At first I thought it was Baltar's dream - I found it strange how the flash forward occurs when Baltar puts his head down on his desk, then it starts by him raising his head. Almost everything in the dream was something Baltar feared would go wrong during his presidency... he doesn't have a lot of self confidence.
Of course the producers have said it wasn't a dream, so shrug.
Don't expect a response. I live in Philly and have sent a dozen or more complaints to them in the past. They will never acknowledge their mistakes. They run stories like this to compete with the other sensationalist local news.
Oh no, several thousand troops and no casualties. That's so much worse than 140,000 troops and over 2,000 casualties. Not to mention over 30,000 civilian casualties. Oh wait, nevermind.
You can change the frequency of the autosaves from the config file. Open the shortcut '_Civ4Config' in your Civ4 folder and look for 'AutoSaveInterval'.
It really slows you down if you have to pass a lot of turns quickly though (like the beginning of a game on epic speed).
I've gotten this from several people on my list in the past few days... it basically spams a message, usually the same one, every hour or so, with the same link. It just fakes the address, the real link is to: http://209.235.17.26/My_Christmas_Card.SCR
I used to work for Concurrent (admittably just their Video on Demand division, we developed the systems used by ~50% of the country under Comcast, Time Warner, etc.).
Essentially the Realtime division of the company has been developing realtime operating systems for decades, and one of their biggest customers is the US military using the systems for flight simulators. I don't know any specifics on Redhawk, but I can say without a doubt that they know what they're doing and have a lot of history.
You can get HD quality lost episodes an hour after they air (google lost+torrent). I don't even watch them on ABC, I wait to dl the HD ones and watch them the next day.
I personally like my widescreen dell laptop more than a 4:3 monitor. In emacs I can divide the window into vertical frames with plenty of room to spare.
It's different in the US...I'm a senior in CS, just went to my school's career fair. In the Philadelphia area I will expect to make between $50k and $60k a year.
Agreed. A random teenager has no idea what is involved in making games. Tedious programming, constantly fixing bugs, trying to write software for an insane variety of hardware, working 80 hours a week until your current project ships, losing your job when your game crashes and burns in the market...
I agree completely. There are moments when the game was funny, like watching a male sim slap up his wife after I got her to sleep with a female neighbor (how is that realistic!). But the entire game is like one big chore... you never accomplish anything, except making more money, and it isn't very hard to reach the top of the job ladder - it's just a tedious task trying to balance forcing your sims to do chores or build up skill points. The fact that you can buy the enternal youth potion makes even old age a nonissue.
You're definitely right that a big part of the problem in the US is the two party system.
But education is another huge issue. Frankly, American public education is pretty horrible. The average American can't even define socialism, let alone understand the positives and negatives of a social welfare state compared to our current situation. The average American doesn't vote because they believe their vote won't count. And who can blame them when they face several hour long lines at election booths, harassment by election officals, and a president who lost the popular vote being voted into office by the supreme court?
The conservatives want to keep it this way. They thrive on an uneducated population. The socially liberal voice in this country is getting drowned out by the vast amounts of money spent on propaganda by the wealthy conservatives, the hordes of right wing christian zealots in the south and midwest who will vote for whoever their minister tells them to, and the political apathy of the urban poor.
In all seriousness, the US is become a pretty grim place to live. We could use a major shift to the left, but I don't see it happening any time soon.
Who gives a shit about grades? I know plenty of brilliant people who do poorly in school.
The difference between Kerry and Bush can be discerned by listening to 2 minutes of one of the debates. Bush is an idiot who can't compose simple sentences. Kerry can speak coherently and intelligently off the cuff. Bush can't even read a speech without making that retarded smirk of his and going off on a rant about evildoers or ranching.
Our biggest problem right now is that Bush can't admit that he's wrong. I would love a president who was for something before he was against it, at least he's reassessing his positions instead of blindly pressing on.
You're looking at it backwards, I think. Mothers who have kids LATER in life result in children with lower IQs. I'm not sure what the gp was talking about, but Down syndrome could account for the differences he's describing. Did you know that a child born to a 42 year old woman has a 1 in 60 chance of having down syndrome? By age 49, there's a 1 in 12 chance. Under age 30, there's only a 1 in 1,000 chance. (http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/downsy ndrome/down.htm)
Please don't generalize, most Americans I know prefer subtitles over dubbed. I personally can't stand it when lips don't move according to what's being said. Plus I find it's more engrossing to hear the original language.
Have you ever gone outside center city/univ city in Philadelphia? There are Net Zero ads plastered EVERYWHERE. Not even official ads or billboards, but posters slathered all over the sides of decrepit buildings. It's almost eery, like a conspiracy about the Army of the NetZero Monkeys.
Anyway, I find it rather strange that the first areas to get free wifi are areas where it doesn't benefit anyone but the rich/middle class (love park, the whole parkway soon?). But then again I can't imagine how free wifi will work in less affluent areas without high buildings. Does anyone really believe that the access points won't get ripped off the lamp posts to be sold?
"why do so many evolutionary biologists claim that evolution is the only true fact and anyone who disagrees with them is wrong?"
The same reason we claim that Newtonian physics is 'fact'. Fact in science generally equates to "current belief according to the current theories". Newtonian physics isn't 100% correct, far from it in fact. But with it we can design massive buildings, rockets, airplanes. And we used it to reach the moon. It's a 'fact' that Newtonian physics work.
We have evidence for evolution, we can see natural selection in action even today. It's essentially a "common sense" theory, everyone can understand survival of the fittest. Learning evolution has merit because it teaches us about our origins and our biology, it helps us in conservation, preserving species. And it's applicable to other fields (such as medicine).
What would learning ID accomplish? It has no evidence, it doesn't help us understand anything. All it does is promote an effectively Christian viewpoint. People can have any belief they want, and it does NOT matter if an evolutionary biologist tells them they are wrong. But ID is just that: a belief. It isn't a scientific theory that has held up to scrutiny. So it DOES matter when people try to teach it in schools as a valid theory. This is why scientists are so passionate about combatting ID.
Hopefully this helps you understand why the non religious feel so threatened by the prospect of ID being taught in schools.
The fight was sparked by a football rivalry and involved 60 football players. The attack was clearly premeditated. The attack occurred at CB West High School, which is a 45 minute drive from North Penn. There would be no reason for 60 kids from North Penn to all drive 45 minutes to CB West High School over the summer, at night.
So clearly football was one of the causes, along with bad judgment/low IQs/mob mentality/whatever.
I was showing an example of how competitive, violent sports can lead to real violence. This would suggest that we shouldn't focus just on sheltering kids from TV/video games/movies, but also competitive, violent sports.
Why put so much effort into preventing kids from seeing Bad Things but encourage them to engage in sports like football? Perhaps the real solution would be to teach kids how to handle competition, violence and sex, instead of sheltering them. I personally don't have an opinion as I have 0 experience with kids (other than myself and my crappy memory).
In my high school town (Doylestown PA), a group of several football players from CB West High School were attacked by a much larger group of football players from North Penn high school (next school district west). Basically the fight was rooted in the bitter football rivarly between the two schools. Four kids got seriously injured in the fight. One kid got kicked repeatedly in the stomach while he was on the ground.
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You're right, they are in fact complete opposites.
Lincoln's election caused the south to secede from the north. Bush's election caused the north to want to secede from the south.
At first I thought it was Baltar's dream - I found it strange how the flash forward occurs when Baltar puts his head down on his desk, then it starts by him raising his head. Almost everything in the dream was something Baltar feared would go wrong during his presidency... he doesn't have a lot of self confidence.
Of course the producers have said it wasn't a dream, so shrug.
Don't expect a response. I live in Philly and have sent a dozen or more complaints to them in the past. They will never acknowledge their mistakes. They run stories like this to compete with the other sensationalist local news.
I'll trade you mine for one of these vertical mice...
I would guess that the irony stems from a Microsoft rep being one of the judges, and voting for an OSX app.
Why can't I find posts like this when I have modpoints?
Oh no, several thousand troops and no casualties. That's so much worse than 140,000 troops and over 2,000 casualties. Not to mention over 30,000 civilian casualties. Oh wait, nevermind.
You can change the frequency of the autosaves from the config file. Open the shortcut '_Civ4Config' in your Civ4 folder and look for 'AutoSaveInterval'.
It really slows you down if you have to pass a lot of turns quickly though (like the beginning of a game on epic speed).
I've gotten this from several people on my list in the past few days... it basically spams a message, usually the same one, every hour or so, with the same link. It just fakes the address, the real link is to: http://209.235.17.26/My_Christmas_Card.SCR
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I used to work for Concurrent (admittably just their Video on Demand division, we developed the systems used by ~50% of the country under Comcast, Time Warner, etc.).
Essentially the Realtime division of the company has been developing realtime operating systems for decades, and one of their biggest customers is the US military using the systems for flight simulators. I don't know any specifics on Redhawk, but I can say without a doubt that they know what they're doing and have a lot of history.
You can get HD quality lost episodes an hour after they air (google lost+torrent). I don't even watch them on ABC, I wait to dl the HD ones and watch them the next day.
I personally like my widescreen dell laptop more than a 4:3 monitor. In emacs I can divide the window into vertical frames with plenty of room to spare.
It's different in the US...I'm a senior in CS, just went to my school's career fair. In the Philadelphia area I will expect to make between $50k and $60k a year.
Agreed. A random teenager has no idea what is involved in making games. Tedious programming, constantly fixing bugs, trying to write software for an insane variety of hardware, working 80 hours a week until your current project ships, losing your job when your game crashes and burns in the market...
Yeah sounds like a dream job.
I agree completely. There are moments when the game was funny, like watching a male sim slap up his wife after I got her to sleep with a female neighbor (how is that realistic!). But the entire game is like one big chore... you never accomplish anything, except making more money, and it isn't very hard to reach the top of the job ladder - it's just a tedious task trying to balance forcing your sims to do chores or build up skill points. The fact that you can buy the enternal youth potion makes even old age a nonissue.
You're definitely right that a big part of the problem in the US is the two party system.
But education is another huge issue. Frankly, American public education is pretty horrible. The average American can't even define socialism, let alone understand the positives and negatives of a social welfare state compared to our current situation. The average American doesn't vote because they believe their vote won't count. And who can blame them when they face several hour long lines at election booths, harassment by election officals, and a president who lost the popular vote being voted into office by the supreme court?
The conservatives want to keep it this way. They thrive on an uneducated population. The socially liberal voice in this country is getting drowned out by the vast amounts of money spent on propaganda by the wealthy conservatives, the hordes of right wing christian zealots in the south and midwest who will vote for whoever their minister tells them to, and the political apathy of the urban poor.
In all seriousness, the US is become a pretty grim place to live. We could use a major shift to the left, but I don't see it happening any time soon.
Who gives a shit about grades? I know plenty of brilliant people who do poorly in school.
The difference between Kerry and Bush can be discerned by listening to 2 minutes of one of the debates. Bush is an idiot who can't compose simple sentences. Kerry can speak coherently and intelligently off the cuff. Bush can't even read a speech without making that retarded smirk of his and going off on a rant about evildoers or ranching.
Our biggest problem right now is that Bush can't admit that he's wrong. I would love a president who was for something before he was against it, at least he's reassessing his positions instead of blindly pressing on.
You're looking at it backwards, I think. Mothers who have kids LATER in life result in children with lower IQs. I'm not sure what the gp was talking about, but Down syndrome could account for the differences he's describing. Did you know that a child born to a 42 year old woman has a 1 in 60 chance of having down syndrome? By age 49, there's a 1 in 12 chance. Under age 30, there's only a 1 in 1,000 chance. (http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/downsy ndrome/down.htm)
Inspector gadget!! Although even the dog was smarter than the man.
Please don't generalize, most Americans I know prefer subtitles over dubbed. I personally can't stand it when lips don't move according to what's being said. Plus I find it's more engrossing to hear the original language.
Good point. Being in Philadelphia, I'd much rather vote for a mayor who drops the absurd wage tax than sets up free wifi.
Have you ever gone outside center city/univ city in Philadelphia? There are Net Zero ads plastered EVERYWHERE. Not even official ads or billboards, but posters slathered all over the sides of decrepit buildings. It's almost eery, like a conspiracy about the Army of the NetZero Monkeys.
Anyway, I find it rather strange that the first areas to get free wifi are areas where it doesn't benefit anyone but the rich/middle class (love park, the whole parkway soon?). But then again I can't imagine how free wifi will work in less affluent areas without high buildings. Does anyone really believe that the access points won't get ripped off the lamp posts to be sold?
"why do so many evolutionary biologists claim that evolution is the only true fact and anyone who disagrees with them is wrong?"
The same reason we claim that Newtonian physics is 'fact'. Fact in science generally equates to "current belief according to the current theories". Newtonian physics isn't 100% correct, far from it in fact. But with it we can design massive buildings, rockets, airplanes. And we used it to reach the moon. It's a 'fact' that Newtonian physics work.
We have evidence for evolution, we can see natural selection in action even today. It's essentially a "common sense" theory, everyone can understand survival of the fittest. Learning evolution has merit because it teaches us about our origins and our biology, it helps us in conservation, preserving species. And it's applicable to other fields (such as medicine).
What would learning ID accomplish? It has no evidence, it doesn't help us understand anything. All it does is promote an effectively Christian viewpoint. People can have any belief they want, and it does NOT matter if an evolutionary biologist tells them they are wrong. But ID is just that: a belief. It isn't a scientific theory that has held up to scrutiny. So it DOES matter when people try to teach it in schools as a valid theory. This is why scientists are so passionate about combatting ID.
Hopefully this helps you understand why the non religious feel so threatened by the prospect of ID being taught in schools.
The fight was sparked by a football rivalry and involved 60 football players. The attack was clearly premeditated. The attack occurred at CB West High School, which is a 45 minute drive from North Penn. There would be no reason for 60 kids from North Penn to all drive 45 minutes to CB West High School over the summer, at night.
So clearly football was one of the causes, along with bad judgment/low IQs/mob mentality/whatever.
I was showing an example of how competitive, violent sports can lead to real violence. This would suggest that we shouldn't focus just on sheltering kids from TV/video games/movies, but also competitive, violent sports.
Why put so much effort into preventing kids from seeing Bad Things but encourage them to engage in sports like football? Perhaps the real solution would be to teach kids how to handle competition, violence and sex, instead of sheltering them. I personally don't have an opinion as I have 0 experience with kids (other than myself and my crappy memory).
In my high school town (Doylestown PA), a group of several football players from CB West High School were attacked by a much larger group of football players from North Penn high school (next school district west). Basically the fight was rooted in the bitter football rivarly between the two schools. Four kids got seriously injured in the fight. One kid got kicked repeatedly in the stomach while he was on the ground.
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Here's a story about it from the Philly ABC station.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/101504_nw_footbr