You mean, "If you don't do what we say we will blow your ships out of the water?" kind of conflict resolution? I don't think that is what this game is about. I would guess that the vast majority of times where conflicts have been avoided by peaceful means, we never heard about it. By the time we are deep enough in it for the general public to care, you have generally already botched the peaceful conflict resolution.
I would liken the Cuban Missile Crisis to calling the dad a hero that studied law while doing his prison sentence for rape murder and drug smuggling, and when he got out, he didn't go back to raping murdering and drug smuggling. He got a decent job working at a non-profit organization.
I don't know if you don't understand what I said, or if you don't understand what YOU said. Yes, Social Security INSURANCE was and Old-AGe Survivor and Disability program. It was designed as an INSURANCE policy for those that were disabled or TOO OLD to work. It was never designed to be a retirement policy for able bodied adults. The reason that they put an age on it is for the same reason that we put an age on the age of majority. Making a law that tries to evaluate each and every person as an individual is expensive and difficult.
So, no, I am not wrong. You just don't understand what Old-Age Survivor means.
And sure, any person who paid into Social Security should be able to receive the benefits that they paid for when they retire. IF we raise the age of retirement to 90. You are not, I assume, trying to claim that Social Security INSURANCE should be paid to the lucky chap that gets to retire at 26....
You know this, and I know this, but the OP claimed that the other person "knew damn well" that they were using a shared line. The telephone companies sold DSL as a dedicated line, and thus the argument of "dedicated lines cost way more" and "you knew damn well that it was a shared line" is invalid.
You know this, and I know this, but the OP claimed that the other person "knew damn well" that they were using a shared line. The telephone companies sold DSL as a dedicated line, and thus the argument of "dedicated lines cost way more" and "you knew damn well that it was a shared line" hold no water.
For me, I just want enough bandwidth to VPN into my home machine and get good quality screen sharing. That is what should be the end goal. Censorship would be no more of an issue than it is today. The fact that people do not receive static IP addresses is a problem that would end up solved due to demand.
SSI - Stands for Social Security INSURANCE. We have no SSR or Social Security RETIREMENT fund. So, you are correct that SSI should not be used as a retirement plan. It wasn't designed to be one. It was designed to be an insurance plan to deal with the people that were to decrepit to work. When it was created, people generally died before they would collect, died soon after they would collect, or were decrepit enough that they only needed enough money to pay for heat and food.
It was not created to fund cruises and trips to casinos. For it to work properly as a retirement plan, it would require far more funding than we currently pay into it.
That is just not true. Telephone companies where very clear that you should go with them because you don't have to share a line. That was the benefit they claimed that DSL had over cable internet access.
At the time that DOS 6.0 came out, and the Stacker copyright was still in the code, MS had NOT licensed anything from Stac Electronics. They did not buy the software. They did illegally copy it. So, no joke, AND not uninformed.
How do you get to be a doctor by spewing out crap like this?
I can think of two scenarios:
1) He is unaware of how dumb his statement is, and thus he is evidence that college degrees are mere club cards, not any indiction of a quality education.
2) He is fully aware of how dumb his statement is, and thus is simply evil. Willing to hurt an untold number of people for his own short term gain.
While more ranty than I would have put it, you have a point. I find that a big part of it is that people don't even know the difference between fact and opinion. It is now common for people to make statements of fact, and when proven wrong, declare that the statement is their opinion, and thus you have no right to say they are wrong, and the incorrect statement is now correct. They don't even understand that a statement of fact can be incorrect.
We have had that for decades here in the US, although, as you probably know, it is american football instead of soccer. All you have to do is drive past just about any high school in America, and you will see signs out front advertising their sports teams. Generally nothing about the education, but they want you to be aware of the good sports work that the school is doing.
You could also go inside. In most American high schools, the history/civics/economics teachers are also the coaches. I'm sure you know what the schools choose when faced with the choice of 'good history teachers that are bad coaches' and 'good coaches that are bad history teachers'.
And in fact, DOS 6 also had disk compression. You could even see that they had illegally copied Stackers code because they forgot to take out Stackers copyright notice.
It looked like a product catalog to me. This is nothing new. Seriously, where is the MiniMig on this list? The MiniMig is a full open source reimplementation of the Amiga 500.
This is what bugs me about the "Thermodynamics" criers. They love to claim that X energy production wont work because of the law of thermodynamics, but they always forget about the huge amounts of energy that gets put into the contraption in the first place.
Honestly, is sounds like everything worked properly. Just because you have to wait a few minutes at a red light when there are no cars coming in the other direction doesn't mean you give up on stop lights. If your symptoms looked like appendicitis, then you should have been at the hospital. The surgeon didn't think it looked EXACTLY like appendicitis, so he said to wait, but kept you close at hand in case he was wrong, yet didn't do a surgery that was unnecessary.
What would have been a problem outcome is if the surgeon got in there, saw your appendix was fine, but took it out anyway to avoid a malpractice lawsuit.
That is even worse. When the state decides they want to punish you when you have committed no crime, so they make stuff up, you might as well not have any laws at all. It is a perversion of even the semblance of justice.
Hey! No fair using logic and well though out ideas!
Seriously, when my parents were kids, they would play cowboys and indians. This would entail physically acting out the action of slicing the flesh from a living victims head, and physically acting out burning people alive.
Your right. 31 pages is too long. It should basically just be a chart with a 1 to 5 in columns named things like Sex, Violence, Religion. This would be simple AND quick to read.
I wouldn't worry too much about just taking the game industry's word for what is in the games. Businesses lie for gain. Video game manufacturers have no reason to lie on these. If they say that a game is less violent than it really is, they are likely to lose more sales than they gain. It is kind of like porn. The porn industry doesn't try to pass off their goods as rated PG because they have no incetive to do so. People buy their goods BECAUSE they are porn.
So, your saying that the guy who says "I wasn't anything special at 12, so any kid could do as well as me" is an "egotistical know-it-all"? You must have a funny definition of that term.
I just recently got to try out a Mac. It has been over a decade since the last time I used one. What shocked me most was just how crappy and unintuitive their UI was. Since UI is basically what Macs have used as their primary selling point since the beginning, I had just taken peoples word for it that it didn't suck. Hands down, it is the least intuitive UI have have ever used short of a command line.
The kid is going to use a tool that will be similar to many tools that they will use for the rest of their life. It is no replacement for a computer, but learning how to use a touch screen, and having a device that responds to your input is certainly educational. Not to mention, it is perfectly fine for it just to be fun.
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You mean, "If you don't do what we say we will blow your ships out of the water?" kind of conflict resolution? I don't think that is what this game is about. I would guess that the vast majority of times where conflicts have been avoided by peaceful means, we never heard about it. By the time we are deep enough in it for the general public to care, you have generally already botched the peaceful conflict resolution.
I would liken the Cuban Missile Crisis to calling the dad a hero that studied law while doing his prison sentence for rape murder and drug smuggling, and when he got out, he didn't go back to raping murdering and drug smuggling. He got a decent job working at a non-profit organization.
You haven't heard of the smash hit "The Sims"? It's been done, and people loved it.
Advocating genocide or hatred against a group is not exactly the "free exchange of ideas"; I wouldn't dignify bigotry with the name.
double plus good!
I don't know if you don't understand what I said, or if you don't understand what YOU said. Yes, Social Security INSURANCE was and Old-AGe Survivor and Disability program. It was designed as an INSURANCE policy for those that were disabled or TOO OLD to work. It was never designed to be a retirement policy for able bodied adults. The reason that they put an age on it is for the same reason that we put an age on the age of majority. Making a law that tries to evaluate each and every person as an individual is expensive and difficult.
So, no, I am not wrong. You just don't understand what Old-Age Survivor means.
And sure, any person who paid into Social Security should be able to receive the benefits that they paid for when they retire. IF we raise the age of retirement to 90. You are not, I assume, trying to claim that Social Security INSURANCE should be paid to the lucky chap that gets to retire at 26....
You know this, and I know this, but the OP claimed that the other person "knew damn well" that they were using a shared line. The telephone companies sold DSL as a dedicated line, and thus the argument of "dedicated lines cost way more" and "you knew damn well that it was a shared line" is invalid.
You know this, and I know this, but the OP claimed that the other person "knew damn well" that they were using a shared line. The telephone companies sold DSL as a dedicated line, and thus the argument of "dedicated lines cost way more" and "you knew damn well that it was a shared line" hold no water.
For me, I just want enough bandwidth to VPN into my home machine and get good quality screen sharing. That is what should be the end goal. Censorship would be no more of an issue than it is today. The fact that people do not receive static IP addresses is a problem that would end up solved due to demand.
SSI - Stands for Social Security INSURANCE. We have no SSR or Social Security RETIREMENT fund. So, you are correct that SSI should not be used as a retirement plan. It wasn't designed to be one. It was designed to be an insurance plan to deal with the people that were to decrepit to work. When it was created, people generally died before they would collect, died soon after they would collect, or were decrepit enough that they only needed enough money to pay for heat and food.
It was not created to fund cruises and trips to casinos. For it to work properly as a retirement plan, it would require far more funding than we currently pay into it.
That is just not true. Telephone companies where very clear that you should go with them because you don't have to share a line. That was the benefit they claimed that DSL had over cable internet access.
At the time that DOS 6.0 came out, and the Stacker copyright was still in the code, MS had NOT licensed anything from Stac Electronics. They did not buy the software. They did illegally copy it. So, no joke, AND not uninformed.
How do you get to be a doctor by spewing out crap like this?
I can think of two scenarios:
1) He is unaware of how dumb his statement is, and thus he is evidence that college degrees are mere club cards, not any indiction of a quality education.
2) He is fully aware of how dumb his statement is, and thus is simply evil. Willing to hurt an untold number of people for his own short term gain.
Unless you are buying literally thousands of PCs, the fact that you had to write them multiple emails implies that they have crappy service.
While more ranty than I would have put it, you have a point. I find that a big part of it is that people don't even know the difference between fact and opinion. It is now common for people to make statements of fact, and when proven wrong, declare that the statement is their opinion, and thus you have no right to say they are wrong, and the incorrect statement is now correct. They don't even understand that a statement of fact can be incorrect.
We have had that for decades here in the US, although, as you probably know, it is american football instead of soccer. All you have to do is drive past just about any high school in America, and you will see signs out front advertising their sports teams. Generally nothing about the education, but they want you to be aware of the good sports work that the school is doing.
You could also go inside. In most American high schools, the history/civics/economics teachers are also the coaches. I'm sure you know what the schools choose when faced with the choice of 'good history teachers that are bad coaches' and 'good coaches that are bad history teachers'.
And in fact, DOS 6 also had disk compression. You could even see that they had illegally copied Stackers code because they forgot to take out Stackers copyright notice.
Do those have to be mutually exclusive?
It looked like a product catalog to me. This is nothing new. Seriously, where is the MiniMig on this list? The MiniMig is a full open source reimplementation of the Amiga 500.
This is what bugs me about the "Thermodynamics" criers. They love to claim that X energy production wont work because of the law of thermodynamics, but they always forget about the huge amounts of energy that gets put into the contraption in the first place.
Honestly, is sounds like everything worked properly. Just because you have to wait a few minutes at a red light when there are no cars coming in the other direction doesn't mean you give up on stop lights. If your symptoms looked like appendicitis, then you should have been at the hospital. The surgeon didn't think it looked EXACTLY like appendicitis, so he said to wait, but kept you close at hand in case he was wrong, yet didn't do a surgery that was unnecessary.
What would have been a problem outcome is if the surgeon got in there, saw your appendix was fine, but took it out anyway to avoid a malpractice lawsuit.
That is even worse. When the state decides they want to punish you when you have committed no crime, so they make stuff up, you might as well not have any laws at all. It is a perversion of even the semblance of justice.
Hey! No fair using logic and well though out ideas!
Seriously, when my parents were kids, they would play cowboys and indians. This would entail physically acting out the action of slicing the flesh from a living victims head, and physically acting out burning people alive.
Your right. 31 pages is too long. It should basically just be a chart with a 1 to 5 in columns named things like Sex, Violence, Religion. This would be simple AND quick to read.
I wouldn't worry too much about just taking the game industry's word for what is in the games. Businesses lie for gain. Video game manufacturers have no reason to lie on these. If they say that a game is less violent than it really is, they are likely to lose more sales than they gain. It is kind of like porn. The porn industry doesn't try to pass off their goods as rated PG because they have no incetive to do so. People buy their goods BECAUSE they are porn.
So, your saying that the guy who says "I wasn't anything special at 12, so any kid could do as well as me" is an "egotistical know-it-all"? You must have a funny definition of that term.
I just recently got to try out a Mac. It has been over a decade since the last time I used one. What shocked me most was just how crappy and unintuitive their UI was. Since UI is basically what Macs have used as their primary selling point since the beginning, I had just taken peoples word for it that it didn't suck. Hands down, it is the least intuitive UI have have ever used short of a command line.
The kid is going to use a tool that will be similar to many tools that they will use for the rest of their life. It is no replacement for a computer, but learning how to use a touch screen, and having a device that responds to your input is certainly educational. Not to mention, it is perfectly fine for it just to be fun.