The schools for poor kids aren't where the money is at.
I'm not sure they'd even offer schools for the poor. I don't think anyone but charity would try that.
In today's jobmarket it'd be suicide for any country to completely privatize education. The job market demands more and more highly trained workers and less lower education workers. We don't produce enough high-skill workers already and if education becomes really bad for a large part of the populace the influx of high-skill workers gets even smaller (the rich can already use private education anyway, it's the poor that need public education). We'd just keep accumulating more people that are only fit for an ever shrinking market of jobs that are being replaced by machines (and in turn need highly skilled workers to operate and maintain those machines) or are being shipped off to China. Education needs to be better for everyone if we don't want to rely on foreign countries to ship their experts to us to fill the positions we need filled. Once these countries get a sufficient demand for experts those experts will stay where they are and we are stuck with the ones we can train ourselves.
I think Slashdotters are the smaller problem, the potential userbase deciding they can't afford the PS3 anyway and buying competing consoles instead is a much bigger one. They'd murder their own hype and if they made it known that the price will drop soon people would hold off until then.
I think Tales of Symphonia looked just as impressive (i.e. looked like the cel-shading would make it look perfectly like a cartoon) on the early screenshots.
No, killing someone out of a spontaneous (as opposed to pre-mediated) decision or only intending to hurt, not kill them is manslaughter and accidents can be persecuted as manslaughter if an involved party was negligent. Hitting a pedestrian with your car is usually assumed to be the fault of the driver because the driver has the duty to make sure he doesn't hit a pedestrian, this assumption can be challenged in certain situations (e.g. suicide) but most of the time the driver is considered at fault.
And, under communism, there would be no PS3. What part of a state-run economy do you think values game consoles?
The part that wants to provide the bread and games to pacify the populous? Communism does not necessitate a dictatorship that kills all opposition, it could be implemented on a democratic system provided there's a saveguard against the majority deciding to enslave the minority but that's an issue democracy always has and modern implementation more or less successfully avoid.
Fear, Uncertainity, Doubt? FUD does not just mean propaganda or lies, it refers to a specific kind of propaganda. I don't see how his post is trying to intimidate people or spread confusion. He just makes false claims.
Except I haven't seen many surfaces in real life that are fractals. If you want to make a game about some crazy virtual reality, sure but 99% of the games on the market are based on real life or movies, neither of which contains many fractal surfaces in common situations.
Federal just means there are multiple semi-independent regions with their own sub-government. That Wiki page says all that's required for the federal republic label is constitutionally established states and a head of state that's not a monarch. Says nothing about electing people.
No, those reports would be there. Remember how Sony released a probably pre-written press release that all PSPs sold out in record time on the US launch and later had to retract that because people kept wondering about those huge stocks of PSPs many retailers still had at that point?
So, by allowing the New Zealender's (If thats what they are called) to use text speak, its allowing another way to represent the language they speak. This does not mean it will change their langauge, or how they speak.
No but it kills any official spelling. I don't know about your country but here in Germany I go nuts when trying to read a text from before orthography was invented and everyone spelled the way he felt like.
Personally I'd deliberately misinterpret any possible ambiguity. On the internet I just don't read text that isn't written in a proper language since if it's not worth taking the time to write properly it's probably not worth the time to read, either.
Perhaps you mean seventy because sixty years ago the masses only wanted food and a roof over their head. Oh and maybe those Soviets and Americans out of their country.
"Republic" only means the government bases its power on the people instead of a divine being or bloodline or something. Representative democracy means the people actually get to vote for the government.
Last I checked the MI5 is a secret service. Never mind you don't need to prove someone guilty beyond reasonable doubt just to spy on them, a suspicion is enough for that. After all the spying is supposed to produce the evidence needed to prove guilt.
Ghandi beat the Brits by suffering and making headlines. Innocents suffering creates bad press for the government and if too many reports stack the populace turns against the government, step by step. If the government doesn't step down that escalates until you have a revolution. Usually it steps down before that in a democratic country since falsifying elections can only carry you so far before the people notice you're just faking it and get REALLY angry. Of course it won't get that far in the US, at most Bush gets impeached but it'll probably just end with the next president being a Democrat and being forced to scale back on these actions if he wants to be reelected.
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The schools for poor kids aren't where the money is at.
I'm not sure they'd even offer schools for the poor. I don't think anyone but charity would try that.
In today's jobmarket it'd be suicide for any country to completely privatize education. The job market demands more and more highly trained workers and less lower education workers. We don't produce enough high-skill workers already and if education becomes really bad for a large part of the populace the influx of high-skill workers gets even smaller (the rich can already use private education anyway, it's the poor that need public education). We'd just keep accumulating more people that are only fit for an ever shrinking market of jobs that are being replaced by machines (and in turn need highly skilled workers to operate and maintain those machines) or are being shipped off to China. Education needs to be better for everyone if we don't want to rely on foreign countries to ship their experts to us to fill the positions we need filled. Once these countries get a sufficient demand for experts those experts will stay where they are and we are stuck with the ones we can train ourselves.
Yes and then Il has everyone who looked at an unapproved website executed.
The US market is roughly twice as big as the Japanese market so any comparisons between the two are pointless.
I think Slashdotters are the smaller problem, the potential userbase deciding they can't afford the PS3 anyway and buying competing consoles instead is a much bigger one. They'd murder their own hype and if they made it known that the price will drop soon people would hold off until then.
Everything breaks!
I think Tales of Symphonia looked just as impressive (i.e. looked like the cel-shading would make it look perfectly like a cartoon) on the early screenshots.
I think his point is only that we cannot derive from this instant sellout that the PS3 will be a success overall.
No, killing someone out of a spontaneous (as opposed to pre-mediated) decision or only intending to hurt, not kill them is manslaughter and accidents can be persecuted as manslaughter if an involved party was negligent. Hitting a pedestrian with your car is usually assumed to be the fault of the driver because the driver has the duty to make sure he doesn't hit a pedestrian, this assumption can be challenged in certain situations (e.g. suicide) but most of the time the driver is considered at fault.
Yes but it sold very little after that.
60g? 20g? That thing is much lighter than I expected.
Yes, the corporate thing to do would have been to jack up the price... you know, like car dealers do on a hot new model that is in demand.
Considering how much the PS3 costs who says they didn't already do that?
And, under communism, there would be no PS3. What part of a state-run economy do you think values game consoles?
The part that wants to provide the bread and games to pacify the populous? Communism does not necessitate a dictatorship that kills all opposition, it could be implemented on a democratic system provided there's a saveguard against the majority deciding to enslave the minority but that's an issue democracy always has and modern implementation more or less successfully avoid.
Fear, Uncertainity, Doubt? FUD does not just mean propaganda or lies, it refers to a specific kind of propaganda. I don't see how his post is trying to intimidate people or spread confusion. He just makes false claims.
Except I haven't seen many surfaces in real life that are fractals. If you want to make a game about some crazy virtual reality, sure but 99% of the games on the market are based on real life or movies, neither of which contains many fractal surfaces in common situations.
Federal just means there are multiple semi-independent regions with their own sub-government. That Wiki page says all that's required for the federal republic label is constitutionally established states and a head of state that's not a monarch. Says nothing about electing people.
No, those reports would be there. Remember how Sony released a probably pre-written press release that all PSPs sold out in record time on the US launch and later had to retract that because people kept wondering about those huge stocks of PSPs many retailers still had at that point?
Not in New Zealand.
So, by allowing the New Zealender's (If thats what they are called) to use text speak, its allowing another way to represent the language they speak. This does not mean it will change their langauge, or how they speak.
No but it kills any official spelling. I don't know about your country but here in Germany I go nuts when trying to read a text from before orthography was invented and everyone spelled the way he felt like.
Personally I'd deliberately misinterpret any possible ambiguity. On the internet I just don't read text that isn't written in a proper language since if it's not worth taking the time to write properly it's probably not worth the time to read, either.
Perhaps you mean seventy because sixty years ago the masses only wanted food and a roof over their head. Oh and maybe those Soviets and Americans out of their country.
"Republic" only means the government bases its power on the people instead of a divine being or bloodline or something. Representative democracy means the people actually get to vote for the government.
Probably but that requires a special license. Guns are heavily restricted in the UK.
Last I checked the MI5 is a secret service. Never mind you don't need to prove someone guilty beyond reasonable doubt just to spy on them, a suspicion is enough for that. After all the spying is supposed to produce the evidence needed to prove guilt.
Ghandi beat the Brits by suffering and making headlines. Innocents suffering creates bad press for the government and if too many reports stack the populace turns against the government, step by step. If the government doesn't step down that escalates until you have a revolution. Usually it steps down before that in a democratic country since falsifying elections can only carry you so far before the people notice you're just faking it and get REALLY angry. Of course it won't get that far in the US, at most Bush gets impeached but it'll probably just end with the next president being a Democrat and being forced to scale back on these actions if he wants to be reelected.
It'll be five minutes until somebody writes an alternative Gears of War name generator.
Yes, they're all plasticky nowadays.