Oh, sorry, I thought we were talking about something relevant, not ancient history, or a silly reference to a RC plane that could have been downed by hucking rocks at it.
Has anyone considered the historical evidence of what happens when superior civilizations encounter lesser ones?
No, as it turns out, you're the first person ever to consider it. The first person in the entirety of human history. Even as I type, the Nobel Committee are holding an emergency session to create a new honour that's significant enough to even begin to recognise the enormity of your insight. Do not leave your home: a team of crack sculptors are en route to measure you up for your 400 foot tall solid gold statue.
You're wrong. Judgments from a civil lawsuit are not automatically dischargeable. You may be confused because fines that are punishment for a crime are also sometimes not dischargeable. This case, however, was a civil case.
We could have brought that drone down by hucking rocks at it. In Desert Storm, the Iraqi air farce (sic) was destroyed on the ground. Losses in the air were incidental.
I don't believe that any of the countries listed have the capability to stop cruise missiles taking out their air force on the ground, or for that matter the logistics to actually fly aircraft in sustained combat operations. You'd be as well just flying drones into their airspace and waiting for maintenance snafus to ground their interceptors.
The counter to a stealth fighter would be better radar, not more stealth fighters of your own.
I'm not even sure why there's a supposed role for fighters any more anyway. When's the last time a plane was downed by another plane, rather than being bombed on or shot from the ground?
Uh, wait. We're talking about defence procurement, aren't we? Sorry, I forgot.:(
And I believe the trend will be for consumer CPUs to aim for lower heat and power, rather than higher speed. Unfortunately, the abstraction layers just keep piling on there.
Give it another few years, and we might not be able to emulate Commodore 64 games on the desktop any more.
Look, Vista was a festering pile of diseased dogshit. You know it, I know it, Microsoft knows it. There's simply no need to defend it, especially when the "defence" runs to "Well, if you run it on monster hardware, it's not as slow as you think."
Are you a convicted criminal in your native country and unable to get a job there? Well, come to the UK, where we'll let in anyone with a sob story on a student visa, not check your background, pay you benefits for as long as you want, then if your sordid past is eventually uncovered after you seemingly inevitably revert to your criminal ways while over here, we'll pay one lot of government employees to try and kick you out while at the same time funding your legal defence to prevent them from doing their jobs.
Oh, would you like some free healthcare while you're here? No problem, all you can eat! Feel free to fly your family in as well - we wouldn't want them missing out. The White Guilt - it burnssss usssss.
Well, that's true. After all, they're only obeying orders, and so they bear absolutely no personal or corporate responsibility for the consequences of their actions. That's how it works, isn't it? Right? Right?
Well, I guess it's possible that couple of fat smelly hippies (mad love to all y'all) wearing sweaty Free Dmitry Sklyarov shirts and scarfing donuts outside of Apple stores hit their sales so badly that Steve Jobs himself stepped in and changed Apple's policy.
It's also possible that when I get home, I'll find that a naked, horny Alyson Hannigan has been duct taped to my bed. By the Easter Bunny.
If there were true competition in the market, the government wouldn't need to do anything.
Absolutely. As we all know, it's only government intervention that causes a monopoly or cartel to form in the first place. Left to itself, a market would never do this, because companies are far too nice and dumb, and would rather compete fairly for equal shares of the market than bribe and blackmail their customers to completely screw over and crush their competitors.
Also, my doorbell just rang - it's Alyson Hannigan, naked and horny. Riding a pink unicorn. It's OK though - she brought her Evil Twin along for you.
Right, because calculating a CurrencyValue multiplier for each item rather than just in the Points item is the sort of simple rote mechanical operation that computers totally suck at.
What's that, you say? It's infinitesimally less work and very slightly more convenient for Microsoft to sell Points? Well, bully for them. That they choose to do so speaks volumes for how they view their customers though. Hint: "Screw you, and your little dog too" about sums it up.
It's inevitable really, since Neilsen's customers are advertising execs. Neilsen don't want to tell them that fewer and fewer people are seeing their ads, and the advertising execs definitely don't want that news getting out - that would be a strictly career limiting move.
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Where does that fit on your scale, genius?
Oh, sorry, I thought we were talking about something relevant, not ancient history, or a silly reference to a RC plane that could have been downed by hucking rocks at it.
No, as it turns out, you're the first person ever to consider it. The first person in the entirety of human history. Even as I type, the Nobel Committee are holding an emergency session to create a new honour that's significant enough to even begin to recognise the enormity of your insight. Do not leave your home: a team of crack sculptors are en route to measure you up for your 400 foot tall solid gold statue.
You're wrong. Judgments from a civil lawsuit are not automatically dischargeable. You may be confused because fines that are punishment for a crime are also sometimes not dischargeable. This case, however, was a civil case.
The IQAF proved to be totally non-existent during American invasion
You're embarrassing yourself.
We could have brought that drone down by hucking rocks at it. In Desert Storm, the Iraqi air farce (sic) was destroyed on the ground. Losses in the air were incidental.
I don't believe that any of the countries listed have the capability to stop cruise missiles taking out their air force on the ground, or for that matter the logistics to actually fly aircraft in sustained combat operations. You'd be as well just flying drones into their airspace and waiting for maintenance snafus to ground their interceptors.
Citations needed. Seriously. You make the assertions, you provide the evidence.
My house, Saturday night. Bring Your Own Bottle and Laser Pointer.
The counter to a stealth fighter would be better radar, not more stealth fighters of your own.
I'm not even sure why there's a supposed role for fighters any more anyway. When's the last time a plane was downed by another plane, rather than being bombed on or shot from the ground?
Uh, wait. We're talking about defence procurement, aren't we? Sorry, I forgot. :(
And I believe the trend will be for consumer CPUs to aim for lower heat and power, rather than higher speed. Unfortunately, the abstraction layers just keep piling on there.
Give it another few years, and we might not be able to emulate Commodore 64 games on the desktop any more.
Windows 7 needs more resources than Vista? Duh.
Look, Vista was a festering pile of diseased dogshit. You know it, I know it, Microsoft knows it. There's simply no need to defend it, especially when the "defence" runs to "Well, if you run it on monster hardware, it's not as slow as you think."
The nightmare is over, man. Just let it go.
Well, he could be elected to Parliament.
Are you a convicted criminal in your native country and unable to get a job there? Well, come to the UK, where we'll let in anyone with a sob story on a student visa, not check your background, pay you benefits for as long as you want, then if your sordid past is eventually uncovered after you seemingly inevitably revert to your criminal ways while over here, we'll pay one lot of government employees to try and kick you out while at the same time funding your legal defence to prevent them from doing their jobs.
Oh, would you like some free healthcare while you're here? No problem, all you can eat! Feel free to fly your family in as well - we wouldn't want them missing out. The White Guilt - it burnssss usssss.
Fixed that for you.
Microsoft have "no option" other than to obey ze orders, you say? I call Godwin on that.
Well, that's true. After all, they're only obeying orders, and so they bear absolutely no personal or corporate responsibility for the consequences of their actions. That's how it works, isn't it? Right? Right?
Totally delusional wingnuts.
Well, I guess it's possible that couple of fat smelly hippies (mad love to all y'all) wearing sweaty Free Dmitry Sklyarov shirts and scarfing donuts outside of Apple stores hit their sales so badly that Steve Jobs himself stepped in and changed Apple's policy.
It's also possible that when I get home, I'll find that a naked, horny Alyson Hannigan has been duct taped to my bed. By the Easter Bunny.
Absolutely. As we all know, it's only government intervention that causes a monopoly or cartel to form in the first place. Left to itself, a market would never do this, because companies are far too nice and dumb, and would rather compete fairly for equal shares of the market than bribe and blackmail their customers to completely screw over and crush their competitors.
Also, my doorbell just rang - it's Alyson Hannigan, naked and horny. Riding a pink unicorn. It's OK though - she brought her Evil Twin along for you.
Not quite. It was actually more like this:
You know, just so we're clear.
"Ubisoft: renting games to trusting retards since 2010"
Right, because calculating a CurrencyValue multiplier for each item rather than just in the Points item is the sort of simple rote mechanical operation that computers totally suck at.
What's that, you say? It's infinitesimally less work and very slightly more convenient for Microsoft to sell Points? Well, bully for them. That they choose to do so speaks volumes for how they view their customers though. Hint: "Screw you, and your little dog too" about sums it up.
Fixed that for you. So: your place, or mine?
You know what chicks totally flip for? When you point out their factual errors. They just can't get enough of that.
OK, you watch the obvious ads, I'll go and hang out in bars where hot girls are being paid to get drunk.
Into a trilobite, unfortunately.
It's inevitable really, since Neilsen's customers are advertising execs. Neilsen don't want to tell them that fewer and fewer people are seeing their ads, and the advertising execs definitely don't want that news getting out - that would be a strictly career limiting move.
You know that whenever you say "diversity", a tech support fairy dies, right?