This may end up being pretty damned interesting. GS has a long history of market manipulation from insider trading to installing plants in the media through subsidiaries who appear and disappear over-night to gaming IPOs to make sure the right people get a payday (ie. Yang and Yahoo). Though I wouldn't hold my breath, stacking the deck against suckers is generally "nothing to see here" issue.
I switched from out-of-the-box junk and soda to salad, steak a few grilled vegetables and yes, walking several miles a day after work. Weekends consisted of outdoor activities. My point, is that without paying attention almost all of my diet was junkfood and the junkfood is practically unavoidable. I'm not saying that avoid corn syrup is some magic cure all, but man it sets you back.
Avoid refined sugars. I decided to go off of anything with corn syrup for about a month, just to see what happened. I lost about 30 lbs. It is amazing, the stuff we put in our bodies.
People have close relationships with each other, despite what they say. You have a mom and a dad and all of these people who remind you that all of the other people in the world aren't ants that you can freely destroy at any whim.
There is also the 2% factor. With almost all characters, we know that they aren't real people and we are creeped out by the appearance of those who too closely resemble real people (ie. creepy animatronics). When the graphics get that good, we might be just a tad too creeped out to look at them, it will be kind of like looking at dead bodies all day, for the morticians it is great, but everyone else would rather avoid it. Don't get all inflated by your egos Gamasutra peeps. We have millions of years of evolution that will take a little more than your 40-60 hour work week to rewire.
While I think the position is pure drama king, all of you will be screwed when I, a forgotten octogenarian who can only control his body with a d-pad and eight buttons, make my way out of the Alzheimer wing. Just look out for the short guy who is warning everyone about zombie Michael Jackson and the hamburger lady, he may be armed.
You have a point actually, under the Commodity Futures Modernization Act it expressly states that such an activity is not illegal and it cannot be regulated by the SEC. Shame no one bothered to patch that one up after Enron melted down and then credit default swap fiasco and the burst of the housing bubble and well, who knows what the future holds?
This is about forcing the poor and lower-middle into shifting, they'll be the ones who will have no alternative, but fortunately they make up most of the population and seldom contribute to political campaigns. Then again, when someone making 24K a year can't get a loan to get a new car, well good luck with that. I guess they had better make sure they live in a city and rely on public transportation.
The part that perplexes me is why there isn't a tax credit for shippers? They need cheap fuel to transport goods, otherwise this whole world where I can go down to Wally World for a $3 pack of beer is over, literally overnight, not accounting for inevitable food shortages. Guess healthcare really will get better with all of these people walking everywhere and living off of greens they grew in their backyard.
Also, and this is by far the most galling part, why tax electricity? The area I live in is powered by a combination of nuclear and hydro-electric power, so I'll be nothing more than easy income for the Fed, unless I have a windmill in my backyard and then I'll get taxed by my city for noise pollution. I'm guessing this will be written off as a hand-of-one-is-the-hand-of-all type thing since power is shared across the grid.
"OTOH, the Bethesda people have gotten Obsidian (Of KOTOR and NWN2 fame) to do Fallout 3: New Vegas, so apparently they don't want to do RPGs either!"
Fallout 3 did well and people have been gobbling up the DLC, so it seems like they have a good thing. Getting Obsidian in on it only means that they want to produce more.
Though no one is saying it, those who advocate against circumcision seem to be likening it to a clitoridectomy. It isn't and honestly I'd call it the inverse. once a circumcision involves cutting off sensitive parts of the penis to keep men from realizing the joys of sex and possibly leaving their wives for more fulfilling sexual relationships, give me a call.
"They make them for guys who take 30 seconds, any use lasting longer than about 5 or 10 minutes and they start tearing unless you use a gallon of lube, in which case see point number 2."
Granted this is from my heterosexual view point, but the guys in R&D came up with this thing called, foreplay. It really helps with chafing.
The PC always beat out the set top box. I can remember having to re-encode my media down to the NTSC resolution levels, wasting hours, just to view my movies on a NTSC television. Thank goodness that high resolution projectors and large monitors -er HD sets finally became more affordable. So with people still arguing about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, I say screw 'em and give me media that supports my "monitors" highest resolution and the best way to get that particular format is via download, not disc. I'd like to say that both camps of fanbois need to get out of the past and stop trying to hold everyone else back with their pissing contests, but it doesn't matter, they are already left behind.
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This may end up being pretty damned interesting. GS has a long history of market manipulation from insider trading to installing plants in the media through subsidiaries who appear and disappear over-night to gaming IPOs to make sure the right people get a payday (ie. Yang and Yahoo). Though I wouldn't hold my breath, stacking the deck against suckers is generally "nothing to see here" issue.
"Perhaps they'll bring back Darvon (aspirin and codeine)."
I can have codeine and aspirin for my raging hangovers in an effective one two punch of pills and cheap rye! It is indeed a miracle.
I switched from out-of-the-box junk and soda to salad, steak a few grilled vegetables and yes, walking several miles a day after work. Weekends consisted of outdoor activities. My point, is that without paying attention almost all of my diet was junkfood and the junkfood is practically unavoidable. I'm not saying that avoid corn syrup is some magic cure all, but man it sets you back.
Avoid refined sugars. I decided to go off of anything with corn syrup for about a month, just to see what happened. I lost about 30 lbs. It is amazing, the stuff we put in our bodies.
Ha! Finally nailed you, you sorry sack. Years and years of waiting, but you finally confessed.
Oddly enough that seems to be the mass opinion lately.
What is this Ghost in the Shell?
People have close relationships with each other, despite what they say. You have a mom and a dad and all of these people who remind you that all of the other people in the world aren't ants that you can freely destroy at any whim.
There is also the 2% factor. With almost all characters, we know that they aren't real people and we are creeped out by the appearance of those who too closely resemble real people (ie. creepy animatronics). When the graphics get that good, we might be just a tad too creeped out to look at them, it will be kind of like looking at dead bodies all day, for the morticians it is great, but everyone else would rather avoid it. Don't get all inflated by your egos Gamasutra peeps. We have millions of years of evolution that will take a little more than your 40-60 hour work week to rewire.
While I think the position is pure drama king, all of you will be screwed when I, a forgotten octogenarian who can only control his body with a d-pad and eight buttons, make my way out of the Alzheimer wing. Just look out for the short guy who is warning everyone about zombie Michael Jackson and the hamburger lady, he may be armed.
We depend on top level pirates to buy and then pirate the music that drives the industry. Great, now on one will be left to buy the music.
That is so cute coming from an AC. Would you like a vi/emacs debate with that?
You have a point actually, under the Commodity Futures Modernization Act it expressly states that such an activity is not illegal and it cannot be regulated by the SEC. Shame no one bothered to patch that one up after Enron melted down and then credit default swap fiasco and the burst of the housing bubble and well, who knows what the future holds?
This is about forcing the poor and lower-middle into shifting, they'll be the ones who will have no alternative, but fortunately they make up most of the population and seldom contribute to political campaigns. Then again, when someone making 24K a year can't get a loan to get a new car, well good luck with that. I guess they had better make sure they live in a city and rely on public transportation.
The part that perplexes me is why there isn't a tax credit for shippers? They need cheap fuel to transport goods, otherwise this whole world where I can go down to Wally World for a $3 pack of beer is over, literally overnight, not accounting for inevitable food shortages. Guess healthcare really will get better with all of these people walking everywhere and living off of greens they grew in their backyard.
Also, and this is by far the most galling part, why tax electricity? The area I live in is powered by a combination of nuclear and hydro-electric power, so I'll be nothing more than easy income for the Fed, unless I have a windmill in my backyard and then I'll get taxed by my city for noise pollution. I'm guessing this will be written off as a hand-of-one-is-the-hand-of-all type thing since power is shared across the grid.
And oh joy, two weeks from now, it still won't be enough.
"OTOH, the Bethesda people have gotten Obsidian (Of KOTOR and NWN2 fame) to do Fallout 3: New Vegas, so apparently they don't want to do RPGs either!"
Fallout 3 did well and people have been gobbling up the DLC, so it seems like they have a good thing. Getting Obsidian in on it only means that they want to produce more.
But the thousand dollar question: Will Rage be refashioned/re-written as a Fallout game, er- Fallout, with cars?
"But one German tank could shoot down ten Russian ones. So the count alone is not the point."
Easy solution, bring 11 tanks.
You have a point with the inch. Oddly enough, everyone in the US seems to confuse it with the centimeter.
That is for the warranty. When the battery goes out they'll have to replace the whole thing.
Duh, it was a Tubesaurus Rex.
Though no one is saying it, those who advocate against circumcision seem to be likening it to a clitoridectomy. It isn't and honestly I'd call it the inverse. once a circumcision involves cutting off sensitive parts of the penis to keep men from realizing the joys of sex and possibly leaving their wives for more fulfilling sexual relationships, give me a call.
"They make them for guys who take 30 seconds, any use lasting longer than about 5 or 10 minutes and they start tearing unless you use a gallon of lube, in which case see point number 2."
Granted this is from my heterosexual view point, but the guys in R&D came up with this thing called, foreplay. It really helps with chafing.
Truth is asymptotic.
If I had the points...
The PC always beat out the set top box. I can remember having to re-encode my media down to the NTSC resolution levels, wasting hours, just to view my movies on a NTSC television. Thank goodness that high resolution projectors and large monitors -er HD sets finally became more affordable. So with people still arguing about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, I say screw 'em and give me media that supports my "monitors" highest resolution and the best way to get that particular format is via download, not disc. I'd like to say that both camps of fanbois need to get out of the past and stop trying to hold everyone else back with their pissing contests, but it doesn't matter, they are already left behind.
Its OK, they were pirating their movies anyway.
He was looking for one of those German, gold vending machine.