Freedom of Speech is defined by the first amendment to the constitution, as it appears below with the important part bolded.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The important bit there is that the government isn't allowed to supress free speech. If you want to work for a company or attend a school, you are expected to play by their rules as they are a private organization. Plus, it's not even a matter of supressing free speech, they simply told the student "You don't like it here, then go, nobody's keeping you here. Don't let the door hit you on the way out". Now, he's obviously entitled to his opinion, but there's a right way and a wrong way to express it, and he did it the wrong way.
So if I understand you correctly, your major problem with this technology is that it won't be able to power the entire US with just one power plant? So because it doesn't solve serve all of our energy needs, it's a worthless technology?
Because usually, if you don't know the game yourself, you don't have any idea what's going on.
I would cite Iron Chef as an example of how you can present an obscure event in an exciting manner which is accessable to everyone. I've never had fois gras, caviar, truffles, homard lobster, or matsutake mushrooms, but whenever they break out those ingredients during competition, I know some pricy quality stuff is going into the dish. I think the same thing could be done in starcraft matches, as long as you have commentators who are high energy and aren't putzes (The worst thing they could do is get "gamer" commentators who are like "woah, that move was gnarly. Wicked awesome. Blah blah blah"). The commentary should be informative without being condescending or confusing. So they could be like "Sam is building a nuclear silo. That has the ability to do 1000 damage to all units and buildings within a 20 meter radius of targeting. Looking at Bill's base, our estimates show Sam's optimal strike point would be here where Bill's detector tower perimeter has a hole." and have a graphic showing the feild of coverage of the missile turrets and what the damage feild would be and such. The viewers don't have to know everything about the game, as long as you explain the important parts that make the game interesting. They do the same thing with poker, when they explain how one player has the unbeatable hand so you know to be interested on whether the other player will call or fold.
On the same token, part of making these games interesting to the public is to reduce the amount of boring work in the game. Thus, they should start each player off with a moderate cache of resources and a handfull of troops and the basic buildings. You need to get to the action quickly to hold a TV audience's attention. And then add in little twists, like the "secret ingredient" in Iron Chef, things like "flier's only" or "reveal map and no fog of war" or "operation cwal engaged".
I thought Ren and Stimpy was already brought back at the premeir of Spike TV, but it had lousy ratings due to the episodes revolving around nothing but gay jokes.
As someone who has a number of unemployed computer animation and computer graphics majors, I can tell you that the job of toning down Superman's crotch would definately be a welcome job in the tight job market. First it's a job, and money is always nice. Second, it's in a big budget movie, which means that you'll have an answer to the question that future employers will ask "What projects have you done?" To be able to say that you were Superman's crotch shrinker would likely be a fairly nice project for a 20-something artist trying to establish himself in the industry.
I don't know if you misunderstood it or not, but it's not about kids being cold, but about kids catching colds (most often rhinovirus infections). Regardless of financial status, kids are going to get sick now and then, particualy when they're young and their immune system is developing. In fact, being too sterile can lead to problems, as animals grown in germ free environments had severe developmental abnormalities in their GI tract, and died very rapidly upon removal from that environment. I read a paper recently which suggested that increases in general hygine and lowered pathogen prevalence in the US may be linked to an increase in the number of allergies people have today compared to previous generations, as it may be as a result of our immune systems not being as well developed from challaneges to it as our parents and grandparents were.
If you are the best programmer in the world, it's still no good if you can't convince anyone of that. It does help you to have experience and prior completed projects that you can use when you try and land contracts from other companies when you go solo. To put it another way, starting you own company by yourself gets you a couple of computers in your mom's basement trying to get someone to take a chance on you. Being part of Bill Gates' inner circle and then leaving to start your own company gets you an article on CNN and the New York Times.
Samas Aran is one of the toughest (if not THE toughest) female character in the video game world, yet she is rarely mentioned in these discussions about the portrayal of females in gaming. From my experience, it seems like women don't accept Samus as a female protagonist. She doesn't have any lines, she's in her battle suit all the time which minimizes her appearance as a female, and there's never any kind of relationship developed with other characters (romantic or otherwise). As such, Samus is considered a "male" character by women, and doesn't make the kind of connection that you'd expect a hard core ass kicking female protagonist to make with famle gamers. Apparently, female characters do have to be a little bit girly in order to sell them to women.
The difference was during the first year, because they had all the stuff sent to their own house, so that's why they had photos of large piles of stuff to show. Since then, all the stuff bought for Child's Play is sent directly to the hospital. It works better for everyone, since Gabe and Tycho don't have to deal with storing and transporting thousands of toys, and it works better for hospitals since toys come in a little bit at a time rather than one big load. I'd personally like to see pictures of kids actually using the toys, but I understand that issues regarding patient confidentiality come up for that.
When your kid falls out of a tree and fractures his left arm safety is driving double the speed limit to ensure the livelyhood of your child.
Try calling an ambulance. Trained professionals who can treat bleeding, stabilize joints, and even administer pain medications under some circumstances. Plus, they know how to transport patients. You may only see the the broken arm from when your kid fell out of the tree, but maybe you missed the factured neck. You pick up your kid to place him in a car and BAM - quadrapeligic for the rest of his life. Then there's the matter of driving "double the speed limit", which is hard enough to do by itself, much less when your attention is split between the road and whether your child is going to die. Then while you're speeding, you run the risk of being pulled over for speeding, and then yelling your head off about how this cop needs to let you because your kid is in the back seat dying, and you and up as a "dumbass motorist" story on the 11 O'clock news. Ambulances can make it to the hospital in a resonable amount of time, plus the vast majority of motorists do allow ambulances the right of way, which is something they aren't going to afford to some crazy guy speeding and weaving through lanes. Thus my point after this diatrabe is that you need to call a damn ambulance rather than using TV and the movies as your source on how to get someone to the hospital.
They're blaming the cost of games on voice acting? That is the biggest load of crap ever becase that's like the once place they can hire good AND cheap actors to play the parts. However, instead of going that, developers are intent on paying big bucks to celebrities because they believe that it somhow legitimizes their game by having big name celebrities in the credits.
Billy West, a voice actor with the roles of Fry and Prof. Farnsworth from futurama to his credit, has an interesting article on The Onion - AV Club about how Hollywood pays people like Cameron Diaz 20 million for their voice in Shrek while overlooking the vetran voice actors in the industry. He makes a lot of good points about how good film actors don't make good voice actors and vice versa, since a voice actor has to learn to expression emotion without the use of his physical features, and how regular actors never really escape their own voice. He also has other interesting tibits about how voice actors typically help producers save money because they can do multiple different voices. I mean, would you guess that the same actor did the voices of Fry, Prof Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, and Zoidberg on Futurama?. Anyways, the point is that I don't buy the fact that the video game industry is all that interested in keeping prices low, because they could find cheaper means of production if they were truly interested in doing so.
I suppose there is some weirdness to the guy who makes all of his online characters female, but I think a fair number of guys make female characters just because after a while, you want to try something different. On City of Heroes, I have 6 characters, and I made my 6th female just because I had already made 3 male types and 2 "huge" types, so I wanted to go for the body type I hadn't used yet. It was one of the more interesting character designs I had to come up with, because I tried to be reasonable for what a female superhero would wear, instead of using the adolescent mentality of "I'm gonna give her big jugs and make her as scantaly clad as possible". Seeing as how I don't typically spend my time thinking about how I would dress if I were a female, it was an interesting diversion. I end up playing her a lot because she's my only controller character and she's fun to play. So, I guess my point after all that is just because a guy is playing a female character doesn't mean he's "odd".
There are going to be a lot more people who want to be Captain Kirk than Mr. Checkov
Says who? Does everyone who plays WOW play a Warrior or Paladin? Those are the guys on the front lines skewering enemies at close range. Yet there are plenty of shamen, rogues, and priests out there. Obviously, people are going to want to branch out and play different roles. Being captain is nice, but it's not the captain who can repair the warp core during a romulan attack, and it's not the captain who can repel boarders, and it's not the captain who can treat a phaser wound. The role of the captain is from the necessity of a hierarchal structure, sombody has to be in command, but that doesn't make him the most competant or useful person in every aspect of vital ship functions.
You're already paid over time. See, I give you a paychek for 1/26 of your annual salary every 2 weeks, instead of giving it to you all at once. Thus, you are paid over time.
#15-A. the right to take days off to get married
If you have time to find a mate, you're obviously not working hard enough for the company.
#15-B. the right to take days off to attend funurals
Very well, you may have a day off to attend your own funeral.
From what I know of stardate convention, the 5 digit stardates simply came about when the 4 digit stardates were done. So the day after stardate 9999.9 was stardate 10000.0
Something I want to point out is that spores are different from bacteria. A spore is structure of protein encapsulating bacterial DNA. It is formed by certain species of bacteria in conditions of low moisture, nutrients, temperature, etc. They are metabolically inactive and are incredibly tough to destroy. Once a spore finds itself in a suitable environment (like your nose or throat), it will germinate into a single bacterium and attempt to multiply. Getting back to killing spores, bleach is a good sporicide, but your solution should be about 1:5, or at least 1:10 (You want a minimum of 2500 ppm of chlorine in your solution, and normal household bleach is 5% available chlorine). Hot water will not kill spores. Boiling water will not kill spores. Spores require a temperature of about 121 C to be destroyed, and boiling water only reaches 100 C. Hospital supplies have to be autoclaved for 15 minutes to be sterilized. Basically, autoclaving involves superheated steam at high pressures to reach the required temperatures. Also, remember that there are various levels of disinfectants. A cleaning agent doesn't kill spores unless it specifically says its a sporicide, which is different from it being "antibacterial".
While there, we learned that Miyamoto is left-handed.
Could that be the reason Link is left handed? At least, I presume he's left handed, he always carries his sword in his left hand and shield in his right hand.
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Freedom of Speech is defined by the first amendment to the constitution, as it appears below with the important part bolded.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The important bit there is that the government isn't allowed to supress free speech. If you want to work for a company or attend a school, you are expected to play by their rules as they are a private organization. Plus, it's not even a matter of supressing free speech, they simply told the student "You don't like it here, then go, nobody's keeping you here. Don't let the door hit you on the way out". Now, he's obviously entitled to his opinion, but there's a right way and a wrong way to express it, and he did it the wrong way.
So if I understand you correctly, your major problem with this technology is that it won't be able to power the entire US with just one power plant? So because it doesn't solve serve all of our energy needs, it's a worthless technology?
Because usually, if you don't know the game yourself, you don't have any idea what's going on.
I would cite Iron Chef as an example of how you can present an obscure event in an exciting manner which is accessable to everyone. I've never had fois gras, caviar, truffles, homard lobster, or matsutake mushrooms, but whenever they break out those ingredients during competition, I know some pricy quality stuff is going into the dish. I think the same thing could be done in starcraft matches, as long as you have commentators who are high energy and aren't putzes (The worst thing they could do is get "gamer" commentators who are like "woah, that move was gnarly. Wicked awesome. Blah blah blah"). The commentary should be informative without being condescending or confusing. So they could be like "Sam is building a nuclear silo. That has the ability to do 1000 damage to all units and buildings within a 20 meter radius of targeting. Looking at Bill's base, our estimates show Sam's optimal strike point would be here where Bill's detector tower perimeter has a hole." and have a graphic showing the feild of coverage of the missile turrets and what the damage feild would be and such. The viewers don't have to know everything about the game, as long as you explain the important parts that make the game interesting. They do the same thing with poker, when they explain how one player has the unbeatable hand so you know to be interested on whether the other player will call or fold.
On the same token, part of making these games interesting to the public is to reduce the amount of boring work in the game. Thus, they should start each player off with a moderate cache of resources and a handfull of troops and the basic buildings. You need to get to the action quickly to hold a TV audience's attention. And then add in little twists, like the "secret ingredient" in Iron Chef, things like "flier's only" or "reveal map and no fog of war" or "operation cwal engaged".
ESPN broadcasts poker, spelling bees, and even scrabble. If they can be profitable, I'm positive video game tournaments can be too.
I thought Ren and Stimpy was already brought back at the premeir of Spike TV, but it had lousy ratings due to the episodes revolving around nothing but gay jokes.
As someone who has a number of unemployed computer animation and computer graphics majors, I can tell you that the job of toning down Superman's crotch would definately be a welcome job in the tight job market. First it's a job, and money is always nice. Second, it's in a big budget movie, which means that you'll have an answer to the question that future employers will ask "What projects have you done?" To be able to say that you were Superman's crotch shrinker would likely be a fairly nice project for a 20-something artist trying to establish himself in the industry.
It's pretty obvious why the 360 isn't selling well in Japan. Microsoft just kind of half ass their advertising over there.
I don't know if you misunderstood it or not, but it's not about kids being cold, but about kids catching colds (most often rhinovirus infections). Regardless of financial status, kids are going to get sick now and then, particualy when they're young and their immune system is developing. In fact, being too sterile can lead to problems, as animals grown in germ free environments had severe developmental abnormalities in their GI tract, and died very rapidly upon removal from that environment. I read a paper recently which suggested that increases in general hygine and lowered pathogen prevalence in the US may be linked to an increase in the number of allergies people have today compared to previous generations, as it may be as a result of our immune systems not being as well developed from challaneges to it as our parents and grandparents were.
If you are the best programmer in the world, it's still no good if you can't convince anyone of that. It does help you to have experience and prior completed projects that you can use when you try and land contracts from other companies when you go solo. To put it another way, starting you own company by yourself gets you a couple of computers in your mom's basement trying to get someone to take a chance on you. Being part of Bill Gates' inner circle and then leaving to start your own company gets you an article on CNN and the New York Times.
Samas Aran is one of the toughest (if not THE toughest) female character in the video game world, yet she is rarely mentioned in these discussions about the portrayal of females in gaming. From my experience, it seems like women don't accept Samus as a female protagonist. She doesn't have any lines, she's in her battle suit all the time which minimizes her appearance as a female, and there's never any kind of relationship developed with other characters (romantic or otherwise). As such, Samus is considered a "male" character by women, and doesn't make the kind of connection that you'd expect a hard core ass kicking female protagonist to make with famle gamers. Apparently, female characters do have to be a little bit girly in order to sell them to women.
The difference was during the first year, because they had all the stuff sent to their own house, so that's why they had photos of large piles of stuff to show. Since then, all the stuff bought for Child's Play is sent directly to the hospital. It works better for everyone, since Gabe and Tycho don't have to deal with storing and transporting thousands of toys, and it works better for hospitals since toys come in a little bit at a time rather than one big load. I'd personally like to see pictures of kids actually using the toys, but I understand that issues regarding patient confidentiality come up for that.
When your kid falls out of a tree and fractures his left arm safety is driving double the speed limit to ensure the livelyhood of your child.
Try calling an ambulance. Trained professionals who can treat bleeding, stabilize joints, and even administer pain medications under some circumstances. Plus, they know how to transport patients. You may only see the the broken arm from when your kid fell out of the tree, but maybe you missed the factured neck. You pick up your kid to place him in a car and BAM - quadrapeligic for the rest of his life. Then there's the matter of driving "double the speed limit", which is hard enough to do by itself, much less when your attention is split between the road and whether your child is going to die. Then while you're speeding, you run the risk of being pulled over for speeding, and then yelling your head off about how this cop needs to let you because your kid is in the back seat dying, and you and up as a "dumbass motorist" story on the 11 O'clock news. Ambulances can make it to the hospital in a resonable amount of time, plus the vast majority of motorists do allow ambulances the right of way, which is something they aren't going to afford to some crazy guy speeding and weaving through lanes. Thus my point after this diatrabe is that you need to call a damn ambulance rather than using TV and the movies as your source on how to get someone to the hospital.
They're blaming the cost of games on voice acting? That is the biggest load of crap ever becase that's like the once place they can hire good AND cheap actors to play the parts. However, instead of going that, developers are intent on paying big bucks to celebrities because they believe that it somhow legitimizes their game by having big name celebrities in the credits.
Billy West, a voice actor with the roles of Fry and Prof. Farnsworth from futurama to his credit, has an interesting article on The Onion - AV Club about how Hollywood pays people like Cameron Diaz 20 million for their voice in Shrek while overlooking the vetran voice actors in the industry. He makes a lot of good points about how good film actors don't make good voice actors and vice versa, since a voice actor has to learn to expression emotion without the use of his physical features, and how regular actors never really escape their own voice. He also has other interesting tibits about how voice actors typically help producers save money because they can do multiple different voices. I mean, would you guess that the same actor did the voices of Fry, Prof Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, and Zoidberg on Futurama?. Anyways, the point is that I don't buy the fact that the video game industry is all that interested in keeping prices low, because they could find cheaper means of production if they were truly interested in doing so.
I suppose there is some weirdness to the guy who makes all of his online characters female, but I think a fair number of guys make female characters just because after a while, you want to try something different. On City of Heroes, I have 6 characters, and I made my 6th female just because I had already made 3 male types and 2 "huge" types, so I wanted to go for the body type I hadn't used yet. It was one of the more interesting character designs I had to come up with, because I tried to be reasonable for what a female superhero would wear, instead of using the adolescent mentality of "I'm gonna give her big jugs and make her as scantaly clad as possible". Seeing as how I don't typically spend my time thinking about how I would dress if I were a female, it was an interesting diversion. I end up playing her a lot because she's my only controller character and she's fun to play. So, I guess my point after all that is just because a guy is playing a female character doesn't mean he's "odd".
There are going to be a lot more people who want to be Captain Kirk than Mr. Checkov
Says who? Does everyone who plays WOW play a Warrior or Paladin? Those are the guys on the front lines skewering enemies at close range. Yet there are plenty of shamen, rogues, and priests out there. Obviously, people are going to want to branch out and play different roles. Being captain is nice, but it's not the captain who can repair the warp core during a romulan attack, and it's not the captain who can repel boarders, and it's not the captain who can treat a phaser wound. The role of the captain is from the necessity of a hierarchal structure, sombody has to be in command, but that doesn't make him the most competant or useful person in every aspect of vital ship functions.
Did you not read the article at all? You should probably be giving her some Nerve Growth Factor.
If that doesn't work, give her a copy of Blast Corps.
#14. The right to overtime pay
You're already paid over time. See, I give you a paychek for 1/26 of your annual salary every 2 weeks, instead of giving it to you all at once. Thus, you are paid over time.
#15-A. the right to take days off to get married
If you have time to find a mate, you're obviously not working hard enough for the company.
#15-B. the right to take days off to attend funurals
Very well, you may have a day off to attend your own funeral.
#16. the right to sleep.
See point 15-B.
From what I know of stardate convention, the 5 digit stardates simply came about when the 4 digit stardates were done. So the day after stardate 9999.9 was stardate 10000.0
I think PVP said it best about the AVP movie - Half hour of greatness wrapped up in an hour of suck.
No, it means "Start of Life" is a more interesting and eye-catching headline than "Start of formation of diploid zygote and progression to cleavage"
Computer gaming was on the comback trail, but it died of dysentery right before reaching Fort Bridger.
http://www.biggercheese.com/
Seems to sum it up quite nicely.
Something I want to point out is that spores are different from bacteria. A spore is structure of protein encapsulating bacterial DNA. It is formed by certain species of bacteria in conditions of low moisture, nutrients, temperature, etc. They are metabolically inactive and are incredibly tough to destroy. Once a spore finds itself in a suitable environment (like your nose or throat), it will germinate into a single bacterium and attempt to multiply. Getting back to killing spores, bleach is a good sporicide, but your solution should be about 1:5, or at least 1:10 (You want a minimum of 2500 ppm of chlorine in your solution, and normal household bleach is 5% available chlorine). Hot water will not kill spores. Boiling water will not kill spores. Spores require a temperature of about 121 C to be destroyed, and boiling water only reaches 100 C. Hospital supplies have to be autoclaved for 15 minutes to be sterilized. Basically, autoclaving involves superheated steam at high pressures to reach the required temperatures. Also, remember that there are various levels of disinfectants. A cleaning agent doesn't kill spores unless it specifically says its a sporicide, which is different from it being "antibacterial".
"For those who said money can't buy happiness forgot about puppies." -Gene Hill
While there, we learned that Miyamoto is left-handed.
Could that be the reason Link is left handed? At least, I presume he's left handed, he always carries his sword in his left hand and shield in his right hand.