So true. Assange is still is denial about having been raped by at least one of these women if not both. One of them publish how to hurt men against their will using sex. Clearly she knew what she was doing, and Assange is the rape victim in the case. Sure that is an outrageous statement, but so is claiming that a published feminist running an international seminar claiming that she was raped and didn't realize it after having published that you could screw men this way.
You shouldn't limit your description of physically abused people to women either. It speaks of sexual bias. Men are far more likely to be physically abused, and far less likely to report it. Women physically abusing men is so common that most of the population just sees it as normal. It permeates our popular culture, it is done publicly, and women frequently publicly declare their abusive behavior with no negative impact to their lives.
It's not fun for me either, but not everyone is up to a challenge. We now live in the days of "everyone is a winner", and that is the best that most people can do, so that is what makes them happy. To be honest though, is the MMO grind any worse than model trains? Collecting Pez dispensers? Being a football fan? Most hobbies are incredibly boring to people who are not into the particular hobby. I can honestly say that as boring as a MMO grind is, it is more entertaining than following professional sports.
There are LOTS of fun things that require an investment, and are not fun right away. Reading would be the first one that comes to mind. It might be long enough ago that you don't remember your investment in reading, but you made it, just like the rest of us. I would suggest that investment is the difference between a hobby and a game. You can sit and play a game with little to no investment in time. Hobbies on the other hand do generally require a time investment. Sometimes a significant one. Hobbies generally also lack an 'end game'. I would say that MMOs would be classified more as a hobby than a game.
The investment currency is personal enjoyment. They (not me. they) convert their personal enjoyment into their local currency by going to work and trading it in for money. They then transfer the money, to the company that is offering the service, and extract personal enjoyment. Hopefully, the amount of personal enjoyment they extract from the game is more than what they put into it by paying for the game with their personal enjoyment proxy. AKA money.
No, Iraq has been an attempt to NOT build a nation. It is the helping hand while the nation tries to build itself. Nation building is like in Japan. Worked pretty good there.
I don't think they will be a fad. The reason is that 3D for gaming works. Field depth isn't an issue, temporal aliasing isn't an issue. The need to be able to walk around the house while playing isn't an issue. The ability to flatten the game to 2D isn't an issue. Making the game in 3D isn't an issue. This means that a good many people will already have the equipment in their home.
For movies and TV programing, it is a slightly different story. The reason I don't think it will go away comes down to price and the ability to watch in 2D. In the past if you bought a program in 3D, that is all it would ever be. You couldn't simply press a button to convert it back to 2D in real time. Now it is trivial. There is no reason that a TV should not be able to take a 3D stream and display it in 2D. All the current 3D TVs would need to do is drop every other frame, or for SBS just show half the stream stretched onto the whole screen. So from a consumer perspective, their media is backward compatible, and there is no loss for getting the 3D version.
From a hardware perspective, 3DTVs are noticeably more expensive, but I believe that is do to the "because we can" situation. Given time, the 3D functionality will likely be a standard feature because the cost of including it is negligible. Kind of like contrast controls. Almost nobody plays with the contrast controls on their TV, but they are there all the same for those that do want to use it.
Finally, 3DTV functionality will make a big splash for regular TV when units start shipping that will interlace from two different sources. When one person can play video games, and another can watch a TV show on the same TV at the same time, people who you never expected to have an interest will buy the product. This will lead to everyone having a 3DTV. As filming equipment gets replaced, the cost of filming in 3D will become negligible, and thus the cost from creation to consumption will be so small that you might as well supply it that way. Even in a worst case scenario, it will be trivial to supply computer animated movies in 3D since they are already made in 3D and flattened to 2D for distribution. It is pretty much just a matter of running the renderer to a second file. Once TVs start shipping where they will frame drop 3D streams into 2D, it wont even take a second render.
I don't think it is so much a lack of imagination. I would describe it more of 'half-reason'. There is a tendency to follow a logical line of thought only so far as coming up a plausible explanation, even if the only reason it is plausible is if no further thought is placed on it. Further thought and reason takes more effort, and might make a lot of extra work causing you to start the process over.
It's like asking someone if you should head north to get to the gas station. When they say no, you head off to the south. The gas station might be to the west or east, but when you run out of gas heading south, you rationalize that the person giving you directions told you it wasn't north, and you didn't go north. Making the problem worse is that there is a gas station to the south often enough that it is easy for you to rationalize the behavior of not looking past the first true yet incomplete answer.
The problem isn't that there is a list. The problem isn't that the list is what it is. The problem is that mankind thinks that these are binary qualities. They are not. Maybe instead of a new list, we could just accept that it is all a shade of gray that includes all animals, plants, matter, energy as well, as maybe a few 'things' we have not yet even discovered. Man isn't special because man has attributes that are on a different scale than everything else. Man is special because of where on the scale we sit.
These were full face photos of people. The person claimed to be an artist, and thus it was for commercial purposes. The people did not know they were being photographed, and had no reason to think they would be on private property while in the Apple store. The fact that the software was hidden shows that the artist believed the people had an expectation of not being photographed.
All that being said. No. your criteria is wrong. You cannot legally just start using peoples images without their permission.
That is what monogamous people tell themselves. The parent poster might be a virgin teenager, but his claims are reality for plenty of people, while yours are just sour grapes.
There was just as much proof as in the Hans Reiser case. Of course Reiser doesn't have a vagina, so the verdict makes sense, as well as the publics acceptance of the verdict.
Good point. The OP should have said that many people are afraid of mummies. Sure they exist, but they have little to do with what you see in the movies, and fearing them isn't rational.
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So true. Assange is still is denial about having been raped by at least one of these women if not both. One of them publish how to hurt men against their will using sex. Clearly she knew what she was doing, and Assange is the rape victim in the case. Sure that is an outrageous statement, but so is claiming that a published feminist running an international seminar claiming that she was raped and didn't realize it after having published that you could screw men this way. You shouldn't limit your description of physically abused people to women either. It speaks of sexual bias. Men are far more likely to be physically abused, and far less likely to report it. Women physically abusing men is so common that most of the population just sees it as normal. It permeates our popular culture, it is done publicly, and women frequently publicly declare their abusive behavior with no negative impact to their lives.
What? Of course if does quite frequently. That statement is so far off base that it doesn't even make sense.
It's not fun for me either, but not everyone is up to a challenge. We now live in the days of "everyone is a winner", and that is the best that most people can do, so that is what makes them happy. To be honest though, is the MMO grind any worse than model trains? Collecting Pez dispensers? Being a football fan? Most hobbies are incredibly boring to people who are not into the particular hobby. I can honestly say that as boring as a MMO grind is, it is more entertaining than following professional sports.
There are LOTS of fun things that require an investment, and are not fun right away. Reading would be the first one that comes to mind. It might be long enough ago that you don't remember your investment in reading, but you made it, just like the rest of us. I would suggest that investment is the difference between a hobby and a game. You can sit and play a game with little to no investment in time. Hobbies on the other hand do generally require a time investment. Sometimes a significant one. Hobbies generally also lack an 'end game'. I would say that MMOs would be classified more as a hobby than a game.
The investment currency is personal enjoyment. They (not me. they) convert their personal enjoyment into their local currency by going to work and trading it in for money. They then transfer the money, to the company that is offering the service, and extract personal enjoyment. Hopefully, the amount of personal enjoyment they extract from the game is more than what they put into it by paying for the game with their personal enjoyment proxy. AKA money.
No, Iraq has been an attempt to NOT build a nation. It is the helping hand while the nation tries to build itself. Nation building is like in Japan. Worked pretty good there.
The All Father Odin would like to have a talk with V.
Given that I have met maybe 1 or two adults in my life that have not done recreational drugs, I would have to agree.
That's easy. Just put a piece of masking tape over one lens. Problem solved.
I have always marveled at the irony of people being offended by the word "retarded".
I don't think they will be a fad. The reason is that 3D for gaming works. Field depth isn't an issue, temporal aliasing isn't an issue. The need to be able to walk around the house while playing isn't an issue. The ability to flatten the game to 2D isn't an issue. Making the game in 3D isn't an issue. This means that a good many people will already have the equipment in their home.
For movies and TV programing, it is a slightly different story. The reason I don't think it will go away comes down to price and the ability to watch in 2D. In the past if you bought a program in 3D, that is all it would ever be. You couldn't simply press a button to convert it back to 2D in real time. Now it is trivial. There is no reason that a TV should not be able to take a 3D stream and display it in 2D. All the current 3D TVs would need to do is drop every other frame, or for SBS just show half the stream stretched onto the whole screen. So from a consumer perspective, their media is backward compatible, and there is no loss for getting the 3D version.
From a hardware perspective, 3DTVs are noticeably more expensive, but I believe that is do to the "because we can" situation. Given time, the 3D functionality will likely be a standard feature because the cost of including it is negligible. Kind of like contrast controls. Almost nobody plays with the contrast controls on their TV, but they are there all the same for those that do want to use it.
Finally, 3DTV functionality will make a big splash for regular TV when units start shipping that will interlace from two different sources. When one person can play video games, and another can watch a TV show on the same TV at the same time, people who you never expected to have an interest will buy the product. This will lead to everyone having a 3DTV. As filming equipment gets replaced, the cost of filming in 3D will become negligible, and thus the cost from creation to consumption will be so small that you might as well supply it that way. Even in a worst case scenario, it will be trivial to supply computer animated movies in 3D since they are already made in 3D and flattened to 2D for distribution. It is pretty much just a matter of running the renderer to a second file. Once TVs start shipping where they will frame drop 3D streams into 2D, it wont even take a second render.
That's like saying a rapist is better at picking up women because he gets laid more often.
I don't think it is so much a lack of imagination. I would describe it more of 'half-reason'. There is a tendency to follow a logical line of thought only so far as coming up a plausible explanation, even if the only reason it is plausible is if no further thought is placed on it. Further thought and reason takes more effort, and might make a lot of extra work causing you to start the process over.
It's like asking someone if you should head north to get to the gas station. When they say no, you head off to the south. The gas station might be to the west or east, but when you run out of gas heading south, you rationalize that the person giving you directions told you it wasn't north, and you didn't go north. Making the problem worse is that there is a gas station to the south often enough that it is easy for you to rationalize the behavior of not looking past the first true yet incomplete answer.
The problem isn't that there is a list. The problem isn't that the list is what it is. The problem is that mankind thinks that these are binary qualities. They are not. Maybe instead of a new list, we could just accept that it is all a shade of gray that includes all animals, plants, matter, energy as well, as maybe a few 'things' we have not yet even discovered. Man isn't special because man has attributes that are on a different scale than everything else. Man is special because of where on the scale we sit.
These were full face photos of people. The person claimed to be an artist, and thus it was for commercial purposes. The people did not know they were being photographed, and had no reason to think they would be on private property while in the Apple store. The fact that the software was hidden shows that the artist believed the people had an expectation of not being photographed. All that being said. No. your criteria is wrong. You cannot legally just start using peoples images without their permission.
That's easy to deal with. During those times, you just switch to one of her other ports.
The security guard also does not have the right to absolve the artist from getting signed releases from his models.
The artist also had no rights to use models without getting a release.
That is what monogamous people tell themselves. The parent poster might be a virgin teenager, but his claims are reality for plenty of people, while yours are just sour grapes.
Funny. I was thinking that one of them should never be done alone......
There was just as much proof as in the Hans Reiser case. Of course Reiser doesn't have a vagina, so the verdict makes sense, as well as the publics acceptance of the verdict.
No, after listening to the 911 calls. They also showed that the grandmother was involved.
Depends where you live. I have bills here in CA where I am paying $0.32, $0.37, and $0.42/Kwh.
Good point. The OP should have said that many people are afraid of mummies. Sure they exist, but they have little to do with what you see in the movies, and fearing them isn't rational.
And this is a perfect example of what I am talking about. Sadly, I don't think he realizes it.