Your automotive analogy is actually quite correct. Engines are getting better and better. The problem is cars are getting more and more equipment and therefore weight more.
Top gear compared a VW Golf R32. Weight went double so power also had to double to compensate the equipment weight (heated seats and all that crap). So, more bloat, more power. I the end the energy consumption is maintained while the engines become more efficient.
"possibility of making choices directly related to the issues at hand"
Some democracies do have that (i.e. Switzerland). Then the issue turns to propaganda by the parties with the most money (i.e. banks financing them) and dimwitted voters that get convinced to vote on something due to scare tactics.
Typical Russian propaganda. If you go to the Kremlim for a visit. You'll see the Tsar cannon. A big ass cannon old that was probably never fired but showed any would be attacker that they meant business.
They are smart. Image the complexity of ransom. How do you get paid without getting traced? Who do you contact (1800-OUTBACKRAMSON)? How do you know what's important and what's not? It's probably safer to steal bigger volume for a small profit. People watch too much TV.
I don't get it, retail or online HL2 is the same. I bought mine retail (in Asia by the way), installed from the disks, create a STEAM account. Today with broadband I don't even bother playing disk-jokey. I install STEAM on my new computers and let it download HL2.
My new graphics card came with a STEAM game, I have a DVD but in the end I took a wrong turn and ended up downloading it. In any case, retail or download it's the same.
It's crap that Valve is abusing STEAM with international purchases. It's legal to do it, and their problem they want to segregate the market artificially.
Flooding is no problem if you have a double-wall, pumps and redundant tubing downstream.
Top floor datacenters are no longuer very desirable after certain planes crashed in certain towers. Plus it makes it easier to break into.
Be sure to wait for the guy who jumped in the slide before you to clear the slide while tons of rocket fuel burn.
Or risk killing him by crashing into him at the end.
What? Licensing is for using explosives, not to have knowledge of them.
There is a big difference there. Where I live, I'm required to learn how to use a rifle (mandatory military service). This doesn't give me a license to use one.
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Your sig couldn't be more appropriate with your message:-).
less gun-friendly policies
Not part of the EU but here in Switzerland the gun lobby made sure the policies are quite friendly to them. No politician wants to touch that with all the foreign currency coming in from weapons exports. Time to time the mandatory assault rifle at home for all service-man policy (with military service mandatory for all males) makes a scandal when some guy goes Rambo but then they hush it with "values of tradition" and other crap and everybody forgets about it. And nobody talks about the use of such rifle involved and way too many suicides.
But yeah, lets blame video games and leave the weapons in the hands of the people... Like we need them! It's bloody Switzerland, not Israel.
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Singapore? The fascist city-state? Yeah, great privacy and freedom there. Just don't throw your gum on the floor or you'll get your lashed.
To support what you say, Microsoft said that Vista and Windows 2008 Server where supposed to be the last OS to be available in 32-bit versions.
Why the hell would they do that? It would be stupid design.
So don't state it like its sort of a fact.
Your automotive analogy is actually quite correct. Engines are getting better and better. The problem is cars are getting more and more equipment and therefore weight more.
Top gear compared a VW Golf R32. Weight went double so power also had to double to compensate the equipment weight (heated seats and all that crap). So, more bloat, more power. I the end the energy consumption is maintained while the engines become more efficient.
1971 with 80GB??? It's not high-end, it's NSA-end at those times. In 1990 I had a 20GB HDD, and I partitioned it in two.
"possibility of making choices directly related to the issues at hand"
Some democracies do have that (i.e. Switzerland). Then the issue turns to propaganda by the parties with the most money (i.e. banks financing them) and dimwitted voters that get convinced to vote on something due to scare tactics.
PS: I'm not happy that the majority of the country just put a xenophobic right-wing party as the majority of the parlament (their main campaign banner http://www.typo3start.ch/sites/ausschaffungf/typo3temp/GB/277c1c9ee8.png).
Typical Russian propaganda. If you go to the Kremlim for a visit. You'll see the Tsar cannon. A big ass cannon old that was probably never fired but showed any would be attacker that they meant business.
And... it... has... Wiliam... Shakner... narrating.
They are smart. Image the complexity of ransom. How do you get paid without getting traced? Who do you contact (1800-OUTBACKRAMSON)? How do you know what's important and what's not?
It's probably safer to steal bigger volume for a small profit. People watch too much TV.
I RTFA with the Postal Service song "From a great height" looping in my head.
Get the clip and you'll understand why.
I don't get it, retail or online HL2 is the same. I bought mine retail (in Asia by the way), installed from the disks, create a STEAM account. Today with broadband I don't even bother playing disk-jokey. I install STEAM on my new computers and let it download HL2.
My new graphics card came with a STEAM game, I have a DVD but in the end I took a wrong turn and ended up downloading it. In any case, retail or download it's the same.
It's crap that Valve is abusing STEAM with international purchases. It's legal to do it, and their problem they want to segregate the market artificially.
Yeah, they use pseudo-scientific apparatus, mythbusters could test those.
I've heard of an European country where they do that. They impound your car, if proven guilty of extreme speeding, your car gets crunched.
Flooding is no problem if you have a double-wall, pumps and redundant tubing downstream. Top floor datacenters are no longuer very desirable after certain planes crashed in certain towers. Plus it makes it easier to break into.
Buy a power strip with an off switch. When I turn my PC off, I turn the strip off. Wifi, screen... everything will be 100% off.
Be sure to wait for the guy who jumped in the slide before you to clear the slide while tons of rocket fuel burn. Or risk killing him by crashing into him at the end.
Get your facts straight guys. She's in Vegas now. That's in Nevada, same state where they did nuke tests. There is still hope.
Correction "Cardinal of the Kremlin" was about an anti-missile laser. Zapping missile silos before they ever leave.
Looks fine by me.
Spain as a provider for fuel sounds much safer to me then Iraq, Iran etc...
"Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name."
Thanks for the wikipedia link!
What? Licensing is for using explosives, not to have knowledge of them.
There is a big difference there. Where I live, I'm required to learn how to use a rifle (mandatory military service). This doesn't give me a license to use one.
Your sig couldn't be more appropriate with your message :-).
less gun-friendly policies
Not part of the EU but here in Switzerland the gun lobby made sure the policies are quite friendly to them. No politician wants to touch that with all the foreign currency coming in from weapons exports. Time to time the mandatory assault rifle at home for all service-man policy (with military service mandatory for all males) makes a scandal when some guy goes Rambo but then they hush it with "values of tradition" and other crap and everybody forgets about it. And nobody talks about the use of such rifle involved and way too many suicides.
But yeah, lets blame video games and leave the weapons in the hands of the people... Like we need them! It's bloody Switzerland, not Israel.
Go watch "Dexter" for that sort of father-son relationship: http://imdb.com/title/tt0773262/