I can't really comment on Scan's current customer support, but I gave up ordering from Scan around 2001/2002 as their customer support was piss-poor. I've had all kinds of trouble with them, actually getting through was one problem many times I just had to give up an try another day. They've sent me wrong orders, not re-credited my card (without me having to go through the painful process of actually trying to contact them again). I also know a number of other people that won't go near them again because of their support. I hope they have improved, if not they don't deserve to be in business, but either way I'm not going near them again, and I'm currently very happy with the support from another UK supplier.
It certainly isn't probable. Incredibly improbable actually. It would require a
huge amount of mutations, all of which were beneficial(for specific conditions, in this case, land.) to the creature, and also that the creature just happened to be near land. Not all mutations are good or beneficial. If you really want an in-depth explanation then I'd recommend The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. Very interesting and enlightening.
I'm not really interested in a discussing or argument myself, but if you want a good counter-argument to the vast odds ID proponents keep quoting, I'd recommend having a read through The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins.
No, you are just being somewhat paranoid. Staring at displays is not necessarily going to cause you much problems. Vision issues are more to do with genetics than staring at displays for hours on end. I've spent a large amount of time in front of displays with very small fonts, and game wise certainly often spent more than 10 hours straight in front of a monitor. Add to that, often reading in pretty dim light, and well, my sight hasn't really degraded any noticeable amount. And this is over a length of time that's not all that far off 20 years.
At the end of the day you aren't doing much more than making assumptions.
True. Button has impressed me more than expected.
I'd gave Sato another two years. He has certainly been impressive on occasion, but does need to calm down a little.
I'm looking forward to seeing Raikkonen and Montoya as team mates, should be interesting.
I'm no Schumacher fan, in fact I don't particularly like him, but the guy is exceptionally talented. And considering how good the BAR cars were last season, Yes I think Schumacher would still beat Barrichello more often than not. He has beaten plenty of good drivers with better cars in the past. The driver is still very important.
I'd have to disagree with you on B & W and Tetris.
I enjoy B & W quite a lot. I think most people just had unreasonable expectations due to all the hype.
On the other hand I've never actually found Tetris to be particularly enjoyable. I has always bored me senseless actually.
But I'll take a good game of Civilization or Star Craft over those any day.
"The internet was created by the US, in the US. The UN now wants to take control of something they did nothing to create."
As opposed to, say, the US wanting control over Galileo... Good one.
"Huh? What ultra liberal book does this come from, Rogue States?"
Lets see, high percentage of poverty, what's been done about that? Oh welfare cuts. Yep, real helpful.
Any cuts in military spending.. no, increases actually. The US would be far better off putting even a fraction of its military spending into looking after its own population.
Oh let me guess.. you also support the enormous amount of money being spent on the 'war against drugs'. As for the 'war on terrorism', well, that's a complete joke. And is doing more to undermine individual rights than anything else.
Strange that the corporations are gaining ever increasing freedoms.. or maybe not if you look at where the campaign contributions are coming from.
"Yeah, until he invaded Kuwait. The USA reluctantly supports a lot of countries
because we are not Imperialists. If we were Imperialists, as the rest of the world so unintelligently says, we would simply invade every country on the earth we did not like."
So tell me, why were the US even supporting him while he was busy butchering his own people and Kurds?
And don't give me any crap like "the US wasn't aware".
Foreign Aid!
You're taking the piss right?
Again maybe you should try looking at your military spending. Compared to that,
the amount spent on foreign aid is piss small. Living conditions for the poor could be improved dramatically if your country wasn't so trigger happy.. or if it actually gave a damn in the first place.
"Huh? Where and when has the USA undermined Democracy?
The 2000 election might be an interesting place to look for a start.
Where do you people come up with this nonsense?!?!?!? Again, the USA reluctantly
deals with these countrie as she does not invade every country it does not like."
Reluctancy only seems to come into it once it becomes a PR issue.. odd, no?
"Where does such nonsense come from? Is the latest Liberal story? I suppose the
second Bush took office he said: "Let's attack Afghanistan!" Please."
No, but do you honestly think the US would have attacked a country when they couldn't get a return on such an investment? Dream on.
"I will not read something so full of such utter nonsense as Rogue States."
Whether you agree or not is somewhat irrelevant.
Your dismissal of information says a lot about you. I might have taken you more
seriously had you actually read it.
"Sure, now that Bush is president the USA is attacking everyone and does not car
e about any other country, and the world would be in total peace if Bush would dissolve the USA military and get rid of all our nukes. Yep, the world would be in total peace. Sure."
Hardly.
"Why would you base your views off someone who is an admitted ultra liberal anymore than someone who is an ultra conservative?"
My views are based on what I see going on and information available. Much of my
criticisms can also be applied to most governments. Corruption is inherent in governments. It's just the US is in a much stronger position to leverage and abuse
such power. You seem to believe the US is the "defender of all that is good and
holy". It's not. How you could think your government is the exception is mystifying.
"No kidding. I just do not get why people are so clueless as to how the world works and basic history. I suggest you start watching the news, read some history
books, and get a clue."
If watching the news is the only way you get yours then things are starting to make sense. But never mind, I'll let you back to your flag waving, there is bound to be some more violations of international law and killing of civilians soon
enough.
You faith in a government is disturbing, particularly the US government.
A country which violates international law whenever it feels like.
"Oh yeah...the big bad USA just wants the oil and does not care about the people...right?"
Correct. The last thing the US cares about are others. In fact they don't even
care about the majority of their own population. You would find plenty of evidence if you cared to do a little research. All that really matters is keeping the
beloved mega-corporations happy.
"how many palaces did Saddam have?"
"How many Ferrari's does the Saudi Royal Family have?"
"How is it our fault these countries leaders squander all the wealth they have?"
Your country is no different in that regard.
If fact your country was a big supporter of Saddam, until it was deemed
he stepped out of line. So much in favour, the US even overlooked an attack
by Saddam on a US Naval vessel killing something like 13 Americans.
Even more ironic, the US, the richest country on the planet, has the highest
child poverty rates of any other developed country. Where is your money going?
"The USA tried after both WW1 and WW2 to help these people live in peace for
once in their lifetime but the fanatical religious leaders chose not to live
in peace and set about creating fundamentalist states there."
I find this amusing, the US is the biggest supporter of dictators in the
world. And have continued to undermine countries which had a chance
of democracy.
"It is interesting how people the world over love to point fingers at
everything besides themselves."
You obviously have no idea how ironic this statement is coming in support
of the US.
"If 9-11 never happened, the USA would not be in Afganistan."
Incorrect. 9-11 only gave them the excuse they needed. They had plans
for Afghanistan and Iraq long before 9-11 ever took place.
Please, please, do yourself a favour and go read Rogue States by Naom Chomsky,
rather than furthering the cause of ignorance. I didn't really backup anything
I said because it's all there in Rogue States. Plus you'll learn an awful lot
more than I could ever tell you.
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I can't really comment on Scan's current customer support, but I gave up ordering from Scan around 2001/2002 as their customer support was piss-poor. I've had all kinds of trouble with them, actually getting through was one problem many times I just had to give up an try another day. They've sent me wrong orders, not re-credited my card (without me having to go through the painful process of actually trying to contact them again). I also know a number of other people that won't go near them again because of their support. I hope they have improved, if not they don't deserve to be in business, but either way I'm not going near them again, and I'm currently very happy with the support from another UK supplier.
It certainly isn't probable. Incredibly improbable actually. It would require a huge amount of mutations, all of which were beneficial(for specific conditions, in this case, land.) to the creature, and also that the creature just happened to be near land. Not all mutations are good or beneficial. If you really want an in-depth explanation then I'd recommend The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. Very interesting and enlightening.
It's certainly not a proper micro-kernel, its a hybrid. Real micro-kernels don't have things like graphical sub-systems in kernel space.
I think I know the one you mean. A bunch of computer programmers. Was it Dweebs?
My Zombie and Robot party will fuck you up!
I'm not really interested in a discussing or argument myself, but if you want a good counter-argument to the vast odds ID proponents keep quoting, I'd recommend having a read through The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins.
I'm afraid astronomers changed the name of Uranus to end that stupid joke once and for all. It's now called Urectum.
Mmmm Futurama.
Please report to room 404 for your Internet and WWW history lesson resits. Sincerely, Your lecturer.
No, you are just being somewhat paranoid. Staring at displays is not necessarily going to cause you much problems. Vision issues are more to do with genetics than staring at displays for hours on end. I've spent a large amount of time in front of displays with very small fonts, and game wise certainly often spent more than 10 hours straight in front of a monitor. Add to that, often reading in pretty dim light, and well, my sight hasn't really degraded any noticeable amount. And this is over a length of time that's not all that far off 20 years. At the end of the day you aren't doing much more than making assumptions.
It was a joke really. :)
I'll reserve my judgement until I actually see the film. Can't say I like the look of Marvin though.
Do you have any estimates on how many RPM Mr. Adams is doing?
True. Button has impressed me more than expected. I'd gave Sato another two years. He has certainly been impressive on occasion, but does need to calm down a little. I'm looking forward to seeing Raikkonen and Montoya as team mates, should be interesting.
So how did Schumacher win countless times when in an inferior car?
There are far better drivers than Villeneuve out there. Alonso, and Rikkonen are just two of them.
I'm no Schumacher fan, in fact I don't particularly like him, but the guy is exceptionally talented. And considering how good the BAR cars were last season, Yes I think Schumacher would still beat Barrichello more often than not. He has beaten plenty of good drivers with better cars in the past. The driver is still very important.
Well, not completely consistently. I have noticed Leela using "ask" in an even later episode, but can't actually remember which episode.
So please tell me how he destroyed:
Populous 1 & 2
Powermonger
Syndicate
+ others.
Or are are DK and B&W the only Molyneux games you've played?
I'd have to disagree with you on B & W and Tetris. I enjoy B & W quite a lot. I think most people just had unreasonable expectations due to all the hype. On the other hand I've never actually found Tetris to be particularly enjoyable. I has always bored me senseless actually. But I'll take a good game of Civilization or Star Craft over those any day.
Ah, possibly a Paradise Lost fan?
"The internet was created by the US, in the US. The UN now wants to take control of something they did nothing to create." As opposed to, say, the US wanting control over Galileo... Good one.
"Huh? What ultra liberal book does this come from, Rogue States?"
."
Lets see, high percentage of poverty, what's been done about that? Oh welfare cuts. Yep, real helpful. Any cuts in military spending.. no, increases actually. The US would be far better off putting even a fraction of its military spending into looking after its own population. Oh let me guess.. you also support the enormous amount of money being spent on the 'war against drugs'. As for the 'war on terrorism', well, that's a complete joke. And is doing more to undermine individual rights than anything else. Strange that the corporations are gaining ever increasing freedoms.. or maybe not if you look at where the campaign contributions are coming from.
"Yeah, until he invaded Kuwait. The USA reluctantly supports a lot of countries because we are not Imperialists. If we were Imperialists, as the rest of the world so unintelligently says, we would simply invade every country on the earth we did not like."
So tell me, why were the US even supporting him while he was busy butchering his own people and Kurds?
And don't give me any crap like "the US wasn't aware".
Foreign Aid!
You're taking the piss right?
Again maybe you should try looking at your military spending. Compared to that, the amount spent on foreign aid is piss small. Living conditions for the poor could be improved dramatically if your country wasn't so trigger happy.. or if it actually gave a damn in the first place.
"Huh? Where and when has the USA undermined Democracy?
The 2000 election might be an interesting place to look for a start.
Where do you people come up with this nonsense?!?!?!? Again, the USA reluctantly deals with these countrie as she does not invade every country it does not like
Reluctancy only seems to come into it once it becomes a PR issue.. odd, no?
"Where does such nonsense come from? Is the latest Liberal story? I suppose the second Bush took office he said: "Let's attack Afghanistan!" Please."
No, but do you honestly think the US would have attacked a country when they couldn't get a return on such an investment? Dream on.
"I will not read something so full of such utter nonsense as Rogue States."
Whether you agree or not is somewhat irrelevant. Your dismissal of information says a lot about you. I might have taken you more seriously had you actually read it.
"Sure, now that Bush is president the USA is attacking everyone and does not car e about any other country, and the world would be in total peace if Bush would dissolve the USA military and get rid of all our nukes. Yep, the world would be in total peace. Sure."
Hardly.
"Why would you base your views off someone who is an admitted ultra liberal anymore than someone who is an ultra conservative?"
My views are based on what I see going on and information available. Much of my criticisms can also be applied to most governments. Corruption is inherent in governments. It's just the US is in a much stronger position to leverage and abuse such power. You seem to believe the US is the "defender of all that is good and holy". It's not. How you could think your government is the exception is mystifying.
"No kidding. I just do not get why people are so clueless as to how the world works and basic history. I suggest you start watching the news, read some history books, and get a clue."
If watching the news is the only way you get yours then things are starting to make sense. But never mind, I'll let you back to your flag waving, there is bound to be some more violations of international law and killing of civilians soon enough.
You faith in a government is disturbing, particularly the US government. A country which violates international law whenever it feels like.
...right?"
"Oh yeah...the big bad USA just wants the oil and does not care about the people
Correct. The last thing the US cares about are others. In fact they don't even care about the majority of their own population. You would find plenty of evidence if you cared to do a little research. All that really matters is keeping the beloved mega-corporations happy.
"how many palaces did Saddam have?" "How many Ferrari's does the Saudi Royal Family have?" "How is it our fault these countries leaders squander all the wealth they have?"
Your country is no different in that regard. If fact your country was a big supporter of Saddam, until it was deemed he stepped out of line. So much in favour, the US even overlooked an attack by Saddam on a US Naval vessel killing something like 13 Americans. Even more ironic, the US, the richest country on the planet, has the highest child poverty rates of any other developed country. Where is your money going?
"The USA tried after both WW1 and WW2 to help these people live in peace for once in their lifetime but the fanatical religious leaders chose not to live in peace and set about creating fundamentalist states there."
I find this amusing, the US is the biggest supporter of dictators in the world. And have continued to undermine countries which had a chance of democracy.
"It is interesting how people the world over love to point fingers at everything besides themselves."
You obviously have no idea how ironic this statement is coming in support of the US.
"If 9-11 never happened, the USA would not be in Afganistan."
Incorrect. 9-11 only gave them the excuse they needed. They had plans for Afghanistan and Iraq long before 9-11 ever took place.
Please, please, do yourself a favour and go read Rogue States by Naom Chomsky, rather than furthering the cause of ignorance. I didn't really backup anything I said because it's all there in Rogue States. Plus you'll learn an awful lot more than I could ever tell you.