OK everybody, considering how often news on the DS has been on the front page for the past few weeks, at what point do we start to mod these constant "What's a DS?" questions as trolls?
Hell, "DS" isn't even really an acronym, it's the actual name of the system: Nintendo DS.
It's called "majority rule" or "tyranny of the majority." The idea is that rights are never truly personal or individual but are only granted by what is usually referred to as "the people" or "society." Whether or not it really is the group as a whole or some subset claiming to represent that group ultimately doesn't matter, the idea is the same: rights are considered a human construct (i. e. you are not born with them) and can only be given to you by other humans, making them "alienable" at their whim.
"Having grown up in China finding such high levels of depression in America was a surprise. After all, we're supposedly leading the lives everyone wants to emulate..."
You must be new to Slashdot, then. Around here, people will emulate Windows long before they emulate the US.
It seems that Sony's consoles are becoming all too similar to PCs, requiring upgrades to your hardware to do things rather than having everything come in one boxen. For now, it's just limited to hardware accessories (Want to be able to turn off your PS2 from a remote, or progressive-scan DVD playback? Upgrade to a 50000-series PS2. A four-player adapter that can do both PS and PS2 games? Upgrade to a 70000-series PS2), but I wonder how much longer it will be before simply seeing the PlayStation logo on the software packaging won't be enough to know it will run on your particular PlayStation, and you need to look at the back of a PS3 game to find out the hardware requirments
"That's funny because at my university we've got tons of foreign exchange students from the UK. Why? Because the UK's higher education is horrific and they'll admit it."
Britons that go to school in the US say UK schools suck? Methinks you need to learn a thing or two about proper statistical sampling.
"Please make the games as good as they used to be,"
Only with like... you know... an actual AI? Besides the usual problems of "What the heck are my guys doing trying to walk through that wall instead of around it?" Red Alert's AI players didn't know the meaning of the word "amphibious."
Want to reduce the AIs to token players? Create a map where everybody starts on their own island. For laughs, put some bridges between them to blow up, and point and laugh as you see their men and tanks run up to the break in the bridge, scratch their heads, and run back ad infinitum. Seriously, a friend of mine made a map with two shores and a bridge between them as long as the map templates could handle, and if you broke the bridge close to your shore, waited a while, and then sent in planes/ships to break the bridge close to the AI's shore, you'd trap pretty much all of its forces out on the bridge.
"but you have to allow some ads through to support the sites that you visit,"
In general, the only ads I find myself not blocking are the ones that actually have something to do with the website in question. For example, I don't think I've ever blocked any ads on penny-arcade.com.
Even though it's only a clause, it still needs a verb in there ("Then comes part II," "Then there's part II..."). Your post would not have gone through.
At any rate, your plan wouldn't work simply because nobody would use it. It would be cumbersome and annoying for most users (especially if it's anything like MS Word), and ultimately you'd have nobody to speak your perfect English to.
The only thing I think would work is to try to lead by example rather than trying to criticise everybody else. There will always be lost causes, but others will at least veer away from the number keys after a few responses.
"seeing the average Firefox user as more tech-savvy the average Internet Explorer user."
This assumes that neither IE nor Firefox users actually want to click on ads, and the only reason ads get clicked on any more is that the unwitting get duped into clicking on "system messages."
I'm not disagreeing, I'm just wondering if anybody else noticed.
"Reason why they hate the Japanese? Rape of Nanking."
That's justification for hating the grandchildren of those responsible?
"Have you seen the Japanese schools' version of the Rape of Nanking????"
Bad, yes, but I fail to see how this justifies China's stance. Holding Japan responsible for reparations, sure, but this?
""The Nanjing Massacre is a lie made up by the Chinese." - Ishihara Shintaro, former Japanese Cabinet Minister, interviewed October 1990"
Because only Japanese politicians say completely stupid things. Seriously, what country do you live in where you can still actually be surprised when a politician says something like this? Hell, I've seen worse come out of Austria...
"what about the USA's view on nuclear bombing Japan?"
Use of the atomic bomb on Japan was justified by the fact that two were required before they surrendered. And even then there was a large faction in the Japanese army that wanted to keep going.
You seem to be a little confused; it's not that Congress doesn't want to spend the money, they just don't want to spend the money on that. I'm sure each and every congresscritter sees a pretty little pork barrel for that money to go into (of which only three or four of which from Florida would be in favor of spending it on space exploration).
Once the IRS gets it, your money is as good as spent. It's almost silly to actually think of it as "your" money any more, since the best you can hope to do is have some some small influence on how it will be spent. Personally, given the Hobson's Choice, I'd rather the cash be thrown at space exploration than, say, federal enforcement of copyright laws or abstinance-only sex education or "research" to toe the line on US environmental policy or investigating the link between video games and violent crimes or... well, I think you get the idea.
A Ballonish Soaring Device, which would promptly be confirmed to be dying. Though where he'd find the old Koreans to operate it is beyond me, since he'd have to travel through (pre-) Soviet Russia to find one.
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OK everybody, considering how often news on the DS has been on the front page for the past few weeks, at what point do we start to mod these constant "What's a DS?" questions as trolls?
Hell, "DS" isn't even really an acronym, it's the actual name of the system: Nintendo DS.
Same as everybody else on eBay: miracle diet pills that worked wonders for your wife. That, or information CDs.
Sports titles more than one year old continue to compete in the 20 cent price range.
It's called "majority rule" or "tyranny of the majority." The idea is that rights are never truly personal or individual but are only granted by what is usually referred to as "the people" or "society." Whether or not it really is the group as a whole or some subset claiming to represent that group ultimately doesn't matter, the idea is the same: rights are considered a human construct (i. e. you are not born with them) and can only be given to you by other humans, making them "alienable" at their whim.
"Having grown up in China finding such high levels of depression in America was a surprise. After all, we're supposedly leading the lives everyone wants to emulate..."
You must be new to Slashdot, then. Around here, people will emulate Windows long before they emulate the US.
It seems that Sony's consoles are becoming all too similar to PCs, requiring upgrades to your hardware to do things rather than having everything come in one boxen. For now, it's just limited to hardware accessories (Want to be able to turn off your PS2 from a remote, or progressive-scan DVD playback? Upgrade to a 50000-series PS2. A four-player adapter that can do both PS and PS2 games? Upgrade to a 70000-series PS2), but I wonder how much longer it will be before simply seeing the PlayStation logo on the software packaging won't be enough to know it will run on your particular PlayStation, and you need to look at the back of a PS3 game to find out the hardware requirments
Would you like it better if was in the shape of a hexagon?
"That's funny because at my university we've got tons of foreign exchange students from the UK. Why? Because the UK's higher education is horrific and they'll admit it."
Britons that go to school in the US say UK schools suck? Methinks you need to learn a thing or two about proper statistical sampling.
Don't mind me, I just feel like trolling.
"All scientists agree that the Earth is round."
Depends on how strict your definition of "round" is.
"All scientists agree that the sun is made up of Hydrogen."
Which fuses into... more hydrogen? Pop quiz: how did helium get its name?
"All scientists agree that gravity pulls things down."
Some are still looking into the possibility of a negative mass "charge."
"All scientists agree that smoking is bad for you."
Including marajuana?
"All scientists agree that splitting the atom will produce energy."
Only for certain atoms. If splitting helium into hydrogen also produced a net energy output, the sun would be violating the laws of thermodynamics.
Is that you, Shatner?
Lucas set up us the Jar Jar!
That's not what your TiVo thinks...
That's exactly what it is; all rights belong only to the people as a whole, not to the individual person.
Meh. Something for the electors to consider next Monday.
Stuff like this is why we have the Electoral College to begin with.
"Please make the games as good as they used to be,"
Only with like... you know... an actual AI? Besides the usual problems of "What the heck are my guys doing trying to walk through that wall instead of around it?" Red Alert's AI players didn't know the meaning of the word "amphibious."
Want to reduce the AIs to token players? Create a map where everybody starts on their own island. For laughs, put some bridges between them to blow up, and point and laugh as you see their men and tanks run up to the break in the bridge, scratch their heads, and run back ad infinitum. Seriously, a friend of mine made a map with two shores and a bridge between them as long as the map templates could handle, and if you broke the bridge close to your shore, waited a while, and then sent in planes/ships to break the bridge close to the AI's shore, you'd trap pretty much all of its forces out on the bridge.
While I didn't see the episode in question, I'd wager that they didn't touch the question of "Well, which one's right?" with a 3-meter pole.
"demanding that they keep doing things just the way they have been"
I'd be more specific if I were you, or else they might see it as a green light to introduce the new "do not fast forward" bit.
"but you have to allow some ads through to support the sites that you visit,"
In general, the only ads I find myself not blocking are the ones that actually have something to do with the website in question. For example, I don't think I've ever blocked any ads on penny-arcade.com.
Because, if you must install Flash, you should do it on a platform with no display.
"Then part II:"
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Even though it's only a clause, it still needs a verb in there ("Then comes part II," "Then there's part II..."). Your post would not have gone through.
At any rate, your plan wouldn't work simply because nobody would use it. It would be cumbersome and annoying for most users (especially if it's anything like MS Word), and ultimately you'd have nobody to speak your perfect English to.
The only thing I think would work is to try to lead by example rather than trying to criticise everybody else. There will always be lost causes, but others will at least veer away from the number keys after a few responses.
"seeing the average Firefox user as more tech-savvy the average Internet Explorer user."
This assumes that neither IE nor Firefox users actually want to click on ads, and the only reason ads get clicked on any more is that the unwitting get duped into clicking on "system messages."
I'm not disagreeing, I'm just wondering if anybody else noticed.
"Reason why they hate the Japanese? Rape of Nanking."
That's justification for hating the grandchildren of those responsible?
"Have you seen the Japanese schools' version of the Rape of Nanking????"
Bad, yes, but I fail to see how this justifies China's stance. Holding Japan responsible for reparations, sure, but this?
""The Nanjing Massacre is a lie made up by the Chinese." - Ishihara Shintaro, former Japanese Cabinet Minister, interviewed October 1990"
Because only Japanese politicians say completely stupid things. Seriously, what country do you live in where you can still actually be surprised when a politician says something like this? Hell, I've seen worse come out of Austria...
"what about the USA's view on nuclear bombing Japan?"
Use of the atomic bomb on Japan was justified by the fact that two were required before they surrendered. And even then there was a large faction in the Japanese army that wanted to keep going.
"2D just need to present the parts of the element that is facing the viewer"
Yes, but first it needs to figure out what parts are facing the viewer and what arent.
You seem to be a little confused; it's not that Congress doesn't want to spend the money, they just don't want to spend the money on that. I'm sure each and every congresscritter sees a pretty little pork barrel for that money to go into (of which only three or four of which from Florida would be in favor of spending it on space exploration).
Once the IRS gets it, your money is as good as spent. It's almost silly to actually think of it as "your" money any more, since the best you can hope to do is have some some small influence on how it will be spent. Personally, given the Hobson's Choice, I'd rather the cash be thrown at space exploration than, say, federal enforcement of copyright laws or abstinance-only sex education or "research" to toe the line on US environmental policy or investigating the link between video games and violent crimes or... well, I think you get the idea.
A Ballonish Soaring Device, which would promptly be confirmed to be dying. Though where he'd find the old Koreans to operate it is beyond me, since he'd have to travel through (pre-) Soviet Russia to find one.