Hyperinflation came because the population declined and the army went through a number of expensive wars. Rome had been adulterating precious metals with base metals for about 800 years at that point.
Gold doesn't inherently have value, the way beer does. It's valuable because people agree it's valuable. It's no more a form of money than a dollar or silver or Zimbabwe Dollar. It's subject to larger swings in value than dollars or even blue-chip stocks, generally driven by speculation.
Complete nonsense. Of course we have the documentation and the general knowledge to go back to the moon. Start over from scratch? There's a huge body of knowledge about rocketry that didn't even exist in 50 years ago, not to mention advances in computers, material science, etc.
Having people who have been to the moon is not critical to any future moon mission. It wouldn't even be an important component to a future moon mission, were we to start preparing for one immediately.
Right. Most people get all their information from a single TV channel, and will never change this TV channel (perhaps their remote is broken?) TV stations freely ignore candidates they don't like, the way FOX never mentions Obama. I'm not sarcastic, I can't help talking this way!
It's based on a basic awareness of facts? The UN time and time again has proven itself to be completely ineffective, in particular it has a complete inability and unwillingess to prevent genocides. For instance, NATO had to intervene in Bosnia, UN troops just watched the genocide happen. And NATO isn't even chartered for that sort of thing, while the UN is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_United_Nations might learn you a thing or two.
Never played Alan Wake, but Deus Ex is driven by shooting lots of people and hiding behind crates and upgrading your ability to shoot lots of people.
Sure there's a backstory, just the same way maybe you watch a porn and there's a back story about the schoolgirl really needing an A to get into college. But really you aren't intended to give two shits about it.
What makes you say this? I got Battlefield 3 from a friend who does business with EA, to get some extra content you had to enter a one-time code from a printed card. EA could implement something like this just to get basic content, and kill the used market overnight (for new games, anyway).
Piracy basically destroyed the music industry, PC games need to implement anti-piracy strategies as well.
Know I'll get modded down for going against Slashdot groupthink. But what is the argument suggesting? "It all happened on a computer, it shouldn't be prosecuted?" Stealing private information and releasing in publicly isn't just obviously illegal, it caused grief for 114,000 people.
Even if AT&T has a shitty security system, that doesn't make it legal to break in. I'd love to see Slashdot do more mundane crimes. Maybe the home had a sign saying "beware of dog," but the dog was actually at the vet, so the robber was just publicizing a security flaw.
The thinking is that salt is unrelated to blood pressure for the large majority of people, but for a very small percentage of people (primarily black people and diabetics) there is a strong correlation.
Mostly, like the health effects of vitamins, it's a really important dietary practice that almost everybody believes in, but the studies are for shit and who knows if it really helps most people.
The article description makes it sound like all the one-star reviews are what prompted Amazon to remove the product. While I don't know the inner workings of Amazon, fanboys flooding products with one-star reviews is hardly anything new. Mass Effect 3 was similarly flooded with one-star reviews, because people were unhappy with the ending, even though the game itself was very fun. It's just something fanboys do, especially video game fanboys.
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You must be a lot of fun at parties.
So they're just cut noodles? Much better if the robot was making pulled noodles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT2qbeOfR7E
Excellent, if there's any other rapists hiding from the law I hope Slashdot lets us know when he releases promotional material on his website.
Now to convince my girlfriend that I wasn't looking through my ex's Facebook photo albums!
The next step is to pull all slashvertisements for Google Glass.
Hyperinflation came because the population declined and the army went through a number of expensive wars. Rome had been adulterating precious metals with base metals for about 800 years at that point.
Gold doesn't inherently have value, the way beer does. It's valuable because people agree it's valuable. It's no more a form of money than a dollar or silver or Zimbabwe Dollar. It's subject to larger swings in value than dollars or even blue-chip stocks, generally driven by speculation.
Complete nonsense. Of course we have the documentation and the general knowledge to go back to the moon. Start over from scratch? There's a huge body of knowledge about rocketry that didn't even exist in 50 years ago, not to mention advances in computers, material science, etc.
Having people who have been to the moon is not critical to any future moon mission. It wouldn't even be an important component to a future moon mission, were we to start preparing for one immediately.
6 of the ten top grossing movies of 2012 were shot on film...sure it's getting less popular but it's not like it's dead.
Oh Jesus Chris, I already read iJobs. I really do not need to hear the phrase "reality distortion field" one more time in my life.
Mass Effect and Portal are hella fun.
More butthurt than the VP of Corporate Communications writing something about it on his personal blog?
Yes, it is very possible to be more butthurt than that.
Right. Most people get all their information from a single TV channel, and will never change this TV channel (perhaps their remote is broken?)
TV stations freely ignore candidates they don't like, the way FOX never mentions Obama.
I'm not sarcastic, I can't help talking this way!
It's based on a basic awareness of facts? The UN time and time again has proven itself to be completely ineffective, in particular it has a complete inability and unwillingess to prevent genocides. For instance, NATO had to intervene in Bosnia, UN troops just watched the genocide happen. And NATO isn't even chartered for that sort of thing, while the UN is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_United_Nations might learn you a thing or two.
Well to be fair, that is a pretty accurate assessment of the UN.
Never played Alan Wake, but Deus Ex is driven by shooting lots of people and hiding behind crates and upgrading your ability to shoot lots of people.
Sure there's a backstory, just the same way maybe you watch a porn and there's a back story about the schoolgirl really needing an A to get into college. But really you aren't intended to give two shits about it.
OCT31=DEC25! Wocka Wocka!
What makes you say this? I got Battlefield 3 from a friend who does business with EA, to get some extra content you had to enter a one-time code from a printed card. EA could implement something like this just to get basic content, and kill the used market overnight (for new games, anyway).
Piracy basically destroyed the music industry, PC games need to implement anti-piracy strategies as well.
Actually, the board of directors carefully pondered each and every one of the 1-star reviews on Amazon before coming to a final decision.
But of course the information isn't being made public, if it takes a hacker to illegally access the information.
If it's illegal to have a shitty security system, sure, AT&T is guilty of that.
Know I'll get modded down for going against Slashdot groupthink. But what is the argument suggesting? "It all happened on a computer, it shouldn't be prosecuted?" Stealing private information and releasing in publicly isn't just obviously illegal, it caused grief for 114,000 people.
Even if AT&T has a shitty security system, that doesn't make it legal to break in. I'd love to see Slashdot do more mundane crimes. Maybe the home had a sign saying "beware of dog," but the dog was actually at the vet, so the robber was just publicizing a security flaw.
There's no doubt that he was an apostle in the sense of "the first or the best-known Christian missionary in any region or country."
There's no real evidence that Peter was ever in Rome. The apostle Paul discusses a community of Christians in Rome, but doesn't mention Peter.
The thinking is that salt is unrelated to blood pressure for the large majority of people, but for a very small percentage of people (primarily black people and diabetics) there is a strong correlation.
Mostly, like the health effects of vitamins, it's a really important dietary practice that almost everybody believes in, but the studies are for shit and who knows if it really helps most people.
And endless comedies where the joke is, they think some guy is homosexual! Meanwhile, the most popular shows are American. Sounds great.
The article description makes it sound like all the one-star reviews are what prompted Amazon to remove the product. While I don't know the inner workings of Amazon, fanboys flooding products with one-star reviews is hardly anything new. Mass Effect 3 was similarly flooded with one-star reviews, because people were unhappy with the ending, even though the game itself was very fun. It's just something fanboys do, especially video game fanboys.