But wouldn't they almost have to do this in order to make it worthwhile? Antivirus et. al. are such performance hogs that Microsoft would need to write it into the OS. They're essentially stuck between providing a good, secure product and not being monopolistic.
China is a developing country--rapidly developing, but nowhere close to the West in per capita GDP. It might not be nice for those of us sitting in air-conditioned Western homes and offices to think about, but in some parts of the world what we consider a normal workload is a luxury. (The 40 hour workweek is premised on the idea of dividing the five day workweek into equal parts work, leisure, and sleep, assuming "leisure" includes such activities as food and family.) It's often hard for middle-class Westerners to grasp, but it's the exception for humans not to work constantly for needed resources, especially in a developing economy.
Actually, Myth follows in the grand tradition of art that illustrates the destruction and confusion of war. Every aspect of the game, from the dark atmosphere to the grim call of "Casualty!" in battle, to the brooding journal entries between levels, built into this atmosphere. The graphic violence wasn't for entertainment so much as to add to this illustration.
If you haven't bothered reading TFA, don't. It's sub-Mac-rumor-site rumors, complete with a (probably fictitious) phone conversation and cheesy backstory.
How about the fact that at the end now the Cylons control everyone, but they don't just outright kill them and end the show?
You clearly didn't pay attention--the Dean Stockwell Cylon said, outright, that the Cylons had decided that trying to exterminate the human race was a mistake, and that they had different plans.
The thing about BSG is that, at least through series one (I'll watch series two when they bring them all out in one DVD box set instead of messing around with half-series) it was almost all pain and suffering and grief and loss. Where was the light relief, the inspirational breakthrough, the hope, the joy?
In the middle of the second season, largely. (Incidentally, since you use the British "series" instead of the American "season", this leads me to believe you're posting from the UK, where the second season is being released as a single box set this August. It is also being released in this format in Australia.) One thing about BSG, though, is that the premise--the genocide of humanity--leaves remarkably little room for light relief, inspirational breakthrough, hope, and joy. Even in the first season, however, there were lighter moments. "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" remained within the idiom while having a largely comedic plot, and James Callis's portrayal of Baltar remained a source of comic relief throughout the first season. The return of Starbuck in "You Can't Go Home Again" and the victory over the Cylons in "The Hand of God" were full of hope and joy as well. In the second season, however, look for the episodes "Home, Part II", "Final Cut", "Flight of the Phoenix", and "Downloaded" for those things. Yes, it is a bleak series, but the tension, conflict, and even hope and joy reach new heights in the second season.
No, becuase the US has several regions (DC, Chicago, parts of California) where people aren't allowed to have guns. Switzerland, on the other hand, is far more armed than the US and is considerably safer.
It's not a question of who does the maintenance with electric cars. It's a question of whether maintenance is even necessary. Internal combustion cars are notoriously complex, with countless different systems that can all fail in myriad ways. Not so with electrics. The parts that will require maintenance are things like the suspension, brakes, tires, etc., which will remain largely the same.
What would Lenin do? Order a few thousand dissenters to be executed and cause a small famine by trying to collectivize the farms, then give up and reintroduce market farming under a New Economic Program. (To actually pull off collectivization required someone with more stomach for mass famine and mass murder--Stalin.)
Or, in other words:
Yes because providing jobs and living quarters for any/all Negroes is an archaic and horrible practice. Better to have the majority of Negroes paying for their housing, and a job market dependent on an erratic economy that could -- at a moment's notice -- send millions into the streets as beggars....
If Negroes are to prosper, we must ask ourselves: WWCD (what would the confederacy do)? The slave states pwned the North in many ways, and if the Confederacy hadn't made a few critical errors I I very much doubt the North would've been the victor in the civil war.
That's somewhat disingenuous--Chinese characters are more analagous to English words than to English letters, so Chinese students are, much like Korean and British students, still learning new words in high school as well as studying physics.
Yeah, yeah. The 20,000 number was based on Dr. Sorens' (Dr. Jason Sorens is a political scientist and the founder of the Free State Project) research, and was always put forward as a reasonable requirement for the number of active activists necessary. Now that everyone knows we'll never reach 20,000, they're trying to cut their losses and say "move now, don't worry about it, we'll do just as well with a few hundred people!", for reasons having more to do with trying to save a dying idea than anything else.
I signed up for the Free State Project too. You're leaving a few things out.
No one is actually obligated to move to New Hampshire until 20,000 people have signed up. This is the other side of the deal: if a critical mass is reached, then we all have to move within 5 years of member number 20,000 signing up. If a critical mass is never reached, no one has to stake their lives on moving to the middle of nowhere.
Membership only reached 5,000 a couple years ago. Member growth has hit a wall, and has no clear signs of picking up again.
The Free State Project has all but given up on the 20,000 target, and is instead trying to pressure the first 7,000 to move now so the project is not a total loss.
New Hampshire is a beautiful state, and parts of the state are within commuting distance of Boston, allowing a few decent opportunities. It's a lot better than Montana or Wyoming, two other states that were highly popular in the voting. I was optimistic about the FSP, but if we don't reach 20,000, we are never going to get anything done. And we aren't gonna reach 20,000 anytime soon.
You seem to be under this misconception that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world. While it's true, in a trivial sense, that any time and resources spent on anything other than producing and distributing food reduces the amount of food available in the world, we easily have enough food production to feed everyone already. If it wasn't for warlords and occasional genocides screwing things up in Africa, they might even be able to trade with us for the food they can't grow themselves--which is more than you'd think. (African dictators are famous for growing large amounts of food and then selling it for export instead of feeding their starving people.) Africans starve because of politics, not because of natural resources or American greed.
Explain how spending $20 on the latest idiotic black comedy and watching it is in any possible way better than spending 2 hours reading this http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/?
Whoops, there goes at least a few hundred dollars for a computer, and more likely than not, a monthly fee to my ISP. I'm still spending money on things that aren't necessities. Rod's contention here was that "the other 20+ hours per week is usually sunk into entertainment and comfort rather than necessities"--as if we could only work 20 hours a week and forego entertainment and comfort entirely. That's one perspective. My perspective is that an extra 20 hours a week is a low price to pay for savings and a few choice luxuries.
Spend 3 days camping next to the rotting carcass of a child that starved to death then explain again why your DVD was better entertainment than some other activity that could bring equal or greater enjoyment AND allow that child to eat tonight.
Buying DVD's causes children starve to death? I hope you didn't waste too much disposable income on whatever you're smoking.
Facebook is like Myspace, only (a) it requires authenticating that you're a member of the community that a network is geared to (traditionally universities) by providing a valid email address (i.e. a.edu email address from the university in question), (b) it doesn't allow users to make their profiles shittily-designed, (c) it has privacy controls, and (d) there are people on there above the mental age of 14 years.
The problem is that I like entertainment and comfort. I want to live in a world where for only one third of my day's time in labor, I can not only support myself, but have enough money left over not only to save but to spend on nonessential things. I'm far from that day myself as a student, and I agree that people do waste too much money on unnecessary crap, but what's the point of being alive, and of being mature adults who can appreciate beauty and entertainment, if we never indulge that capacity? Isn't the great thing about being human--and being a mature, adult human--that we develop appreciation for these things? If I can't go to a concert or buy DVDs of Battlestar Galactica, or get a more comfortable chair for myself, or go on vacation to Aruba, or go out to eat once in awhile at good, expensive restaurants, why the fuck am I even alive? Working, eating, sleeping, and amusing myself without money in my spare 92 waking hours of the day? If that's the best I can do as an adult, then maybe being six years old is better. Six year olds don't have to work.
Pangaea was actually a supercontinent, much like the continents of today, except there was only one of them. The molten mass era was billions of years before Pangaea, which in itself is only the most recent of the supercontinents. (If I'm not mistaken, the earth was originally formed when the remaining dust and crap from the formation of the solar system began to gravitate together to form the planets. Since this basically consisted of everything crashing together at once, and because things tend to heat up when they crash together, the earth was a molten mass roughly between the time of its formation and the time when it eventually cooled enough to form a solid crust.
Of course, the earth is still mostly a molten mass, only with the crust (i.e. extremely thin solid plates of rock) floating on top of it, a solid core formed by extremely high pressure due to gravity, and a gaseous atmosphere. By mass, though, the earth is still mostly molten.
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But wouldn't they almost have to do this in order to make it worthwhile? Antivirus et. al. are such performance hogs that Microsoft would need to write it into the OS. They're essentially stuck between providing a good, secure product and not being monopolistic.
Then again, I'd better watch out for those geologists, they walk around with pointy hammers in their pocket.
Nah, they just happy to see you.
China is a developing country--rapidly developing, but nowhere close to the West in per capita GDP. It might not be nice for those of us sitting in air-conditioned Western homes and offices to think about, but in some parts of the world what we consider a normal workload is a luxury. (The 40 hour workweek is premised on the idea of dividing the five day workweek into equal parts work, leisure, and sleep, assuming "leisure" includes such activities as food and family.) It's often hard for middle-class Westerners to grasp, but it's the exception for humans not to work constantly for needed resources, especially in a developing economy.
Who will I email for help when deadly snakes are released on my flight?
Actually, Myth follows in the grand tradition of art that illustrates the destruction and confusion of war. Every aspect of the game, from the dark atmosphere to the grim call of "Casualty!" in battle, to the brooding journal entries between levels, built into this atmosphere. The graphic violence wasn't for entertainment so much as to add to this illustration.
If you haven't bothered reading TFA, don't. It's sub-Mac-rumor-site rumors, complete with a (probably fictitious) phone conversation and cheesy backstory.
...or forgot to capitalize the "F" in "Far", thus invalidating your own theory. (And what, precisely, is the>/b> far? Is that like "teh funny"?)
How about the fact that at the end now the Cylons control everyone, but they don't just outright kill them and end the show?
You clearly didn't pay attention--the Dean Stockwell Cylon said, outright, that the Cylons had decided that trying to exterminate the human race was a mistake, and that they had different plans.
The thing about BSG is that, at least through series one (I'll watch series two when they bring them all out in one DVD box set instead of messing around with half-series) it was almost all pain and suffering and grief and loss. Where was the light relief, the inspirational breakthrough, the hope, the joy?
In the middle of the second season, largely. (Incidentally, since you use the British "series" instead of the American "season", this leads me to believe you're posting from the UK, where the second season is being released as a single box set this August. It is also being released in this format in Australia.) One thing about BSG, though, is that the premise--the genocide of humanity--leaves remarkably little room for light relief, inspirational breakthrough, hope, and joy. Even in the first season, however, there were lighter moments. "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" remained within the idiom while having a largely comedic plot, and James Callis's portrayal of Baltar remained a source of comic relief throughout the first season. The return of Starbuck in "You Can't Go Home Again" and the victory over the Cylons in "The Hand of God" were full of hope and joy as well. In the second season, however, look for the episodes "Home, Part II", "Final Cut", "Flight of the Phoenix", and "Downloaded" for those things. Yes, it is a bleak series, but the tension, conflict, and even hope and joy reach new heights in the second season.
No, becuase the US has several regions (DC, Chicago, parts of California) where people aren't allowed to have guns. Switzerland, on the other hand, is far more armed than the US and is considerably safer.
Welcome, Microsoft. Seriously.
It's not a question of who does the maintenance with electric cars. It's a question of whether maintenance is even necessary. Internal combustion cars are notoriously complex, with countless different systems that can all fail in myriad ways. Not so with electrics. The parts that will require maintenance are things like the suspension, brakes, tires, etc., which will remain largely the same.
What would Lenin do? Order a few thousand dissenters to be executed and cause a small famine by trying to collectivize the farms, then give up and reintroduce market farming under a New Economic Program. (To actually pull off collectivization required someone with more stomach for mass famine and mass murder--Stalin.)
Or, in other words:
No technology, as of 2006, is sufficiently advanced.
That's somewhat disingenuous--Chinese characters are more analagous to English words than to English letters, so Chinese students are, much like Korean and British students, still learning new words in high school as well as studying physics.
Ironically, it's the British who refused to accept American spelling simplifications introduced in the 19th century, hence "colour", etc.
Of course, everyone knew what was going on, and started eyeing you with suspicion when she turned out to be a Cylon, flipped out, and shot your CO.
Since the libertarian political agenda is to be left the hell alone, I hardly see how that would make Montana and Wyoming bad choices.
Yeah, yeah. The 20,000 number was based on Dr. Sorens' (Dr. Jason Sorens is a political scientist and the founder of the Free State Project) research, and was always put forward as a reasonable requirement for the number of active activists necessary. Now that everyone knows we'll never reach 20,000, they're trying to cut their losses and say "move now, don't worry about it, we'll do just as well with a few hundred people!", for reasons having more to do with trying to save a dying idea than anything else.
I signed up for the Free State Project too. You're leaving a few things out.
New Hampshire is a beautiful state, and parts of the state are within commuting distance of Boston, allowing a few decent opportunities. It's a lot better than Montana or Wyoming, two other states that were highly popular in the voting. I was optimistic about the FSP, but if we don't reach 20,000, we are never going to get anything done. And we aren't gonna reach 20,000 anytime soon.
You seem to be under this misconception that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world. While it's true, in a trivial sense, that any time and resources spent on anything other than producing and distributing food reduces the amount of food available in the world, we easily have enough food production to feed everyone already. If it wasn't for warlords and occasional genocides screwing things up in Africa, they might even be able to trade with us for the food they can't grow themselves--which is more than you'd think. (African dictators are famous for growing large amounts of food and then selling it for export instead of feeding their starving people.) Africans starve because of politics, not because of natural resources or American greed.
Explain how spending $20 on the latest idiotic black comedy and watching it is in any possible way better than spending 2 hours reading this http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/?
Whoops, there goes at least a few hundred dollars for a computer, and more likely than not, a monthly fee to my ISP. I'm still spending money on things that aren't necessities. Rod's contention here was that "the other 20+ hours per week is usually sunk into entertainment and comfort rather than necessities"--as if we could only work 20 hours a week and forego entertainment and comfort entirely. That's one perspective. My perspective is that an extra 20 hours a week is a low price to pay for savings and a few choice luxuries.
Spend 3 days camping next to the rotting carcass of a child that starved to death then explain again why your DVD was better entertainment than some other activity that could bring equal or greater enjoyment AND allow that child to eat tonight.
Buying DVD's causes children starve to death? I hope you didn't waste too much disposable income on whatever you're smoking.
Facebook is like Myspace, only (a) it requires authenticating that you're a member of the community that a network is geared to (traditionally universities) by providing a valid email address (i.e. a .edu email address from the university in question), (b) it doesn't allow users to make their profiles shittily-designed, (c) it has privacy controls, and (d) there are people on there above the mental age of 14 years.
The problem is that I like entertainment and comfort. I want to live in a world where for only one third of my day's time in labor, I can not only support myself, but have enough money left over not only to save but to spend on nonessential things. I'm far from that day myself as a student, and I agree that people do waste too much money on unnecessary crap, but what's the point of being alive, and of being mature adults who can appreciate beauty and entertainment, if we never indulge that capacity? Isn't the great thing about being human--and being a mature, adult human--that we develop appreciation for these things? If I can't go to a concert or buy DVDs of Battlestar Galactica, or get a more comfortable chair for myself, or go on vacation to Aruba, or go out to eat once in awhile at good, expensive restaurants, why the fuck am I even alive? Working, eating, sleeping, and amusing myself without money in my spare 92 waking hours of the day? If that's the best I can do as an adult, then maybe being six years old is better. Six year olds don't have to work.
Pangaea was actually a supercontinent, much like the continents of today, except there was only one of them. The molten mass era was billions of years before Pangaea, which in itself is only the most recent of the supercontinents. (If I'm not mistaken, the earth was originally formed when the remaining dust and crap from the formation of the solar system began to gravitate together to form the planets. Since this basically consisted of everything crashing together at once, and because things tend to heat up when they crash together, the earth was a molten mass roughly between the time of its formation and the time when it eventually cooled enough to form a solid crust.
Of course, the earth is still mostly a molten mass, only with the crust (i.e. extremely thin solid plates of rock) floating on top of it, a solid core formed by extremely high pressure due to gravity, and a gaseous atmosphere. By mass, though, the earth is still mostly molten.