Personally I think Christians (practicing their faith in "loving others") are the best kind of citizen one can have. They follow the just laws, they pay taxes and help their fellow men.
Except that they don't. At least, no more than anybody else. Possibly less, actually.
In the US, Christians are about 80% of the population, but over 90% of convicted criminals.
Of course, Jesus himself, according to the texts, associated with criminals. Peter himself was a toll collector, ie bribed someone to get the job and then most likely got his money back by extorting his fellow Jews. Jesus explained it by saying that those who are criminals are the ones who need saving the most.
I believe this is one of the most often forgotten lesson in Christianity and both the Christians and non Christians forget it or doesn't realise it.
Being a Christian is not the same thing as being perfect, rather it should be taken as a reminder that we all have faults. Christians have performed terrible atrocities and why should they be exempted from being humans? I believe that they didn't do it because they where Christians, I believe they did it because they are human.
Oh, and it was written far before the Middle Ages and then it was re-written several times in the Middle Ages to suit the needs of the the kings and religious leaders of the time. References in then-contemporary writing place it at least before 200 AD, and it might be as old as the Gospels.
There, fixed that for thee.
Sure, that was correct at one time but that's not how it works, at least in Sweden, any more. For starters they translate the texts from material that predates the versions in the middle ages. The people who are doing the translations are schoolars in religion and history. In Sweden all priests have years of university studies but not all who are doctors in theology are Christians.
Just too bad that not all Christians realise that there are newer versions of the bible out there. I believe the common english version, King James bible, is almost 400 years old. Not all the differences are due to the agendas of Kings though. We also know a lot more about the time and have found new documents from that time as well.
Responsibilities are just as important as rights. One of those responsibilities is to treat public servants with respect. If you don't you shouldn't be surprised when they are awkward right back at you.
I'm sorry but I can't agree with you on this. My responsibilities as a citizen includes voting and paying my taxes. Being respectful to public servants are not among them. I try to be respectful to everyone but you need to earn my respect. If you aren't respectful to me then I don't have any obligations to you.
Just because someone has a specific title doesn't mean they earn respect no matter what they do. Respect is earned and lost because of ones actions. If they don't treat me with respect then it doesn't matter if they are the police, the president or the king.
But I get the feeling that you get polite and respectful mixed up. You can always assert your rights while being polite. If you have respect for the person or not does not come into account.
He didn't pop his trunk which was within his rights. If he did it while he was being polite then all social obligations has been fulfilled. They on the other hand punished him for it, which is in my mind very disrespectful.
While tuition-less college might mean that it's easier go from poor to middle class, the taxation levels also mean that it's more difficult going from middle class to rich. It's also frequently claimed (at least by Norberg, et al) that the US has a higher social mobility than Sweden, meaning that while it's certainly possible to go from working class to rich, it happens less frequently than it does in the US.
Actually, the most recent research I have heard of in the subjects says the opposite. The countries with best social mobility are Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Canada. With the US and UK not doing that well.
Social mobility low in Britain and falling
It's from 2005 so not that fresh maybe. The most recent one I have read is in Swedish and in dead tree format so I have trouble linking to it.:)
Do you really believe that the best are studying at Uppsala or Lund, and not at Harvard and Oxford? What I mean to say is, the best can usually get a scholarship. If your objective is to maximize human capital, my guess the US is doing a better job of it.
Maybe I should have said "the best in Sweden"? But I would say that considering our size we have lots of talented people. We are not a big country, just a bit more people than New York city. It's not really surprising that USA can have more and better universities. But I can't help wondering how much of that superiority is due to a larger pool of people to draw from.
If we somewhat simplified use the numbers that 2% of every population are highly intelligent then that would mean that there are around 190 000 in Sweden and around 6 136 420 in the USA.
In Sweden schooling is not only free but you also get around $800 each month while you study. Some of it is a special kind of loan but a smaller part you don't need to pay back. This is enough that most students don't need to take an extra job on the side.
USA might be the "land of opportunity" but in Sweden we believe that one of the best ways to give everyone a chance is to make certain they can go to any school they want. If you are smart enough to get in, money shouldn't be an object. We want the best not the richest;)
Sorry you still fail. Real nerds don't need the keyboard to do things like that. Learn to use backspace or alt+left arrow for back and alt+right arrow for forward. Everytime you lift your hand from the keyboard to the mouse you get -1 nerd point;)
Hm, using a a bank on the internet without encryption could be interesting. I almost hope that they do ban encryption. Could be fun. Just give me some warning so that I have time to make popcorn:)
Actually that would in some cases be illegal in Sweden. If someone for instance steal your bicycle and you report it to the police then even if you find your bike at someone else's property you're not allowed to just take it back. You should at that point call the police. Who would of course respond: "We'll get there in a couple of days" They would then take the bike as evidence and in best case you would get it back in a year or so. If, of course, the new "owner" doesn't claim he bought it in good faith and has a receipt. Then he gets to keep it and you get pittance from the insurance that might be enough to buy a bobby car:)
They also said that Pascal/Delphi was highly recommended. I believe that it's mostly because of "historical" reasons. I wouldn't use runes as a precursor to teach the use of the latin alphabet.;)
That might be the case but your chances of getting hired is greater if you have C on you resume than pascal. If they wanted a language that is simple to learn they could have chosen python instead. It's just as easy as pascal but has the benefit that it is actually used in the industry.
The problem is of course if the police only arrest someone for instance jaywalking if they look "foreign".
Equality in the eyes of the law does not just mean that different people gets the same punishment for the same crime. If you have to be black or look foreign to even get arrested then that is just as wrong.
There's a reason the laws of war require combatants to dress in an obvious uniform and avoid civilian areas unless unavoidable: because not doing so endangers the lives of civilians. By dressing up like the locals, you cause this kind of mistake.
Eh ya, as others has said there can't be a rule against not having uniforms. If there where the first thing you would blow up in a war was the uniform factory;)
Heck, let me tell you of Sweden's defence strategy. First we launch all fighters. They are not there to stop an attack though. They are just there to delay the attack during the second step. Step two is that we blow up all our ports making it harder to get a proper beach head. Next everyone ever trained by the army (more or less every man over the age of 35) heads into the woods to start guerilla warfare. The focus at that point would be camouflage and not uniforms.
Only an utter twit would stand out in the open in uniform waving a big flag while the enemy bombs you to kingdom come from miles away. It's that kind of logic that caused the mass killings in the trenches in the first world war.
So... reviewing a game is now selling out? Would it be less "selling out" if they gave it a bad score or would that be selling out to their competitors?
You're sooo right because it is sooo uncommon for interest groups to make up there own lingo. I mean. I can understand every word a boat owner, dog owner or medical personal uses. So this must truly only be a teenage thing.
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This is actually a bit worked on. They have sprused up the grafics and they have added voice acting for all the characters. I also believe they have used the same actors as in the later games. What engine they are using I couldn't say though
How else would a character whose major power focus was teleportation fight? Huh? The hero is supposed to go fight the villains but refrain from using his only significant power because it's unfair? That's ridiculous. If the teleport power is overbalanced, the game designers need to rework it or remove it, but dont blame the player for using what he has in an intelligent way to achieve his goals.
I can guarantee that teleport was not mean to be his "only significant power" by the developers. Every toon in CoH has a primary and a secondary powers set. Im guessing he played as a scrapper in wich case his primary was some kind of melee type of weapon for instance swords. His secondary power set would defensive like reflexes, invulnerability or regeneration.
Teleportation on the other hand was not any class main powerset. Teleportation is one of the travel power sets. In each set there are 5 powers compared to the major sets where there are 9. In general these powers are not that effective, they cost a lot to use and don't do that much damage or healing as powers from the major sets. They are simply there to supplement your character and maybe giv a bit of flavour.
What I am saying is that he is not using what was supposed to be his significant power (teleport foe) and he was using it in an inappropriate way.
It's like the healers you talked about higher up in the thread. Did the developers intend healers to change side and heal the opposing team? Cryptic did get around IIRC to nerf the teleport a bit in conjunction with the safe zone guards but from the beginning there wasn't way at all to protect oneself from teleport and all because: a. The power was in the game before pvp, fair was not a factor. b. The safe zone guards was in the game they ever could shoot at players. c. No on thought (big mistake) that anyone would want to defeat their opponent in that manner.
All in all if he didn't break the rules then he did break the intentions of the developers.
Umm no. It's a game of heros vs villains. He was playing heros vs villains. It makes total sense, and the OOC factors you keep bringing up like they mean something are just that - OOC. Utterly meaningless here.
Ok, lets say that he was roleplaying, it's hardly heroic to teleport someone in front of npc:s, to let them do the work for you. Besides, the robots in question were not intended to be used in that manner. They are there to protect people from spawn campers. A practise I would prefer calling exploiting. It's not that the robots where hard to beat. They were impossible to beat, but they were not there for an offensive purpose but a defensive.
If you dont like the game, ffs find another game instead of ruining it for the people that are actually playing it and enjoying it. Which is clearly what the majority of COH players have done - taken over a game they didnt like and ruined it for anyone that actually want to play.
Oh well, after reading TFA I am greatful to the author for the warning - it's a game I might have otherwise wasted time on.
I don't doubt that you have lot of experience from other mmo:s but it's easy to tell that you don't know about the history of CoH. When it first came out there wasn't any arena, there wasn't any pvp at all. People who played it did so because they liked the setting and because they liked PvE. When Cryptic introduced PvP in the form of the Arena it was met generally with a yawn. They had some traffic in the beginning but has since then been mostly deserted. The same thing happened when they introduced the PvP-zones.
You are probably right in that CoH would only be a waste of time for you, but the people who are playing it and who do like it have not simply "taken over a game". They where already playing it when things got added they weren't interested of. It's a bit like adding a meat sandwich to the menu of a vegan restaurant. Sure, some who aren't hardcore vegans or just passing by might like it and it but most of the clientele won't be interrested.
Hitler also said that people are good at discerning the small white lies because everyone does it. The big whoppers are much harder because nobody thinks anyone would lie about something like that.
Oh, and the solutions he promised weren't about genocide. He simply promised a better economy and bringing back Germany to above and beyond what it was before WWI. The German people where starting to get desperate after years of oppression due to the surrender conditions after WWI. The allies from WWI are also to blame for Hitler being able to take control. By placing all the fault on the Germans you simply repeats the errors of WWI.
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Except that they don't. At least, no more than anybody else. Possibly less, actually.
In the US, Christians are about 80% of the population, but over 90% of convicted criminals.
Of course, Jesus himself, according to the texts, associated with criminals. Peter himself was a toll collector, ie bribed someone to get the job and then most likely got his money back by extorting his fellow Jews. Jesus explained it by saying that those who are criminals are the ones who need saving the most.
I believe this is one of the most often forgotten lesson in Christianity and both the Christians and non Christians forget it or doesn't realise it.
Being a Christian is not the same thing as being perfect, rather it should be taken as a reminder that we all have faults. Christians have performed terrible atrocities and why should they be exempted from being humans? I believe that they didn't do it because they where Christians, I believe they did it because they are human.
There, fixed that for thee.
Sure, that was correct at one time but that's not how it works, at least in Sweden, any more. For starters they translate the texts from material that predates the versions in the middle ages. The people who are doing the translations are schoolars in religion and history. In Sweden all priests have years of university studies but not all who are doctors in theology are Christians.
Just too bad that not all Christians realise that there are newer versions of the bible out there. I believe the common english version, King James bible, is almost 400 years old. Not all the differences are due to the agendas of Kings though. We also know a lot more about the time and have found new documents from that time as well.
Responsibilities are just as important as rights. One of those responsibilities is to treat public servants with respect. If you don't you shouldn't be surprised when they are awkward right back at you.
I'm sorry but I can't agree with you on this. My responsibilities as a citizen includes voting and paying my taxes. Being respectful to public servants are not among them. I try to be respectful to everyone but you need to earn my respect. If you aren't respectful to me then I don't have any obligations to you.
Just because someone has a specific title doesn't mean they earn respect no matter what they do. Respect is earned and lost because of ones actions. If they don't treat me with respect then it doesn't matter if they are the police, the president or the king.
But I get the feeling that you get polite and respectful mixed up. You can always assert your rights while being polite. If you have respect for the person or not does not come into account.
He didn't pop his trunk which was within his rights. If he did it while he was being polite then all social obligations has been fulfilled. They on the other hand punished him for it, which is in my mind very disrespectful.
While tuition-less college might mean that it's easier go from poor to middle class, the taxation levels also mean that it's more difficult going from middle class to rich. It's also frequently claimed (at least by Norberg, et al) that the US has a higher social mobility than Sweden, meaning that while it's certainly possible to go from working class to rich, it happens less frequently than it does in the US.
Actually, the most recent research I have heard of in the subjects says the opposite. The countries with best social mobility are Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Canada. With the US and UK not doing that well. Social mobility low in Britain and falling It's from 2005 so not that fresh maybe. The most recent one I have read is in Swedish and in dead tree format so I have trouble linking to it. :)
Do you really believe that the best are studying at Uppsala or Lund, and not at Harvard and Oxford? What I mean to say is, the best can usually get a scholarship. If your objective is to maximize human capital, my guess the US is doing a better job of it.
Maybe I should have said "the best in Sweden"? But I would say that considering our size we have lots of talented people. We are not a big country, just a bit more people than New York city. It's not really surprising that USA can have more and better universities. But I can't help wondering how much of that superiority is due to a larger pool of people to draw from. If we somewhat simplified use the numbers that 2% of every population are highly intelligent then that would mean that there are around 190 000 in Sweden and around 6 136 420 in the USA.
If it's hard to get right it's obviously not a "simple" word :)
In Sweden schooling is not only free but you also get around $800 each month while you study. Some of it is a special kind of loan but a smaller part you don't need to pay back.
This is enough that most students don't need to take an extra job on the side.
USA might be the "land of opportunity" but in Sweden we believe that one of the best ways to give everyone a chance is to make certain they can go to any school they want. If you are smart enough to get in, money shouldn't be an object. We want the best not the richest ;)
Sorry you still fail. Real nerds don't need the keyboard to do things like that. Learn to use backspace or alt+left arrow for back and alt+right arrow for forward. ;)
Everytime you lift your hand from the keyboard to the mouse you get -1 nerd point
The last part at least is simple. Just send up a buoy with all the necessary communication devices. I'm sure we can get this to work if we try :)
Hm, using a a bank on the internet without encryption could be interesting. I almost hope that they do ban encryption. Could be fun. Just give me some warning so that I have time to make popcorn :)
Can't we throw a hatchet party instead? I always found them to have a bit more edge to them...
Tycho Brahe... ;)
Actually that would in some cases be illegal in Sweden. :)
If someone for instance steal your bicycle and you report it to the police then even if you find your bike at someone else's property you're not allowed to just take it back. You should at that point call the police.
Who would of course respond: "We'll get there in a couple of days"
They would then take the bike as evidence and in best case you would get it back in a year or so. If, of course, the new "owner" doesn't claim he bought it in good faith and has a receipt. Then he gets to keep it and you get pittance from the insurance that might be enough to buy a bobby car
They also said that Pascal/Delphi was highly recommended. I believe that it's mostly because of "historical" reasons. I wouldn't use runes as a precursor to teach the use of the latin alphabet. ;)
That might be the case but your chances of getting hired is greater if you have C on you resume than pascal.
If they wanted a language that is simple to learn they could have chosen python instead. It's just as easy as pascal but has the benefit that it is actually used in the industry.
The problem is of course if the police only arrest someone for instance jaywalking if they look "foreign".
Equality in the eyes of the law does not just mean that different people gets the same punishment for the same crime. If you have to be black or look foreign to even get arrested then that is just as wrong.
There's a reason the laws of war require combatants to dress in an obvious uniform and avoid civilian areas unless unavoidable: because not doing so endangers the lives of civilians. By dressing up like the locals, you cause this kind of mistake.
Eh ya, as others has said there can't be a rule against not having uniforms. If there where the first thing you would blow up in a war was the uniform factory ;)
Heck, let me tell you of Sweden's defence strategy.
First we launch all fighters. They are not there to stop an attack though. They are just there to delay the attack during the second step.
Step two is that we blow up all our ports making it harder to get a proper beach head.
Next everyone ever trained by the army (more or less every man over the age of 35) heads into the woods to start guerilla warfare. The focus at that point would be camouflage and not uniforms.
Only an utter twit would stand out in the open in uniform waving a big flag while the enemy bombs you to kingdom come from miles away.
It's that kind of logic that caused the mass killings in the trenches in the first world war.
So... reviewing a game is now selling out? Would it be less "selling out" if they gave it a bad score or would that be selling out to their competitors?
Are you still beating your wife?
Much better :) :)
Think I will steal that as well
You're sooo right because it is sooo uncommon for interest groups to make up there own lingo. I mean. I can understand every word a boat owner, dog owner or medical personal uses. So this must truly only be a teenage thing.
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Hey, Thompson actually has the papers to prove that he is sane. If that tells you anything about the psychology profession I'll leave up to you ;)
Personally I'm happy to hear that he is still around and kicking. I have missed him these last couple of months :)
Ah, true true. :)
My mind drifted and couldn't separate the two discussions
This is actually a bit worked on. They have sprused up the grafics and they have added voice acting for all the characters. I also believe they have used the same actors as in the later games.
What engine they are using I couldn't say though
How else would a character whose major power focus was teleportation fight? Huh? The hero is supposed to go fight the villains but refrain from using his only significant power because it's unfair? That's ridiculous. If the teleport power is overbalanced, the game designers need to rework it or remove it, but dont blame the player for using what he has in an intelligent way to achieve his goals.
I can guarantee that teleport was not mean to be his "only significant power" by the developers. Every toon in CoH has a primary and a secondary powers set. Im guessing he played as a scrapper in wich case his primary was some kind of melee type of weapon for instance swords.
His secondary power set would defensive like reflexes, invulnerability or regeneration.
Teleportation on the other hand was not any class main powerset. Teleportation is one of the travel power sets. In each set there are 5 powers compared to the major sets where there are 9.
In general these powers are not that effective, they cost a lot to use and don't do that much damage or healing as powers from the major sets. They are simply there to supplement your character and maybe giv a bit of flavour.
What I am saying is that he is not using what was supposed to be his significant power (teleport foe) and he was using it in an inappropriate way.
It's like the healers you talked about higher up in the thread. Did the developers intend healers to change side and heal the opposing team?
Cryptic did get around IIRC to nerf the teleport a bit in conjunction with the safe zone guards but from the beginning there wasn't way at all to protect oneself from teleport and all because:
a. The power was in the game before pvp, fair was not a factor.
b. The safe zone guards was in the game they ever could shoot at players.
c. No on thought (big mistake) that anyone would want to defeat their opponent in that manner.
All in all if he didn't break the rules then he did break the intentions of the developers.
Umm no. It's a game of heros vs villains. He was playing heros vs villains. It makes total sense, and the OOC factors you keep bringing up like they mean something are just that - OOC. Utterly meaningless here.
Ok, lets say that he was roleplaying, it's hardly heroic to teleport someone in front of npc:s, to let them do the work for you. Besides, the robots in question were not intended to be used in that manner. They are there to protect people from spawn campers. A practise I would prefer calling exploiting.
It's not that the robots where hard to beat. They were impossible to beat, but they were not there for an offensive purpose but a defensive.
If you dont like the game, ffs find another game instead of ruining it for the people that are actually playing it and enjoying it. Which is clearly what the majority of COH players have done - taken over a game they didnt like and ruined it for anyone that actually want to play.
Oh well, after reading TFA I am greatful to the author for the warning - it's a game I might have otherwise wasted time on.
I don't doubt that you have lot of experience from other mmo:s but it's easy to tell that you don't know about the history of CoH.
When it first came out there wasn't any arena, there wasn't any pvp at all.
People who played it did so because they liked the setting and because they liked PvE.
When Cryptic introduced PvP in the form of the Arena it was met generally with a yawn. They had some traffic in the beginning but has since then been mostly deserted.
The same thing happened when they introduced the PvP-zones.
You are probably right in that CoH would only be a waste of time for you, but the people who are playing it and who do like it have not simply "taken over a game". They where already playing it when things got added they weren't interested of. It's a bit like adding a meat sandwich to the menu of a vegan restaurant. Sure, some who aren't hardcore vegans or just passing by might like it and it but most of the clientele won't be interrested.
Hitler also said that people are good at discerning the small white lies because everyone does it. The big whoppers are much harder because nobody thinks anyone would lie about something like that.
Oh, and the solutions he promised weren't about genocide. He simply promised a better economy and bringing back Germany to above and beyond what it was before WWI.
The German people where starting to get desperate after years of oppression due to the surrender conditions after WWI.
The allies from WWI are also to blame for Hitler being able to take control. By placing all the fault on the Germans you simply repeats the errors of WWI.