It works both ways. Think about how long the Weather Underground moved around blowing shit up, and that was a small group of dirty fucking hippies. Now imagine the reaction in Smalltown, USA when Bubba is shot by storm troopers collecting guns from people on the "terrorist watch list." You think those fed agents are going to leave Smalltown on their feet, you've never been to Smalltown.
I know rednecks who'd pop your head at 500 yards just for looking wrong at their sister. Taking their guns... shit, you might as well grind up a beer bottle and eat it with a spoon, save yourself some pain and suffering.
Exactly. It was like when you take a really big bite of dry steak and have to spend the next week trying to chew it and choke it down, until you finally realize its time to spit it out and have a bit of the fruit.
Hmm. Good point. I'm guessing you spun the fiber optic that connects you to the backbone yourself. I bet you installed it with tools you forged yourself. I bet you paved every piece of raod you ever drove on yourself. I bet you sew all your own clothes out of fibers from plants you grew yourself, using needles which you produced by smelting ore which you mined yourself, using tools which you cast from bronze which you also mined/refined and worked. I bet you can do everything by yourself and don't need the government or society for anything.
The rest of us have fucking brains and prefer efficiency, rule of law, and the other benefits of civilization.
So, for example, if someone slips some corn product into a food product and doesn't put it on the label because "buyer beware" then when I, a person with an allergy to corn, eats it and gets sick/dies, guess I'm just SOL? I guess so, in your world. I guess it would also be ok for me to pop your head like a melon from 1000 yards and then take all your stuff, since you're so against government regulation of private behavior.
Snow Crash is fun, but it's a bit on the immature side. Both The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon are superior.
The Baroque Cycle is more ambitious than any of these, but has serious issues.
Pretty much agreed. I actually liked Zodiac too. In fact, I liked everything except the Baroque Cycle books, which I found boring. About 300 pages into the first book I realized that nothing had happened, and there are only so many times that hearing about how scientists back in the day used to drink quicksilver can amuse.
... uh, that was way fucking better than the WOW one. See, it actually made me want to play the game instead of being like, "Oh wow it looks like Arthas has a Nightbane Urn too..."
Even if they did something like this, they would open up "legacy" servers with unchanging (except for bug fixes) content so that new people could play. There's too much content there that could be potentially generating revenue without having much cost other than maitenance of the servers.
Uh, because putting children on a list of people who you are afraid might be terrorists is fucking stupid? I don't care how big your box cutter is little Johnny, get back in your seat or you're getting time-out.
Interesting, thanks. I kind of figured it was something like that, though I didn't know that they had left out crafting in large part. Not surprising, as if you have crafting you really have to have the auction house/personal vendor support structure too.
And what the fuck do you think the "moderate" muslims are going to do when they see jackasses nuking their friends and family? Not to mention the reactions of people who are under the fallout plumes of your "trivial" solution? Your so called solution is childish, simplistic, and completely fails to solve the problem while creating many, many more problems. Or, in short, you're just another stupid fucking dittohead.
Please try harder not to be so fucking ignorant. There are literally billions of muslims who do not live in the middle east. Would you have us also launch on India, Pakistan, China, large swates of Africa, big pieces of southeast Asia, various regions in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc etc etc? Should we light off kiloton tactical warheads to clear off the large Islamic populations who live in various suburbs just north of Dallas?
Oh and while we're at it, if we're interested in killing off terrorists, I guess we should also nuclear carpet bomb large swathes of Minessota, Georgia (the state, not the country), Oklahoma, Arkansas... lots of radical right wing militias and right wing fundie christian terrorists live in those regions.
Look, to keep it at a level you can understand: your stupid fucking dittohead excuse for foreign policy is so uninformed and patently offensive that, were this a right, proper, and just world you would kill yourself because of the unbearable shame you would feel.
I guess you're lucky that this is not a right, proper, and just world.
Welcome to society, part of living here is that we help people who can't afford to help themselves. The payback to you is that you get to benefit from the same system if you ever find yourself down on your luck.
Very true. There is also the benefit of not having to protect yourself from desperate people who can afford black market weapons but not much else, who without government services will fall between the cracks and have to predate on the middle class and the wealthy to survive.
I don't care how badass your special forces training is, or how many guns your grandpappy passed down to you, or how much of a fortress your libertarian dream castle is, if you take away the things that help people, the people who need help will take what they need to survive from you.
The Libertarian paradise of living under seige for your entire short, brutal lifetime just doesn't sound very appealing to me.
I'd rather have social security and single payer healthcare, and enough easy education to schools that people can better themselves. Oh, and enough police to take care of those who don't want to better themselves. Sure I own guns, but if someone is screwing with me I'd much rather have the government take care of them than try to take the law into my own hands and just kill them outright. If I wanted THAT kind of system, I'd move to Israel and live in a settlement.
You should research single payer a little more. Ok, now that you've clicked the reply button without researching single payer a little more, you should stop before you type some more dittohead nonsense and go research single payer a little more.
Oh, and having heard the people who tell you what to think tell you to think single payer is bad doesn't count as researching.
Here's a hint: The insurance industry (and all the associated overhead of thousands of propriatary billing methods and coverage procedures) goes away, you pick a licensed doctor, go to that doctor, the doctor users their doctor powers to figure out what is wrong with you, and implements treatment procedures. Your personal cost is lowered and no one gets to screw over the rest of society by gambling with their money.
And yet, you still didn't go research single payer a little more.
After the Bonedancer debacle, followed by the castable endurance buff + left axe or quad hit fuckup, can we really trust mythic to have the judgement to balance the game properly? Early results suggest that destruction is OP and order is underpopulated, will mythic figure out how to fix this? And when will an MMO developer realize that tf2 style red vs blue factions is the only way to have true balance?
Not to mention you can pre-order, get your beta key, then ask for your money back. Probably all during the same trip to the store. You may have to stop off at the local wifi hotspot and sign up your account before you head back to the store to get your 5 bucks back.
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It works both ways. Think about how long the Weather Underground moved around blowing shit up, and that was a small group of dirty fucking hippies. Now imagine the reaction in Smalltown, USA when Bubba is shot by storm troopers collecting guns from people on the "terrorist watch list." You think those fed agents are going to leave Smalltown on their feet, you've never been to Smalltown.
I know rednecks who'd pop your head at 500 yards just for looking wrong at their sister. Taking their guns... shit, you might as well grind up a beer bottle and eat it with a spoon, save yourself some pain and suffering.
Thats ok, when I first read the headline I thought kidnappers were putting rich Mexicans through woodchippers.
Exactly. It was like when you take a really big bite of dry steak and have to spend the next week trying to chew it and choke it down, until you finally realize its time to spit it out and have a bit of the fruit.
Hmm. Good point. I'm guessing you spun the fiber optic that connects you to the backbone yourself. I bet you installed it with tools you forged yourself. I bet you paved every piece of raod you ever drove on yourself. I bet you sew all your own clothes out of fibers from plants you grew yourself, using needles which you produced by smelting ore which you mined yourself, using tools which you cast from bronze which you also mined/refined and worked. I bet you can do everything by yourself and don't need the government or society for anything.
The rest of us have fucking brains and prefer efficiency, rule of law, and the other benefits of civilization.
So, for example, if someone slips some corn product into a food product and doesn't put it on the label because "buyer beware" then when I, a person with an allergy to corn, eats it and gets sick/dies, guess I'm just SOL? I guess so, in your world. I guess it would also be ok for me to pop your head like a melon from 1000 yards and then take all your stuff, since you're so against government regulation of private behavior.
Snow Crash is fun, but it's a bit on the immature side. Both The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon are superior.
The Baroque Cycle is more ambitious than any of these, but has serious issues.
Pretty much agreed. I actually liked Zodiac too. In fact, I liked everything except the Baroque Cycle books, which I found boring. About 300 pages into the first book I realized that nothing had happened, and there are only so many times that hearing about how scientists back in the day used to drink quicksilver can amuse.
I'm most interested in seeing the next parts of the Uldum/Creation of the Dwarves/Creation of the World story.
... uh, that was way fucking better than the WOW one. See, it actually made me want to play the game instead of being like, "Oh wow it looks like Arthas has a Nightbane Urn too..."
Even if they did something like this, they would open up "legacy" servers with unchanging (except for bug fixes) content so that new people could play. There's too much content there that could be potentially generating revenue without having much cost other than maitenance of the servers.
how would a new person run Gnomeregan for the first time if it was taken back over by the Gnomes?
Caves of time my friend.
Uh, because putting children on a list of people who you are afraid might be terrorists is fucking stupid? I don't care how big your box cutter is little Johnny, get back in your seat or you're getting time-out.
Interesting, thanks. I kind of figured it was something like that, though I didn't know that they had left out crafting in large part. Not surprising, as if you have crafting you really have to have the auction house/personal vendor support structure too.
And what the fuck do you think the "moderate" muslims are going to do when they see jackasses nuking their friends and family? Not to mention the reactions of people who are under the fallout plumes of your "trivial" solution? Your so called solution is childish, simplistic, and completely fails to solve the problem while creating many, many more problems. Or, in short, you're just another stupid fucking dittohead.
Checkpoints at state borders violate due process and the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
Please try harder not to be so fucking ignorant. There are literally billions of muslims who do not live in the middle east. Would you have us also launch on India, Pakistan, China, large swates of Africa, big pieces of southeast Asia, various regions in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc etc etc? Should we light off kiloton tactical warheads to clear off the large Islamic populations who live in various suburbs just north of Dallas?
Oh and while we're at it, if we're interested in killing off terrorists, I guess we should also nuclear carpet bomb large swathes of Minessota, Georgia (the state, not the country), Oklahoma, Arkansas... lots of radical right wing militias and right wing fundie christian terrorists live in those regions.
Look, to keep it at a level you can understand: your stupid fucking dittohead excuse for foreign policy is so uninformed and patently offensive that, were this a right, proper, and just world you would kill yourself because of the unbearable shame you would feel.
I guess you're lucky that this is not a right, proper, and just world.
So you basically want the worst of both worlds? Man I love slashdot.
Welcome to society, part of living here is that we help people who can't afford to help themselves. The payback to you is that you get to benefit from the same system if you ever find yourself down on your luck.
Very true. There is also the benefit of not having to protect yourself from desperate people who can afford black market weapons but not much else, who without government services will fall between the cracks and have to predate on the middle class and the wealthy to survive.
I don't care how badass your special forces training is, or how many guns your grandpappy passed down to you, or how much of a fortress your libertarian dream castle is, if you take away the things that help people, the people who need help will take what they need to survive from you.
The Libertarian paradise of living under seige for your entire short, brutal lifetime just doesn't sound very appealing to me.
I'd rather have social security and single payer healthcare, and enough easy education to schools that people can better themselves. Oh, and enough police to take care of those who don't want to better themselves. Sure I own guns, but if someone is screwing with me I'd much rather have the government take care of them than try to take the law into my own hands and just kill them outright. If I wanted THAT kind of system, I'd move to Israel and live in a settlement.
You should research single payer a little more. Ok, now that you've clicked the reply button without researching single payer a little more, you should stop before you type some more dittohead nonsense and go research single payer a little more.
Oh, and having heard the people who tell you what to think tell you to think single payer is bad doesn't count as researching.
Here's a hint: The insurance industry (and all the associated overhead of thousands of propriatary billing methods and coverage procedures) goes away, you pick a licensed doctor, go to that doctor, the doctor users their doctor powers to figure out what is wrong with you, and implements treatment procedures. Your personal cost is lowered and no one gets to screw over the rest of society by gambling with their money.
And yet, you still didn't go research single payer a little more.
The ironing is delicious.
You should try it with more starch. Crunchy!
Unless you're a farmer, then it's a 10 pound bag of fertilizer!
Unless you're a gold farmer, then it's what you use for a mattress!
After the Bonedancer debacle, followed by the castable endurance buff + left axe or quad hit fuckup, can we really trust mythic to have the judgement to balance the game properly? Early results suggest that destruction is OP and order is underpopulated, will mythic figure out how to fix this? And when will an MMO developer realize that tf2 style red vs blue factions is the only way to have true balance?
Not to mention you can pre-order, get your beta key, then ask for your money back. Probably all during the same trip to the store. You may have to stop off at the local wifi hotspot and sign up your account before you head back to the store to get your 5 bucks back.
What do you mean there isn't an economy? PLease explain.
It is also easier to end up blinking more often than normal when you have a bunch of bright studio lights in your face.
"Perfected news reporting with CNN and FOX"?
Are you fucking kidding me?
Holy shit. The ice cream girl from the "Lost Blogs" book review posts on slashdot!