> If you feel it necessary to carry a lethal weapon in order to feel safe, something is very very wrong.
Yes. Here is what is wrong:
1. There are people whose minds are so messed up that they heavily arm and vest themselves and go shoot over 50 people. 2. Police response times are pathetic. Even if you can get someone to answer the phone on 9-11, by the time you can explain to them what's going on you're face-to-face with someone trying to kill you and do worse to your family.
The situation and lack of safety is wrong. Wanting to be able to protect myself and my family in an unsafe world is not wrong.
Risk's outcome has some small portion strategy, but a large portion of it is the outcome of head-to-head rolls of the dice. That is very much based on random luck.
I don't have too much hope for the Pluto probe finding much of anything scientifically worth while -- but as an American I am definitely interested and willing to fund more in depth explorations of Titan, Io, and Europa. Take the 100 Billion USD or so from the wars on drugs and for oil and put it directly into the space program. (Or, better, return it to the economy directly.)
come up with such a system that protects you being susceptible to intimidation. your own access to your recorded vote outside of the voting booth of necessity grants access to your recorded vote to anyone who "convinces" you it is worthwhile to show them your vote.
i still don't see the problem with simple scantron "fill in the bubble" voting sheets. fill them in, take them to a machine and feed it in. the machine displays the votes on screen that it is about to record. you confirm that "yup, the machine read it correctly" and hit "submit". the vote is counted and your sheet is held by the machine. if you say "hey, that's not what i voted" you hit "cancel" and the sheet is marked clearly as a cancelled sheet, not counted, and you go get another sheet.
or, we have people count the votes and trust the people to count honestly and correctly.
I can't really think of any third party games in the 2007 release list that aren't first party games that I'm that excited about.
Ubi soft has quite a few things lined up for the Wii, particularly the early-2007 title Blazing Angels (already released on XBox360). They are already talking about Red Steel 2 as well.
EA has its usual sports games, as well as some other franchises, such as Medal of Honor: Airborne.
Capcom is releasing a Resident Evil on the Wii in 2007.
Square Enix is releasing a Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles title.
Sega is putting out a new Sonic.
NIBRIS is releasing Sadness (which I'm very much looking forward to, hoping it has something new to the genre like Eternal Darkness did).
Yeah, it's a short list so far. But hey, that first party list isn't too shabby:
Super Mario Galaxy Metroid 3 Fire Emblem Super Smash Bros. Pilotwings
Well, the collapse of the economy doesn't have to be massive inflation. It could be deflation, it could be simple and straight-forward devaluation. It could be utter and total collapse, in which case what pieces of paper say who owed which to whom aren't worth the paper they are printed on. Anyway, if it's deflation (which I don't think is likely but hey, this is all mental wankery at this point) then lots of debt is pretty bad news.
1. lot of fixed-rate 0% loans, especially for cars. student loan rates can be as low as 5% fixed, many home mortgages are in the 6.5 percent fixed range. 2. this was obviously (i think) addressing -high inflation- not the current inflation -- remember the parent was talking about the re-something of the economy, presumably meaning high inflation.
massive deflation is terrifically worse for debt-holders. inflation benefits capital holders like land-owners, machine-owners, etc. deflation benefits cash-holders, whether it is in the bank (if they don't collapse) or buried in the backyard. for fixed rate debt (student loans, mortgage, etc) massive inflation tends to effectively massively reduce the relative amount of debt compared to your income. if $1000 of USD suddenly became worth $100 of real goods or labor (massive inflation) then each $1000 of USD debt can now be erased by $100 of selling real goods or labor.
If I both liked Shrek II and The Motorcycle Diaries and Maria Full of Grace, and you liked Shrek II, does this mean you'll like the other 2? Absolutely not necessarily. The problem with the recommendation system is the limitation in -expression- of rating. A 1 to 5 star scale for every movie? It will never work.
Combine tagging with rating and you'll find a much better recommendation system.
i.e.: "Shrek II: cartoon, comedy, satire, Mike Myers; 4.5 stars" vs. "Shrek II: 4.5 stars" and "The Motorcycle Diaries: documentary-like, Che Guevara, cinematography-driven, story-driven, soundtrack-driven; 5 stars" vs. "The Motorcycle Diaries: 5 stars".
Then you start to do more than correllate which films are well-liked and which ones aren't. You start to correllate sense of humor, style, etc.
On iTunes, one of the better features for me is the iMix. Let's say I like some Mason Jennings song. It shows up on a few iMixes, so I check out those iMixes and find songs I like, be it Jose Gonzalez, Teitur, Alexi Murdoch, Patrick Park, whomever. It beats the crap out of Apple's "Just for You" recommendations, which are skewed to hell because I've bought some Madonna songs (and maybe a few others) that are simply -too popular- and completely mess up the bulk of the recommendations because of the sheer number of connections those few songs have.
if you have fixed-rate debt at, say, $100,000, and there is a massive round of inflation, isn't this helpful in effectively reducing your debt? because you can just re-sell your old shoes for a wheelbarrowful of 100 dollar bills and use that to pay off your mortgage.
What. The. ??. I'm in NC. The state didn't decide it was "illegal" to put Libertarian candidates on the ballot, the state has ballot access requirements that apply to all parties. We're not being singled out because we're libertarian, we're singled out because we can't get 2 percent of the voters to agree that we're a party worth voting for. If we're less than 2 percent, then why the hell should we be on the ballot?
(Note: this is only my opinion as applied in the insanely stupid current election method of plurality "vote for one of these" which is among the worst possible systems. If NC had Condorcet or approval voting then hell make the bar 0.5 percent and bring on the 6-candidate races. Otherwise we *will* end up with more Perots, Buchanans, and Naders, and thus election results that do not match the people's true choice.)
In short: even parties with 5, 10, even 15 percent support can have only a negative effect on the outcome of a general single-winner election where there are multiple clear favorites -- negative because of the candidates that might win, the 5-10 percent "noise" is likely to have the effect only of negatively affecting the voice of the people in actually picking the person who will actually hold office.
I am a registered NC "Independent" and have voted Libertarian in several election races. We need to get rid of plurality voting, and/or provide a run-off election with 2 choices for all races with more than 2 candidates, and then my support of the "ballot blocking" policies of NC will disappear like a fart in the wind. Until then it is, to me, a necessary barrier to duct-tape the FUBAR nature of our voting system.
The Democrats, who want to place restrictions on games for various "social issues" reasons, or the Republicans, who want to place restrictions on games for religious reasons? I guess you go with the Democrats, because you can at least reason with them...?
If I want an openid compatible service why wouldn't I just sign up with myopenid.com ? (Actually I have, it works to post livejournal comments, log into zooomr, etc.)
the myspace development allowing myspace musicians to sell "vanilla" mp3 downloads is pretty interesting. there are a few good artists on myspace, have to see who buys into this model. (jose gonzalez, alexi murdoch, sufjan stevens, etc.)
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I would say that music has been extrapolated from 600-year-old carvings, not 'decoded'.
> If you feel it necessary to carry a lethal weapon in order to feel safe, something is very very wrong.
Yes. Here is what is wrong:
1. There are people whose minds are so messed up that they heavily arm and vest themselves and go shoot over 50 people.
2. Police response times are pathetic. Even if you can get someone to answer the phone on 9-11, by the time you can explain to them what's going on you're face-to-face with someone trying to kill you and do worse to your family.
The situation and lack of safety is wrong. Wanting to be able to protect myself and my family in an unsafe world is not wrong.
how about stopping income-related tax by forming proxy-based economies that operate outside the jurisdiction of the IRS?
hot naked chicks. next question.
a recent refresher course has really stressed chest compressions over air as well. 30 compressions per two breaths.
guess i won't have to bother weighing whether or not to buy yet another unreal-based FPS, only *this* time with *shinier* graphics!!!!!111eleventy.
disturbing.
Risk's outcome has some small portion strategy, but a large portion of it is the outcome of head-to-head rolls of the dice. That is very much based on random luck.
Darwin's theory does not concern itself with the origin of life, only the evolution of it.
I don't have too much hope for the Pluto probe finding much of anything scientifically worth while -- but as an American I am definitely interested and willing to fund more in depth explorations of Titan, Io, and Europa. Take the 100 Billion USD or so from the wars on drugs and for oil and put it directly into the space program. (Or, better, return it to the economy directly.)
> Man, just imagine the global warming FUD you'd have to put up with in a Titanese colony...
"People of Titan: if we do not change things, in another nearly 200 degrees Celsius, we're going to have a major problem."
come up with such a system that protects you being susceptible to intimidation. your own access to your recorded vote outside of the voting booth of necessity grants access to your recorded vote to anyone who "convinces" you it is worthwhile to show them your vote.
i still don't see the problem with simple scantron "fill in the bubble" voting sheets. fill them in, take them to a machine and feed it in. the machine displays the votes on screen that it is about to record. you confirm that "yup, the machine read it correctly" and hit "submit". the vote is counted and your sheet is held by the machine. if you say "hey, that's not what i voted" you hit "cancel" and the sheet is marked clearly as a cancelled sheet, not counted, and you go get another sheet.
or, we have people count the votes and trust the people to count honestly and correctly.
I can't really think of any third party games in the 2007 release list that aren't first party games that I'm that excited about.
Ubi soft has quite a few things lined up for the Wii, particularly the early-2007 title Blazing Angels (already released on XBox360). They are already talking about Red Steel 2 as well.
EA has its usual sports games, as well as some other franchises, such as Medal of Honor: Airborne.
Capcom is releasing a Resident Evil on the Wii in 2007.
Square Enix is releasing a Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles title.
Sega is putting out a new Sonic.
NIBRIS is releasing Sadness (which I'm very much looking forward to, hoping it has something new to the genre like Eternal Darkness did).
Yeah, it's a short list so far. But hey, that first party list isn't too shabby:
Super Mario Galaxy
Metroid 3
Fire Emblem
Super Smash Bros.
Pilotwings
so shall ye sow.
you mean like Dark and Light advertises?
bullseye.
Well, the collapse of the economy doesn't have to be massive inflation. It could be deflation, it could be simple and straight-forward devaluation. It could be utter and total collapse, in which case what pieces of paper say who owed which to whom aren't worth the paper they are printed on. Anyway, if it's deflation (which I don't think is likely but hey, this is all mental wankery at this point) then lots of debt is pretty bad news.
1. lot of fixed-rate 0% loans, especially for cars. student loan rates can be as low as 5% fixed, many home mortgages are in the 6.5 percent fixed range.
2. this was obviously (i think) addressing -high inflation- not the current inflation -- remember the parent was talking about the re-something of the economy, presumably meaning high inflation.
massive deflation is terrifically worse for debt-holders. inflation benefits capital holders like land-owners, machine-owners, etc. deflation benefits cash-holders, whether it is in the bank (if they don't collapse) or buried in the backyard. for fixed rate debt (student loans, mortgage, etc) massive inflation tends to effectively massively reduce the relative amount of debt compared to your income. if $1000 of USD suddenly became worth $100 of real goods or labor (massive inflation) then each $1000 of USD debt can now be erased by $100 of selling real goods or labor.
If I both liked Shrek II and The Motorcycle Diaries and Maria Full of Grace, and you liked Shrek II, does this mean you'll like the other 2? Absolutely not necessarily. The problem with the recommendation system is the limitation in -expression- of rating. A 1 to 5 star scale for every movie? It will never work.
Combine tagging with rating and you'll find a much better recommendation system.
i.e.: "Shrek II: cartoon, comedy, satire, Mike Myers; 4.5 stars" vs. "Shrek II: 4.5 stars" and "The Motorcycle Diaries: documentary-like, Che Guevara, cinematography-driven, story-driven, soundtrack-driven; 5 stars" vs. "The Motorcycle Diaries: 5 stars".
Then you start to do more than correllate which films are well-liked and which ones aren't. You start to correllate sense of humor, style, etc.
On iTunes, one of the better features for me is the iMix. Let's say I like some Mason Jennings song. It shows up on a few iMixes, so I check out those iMixes and find songs I like, be it Jose Gonzalez, Teitur, Alexi Murdoch, Patrick Park, whomever. It beats the crap out of Apple's "Just for You" recommendations, which are skewed to hell because I've bought some Madonna songs (and maybe a few others) that are simply -too popular- and completely mess up the bulk of the recommendations because of the sheer number of connections those few songs have.
if you have fixed-rate debt at, say, $100,000, and there is a massive round of inflation, isn't this helpful in effectively reducing your debt? because you can just re-sell your old shoes for a wheelbarrowful of 100 dollar bills and use that to pay off your mortgage.
What. The. ??. I'm in NC. The state didn't decide it was "illegal" to put Libertarian candidates on the ballot, the state has ballot access requirements that apply to all parties. We're not being singled out because we're libertarian, we're singled out because we can't get 2 percent of the voters to agree that we're a party worth voting for. If we're less than 2 percent, then why the hell should we be on the ballot?
(Note: this is only my opinion as applied in the insanely stupid current election method of plurality "vote for one of these" which is among the worst possible systems. If NC had Condorcet or approval voting then hell make the bar 0.5 percent and bring on the 6-candidate races. Otherwise we *will* end up with more Perots, Buchanans, and Naders, and thus election results that do not match the people's true choice.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect
In short: even parties with 5, 10, even 15 percent support can have only a negative effect on the outcome of a general single-winner election where there are multiple clear favorites -- negative because of the candidates that might win, the 5-10 percent "noise" is likely to have the effect only of negatively affecting the voice of the people in actually picking the person who will actually hold office.
I am a registered NC "Independent" and have voted Libertarian in several election races. We need to get rid of plurality voting, and/or provide a run-off election with 2 choices for all races with more than 2 candidates, and then my support of the "ballot blocking" policies of NC will disappear like a fart in the wind. Until then it is, to me, a necessary barrier to duct-tape the FUBAR nature of our voting system.
The Democrats, who want to place restrictions on games for various "social issues" reasons, or the Republicans, who want to place restrictions on games for religious reasons? I guess you go with the Democrats, because you can at least reason with them...?
If I want an openid compatible service why wouldn't I just sign up with myopenid.com ? (Actually I have, it works to post livejournal comments, log into zooomr, etc.)
5,000 hours at $50/hr is only $250,000 which is chump change for such a movie.
the myspace development allowing myspace musicians to sell "vanilla" mp3 downloads is pretty interesting. there are a few good artists on myspace, have to see who buys into this model. (jose gonzalez, alexi murdoch, sufjan stevens, etc.)