> Players can choose to join the Antichrist's team, > but of course they can never win on [his] side.
No, but you can give God a Pyrrhic victory as he and the 3 people who didn't go to Hell look down on the vast, vast, teaming multitudes screaming in unending agony for all eternity....all praise His holy and good name! What a guy! Even the Bible admits the vast majority will go to Hell. Praise His kind and beneficent name! Only the vast majority of people living in unending agony, not actually all of them. Oh, my Sweet Lord, ooh you are so big. Blah blah blah what's on Dr. Phil tonight?
By the way, this is pretty much why they yanked the money off any gold or silver standard -- the contractual wording on printed bills stating there was a chunk of metal in a vault somewhere you could trade it for in theory.
They wanted inflation to "monetize the debt", and finally the value of the money was not up to what was represented in the vaults. There wasn't enough gold for X number of printed dollars, so it became worthless as a promise, a printed statement on the bills. Now they've reached that stage with a copper coated zinc slug.
Especially given that coins were precious metals precisely to give them legitimacy, such that you could go sell them as precious metal should the government collapse. It was also a hedge against inflation -- few people would ever try to demand six pounds of gold for a loaf of bread, it would never get that far.
Governments did forbid scraping metal off the edge of the coin, or other such defacement oriented around stealing the metal, or even directly melting it down. But if the government collapsed, nobody was gonna enforce that anyway, and you still had your value.
I find it interesting that the government thinks of this as a profit measure -- oh golly, it now costs us more to make the coin then we get writing +1 cent on our bottom line when we stamp it out.
Well that's what you get for deflating your value rather than letting the intrinsic value of the metal buttress the perceived value of the coin. Ironically, making it illegal will only hasten the collapse of value.
I would like to point out that the government likes this, just like it likes you collecting states quarters, because that's one more coin they're never gonna get back, and thus have to subtract from their budget (every time they mint one, they add it to their bank account as only they legally can, and every time they melt one down, they have to subtract it. There is a warehouse with $450 million of Susan B. Anthony dollars, still legal tender, in it because the government doesn't wanna go oops, -$450 million to any year's budget. It's good to be the king.
But the downside is that, if the metal is now worth more, the government would lose money vs. melting it down and selling the metal (and presumably recasting a replacement with a cheaper amalgam.) So it is no longer in the interest of the government to let you crush your pennies in those machines or on train tracks. Mercifully, there probably isn't enough of that for them to notice and take the publicity hit on "crushing the groove of kids everywhere" by outlawing it.
Zomg! Herculese In Space would ruleaxorzomgz! (Wipes drool from his shirt.)
He could fight, like, Jason in space. OMG! And the Predator, too! Boy that predator would be surprised when the much smaller Herculese picked him up and threw him around like a rag doll. But then the predator would whip out his lightsaber but Herculese would catch the blade in his hand because he's a god!!!!!!!1!11!!!11
Ya, the only real question is whether or not it'll be before the Klingon/Romnulan/Borg namedropping episode.
150 years, sounds about right for the Enterprise J. Wait, J? James, Janeway, benJamin, Jean-Luc. OH my god, this could be the greatest Trek story ever!
Golly! New medium, people re-buy all their albums like Rumors, Sgt. Pepper's, Pet Sounds, and Weird Al's Polka Favorites. After awhile, it dies down to just the occasional new song with a "hook".
And we're surprised it's no different from any other medium because...?
> through the 2m-strong German online gaming community.
You know how to deal with this, right? Death sentence at the next election. I assure you it works. It finally got Bush and the Republican's attention in the US.
You erroneously presume the socialist concept of "the public" as synonymous with "government". In fact, government ownership of items being "public ownership" derives from the concept of common people owning it, and is not the master of the concept.
Ironically, in a more deeply philosophical sense, governmental "the public" ownership is arguably less public, given government is actually just another conglomeration of people exercising "might makes right", and a coercive existence is hardly the free-based nature of voluntary ownership.
Then there's the "euphamism treadmill", mocked on Saturday Night Live in a "Glory" (US Civil War movie) skit, with Sinbad claiming, in response to the "n word", "We prefer the more respectable 'boy'."
I believe South Park handled this Intolerance issue quite well. "You don't have to approve of it!"
And that's what free speech is for -- to affect other people and their ideas which includes making them feel like a completely idiotic piece of shit. Makes you feel bad? Good! That's what free speech is for -- to alter other people's behavior.
While technically true, they should give some samples of the links in question. Large web sites could be quite difficult to diagnose.
And it's no difficulty for Google -- I'm sure this is an automated process on their part since they know the spam links. Just spit out an email, maybe a Google employee gives it a 10 second sanity check, then forwards it to the web site's admin email.
Sucks to be the girl at the video game store, I guess. All these Slashdotters looking away from CNN with dread, and turning to you, "I don't want to die a virgin..."
This is nothing new, though. In the olden days, they used to say "What this country needs is a good war," with the implication being that the country is derailed focusing on minutia to the exclusion of any truly important problems to focus the attention.
In the absence of a WWII, or even the six months 9/11 through Afghanistan, god damned OJ trials and crap float back up as "important" on the news channels. "Breaking news! Britney shows her cootch! Was it an accident or a calculated move to restore her post-marriage prominence in the news?"
BTW, I loved Paris' hand over Britney's legs in the first shot, as if to say, "Not yet, hon. Not yet. Ok...wait...ok...ok...now!"
> Crichton doesn't even dispute global warming.
That environmentalism, in the '60's and '70's called ecology, has become the new home for economic leftists as a new argument to control business, largely having failed in the class warfare rhetorical arena, is itself not a new observation either. Ayn Rand, among others, noted as much in her writings from the '60's.
And Julian Simon pointed out over and over again that government intervention in the economy can, and has been shown to be, detrimental to technological development, and therefore to quality of life, if you are not careful. Even well-meaning regulation can have a net detrimental effect. If socialized medicine slows medical development even 10% a year, the society, even with "free care", will lag further and further behind where it otherwise would have been, giving a net effect of a more miserable life, in spite of the best of intentions. "Oh, you get free care for disease X? Too bad my parallel world cured it 50 years ago.":bummer-for-your-world
> a large reported loss by Future Publishing, the...publisher > of...the U.S. Official Xbox Magazine. Their pre-tax losses > totaled $95.6 million, while profits were down $39.8 million to $26.7 million
"Future Publishing officials admitted they probably shouldn't have followed Microsoft's business model for the Xbox when designing their Xbox magazine."
> The reaction would be inexplicable if the stones were > quarried, but perfectly comprehensible if one accepts > that they were cast like concrete....or if one accepts that aliens did it.
Slashdot Mirror
> called Collactive that provides tools to organize
> grassroots action on political and social web sites.
Well, an anti-spam company should know well how to generate spam.
Remember, it's not spam if it benefits you or a cause that's worthy to you.
> Players can choose to join the Antichrist's team,
...all praise His holy and good name! What a guy! Even the Bible admits the vast majority will go to Hell. Praise His kind and beneficent name! Only the vast majority of people living in unending agony, not actually all of them. Oh, my Sweet Lord, ooh you are so big. Blah blah blah what's on Dr. Phil tonight?
> but of course they can never win on [his] side.
No, but you can give God a Pyrrhic victory as he and the 3 people who didn't go to Hell look down on the vast, vast, teaming multitudes screaming in unending agony for all eternity.
> building your own handheld pointing device that works in mid-air.
It's called masturbation, and Slashdotters are well aware of how it works already, thanks.
By the way, this is pretty much why they yanked the money off any gold or silver standard -- the contractual wording on printed bills stating there was a chunk of metal in a vault somewhere you could trade it for in theory.
They wanted inflation to "monetize the debt", and finally the value of the money was not up to what was represented in the vaults. There wasn't enough gold for X number of printed dollars, so it became worthless as a promise, a printed statement on the bills. Now they've reached that stage with a copper coated zinc slug.
Especially given that coins were precious metals precisely to give them legitimacy, such that you could go sell them as precious metal should the government collapse. It was also a hedge against inflation -- few people would ever try to demand six pounds of gold for a loaf of bread, it would never get that far.
Governments did forbid scraping metal off the edge of the coin, or other such defacement oriented around stealing the metal, or even directly melting it down. But if the government collapsed, nobody was gonna enforce that anyway, and you still had your value.
I find it interesting that the government thinks of this as a profit measure -- oh golly, it now costs us more to make the coin then we get writing +1 cent on our bottom line when we stamp it out.
Well that's what you get for deflating your value rather than letting the intrinsic value of the metal buttress the perceived value of the coin. Ironically, making it illegal will only hasten the collapse of value.
Federal tax has the option of rounding to the nearest dollar -- but you have to either drop pennies in everything or have pennies in everything.
State taxes (well, my state anyway) has a printed "00" in the cents column -- you don't even get a choice of calculating to the penny accuracy.
I would like to point out that the government likes this, just like it likes you collecting states quarters, because that's one more coin they're never gonna get back, and thus have to subtract from their budget (every time they mint one, they add it to their bank account as only they legally can, and every time they melt one down, they have to subtract it. There is a warehouse with $450 million of Susan B. Anthony dollars, still legal tender, in it because the government doesn't wanna go oops, -$450 million to any year's budget. It's good to be the king.
But the downside is that, if the metal is now worth more, the government would lose money vs. melting it down and selling the metal (and presumably recasting a replacement with a cheaper amalgam.) So it is no longer in the interest of the government to let you crush your pennies in those machines or on train tracks. Mercifully, there probably isn't enough of that for them to notice and take the publicity hit on "crushing the groove of kids everywhere" by outlawing it.
Zomg! Herculese In Space would ruleaxorzomgz! (Wipes drool from his shirt.)
He could fight, like, Jason in space. OMG! And the Predator, too! Boy that predator would be surprised when the much smaller Herculese picked him up and threw him around like a rag doll. But then the predator would whip out his lightsaber but Herculese would catch the blade in his hand because he's a god!!!!!!!1!11!!!11
:rollseyes:
Heavy Metal, and I don't mean F.A.K.K.i.n.g.c.r.a.p.
"You have brought peace to my restless body."
Ya, the only real question is whether or not it'll be before the Klingon/Romnulan/Borg namedropping episode.
150 years, sounds about right for the Enterprise J. Wait, J? James, Janeway, benJamin, Jean-Luc. OH my god, this could be the greatest Trek story ever!
> Yesterday the Netherlands completely ended transmission of
> analog television signals, becoming the first country in
> the world to do so.
Cool! Filmnet still have hardcore pr0n on Wednesday and Saturday nights?
> Senator John McCain
Ahh, well, so much for voting for this guy. See also: Al "Tipper" Gore.
Golly! New medium, people re-buy all their albums like Rumors, Sgt. Pepper's, Pet Sounds, and Weird Al's Polka Favorites. After awhile, it dies down to just the occasional new song with a "hook".
And we're surprised it's no different from any other medium because...?
The company I do programming for has a similar policy. I can start work any time of the day I want as long as I get in the full 16 hours.
> through the 2m-strong German online gaming community.
You know how to deal with this, right? Death sentence at the next election. I assure you it works. It finally got Bush and the Republican's attention in the US.
You erroneously presume the socialist concept of "the public" as synonymous with "government". In fact, government ownership of items being "public ownership" derives from the concept of common people owning it, and is not the master of the concept.
Ironically, in a more deeply philosophical sense, governmental "the public" ownership is arguably less public, given government is actually just another conglomeration of people exercising "might makes right", and a coercive existence is hardly the free-based nature of voluntary ownership.
Then there's the "euphamism treadmill", mocked on Saturday Night Live in a "Glory" (US Civil War movie) skit, with Sinbad claiming, in response to the "n word", "We prefer the more respectable 'boy'."
I believe South Park handled this Intolerance issue quite well. "You don't have to approve of it!"
And that's what free speech is for -- to affect other people and their ideas which includes making them feel like a completely idiotic piece of shit. Makes you feel bad? Good! That's what free speech is for -- to alter other people's behavior.
While technically true, they should give some samples of the links in question. Large web sites could be quite difficult to diagnose.
And it's no difficulty for Google -- I'm sure this is an automated process on their part since they know the spam links. Just spit out an email, maybe a Google employee gives it a 10 second sanity check, then forwards it to the web site's admin email.
Sucks to be the girl at the video game store, I guess. All these Slashdotters looking away from CNN with dread, and turning to you, "I don't want to die a virgin..."
It's easy, just remember that -ite is the suffix for minerals or whatever, so that's the one after it has landed.
If it's in space, it's an asteroid. If it's in the process of crashing into a world, it's a meteorunforyourlife.
This is nothing new, though. In the olden days, they used to say "What this country needs is a good war," with the implication being that the country is derailed focusing on minutia to the exclusion of any truly important problems to focus the attention.
:bummer-for-your-world
In the absence of a WWII, or even the six months 9/11 through Afghanistan, god damned OJ trials and crap float back up as "important" on the news channels. "Breaking news! Britney shows her cootch! Was it an accident or a calculated move to restore her post-marriage prominence in the news?"
BTW, I loved Paris' hand over Britney's legs in the first shot, as if to say, "Not yet, hon. Not yet. Ok...wait...ok...ok...now!"
> Crichton doesn't even dispute global warming.
That environmentalism, in the '60's and '70's called ecology, has become the new home for economic leftists as a new argument to control business, largely having failed in the class warfare rhetorical arena, is itself not a new observation either. Ayn Rand, among others, noted as much in her writings from the '60's.
And Julian Simon pointed out over and over again that government intervention in the economy can, and has been shown to be, detrimental to technological development, and therefore to quality of life, if you are not careful. Even well-meaning regulation can have a net detrimental effect. If socialized medicine slows medical development even 10% a year, the society, even with "free care", will lag further and further behind where it otherwise would have been, giving a net effect of a more miserable life, in spite of the best of intentions. "Oh, you get free care for disease X? Too bad my parallel world cured it 50 years ago."
> a large reported loss by Future Publishing, the...publisher
> of...the U.S. Official Xbox Magazine. Their pre-tax losses
> totaled $95.6 million, while profits were down $39.8 million to $26.7 million
"Future Publishing officials admitted they probably shouldn't have followed Microsoft's business model for the Xbox when designing their Xbox magazine."
> The reaction would be inexplicable if the stones were ...or if one accepts that aliens did it.
> quarried, but perfectly comprehensible if one accepts
> that they were cast like concrete.
Antitrust investigations are needed because charging $600 for the high-end video card leaves no room for an aggressive competitor to squeeze in.