It seems to me the easiest way to deal with this is for the shipping companies to hire independent patrol ships, it wouldn't cost very much to be escorted through dangerous waters by an armed patrol boat that forms a safe perimeter around the ship...
this also has the added bonus of solving the problem of oil tankers not being able to have weapons fired on board due to the volatility of their cargo and it solves the problem of certain ports not allowing armed ships, the patrol boat simply anchors off shore in international waters and waits for the cargo ship to re-embark.
I think of gold as more of an "emergency currency" rather than a money making investment...
Historically (most recently Zimbabwe) when a country has a total currency collapse, gold and silver are quickly adopted by the grass roots as an alternative currency because of the inbuilt trust in its value... people are positive that its a relatively scarce commodity, and therefore of some value.
So surviving a crash becomes about having enough food to get you through the first 2-3 months of wrecked commerce, and then having the currency that is currently being used to buy your necessities after that.
It seems like all some shady person would have to do is target all the officials responsible for horrible legislation like this and make sure there computers are compromised and download tons of illegal files...
Indeed, there is a story of a toy developer that had a Chinese company design a motorized toy that had some simple microcontroller logic on it. The toy was designed for young children and would basically move around in a preset pattern and respond to some simple stimulus. The company chopped apart the design so much they ended up running the motor straight from the stamp with no flyback diode...
needless to say, when little kiddies on Christmas morning started rolling the toy with a little force, the back emf fried the stamps...
ouch
the lesson here is, if you pay to have that work done, at least hire a known contractor to check the circuit for design defects.
i also read a lot of Andre Norton, very good stuff. I can vividly remember in sixth grade discovering the sci-fi fantasy section of my grade school library, up until that point i had read stories here and there and new what i liked, but i had NO idea there was a complete genre (heck, i didn't even know what a genre WAS!) that i could read!
As sappy as it may sound, i sometimes wish i could go back to those days, the stories were so fresh and exciting, i must have read every sci-fi book in the library...
on that note you might want to see if one of your local grade schools has a library with a Sci-fi/ Fantasy section, its a veritable wealth of pre-teen appropriate material
On a more specific note, one of the series i remember vividly was "The Tripod Trilogy" by John Christopher, it must have been good if i remember it 20 years later
Holy crap! I'm EXACTLY like this as well, i always start out making notes, but end up just losing my train of thought. I do so much better when i just pay attention to the professor and keep up with him mentally. I'm not sure what type of learner i am, i can learn by reading, but also by just listening to a lecture... i'm probably some weird hybrid ^_^
but yeah, classes that require me to take notes i usually don't do so hot in.
"we have no idea how to make this work and be competitive so we're going for our SECOND rewrite."
I'm not exactly sure you know what your talking about... this isnt even Mythics FIRST rewrite... this is not the same game first attempted by Climax.
Having played the beta, i can tell you, that even in its low polished state this was an immensly enjoyable game, and the extra months of polish will really help them to capture the bored WoW market...
Ont thing to point out here is that home remdies (ie. medicines made from common or uncommon plant extracts, insect exctracts ect ect.) can and do work...
its foolish to say "Well that remdy has never been tested by a man in a white coat therefore use of it constitutes as quackery"...Now AFTER the home medicine has been thoroughly tested using the scientific method, and its proven NOT to work, then using said product is quackery.
for example, i have terrible acid reflux, and before i started taking Prilosec (i'm stubborn and hate going to the doctor:-/ ) i found that chewing a piece of gum after eating seemed to calm my stomach more than taking an antacid tablet... this could be called a home remedy, well low an behold i read an article the other night that showed a study done proves that chewing gum is like 10% more effective against heartburn and acid refulx than an antacid tablet.
So was i a quack before the study, and not one after?
sorry... not a valid excuse, sure if you want to play the beath the Jones's game and have the BEST of the best equipment all the time then sure, you'll pay exorbitant prices...
i havnt upgraded my PC in 2 years, guess what... still plays Bioshock without a hitch and high resolution and nearly maxed settings... i'm guessing it looks beter than its console counter part. The best part- i'm a mid range buyer... i'm only using an AMD 4800+, 2gb ram and an ATI 1900xtx, total price for me to build the machine... $1500.00
by letting yourself belive the hardware manufacturers hype and lies that say you have to have only the best and top end hardware to have a good play experiance, you've allowed them to ruin PC gaming for you...
i believe its the marketing departments that have PWNT you!
Cant do in the PC world? me and my friends get together EVERY saturday for a LAN, we've been doing it for the past 10 YEARS!!! We dont have to lug 4 TVs around to get a decent gameplay experience (cause everyone know split screen is just THE greatest *sniggers*)
seriously man... dont come spouting that console babble here... your lible to get (as they say in the 1337 PC gaming circles) PWNT!
"Max OS X and Linux would be fine platforms for gaming if 1) they wrote more games for them and 2) OpenGL were to keep pace with whatever DirectX is supposed to be offering"
Thats akin to saying "The Ford Mustang would be a great vehicle to go to the moon in if 1) they made an air tight, 100 pound mustang 2) the engine was a fusion reactor putting out enough thrust to get it into orbit" we dont CHOOSE to game on the PC, if you want to play the latest games you HAVE to game on the PC... sure i could wait...and wait... and then wait some more... but i'm a PC gamer and i want to play it the minute it comes out... not "possibly" 2 years from now!
ahhh, and to do this YOUR willing to sign over your rights and freedoms to Big Brother so he can make it all better for you?
thats the way of cowards and fools... any man who gives up the right to control his own life in the belief that it will somehow get magically better is just kidding himself...
goverment is run by humans...Humans become corrupt when endowed with power, history has proven this over and over... yes, allowing your population to own guns can cause problems... but i would rather deal with those problems now and have an armed public than freely give up my rights and freedoms to a future dictator... firearms are a check and balance agianst oppresion!
and how cool will it be when our children have to stand up to an oppresive government armed with knives and bats while the army has machine guns and rocket launchers...
Keeping an armed pupblic has and always will be the best deterent to oppresion, now or in the distant future...
i think the "point" is just another way for Mac users to be arrogent and show how superior they are to us lowly and afflicted PC users. You notice they didnt test it against a moden MAC either??
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well that's weird, just got my 4th renew on my Ohio license in July and i'm smiling pretty big. No one said a thing to me. ...now i'm GLAD i smiled!
I'm not sure what the problem is?
Just play the game in steam offline mode then... i can play all of my steam games in offline mode...
It seems to me the easiest way to deal with this is for the shipping companies to hire independent patrol ships, it wouldn't cost very much to be escorted through dangerous waters by an armed patrol boat that forms a safe perimeter around the ship...
this also has the added bonus of solving the problem of oil tankers not being able to have weapons fired on board due to the volatility of their cargo and it solves the problem of certain ports not allowing armed ships, the patrol boat simply anchors off shore in international waters and waits for the cargo ship to re-embark.
Whats a "myspace"?
I think of gold as more of an "emergency currency" rather than a money making investment...
Historically (most recently Zimbabwe) when a country has a total currency collapse, gold and silver are quickly adopted by the grass roots as an alternative currency because of the inbuilt trust in its value... people are positive that its a relatively scarce commodity, and therefore of some value.
So surviving a crash becomes about having enough food to get you through the first 2-3 months of wrecked commerce, and then having the currency that is currently being used to buy your necessities after that.
It seems like all some shady person would have to do is target all the officials responsible for horrible legislation like this and make sure there computers are compromised and download tons of illegal files...
Indeed, there is a story of a toy developer that had a Chinese company design a motorized toy that had some simple microcontroller logic on it. The toy was designed for young children and would basically move around in a preset pattern and respond to some simple stimulus.
The company chopped apart the design so much they ended up running the motor straight from the stamp with no flyback diode...
needless to say, when little kiddies on Christmas morning started rolling the toy with a little force, the back emf fried the stamps...
ouch
the lesson here is, if you pay to have that work done, at least hire a known contractor to check the circuit for design defects.
So Saddam Hussein has his own distro of Linux?
TowelHat maybe?
hrmm... ironic,
i just downloaded a linux distro and a bach symphony that are in the public domain... FROM PIRATE BAY!
Right back at ya champ...
as an electrical engineer and minor Trekkie....
this made me go uggghhhh.... and then chuckle...
well played sir, well played!
But i can write pretty things about wind power...
i also read a lot of Andre Norton, very good stuff. I can vividly remember in sixth grade discovering the sci-fi fantasy section of my grade school library, up until that point i had read stories here and there and new what i liked, but i had NO idea there was a complete genre (heck, i didn't even know what a genre WAS!) that i could read!
As sappy as it may sound, i sometimes wish i could go back to those days, the stories were so fresh and exciting, i must have read every sci-fi book in the library...
on that note you might want to see if one of your local grade schools has a library with a Sci-fi/ Fantasy section, its a veritable wealth of pre-teen appropriate material
On a more specific note, one of the series i remember vividly was "The Tripod Trilogy" by John Christopher, it must have been good if i remember it 20 years later
~_0
Do you think you could start a religion so i could start worshiping you as a prophet?
Just saying....
no silly, he plays a Boomkin Drood!
^_^
Holy crap! I'm EXACTLY like this as well, i always start out making notes, but end up just losing my train of thought. I do so much better when i just pay attention to the professor and keep up with him mentally. I'm not sure what type of learner i am, i can learn by reading, but also by just listening to a lecture... i'm probably some weird hybrid ^_^ but yeah, classes that require me to take notes i usually don't do so hot in.
"we have no idea how to make this work and be competitive so we're going for our SECOND rewrite."
I'm not exactly sure you know what your talking about... this isnt even Mythics FIRST rewrite... this is not the same game first attempted by Climax.
Having played the beta, i can tell you, that even in its low polished state this was an immensly enjoyable game, and the extra months of polish will really help them to capture the bored WoW market...
OH NOES!!! :p
Amazon could win and take all our virginty and hot-air!
Ont thing to point out here is that home remdies (ie. medicines made from common or uncommon plant extracts, insect exctracts ect ect.) can and do work...
...Now AFTER the home medicine has been thoroughly tested using the scientific method, and its proven NOT to work, then using said product is quackery.
:-/ ) i found that chewing a piece of gum after eating seemed to calm my stomach more than taking an antacid tablet... this could be called a home remedy, well low an behold i read an article the other night that showed a study done proves that chewing gum is like 10% more effective against heartburn and acid refulx than an antacid tablet.
its foolish to say "Well that remdy has never been tested by a man in a white coat therefore use of it constitutes as quackery"
for example, i have terrible acid reflux, and before i started taking Prilosec (i'm stubborn and hate going to the doctor
So was i a quack before the study, and not one after?
sorry... not a valid excuse, sure if you want to play the beath the Jones's game and have the BEST of the best equipment all the time then sure, you'll pay exorbitant prices...
i havnt upgraded my PC in 2 years, guess what... still plays Bioshock without a hitch and high resolution and nearly maxed settings... i'm guessing it looks beter than its console counter part. The best part- i'm a mid range buyer... i'm only using an AMD 4800+, 2gb ram and an ATI 1900xtx, total price for me to build the machine... $1500.00
by letting yourself belive the hardware manufacturers hype and lies that say you have to have only the best and top end hardware to have a good play experiance, you've allowed them to ruin PC gaming for you...
i believe its the marketing departments that have PWNT you!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....*deep breath* HAHAHAHAhAHaaaaaaa
dude... get a clue!
Cant do in the PC world? me and my friends get together EVERY saturday for a LAN, we've been doing it for the past 10 YEARS!!! We dont have to lug 4 TVs around to get a decent gameplay experience (cause everyone know split screen is just THE greatest *sniggers*)
seriously man... dont come spouting that console babble here... your lible to get (as they say in the 1337 PC gaming circles) PWNT!
i was going to make a post, but then i read yours and it said everything i wanted to with more eloquence.
i think i'm in love... in a totaly non-homoerotic way....
okay, well maybe just a little
unless your a woman... wait this is slashdot.... DOH!
"Max OS X and Linux would be fine platforms for gaming if 1) they wrote more games for them and 2) OpenGL were to keep pace with whatever DirectX is supposed to be offering"
Thats akin to saying
"The Ford Mustang would be a great vehicle to go to the moon in if 1) they made an air tight, 100 pound mustang 2) the engine was a fusion reactor putting out enough thrust to get it into orbit"
we dont CHOOSE to game on the PC, if you want to play the latest games you HAVE to game on the PC... sure i could wait...and wait... and then wait some more... but i'm a PC gamer and i want to play it the minute it comes out... not "possibly" 2 years from now!
ahhh, and to do this YOUR willing to sign over your rights and freedoms to Big Brother so he can make it all better for you? thats the way of cowards and fools... any man who gives up the right to control his own life in the belief that it will somehow get magically better is just kidding himself... goverment is run by humans...Humans become corrupt when endowed with power, history has proven this over and over... yes, allowing your population to own guns can cause problems... but i would rather deal with those problems now and have an armed public than freely give up my rights and freedoms to a future dictator... firearms are a check and balance agianst oppresion!
YEAH!
and how cool will it be when our children have to stand up to an oppresive government armed with knives and bats while the army has machine guns and rocket launchers...
Keeping an armed pupblic has and always will be the best deterent to oppresion, now or in the distant future...
i think the "point" is just another way for Mac users to be arrogent and show how superior they are to us lowly and afflicted PC users. You notice they didnt test it against a moden MAC either??
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