You're comparing the uploading of files to terrorism, more or less. How about you don't go after car manufacturers you go after people speeding. Suing the individual fire sharers is the right way to go about it. Things like INDUCE are not.
Warrior - I bash the screen with my fist. Warrior, you fail your saving throw and take 6D6 electrical damage Rogue - I sneak around back and unplug it Rogue, you fail your electronics skill check and end up unplugging the desk lamp. You are now hidden in shadows Wizard - I cast Bigby's Typing Hands to press Ctrl-Alt-Del Wizard, You fail your arcane skill check and are unable to interpret the glyphs on the keyboard. Your spell hits 3 random keys, with no apparent effect. Cleric - I cast a curse on Bill Gates Cleric, Bill Gates resists your spell. He stares at you quizziclly, smirks, and says "Wise adventurer, answer me this question; where do you want to go today?" Sorceress - I summon Tech Support Sorceress, Tech support speaks to you in a foreign language. You are unable to communicate with him.
Doesn't matter if you want it or not, Intel sells to IBM, DELL, etc. The OEMs are saying they don't want it. Most likely the OEM's have their own WiFi "solution" if you want it, so they'd rather not have to worry about dealing with the WiFi daughter card.
It's not just muslims that hate the USA. Here in Australia there's always been a resentment of the stupid arrogant attitude that seems to pervade almost everything done by the USA and its citizens I wasn't disagreeing with you that the rest of the world hates the US, and sees it as arrogant. However, when you say "religious passion", I do disagree with you. Many other countries may hate the US and especially Bush's policies, hell more than half the people in the country didn't want the current administration in the first place. But I doubt many Australians or French are willing to suicide bomb in the streets against the US, that would be "religious passion." Unfortunately too many of the "Joe sixpack" crowd in the US have no concept of things outside the country, and could care less what the rest of the world thinks.
Nope. Only those states which:
(a) have a margin of a 15 vote discrepency in a state that is 80% Bush has the same impact as a 15 vote discrepency that is split 50/50 in a popular vote. So you would have to recount the whole country.
Get your ass whomped for 4 years in a engineering program, while all your friends slide by as buisness majors. The IT folks are learning there are no guarantees for engineering jobs. When I graduated, most of my friends who were not EE or CompE didn't get jobs related to their engineering discipline. ChemE had to be a database manager, aerospace engineer did mechanical modelling, mat sci ended up doing unrelated contract lab work, another chemE did programming. And business people don't have it much better. Unless you have an MBA you'll probably end up as a secretary or some sales grunt. Job prospects for alot of engineering fields haven't been great for awhile. You study for the love, not the $$$.
The neocon simple-thinking that military power alone will solve our problems is what has gotten this country into so much trouble I'm not disagreeing with you. What I am saying is that limited military engagement is not a good strategy for taking control of a country. You have to go all or nothing (and I prefer nothing). Saddam was able to control the country, but what it took was mass killings and fear. There was no way the US could hope to control the country withtout being horribly murderous, that's why it should not have gone in in the first place. Not to mention that 60% of the world's population is coming to hate our guts with religious passion Not quite that many muslims in the world, but the war definately made the US a greater target for terrorism, and worse alienated us from the rest of the world.
Yes it is, it has a lot more variation and thus gives you a better chance on seeing different sides. Only if people are educated enough to understand what they are seeing. It's hard enough for people to understand the slant in "mainstream" media, let alone deciphering the agendas of dozens of news agencys. AH yes, and we have no idea what role media plays in education. If media is educating us, we are very far gone. Media is the entertainment business, it's there to keep our eyes on the TV. If they can get their own agenda across while keeping ratings up, then all the better for them. THere is this very very very usefull concept called competition. It can only work if there are enough players and the playign field is somewhat equal. There is also concept called market consolidation. Newspapers, TV, radio, it's all business. If people don't like your "version" of the news, you lose out. Just look at the internet, so many options yet people go mostly to CNN.com, or MSNBC.com. People will flock to the news they like, so having many options really doesn't make much of a difference.
It seems like every few months their are stories released about some space object coming close to earth and 'just barely missing'. I agree, the media needs to stop hyping up these near misses and write the news story AFTER it hits us.
One of the interesting things is that ice expands because of hydrogen bonding, similar to what is happening in the material in the article. What makes the rigid structure in ice is that the hydrogen bonds have a longer half-life in ice than in water.
Yet you provided no concrete answers as to what has caused job losses, lower wages, etc Speculative investment in an overextended technology market. Y2K was a big reason, when the tech bubble started stuttering in '98, the large investments in technology in anticipation of Y2K caused an employment bubble. Sorta like what happens in retail during the holiday season, lots of people get hired, then fired afterwards. Is it any surprise that the first stock market drop happened in March, then again in August of 2000. Nobody needed new computers. Since a disproportionate amount of wealth during the dotcom period was in the form of stock, this had a significant impact on the spending power especially those of technology workers. Things were expected to start recovering in 2003, but then GWB screwed everything up with the war in Iraq, causing uncertainty and driving up oil prices. Presidents don't make the economy go up, but they can certainly make it go down.
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The US occupiers in post-WWII weren't calling in air strikes on cities and killing innocent men, women and children in the process. That's because Japan/Germany were beaten into submission. Drop 2 atomic bombs on Iraq, and firebomb Baghdad and things might change. The US should never have gone into Iraq. You cannot occupy a country without breaking the will of the people, and to do that, you pretty much have to decimate it. The war made no sense to begin with, and there was no coherent strategy post defeat of the standing goverment. Unfortunately the US is stuck keeping troops in Iraq, otherwise, the power vaccuum would most likely lead to civil war and there'd be thousands of deaths a week. So now the US is stuck sacrificing money and lives to try and keep the peace in a situation it caused. We have GWB to thank for running our country into a deficit on a war we didn't need, and for alienating the rest of the world.
Then start your own news organization. Media consolidation is a function of economics, not politics. Alot of small news organizations each with there own political agenda isn't much better than a few large news organizations with their own agenda. The public is dumb, they don't care where they get their news from, whether its "Bush is King" Fox news, or "Save the planet and think of the children" CNN, or the entirely fabricated tablioid "news". Public apathy and poor education are a far bigger threat to democracy than a homoginized media. As for a "responsible" media, that doesn't happen, the free press has always slanted news reporting to fit their individual agendas.
No, thats the way the market works today. Its not the way it was designed to work, or any way which has a sound economic basis. Originally it was designed not for dividends, it was for people to share risk. Dividends came out as a way of sharing profits. Then people began buying and selling their ownership. Equitities became traded just like commodities. Yes it is a speculative market, but so are most investments. Buying a piece of land as an investment is speculative as is buying gold, or giving out a loan. You put your money at risk in hopes that you can recover more. So all investment is a form of gambling. Even purchasing a company in hopes that it stays profitable enough to give you 2% dividend. Its still 0-sum. To not be 0-sum, new wealth has to be created. None is- no wealth was distributed to the shareholders. Yes wealth is created. A company investing in itself can become more valuable, they have more capital, more property, etc. You are confusing weath with liquidity. To make wealth liquid for investors companies can use regular dividends, one time payments, or stock buyback. Companies from time to time have stock buybacks to allow investors to "cash out" At that point the capital gains of the stock price increase become realized. So it is not a 0-sum gain
And thats the scam. The stock market isn't supposed o work that way. No that is the way the markets work. The stock market (equities market) was built for the sole purpose of buying, selling, and trading shares of stock. Just like other investments, gold, oil, property, etc. you purchase with the thought that your purchase will be more valuable in the future to somebody else. You also turn it from a real investment into a 0-sum game. Only if a company hoards all it's cash. If a company reinvests its profits in itself, it grows the value of the company and the value of your shares of stock. Dividends aren't the only way investors can get money out of the company. Corporations can buy back stock which gives an investor a chance to "cash out." In fact corporations that save cash are frowned upon (like Microsoft) because the cash isn't adding value to the investor. When you invest for dividends, you get a regular payoff- no loser involved Dividend investing is good, but it offers lower reward. All investing is, is balancing risk/reward. Yes you are getting a steady income, but you are losing potential capital gain if the corporation applied that money to growth. Good investments balance capital growth with steady dividend income.
Fact is, it's a huge scam. Shareholders own a piece of a company that may NEVER give them anything back That's why it's called investing and not "making free money." Dividends are great, but most people invest more for the capital gain (increase in share price). It's not a scam, it's purchasing something that you believe will become more valuable in the future.
Whatever happened to the old days of being ethical and honest with regard to your responsibilities to the consumer. Those days never existed, as long as businesses are run by people, there will be greed driven corruption. There was widespread corruption in the tea industry during the 17th & 18th century (corporations had actually become powerful to the point where they had their own army), railroads (robber barons) in the 19th century, banking (savings & loans) in the 20th century, just to name a few. Corporations also have no responsibilities to the consumer, they are responsible to their stockholders. The industry has matured, it's more in control of the business types looking to use technology for profit, than the passionate hackers.
I had the exact same experience
I also bought the game for PC and found it is fun, but very lacking in polish. Terrible interface, bad AI (even at hardest difficulty), even had little issues with installation (for some reason had to insert Disc 1 back in after installing Disc 2, before I could continue onto Disc 3. I have an x800, and the graphics are nice, but not up to what I would expect, and multiplayer is laggy, and movement choppy. Playing it is fun, so I'd agree it's a patch or two away from being what I expected in the first place.
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You're completely right, it's good that we're not firebombing Baghdad...but there is usually an alternative to war that will cost far less money, US soldier deaths, and civilian casualities. I agree, that's why I was against the Iraq war, there was no need for it. No direct threat or even threat of regional destabilization. That said, for a year long conflict occurring in an urban environment the death toll is low. Due in part to technological improvements not only in weapons, but also communication. Of course the death toll would be lower if "W" wasn't in office. That's why I will do my part on election day.
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I remember Atari comics that came with selected games. Oooh I must buy Bezerk because it has the next episode!
You're comparing the uploading of files to terrorism, more or less.
How about you don't go after car manufacturers you go after people speeding.
Suing the individual fire sharers is the right way to go about it. Things like INDUCE are not.
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Definately more fun than Doom 3.
Warrior - I bash the screen with my fist.
Warrior, you fail your saving throw and take 6D6 electrical damage
Rogue - I sneak around back and unplug it
Rogue, you fail your electronics skill check and end up unplugging the desk lamp. You are now hidden in shadows
Wizard - I cast Bigby's Typing Hands to press Ctrl-Alt-Del
Wizard, You fail your arcane skill check and are unable to interpret the glyphs on the keyboard. Your spell hits 3 random keys, with no apparent effect.
Cleric - I cast a curse on Bill Gates
Cleric, Bill Gates resists your spell. He stares at you quizziclly, smirks, and says "Wise adventurer, answer me this question; where do you want to go today?"
Sorceress - I summon Tech Support
Sorceress, Tech support speaks to you in a foreign language. You are unable to communicate with him.
Doesn't matter if you want it or not, Intel sells to IBM, DELL, etc. The OEMs are saying they don't want it. Most likely the OEM's have their own WiFi "solution" if you want it, so they'd rather not have to worry about dealing with the WiFi daughter card.
It's not just muslims that hate the USA. Here in Australia there's always been a resentment of the stupid arrogant attitude that seems to pervade almost everything done by the USA and its citizens
I wasn't disagreeing with you that the rest of the world hates the US, and sees it as arrogant. However, when you say "religious passion", I do disagree with you. Many other countries may hate the US and especially Bush's policies, hell more than half the people in the country didn't want the current administration in the first place. But I doubt many Australians or French are willing to suicide bomb in the streets against the US, that would be "religious passion."
Unfortunately too many of the "Joe sixpack" crowd in the US have no concept of things outside the country, and could care less what the rest of the world thinks.
Nope. Only those states which: (a) have a margin of
a 15 vote discrepency in a state that is 80% Bush has the same impact as a 15 vote discrepency that is split 50/50 in a popular vote. So you would have to recount the whole country.
Get your ass whomped for 4 years in a engineering program, while all your friends slide by as buisness majors.
The IT folks are learning there are no guarantees for engineering jobs. When I graduated, most of my friends who were not EE or CompE didn't get jobs related to their engineering discipline. ChemE had to be a database manager, aerospace engineer did mechanical modelling, mat sci ended up doing unrelated contract lab work, another chemE did programming.
And business people don't have it much better. Unless you have an MBA you'll probably end up as a secretary or some sales grunt.
Job prospects for alot of engineering fields haven't been great for awhile. You study for the love, not the $$$.
The neocon simple-thinking that military power alone will solve our problems is what has gotten this country into so much trouble
I'm not disagreeing with you. What I am saying is that limited military engagement is not a good strategy for taking control of a country. You have to go all or nothing (and I prefer nothing).
Saddam was able to control the country, but what it took was mass killings and fear. There was no way the US could hope to control the country withtout being horribly murderous, that's why it should not have gone in in the first place.
Not to mention that 60% of the world's population is coming to hate our guts with religious passion
Not quite that many muslims in the world, but the war definately made the US a greater target for terrorism, and worse alienated us from the rest of the world.
The industry is cooling down because it is cyclical. The auto industry has been mature for a while.
Yes it is, it has a lot more variation and thus gives you a better chance on seeing different sides.
Only if people are educated enough to understand what they are seeing. It's hard enough for people to understand the slant in "mainstream" media, let alone deciphering the agendas of dozens of news agencys.
AH yes, and we have no idea what role media plays in education.
If media is educating us, we are very far gone. Media is the entertainment business, it's there to keep our eyes on the TV. If they can get their own agenda across while keeping ratings up, then all the better for them.
THere is this very very very usefull concept called competition. It can only work if there are enough players and the playign field is somewhat equal.
There is also concept called market consolidation. Newspapers, TV, radio, it's all business. If people don't like your "version" of the news, you lose out. Just look at the internet, so many options yet people go mostly to CNN.com, or MSNBC.com. People will flock to the news they like, so having many options really doesn't make much of a difference.
It seems like every few months their are stories released about some space object coming close to earth and 'just barely missing'.
I agree, the media needs to stop hyping up these near misses and write the news story AFTER it hits us.
One of the interesting things is that ice expands because of hydrogen bonding, similar to what is happening in the material in the article. What makes the rigid structure in ice is that the hydrogen bonds have a longer half-life in ice than in water.
Yet you provided no concrete answers as to what has caused job losses, lower wages, etc
Speculative investment in an overextended technology market. Y2K was a big reason, when the tech bubble started stuttering in '98, the large investments in technology in anticipation of Y2K caused an employment bubble. Sorta like what happens in retail during the holiday season, lots of people get hired, then fired afterwards. Is it any surprise that the first stock market drop happened in March, then again in August of 2000. Nobody needed new computers. Since a disproportionate amount of wealth during the dotcom period was in the form of stock, this had a significant impact on the spending power especially those of technology workers.
Things were expected to start recovering in 2003, but then GWB screwed everything up with the war in Iraq, causing uncertainty and driving up oil prices.
Presidents don't make the economy go up, but they can certainly make it go down.
The US occupiers in post-WWII weren't calling in air strikes on cities and killing innocent men, women and children in the process.
That's because Japan/Germany were beaten into submission. Drop 2 atomic bombs on Iraq, and firebomb Baghdad and things might change.
The US should never have gone into Iraq. You cannot occupy a country without breaking the will of the people, and to do that, you pretty much have to decimate it. The war made no sense to begin with, and there was no coherent strategy post defeat of the standing goverment.
Unfortunately the US is stuck keeping troops in Iraq, otherwise, the power vaccuum would most likely lead to civil war and there'd be thousands of deaths a week. So now the US is stuck sacrificing money and lives to try and keep the peace in a situation it caused. We have GWB to thank for running our country into a deficit on a war we didn't need, and for alienating the rest of the world.
Then start your own news organization. Media consolidation is a function of economics, not politics. Alot of small news organizations each with there own political agenda isn't much better than a few large news organizations with their own agenda.
The public is dumb, they don't care where they get their news from, whether its "Bush is King" Fox news, or "Save the planet and think of the children" CNN, or the entirely fabricated tablioid "news". Public apathy and poor education are a far bigger threat to democracy than a homoginized media.
As for a "responsible" media, that doesn't happen, the free press has always slanted news reporting to fit their individual agendas.
No, thats the way the market works today. Its not the way it was designed to work, or any way which has a sound economic basis.
Originally it was designed not for dividends, it was for people to share risk. Dividends came out as a way of sharing profits. Then people began buying and selling their ownership. Equitities became traded just like commodities. Yes it is a speculative market, but so are most investments. Buying a piece of land as an investment is speculative as is buying gold, or giving out a loan. You put your money at risk in hopes that you can recover more.
So all investment is a form of gambling. Even purchasing a company in hopes that it stays profitable enough to give you 2% dividend.
Its still 0-sum. To not be 0-sum, new wealth has to be created. None is- no wealth was distributed to the shareholders.
Yes wealth is created. A company investing in itself can become more valuable, they have more capital, more property, etc. You are confusing weath with liquidity. To make wealth liquid for investors companies can use regular dividends, one time payments, or stock buyback. Companies from time to time have stock buybacks to allow investors to "cash out" At that point the capital gains of the stock price increase become realized. So it is not a 0-sum gain
Maybe you should try it now, wear a 5.25" floppy around your neck and call it "retro"
And thats the scam. The stock market isn't supposed o work that way.
No that is the way the markets work. The stock market (equities market) was built for the sole purpose of buying, selling, and trading shares of stock. Just like other investments, gold, oil, property, etc. you purchase with the thought that your purchase will be more valuable in the future to somebody else.
You also turn it from a real investment into a 0-sum game.
Only if a company hoards all it's cash. If a company reinvests its profits in itself, it grows the value of the company and the value of your shares of stock. Dividends aren't the only way investors can get money out of the company. Corporations can buy back stock which gives an investor a chance to "cash out." In fact corporations that save cash are frowned upon (like Microsoft) because the cash isn't adding value to the investor.
When you invest for dividends, you get a regular payoff- no loser involved
Dividend investing is good, but it offers lower reward. All investing is, is balancing risk/reward. Yes you are getting a steady income, but you are losing potential capital gain if the corporation applied that money to growth. Good investments balance capital growth with steady dividend income.
Fact is, it's a huge scam. Shareholders own a piece of a company that may NEVER give them anything back
That's why it's called investing and not "making free money." Dividends are great, but most people invest more for the capital gain (increase in share price). It's not a scam, it's purchasing something that you believe will become more valuable in the future.
Whatever happened to the old days of being ethical and honest with regard to your responsibilities to the consumer.
Those days never existed, as long as businesses are run by people, there will be greed driven corruption. There was widespread corruption in the tea industry during the 17th & 18th century (corporations had actually become powerful to the point where they had their own army), railroads (robber barons) in the 19th century, banking (savings & loans) in the 20th century, just to name a few.
Corporations also have no responsibilities to the consumer, they are responsible to their stockholders. The industry has matured, it's more in control of the business types looking to use technology for profit, than the passionate hackers.
go back to bed or I'm telling mom about your Playboys
I had the exact same experience
I also bought the game for PC and found it is fun, but very lacking in polish.
Terrible interface, bad AI (even at hardest difficulty), even had little issues with installation (for some reason had to insert Disc 1 back in after installing Disc 2, before I could continue onto Disc 3.
I have an x800, and the graphics are nice, but not up to what I would expect, and multiplayer is laggy, and movement choppy.
Playing it is fun, so I'd agree it's a patch or two away from being what I expected in the first place.
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Ice Cream in Summer
Football in fall and winter
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You're completely right, it's good that we're not firebombing Baghdad...but there is usually an alternative to war that will cost far less money, US soldier deaths, and civilian casualities.
I agree, that's why I was against the Iraq war, there was no need for it. No direct threat or even threat of regional destabilization.
That said, for a year long conflict occurring in an urban environment the death toll is low. Due in part to technological improvements not only in weapons, but also communication.
Of course the death toll would be lower if "W" wasn't in office. That's why I will do my part on election day.