Makes me actually want to go and play the game. I mean, when you have a company that obviously does care, to a certain degree, you should go and help them out a bit. Only problem is, the game has a complexity level that has me reeling.
One word: Citrix. We've had to recommend that users upgrade to IE7 because some things wouldn't work, allegedly, with anything below. I am sticking to 6 and it still works but still, that's how a lot of people get to use IE7.
I religiously uninstall IE7 from any server I come across and exclude it from future updates. Unfortunately, not all colleagues are this thorough.
Winter 2009 where exactly? I live in Switzerland and this has been a winter that has finally come close to what I was used to as a kid. I'm still waiting for one that will be on par.
So where is this super-cold winter supposed to be?
Corporal punishment in the classroom? What good would that do? I say punish the parents for their kids' behaviour. That's the way it's supposed to be anyway. The parents have a responsibility for what their kids do. Don't hit the little bastards for stuff they've been taught is okay to do. Hit their fucking parents!
You're right, of course, but there are exceptions. For instance, I'm going to spoil the fact that the first three Star Wars Episodes suck donkey ass very early on for my own kids. I just can't imagine them being pissed at me over that. Well, at least not until they've actually seen them;).
Your experience is very interesting and since I do not have any experience with muslims in the first place, I do not doubt yours.
I'll have to ask you, though, whether you are sure that the reasons you were given were the actual cause of this 'hate' against the west, or just a symptom.
I would imagine that, like a lot of people who yell 'think of the children', those reasons might have been presented to the population just to keep an already lit fire burning.
It is, after all, much harder to get humans to move their lazy asses against people who have been benevolent and civil than it is against people who rudely tried to push their agenda's, uncaring of whom they ran over.
While I agree with you, your analogy has a flaw. I do not believe that there are a lot of 'evil nations' out there just waiting to rob the US of everything they have or some such thing.
Most outside aggression the US faces today stems from past administrations' behaviour toward other nations. Right at this moment, the US cannot afford to let its guard down at all.
Hey, I don't feel too good about the US, or any other state, for that matter, having this capability, but AFAIK I've never possessed the impertinence to tell you guys you couldn't have that technology.
But I really don't see the point of the government giving international corporations like IBM money. I'd wager a bet that with those 45 million they could have helped the laid off workers for more and longer than giving it to IBM.
Same with GM. I have no idea how much your government spent on... 'that', but I just know that with one billion dollars you can give 20'000 people 50'000 dollars, each. I'm just asking myself whether rerouting such money directly into the pockets of those laid off wouldn't make more sense. Give them the opportunity to not worry too much for a year, get some additional education and try elsewhere.
China does not have innovation. Unlike Japan, China does not feel the need to rise above simply copying stuff poorly and selling the resulting product for less than the original.
And frankly, to me it seems their strategy is paying off.
I believe BMI is the work of a few very irresponsible people who lack morals. It has thus far spawned some very ridiculous beliefs when it comes to health.
Seriously, there was this one woman who would drink five litres of water per day and made damn sure she only ate salt that was already in what little meat she consumed. This fear of salt and fat will someday kill a good number of people prematurely.
This whole angst about food is making people sick. As a little anecdote: I am overweight. I'd say I could easily do with 40 pounds less. Interestingly enough, I don't even eat all that much. And it gets better: My three week vacation in Canada last year, where my aunt demanded I do not stop eating her food unless I am in danger of exploding, had me actually lose weight. What did I do? I ate three very rich (meaning fatty) meals a day and would spend the day leisurely walking through Toronto.
Last Christmas I actually lost weight, too, even though I was eating like crazy once more. The day I had to get back to work I lost my appetite and since then I have trouble even finishing a normal serving of food. A small salad makes me half full, lately. Logically, if all those nutritionist quacks actually knew what they were yapping about, I would have to have lost even more weight. After all, I was not lazying about all week anymore stuffing my face with food, right?
Wrong. I immediately gained back all the weight I had previously lost.
I can't speak for anyone else out there, but hard FACTS show that my body stores much more energy, even from little food, when I'm under stress than it does from heaps of food when I'm relaxed.
What is making me fat is my fucking job and nothing else and everyone who ignores this is simply not interested in my health, only in the expensive diets that will help move my money into their pockets.
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Ah, so what we say to musicians (namely: publish your stuff on your own, RIAA is teh evil) is not automatically valid for book authors because book publishers are even less eviler than He-Man?
Because common sense dictates to question stuff and not stop teaching about pros and cons of a THEORY...
Disclaimer: I think intelligent design does not make sense and I also think Darwin was probably right. That does not mean he can't have been at least partially wrong.
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That's true, but when you have trouble finding up to date help on the web and the ingame channel ignores you, what do you do? ;)
Makes me actually want to go and play the game. I mean, when you have a company that obviously does care, to a certain degree, you should go and help them out a bit. Only problem is, the game has a complexity level that has me reeling.
...browsing the net on ... linus...
What, you got Torvalds to babysit your kid?! You ROCK!
Okay, I didn't RTFA... 70 seconds to display a html page? As in one minute and ten point one seconds?
Err... Please tell me that I'm missing something here.
One word: Citrix. We've had to recommend that users upgrade to IE7 because some things wouldn't work, allegedly, with anything below. I am sticking to 6 and it still works but still, that's how a lot of people get to use IE7.
I religiously uninstall IE7 from any server I come across and exclude it from future updates. Unfortunately, not all colleagues are this thorough.
Ah, I see we have card-carrying Greenpeace members with mod-points among us ;).
Everyone who would deny global warming is a fool.
What I doubt, though, is the unnaturalness that many are talking about. That's a big difference right there.
Winter 2009 where exactly? I live in Switzerland and this has been a winter that has finally come close to what I was used to as a kid. I'm still waiting for one that will be on par.
So where is this super-cold winter supposed to be?
Corporal punishment in the classroom? What good would that do? I say punish the parents for their kids' behaviour. That's the way it's supposed to be anyway. The parents have a responsibility for what their kids do. Don't hit the little bastards for stuff they've been taught is okay to do. Hit their fucking parents!
You're right, of course, but there are exceptions. For instance, I'm going to spoil the fact that the first three Star Wars Episodes suck donkey ass very early on for my own kids. I just can't imagine them being pissed at me over that. Well, at least not until they've actually seen them ;).
Your experience is very interesting and since I do not have any experience with muslims in the first place, I do not doubt yours.
I'll have to ask you, though, whether you are sure that the reasons you were given were the actual cause of this 'hate' against the west, or just a symptom.
I would imagine that, like a lot of people who yell 'think of the children', those reasons might have been presented to the population just to keep an already lit fire burning.
It is, after all, much harder to get humans to move their lazy asses against people who have been benevolent and civil than it is against people who rudely tried to push their agenda's, uncaring of whom they ran over.
While I agree with you, your analogy has a flaw. I do not believe that there are a lot of 'evil nations' out there just waiting to rob the US of everything they have or some such thing.
Most outside aggression the US faces today stems from past administrations' behaviour toward other nations. Right at this moment, the US cannot afford to let its guard down at all.
Those people aren't billionaires, though. They don't get the same considerations (as in judgement through common sense).
That's because the UK are now just another state of the US... D'uh, don't you know anything?
If handled properly, they are pointed at pieces of paper or deer to be hunted whenever they are fired.
What this really depends on is your definition of 'dangerous'.
Ah, much like the US funded the Afghan war against Russia... One wonders where all those terrorists got their ideas from...
Hey, I don't feel too good about the US, or any other state, for that matter, having this capability, but AFAIK I've never possessed the impertinence to tell you guys you couldn't have that technology.
How many non-violent games are there? I mean, if you get to the bottom of this discussion, Tom and Jerry are highly violent.
So is Mario violent or not? What about Sonic?
No, no it really isn't.
But I really don't see the point of the government giving international corporations like IBM money. I'd wager a bet that with those 45 million they could have helped the laid off workers for more and longer than giving it to IBM.
Same with GM. I have no idea how much your government spent on... 'that', but I just know that with one billion dollars you can give 20'000 people 50'000 dollars, each. I'm just asking myself whether rerouting such money directly into the pockets of those laid off wouldn't make more sense. Give them the opportunity to not worry too much for a year, get some additional education and try elsewhere.
Notices? Whatever happened to good old common sense?
China does not have innovation. Unlike Japan, China does not feel the need to rise above simply copying stuff poorly and selling the resulting product for less than the original.
And frankly, to me it seems their strategy is paying off.
And who exactly wants to live in something that resembles a hospital?
I believe BMI is the work of a few very irresponsible people who lack morals. It has thus far spawned some very ridiculous beliefs when it comes to health.
Seriously, there was this one woman who would drink five litres of water per day and made damn sure she only ate salt that was already in what little meat she consumed. This fear of salt and fat will someday kill a good number of people prematurely.
This whole angst about food is making people sick. As a little anecdote: I am overweight. I'd say I could easily do with 40 pounds less. Interestingly enough, I don't even eat all that much. And it gets better:
My three week vacation in Canada last year, where my aunt demanded I do not stop eating her food unless I am in danger of exploding, had me actually lose weight. What did I do? I ate three very rich (meaning fatty) meals a day and would spend the day leisurely walking through Toronto.
Last Christmas I actually lost weight, too, even though I was eating like crazy once more. The day I had to get back to work I lost my appetite and since then I have trouble even finishing a normal serving of food. A small salad makes me half full, lately. Logically, if all those nutritionist quacks actually knew what they were yapping about, I would have to have lost even more weight. After all, I was not lazying about all week anymore stuffing my face with food, right?
Wrong. I immediately gained back all the weight I had previously lost.
I can't speak for anyone else out there, but hard FACTS show that my body stores much more energy, even from little food, when I'm under stress than it does from heaps of food when I'm relaxed.
What is making me fat is my fucking job and nothing else and everyone who ignores this is simply not interested in my health, only in the expensive diets that will help move my money into their pockets.
Ah, so what we say to musicians (namely: publish your stuff on your own, RIAA is teh evil) is not automatically valid for book authors because book publishers are even less eviler than He-Man?
Because common sense dictates to question stuff and not stop teaching about pros and cons of a THEORY...
Disclaimer: I think intelligent design does not make sense and I also think Darwin was probably right. That does not mean he can't have been at least partially wrong.