See how you're able to talk about those events, write books and songs about them, and view photographs? Those isolated incidents are views as public black marks on American history and are not standard operating policy, nor are they hidden by the government. In fact, many politicians have ridden to office on their outspoken criticisms of America's past.
The difference between China and the United States is that in China you can't search for Tiananmen Square and find out about the 1989 protest. You won't find a popular song about it. The Kent State shootings are an acknowledged black mark in United States history.
There are people who have legitimate criticisms of America and people who are critical of America in order to feel smart. The latter will completely ignore your point. The very fact that they're even able to voice criticism of America, in contrast to China, completely escapes them.
Of course they didn't endorse them, they actually shot the students! Unless for some reason the National Guard isn't part of the US government anymore...
Your entire argument is based on an isolated incident 40 years ago that the media covered extensively, people protested across the nation, and you're still able to discuss to this day. How is it like China again?
1.) That was an isolated incident 40 fucking years ago. America isn't routinely silencing dissenters. We have the biggest number of whining, complaining people in the world.
2.) The media covered the incident and provided photographs, and protests occurred around the country. There was no coverup.
3.) The national guardsman were indicted by a grand jury. America punished them for their actions and made sure it wouldn't happen again..
All of these things are completely different from China. Your comment about moral high ground is stupid, as is your improper use of quotation marks.
No, it's a stupid point. Nobody in America is going to be driving over college students with tanks. You're taking the extreme, anti-American position because you think it makes you more insightful and intellectual while ignoring the fact that your ability to even post criticism of your country in the first place is proof that America is completely different from China.
Why is it that it is considered terrible that China would kill its own citizens but yet it apparently is a "troll" to point out that the US does it to citizens of other countries?
Because you claimed America is putting people into forced labor prisons and selling their organs, and you didn't cite a single example for any of your claims. You also completely gloss over the actions and motivations during the Cold War. It's just the same, generic anti-American drivel you can find on someone's LiveJournal above anarchist gifs and Hugo Chavez quotes.
And the US has Guantanamo bay and other "terrorist" prisons where we can essentially do the same thing because there is no oversight.
What the hell? Those aren't American citizens who were being politically dissident. We're not executing them and selling their organs. Give me a break. You put the word terrorist in quotation marks as if the people there weren't captured in battle over in the Middle East. Because of our free press and critical watchdog groups, our prisons are probably the most monitored in the world.
The only significant difference between China and the US is that China does atrocities from within their borders and doesn't maintain an illusion of freedom. The US does atrocities from outside their borders and tries to portray that they are concerned about liberty.
This is just more goofy anti-American crap and makes you sound like a dorm room kid with a typically contrarian worldview who thinks he's being rebellious, maaaaan. You don't cite any examples of these atrocities. Comparing us to a country who doesn't elect its leaders, restricts the internet, and bans political dissidence is stupid and absurd.
The worst part is that you don't even realize that the very fact you can post what you did makes America very, very different from China.
That's exactly why religion was removed. It made relationships completely predictable and boolean, reducing the relevance of other variables. It was also problematic in multiplayer.
They removed religion because it had become the core of diplomacy in Civilization IV to the point that it was boolean and unrealistic. If you shared a religion, they were your friends. Otherwise, your enemy. It reduced the importance of other diplomatic factors and made relationships totally predictable.
It was removed for gameplay reasons, not political correctness. Jon Shafer said this in a PC Gamer article:
We made some changes with religion. Because diplomacy is one of our focuses with Civ V, planning what an AI leader is thinking, how he's going to win the game, that wasn't something that was meshing very well with the religion system. In Civ IV, the religions were primary factors of who liked whom and who disliked whom. And that wasn't meshing very well with what we wanted to do, so we decided to move on without the religion system. But that's mainly because we wanted diplomacy to have more depth and not be so predictable. We wanted to make sure that the AI leaders were taking into account the same things as the player was taking into account. A player might not care what religion you're running, but they might care quite a bit if you attack one of their friends.
Have people gone stupid? The very first thing you should do is verify that the person claiming to have sent you the fax is who they say they are and not someone pretending.
Whew, for a while, I thought nobody would mention Alpha Centauri in a Civilization article. Since somebody does every single freaking goddamn time, I was getting worried.
The primary issue is the size of the game, which wouldn't have fit on a classic cartridge. Segments of the music are also technically impossible on an NES, particularly the challenge stage in MM9. The goal was to recreate the original look and feel of the games but not to outright emulate an NES.
The claim was that using the Next OS would allow getting to market within a year. In fact, it took over three years before the desktop MacOS X shipped.
Part of this was due to stubborn developers like Adobe and Microsoft threatening to leave the platform rather than port their applications to the NeXTStep API. Apple had to start over and develop Core Foundation with Carbon on top of it alongside Cocoa.
That pretty much sums it up right there. I know its probably meaningless for most people in the world, but when those who claim to be "in the know" start taking sides between Apple and MS on "innovation," they really need to just check that right there.
You're buying into Bill Gates' bullshit. Apple didn't "steal" anything; they had an agreement with Xerox. Many of the guys who worked on the Mac were hired from Xerox.
Several conventions originated at Apple, such as the "File Edit View Window Help" menu or the phrase "cut and paste." Lisa was already in development when Apple visited Xerox to see what they were working on, so while they were influenced by what they saw, it wasn't an inspiration to go in some whole new direction.
Much of this is detailed at Herztfeld's site, including sketches and screenshots of their GUI work.
Colors in OS X are often muted because of people doing visual work. Many (if not all) of Apple's Pro apps use grayscale window controls and highlights regardless of what the rest of the system is configured to use.
Whew! Thanks for patting everyone on the back for using Linux. Reporting on Linux vulnerabilities is "breathless." You even made sure to close with a completely irrelevant bash on Windows for absolutely no reason. Thanks for making us all feel better about this!
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See how you're able to talk about those events, write books and songs about them, and view photographs? Those isolated incidents are views as public black marks on American history and are not standard operating policy, nor are they hidden by the government. In fact, many politicians have ridden to office on their outspoken criticisms of America's past.
There are people who have legitimate criticisms of America and people who are critical of America in order to feel smart. The latter will completely ignore your point. The very fact that they're even able to voice criticism of America, in contrast to China, completely escapes them.
Your entire argument is based on an isolated incident 40 years ago that the media covered extensively, people protested across the nation, and you're still able to discuss to this day. How is it like China again?
1.) That was an isolated incident 40 fucking years ago. America isn't routinely silencing dissenters. We have the biggest number of whining, complaining people in the world.
2.) The media covered the incident and provided photographs, and protests occurred around the country. There was no coverup.
3.) The national guardsman were indicted by a grand jury. America punished them for their actions and made sure it wouldn't happen again..
All of these things are completely different from China. Your comment about moral high ground is stupid, as is your improper use of quotation marks.
No, it's a stupid point. Nobody in America is going to be driving over college students with tanks. You're taking the extreme, anti-American position because you think it makes you more insightful and intellectual while ignoring the fact that your ability to even post criticism of your country in the first place is proof that America is completely different from China.
Because you claimed America is putting people into forced labor prisons and selling their organs, and you didn't cite a single example for any of your claims. You also completely gloss over the actions and motivations during the Cold War. It's just the same, generic anti-American drivel you can find on someone's LiveJournal above anarchist gifs and Hugo Chavez quotes.
Sure would like to know about these students we've shot with rifles.
What the hell? Those aren't American citizens who were being politically dissident. We're not executing them and selling their organs. Give me a break. You put the word terrorist in quotation marks as if the people there weren't captured in battle over in the Middle East. Because of our free press and critical watchdog groups, our prisons are probably the most monitored in the world.
This is just more goofy anti-American crap and makes you sound like a dorm room kid with a typically contrarian worldview who thinks he's being rebellious, maaaaan. You don't cite any examples of these atrocities. Comparing us to a country who doesn't elect its leaders, restricts the internet, and bans political dissidence is stupid and absurd.
The worst part is that you don't even realize that the very fact you can post what you did makes America very, very different from China.
The meaning of atheism, according to the Oxford dictionary, is "the theory or belief that God does not exist."
As always happens when someone brings this up, you're going to get replies from people claiming atheism does not mean a belief, but it, in fact, does:
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That's exactly why religion was removed. It made relationships completely predictable and boolean, reducing the relevance of other variables. It was also problematic in multiplayer.
They removed religion because it had become the core of diplomacy in Civilization IV to the point that it was boolean and unrealistic. If you shared a religion, they were your friends. Otherwise, your enemy. It reduced the importance of other diplomatic factors and made relationships totally predictable.
It was removed for gameplay reasons, not political correctness. Jon Shafer said this in a PC Gamer article:
Have people gone stupid? The very first thing you should do is verify that the person claiming to have sent you the fax is who they say they are and not someone pretending.
The fact newspapers didn't call the number to fact-check the article bolsters the argument that there was fact-checking happening? The hell?
All it said was that the AI sent a siege unit close to his melee once.
Whew, for a while, I thought nobody would mention Alpha Centauri in a Civilization article. Since somebody does every single freaking goddamn time, I was getting worried.
The primary issue is the size of the game, which wouldn't have fit on a classic cartridge. Segments of the music are also technically impossible on an NES, particularly the challenge stage in MM9. The goal was to recreate the original look and feel of the games but not to outright emulate an NES.
He wasn't talking about originality. He was talking about sales and influence.
Here is a direct link to the article I was referring to detailing their GUI work on the Lisa:
On Xerox, Apple, and Progress
Part of this was due to stubborn developers like Adobe and Microsoft threatening to leave the platform rather than port their applications to the NeXTStep API. Apple had to start over and develop Core Foundation with Carbon on top of it alongside Cocoa.
You're buying into Bill Gates' bullshit. Apple didn't "steal" anything; they had an agreement with Xerox. Many of the guys who worked on the Mac were hired from Xerox.
Several conventions originated at Apple, such as the "File Edit View Window Help" menu or the phrase "cut and paste." Lisa was already in development when Apple visited Xerox to see what they were working on, so while they were influenced by what they saw, it wasn't an inspiration to go in some whole new direction.
Much of this is detailed at Herztfeld's site, including sketches and screenshots of their GUI work.
Colors in OS X are often muted because of people doing visual work. Many (if not all) of Apple's Pro apps use grayscale window controls and highlights regardless of what the rest of the system is configured to use.
Whew! Thanks for patting everyone on the back for using Linux. Reporting on Linux vulnerabilities is "breathless." You even made sure to close with a completely irrelevant bash on Windows for absolutely no reason. Thanks for making us all feel better about this!