Thousands? Try hundreds of thousands or hundreds of millions. Sea bed fossils, tree rings and such gives even more data.
Claiming there's no data is quite obviously a trick. The real question is what all the data indicates.
Me, I look at the coinciding CO2 increases and global temperature increases, and then on our current CO2 spike. Then I go hmmm and feel good about not owning a car.
Halo was just as enjoyable on my PC as on Xbox, and there's no reason to think Halo 2 is different. It's just a matter of preference, nothing else.
If you're so worried about Valve controlling how you play HL2, you should be aghast at the oppressive methods of Microsoft and their completely untweakable games and online gaming systems. But you're probably not.
Obviously no nation wants national matters in the hands of others, although some nations have a tendency to make such matters theirs.
I'm just saying that there is a chain of democracy, from cities who vote for mayors, regions who vote for representatives in national congress, and the whole nation that votes for a president or prime minister. Every level decides on matters that affects it.
There is no such function for the international level, only bits and pieces of a system dominated by the strong. Just as you don't want Texans to tell you what to do in New York because they have more guns, we don't want the US to blindly and selfishly push only its own agenda because you have stealth bombers.
An international democratic body is just a logical step. A bit premature in today's world, perhaps, but still logical and in the spirit of the democracy you americans claim to be such champions of.
There is indeed a gap in democracy on the international level that should be filled, preferably by a reformed UN. We already have international organizations in place for economy, trade and crime, so why not expand it?
However, it should be limited to transnational matters. National matters are for the nation, and regional for the region. Noone wants meddling in their national business. I believe respectful, tolerant cooperation and influence is the best way to change the US (and other erring nations for that matter) as a foreigner.
Hasn't Bush on several occassions called the US the world's greatest democracy though?
"Yes becuase of joe and 50 of his freinds decide to screw jane and 48 of her friends out of something, in a democracy they can. So instead they built a Represenative system with chekcs and balances." Maybe I've misunderstood your system, but the electoral college didn't stop 56 million Bush voters to "screw over" 53 million Kerry voters this time, did it?
In a true democracy, a majority would never be able to vote away basic rights for a minority.
If I remember correctly, there are several examples of evolution arriving at the same or similar solution from different paths. The eye could be such an example.
In fact, I read about how some species have evolved and devolved the same organs several times.
I would hardly call GTA non-linear. It displays the old split between dynamic simulation and linear narration well because they are there side-by-side. They don't come together very much at all though, despite being combined quite expertly. At least GTA doesn't feel like half a film like some other games, but don't tell me the main story progression isn't linear. You can crash all the rides you want and cap all the bitchassmuthas you want, but you still go from A to B and then C if you want to experience anything more than a complex sandbox.
I guess to bridge the gap between simulation and narration you'd need some kind of story engine, but considering the trouble game developers have with simple AI I'm guessing that's far off.
Granted, conditions likely vary between nations, but still, why not look to places where ID cards are already in use? In debates about drug legalization, gay marriages and now ID cards, I can't help think you're making yourselves out to be more special than you are. There are many examples to learn from.
A negative answer (disregarding that a proper answer would be impossible to get) to the question whether there is other life in space might prove just as interesting to us than a positive one.
I don't agree with "girls are different". Males aren't all about violence and sex, and girls aren't all about pink, fluffly emotional stuff. These differences are partly forced on us by society at large, but also a gaming industry that is only beginning to realize that the differences, to the extent that there really are any, are much more subtle than that. From what I've seen, not even the old truth that males are into goal-oriented gaming and females are into social gaming are more than tendencies.
BTW, all teenagers are horny. It's just more obvious in a male-dominated subculture with ample access to sexualized images of women. These images have begun to diversify lately, but I think it's an intrinsic part of escapism such as gaming. What do you think all the female players of Final Fantasy games think of when they look at those scantily clad pretty boys wielding big swords?
It's really no worse than belonging to a minority part of any group, in my experience - especially with a group as historically homgenous as gaming. It's always tough to break new ground into such territory. With that said, I do think the sexism and machoism in gaming is sad and embarassing, but the only way of changing that is to keep diversifying gaming society until your minority of choice is seen as normal.
I don't know if the recently famous female Swedish CS team do us all a disservice by being geeky sex kittens or not. I guess they're using the system as much as it uses them...
"I think people would be less likely to shoot at you if they thought you'd shoot back."
Or they would just shoot you faster, with bigger guns, to make sure that you didn't shoot back.
The personal economies of drug addicts is just one problem. I wouldn't want to meet a drug addict, rich or not, in traffic. Or a drug addict with one of your aforementioned guns, for that matter.
Absolute personal freedom only works with absolutely responsible people, or in absolute isolation from other people.
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Not beyond all doubt. There is good evidence suggesting the food for oil program "scandal" was blown out of proportion by conservative anti-UN media, possibly as a diversion from shady coropate involvement.
The blame lies not with the UN, but the member states, who set up the program and knew the contracts very well. They monitored the program and ran the comittees. So said Dennis Halliday, former UN Undersecretary for humanitarian aid. French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte noted in the LA Times that the full contracts were only circulated to the United States and Britain, which had expressly asked to review them. The UN's complicity in the scandal is based on an accusation by Ahmed Chalabi, based on documents found in the Iraq Oil Ministry, that are still to be made publically available, AFAIK. Also forgotten is that the program did actually save lives that would've been lost during the harsh sanctions. Investigations into corporate connections in the "scandal" have allegedly been obstructed by the Bush administration.
Also, please make a distinction between the governments of the countries you list and their citizens. Although I am personally opposed to Bush and many of his beliefs, I do not make the mistake of assuming all americans are of his mindset.
Obviously what constitutes a good story lies in the eye of the beholder. Some like silly fantasy epics with angsty teenage heroes, melodramatic villains and a never-ending collecting of points, killing of monsters and running on maps that has little or nothing to do with the actual story, except getting you to the next cutscene. See what I'm getting at?
BTW, try adjusting the difficulty level in HL next time you play.
It's true that most games today run on variations of old and tested formulas, but almost any game will appear incredibly trite, unoriginal and boring if you break them down to their smallest components.
Innovation is great, but we're past the golden first age of games. Now they suffer from the same fate as other forms of art and entertainment - change most often comes through evolution, not revolution.
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Thousands? Try hundreds of thousands or hundreds of millions. Sea bed fossils, tree rings and such gives even more data.
Claiming there's no data is quite obviously a trick. The real question is what all the data indicates.
Me, I look at the coinciding CO2 increases and global temperature increases, and then on our current CO2 spike. Then I go hmmm and feel good about not owning a car.
It mostly fixed it for me on my Intel processor and GeForce graphics card, but I'm sure that's unrelated. :)
Halo was just as enjoyable on my PC as on Xbox, and there's no reason to think Halo 2 is different. It's just a matter of preference, nothing else.
If you're so worried about Valve controlling how you play HL2, you should be aghast at the oppressive methods of Microsoft and their completely untweakable games and online gaming systems. But you're probably not.
Whoo! I'm one aimbot away from ten grand!
Dread the day when the right embraces cloning! Imagine what they could do with a thousand Jesuses.
Or would that be Jesii?
...because I can see how I'm getting old as the clan kids dominate me. It's a nice reminder of how time passes and makes campers of us all.
The stats also shows I'm such a flak monkey .
Obviously no nation wants national matters in the hands of others, although some nations have a tendency to make such matters theirs.
I'm just saying that there is a chain of democracy, from cities who vote for mayors, regions who vote for representatives in national congress, and the whole nation that votes for a president or prime minister. Every level decides on matters that affects it.
There is no such function for the international level, only bits and pieces of a system dominated by the strong. Just as you don't want Texans to tell you what to do in New York because they have more guns, we don't want the US to blindly and selfishly push only its own agenda because you have stealth bombers.
An international democratic body is just a logical step. A bit premature in today's world, perhaps, but still logical and in the spirit of the democracy you americans claim to be such champions of.
There is indeed a gap in democracy on the international level that should be filled, preferably by a reformed UN. We already have international organizations in place for economy, trade and crime, so why not expand it?
However, it should be limited to transnational matters. National matters are for the nation, and regional for the region. Noone wants meddling in their national business. I believe respectful, tolerant cooperation and influence is the best way to change the US (and other erring nations for that matter) as a foreigner.
The whole idea is that Russia will become richer by trading the emission rights it doesn't need.
Hasn't Bush on several occassions called the US the world's greatest democracy though?
"Yes becuase of joe and 50 of his freinds decide to screw jane and 48 of her friends out of something, in a democracy they can. So instead they built a Represenative system with chekcs and balances."
Maybe I've misunderstood your system, but the electoral college didn't stop 56 million Bush voters to "screw over" 53 million Kerry voters this time, did it?
In a true democracy, a majority would never be able to vote away basic rights for a minority.
If I remember correctly, there are several examples of evolution arriving at the same or similar solution from different paths. The eye could be such an example.
In fact, I read about how some species have evolved and devolved the same organs several times.
Religion was originally a method to explain the world, like the science is today.
So, I would say that modern religion is designed so that science can't deal with its god.
"It is time we stop using Him."
Funny how an atheist capitalizes "Him".
I would hardly call GTA non-linear. It displays the old split between dynamic simulation and linear narration well because they are there side-by-side. They don't come together very much at all though, despite being combined quite expertly. At least GTA doesn't feel like half a film like some other games, but don't tell me the main story progression isn't linear. You can crash all the rides you want and cap all the bitchassmuthas you want, but you still go from A to B and then C if you want to experience anything more than a complex sandbox.
I guess to bridge the gap between simulation and narration you'd need some kind of story engine, but considering the trouble game developers have with simple AI I'm guessing that's far off.
Granted, conditions likely vary between nations, but still, why not look to places where ID cards are already in use? In debates about drug legalization, gay marriages and now ID cards, I can't help think you're making yourselves out to be more special than you are. There are many examples to learn from.
A negative answer (disregarding that a proper answer would be impossible to get) to the question whether there is other life in space might prove just as interesting to us than a positive one.
What would the US do, though? Claim they've got a hidden death star somewhere and invade?
I don't agree with "girls are different". Males aren't all about violence and sex, and girls aren't all about pink, fluffly emotional stuff. These differences are partly forced on us by society at large, but also a gaming industry that is only beginning to realize that the differences, to the extent that there really are any, are much more subtle than that. From what I've seen, not even the old truth that males are into goal-oriented gaming and females are into social gaming are more than tendencies.
BTW, all teenagers are horny. It's just more obvious in a male-dominated subculture with ample access to sexualized images of women. These images have begun to diversify lately, but I think it's an intrinsic part of escapism such as gaming. What do you think all the female players of Final Fantasy games think of when they look at those scantily clad pretty boys wielding big swords?
It's really no worse than belonging to a minority part of any group, in my experience - especially with a group as historically homgenous as gaming. It's always tough to break new ground into such territory. With that said, I do think the sexism and machoism in gaming is sad and embarassing, but the only way of changing that is to keep diversifying gaming society until your minority of choice is seen as normal.
I don't know if the recently famous female Swedish CS team do us all a disservice by being geeky sex kittens or not. I guess they're using the system as much as it uses them...
"I think people would be less likely to shoot at you if they thought you'd shoot back." Or they would just shoot you faster, with bigger guns, to make sure that you didn't shoot back. The personal economies of drug addicts is just one problem. I wouldn't want to meet a drug addict, rich or not, in traffic. Or a drug addict with one of your aforementioned guns, for that matter. Absolute personal freedom only works with absolutely responsible people, or in absolute isolation from other people.
Not beyond all doubt. There is good evidence suggesting the food for oil program "scandal" was blown out of proportion by conservative anti-UN media, possibly as a diversion from shady coropate involvement.
The blame lies not with the UN, but the member states, who set up the program and knew the contracts very well. They monitored the program and ran the comittees. So said Dennis Halliday, former UN Undersecretary for humanitarian aid. French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte noted in the LA Times that the full contracts were only circulated to the United States and Britain, which had expressly asked to review them. The UN's complicity in the scandal is based on an accusation by Ahmed Chalabi, based on documents found in the Iraq Oil Ministry, that are still to be made publically available, AFAIK. Also forgotten is that the program did actually save lives that would've been lost during the harsh sanctions. Investigations into corporate connections in the "scandal" have allegedly been obstructed by the Bush administration.
Also, please make a distinction between the governments of the countries you list and their citizens. Although I am personally opposed to Bush and many of his beliefs, I do not make the mistake of assuming all americans are of his mindset.
Yes, oil prices are up and so are the revenues of big oil.
You didn't think the idea was that you was to benefit from the war, did you? Where's the money in that?
The world's most oil-thirsty nation invades the nation with the world's second largest oil reserves.
You don't have to wear a tinfoil hat to be suspicious about that.
It's a whole different matter to say the war was only started for oil though.
Obviously what constitutes a good story lies in the eye of the beholder. Some like silly fantasy epics with angsty teenage heroes, melodramatic villains and a never-ending collecting of points, killing of monsters and running on maps that has little or nothing to do with the actual story, except getting you to the next cutscene. See what I'm getting at?
BTW, try adjusting the difficulty level in HL next time you play.
It's true that most games today run on variations of old and tested formulas, but almost any game will appear incredibly trite, unoriginal and boring if you break them down to their smallest components.
Innovation is great, but we're past the golden first age of games. Now they suffer from the same fate as other forms of art and entertainment - change most often comes through evolution, not revolution.