Defense budgets are calculated as a percentage of GDP (GNP). Most European countries are at 1-3%. The U.S. is at around 4%. Nice try with the misleading statistics.
And still nobody says anything about China. It's not OK for the U.S., but OK for the Chinese to starve? How racist.
The U.S. spends a fraction of its budget on defense. The U.S. spends more than half the budget on Social Security and Medicare, which are "feeding people" by your definition.
Funny how nobody ever brings up China or the Soviet Union in these discussions. Or Cuba, which doesn't even need a defense force. These nations routinely spent 40% or more of their entire economies on defense spending, and let their people starve as a result. Oh, but the U.S. spends 4%, and we need to cut it in order to nourish people who hate us. That's just peachy.
I always liked ED 209 much better than stupid Robocop. I especially like its attitude toward parking violators. I think one or two in each metropolitan area would do far greater good than an army of Robocops.
The Mauser absolutely stinks at shooting without the scope. They intentionally made it extremely inaccurate. This actually kind of ruined the game for me, because the Mauser was the standard infantry weapon of time. The MP-40 was far less common.
How do you drag their bodies off? I never knew how to do that.
Gosh, everyone administers their own firewall? Cool. Bittorrent sucks because it assumes like most linux software does that you have control of everything.
Spyware is put in by the packager or distributor. It doesn't matter if you want it in your software or not, some company you hired makes the Windows Installer.exe's and puts Gator in there for good measure. Happened to LimeWire, which is open source, not closed source like evil Id software with their silly capitalization.
Oh, come on. Be an adult. The President no country would intentionally piss off a major employer like Microsoft. He's probably just angry because Microsoft wouldn't play ball, and engage in graft with Indian politicians. U.S. corporations are prohibited by law from offering bribes to foreign governments, which always places them at a competitive disadvantage when competing with European firms.
Not to be a twit, but I heard about this sort of "keep it in your pocket" magnetic technology being deployed already. Around February of this year, one of my English students in Tokyo, who worked for Sony/Ericsson, told me his company's "secret" new cell phone in development would have this mag card tech built in. It would replace the "Suica Card" existing tech, which is just a card you mash against the reader while keeping it in your wallet. The phone was due to hit the shelves in 6 months, which would be this August. Only in Japan, of course, which means it should be out in America around August 2005.
Run like a corporation?!? You, my good man, have obviously never worked for the government. I've worked for both and I can say it's night and day. People in corporations get FIRED if they sit around all day and do nothing.
Wow...completely missing the point, and being arrogant about the fact that the point being made is irrelevant...are you a lawyer? Judge, maybe? Ooh, ooh, I know, a politician.
Obviously, you're not an obsessive cave-dweller. No wonder you wouldn't get upset by something like this. The people who play these games, they're like slot jockeys...the game is their life, however much they like to deny it. I'm sure nobody was amused by this little stunt.
Yes, the relationship games are far beyond pathetic. I couldn't believe it the first time I played one. I for one would be alarmed if they became popular in the West...men already have a hard enough time with women without being taught self-defeating techniques in video games.
The emergency medicine game you were thinking about is called "Microsurgeon. There's nothing new under the sun.
Huh? Original? They had the same thing in the 1970s, it was called, "Simon. Quite popular. No wonder DDR was a hit, sequels are usually quite successful.
Why does he feel the need to credit a specific individual with the coining of the phrase "Counter-Strike on steroids"?? Jeez, anyone could come up with that. There's enough namedropping in the article as it is. The reader will also notice this piece is shot through with jargon about established games. In addition, the author merely uses his bully pulpit to complain and offers no solutions, a cardinal no-no in my book. If you complain, offer an alternative, or else it's just bitching so you can hear yourself. All we get from this is he likes to watch independent films. Big deal.
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And the U.S. is outspending the competition? GOOD. That's how you successfully defend yourself.
And still nobody says anything about China. It's not OK for the U.S., but OK for the Chinese to starve? How racist.
Behaviour, defense....make up your mind, either be a Eurospeller or don't be one.
Funny how nobody ever brings up China or the Soviet Union in these discussions. Or Cuba, which doesn't even need a defense force. These nations routinely spent 40% or more of their entire economies on defense spending, and let their people starve as a result. Oh, but the U.S. spends 4%, and we need to cut it in order to nourish people who hate us. That's just peachy.
I always liked ED 209 much better than stupid Robocop. I especially like its attitude toward parking violators. I think one or two in each metropolitan area would do far greater good than an army of Robocops.
Boy, and I thought online poker was a haven for cheats and scammers...
How do you drag their bodies off? I never knew how to do that.
Gosh, everyone administers their own firewall? Cool. Bittorrent sucks because it assumes like most linux software does that you have control of everything.
Spyware is put in by the packager or distributor. It doesn't matter if you want it in your software or not, some company you hired makes the Windows Installer .exe's and puts Gator in there for good measure. Happened to LimeWire, which is open source, not closed source like evil Id software with their silly capitalization.
Yeah, but is it integrated into your cell phone?
Oh, come on. Be an adult. The President no country would intentionally piss off a major employer like Microsoft. He's probably just angry because Microsoft wouldn't play ball, and engage in graft with Indian politicians. U.S. corporations are prohibited by law from offering bribes to foreign governments, which always places them at a competitive disadvantage when competing with European firms.
Not to be a twit, but I heard about this sort of "keep it in your pocket" magnetic technology being deployed already. Around February of this year, one of my English students in Tokyo, who worked for Sony/Ericsson, told me his company's "secret" new cell phone in development would have this mag card tech built in. It would replace the "Suica Card" existing tech, which is just a card you mash against the reader while keeping it in your wallet. The phone was due to hit the shelves in 6 months, which would be this August. Only in Japan, of course, which means it should be out in America around August 2005.
Run like a corporation?!? You, my good man, have obviously never worked for the government. I've worked for both and I can say it's night and day. People in corporations get FIRED if they sit around all day and do nothing.
Yaknow, it's great that MS lost and all, but when Linux wins for no more reason than jingoism, everyone loses.
Wow, an apologist for substandard roleplaying software. Haven't seen one of those since the days of the UO beta. Hope not to see one again.
Wow...completely missing the point, and being arrogant about the fact that the point being made is irrelevant...are you a lawyer? Judge, maybe? Ooh, ooh, I know, a politician.
Obviously, you're not an obsessive cave-dweller. No wonder you wouldn't get upset by something like this. The people who play these games, they're like slot jockeys...the game is their life, however much they like to deny it. I'm sure nobody was amused by this little stunt.
these past few years?!? What? Ever use Windows 3.0?
Who cares? It's pointless namedropping. The phrase could be reinvented by anyone at any time. "CS on steroids" my ass.
Wrong on both counts...lemme guess, you never played Simon
The emergency medicine game you were thinking about is called "Microsurgeon. There's nothing new under the sun.
Huh? Original? They had the same thing in the 1970s, it was called, "Simon. Quite popular. No wonder DDR was a hit, sequels are usually quite successful.
Just so you know, the "obvious" ideas are only obvious in retrospect.
Why does he feel the need to credit a specific individual with the coining of the phrase "Counter-Strike on steroids"?? Jeez, anyone could come up with that. There's enough namedropping in the article as it is. The reader will also notice this piece is shot through with jargon about established games. In addition, the author merely uses his bully pulpit to complain and offers no solutions, a cardinal no-no in my book. If you complain, offer an alternative, or else it's just bitching so you can hear yourself. All we get from this is he likes to watch independent films. Big deal.
Ford...selling autos in Japan! Classic. I believed everything you said in your comment up until that point.