It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
They aught to do it like how they implemented the Death Knight class (slightly more restricted). I've maintained for a long time that if you have a level 80 character, you should be able to start any class (of the same alignment) at 55. It's up to you to learn how to play the class. If you don't, your guild or PUG groups will find out fairly quickly.
IMHO there's no reason why one should have to spend weeks leveling up a character to fill a gap in one's guild.
I'm guessing Mr. Sable is more interested in selling copies of his comic book (sorry, graphic novel) than championing a First Amendment case. Hence the Slashvertisement.
For combating contrived imminent disaster, nothing beats frantic fear-mongering. How else did we end up with such brillian policy decisions as Patriot Act, the creation of DHS, and the Iraq war.
Exactly. Energy taxes are about as regressive as they come. Of course, I don't think it's a stretch to predict that this will be offset with an "tax credit" (read: subsidy) for low income workers.
We implemented a new incident/problem management process around many ITIL practices. After 5 months of adjusting to the new processes, last month 95% of our calls were handled within SLA. ITIL works.
In my department, we have an agreement with the rest of the company outlining the level of service that must be performed within a pre-determined amount of time, based on incident priority. With the right tools, it's fairly easy to track the percentage of incidents resolved within the terms of the SLA.
But this is what is wanted. The majority of people don't want challenging games. They want rewards.
It's not about the challenge, really. I just don't want to come home from work and spend my leisure time on something that is, on average, more frustrating than my job.
That said, I think WOTLK has really dumbed things down significantly. I haven't done some of the new Uludar content yet, but crowd control has become a thing of the past since BC.
My first 3D video card was a Rendition Vérité 1000; IIRC it was the first card that could do transparent water effects in Quake. Truly a defining influence on my college career.
So you'd prefer we have more people languishing in poverty because we made gasoline so expensive they cannot afford to drive to work. How humanitarian of you.
I had always imagined Kirk was much more subtle with his "rigging" of the kobayashi maru test and I was really disappointed to see such a blatant and brainless resetting of the entire program as opposed to a small alteration that gave him just enough of an edge to win somehow.
Yeah, come to think of it that was rather disappointing, wasn't it?
The art departments did an excellent job of recreating "period" technology that fit right into the setting.
I really really wish, though, that they didn't cover the entire ship wigh freaking gun turrets. Was that really necessary, beyond "sexing-up" the Enterprise?
People who advocate high fuel taxes as a means to improve emissions/fuel efficiency seem to forget about how punitive and regressive such taxes are to people who cannot afford a new vehicle and have no access to public transportation.
Does anyone know if anyone is still making such a combo? I've seem some that only have a 512MB flash drive a few years ago. Something like this would be very handy for fixing people's desktops at home; just pop it in, installs itself with drivers stored in the flash memory, and I have all of my diagnostic tools at the ready.
There is precedent now for government to add or subtract - mandate anything it wants from any OS distribution - depending on which way the political winds are blowing.
And this is what freedom-minded Slashdotters should be getting anxious about. Comments here suggest, though, that the majority of Slashdotters are more interested on sticking it to Microsoft than preserving an open market.
I actually ran into a MAJOR problem with this limitation for a user with a legitimate need to send such a volume of e-mail. I had to eventually move her back to freaking AOL because she couldn't send out her newsletter through Verizon.
Granted, there is probably multiple tools such as Google groups that could ultimately accomplish this much better, but many users are, shall we say, resistant to change.
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And yes, anyone who says "aaaaa it's all wrong!!1!one" is going to be ignored since they bring nothing new to the debate.
Or worse yet, branded a heretic.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
They aught to do it like how they implemented the Death Knight class (slightly more restricted). I've maintained for a long time that if you have a level 80 character, you should be able to start any class (of the same alignment) at 55. It's up to you to learn how to play the class. If you don't, your guild or PUG groups will find out fairly quickly.
IMHO there's no reason why one should have to spend weeks leveling up a character to fill a gap in one's guild.
I'm guessing Mr. Sable is more interested in selling copies of his comic book (sorry, graphic novel) than championing a First Amendment case. Hence the Slashvertisement.
For combating contrived imminent disaster, nothing beats frantic fear-mongering. How else did we end up with such brillian policy decisions as Patriot Act, the creation of DHS, and the Iraq war.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Exactly. Energy taxes are about as regressive as they come. Of course, I don't think it's a stretch to predict that this will be offset with an "tax credit" (read: subsidy) for low income workers.
"As for what starving has to do with energy... uhh, you realize it takes energy to grow and distribute that food, right? And I don't mean just solar."
And won't it be a kick in the balls to supporters of C&T once they realize that this is going to negatively affect food aid to the third world.
This can't be true. Obama promised that taxes would not go up for 95% of Americans.
And nothing beats a recession quite like artificially jacking up the cost of energy for everybody.
"...violent video games because THAT might lead to actual violence."
And that particular link is tenuous, at best.
The IRS wants to get RID of a tax? Why am I deeply suspicious of this? What's really going on here? What am I quietly going to get nailed on instead?
Step 1: Repeal tax that has produced nearly zero revenue since its inception.
Step 2: "Hey look! I'm cutting taxes!!"
Step 3: Get re-elected.
We implemented a new incident/problem management process around many ITIL practices. After 5 months of adjusting to the new processes, last month 95% of our calls were handled within SLA. ITIL works.
In my department, we have an agreement with the rest of the company outlining the level of service that must be performed within a pre-determined amount of time, based on incident priority. With the right tools, it's fairly easy to track the percentage of incidents resolved within the terms of the SLA.
But this is what is wanted. The majority of people don't want challenging games. They want rewards.
It's not about the challenge, really. I just don't want to come home from work and spend my leisure time on something that is, on average, more frustrating than my job.
That said, I think WOTLK has really dumbed things down significantly. I haven't done some of the new Uludar content yet, but crowd control has become a thing of the past since BC.
My first 3D video card was a Rendition Vérité 1000; IIRC it was the first card that could do transparent water effects in Quake. Truly a defining influence on my college career.
So you'd prefer we have more people languishing in poverty because we made gasoline so expensive they cannot afford to drive to work. How humanitarian of you.
I had always imagined Kirk was much more subtle with his "rigging" of the kobayashi maru test and I was really disappointed to see such a blatant and brainless resetting of the entire program as opposed to a small alteration that gave him just enough of an edge to win somehow.
Yeah, come to think of it that was rather disappointing, wasn't it?
The art departments did an excellent job of recreating "period" technology that fit right into the setting.
I really really wish, though, that they didn't cover the entire ship wigh freaking gun turrets. Was that really necessary, beyond "sexing-up" the Enterprise?
While I generally enjoyed the movie, they need to drop the Oliver Stone camera work, and this post summed up my problems with the plot quite well.
Entertaining, yes. Has potential? Perhaps. I would only call the plot excellent, though, if by "excellent" you mean "painfully contrived".
The people most negatively impacted by high fuel taxes are not driving Hummers.
People who advocate high fuel taxes as a means to improve emissions/fuel efficiency seem to forget about how punitive and regressive such taxes are to people who cannot afford a new vehicle and have no access to public transportation.
Does anyone know if anyone is still making such a combo? I've seem some that only have a 512MB flash drive a few years ago. Something like this would be very handy for fixing people's desktops at home; just pop it in, installs itself with drivers stored in the flash memory, and I have all of my diagnostic tools at the ready.
There is precedent now for government to add or subtract - mandate anything it wants from any OS distribution - depending on which way the political winds are blowing.
And this is what freedom-minded Slashdotters should be getting anxious about. Comments here suggest, though, that the majority of Slashdotters are more interested on sticking it to Microsoft than preserving an open market.
I actually ran into a MAJOR problem with this limitation for a user with a legitimate need to send such a volume of e-mail. I had to eventually move her back to freaking AOL because she couldn't send out her newsletter through Verizon.
Granted, there is probably multiple tools such as Google groups that could ultimately accomplish this much better, but many users are, shall we say, resistant to change.
You didn't even read the article summary, did you?