Eh.. in my WoW guild we have 2 father-son duos and 1 father-daughter duo. The kids are at least in their 20s and the parents are at least in their 40s. I know one of the sons is 31 (graduated HS with him) and his dad is 60.
So I agree that OVERALL 35 seems a bit on the high side, but it's not so far from what I thought that I'd spend any time debating it.
Online games give you a chance to interact with others. Most people can drop their inhabitions about personal interaction when hiding behind a monitor and an avatar. I can see how people can get caught up in online communities. Chances are you enjoy the game you're playing AND everyone around you also enjoys the game you are playing.
Sort of like slashdot. People here typically share the same views and interests.
The problem is VW itself. The company has had one of the worst quality ratings in the US over the past decade. A college roommate of mine was a HUGE VW fan in the 90s. But after his 3rd lemon even he couldn't support them any more.
I know I'll never consider a VW until they can rate above average in initial quality for at least 5 years. MPG doesn't mean a thing if it breaks often.
Except Blizzard has repeatedly said they don't balance PvP for anything less than 5v5. Certain classes dominate 1v1 or 2v2 or 3v3 and certain classes suck in those instances. But once you add a few more people into the mix there are many winning combinations.
But they've never balanced the game well and it seemingly gets worse with each content patch. The best balance I remember was when the original game matured before burning crusades.
Do you know how stupid and ironic that sounds? Let's "watch" all the police officers just in case a few of them might be abusing their power. Surely eliminating everyone's privacy is the best way to catch the small % of bad guys.
So you would have no problem with me creating a blog telling everyone your daily habits, putting up pictures of your house, and assembling lots of personal information all in one location?
On duty or off duty, it sounds like harassment to me. If she had a reason to suspect one of the DEA officers was doing something illegal.. while not advocating vigilantism I could guess she'd have a reason to do it.. but to just do it because they are cops? Sounds a bit like she was getting paid by a dealer to keep tabs on them.
Even the summary said they are trying to limit this system's ability to be used to browse through porn. And I agree, this isn't some proxy for foreigners to surf for porn. There is no perfect filter so unfortunately some legitimate sites are going to get caught in the net.
The Volt could turn out to be an excellent car, but it's got a VERY limited market. $40k for a car that only saves on gas if I don't drive it much. I could buy a Honda Insight for about half the cost and get upper 40s (at least) MPG all the time. The Prius is only a couple grand higher than the Insight.
Granted the Volt will get good mpg even while using gasoline.. but again it's twice as expensive to purchase.
They don't want to release SC2 or D3 (which will net them $60 per copy with no additional fees) as long as their cash cow (WoW) is reaping profits.
As long as the WoW content patches and expansion packs keep the millions of players paying $12/month they're going to do what they can to keep those player playing.
Japan does have a decent league and I'm sure their top teams could compete in MLB... but the overall quality is lower and I can't imagine their team would ever be a favorite to win it here. Now if MLB was only Americans (err, United Stateians) playing, then I would agree it would be absurd to call it the World Series.
Of course there's that pesky team in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
If there was another league that rivaled the skill level of MLB I might worry about it being called the 'World Series' but since there isn't... oh well.
Her problem is advertising her 2.7 GPA. I was told not to even mention your GPA unless it was at least a 3.5. What a 2.7 tells me is that she either slacked off or she worked her butt off and still was nearly overwhelmed. Maybe that's not very accurate, but if I have 100 resumes for 1 position I'm going to weed one one with a 2.7 GPA on the first glance.
The engineering department at my university would kick out any student who could not maintain a 2.5 GPA (and this was a public school).
If in fact they attempt this, and staff or a student have a bona-fide medical emergency and are unable to summon emergency services, this district will then be tasked for paying for a home nurse to wipe the drool off of said victim's face for the rest of their lives.
Have you completely forgotten about wired phones? They still exist!
It's a good thing almost every kid 12 years and older now has a cell phone... I can't believe I survived school without one. Those emergencies that happened every day... people getting raped, terrorists trying to take over the school, Canadians invading.
Calling 911 will not prevent the rape anways.
I'd just ban cell phone use if I were a principal/school admin. Get caught using it during school hours for non-emergencies.. phone gets confiscated til the end of the week and you get a detention. Hell, I wasn't allowed to even chew gum or wear a hat. Now get off my lawn.
If the shipping paperwork doesn't match the contents exactly, that's a huge issue.... there are many things they might have messed up that would put a hold on the shipment.
Don't you know that in our ultra-PC society that if you do not like a minority you must be racist? I'm sure some people will call me racist for my next comment, but oh well.
Barack Obama would not have come close to winning the election if he wasn't half black. In fact I doubt he would have even made a blip on the Democractic radar if he was a white male. I'm a registered 29yo Democrat and the only thing that impresses me about Obama is his ability to read from a script.
His timing was perfect, though. Widespread hatred of Bush and the GOP. Youth that wanted to prove the US was a progressive nation and could elect a minority candidate. On par with that I will admit Obama was able to connect with the younger voters to garner their support. But omfg were the Obamites annoying to talk to. They were everywhere last summer/fall spouting out nonsense which they didn't understand.
Maybe you should keep your Palm stock... this Pre vs iTunes battle is the first news I've heard out of Palm in years.. sounds like they are trying to become a player again.
Touching on that.. doesn't it seem sad that the only success stories coming out of Detroit these days seems to be the resurrected muscle cars from the 70s?
This Camaro hits two generations. My generation which grew up playing with transformer toys and my parents' generation which grew up with the muscle cars. Retro is sooo the "in" thing right now.
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Eh.. in my WoW guild we have 2 father-son duos and 1 father-daughter duo. The kids are at least in their 20s and the parents are at least in their 40s. I know one of the sons is 31 (graduated HS with him) and his dad is 60.
So I agree that OVERALL 35 seems a bit on the high side, but it's not so far from what I thought that I'd spend any time debating it.
Online games give you a chance to interact with others. Most people can drop their inhabitions about personal interaction when hiding behind a monitor and an avatar. I can see how people can get caught up in online communities. Chances are you enjoy the game you're playing AND everyone around you also enjoys the game you are playing.
Sort of like slashdot. People here typically share the same views and interests.
The problem is VW itself. The company has had one of the worst quality ratings in the US over the past decade. A college roommate of mine was a HUGE VW fan in the 90s. But after his 3rd lemon even he couldn't support them any more.
I know I'll never consider a VW until they can rate above average in initial quality for at least 5 years. MPG doesn't mean a thing if it breaks often.
Except Blizzard has repeatedly said they don't balance PvP for anything less than 5v5. Certain classes dominate 1v1 or 2v2 or 3v3 and certain classes suck in those instances. But once you add a few more people into the mix there are many winning combinations.
But they've never balanced the game well and it seemingly gets worse with each content patch. The best balance I remember was when the original game matured before burning crusades.
Must be a very large ass if he needs a nuclear powered photocopier.
Do you know how stupid and ironic that sounds? Let's "watch" all the police officers just in case a few of them might be abusing their power. Surely eliminating everyone's privacy is the best way to catch the small % of bad guys.
So you would have no problem with me creating a blog telling everyone your daily habits, putting up pictures of your house, and assembling lots of personal information all in one location?
On duty or off duty, it sounds like harassment to me. If she had a reason to suspect one of the DEA officers was doing something illegal.. while not advocating vigilantism I could guess she'd have a reason to do it.. but to just do it because they are cops? Sounds a bit like she was getting paid by a dealer to keep tabs on them.
Even the summary said they are trying to limit this system's ability to be used to browse through porn. And I agree, this isn't some proxy for foreigners to surf for porn. There is no perfect filter so unfortunately some legitimate sites are going to get caught in the net.
It would be easier to keep track of the companies that have NOT screwed over the customer.
I'll get back to you if I can think of one.
I think it being GM is the 1st problem.
The Volt could turn out to be an excellent car, but it's got a VERY limited market. $40k for a car that only saves on gas if I don't drive it much. I could buy a Honda Insight for about half the cost and get upper 40s (at least) MPG all the time. The Prius is only a couple grand higher than the Insight.
Granted the Volt will get good mpg even while using gasoline.. but again it's twice as expensive to purchase.
I would've enjoyed college much more if all my trolling in the late 90s counted towards my grade.... so no, to them it's probably the best class ever!
Anyone else thinking maybe we should just flip the switch to turn all the lights on and see what happens? :)
(yes I know some stuff was probably deactivated for a very good reason)
They don't want to release SC2 or D3 (which will net them $60 per copy with no additional fees) as long as their cash cow (WoW) is reaping profits.
As long as the WoW content patches and expansion packs keep the millions of players paying $12/month they're going to do what they can to keep those player playing.
What about just one of the two options?
Japan does have a decent league and I'm sure their top teams could compete in MLB... but the overall quality is lower and I can't imagine their team would ever be a favorite to win it here. Now if MLB was only Americans (err, United Stateians) playing, then I would agree it would be absurd to call it the World Series.
Of course there's that pesky team in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
If there was another league that rivaled the skill level of MLB I might worry about it being called the 'World Series' but since there isn't... oh well.
Her problem is advertising her 2.7 GPA. I was told not to even mention your GPA unless it was at least a 3.5. What a 2.7 tells me is that she either slacked off or she worked her butt off and still was nearly overwhelmed. Maybe that's not very accurate, but if I have 100 resumes for 1 position I'm going to weed one one with a 2.7 GPA on the first glance.
The engineering department at my university would kick out any student who could not maintain a 2.5 GPA (and this was a public school).
I'm not sure what is better.. "The Shack" or "Radio Shaq"
Have you completely forgotten about wired phones? They still exist!
It's a good thing almost every kid 12 years and older now has a cell phone... I can't believe I survived school without one. Those emergencies that happened every day... people getting raped, terrorists trying to take over the school, Canadians invading.
Calling 911 will not prevent the rape anways.
I'd just ban cell phone use if I were a principal/school admin. Get caught using it during school hours for non-emergencies.. phone gets confiscated til the end of the week and you get a detention. Hell, I wasn't allowed to even chew gum or wear a hat. Now get off my lawn.
If the shipping paperwork doesn't match the contents exactly, that's a huge issue.... there are many things they might have messed up that would put a hold on the shipment.
Don't you know that in our ultra-PC society that if you do not like a minority you must be racist? I'm sure some people will call me racist for my next comment, but oh well.
Barack Obama would not have come close to winning the election if he wasn't half black. In fact I doubt he would have even made a blip on the Democractic radar if he was a white male. I'm a registered 29yo Democrat and the only thing that impresses me about Obama is his ability to read from a script.
His timing was perfect, though. Widespread hatred of Bush and the GOP. Youth that wanted to prove the US was a progressive nation and could elect a minority candidate. On par with that I will admit Obama was able to connect with the younger voters to garner their support. But omfg were the Obamites annoying to talk to. They were everywhere last summer/fall spouting out nonsense which they didn't understand.
Duke Nukem...
Maybe you should keep your Palm stock... this Pre vs iTunes battle is the first news I've heard out of Palm in years.. sounds like they are trying to become a player again.
Touching on that.. doesn't it seem sad that the only success stories coming out of Detroit these days seems to be the resurrected muscle cars from the 70s?
This Camaro hits two generations. My generation which grew up playing with transformer toys and my parents' generation which grew up with the muscle cars. Retro is sooo the "in" thing right now.