I think what he's saying is that the dirty hippy environmentalists are naive people who can't separate real solutions to environmental issues from 'feel good' marketing.
Funny how you're not obligated to correct mistakes in your favor, but they're obligated to correct mistakes in their favor. How does that work, exactly?
Oh wait, right. It doesn't. If you get extra change from a cashier, you *are* morally obligated to return it.
This is a great way to rationalize theft. Too bad it's not true. If an ATM shortchanges you, the bank will make it up. It may take awhile, but no bank worth anything is going to risk losing your business for $20.
I mean, hell, how the fuck do offshore casinos move cash around?
The US has already strong-armed Visa, Mastercard, and now all US based banks into not transfering money to offshore casinos/poker rooms. So, the answer to this question is: with great difficulty.
Yeah, what you're missing is that the process of fossilization is a really hit-or-miss thing, so most of what you're likely to see in the fossil record is the successful organisims, the ones that were around long enough for a significant sample of them to wind up fossilized. You won't see many of the crazy unsuccessful forms because by definition, those wouldn't have hung around long enough for a sample population to wind up fossilized.
You sound like an extrovert. Those of us who are introverts freaking HATE "jumping on teamspeak and chatting with people".
One is not better than the other. But extroverts seem to not recognize that introverts exist, or think they're dong them some kind of favor by forcing them into situations they do not want to take part in.
I'm not the commited introvert I used to be, and I don't mind using Vent or Skype these days with people I know. But back in the day, using voice chat would have been an absolute deal breaker for me in online games.
No, other way around. Farmers get big subsidies because food is too cheap--and for some reason, the government wants them to keep producing all that food and would rather just throw away the excess rather than let the market take over and force some farmers out of business until price and demand stabalize.
Actually, they're far from it. Apollo 12 landed near one of the old Surveyor probes, and the astronauts took cultures from the probe that had been sitting on the moon for three years. Surprisingly, there were still Earth bacteria living on the probes, after three years of exposure to the vacuum, the freezing/burning cycle of the Lunar day, and the harsh radiation from the Sun. Here's an interesting article on the subject.
I also recall reading an article recently (can't find it now, unfortunately) about a scientist who worked on some of the Mars probes. He said that there were bacteria that actually evolved in their clean rooms to thrive through all the crap they were trying to do to sterilize the probes before launch. The things actually evolved to eat some of the cleansers they were using or something like that, as I recall. When asked if he thought those bacteria were still ont he probes, he said something like "Oh yeah, they're up there now, on Mars. We couldn't get rid of them."
That's because the "rest of society" is a bunch of work-a-day shlubs who think everybody should be a shlub like them. People with drive, determination, and skills become entrepreneurs, and break out of the work-a-day shlub lifestyle. They create/invent/produce/manufacture something of value, or they invest wisely in the creations/inventions/productions/manufacturing of others, and create wealth that sustains them.
That's the beauty of capitalism. If you have the drive, the determination, the skills, and a little luck, you too can break free of the work-a-day shlub lifestyle. Not everybody can. In fact, if everybody "could", capitalism wouldn't work. But that doesn't give the work-a-day shlubs the right to try to haul the entrepreneurs back to the pack just so everything will be all even-steven again. You want that, go find a socialist/communist country to live in. If you already live in one, hey, good for you.
The day we lose our urge to explore is the day we stop being human. It's also the day our entire race shrivels up and dies. Nobody climbs mountains because there's something of value at the top. Mountains are climbed because they are there, and they need climbing. Similarly, the planets in our solar system are explored because they are there, and they need exploring.
I die a little inside everytime I hear someone say crap like this. Whatever happened to the spirit of adventure, the urge to explore, the desire to reach out and touch something distant, something huge, something different and strange just for the sake of doing it, seeing what's there, finding out if you've got what it takes to pull it off.
Science and research for the sake of science and research are the most pure forms of exploration and knowledge aquisition there is. If you only ever did things that had "practical applications" we wouldn't get very far at all, because we're not visionary enough to see the practical applications of lots of important knowledge we gain from research before we actually do the research. Short term, results-based thinking with little regard to the long term is killing corporations now, don't let it kill science too.
We all know he had ulterior political motives as well, but JFK said it best: "We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
There is currently a 4 year+ queue for people over 21 with a US citizen parent to obtain a green card.
What exactly are you talking about? If you have a US citizen parent, you are already entitled to US citizenship. Unless the country you were born in (presuming it wasn't the US--because if you were born in the US even if you *aren't* the child of US citizens, you're entitled to US citizenship if you want it) explicitly forbids dual nationality or something, then there shouldn't be any issue at all.
My wife fits this description perfectly. Her mother is a US citizen, her father is a New Zealand citizen. She was born and lived the first 30+ years of her life in New Zealand. But when she moved to the US to be with me, there was exactly zero hassle. Because her mother was a US citizen, she just applied for a US passport and came over. She's a citizen of both countries.
Yeah, because Sony has been so great in the past at pushing their proprietary media formats. I mean, Beta was huge. And then Minidisc. That was massive. Also memory stick. TOTALLY beat out compact flash. No, I can't think of a single Sony proprietary media format that didn't completely take over its market!
If my sarcasm isn't enough to convince you, then try this argument. Average Joe is asked "Do you want an HD-DVD, or a Blu-Ray?". What is Average Joe gonna say? He knows intuitively what an HD-DVD is, from his experience with regular DVDs and HDTV. It's a DVD, only better! What the fuck is a Blu-Ray? Is that some kind of fish? Average Joe will say "HD-DVD sounds like what I want. I don't have a fishtank."
I'm sure they have. However, the technical support forums for NWN:2 are littered with complaints similar to mine. Just look for the "Unpacking Module" bug. I've yet to see anybody in any official capacity even acknowledge that they know of the issue.
I want to play the damn game so bad. I spent $300 upgrading my system so I could run it. I just need them to patch this bug (or at least tell me what I can do to avoid it) so I can finish the stupid game.
Is this the same NWN:2 that stealth-corrupts your savegames and eventually makes it impossible to finish the game if you've been foolish enough to "only" keep four or five saves around?
Anybody have any idea when they're going to fix this issue? I realize I'm going to have to start again, but I'd sure like to play the game and have some assurance that I'm going to be able to finish it at some point. Preferably without having to fill up the 50 GB of free space on my hard drive with saves.
Hey, welcome to the real world. Have fun living like this for the next 40 or 50 years. If you want out, you have only three options:
1) Sell everything you own, move to Montana, build a cabin, live like the Unabomber. 2) Win the lottery. 3) Become an entrepreneur, build a business from scratch, work three times as hard as you do now, and still only have a slim chance to ever live much better than you do now.
The only other option was "be born to rich parents", but you already missed out on that one. Sorry.
The species is more important than the planet. It's more important than all planets. Continued existence is the primary goal of all life. Some would argue there *is* no other goal. I have no responsibilty to any planet except as it pertains to keeping me and my species alive and thriving. That is the way of life. Parasites who destroy their hosts are inefficient parasites. They will either adapt and evolve into a less destructive parasite, or they will die out. What they will not do is simply stop doing what they do, stop trying to further their species.
Would you rather spend the money increasing the number of mission critical servers in your data center, or creating a hot site so you can survive a catastrophic accident at the main site?
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I think what he's saying is that the dirty hippy environmentalists are naive people who can't separate real solutions to environmental issues from 'feel good' marketing.
Funny how you're not obligated to correct mistakes in your favor, but they're obligated to correct mistakes in their favor. How does that work, exactly?
Oh wait, right. It doesn't. If you get extra change from a cashier, you *are* morally obligated to return it.
This is a great way to rationalize theft. Too bad it's not true. If an ATM shortchanges you, the bank will make it up. It may take awhile, but no bank worth anything is going to risk losing your business for $20.
I mean, hell, how the fuck do offshore casinos move cash around?
The US has already strong-armed Visa, Mastercard, and now all US based banks into not transfering money to offshore casinos/poker rooms. So, the answer to this question is: with great difficulty.
-- DAve
Am I missing something?
Yeah, what you're missing is that the process of fossilization is a really hit-or-miss thing, so most of what you're likely to see in the fossil record is the successful organisims, the ones that were around long enough for a significant sample of them to wind up fossilized. You won't see many of the crazy unsuccessful forms because by definition, those wouldn't have hung around long enough for a sample population to wind up fossilized.
Since when is making up bad info about Windows and Microsoft *not* worth +5 Insightful on Slashdot?
You sound like an extrovert. Those of us who are introverts freaking HATE "jumping on teamspeak and chatting with people".
One is not better than the other. But extroverts seem to not recognize that introverts exist, or think they're dong them some kind of favor by forcing them into situations they do not want to take part in.
I'm not the commited introvert I used to be, and I don't mind using Vent or Skype these days with people I know. But back in the day, using voice chat would have been an absolute deal breaker for me in online games.
-- Dave
No, other way around. Farmers get big subsidies because food is too cheap--and for some reason, the government wants them to keep producing all that food and would rather just throw away the excess rather than let the market take over and force some farmers out of business until price and demand stabalize.
Those earth bacteria are pussies
Actually, they're far from it. Apollo 12 landed near one of the old Surveyor probes, and the astronauts took cultures from the probe that had been sitting on the moon for three years. Surprisingly, there were still Earth bacteria living on the probes, after three years of exposure to the vacuum, the freezing/burning cycle of the Lunar day, and the harsh radiation from the Sun. Here's an interesting article on the subject.
I also recall reading an article recently (can't find it now, unfortunately) about a scientist who worked on some of the Mars probes. He said that there were bacteria that actually evolved in their clean rooms to thrive through all the crap they were trying to do to sterilize the probes before launch. The things actually evolved to eat some of the cleansers they were using or something like that, as I recall. When asked if he thought those bacteria were still ont he probes, he said something like "Oh yeah, they're up there now, on Mars. We couldn't get rid of them."
-- Dave
Ever hear of "honor decay"? There's one very concrete example of a "feature" designed specifically to encourage addiction.
Yeah, and they fixed it. Honor doesn't decay anymore. You should play again!
-- Dave
That's because the "rest of society" is a bunch of work-a-day shlubs who think everybody should be a shlub like them. People with drive, determination, and skills become entrepreneurs, and break out of the work-a-day shlub lifestyle. They create/invent/produce/manufacture something of value, or they invest wisely in the creations/inventions/productions/manufacturing of others, and create wealth that sustains them.
That's the beauty of capitalism. If you have the drive, the determination, the skills, and a little luck, you too can break free of the work-a-day shlub lifestyle. Not everybody can. In fact, if everybody "could", capitalism wouldn't work. But that doesn't give the work-a-day shlubs the right to try to haul the entrepreneurs back to the pack just so everything will be all even-steven again. You want that, go find a socialist/communist country to live in. If you already live in one, hey, good for you.
The day we lose our urge to explore is the day we stop being human. It's also the day our entire race shrivels up and dies. Nobody climbs mountains because there's something of value at the top. Mountains are climbed because they are there, and they need climbing. Similarly, the planets in our solar system are explored because they are there, and they need exploring.
I die a little inside everytime I hear someone say crap like this. Whatever happened to the spirit of adventure, the urge to explore, the desire to reach out and touch something distant, something huge, something different and strange just for the sake of doing it, seeing what's there, finding out if you've got what it takes to pull it off.
Science and research for the sake of science and research are the most pure forms of exploration and knowledge aquisition there is. If you only ever did things that had "practical applications" we wouldn't get very far at all, because we're not visionary enough to see the practical applications of lots of important knowledge we gain from research before we actually do the research. Short term, results-based thinking with little regard to the long term is killing corporations now, don't let it kill science too.
We all know he had ulterior political motives as well, but JFK said it best: "We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data"
What exactly are you talking about? If you have a US citizen parent, you are already entitled to US citizenship. Unless the country you were born in (presuming it wasn't the US--because if you were born in the US even if you *aren't* the child of US citizens, you're entitled to US citizenship if you want it) explicitly forbids dual nationality or something, then there shouldn't be any issue at all.
My wife fits this description perfectly. Her mother is a US citizen, her father is a New Zealand citizen. She was born and lived the first 30+ years of her life in New Zealand. But when she moved to the US to be with me, there was exactly zero hassle. Because her mother was a US citizen, she just applied for a US passport and came over. She's a citizen of both countries.
I guess you missed last year, when the Feds made online poker illegal.
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-- Dave
Please explain why not.
Yeah, because Sony has been so great in the past at pushing their proprietary media formats. I mean, Beta was huge. And then Minidisc. That was massive. Also memory stick. TOTALLY beat out compact flash. No, I can't think of a single Sony proprietary media format that didn't completely take over its market!
If my sarcasm isn't enough to convince you, then try this argument. Average Joe is asked "Do you want an HD-DVD, or a Blu-Ray?". What is Average Joe gonna say? He knows intuitively what an HD-DVD is, from his experience with regular DVDs and HDTV. It's a DVD, only better! What the fuck is a Blu-Ray? Is that some kind of fish? Average Joe will say "HD-DVD sounds like what I want. I don't have a fishtank."
-- Dave
I'm sure they have. However, the technical support forums for NWN:2 are littered with complaints similar to mine. Just look for the "Unpacking Module" bug. I've yet to see anybody in any official capacity even acknowledge that they know of the issue.
I want to play the damn game so bad. I spent $300 upgrading my system so I could run it. I just need them to patch this bug (or at least tell me what I can do to avoid it) so I can finish the stupid game.
-- Dave
Their NWN:2 shines head and shoulders over NWN.
Is this the same NWN:2 that stealth-corrupts your savegames and eventually makes it impossible to finish the game if you've been foolish enough to "only" keep four or five saves around?
Anybody have any idea when they're going to fix this issue? I realize I'm going to have to start again, but I'd sure like to play the game and have some assurance that I'm going to be able to finish it at some point. Preferably without having to fill up the 50 GB of free space on my hard drive with saves.
-- Dave
Hey, welcome to the real world. Have fun living like this for the next 40 or 50 years. If you want out, you have only three options:
1) Sell everything you own, move to Montana, build a cabin, live like the Unabomber.
2) Win the lottery.
3) Become an entrepreneur, build a business from scratch, work three times as hard as you do now, and still only have a slim chance to ever live much better than you do now.
The only other option was "be born to rich parents", but you already missed out on that one. Sorry.
-- Dave
The species is more important than the planet. It's more important than all planets. Continued existence is the primary goal of all life. Some would argue there *is* no other goal. I have no responsibilty to any planet except as it pertains to keeping me and my species alive and thriving. That is the way of life. Parasites who destroy their hosts are inefficient parasites. They will either adapt and evolve into a less destructive parasite, or they will die out. What they will not do is simply stop doing what they do, stop trying to further their species.
Would you rather spend the money increasing the number of mission critical servers in your data center, or creating a hot site so you can survive a catastrophic accident at the main site?
It's all about offsite backups, man.
-- Dave
Or, alternately, maybe she *does* have the money, and just can't tell.
-- Dave
It's easy to tell the difference. If you win, it was a revolution. If you lose, it was treason.
-- Dave