They were bought by businesses that specifically needed rapid prototyping, or they were bought by hobbyists that got into it as the latest craze. There's only so much of either, so once that small market is saturated there's less need for companies supplying whole printers.
I'll disagree. They are getting to the point that they are moving from fast prototyping to small batch manufacturing. I'll probably never buy one, but I find myself using one more and more as I realize that when I want one of something for myself, I can have it made fairly easily. Another friend has a business out of designing jewelry and having it 3D printed out of sinistered metals. The tools and skills needed to create the needed designs to use them will probably prevent household adoption anytime soon, but I can see them getting more popular if only as a service.
The evidence of man's mass extinction is so vast and well-documented, that I'm going to go ahead and say you haven't done a lick of research. Saying there's no evidence for the Holocene Extinction is tantamount to saying we aren't changing the climate or evolution is not happening. You're either lying or illiterate. Or both.
Not really, it's just that the IUE has gotten together and as the last agenda of the conference had a vote and declared it as a "dwarf extinction" and not to be classified with the other classical extinctions. It seems that although it fit past definitions of extinctions, they decided to redefined them rather than be faced with too many extinctions they'd rather not talk about.
Because SJW's want the world to be what they *want* it to be, not what it actually *is*.
Well duh! Who doesn't want a better world? It may be a lot better than it was, but it is hardly perfect and has a long way to go, especially if you aren't in a western country. If you don't want a better world, then you're either deluded in thinking it's perfect already or seeking to leverage your advantages over others.
Yet we are just creating more and more by bullshit like this. Usually it's just for women's benefit, but in this case there's also discrimination against gals too.
Why can't we just end this bullshit and let children grow up to do want they want to do?
This is about letting children do what they want to do and about giving them a place where they can do it without society or their so called peers bullying them because of it. If you are really wondering why this is all going on, you could always take some courses in sociology and they'd explain everything to you.
Well I am sure they did not solve all their problems with Murder. For example I do not think they killed every single trade unionist. And probably did many things like just removing the law allowing/protecting trade unions.
First, they arrested the powerful and influential trade unionists and sent them to a concentration camps, closed all trade union offices, and confiscated all their money. Then they set up a new organizations stating that trade unions had been nationalized and denied access to anybody they did not like. They gave the workers more holidays, froze pay, and took away any rights to strike or complain. Even though by that time Hitler had the ability to write his own laws, he never bothered to and there was no legal backing to any of it.
In recognition of the fact that it was written by imperfect people, our Constitution itself was designed to be changeable. We've sort of forgotten that since we started elevating it to a holy text (apropo of the discussion), but it's supposed to be a living document, not the 10 commandments.
I don't think we have forgotten it as much as determined that there's no way we could get as good a deal as what's already there in the current political climate.
Isolation from humans is different than a prison isolation from everything. On the trip they'll have movies on USB and laptops, messages to send home and get from home. Completely unlike any prison experience.
They'll have work. They'll be scientists in a highly specialized and unique lab with unique opportunity. Like people in the ISS, anybody going to Mars on a space craft will have a laundry list of things to do, things to research, and otherwise things keeping them busy. They'll probably need off time to do nothing just to keep them sane. Their job won't start once they get to Mars, but well before they get on their way, and it won't be over till well after they get back to Earth.
They tried that in the late 60's in Australia. So the Aust. radio stations refused to play any US pop/rock and concentrated on available UK bands That very thing allowed the local industry to air home grown tracks on radio (and TV) and I for one think it was the beginning of the early commercial Oz music. Eventually the USA licensors gave up but the re-uptake of US bands by radio stations was slow.
Similar thing happened in the US. Early MTV was dominated by British bands because they were the ones that had all the videos already made for Top of the Pops, were already written off as advertising, and would let MTV play them for free. This became known as the Second British invasion. Later, American music companies had to play ball and by then, MTV had power in the music industry. They still ended up paying for playing videos, but not as much as the record companies would like.
It's not limited to electronic medical records -- it's the insane user interfaces in modern software that were obviously coded by a developer who never has to use the systems for work.
I have certainly seen that. About as often are the times developers are handed a bunch of forms, and told, "just duplicate our paper workflow". Once they finish, they're told "now add in all these features that we want which are the reason we're creating this new software." Many customers and developers really don't want to put in the effort of hiring a workflow project manager to figure all this stuff out first.
I would love an EMR that was as efficient as a paper record.
I think you probably mean, "I would love an EMR that makes my job easy." This is usually heard from doctors who are upset they have to actually take five minutes to put in what they mean and cross the t's and dot the i's of people's medical care rather than rattle off something and power sign whatever the transcriptionist types* letting the file room, techs, nurses, etc do hours of work to bring them a document and ask them to cross and dot stuff.
In many other cases, the computer system is messed up because they were trying to recreate an old paper workflow. Since they used to have four forms to fill out with duplicate info, they want the computer to ask for info four different times and require putting in duplicate info, rather than reworking their workflow to have one screen where nobody needs to put in duplicate info. Once they do that, they have to kludge in the new features everybody wants. Of course, not only do they not want to spend time to figure out and plan a new workflow, they often don't want to actually spend time and figure out their current workflow. They just hand everything off to the computer people who don't know why they do anything, but are just told to duplicate it.
*I used to work in the same room as medical transcriptionists. The doctor always says "I don't need to read it, I trust my transcriptionist" but the transcriptionist is always saying "That idiot signed of on my comments of 'What did you say here?' or 'unintelligible mumbling' again."
Soon the Pope will be saying the US genocided the Native Americans.
That's a bit of a stretch. The aim of the US western expansion wasn't to kill all traces of Native American peoples and culture, it was to gain control of their land. While there certainly were numerous instances of massacres, they seemed to be more due to individual ignorance, prejudice, or misunderstanding than any systemic attempt to wipe out all Indians. Not even considering all the treaties and reservations set up (the quality-or lack thereof-of the land provided on the reservations can again I think be attributed mostly to apathy or ignorance as opposed to outright malice), the numerous attempts at integrating and Westernizing Native Americans shows a (misguided perhaps) desire to help them and make them become "Americans". In reality, the Western expansion was in effect a protracted, low-intensity guerrilla war, and there are plenty of cases of these types of conflicts to show that they very often lead to instances of overreactions of force, excessive non-combatant casualties, and mass killings.
Not really a stretch. As posted above, the term genocide was meant to be the destruction of a social group and needed not mean the complete destruction of life so long as that social group ceased to exist as functional. It's hard to claim that misunderstandings were the cause of the indians plight. Generally, the US Cavalry did not attack indians causing trouble but attacked villages, killing women and children, while the men were gone. (Methods the would later use in the Phillipines.) They killed the bison to starve the plains indians. It can't even be said that it was desired to make them "Americans". That was certainly the hope and dream of many of the founding fathers as I have read, but there is a reason the indians moved to Oklahoma were known as the "Five Civilized Tribes." They already had adopted Western ways and been Americanized. They wore Western clothes, had farms using Western farming techniques, had stores, had banks, and had government. Still, any time they got too prosperous, they were raided by their white neighbors. Any effort to defend themselves would result in the governor calling out the militia to attack the indians.
Affirmative action in the United States counteracts institutional and systemic discrimination against specific groups (often visible) minorities.
Affirmative action for women is not the same as sexism; it is a corrective for sexism.
You'll need to define those terms carefully before you have any hope of persuading us.
You'll both probably have to define those terms carefully just to tell if you are talking about the same thing. The common man talking about racism or gentrification is going to be in a totally different discussion and using different definitions of terms than a sociologist talking about racism or gentrification. I imagine the the definitions of such in the terms of laws change from state to state with another set for federal usage.
Why would any Republican be afraid of HRC? She is one in all but name. Iraq War cheerleader, surveillor, wall street's best friend. Seriously, what is there for the GOP to hate policy wise? Yeah, we know they hater her personally, but from a policy perspective, she's the dream GOP candidate.
You act like the issues really matter. The true issue is which backers will get the favoritism. She won't favor the GOP business interests, but the DNC business interests one in office.
Are you somehow incapable of understanding how export control laws work? If they're banned from certain US technology and for purpose, then any route around that through any 3rd party would be illegal.
Are you somehow incapable of understanding that you can't magically stop someone from getting milk while continuing to sell them live cows?
Well, it's probably not even illegal. I imagine the entire thing is some government department following the ethics of the regulations and since the law says these chips can't be exported for certain purposes and some other department said these groups were working on those purposes, they put out something saying these chips can't be sold to those groups. Can those groups probably get their chips from someplace else, perhaps even legally? Most likely. Do the people that told Intel care? Probably not. That type of caring is a different department.
In the end, this will probably delay the Chinese research some time and cost them some more money. Every little bit counts in the grand scheme of things and that is probably all this action is supposed to do, add some small percentage of inefficiency to China's research that will cost them more than it will cost us to implement.
Even if a lathe is affordable, it's still not very widespread. And there's more skill involved in using it, plus you need the right materials, design and tools to make a useful gun.
With a 3D printer, any moron can download a design, and hit the big print button.
However, they are more widespread than 3D printers, and the designs out there for tools are a lot more useful than anything for a 3D printer. Better to say that any moron will, eventually, might be able to download a design and hit the big print button when the state of the art on 3D printers and designs will allow. Currently, they can do the same thing for cheaper and come up with a better result using CNC machines with just as much skill and training as it would take to use a 3D printer.
why are so many americans such fucking morons when it comes to the simple undeniable truth: more easy guns = more senseless death, not protection
When I see consistent evidence of such. Last time I checked by comparing pre and post gun ban statistics, what you say was not the case. Over all, while deaths by gun diminished, the actual murder rates did not. The idea that more easy gun mean more senseless death seems to be an unsupported assumption rather than shown causation. There are lots of other factors involved in gun bans. People who want to commit murder can still commit murder. Guns are not death incarnate. Without lots of training, they tend to be inaccurate and no more deadly than getting stabbed with a knife. Also, people, in the case to threats and robbery, usually don't argue with a gun, where they are likely to do so with a knife or other weapon, so gun bans could easily result in more deaths. In cases where significant crimes is involved such as violent gangs, I doubt prohibition will stop the killings or even the access to arms any better than prohibition of alcohol did.
The one place this does seem to be the case is suicide. Guns do seem to be too much of a quick and easy way out for people, and other, even easier, methods of committing suicide get used less even after significant periods of time.
Doesn't natural selection also include perception? Aren't there some species that choose mates based on colorful feathers or sounds, and those with the most colorful feathers or most desirable sounds tend to produce offspring more? So how is choosing a mate based on height any different?
Well, I think that you'll find that most matters of perception are actually selecting for traits that correlate to either health, youth, or fertility, all promoting more surviving children. Colorful feathers, sounds, clear skin, long silky hair, all correlate to these features. Our very past ancestors that favored them, ended up having more children and our bred those with other selection criteria. I would expect that height also corresponds to health.
We have stopped building an expensive modern scientific instrument that will improve all of humanity, because of fucking ghosts. And not even ghosts in the "poltergeist" sense, but ghosts in the "my great grandaddy told me Jesus cries when you eat a ham and cheese sandwich" sense - Such complete nonsense that any adult should feel ashamed that such idiotic words might come out of their mouth in voicing their objections to this telescope.
I suspect that like most religious thing, it is just a justification for their behavior. In this case, they're still pissed about having their island and land taken from them in a coup sponsored by the American government in favor of corporations against their sovereign nation, the mess it has made for them since, and the general disrespect they get from everybody else. I have enough friends from there to know that if they said "it's part of our heritage" and you said "Boo hoo, fucking ghosts." Whether they believed in those ghosts or not, you'd get punched in the face because you generally being disrespectful to people who are complaining about people being disrespectful to them.
no irregular verbs, we could call it, let's say ^'Esperanto.
I'd say you are exactly wrong. A regular language may be easy to learn, but that does not make it a successful language. Flexibility and adaption of new words make it a successful language and turn out to be the exact opposite of a strictly regular language as it leads to variations in spelling and irregular verbs.
Marshal Law is a deconstruction comic dealing with superheroes as hypocritical villains and the self loathing of those who find themselves with powers. There is also a second series where they train new superheros and a third where he meets Pinhead from Hellraiser.
Actually, I don't give a rat's ass about games, just the antisocial tendencies they seem to encourage among some of their devotees - it's not the game, it's the asshattery. And as long as the asshats of gaming band together and are a problem for the rest of the web, I'm sure your fellow non-asshat gamers will eventually isolate you as well. Have a good time playing with each other, you little homoerotic man boys.
And comparing Switzerland to West Virginia.... I don't even have words to describe how stupid this is.
Well...similar size, lots of mountains, landlocked, and lots of guns.
Switzerland has 8 times the population and GDP though.
Business, which I suspect is a lot of their income, has been on a subscription model for decades already. It's called Microsoft Service agreement. The place I work at has at least 5000 seats and we get our Microsoft products through our parent's service agreement. I'm sure they are all counted as Windows 8 installs by Microsoft, although we take the option to downgrade to Win7. We are even paying the extra fee for the current XP fixes still. Add in office, costs for servers, Office 365, etc and our parent business coughs up millions a year for a subscription to MS products.
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They were bought by businesses that specifically needed rapid prototyping, or they were bought by hobbyists that got into it as the latest craze. There's only so much of either, so once that small market is saturated there's less need for companies supplying whole printers.
I'll disagree. They are getting to the point that they are moving from fast prototyping to small batch manufacturing. I'll probably never buy one, but I find myself using one more and more as I realize that when I want one of something for myself, I can have it made fairly easily. Another friend has a business out of designing jewelry and having it 3D printed out of sinistered metals. The tools and skills needed to create the needed designs to use them will probably prevent household adoption anytime soon, but I can see them getting more popular if only as a service.
The evidence of man's mass extinction is so vast and well-documented, that I'm going to go ahead and say you haven't done a lick of research. Saying there's no evidence for the Holocene Extinction is tantamount to saying we aren't changing the climate or evolution is not happening. You're either lying or illiterate. Or both.
Not really, it's just that the IUE has gotten together and as the last agenda of the conference had a vote and declared it as a "dwarf extinction" and not to be classified with the other classical extinctions. It seems that although it fit past definitions of extinctions, they decided to redefined them rather than be faced with too many extinctions they'd rather not talk about.
Because SJW's want the world to be what they *want* it to be, not what it actually *is*.
Well duh! Who doesn't want a better world? It may be a lot better than it was, but it is hardly perfect and has a long way to go, especially if you aren't in a western country. If you don't want a better world, then you're either deluded in thinking it's perfect already or seeking to leverage your advantages over others.
Yet we are just creating more and more by bullshit like this. Usually it's just for women's benefit, but in this case there's also discrimination against gals too.
Why can't we just end this bullshit and let children grow up to do want they want to do?
This is about letting children do what they want to do and about giving them a place where they can do it without society or their so called peers bullying them because of it. If you are really wondering why this is all going on, you could always take some courses in sociology and they'd explain everything to you.
Well I am sure they did not solve all their problems with Murder. For example I do not think they killed every single trade unionist. And probably did many things like just removing the law allowing/protecting trade unions.
First, they arrested the powerful and influential trade unionists and sent them to a concentration camps, closed all trade union offices, and confiscated all their money. Then they set up a new organizations stating that trade unions had been nationalized and denied access to anybody they did not like. They gave the workers more holidays, froze pay, and took away any rights to strike or complain. Even though by that time Hitler had the ability to write his own laws, he never bothered to and there was no legal backing to any of it.
In recognition of the fact that it was written by imperfect people, our Constitution itself was designed to be changeable. We've sort of forgotten that since we started elevating it to a holy text (apropo of the discussion), but it's supposed to be a living document, not the 10 commandments.
I don't think we have forgotten it as much as determined that there's no way we could get as good a deal as what's already there in the current political climate.
Isolation from humans is different than a prison isolation from everything. On the trip they'll have movies on USB and laptops, messages to send home and get from home. Completely unlike any prison experience.
They'll have work. They'll be scientists in a highly specialized and unique lab with unique opportunity. Like people in the ISS, anybody going to Mars on a space craft will have a laundry list of things to do, things to research, and otherwise things keeping them busy. They'll probably need off time to do nothing just to keep them sane. Their job won't start once they get to Mars, but well before they get on their way, and it won't be over till well after they get back to Earth.
They tried that in the late 60's in Australia. So the Aust. radio stations refused to play any US pop/rock and concentrated on available UK bands That very thing allowed the local industry to air home grown tracks on radio (and TV) and I for one think it was the beginning of the early commercial Oz music. Eventually the USA licensors gave up but the re-uptake of US bands by radio stations was slow.
Similar thing happened in the US. Early MTV was dominated by British bands because they were the ones that had all the videos already made for Top of the Pops, were already written off as advertising, and would let MTV play them for free. This became known as the Second British invasion. Later, American music companies had to play ball and by then, MTV had power in the music industry. They still ended up paying for playing videos, but not as much as the record companies would like.
It's not limited to electronic medical records -- it's the insane user interfaces in modern software that were obviously coded by a developer who never has to use the systems for work.
I have certainly seen that. About as often are the times developers are handed a bunch of forms, and told, "just duplicate our paper workflow". Once they finish, they're told "now add in all these features that we want which are the reason we're creating this new software." Many customers and developers really don't want to put in the effort of hiring a workflow project manager to figure all this stuff out first.
I would love an EMR that was as efficient as a paper record.
I think you probably mean, "I would love an EMR that makes my job easy." This is usually heard from doctors who are upset they have to actually take five minutes to put in what they mean and cross the t's and dot the i's of people's medical care rather than rattle off something and power sign whatever the transcriptionist types* letting the file room, techs, nurses, etc do hours of work to bring them a document and ask them to cross and dot stuff.
In many other cases, the computer system is messed up because they were trying to recreate an old paper workflow. Since they used to have four forms to fill out with duplicate info, they want the computer to ask for info four different times and require putting in duplicate info, rather than reworking their workflow to have one screen where nobody needs to put in duplicate info. Once they do that, they have to kludge in the new features everybody wants. Of course, not only do they not want to spend time to figure out and plan a new workflow, they often don't want to actually spend time and figure out their current workflow. They just hand everything off to the computer people who don't know why they do anything, but are just told to duplicate it.
*I used to work in the same room as medical transcriptionists. The doctor always says "I don't need to read it, I trust my transcriptionist" but the transcriptionist is always saying "That idiot signed of on my comments of 'What did you say here?' or 'unintelligible mumbling' again."
Soon the Pope will be saying the US genocided the Native Americans.
That's a bit of a stretch. The aim of the US western expansion wasn't to kill all traces of Native American peoples and culture, it was to gain control of their land. While there certainly were numerous instances of massacres, they seemed to be more due to individual ignorance, prejudice, or misunderstanding than any systemic attempt to wipe out all Indians. Not even considering all the treaties and reservations set up (the quality-or lack thereof-of the land provided on the reservations can again I think be attributed mostly to apathy or ignorance as opposed to outright malice), the numerous attempts at integrating and Westernizing Native Americans shows a (misguided perhaps) desire to help them and make them become "Americans". In reality, the Western expansion was in effect a protracted, low-intensity guerrilla war, and there are plenty of cases of these types of conflicts to show that they very often lead to instances of overreactions of force, excessive non-combatant casualties, and mass killings.
Not really a stretch. As posted above, the term genocide was meant to be the destruction of a social group and needed not mean the complete destruction of life so long as that social group ceased to exist as functional. It's hard to claim that misunderstandings were the cause of the indians plight. Generally, the US Cavalry did not attack indians causing trouble but attacked villages, killing women and children, while the men were gone. (Methods the would later use in the Phillipines.) They killed the bison to starve the plains indians. It can't even be said that it was desired to make them "Americans". That was certainly the hope and dream of many of the founding fathers as I have read, but there is a reason the indians moved to Oklahoma were known as the "Five Civilized Tribes." They already had adopted Western ways and been Americanized. They wore Western clothes, had farms using Western farming techniques, had stores, had banks, and had government. Still, any time they got too prosperous, they were raided by their white neighbors. Any effort to defend themselves would result in the governor calling out the militia to attack the indians.
Affirmative action in the United States counteracts institutional and systemic discrimination against specific groups (often visible) minorities.
Affirmative action for women is not the same as sexism; it is a corrective for sexism.
You'll need to define those terms carefully before you have any hope of persuading us.
You'll both probably have to define those terms carefully just to tell if you are talking about the same thing. The common man talking about racism or gentrification is going to be in a totally different discussion and using different definitions of terms than a sociologist talking about racism or gentrification. I imagine the the definitions of such in the terms of laws change from state to state with another set for federal usage.
Why would any Republican be afraid of HRC? She is one in all but name. Iraq War cheerleader, surveillor, wall street's best friend. Seriously, what is there for the GOP to hate policy wise? Yeah, we know they hater her personally, but from a policy perspective, she's the dream GOP candidate.
You act like the issues really matter. The true issue is which backers will get the favoritism. She won't favor the GOP business interests, but the DNC business interests one in office.
Are you somehow incapable of understanding how export control laws work? If they're banned from certain US technology and for purpose, then any route around that through any 3rd party would be illegal. Are you somehow incapable of understanding that you can't magically stop someone from getting milk while continuing to sell them live cows?
Well, it's probably not even illegal. I imagine the entire thing is some government department following the ethics of the regulations and since the law says these chips can't be exported for certain purposes and some other department said these groups were working on those purposes, they put out something saying these chips can't be sold to those groups. Can those groups probably get their chips from someplace else, perhaps even legally? Most likely. Do the people that told Intel care? Probably not. That type of caring is a different department.
In the end, this will probably delay the Chinese research some time and cost them some more money. Every little bit counts in the grand scheme of things and that is probably all this action is supposed to do, add some small percentage of inefficiency to China's research that will cost them more than it will cost us to implement.
Even if a lathe is affordable, it's still not very widespread. And there's more skill involved in using it, plus you need the right materials, design and tools to make a useful gun.
With a 3D printer, any moron can download a design, and hit the big print button.
However, they are more widespread than 3D printers, and the designs out there for tools are a lot more useful than anything for a 3D printer. Better to say that any moron will, eventually, might be able to download a design and hit the big print button when the state of the art on 3D printers and designs will allow. Currently, they can do the same thing for cheaper and come up with a better result using CNC machines with just as much skill and training as it would take to use a 3D printer.
try uttering such common sense in the usa
why are so many americans such fucking morons when it comes to the simple undeniable truth: more easy guns = more senseless death, not protection
When I see consistent evidence of such. Last time I checked by comparing pre and post gun ban statistics, what you say was not the case. Over all, while deaths by gun diminished, the actual murder rates did not. The idea that more easy gun mean more senseless death seems to be an unsupported assumption rather than shown causation. There are lots of other factors involved in gun bans. People who want to commit murder can still commit murder. Guns are not death incarnate. Without lots of training, they tend to be inaccurate and no more deadly than getting stabbed with a knife. Also, people, in the case to threats and robbery, usually don't argue with a gun, where they are likely to do so with a knife or other weapon, so gun bans could easily result in more deaths. In cases where significant crimes is involved such as violent gangs, I doubt prohibition will stop the killings or even the access to arms any better than prohibition of alcohol did.
The one place this does seem to be the case is suicide. Guns do seem to be too much of a quick and easy way out for people, and other, even easier, methods of committing suicide get used less even after significant periods of time.
Doesn't natural selection also include perception? Aren't there some species that choose mates based on colorful feathers or sounds, and those with the most colorful feathers or most desirable sounds tend to produce offspring more? So how is choosing a mate based on height any different?
Well, I think that you'll find that most matters of perception are actually selecting for traits that correlate to either health, youth, or fertility, all promoting more surviving children. Colorful feathers, sounds, clear skin, long silky hair, all correlate to these features. Our very past ancestors that favored them, ended up having more children and our bred those with other selection criteria. I would expect that height also corresponds to health.
We have stopped building an expensive modern scientific instrument that will improve all of humanity, because of fucking ghosts. And not even ghosts in the "poltergeist" sense, but ghosts in the "my great grandaddy told me Jesus cries when you eat a ham and cheese sandwich" sense - Such complete nonsense that any adult should feel ashamed that such idiotic words might come out of their mouth in voicing their objections to this telescope.
I suspect that like most religious thing, it is just a justification for their behavior. In this case, they're still pissed about having their island and land taken from them in a coup sponsored by the American government in favor of corporations against their sovereign nation, the mess it has made for them since, and the general disrespect they get from everybody else. I have enough friends from there to know that if they said "it's part of our heritage" and you said "Boo hoo, fucking ghosts." Whether they believed in those ghosts or not, you'd get punched in the face because you generally being disrespectful to people who are complaining about people being disrespectful to them.
no irregular verbs, we could call it, let's say ^'Esperanto.
I'd say you are exactly wrong. A regular language may be easy to learn, but that does not make it a successful language. Flexibility and adaption of new words make it a successful language and turn out to be the exact opposite of a strictly regular language as it leads to variations in spelling and irregular verbs.
Marshall Law? Who he?
Marshal Law is a deconstruction comic dealing with superheroes as hypocritical villains and the self loathing of those who find themselves with powers. There is also a second series where they train new superheros and a third where he meets Pinhead from Hellraiser.
I'm mostly bored.
Actually, I don't give a rat's ass about games, just the antisocial tendencies they seem to encourage among some of their devotees - it's not the game, it's the asshattery. And as long as the asshats of gaming band together and are a problem for the rest of the web, I'm sure your fellow non-asshat gamers will eventually isolate you as well. Have a good time playing with each other, you little homoerotic man boys.
Yes, this! I hate American football too!
And comparing Switzerland to West Virginia.... I don't even have words to describe how stupid this is. Well...similar size, lots of mountains, landlocked, and lots of guns.
Switzerland has 8 times the population and GDP though.
Then what's the point of it? I thought it was designed to be smaller to go hiking with?
It's designed to capitalize on marketing hype.
When did they announce a subscription model?
Business, which I suspect is a lot of their income, has been on a subscription model for decades already. It's called Microsoft Service agreement. The place I work at has at least 5000 seats and we get our Microsoft products through our parent's service agreement. I'm sure they are all counted as Windows 8 installs by Microsoft, although we take the option to downgrade to Win7. We are even paying the extra fee for the current XP fixes still. Add in office, costs for servers, Office 365, etc and our parent business coughs up millions a year for a subscription to MS products.