Having the Concorde being made by America would have solved the 'problem' just as easily. Had Boing come up with a super-sonic plain, you bet your arse it would have been allowed to fly over American corn fields.
I hope you never need any help. People who think welfare is for lazy people don't generally do well when they are in a position of need.
People who think welfare is for lazy people generally have jobs. I can understand disability benefits, but paying people unemployment when there are millions of immigrants trying to get in to work, it's utterly baffling.
Except they're not paying for unlimited, they're paying for 250GB. I think that was made pretty clear not only in the article, but in the headline also.
If you consider a two-year old computer to be old, then you must be pretty rich. I consider six years to be 'old', and two years to be almost brand new.
The thing is though, the whole point of Doom 3 was the graphics, so if you turn them all down to get it to run on your old computer, you may as well be playing Doom 1, which was actually more fun.
A quarter year's profit is not pocket change, to any company. Ballmer played this well, the pressure will be on Yahoo to come back and accept the deal, he can just sit back and eat popcorn watching Yahoo's bosses being sued by their shareholders.
That doesn't give Microsoft the right to break them. They're a big company, they no doubt have thousands of lawyers on hand, they knew what they were doing, and knew it was wrong. They chose to break the law, thinking they could get away with it. They were wrong.
They have saddled MS with regulatory oversight
The poor babies. And they didn't saddle MS with fines, MS saddled them onto itself.
Yup. Freedom that doesn't include the possibility of failure isn't Freedom. Freedom includes the right to do things you (and me) think are dumb/wrong/etc. or it isn't Freedom.
Ironic how these libertarians go on and on about 'freedom', when in the end their policies will just leave them slaves of corporations. But then most, or all, of them are very short-sighted. Btw, how is Ron Paul's campaign doing? Has he even won a primary yet?
Boo hoo. Food is a fundamental necessity. So I guess the only solution is to nationalize the means of production, distribution etc of foodstuffs?
If nationalising food production cut the costs in half, I'd have no problem with it. Especially if millions of people had little or no access to food, the leading cause of bankrupties were food costs, and food companies could deny selling to people who were starving.
Of course Americans are in no danger of starvation so this is probably a poor analogy.
Maybe they have a more effective justice system. In the UK, you have to commit about a hundred crimes before you actually get sent to prison. The way I see it, the more criminals in prison, the less there are on the streets.
Yes, there were some important parts missing but unless you enjoy sitting down for 5 hours straight (I don't), something had to be cut.
That may be a good point, if he hadn't added extra made up scenes. For instance, how can the omission of the Old Forest/Bombadil/Barrow Downs be justified when he includes scenes about Aragorn feeling sorry for himself in Rivendell, or a jumping puzzle in Moria, or any scene involving Arwen?
How can the Voice of Saruman part be removed from the Two Towers if there's time for Elrond's telepathic discussions, or a made-up battle with wargs, or Aragorn falling off a cliff and moping around feeling sorry for himself, or again any scene with Arwen?
Plus, how does completely changing a character's role in the story cut down on length? If anything, the part where Faramir drags Sam and Frodo to Osgiliath added time to the film.
Cutting out Arwen and Elrond's pointless parts would even have allowed time for Gandalf's confrontation with the Witchking. And those are all just off the top of my head.
And why was any single bit of subtlety in the story replaced by ramming special effects down the viewers' throats? Was it necessary for Denethor to jump off the ledge like some sort of fireball? Did Galadriel really need to turn into an OTT demon? Did the black riders need to screech every time they were on screen?
I've not even mentioned the acting, I won't bother asking why Sean Austin and Elijah Wood couldn't stop drifting into an American accent, or why the man who played Celeborn is the worst actor in the world (seriously, he had one single line and couldn't do it).
Then we have to work out what's more efficient, sending a spaceship and fuel to the Moon, then to Mars, or going straight to Mars. Unless you're assuming that the fuel and spaceship get to the Moon by magic.
Punish 99.99% of the population, because of the misbehavior of a few?
I'm pretty sure that 99.99% of the population don't own, and have no use for, laser pointers. That fad died in the late 90s I think. The only use for them nowadays is to distract drivers and blind cats.
So we have a device with little to no legitimate uses, and is used almost exclusively to commit crimes. Sounds like a good candidate for banning.
We are also not supposed to eat eggs - how many human beings do you know who are over fifty who could climb a tree and get a bird's egg from a nest?
Chickens don't live in trees. How many people over fifty can grind wheat into flour? Not many, but vegans have no problems eating bread made with unnaturally-produced yeast. Or artifically imported bananas and oranges.
Finally, 99.9% of human beings have no chance in hell of ever catching their prey with their bare hands and killing it with their hands and teeth.
How hard is it to catch a sheep or a cow? If they weren't eaten, they'd probably be extinct by now, they're so slow and docile.
Are you ready to face the hell on earth that all the ANIMALS have to face
Sitting in a field chewing on grass. Seems like that's what cows like to do anyway. And I very much doubt that chickens have higher ambitions than running around a farm pecking at grains.
Meat doesn't 'taste good' either. That's why we always cook it I take it you've never had a rare steak, or steak tartare, or sushi. Maybe you eat all your vegetables raw, with raw flour instead of bread, and eat rock hard lentils with raw onion and garlic. I wouldn't like to smell your breath.
and ADD other non-meat products to it, to actually make it nice.
Yes, meat-eaters are capable of combining different types of food, to produce what's known as a 'meal'. Maybe you're confusing omnivores with carnivores. Either way, I have no problem eating a bare steak or piece of chicken, but not having hangups about some types of food enables to be enjoy a varied diet.
Now, that's for a console AAA title with whiz-bang graphics, voice acting, etc. I'm sure the NASA MMO doesn't need to be on that level but I'm not sure the term "MMO" can properly be applied to anything with a $3MM budget, short of stuff like Puzzle Pirates.
You're assuming they need to make a completely new game from scratch. In the same way that LOTR Online just reskinned World of Warcraft, why can't this NASA game just reskin EVE Online?
While it is possible to remove it without trace, any thief will not know that and there is a reasonable chance they will stay away. At least if they are competent thieves. People that break into flats typically are not.
A competent thief will steal it, then either sell it to someone who can either remove the sticker or doesn't care, or gut it for parts. People who break into flats don't have time to care about aesthetics.
The fact that I am not acquainted with a particular individual's philosophical standpoint is not a hinderance to an intelligent conversation. In fact it's often quite the opposite, as one simply drops names and references previous argument one loses the feeling of actually exploring the ideas and begins to talk in a thick meta language that stifles debate.
I thought that was the whole point in liberal arts.
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Having the Concorde being made by America would have solved the 'problem' just as easily. Had Boing come up with a super-sonic plain, you bet your arse it would have been allowed to fly over American corn fields.
My ISP blocks bit-torrent.
No, I haven't. I've seen the amount of shitty, grainy, two minute clips, but I've yet to discover any of this mythical 'HD porn'.
Except they're not paying for unlimited, they're paying for 250GB. I think that was made pretty clear not only in the article, but in the headline also.
If you consider a two-year old computer to be old, then you must be pretty rich. I consider six years to be 'old', and two years to be almost brand new.
The thing is though, the whole point of Doom 3 was the graphics, so if you turn them all down to get it to run on your old computer, you may as well be playing Doom 1, which was actually more fun.
It's not bad for business when the shareholders force Yahoo to go back and take the offer.
It also shows boards of other companies that when Microsoft come with a takeover offer, it might be better to accept.
A quarter year's profit is not pocket change, to any company. Ballmer played this well, the pressure will be on Yahoo to come back and accept the deal, he can just sit back and eat popcorn watching Yahoo's bosses being sued by their shareholders.
What are you saying, that they shouldn't hand over information about anyone at all? I'm pretty sure it's required by Brazilian law.
Of course Americans are in no danger of starvation so this is probably a poor analogy.
Maybe they have a more effective justice system. In the UK, you have to commit about a hundred crimes before you actually get sent to prison. The way I see it, the more criminals in prison, the less there are on the streets.
How can the Voice of Saruman part be removed from the Two Towers if there's time for Elrond's telepathic discussions, or a made-up battle with wargs, or Aragorn falling off a cliff and moping around feeling sorry for himself, or again any scene with Arwen?
Plus, how does completely changing a character's role in the story cut down on length? If anything, the part where Faramir drags Sam and Frodo to Osgiliath added time to the film.
Cutting out Arwen and Elrond's pointless parts would even have allowed time for Gandalf's confrontation with the Witchking. And those are all just off the top of my head.
And why was any single bit of subtlety in the story replaced by ramming special effects down the viewers' throats? Was it necessary for Denethor to jump off the ledge like some sort of fireball? Did Galadriel really need to turn into an OTT demon? Did the black riders need to screech every time they were on screen?
I've not even mentioned the acting, I won't bother asking why Sean Austin and Elijah Wood couldn't stop drifting into an American accent, or why the man who played Celeborn is the worst actor in the world (seriously, he had one single line and couldn't do it).
Then we have to work out what's more efficient, sending a spaceship and fuel to the Moon, then to Mars, or going straight to Mars. Unless you're assuming that the fuel and spaceship get to the Moon by magic.
So we have a device with little to no legitimate uses, and is used almost exclusively to commit crimes. Sounds like a good candidate for banning.
Good to see that the entitlement complex is still alive on this site though.