Why waste a bullet when you can label someone a rapist, narcissist, child molester, etc.--and then threaten all their friends into bad-mouthing them, disparaging them online, and so on?
A lot of people don't understand that the CIA realized that character assassination is MUCH more effective (and less messy) than physical assassination a long time ago. It's also a great way to deal with an IMF head who suddenly decides to start challenging the dollar.
This sounds like the latest salvo in a concerted effort to assassinate Assange's character (since Ecuador and the UK would probably frown on anything more direct). Not sure how they got to his ghostwriter (or if he was perhaps a plant all along). But it's clear that they did.
Considering the fact that MS owns Nokia's mobile phone division, it seems pretty unlikely they would ever allow this. I suspect this one android phone is more of a token effort than anything (a "See, we make android phones too!" token effort)
Nope, I've just becoming more and more suspicious that Global Warming isn't science at all. It looks more to me these days like religion. It's got its apocalypse, its satans, its prophets and saviors. And it seems to be based on an unfalsifiable hypothesis, which I'm pretty sure isn't a part of any empirical "science" that I've ever been taught.
When I first heard about Global Warming back in the 90's, it was "The earth's temperature is rising slowly. We need to take steps to stop pumping so much CO2 into the atmosphere." Okay, reasonable enough.
Today, it's gone to "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!! IF WE DON'T STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS ALL OF HUMANITY IS DOOMED!!!! DOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Funny how fast science can turn into outright doomsday panic when grant money is involved.
I suspect that if a female were out there that could really play well in e-sports, her gender would not only not be a disadvantage, but a serious advantage as far as attracting sponsors and attention. Look at Danica Patrick. Do you think she would be making as much in sponsorship deals if she were a guy with the same record? Shit, she was getting huge endorsement deals before she had even won a single race. A women who can compete head-to-head with guys in just about *any* sport is going to be CELEBRATED, not discouraged.
Look, in e-sports, if someone is good and wants to play, they're going to rise to the top. The notion that there are scores of women out there who are secretly great players, but too meek to enter competitions because they're afraid of some player insulting them, is not only ridiculous, it's insulting to women. Your thesis is that women must be treated special because they're too frail and weak to hang with men, and shrink like violets the first time some guy calls them a name in a game. I don't buy that for a second. They're not at the competitions because they don't want to be. And trying to get them there by force is not only insulting to them and their choice, but it's also going to increase resentment among the male players who'll then see them as affirmative-action newbs who didn't earn their way there like everyone else had to.
Simple things like changing to a 1.25 gallon per minute shower head could greatly reduce your waste, yet some folks have an 8 gallon per minute and simply don't realize it. Most folks don't notice a difference in shower quality by doing this
Ok, I have to call bullshit on that one. Look, I'll put my water usage up against anyone's. I'm very conservation-minded in most areas and do my best not to be wasteful. But I'm sorry, I've tried those low-flow shower heads and they SUCK ASS. No matter how much you adjust the pressure on those things, they're just not doing the job (rinsing with higher pressure doesn't make it any better when you just don't have the water flow). And I'm not even sure how effective they are. If I have to rinse for twice as long, I'm pretty sure I'm using just as much water (and wasting considerably more time). I'm sure a shower head that just put out steam would save even more water--assuming you didn't have to stand beneath it for hours to get clean.
You can have my old shower head when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Because at a certain point, you eliminate all waste and start cutting into actual need. That can have a detrimental effect on the economy and well-being of the people. Not flushing the toilet as much as you used to, for example, is a good example of eliminating waste. Dumping all your sewage out into the street rather than flush the toilet at *all*--that's beyond waste and into need.
Women and men both play videogames, but not often the same kind. The average woman is a lot more likely to play a game like Farmville or Angry Birds than Call of Duty or Gears of War. In general, they seem a lot more attracted to cooperative and social games than competitive ones. Since most e-sports games are competitive by nature, the relative absence of women is not surprising.
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Why waste a bullet when you can label someone a rapist, narcissist, child molester, etc.--and then threaten all their friends into bad-mouthing them, disparaging them online, and so on?
Hate to say it, but it's probably for the best. The second one was pretty bad. And Ackroyd was the only one who even wanted to make a third.
It's a pussy.
A lot of people don't understand that the CIA realized that character assassination is MUCH more effective (and less messy) than physical assassination a long time ago. It's also a great way to deal with an IMF head who suddenly decides to start challenging the dollar.
This sounds like the latest salvo in a concerted effort to assassinate Assange's character (since Ecuador and the UK would probably frown on anything more direct). Not sure how they got to his ghostwriter (or if he was perhaps a plant all along). But it's clear that they did.
Considering the fact that MS owns Nokia's mobile phone division, it seems pretty unlikely they would ever allow this. I suspect this one android phone is more of a token effort than anything (a "See, we make android phones too!" token effort)
Nope, I've just becoming more and more suspicious that Global Warming isn't science at all. It looks more to me these days like religion. It's got its apocalypse, its satans, its prophets and saviors. And it seems to be based on an unfalsifiable hypothesis, which I'm pretty sure isn't a part of any empirical "science" that I've ever been taught.
When I first heard about Global Warming back in the 90's, it was "The earth's temperature is rising slowly. We need to take steps to stop pumping so much CO2 into the atmosphere." Okay, reasonable enough.
Today, it's gone to "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!! IF WE DON'T STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS ALL OF HUMANITY IS DOOMED!!!! DOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Funny how fast science can turn into outright doomsday panic when grant money is involved.
The condition of local infrastructure
Translation: If you've already basically laid most of the fiber for us, we'll buy in and finish it up.
I suspect that if a female were out there that could really play well in e-sports, her gender would not only not be a disadvantage, but a serious advantage as far as attracting sponsors and attention. Look at Danica Patrick. Do you think she would be making as much in sponsorship deals if she were a guy with the same record? Shit, she was getting huge endorsement deals before she had even won a single race. A women who can compete head-to-head with guys in just about *any* sport is going to be CELEBRATED, not discouraged.
Look, in e-sports, if someone is good and wants to play, they're going to rise to the top. The notion that there are scores of women out there who are secretly great players, but too meek to enter competitions because they're afraid of some player insulting them, is not only ridiculous, it's insulting to women. Your thesis is that women must be treated special because they're too frail and weak to hang with men, and shrink like violets the first time some guy calls them a name in a game. I don't buy that for a second. They're not at the competitions because they don't want to be. And trying to get them there by force is not only insulting to them and their choice, but it's also going to increase resentment among the male players who'll then see them as affirmative-action newbs who didn't earn their way there like everyone else had to.
Simple things like changing to a 1.25 gallon per minute shower head could greatly reduce your waste, yet some folks have an 8 gallon per minute and simply don't realize it. Most folks don't notice a difference in shower quality by doing this
Ok, I have to call bullshit on that one. Look, I'll put my water usage up against anyone's. I'm very conservation-minded in most areas and do my best not to be wasteful. But I'm sorry, I've tried those low-flow shower heads and they SUCK ASS. No matter how much you adjust the pressure on those things, they're just not doing the job (rinsing with higher pressure doesn't make it any better when you just don't have the water flow). And I'm not even sure how effective they are. If I have to rinse for twice as long, I'm pretty sure I'm using just as much water (and wasting considerably more time). I'm sure a shower head that just put out steam would save even more water--assuming you didn't have to stand beneath it for hours to get clean.
You can have my old shower head when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
And why is it WRONG to stop wasting?
Because at a certain point, you eliminate all waste and start cutting into actual need. That can have a detrimental effect on the economy and well-being of the people. Not flushing the toilet as much as you used to, for example, is a good example of eliminating waste. Dumping all your sewage out into the street rather than flush the toilet at *all*--that's beyond waste and into need.
Pong: Easy to learn, decades to *master*.
Agreed on Adventure games. Been playing The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, and have found them to be my favorite games in years.
No, "Jr." implies that "Sr." is their father and respects them. I think the term "USA's slave country" would be more accurate.
Women and men both play videogames, but not often the same kind. The average woman is a lot more likely to play a game like Farmville or Angry Birds than Call of Duty or Gears of War. In general, they seem a lot more attracted to cooperative and social games than competitive ones. Since most e-sports games are competitive by nature, the relative absence of women is not surprising.