People like that game because it doesn't try to hold your hand and force you into a linear grind like other MMOs do, you are free to do whatever you can to gain riches and fame in game. The choice is yours as to be "good" or "evil".
That part is answered by the link I provided, but for your convenience:
In 1999, the president's National Bioethics Advisory Commission recommended that hESC harvested from embryos discarded after in vitro fertility treatments, but not from embryos created expressly for experimentation be eligible for federal funding[3]. Even though embryos are always destroyed in the process of harvesting hESC the Clinton Administration decided that it would be permissible under the Dickey Amendment to fund hESC research as long as such research did not itself directly cause the destruction of an embryo. Therefore, HHS issued its proposed regulation concerning hESC funding in 2001. Enactment of the new guidelines was delayed by the incoming Bush administration which decided to reconsider the issue.
For the complete picture instead of half-truths (from wikipedia):
In 1995, the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel advised the Clinton administration to permit federal funding for research on embryos left over from in vitro fertility treatments and also recommended federal funding of research on embryos specifically created for experimentation. In response to the panel's recommendations the Clinton administration, citing moral and ethical concerns, declined to fund research on embryos created solely for research purposes,[21] but did, however, agree to fund research on left-over embryos created by in vitro fertility treatments. At this point, the Congress intervened and passed the Dickey Amendment in 1995 (the final bill, which included the Dickey Amendment, was signed into law by Clinton) which prohibited all federal funding for research that resulted in the destruction of an embryo regardless of the source of that embryo
In 1998, privately funded research led to the breakthrough discovery of hESC (Human Embryonic Stem Cells). This prompted the Clinton Administration to re-examine guidelines for federal funding of embryonic research.
These people rarely get promoted beyond a certain level and at least where I worked, the only people who ever got into management were the people who actually did real work.
So when the ones doing the work got into management they immediately stopped doing any work aswell. Brilliant! That'll teach them! You see, the federal government has a responsibility to train people how not to do work. They are very efficient doing exactly just that.
I'm dedicating it to the creators of Stargate SG-1.
I won't repeat people saying that it was time, etc, but they are right. Instead, I'd just like to say that it was great entertainment. The occasional technobabble part was perfectly balanced out by the show not taking itself too seriously.
that even the Dutch, the Dutch mind you, kicked them out.
I generally agree with your post, but I'd like to elaborate on this a bit. The dutch of 1620 weren't so tolerant back then, actually quite the contrary. A sneak peak from those times should be the fact that those who had curtains were considered immoral and "have something to hide" at the time (which is btw the traditional reason that curtains in the Netherlands are still not that popular as elsewhere).
I know it was a joke, but it has been hammered well before it got international media attention.
A lot of hungarians erm..."tweaked" the polls a bit:). Same happened when it was about the best footballer nomination or something. Overnight a few hundred thousand votes arrived voting for Puskás Tivadar...
As someone authentic (I live less than one km/mile away from the now-under-construction bridge) I attempted an explanation:
Zenebutik-Zenehíd 260730 [13%] - Music shop - Music bridge (from some hungarian 20y old music programme)
Chuck Norris - híd 158656 [8%]
Zrínyi híd 156978 [8%] - named after Zrínyi, historical figure
Vásárhelyi Boldizsár - híd 155314 [8%] - historical figure
Bethlen Gábor - híd 152720 [8%] - historical figure
Batthyány Lajos híd 122877 [6%] - historical figure
Szent Korona - híd 122325 [6%] - Saint Crown bridge
Bocskai István - híd 121137 [6%] - historical figure
Hunyadi Mátyás - híd 120784 [6%] - historical figure
Szent István - híd 119985 [6%]- Saint Stephen, 1st king of Hungary
Híd = bridge
Btw, the bridge is part of the M0 beltway that goes 'round Budapest. It is supposed to be built "any year now" for the last twenty...
Israel *was* "leaving them alone", and what it got for that was six years of Hezbollah building itself up into the major power in Lebanon.
If you know history, Hezbollah was founded in 1982 for the reason to fight Israeli occupation of Lebanon!
If you look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hezbollah , you'll see that the period after 2000 was relatively peaceful, and the activity in the period after Israel left the area was due to the Cheeba farms, which is considered Lebanese territory (UN claims it is Syrian, but Syrians claim it is Lebanese, a country can arbitarily give land to another, thus Cheeba Farms is lebanese territory).
No, it's like tubes. Saying that is about as true as what you said. Security updates have nothing to do with feature bloat and unsecure default-on services.
...they need to have the useful stuff turned on by default because normal users won't do it.
How about, um, informing them about it, like, you know, on first boot, or when the installation is going on, like um, the way it used to be since ever?
If you don't know how to turn it off, it's probably a feature you should leave on.
Think about the negatives too: if you don't know how to turn it off, then you don't know about it, so you're most likely not aware of the bad things about it, like privacy or harddrive space concerns.
Microsoft can't make operating systems more user friendly. That is a mistake. You can't make the complexity of piloting the informatics equivalent of a Boeing 747 much easier, short of eliminating the user from the process completely (autopilot).
The militant group Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes Wednesday across the border in southern Lebanon, prompting a swift reaction from Israel, which sent ground forces into its neighbor to look for them.
All this anti-Israeli and 'anti-Zionism' talk around the world is just anti-semitism resurfacing and trying to pretend not to be. The Israelis are great people that are surrounded by millions of people who have surrendered their minds to a death cult. The Israelis do what they must. They don't get any pleasure from it. But they don't shrink from it, either.
I'm greatly saddened to see your comment modded up to +5, Insightful, given it is a fairy tale trying to pose as reality.
So, in your mind, anything critical of the policies of Israel is anti-semitism. Because that is what you have written. The Israeli people are no different from the palestine or lebanese people: Mother Theresa and that serial killer Manson belong to the same human race. There is of course ideology flung around, but labeling all arabs as being part of a death cult is "anti-arabicanism". If you think that anti-semitism is bad, then why do you exercise "anti-arabicanism"? The sole reason I put quote marks around that phrase, is because it is not even in common use to describe a behaviour that is exhibited in your own post.
I don't think the Israelis are doing what they must. I think they keep voting in politicians that act as if they and only they could protect them from a not lifethreatening (on a national scale) enemy (doesn't that sound familiar?). What the Israelis need to do is vote for less comforting, less "black-and-white" world viewed politicians, who can do their best to solve the problems on the middle east. While it might not look so good, because there are many compromises to be reached, both the israelis and palestinian/lebanese people would end up safer. If history ended up teaching something, is that unilaterialism end up in empires, and that empires fall.
The only way to win an average arab person's mind in this world is to kill all jews, well all Israelies and to 'free' Palestine.
Unless you believe that arabs are somehow not humans, I don't see how could you utter such an idiotic statement. There isn't so much difference between people. Of course, you can use this dogma as a convenient justification for what Israel does currently. Otherwise you'd might be forced to reconcile your black and white personal beliefs with the reality of shades of gray.
THERE IS imminent danger from Hizballah to Israel.
THIS IS AN UTTER LIE. Let me get this straight for you:
- There were no rocket attacks before Israel attacked Lebanon.
- The causa belli: two israeli soldiers were captured when they were violating the sovereign territory of another nation.
- Israel violates Lebanese airspace on a daily basis to take surveillance photos.
So tell me, how is Hezbollah an imminent danger to Israel? I'll tell you how: it used to be NOT. Now, with popular support for Hezbollah skyrocketing, you can count on it. Israel managed to dig itself a huge hole to fall into.
Israel is not trying to gain support of an 'average person'.
They bloody well should try that. Otherwise how are they going to cut public support to Hezbollah? Waging a war on the civilian population just makes Hezbollah support stronger. Sure, they might not live as well as before, but they'll spend their income on buying rockets from Syria and shooting Israel with it in a bitter struggle.
You haven't learnt yet, that the power is in the minds. Humans are so inventive, when they want to reach a goal, short of mass murdering every one of them, you can't stop them from attacking you back if you piss them off. In this case, you can try to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure. So what if you manage? They'll rebuild them with a much bigger support for Hezbollah. For every rocket that fell into Israel, they'll launch ten in the future.
Especially what you judge has "basic facts". You need to read beyond whatever you've been reading.
Thanks for telling me this, but I think the most important point about the futility of the situation is the Hundreds of thousands of lebanese escaping from their homes! No matter what you say can you make a person believe that this somehow doesn't make the situation worse!
The only way to disarm them is militarily.
Who the FUCK cares about disarming them? Ok. You go into the country, bomb the shit out of them, make them lose everything and then occupy them. GUESS WHAT?! WHEN THEY LOST EVERYTHING, WHO ARE THEY GOING TO SUPPORT? THE ENEMY YOU WANT TO DISARM! I repeat: there is no point in trying to solve this problem in a military way, because if they want to fight, they'll find a way. Israel is making them want to fight, Israel is making them want to support Hezbollah. Israel just made Hezbollah more popular than ever before. So, as I said there is only two solutions: you either nuke Lebanon, killing millions of people, or you give up the foolish idea of using pure military force on the civilian population to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure.
On the other hand, if you leave lebanese alone, treat them as citizens of a sovereign state, not as second class humans, make them improve their economy and live better: Hezbollah support will disappear. Noone wants to fight when they have something to lose!
The trouble is that you can't see further from your nose.
There is no way they had to cause $60 billion dollar damage to the lebanese infrastructure, because they wanted to destroy some Hezbollah installations.
if anything, these protestors should thank Israel for taking action now and preventing more carnage later.
If anything, Israel is throwing a match into a powder keg. Can you imagine the public support now for Hezbollah, given that 800'000-1M lebanese are fleeing from their homes?
We can argue, whether Israel is right for reacting somehow to the Hezbollah provocation. We CANNOT argue, that what Israel is doing now is not solving anything, given an average person's intelligence and given basic facts.
There is no military solution to the middle east crisis, except a nuclear war. There is only a sociological/political solution.
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I think he was trying to perform an experiment.
People like that game because it doesn't try to hold your hand and force you into a linear grind like other MMOs do, you are free to do whatever you can to gain riches and fame in game. The choice is yours as to be "good" or "evil".
The bolding was done by me.
I think a fair amount of cash must be playing some role in it.
...spend my 1000th post on.
I'm dedicating it to the creators of Stargate SG-1.
I won't repeat people saying that it was time, etc, but they are right. Instead, I'd just like to say that it was great entertainment. The occasional technobabble part was perfectly balanced out by the show not taking itself too seriously.
So, thanks for the great show!
Sun promotes heat.
A-bomb promotes casualties.
Is there something that studies don't get about Mass Multiplayer Online RPGs?
I know it was a joke, but it has been hammered well before it got international media attention.
:). Same happened when it was about the best footballer nomination or something. Overnight a few hundred thousand votes arrived voting for Puskás Tivadar...
A lot of hungarians erm..."tweaked" the polls a bit
He missed it so much he might have missed it entirely. :)
As someone authentic (I live less than one km/mile away from the now-under-construction bridge) I attempted an explanation:
Zenebutik-Zenehíd 260730 [13%] - Music shop - Music bridge (from some hungarian 20y old music programme)
Chuck Norris - híd 158656 [8%]
Zrínyi híd 156978 [8%] - named after Zrínyi, historical figure
Vásárhelyi Boldizsár - híd 155314 [8%] - historical figure
Bethlen Gábor - híd 152720 [8%] - historical figure
Batthyány Lajos híd 122877 [6%] - historical figure
Szent Korona - híd 122325 [6%] - Saint Crown bridge
Bocskai István - híd 121137 [6%] - historical figure
Hunyadi Mátyás - híd 120784 [6%] - historical figure
Szent István - híd 119985 [6%]- Saint Stephen, 1st king of Hungary
Híd = bridge
Btw, the bridge is part of the M0 beltway that goes 'round Budapest. It is supposed to be built "any year now" for the last twenty...
No, it's like tubes. Saying that is about as true as what you said. Security updates have nothing to do with feature bloat and unsecure default-on services.
How about, um, informing them about it, like, you know, on first boot, or when the installation is going on, like um, the way it used to be since ever?
Think about the negatives too: if you don't know how to turn it off, then you don't know about it, so you're most likely not aware of the bad things about it, like privacy or harddrive space concerns.
Microsoft can't make operating systems more user friendly. That is a mistake. You can't make the complexity of piloting the informatics equivalent of a Boeing 747 much easier, short of eliminating the user from the process completely (autopilot).
For the record I'm not from America. I'm also not from the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Antarctica or Africa.
Emphasis mine.
So, in your mind, anything critical of the policies of Israel is anti-semitism. Because that is what you have written. The Israeli people are no different from the palestine or lebanese people: Mother Theresa and that serial killer Manson belong to the same human race. There is of course ideology flung around, but labeling all arabs as being part of a death cult is "anti-arabicanism". If you think that anti-semitism is bad, then why do you exercise "anti-arabicanism"? The sole reason I put quote marks around that phrase, is because it is not even in common use to describe a behaviour that is exhibited in your own post.
I don't think the Israelis are doing what they must. I think they keep voting in politicians that act as if they and only they could protect them from a not lifethreatening (on a national scale) enemy (doesn't that sound familiar?). What the Israelis need to do is vote for less comforting, less "black-and-white" world viewed politicians, who can do their best to solve the problems on the middle east. While it might not look so good, because there are many compromises to be reached, both the israelis and palestinian/lebanese people would end up safer. If history ended up teaching something, is that unilaterialism end up in empires, and that empires fall.
Israel, as the party involved in the fighting (You can't really say Lebanese are fighting back), is naturally biased.
Your family sources are biased too. Israeli media is biased aswell. No wonder your radical point of view.
Of course everything has bias, but you should very well ask questions about some beliefs you hold dear. I think this would a good place to start.
- There were no rocket attacks before Israel attacked Lebanon.
- The causa belli: two israeli soldiers were captured when they were violating the sovereign territory of another nation.
- Israel violates Lebanese airspace on a daily basis to take surveillance photos.
So tell me, how is Hezbollah an imminent danger to Israel? I'll tell you how: it used to be NOT. Now, with popular support for Hezbollah skyrocketing, you can count on it. Israel managed to dig itself a huge hole to fall into.
You haven't learnt yet, that the power is in the minds. Humans are so inventive, when they want to reach a goal, short of mass murdering every one of them, you can't stop them from attacking you back if you piss them off. In this case, you can try to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure. So what if you manage? They'll rebuild them with a much bigger support for Hezbollah. For every rocket that fell into Israel, they'll launch ten in the future.
Who the FUCK cares about disarming them? Ok. You go into the country, bomb the shit out of them, make them lose everything and then occupy them. GUESS WHAT?! WHEN THEY LOST EVERYTHING, WHO ARE THEY GOING TO SUPPORT? THE ENEMY YOU WANT TO DISARM! I repeat: there is no point in trying to solve this problem in a military way, because if they want to fight, they'll find a way. Israel is making them want to fight, Israel is making them want to support Hezbollah. Israel just made Hezbollah more popular than ever before. So, as I said there is only two solutions: you either nuke Lebanon, killing millions of people, or you give up the foolish idea of using pure military force on the civilian population to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure.
On the other hand, if you leave lebanese alone, treat them as citizens of a sovereign state, not as second class humans, make them improve their economy and live better: Hezbollah support will disappear. Noone wants to fight when they have something to lose!
The trouble is that you can't see further from your nose.
Targeting Hezbollah installations only? Right.
There is no way they had to cause $60 billion dollar damage to the lebanese infrastructure, because they wanted to destroy some Hezbollah installations.
We can argue, whether Israel is right for reacting somehow to the Hezbollah provocation. We CANNOT argue, that what Israel is doing now is not solving anything, given an average person's intelligence and given basic facts.
There is no military solution to the middle east crisis, except a nuclear war. There is only a sociological/political solution.