A large potion of the earth is dedicated into converting that energy from the sun, their called plants and they cover almost all of the earths surface. We do have a net gain in energy but the plants store a lot of it.
The best deterent of crime is a good set of laws (without loop holes ect..) a strict enforcement of these laws, and the lack of corruption. Reduction in poverty also helps. Unfortunatly all of these things the US does poorly so you have the highest crime rate int he indutrialized work with the most criminals in jail per capita.
Ahh westwood, making one innovative and exciting game, then remaking it again and again for the next decade. Dune: emporor played just liek C&C: red alert which played liek c&c.
At least they were consistant. Like AC DC, jiggle the basics around, add some more noise and viola a whole new album/game.
It's a niche game getting a lot of good numbers but "faint" praise. Like "way too short" and "stupid cliff hanger" and "like a decent expansion pack but no were near worth a stand alone game price". I suspect those 9.4 ratign were bought. But the reviewers are telling us " it's basically halo, with some more story.".
Unlikly to narrow significantly. Halo is a niche game. It's a console FPS, the people who bought Golden eye, many of them bought a Xbox and Halo. Now Halo2 isn't a significant move from Halo or even Golden eye. It's a incremental impovement oevr those last two. So how will it narrow the gap? the gap is huge, not a difference of 10-20%, It's 24 million units vs 8 million units. as of 2003. according to forbes. forbes
The gap got even bigger. The xbox is a niche machine. They carry games a few people like a lot, but most of us would rather have the choice of playing a japanese rpg or a more western game with champions of norath and thats reflected in hwo the xbox sold. It will not catch up in this generation. Halo is a good FPS, but it's hardly worth even 10% of the hype it gets. IT's not a great game. It's a good game. It's like golden eye but with less modes of play and better graphics. I has it's place next to far cry and Unreal. Good but not great.
As for the American vs Jap games. I like Biowares games just as much as I like Square games. A good game is a good game regaurdless of who made it.
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Lets say everyone with an xbox picks one up. IT'll still sell less then GTA San andreas. why? because it's one of the few Xbox games worht getting, so theres a rush for it. But once it gets to a certain saturation, thats it. It's can't exceed the xbox install base for sales so it's can't exceed the total sales of GTA, btu ti could get to saturation of the market faster.
In every service job I've ever had, the customer is 70% confused, 20% completly wrong, and 9% trying to scam you when they have complaints. theres rare 1% who knows whats going on.
He thinks Saddam Hussein tried to kill his Daddy. Dick Cheney thinks that there's a lot of oil there.
Saddam threatened to, and There is oil in dem arab hills.
I am flabbergasted at how americans haven't raised much of a fuss over the fact that Cheney used to own halbirton, Bush used to work for halbirton, and halbirton picke dup most of the contracts for the reconstruction of iraq and those contracts were closed contracts which no one else coudl bid on. Isn't there soemthing called conflict of interest? It seems America is now funding the war on iraq so halbirton can get rich and problbly kick some back to bush and cheney. Problably more then just a small kick back.
Theres seems ot be a general gross over estimation of the importance of the islamic world. Their numerous but don't have the political or military might to kick the US out of Saudi arabai (and their holliest of cities). Thei'r not unified, not organized, and would get their ass handed to them by a force 1/20 as large as the US (see isreal). When the oil runs out in 40 years, no one will care about the middle east. It'll be like africa. They coudl all starve and no one care. Isreal coudl wipe out palastien and no one will care. Give it 40 years. After 40 we'll be concerned with the unstable Alberta/canada relationship and the volitile venezuela area (both contain 33% of all oil in the world. for a total of 66%).
To suggest that people directly mail people in a foreign country to tell them who to vote for is improper. To actually assist in such an activity is even worse. I don't see how this would in any way be wrong?
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Errr. We can all agree it's a good game. I have heard very veyr few people call it "best games of all time". More like best Xbox FPS out or bests Xbox game...
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Ninja Gaiden, Knights of the Old Republic, and Prince of Persia.
Exactly one of these games are Xbox exclusive.
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Awesome point. Great. Way to invalidate anything I said. Selling a few million copies must mean it's a bad game.
If you don't like the game, that's fine, but if you can't understand that others might, and for valid reasons, then I don't know what to say. Enjoy wearing the blinders. I hope your side wins.
Thanks, I think my side did win. Have a nice day.
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That'd be great, if in fact that many people got halo. It sold well*. and the astrix is, it sold well for a xbox game. Which means it did tier 2 PS2 numbers.
While we're at it lets also privatize your executive and legaslative branches (no one notice, their basically corprate puppets on both sides any ways). Privitize your judicial system (again not too far from what you have now). Disband everything except your tax service and military (to enforce your tax collection).
MArk me a troll if you want, but seriously, why would it be an interesting idea to disband NASA. NASA is about as close to what you'd want a government agency to be. They fund things private sectors won't They provide innovation and techology then make it public. They get a lot done on a relativly modest budget (15b/year is modest). DND gets 380 billion this year. The national missle defence program gets 9.1 billion. Homeland security gets 32.2 billion. Religious indoctrination (No child left behind) got 12.4 billion. Vetrans bennifits was 63.6 billion.
For 15 billion a year, nasa is a bargain. For 380 + billion a year, your military is a bad subsidy for the low income south.
Pure systems don't work. Pure free market systems would inhibit innovation because many innovatiosn come from things with little or no intrinsic monetary value. Innovation is also expensive, it's economically more favorable to get a monopoly and never ever change your product again.
You always have to have a mix of private and public industry. Public like Universities and private like Monsanto. One to research new ideas, and one to refine old ones.
CA didn't deregulate electricity prices. They just moved the regulations. Under the system they set up, electricity generators could charge whatever they liked, but electricity distributors could only charge the consumer a fixed price. This broke the supply-demand feedback mechanism, and caused the distributors to get squeezed into bankruptcy.
Yes, and you'd expect the US gov to just disband Nasa? no they'd "privatize" it. Even so you can't truly privatize a utility. It's exstemely hard and generally they get eaten up by utilities from other areas. See the deregulation of the telecoms in Canada. Something like nasa has no private equivilent. Why? Because they expend billions but make very very little.
Tell that to the folks at XM Radio, Orbview, Space Imaging. Or to Richard Branson for that matter.
Their not doign naythign new, their just redoing somethign old. Private industry rarly innovates, they refine technologies. Private industry doesn't invent radically different things, they just refine whats out there. Nasa invents.
So, you'd want to shut down one of the few things in the American government that does anythign useful for humanity to provide an incentive for private companies to explore space? that'll work as well as deregulating electricity did with California electricity prices. Somethigns are too expensive and have too few chance of a decent return for private companies to go into. Space is one of them.
You use future tense because your present tense is screwed up so you use future tense to assure us everything is ok and enron is not falling to pieces. And everythign is okay, the entire world doesn't hate you and we're not goign to get lapped by the rest of the industrialized world while we insist evolution is just one of many valid theories.....
The problem is, for such massive industry no one is willing to put in the capital required to compete wiht the entrenched monopoly so even a true deregulation woudl result in a artificial monopoly.
Alright, heres an example I am fulyl familiar with. The Albertan gas industry went into deregulation. there are now 5-6 suppliers of gas. however since it's a huge infrastructure cost to being truly int he market there isn't any real compitition. So we get to pay 130% more for our gas then we did when it was regulated. The service didn't get better and all the competition the gov tried to promote are resellers for the same company.
thats hwo deregulation works, For large infrastrcture heavy indutryies it will never work. deregulation just hides the fact that the same company is now charging more then before. Point out one success?
"Hmm, so if ~150 million Americans lost $500 per year in income ($75,000,000,000), then it would affect the economy more than if five companies lost $500,000,000 in income each ($2,500,000,000). This isn't really much of a surprise, as it represents a factor 30 difference in tax base. "
That was the poitn wasn't it. The average salary has dropped. so the tax base was very severly affected even without considering tax cuts. The 80% thing is a generalization. It is very close to true in canada, in the states it should be close too. because those makign more then 100k have other options to funnel their cash to reduce their tax levels.
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A large potion of the earth is dedicated into converting that energy from the sun, their called plants and they cover almost all of the earths surface. We do have a net gain in energy but the plants store a lot of it.
Slight correction:
Solar would increase heat via the albido effect
and wind power changes the heat distribution which is also very important.
There is no ideal solution only lots of comprimising ones, you just pick the least comprimising.
So we would need wind farms to produce 10% of the world's energy to see the effect they're talking about.
1/10 of todays energy does not mean 1/10 of the worlds energy. just 1/10 what we currently produce not the whole world.
The best deterent of crime is a good set of laws (without loop holes ect..) a strict enforcement of these laws, and the lack of corruption. Reduction in poverty also helps. Unfortunatly all of these things the US does poorly so you have the highest crime rate int he indutrialized work with the most criminals in jail per capita.
Ahh westwood, making one innovative and exciting game, then remaking it again and again for the next decade. Dune: emporor played just liek C&C: red alert which played liek c&c.
At least they were consistant. Like AC DC, jiggle the basics around, add some more noise and viola a whole new album/game.
It's a niche game getting a lot of good numbers but "faint" praise. Like "way too short" and "stupid cliff hanger" and "like a decent expansion pack but no were near worth a stand alone game price". I suspect those 9.4 ratign were bought. But the reviewers are telling us " it's basically halo, with some more story.".
Unlikly to narrow significantly. Halo is a niche game. It's a console FPS, the people who bought Golden eye, many of them bought a Xbox and Halo. Now Halo2 isn't a significant move from Halo or even Golden eye. It's a incremental impovement oevr those last two. So how will it narrow the gap? the gap is huge, not a difference of 10-20%, It's 24 million units vs 8 million units. as of 2003. according to forbes.
forbes
The gap got even bigger. The xbox is a niche machine. They carry games a few people like a lot, but most of us would rather have the choice of playing a japanese rpg or a more western game with champions of norath and thats reflected in hwo the xbox sold. It will not catch up in this generation. Halo is a good FPS, but it's hardly worth even 10% of the hype it gets. IT's not a great game. It's a good game. It's like golden eye but with less modes of play and better graphics. I has it's place next to far cry and Unreal. Good but not great.
As for the American vs Jap games. I like Biowares games just as much as I like Square games. A good game is a good game regaurdless of who made it.
Lets say everyone with an xbox picks one up. IT'll still sell less then GTA San andreas. why? because it's one of the few Xbox games worht getting, so theres a rush for it. But once it gets to a certain saturation, thats it. It's can't exceed the xbox install base for sales so it's can't exceed the total sales of GTA, btu ti could get to saturation of the market faster.
Al Gore Chaired the Darpa project that created the internet. In a way he did invent it.
In every service job I've ever had, the customer is 70% confused, 20% completly wrong, and 9% trying to scam you when they have complaints. theres rare 1% who knows whats going on.
and what's up with his fetish for Iraq?
He thinks Saddam Hussein tried to kill his Daddy.
Dick Cheney thinks that there's a lot of oil there.
Saddam threatened to, and There is oil in dem arab hills.
I am flabbergasted at how americans haven't raised much of a fuss over the fact that Cheney used to own halbirton, Bush used to work for halbirton, and halbirton picke dup most of the contracts for the reconstruction of iraq and those contracts were closed contracts which no one else coudl bid on. Isn't there soemthing called conflict of interest? It seems America is now funding the war on iraq so halbirton can get rich and problbly kick some back to bush and cheney. Problably more then just a small kick back.
Theres seems ot be a general gross over estimation of the importance of the islamic world. Their numerous but don't have the political or military might to kick the US out of Saudi arabai (and their holliest of cities). Thei'r not unified, not organized, and would get their ass handed to them by a force 1/20 as large as the US (see isreal). When the oil runs out in 40 years, no one will care about the middle east. It'll be like africa. They coudl all starve and no one care. Isreal coudl wipe out palastien and no one will care. Give it 40 years. After 40 we'll be concerned with the unstable Alberta/canada relationship and the volitile venezuela area (both contain 33% of all oil in the world. for a total of 66%).
To suggest that people directly mail people in a foreign country to tell them who to vote for is improper. To actually assist in such an activity is even worse.
I don't see how this would in any way be wrong?
Errr. We can all agree it's a good game. I have heard very veyr few people call it "best games of all time". More like best Xbox FPS out or bests Xbox game...
Ninja Gaiden, Knights of the Old Republic, and Prince of Persia.
Exactly one of these games are Xbox exclusive.
Awesome point. Great. Way to invalidate anything I said. Selling a few million copies must mean it's a bad game.
If you don't like the game, that's fine, but if you can't understand that others might, and for valid reasons, then I don't know what to say. Enjoy wearing the blinders. I hope your side wins.
Thanks, I think my side did win. Have a nice day.
That'd be great, if in fact that many people got halo. It sold well*. and the astrix is, it sold well for a xbox game. Which means it did tier 2 PS2 numbers.
While we're at it lets also privatize your executive and legaslative branches (no one notice, their basically corprate puppets on both sides any ways). Privitize your judicial system (again not too far from what you have now). Disband everything except your tax service and military (to enforce your tax collection).
MArk me a troll if you want, but seriously, why would it be an interesting idea to disband NASA. NASA is about as close to what you'd want a government agency to be. They fund things private sectors won't They provide innovation and techology then make it public. They get a lot done on a relativly modest budget (15b/year is modest). DND gets 380 billion this year. The national missle defence program gets 9.1 billion. Homeland security gets 32.2 billion. Religious indoctrination (No child left behind) got 12.4 billion. Vetrans bennifits was 63.6 billion.
For 15 billion a year, nasa is a bargain. For 380 + billion a year, your military is a bad subsidy for the low income south.
Pure systems don't work. Pure free market systems would inhibit innovation because many innovatiosn come from things with little or no intrinsic monetary value. Innovation is also expensive, it's economically more favorable to get a monopoly and never ever change your product again.
You always have to have a mix of private and public industry. Public like Universities and private like Monsanto. One to research new ideas, and one to refine old ones.
CA didn't deregulate electricity prices. They just moved the regulations. Under the system they set up, electricity generators could charge whatever they liked, but electricity distributors could only charge the consumer a fixed price. This broke the supply-demand feedback mechanism, and caused the distributors to get squeezed into bankruptcy.
Yes, and you'd expect the US gov to just disband Nasa? no they'd "privatize" it. Even so you can't truly privatize a utility. It's exstemely hard and generally they get eaten up by utilities from other areas. See the deregulation of the telecoms in Canada. Something like nasa has no private equivilent. Why? Because they expend billions but make very very little.
Tell that to the folks at XM Radio, Orbview, Space Imaging. Or to Richard Branson for that matter.
Their not doign naythign new, their just redoing somethign old. Private industry rarly innovates, they refine technologies. Private industry doesn't invent radically different things, they just refine whats out there. Nasa invents.
So, you'd want to shut down one of the few things in the American government that does anythign useful for humanity to provide an incentive for private companies to explore space? that'll work as well as deregulating electricity did with California electricity prices. Somethigns are too expensive and have too few chance of a decent return for private companies to go into. Space is one of them.
You use future tense because your present tense is screwed up so you use future tense to assure us everything is ok and enron is not falling to pieces. And everythign is okay, the entire world doesn't hate you and we're not goign to get lapped by the rest of the industrialized world while we insist evolution is just one of many valid theories.....
The problem is, for such massive industry no one is willing to put in the capital required to compete wiht the entrenched monopoly so even a true deregulation woudl result in a artificial monopoly.
Alright, heres an example I am fulyl familiar with. The Albertan gas industry went into deregulation. there are now 5-6 suppliers of gas. however since it's a huge infrastructure cost to being truly int he market there isn't any real compitition. So we get to pay 130% more for our gas then we did when it was regulated. The service didn't get better and all the competition the gov tried to promote are resellers for the same company.
thats hwo deregulation works, For large infrastrcture heavy indutryies it will never work. deregulation just hides the fact that the same company is now charging more then before. Point out one success?
"Hmm, so if ~150 million Americans lost $500 per year in income ($75,000,000,000), then it would affect the economy more than if five companies lost $500,000,000 in income each ($2,500,000,000). This isn't really much of a surprise, as it represents a factor 30 difference in tax base. "
That was the poitn wasn't it. The average salary has dropped. so the tax base was very severly affected even without considering tax cuts. The 80% thing is a generalization. It is very close to true in canada, in the states it should be close too. because those makign more then 100k have other options to funnel their cash to reduce their tax levels.