Did you ever stop and think about why this biased behavior against women exists in the first place?
At the very core, human beings are still animals. Sexual dimorphism proves that. Men fight over and protect the women that are theirs. First and foremost, to ensure proper child rearing. The big three religions are about men agreeing upon who has what wife. It also provides social stability for women to know they have a single man to count on. Without such rules, nature without established morality would force men into war over this precious genetic resource. Even at our best, we still fight over women. Our art, music, entertainment, and overall culture is based on sexuality in one form or another. Men, by nature, are the dominant sex of our species. Lack of religion also leads to promiscuity which leads into question who is the father of a child. Historically, entire villages, women and children specifically have been wiped out over such feuds.
You laugh. Given the tract record of our government, our heroes in office may decide to pass another epic failure of a bill. DHS mandated list of federal certified software developers. All compilations are recorded, audited, and the compiler software itself certified by the feds. Give another 10 years. It will happen. Not because it should, but because it can be.
I never said any of this was rational. Just projecting a future based on the insanity that's going on now.
To be fair, Michael Dell started that company. So he does know a thing or two about building and troubleshooting PCs. Or at the very least, the concept given how much the technology has changed over the years. But sure, I agree. I don't think he would last a week without proper up-to-date training. He has since moved on to a more important role. While anyone can manage and lead a company, very very few can do so successfully. It's why leadership, vision, and knowing when to stay the course are all exceptional virtues so many lack.
Phone support has always been a revolving door. Trust me, I know. Been there done that and got the t-shirt. That's because customer support is one of those low skill aggravating occupations that leads to one of the highest burn-out rates. It's so bad that it's a naturally re-occurring phenomenon that most like will never go away. So tell me, why would companies like Dell even bother taking them on as a full employee with benes? As mobile as that occupation is, you be lucky to even apply for the position state-side. Be thankful they're outsourcing this cheap, mobile, low skill, unstable work locally and not overseas.
Android phones are the new "PC" when it comes to mobile gaming. Given the amount of diverse hardware and versions of the OS not including carrier modifications, it's not all that difficult to understand how difficult it can be to develop for. With so many hardware/software permutations to account for, perhaps the Android platform is not the best for complex gaming engines.
I thought all games were NP-hard. That is, the path to optimal scoring is dynamic based on random events (true or simulated random). For example in a standard shoot-em-up, you're always thinking about the order in which kill an object and in what particular order all while avoiding being shot at.
Don't talk about life. Don't analyze life. And most importantly, don't view your own life from a 3rd person perspective 24/7. Observation and introspection is healthy. Too much of it is a waste of time. If you're having to think about your life all the time, it means your not living it. And if you're not living it, do something about it. Don't just sit on the sidelines.
Most of the prisoners are repeat offenders anyways. Some being arrested over 20 times and still walking free. Our prison system is a joke at so many levels. The innocent that have their lives ruined and the criminals that pass in and out like a revolving door. It would seem that there is no justice in justice.
Incarceration rate per 100,000 citizens. China = 122. US = 743.
You know why this is, right? That's because in China, people tend to get executed more often than in the US. Dead bodies will not take up a cell room. Not usually anyways. That, and the abject fear of being next in line to be executed thanks to a list of 55 criminal offenses they enforce. Which BTW, most of which I agree with in principal. Unfortunately it still comes down to proper interpretation of the law and judicial review. In China, they are a huge range of inconsistencies based on not only the judge, but province as well. That said, from a modern standpoint, China does have a fully functional legal system that's well organized.
Hah! There are so many people in western prisons that should been execute already it's not even funny. Mass murderers, rapists, child abusers...etc. But we're civilized. Or so I'm told. No, we'll just keep them locked up and well fed all at the expense of the tax payer.
A moon base acting as Alcatraz II? Count on it. Give it 50 years or less, but that route will be preferred over the death penalty.
You must be speaking of the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The way it was sold to us and the world at large was the express purpose to de-radicalize the ME region. The theory being that if you provide an opportunity for democratic reform, they would be less of a threat to us. Basically, it was for our benefit first and foremost. It just so happens to help the other side in the process.
Just look at the arab spring movement. That self motivated democratic movement was a success more so than anything GWB could envision. Now that many have more freedom, those same fuckers can now enjoy that new freedom to hate the west even more.
This was, and always will be a war of Western vs Islamic values. Trying to understand it further is just a useless exercise in mental masterbation.
Agreed. Microsoft will still be around much like IBM as they still contribute value to the market at the enterprise level. Their consumer market division though sucks. Badly. With Windows 8, they're risking losing a core segment of their market in the pursuit of another already dominated by Apple. What Microsoft really needs is proper leadership. They haven't had that since Bill Gates left. They're kinda floating about bumbling around seemingly at random striking whatever limited success with luck. Not good.
Click and drag the screen to exit. Look, Windows 8 is a forcible union between touch pads and computers. It's an epic fail in implementation from the get go. If you're serious about applying major UI fixes to an OS not already released to the public, I'd say you have your priorities backwards. A better route would to not order any new machines with the OS preloaded. Just stick with Windows 7. The world shouted down Vista and we (the consumer) won that battle just as we have one the battle against Windows ME. The known fact that Microsoft releases a turd once in a while has been accepted as the new norm. So pull yourself up from the bootstraps and bypass this OS entirely. It's real easy!
Reading comprehension. You fail it! If you truly feel that you've been wrongly targeted for something you played no part in, then by all means fight it. I never said anything to counter that position.
Not that I doubt you completely (ok, so a little), but please site where and to what capacity these practices are, in fact, illegal in Belgium? Were laws created specifically to address the abuse of social networking? I really want to know.
While that scenario sounds very plausible and rational, you failed to take into account one major aspect in all this. Iran's leadership is being driven with radical religious convictions. Or so we're lead to believe. The upper echelon espouses the 12th Imam (2nd coming of Christ) and them providing the instruments by which to make that happen. Talk is talk and power is power. So who really knows if these are heart felt convictions or just a ruse by which to project political power and authority above and beyond religious talk. But when Iran makes threats, don't simply brush them aside. At the very least, they may just settle for the effects of an EMP. That alone would be devastating to anyone's infrastructure in place.
Nuke Mars. No, seriously. Start vaporizing the poles and raise the atmosphere a few degrees. If we're going to learn how to terraform a planet, let's start there.
Of course, sending a few MIRVs into space won't happen for obvious geo-political reasons. I can fully understand why.
Revisionist crap. The Japanese were hellbent on taking the pacific to a lesser extent, a large chunk of China. They managed to capture its east cost pretty well. Now that I think about it. Diplomatically, I really wonder how the Chinese government thinks of America in this regards. We bloody well saved their ass!
I'm not a lawyer, but this my recommendation if it were me.
If you've knowingly been downloading music by whatever means, man up and pay the 5k. You have absolutely know way for sure to know if they're bluffing or in fact have logged IPs captured from one of their P2P honeypots. No effing way would gamble 5k over 125k! But then again, I wouldn't be pirating music anyways. So there ya go. I hope my personal insight is helpful to some of you out there.
Playing devil's advocate here. It could be argued that replacing a stolen credit card costs consumers more overall in hidden banking fees. Assuming for a moment an iWallet scheme is almost 100% secure with a stolen iPhone, the costs banks incur with an entire fraud division is more expensive.
Lets review the 'pros' to this from the perspective of the Feds.
1. Do not have to print, maintain, or transport physical currency. 2. Easy to track along with a transaction log. 3. Thwarts petty street crime. Anything bought or sold can be traced by police. 4. Thwarts counterfeiters. 5. Potential to thwart tax evasion by paying under the table. It also allows the Feds to confiscate funds electronically. All of it! 6. Did I mention confiscation? I tool used to force behavior change or extract information. 7. Provides many extra data points in how people spend now that it's completely transparent should the need arise for a full financial investigation. and... 8. Anti-terrorism. Don't bother asking. That reason is all you need to know for the express purpose of an all electronic form of currency to exist.
Good to know. I was about to comment on prior art with regards to the Visa PayWave system. Which BTW I've only been able to use in two places. All others that supposedly supported PayWave were either not setup properly, or were at one point and then disabled for whatever reason according to the clerk.
The political and social elite are of the following mindset...
Do as i say not as i do
That's the core if not *only* problem standing in the way. Aside from selling people on the idea, there must be genuine leadership behind the helm of any moment. And you know damn well as I do that this will never happen short of some religious experience. And even that is not guaranteed to be enough of a mover and shaker.
Technically, that would seem to be about right more or less. But the one aspect of PC gaming that I truly love is a personalized seated gaming experience with precision mouse movement and a keyboard. It's all about the venue. Just as I would never play platformers and fighting games on the PC, I would never play an MMORPG on a console. Two different genres targeted and optimized for two different play styles.
As I get older, I'm less likely to play games on a console. I'm just not into the whole twitch fest anymore. Although I will console games casually with friends for that who social interaction.
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Did you ever stop and think about why this biased behavior against women exists in the first place?
At the very core, human beings are still animals. Sexual dimorphism proves that. Men fight over and protect the women that are theirs. First and foremost, to ensure proper child rearing. The big three religions are about men agreeing upon who has what wife. It also provides social stability for women to know they have a single man to count on. Without such rules, nature without established morality would force men into war over this precious genetic resource. Even at our best, we still fight over women. Our art, music, entertainment, and overall culture is based on sexuality in one form or another. Men, by nature, are the dominant sex of our species. Lack of religion also leads to promiscuity which leads into question who is the father of a child. Historically, entire villages, women and children specifically have been wiped out over such feuds.
You laugh. Given the tract record of our government, our heroes in office may decide to pass another epic failure of a bill. DHS mandated list of federal certified software developers. All compilations are recorded, audited, and the compiler software itself certified by the feds. Give another 10 years. It will happen. Not because it should, but because it can be.
I never said any of this was rational. Just projecting a future based on the insanity that's going on now.
Hubris. A douchebag's own worst enemy. And rightfully so.
To be fair, Michael Dell started that company. So he does know a thing or two about building and troubleshooting PCs. Or at the very least, the concept given how much the technology has changed over the years. But sure, I agree. I don't think he would last a week without proper up-to-date training. He has since moved on to a more important role. While anyone can manage and lead a company, very very few can do so successfully. It's why leadership, vision, and knowing when to stay the course are all exceptional virtues so many lack.
Phone support has always been a revolving door. Trust me, I know. Been there done that and got the t-shirt. That's because customer support is one of those low skill aggravating occupations that leads to one of the highest burn-out rates. It's so bad that it's a naturally re-occurring phenomenon that most like will never go away. So tell me, why would companies like Dell even bother taking them on as a full employee with benes? As mobile as that occupation is, you be lucky to even apply for the position state-side. Be thankful they're outsourcing this cheap, mobile, low skill, unstable work locally and not overseas.
Android phones are the new "PC" when it comes to mobile gaming. Given the amount of diverse hardware and versions of the OS not including carrier modifications, it's not all that difficult to understand how difficult it can be to develop for. With so many hardware/software permutations to account for, perhaps the Android platform is not the best for complex gaming engines.
I thought all games were NP-hard. That is, the path to optimal scoring is dynamic based on random events (true or simulated random). For example in a standard shoot-em-up, you're always thinking about the order in which kill an object and in what particular order all while avoiding being shot at.
Don't talk about life. Don't analyze life. And most importantly, don't view your own life from a 3rd person perspective 24/7. Observation and introspection is healthy. Too much of it is a waste of time. If you're having to think about your life all the time, it means your not living it. And if you're not living it, do something about it. Don't just sit on the sidelines.
Most of the prisoners are repeat offenders anyways. Some being arrested over 20 times and still walking free. Our prison system is a joke at so many levels. The innocent that have their lives ruined and the criminals that pass in and out like a revolving door. It would seem that there is no justice in justice.
Incarceration rate per 100,000 citizens. China = 122. US = 743.
You know why this is, right? That's because in China, people tend to get executed more often than in the US. Dead bodies will not take up a cell room. Not usually anyways. That, and the abject fear of being next in line to be executed thanks to a list of 55 criminal offenses they enforce. Which BTW, most of which I agree with in principal. Unfortunately it still comes down to proper interpretation of the law and judicial review. In China, they are a huge range of inconsistencies based on not only the judge, but province as well. That said, from a modern standpoint, China does have a fully functional legal system that's well organized.
Hah! There are so many people in western prisons that should been execute already it's not even funny. Mass murderers, rapists, child abusers...etc. But we're civilized. Or so I'm told. No, we'll just keep them locked up and well fed all at the expense of the tax payer.
A moon base acting as Alcatraz II? Count on it. Give it 50 years or less, but that route will be preferred over the death penalty.
You must be speaking of the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The way it was sold to us and the world at large was the express purpose to de-radicalize the ME region. The theory being that if you provide an opportunity for democratic reform, they would be less of a threat to us. Basically, it was for our benefit first and foremost. It just so happens to help the other side in the process.
Just look at the arab spring movement. That self motivated democratic movement was a success more so than anything GWB could envision. Now that many have more freedom, those same fuckers can now enjoy that new freedom to hate the west even more.
This was, and always will be a war of Western vs Islamic values. Trying to understand it further is just a useless exercise in mental masterbation.
Agreed. Microsoft will still be around much like IBM as they still contribute value to the market at the enterprise level. Their consumer market division though sucks. Badly. With Windows 8, they're risking losing a core segment of their market in the pursuit of another already dominated by Apple. What Microsoft really needs is proper leadership. They haven't had that since Bill Gates left. They're kinda floating about bumbling around seemingly at random striking whatever limited success with luck. Not good.
Click and drag the screen to exit. Look, Windows 8 is a forcible union between touch pads and computers. It's an epic fail in implementation from the get go. If you're serious about applying major UI fixes to an OS not already released to the public, I'd say you have your priorities backwards. A better route would to not order any new machines with the OS preloaded. Just stick with Windows 7. The world shouted down Vista and we (the consumer) won that battle just as we have one the battle against Windows ME. The known fact that Microsoft releases a turd once in a while has been accepted as the new norm. So pull yourself up from the bootstraps and bypass this OS entirely. It's real easy!
If you've knowingly been downloading music
Reading comprehension. You fail it! If you truly feel that you've been wrongly targeted for something you played no part in, then by all means fight it. I never said anything to counter that position.
Not that I doubt you completely (ok, so a little), but please site where and to what capacity these practices are, in fact, illegal in Belgium? Were laws created specifically to address the abuse of social networking? I really want to know.
While that scenario sounds very plausible and rational, you failed to take into account one major aspect in all this. Iran's leadership is being driven with radical religious convictions. Or so we're lead to believe. The upper echelon espouses the 12th Imam (2nd coming of Christ) and them providing the instruments by which to make that happen. Talk is talk and power is power. So who really knows if these are heart felt convictions or just a ruse by which to project political power and authority above and beyond religious talk. But when Iran makes threats, don't simply brush them aside. At the very least, they may just settle for the effects of an EMP. That alone would be devastating to anyone's infrastructure in place.
Nuke Mars. No, seriously. Start vaporizing the poles and raise the atmosphere a few degrees. If we're going to learn how to terraform a planet, let's start there.
Of course, sending a few MIRVs into space won't happen for obvious geo-political reasons. I can fully understand why.
Revisionist crap. The Japanese were hellbent on taking the pacific to a lesser extent, a large chunk of China. They managed to capture its east cost pretty well. Now that I think about it. Diplomatically, I really wonder how the Chinese government thinks of America in this regards. We bloody well saved their ass!
I'm not a lawyer, but this my recommendation if it were me.
If you've knowingly been downloading music by whatever means, man up and pay the 5k. You have absolutely know way for sure to know if they're bluffing or in fact have logged IPs captured from one of their P2P honeypots. No effing way would gamble 5k over 125k! But then again, I wouldn't be pirating music anyways. So there ya go. I hope my personal insight is helpful to some of you out there.
Playing devil's advocate here. It could be argued that replacing a stolen credit card costs consumers more overall in hidden banking fees. Assuming for a moment an iWallet scheme is almost 100% secure with a stolen iPhone, the costs banks incur with an entire fraud division is more expensive.
Electronic currency is the future. Period.
Lets review the 'pros' to this from the perspective of the Feds.
1. Do not have to print, maintain, or transport physical currency.
2. Easy to track along with a transaction log.
3. Thwarts petty street crime. Anything bought or sold can be traced by police.
4. Thwarts counterfeiters.
5. Potential to thwart tax evasion by paying under the table. It also allows the Feds to confiscate funds electronically. All of it!
6. Did I mention confiscation? I tool used to force behavior change or extract information.
7. Provides many extra data points in how people spend now that it's completely transparent should the need arise for a full financial investigation.
and...
8. Anti-terrorism. Don't bother asking. That reason is all you need to know for the express purpose of an all electronic form of currency to exist.
Good to know. I was about to comment on prior art with regards to the Visa PayWave system. Which BTW I've only been able to use in two places. All others that supposedly supported PayWave were either not setup properly, or were at one point and then disabled for whatever reason according to the clerk.
The political and social elite are of the following mindset...
Do as i say not as i do
That's the core if not *only* problem standing in the way. Aside from selling people on the idea, there must be genuine leadership behind the helm of any moment. And you know damn well as I do that this will never happen short of some religious experience. And even that is not guaranteed to be enough of a mover and shaker.
Technically, that would seem to be about right more or less. But the one aspect of PC gaming that I truly love is a personalized seated gaming experience with precision mouse movement and a keyboard. It's all about the venue. Just as I would never play platformers and fighting games on the PC, I would never play an MMORPG on a console. Two different genres targeted and optimized for two different play styles.
As I get older, I'm less likely to play games on a console. I'm just not into the whole twitch fest anymore. Although I will console games casually with friends for that who social interaction.