In Europe it's not to unusual to live in another country than your workplace. (e.g. the Kehl (Germany)/Strassbourg(France) area is not far from Switzerland either)
No need for people casting multiple votes. Just let a few thousand people watching TV overrun the few hundred geeks checking the NASA site daily for new polls.
Yes, 1% of the population has a medtial condition that causes them to be overweight.
[citation needed]
Oh wait.... you could perhaps just read the SUMMARY to find out that it may be 1% with that medical condition PLUS X PERCENT WITH A MICROBIOLOGICAL CONDITION.
That was the research result that whole news was about!
It's how much energy you consume vs how much you use which decide if you get fatter, stay the same or thinner.
Not the quality of the food.
10000 kcals of spinach and you will most likely get more fat. 500 kcals from chocolate and you'd lose weight.
Not exactly. It's not how much energy you consume, but how much energy you gain out of it. Given the right ecosystem in your bowels, you might be able to process 100% of that choccolate-energy, but only 10% of that spinach-energy.
All that said, the likelihood that this will be just another brainless FPS without any reflections on the ethics of your doing is huge, after all thats what most war games are about.
If you're lucky, they'll use a brainless fps as a hook to tell the memoires of those guys.
I'm afraid putting in some ethics would make it a very frustrating game.
Level 5: Stopping a civilian van at a checkpoint.
Options: a) Shoot them, start a massacre, you loose. b) Deescalate the situation, and with a 10% probability, one of the guys is a suicide bomber. He pulls the trigger, you loose.:-(
But that was what I liked about ST:TNG. You never knew what the next episode was going to be. Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, some war movie, mystery, sometimes even Science Fiction! It was like a box of chocolates! Held together with SF Icing.
If they had made a movie would it have been not so tasteless? If you think the game is tasteless but a movie isn't then it's a matter of the limitations you think of games as a medium to convey some human experience.
A game is by definition about "winning". In movies its probably much easier to show that "sometimes the only way to win is not to play" or that in a war, both parties are loosing, no matter who might be "winning" in the end.
Your neighbors and countrymen, or some terrorist raghead who is hell-bent on destroying america and is practicing building bombs in his kitchen.
For a moment I thought you were talking about Timothy McVeigh.
Basicly you're right. But you should remember that each innocent killed gives at least 3 of his relatives some really good reason to be "hell-bent on destroying america"
Are you REALLY saying that because the US now is at war with half of the middle east, it's ok for say, Iraq hijackers it's ok to kill 3000 american civilians?????
As soon as you are a fighting force hiding amongst the populace you are no longer part of a legal army, you are a terrorist, and anyone assisting these people are also the same.
Not immedeatly. It makes you a guerrilla first. And given that a guerrilla army needs the support of the local populace, a guerrilla army can only *defend* a territory as it's almost impossible to act on enemy territory. If some cell manages to do so, attacking civilians, thats terrorism.
Given that we sustained almost 100 KIA and nearly 600 WIA, it seems like a safe assumption that we were fighting people who were actually shooting back. Hence I'm skeptical about claims of a "massacre".
100KIA? Given that about 17000 people get murderd in the US each year, obviously don't need "people shooting back" to kill 100 people. And that compared to the 1300 "insurgents" killed give me some reasonable doubt if they were really shooting back.
and besides that.... do you really think "shooting back" would be a bad thing?
Which, by the way, is the exact opposite of a definition.
what he said was that our everyday definitions of "magic" (Wand waving, Magic Potions, spell chanting) and Technology (Stylus on a Touchpad, Medicine and Voice commands - and fission powered steam engines) are simply wrong. With those definitions, we won't be able to distinguish if some unknown procedure is supernatural or science.
There are far more examples in TNG, especially when it comes to physics ideas.
Oh you mean like "reversing the polarity" of each- and everything?:-)
Ok, I'd just say, TNG didn't simply ignore science when it was convinient. Only when it would threaten to spoil the story to be told. (Which in about 60% wasn't even meant to be SF)
Reminds me of an old Twilight Zone Episode. Some guy was told he now has an alcohol feeding worm inside and from now on he can drink whatever he wants without getting too drunk. UNtil the worm is fed up and kills its host.
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Another proposal:
Base it on Java instead, call it MHP and let it painfully die..... again.
OTOH, the time may be right for a standard for "interactive" TV
what makes it even worse is that he's working for a school district...
In Europe it's not to unusual to live in another country than your workplace. (e.g. the Kehl (Germany)/Strassbourg(France) area is not far from Switzerland either)
They started to equip container ships with sails again....
No need for people casting multiple votes. Just let a few thousand people watching TV overrun the few hundred geeks checking the NASA site daily for new polls.
9 out of ten voices in my head tel me that I'm not insane.
The 10th just keeps on humming the Tetris-tune...
Yes, 1% of the population has a medtial condition that causes them to be overweight.
[citation needed]
Oh wait.... you could perhaps just read the SUMMARY to find out that it may be 1% with that medical condition PLUS X PERCENT WITH A MICROBIOLOGICAL CONDITION.
That was the research result that whole news was about!
Try healthier food instead of more healthy food.... :-)
But I know what you're talking about :-)
It's how much energy you consume vs how much you use which decide if you get fatter, stay the same or thinner.
Not the quality of the food.
10000 kcals of spinach and you will most likely get more fat.
500 kcals from chocolate and you'd lose weight.
Not exactly. It's not how much energy you consume, but how much energy you gain out of it. Given the right ecosystem in your bowels, you might be able to process 100% of that choccolate-energy, but only 10% of that spinach-energy.
All that said, the likelihood that this will be just another brainless FPS without any reflections on the ethics of your doing is huge, after all thats what most war games are about.
If you're lucky, they'll use a brainless fps as a hook to tell the memoires of those guys.
I'm afraid putting in some ethics would make it a very frustrating game.
Level 5: Stopping a civilian van at a checkpoint.
Options: a) Shoot them, start a massacre, you loose. :-(
b) Deescalate the situation, and with a 10% probability, one of the guys is a suicide bomber. He pulls the trigger, you loose.
But that was what I liked about ST:TNG. You never knew what the next episode was going to be. Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, some war movie, mystery, sometimes even Science Fiction! It was like a box of chocolates! Held together with SF Icing.
If they had made a movie would it have been not so tasteless? If you think the game is tasteless but a movie isn't then it's a matter of the limitations you think of games as a medium to convey some human experience.
A game is by definition about "winning". In movies its probably much easier to show that "sometimes the only way to win is not to play" or that in a war, both parties are loosing, no matter who might be "winning" in the end.
dragged? DRAGGED???????
Your neighbors and countrymen, or some terrorist raghead who is hell-bent on destroying america and is practicing building bombs in his kitchen.
For a moment I thought you were talking about Timothy McVeigh.
Basicly you're right. But you should remember that each innocent killed gives at least 3 of his relatives some really good reason to be "hell-bent on destroying america"
Are you REALLY saying that because the US now is at war with half of the middle east, it's ok for say, Iraq hijackers it's ok to kill 3000 american civilians?????
As soon as you are a fighting force hiding amongst the populace you are no longer part of a legal army, you are a terrorist, and anyone assisting these people are also the same.
Not immedeatly. It makes you a guerrilla first. And given that a guerrilla army needs the support of the local populace, a guerrilla army can only *defend* a territory as it's almost impossible to act on enemy territory. If some cell manages to do so, attacking civilians, thats terrorism.
This is what he means by massacre
Given that we sustained almost 100 KIA and nearly 600 WIA, it seems like a safe assumption that we were fighting people who were actually shooting back. Hence I'm skeptical about claims of a "massacre".
100KIA? Given that about 17000 people get murderd in the US each year, obviously don't need "people shooting back" to kill 100 people. And that compared to the 1300 "insurgents" killed give me some reasonable doubt if they were really shooting back.
and besides that.... do you really think "shooting back" would be a bad thing?
Which, by the way, is the exact opposite of a definition.
what he said was that our everyday definitions of "magic" (Wand waving, Magic Potions, spell chanting) and Technology (Stylus on a Touchpad, Medicine and Voice commands - and fission powered steam engines) are simply wrong. With those definitions, we won't be able to distinguish if some unknown procedure is supernatural or science.
There are far more examples in TNG, especially when it comes to physics ideas.
Oh you mean like "reversing the polarity" of each- and everything? :-)
Ok, I'd just say, TNG didn't simply ignore science when it was convinient. Only when it would threaten to spoil the story to be told. (Which in about 60% wasn't even meant to be SF)
Reminds me of an old Twilight Zone Episode. Some guy was told he now has an alcohol feeding worm inside and from now on he can drink whatever he wants without getting too drunk. UNtil the worm is fed up and kills its host.
... the Achievements were the April Fools joke... :-)
And it's likely that the big news outlets don't want to be equalized with each and every smallish blog
why not promote that Outlook-"Please dear mailserver, delete my last email"-Follow-Up (don't know how it's called there) to a real RFC?
1. You used one 'maybe' too much.
2. Changing the logout-timeout might be neccessary e.g. in polling places with lots of elder people.
Or to Guido who is threatening to beat up your little ones if you don't vote a specific way.
What?? He??