One could argue, and rather successfully if one follows the money, that the recovery act was about proping up our own government regime, which has moved to lording over its own people due to the dulcet tones of out-of-control memes.
Witness the four hundredth example of the core freedom of economic activity, again, destroying government's perverse attempt to ape it, after killing it via taxation, regulation, and uncertainty is the ongoing state of same.
No doubt, dear reader, the dulcet meme is already jerking your knee, and you are wanting to regurgitate "regulation good, business bad," while, as mentioned, ignoring the evidence before your eyes.
The economy doesn't care if free business is broken because of kickbacks to warlords or kickbacks to government or taxes to government.
That's why I always liked LISP's unwind protect wrapper function. C saw it and said, "Let's build a shitty clone of it with all C's difficulties and none of the charm!"
The very form of try/catch is LISP, which fits naturally there and not with C at all, which is why it seems so jarringly odd there. So does the LISP concept of manhandling code as data, which dovetails nicely with the concept. Something chokes on an error, and LISP kicks it in the balls as the code unwinds.
Enough have been left on it should have manifested as a problem by now.
Also, takeoffs and landings are different from the ban on cell phone use during flight, which is an FCC thing because cell towers can't handle you moving so fast. They aren't designed to hand you off to the next one every few seconds.
Space right now is where the Internet was for the first quarter century of its ife -- a tiny, academic curiosity with a heartbeat kept running by government cash.
When business figured out profitable uses for it, out came trillions of dollars from mattresses for investment, transforming it in quality and quantity and speed.
If this happens for space, NASA can back da fuck up. A retirement community on the Moon is a great start. Once a critical mass of private industry gets going, boom. Soon its The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress time.
Here's the context of stuff like this -- I worked for a big company in Europe for awhile. During that time,, the president got tapped to be a member of the equivalent of the Belgian cabinet. He sent out an email to us tens of thousands of employees:
"I'm going to take over this job. Pssssssst! This is a secret. Don't tell anybody!"
I's a legal game they play. Now the info can be leaked, and, golly, who knows which jerk aout of tens of thousands lctually leaked it?"
I have oodles of social anxiety. It started long before teh Internets.
Not sure when it started. As early as first grade ca. 1972, I recall a tendency towards incendiary embarrassment coupled with a feeling I was surrounded by idiots.
As for general-purpose peril blinding ala Hitchhiker's, I suppose they could be adapted when merged with other tech to blind you whenever it detects something scary such as a female nearing you.
Sensing a laser or nuclear flash and reacting quickly enough might be difficult.
They might be useful as adaptive sunglasses depending on transparency ability or maybe a checkerboard.
Also they could function as glasses of a sort by providing a pinhole opening, which limits light and focuses, however dimly, the image for people with glasses.
I assume a James Bond villain will wear these...when sitting carefully there and not walking around. They are little billboards for other people to see pictures on your eyes, rather than a sci-fi holy grail to feed data into your eye.
CoH players want to go somewhere. Most of us have already been there, done that for WoW, Champions Online, and othere. I even had two concirrent P2P accounts on Eve Online and came back yet again to City of Heroes.
So the latest and newest is what we'd look to, and that's either GW2 or SW Republic, the latter of which many like me have already abandoned before the summer was over.
I don't doubt Galaxies was closed with some financial prompting in favor of Republic, possibly negotiayed in from day one.
Galaxies had been killed by the New Game Enhancements oh long johnson since. I know -- my master dancer woke up one day unable to use her blaster, and was limited to level 1 weapons. And I had an awesome house and my own cantina in a player city my friend was mayor of on Tattoine.
Had CoH kicked players in the balls 3 years ago and few people had anything good to say about it, then that may be closer to the mark.
Also, where is this City of Heroes 2? Comic genre MMORPG lovers are dying here. Champions is an also-ran, and is part of the NCSoft axis of evil anyway? DC Universe Online is a hideous, console-oriented button mashfest. Upcoming Marvel Online is even worse, where you get to, er, are only allowed to "play your favorite Marvel characters online!" Driving off a cliff before the turd is even released.
Marvel, that should be a side game within a real game, which should not be a console mashfest because you are looking at larger console markets as statistical insurance of success.
If nothing else, my heart can't take having that much fixer-upper 60-month badge of that old hot rod bhobby work being ripped away again. NCSoft is not trustworthy.
It may not have been hugely profitable, but apparently it was not losing money.
Now couple that with the realization people had years invested in character development, and base development, smething most other games don't even have. This is hobbiest behavior and emotional investment.
Imagine some guy (Tony Stark, or Tim the Tool Man Taylor) spending years of evenings fixing up an old hot rod. Then some idiot comes along and garbage compacts it, saying that little business of selling old parts isn't in line with his WTF ever he has in mind, eve though it is easily carrying its own weight?
They are properly suffering rage. Sell the damned thing off or other properties (Champions, Lineage, even Guild Wars 2) will keep taking it on the chin, and at an even more accelerated pace.
Time to realize the full business model, gentlemen. Never again any NCSoft or associated company will get another damned dime from me until this happens.
"Do you not want to not be tracked by sonar analysis of your living room, which you don't not want scanning turned offedly? Click no to disapprove."
Umm, "No"?
"Viewing data shows late night TV interest in class 17 area, suggest leather or bikini productry. Incoming sonar telemetry. Suggest beer advertising due to pronounced abdominal fat deposition."
If we do this, let's also jail politicians every time a police officer wrongly conks someone on the head. Or every time a government office janitor steals a laptop and sells it.
As a stopgap, I love the idea of politicians being forced to live under the same God Damn Awesome rules they foist on us.
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Even quoting to her how Tony Stark's repulsor rays work?
One could argue, and rather successfully if one follows the money, that the recovery act was about proping up our own government regime, which has moved to lording over its own people due to the dulcet tones of out-of-control memes.
Witness the four hundredth example of the core freedom of economic activity, again, destroying government's perverse attempt to ape it, after killing it via taxation, regulation, and uncertainty is the ongoing state of same.
No doubt, dear reader, the dulcet meme is already jerking your knee, and you are wanting to regurgitate "regulation good, business bad," while, as mentioned, ignoring the evidence before your eyes.
The economy doesn't care if free business is broken because of kickbacks to warlords or kickbacks to government or taxes to government.
Oh, it's "pee brain". I always thought it was "pea brain".
> "Not includng from the gun, the vehicle costs about $10,000," he said.
"The gun was actually phat loot from a raid."
> and the gunner sits at the other, aiming the machine gun with a Playstation controller.
No no no!!! They should go mouser.
That's why I always liked LISP's unwind protect wrapper function. C saw it and said, "Let's build a shitty clone of it with all C's difficulties and none of the charm!"
The very form of try/catch is LISP, which fits naturally there and not with C at all, which is why it seems so jarringly odd there. So does the LISP concept of manhandling code as data, which dovetails nicely with the concept. Something chokes on an error, and LISP kicks it in the balls as the code unwinds.
Enough have been left on it should have manifested as a problem by now.
Also, takeoffs and landings are different from the ban on cell phone use during flight, which is an FCC thing because cell towers can't handle you moving so fast. They aren't designed to hand you off to the next one every few seconds.
GameSpy has been assholes going back to when they were a freeware providing game matching for Quake over 300 years ago.
I'm surprised Angie's List ever got off the ground. I knew a guy who strted a similar thing locally in the mid '90s.
He posted examples bitching about certain contractors (he was a contractor himself) and immediately got hauled into court.
Space right now is where the Internet was for the first quarter century of its ife -- a tiny, academic curiosity with a heartbeat kept running by government cash.
When business figured out profitable uses for it, out came trillions of dollars from mattresses for investment, transforming it in quality and quantity and speed.
If this happens for space, NASA can back da fuck up. A retirement community on the Moon is a great start. Once a critical mass of private industry gets going, boom. Soon its The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress time.
Here's the context of stuff like this -- I worked for a big company in Europe for awhile. During that time,, the president got tapped to be a member of the equivalent of the Belgian cabinet. He sent out an email to us tens of thousands of employees:
"I'm going to take over this job. Pssssssst! This is a secret. Don't tell anybody!"
I's a legal game they play. Now the info can be leaked, and, golly, who knows which jerk aout of tens of thousands lctually leaked it?"
I have oodles of social anxiety. It started long before teh Internets.
Not sure when it started. As early as first grade ca. 1972, I recall a tendency towards incendiary embarrassment coupled with a feeling I was surrounded by idiots.
As for general-purpose peril blinding ala Hitchhiker's, I suppose they could be adapted when merged with other tech to blind you whenever it detects something scary such as a female nearing you.
Sensing a laser or nuclear flash and reacting quickly enough might be difficult.
They might be useful as adaptive sunglasses depending on transparency ability or maybe a checkerboard.
Also they could function as glasses of a sort by providing a pinhole opening, which limits light and focuses, however dimly, the image for people with glasses.
I assume a James Bond villain will wear these...when sitting carefully there and not walking around. They are little billboards for other people to see pictures on your eyes, rather than a sci-fi holy grail to feed data into your eye.
397-0? Oh no!!!
Don't give up hope. There's still hope.
The president could issue an executive order!
A regulatory body could be set up that does it because of such body's "added benefit" of being removed from crude, crude politics.
A judge could discover changed attitudes allowing a different constitutional interpretation, doing an emd-run around the pesky amendment process!
There's still hope to give control away! FUCK OUR US DEMOCRACY ERMEHGARD!!!
My thugs/traps Masterming could have solo'd the whole damned company, South Korean military included.
CoH players want to go somewhere. Most of us have already been there, done that for WoW, Champions Online, and othere. I even had two concirrent P2P accounts on Eve Online and came back yet again to City of Heroes.
So the latest and newest is what we'd look to, and that's either GW2 or SW Republic, the latter of which many like me have already abandoned before the summer was over.
I don't doubt Galaxies was closed with some financial prompting in favor of Republic, possibly negotiayed in from day one.
Galaxies had been killed by the New Game Enhancements oh long johnson since. I know -- my master dancer woke up one day unable to use her blaster, and was limited to level 1 weapons. And I had an awesome house and my own cantina in a player city my friend was mayor of on Tattoine.
Had CoH kicked players in the balls 3 years ago and few people had anything good to say about it, then that may be closer to the mark.
Also, where is this City of Heroes 2? Comic genre MMORPG lovers are dying here. Champions is an also-ran, and is part of the NCSoft axis of evil anyway? DC Universe Online is a hideous, console-oriented button mashfest. Upcoming Marvel Online is even worse, where you get to, er, are only allowed to "play your favorite Marvel characters online!" Driving off a cliff before the turd is even released.
Marvel, that should be a side game within a real game, which should not be a console mashfest because you are looking at larger console markets as statistical insurance of success.
If nothing else, my heart can't take having that much fixer-upper 60-month badge of that old hot rod bhobby work being ripped away again. NCSoft is not trustworthy.
It may not have been hugely profitable, but apparently it was not losing money.
Now couple that with the realization people had years invested in character development, and base development, smething most other games don't even have. This is hobbiest behavior and emotional investment.
Imagine some guy (Tony Stark, or Tim the Tool Man Taylor) spending years of evenings fixing up an old hot rod. Then some idiot comes along and garbage compacts it, saying that little business of selling old parts isn't in line with his WTF ever he has in mind, eve though it is easily carrying its own weight?
They are properly suffering rage. Sell the damned thing off or other properties (Champions, Lineage, even Guild Wars 2) will keep taking it on the chin, and at an even more accelerated pace.
Time to realize the full business model, gentlemen. Never again any NCSoft or associated company will get another damned dime from me until this happens.
You are upset the US merely invents half the shit invented each year, and the rest of the world the other half, and this falls in the other half?
"Do you not want to not be tracked by sonar analysis of your living room, which you don't not want scanning turned offedly? Click no to disapprove."
Umm, "No"?
"Viewing data shows late night TV interest in class 17 area, suggest leather or bikini productry. Incoming sonar telemetry. Suggest beer advertising due to pronounced abdominal fat deposition."
So we keep punching you in the face until you remember 1984?
Good. Mission Accomplished.
If we do this, let's also jail politicians every time a police officer wrongly conks someone on the head. Or every time a government office janitor steals a laptop and sells it.
As a stopgap, I love the idea of politicians being forced to live under the same God Damn Awesome rules they foist on us.