So you suggest to cross examine The Bible in front of a judge until it starts to contradict itsself and becomes a totally unrelyable witness?
That could be a viable strategy. But it could take a lot of time since it is an awefully thick book and they print it on very thin paper. Jury! Disregard anything that book said.
Please rush me my portable walrus polishing kit. Four super brushes to tackle even the trickiest of sea-bound mammals. Yes, I am over 18, although my IQ isn’t.
The things that got kickstarted would propably have found other funding. That's true.
But what Kickstarter has changed is that Joe Average could chip in. In the olden days all this stuff would have been funded by the usual suspects.
In the case of video games I have to say that a lot of the things that got kickstarted had been ignored by the big publishers for decades in some cases. Those don't touch anything that's not Battlefries 5: Whatever. New Post Processing! More Polgons! More Emotion! A New Era For Entertainment! The Same Old Shit Done So Well You Won't Notice! Suckers!
A spiritual successor for Planescape: Torment, Wasteland, Elite...weren't picked up for 10 years upwards. Yet ask Joe Schmoe and he starts throwing money at the screen, squealing like a piggie! They propably would have gotten the money elsewhere but certainly not Big Publishers(the ones that aren't bankrupt or close to it). And the squealing like a piggie bit wouldn't have been done by the publishers.
Also it DESPERATELY needs false samples. This test needs atheist labeled packages which in reality contain Al Bundy's Godly And Divine shoes.
If those weren't nicked then we could conclude that the postal workers use Divine Powers to find the heathen payloads.
Or they could also lose them all and let God sort them out.
Crack that whip! Deliver those mails you Cherubim and Seraphim! Mail for the Mail God!
They didn't send out enough packages to be able to conclude anything other than the USPS giving a really shitty and unrelyable service. We'd need a couple of thousands more to conclude anything else. Also you'd have to factor in if the USPS had a really bad day.
Thoe plugs look like the behemoth German SchuKo plugs. But the beer looks a bit crap.
Have they yet received their Darwin Award?
Or maybe this is a Fraunhofer office party celebrating a new form of electricity that doesn't short in water? Or maybe they are bathing in distilled water(which could also be worthy of a Darwin Award)? Or very thin insulating full body suits?
There is only one level of stupidity in this picture but several other levels of potential genious!
By European standards the US is mostly uninhabited. There are very few uncovered spots in Europe and you mostly get at least 2-3 carriers.
In the US....not so much. Take a look at a light map of mainland North America and yo will see why a lot of it isn't fully covered.
Also remember that in Europe things like these are fiercely watched. If a bunch of telcos carved up the place into bits and agreed not to sriously compete they'd be in a proper spot of bother on a national and on an EU level. Fines tend not to be a mere slap on the wrist.
OTOH LTE hasn't yet really taken off, either.
You do that.
I keep trying to complete Die Grosse Fuge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0Mp7LFI-k in my head. That would take a couple of brains. It's like juggling marmots on a unicylce while learning astrophysics from scratch and being slapped with a couple of trouts dressed in tutus singing the whole blody thing in reverse.
OR you can play the Pineapple Rag in your head. It is insidious itsself but at least it improves the mood.
Why would I need a browser extension that transforms butt to butt? Does it change the character encoding? Is there more to it than changing each occurrence of butt to butt?
In other news: set the phasors to "very install on my PHB's PC". It's a matter of self-defense, really. Since I can't sue for mental anguish this might open him up to a sexual harrassment lawsuit when all he goes on about is butts.
Coming to think of it: the only president that doesn't need hanging was Jimmy Carter.
None of those presidents were deliberately acting against U.S. interest (except Nixon). Of course, if you allow yourself the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, Carter also did some things that were highly detrimental to the U.S.'s strategic interests—arming the mujahideen, for example:
In 1979, he began arming and providing funds for the mujahideen in Afghanistan to help them topple their government out of fear that communism would spread to the Middle East and would dry up our oil supply.
After the Soviet Union fell (under Bush Sr.), the U.S. stopped funding them.
They started to hate the U.S. for supporting and prolonging the war but not helping build their country back up afterwards.
Portions of the mujahideen became what we now know as the Taliban.
The Taliban, in turn, trained and protected Al Qaeda, who hijacked American planes and flew them into buildings about 11.5 years ago.
The Taliban are also killing American troops in Afghanistan now with weapons that the U.S. government gave them.
Of course, Reagan expanded the program significantly, and Bush cut off funds and failed to take any actions to stabilize Afghanistan after the Soviets left. But Bush's decision not to interfere would not have mattered as much had Carter not interfered in the first place.
The funny thing is that France and the UK are currently calling for arming Syrian rebels. We've lost count of Syrian rebel factions and now they start shooting at each other. Exactly what the country needs. More guns. Because they will gladly give them back when they are done with Assad...
I have a The Guardian subscription and sometimes they come over all breathless. Today's edition is all doom&gloom. But having read up on the new budget for 2013 I'm thinking that the UK might actually be one of the worst run countries in Europe.
You have to understand that there is quite a lot of cultural bias going on between the two of us.
We do not have a yellow press like the UK does. Even the worst German rag comes over informative and reasonable when held against what the UK has to offer. And our serious newspapers(the print editions) give the impression of being written by very toughtful, very grey-faced and very old men.
The Guardian is by any means leaning heavily to the left. And rightfully so. Somebody needs to provide a counterweight to the rest of the press. But liberal? As in "hands off" liberal? As in "don't interfere" liberal? Surely not. They are liberal in the sense of "don't bash gays, religion isn't that important, let's teach our children properly".
Left, right, liberal, conservative, social-democratic...these are outmoded terms. They are far too often used as an intellectual crutch. You need to think about issues instead of relying on ideology. So I honestly can't tell if I'm a left or right winger.
Which is why a political's party manifest is quite long. "We are liberal" doesn't cut it. Question might be asked, you know?
This is quite spot on. The call for being given "facts" is amazing since we can only give the perception of "facts". Observations at best.
That fundamental problem still doesn't absolve everybody involved hunting high and low for anything that would back up their preconceptions. And that was the main problem.
There was no search for intelligence. There was a search for a justificatiion to go to war.
In retrospect the CIA had failed miserably because it let itsself be used.
Each bit of intelligence has a certainty attached to it. Nobody can be 100% sure of anything. But this was swept under the rug. The whole "Curveball" fiasko were it turned out that the whole pro-war argument relied heavily on just one source. A dodgy one at that! This will remain a stain on the global intelligence community forever.
Caveat:
I'm writing this from memory and based on various press news sources. I'm not 100% sure this is how it happened.
Yeah, I also never heard of it. Werwolf simply didn't happen. People were so sick with fighting and nobody was a Nazi(Oh no! Not me!) and everybody was busy rebuilding and worried about the Russians.
There were attacks by left-wing terrorists(although the RAF preferred killing single corporate fat cats) and a Lybia sponsored bombing. Lotsa protest against rearming Germany and stationing nuclear weapons in Germany. Otherwise the Allied occupation became one giant kegger.
Just some time ago somebody unearthed dossiers about how likely the German minister of defense was to seize US nuclear weapons stationed in Germany. That was greeted with roaring laughter.
I knew all this stuff at the time. From public radio and the web. The pro-war people I talked to didn't give a damn. Remember, the nation had 9/11 fever. It was unamerican not to give the president full support no matter how stupid his actions seemed. Twitter would have been full of that too.
It was a crazy time. Even renaming "french fries" into "freedom fries" was considered to be reasonable.
Very few asked about the game plan after Iraq was conquered. There was the distinct notion that the Allied forces would be welcomed with cheers.
This was the final insult to everbody who risked life and limb in that war. Not only was the whole war based on falsehoods and fabrication. It was not planned. At all.
There were no plans for after the war. There were no plans how to achieve the overall goal of a stable region in that part of the world. They left it to soldiers to teach the people how to rebuild. To to be democratic. How to be peaceful. Without telling them how to go about that.
And it was seriously expected peace, stability and pleasantness would happen within months. By default. Frankly, this would have taken generations. But nobody wanted to commit to this. It's like post-war Europe never happened and there was no lesson to be learned from that.
This has to be the most amateurish war ever fought.
I wonder how much of the news and comments was more or less direct propaganda work by USA and Israel. And attacking Iraq, had been the plan of Project for the New American Century for several years. Something similar seems to be happening to Iran at the moment.
It was propaganda.
I still feel the disgust about the concept of "embedded journalists". That was the day the independent press in the US died.
Everybody licked up every White House press release and ignored strong BS indicators in fear of losing their White House contacts.
I read a couple of newspapers on my Kindle. I use news sources all over the world(well, I only speak French, German and English which of course limits my choice). But I have given up on all US news sources. They add nothing. Even the crazy overexcited Guradian is better when taken with a grain of salt.
My problem isn't Fox. They are easily avoidable. My problem are the likes of CNN which SHOULD be serious news sources but lost credibility in 2003.
Sadly, investigative press standards have declined over the past 20 years. This is a worldwide phenomenon. Everybody rushes to get the news out NOW instead of tomorrow morning. It is as if nobody even sits down to think for a bit before publishing. Multi-month investigations also seem to be a thing of the past.
Yeah, but the EA fiscal year ends at the end of March. Believe me, at CEO level you only deal with strategy and how much you made in that quarter and how you make your projections for the next quarter. SimCity might have saved him if he had gotten more of those massive sales into this fiscal year(read: rushed it out for the holiday season). SimCity only interests shareholders that actually play the game.
He's taking the fall because EA will publish dismal figures by the end of March.
EA has been in a downward spiral for some time now. And that has everything to do with the general strategy of the company. The reliance on high-risk AAA games, EAs failure to tap into the lucrative mobile market, the non-starter of their "indie" label, buying and closing down expensive studios, the launch of Origin to the sound of crickets...
The SimCity kerfuffle is a drop in the bucket. And I highly doubt it was a financial desaster. They sold a lot of copies of it and that's what shareholders care about.
EA has been a company to avoid for some time. The amount of hassle involved as a legitimate customer is a bit higher than anything Ubi or GfW will throw your way. Origin, UPlay and Games for Windows are clear indicators(to me at least) that I may have to count myself lucky if I can play the game at all.
The strategy to launch highly expensive AAA games with a Michael Bay sized budget has proven to be unsustainable. You run a very high risk not to make any money on the game even if you sold gazillion copies of it. People laughed when EA announced they wanted to launch an "indie" label. But that made quite a lot of sense, actually. If you can sell cheaper games with a lot less production cost you have a lot less risk involved.
as a really old school gamer I can't see the appeal of AAA games anyway. The cutscenes get in the way. All that voice acting makes for a very narrow plot. You have no emergent gameplay. And most of the time one game mechanic is enough.
They were awefully quick to present themselves as a potential console developer at CES. They had a working solution way before Sony cameout of the woodworks with their PS3. All they had to do is slap together some stock hardware, give it a snappy name(which we have subsequently forgotten) and they created quite some buzz with it.
Now imagine what they could do if they actually tried...
Yep, smart things are an actual growth market. Which consoles aren't. I would say Tegra devices outnumber consoles by a factor of 10. If not more. Which is a gut feeling...grain of salt etcetera...
Also cheap Android consoles are turning up left, right and center. Same goes for media devices. Those things are becoming quite common. SmartTVs are Androids, phones are Androids, consoles are Androids, tablets are Androids...
And nVidia has been hooking developers on their Tegra devices for quite some time. So they are VERY consistent when it comes to following their strategy. They made it very clear at CES that mobile/lightweight gaming is what they bet the farmon. And if they take a look on their earnings for the current-gen consoles and they say it wasn't worth it I would tend to trust them on it.
I use my PS3 controller for playing games and controlling presentations on my tablet.
You can use stock peripherals on an Android tablet. It's quite trivial.
Just for kicks I tried using a 20 bucks wireless keyboard and mouse that came with a USB receiver. It wokred without fiddling with any system settings.
It's trivial. People simply haven't tried it yet.
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So you suggest to cross examine The Bible in front of a judge until it starts to contradict itsself and becomes a totally unrelyable witness?
That could be a viable strategy. But it could take a lot of time since it is an awefully thick book and they print it on very thin paper.
Jury! Disregard anything that book said.
Please rush me my portable walrus polishing kit. Four super brushes to tackle even the trickiest of sea-bound mammals. Yes, I am over 18, although my IQ isn’t.
Kudos again go to Red Dwarf.
The things that got kickstarted would propably have found other funding. That's true.
But what Kickstarter has changed is that Joe Average could chip in. In the olden days all this stuff would have been funded by the usual suspects.
In the case of video games I have to say that a lot of the things that got kickstarted had been ignored by the big publishers for decades in some cases. Those don't touch anything that's not Battlefries 5: Whatever. New Post Processing! More Polgons! More Emotion! A New Era For Entertainment! The Same Old Shit Done So Well You Won't Notice! Suckers!
A spiritual successor for Planescape: Torment, Wasteland, Elite...weren't picked up for 10 years upwards. Yet ask Joe Schmoe and he starts throwing money at the screen, squealing like a piggie! They propably would have gotten the money elsewhere but certainly not Big Publishers(the ones that aren't bankrupt or close to it). And the squealing like a piggie bit wouldn't have been done by the publishers.
A new way to fund stuff is never bad.
Also it DESPERATELY needs false samples. This test needs atheist labeled packages which in reality contain Al Bundy's Godly And Divine shoes.
If those weren't nicked then we could conclude that the postal workers use Divine Powers to find the heathen payloads.
Or they could also lose them all and let God sort them out.
Crack that whip! Deliver those mails you Cherubim and Seraphim! Mail for the Mail God!
They didn't send out enough packages to be able to conclude anything other than the USPS giving a really shitty and unrelyable service. We'd need a couple of thousands more to conclude anything else. Also you'd have to factor in if the USPS had a really bad day.
Most products are agnostic, really.
but these are shoes. they can go to either heaven or hell 'cause they've got soles.
Kudos to Red Dwarf.
Thoe plugs look like the behemoth German SchuKo plugs. But the beer looks a bit crap.
Have they yet received their Darwin Award?
Or maybe this is a Fraunhofer office party celebrating a new form of electricity that doesn't short in water? Or maybe they are bathing in distilled water(which could also be worthy of a Darwin Award)? Or very thin insulating full body suits?
There is only one level of stupidity in this picture but several other levels of potential genious!
The beer still looks crap.
By European standards the US is mostly uninhabited. There are very few uncovered spots in Europe and you mostly get at least 2-3 carriers.
In the US....not so much. Take a look at a light map of mainland North America and yo will see why a lot of it isn't fully covered.
Also remember that in Europe things like these are fiercely watched. If a bunch of telcos carved up the place into bits and agreed not to sriously compete they'd be in a proper spot of bother on a national and on an EU level. Fines tend not to be a mere slap on the wrist.
OTOH LTE hasn't yet really taken off, either.
You do that.
I keep trying to complete Die Grosse Fuge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0Mp7LFI-k in my head. That would take a couple of brains. It's like juggling marmots on a unicylce while learning astrophysics from scratch and being slapped with a couple of trouts dressed in tutus singing the whole blody thing in reverse.
OR you can play the Pineapple Rag in your head. It is insidious itsself but at least it improves the mood.
Why would I need a browser extension that transforms butt to butt? Does it change the character encoding? Is there more to it than changing each occurrence of butt to butt?
In other news: set the phasors to "very install on my PHB's PC". It's a matter of self-defense, really. Since I can't sue for mental anguish this might open him up to a sexual harrassment lawsuit when all he goes on about is butts.
Microsoft!
Ever after their journey to Damascus they never were quite the same again.
None of those presidents were deliberately acting against U.S. interest (except Nixon). Of course, if you allow yourself the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, Carter also did some things that were highly detrimental to the U.S.'s strategic interests—arming the mujahideen, for example:
Of course, Reagan expanded the program significantly, and Bush cut off funds and failed to take any actions to stabilize Afghanistan after the Soviets left. But Bush's decision not to interfere would not have mattered as much had Carter not interfered in the first place.
The funny thing is that France and the UK are currently calling for arming Syrian rebels. We've lost count of Syrian rebel factions and now they start shooting at each other. Exactly what the country needs. More guns. Because they will gladly give them back when they are done with Assad...
And people say history doesn't move in circles...
Ah. Screw it. Let's hang them all.
What about senators? Are those allowed to live?
And hang Bill Clinton right next to him. He was quite happy to send missiles to kill brown people in the 90ies.
Coming to think of it: the only president that doesn't need hanging was Jimmy Carter.
I have a The Guardian subscription and sometimes they come over all breathless. Today's edition is all doom&gloom. But having read up on the new budget for 2013 I'm thinking that the UK might actually be one of the worst run countries in Europe.
You have to understand that there is quite a lot of cultural bias going on between the two of us.
We do not have a yellow press like the UK does. Even the worst German rag comes over informative and reasonable when held against what the UK has to offer. And our serious newspapers(the print editions) give the impression of being written by very toughtful, very grey-faced and very old men.
The Guardian is by any means leaning heavily to the left. And rightfully so. Somebody needs to provide a counterweight to the rest of the press. But liberal? As in "hands off" liberal? As in "don't interfere" liberal? Surely not. They are liberal in the sense of "don't bash gays, religion isn't that important, let's teach our children properly".
Left, right, liberal, conservative, social-democratic...these are outmoded terms. They are far too often used as an intellectual crutch. You need to think about issues instead of relying on ideology. So I honestly can't tell if I'm a left or right winger.
Which is why a political's party manifest is quite long. "We are liberal" doesn't cut it. Question might be asked, you know?
This is quite spot on. The call for being given "facts" is amazing since we can only give the perception of "facts". Observations at best.
That fundamental problem still doesn't absolve everybody involved hunting high and low for anything that would back up their preconceptions. And that was the main problem.
There was no search for intelligence. There was a search for a justificatiion to go to war.
In retrospect the CIA had failed miserably because it let itsself be used.
Each bit of intelligence has a certainty attached to it. Nobody can be 100% sure of anything. But this was swept under the rug. The whole "Curveball" fiasko were it turned out that the whole pro-war argument relied heavily on just one source. A dodgy one at that! This will remain a stain on the global intelligence community forever.
Caveat:
I'm writing this from memory and based on various press news sources. I'm not 100% sure this is how it happened.
Yeah, I also never heard of it. Werwolf simply didn't happen. People were so sick with fighting and nobody was a Nazi(Oh no! Not me!) and everybody was busy rebuilding and worried about the Russians.
There were attacks by left-wing terrorists(although the RAF preferred killing single corporate fat cats) and a Lybia sponsored bombing. Lotsa protest against rearming Germany and stationing nuclear weapons in Germany. Otherwise the Allied occupation became one giant kegger.
Just some time ago somebody unearthed dossiers about how likely the German minister of defense was to seize US nuclear weapons stationed in Germany. That was greeted with roaring laughter.
I knew all this stuff at the time. From public radio and the web. The pro-war people I talked to didn't give a damn. Remember, the nation had 9/11 fever. It was unamerican not to give the president full support no matter how stupid his actions seemed. Twitter would have been full of that too.
It was a crazy time. Even renaming "french fries" into "freedom fries" was considered to be reasonable.
Very few asked about the game plan after Iraq was conquered. There was the distinct notion that the Allied forces would be welcomed with cheers.
This was the final insult to everbody who risked life and limb in that war. Not only was the whole war based on falsehoods and fabrication. It was not planned. At all.
There were no plans for after the war. There were no plans how to achieve the overall goal of a stable region in that part of the world. They left it to soldiers to teach the people how to rebuild. To to be democratic. How to be peaceful. Without telling them how to go about that.
And it was seriously expected peace, stability and pleasantness would happen within months. By default. Frankly, this would have taken generations. But nobody wanted to commit to this. It's like post-war Europe never happened and there was no lesson to be learned from that.
This has to be the most amateurish war ever fought.
I wonder how much of the news and comments was more or less direct propaganda work by USA and Israel. And attacking Iraq, had been the plan of Project for the New American Century for several years. Something similar seems to be happening to Iran at the moment.
It was propaganda.
I still feel the disgust about the concept of "embedded journalists". That was the day the independent press in the US died.
Everybody licked up every White House press release and ignored strong BS indicators in fear of losing their White House contacts.
I read a couple of newspapers on my Kindle. I use news sources all over the world(well, I only speak French, German and English which of course limits my choice). But I have given up on all US news sources. They add nothing. Even the crazy overexcited Guradian is better when taken with a grain of salt.
My problem isn't Fox. They are easily avoidable. My problem are the likes of CNN which SHOULD be serious news sources but lost credibility in 2003.
Sadly, investigative press standards have declined over the past 20 years. This is a worldwide phenomenon. Everybody rushes to get the news out NOW instead of tomorrow morning. It is as if nobody even sits down to think for a bit before publishing. Multi-month investigations also seem to be a thing of the past.
Yeah, but the EA fiscal year ends at the end of March. Believe me, at CEO level you only deal with strategy and how much you made in that quarter and how you make your projections for the next quarter. SimCity might have saved him if he had gotten more of those massive sales into this fiscal year(read: rushed it out for the holiday season). SimCity only interests shareholders that actually play the game.
He's taking the fall because EA will publish dismal figures by the end of March.
EA has been in a downward spiral for some time now. And that has everything to do with the general strategy of the company. The reliance on high-risk AAA games, EAs failure to tap into the lucrative mobile market, the non-starter of their "indie" label, buying and closing down expensive studios, the launch of Origin to the sound of crickets...
The SimCity kerfuffle is a drop in the bucket. And I highly doubt it was a financial desaster. They sold a lot of copies of it and that's what shareholders care about.
EA has been a company to avoid for some time. The amount of hassle involved as a legitimate customer is a bit higher than anything Ubi or GfW will throw your way. Origin, UPlay and Games for Windows are clear indicators(to me at least) that I may have to count myself lucky if I can play the game at all.
The strategy to launch highly expensive AAA games with a Michael Bay sized budget has proven to be unsustainable. You run a very high risk not to make any money on the game even if you sold gazillion copies of it. People laughed when EA announced they wanted to launch an "indie" label. But that made quite a lot of sense, actually. If you can sell cheaper games with a lot less production cost you have a lot less risk involved.
as a really old school gamer I can't see the appeal of AAA games anyway. The cutscenes get in the way. All that voice acting makes for a very narrow plot. You have no emergent gameplay. And most of the time one game mechanic is enough.
They were awefully quick to present themselves as a potential console developer at CES. They had a working solution way before Sony cameout of the woodworks with their PS3. All they had to do is slap together some stock hardware, give it a snappy name(which we have subsequently forgotten) and they created quite some buzz with it.
Now imagine what they could do if they actually tried...
Yep, smart things are an actual growth market. Which consoles aren't. I would say Tegra devices outnumber consoles by a factor of 10. If not more. Which is a gut feeling...grain of salt etcetera...
Also cheap Android consoles are turning up left, right and center. Same goes for media devices. Those things are becoming quite common. SmartTVs are Androids, phones are Androids, consoles are Androids, tablets are Androids...
And nVidia has been hooking developers on their Tegra devices for quite some time. So they are VERY consistent when it comes to following their strategy. They made it very clear at CES that mobile/lightweight gaming is what they bet the farmon. And if they take a look on their earnings for the current-gen consoles and they say it wasn't worth it I would tend to trust them on it.
I use my PS3 controller for playing games and controlling presentations on my tablet.
You can use stock peripherals on an Android tablet. It's quite trivial.
Just for kicks I tried using a 20 bucks wireless keyboard and mouse that came with a USB receiver. It wokred without fiddling with any system settings.
It's trivial. People simply haven't tried it yet.
What exactly isn't downright creepy in those Google Glasses?
A cute bunny wearing Google Glasses?