You're an idiot, sir, sorry to point that out. It is perfectly possible for anyone to buy a crossbow, on the Internet, for $200 or whereabouts. It makes no sound, it is quite unobtrusive and the bolts have enough energy in them for at least one good ricochet. I'll take being a bit burned over being pierced with a crossbow bolt any time thank you very much indeed. Blindness sure beats having a 3-inch serrated bolt tip stuck in your frontal lobe or thereabouts.
You do realize, of course, that you should be angry at Blizzard for making a game so boring and mindless that any human player (even the "best") can be substituted or in fact even superseded by a couple of small, dumb scripts - not only that, but people would rather pay extra than do these tedious tasks themselves, in order to get to the few nuggets of fun?
They rarely polarize en masse - you get a big pole and a small pole on all issues of any import and not all issues are equally important to all people.
The PETA situation is a good example - they have a vocal minority of followers and somewhat bigger group of rather less vocal antagonists, while the general population simply doesn't care enough to have an opinion.
If you do a referendum or (even worse) a poll on the issues PETA is about, both supporters and antagonists get drowned in the statistical noise, because both groups are way small as compared to the general population that doesn't have a stake in the issue and will vote essentially randomly, resulting in a nice fat 50-50 split.
I know it's counter-intuitive, but... people only polarize 50-50 on issues they really, really don't care about. If the signal to noise ratio is good enough in your wiki, you'll see very clear biases in the public opinion as well.
Sorry for the double reply, but I am curious. What is Rush? Some TV series, or are you referring to Rush Limbaugh? You see, I do not hail from the Land of the Free (nor do I live in it) so your entertainment icons are quite unfamiliar to me.
I'm not quite sure who Ann Coulter is. I first read about Venona in a history of the NSA and even got around to having a look at the transcripts themselves.
I got many of my contrarian views from reading Russian historians like Volkogonov and Suvorov (both guys with definite agendas, mind you).
Disclaimer: I personally think this kind of revisionism is bullshit and looks a lot like what happened in Russia when it became USSR. However.
a suggestion that the anti-communist witch-hunt by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s may have been justified.
This particular suggestion is not without merit. Thanks to the (temporary, partial) opening of the USSR Politburo archives in the nineties, we now know that the CPUSA really was on the KGB payroll at that time and that the KGB really was involved in a huge operation to acquire, organize and exploit not only intelligence sources within the government, but also agents of influence within the political establishment, the media and the entertainment industry, the latter being recruited and controlled via a variety of false flags created for the very purpose - vaguely leftist civic organizations and unions, mostly. McCarthy may have been ham-handed, rather ineffective and he may have been in it for the glory but the threat was very, very real.
Don't believe all that jazz about how there were no KGB assets exposed as a result of his investigation either. Read the Venona intercepts and chuckle at the mighty KGB resident whining that all his toys have been taken away. What's more, the campaign unleashed in the general public a particular brand of paranoia against the pinkos that made it infinitely harder for the KGB to recruit and exploit influencers thereonafter, simply because (and this is true today even, to some extent) the slightest pink tinge in your public discourse could brand you as a closet commie.
My point? There were no "good guys" ever, not even in the depths of the Cold War. Get over it. Your ideology is no better than these crazy Texans' if you allow it to replace fact with faith.
How about the case where you have an idea and you don't know and can't find out in advance whether it fits the TOS or not? It's not like these guys set up to break an already-known Apple rule - the fucksticks running the appstore are making these things up as they go along. Classic Catch 22.
Oh for chrissakes. I'm so tired of hearing all this bullcrap about "the economy", especially from middle- and lower-class americans.
What is this "economy" that you speak of? How much is "economic growth" worth to you, personally? Are you well fed and clothed? Do you have a place to live and decent medical care when you need it? Do your kids get an education? Then the economy is doing just fine, as far as you're concerned.
It seems like everyone in America is fascinated with the GDP, national debt, inflation and the all-important stock market, all while the social security, health and education systems (arguably the most important from a personal point of view for any and every one) keep turning from bad to worse.
It will be interesting to watch, if that happens, because then you'd have the reverse phenomenon to what happens now - batteries (well, fuel cells really) would get better, not worse with age.
Wrong wrong wrong. You'd have all the Ralph Naders of the world on your back if the aircar you produce would fly itself as badly as the average moron drives. Tens of thousands of fatal accidents a year? You have to be kidding.
Machines will (and should be) held to a much, much higher standard than humans.
Healthy people find ways to cope with their environment.
I am here to sincerely wish you to enjoy your future depression brought on by guilt and complicated by being too ashamed to seek help.
Healthy people find ways to cope with their environment most of the time. Sometimes, the situation cannot be coped with, objectively speaking.
People holding beliefs like yours become unhinged in such a situation. More balanced people understand that shit happens and that not everything that happens in one's life is one's personal responsibility.
Simply knowing where your towel is can be challenging enough, at times.
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You're an idiot, sir, sorry to point that out. It is perfectly possible for anyone to buy a crossbow, on the Internet, for $200 or whereabouts. It makes no sound, it is quite unobtrusive and the bolts have enough energy in them for at least one good ricochet. I'll take being a bit burned over being pierced with a crossbow bolt any time thank you very much indeed. Blindness sure beats having a 3-inch serrated bolt tip stuck in your frontal lobe or thereabouts.
There must be some advantage to killing those mobs, or the people wouldn't be complaining that bots are hogging spawns.
You do realize, of course, that you should be angry at Blizzard for making a game so boring and mindless that any human player (even the "best") can be substituted or in fact even superseded by a couple of small, dumb scripts - not only that, but people would rather pay extra than do these tedious tasks themselves, in order to get to the few nuggets of fun?
Self-heating MREs.
They rarely polarize en masse - you get a big pole and a small pole on all issues of any import and not all issues are equally important to all people.
The PETA situation is a good example - they have a vocal minority of followers and somewhat bigger group of rather less vocal antagonists, while the general population simply doesn't care enough to have an opinion.
If you do a referendum or (even worse) a poll on the issues PETA is about, both supporters and antagonists get drowned in the statistical noise, because both groups are way small as compared to the general population that doesn't have a stake in the issue and will vote essentially randomly, resulting in a nice fat 50-50 split.
Nah, you just build a citizen reputation system alongside it, like slashdot.
I'll take this over the oligarchy I live in any day of the week thank you very much.
I know it's counter-intuitive, but... people only polarize 50-50 on issues they really, really don't care about. If the signal to noise ratio is good enough in your wiki, you'll see very clear biases in the public opinion as well.
It is a calculated whole-body dose, i.e. disingenuous bullshit.
Sorry for the double reply, but I am curious. What is Rush? Some TV series, or are you referring to Rush Limbaugh? You see, I do not hail from the Land of the Free (nor do I live in it) so your entertainment icons are quite unfamiliar to me.
I'm not quite sure who Ann Coulter is. I first read about Venona in a history of the NSA and even got around to having a look at the transcripts themselves.
I got many of my contrarian views from reading Russian historians like Volkogonov and Suvorov (both guys with definite agendas, mind you).
But how many actual spies did McCarthy and HUAC turn up? Oh, yeah, that's right, exactly none of them.
Check your facts.
Disclaimer: I personally think this kind of revisionism is bullshit and looks a lot like what happened in Russia when it became USSR.
However.
a suggestion that the anti-communist witch-hunt by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s may have been justified.
This particular suggestion is not without merit. Thanks to the (temporary, partial) opening of the USSR Politburo archives in the nineties, we now know that the CPUSA really was on the KGB payroll at that time and that the KGB really was involved in a huge operation to acquire, organize and exploit not only intelligence sources within the government, but also agents of influence within the political establishment, the media and the entertainment industry, the latter being recruited and controlled via a variety of false flags created for the very purpose - vaguely leftist civic organizations and unions, mostly. McCarthy may have been ham-handed, rather ineffective and he may have been in it for the glory but the threat was very, very real.
Don't believe all that jazz about how there were no KGB assets exposed as a result of his investigation either. Read the Venona intercepts and chuckle at the mighty KGB resident whining that all his toys have been taken away. What's more, the campaign unleashed in the general public a particular brand of paranoia against the pinkos that made it infinitely harder for the KGB to recruit and exploit influencers thereonafter, simply because (and this is true today even, to some extent) the slightest pink tinge in your public discourse could brand you as a closet commie.
My point? There were no "good guys" ever, not even in the depths of the Cold War. Get over it. Your ideology is no better than these crazy Texans' if you allow it to replace fact with faith.
Sucks to be you guys, posting anon for fear of... what exactly?
How about the case where you have an idea and you don't know and can't find out in advance whether it fits the TOS or not? It's not like these guys set up to break an already-known Apple rule - the fucksticks running the appstore are making these things up as they go along. Classic Catch 22.
Oh for chrissakes. I'm so tired of hearing all this bullcrap about "the economy", especially from middle- and lower-class americans.
What is this "economy" that you speak of? How much is "economic growth" worth to you, personally? Are you well fed and clothed? Do you have a place to live and decent medical care when you need it? Do your kids get an education? Then the economy is doing just fine, as far as you're concerned.
It seems like everyone in America is fascinated with the GDP, national debt, inflation and the all-important stock market, all while the social security, health and education systems (arguably the most important from a personal point of view for any and every one) keep turning from bad to worse.
I smell a rat. Big one, whiskers thick as cat5.
It will be interesting to watch, if that happens, because then you'd have the reverse phenomenon to what happens now - batteries (well, fuel cells really) would get better, not worse with age.
It's still too much, even if he forgot to mention there is such a facility installed. Two words: light pipes.
You're being ironic, right? Hard to tell, over the Internetz. If not, well, fear no more. China will save us from the next ice age.
Wrong wrong wrong. You'd have all the Ralph Naders of the world on your back if the aircar you produce would fly itself as badly as the average moron drives. Tens of thousands of fatal accidents a year? You have to be kidding.
Machines will (and should be) held to a much, much higher standard than humans.
Sharing != archival.
Do you have the full text laying around?
You're still carrying baggage from when you were seven too. Your baggage just happens to be the good kind. So?
Speedbump? What are you speeding towards? Relax, tone down your CV if you want to work a lowly job or vote with your feet if you don't.
Healthy people find ways to cope with their environment.
I am here to sincerely wish you to enjoy your future depression brought on by guilt and complicated by being too ashamed to seek help.
Healthy people find ways to cope with their environment most of the time. Sometimes, the situation cannot be coped with, objectively speaking.
People holding beliefs like yours become unhinged in such a situation. More balanced people understand that shit happens and that not everything that happens in one's life is one's personal responsibility.
Simply knowing where your towel is can be challenging enough, at times.