Freedom of religion means the government won't interfere with your religion, freedom of speech means the government won't interfere with your speech. Neither applies to private parties so any non-government entity is free to protest any and all religion.
Technically, if the map was random then everyone would be looking for a weapon and not just you.
Presumably this is at a point in the game where everyone has found quite a few weapons already and some died and lost them again. Not fun for the respawning player.
It's not going to last. The immigrants believe in Allah and such but their children grow up to see bling-bling as their god and gangsta-rappers as his prophets. After a while "muslim" will just be a word on a paper somewhere with no consequence for the real world.
The point is that you're no longer envious of what the neighboring country has since the border only limits governments, not the citizens or companies. The government doesn't make any direct use of resources anymore so they don't really care anymore what they have or don't have. Everyone within the EU can use everyone's resources so there's no point in taking them by force. The only reason one might want to move the borders now is some nationalistic belief that the own country deserves it more than any other and ever since the fall of Hitler nationalists are about as popular as Al-Qaeda.
Also war disrupts trade over the warfront, that's unprofitable and politicians these days do the job to get money from corporations. Unprofitable actions mean less money from corporations. Those companies that make their money with war supplies are just as happy with a "peace mission" somewhere in the east, far away from the homeland so no bombs get dropped on their factories.
If there's nothing to gain from war, why go to war? If you want war, why not go into some remote country with a cold war era army that people only know from the map and the evening news rather than one that has a modern army and possibly nukes that can hit you?
The US did something of importance: They halted the Russians where the two forces joined, if no western allies had been there the Nazis would still have lost but the Russians would've walked over the whole continent, probably crushing the US soon after.
The EU doesn't have as much low-level control as the US government, EU member states still have a much stronger government than US states and most laws are passed by the member states. When the EU passes a "law" it's usually just a directive on what kinds of laws the member states have to implement, it's not used directly as a law.
So comparing the "throughput" of the US and EU governments is silly as the US government has a lot more subjects to decide on (which AFAIK were originally intended to be state matters in the US, too). If you want to compare you could try to add the federal/union level bills to the average of the (member) state bills since that'd be a representation of the average legislatory throughput affecting any one area.
3. The more ID is needed to function in society, the more valuable IDs become. A national ID becomes a one-stop-shop for ID theft. Crack one card, and I become you.
Don't most places already accept it as ID if one document is presented that seems to be somewhat personal? Hell, I heard USAns talk about using their phone bill to ID themselves at a poll booth. Some places apparently consider it ID to know your SSN. At least with this card there's one document that needs to be secured against forgery, not dozens of them, lowering the chance of one being weak enough to be compromised.
You'd be wrong about that. Designing a game for addiction does not necessarily mean it's fun, it means it's using a reward scheme to increase addiction (like e.g. random loot). Of course fun is necessary to get people to stay long enough for the addiction to start but after that they no longer care if they're having fun.
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It does. Also getting it at random still works (constant rewards will cause the subject to notice when the rewards stop and possibly break the conditioning, random rewards make the subject always hope for that chance) while throttling the rate at which people go through the content. Koster wrote an article about how to make an MMO addicting.
Depends on the system RAM and the amount of data actually, if you can have enough area loaded that the player won't cross it fast enough you can still hide the hickups but if it's possible for the player to move across the area faster than it's loaded he could leave the loaded area. Metroid Prime had a crash caused by moving too fast from elevator to elevator as the loading couldn't keep up and the game tried to display data that wasn't loaded. I'm not sure how GTA could handle this, I think the PAL version of Metroid Prime fixed it by putting a delay on the elevator if the loading isn't done (same as it does for doors) but GTA has no barriers that could be put up if the loading can't keep up.
The switching layers argument applied to the PS2, if the 360 has faster switching it's no longer an issue but that still gives them barely twice the space of the disc they used for SA and that had very simple graphics with low resolution textures and everything. With the increased demands of next-gen graphics the same game with improved graphics would easily be more than twice as large and thus be too large for the DVD9. That means either less graphical improvement or a smaller gameworld to make the game fit on the disc.
I heard talk from Rockstar employees about how they already hit the limit of the medium with GTASA, due to the slow layer switching (no idea if the 360 still has that issue) only one layer of the disc could be used to keep the load times lower (with streaming it'd be fatal if the loading took too long). Even without the layer switching overhead a "next-gen" GTA game is going to hit the limit of DVD9 very quickly so this report is very likely true.
From what I heard Microsoft requires that all games are basically playable (i.e. it doesn't matter that you can't feasibly finish the game without saving, it just has to be theoretically possible) on a 360 Core system OOTB, this would make HDDVD-only games not allowed.
Yeah but why not ban all racist texts and speech to prevent people from becoming racist and assault minorities? Surely racist assaults are more dangerous than pot.
Because the employee needs the money from the job to feed himself while the employer won't go hungry from missing an employee? Because being able to fire people at will is a great way to pressure them into illegal or unethical acts or just exploitation (like mandatory unpaid overtime)?
A good "roll" on the bullet spray can net you a headshot and thus an extra kill. Luck doesn't influence it that much at higher skill levels but Poker regulars say the same about their game.
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Freedom of religion means the government won't interfere with your religion, freedom of speech means the government won't interfere with your speech. Neither applies to private parties so any non-government entity is free to protest any and all religion.
It's using Unreal Engine 3, the latest and greatest in rendering space marines with gigantic body armor and moonboots.
Technically, if the map was random then everyone would be looking for a weapon and not just you.
Presumably this is at a point in the game where everyone has found quite a few weapons already and some died and lost them again. Not fun for the respawning player.
Like this?
It's not going to last. The immigrants believe in Allah and such but their children grow up to see bling-bling as their god and gangsta-rappers as his prophets. After a while "muslim" will just be a word on a paper somewhere with no consequence for the real world.
The point is that you're no longer envious of what the neighboring country has since the border only limits governments, not the citizens or companies. The government doesn't make any direct use of resources anymore so they don't really care anymore what they have or don't have. Everyone within the EU can use everyone's resources so there's no point in taking them by force. The only reason one might want to move the borders now is some nationalistic belief that the own country deserves it more than any other and ever since the fall of Hitler nationalists are about as popular as Al-Qaeda.
Also war disrupts trade over the warfront, that's unprofitable and politicians these days do the job to get money from corporations. Unprofitable actions mean less money from corporations. Those companies that make their money with war supplies are just as happy with a "peace mission" somewhere in the east, far away from the homeland so no bombs get dropped on their factories.
If there's nothing to gain from war, why go to war? If you want war, why not go into some remote country with a cold war era army that people only know from the map and the evening news rather than one that has a modern army and possibly nukes that can hit you?
The point of the pen is to make others lift their swords for you. I didn't hear anything about Bush grabbing an M16 and walking into Iraq himself.
The US did something of importance: They halted the Russians where the two forces joined, if no western allies had been there the Nazis would still have lost but the Russians would've walked over the whole continent, probably crushing the US soon after.
The EU doesn't have as much low-level control as the US government, EU member states still have a much stronger government than US states and most laws are passed by the member states. When the EU passes a "law" it's usually just a directive on what kinds of laws the member states have to implement, it's not used directly as a law.
So comparing the "throughput" of the US and EU governments is silly as the US government has a lot more subjects to decide on (which AFAIK were originally intended to be state matters in the US, too). If you want to compare you could try to add the federal/union level bills to the average of the (member) state bills since that'd be a representation of the average legislatory throughput affecting any one area.
3. The more ID is needed to function in society, the more valuable IDs become. A national ID becomes a one-stop-shop for ID theft. Crack one card, and I become you.
Don't most places already accept it as ID if one document is presented that seems to be somewhat personal? Hell, I heard USAns talk about using their phone bill to ID themselves at a poll booth. Some places apparently consider it ID to know your SSN. At least with this card there's one document that needs to be secured against forgery, not dozens of them, lowering the chance of one being weak enough to be compromised.
It's sad that you have to link that for people to get the reference, isn't that common knowledge?
Marketing. Which is actually the total opposite of Dark Matter, you don't want to see it but it's highly visible and it has zero weight behind it.
Are you too stupid to understand the Timecube???
You'd be wrong about that. Designing a game for addiction does not necessarily mean it's fun, it means it's using a reward scheme to increase addiction (like e.g. random loot). Of course fun is necessary to get people to stay long enough for the addiction to start but after that they no longer care if they're having fun.
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It does. Also getting it at random still works (constant rewards will cause the subject to notice when the rewards stop and possibly break the conditioning, random rewards make the subject always hope for that chance) while throttling the rate at which people go through the content. Koster wrote an article about how to make an MMO addicting.
Depends on the system RAM and the amount of data actually, if you can have enough area loaded that the player won't cross it fast enough you can still hide the hickups but if it's possible for the player to move across the area faster than it's loaded he could leave the loaded area. Metroid Prime had a crash caused by moving too fast from elevator to elevator as the loading couldn't keep up and the game tried to display data that wasn't loaded. I'm not sure how GTA could handle this, I think the PAL version of Metroid Prime fixed it by putting a delay on the elevator if the loading isn't done (same as it does for doors) but GTA has no barriers that could be put up if the loading can't keep up.
The switching layers argument applied to the PS2, if the 360 has faster switching it's no longer an issue but that still gives them barely twice the space of the disc they used for SA and that had very simple graphics with low resolution textures and everything. With the increased demands of next-gen graphics the same game with improved graphics would easily be more than twice as large and thus be too large for the DVD9. That means either less graphical improvement or a smaller gameworld to make the game fit on the disc.
I heard talk from Rockstar employees about how they already hit the limit of the medium with GTASA, due to the slow layer switching (no idea if the 360 still has that issue) only one layer of the disc could be used to keep the load times lower (with streaming it'd be fatal if the loading took too long). Even without the layer switching overhead a "next-gen" GTA game is going to hit the limit of DVD9 very quickly so this report is very likely true.
From what I heard Microsoft requires that all games are basically playable (i.e. it doesn't matter that you can't feasibly finish the game without saving, it just has to be theoretically possible) on a 360 Core system OOTB, this would make HDDVD-only games not allowed.
I know better than to type "Dick" into any search engine.
Yeah but why not ban all racist texts and speech to prevent people from becoming racist and assault minorities? Surely racist assaults are more dangerous than pot.
Because the employee needs the money from the job to feed himself while the employer won't go hungry from missing an employee? Because being able to fire people at will is a great way to pressure them into illegal or unethical acts or just exploitation (like mandatory unpaid overtime)?
A good "roll" on the bullet spray can net you a headshot and thus an extra kill. Luck doesn't influence it that much at higher skill levels but Poker regulars say the same about their game.
What about the bullet spray? You can minimize it but it's still a factor.
A n00b with a rocket launcher is prior art, though.