Depends on the game really. Are you looking for a complete start to finish gameplay experience, or an ever expanding realm in which you can pick and choose what to purchase as needed?
Does it really matter at that point? In the face of a global civilization reboot, my worry won't be of occupying forces coming to America. My real worry will be that of my fellow neighbor and his/her posse attempting to steal whatever food I was able to grow in my small garden. Food and self preservation is all that matters at that point. Everything else is meaningless. And as well armed as the American population (that we know it as) is, the Chinese or Russians wouldn't have the resources or manpower to maintain a foothold in North America. They can come here to immigrate and live another life with they wish as effectively we wouldn't have a functional government at the local, state, and national level anymore. America as we know it doesn't exist. For that matter, neither do nations such as China or Russia too. Effectively all geopolitical boundaries get erased.
Are you speaking strictly of a soldier count, or overall civilian population? That's quite a large portion of the military to be obliterated. 900K is nothing to scoff at with an overall population of 75 million. Of those, I wonder how many are devoted to defending the regime? Sure, they don't want to be occupied like any other nation. However, I don't think as a country they're unified. My guess is that all this saber rattling is a use it or lose it opportunity to maintain whatever governmental stability and control they have left. It may or may not work. Who knows.
You just made a fatal mistake!!! You assume MAD will prevent the usage of nuclear weapons. When religious leaders speak of the 12th imam, there's an equal possibily of the desire to start global thermonuclear war, not prevent it.
I know my eyes are not what they're used to be. I have noticed crows getting twice as large over the past 30 years however. Those birds are fucking huge to the point of being intimidating. They have no fear as I walk past them to my office. Maybe it's just the ones in the city. With all of those fast food scraps laying around in the parking lots, maybe they've adapted to a world of plenty.
Maybe Mr. Hawking should lower the bar a bit and figure out how his own stuff works first. All he needs is a few mirrors, laser pointers and perhaps a few robotic back scratcher thingies. Sir, I await your 1,000+ page documentary with breathless anticipation.
It all comes down to trust. If the answer is only a handful of people, that's the problem right there. We live in a word that has too many social abstractions. However, we also live in one in which doesn't have enough in all the right places. Who will you trust to make those decisions? Again, who you gonna trust!?
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Ok, and how do you propose we fix it? Should the medical profession community be forced to absoborb the insane cost of education only then be forced to accept a salary they themselves do not want? Perhaps you feel they should be like monks or other holy men and not live for material wealth?
I'll tell you what the problem is. It's the extremely high barriers to entry in the workforce for this industry. As it should be. But you can't skirt around an inconveniant truth of a concept known as supply and demand.
High tech janitors. Or if you prefer, acting as the motor oil to keep the engine (company) running smoothly and efficiently. There is nothing wrong with performing a supportive role that benefits an organization for the greater good.
As a sysadmin myself, feel free to call me a janitor. I'll wear that as a badge of honor.
Quick question for those that either know or sale software for iOS and Droid devices.
What's to prevent me from creating some shitty fun/joke application with seemingly random permutations and spam the market with it as a different product per permutation? Odds are, there will enough suckers that will pay 1$ that would make my app spamming worthwhile the effort. Of those, I don't think many will take the time to request a refund.
Unless there are procedures in place to prevent this kind of abuse, I can see how many people would feel paying $1 is a huge gamble over a $20 app that's backed up by magazines and other in-depth online reviews.
Which is why I prefer free apps to try before I purchase the ad-free, full, extended, HD version or whatever. The fear of buyers remorse is the real agony here, not blowing 1$ on an app that you know you will like. So yes, I'm in total agreement with you.
Not to dispute what your saying. However just for fun, go to Google Translate and type in "momma" and "daddy" and click on the speaker icon for a vocal translation.
Of all the different languages spoken by man around the world, I would say there are at least two words that come the closets to sounding universal. Mamma and Daddy. It should come to no surprise that these are among the first two words a baby learns when growing up. The most important no doubt.
Ya, I was kinda blown away by that little discovery myself.
Healthier food is more expensive because of supply and demand. Subconsciously, people eat what tastes better and gives the best satisfaction. Sugar is addictive because your body knows how much energy it contains and thus craves it. So we keep buying sugary foods, big agro keeps producing sugars, and thus we end up with more food that uses the stuff. It's a vicious circle. Everyone wants to point to some evil conspiracy plot. Sorry to disappoint, but again, our market driven supply and demand of sugar is almost purely at the subconscious level. It's insidiously frustrating!
While I was visiting China, almost all foods bought and sold had -zero- sugars except for the natural fructose found in fruits. Even those were rare in an average diet. There is nothing exotic about an Asian diet. It only seems that way because again, hardly any sugars to be found except when they import western food products such as processed bread, soft drinks, and other artificial crap. Even Chinese junk food or their equivalent rarely has any processed sugar. But they're loaded with MSGs unfortunately (artificial flavor enhancers). But at least they're the lesser of the evils. About the real problem with purchasing leafy greens from China is all the chemicals and pesticides they use. It borderlines on criminal really due to the extreme toxicity in the PPM used.
My personal take on this. I think the primary reason we constantly see trendy diets is two-fold. For the most part, they all work in their own unique way. Second, people can't stay away from sucrose and HFCS. For some it's an addition while for others it's simply too inconvenience to avoid them. Sugars, that's your #1 enemy right there! That stuff is everywhere. My advice is super simple. Drop the sugars first. Your body will go through withdrawal believe it or not. After a few weeks of no sugar, continue with your diet by eating fewer calories than you burn. While exercise is important for cardiovascular health and to raise the metabolism, it is -not- required. Recommended sure, but again, exercise is not required. So for those that are obese, losing weight is not all that complicated assuming you don't have other health and hormonal complications that's keeping the weight on.
It was an implied assumption. AKA straw man argument. Nothing wrong with creating one of those so long as it's used to illuminate a much larger issue (government corruption through legislation). In no way did I say or imply that the parent post I responded was in the wrong. I was simply providing an alternate pitfall to be aware of from the generally accepted status quo.
You're assuming for a moment that future laws will not be written to ban such activity. Possibly enforced too via hardware. Even American based root CAs may all belong under a single Government agency. There's not a single industry in which politicians won't corrupt, control, rape, and pillage all in order to maintain a seat of power. They can not and will not leave well enough alone. To do so otherwise would leave a vacuum of power open to their rivals irregardless of the validity of such a premise.
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Depends on the game really. Are you looking for a complete start to finish gameplay experience, or an ever expanding realm in which you can pick and choose what to purchase as needed?
Does it really matter at that point? In the face of a global civilization reboot, my worry won't be of occupying forces coming to America. My real worry will be that of my fellow neighbor and his/her posse attempting to steal whatever food I was able to grow in my small garden. Food and self preservation is all that matters at that point. Everything else is meaningless. And as well armed as the American population (that we know it as) is, the Chinese or Russians wouldn't have the resources or manpower to maintain a foothold in North America. They can come here to immigrate and live another life with they wish as effectively we wouldn't have a functional government at the local, state, and national level anymore. America as we know it doesn't exist. For that matter, neither do nations such as China or Russia too. Effectively all geopolitical boundaries get erased.
Are you speaking strictly of a soldier count, or overall civilian population? That's quite a large portion of the military to be obliterated. 900K is nothing to scoff at with an overall population of 75 million. Of those, I wonder how many are devoted to defending the regime? Sure, they don't want to be occupied like any other nation. However, I don't think as a country they're unified. My guess is that all this saber rattling is a use it or lose it opportunity to maintain whatever governmental stability and control they have left. It may or may not work. Who knows.
Sounds like a perfect Reality TV comedy theme to milk. I wonder if Gilbert Gottfried would like to host the show.
Yup, because DNS is just for web browsing. Applications and e-mail servers that depend on A and CNAME records will do just fine. Uhuh.
Mythbusters did an episode on this. It ended badly for Buster.
Minus the additives?
In such an event, I would go further. I would be demanding from Iran a formal declaration of surrender. We can hash out the details at the UN later.
You just made a fatal mistake!!! You assume MAD will prevent the usage of nuclear weapons. When religious leaders speak of the 12th imam, there's an equal possibily of the desire to start global thermonuclear war, not prevent it.
It's called SimCity. And yes, politicians really do think running a city, state, or nation is just a game by their attitude towards us.
I can't recall a single StarTrek episode out of the entire franchise where China was even mentioned. Correct me if I'm wrong please.
I know my eyes are not what they're used to be. I have noticed crows getting twice as large over the past 30 years however. Those birds are fucking huge to the point of being intimidating. They have no fear as I walk past them to my office. Maybe it's just the ones in the city. With all of those fast food scraps laying around in the parking lots, maybe they've adapted to a world of plenty.
Maybe Mr. Hawking should lower the bar a bit and figure out how his own stuff works first. All he needs is a few mirrors, laser pointers and perhaps a few robotic back scratcher thingies. Sir, I await your 1,000+ page documentary with breathless anticipation.
It all comes down to trust. If the answer is only a handful of people, that's the problem right there. We live in a word that has too many social abstractions. However, we also live in one in which doesn't have enough in all the right places. Who will you trust to make those decisions? Again, who you gonna trust!?
Ok, and how do you propose we fix it? Should the medical profession community be forced to absoborb the insane cost of education only then be forced to accept a salary they themselves do not want? Perhaps you feel they should be like monks or other holy men and not live for material wealth?
I'll tell you what the problem is. It's the extremely high barriers to entry in the workforce for this industry. As it should be. But you can't skirt around an inconveniant truth of a concept known as supply and demand.
High tech janitors. Or if you prefer, acting as the motor oil to keep the engine (company) running smoothly and efficiently. There is nothing wrong with performing a supportive role that benefits an organization for the greater good.
As a sysadmin myself, feel free to call me a janitor. I'll wear that as a badge of honor.
Quick question for those that either know or sale software for iOS and Droid devices.
What's to prevent me from creating some shitty fun/joke application with seemingly random permutations and spam the market with it as a different product per permutation? Odds are, there will enough suckers that will pay 1$ that would make my app spamming worthwhile the effort. Of those, I don't think many will take the time to request a refund.
Unless there are procedures in place to prevent this kind of abuse, I can see how many people would feel paying $1 is a huge gamble over a $20 app that's backed up by magazines and other in-depth online reviews.
Which is why I prefer free apps to try before I purchase the ad-free, full, extended, HD version or whatever. The fear of buyers remorse is the real agony here, not blowing 1$ on an app that you know you will like. So yes, I'm in total agreement with you.
Not to dispute what your saying. However just for fun, go to Google Translate and type in "momma" and "daddy" and click on the speaker icon for a vocal translation.
Of all the different languages spoken by man around the world, I would say there are at least two words that come the closets to sounding universal. Mamma and Daddy. It should come to no surprise that these are among the first two words a baby learns when growing up. The most important no doubt.
Ya, I was kinda blown away by that little discovery myself.
Healthier food is more expensive because of supply and demand. Subconsciously, people eat what tastes better and gives the best satisfaction. Sugar is addictive because your body knows how much energy it contains and thus craves it. So we keep buying sugary foods, big agro keeps producing sugars, and thus we end up with more food that uses the stuff. It's a vicious circle. Everyone wants to point to some evil conspiracy plot. Sorry to disappoint, but again, our market driven supply and demand of sugar is almost purely at the subconscious level. It's insidiously frustrating!
While I was visiting China, almost all foods bought and sold had -zero- sugars except for the natural fructose found in fruits. Even those were rare in an average diet. There is nothing exotic about an Asian diet. It only seems that way because again, hardly any sugars to be found except when they import western food products such as processed bread, soft drinks, and other artificial crap. Even Chinese junk food or their equivalent rarely has any processed sugar. But they're loaded with MSGs unfortunately (artificial flavor enhancers). But at least they're the lesser of the evils. About the real problem with purchasing leafy greens from China is all the chemicals and pesticides they use. It borderlines on criminal really due to the extreme toxicity in the PPM used.
The fact the average wealth of members of congress tripled in the last 25 years only backups what you've said. Welcome to the new fall of Rome redux.
My personal take on this. I think the primary reason we constantly see trendy diets is two-fold. For the most part, they all work in their own unique way. Second, people can't stay away from sucrose and HFCS. For some it's an addition while for others it's simply too inconvenience to avoid them. Sugars, that's your #1 enemy right there! That stuff is everywhere. My advice is super simple. Drop the sugars first. Your body will go through withdrawal believe it or not. After a few weeks of no sugar, continue with your diet by eating fewer calories than you burn. While exercise is important for cardiovascular health and to raise the metabolism, it is -not- required. Recommended sure, but again, exercise is not required. So for those that are obese, losing weight is not all that complicated assuming you don't have other health and hormonal complications that's keeping the weight on.
It was an implied assumption. AKA straw man argument. Nothing wrong with creating one of those so long as it's used to illuminate a much larger issue (government corruption through legislation). In no way did I say or imply that the parent post I responded was in the wrong. I was simply providing an alternate pitfall to be aware of from the generally accepted status quo.
You're assuming for a moment that future laws will not be written to ban such activity. Possibly enforced too via hardware. Even American based root CAs may all belong under a single Government agency. There's not a single industry in which politicians won't corrupt, control, rape, and pillage all in order to maintain a seat of power. They can not and will not leave well enough alone. To do so otherwise would leave a vacuum of power open to their rivals irregardless of the validity of such a premise.