I've near cities all my life. So everything in the sky is pretty much "out of sight, out of mind" to me. I didn't know what the Milky Way was until I saw a picture of it in a book.
France can always be counted on to do things in the least logical way possible.
A bunch of taxi drivers start rioting in the streets, blocking traffic, and burning cars. France's response? Arrest the people they're protesting AGAINST.
Is it any wonder they keep getting invaded, or that the only decent tactician if the history of their country was from Corsica?
There is no such thing as a magic currency that any country can use to turn worthless promises into something of value. Well, maybe the dollar, but only if you're the U.S.
The fact is that Greece can leave the Euro and print all the money it wants. But that money is going to be as worthless as the paper it's printed on and everyone will know it. No one is going to accept it for anything of value. And no one is going to loan them anything of value. So they'll be like Germany in the early 1920's, with piles of worthless paper money and a black-market/barter economy.
At the end of the day, you just can't keep spending more than you take in. It's going to collapse at some point. Greece is one of the most notorious countries at doing this, and so they're the canary in the coal mine. But the same thing is going to follow for the U.S. and many other European countries if they don't find a way to balance their budgets. Eventually the credit card bill comes due and the creditors just won't loan you any more money.
Fiat currency is based on faith. I'm pretty sure any paper money produced by Greece right now would garner no faith from anyone. It wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on.
Anyway, there are much simpler ways to smuggle somebody clandestinely.
Not when the entire goddamn British military and intelligence community is carefully watching everything going into and out of that embassy. Wouldn't surprise me to find out that they secretly scan and/or trail every vehicle that leaves.
The second Assange steps out of that embassy, he's going to be swarmed by cops and soldiers pretending this is all about some bullshit rape charge in Sweden. And the second Snowden leaves Russian airspace, he's in serious danger.
You right, better to go back to using non-GMO plants--and getting much lower yields, needing much stronger pesticides, and letting half the world starve.
Because communism, while sounding great, doesn't work in the real world. It's great to think that without money, we would all just share and share alike. But unless you find a way to fundamentally alter human nature at the DNA level, that system just doesn't work for long in the real world.
"Hey come fix this broken robot."
"No, I don't feel like it. I'm going to sleep in and play videogames today."
"But you're the only one who can fix it!"
"Are you going to force me to or compensate me somehow for my effort?"
"Well, no"
"Then fuck off. Got to get to take the tower in Gears of War 47 today."
There's just fewer faculty worrying about that pesky 'teaching thing' and they can worry about what's really important, like Academic research, or not.
Yes, because I'm sure the universities will keep paying them even though they're no longer needed.
"We don't need you for teaching anymore. But, you know what, we're going to keep giving you this big paycheck! Go research or something!"
Uber is taking away our right to treat customers like shit! Now these Uber drivers with their fancy daily bathing practices, non-arrogant attitudes, and actual fair pricing are taking wine from our baby's mouths! WE WANT OUR MONOPOLY BACK!!!
It also helps that games in the cartridge days were a LOT smaller and less complex than games today (by several orders of magnitude). I imagine that doing QA on a 64k game, with a staff of three developers, was a shit-ton lot easier than trying to do QA on a 50GB open-world title spanning an area of hundreds of square miles, with thousands and thousands of NPC's and sidequests, items, and complex combat and crafting systems.
So yeah. Super Mario Brothers 3 is easy enough to QA so you can release a perfect game. Witcher 3 could be QAed for years and would still have flaws on release. AAA titles today are simply to complex to be error free. A complex system with hundreds of developers is a different world than old school systems from the NES days.
Healthy food is tasty as hell once your palette has had a chance to get used to it again.
Yeah well, I'm sure I would learn to really appreciate the taste of dogshit if all I ate every day was dogshit. But that doesn't make it tasty to anyone else.
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Couldn't they just go to Kinkos?
Just the thought of Quebec porn activates my gag reflex without me even seeing it.
I've near cities all my life. So everything in the sky is pretty much "out of sight, out of mind" to me. I didn't know what the Milky Way was until I saw a picture of it in a book.
Needs more cool soundtrack.
France can always be counted on to do things in the least logical way possible.
A bunch of taxi drivers start rioting in the streets, blocking traffic, and burning cars. France's response? Arrest the people they're protesting AGAINST.
Is it any wonder they keep getting invaded, or that the only decent tactician if the history of their country was from Corsica?
There is no such thing as a magic currency that any country can use to turn worthless promises into something of value. Well, maybe the dollar, but only if you're the U.S.
The fact is that Greece can leave the Euro and print all the money it wants. But that money is going to be as worthless as the paper it's printed on and everyone will know it. No one is going to accept it for anything of value. And no one is going to loan them anything of value. So they'll be like Germany in the early 1920's, with piles of worthless paper money and a black-market/barter economy.
At the end of the day, you just can't keep spending more than you take in. It's going to collapse at some point. Greece is one of the most notorious countries at doing this, and so they're the canary in the coal mine. But the same thing is going to follow for the U.S. and many other European countries if they don't find a way to balance their budgets. Eventually the credit card bill comes due and the creditors just won't loan you any more money.
Fiat currency is based on faith. I'm pretty sure any paper money produced by Greece right now would garner no faith from anyone. It wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on.
No worries, SpaceX will get us there!
[whispering from off camera]....okay.....wait, WHAT happened?......No I didn't even turn on the news this weekend.....
Okay, a minor revision to that....
Plus, Ben Affleck is probably good with any plan that gets him as far away as possible from his wife.
They had the balls to order the President of Bolivia's plane down. You think they wouldn't ground some dipshit An-124 pilot?
* Meaning 0 - 1 million air miles
green for chlamydia, yellow for herpes, purple for HPV, and blue for syphilis
Anyway, there are much simpler ways to smuggle somebody clandestinely.
Not when the entire goddamn British military and intelligence community is carefully watching everything going into and out of that embassy. Wouldn't surprise me to find out that they secretly scan and/or trail every vehicle that leaves.
France cave-in and surrender?!?!? NEVER!
The second Assange steps out of that embassy, he's going to be swarmed by cops and soldiers pretending this is all about some bullshit rape charge in Sweden. And the second Snowden leaves Russian airspace, he's in serious danger.
You right, better to go back to using non-GMO plants--and getting much lower yields, needing much stronger pesticides, and letting half the world starve.
Problem SOLVED!
Why does anything need to be paid for?
Because communism, while sounding great, doesn't work in the real world. It's great to think that without money, we would all just share and share alike. But unless you find a way to fundamentally alter human nature at the DNA level, that system just doesn't work for long in the real world.
"Hey come fix this broken robot."
"No, I don't feel like it. I'm going to sleep in and play videogames today."
"But you're the only one who can fix it!"
"Are you going to force me to or compensate me somehow for my effort?"
"Well, no"
"Then fuck off. Got to get to take the tower in Gears of War 47 today."
Terrorism? NSA surveillance? Torture? TWO fucking wars?
I'm going back to sleep.
"When the robots come, they will replace all workers. And humans will be free to pursue other interests, like art and culture."
"How will the humans eat and pay rent?"
"The robots will provide all their needs"
"But how do they pay the robots for this?"
"The robots will also provide them with money."
"Are you sure you've thought this through?"
"No, not really. But look, isn't this robot COOL?"
No, Uber's model is to bring in real competition to a service industry that has rested easily on a state-imposed monopoly for WAY too long.
There's just fewer faculty worrying about that pesky 'teaching thing' and they can worry about what's really important, like Academic research, or not.
Yes, because I'm sure the universities will keep paying them even though they're no longer needed.
"We don't need you for teaching anymore. But, you know what, we're going to keep giving you this big paycheck! Go research or something!"
Uber is taking away our right to treat customers like shit! Now these Uber drivers with their fancy daily bathing practices, non-arrogant attitudes, and actual fair pricing are taking wine from our baby's mouths! WE WANT OUR MONOPOLY BACK!!!
It also helps that games in the cartridge days were a LOT smaller and less complex than games today (by several orders of magnitude). I imagine that doing QA on a 64k game, with a staff of three developers, was a shit-ton lot easier than trying to do QA on a 50GB open-world title spanning an area of hundreds of square miles, with thousands and thousands of NPC's and sidequests, items, and complex combat and crafting systems.
So yeah. Super Mario Brothers 3 is easy enough to QA so you can release a perfect game. Witcher 3 could be QAed for years and would still have flaws on release. AAA titles today are simply to complex to be error free. A complex system with hundreds of developers is a different world than old school systems from the NES days.
Google translation: Find a way to lay off more faculty and make existing faculty work a lot harder for the same pay.
Healthy food is tasty as hell once your palette has had a chance to get used to it again.
Yeah well, I'm sure I would learn to really appreciate the taste of dogshit if all I ate every day was dogshit. But that doesn't make it tasty to anyone else.