I don't want social security whether it is fine or not. I don't need government telling me how and when I can do what with the money I've earned. It's not their money.
So don't drive on their roads, apply for student loans, land got flooded out.. oops... no money for flood control.. were you just invaded.. oops.. no money for the military.. good thing you have your money.
I've got a little bit of news for all you "it's my money" people.. We're living in a *society* and it's not every man for himself. Society needs to be contributed to if it's going to work at all.
Government by itself can't grow the economy, but if it cuts taxes it can allow the economy to grow itself.
BUT, if you cut taxes TOO much, you end up with huge amounts of deficit spending and no way to pay it back if the revenue from the "growing economy" doesn't materialize.
Basically it's a gamble, betting that the economy will grow enough to offset the tax reduction. The more taxes you cut, the more the economy MUST grow in order to maintain balance... and ultimately that's what were after.. balance with steady growth.
Heavy tax cuts just never seemed like a sensible recipe for growth.. The government should never be drastically changed.. small movements are best IMHO.
Re:Internal conflict is what I worry about...
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Guess what? Most people don't give a shit about what they have to say.
That's probably WHY they're protesting. Being ignored or being considered "irrelevant" has a way of sparking emnity. When one group that has a slim majority decides that the rest just don't matter or that they just "don't care", it's a recipe for a house divided.. and what did we learn in school about a house divided???
Very true, but I've always considered Blizzard to be a PC game developer who was very supportive of the mac and Bungie as a mac developer who was very supportive of the PC....but yes, I agree with your point.
I would say a solid $75M per year, plenty of cash to expand their team to create what Diablo 3? Starcraft 3? Warcraft 4? WoW 2?..or something completely original..
I don't care what it is, I'm a huge Blizzard fanboy and proud of it! As long as they stay true to their formula for making games fun and polishing them to a radiant sheen, they'll continue to get my money.
IMHO Blizzard is to PC gaming what Bungie was to mac gaming (before the MS/Halo transition)
If a U.S. soldier can get six months for ordering some Iraqis pitch off of a bridge, then an offense for IP violation should SURELY be less than that, right???
Now before you inevitably mod me down for the previous comparison, actually consider it... and then consider who our government truly represent based on how it treats it's criminals in relation to their status of wealth and/or power in the system.
But it was said that the only choice was to use the electronic booths. I was just informing you of the other choices you choose to ignore.
Which of course brings me back to my ORIGINAL point is that the choices are skewed as to punish the better choice... or more accurately the choice that allows greater freedom...
I can already take the toll road now, why should MY price go up while people who use the electronic version remain the same?.. and don't give me an answer about costs of upkeep or employees, because if that was the case then ATM's would be free and going to a teller would cost money.
This is just another trend that herds people in a specific direction and then starts charging them when they have no convenient way to switch.
As an example, lets take the electronic passes for tollbooths... It was widely said that these could inevitably lead to the police monitoring your speed by timing your stops between booths... The common response was "if that's your concern, take the normal toll"...
Well I was just noticing a sign this holiday season saying that rates were to rise on Jan. 1st.. but NOT for the electronic toll...
This is just another example of people being "herded" into a choice made by government, business, etc.. eventually it will be said that not enough people are using the regular tolls and they will be dismantled leaving the electronic as the only option, then perhaps slowly you will see some story on how law enforcement decides that they are going to start monitoring speeds based on times between tolls..
All of a sudden your choice has been removed, and you have no recourse but to accept it, or do rediculous solution like NOT DRIVE...
These are all examples on how companies and government bodies are stripping choice and freedom away from the citizen/consumer...
Sorry for the rant, but it gets frustrating to see how this stuff works and how people just shrug and accept it... I see it all the time from software companies and governments... l
Ultimately my point is, let people decide without the herding, and maybe we'll see a world that people actually enjoy living in.
Won't someone think of the children!?
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Just wait until one of these games causes an auto accident!!! LEGIONS of paranoid mothers and anti-gaming groups will call for the end of Wi-Fi because it's too dangerous for the children, THE CHILDREN!!!
Episode 2 is worth renting to see Yoda get busy with a lightsaber.
Maybe it's just me, but it didn't really sit right with me that Yoda, "got busy" with the lightsaber. First of all getting all acrobatic just isn't his style.. not to mention hopping around like a mexican jumping bean.
Yoda is calm and reserved with great mental control. IMHO Yoda should have fought with a completely defensive style... Dooku.. (or whatever his name was) should have been fighting Yoda in vain...
Just like the emporer on the dark side, Yoda should be "beyond the light saber". I suppose it could be argued that this was taking place at an earlier time when Yoda was less disciplined... but Yoda IMO is to the light side what the emporer is to the dark..
You would never have seen Palpatine pick up a light saber.. he's more into manipulating people to do his bidding. Yoda is more about cultivating the light side in the people around him.
Pardon me for my overt obivousness... but why cant the just print the EULA on the back of the package... I realize you won't get the pretty pictures of the operating system features in action, but at least you wont have to travel a hundred miles climb a mountain and have the EULAlama decipher it for you before returning to the store to sign a few hundred documents and then have to go through the pain of unlocking your software just so you can use it...
You keep preaching it and I'll keep waiting. We'll both die first, I assure you.
Then presumably in wont affect you (a sentiment used to justify all sorts of shady things)... *assuming that you aren't reborn into the same world*... Karma is funny like that.
I've always loved the idea of electricity generating stirling engines... while not being an end all power source, it occurs to me that having the differential of temperatures in the interior and exterior of structures would be beneficial to a system that wouldn't produce all the energy but cut down on energy costs, especially in areas of extreme climate. Humans generally keep their structure in opposition to the adverse environment which would provide perfect conditions for a stirling engine.
Feel free to ad input or blow this out of the water, because this idea is off the top of my head and not technically thought out.
Now obviously I could be wrong, but under the right conditions I have seen jets make shadows just like that...and the first time I saw one it kind of creeped me out too.
Exactly! Why bother paying for the license when they're not really making use of it?
Very simple... it has the *name* "Doom"
They could do a remake of The Sound of Music and slap the name 'Doom: The movie', and millions of rabid fanbois will go and see it, bitch about, and then go see the sequel, or prequel, depending on the disposition of the movie execs.
I'll guarantee you one thing.. this movie will have a good chance at sucking! Granted not all video game based movies suck, but the chance is veyr high, especially when they depart from what made the game great in the first place.
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I don't want social security whether it is fine or not. I don't need government telling me how and when I can do what with the money I've earned. It's not their money.
So don't drive on their roads, apply for student loans, land got flooded out.. oops... no money for flood control.. were you just invaded.. oops.. no money for the military.. good thing you have your money.
I've got a little bit of news for all you "it's my money" people.. We're living in a *society* and it's not every man for himself. Society needs to be contributed to if it's going to work at all.
Government by itself can't grow the economy, but if it cuts taxes it can allow the economy to grow itself.
BUT, if you cut taxes TOO much, you end up with huge amounts of deficit spending and no way to pay it back if the revenue from the "growing economy" doesn't materialize.
Basically it's a gamble, betting that the economy will grow enough to offset the tax reduction. The more taxes you cut, the more the economy MUST grow in order to maintain balance... and ultimately that's what were after.. balance with steady growth.
Heavy tax cuts just never seemed like a sensible recipe for growth.. The government should never be drastically changed.. small movements are best IMHO.
That's probably WHY they're protesting. Being ignored or being considered "irrelevant" has a way of sparking emnity. When one group that has a slim majority decides that the rest just don't matter or that they just "don't care", it's a recipe for a house divided.. and what did we learn in school about a house divided???
Sometimes women will say to me "Look at those scantily clad women with their tits hanging out on the box! That's sexist!"
To which I would say, tell me that while you're ogling shirtless male models at the Abercrombie store...
Anyone who has played Tetris for hours before going to bed knows EXACTLY what affect games have on the mind!
Very true, but I've always considered Blizzard to be a PC game developer who was very supportive of the mac and Bungie as a mac developer who was very supportive of the PC.. ..but yes, I agree with your point.
I would say a solid $75M per year, plenty of cash to expand their team to create what Diablo 3? Starcraft 3? Warcraft 4? WoW 2? ..or something completely original..
I don't care what it is, I'm a huge Blizzard fanboy and proud of it! As long as they stay true to their formula for making games fun and polishing them to a radiant sheen, they'll continue to get my money.
IMHO Blizzard is to PC gaming what Bungie was to mac gaming (before the MS/Halo transition)
If a U.S. soldier can get six months for ordering some Iraqis pitch off of a bridge, then an offense for IP violation should SURELY be less than that, right???
Now before you inevitably mod me down for the previous comparison, actually consider it... and then consider who our government truly represent based on how it treats it's criminals in relation to their status of wealth and/or power in the system.
But it was said that the only choice was to use the electronic booths. I was just informing you of the other choices you choose to ignore.
Which of course brings me back to my ORIGINAL point is that the choices are skewed as to punish the better choice... or more accurately the choice that allows greater freedom...
I can already take the toll road now, why should MY price go up while people who use the electronic version remain the same?.. and don't give me an answer about costs of upkeep or employees, because if that was the case then ATM's would be free and going to a teller would cost money.
1. don't take tool roads.
2. DON'T SPEED.
Oh I'm sure your a big supporter of complete inflexibility in law and beng monitored 24/7 aren't you???
You can take the "tool" roads all you want, they seem to suit you.
In one ear and right out the other...
I already addressed your type of response in my original post.
Key phrase "at the moment."
This is just another trend that herds people in a specific direction and then starts charging them when they have no convenient way to switch.
As an example, lets take the electronic passes for tollbooths... It was widely said that these could inevitably lead to the police monitoring your speed by timing your stops between booths... The common response was "if that's your concern, take the normal toll"...
Well I was just noticing a sign this holiday season saying that rates were to rise on Jan. 1st.. but NOT for the electronic toll...
This is just another example of people being "herded" into a choice made by government, business, etc.. eventually it will be said that not enough people are using the regular tolls and they will be dismantled leaving the electronic as the only option, then perhaps slowly you will see some story on how law enforcement decides that they are going to start monitoring speeds based on times between tolls..
All of a sudden your choice has been removed, and you have no recourse but to accept it, or do rediculous solution like NOT DRIVE...
These are all examples on how companies and government bodies are stripping choice and freedom away from the citizen/consumer...
Sorry for the rant, but it gets frustrating to see how this stuff works and how people just shrug and accept it... I see it all the time from software companies and governments... l
Ultimately my point is, let people decide without the herding, and maybe we'll see a world that people actually enjoy living in.
Until your drunken roomate throws the pizza box away!
Oh.. yeah.... right.. a drunken roomate actually throwing something away!! LOL!.. nevermind...
Just wait until one of these games causes an auto accident!!! LEGIONS of paranoid mothers and anti-gaming groups will call for the end of Wi-Fi because it's too dangerous for the children, THE CHILDREN!!!
From the pictures, it sure looks like Palpatine picks up a lightsaber.....
From the way Lucas has butchered the series, it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Episode 2 is worth renting to see Yoda get busy with a lightsaber.
Maybe it's just me, but it didn't really sit right with me that Yoda, "got busy" with the lightsaber. First of all getting all acrobatic just isn't his style.. not to mention hopping around like a mexican jumping bean.
Yoda is calm and reserved with great mental control. IMHO Yoda should have fought with a completely defensive style... Dooku.. (or whatever his name was) should have been fighting Yoda in vain...
Just like the emporer on the dark side, Yoda should be "beyond the light saber". I suppose it could be argued that this was taking place at an earlier time when Yoda was less disciplined... but Yoda IMO is to the light side what the emporer is to the dark..
You would never have seen Palpatine pick up a light saber.. he's more into manipulating people to do his bidding. Yoda is more about cultivating the light side in the people around him.
Two sides of the same coin.
Pardon me for my overt obivousness... but why cant the just print the EULA on the back of the package... I realize you won't get the pretty pictures of the operating system features in action, but at least you wont have to travel a hundred miles climb a mountain and have the EULAlama decipher it for you before returning to the store to sign a few hundred documents and then have to go through the pain of unlocking your software just so you can use it...
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The GCHQ is just a cover organization for the Krispy Kreme world headquarters!
You keep preaching it and I'll keep waiting. We'll both die first, I assure you.
Then presumably in wont affect you (a sentiment used to justify all sorts of shady things)... *assuming that you aren't reborn into the same world*... Karma is funny like that.
Now those transparent card shaped computer components on Star Trek are one step closer to reality!
I've always loved the idea of electricity generating stirling engines... while not being an end all power source, it occurs to me that having the differential of temperatures in the interior and exterior of structures would be beneficial to a system that wouldn't produce all the energy but cut down on energy costs, especially in areas of extreme climate. Humans generally keep their structure in opposition to the adverse environment which would provide perfect conditions for a stirling engine.
Feel free to ad input or blow this out of the water, because this idea is off the top of my head and not technically thought out.
China has had multistage ICMBs since the 70's.
Ahhhhh, but have they had ICBM's!?
Now obviously I could be wrong, but under the right conditions I have seen jets make shadows just like that...and the first time I saw one it kind of creeped me out too.
Exactly! Why bother paying for the license when they're not really making use of it?
Very simple... it has the *name* "Doom"
They could do a remake of The Sound of Music and slap the name 'Doom: The movie', and millions of rabid fanbois will go and see it, bitch about, and then go see the sequel, or prequel, depending on the disposition of the movie execs.
I'll guarantee you one thing.. this movie will have a good chance at sucking! Granted not all video game based movies suck, but the chance is veyr high, especially when they depart from what made the game great in the first place.
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You'd think an alien race capable of space travel and planetary conquest would have thought of that already!?