Are they? Looking at history, all the most successful government before the 20th century had implied or official state religions. And even in the mundane, there's plenty of examples such as Pre-Communist Russia, which was officially Orthodox and where the church had a great deal of power, wasn't the most successful government. But at least it didn't murder tens of millions of its own citizens.
It wouldn't be like that. It would be in Star Trek, where there is a panel overload. Basically, electricity flies out of the electronics and everybody flies around the bridge.
Are you seriously suggestion the NYPD will search down Slashdot posters for their controversial "this sucks US is Nazi George Bush=Hitler" posts? Or alternately, that any sane person would be afraid of this? It's time to take off you tinfoil hat my good sir.
I've learned that the proper reaction to disinformation is to publicly accuse the poster of being a shill for Microsoft and/or the US government. Or, should you have mod points, mod the post "-1: Overrated."
Very few people on Slashdot do. Slashdot's moderating system in practical terms allows those with certain extremist viewpoints to keep dissenting opinions from even being displayed.
Quite naturally, people who don't have these extremist opinions and consequently have their posts modded down to the point that nobody sees them, are likely to move over to another more open-minded internet forum. Additionally, people who have these extremist opinions are drawn to Slashdot. Where they continue to mod their viewpoints (anti-Microsoft or the US = automatic +1 insightful), and it's a feedback loop.
If you were to go to practically any other message board, you'd find a lot of people who are in favor of preventing a 3rd world theocracy who operated with a nuclear black market from developing nuclear weapons, especially by non-violent means.
. The U.S. had already been at war against Japan for several years, bombing & killing their soldiers in China
What? No. They had an oil embargo, but that was a peanut response to the occupation and attempted colonization of China, which America was nominal allies with.
Right. The existence of a few scattered weirdos teaching strange things to kids and getting roundly made fun of is going to drive jobs en masse to China, where many people believe in ying-yang medicine and think it can cure all diseases, including AIDS.
I am sure glad they don't make a "Mario: The yearly sequel"
2007 - Super Mario Galaxy 2009 - New Super Mario Bros. Wii 2010 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 2010 - Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition 2011 - Super Mario 3D Land 2012 - New Super Mario Bros. 2 2012 - New Super Mario Bros. U
She doesn't say "merely touching an unworking product makes it hands-on review" at any point. She says that she can give a review that's "hands on" even with just a short time using the product, as long as she's clear it's just an impression and isn't an in-depth review. If you read the review, it's full of qualifiers like "At this stage Microsoft is being very cagey and no-one has had much time using Surface RT yet, but from our experience of trying it out."
Just another unfair article summary by some Slashdot basement dweller with an anti-Microsoft agenda.
The story you link to refers to nothing but rumor, and seems to have been copy-edited by a couple of disinterested high school students. It also mentions the idea that China is going to have the world's fastest CPU within a year, mentions the idea of "losing face" like they took "Asian Stuff 101" sometime in the 80s, and refers to the reasonable request for money to make a port as being incredibly unreasonable, some sort of slap in the face to the Chinese.
Additionally, the idea of China making a single order of more than 10 million Linux computers is a little hard to swallow, when the only support is "A rumor appeared from the heart of Beijing."
The article is merely an example of shitty web journalism.
Piracy has meant that for like 500 years now, but I suppose if you make faulty semantic arguments about things you obviously understand, you might convince other Slashdot people who already agree with you anyway.
And I don't feel like I need a counter argument, because what you said wasn't an argument in the first place and how would I possibly argue against it? It was just a random anti-US statement that came out of nowhere, because this is Slashdot I suppose.
I think the best way to watch it is to make a straight run through. Start with Original, then (possibly) the animated series, then TNG, then DS9.
Geos is a site with user rankings of Star Trek episodes. I think with TOS and TNG and definitely the animated series, if you're a non-completist, it's worth limiting yourself to the better-ranked episodes. Or at least, skipping the ones that place near the bottom. In general, the shows are episodic and skipping yet another episode where the Star Trek gang goes to pseudo-Earth won't hurt anything.
Slowly make your way through the movies, after the respective TV shows have been completed. Jesus Christ but "First Contact" sucked, and that was definitely the best of the TNG movies.
DS9 is worth watching all the episodes, with the exception of the really bad ones from season 1. It's more of a serialized show where skipping doesn't work as well. Anyway after season 2 there's very few weak episodes.
With Voyager, if there's still interested in Star Trek, watch the pilot and maybe the top 20 ranked episodes. For the most part the show was bland, but there were some standouts.
Skip Enterprise entirely.
Finish off with the cheesy but fun "World Enough and Time," a fan-made movie with Sulu in it. Yes really. Or the action movie re-boot of Star Trek.
Blocked shots, defensive rebounds, steals...however I have my doubts basketball will ever get sabermatic. Single players dominate too much, lineups are smaller, and playing strategies are less strategic.
A manned mission would be so much more expensive there's no use comparing. For half the price of a manned mission, they could have sent over a few really fucking amazing general-purpose robots that could also troubleshoot the drill. Instead, they sent over a relatively small special purpose instrument, that it sounds like will be able to deal with the situation.
The syrup to produce a can of coke (in Ireland, using sugar) is 1/200th of a penny, including labor. Corn syrup is used in place of sugar because it's easier to work with and because nutritionally/tastewise it's the same thing as sugar. The expenses in soda are all advertising and bottling. Stopping corn subsidies won't do a thing.
Self-serve refills came about because it's cheaper for people to fill their own sodas and take what they want, than for some minimum-wage earner to take 5 seconds to do it themselves.
Hard to tell from what little it on display, but it looks like a Star Wars take on Uncharted - where the emphasis is on making it through set pieces, rather than proper game play. I hope to be pleasantly surprised, but this game looks like something you'd be just as well off checking out a few highlights on Youtube rather than playing.
And for every KOTOR there are far sight more than a few clunkers and failures.
Honestly, they aren't popular at all. They're huge financial failures. They do get wedding photographers, but that's it, and certainly not what they were designed for. And everywhere gets wedding photographers, wedding photographs are one of the most important parts of Chinese weddings.
One of the things that gets lost in talk of the Chinese boom is that the whole thing is a bubble market, where development is controlled by fucking Commies and people who happen to have good family connections, but can't even hope to compete with the invisible hand of an efficient marketplace. A whole lot of stupid shit gets built, two lane freeways that can't be expanded cross over Shanghai, the whole infrastructure is just idiotic.
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Are they? Looking at history, all the most successful government before the 20th century had implied or official state religions. And even in the mundane, there's plenty of examples such as Pre-Communist Russia, which was officially Orthodox and where the church had a great deal of power, wasn't the most successful government. But at least it didn't murder tens of millions of its own citizens.
It wouldn't be like that. It would be in Star Trek, where there is a panel overload. Basically, electricity flies out of the electronics and everybody flies around the bridge.
Are you seriously suggestion the NYPD will search down Slashdot posters for their controversial "this sucks US is Nazi George Bush=Hitler" posts? Or alternately, that any sane person would be afraid of this? It's time to take off you tinfoil hat my good sir.
Compared to other 1st world countries (which are also anti-tax and democratic, of course), the US has lower individual tax rates, and higher corporate tax rates..
Ha HA you got him AC is a total fag.
I've learned that the proper reaction to disinformation is to publicly accuse the poster of being a shill for Microsoft and/or the US government. Or, should you have mod points, mod the post "-1: Overrated."
Very few people on Slashdot do. Slashdot's moderating system in practical terms allows those with certain extremist viewpoints to keep dissenting opinions from even being displayed.
Quite naturally, people who don't have these extremist opinions and consequently have their posts modded down to the point that nobody sees them, are likely to move over to another more open-minded internet forum. Additionally, people who have these extremist opinions are drawn to Slashdot. Where they continue to mod their viewpoints (anti-Microsoft or the US = automatic +1 insightful), and it's a feedback loop.
If you were to go to practically any other message board, you'd find a lot of people who are in favor of preventing a 3rd world theocracy who operated with a nuclear black market from developing nuclear weapons, especially by non-violent means.
. The U.S. had already been at war against Japan for several years, bombing & killing their soldiers in China
What? No. They had an oil embargo, but that was a peanut response to the occupation and attempted colonization of China, which America was nominal allies with.
According to David Bowie albums it seems to involve exploring your sexuality and becoming some sort of rock Messiah.
Right. The existence of a few scattered weirdos teaching strange things to kids and getting roundly made fun of is going to drive jobs en masse to China, where many people believe in ying-yang medicine and think it can cure all diseases, including AIDS.
I am sure glad they don't make a "Mario: The yearly sequel"
2007 - Super Mario Galaxy
2009 - New Super Mario Bros. Wii
2010 - Super Mario Galaxy 2
2010 - Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition
2011 - Super Mario 3D Land
2012 - New Super Mario Bros. 2
2012 - New Super Mario Bros. U
Or you can just play an Old Super Mario, because they're basically the same thing.
She doesn't say "merely touching an unworking product makes it hands-on review" at any point. She says that she can give a review that's "hands on" even with just a short time using the product, as long as she's clear it's just an impression and isn't an in-depth review. If you read the review, it's full of qualifiers like "At this stage Microsoft is being very cagey and no-one has had much time using Surface RT yet, but from our experience of trying it out."
Just another unfair article summary by some Slashdot basement dweller with an anti-Microsoft agenda.
The story you link to refers to nothing but rumor, and seems to have been copy-edited by a couple of disinterested high school students. It also mentions the idea that China is going to have the world's fastest CPU within a year, mentions the idea of "losing face" like they took "Asian Stuff 101" sometime in the 80s, and refers to the reasonable request for money to make a port as being incredibly unreasonable, some sort of slap in the face to the Chinese.
Additionally, the idea of China making a single order of more than 10 million Linux computers is a little hard to swallow, when the only support is "A rumor appeared from the heart of Beijing."
The article is merely an example of shitty web journalism.
Piracy has meant that for like 500 years now, but I suppose if you make faulty semantic arguments about things you obviously understand, you might convince other Slashdot people who already agree with you anyway.
No, I don't watch Rocky and I don't know who Ivan Drago is.
Oh you're missing out! The training montage in particular is really good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SUzcDUERLo
And I don't feel like I need a counter argument, because what you said wasn't an argument in the first place and how would I possibly argue against it? It was just a random anti-US statement that came out of nowhere, because this is Slashdot I suppose.
Do you watch Rocky 4 and root for Ivan Drago? Your anti-US screed is totally pointless and tiresome and comes apropos of nothing.
I think the best way to watch it is to make a straight run through. Start with Original, then (possibly) the animated series, then TNG, then DS9.
Geos is a site with user rankings of Star Trek episodes. I think with TOS and TNG and definitely the animated series, if you're a non-completist, it's worth limiting yourself to the better-ranked episodes. Or at least, skipping the ones that place near the bottom. In general, the shows are episodic and skipping yet another episode where the Star Trek gang goes to pseudo-Earth won't hurt anything.
Slowly make your way through the movies, after the respective TV shows have been completed. Jesus Christ but "First Contact" sucked, and that was definitely the best of the TNG movies.
DS9 is worth watching all the episodes, with the exception of the really bad ones from season 1. It's more of a serialized show where skipping doesn't work as well. Anyway after season 2 there's very few weak episodes.
With Voyager, if there's still interested in Star Trek, watch the pilot and maybe the top 20 ranked episodes. For the most part the show was bland, but there were some standouts.
Skip Enterprise entirely.
Finish off with the cheesy but fun "World Enough and Time," a fan-made movie with Sulu in it. Yes really. Or the action movie re-boot of Star Trek.
Holy shit the right to read our personal mail? Next they'll grant themselves the ability to read our telegraphs or message pigeons!
I wouldn't be so quick to talk. Hitler was fond of air-conditioning as well, from what I understand.
Blocked shots, defensive rebounds, steals...however I have my doubts basketball will ever get sabermatic. Single players dominate too much, lineups are smaller, and playing strategies are less strategic.
A manned mission would be so much more expensive there's no use comparing. For half the price of a manned mission, they could have sent over a few really fucking amazing general-purpose robots that could also troubleshoot the drill. Instead, they sent over a relatively small special purpose instrument, that it sounds like will be able to deal with the situation.
The syrup to produce a can of coke (in Ireland, using sugar) is 1/200th of a penny, including labor. Corn syrup is used in place of sugar because it's easier to work with and because nutritionally/tastewise it's the same thing as sugar. The expenses in soda are all advertising and bottling. Stopping corn subsidies won't do a thing.
Self-serve refills came about because it's cheaper for people to fill their own sodas and take what they want, than for some minimum-wage earner to take 5 seconds to do it themselves.
Hard to tell from what little it on display, but it looks like a Star Wars take on Uncharted - where the emphasis is on making it through set pieces, rather than proper game play. I hope to be pleasantly surprised, but this game looks like something you'd be just as well off checking out a few highlights on Youtube rather than playing.
And for every KOTOR there are far sight more than a few clunkers and failures.
Honestly, they aren't popular at all. They're huge financial failures. They do get wedding photographers, but that's it, and certainly not what they were designed for. And everywhere gets wedding photographers, wedding photographs are one of the most important parts of Chinese weddings.
One of the things that gets lost in talk of the Chinese boom is that the whole thing is a bubble market, where development is controlled by fucking Commies and people who happen to have good family connections, but can't even hope to compete with the invisible hand of an efficient marketplace. A whole lot of stupid shit gets built, two lane freeways that can't be expanded cross over Shanghai, the whole infrastructure is just idiotic.