So by your definition, unborn children should be protected by the sixth week because they have detectable brain waves then? But those are just detectible, and the limit is the technology not being able to detect them when they are even fainter.
I'm not against killing people who have it coming. Your position is one that you simply don't value innocent life, while mine consistently values it (the ultimate punishment to those who disregard it's value).
They are going to be beaten and beaten badly over the next six months due to several mis-steps and changes in the competition.
1) Blockbuster is in the market. Same 3 movies at a time, same postage paid, ~$3 less a month plus coupons for two free movie rentals a month. BB has a larger library plus their instore stock.
2) WalMart has also gotten into the game. Also cheaper than Netflix, I expect them to be the 'low cost' option by cutting their prices below BlockBusters.
3) Netflix recently changed their price (increased it) while making postage free. The result is the join-and-forget customers who are a the best type of customer for them will now be prompted to cancel, leaving them with the habitual heavy renters who make the free postage an expensive decision.
4) The clock is ticking against their entire business model as digital media delivery speeds accelerate.
A positive sign is that they recognize #4 and were making an attempt to bridge the gap with Tivo. Unfortunately, it can probably be done better by TW and other cable providers.
Voyager Arcade Shooter - This one is lots of fun.I with they would release it for the consoles.
Elite Force (and it's expansion) - Hella fun single player, best multiplayer ever using the Q3 engine. A lot of innovative gamestyles, superb multi-player maps.
ConQuest Online - run of the mill online collectable card games. Not bad.
Dominion Wars - AWESOME DESIGN ruined by INCREDIBLY BAD BUGS.
Birth of the Federation - ST game most in need of a sequel that fixes all the problems. This is my favorite 4x game - SO MUCH FUN. Especially online with real people.
Armada - Stank. Buggy, boring RTS, but it had some novel concepts for an RTS which I forget. MAybe Armada II fixed them.
The Fallen - Incredible implementation of the Unreal engine. I mean, shockingly good. Great story line. Only downside - sub voice acting for Cisco (but we did get the real Kira and Worf).
Klingon Acadamy - Worth it just for the movie-grade cut scenes. I mean, they really went all out. Combat wise, very complex so if you are a fan of detail and really want to control every aspect of a Bird of Prey, this is your game.
Star Fleet Command - Like Klingon Acadamy, great tactical captaining of ships and fleets. The metaverse was something I hoped they worked on in the next few editions that I didn't get to play.
Bridge Commander. Too slow. Game was on rails, so not so fun. Had high hopes for this one.
The money supply is always equal to goods that have been produced but not yet consumed. Regadless of the quantity/denominations/etc, within an economy, this is always the exact value of money - and it is that which changes, not the other way around.
Well of course. Why shouldn't the FBI ignore all of the laws it is legally required to enforce, from civil rights laws to kidnapping, until there are no terrorists left?
Gosh man! You and all the idiots who modded you to +5 should be running the country.
I would guess that 99% of all gameboy playtime takes place where a power source would be available.
Just thinking about where people play their gameboys. Is it really that far out of reach of a power source? Cars have the lighter ac converter and I recall always being able to find an outlet for my laptop at the airports.
Even back in the day when I had a game gear, I almost always had a place to plug it in.
It is a common mistake to look at the brain as cause rather than an effect.
A similar study has shown that London taxicab drivers have a larger brain component that is associated with directions and pathfinding. Did people with this condition happen to become cab drivers? Or did their brains change as a result of their occupation?
So are liberals liberal because their amyglada is larger, is it larger because they are liberal?
I do undestand associating the two, however. Since American liberal versus American conservative/libertarian isn't a matter of different subjective view points but of evil / good, death / life, destructively stupid / prosperously intelligent, I can understand why a component of the brain associated with irrationalism is found to be larger among 'liberals.'
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While the pay may not be as much, it looks like you've found the best kind of happiness - productive achievement and someone you love (your husband) to share in it. Good luck out there.
Just going to say this once cause you guys got all redundant with the question.
I meant generally the luxury line. I presume pretty much everyone knows volks is German (the original Bug/Nazimobile designed by der-fuhrer himself). And while Audi may have existed, IN THE US, the Audi line is the Volks equivilant of the Japanese lux lines.
Yes. Actually, all the major JApanese makes have 'luxury' lines in the US.
Toyota -> Lexus Nissan -> Infiniti
Honda -> Acura Volkeswagon -> Audi
The new 'Scion' line is a brand of Toyota's targeted at the 'younger demo,' although I've only seen really old ladies driving them and find them hideous (except the coup looks pretty cool but has a puny engine).
All of those companies started the luxury lines about the same time in the early 90s.
Homeworld had music so good it gets released as a stand-alone CD with the Homeworld: Game of the Year Edition. They had the band YES do the credit music.
A good sign that it is good music is if you remember it, and if you ever hear the music you start to long to play the game. I have Halo and Homeworld in my head now.
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Pretty much everyone around now has ancestors who did something like that. Including the Indians now. Who do you think they were scalping before whitey got here.
Besides, there ARE NO PEOPLE to kill up there, so the parent should be happy.
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Corporations must be allowed to own land. If an 'agent' gets there (a robot) they should be able to make a claim on behalf of themselves and any other individual who wants the agent to do so within a certain amount. Like an agent can claim 10-20 peoples claims.
Listen now, the key is to make sure that people who want to grow the economy out there have as few obsticles and as many certainties as are required to get the capital and get on the map.
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I think what will happen is maybe 1 or two corporations will claim land, and if there are more than 1, they will work it out among themselves about who gets what.
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-1 redunant? How about funny? Or just leave it alone.
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This is what you expect when you get policy made by academic/"scientists." Communism has been damn near wiped off the face of the earth and only in acadamia does it still exist - and they seek to expand this to the stars.
Imagine if these guys were around as the American west was being settled. Or when colonists were first ariving in the Americas.
Actually, in the latter case it was. The pilgrims initially attempted a communist-style society - from each according to his means, to each accoreding to his needs. They nearly starved to death. The next season they switched to a more capitalistic system and wound up with a surplus.
These clowns continually ignore the metaphysical truth that property rights are causal. If an individual cannot do as he chooses with the crops he grows grow, he will not willingly grow them. While you can compel an individual to grow them at the point of a gun, you cannot use the same method to get him to invent ways to harvest more efficiently. Brute force compulsion cannot inspire innovation - just manual labor at best.
Preventing private property rights in space will provide no incentive to develop it. The solution is simple - roll out like America's Western expansion. You can't claim anything until you set foot out there, and put some reasonable limit on how much land each individual can claim when there is a shortage.
It's quiet difficult to write that into games because different people have different value sets. I'm not making the case for relativism, it's just that you and I could have a long argument about what is really right and really wrong.
I suppose what you need to do is pick a set of ethics and try to develop a game around it. Imagine a game like this with Kantian ethics and then one with Ayn Rand's ethics and then one with Christian ethics. Very different games.
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So by your definition, unborn children should be protected by the sixth week because they have detectable brain waves then? But those are just detectible, and the limit is the technology not being able to detect them when they are even fainter.
I'm not against killing people who have it coming. Your position is one that you simply don't value innocent life, while mine consistently values it (the ultimate punishment to those who disregard it's value).
Hypocrisy? Sounds more like propaganda.
Well perhaps you should look at the customer reviews and ratings on Netflix and then get the film from BB or Walmart?
1) Blockbuster is in the market. Same 3 movies at a time, same postage paid, ~$3 less a month plus coupons for two free movie rentals a month. BB has a larger library plus their instore stock.
2) WalMart has also gotten into the game. Also cheaper than Netflix, I expect them to be the 'low cost' option by cutting their prices below BlockBusters.
3) Netflix recently changed their price (increased it) while making postage free. The result is the join-and-forget customers who are a the best type of customer for them will now be prompted to cancel, leaving them with the habitual heavy renters who make the free postage an expensive decision.
4) The clock is ticking against their entire business model as digital media delivery speeds accelerate.
A positive sign is that they recognize #4 and were making an attempt to bridge the gap with Tivo. Unfortunately, it can probably be done better by TW and other cable providers.
Still, I wish them the best of luck.
Using that logic, no one short of the few that were able to try the mockup at E3 will ever be able to bash it.
Elite Force (and it's expansion) - Hella fun single player, best multiplayer ever using the Q3 engine. A lot of innovative gamestyles, superb multi-player maps.
ConQuest Online - run of the mill online collectable card games. Not bad.
Dominion Wars - AWESOME DESIGN ruined by INCREDIBLY BAD BUGS.
Birth of the Federation - ST game most in need of a sequel that fixes all the problems. This is my favorite 4x game - SO MUCH FUN. Especially online with real people.
Armada - Stank. Buggy, boring RTS, but it had some novel concepts for an RTS which I forget. MAybe Armada II fixed them.
The Fallen - Incredible implementation of the Unreal engine. I mean, shockingly good. Great story line. Only downside - sub voice acting for Cisco (but we did get the real Kira and Worf).
Klingon Acadamy - Worth it just for the movie-grade cut scenes. I mean, they really went all out. Combat wise, very complex so if you are a fan of detail and really want to control every aspect of a Bird of Prey, this is your game.
Star Fleet Command - Like Klingon Acadamy, great tactical captaining of ships and fleets. The metaverse was something I hoped they worked on in the next few editions that I didn't get to play.
Bridge Commander. Too slow. Game was on rails, so not so fun. Had high hopes for this one.
The money supply is always equal to goods that have been produced but not yet consumed. Regadless of the quantity/denominations/etc, within an economy, this is always the exact value of money - and it is that which changes, not the other way around.
It's a commodity. Walmart is only $0.88 rather than $0.99. So that is where I shop for it.
Since I have an Xbox, the cords are more than ample in length that I have never felt the need.
Gosh man! You and all the idiots who modded you to +5 should be running the country.
Just thinking about where people play their gameboys. Is it really that far out of reach of a power source? Cars have the lighter ac converter and I recall always being able to find an outlet for my laptop at the airports.
Even back in the day when I had a game gear, I almost always had a place to plug it in.
A similar study has shown that London taxicab drivers have a larger brain component that is associated with directions and pathfinding. Did people with this condition happen to become cab drivers? Or did their brains change as a result of their occupation?
So are liberals liberal because their amyglada is larger, is it larger because they are liberal?
I do undestand associating the two, however. Since American liberal versus American conservative/libertarian isn't a matter of different subjective view points but of evil / good, death / life, destructively stupid / prosperously intelligent, I can understand why a component of the brain associated with irrationalism is found to be larger among 'liberals.'
While the pay may not be as much, it looks like you've found the best kind of happiness - productive achievement and someone you love (your husband) to share in it. Good luck out there.
Then start your own company.
I meant generally the luxury line. I presume pretty much everyone knows volks is German (the original Bug/Nazimobile designed by der-fuhrer himself). And while Audi may have existed, IN THE US, the Audi line is the Volks equivilant of the Japanese lux lines.
Toyota -> Lexus
Nissan -> Infiniti
Honda -> Acura
Volkeswagon -> Audi
The new 'Scion' line is a brand of Toyota's targeted at the 'younger demo,' although I've only seen really old ladies driving them and find them hideous (except the coup looks pretty cool but has a puny engine).
All of those companies started the luxury lines about the same time in the early 90s.
Homeworld had music so good it gets released as a stand-alone CD with the Homeworld: Game of the Year Edition. They had the band YES do the credit music. A good sign that it is good music is if you remember it, and if you ever hear the music you start to long to play the game. I have Halo and Homeworld in my head now.
sensors??? Wha - you aren't talking about the Street Fighter are you? It's still played with button/stick, not sensors, right?
great post there, btw.
Besides, there ARE NO PEOPLE to kill up there, so the parent should be happy.
Listen now, the key is to make sure that people who want to grow the economy out there have as few obsticles and as many certainties as are required to get the capital and get on the map.
I think what will happen is maybe 1 or two corporations will claim land, and if there are more than 1, they will work it out among themselves about who gets what.
-1 redunant? How about funny? Or just leave it alone.
Imagine if these guys were around as the American west was being settled. Or when colonists were first ariving in the Americas.
Actually, in the latter case it was. The pilgrims initially attempted a communist-style society - from each according to his means, to each accoreding to his needs. They nearly starved to death. The next season they switched to a more capitalistic system and wound up with a surplus.
These clowns continually ignore the metaphysical truth that property rights are causal. If an individual cannot do as he chooses with the crops he grows grow, he will not willingly grow them. While you can compel an individual to grow them at the point of a gun, you cannot use the same method to get him to invent ways to harvest more efficiently. Brute force compulsion cannot inspire innovation - just manual labor at best.
Preventing private property rights in space will provide no incentive to develop it. The solution is simple - roll out like America's Western expansion. You can't claim anything until you set foot out there, and put some reasonable limit on how much land each individual can claim when there is a shortage.
In fairness, their sports games have done well lately for online as has Sega GT Online. However, you may want to credit that to XBL.
I suppose what you need to do is pick a set of ethics and try to develop a game around it. Imagine a game like this with Kantian ethics and then one with Ayn Rand's ethics and then one with Christian ethics. Very different games.