You haven't been paying attention, the cost of our environmental mismanagement will be the cost it will take to send our fearless leaders and their loyal compatriots to Mars, from where they may guide us with their great wisdom.
I don't think we have anything to worry from the Pentagon's newly aware computer system. I mean, all it's going to do is adopt the bureaucratic mindset. All it's going to worry about is what defnse contractor it's going to work for after retirement.
I found that I actually liked Dungeon Keeper much more than I did Evil Genius. The AI issues with your minions are glaring, and I don't quite recall those in Dungeon Keeper. You also have much less direct control over your minions (in fact, you have none) and the tag system is overly cumbersome.
Really, if you've already got Dungeon Keeper, go back and play that.
It's all about the arboreal dwelling of primates. We simply have a greater need for depth perception than for a lack of blindspots, after all we have ears and a reasonable sense of smell. Form follows function.
That's certainly helpful, but I was thinking more along the lines of standardized coverage, but I didn't really go into that. Although it doesn't sound like such a great idea to have every company offering the same services.
The United States of America (our medical establishment) is primarily concerned with symptom/disease treatment. This is especially apparent in obesity and obesity related illness, where Insurance companies (for the most part) would rather dodge paying for expensive heart surgeries than a gym membership. As the saying goes, 'an ounce of prevention prevents a pound of cure.'
Costs are high because of several factors, first is the medical billing system. In our country we have countless carriers and each has a different form and another person you have to higher in order to understand what they will and what they won't pay for. This can add up to about 40% of a hospital's operating budget. A single payer health care system could take care of this, or a more standardized set of forms and practices.
Second is malpractice insurance. We are a lititgious society (in the United States) and punitive damages can get out of hand much of the time. For the most part, doctors are not being willfully malicious when there is an accident, or mistake. It is a high pressure job and they are there trying to help people. WHile they should be held accountable for their actions, this accountability should not become a barrier for treatment. Rather than capping punitive damages, Good Samaritan laws could be strengthened and applied to doctors and other emergency service workers, but that's just my opinion.
A single payer system isn't going to fix the problem, it's going to take a lot more than that, and we're not even talking about health care access.
I guess that it's a nice idea, but aside from novelty flights is there any practical application to all of this in the next ten years?
Also given all the junk that government sponsored space flight puts off, how are we to regulate these novelty flights in regards to jettisoning various bits of detrius? Or am I just being paranoid?
Republicans are more likely to be conservatives with strong views on issues...
Are more likely than what? What are you saying, did you think before you typed this out? Do liberals and/or Democrats not have strong views on those things? Please stop and think before you post something and suck up precious bandwidth.
You can sort of see what's wrong with the patent process, vague descriptors designed to stifle competition instead of protecting an innovation. Why do I get the feeling that there will be the following patent one day...
Patent N+1: The Generic Corporation has recieved a patent for their application of a 'thing that does other things'.
Really, one of the problems I can see with this whole; you pay for your own wiretap business is the following transaction.
It is about 10:45 in the morning in an undisclosed city. The apartment is worn down and the furniture mostly consists of milk crates and things found outside of construction sites, much like your typical bachelor pad. A man stands in the midst of the room, knee deep in his shag carpet with a bill in one hand and a phone in the other pressed tightly up against his ear. He appears to be in his late twenties with about five days growth of beard, he taps his foot impatiently as he stands staring hard at the bill, as if that would make the inscrutable charges vanish. The line picks up...
Operator: Hello, this is [phone company x], how can we help you?
Man: Yes, I have a question about an item on my phone bill.
Operator: I'm sure that you do sir, or else you wouldn't be calling us. Could you tell me what the item is?
Man: Yeah, it's a twenty-five cent surcharge with the code WT next to it.
Operator (Pauses for a moment): According to our records, that's supposed to be there.
Man: (Confused) But what is it, I'm looking at last month's bill and it isn't there.
Operator (again pauses, some typing can be heard): Yes, the charge was added this month.
Man (a little upset): Yes, but for what.
Operator (pausing once again, and letting out a loud sigh): For the wiretap sir.
Man (really upset): The wiretap?
Operator: Yes sir, the wiretap that the Feds put on your phone last month to monitor you. The man then hangs up the phone, tossing it casually onto the couch. He then goes into the kitchen and grabs a bite to eat. Of course that's a bit of an exaggeration, the phone company is never that helpful. All right, so this was mostly a joke, deal.
Well, it was about a week before they filed for the IPO. It isn't like they had no idea they were going to do an IPO a week ahead of time, so it doesn't really make it less difficult.
I don't know, the bit credits him with The Postman, and if we go from that film (someone who read the book will have to confirm or deny this), his (This clever Dan who set up with rather lame list) wit and ability are in question.
I'm thinking it's the same thing that Hollywood does with books, they see a predesigned work, with a plot and everything else, especially with videogames, the art and tone have already been visually realized and they figure that they can take that and repackage it and everyone will go and see a movie. It doesn't have anything to do with attracting gamers to movies.
Don't forget a certain porn actress as that Candy whatsum girl. I mean come on, this is slashdot, what we really want to hear about is Jenna Jameson doing voice-overs for our video game characters.
All right, so we spend a couple of million dollars developing the game (by we I mean, US taxpayers), and now they pull expensive stunts to promote the game.
I'm sorry, but I'm just a little bit upset about that? I mean, couldn't they be using that kind of money to, oh, I don't know, armor some Humvees?
Apparently, people who deny that magic is real haven't looked at statistics. After all with statistics and polls you can take information that you want to see and conjure up some arcane formulation that will make it look as if that information is in fact the truth.
If we follow this vein, there are many other forms of magic, such as economics. Following this even further, we can point out the evil warlocks of the world, those who practice their economics and statistics steeped in their own lies.
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Well, now there are none of those pesky Democrats and their fun-crushing environmental/whatever concerns.
You haven't been paying attention, the cost of our environmental mismanagement will be the cost it will take to send our fearless leaders and their loyal compatriots to Mars, from where they may guide us with their great wisdom.
I don't think we have anything to worry from the Pentagon's newly aware computer system. I mean, all it's going to do is adopt the bureaucratic mindset. All it's going to worry about is what defnse contractor it's going to work for after retirement.
Now that our fearless leader has a mandate, who cares about your stinking Pinko treaties?
I found that I actually liked Dungeon Keeper much more than I did Evil Genius. The AI issues with your minions are glaring, and I don't quite recall those in Dungeon Keeper. You also have much less direct control over your minions (in fact, you have none) and the tag system is overly cumbersome.
Really, if you've already got Dungeon Keeper, go back and play that.
It's all about the arboreal dwelling of primates. We simply have a greater need for depth perception than for a lack of blindspots, after all we have ears and a reasonable sense of smell. Form follows function.
Great now I can share my Mp3s with all sorts of basal tetrapods, look out horned lizards you're going to hear Britney like you never did before.
Didn't nintendo drop the price of the SP down to $79?
That's certainly helpful, but I was thinking more along the lines of standardized coverage, but I didn't really go into that. Although it doesn't sound like such a great idea to have every company offering the same services.
The United States of America (our medical establishment) is primarily concerned with symptom/disease treatment. This is especially apparent in obesity and obesity related illness, where Insurance companies (for the most part) would rather dodge paying for expensive heart surgeries than a gym membership. As the saying goes, 'an ounce of prevention prevents a pound of cure.'
Costs are high because of several factors, first is the medical billing system. In our country we have countless carriers and each has a different form and another person you have to higher in order to understand what they will and what they won't pay for. This can add up to about 40% of a hospital's operating budget. A single payer health care system could take care of this, or a more standardized set of forms and practices.
Second is malpractice insurance. We are a lititgious society (in the United States) and punitive damages can get out of hand much of the time. For the most part, doctors are not being willfully malicious when there is an accident, or mistake. It is a high pressure job and they are there trying to help people. WHile they should be held accountable for their actions, this accountability should not become a barrier for treatment. Rather than capping punitive damages, Good Samaritan laws could be strengthened and applied to doctors and other emergency service workers, but that's just my opinion.
A single payer system isn't going to fix the problem, it's going to take a lot more than that, and we're not even talking about health care access.
I guess that it's a nice idea, but aside from novelty flights is there any practical application to all of this in the next ten years?
Also given all the junk that government sponsored space flight puts off, how are we to regulate these novelty flights in regards to jettisoning various bits of detrius? Or am I just being paranoid?
Well, I think at this point we're working on SAD.
Damn you hydrogen bonding, damn you shaking up our worlds with your heat freezing solids.
Well, know I have something to do with spinach aside from making me toss my cookies. Should we start buying up Spinach futures now?
You could always just actually go to work and do your job instead of carrying your personal files to work to mess around with them.
Republicans are more likely to be conservatives with strong views on issues...
Are more likely than what? What are you saying, did you think before you typed this out? Do liberals and/or Democrats not have strong views on those things? Please stop and think before you post something and suck up precious bandwidth.
You can sort of see what's wrong with the patent process, vague descriptors designed to stifle competition instead of protecting an innovation. Why do I get the feeling that there will be the following patent one day...
Patent N+1: The Generic Corporation has recieved a patent for their application of a 'thing that does other things'.
Really, one of the problems I can see with this whole; you pay for your own wiretap business is the following transaction.
It is about 10:45 in the morning in an undisclosed city. The apartment is worn down and the furniture mostly consists of milk crates and things found outside of construction sites, much like your typical bachelor pad. A man stands in the midst of the room, knee deep in his shag carpet with a bill in one hand and a phone in the other pressed tightly up against his ear. He appears to be in his late twenties with about five days growth of beard, he taps his foot impatiently as he stands staring hard at the bill, as if that would make the inscrutable charges vanish. The line picks up...
Operator: Hello, this is [phone company x], how can we help you?
Man: Yes, I have a question about an item on my phone bill.
Operator: I'm sure that you do sir, or else you wouldn't be calling us. Could you tell me what the item is?
Man: Yeah, it's a twenty-five cent surcharge with the code WT next to it.
Operator (Pauses for a moment): According to our records, that's supposed to be there.
Man: (Confused) But what is it, I'm looking at last month's bill and it isn't there.
Operator (again pauses, some typing can be heard): Yes, the charge was added this month.
Man (a little upset): Yes, but for what.
Operator (pausing once again, and letting out a loud sigh): For the wiretap sir.
Man (really upset): The wiretap?
Operator: Yes sir, the wiretap that the Feds put on your phone last month to monitor you.
The man then hangs up the phone, tossing it casually onto the couch. He then goes into the kitchen and grabs a bite to eat.
Of course that's a bit of an exaggeration, the phone company is never that helpful. All right, so this was mostly a joke, deal.
Well, it was about a week before they filed for the IPO. It isn't like they had no idea they were going to do an IPO a week ahead of time, so it doesn't really make it less difficult.
I don't know, the bit credits him with The Postman, and if we go from that film (someone who read the book will have to confirm or deny this), his (This clever Dan who set up with rather lame list) wit and ability are in question.
I'm thinking it's the same thing that Hollywood does with books, they see a predesigned work, with a plot and everything else, especially with videogames, the art and tone have already been visually realized and they figure that they can take that and repackage it and everyone will go and see a movie. It doesn't have anything to do with attracting gamers to movies.
Don't forget a certain porn actress as that Candy whatsum girl. I mean come on, this is slashdot, what we really want to hear about is Jenna Jameson doing voice-overs for our video game characters.
How about a Dutch oven...
All right, so we spend a couple of million dollars developing the game (by we I mean, US taxpayers), and now they pull expensive stunts to promote the game.
I'm sorry, but I'm just a little bit upset about that? I mean, couldn't they be using that kind of money to, oh, I don't know, armor some Humvees?
Apparently, people who deny that magic is real haven't looked at statistics. After all with statistics and polls you can take information that you want to see and conjure up some arcane formulation that will make it look as if that information is in fact the truth.
If we follow this vein, there are many other forms of magic, such as economics. Following this even further, we can point out the evil warlocks of the world, those who practice their economics and statistics steeped in their own lies.
I'm sorry, it's Thursday night.