I'm not trying to defend the groups as a whole, but rather I'd like to dispel the myth that all Native Americans, or all Indian-Americans, or all African-Americans, or all (insert nationality here) aren't a certain way, and I also feel that, while I've never been the target of it, racism and prejudice as a whole, though not entirely avoidable, should not be a factor in modern, civilized life. Pointing and staring at people who look or speak differently from yourself is, to me, akin to behavior one might expect chimps to engage in.
I definately agree. The native populations have been painted with a overly broad brush and there are no easy or simple solutions. I think part of it will involve a change in the intrinsic culture of those communities.
TA was more branchy since you needed to make certain contruction workers ot make certain productionf acilities. SupCom is less so but it still branches a little. Blizard games tend to be much more branching. The idea is you have to choose which way to go. You rarely have enough resources to go both Gryphons and Seige or Frosties, abombs, and casters. Although it seems arbitrary it makes you unable to get all key units of all types. You have to make a choice.
TA/SupCom also have no tech tree to begin with. They are not so much trees as they are rods. You build Tech Level 1 plant for vehicle type of your choice (and SupCom simplified this even further by merging vehicles and bots into a Land Factory) which gets you the engineering unit for the next step up the tech tree. There's no external dependencies like you find in other strategy games (even turn-based ones like Civ and Heroes of M&M have tech trees).
I agree with most of what you just said except the tech tree. That is the definition of a tech tree. You must build A before B can be built. You must produce a lvl 2 contruction worker before you can make a nuke launcher. The TA/supcom tech tree was just more open.
Starcraft was a pretty good game, but nothing beats the old Total Annihilation for sophistication and depth of gameplay. It just seems that people would rather micromanage zerglings than deal with TA, with its unlimited group sizes, multitude of units, creative resource model, and so on.
The thing I like most about TA is the resource model. Unlike in nearly every other RTS on earth, resources are never depleted. I found it absurd that one could deplete an entire forest or mineral deposit in the course of one battle. In TA, one constructs resource-producing buildings which produce a steady stream of resources; thus it's all about the rate of resource production, not the quantity. It gets more interesting than that, though, as one can store resources, salvage wrecks for resources, and so on. It's complex and interesting.
Also, unlike in Starcraft, there's no build order. It's not a game of memorizing openings so that rushes can be executed, but instead of figuring out tactics and strategy as you go along.
Number of units != depth.
There is a wide variety of valid stategies and the rush is not the only thing that exists in War3/SC. The rush is the crutch that nebie players use to dominate other nebie players. High level games in either are almost never decided by rush. Resource depletion is to enourage people to expand and force them into a less defensive posture. It shortens the game and allows you to win by attrition and gives more weight to resource denial tactics.
TA ussually degenerates to a game of mass rushes. A heavy focus on defence. War 3/SC does not focus much on defence and focuses more on scouting, harassing, resource denial and micro management. TA/SupCom focuses on defence, resource denial, and large rushes. If TA or Supcom became competative enough then build orders would become important. The reason in SC/war3 they are important is because optimization of building determines you ability to fight because your opponent will be optimal. In TA/Supcom your opponent is problably just as newbie as you and you can relax more, play defensive and do the 4h games ending in a big madd high tech rush. Most people who think SC/War3 is all about rushes playes at a newbie level and the rest of us can smell and finish you off as fast as possible. I Rushes can be defended. I have a old replay of my zerg faction repelling a 12 zealot 3 player rush with a sunken, my workers and a batch of lings. I killed each and every one of those lots taking minimial damage and then my allies decimated them mid game.
Cavedog managed to top Starcraft before Starcraft was even released, so it should be too hard for Blizzard to do the same.
Then again, this is Blizzard we're talking about...
You mean by failing to stay solvent and selling drastically fewer copies?
TA is more in line with competing with Command and conquer since the gameplay resembled that one more. It was all defence and big rushes. It's popularity is mainly with those who enjoy that play style. SC sold to a different and more numerous crowd of twitch RTS players who enjoyed shorter games and a more open game style.
The cultural differences between Russia and Japan, India and Canada, England and the United States, Australia and China, are vast and for many, innumerable, but the fact that society has advanced on to this point, has branched out and fluorished in such a way, that's how we know, truly, that we all have the same potential. Just because one country is wealthier than another due to natural resources or any other reason, doesn't mean that the people of another are any less intelligent, or any less capable.
We should be celebrating our differences, celebrating humanity as a whole, rather than waging personal racial wars against each other, simply because one was fortunate enough to be born in an affluent part of the world, and another was not. In the example of America, there is nothing more in tune with the American ideal than a person landing on the shore from another country, penniless and seasick, looking to make a living
I cannot tolerate racism. However Cultures are different. Some cultures are better able to deal with certain situations. What happened to most native cultures is it met a culture that out produced, out murdered, and was better deriving nutrients out of any given piece of land. A person born into a culture such as the deep forest cultures in the amazon is going to grow up less able and less intelligent. It's not his genetic potential that causes this but a consequence of his less competitive culture (developmental environment). Culture is not a static thing and it can be changed. The native communities in Canada are not homogeneous and some do very well but many don't. Partly because the current culture of many of them are defeatist. They wish to deny the system, as it isn't their system. They feel the system owes them. They feel the system is against them. Which become self fulfilling prophecies. Unfortunately the system is not going away and if you push too hard the system will shift much harder against those communities.
The last three decades have seem administrations sympathetic to the native communities and Canada as a whole attempting to help. Don't fool yourself, it's not out of human decency but instead out of political fashion and a bit of guilt that they have done as much as they have in the last 30 years. If you inconvenience enough people via Air Tax and high way protests and the belligerence I see from the native communities in my work this will quickly dropped out of fashion. I'm Chinese and we were discriminated against as well but We sucked it up and marched on with proving we can do just as well in the system. That is what the native communities have to do. Drop the belligerence, drop the angst, and prove they can compete just as well.
4 of the games on that list are Canadian (specifically bioware). Perhaps you all should throw more money northward and a good stream of story driven RPGs will come back down.
lol. She has a few prerequisites. You must be asian. You must dress well. You must be fit and handsome. Money makes things easier but being a geek you should be in the pay scale she generally is acustomed to. She's also fairly difficult and has a lot of very questionable friends (gansters).
The upside is she's a 5'4 blonde exstremely fit ex-ballerina with a nympho streak from a rich family.
Ever think about how many things they do get right? Remember, something is only news if it's out of the ordinary. Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. In fact, I know that millions of drivers licenses are renewed successfully each year and billions of pieces of mail are delivered successfully every day, etc.
Although it grates on your sense of fairness, money spent on welfare now will save you on money spent on law enforcement/ incarceration later. One of the principal causes of crime is disparity in wealth. So healping out the lowest rung tends to reduce the number of them trying to get by by stealing/robbing/mugging/murdering.
Ever think about how many things they do get right? Remember, something is only news if it's out of the ordinary. Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. In fact, I know that millions of drivers licenses are renewed successfully each year and billions of pieces of mail are delivered successfully every day, etc. Any suitably large organization will make really dumb mistakes. It's not just because it's the government, it's because they are large. Once direct responsibility of a organization cannot be pinned down to one or a few people then you have all sorts of rampant stupidity such as the short sighted of corprate america, the inefficiency of large government, and the almost pure evil of some corporations (Haliburton).
I dated a girl who couldn't orgasm regularly due to a surgery she had that accidentally severed some of the nerves to her clit. She was very very very giving. She got off mentally from me getting off physically.
Yet her docs tell her she's imagining it. Got any other reason she can pick which of two wifi access points are turned on, through a wall, with no hardware but her own head?
Yes, you are someone with a desire to re-enforce your thought that wifi can be harmful. It's an anecdote when you can do a double blind with her then great you have a case that she is sensitive to it. If she can pick out if a cordless phones and microwaves are working at a certain distance then indeed she is hyper sensitive to that. Most of your story sounds like a bit of confirmation bias mixed in with a desire for it to be true. She may have a physiological condition like having fillings that pick it up and buzz her nerve endings in a painful manner. But it does not mean they are inherently "dangerous".
No, that's is not true. There are absolutes in the universe and the universe exists by a finite set of absolute physical laws. To be more specific, the universe exists by Mathematical laws. When a Mathematical absolute is proven, then it is absolutely true. It is through applied Mathematics, Physics, where modeling of existing observation and prediction of future observation are created using Mathematics. The models can lead to situations where a model is correct for the observation but needs refinement to be correct universally. This is the exact point of the scientific process...to test, verify, retest and refine until a Mathematical model can be defined as an law. Through this method, all absolute physical laws of the universe will eventually be known. Actually, NO. Mathematics gives us a tool to define self consistent systems that approximate reality. There is always doubt and margin for error (see the law of gravity's refinement). The difference between a scientific "law" and a scientific "theory" is not the amount of proof or iterations it is simply "laws" are more terse then theories and tend to be called laws simply because people got used to calling it such. Moore's law is terse, and throughly unscientific, while the theory of radiocarbon dating has a lot of scientific back up.
Where exactly do you think they're getting the gold? Do you think they are legitimately running characters to high levels and then shipping the gold around to characters whose players pay for it? That would take time and effort and would not be an efficient way to make money.
hacking accounts would net you very little at great risk and it not sustainable since the number of idiots is a finite number and they only have so much time to remake alt hat gold. A average 70 might have a few thousand gold at most on hand and equipment that could be auctioned for a fair amount lets say 10-20 thousand. But you want to dump asap and mule it because once the idiot discoveries he'd been compromised he'll be on the horn with blizz who will reset the password on you so you really only have the gold on hands and the quickest sale of equipment you can get.
Most of the gold is done by farming areas with semi-valuable drops and auctioning it and selling the junk. You over estimate the value of the time of the farmers. Their time is simply worth less then the gold yield per hour of some areas making the venture profitable. WOW has a lot of features that discourage rampant farming and organized harassment for cash as some other MMORPG's have been known for. People feel annoyed by the spam but not annoyed byt he farmers being predatory like in EQ or FFXI. In those two the priates actively inhibit your ability to play to make a buck while in WOW they just devalue the currency.
Hitler was basically like me, a lapsed catholic. He milked his catholic background for PR but he didn't attend church very much. Hitler was not supported by the catholic church and many instances of catholic priests aiding the escape of Jews are documented. The Pedophilia is indeed troubling and the "cover up" is more so. But your first assertion about Nazi's and catholics is outright moronic. There are enough legitimate concerns with the organization without inventing stuff.
As for the pedophilia in the clergy. It's a consequence of the guilt heaped on homosexual catholics. They feel the need to atone for being gay and thus jump into the clergy. However you can't really suppress sex drive. It's a natural drive of humanity and the attempt to do so in the clergy only works for some. If they would allow priests to marry it would indeed greatly reduce this problem. The whole celibacy of the clergy is basically a "optional" practice turned mandatory for various reasons. I don't feel it is the right choice for the faith.
Now Star Trek: TNG -- that is like Guiness. Great at any time! Always aged to perfection!
Now I don't know where you get your guiness but it's shouldn't taste like cheese and ham with an unhealthy dose of fantasy. I'd liken TNG to Budlight. Those who haven't had anything else like it in a unhealthy manner. Those who have had better liken it to horse piss.
I run mine down to drained without issues like yours, usually after I forget to plug one in for a while. I have never had it stop working like you. I have had extended long weekend sessions of 10h or so without need for a charge. Apparently Sony supplies 30h as the expected time to drain a bat from full and 2h to charge. From what I see on forums when I took a brief look around people easily hit 32h non continuous play before it died. Do you live in a warm climate, that does make a difference to lith ion batteries. They enjoy colder climes. Charging seems infrequently needed.
On that note, he was complaining about it acting up AFTER 6 HOURS.
Which is silly since Both of mine can go a good 10h continiously on a charge. His are either defective, damaged, or he's charging them for very short periods. I leave mine over night. I have never experienced the problems he's had and It sounds like he's make up a story.
I can agree they could have made it a lot easier. Too many small bits and you need the right screw driver but it's not as bad as he says because there are few instances where you need to pop it out. Lith ion batteries have lifespans of several years if not mistreated. Poping it out once every few is too much trouble then buy a new one. The amoutn you save on rechargable/disposable batteries would equal the cost every few years since most recharagables have shorter lifepsans then lith ion bats. A nimh bat doesn't last as long (1/4 to the same) and has a cycle liftime ~1/3 of a lithion battery. For all practical purposes it'll be about the same cost as you would spend on batteries for the other two consoles.
I repeat: The battery is easily replaceable. You do not have to buy a new controller when the batter goes and if it's a low bat issue you can charge it with a USB cord. I don't see where the problem is unique to the controller? All bettery powered devices have issues when run at low power levels. In fact it will break most devices eventually by running at marginal battery power levels. The only time I forsee you replacing the batter for any legitimate reason is either the battery was defective or the battery died. Meaning it came to the end of it's life cycle. Both of which just requires a bat replacement.
How often does a lith ion bat act up? My cell has never, neither has any of my ps2 controllers or lith/ion phones. What exactly do you mean "act up?" it dies? can't really help that, if it dies yoru game is screwed no matter which controller.
Well, I think what uspets people is that they don't hear condemnation of this kind of thing *from Muslims*. If next month Christian suicide bombers in ten separate incidents killed a lot of non-Christians, I can 100% guarantee you Jerry Falwell would be denouncing them.
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I'm not trying to defend the groups as a whole, but rather I'd like to dispel the myth that all Native Americans, or all Indian-Americans, or all African-Americans, or all (insert nationality here) aren't a certain way, and I also feel that, while I've never been the target of it, racism and prejudice as a whole, though not entirely avoidable, should not be a factor in modern, civilized life. Pointing and staring at people who look or speak differently from yourself is, to me, akin to behavior one might expect chimps to engage in.
I definately agree. The native populations have been painted with a overly broad brush and there are no easy or simple solutions. I think part of it will involve a change in the intrinsic culture of those communities.
TA was more branchy since you needed to make certain contruction workers ot make certain productionf acilities. SupCom is less so but it still branches a little. Blizard games tend to be much more branching. The idea is you have to choose which way to go. You rarely have enough resources to go both Gryphons and Seige or Frosties, abombs, and casters. Although it seems arbitrary it makes you unable to get all key units of all types. You have to make a choice.
TA/SupCom also have no tech tree to begin with. They are not so much trees as they are rods. You build Tech Level 1 plant for vehicle type of your choice (and SupCom simplified this even further by merging vehicles and bots into a Land Factory) which gets you the engineering unit for the next step up the tech tree. There's no external dependencies like you find in other strategy games (even turn-based ones like Civ and Heroes of M&M have tech trees).
I agree with most of what you just said except the tech tree. That is the definition of a tech tree. You must build A before B can be built. You must produce a lvl 2 contruction worker before you can make a nuke launcher. The TA/supcom tech tree was just more open.
Starcraft was a pretty good game, but nothing beats the old Total Annihilation for sophistication and depth of gameplay. It just seems that people would rather micromanage zerglings than deal with TA, with its unlimited group sizes, multitude of units, creative resource model, and so on.
The thing I like most about TA is the resource model. Unlike in nearly every other RTS on earth, resources are never depleted. I found it absurd that one could deplete an entire forest or mineral deposit in the course of one battle. In TA, one constructs resource-producing buildings which produce a steady stream of resources; thus it's all about the rate of resource production, not the quantity. It gets more interesting than that, though, as one can store resources, salvage wrecks for resources, and so on. It's complex and interesting.
Also, unlike in Starcraft, there's no build order. It's not a game of memorizing openings so that rushes can be executed, but instead of figuring out tactics and strategy as you go along.
Number of units != depth.
There is a wide variety of valid stategies and the rush is not the only thing that exists in War3/SC. The rush is the crutch that nebie players use to dominate other nebie players. High level games in either are almost never decided by rush. Resource depletion is to enourage people to expand and force them into a less defensive posture. It shortens the game and allows you to win by attrition and gives more weight to resource denial tactics.
TA ussually degenerates to a game of mass rushes. A heavy focus on defence. War 3/SC does not focus much on defence and focuses more on scouting, harassing, resource denial and micro management. TA/SupCom focuses on defence, resource denial, and large rushes. If TA or Supcom became competative enough then build orders would become important. The reason in SC/war3 they are important is because optimization of building determines you ability to fight because your opponent will be optimal. In TA/Supcom your opponent is problably just as newbie as you and you can relax more, play defensive and do the 4h games ending in a big madd high tech rush. Most people who think SC/War3 is all about rushes playes at a newbie level and the rest of us can smell and finish you off as fast as possible. I Rushes can be defended. I have a old replay of my zerg faction repelling a 12 zealot 3 player rush with a sunken, my workers and a batch of lings. I killed each and every one of those lots taking minimial damage and then my allies decimated them mid game.
Cavedog managed to top Starcraft before Starcraft was even released, so it should be too hard for Blizzard to do the same.
Then again, this is Blizzard we're talking about...
You mean by failing to stay solvent and selling drastically fewer copies?
TA is more in line with competing with Command and conquer since the gameplay resembled that one more. It was all defence and big rushes. It's popularity is mainly with those who enjoy that play style. SC sold to a different and more numerous crowd of twitch RTS players who enjoyed shorter games and a more open game style.
The cultural differences between Russia and Japan, India and Canada, England and the United States, Australia and China, are vast and for many, innumerable, but the fact that society has advanced on to this point, has branched out and fluorished in such a way, that's how we know, truly, that we all have the same potential. Just because one country is wealthier than another due to natural resources or any other reason, doesn't mean that the people of another are any less intelligent, or any less capable.
We should be celebrating our differences, celebrating humanity as a whole, rather than waging personal racial wars against each other, simply because one was fortunate enough to be born in an affluent part of the world, and another was not. In the example of America, there is nothing more in tune with the American ideal than a person landing on the shore from another country, penniless and seasick, looking to make a living
I cannot tolerate racism. However Cultures are different. Some cultures are better able to deal with certain situations. What happened to most native cultures is it met a culture that out produced, out murdered, and was better deriving nutrients out of any given piece of land. A person born into a culture such as the deep forest cultures in the amazon is going to grow up less able and less intelligent. It's not his genetic potential that causes this but a consequence of his less competitive culture (developmental environment). Culture is not a static thing and it can be changed. The native communities in Canada are not homogeneous and some do very well but many don't. Partly because the current culture of many of them are defeatist. They wish to deny the system, as it isn't their system. They feel the system owes them. They feel the system is against them. Which become self fulfilling prophecies. Unfortunately the system is not going away and if you push too hard the system will shift much harder against those communities.
The last three decades have seem administrations sympathetic to the native communities and Canada as a whole attempting to help. Don't fool yourself, it's not out of human decency but instead out of political fashion and a bit of guilt that they have done as much as they have in the last 30 years. If you inconvenience enough people via Air Tax and high way protests and the belligerence I see from the native communities in my work this will quickly dropped out of fashion. I'm Chinese and we were discriminated against as well but We sucked it up and marched on with proving we can do just as well in the system. That is what the native communities have to do. Drop the belligerence, drop the angst, and prove they can compete just as well.
4 of the games on that list are Canadian (specifically bioware). Perhaps you all should throw more money northward and a good stream of story driven RPGs will come back down.
lol. She has a few prerequisites. You must be asian. You must dress well. You must be fit and handsome. Money makes things easier but being a geek you should be in the pay scale she generally is acustomed to. She's also fairly difficult and has a lot of very questionable friends (gansters).
The upside is she's a 5'4 blonde exstremely fit ex-ballerina with a nympho streak from a rich family.
Ever think about how many things they do get right? Remember, something is only news if it's out of the ordinary.
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. In fact, I know that millions of drivers licenses are renewed successfully each year and billions of pieces of mail are delivered successfully every day, etc.
Although it grates on your sense of fairness, money spent on welfare now will save you on money spent on law enforcement/ incarceration later. One of the principal causes of crime is disparity in wealth. So healping out the lowest rung tends to reduce the number of them trying to get by by stealing/robbing/mugging/murdering.
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. In fact, I know that millions of drivers licenses are renewed successfully each year and billions of pieces of mail are delivered successfully every day, etc. Any suitably large organization will make really dumb mistakes. It's not just because it's the government, it's because they are large. Once direct responsibility of a organization cannot be pinned down to one or a few people then you have all sorts of rampant stupidity such as the short sighted of corprate america, the inefficiency of large government, and the almost pure evil of some corporations (Haliburton).
I dated a girl who couldn't orgasm regularly due to a surgery she had that accidentally severed some of the nerves to her clit. She was very very very giving. She got off mentally from me getting off physically.
Yet her docs tell her she's imagining it. Got any other reason she can pick which of two wifi access points are turned on, through a wall, with no hardware but her own head?
Yes, you are someone with a desire to re-enforce your thought that wifi can be harmful. It's an anecdote when you can do a double blind with her then great you have a case that she is sensitive to it. If she can pick out if a cordless phones and microwaves are working at a certain distance then indeed she is hyper sensitive to that. Most of your story sounds like a bit of confirmation bias mixed in with a desire for it to be true. She may have a physiological condition like having fillings that pick it up and buzz her nerve endings in a painful manner. But it does not mean they are inherently "dangerous".
Where exactly do you think they're getting the gold? Do you think they are legitimately running characters to high levels and then shipping the gold around to characters whose players pay for it? That would take time and effort and would not be an efficient way to make money.
hacking accounts would net you very little at great risk and it not sustainable since the number of idiots is a finite number and they only have so much time to remake alt hat gold. A average 70 might have a few thousand gold at most on hand and equipment that could be auctioned for a fair amount lets say 10-20 thousand. But you want to dump asap and mule it because once the idiot discoveries he'd been compromised he'll be on the horn with blizz who will reset the password on you so you really only have the gold on hands and the quickest sale of equipment you can get.
Most of the gold is done by farming areas with semi-valuable drops and auctioning it and selling the junk. You over estimate the value of the time of the farmers. Their time is simply worth less then the gold yield per hour of some areas making the venture profitable. WOW has a lot of features that discourage rampant farming and organized harassment for cash as some other MMORPG's have been known for. People feel annoyed by the spam but not annoyed byt he farmers being predatory like in EQ or FFXI. In those two the priates actively inhibit your ability to play to make a buck while in WOW they just devalue the currency.
Hitler was basically like me, a lapsed catholic. He milked his catholic background for PR but he didn't attend church very much. Hitler was not supported by the catholic church and many instances of catholic priests aiding the escape of Jews are documented. The Pedophilia is indeed troubling and the "cover up" is more so. But your first assertion about Nazi's and catholics is outright moronic. There are enough legitimate concerns with the organization without inventing stuff.
As for the pedophilia in the clergy. It's a consequence of the guilt heaped on homosexual catholics. They feel the need to atone for being gay and thus jump into the clergy. However you can't really suppress sex drive. It's a natural drive of humanity and the attempt to do so in the clergy only works for some. If they would allow priests to marry it would indeed greatly reduce this problem. The whole celibacy of the clergy is basically a "optional" practice turned mandatory for various reasons. I don't feel it is the right choice for the faith.
I think your mistaking Star Wars with Star trek. It's a easy mistake.
Now Star Trek: TNG -- that is like Guiness. Great at any time! Always aged to perfection!
Now I don't know where you get your guiness but it's shouldn't taste like cheese and ham with an unhealthy dose of fantasy. I'd liken TNG to Budlight. Those who haven't had anything else like it in a unhealthy manner. Those who have had better liken it to horse piss.
It looks like the patent was issued after the specs for blu-ray were finalized. It does not appear sony had read the patents and stole it.
I run mine down to drained without issues like yours, usually after I forget to plug one in for a while. I have never had it stop working like you. I have had extended long weekend sessions of 10h or so without need for a charge. Apparently Sony supplies 30h as the expected time to drain a bat from full and 2h to charge. From what I see on forums when I took a brief look around people easily hit 32h non continuous play before it died. Do you live in a warm climate, that does make a difference to lith ion batteries. They enjoy colder climes. Charging seems infrequently needed.
On that note, he was complaining about it acting up AFTER 6 HOURS.
Which is silly since Both of mine can go a good 10h continiously on a charge. His are either defective, damaged, or he's charging them for very short periods. I leave mine over night. I have never experienced the problems he's had and It sounds like he's make up a story.
I can agree they could have made it a lot easier. Too many small bits and you need the right screw driver but it's not as bad as he says because there are few instances where you need to pop it out. Lith ion batteries have lifespans of several years if not mistreated. Poping it out once every few is too much trouble then buy a new one. The amoutn you save on rechargable/disposable batteries would equal the cost every few years since most recharagables have shorter lifepsans then lith ion bats. A nimh bat doesn't last as long (1/4 to the same) and has a cycle liftime ~1/3 of a lithion battery. For all practical purposes it'll be about the same cost as you would spend on batteries for the other two consoles.
I repeat: The battery is easily replaceable. You do not have to buy a new controller when the batter goes and if it's a low bat issue you can charge it with a USB cord. I don't see where the problem is unique to the controller? All bettery powered devices have issues when run at low power levels. In fact it will break most devices eventually by running at marginal battery power levels. The only time I forsee you replacing the batter for any legitimate reason is either the battery was defective or the battery died. Meaning it came to the end of it's life cycle. Both of which just requires a bat replacement.
How often does a lith ion bat act up? My cell has never, neither has any of my ps2 controllers or lith/ion phones. What exactly do you mean "act up?" it dies? can't really help that, if it dies yoru game is screwed no matter which controller.
That's a bit ambigious. Positive/negative have connotations other then what you meant. You might be better off with "added"/"subtracted".
Well, I think what uspets people is that they don't hear condemnation of this kind of thing *from Muslims*. If next month Christian suicide bombers in ten separate incidents killed a lot of non-Christians, I can 100% guarantee you Jerry Falwell would be denouncing them.
I can pretty much guarentee he won't.
If you think introducing ID into the classroom is a positive thing then I am certain you are part of the problem.