The primary driving force behind the "moral decay of society" is unrestrained liberalism. If you think the U.S. has unrestrained capitalism then you are an idiot. Also, as a straight man, I can only marry a female. A gay man can only marry a female. Same rights = !descrimination.
But no one is stopping you from marrying another man.
When have embargos worked? VEry rarely I presume. There's no point in this. Also why target high tech.. what about walmart?
No I am not in favor of cutting off trade in any case.. people should have the right to buy goods from wherever they like.
I'm thinking Cuba. That country has turned into shits because the US has forced every company it deals with to stop trading with Cuba in order to punish their Communist regime. It is really unfortunate as well, since the average Cuban is very nice and carry no ill will towards the US despite the embargo.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., is drafting a bill that would force Internet companies including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to keep vital computer servers out of China and other nations the State Department deems repressive to human rights.'"
First of all, an inguinal hernia is nowhere near life threatening, nor is it an emergency. It's something you can go to a family doctor and have day surgery done. Likely would only take at most 1 hour.
The point is, you're able to walk in and describe the problem is the first indication it isn't high on the priority list. These people working in the emergency room are well trained to determine what sort of things are rated high and low on the list.
What bothers me is that people automatically assume that "THEIR" emergency is higher than everyone else's, when in reality it isn't.
When people clog the emergency room with problems that aren't emergencies, it takes away the service from those that need it. Also, it causes excessive resource consumption to deal with it. This is the one of the reasons why health care around the world isn't as efficient as it should be.
Hanging does not kill by suffication, it breaks the neck, having a slit throat would do absolutely nothing to help anyone survive a hanging.
The neck only breaks if the person fell some distance before the rope pulled tight. If he just hung without the snap the neck won't break and he supposedly chokes to death.
GTASA was a good game, but I'm not sure really how much further they can go with the same idea over and over. It's not enough to have better graphics and stuff, they need to evolve the gameplay, and not just in minor tweaks.
Well, given processing power, and future media with larger storage, it has plenty more iterations left.
We could have full sized real cities, perhaps even a country where you can explore. This could include buildings, tunnels, subways, sewers, etc.
That alone without any additional gameplay features would be enough to get gamers coming back.
I'm sure there are plenty other suggestions that could be added to this, but it's a start.
I certainly wouldn't quit my day job simply out of the security it would afford me - if the game ends tomorrow, at least I still have a paycheque.
Some people are making 4 times their salary in the virtual world. If that were me, I'd quit my day job, work this virtual life till it can't sustain me, and go back to real work after.
Consider it a lengthy sabatical or something. Totally worth it, but unfortunately, people like me are too cheap to even play something like this to begin with, let alone make money from it.
Or rather, when you finally go in to interview for the job you find out that what you're really doing is maintanence on a legacy app written 8 years ago in Visual Basic. You then find out that the reason that PHP, Java and C# are on the list of qualifications is that they're standard on the corporate development desktop PC.
You think that's bad? I had a legacy app written in FoxPro 2.6 for DOS 15 years ago slipped into my job requirements for continued support and maintenance.
What's worse is that I had never even seen FoxPro apps before, only heard them in passing conversations.
I lived a good portion of my life before plastic became widespread. We used glass bottles instead of plastic bottles for many drinks, for instance. Somebody who grew up only using plastic might have a difficult time accepting the idea of not using plastic products. But it's more than possible, and was reality even just a few decades ago.
However, you may want to consider the energy required to produce/recycle glass? Heating of the sand to produce glass requires enormous amounts of heat, much of which is likely produced through burning of oil or gas.
The steel caps used must be made from processed iron ore.
Oil touches every aspect of your life, and if oil prices go up 3 times, so do the prices of everything else.
Till then...I'm not interested. Gas prices aren't that big a deal to me...my last car was a little european car that only got 10 mpg before Katrina killed it (RIP).
Kind of makes you wonder whether Mother Nature has some intent on that?
I've had jobs writing life and death code for safety critical applications in ADA, used Z and VDM, and read countless papers on program proving and so on. In fact it is theoretically impossible to prove most programs, but you can get it down to 99.9999% or so, to a point where the harware is likely to fail because of an alpha particle more than the program is likely to go wrong. My point is simple. Quality code IS possible. Quality code is not even substantially more expensive than shitty code (especially during its full lifecycle - unless the company is a cut and run job) if you are geared up to producing it through well managed SE practices from the outset.
The main difference here is that "life and death code for safety critical applications" are typically run in isolation, away from all things the programmer can't account for.
If quality code is so easy to accomplish, we would already have completely secure OSs, browsers, emails, etc. but we don't, because reality says it's really hard to do. Not because we're not trying, it's because there are too many possibilities to consider in an open environment.
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Dick Cheney is probably going to shoot you if you keep using that "chair throwing" joke.
I wish he would shoot me, then I could come back and apologize to him and his family for all the problems I had caused.
He only did that because of some political ass kissing and under-the-table palm greasing.
The primary driving force behind the "moral decay of society" is unrestrained liberalism. If you think the U.S. has unrestrained capitalism then you are an idiot. Also, as a straight man, I can only marry a female. A gay man can only marry a female. Same rights = !descrimination.
But no one is stopping you from marrying another man.
And how does gay marriage affect you?
Do you know how many superheros were done in by their own capes?
In the words of Edna Mode - "NO CAPES!"
I am confused, it's a human right to have Yahoo! and Google? Goddamn stupid hippies just keep popping up...
No... it's not a human right to have Yahoo and Google, that you are correct.
But is it right for the US govt to say who Yahoo and Google can do business with?
When have embargos worked? VEry rarely I presume. There's no point in this. Also why target high tech .. what about walmart?
No I am not in favor of cutting off trade in any case.. people should have the right to buy goods from wherever they like.
I'm thinking Cuba. That country has turned into shits because the US has forced every company it deals with to stop trading with Cuba in order to punish their Communist regime. It is really unfortunate as well, since the average Cuban is very nice and carry no ill will towards the US despite the embargo.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., is drafting a bill that would force Internet companies including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to keep vital computer servers out of China and other nations the State Department deems repressive to human rights.'"
Seems almost ironic doesn't it?
(Note: This is my attempt at humor, if you don't like it you can KMA!)
Ok... if you say so. I'll Kick Your Ass, since I didn't find it funny.
KMA = Kick My Ass
"Kids, this is why it's so important to properly use your tags and your emoticons!"
And people still have misunderstandings.
I don't get it?
First of all, an inguinal hernia is nowhere near life threatening, nor is it an emergency. It's something you can go to a family doctor and have day surgery done. Likely would only take at most 1 hour.
The point is, you're able to walk in and describe the problem is the first indication it isn't high on the priority list. These people working in the emergency room are well trained to determine what sort of things are rated high and low on the list.
What bothers me is that people automatically assume that "THEIR" emergency is higher than everyone else's, when in reality it isn't.
When people clog the emergency room with problems that aren't emergencies, it takes away the service from those that need it. Also, it causes excessive resource consumption to deal with it. This is the one of the reasons why health care around the world isn't as efficient as it should be.
Hanging does not kill by suffication, it breaks the neck, having a slit throat would do absolutely nothing to help anyone survive a hanging.
The neck only breaks if the person fell some distance before the rope pulled tight. If he just hung without the snap the neck won't break and he supposedly chokes to death.
Buy lemons? Why do that? Apparently "Life" hands them out for free!
What about Doom 3?
GTASA was a good game, but I'm not sure really how much further they can go with the same idea over and over. It's not enough to have better graphics and stuff, they need to evolve the gameplay, and not just in minor tweaks.
Well, given processing power, and future media with larger storage, it has plenty more iterations left.
We could have full sized real cities, perhaps even a country where you can explore. This could include buildings, tunnels, subways, sewers, etc.
That alone without any additional gameplay features would be enough to get gamers coming back.
I'm sure there are plenty other suggestions that could be added to this, but it's a start.
But your money isn't insured. Meaning that at any moment, you could essentially have nothing.
Otherwise, I'd think this would be a pretty interesting way for laundering money.
How exactly does one cash out of this game?
Suppose you have a million Linden Dollars, how do you convert that to real world dollars?
I certainly wouldn't quit my day job simply out of the security it would afford me - if the game ends tomorrow, at least I still have a paycheque.
Some people are making 4 times their salary in the virtual world. If that were me, I'd quit my day job, work this virtual life till it can't sustain me, and go back to real work after.
Consider it a lengthy sabatical or something. Totally worth it, but unfortunately, people like me are too cheap to even play something like this to begin with, let alone make money from it.
Hey... ...but I bet you found that it was an easy language to learn!
Fun, too!
Really? I didn't have any documentation, I couldn't find any reference books, and I couldn't find anything useful over the internet.
Learning FoxPro by debugging line by line on paper was about as much fun as pulling ass hairs out with a tweezer.
Or rather, when you finally go in to interview for the job you find out that what you're really doing is maintanence on a legacy app written 8 years ago in Visual Basic. You then find out that the reason that PHP, Java and C# are on the list of qualifications is that they're standard on the corporate development desktop PC.
You think that's bad? I had a legacy app written in FoxPro 2.6 for DOS 15 years ago slipped into my job requirements for continued support and maintenance.
What's worse is that I had never even seen FoxPro apps before, only heard them in passing conversations.
It would be nice to ween ourselves off oil, but that isn't exactly possible right now is it, regardless of the technology we currently have?
Sure, someday it may happen, but in the present, there isn't a chance at all.
I lived a good portion of my life before plastic became widespread. We used glass bottles instead of plastic bottles for many drinks, for instance. Somebody who grew up only using plastic might have a difficult time accepting the idea of not using plastic products. But it's more than possible, and was reality even just a few decades ago.
However, you may want to consider the energy required to produce/recycle glass? Heating of the sand to produce glass requires enormous amounts of heat, much of which is likely produced through burning of oil or gas.
The steel caps used must be made from processed iron ore.
Oil touches every aspect of your life, and if oil prices go up 3 times, so do the prices of everything else.
But doesn't the Accord Hybrid have less storage space due to the battery taking up some room in the trunk?
Till then...I'm not interested. Gas prices aren't that big a deal to me...my last car was a little european car that only got 10 mpg before Katrina killed it (RIP).
Kind of makes you wonder whether Mother Nature has some intent on that?
I've had jobs writing life and death code for safety critical applications in ADA, used Z and VDM, and read countless papers on program proving and so on. In fact it is theoretically impossible to prove most programs, but you can get it down to 99.9999% or so, to a point where the harware is likely to fail because of an alpha particle more than the program is likely to go wrong. My point is simple. Quality code IS possible. Quality code is not even substantially more expensive than shitty code (especially during its full lifecycle - unless the company is a cut and run job) if you are geared up to producing it through well managed SE practices from the outset.
The main difference here is that "life and death code for safety critical applications" are typically run in isolation, away from all things the programmer can't account for.
If quality code is so easy to accomplish, we would already have completely secure OSs, browsers, emails, etc. but we don't, because reality says it's really hard to do. Not because we're not trying, it's because there are too many possibilities to consider in an open environment.
"A security bug in Winamp is being exploited by miscreants..."
Who else has the time?
Anarchists, bohemians, script kiddies, heathens, zealots...