There was a study released recently that found people who use spelling and grammar checkers were much more prone to errors than those who proofread their articles on their own.
When Iraqi people have the right to vote, learn, travel, speak freely, and live without fear - I suppose you will not think the US has served any humanitian good.
It's just that after what happened in Afghanistan, we don't really have any confidence that Bush will actually install a stable democratic regime.
Likely, Iraq will be handed over to the corporations that Bush has awarded no-bid contracts to and we'll call it a day.
Let's face it; if we focus solely on the spammers themselves, we'll have little luck reducing the flow.
But if the court system allow people to sue the companies that contracted out for spam, a few hefty verdicts might cause corporations to think otherwise.
So by your reasoning an advanced AI could never have a spirit, sould, whatever it's called with out killing/stealing someone else's?
I think his point is that the AI would have *a* spirit/soul/whatever; it just wouldn't be *your* spirit/soul/whatever. It's effectively a brand new and entirely seperate entity from you.
You make a perfect virtual copy of yourself. The copy is happy and immortal and everything, but *you* are still stuck in your body. *You* haven't gone anywhere. You've just been photocopied. Something nearly indentical to you would be immmortal, but *you* wouldn't and you'd eventually die. Which defeats the purpose of the whole exercise.
The best way to keep *you* going would be the gradual replacement that others suggested.
Your name and address which ought to be in the district/state of the representative/senator that you're writing. Otherwise, all bets are off as to how it'll be handled.
GW could not get ANY benefit during the course of his presidency, even if elected for a second term in a straight blood-for-oil trade. It would take over 3 BILLION barrels of oil at $30-35 ber barrel before it would even match the $100B estimate for the cost of the war, and that would only work if we flat out stole the 3B barrels. Oil companies won't be footing the bill for the invasion of Iraq; American taxpayers will. The cost benefit ratio is actually quite good when you realize that.
I don't think anyone's that the war would be of any benefit to the *United States* itself. It'll be of huge benefit to oil companies who will take very good care of Bush et al when they're no longer in office. They get all the benefit of the invasion and none of the costs.
>>If we only wanted oil, we'd just stand up and tell Kuwait that they are now ours. What the Hell could they do to stop it?
Wow! This would be a great way to completely alienate all of our allies, infuriate already borderline countries like Russia and China and further inflame the psychotic passions of the fundamentalist Muslim community.
THAT is what stops us from simply taking over Kuwait. Remarkably enough, it's more or less the same reason that Saddam Hussein wasn't able to simply say "Kuwait is mine."
If it were about taking out a madman, we'd be fighting wars all over the place, starting with China and North Korea. If it were about democracy, we wouldn't be publicly selling out the Iraqi Kurds to the Turks.
Once we take over Iraq, oil companies are going to get very good deals on oil from the interim gov't there, some will even get lucarative contracts to rebuild the infrastructure we'll blow up during the invasion.
/emote looks at his mothballed fleet of 1100 troop carriers he didn't request, want, or even potentially use.
The troop carrier thing is easily fixed.
If you don't need more troop carriers, obsolete the design and the AI will stop building them.
Also, it helps to have more than one ship design at each hull size. Planets will frequently build the largest ship that they can make. For a lot of less developed planets, troop carriers are the largest ship they can make. Give the AI something else to build and it'll build it.
The AI does what you tell it to do very competently. Unfortunately, the manual sort of left out how exactly to tell the AI what you want it to do.
During the Gulf War, Iraq attempted to launch terrorist attacks on American targets but they proved to be fairly incapable of doing anything on their own.
Today, with war a near certainty, Iraq is outsourcing its terrorism to fundamentalist groups, most notably in the Philippines.
Prior to this, Islamic fundamentalists and Hussein hadn't worked together because, well, Hussein is an "socialist apostate" who'd been using his chemical weapons to kill countless muslims. With the US bearing down on both of them, they're now entering into an temporary alliance of convienence.
So basically, our "war on terrorism" is forcing into existance the kind of alliances we presupposed going into it. Fantastic.
What about Blake's 7? There were only 7 of them for a few episodes, and they killed Blake off after season 2.
Blake wasn't killed off. He was "missing" and the better part of the 3rd season was spent looking for him. He turns up in the show's final episode "Blake", which is one of the best final episodes for a series ever made.
Near the University of Washington, there's an unfinished exit ramp that goes over part of Lake Washington. It's become a fun spot to jump off from into the water.
Someone drilled holes into the concrete sides to make a bong. Pretty nifty.
is that people try to micromanage the game when they're really not supposed to. You manage the AIs and they'll take care of thing for you. If you don't manage the AIs by setting proper development plans, they'll appear to act eratically. Once you learn to macromanage the game, the AI works quite well.
Unfortuantely, the manual is pretty bad at explaining all of this and the strategy guide is next-to-useless. Hence the vertical learning cliff that many people are falling off of. If I hadn't been reading the official forums, I'd be screwed too.
Gasaraki had a decently realistic take on the giant robot genre that I liked.
The TAs & Fakes weren't particularly huge. I think they were only 10-12 feet tall. Not much taller than a tank. They were designed for urban warfare and could even enter builings. They could run faster than tanks and were more agile so they could take on a tank division in the field if they had the element of surprise.
Another break from giant robot conventions was that they didn't add any new mech designs throughout the series. There's a funny (text) interview on the DVD where the designer describes how the merchandising department got freaked out when they found out there were only a couple mechs. The designers reasoned that the TA and Fake designs would be in service for at least 10 years, though some variants might show up in a few years. But that would all be beyond the lifespan of the show.
By that same criteria, shouldn't we stop referring to "Newton's Law" as a "law" since it's fairly obvious that Newton's observations don't make the grade?
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And in late breaking news, the Port town of Umm Qasr has been taken...
Must've missed that story. Oh well. I'll just catch the repeat in a couple days.
al-Jazeera is the Fox News of the Arab world or Fox news is the al-Jazeera of the Western world.
I have every confidence that someday France will undertake a mission to liberate us from our oppressive, dangerous government.
Does the Revolutionary War ring a bell?
There was a study released recently that found people who use spelling and grammar checkers were much more prone to errors than those who proofread their articles on their own.
This franchise jumped the shark when Data got laid.
You think it jumped the second episode of TNG?
When Iraqi people have the right to vote, learn, travel, speak freely, and live without fear - I suppose you will not think the US has served any humanitian good.
It's just that after what happened in Afghanistan, we don't really have any confidence that Bush will actually install a stable democratic regime.
Likely, Iraq will be handed over to the corporations that Bush has awarded no-bid contracts to and we'll call it a day.
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this is another bogus claim manufactured by the right-wing? Much like the stories that a Senator Gore dismissed Oliver North's warnings that Bin Laden was a threat or that Clinton pushed to have Israel release 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta?
Then again, this is the same group that's been manufacturing "lies" for Gore to have "said" for years.
This would be ideal for cops. Now, the next time the police shoot, we'll have photographic evidence that could prove whether it was justified or not.
is to punish companies that *hire* spammers.
Let's face it; if we focus solely on the spammers themselves, we'll have little luck reducing the flow.
But if the court system allow people to sue the companies that contracted out for spam, a few hefty verdicts might cause corporations to think otherwise.
So by your reasoning an advanced AI could never have a spirit, sould, whatever it's called with out killing/stealing someone else's?
I think his point is that the AI would have *a* spirit/soul/whatever; it just wouldn't be *your* spirit/soul/whatever. It's effectively a brand new and entirely seperate entity from you.
You make a perfect virtual copy of yourself. The copy is happy and immortal and everything, but *you* are still stuck in your body. *You* haven't gone anywhere. You've just been photocopied. Something nearly indentical to you would be immmortal, but *you* wouldn't and you'd eventually die. Which defeats the purpose of the whole exercise.
The best way to keep *you* going would be the gradual replacement that others suggested.
I'd love to know why they think they can't vote on an issue like this.
They just probably weren't at the Capitol to vote.
Your name and address which ought to be in the district/state of the representative/senator that you're writing. Otherwise, all bets are off as to how it'll be handled.
They're planning to release one. I don't think it'll be out before the official release date though.
It was planned to include this in GalCiv for Windows, but I'm not sure if it's there.
IIRC, it's part of the "Bonus Pack" that will be released the day the game is released.
If oil was all we wanted, we could also go knock out Venezuala...hell...that one would be even more convienient, and frankly - alot easier to take.
What do you mean "could"? We already tried last year! Granted, it wasn't a military invasion but we backed the coup attempt.
GW could not get ANY benefit during the course of his presidency, even if elected for a second term in a straight blood-for-oil trade. It would take over 3 BILLION barrels of oil at $30-35 ber barrel before it would even match the $100B estimate for the cost of the war, and that would only work if we flat out stole the 3B barrels.
Oil companies won't be footing the bill for the invasion of Iraq; American taxpayers will. The cost benefit ratio is actually quite good when you realize that.
I don't think anyone's that the war would be of any benefit to the *United States* itself. It'll be of huge benefit to oil companies who will take very good care of Bush et al when they're no longer in office. They get all the benefit of the invasion and none of the costs.
>>If we only wanted oil, we'd just stand up and tell Kuwait that they are now ours. What the Hell could they do to stop it?
Wow! This would be a great way to completely alienate all of our allies, infuriate already borderline countries like Russia and China and further inflame the psychotic passions of the fundamentalist Muslim community.
THAT is what stops us from simply taking over Kuwait. Remarkably enough, it's more or less the same reason that Saddam Hussein wasn't able to simply say "Kuwait is mine."
If it were about taking out a madman, we'd be fighting wars all over the place, starting with China and North Korea. If it were about democracy, we wouldn't be publicly selling out the Iraqi Kurds to the Turks.
Once we take over Iraq, oil companies are going to get very good deals on oil from the interim gov't there, some will even get lucarative contracts to rebuild the infrastructure we'll blow up during the invasion.
/emote looks at his mothballed fleet of 1100 troop carriers he didn't request, want, or even potentially use.
The troop carrier thing is easily fixed.
If you don't need more troop carriers, obsolete the design and the AI will stop building them.
Also, it helps to have more than one ship design at each hull size. Planets will frequently build the largest ship that they can make. For a lot of less developed planets, troop carriers are the largest ship they can make. Give the AI something else to build and it'll build it.
The AI does what you tell it to do very competently. Unfortunately, the manual sort of left out how exactly to tell the AI what you want it to do.
During the Gulf War, Iraq attempted to launch terrorist attacks on American targets but they proved to be fairly incapable of doing anything on their own.
Today, with war a near certainty, Iraq is outsourcing its terrorism to fundamentalist groups, most notably in the Philippines.
Prior to this, Islamic fundamentalists and Hussein hadn't worked together because, well, Hussein is an "socialist apostate" who'd been using his chemical weapons to kill countless muslims. With the US bearing down on both of them, they're now entering into an temporary alliance of convienence.
So basically, our "war on terrorism" is forcing into existance the kind of alliances we presupposed going into it. Fantastic.
What about Blake's 7? There were only 7 of them for a few episodes, and they killed Blake off after season 2.
Blake wasn't killed off. He was "missing" and the better part of the 3rd season was spent looking for him. He turns up in the show's final episode "Blake", which is one of the best final episodes for a series ever made.
Near the University of Washington, there's an unfinished exit ramp that goes over part of Lake Washington. It's become a fun spot to jump off from into the water.
Someone drilled holes into the concrete sides to make a bong. Pretty nifty.
is that people try to micromanage the game when they're really not supposed to. You manage the AIs and they'll take care of thing for you. If you don't manage the AIs by setting proper development plans, they'll appear to act eratically. Once you learn to macromanage the game, the AI works quite well.
Unfortuantely, the manual is pretty bad at explaining all of this and the strategy guide is next-to-useless. Hence the vertical learning cliff that many people are falling off of. If I hadn't been reading the official forums, I'd be screwed too.
Gasaraki had a decently realistic take on the giant robot genre that I liked.
The TAs & Fakes weren't particularly huge. I think they were only 10-12 feet tall. Not much taller than a tank. They were designed for urban warfare and could even enter builings. They could run faster than tanks and were more agile so they could take on a tank division in the field if they had the element of surprise.
Another break from giant robot conventions was that they didn't add any new mech designs throughout the series. There's a funny (text) interview on the DVD where the designer describes how the merchandising department got freaked out when they found out there were only a couple mechs. The designers reasoned that the TA and Fake designs would be in service for at least 10 years, though some variants might show up in a few years. But that would all be beyond the lifespan of the show.
By that same criteria, shouldn't we stop referring to "Newton's Law" as a "law" since it's fairly obvious that Newton's observations don't make the grade?