Who would've thought that civilized, focused discussion would be more productive than a free-for-all...
I love Debian, but I've long had the suspicion that part of the reason Debian has such a long time between releases (which I view as a mostly good thing) is because they've got too much of a "free form" development process. That's good for small projects, and it served Debian well in the past, but Debian's scope has broaded so much in the last 5+ years that new considerations should be made...
It all depends on the system's role. Common desktop, lotsa RAM? No swap. Medium RAM, common desktop? No RAM. Anything with more stringent requirements or less RAM, add swap accordingly...
But then again, when a 250G disk is like $80, what's another 3 or 4G of used space?
Yeah, but think of all the games for Mac that don't work on PC! I mean, seriously. When was the last time you saw a company release a game for Windows?...
Yeah, that's right. Every fucking time.
I use a computer for work, music (I hate the iTunes interface), playing movies, and games - but mainly games, work, and web browsing. I'll take Windows before a mac, and Linux before Windows when I can...
Uh, so why not make a 3rd person shooter MMORPG? Is it really all that different from what we've got now with "turn based" FPS games?
You could nix the projectile pathfinding woes (and aimbots) pretty easily by simply having 'autoaim' by default. Basically, the aiming system used by third-person shooter games like GTA: the person controls the movement, target equisition, and when to fire, making it seem like you've got finite control, but the actual attack communication is pretty much just "player X attacks player Y with Z weapon for Z(skill_level) damage".
What I want: Mixed environment (urban/suburban/rural) SHTF/TEOTWAWKI MMORPG. Guns, survival rations, biker/ghetto/improv gangs to try and avoid/kill, terrorists, corrupt cops, municipal failures and dangers, (minimal) wild animals, etc. Sure, you've got the "fighting people" issue, but IMO you could make it interesting and engaging by making the progress determined by passed obstacles which may or may not involve people. IE, you gain XP by getting onto the other side of the river when the bridge is out. It's a fantasy world that blurs with reality making it damn addictive, and the array of weapons and tools can be broad. Not only that, but they then appeal more because, well, "for only $800 I could have one of these super blitzen boomer guns myself!"
And the great thing is, you could probably have it be (near) profitable before launch due to advertising. Unlike the realm of fantasy games or games like AO where the advertising is distracting and doens't fit in, the advertising in such a game would be a custom fit. Think about it: Smith and Wesson, Glock, Remington, Bushmaster, Black and Decker (as it'd be goal oriented, tools would be just as useful as weapons), various shoe companies (Nike, boot companies, hiking gear ocmpanies), automobile - 4-wheeler, motorcycle, car, truck - companies, outdoor gear companies in general... you name it. Coke or Pepsi billboards? Lo'orial (that makeup copmany)? Go for it! You could probably have those companies even help you with creating the models, skins and effects for their product because, hell - they want to have an impressive product display in the game, right?
How you'd market it to the companies is tricky, because then you'd run into "glock is better than 1911 pistols" type arguments, and would 9mm do more damage than.45acp or vice versa? Do you make Glocks and 1911s jam/misfire equally? Which do you make more accurate? The company that pays the most money, or simply charge them a base "you get the gun in the game ofr this amount of money"? I would think the companies would want some sort of guaranteed market return and impression amount... that'd certainly be the tricky part.
In my mind, such a game would have no real game path; things like alignment and class would not be purely artificial. Alignment could be determined by your character's appearance and affiliation (does he wear gang colors? is she in a cop uniform? etc.). Classing would, in my mind, be purely skill based, and determined by what you decide to make your charactre do. Want to be good at making things? Have the character make things. Good at shooting? Start fights a lot (though, there'd be a definate penalty for dying, to make such a character path more difficult and to make it so that a person couldn't become an ubersoldat).
Hell, throw in some zombies and you're fucking set.
China is much, much higher these days, and what's more, its rate of consumption is increasing faster than any other country's. Furthermore, their overall polution makes the polution/CO2 generated in the US look insignificant, regardless of petrolium consumption levels...
That's because it's probably their fault, somehow, somewhere! And if it isn't, we'll just pretend - because there's surely something else that they're not getting credit for, or something like humanitarian aide which is getting painted in a positive light!
this year, spring wasn't really readily observeable. it was a fairly consistent gradient from winter to summer.
but then, we didn't have much of a winter. it was barely cold enough for heavy jackets, probably not dipping below 20F but a time or two, with little snow.
and the summer has been pretty mild in general, too - very, very cool, with a very unusually high amount of rainfall.
I concur. I'm in South Dakota, USA, and usually the end of July and the month of August are hot - 90F/32C and warmer with a fair amount of humidity.
Since the middle of July, it's been uncommonly cool (50s F? 60s and low 70s?) for the most part, punctuated by a few very hot and humid days (quickly followed by a downpour of several days and coolness). It's odd behavior - the weather and climate has definately changed - but it's hardly "global warming" - at least locally.
It has felt like fall for a while here. I quite enjoy it.
The problem is that these nuts are.001% of the population. They're a very, very small minority of a real-world-detatched elitist minority. The vast majority of Americans either have killed their own dinner before, have eaten food someone they know has killed, or at the very least is friends with someone who has.
That's why I'll advocate long-term jail sentences, and if they prove particularly violent against people in their crimes to help the poor wittle bunny rabbits, death by hanging/electrocution/beheading.
Capitialism is one of the main reasons there is more than enough food to go around. It is one reason a lot of grains get shipped to third world areas.
Actually, that's only true in part.
The main reason why there is such an abundance of food in the world (namely, the US) is because of petrolium. It's used in almost every stage of food production - from the creation of the seeds, to fertilizers and sprays, and then the harvesting and (to limited degree) processing. We use an incredible amount of petrolium for such tasks; if I recall correctly, the whole "production" of a single unit of crops requires an equal unit of petrolium (in mass). That's a lot of petrolium!
World food production did not start to increase much above localized sustainance levels before the industrial area. Bring in tractors and things drastically change, as a single man can do the work of 5 - then 10, and then 50, 100, or 500 men. When you consider that manual labor can only reasonably plant and harvest about 3 acres of land, and there are family farms out there today worked by only a handful of men that cover a square mile of land... well. (I know one that's about 1/2 a mile^2 and has only two men work it - and one part time.)
We've already lost a great deal of variety due to GE seed crops. The number of hierloom varieties of plants that have traditionally not had very high consumption have been lost (or, at least, are lost to obscurity).
Thankfully, there are some people that attempt to preserve these heirloom variants in personal gardens and organic farms.
The fact that it's (usually) restrained by the company which "invents" the new plant variant, and the seeds are not "renewable"? (In other words, the plant will germinate for a single season and any produce will not have seeds which are able to germinate).
There are several very real problems with this, completely ignoring the (IMO) nutty claims that GE plants are inherrently bad (and there's been no evidence of this to date, as far as I know).
1) When all grown crops are of the GE seed variety (as is almost the case in many countries already), those companies need to continue to produce their grains (and sell them at an inflated price, indebting farmers) or the farmers won't be able to produce food at all because... 2)... the farmers are unable to simply use part of hteir previous year's harvest to seed their fields the following year. This... 3)... gives the companies almost complete control over food economies, giving them the power to literally control the ballance of power. 4) It can also result in catastrophic famine if a) the company goes tits up and the naturally growing variants have been pushed out of the environment or b) a plague devistates the relatively small number of GE variants available.
There is great wisdom in locally- and climatically- endemic strains of various plants (they're commonly called 'hierlooms'), but it's something we've essentially forgotten as a culture (at least in the West).
here's the thing... they don't work for me, normally. I've been told by many people that I've got a "radio voice", and I just happen to hail from the midwest - the demographic part of the country that is considered the easiest to understand.
I ocntinually have problems, just the same. yes, I'll admit that I end up getting frustrated with the damn things and start raising my voice on a 'bad day' or when I'm in a rush (especially when I had to wait on hold for the damn machine - what kind of sense does that make?)
the caveat? I only have a cell phone, not a landline. I probably will never have a landline unless I move far enough out into the country that my cell phone consistently doesn't receive service. there are a lot of people like me in that regard, yet, you've got to dig pretty damn deep to speak with an operator who can get you where you're trying to go pretty damn quickly.
If you can't understand why this would've been bad for the US, which was just about to enter into a protracted cold war and arms race with Russia, and why it was in the US's best interest to get them to surrender to us instead, then there's really no point in further debate. Their surrender to Russia would've potentially changed the outcome of the Cold War, increasing the Russian sphere of influence drastically.
It wasn't simply that they were "ready to surrender". Who they were going to surrender to was equally important to our national well-being.
You really haven't been paying attention if you think the New York Times has any journalistic integrity! Wow. Between all the outright fraud and failure to investigate things which are dogmatically unpleasant for them over the Hezbollah attacks on Israel and Israel's response, it was hard to miss things like the overt (and poorly done) photo doctoring, staged photos, etc.
Our use of nukes in WWII saved more lives than the bombs took, most of those lives being Americans. The culture of Japan at the time was very... sociopolitical, in that the country's overall belief was that the US was going to murder every Jap if we came ashore.
It would've been a self-fulfilling prophecy, as Japan actively armed and trained every Japanese citizen to attack American soldiers. (I'm referring to the sea-based landing operating similar to Operation Overlord - the name of which I can not directly recall.)
Why else should the US have them? This really doesn't take that much thought, but since you seem unable to perform such tasks... - The US has been on the forefront of developing technology to reduce needless death during warfare (tactical weapons, pinpoint weapons, etc.) What would you prefer - carpet bombing of Iraq, Iran, and Lebannon? - The US was largely responsible for the founding of the United Nations. - Principle financing for the UN comes from the United States. - The US gives more aid to so-called "needy" nations than any other country. - The US has repeatedly demonstrated near-obscene levels of restraint in war when it comes to "disproportionate force" - We're the least likely nation in the world to have to employ nukes for defense (ie against someone wanting to invade us) - We're the most likely nation for a jealous 3rd world country or group to want to take a swipe at us
Of course, all these points are pretty useless if you think the US is an imperialist regime and has the intent of conquering the world. There's no reasoning with mental derangement and those who redefine words to mean what they want them to.
Which propaganda is that? That we need Iraq's oil?
Or the hard evidence propaganda of: - Iran weapons being found in the posession of Hezbollah, in Iraq, and Afgahnistan - Iran's continued claims directly to the West that they will a) destroy Israel and b) destroy the Great Satan (that's the US) - continued evidence of Iranian troops themselves being directly involved with Hezbollah and in insurgent groups throughout Iraq. - Iranian funding of numerous terrorist cells and organizations
No, seriously. I'm not being tongue in cheek here, I'm looking for a response. This isn't "government propaganda" - this is stuff which the media and hte administration has been slow to admit; it's not getting front-page attention, to say the least.
(As for Iraq, I'm personally of the opinion that it was indeed a lie/set of lies, but it was done because a sizeable land base is needed for a conflict with Iran - which the government knew Iran was moving towards even back then.)
Now, if Mr. Highlander had an evil black assault sword with banned accessories (like a kevlar covered hilt, maybe) instead of just your general, run-of-the-mill sword, he'd probably have been booked 7-ways to Sunday and had the key thrown out...
No, one of the worst miscarriages of justice is when a person who is guilty of child rape, molestation, or abuse, gets out on a technicality, or simply because the child is too scared to testify.
If someone is falsely accused of a crime, and they don't end up serving time, well... it sucks that their life was otherwise ruined, but they can still recover from it. There are paths for civil recourse, and the person can move elsewhere if their life is too greatly impacted.
No, evidence ceased illegally by police is thrown out because police gained it through abuse of their authority as a public servant.
If a burglar stumbles upon something incriminating of a greater act - say, murder - while commissioning burglary, and the burglar comes clean, they're likely to get a pardon or even have their burglary ignored, especially if they ended up not taking anything other than the incriminating evidence. Same kinda thing.
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It's neat, but the images are way too damn small.
Still, it's interactive crack... very addictive.
Who would've thought that civilized, focused discussion would be more productive than a free-for-all...
I love Debian, but I've long had the suspicion that part of the reason Debian has such a long time between releases (which I view as a mostly good thing) is because they've got too much of a "free form" development process. That's good for small projects, and it served Debian well in the past, but Debian's scope has broaded so much in the last 5+ years that new considerations should be made...
It all depends on the system's role. Common desktop, lotsa RAM? No swap. Medium RAM, common desktop? No RAM. Anything with more stringent requirements or less RAM, add swap accordingly...
But then again, when a 250G disk is like $80, what's another 3 or 4G of used space?
Yeah, but think of all the games for Mac that don't work on PC! I mean, seriously. When was the last time you saw a company release a game for Windows? ...
Yeah, that's right. Every fucking time.
I use a computer for work, music (I hate the iTunes interface), playing movies, and games - but mainly games, work, and web browsing. I'll take Windows before a mac, and Linux before Windows when I can...
Uh, so why not make a 3rd person shooter MMORPG? Is it really all that different from what we've got now with "turn based" FPS games?
.45acp or vice versa? Do you make Glocks and 1911s jam/misfire equally? Which do you make more accurate? The company that pays the most money, or simply charge them a base "you get the gun in the game ofr this amount of money"? I would think the companies would want some sort of guaranteed market return and impression amount... that'd certainly be the tricky part.
You could nix the projectile pathfinding woes (and aimbots) pretty easily by simply having 'autoaim' by default. Basically, the aiming system used by third-person shooter games like GTA: the person controls the movement, target equisition, and when to fire, making it seem like you've got finite control, but the actual attack communication is pretty much just "player X attacks player Y with Z weapon for Z(skill_level) damage".
What I want: Mixed environment (urban/suburban/rural) SHTF/TEOTWAWKI MMORPG. Guns, survival rations, biker/ghetto/improv gangs to try and avoid/kill, terrorists, corrupt cops, municipal failures and dangers, (minimal) wild animals, etc. Sure, you've got the "fighting people" issue, but IMO you could make it interesting and engaging by making the progress determined by passed obstacles which may or may not involve people. IE, you gain XP by getting onto the other side of the river when the bridge is out. It's a fantasy world that blurs with reality making it damn addictive, and the array of weapons and tools can be broad. Not only that, but they then appeal more because, well, "for only $800 I could have one of these super blitzen boomer guns myself!"
And the great thing is, you could probably have it be (near) profitable before launch due to advertising. Unlike the realm of fantasy games or games like AO where the advertising is distracting and doens't fit in, the advertising in such a game would be a custom fit. Think about it: Smith and Wesson, Glock, Remington, Bushmaster, Black and Decker (as it'd be goal oriented, tools would be just as useful as weapons), various shoe companies (Nike, boot companies, hiking gear ocmpanies), automobile - 4-wheeler, motorcycle, car, truck - companies, outdoor gear companies in general... you name it. Coke or Pepsi billboards? Lo'orial (that makeup copmany)? Go for it! You could probably have those companies even help you with creating the models, skins and effects for their product because, hell - they want to have an impressive product display in the game, right?
How you'd market it to the companies is tricky, because then you'd run into "glock is better than 1911 pistols" type arguments, and would 9mm do more damage than
In my mind, such a game would have no real game path; things like alignment and class would not be purely artificial. Alignment could be determined by your character's appearance and affiliation (does he wear gang colors? is she in a cop uniform? etc.). Classing would, in my mind, be purely skill based, and determined by what you decide to make your charactre do. Want to be good at making things? Have the character make things. Good at shooting? Start fights a lot (though, there'd be a definate penalty for dying, to make such a character path more difficult and to make it so that a person couldn't become an ubersoldat).
Hell, throw in some zombies and you're fucking set.
You need to check out recent statistics.
China is much, much higher these days, and what's more, its rate of consumption is increasing faster than any other country's. Furthermore, their overall polution makes the polution/CO2 generated in the US look insignificant, regardless of petrolium consumption levels...
That's because it's probably their fault, somehow, somewhere! And if it isn't, we'll just pretend - because there's surely something else that they're not getting credit for, or something like humanitarian aide which is getting painted in a positive light!
Odd question, but... does anyone know where a guy might apply/acquire one (or two or three) such jobs?
I could greatly use supplimental income. Especially since it's basically something I already do...
this year, spring wasn't really readily observeable. it was a fairly consistent gradient from winter to summer.
but then, we didn't have much of a winter. it was barely cold enough for heavy jackets, probably not dipping below 20F but a time or two, with little snow.
and the summer has been pretty mild in general, too - very, very cool, with a very unusually high amount of rainfall.
I concur. I'm in South Dakota, USA, and usually the end of July and the month of August are hot - 90F/32C and warmer with a fair amount of humidity.
Since the middle of July, it's been uncommonly cool (50s F? 60s and low 70s?) for the most part, punctuated by a few very hot and humid days (quickly followed by a downpour of several days and coolness). It's odd behavior - the weather and climate has definately changed - but it's hardly "global warming" - at least locally.
It has felt like fall for a while here. I quite enjoy it.
THe funny thing is that you actually believe that.
Sorry, no. In western countries, CO2 output is roughly equivilant to the population count. In developing countries, it's even higher.
I wonder what the difference is from when winter started back then until now.
Just to hazard a guess: it was about the same period of time earlier then than now.
The problem is that these nuts are .001% of the population. They're a very, very small minority of a real-world-detatched elitist minority. The vast majority of Americans either have killed their own dinner before, have eaten food someone they know has killed, or at the very least is friends with someone who has.
I agree. Best not to be a hypocrite.
That's why I'll advocate long-term jail sentences, and if they prove particularly violent against people in their crimes to help the poor wittle bunny rabbits, death by hanging/electrocution/beheading.
Capitialism is one of the main reasons there is more than enough food to go around. It is one reason a lot of grains get shipped to third world areas.
Actually, that's only true in part.
The main reason why there is such an abundance of food in the world (namely, the US) is because of petrolium. It's used in almost every stage of food production - from the creation of the seeds, to fertilizers and sprays, and then the harvesting and (to limited degree) processing. We use an incredible amount of petrolium for such tasks; if I recall correctly, the whole "production" of a single unit of crops requires an equal unit of petrolium (in mass). That's a lot of petrolium!
World food production did not start to increase much above localized sustainance levels before the industrial area. Bring in tractors and things drastically change, as a single man can do the work of 5 - then 10, and then 50, 100, or 500 men. When you consider that manual labor can only reasonably plant and harvest about 3 acres of land, and there are family farms out there today worked by only a handful of men that cover a square mile of land... well. (I know one that's about 1/2 a mile^2 and has only two men work it - and one part time.)
We've already lost a great deal of variety due to GE seed crops. The number of hierloom varieties of plants that have traditionally not had very high consumption have been lost (or, at least, are lost to obscurity).
Thankfully, there are some people that attempt to preserve these heirloom variants in personal gardens and organic farms.
The fact that it's (usually) restrained by the company which "invents" the new plant variant, and the seeds are not "renewable"? (In other words, the plant will germinate for a single season and any produce will not have seeds which are able to germinate).
... the farmers are unable to simply use part of hteir previous year's harvest to seed their fields the following year. This... ... gives the companies almost complete control over food economies, giving them the power to literally control the ballance of power.
There are several very real problems with this, completely ignoring the (IMO) nutty claims that GE plants are inherrently bad (and there's been no evidence of this to date, as far as I know).
1) When all grown crops are of the GE seed variety (as is almost the case in many countries already), those companies need to continue to produce their grains (and sell them at an inflated price, indebting farmers) or the farmers won't be able to produce food at all because...
2)
3)
4) It can also result in catastrophic famine if a) the company goes tits up and the naturally growing variants have been pushed out of the environment or b) a plague devistates the relatively small number of GE variants available.
There is great wisdom in locally- and climatically- endemic strains of various plants (they're commonly called 'hierlooms'), but it's something we've essentially forgotten as a culture (at least in the West).
here's the thing... they don't work for me, normally. I've been told by many people that I've got a "radio voice", and I just happen to hail from the midwest - the demographic part of the country that is considered the easiest to understand.
I ocntinually have problems, just the same. yes, I'll admit that I end up getting frustrated with the damn things and start raising my voice on a 'bad day' or when I'm in a rush (especially when I had to wait on hold for the damn machine - what kind of sense does that make?)
the caveat? I only have a cell phone, not a landline. I probably will never have a landline unless I move far enough out into the country that my cell phone consistently doesn't receive service. there are a lot of people like me in that regard, yet, you've got to dig pretty damn deep to speak with an operator who can get you where you're trying to go pretty damn quickly.
You're precisely correct.
They were ready to surrender. To the Russians.
If you can't understand why this would've been bad for the US, which was just about to enter into a protracted cold war and arms race with Russia, and why it was in the US's best interest to get them to surrender to us instead, then there's really no point in further debate. Their surrender to Russia would've potentially changed the outcome of the Cold War, increasing the Russian sphere of influence drastically.
It wasn't simply that they were "ready to surrender". Who they were going to surrender to was equally important to our national well-being.
You really haven't been paying attention if you think the New York Times has any journalistic integrity! Wow. Between all the outright fraud and failure to investigate things which are dogmatically unpleasant for them over the Hezbollah attacks on Israel and Israel's response, it was hard to miss things like the overt (and poorly done) photo doctoring, staged photos, etc.
Our use of nukes in WWII saved more lives than the bombs took, most of those lives being Americans. The culture of Japan at the time was very... sociopolitical, in that the country's overall belief was that the US was going to murder every Jap if we came ashore.
It would've been a self-fulfilling prophecy, as Japan actively armed and trained every Japanese citizen to attack American soldiers. (I'm referring to the sea-based landing operating similar to Operation Overlord - the name of which I can not directly recall.)
Why else should the US have them? This really doesn't take that much thought, but since you seem unable to perform such tasks...
- The US has been on the forefront of developing technology to reduce needless death during warfare (tactical weapons, pinpoint weapons, etc.) What would you prefer - carpet bombing of Iraq, Iran, and Lebannon?
- The US was largely responsible for the founding of the United Nations.
- Principle financing for the UN comes from the United States.
- The US gives more aid to so-called "needy" nations than any other country.
- The US has repeatedly demonstrated near-obscene levels of restraint in war when it comes to "disproportionate force"
- We're the least likely nation in the world to have to employ nukes for defense (ie against someone wanting to invade us)
- We're the most likely nation for a jealous 3rd world country or group to want to take a swipe at us
Of course, all these points are pretty useless if you think the US is an imperialist regime and has the intent of conquering the world. There's no reasoning with mental derangement and those who redefine words to mean what they want them to.
Which propaganda is that? That we need Iraq's oil?
Or the hard evidence propaganda of:
- Iran weapons being found in the posession of Hezbollah, in Iraq, and Afgahnistan
- Iran's continued claims directly to the West that they will a) destroy Israel and b) destroy the Great Satan (that's the US)
- continued evidence of Iranian troops themselves being directly involved with Hezbollah and in insurgent groups throughout Iraq.
- Iranian funding of numerous terrorist cells and organizations
No, seriously. I'm not being tongue in cheek here, I'm looking for a response. This isn't "government propaganda" - this is stuff which the media and hte administration has been slow to admit; it's not getting front-page attention, to say the least.
(As for Iraq, I'm personally of the opinion that it was indeed a lie/set of lies, but it was done because a sizeable land base is needed for a conflict with Iran - which the government knew Iran was moving towards even back then.)
Now, if Mr. Highlander had an evil black assault sword with banned accessories (like a kevlar covered hilt, maybe) instead of just your general, run-of-the-mill sword, he'd probably have been booked 7-ways to Sunday and had the key thrown out...
No, one of the worst miscarriages of justice is when a person who is guilty of child rape, molestation, or abuse, gets out on a technicality, or simply because the child is too scared to testify.
If someone is falsely accused of a crime, and they don't end up serving time, well... it sucks that their life was otherwise ruined, but they can still recover from it. There are paths for civil recourse, and the person can move elsewhere if their life is too greatly impacted.
No, evidence ceased illegally by police is thrown out because police gained it through abuse of their authority as a public servant.
If a burglar stumbles upon something incriminating of a greater act - say, murder - while commissioning burglary, and the burglar comes clean, they're likely to get a pardon or even have their burglary ignored, especially if they ended up not taking anything other than the incriminating evidence. Same kinda thing.