I've lived and traveled throughout the United States of America, and I'm pretty sure that no American would write that way. You wouldn't hear such phrases used in places like California, New York, Colorado, Washington, Maine, or in the mid-western states.
I find it interesting that I could read that summary with no problems even when I'm not a native English speaker. Perhaps you should read a bit more, because I have read people from those "places" use those phrases. By the way, an interesting link about getting your dander up.
I don't set the criteria on the free games on Steam list. And the manager of that thread considers level limits don't cut it. I'm not too worried about those limits actually: if I find them a nuisance I can always stop playing the game. But not having to worry about them is a good thing IMO.
Define "fully free to play". But you'd be better off going there and reading. Some games like Global Agenda: Free Agent allow you to pay a one-time fee to get better access (more experience per action, auction house access...), but you won't usually need to worry about micropayments or free player limitations as the games on that list don't really block you from doing everything (at most you can't do it just as quick).
Steam's list, though, has some games that limit your maximum level so they are probably not "fully free to play".
Sorry, but you are mistaken. You can copy it over and over and give copies to your million friends. That's what the "derecho de reproducción privada" (private reproduction right) allows you to do. You can't get some loudspeakers, a screen and a projector and play the movie for any bystander to watch free of charge: that is considered "comunicación pública" (public communication) and requires permission from the author, interpreters and everybody else with some kind of right over the movie you are projecting. I suggest you read the Ley de Propiedad Intelectual (again?).
it requires all appropriations to be made for the benefit of the people as a whole, not favoring any region or group at the expense of another.
Naive questions: if you look to benefit the people as a whole, isn't it to be expected that sometimes some regions or groups will be benefited more than others? Does this inequality in benefits mean that sometimes a group will benefit at the expense of another?
Sorry, an oil well or refinery aren't an oil plant: they dosn't generate electricity, as far as I can remember. Otherwise you will need to take into account the damage mining for uranium may be doing (not that I know whether it is high or low).
Once you start spreading the net you will need to consider coal mining too... and we aren't talking about mining, be it coal, oil or uranium.
Please be so kind to explain how a spine realignment can result in an IQ increase when, as far as I know, the spinal nerves have nothing to do with the tasks carried out in IQ tests.
Chiropractic is still often shrouded in a series of ascientific claims, which makes it hard to know whether it works or when it does. Unfortunately, I'm afraid your asserted relation between "pathway smoothing" at the spine level and neofrontal cortex tasks (which, as far as I know, require no spinal activity) sound very much like one of those ascientific claims.
No, _we_ aren't dealing with logic. Unfortunately for you (and me, probably) the rest of the people in the world doesn't come from Vulcan. So when you deal with other people and their feeling annoyed at trash talk you don't deal with logic even if you deal with them logically.
It really doesn't matter to me either way.
And yet you are here trying to defend doing it. I would say it matters to you a bit, but... well, since it doesn't matter to you, I won't care to go on arguing. Have fun with your trash talk.
We aren't dealing with logic: if we were logical we would NEVER get annoyed at being insulted (I hardly ever get annoyed any more, by the way, over ten years of IRC will make almost anybody immune to trash talk). Even then, I'd rather not have to deal with someone insulting me. It adds nothing to the game (unless, as I already wrote, it's tongue-in-cheek good-natured banter with people I already "know" long enough that it is permissible).
And still nobody can tell me why it matters to them when somebody acts like a dick during a game.
It matters, correctly or incorrectly, because people don't want to be annoyed by someone running his mouth, either online or offline.
A lot of games cater to trash talking,
Unless you are talking about The Secret of Monkey Island (and perhaps Sam n Max?) I can't think of any game that caters to that. At least I can't remember any other game that gives you any kind of points or advantages just by insulting people:)
I'm pro talking trash during games when it gets to my opponents,
And I'm anti-, so if we ever meet in a game (or if we ever met), I will probably ignore you or mentally send you to hell and find some other match. That way we both lose time, but it's the way it will be.
The thing about trash talk online is I can't possibly know anything about you so it should not sting at all like if I insulted somebody I know or saw in person.
The thing about trash talk online is that it is the trademark of a troll. It doesn't matter whether it is an online game, online chat or online forum.
Its called mind games and if a stranger who knows nothing about you with a vested interest in making it seem like you aren't doing very well is getting to you, then you should probably look in to ways of boosting your self esteem.
It's not mind games, it is plain rudeness. If you play better than me you don't need that. If you consider you need to do that... well, I probably won't keep playing with you, since I have better ways to learn play better, and it probably isn't me who needs a self steem boost: I don't need to insult people online -unless, of course, I know them other times and know they won't get annoyed by my tongue-in-cheek name-calling. Fortunately for me, the games and servers I play allow me to get rid of rude people quite easily.
Yes, that makes so much sense... NOT. If you are going to act like a bad-mannered 7-year-old kid, you will probably be treated like one.
The people that get upset about trash talk are so much worse than trash talkers.
Of course they are: how can they dare to want to play a nice game against someone else? It's not a game if you don't insult someone who you don't know nothing at all. And, of course, it's not the trash talker's fault: insulting the opponent is basic in every game or sport you care to think about. That's why, whenever you get into it even a bit seriously, you get penalties for insulting the opponent (even if simply not getting invited to any more games), and that's why someone who plays against you once won't probably do it again.
If you're getting upset, you're taking the game or yourself too seriously.
No. If you get upset by the outcome of the game (sore loser, I think it is called) _then_ you are taking it too seriously. Getting upset by someone insulting you is a common response in life: of course, after a while you can learn to ignore it, but the basic response is still there.
As more of a romantic player, I enjoy using taunts and insults and general shit over the chat to try to get the game to evolve in a different way than it normally would.
XDDDDDDDD Now that's what I call "romantic". Taunting is different from insulting: if you say "bet you can't take this area" I might even consider attacking it, if you say "you fucking pussy, you don't do anything but build X-type units" I may consider finishing the game and finding someone who deserves my time.
I think its a perfectly fine way to play the game, and if you don't care for what I'm saying, stop reading my messages.
But, of course, you don't say that at the beginning of the game, do you? "Warning, this user is propense to insults and profanity, pay no attention to whatever he types". Naaahh... don't think so.
Dear Troll: being able to add 2 and 2 doesn't automatically mean you know how to do differential calculus. And knowing about astronomy or astrophysics doesn't mean he knew a lot about medicine. And it seems myelodysplastic syndrome isn't something easy to manage, less cure, when you aren't young.
Here it is, translated from the original interview:
Andreyev: "There are no independent entities in nuclear industry"
"The most dangerous reactor in Fukushima is number 3, for it uses uranium/plutonium fuel", he asserts
He spent five years at Chernobyl. He was vicedirector of Spetsatom, the sovietic nuclear accident fighting agency and he knows the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in depth.
Yuli Andreyev (1938) is one of the most knowledgeable persons on this subject. He considers for varying danger scenarios for Fukushima, from mild to very severe.
"The third reactor at Fukushima is the most dangerous because it uses MOX, a uranium plus plutonium fuel that France is experimenting on two japanese centers", dis expe
plutonio que Francia està usando experimentalmente en dos centrales japonesas", dice este experto.
In 1991, everything was crumbling down at Moscow. The salary of viceminister of atomic energy, the post Andreyev was offered, wasn't enough to make ends meet. He was invited by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to join some conferences and he ended settling down at Vienna as advisor to the environment minister, universities and the IAEA itself.
Chernobyl remains shrouded in lies, he says. The accident was not the fault of the reactor's operators, as it was stated, but a clear design defect of the RMBK reactors resulting from cost cutting. The correct design required a great amount of zirconium, a rare metal, and a whole maze of pipes, special zirconium welding techniques, stainless steel and enormous amounts of concrete. It was really expensive, so they tried to economize, Andreyev explains.
One of the ways of saving was feeding the reactors with relatively low enrichment uranium, as enriching uranium is a complex expensive process. All this brought the risks up and went agains the security rules, but nuclear oversight in the USSR belonged to the Atomic Energy Ministry. It is somewhat the same now with IAEA, as the ONU agency "depends on nuclear industry", Andreyev says, according to whom lies and secrets at Chernobyl are completely current at Fukushima.
Safety, money, irresponsability
"Those who design nuclear reactors care about two things: safety and cost. The problem is safety costs money. If you spend too much in it, the reactor isn't competitive. Three Mile Island's accident is the perfect example. After the accident, it was found that enhancing safety to avoid repeating it made the reactors so expensive they made no sense at all. For 30 years no reactors were built at the USA. Everything was very complicated but it also had to do with economy. The academicist Rumiantsev showed that all RMBK reactors had to be shut down. He was just ignored. There's always people interested in hiding something..."
What do they hide?
That they are amenable to give up on safety in exchange for selfish considerations. At the USSR, for prestige reasons and the cost of enriching uranium, at Japan for pure and simple money. Locating Japan's reactors by the sea is much cheaper. The emergency generator weren't buried and, of course, were quickly flooded... Behind all this there's corruption. I have no proof, but they will soon show up. How can a nuclear reactor be designed at a high sismic risk area, by the sea, with emergency generators on the surface? The wave came and everything was out of order. That's not an error, that's a felony.
What problems do you see at the spent fuel pools?
Designers tried to save on them. They overfilled them, which drives the possibility of accidents up.
Is that the main problem?
No, there are many more. When a driver has an accident he is the only responsible one for drinking too much. There is nothing that depends on just one reason at the nuclear industry. Overloading the pools is a part. Anot
Mmm... I guess starting a war without a formal declaration would be considered illegal, wouldn't it? At least the USA complained quite loudly when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Anyway, I guess I will lose a few karma points now as well:)
Oh, well, I guess invading Iraq on false premises and without UN sanction (who needs them if there is a "coalition of the willing") is a lawful order. Silly me.
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I've lived and traveled throughout the United States of America, and I'm pretty sure that no American would write that way. You wouldn't hear such phrases used in places like California, New York, Colorado, Washington, Maine, or in the mid-western states.
I find it interesting that I could read that summary with no problems even when I'm not a native English speaker. Perhaps you should read a bit more, because I have read people from those "places" use those phrases. By the way, an interesting link about getting your dander up.
...those are not the service techs you are looking for...
I don't set the criteria on the free games on Steam list. And the manager of that thread considers level limits don't cut it. I'm not too worried about those limits actually: if I find them a nuisance I can always stop playing the game. But not having to worry about them is a good thing IMO.
Disclaimer: tipping her until she stumbles into a wall can be a substitute.
Disclaimer 2: no unwanted violence in this actions should be implied.
Steam's list, though, has some games that limit your maximum level so they are probably not "fully free to play".
It also seems that some of these free to play games aren't available everywhere (a couple of users have written at the thread about it).
Perhaps Valve should just make IvanDoomer's list official or something :)
I would actually look for the more common fingerprints and return them. One hides better when one looks like the environment, right?
Sometimes I would like to be able to give +1 Insightful to articles outside Slashdot :)
Sorry, but you are mistaken. You can copy it over and over and give copies to your million friends. That's what the "derecho de reproducción privada" (private reproduction right) allows you to do. You can't get some loudspeakers, a screen and a projector and play the movie for any bystander to watch free of charge: that is considered "comunicación pública" (public communication) and requires permission from the author, interpreters and everybody else with some kind of right over the movie you are projecting. I suggest you read the Ley de Propiedad Intelectual (again?).
"If I fear someone forking my project and competing with me, why should I open the source code?"
Fixed that for you :P
Joking aside, if you fear competition you don't give ammunition. Then again, free and open source is about cooperation (and coopetition).
it requires all appropriations to be made for the benefit of the people as a whole, not favoring any region or group at the expense of another.
Naive questions: if you look to benefit the people as a whole, isn't it to be expected that sometimes some regions or groups will be benefited more than others? Does this inequality in benefits mean that sometimes a group will benefit at the expense of another?
Once you start spreading the net you will need to consider coal mining too... and we aren't talking about mining, be it coal, oil or uranium.
Chiropractic is still often shrouded in a series of ascientific claims, which makes it hard to know whether it works or when it does. Unfortunately, I'm afraid your asserted relation between "pathway smoothing" at the spine level and neofrontal cortex tasks (which, as far as I know, require no spinal activity) sound very much like one of those ascientific claims.
Good point, but I think those patches would eat them up whether it is played often or only ocasionally.
If your idea of quality of life is sitting at your computer playing WoW all day in a cramped apartment, yes.
I somehow find it hard to believe playing WoW 24/7 will eat up 150GB per month ;)
Oh no! And twenty years ago hardly anyone could get the Internet at all. We must have been as neanderthals.
It doesn't matter where you were twenty years ago. If you are today where other people were 10 years ago you still have 10 years of catching up to do.
You might not be, but I am.
No, _we_ aren't dealing with logic. Unfortunately for you (and me, probably) the rest of the people in the world doesn't come from Vulcan. So when you deal with other people and their feeling annoyed at trash talk you don't deal with logic even if you deal with them logically.
It really doesn't matter to me either way.
And yet you are here trying to defend doing it. I would say it matters to you a bit, but... well, since it doesn't matter to you, I won't care to go on arguing. Have fun with your trash talk.
Besides, trying to annoy someone in order to distract them from the warp prism floating behind they're mineral line(sic) looks like taking the game too seriously to me, even if it works.
And still nobody can tell me why it matters to them when somebody acts like a dick during a game.
It matters, correctly or incorrectly, because people don't want to be annoyed by someone running his mouth, either online or offline.
A lot of games cater to trash talking,
Unless you are talking about The Secret of Monkey Island (and perhaps Sam n Max?) I can't think of any game that caters to that. At least I can't remember any other game that gives you any kind of points or advantages just by insulting people :)
I'm pro talking trash during games when it gets to my opponents,
And I'm anti-, so if we ever meet in a game (or if we ever met), I will probably ignore you or mentally send you to hell and find some other match. That way we both lose time, but it's the way it will be.
The thing about trash talk online is I can't possibly know anything about you so it should not sting at all like if I insulted somebody I know or saw in person.
The thing about trash talk online is that it is the trademark of a troll. It doesn't matter whether it is an online game, online chat or online forum.
Its called mind games and if a stranger who knows nothing about you with a vested interest in making it seem like you aren't doing very well is getting to you, then you should probably look in to ways of boosting your self esteem.
It's not mind games, it is plain rudeness. If you play better than me you don't need that. If you consider you need to do that... well, I probably won't keep playing with you, since I have better ways to learn play better, and it probably isn't me who needs a self steem boost: I don't need to insult people online -unless, of course, I know them other times and know they won't get annoyed by my tongue-in-cheek name-calling. Fortunately for me, the games and servers I play allow me to get rid of rude people quite easily.
The people that get upset about trash talk are so much worse than trash talkers.
Of course they are: how can they dare to want to play a nice game against someone else? It's not a game if you don't insult someone who you don't know nothing at all. And, of course, it's not the trash talker's fault: insulting the opponent is basic in every game or sport you care to think about. That's why, whenever you get into it even a bit seriously, you get penalties for insulting the opponent (even if simply not getting invited to any more games), and that's why someone who plays against you once won't probably do it again.
If you're getting upset, you're taking the game or yourself too seriously.
No. If you get upset by the outcome of the game (sore loser, I think it is called) _then_ you are taking it too seriously. Getting upset by someone insulting you is a common response in life: of course, after a while you can learn to ignore it, but the basic response is still there.
As more of a romantic player, I enjoy using taunts and insults and general shit over the chat to try to get the game to evolve in a different way than it normally would.
XDDDDDDDD Now that's what I call "romantic". Taunting is different from insulting: if you say "bet you can't take this area" I might even consider attacking it, if you say "you fucking pussy, you don't do anything but build X-type units" I may consider finishing the game and finding someone who deserves my time.
I think its a perfectly fine way to play the game, and if you don't care for what I'm saying, stop reading my messages.
But, of course, you don't say that at the beginning of the game, do you? "Warning, this user is propense to insults and profanity, pay no attention to whatever he types". Naaahh... don't think so.
Dear Troll: being able to add 2 and 2 doesn't automatically mean you know how to do differential calculus. And knowing about astronomy or astrophysics doesn't mean he knew a lot about medicine. And it seems myelodysplastic syndrome isn't something easy to manage, less cure, when you aren't young.
No I certainly didn't. In my defense, I started translating it, had to leave my office to fix somecomputers, got back finished it and forgot to check.
"The most dangerous reactor in Fukushima is number 3, for it uses uranium/plutonium fuel", he asserts
He spent five years at Chernobyl. He was vicedirector of Spetsatom, the sovietic nuclear accident fighting agency and he knows the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in depth.
Yuli Andreyev (1938) is one of the most knowledgeable persons on this subject. He considers for varying danger scenarios for Fukushima, from mild to very severe.
"The third reactor at Fukushima is the most dangerous because it uses MOX, a uranium plus plutonium fuel that France is experimenting on two japanese centers", dis expe plutonio que Francia està usando experimentalmente en dos centrales japonesas", dice este experto.
In 1991, everything was crumbling down at Moscow. The salary of viceminister of atomic energy, the post Andreyev was offered, wasn't enough to make ends meet. He was invited by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to join some conferences and he ended settling down at Vienna as advisor to the environment minister, universities and the IAEA itself.
Chernobyl remains shrouded in lies, he says. The accident was not the fault of the reactor's operators, as it was stated, but a clear design defect of the RMBK reactors resulting from cost cutting. The correct design required a great amount of zirconium, a rare metal, and a whole maze of pipes, special zirconium welding techniques, stainless steel and enormous amounts of concrete. It was really expensive, so they tried to economize, Andreyev explains.
One of the ways of saving was feeding the reactors with relatively low enrichment uranium, as enriching uranium is a complex expensive process. All this brought the risks up and went agains the security rules, but nuclear oversight in the USSR belonged to the Atomic Energy Ministry. It is somewhat the same now with IAEA, as the ONU agency "depends on nuclear industry", Andreyev says, according to whom lies and secrets at Chernobyl are completely current at Fukushima.
Safety, money, irresponsability
"Those who design nuclear reactors care about two things: safety and cost. The problem is safety costs money. If you spend too much in it, the reactor isn't competitive. Three Mile Island's accident is the perfect example. After the accident, it was found that enhancing safety to avoid repeating it made the reactors so expensive they made no sense at all. For 30 years no reactors were built at the USA. Everything was very complicated but it also had to do with economy. The academicist Rumiantsev showed that all RMBK reactors had to be shut down. He was just ignored. There's always people interested in hiding something..."
What do they hide?
That they are amenable to give up on safety in exchange for selfish considerations. At the USSR, for prestige reasons and the cost of enriching uranium, at Japan for pure and simple money. Locating Japan's reactors by the sea is much cheaper. The emergency generator weren't buried and, of course, were quickly flooded... Behind all this there's corruption. I have no proof, but they will soon show up. How can a nuclear reactor be designed at a high sismic risk area, by the sea, with emergency generators on the surface? The wave came and everything was out of order. That's not an error, that's a felony.
What problems do you see at the spent fuel pools?
Designers tried to save on them. They overfilled them, which drives the possibility of accidents up.
Is that the main problem?
No, there are many more. When a driver has an accident he is the only responsible one for drinking too much. There is nothing that depends on just one reason at the nuclear industry. Overloading the pools is a part. Anot
Mmm... I guess starting a war without a formal declaration would be considered illegal, wouldn't it? At least the USA complained quite loudly when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Anyway, I guess I will lose a few karma points now as well :)
Oh, well, I guess invading Iraq on false premises and without UN sanction (who needs them if there is a "coalition of the willing") is a lawful order. Silly me.