But then... what if they do find evidence of life? I mean large, complex forms of life, not some fossilized bacteria that everyone will debate and bitch about. That's what I'm hoping they dig up.
Uh, only then we would be forced to worship that life's crystal skeletons...
I am not arguing for total lack of government, just a government that stays out of things better left to the free market. The government should take care of our collective national defense, enforce contracts, break monopolies, enforce property rights, and... not much else.
I am sorry, but it is MY money. The people have an understand agreement with the government that the government can TAKE some portion of the PEOPLE's money to provide services. I just think the government provides too many services (and we as the people are not getting our money's worth).
True, our forefathers brought these programs upon us, and once a government program starts, it does only one thing: grow
It is nice to see some countries are swinging in the opposite direction. France for one is trying to tell people to work MORE... apparently their cradle-to-grave social programs, which the democrats so applaud, aren't all they are cracked up to be, and may be in a tailspin of total failure.
Take any econ 101 course and you will see taxes only take away from economic prosperity. I fear that is what is happening now.
Yep, it does seems like Kucinich would be his man.
And if he is saying that he isn't voting for Kucinich because he doesn't have a chance, that is actually NOT FINE. An election for president of the most powerful country on earth isn't a horse race! You vote for the candidate you feel is the best qualified. There is no prize for voting for the guy or gal who eventually winds up in the Oval Office. It REALLY pisses me off when people think that way.
"Unification" of the country isn't exactly high on my list. Sometimes it is good to have hard lines in the sand... on either side. It keeps the country from suffering the consequences of shortsighted compromises for the value of political expediency.
I guess my problem is that Paul speaks of personal liberty, it is absolutely CENTRAL to his platform. People should be free to do what they want with themselves AND THEIR MONEY. Obama on the other hand seems to follow the standard democrat model of "we'll take your money, and spend it on stuff you don't care about, because we are smarter than you", I want my taxes LOWERED, I want a federal government that will SHRINK. "Universal" health care and other programs don't bring that about.
No matter how much "compromise" Obama can bring (and I DO believe he can bring compromise). It is still a progressive in the white house, meaning the size of the government will keep increasing... I believe that is fundamentally the WRONG road to take.
How can a Ron Paul supporter also like Obama? The Big-O wants MORE government in our lives, HIGHER taxes, and LESS personal liberty. I just don't understand the sheeple sometimes.
The federal government shouldn't be signing contracts with any private companies. An individual state has the full right to deny not do business with anyone they wish.
Napoleon Dynamite is, I think, a very generational movie. If you grew up as a "child of the 80's", and were part of a specific sub-culture (the geek/dork/outsider), you can look at this movie and laugh your ass off because you see how true to life a lot of it is. If you weren't in those circles, then it is hard to see how the movie is funny.
I myself was part of that culture, and now as a successful adult I can look back and recall all those childhood memories this movie brings up. The aweful clothing, the moon boots, the tater tots for lunch. For a lot of people, it's like their childhood (except streched out into late high school and taken to the extreme).
Actually I'm pretty sure that the standard MS warranty is something insanely short, like 3 months or something. You could pay to get it longer, but I think even then they charge you an arm and a leg. You're better off buying a PRP or something similar from the place you got it.
Normal mapping isn't doing the geometry stuff, that's displacement mapping. Something that isn't yet available (I don't think) in hardware (No, not even on a 6800 GT ULTRA SUPER DUPER). This is not to be confused with Virtual Displacement Mapping, or Holographic Mapping, or Virtual Holographic Displacement Mapping (all of which are the same thing). They involve offsetting texture coordinates based on the camera position and angle to make textures APPEAR as though the actual geometry is being displaced, when in fact it isn't (see the cool Unreal Engine 3 video for an example).
AFAIK normal mapping and bump mapping fall under the same category. I think there is a "simple" bump mapping based on just a single value (heightmap), with normal mapping being an extension of that.
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But then... what if they do find evidence of life? I mean large, complex forms of life, not some fossilized bacteria that everyone will debate and bitch about. That's what I'm hoping they dig up.
Uh, only then we would be forced to worship that life's crystal skeletons...It's one of the (few) things government should do:
- Enforce contracts
- Enforce property rights
- Provide national defense
- Break monopolies
See this part of his interview with John Stossel on the role of government.
I am not arguing for total lack of government, just a government that stays out of things better left to the free market. The government should take care of our collective national defense, enforce contracts, break monopolies, enforce property rights, and ... not much else.
I am sorry, but it is MY money. The people have an understand agreement with the government that the government can TAKE some portion of the PEOPLE's money to provide services. I just think the government provides too many services (and we as the people are not getting our money's worth).
True, our forefathers brought these programs upon us, and once a government program starts, it does only one thing: grow
It is nice to see some countries are swinging in the opposite direction. France for one is trying to tell people to work MORE... apparently their cradle-to-grave social programs, which the democrats so applaud, aren't all they are cracked up to be, and may be in a tailspin of total failure.
Take any econ 101 course and you will see taxes only take away from economic prosperity. I fear that is what is happening now.
+1
Yep, it does seems like Kucinich would be his man.
And if he is saying that he isn't voting for Kucinich because he doesn't have a chance, that is actually NOT FINE. An election for president of the most powerful country on earth isn't a horse race! You vote for the candidate you feel is the best qualified. There is no prize for voting for the guy or gal who eventually winds up in the Oval Office. It REALLY pisses me off when people think that way.
*sheesh*
"Unification" of the country isn't exactly high on my list. Sometimes it is good to have hard lines in the sand... on either side. It keeps the country from suffering the consequences of shortsighted compromises for the value of political expediency. I guess my problem is that Paul speaks of personal liberty, it is absolutely CENTRAL to his platform. People should be free to do what they want with themselves AND THEIR MONEY. Obama on the other hand seems to follow the standard democrat model of "we'll take your money, and spend it on stuff you don't care about, because we are smarter than you", I want my taxes LOWERED, I want a federal government that will SHRINK. "Universal" health care and other programs don't bring that about. No matter how much "compromise" Obama can bring (and I DO believe he can bring compromise). It is still a progressive in the white house, meaning the size of the government will keep increasing... I believe that is fundamentally the WRONG road to take.
How can a Ron Paul supporter also like Obama? The Big-O wants MORE government in our lives, HIGHER taxes, and LESS personal liberty. I just don't understand the sheeple sometimes.
The federal government shouldn't be signing contracts with any private companies. An individual state has the full right to deny not do business with anyone they wish.
Napoleon Dynamite is, I think, a very generational movie. If you grew up as a "child of the 80's", and were part of a specific sub-culture (the geek/dork/outsider), you can look at this movie and laugh your ass off because you see how true to life a lot of it is. If you weren't in those circles, then it is hard to see how the movie is funny.
I myself was part of that culture, and now as a successful adult I can look back and recall all those childhood memories this movie brings up. The aweful clothing, the moon boots, the tater tots for lunch. For a lot of people, it's like their childhood (except streched out into late high school and taken to the extreme).
Ditto the parent.
Giving up a job because of the tools you have to use? That isn't guts, or courage, or principles, that's idiocy.
Now if you are bored, and are certain you can pick up a new job in no time, then maybe... But because of the freaking tool chain! Come on!
Actually, I think he's voiced by Alan Rickman, and Warwick Davis doing the phyiscal acting inside the suit.
Actually I'm pretty sure that the standard MS warranty is something insanely short, like 3 months or something. You could pay to get it longer, but I think even then they charge you an arm and a leg. You're better off buying a PRP or something similar from the place you got it.
Actually you're half right.
Normal mapping isn't doing the geometry stuff, that's displacement mapping. Something that isn't yet available (I don't think) in hardware (No, not even on a 6800 GT ULTRA SUPER DUPER). This is not to be confused with Virtual Displacement Mapping, or Holographic Mapping, or Virtual Holographic Displacement Mapping (all of which are the same thing). They involve offsetting texture coordinates based on the camera position and angle to make textures APPEAR as though the actual geometry is being displaced, when in fact it isn't (see the cool Unreal Engine 3 video for an example).
AFAIK normal mapping and bump mapping fall under the same category. I think there is a "simple" bump mapping based on just a single value (heightmap), with normal mapping being an extension of that.
Someone with more knowledge than I can expound...