Indeed. However, the number of actual humans available to hand out cash - and the amount of cash that they have available to hand out - are at reduced 2010 levels.
I suspect that you wouldn't be so sanguine if mommy sent you out from the basement to get cash, and you were stuck at the back of the queue and wondering if you were going to be able to withdraw enough for your next bag of weed.
It's easier when there's a "currency" thats the same everywhere.
Easier for who? It's impossible for Microsoft to do realtime conversion and show prices in your local currency? You know, since they have to do that any when when you "buy" points?
And what useful information is there? The location of bongo-bongo bushes, and the best way to bash in a frobbler bird's head with a rock?
Look, get it into your head: like all Noble Savages, the abbos were a useless backwards culture that was incapable of changing their environment to give themselves and their children a better quality of life.
Barely scraping by on subsistence gathering is not a lifestyle worthy of respect, and sitting under a tree making up stories to explain away things that you don't understand is a poor substitute for investing your time in actually investigating them, and in developing irrigation and health care.
Please put aside the White Guilt and accept that abbo culture was pathetic and contemptible, and abbo life (before Welfare) was short, hard and unpleasant. They've got it far better now than they've ever had it in the mythical non-existent "Dreamtime".
Sure, and they should start with the terrorist who successfully smuggled explosives into Ireland. After all, as we're told again and again, the contents of our luggage are our personal responsibility, and we don't get to use "Oh, someone must have put it there" as a defence.
Mmm. You understand that all of the above is a design choice, right? That EvE isn't actually real, nor even a simulation. It's a game.
So if capital ship battles look dull, that's because they've been designed that way. The combat mechanics (demonstrably) get less interesting the further you progress in the game. I call that a Titanic Fail. How would you characterise it?
So the explanation for it being boring is that it's boring. Perhaps the point is that a different combat engine design might have made for a more interesting game. Look at the Battle of Jutland for an example of how a wet navy fleet combat can be all about maneuver rather than sitting nose to nose and pounding each other.
Plus, the number of people who can write commercial quality bug free high performance massively scalable Python can be counted on the fingers of one foot.
You can try and convince yourself about all you want, but "logistics" means joining the biggest gang, then getting into the system first and chewing up the attackers piecemeal. If that's your idae of "efficient group management", then sure, it's undeniably effective.
Funny that you should mention screensavers; I've lost count of the number of people who have described EvE as a very pretty screensaver.
Oh, right, you're using the post-industrial definition of "production", the one that includes bankers' salaries. I guess if we don't buy into the fiction that services == production, the Chinese certainly won't.
Most of it, yes. I notice you didn't answer my question: is it the case that you don't have any idea what you're talking about? Also, do you know what a rhetorical question is?
4 to 5 times as much what? Good by retail value? Mass? Volume? I ask because I don't think I could find anything non-consumable in my house (or garage, I have a Chinese motorcycle) that's not made in China. I have two French cars, but the Chinese bike is more reliable.
If I had point, I'd mod you back into the stone age. Then I'd make a time machine, travel back to the stone age, and bash your ape-man father's head in with a rock.
Don't feel bad: I bit too. It's just that there's so little decent trolling here any more that it's easy to confuse smart trolling with dumb earnestness. Also, those damn kids are playing their hippity-hop music too loudly on my lawn again.
They've skipped quantum computing and gone straight to tachyon based technology?
I actually can't work out if you're trolling or serious, and that disturbs me. It's either sublime satire, or breathtaking dumbitude. Either way, I'm calling it art.
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Are you a professional retard, or just a gifted amateur? Do you really not understand that trademarks are limited to distinctive business realms?
Indeed. However, the number of actual humans available to hand out cash - and the amount of cash that they have available to hand out - are at reduced 2010 levels.
I suspect that you wouldn't be so sanguine if mommy sent you out from the basement to get cash, and you were stuck at the back of the queue and wondering if you were going to be able to withdraw enough for your next bag of weed.
No, but I might name a brand of beach towels Apple, or ski boots, and what exactly would Apple Inc. or Apple Corps Ltd (remember them?) do about it?
There, fixed that for you. To clarify, and I'll type this really slowly to make it easy for you to understand: a novel is not a phone.
Easier for who? It's impossible for Microsoft to do realtime conversion and show prices in your local currency? You know, since they have to do that any when when you "buy" points?
And what useful information is there? The location of bongo-bongo bushes, and the best way to bash in a frobbler bird's head with a rock?
Look, get it into your head: like all Noble Savages, the abbos were a useless backwards culture that was incapable of changing their environment to give themselves and their children a better quality of life.
Barely scraping by on subsistence gathering is not a lifestyle worthy of respect, and sitting under a tree making up stories to explain away things that you don't understand is a poor substitute for investing your time in actually investigating them, and in developing irrigation and health care.
Please put aside the White Guilt and accept that abbo culture was pathetic and contemptible, and abbo life (before Welfare) was short, hard and unpleasant. They've got it far better now than they've ever had it in the mythical non-existent "Dreamtime".
The second one will be pretty cheap.
If you haven't figured it out by now "kdawson" is the Slashdot "editors'" troll account. Please don't feed them.
That's like a mugger leaving a card thanking you for your custom and asking you to use his services again.
You forgot about hookers and booze. I don't know if they do well in a recession, I'm just saying that you forgot about them.
Apology accepted: clear communication takes a bit of practice, but you'll get there eventually.
Sure, and they should start with the terrorist who successfully smuggled explosives into Ireland. After all, as we're told again and again, the contents of our luggage are our personal responsibility, and we don't get to use "Oh, someone must have put it there" as a defence.
Well, sure. Here's the classic rant: How anti-piracy screws over people who buy PC games.
Filthy Communist. Doing a half assed job is the American Way.
Mmm. You understand that all of the above is a design choice, right? That EvE isn't actually real, nor even a simulation. It's a game.
So if capital ship battles look dull, that's because they've been designed that way. The combat mechanics (demonstrably) get less interesting the further you progress in the game. I call that a Titanic Fail. How would you characterise it?
Don't pick a fight with me; I'm not the one saying it.
So the explanation for it being boring is that it's boring. Perhaps the point is that a different combat engine design might have made for a more interesting game. Look at the Battle of Jutland for an example of how a wet navy fleet combat can be all about maneuver rather than sitting nose to nose and pounding each other.
Plus, the number of people who can write commercial quality bug free high performance massively scalable Python can be counted on the fingers of one foot.
You know we can all read what you just wrote, right?
You can try and convince yourself about all you want, but "logistics" means joining the biggest gang, then getting into the system first and chewing up the attackers piecemeal. If that's your idae of "efficient group management", then sure, it's undeniably effective.
Funny that you should mention screensavers; I've lost count of the number of people who have described EvE as a very pretty screensaver.
Oh, right, you're using the post-industrial definition of "production", the one that includes bankers' salaries. I guess if we don't buy into the fiction that services == production, the Chinese certainly won't.
Most of it, yes. I notice you didn't answer my question: is it the case that you don't have any idea what you're talking about? Also, do you know what a rhetorical question is?
4 to 5 times as much what? Good by retail value? Mass? Volume? I ask because I don't think I could find anything non-consumable in my house (or garage, I have a Chinese motorcycle) that's not made in China. I have two French cars, but the Chinese bike is more reliable.
If I had point, I'd mod you back into the stone age. Then I'd make a time machine, travel back to the stone age, and bash your ape-man father's head in with a rock.
Don't feel bad: I bit too. It's just that there's so little decent trolling here any more that it's easy to confuse smart trolling with dumb earnestness. Also, those damn kids are playing their hippity-hop music too loudly on my lawn again.
They've skipped quantum computing and gone straight to tachyon based technology?
I actually can't work out if you're trolling or serious, and that disturbs me. It's either sublime satire, or breathtaking dumbitude. Either way, I'm calling it art.