I agree! Also, we should be able, without warrant, to put trackers on all police cars, and local, State and Federal legislators'. And yours.
It's OK; if you don't commit any crimes - or go near any, or have your vehicle stolen or borrowed, or are accidentally misidentified through a flaw in the flawless system - then you have nothing whatever to worry about.
And I think we should throw them back in the sea, and their little dogs too, unless they prove their innocence while they're still ex-judice. Since we're both too apathetic to run for public office though, I guess we'll take what we're given.
OK, Sally Bleeding-Heart, the test might indicate that Macaca is from Outer Warzoneistan.
Incidentally, are you inviting the Inner Spongistanis to stay in your mom's basement with you until their immigration hearing? It could get a bit crowded down there - you might want to crack a window. There's no room at my house, so throw my quota back in the water at the border, thanks all the same.
I agree that my 100% figure is just as bullshit as your 50%. The salient point is that they have to[*] provide enough iron to cover the peak, while not bankrupting themselves at the mean or median level of usage. That's going to be a tricky proposition since unlike (e.g.) an MMO they won't know the peak/mean load per customer until they've got enough customers to start losing them through bad service.
[*] They don't have to, iff they don't mind hemorrhaging customers.
Oh noes, Have you tried WINE lately? I haven't tried it with anything cutting edge, but it surprised me by Just Working for the older (~San Andreas era) Windows games that I've tried it with.
What's more, if 100% of their customers want to play Crysis 2, half on weekends, half on weekdays, then they only need to buy enough heavy-duty hardware for half the capacity.
Until the next public holiday, when 100% of their customers try to play and either half of them can't, or all of them have a sucky experience. Still, at least that'll cause their paying customer base to reduce to the level that they can support, so I guess it's a self-solving problem.
Hi, server, it's Rogerborg - I'm back online. Yeah, the thing is, while I was playing offline, I won the game, got all the loot and hit level infinity. Be a good chap and update the world state, would you?
What, you don't believe me? Dude, would my client lie to you? Seriously, don't be so paranoid.
...and their free games kinda suck. They're either WoW clones or CS clones. I wouldn't pay for them anyway.
Mostly, yes, but as a counterpoint: Navy Field a WWII naval combat game. The technology is stone age - bitmaps, DirectX6, TCP - and it's poorly supported and run, but it just won't lie down and die.
I'll type this very slowly to make it easier to understand.
It's. Not. About. British. Racial. Purity. Not all societies are as heterogeneous. This is not a test for "British" ancestry. We're a nation of bastards. Geneticists understand this.
This is a test so that when some dark avised Johnny Foreigner gets scraped off the bottom of a lorry and claims to be a political refugee from Outer Warzoneistan, the border gestapo can test them and say "Funny - you seem to be of Inner Spongistanian ancestry. Want to change your story?"
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school#Grammar_schools_in_the_Tripartite_System]Selective public schooling has been tried[/url]. It works, brilliantly. Bleeding heart liberals hate it though, because poor and dark-skinned kids are largely rejected on merit, which upsets their world view of them as victims who need to be helped. The rich don't care, since their kids go to private schools anyway.
"mobile [...] moved around"? Once you're past puberty and move out of your mom's basement, you'll spend most of your time sitting at a desk. When you do get up to heave your bulk to the coffee machine, you'll leave your "mobile" sitting there so that when you finally trudge back, your co-workers can tell you that your novelty ring tone went off four times at full volume while you were away.
Now, if we could harness stupidity or hatred to power mobiles, they'd run forever.
Don't do it! IT'S A TRAP! I lost my wife to that Goddamn cult. Seriously, they've got secret meetings and a lexicon to keep the Unbelievers out. They call their wool and stuff a "stash". A stash!
You think we've got it bad? Imagine being involved in the writing, production or acting of that ad... they wash and wash and wash, but the shame won't come off. It won't come off!
With all due respect, it sounds corny because it is. "The world" (hello, I live there) doesn't view the USA with awe, but with envy and fear.
Yes, America still has exports, but they're increasingly franchises and intangibles ("intellectual property") rather than physical goods. You can only innovate so many new ways to sell burger outlets, movies and pharmaceutical recipes. The balance of trade figures show that pretty clearly. When does the "innovation and industry" kick in and result in a net export?
If there's anything beyond oil-purchasing behind the dollar's value, it's the threat of American military power, expressed as "sanctions" (i.e. blockade). Envy and fear.
Nukes, shmukes, Iran is going to get Regime Change
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This is an unforgivable affront. Based on the US's debts and balance of trade, the dollar should be junk currency. Its only remaining value is in purchasing oil, and the US cannot allow resource rich countries to wean themselves off of it.
Make no mistake, the US must and will find a casus belli against Iran. The only question (for Iran) is whether they can become a nuclear power before that happens.
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I agree! Also, we should be able, without warrant, to put trackers on all police cars, and local, State and Federal legislators'. And yours.
It's OK; if you don't commit any crimes - or go near any, or have your vehicle stolen or borrowed, or are accidentally misidentified through a flaw in the flawless system - then you have nothing whatever to worry about.
Fair enough?
And I think we should throw them back in the sea, and their little dogs too, unless they prove their innocence while they're still ex-judice. Since we're both too apathetic to run for public office though, I guess we'll take what we're given.
OK, Sally Bleeding-Heart, the test might indicate that Macaca is from Outer Warzoneistan.
Incidentally, are you inviting the Inner Spongistanis to stay in your mom's basement with you until their immigration hearing? It could get a bit crowded down there - you might want to crack a window. There's no room at my house, so throw my quota back in the water at the border, thanks all the same.
I agree that my 100% figure is just as bullshit as your 50%. The salient point is that they have to[*] provide enough iron to cover the peak, while not bankrupting themselves at the mean or median level of usage. That's going to be a tricky proposition since unlike (e.g.) an MMO they won't know the peak/mean load per customer until they've got enough customers to start losing them through bad service.
[*] They don't have to, iff they don't mind hemorrhaging customers.
Oh noes, Have you tried WINE lately? I haven't tried it with anything cutting edge, but it surprised me by Just Working for the older (~San Andreas era) Windows games that I've tried it with.
Until the next public holiday, when 100% of their customers try to play and either half of them can't, or all of them have a sucky experience. Still, at least that'll cause their paying customer base to reduce to the level that they can support, so I guess it's a self-solving problem.
Hi, server, it's Rogerborg - I'm back online. Yeah, the thing is, while I was playing offline, I won the game, got all the loot and hit level infinity. Be a good chap and update the world state, would you?
What, you don't believe me? Dude, would my client lie to you? Seriously, don't be so paranoid.
Mostly, yes, but as a counterpoint: Navy Field a WWII naval combat game. The technology is stone age - bitmaps, DirectX6, TCP - and it's poorly supported and run, but it just won't lie down and die.
Virtual +1 Insightful from me. People hear "genetics" and immediately think "HITLAAAR!". It's just science, and can be used for good as well as evil.
I'll type this very slowly to make it easier to understand.
It's. Not. About. British. Racial. Purity. Not all societies are as heterogeneous. This is not a test for "British" ancestry. We're a nation of bastards. Geneticists understand this.
This is a test so that when some dark avised Johnny Foreigner gets scraped off the bottom of a lorry and claims to be a political refugee from Outer Warzoneistan, the border gestapo can test them and say "Funny - you seem to be of Inner Spongistanian ancestry. Want to change your story?"
M'kay?
If all y'alls weren't such retards, you'd have asked that question already. Suck it, LUUUUSERS.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school#Grammar_schools_in_the_Tripartite_System]Selective public schooling has been tried[/url]. It works, brilliantly. Bleeding heart liberals hate it though, because poor and dark-skinned kids are largely rejected on merit, which upsets their world view of them as victims who need to be helped. The rich don't care, since their kids go to private schools anyway.
There's (famously) no apostrophe in "Finnegans Wake". Go to the back of the nerd bus.
"mobile [...] moved around"? Once you're past puberty and move out of your mom's basement, you'll spend most of your time sitting at a desk. When you do get up to heave your bulk to the coffee machine, you'll leave your "mobile" sitting there so that when you finally trudge back, your co-workers can tell you that your novelty ring tone went off four times at full volume while you were away.
Now, if we could harness stupidity or hatred to power mobiles, they'd run forever.
Infringes and doesn't work. That's a fail cake with an extra thick layer of fail frosting on top.
So? Getting married gives you a permanent headache. Ask my wife.
Don't do it! IT'S A TRAP! I lost my wife to that Goddamn cult. Seriously, they've got secret meetings and a lexicon to keep the Unbelievers out. They call their wool and stuff a "stash". A stash!
Why y'all be hating on the Klingons? It'll only lead to the Klingon Power Party stealing votes away from the Pirate Party.
Oh, ob xkcd on you.
True enough though: throwing "get rid of Vista" parties might have legs.
You "love" that there's no Asians in it? RACIST!
You think we've got it bad? Imagine being involved in the writing, production or acting of that ad... they wash and wash and wash, but the shame won't come off. It won't come off!
With all due respect, it sounds corny because it is. "The world" (hello, I live there) doesn't view the USA with awe, but with envy and fear. Yes, America still has exports, but they're increasingly franchises and intangibles ("intellectual property") rather than physical goods. You can only innovate so many new ways to sell burger outlets, movies and pharmaceutical recipes. The balance of trade figures show that pretty clearly. When does the "innovation and industry" kick in and result in a net export? If there's anything beyond oil-purchasing behind the dollar's value, it's the threat of American military power, expressed as "sanctions" (i.e. blockade). Envy and fear.
Because they made the Big Iraqi Gamble and are taking Euros rather than dollars for their oil.
This is an unforgivable affront. Based on the US's debts and balance of trade, the dollar should be junk currency. Its only remaining value is in purchasing oil, and the US cannot allow resource rich countries to wean themselves off of it.
Make no mistake, the US must and will find a casus belli against Iran. The only question (for Iran) is whether they can become a nuclear power before that happens.
And if you're Israel, apparently we pretend that we don't know that you're packing.
Well, Red Hat have salaries to pay. Like the salary of the guy telling us that the best work comes from people working for free.