Free Civ is a barely playable rip-off of Civilization 2. I am a complete addict of Civilization games and I can still barely stand it for more than 10 minutes.
You know you can download them for free off bittorrent, right? No need to spend hundreds of dollars on games you already bought. If you just feel like handing Nintendo money, a check would be more efficient.
Private schooling and profit-motivated schools just doesn't work well with a meritocracy. There's plenty of examples throughout the world. When having rich parents is a requirement for going through a decent school, Social Darwinism just doesn't happen. It's a basic American value and a fundamental trait to Capitalism - Adam Smith thought the only two responsibilities of a Federal government were a Navy and a public school system. He didn't even think standing armies were necessary, in a time of worldwide warfare with neigboring France.
Wow, only on slashdot does that get modified +5 insightful. People have been blaming decadence for the decline of peoples since the Jews picked up Egyptian ways on their journey to the Israel. The reality is that plenty of nations are decadent but remain prosperous, and nations decline for a host of reasons that have nothing to do with decadence, and most often have to do with war and pestilence. Or take a look at China, which historically has been at it's most powerful when it is at it's most decadent. When the people where the most idealistic, in the 50s and 60s, motherfuckers were eating nothing but watery rice gruel.
From there, you make a jump to American immigrants being the reason the US has been sucessful a long time, which is kind of a logical jump and in any case seems impossible to prove one way or the other, although I think most informed people would tend to disagree.
And then you somehow go on to say if the US doesn't have a space program, that means it is on its way down. That is really a logical jump - plenty (every?) sucessful nation ever has not had a space program, after all. But I guess it passes for common knowledge on Slashdot, and doesn't really need any arguments of support. Just stating the idea is insightful.
You're working backwards from the premise that we should all go to the moon, and inventing rationalizations for it. Saying "we will develop ways that make it cheaper to send things from the moon than from China" is impossible to disprove, but so immensely unlikely that it can be dismissed out of hand. Likewise for the idea that the increased efficiency of solar collectors on the moon would account for the immense cost and resources of both creating solar collectors on the moon, and then transporting the energy back to where it was actually needed. And even if that is possible in the far distant future, that doesn't mean sending rockets to the moon now will do anything to help it.
Companies do have long term planning. If there was a capitalist interest in immediately setting up factories on the moon (for immensely profitable "moon crystals") economic lobbies would be clamoring for the US government to do just that. Instead it's entirely people who have watched lots of "Star Trek." There's nothing capitalist about what you're saying.
Oh, anyone who disagrees with you shows pessimism, a lack of imagination, and is possibly a Communist? That's how little kids argue, give me a break. Just because people don't subscribe to your particular irrational sci-fi inspired flights of fancy doesn't make them bad people.
Anime is more diverse and engaging than anything produced in North America
Definitely! From "schoolgirl fights robots" to "awkward kid fights robots" to "awkward has a pathetic crush on a schoolgirl but can't get the nerve to do or say anything about it," anime definitely has a huge range of scenarios. No way North America or Canada could compete with that creative output. The fact that it's all aimed at older teenagers show it's much more sophisticated than American cartoons, which are aimed at younger teenagers.
That's why their slogan is "playing is believing" because you have to play the Wii in order to understand why it's any good compared to the other consoles. Thanks for reading.
Well I assume you've never played it, but that doesn't stop you or the other fanboys from rambling on and on about how great it's going to be.
That is incredible Bullshit, even on Slashdot which specializes in ascribing child-like mentalities to Chinese people. Chinese people are nothing if not smart shoppers and I can guarantee you every single buyer had a good idea on what kind of price they could have gotten elsewhere. Since buying things in China so often involves bargaining over price, it's a nation of people who know how much everything is worth to the cent - and since it's a relatively poor nation, every cent matters.
Yeah, a real truth-sayer like Rove, lifetime political consultant most famous for being the given the task of justifying an attack on Iraq. The Ike comparisons are spot-on!
Anyway, giving a speech after you've quit the job doesn't strike me as the bravest action one can imagine. If Ike really had huevos, he should have done something when he still had the power to do so, rather than escalate the cold war. If Bush gives a speech in 2009 about the importance of a strict separation between executive and judicial powers, it would strike me more as an apologia than an example of a president with huevos.
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I've been trying to keep people educated about the new generation of systems vs. the old. Sometimes it's funny, other times I want to call it pathetic.
Indeed, making it a life goal to keep people educated about the new generation of video game systems is pathetic, but at the same time it's kind of funny anybody would do that. So either choice is correct!
The whole point of consoles is that you shouldn't need to do bullshit like this. Clearly someone at Microsoft severely fucked up if people are finding it necessary to modify their XBox 360's just so they don't overheat. Once you start having to do all of that all you have is a cheap computer (not ever that cheap) that can't do all the other computer type things.
There's no *need* to do this, just as there wasn't a *need* to replace a console's orange LED with a blue LED. The Xbox 360 doesn't need this mod to avoid overheating. Mostly it's a bunch of nerds who enjoy hacking at technical things, this is Slashdot after all...
OK I guess it does provide some benefit by being quieter than a fan, but fans are common to other consoles, and computers, as well.
I've been pounding my palm into my temple, trying to force myself to imagine why in the world Rockstar Games created and published a table tennis simulator.
Here is another, more damning, example. In 2001 in Northern California, the Chinese consulate in San Francisco sponsored an anti-Falun-Gong meeting conducted in Santa Clara, California. Chinese students from San Jose State University, Stanford University, and other neighboring universities, attended the meeting. The Chinese student associations at the respective universities fully supported the anti-Falun-Gong meeting.
Why is this at all an example of hypocricy? I am an American working for a computer company in China. I do not support everything the Chinese government does. I would even say I strongly disagree with some of its policies, and frequently talk about it. For that matter, when I was in the US, I also did not support everything the US was doing, if to a lesser extent - are people allowed to disagree if they were born in the country, but not if they attend college in the country?
Living in a country does not at all imply you can not disagree with its policies, and I can't help but think that's a one-way colonial attitude.
I also think Falun Gong is a more complex issue than most Westerners believe. They are thoroughly a wacky-ass cult, and a new wacky-ass cult with political leanings would not be allowed to become powerful in any Western Country - and I'd even say, justifiably so. I don't think the Black Panthers or Branch Davidians are perfect comparisons, but you see what I mean.
It's been a little more than a hundred years since millions of people in China were killed in a revolution led by a wacky-ass cult whose leader claimed to be the brother (and organ recipient) of Jesus. The revolution got so big because it was supported by Westerners intent on weakening China...you can understand how US people blindly going on about the Falun Gong cult would be a hot-button issue to internationalist Chinese.
Well, $600 will buy you a fair amount of fish and will feed a bunch of people once. However, you could also buy a PS3 and SimFishing then invite all the starving over to have a competitive game and, in the process, teach them how to fish which is infinitely more valuable.
I think I see a logical whole in your argument. You also have to consider the price of the "Simfishing" game, which will bring the price up to $660 - plus tax.
Also, having all the starving people in the apartment isn't as great as it sounds. They always raid the refrigerator, plus they leave a smell for a week or two. So in addition to the $660, plus tax, I also recommend you budget a few dollar for floral Lysol.
Imagine if there was no profit associated with being a playwright, because the plays could be freely copied. Shakespeare wrote his poems for art and a permanent reputation, and wrote his plays for money. Trying to apply 16th century examples to mininova.org is ridiculous, you'll get nothing but vague comparisons that don't really apply except that saying "Shakespeare" in a post sounds really dramatic.
There will never be another Rolling Stones. It can't happen in today's society.
A derivative pop act that makes massive money and is more famous for the press they get than the music? I see those all the time. The Rolling Stones were the Monkees with a better PR department.
For most people, downloading an album for free (which is really quite easy) is far better than spending $6 to buy the album. You make it sound like $6 is a fair price for an album, at which point everybody would happily buy the music, but in real life people just want everything to be cheaper and cheaper.
In inflation-adjusted money, albums are about three times cheaper than they were in the 1960's.
You can buy a non-cell phone PDA off Dell.com, amazon.com, or any major electonic store. Buying an unlocked cell-phone isn't all that expensive or difficult, just most people prefer locked phones because of the discount incentives.
And I must add that using PDA as an iPod-type device is pretty awesome. It's not for everyone but I personally really dig it.
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China uses MM-DD - 8 moons 2 suns. I think the DD-MM is mostly used in Western Europe and India?
Free Civ is a barely playable rip-off of Civilization 2. I am a complete addict of Civilization games and I can still barely stand it for more than 10 minutes.
You know you can download them for free off bittorrent, right? No need to spend hundreds of dollars on games you already bought. If you just feel like handing Nintendo money, a check would be more efficient.
Not a perfect metric - "Wii" and "Nintento Revolution" weren't in the title of this very article.
Private schooling and profit-motivated schools just doesn't work well with a meritocracy. There's plenty of examples throughout the world. When having rich parents is a requirement for going through a decent school, Social Darwinism just doesn't happen. It's a basic American value and a fundamental trait to Capitalism - Adam Smith thought the only two responsibilities of a Federal government were a Navy and a public school system. He didn't even think standing armies were necessary, in a time of worldwide warfare with neigboring France.
From there, you make a jump to American immigrants being the reason the US has been sucessful a long time, which is kind of a logical jump and in any case seems impossible to prove one way or the other, although I think most informed people would tend to disagree.
And then you somehow go on to say if the US doesn't have a space program, that means it is on its way down. That is really a logical jump - plenty (every?) sucessful nation ever has not had a space program, after all. But I guess it passes for common knowledge on Slashdot, and doesn't really need any arguments of support. Just stating the idea is insightful.
Companies do have long term planning. If there was a capitalist interest in immediately setting up factories on the moon (for immensely profitable "moon crystals") economic lobbies would be clamoring for the US government to do just that. Instead it's entirely people who have watched lots of "Star Trek." There's nothing capitalist about what you're saying.
Oh, anyone who disagrees with you shows pessimism, a lack of imagination, and is possibly a Communist? That's how little kids argue, give me a break. Just because people don't subscribe to your particular irrational sci-fi inspired flights of fancy doesn't make them bad people.
Definitely! From "schoolgirl fights robots" to "awkward kid fights robots" to "awkward has a pathetic crush on a schoolgirl but can't get the nerve to do or say anything about it," anime definitely has a huge range of scenarios. No way North America or Canada could compete with that creative output. The fact that it's all aimed at older teenagers show it's much more sophisticated than American cartoons, which are aimed at younger teenagers.
Well I assume you've never played it, but that doesn't stop you or the other fanboys from rambling on and on about how great it's going to be.
It's always been like that, hasn't it?
That is incredible Bullshit, even on Slashdot which specializes in ascribing child-like mentalities to Chinese people. Chinese people are nothing if not smart shoppers and I can guarantee you every single buyer had a good idea on what kind of price they could have gotten elsewhere. Since buying things in China so often involves bargaining over price, it's a nation of people who know how much everything is worth to the cent - and since it's a relatively poor nation, every cent matters.
Anyway, giving a speech after you've quit the job doesn't strike me as the bravest action one can imagine. If Ike really had huevos, he should have done something when he still had the power to do so, rather than escalate the cold war. If Bush gives a speech in 2009 about the importance of a strict separation between executive and judicial powers, it would strike me more as an apologia than an example of a president with huevos.
Indeed, making it a life goal to keep people educated about the new generation of video game systems is pathetic, but at the same time it's kind of funny anybody would do that. So either choice is correct!
There's no *need* to do this, just as there wasn't a *need* to replace a console's orange LED with a blue LED. The Xbox 360 doesn't need this mod to avoid overheating. Mostly it's a bunch of nerds who enjoy hacking at technical things, this is Slashdot after all...
OK I guess it does provide some benefit by being quieter than a fan, but fans are common to other consoles, and computers, as well.
Wow, sounds like you need to get out more.
Awesome! I love posts that point out typos. They really show that the person is "with it" and "hip."
Why is this at all an example of hypocricy? I am an American working for a computer company in China. I do not support everything the Chinese government does. I would even say I strongly disagree with some of its policies, and frequently talk about it. For that matter, when I was in the US, I also did not support everything the US was doing, if to a lesser extent - are people allowed to disagree if they were born in the country, but not if they attend college in the country?
Living in a country does not at all imply you can not disagree with its policies, and I can't help but think that's a one-way colonial attitude.
I also think Falun Gong is a more complex issue than most Westerners believe. They are thoroughly a wacky-ass cult, and a new wacky-ass cult with political leanings would not be allowed to become powerful in any Western Country - and I'd even say, justifiably so. I don't think the Black Panthers or Branch Davidians are perfect comparisons, but you see what I mean.
It's been a little more than a hundred years since millions of people in China were killed in a revolution led by a wacky-ass cult whose leader claimed to be the brother (and organ recipient) of Jesus. The revolution got so big because it was supported by Westerners intent on weakening China...you can understand how US people blindly going on about the Falun Gong cult would be a hot-button issue to internationalist Chinese.
I think I see a logical whole in your argument. You also have to consider the price of the "Simfishing" game, which will bring the price up to $660 - plus tax.
Also, having all the starving people in the apartment isn't as great as it sounds. They always raid the refrigerator, plus they leave a smell for a week or two. So in addition to the $660, plus tax, I also recommend you budget a few dollar for floral Lysol.
Tucker cars from the late 40s had headlights that move when you turn the stearing wheel.
Imagine if there was no profit associated with being a playwright, because the plays could be freely copied. Shakespeare wrote his poems for art and a permanent reputation, and wrote his plays for money. Trying to apply 16th century examples to mininova.org is ridiculous, you'll get nothing but vague comparisons that don't really apply except that saying "Shakespeare" in a post sounds really dramatic.
"Spelled" is correct. "It's" is equivalent to "it is" and he used it correctly.
A derivative pop act that makes massive money and is more famous for the press they get than the music? I see those all the time. The Rolling Stones were the Monkees with a better PR department.
In inflation-adjusted money, albums are about three times cheaper than they were in the 1960's.
Has Australia developed steel technology yet?
And I must add that using PDA as an iPod-type device is pretty awesome. It's not for everyone but I personally really dig it.