bombing a mall seems so easy to do. i mean all you really need is a bomb, a regular outfit so you arent the crazy guy in a trench coat trying to blow up a mall and a shopping bag. i mean if terrorism were actually a legitimate threat, think about how many fucking malls would have blown up already.. you can put a bag in a million different places, there would be no way to foresee the next target, and really no way to prevent it unless CTU gets some intel at the last minute in which case every city but LA is fucked...so...yea...now i'm surely bugged :/
It's obvious there wasn't anything threatening about that post, especially in context.
I haven't used my Wii in probably close to a year, but I had NES and SNES emulators. It's pretty trivial to download ROMs for literally every single game ever made, and play them for free. Nintendo wants you to pay $5 to play these old games.
Unsolicited correction of someone's English on the web is like stepping up to fellow customers in a clothes store and suggesting ways to improve their current wardrobe. Sure, you might be more fashion-savvy, but you'd still be arrogant.
Is it arrogant to let someone know that his shoe is untied?
Monkey Island 4 was done in 3D, and I didn't like it nearly as much as the previous games. The controls were horrible--if I remember right, it was keyboard only movement. Forward and backward moved Guybrush, and left and right rotated him. They completely scrapped the point-and-click stuff that worked so well in all the previous games.
But I could see a 3D adventure game working. Monkey Island 4's problem was the interface in general, not the 3Dness of it. I could definitely imagine a 3D world where we can run around, investigate things that look interesting (by clicking on them even), pick up and use objects, etc. I can also see it being a lot more challenging, with an extra dimension of game space for things to be hiding in.
Well I'll agree with you about Star Wars Galaxies not being the greatest, but that's about all I agree with.
I've played SWG since its launch close to a year and a half ago, and I'd say that it contrasts very sharply with WoW (from what I saw in the open beta, anyway). And it's this contrast that's making me forget my oath of never letting myself get involved with another MMO again. WoW seems refreshingly more finished pre-launch than SWG does now, which is scary.
What's not clear to me is HOW they would have caught the mistake eventually. Was it just the fact that there were way more Bush votes than there even were voters? If so, maybe this kind of thing really would go totally unnoticed in bigger counties.
Is it just me, or is this guy (who's supposed to be this networking guru) is a little too careless with interchanging the words "attack" with "under heavy load"...
Well, last night (for the span of a few hours at least, from around 5PM to late EST) the domains electoral-vote4.com through electoral-vote9.com were not even resolving, as in nslookup was timing out. electoral-vote.com through electoral-vote3.com were resolving fine, though I couldn't connect. Can that really be explained by "heavy load"?
You are totally dependant on other players to have your wounds healed.
Have you considered getting novice medic abilities to heal yourself? It's very possible to be completely independent in this game by taking on several basic professions at once. If you're going to set your sights on heading straight for bounty hunter land, you're going to have to rely on some other people's non-bounty hunter skills.
Even so, I think it's a good idea for people to be so closely dependent on each other. If you don't like that, there are plenty of single-player games out there.
That's why I usually play with a little different set of rules...
When you win a battle, you can only move as many armies into the new territory as the number you attacked with. That is, if you attack with 3 armies (which is the maximum), you can only move 3 armies into the territory. This prevents hopping from country to country with one huge force. (Of course, at the end of your turn, you get one free 'shift' of as many armies as you want from one territory to an adjacent one)
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Java is only slow because it runs on top of a virtual machine, where programs from something like C get translated into machine code that runs on our physical machines. I think some years back, there was actually an effort to produce a real Java machine that could run the Java-produced code without the extra layer in between, but I guess that never quite got finished.
I actually really like Java for programming when I'm not so concerned about speed.
I play Galaxies, and my character is not really built up that much... but I can honestly say that in one hour, I could easily accumulate 20,000 credits, which is going for upwards of $20 on eBay?!?! That sounds like a sweet summer job to me (I'm still a lowly college student, so that's not a bad rate at all). Hooray for dumb rich kids!
I didn't prove it is difficult to determine the correct sequence of events, I proved it is *impossible* on a cosmic scale. The only means man has to measure and quantitize his surroundings is careful study of his own perceptions. (In our example, if you don't know which guy fired first by other means then observation, there is no way of telling who did.)
If you think about this scenario on a cosmic scale (and with light instead of sound), you can never tell what event happened first, it completely depends on where *you* are in the cosmos.
And what was the "cosmic scale" at the very beginning of the universe? It seems to me that at the beginning of the universe, everything may have come from a single point. If this was true, then any 2 events would occur at exactly the same place, and the only you (assuming *you* could even exist in such a condition) could observe them from is right there. So, there would be a definite order to any 2 events. You can't use analogies about people in a field when talking about things like the beginning of the universe... I'm pretty sure there might be some different rules at play.
This argument looks like 1 person claiming that God made everything, and 1 person trying to prove that it is utterly impossible. I think the first person is entitled to his opinion, but the second fails at even making a compelling argument. You can't *prove* anything of this nature, especially when all you have are scientific laws based on our observations of the physical laws around us.
I completely agree with you. We can either look at the problem as "How do we foil the terrorists?" Or we can look at it as "How do we prevent people from hating us so much to the point of becoming 'terrorists' in the first place?" The first will just isolate us more and more. The second would be a little more beneficial to everyone, in my opinion anyway.
Because rich Americans and Europeans pay so much for it.
Also, I think sex is seen a little differently in their culture. It's not so "sinful" as it is here, some might see it as a means of making some money to feed the family. While it's degrading, it's not necessarily so horrific. Then again, you'd have to be open to the fact that some cultures out there are drastically different than ours.
Woah there buddy, is Thailand really a 3rd world country? Many areas are very close, but there are also a lot of well developed areas and very industrialized cities (Bangkok?).
Singapore may be industrialized. It also has less people than Bangkok alone. They may be retard Americans, but ignorance is everywhere.
Thailand is already dealing with its drug problem. They're really cracking down: basically, any wanted drug dealers are liable to be shot by the police on the spot, and there's a big list of wanted drug dealers.
In the US, it's illegal to do drugs, and to drink alcohol under the age of 21, and to smoke cigarettes under the age of 18, and to look at porn under 18. Those are all for the most part instances of the government poking its nose into our personal lives and telling us what we can or can't do. How is it any different if the Thai government deems that computer games are damaging to the country's youth and future?
You might tell me that computer games aren't damaging--hell we've all been playing them for years, and they made us who we are today. But the kids in Pornvakia say the same thing about porn.
We all accept (well, sort of) those limitations the government put on us because we grew up with them, and it's just the way it is. Anyway, I know I wouldn't like to be told not to play computer games. But I don't think this is much different from what is accepted in other countries.
It seems like a lot of people don't fully understand the situation in Thailand...
Very few people have enough money own computers over there, and for the few that do, there is essentially no cable/dsl internet connection for them. There are internet cafes everywhere though, and this is where the majority play their games. I remember seeing kids play Red Alert II and Counter-strike all the time in the mall when I was there in February.
Also, there are only a few companies providing most of the fast internet connections over there, so it probably wouldn't be too hard for the government to be able to affect all the internet cafes. As for home users... I doubt they're so worried about the rich slobs with computers as much as the lower class threatening to stay low forever.
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bombing a mall seems so easy to do. i mean all you really need is a bomb, a regular outfit so you arent the crazy guy in a trench coat trying to blow up a mall and a shopping bag. i mean if terrorism were actually a legitimate threat, think about how many fucking malls would have blown up already.. you can put a bag in a million different places, there would be no way to foresee the next target, and really no way to prevent it unless CTU gets some intel at the last minute in which case every city but LA is fucked...so...yea...now i'm surely bugged :
It's obvious there wasn't anything threatening about that post, especially in context.
I haven't used my Wii in probably close to a year, but I had NES and SNES emulators. It's pretty trivial to download ROMs for literally every single game ever made, and play them for free. Nintendo wants you to pay $5 to play these old games.
Is it arrogant to let someone know that his shoe is untied?
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Sounds like those offers where they include you in a book of "smart" / "successful" / whatever people, and then charge you $50 for a copy.
At least cite your sources when you do a straight copy+paste:
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Monkey Island 4 was done in 3D, and I didn't like it nearly as much as the previous games. The controls were horrible--if I remember right, it was keyboard only movement. Forward and backward moved Guybrush, and left and right rotated him. They completely scrapped the point-and-click stuff that worked so well in all the previous games.
But I could see a 3D adventure game working. Monkey Island 4's problem was the interface in general, not the 3Dness of it. I could definitely imagine a 3D world where we can run around, investigate things that look interesting (by clicking on them even), pick up and use objects, etc. I can also see it being a lot more challenging, with an extra dimension of game space for things to be hiding in.
Well I'll agree with you about Star Wars Galaxies not being the greatest, but that's about all I agree with.
I've played SWG since its launch close to a year and a half ago, and I'd say that it contrasts very sharply with WoW (from what I saw in the open beta, anyway). And it's this contrast that's making me forget my oath of never letting myself get involved with another MMO again. WoW seems refreshingly more finished pre-launch than SWG does now, which is scary.
What's not clear to me is HOW they would have caught the mistake eventually. Was it just the fact that there were way more Bush votes than there even were voters? If so, maybe this kind of thing really would go totally unnoticed in bigger counties.
First the Red Sox win the Series, now this.
I'm from Boston, and I was thinking a very similar thing last night, only it was more along the lines of "Well, if the Red Sox could do it..."
Well, guess what? They *WILL* have to do that in four years.
I've already been hearing talk from people excited about electing Cheney next election. It would not surprise me at all.
Is it just me, or is this guy (who's supposed to be this networking guru) is a little too careless with interchanging the words "attack" with "under heavy load"...
Well, last night (for the span of a few hours at least, from around 5PM to late EST) the domains electoral-vote4.com through electoral-vote9.com were not even resolving, as in nslookup was timing out. electoral-vote.com through electoral-vote3.com were resolving fine, though I couldn't connect. Can that really be explained by "heavy load"?
Have you considered getting novice medic abilities to heal yourself? It's very possible to be completely independent in this game by taking on several basic professions at once. If you're going to set your sights on heading straight for bounty hunter land, you're going to have to rely on some other people's non-bounty hunter skills.
Even so, I think it's a good idea for people to be so closely dependent on each other. If you don't like that, there are plenty of single-player games out there.
That's why I usually play with a little different set of rules... When you win a battle, you can only move as many armies into the new territory as the number you attacked with. That is, if you attack with 3 armies (which is the maximum), you can only move 3 armies into the territory. This prevents hopping from country to country with one huge force. (Of course, at the end of your turn, you get one free 'shift' of as many armies as you want from one territory to an adjacent one)
I actually really like Java for programming when I'm not so concerned about speed.
I play Galaxies, and my character is not really built up that much... but I can honestly say that in one hour, I could easily accumulate 20,000 credits, which is going for upwards of $20 on eBay?!?! That sounds like a sweet summer job to me (I'm still a lowly college student, so that's not a bad rate at all). Hooray for dumb rich kids!
If you think about this scenario on a cosmic scale (and with light instead of sound), you can never tell what event happened first, it completely depends on where *you* are in the cosmos.
And what was the "cosmic scale" at the very beginning of the universe? It seems to me that at the beginning of the universe, everything may have come from a single point. If this was true, then any 2 events would occur at exactly the same place, and the only you (assuming *you* could even exist in such a condition) could observe them from is right there. So, there would be a definite order to any 2 events. You can't use analogies about people in a field when talking about things like the beginning of the universe... I'm pretty sure there might be some different rules at play.
This argument looks like 1 person claiming that God made everything, and 1 person trying to prove that it is utterly impossible. I think the first person is entitled to his opinion, but the second fails at even making a compelling argument. You can't *prove* anything of this nature, especially when all you have are scientific laws based on our observations of the physical laws around us.
I completely agree with you. We can either look at the problem as "How do we foil the terrorists?" Or we can look at it as "How do we prevent people from hating us so much to the point of becoming 'terrorists' in the first place?" The first will just isolate us more and more. The second would be a little more beneficial to everyone, in my opinion anyway.
Also, I think sex is seen a little differently in their culture. It's not so "sinful" as it is here, some might see it as a means of making some money to feed the family. While it's degrading, it's not necessarily so horrific. Then again, you'd have to be open to the fact that some cultures out there are drastically different than ours.
Singapore may be industrialized. It also has less people than Bangkok alone. They may be retard Americans, but ignorance is everywhere.
Thailand is already dealing with its drug problem. They're really cracking down: basically, any wanted drug dealers are liable to be shot by the police on the spot, and there's a big list of wanted drug dealers.
You might tell me that computer games aren't damaging--hell we've all been playing them for years, and they made us who we are today. But the kids in Pornvakia say the same thing about porn.
We all accept (well, sort of) those limitations the government put on us because we grew up with them, and it's just the way it is. Anyway, I know I wouldn't like to be told not to play computer games. But I don't think this is much different from what is accepted in other countries.
It seems like a lot of people don't fully understand the situation in Thailand... Very few people have enough money own computers over there, and for the few that do, there is essentially no cable/dsl internet connection for them. There are internet cafes everywhere though, and this is where the majority play their games. I remember seeing kids play Red Alert II and Counter-strike all the time in the mall when I was there in February. Also, there are only a few companies providing most of the fast internet connections over there, so it probably wouldn't be too hard for the government to be able to affect all the internet cafes. As for home users... I doubt they're so worried about the rich slobs with computers as much as the lower class threatening to stay low forever.