still today in some areas) for women to pretty much have a child every year or two starting as a teenager. Many of them died and sometimes so did the mother, but if you don't think there have been millions of women over the years who have had 15+ children you are the delusional one.
But don't worry, if you cross your fingers, take the stick our of your ass, and stop masturbating so much like your mom keeps telling you one day you too may be able to see a woman's body parts first hand and maybe even (shudder) reproduce...
Marissa Meyer herself came back after two weeks, so that kind of disproves that argument. If a woman has a traumatic C-section and can't return to work that's understandable, and she may need to go on disability/medical leave, but why should that be any different from anyone else who had major surgery?
And I'm not trying to minimize C-sections - do these companies who give the same benefits (ie. full pay) to someone who has to take a month of non-maternity medical leave? Or do they use the fairly standard short-term disability insurance, which is not nearly as good?
Actually, I don't even agree that they should be given all the time they want. They should be given a reasonable time, sure. But if they are given the guarantee that they can come back to work whenever they want and their job will be waiting for them, the company now has no employee to do their work, no idea when they will be back, and can't hire a permanent employee to replace them!
Given that the cost to raise a child in the US (assuming the standard of living of an employee at Facebook, Google, etc - which would likely be high end daycare/preschool, selective/private schools, top tier colleges) is estimated at $500,000+ (probably more than that if you are just starting now) - and that's not including the opportunity costs of investments, etc - $500k deposited/invested over ~22 years could be enough money that many of those highly paid tech employees could probably hire a 24/7 nurse to take care of them - just from the interest alone!
Not that the American culture is generally the type to care for elderly relatives at home anyway, it's more the "stuff them in a retirement home" type, in which case *financially* you're probably better off just keeping the money. And I emphasize financially/elder care, since that's what you mentioned. Personal fulfillment is up to the individual, but it's hard to understand why a company would try to make that decision for someone.
I don't understand that policy at all... 9 months is 273 days, so 280 days leave means it's basically possible just to keep dropping out kids continuously and get fully paid leave from a guaranteed job without ever having to do any work.
That life sounds like a nightmare to me, there are plenty of people practically doing that around the world right now (just watch TLC for more than a few minutes, ugh). But anyway, why on earth should we be *encouraging* people to keep increasing the population?? I suppose it's intentional Swedish policy?? (To quote Apu: "I have noticed that this country is dangerously underpopulated!")
And I suppose I should have added... when the nuke hits you, why on earth would it matter if it was "over-engineered"? If Russia hits the US with a nuke it's pretty much the end of the world within 15 minutes, so personally I'd prefer they make sure they get the job done as quickly as possible.
"The only net result"?? Ah, I see you are a nuclear weapons physicist, please elaborate! Particularly how it's not possible the bomb could be less effective or not properly detonate at all at worst case, and take much longer to simulate and deploy at best?
Of course Russia should be "allowed" to do it. But why does that mean the US has to support it? Ford has a right to make cars, but that doesn't mean GM is required to support them.
Since nuclear test bans have been in effect, all new nuclear weapon development relies primarily on computer simulation. And given Germany is in NATO and Taiwan is heavily dependent on US aid in order remain independent from China, it makes perfect sense that the US would consider assistance of companies in their countries to Russian weapons development contrary to US (and therefore NATO and Taiwanese) security.
"Try before you buy" is common and is a decent argument with music, but much less of a useful argument for movies. Both because very few people ever watch a movie more than once, and a movie costs 3-4 orders of magnitude more to make than a music album.
People wear the same clothes as they do in 1995. Style hasn't advanced like it did from the 50's to the 70's. Or from the 70's to the 90's.
People listen to the same kinds of music.
They use the same grammar and language from 20 years ago.
The people YOU are around do this, because you all have set your tastes and don't rapidly change them. That's how it has always been - your grandparents probably don't wear track suites and listen to rap and your parents probably don't take ecstasy and listen to trance. Just as those generations following you most definitely do not wear the same clothes, listen to the same music, or use the same grammar as people their age 15 years ago.
Yeah, but it's only really fun if you already used the portable bomb detector to make sure it's not actually a real bomb and you may take out half the block...
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But in the ACTUAL context of this article, yes, it should clearly be "encoder".
I don't know, Bioware made KOTOR and that was one of the better Star Wars games ever made. Despite what people think some of the EA studios still have a bit of creativity left. (Then again after trying to play Dragon Age it may be fading fast...)
Yeah, to be honest Disney will be hard pressed to mangle the Star Wars franchise any more than George Lucas did.
Except that may not be a symptom of the businesses (at least the ones relevant to the conference) adopting them as much as the proliferation of journalists, bloggers, and marketeers who really don't directly DO much related to the business besides go to conferences. And that being said, if you look closer they tend to be browsing the web and checking their Facebook and Twitter feeds on their tablets and phones more than paying any attention to what's going on at the conference ;)
Ironically, these are usually the same journalists, bloggers, and marketeers claiming tablets will replace PCs for people who actually do real work as well...
He meant that a guy with a civilian hunting rifle is not a threat to a modern Army. But apparently he didn't notice that the assault weapons ban failed miserably so those hunting rifles can be pretty much the same thing the average US soldier carries.
This is all about economic sanctions of a Russian company, anyway, why would Russia want to compound that with economic sanctions against all of their industry? Doesn't make sense. They make SO much more money today with an open but corrupt capitalist economy than they did under Communism (Putin alone is reported to be worth $40B) that not getting the technical aid of one computer company is not going to make them sacrifice any of that.
Wow, you managed to be arrogant and ignorant in the same post, congrats.
You can't get pregnant immediately after giving birth, you could speed up the process by not breast feeding, but you still have to wait at least a month and a half for your body to get its parts back where they belong unless you want to risk complications that lead to death during your next pregancy.
I'm sure your mommy told you you can't get pregnant the first time you have sex and masturbation makes you blind, as well, but it just isn't true...
Ever hear of "Irish twins"? I have two sets of uncles who qualify alone. There are many many MANY millions of cases of siblings being born less than a year apart in the world, and plenty of cases of births 9-10 months apart.
And just how many times do you think a woman can actually give birth before her body falls apart?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_Kids_and_Counting
Well, 19 at least. And no, it's not a conspiracy theory, it's well documented and the guy was in the Arkansas Legislature.
In fact, it was very common in the past (and still today in some areas) for women to pretty much have a child every year or two starting as a teenager. Many of them died and sometimes so did the mother, but if you don't think there have been millions of women over the years who have had 15+ children you are the delusional one.
But don't worry, if you cross your fingers, take the stick our of your ass, and stop masturbating so much like your mom keeps telling you one day you too may be able to see a woman's body parts first hand and maybe even (shudder) reproduce...
No, actually, the CA law is that both mothers and fathers can get 55% paid leave up to $1000 a week for 6 weeks.
Marissa Meyer herself came back after two weeks, so that kind of disproves that argument. If a woman has a traumatic C-section and can't return to work that's understandable, and she may need to go on disability/medical leave, but why should that be any different from anyone else who had major surgery?
And I'm not trying to minimize C-sections - do these companies who give the same benefits (ie. full pay) to someone who has to take a month of non-maternity medical leave? Or do they use the fairly standard short-term disability insurance, which is not nearly as good?
Actually, I don't even agree that they should be given all the time they want. They should be given a reasonable time, sure. But if they are given the guarantee that they can come back to work whenever they want and their job will be waiting for them, the company now has no employee to do their work, no idea when they will be back, and can't hire a permanent employee to replace them!
Given that the cost to raise a child in the US (assuming the standard of living of an employee at Facebook, Google, etc - which would likely be high end daycare/preschool, selective/private schools, top tier colleges) is estimated at $500,000+ (probably more than that if you are just starting now) - and that's not including the opportunity costs of investments, etc - $500k deposited/invested over ~22 years could be enough money that many of those highly paid tech employees could probably hire a 24/7 nurse to take care of them - just from the interest alone!
Not that the American culture is generally the type to care for elderly relatives at home anyway, it's more the "stuff them in a retirement home" type, in which case *financially* you're probably better off just keeping the money. And I emphasize financially/elder care, since that's what you mentioned. Personal fulfillment is up to the individual, but it's hard to understand why a company would try to make that decision for someone.
I don't understand that policy at all... 9 months is 273 days, so 280 days leave means it's basically possible just to keep dropping out kids continuously and get fully paid leave from a guaranteed job without ever having to do any work.
That life sounds like a nightmare to me, there are plenty of people practically doing that around the world right now (just watch TLC for more than a few minutes, ugh). But anyway, why on earth should we be *encouraging* people to keep increasing the population?? I suppose it's intentional Swedish policy?? (To quote Apu: "I have noticed that this country is dangerously underpopulated!")
And I suppose I should have added... when the nuke hits you, why on earth would it matter if it was "over-engineered"? If Russia hits the US with a nuke it's pretty much the end of the world within 15 minutes, so personally I'd prefer they make sure they get the job done as quickly as possible.
"The only net result"?? Ah, I see you are a nuclear weapons physicist, please elaborate! Particularly how it's not possible the bomb could be less effective or not properly detonate at all at worst case, and take much longer to simulate and deploy at best?
Of course Russia should be "allowed" to do it. But why does that mean the US has to support it? Ford has a right to make cars, but that doesn't mean GM is required to support them.
Since nuclear test bans have been in effect, all new nuclear weapon development relies primarily on computer simulation. And given Germany is in NATO and Taiwan is heavily dependent on US aid in order remain independent from China, it makes perfect sense that the US would consider assistance of companies in their countries to Russian weapons development contrary to US (and therefore NATO and Taiwanese) security.
"Try before you buy" is common and is a decent argument with music, but much less of a useful argument for movies. Both because very few people ever watch a movie more than once, and a movie costs 3-4 orders of magnitude more to make than a music album.
People wear the same clothes as they do in 1995. Style hasn't advanced like it did from the 50's to the 70's. Or from the 70's to the 90's.
People listen to the same kinds of music.
They use the same grammar and language from 20 years ago.
The people YOU are around do this, because you all have set your tastes and don't rapidly change them. That's how it has always been - your grandparents probably don't wear track suites and listen to rap and your parents probably don't take ecstasy and listen to trance. Just as those generations following you most definitely do not wear the same clothes, listen to the same music, or use the same grammar as people their age 15 years ago.
Yeah, but since more than 80% of the species on the planet are insects, technically he's probably still right...
Screw Charlie, I somehow accidentally got the first post yet apparently no one on ./ knows who Mrs. Frisbee is...
I was somehow hoping this study was done at NIMH.
Or the gullibility gene. It actually seems to be a concrete example of intelligence and logic hurting your evolutionary chances...
Yes, in fact, that's exactly what's going on. Many studies have shown the placebo effect is real - but only if you think it will work...
A masked heroine? Like Batgirl?
Yeah, but it's only really fun if you already used the portable bomb detector to make sure it's not actually a real bomb and you may take out half the block...