Thanks to GWB and his 'influence' my friend has been sent to die in some godforsaken desert - WE are not even American and have no opportunity to vote for or against.
I have respect for Kerry (while have little faith) because he KNOWS war is hell.
Bush seems to think that its profitable.
When forest returned from NAM and addressed the crowd it was a parody of JK - and did more for the American (and vietnamese) people than Bush ever will.
The fact is the pseudo democratic system is the problem rather than the personalitys but either way it fucks everyone up.
I bet Jeb is asking Bro for his national guard back because Florida is getting owned worse than Iraq.
"It seems to me that atheism says that there is nothing to get "shoulds" from"
How about common sence and experience. Humans dont need some archaic scripture to tell them right from wrong - or some imaginary post mortem bribery and coercion to keep us in check.
I am sure it is a lot easier to be spoonfed morality if you believe ibnn the agenda, but not essencial.
Christians get it wrong all the time. Where is the evil in homosexuality? could the Bible have got it wrong with the medievil preconceptions and all that 'translation' by the vatican?
Those who refuse to question such texts out of blind faith despite scientific or logical contradiction (creationist teachers, suicide bombers, GWB) are moraly wrong for inflicting such extremism on those who disagree.
If someone hit me, it would hurt. I dont need god to tell me that I was wronged and to retaliate would be bad because he would probably hit me again. Also logic tells me that being hit was not much fun, therefore hitting someone else would be wrong (I didnt much like it) so I shouldnt go around hitting people.
Miss the point or what. Being an atheist (not believing in a sentient creator) does not rule out a sence of morality - an atheist can be wronged, experience empathy and know not to wrong others.
Just because Jesus (IMHO a man not a demigod) quoted some no brainers from the Bhuddists (3 wise men anyone?) it does not make such judgements of right and wrong an exclusively religios concept.
I dont know where you get the 'collection of atoms' stuff from I believe that the rainforests need mahogany more than the dash of an SUV - Because the forest is alive and supports other life.
Same atoms - different intrinsic value. 'God' does not come into it.
When it comes to life eating strategy games you cant beat the 'test of time mod' for Civ3 PTW by TeTurkhan. It features a huge and detailed worldmap, new units for every age, new civs, tech tree and complete game concepts. Makes pure Civ3 seem simple and boring.
I am not referring to the early version that ships with the game, but a downloadable modpack The latest is here http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php ?s=&th readid=29279
Its possible to take a realy good idea and create utter crap, either with games or movies. All too often the populism of one is seen as easy money in a half arsed attempt at risk avoidance.
Tomb Raider being a case in point, as much as I appreciate Ms Jolie in the tight and shiny, as a film, with plot and intrigue it failed miserably.
Take your pick of the crappy movie spin off games.
I have been trying to break the games industry for years and its so cliquey and arrogant it gets what it deserves.
To become a designer you need so many years experience in process related jobs that all the creativity gets burnt out.
All that is needed is some fresh blood, maybe from groups as radical as your TARGET AUDIENCE backed up by a team who can turn these wild new ideas into mesh, code and pixels.
I went to college with 16yo script kiddies who described games like Tribes2 or Desert Combat as "something I want to play" back in the days of Quake2. But who at EA, M$ or Valve would listen to them, then or now?
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I can not think of a more stupid idea than strapping a nuclear reactor to a rocket and blasting it through our athmosphere.
Can you possibly rate our chances alongside the shuttle record with all the safety checks that go with human cargo.
so call me a tree hugger - makes no difference. You will be dead too.
Funny that - I am an environmentalist because our children shouldnt have to clean up our shit.
We dont need mahogony trim in our cars - but we do need mahogony forests to absorb the pollution our cars create.
Also- dont equate environmentalists with the NIMBY bastards who moan about the eyesore on the Horizon. when its that or a Fossil/Nuke solution and where are they gonna build that?
" Another cause for concern is the large quantity of water used. Manufacturing a computer involves using large amounts of water to rinse off the components. Estimates say that repeatedly rinsing printed circuit boards requires 33,000 liters of water per computer and more than 12,000 liters for semiconductors (Computers and Society, p7). This water cannot be recycled because of the chemical contamination from solvent residue, and thus must be stored. However, as with any chemical storage, as mentioned above, there exists some risk of leakage. When leakage occurs, the polluted water can go into the soil and cause the drinking water in the area to become poisoned."
So before you all keep ranting on about the reusability of water and you dont have to catr because you are American and SOOOO much better than the half of the world who need that water to keep their children alive, just check your facts.
by Eivind
"That is true. Saying that 1500 liters of water gets "used" in the process of making a PC is pretty useless as an indicator of ecological impact."
Go tell that to the people at www.wateraid.org
Sometimes people just live up to the stereotypes - if the subject and attitudes were not so deadly serious it would be worth a chuckle.
As most disparagers on this page start in their own little selfish buble - so I will start there.
If you live in the rest of the world - gas isnt so cheap you can piss it away boy-racing a Humvee around the city for no real reason. Gas prices usually reflect the local and global damage it does - that way people buy more efficient cars.
In the EU this sort of 'small car' is popular cos its easy to park and manouver on our overcrowded streets. If more people drove electric cars you or your kids are less likely to suffer from asthma etc.
Burning fossil fuels to create energy is not pollution free - agreed, but is less harmful than thousands of I.C.Es pumping CO1, lead (in some places - still), SO2, ozone and all sorts of other filth directly into your childs face (or yours if you are short).
It is more efficient to filter emissions from a single large source than a million smaller ones, it is easier to monitor and maintain and often outside of popululation centres. Not pollution free - but preferable.
Once you take the rest of the world who isnt hooked on fossil fuels like Darl McBride and his crack, like British Columbia (mostly hydro), Iceland (mostly geotherm) and in some places you CAN get to the holy grail of emmision free transport.
Batteries can be recycled, or at least disposed of responsibly and with less seepage from say - oil or other liquid waste. Take into account the spillage, tranport, infrastucture and human suffering caused by the oil industry and the business of manufacturing and recycling the batteries look quite attractive.
Also your beloved presidente would not have to kiss Saudi ass or invade any more oil rich countries.
Sooner or later, the American fetish for cheap oil will be its downfall - not terrrrism, North Korea, liberalism or the European taste for mariuana.
And when it happens, I will rejoice in the ironic justice of it all.
An ex housemate brought an Xbox to our digs, and then bought a cheap TV to use it with.
The shop he bought it at told the TV Gestapo and they paid us a visit - cautioned another resident who happened to open the door and when showed the Tv/Console set up and the legit Licence for our communal TV, he still summonsed my Xbox owning freind who paid up rather than go to court.
Why should we be deprived of the right to own a TV and watch non BBC content without paying the BBC? - ITV/C4/C5 should sue.
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Thanks to GWB and his 'influence' my friend has been sent to die in some godforsaken desert - WE are not even American and have no opportunity to vote for or against.
I have respect for Kerry (while have little faith) because he KNOWS war is hell.
Bush seems to think that its profitable.
When forest returned from NAM and addressed the crowd it was a parody of JK - and did more for the American (and vietnamese) people than Bush ever will.
The fact is the pseudo democratic system is the problem rather than the personalitys but either way it fucks everyone up.
I bet Jeb is asking Bro for his national guard back because Florida is getting owned worse than Iraq.
From the technology correspondent for the totally inept.
People with bars on their windows are statistically more likely to burn to death in housefires so smart people dont. - bad analogy.
Google for 'realalternative' if you just want the win32 codec.
I can see the MS share options swaying someone into actually stamping this. It will not kill Linux, but probably screw America.
How about common sence and experience. Humans dont need some archaic scripture to tell them right from wrong - or some imaginary post mortem bribery and coercion to keep us in check.
I am sure it is a lot easier to be spoonfed morality if you believe ibnn the agenda, but not essencial. Christians get it wrong all the time. Where is the evil in homosexuality? could the Bible have got it wrong with the medievil preconceptions and all that 'translation' by the vatican?
Those who refuse to question such texts out of blind faith despite scientific or logical contradiction (creationist teachers, suicide bombers, GWB) are moraly wrong for inflicting such extremism on those who disagree.
If someone hit me, it would hurt. I dont need god to tell me that I was wronged and to retaliate would be bad because he would probably hit me again. Also logic tells me that being hit was not much fun, therefore hitting someone else would be wrong (I didnt much like it) so I shouldnt go around hitting people.
Miss the point or what. Being an atheist (not believing in a sentient creator) does not rule out a sence of morality - an atheist can be wronged, experience empathy and know not to wrong others.
Just because Jesus (IMHO a man not a demigod) quoted some no brainers from the Bhuddists (3 wise men anyone?) it does not make such judgements of right and wrong an exclusively religios concept.
I dont know where you get the 'collection of atoms' stuff from I believe that the rainforests need mahogany more than the dash of an SUV - Because the forest is alive and supports other life.
Same atoms - different intrinsic value. 'God' does not come into it.
Not to mention The rock of Gibraltar, Diego Garcia and Australia.
Give each new vehicle 2 numbers and 2 linked entrys in the VIN database - thatway you get more combinations without a major overhall of the sys.
Maybe one number could be stored electronicly so the system cannot just be hacked with an anglegrinder.
When it comes to life eating strategy games you cant beat the 'test of time mod' for Civ3 PTW by TeTurkhan. It features a huge and detailed worldmap, new units for every age, new civs, tech tree and complete game concepts. Makes pure Civ3 seem simple and boring.
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I am not referring to the early version that ships with the game, but a downloadable modpack
The latest is here
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.ph
v2.0 seems like vapour though
Surely this counts as an attempt to circumvent security features. Class action anyone.
Its possible to take a realy good idea and create utter crap, either with games or movies. All too often the populism of one is seen as easy money in a half arsed attempt at risk avoidance.
Tomb Raider being a case in point, as much as I appreciate Ms Jolie in the tight and shiny, as a film, with plot and intrigue it failed miserably.
Take your pick of the crappy movie spin off games.
I am very concious of the eco damage caused by my computer habit- not that less PB makes much difference in the light of manufacturing techniques.
Lead is expensiv and if you make chips by the truckload there is significant savings to be made on logistics.
But if by some quirk of fate, Intel actually start to givashit I may actually pay a little more for an Intel.
BS for 2 reasons
1) As being gifted with ADHD type thing for longer than they new what to call it. and my parents denied me TV until I was 7.
2) My father has the same issues, so does my half sister and her kids.
I think TV just makes everyone dumb.
But I need to take it out to get chilled =?)
The Aliens style helmetcams are not new, just the wireless networking to make it work.
It would have some uses in law enforcement. Perhaps it would stop the police from randomly beating peoples teeth out.
Or maybe one on every car.
But pitching it to average joe as wearable computing is just dumb.
I have been trying to break the games industry for years and its so cliquey and arrogant it gets what it deserves.
To become a designer you need so many years experience in process related jobs that all the creativity gets burnt out.
All that is needed is some fresh blood, maybe from groups as radical as your TARGET AUDIENCE backed up by a team who can turn these wild new ideas into mesh, code and pixels.
I went to college with 16yo script kiddies who described games like Tribes2 or Desert Combat as "something I want to play" back in the days of Quake2. But who at EA, M$ or Valve would listen to them, then or now?
I can not think of a more stupid idea than strapping a nuclear reactor to a rocket and blasting it through our athmosphere. Can you possibly rate our chances alongside the shuttle record with all the safety checks that go with human cargo. so call me a tree hugger - makes no difference. You will be dead too.
"Good spam, he says, leaves him feeling blessed and telling himself, "I can't believe this really came."
Funny that - I am an environmentalist because our children shouldnt have to clean up our shit.
We dont need mahogony trim in our cars - but we do need mahogony forests to absorb the pollution our cars create.
Also- dont equate environmentalists with the NIMBY bastards who moan about the eyesore on the Horizon. when its that or a Fossil/Nuke solution and where are they gonna build that?
anyhow - you are oprobably just trolling
From here http://symptom.mit.edu/mt/tso2.htm
" Another cause for concern is the large quantity of water used. Manufacturing a computer involves using large amounts of water to rinse off the components. Estimates say that repeatedly rinsing printed circuit boards requires 33,000 liters of water per computer and more than 12,000 liters for semiconductors (Computers and Society, p7). This water cannot be recycled because of the chemical contamination from solvent residue, and thus must be stored. However, as with any chemical storage, as mentioned above, there exists some risk of leakage. When leakage occurs, the polluted water can go into the soil and cause the drinking water in the area to become poisoned."
So before you all keep ranting on about the reusability of water and you dont have to catr because you are American and SOOOO much better than the half of the world who need that water to keep their children alive, just check your facts.
by Eivind "That is true. Saying that 1500 liters of water gets "used" in the process of making a PC is pretty useless as an indicator of ecological impact." Go tell that to the people at www.wateraid.org
You are not anAmerican .. I am glad its that obvious
Sometimes people just live up to the stereotypes - if the subject and attitudes were not so deadly serious it would be worth a chuckle.
As most disparagers on this page start in their own little selfish buble - so I will start there.
If you live in the rest of the world - gas isnt so cheap you can piss it away boy-racing a Humvee around the city for no real reason. Gas prices usually reflect the local and global damage it does - that way people buy more efficient cars.
In the EU this sort of 'small car' is popular cos its easy to park and manouver on our overcrowded streets. If more people drove electric cars you or your kids are less likely to suffer from asthma etc.
Burning fossil fuels to create energy is not pollution free - agreed, but is less harmful than thousands of I.C.Es pumping CO1, lead (in some places - still), SO2, ozone and all sorts of other filth directly into your childs face (or yours if you are short).
It is more efficient to filter emissions from a single large source than a million smaller ones, it is easier to monitor and maintain and often outside of popululation centres. Not pollution free - but preferable.
Once you take the rest of the world who isnt hooked on fossil fuels like Darl McBride and his crack, like British Columbia (mostly hydro), Iceland (mostly geotherm) and in some places you CAN get to the holy grail of emmision free transport.
Batteries can be recycled, or at least disposed of responsibly and with less seepage from say - oil or other liquid waste. Take into account the spillage, tranport, infrastucture and human suffering caused by the oil industry and the business of manufacturing and recycling the batteries look quite attractive.
Also your beloved presidente would not have to kiss Saudi ass or invade any more oil rich countries.
Sooner or later, the American fetish for cheap oil will be its downfall - not terrrrism, North Korea, liberalism or the European taste for mariuana.
And when it happens, I will rejoice in the ironic justice of it all.
An ex housemate brought an Xbox to our digs, and then bought a cheap TV to use it with. The shop he bought it at told the TV Gestapo and they paid us a visit - cautioned another resident who happened to open the door and when showed the Tv/Console set up and the legit Licence for our communal TV, he still summonsed my Xbox owning freind who paid up rather than go to court. Why should we be deprived of the right to own a TV and watch non BBC content without paying the BBC? - ITV/C4/C5 should sue.