I've outlined why I disagree with this multiple times. Not only was no physical damage done, but they need not be offended by anything this guy does. That is completely up to them.
I think you are looking at this the wrong way. Intent matters, it doesn't even matter if they took offense.
If I take a physical swing at someones chin and manage to miss it is still assault. If I attempt to shoot someone and miss it is assault.
I don't see how this as being much different. The guy takes an action with the intent to cause emotional harm.
I think most people can agree that attempt to cause harm is something that you can reasonably legislate against.
I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and in many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about a little, but if I can't figure it out, then I go to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me. -- Richard Feynman (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)
"My preferred theory is that they allow the skin to deform and thus stop blistering. That is why we get blisters on the smooth parts of our hands and feet and not the ridged areas: our fingerpads, palms and soles."
Please pick one side of the argument, you're making my head spin.
The problem is that when a new entertainment market starts creating serious money it becomes bastardized.
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All of the games in the list are sequels; which almost guarantees a base of sales. Some of them are good, some of them aren't, but there's hardly anything new or fresh offered in games nowadays...
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I died a bit when Lucasarts canned the sequels for Sam & Max and Full Throttle...
And another thing; how can you possibly fail to study something? Other than just not doing the work, which could be tempting when you have that kind money to blow on beer, pizzas, hookers and dope.
I personally can guarantee that I will succesfully "study Internet viruses" as soon as someone forks over as little as a million. I don't even care wether it's US or EUR.
They can easily "forgive" you, though, if you just say "pardonnez-moi, mais je ne parle pas français... peux-je parlez anglais?" (forgive me, but I can't speak French... may I speak English?) =) And that's the point right there. If you have the decency to make an effort, and acknowledge the fact that you're inconveniencing them by not being able to speak their language. In stead of making the -somewhat arrogant- assumption that they will have to adapt to you.
It's a matter of common courtesy and makes all the difference in the world in their attitude towards you.
Fair enough, I see your point. But, from what I can gather from the profile, the OP is french. So I I think (s)he deserves a little leeway.
I'm Dutch and have a reputation to uphold for sucking less at speaking foreign languages than the French. And I'm sure I make the occasional it's vs. its slip up... But then again, I'm not too harsh on myself because, as you say, it doesn't take much to write english at the same level as the native speakers these days.
So the way I see it: The more you guys mess up the language, the easier it is for us foreigners blend in:-)
...but i would think that it'd make more sense on every level. Especially the financial one.
And that's where you are wrong, dreaming up some futuristic pie-in-the-sky battle gear is free. Hopping over to Advanced-Battle-Gear-R-Us and get some gear, that's what costs real money.
The big "Bill" - One clever dino invents a new operating system for their prehistoric abacusses, their whole society becomes dependent on it, until some the outbreak of an 'abacus virus' that wipes out their computing infrastructure, total dino civilisation collapse ensues, killing everything.
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To quote the parent: I truely endorse this website as any steps for us to make their life happy... Trust me when i say your dogs don't care. If you want to make their life happier, take them out to play more often, buy them a bone or a toy, spend some more time with them.
Putting your pooch on the web has nothing to do with with their happiness. It has to do with the owners being goofballs;-)
I know... It's bad form to reply to my own post, but it can't be helped. The NPR article mentioned is even more non-sensical.
The randomness in a coin toss, it appears, is introduced by sloppy humans. Each human-generated flip has a different height and speed, and is caught at a different angle, giving different outcomes.
But using high speed cameras and equations, Diaconis and colleagues have now found...
WTF are high speed equations? Or alternatively why would you want to film an equation?
I don't know wether the article or the researcher is talking nonsense. But this makes no sense.
The article starts out stating: A new mathematical analysis suggests that coin tossing is inherently biased
And somewhere later it states: In experiments, the researchers were surprised...
So what is it? Mathematical or experimental proof?
The hand waiving explanation in paragrahs 6 through seven is not very convincing, one could also argue that the tilting of the axis is an inherent part of the randomness of the toss.
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I think you are looking at this the wrong way. Intent matters, it doesn't even matter if they took offense.
If I take a physical swing at someones chin and manage to miss it is still assault. If I attempt to shoot someone and miss it is assault.
I don't see how this as being much different. The guy takes an action with the intent to cause emotional harm.
I think most people can agree that attempt to cause harm is something that you can reasonably legislate against.
As far as I know the current distance record is held by the Japan Electric Vehicle Club with 623.76 miles on a single charge:
http://www.physorg.com/news194158832.html
It even has bumpers and some ground clearance.
I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and in many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about a little, but if I can't figure it out, then I go to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
-- Richard Feynman (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)
And, because you can't beat his delivery and the sparkle in his eyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MmpUWEW6Is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amo5V5hgE1k
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"My preferred theory is that they allow the skin to deform and thus stop blistering. That is why we get blisters on the smooth parts of our hands and feet and not the ridged areas: our fingerpads, palms and soles."
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=4715
I'm sure the chinese would get a kick out of this paranoia....
If they weren't so busy overtaking the west on the economic front.
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Sure it does. This way you can indefinitely detain them if they touch down anywhere outside China.
It's an 'enemy combatant' type of thing.
Inbelievable too.
Migrate south
SPOTS: Spam over Plain Old Telephone Systems
Which is what I'm getting from all the silly acronyms triggered by this headline.
Enough already.
And another thing; how can you possibly fail to study something?
Other than just not doing the work, which could be tempting when you have that kind money to blow on beer, pizzas, hookers and dope.
I personally can guarantee that I will succesfully "study Internet viruses" as soon as someone forks over as little as a million.
I don't even care wether it's US or EUR.
They can easily "forgive" you, though, if you just say "pardonnez-moi, mais je ne parle pas français... peux-je parlez anglais?" (forgive me, but I can't speak French... may I speak English?) =)
And that's the point right there. If you have the decency to make an effort, and acknowledge the fact that you're inconveniencing them by not being able to speak their language. In stead of making the -somewhat arrogant- assumption that they will have to adapt to you.
It's a matter of common courtesy and makes all the difference in the world in their attitude towards you.
Fair enough, I see your point.
:-)
But, from what I can gather from the profile, the OP is french. So I I think (s)he deserves a little leeway.
I'm Dutch and have a reputation to uphold for sucking less at speaking foreign languages than the French. And I'm sure I make the occasional it's vs. its slip up...
But then again, I'm not too harsh on myself because, as you say, it doesn't take much to write english at the same level as the native speakers these days.
So the way I see it: The more you guys mess up the language, the easier it is for us foreigners blend in
SHow is your french these days?
And that's where you are wrong, dreaming up some futuristic pie-in-the-sky battle gear is free. Hopping over to Advanced-Battle-Gear-R-Us and get some gear, that's what costs real money.
They should have compared it to someone having half a conversation, out loud to him/herself.
Overhearing half a conversation is not the same as overhearing an entire conversation.
I don't think they speak dutch in India, but that sounds a lot like the dutch tech support I get: Polite, canned responses.
Actually,,, I just get canned responses, nothing particularly polite about them.
He may be right, but it doesn't mean we're not going into space.
After all, humans are a highly sentimental and political species...
To quote the parent:
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I truely endorse this website as any steps for us to make their life happy...
Trust me when i say your dogs don't care. If you want to make their life happier, take them out to play more often, buy them a bone or a toy, spend some more time with them.
Putting your pooch on the web has nothing to do with with their happiness. It has to do with the owners being goofballs
I know... It's bad form to reply to my own post, but it can't be helped.
The NPR article mentioned is even more non-sensical.
The randomness in a coin toss, it appears, is introduced by sloppy humans. Each human-generated flip has a different height and speed, and is caught at a different angle, giving different outcomes.
But using high speed cameras and equations, Diaconis and colleagues have now found...
WTF are high speed equations? Or alternatively why would you want to film an equation?
Silly scientist/ reporter.
I don't know wether the article or the researcher is talking nonsense. But this makes no sense.
The article starts out stating:
A new mathematical analysis suggests that coin tossing is inherently biased
And somewhere later it states:
In experiments, the researchers were surprised...
So what is it? Mathematical or experimental proof?
The hand waiving explanation in paragrahs 6 through seven is not very convincing, one could also argue that the tilting of the axis is an inherent part of the randomness of the toss.
Or linDOWs in reference to all the money their stock is going to be worth...