They feel fine and work great. But the cords are only 4ft long so I got USB extension cords. If you want to play N64 games there are also pads with the analog stick, etc, but I haven't bothered with that. My goal was to play simple games with my kid because vidya games these days on the Xbox One and such are way too complicated.
Or just build a RetroPie and you don't have to worry about this. Rasberry Pi + 2 USB game pads + RetroPie boot ROM + torrent of 6000+ ROMs that you can load as you please over WiFi and you've got every NES game, every SNES game, every Genesis game, every TurboGrafix 16 game, every atari game, every N64 game, etc. Cost about $80. My four year old and I have been having a blast playing TMNT IV, Bubble Bobble, Golden Axe, etc.
What matters is how the voters/workers in Michigan and elsewhere perceive this move by Ford...If THEY think Trump is responsible, then that's all that matters.
I'm not even sure it matters whether or not they think Trump did it. What will matter in 2020 is whether or not they have a job and feel more secure then than they did in 2016.
The democrats were running around touting "5% unemployment" and "job creation" during the election, but we all know the Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers are phoney. Be engineer. Become unemployed, count on the unemployment roles. Quit looking for work and you are no longer "unemployed." Or get job at McDonald's, you are no longer an "unemployed engineer" you are a gainfully employed hospitality worker. People don't vote based on how they perceive the greater economy, they vote based on how they know their own economy. So you've got millions of people saying "fuck your numbers, I ain't got a job and nobody I know's got a job."
If in 2020 lots of people who were unhappy with their employment status in 2016 are still unhappy with their employment status, Trump will lose reelection. I suspect, though, that many people will be better off, and they will reelect Trump. The dems will run around saying "no, no, things are actually bad now, and anything good had nothing to do with Trump!" And no one will care because if shit ain't broke you don't fix it.
Ecoboost is just a turbocharger with a green-sounding name, so I wouldn't really call it a new advancement. I guess the advancement would be manufacturing processes that can build a turbocharger that doesn't break too often to put in a mainstream vehicle.
I've read before that the multiplying effect of a factory job is between 4x and 8x. So for every factory job you create, you also create jobs at diners and clothing stores for the workers, transportation companies to move materials to and from the factories, etc. Do that enough and you have a state's economy.
It's fun to think about, but everyone in the prequels acts so bizarrely, stupidly, inconsistently, without motivation, that you can basically make up any conspiracy theory and fit it to the story. "No one would actually be that stupid, so it must have been [Insert Character] manipulating everyone else into being retarded!"
Or, Lucas is just a terrible as fuck writer who has no understanding of human emotions and motivations. A tell that the story is an incomprehensible mess is that you can make up a dozen competing theories as to what was really going on, and they're all plausible. i.e. Jar Jar is a Sith Lord, Padme was in on it, etc etc.
In the original theatrical version Jabba didn't appear, he was just mentioned. The scene with him as a man was a deleted scene. So a "Despecialized Edition" shouldn't have the scene where Han talks to Jabba at all.
Both China and India have been "outbreeding" the rest of the fucking planet for decades now, regardless of whether or not other countries extend an invitation.
Did you notice the part where I said "live among you?" Does the nation of China or the nation of India "live among" Americans or Europeans? I'm talking about a population race within a nation, not between nations. 25% of French teenagers are muslim. They breed younger, more quickly, and more numerously than the native French. How long will France last?
Germany's got over a million new muslim inhabitants. Native German birthrate is in the toilet. Muslim birthrate much higher. Do you think all of those 2nd and 3rd generation muslims are going to become culturally German? Drink beer at Oktoberfest, nom down on pork mit zwiebeln? Of course not.
As soon as they have numbers that make them believe they've got a chance, jihad by immigration becomes jihad by the sword. Just look at Lebanon.
Unless Europe wakes up, the future belongs to Islam. Personally, I always wanted the future to be like Star Trek, but I don't think Muslims build spaceships.
"Both sides of the aisle" = Buttblasted Dems and neocon hawks like McCain and Ms. Graham who are Trump's political enemies. You have to be pretty ignorant of the interests and motivations of the players involved to believe this isn't politically motivated bullshit.
What they really want to do is avoid further embarrassment and the exposure of their total incompetence when it comes to security.
Actually, this is a little weird. If they wanted to avoid further embarrassment they would forget this ever happened. Going after Russia (particularly while providing absolutely no evidence to the public) drags the entire issue back into the news cycle and IMO makes them look worse.
I think they're attempting to de-legitimize Trump. Which is incredibly shitty and dangerous to be conducting acts of (cyber) war in order to score domestic political points. Whatever happened to "politics stops at the water's edge?"
The alternative explanation is you're right, they are attempting to avoid further embarrassment, but they're so incredibly incompetent they think this will accomplish that goal. After seeing the workings of the Democratic party this cycle, I can believe yes, they are that incompetent.
Sure am glad they didn't lie about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Can you imagine if almost 60,000 Americans were killed and another 300k wounded plus hundreds of thousands of casualties for citizens and soldiers of other nations, a generation of people soured on their nation and a loss of American moral authority on the world stage over a made-up incident that didn't happen?!
I would trust their conclusions a little more if they didn't have a history of lying about absolutely everything to justify unjustifiable wars. I can't remember the last time the CIA told the truth. About anything.
I said "barely if any." My point is the purpose of religion is not, as Marx said, the opiate of the masses to mask their class consciousnesses so the ruling class could oppress them.
This sort of argument is common with Marxists/leftists, who are entirely economically minded and desire to control the distribution of wealth in society. So they project that same desire onto everyone else. "Religion isn't real! It's just there so the ruling class can control you! Now stop believing in it and let us control you instead!" They do the same thing with race, gender, "social construct" nonsense, etc.
The entire purpose of Marxism is to turn humans into simple producing/consuming economic units managed by their political power structure, so that's what they accuse everyone else of doing.
Eh? My religion is doing fine, and we are popping out babies. I'm saying the secular society around us is crumbling because their shitty secular morality does a poor job of reproducing them and propagating itself into the future.
I'm not blaming others for my failure. I'm not failing. I'm blaming others for their failure, and reading the tea leaves for their future, and I say it's not good.
society, common sense, a desire to get along with others for mutual benefit, human sympathy and an innate sense of right and wrong that nearly all humans are already born with.
But people in different cultures have vastly different ideas of right and wrong. The Muslims think it's right, moral and just to throw gays off rooftops, and when a woman is raped they stone her for tempting the pure muslim man who was driven to rape by the sight of her brazen bare ankle. How do you reconcile the "innate sense of right and wrong" with a billion people who think that's fine and dandy?
You're making the error of universalism, that deep down, everyone is a tolerant liberal just like you are, and you're just waiting for everyone else to get on your level. Nope.
If, as you claimed, religion is the only source of morality, then non-religious people would be incapable of sincerely having any moral values at all, which is clearly just not the case.
I didn't say only. I just said the purpose of religion was to instruct people on productive ways to live to navigate through life, deal with other people, generate children and instruct them and thereby propagate the people and their religion and culture forward through time. And I'm saying that our ancient religions are not going anywhere any time soon, because they are effective, whereas your "innate sense of right and wrong" sure does seem to fit the agenda of the political establishment as broadcast by the TV stations and influenced by the newspapers, while those lifestyles push those people into childlessness, depression, debt and general insanity. Effective for corporate profits, and you get a nice pat on the head from the man on the TV screen because you're not like those evil, stupid religious people.
In the long run, your secular morality will die because it is not a strategy for the long-term success and reproduction of the people who adhere to it. Muslims will still be throwing gays off rooftops long after the last government that issues gay marriage licenses collapses and good Catholic mommies will be popping out babies long after the last childless blue haired feminist has been devoured by her cats after succumbing to diabetes.
You understand the crusades were a response to 400+ years of unanswered Islamic aggression and oppression, right?
Regardless, nuclear arms are irrelevant when you're inviting the stronger ideological culture to live among you and outbreed you without challenge. Islam has much to offer that secular society does not. With Islam you get conquest, bloodlust, faith, paradise, rape, many wives and children. With secular society you get...isolation, self-loathing, nihilism, and general faggotry. The last government to issue a gay marriage license will die centuries before the last muslim to throw a homosexual from a rooftop.
But we're talking about cultural and legal penalties. Almost every jurisdiction in the western world has laws against solicitation of prostitution, and nowhere is it cultural acceptable. Tell me, do you go visit whores on the weekend? When you come into the office on Monday and the boss says "What'd you do this weekend Dave?" do you tell him about your whore-banging adventures? If you're not interested in whores yourself, does your boss or your coworkers ever regale you with tales of their whore-banging adventures?
Oh. No. None of that happens. Ever. Because there's a huge social stigma against men who pay for sex.
Religion used to be the opiate of the masses, and a way of solidifying the control of the upper class over the lower classes.
Gotta stop reading Marx. Rotting your brain. You wind up reducing everything to economics. People are not economic units.
Theological debates are not about class. Tribal societies with barely if any class distinction follow religious practices. Why do they do this? Because they regulate human behavior, pass along cultural knowledge, and perpetuate the tribe/society/civilization. i.e., they're useful instructions for telling people how to live, and they're effective or else those practices would cease to exist, like the Shakers.
Religion isn't going anywhere because secularism is ineffective in propagating a culture into the future, whereas religions like Christianity and Islam are very effective, and will always swamp out asexual blue haired feminists and gay marrying men who cut their dicks off. That shit will die off long, long before religion will.
What's it dictated by, then? Nobody ever talked about gay marriage 25 years ago. Now you're a horrible monster if you're not enthusiastically cheering on sexual deviants playing house. Today the big thing is trans "rights" and you're evil if you don't think men in dresses are stunning and brave. The topic of this very article on slashdot is about robosexual marriage now. Where did all of this shit come from? Was everybody who didn't support this stuff for the first few thousand years of civilization evil and immoral? Oh. It's new. It came from the TV. Made up for political and economic reasons.
I'm not saying the morality of the Church is right (that's merely my opinion and nothing I can prove), just that religion provides a steady basis for moral thought that provides effective life strategies to propagate itself. If following the tenants of Christianity, or Islam didn't work for the adherents, there'd be no Christians or Muslims. Look at what happened to the Shakers. These other things work. Gay marriage and men chopping their dicks off and young people not wanting to get married because hedonistic hook-up culture does not, and all that shit comes from the TV.
I'll believe the pope is sincere or even following the basic tenets of the bible when the roman catholic church sell their golden palaces and give the money to the poor.
That would be pretty dumb though. Nobody could buy them. They'd become historical buildings managed by the state. What are you going to do, tear down St. Peter's and build condos? People have been donating priceless works of art to the Church for millennia because the Church as an institution is going to outlast any government.
Anyway, what religion is right or moral is irrelevant to my point, which is that religion is not dying. Christianity will be resurgent, Islam will continue to grow, because they're effective for managing life and reproduction, while secularism is not. This has happened over and over again and to think this time religion is dead is ignorant of history and hopelessly naive.
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They feel fine and work great. But the cords are only 4ft long so I got USB extension cords. If you want to play N64 games there are also pads with the analog stick, etc, but I haven't bothered with that. My goal was to play simple games with my kid because vidya games these days on the Xbox One and such are way too complicated.
It took me about an hour, and now I just turn it on and it goes. If you can't figure it out...man wtf are you doing on slashdot?
Or just build a RetroPie and you don't have to worry about this. Rasberry Pi + 2 USB game pads + RetroPie boot ROM + torrent of 6000+ ROMs that you can load as you please over WiFi and you've got every NES game, every SNES game, every Genesis game, every TurboGrafix 16 game, every atari game, every N64 game, etc. Cost about $80. My four year old and I have been having a blast playing TMNT IV, Bubble Bobble, Golden Axe, etc.
Incorrect. The solution to the trolley problem is multi-track drifting.
Here's the text of the impact strategy:
1. Bend over.
2. Put head between knees.
3. Kiss ass goodbye.
What matters is how the voters/workers in Michigan and elsewhere perceive this move by Ford...If THEY think Trump is responsible, then that's all that matters.
I'm not even sure it matters whether or not they think Trump did it. What will matter in 2020 is whether or not they have a job and feel more secure then than they did in 2016.
The democrats were running around touting "5% unemployment" and "job creation" during the election, but we all know the Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers are phoney. Be engineer. Become unemployed, count on the unemployment roles. Quit looking for work and you are no longer "unemployed." Or get job at McDonald's, you are no longer an "unemployed engineer" you are a gainfully employed hospitality worker. People don't vote based on how they perceive the greater economy, they vote based on how they know their own economy. So you've got millions of people saying "fuck your numbers, I ain't got a job and nobody I know's got a job."
If in 2020 lots of people who were unhappy with their employment status in 2016 are still unhappy with their employment status, Trump will lose reelection. I suspect, though, that many people will be better off, and they will reelect Trump. The dems will run around saying "no, no, things are actually bad now, and anything good had nothing to do with Trump!" And no one will care because if shit ain't broke you don't fix it.
Ecoboost is just a turbocharger with a green-sounding name, so I wouldn't really call it a new advancement. I guess the advancement would be manufacturing processes that can build a turbocharger that doesn't break too often to put in a mainstream vehicle.
I've read before that the multiplying effect of a factory job is between 4x and 8x. So for every factory job you create, you also create jobs at diners and clothing stores for the workers, transportation companies to move materials to and from the factories, etc. Do that enough and you have a state's economy.
It's fun to think about, but everyone in the prequels acts so bizarrely, stupidly, inconsistently, without motivation, that you can basically make up any conspiracy theory and fit it to the story. "No one would actually be that stupid, so it must have been [Insert Character] manipulating everyone else into being retarded!"
Or, Lucas is just a terrible as fuck writer who has no understanding of human emotions and motivations. A tell that the story is an incomprehensible mess is that you can make up a dozen competing theories as to what was really going on, and they're all plausible. i.e. Jar Jar is a Sith Lord, Padme was in on it, etc etc.
Just look at how she teased Anakin, it seemed quite deliberate to me. She was leading him along the path to the dark side from the very beginning.
"Oh, Ani, we can't fall in love!" she says wearing a revealing dominatrix outfit next to a romantic roaring fireplace...
Three options:
1. Lucas intended her to tease Anakin.
2. Lucas knows women, and that some women are truly that clueless.
3. Lucas has absolutely no clue about women.
Gotta say my money's on 3.
Jabba is just a guy in the first one
In the original theatrical version Jabba didn't appear, he was just mentioned. The scene with him as a man was a deleted scene. So a "Despecialized Edition" shouldn't have the scene where Han talks to Jabba at all.
Both China and India have been "outbreeding" the rest of the fucking planet for decades now, regardless of whether or not other countries extend an invitation.
Did you notice the part where I said "live among you?" Does the nation of China or the nation of India "live among" Americans or Europeans? I'm talking about a population race within a nation, not between nations. 25% of French teenagers are muslim. They breed younger, more quickly, and more numerously than the native French. How long will France last?
Germany's got over a million new muslim inhabitants. Native German birthrate is in the toilet. Muslim birthrate much higher. Do you think all of those 2nd and 3rd generation muslims are going to become culturally German? Drink beer at Oktoberfest, nom down on pork mit zwiebeln? Of course not.
As soon as they have numbers that make them believe they've got a chance, jihad by immigration becomes jihad by the sword. Just look at Lebanon.
Unless Europe wakes up, the future belongs to Islam. Personally, I always wanted the future to be like Star Trek, but I don't think Muslims build spaceships.
"Both sides of the aisle" = Buttblasted Dems and neocon hawks like McCain and Ms. Graham who are Trump's political enemies. You have to be pretty ignorant of the interests and motivations of the players involved to believe this isn't politically motivated bullshit.
What they really want to do is avoid further embarrassment and the exposure of their total incompetence when it comes to security.
Actually, this is a little weird. If they wanted to avoid further embarrassment they would forget this ever happened. Going after Russia (particularly while providing absolutely no evidence to the public) drags the entire issue back into the news cycle and IMO makes them look worse.
I think they're attempting to de-legitimize Trump. Which is incredibly shitty and dangerous to be conducting acts of (cyber) war in order to score domestic political points. Whatever happened to "politics stops at the water's edge?"
The alternative explanation is you're right, they are attempting to avoid further embarrassment, but they're so incredibly incompetent they think this will accomplish that goal. After seeing the workings of the Democratic party this cycle, I can believe yes, they are that incompetent.
What has Assange ever lied about? As far as I knew WikiLeaks has a spotless record.
On the other hand, what has the CIA ever told the truth about?
Sure am glad they didn't lie about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Can you imagine if almost 60,000 Americans were killed and another 300k wounded plus hundreds of thousands of casualties for citizens and soldiers of other nations, a generation of people soured on their nation and a loss of American moral authority on the world stage over a made-up incident that didn't happen?!
I would trust their conclusions a little more if they didn't have a history of lying about absolutely everything to justify unjustifiable wars. I can't remember the last time the CIA told the truth. About anything.
I said "barely if any." My point is the purpose of religion is not, as Marx said, the opiate of the masses to mask their class consciousnesses so the ruling class could oppress them.
This sort of argument is common with Marxists/leftists, who are entirely economically minded and desire to control the distribution of wealth in society. So they project that same desire onto everyone else. "Religion isn't real! It's just there so the ruling class can control you! Now stop believing in it and let us control you instead!" They do the same thing with race, gender, "social construct" nonsense, etc.
The entire purpose of Marxism is to turn humans into simple producing/consuming economic units managed by their political power structure, so that's what they accuse everyone else of doing.
Eh? My religion is doing fine, and we are popping out babies. I'm saying the secular society around us is crumbling because their shitty secular morality does a poor job of reproducing them and propagating itself into the future.
I'm not blaming others for my failure. I'm not failing. I'm blaming others for their failure, and reading the tea leaves for their future, and I say it's not good.
society, common sense, a desire to get along with others for mutual benefit, human sympathy and an innate sense of right and wrong that nearly all humans are already born with.
But people in different cultures have vastly different ideas of right and wrong. The Muslims think it's right, moral and just to throw gays off rooftops, and when a woman is raped they stone her for tempting the pure muslim man who was driven to rape by the sight of her brazen bare ankle. How do you reconcile the "innate sense of right and wrong" with a billion people who think that's fine and dandy?
You're making the error of universalism, that deep down, everyone is a tolerant liberal just like you are, and you're just waiting for everyone else to get on your level. Nope.
If, as you claimed, religion is the only source of morality, then non-religious people would be incapable of sincerely having any moral values at all, which is clearly just not the case.
I didn't say only. I just said the purpose of religion was to instruct people on productive ways to live to navigate through life, deal with other people, generate children and instruct them and thereby propagate the people and their religion and culture forward through time. And I'm saying that our ancient religions are not going anywhere any time soon, because they are effective, whereas your "innate sense of right and wrong" sure does seem to fit the agenda of the political establishment as broadcast by the TV stations and influenced by the newspapers, while those lifestyles push those people into childlessness, depression, debt and general insanity. Effective for corporate profits, and you get a nice pat on the head from the man on the TV screen because you're not like those evil, stupid religious people.
In the long run, your secular morality will die because it is not a strategy for the long-term success and reproduction of the people who adhere to it. Muslims will still be throwing gays off rooftops long after the last government that issues gay marriage licenses collapses and good Catholic mommies will be popping out babies long after the last childless blue haired feminist has been devoured by her cats after succumbing to diabetes.
You understand the crusades were a response to 400+ years of unanswered Islamic aggression and oppression, right?
Regardless, nuclear arms are irrelevant when you're inviting the stronger ideological culture to live among you and outbreed you without challenge. Islam has much to offer that secular society does not. With Islam you get conquest, bloodlust, faith, paradise, rape, many wives and children. With secular society you get...isolation, self-loathing, nihilism, and general faggotry. The last government to issue a gay marriage license will die centuries before the last muslim to throw a homosexual from a rooftop.
But we're talking about cultural and legal penalties. Almost every jurisdiction in the western world has laws against solicitation of prostitution, and nowhere is it cultural acceptable. Tell me, do you go visit whores on the weekend? When you come into the office on Monday and the boss says "What'd you do this weekend Dave?" do you tell him about your whore-banging adventures? If you're not interested in whores yourself, does your boss or your coworkers ever regale you with tales of their whore-banging adventures?
Oh. No. None of that happens. Ever. Because there's a huge social stigma against men who pay for sex.
Religion used to be the opiate of the masses, and a way of solidifying the control of the upper class over the lower classes.
Gotta stop reading Marx. Rotting your brain. You wind up reducing everything to economics. People are not economic units.
Theological debates are not about class. Tribal societies with barely if any class distinction follow religious practices. Why do they do this? Because they regulate human behavior, pass along cultural knowledge, and perpetuate the tribe/society/civilization. i.e., they're useful instructions for telling people how to live, and they're effective or else those practices would cease to exist, like the Shakers.
Religion isn't going anywhere because secularism is ineffective in propagating a culture into the future, whereas religions like Christianity and Islam are very effective, and will always swamp out asexual blue haired feminists and gay marrying men who cut their dicks off. That shit will die off long, long before religion will.
while there's social stigma to being a prostitute, there is little or none for patronizing one.
I don't know what planet you've been living on, but it hasn't been earth.
Morality is not dictated only by religion.
What's it dictated by, then? Nobody ever talked about gay marriage 25 years ago. Now you're a horrible monster if you're not enthusiastically cheering on sexual deviants playing house. Today the big thing is trans "rights" and you're evil if you don't think men in dresses are stunning and brave. The topic of this very article on slashdot is about robosexual marriage now. Where did all of this shit come from? Was everybody who didn't support this stuff for the first few thousand years of civilization evil and immoral? Oh. It's new. It came from the TV. Made up for political and economic reasons.
I'm not saying the morality of the Church is right (that's merely my opinion and nothing I can prove), just that religion provides a steady basis for moral thought that provides effective life strategies to propagate itself. If following the tenants of Christianity, or Islam didn't work for the adherents, there'd be no Christians or Muslims. Look at what happened to the Shakers. These other things work. Gay marriage and men chopping their dicks off and young people not wanting to get married because hedonistic hook-up culture does not, and all that shit comes from the TV.
I'll believe the pope is sincere or even following the basic tenets of the bible when the roman catholic church sell their golden palaces and give the money to the poor.
That would be pretty dumb though. Nobody could buy them. They'd become historical buildings managed by the state. What are you going to do, tear down St. Peter's and build condos? People have been donating priceless works of art to the Church for millennia because the Church as an institution is going to outlast any government.
Anyway, what religion is right or moral is irrelevant to my point, which is that religion is not dying. Christianity will be resurgent, Islam will continue to grow, because they're effective for managing life and reproduction, while secularism is not. This has happened over and over again and to think this time religion is dead is ignorant of history and hopelessly naive.