I don't understand why us borrowing money makes us weaker... can't we just default and bankrupt China? You know, like when we had our little housing problem we're just now getting out of and decided the banks didn't need to pay back the tons of money they'd got from foreign investors?
Could it be they're just trying to stir up controversy to increase their head-space and sell more boxes of Old Faithful (TM) before New and Inferior (TM) becomes the norm?
Only a few on the fringes seriously took NDEs as evidence for heaven, because the possibility of hallucinations was too obvious.
Actually, most people don't think about this kind of thing too seriously, and do assume NDEs are actual connections with God. I don't know if you're aware of this, but normal people don't really sit around and debate their beliefs, they just take them at face value.
So, no, it wasn't just fringes. It may have been the fringes of serious debate, but normal people do believe in this kind of bunk. Because they just don't question it at all.
This is a rising trend, though. More and more games are coming out with different types of "leveling systems." Borderlands is a prime example of this misplacement of RPG elements. If you've played it, you know that what you put your points into is fairly arbitrary, and has little to no bearing on how effective your character is.
This is the problem. We all wanted an RPG FPS like Deus Ex, but no company wanted to put the time or effort into making the RPG element meaningful. Now we have a ton of crummy games with watered down RPG junk in them, like Borderlands. Even Fallout 3 was a major let down in that arena.
In D&D, when you gain a level, you become more specialized. By level 7 or 8, you are already set down a very specific course. WoW manages this specialization effect fairly nicely as well. This is what people want with RPG, not whatever the crap Borderlands has.
I'm just saying, it's important to be exact in your wording. No one wants another big let down like Borderlands, or even Fallout 3. We want specialization, not just vague RPG elements thrown in.
But that's not really the point. Being color-sighted isn't better in every scenario, thus there will always be a beneficial situation for colorblind folk. Not everyone needs to be colorblind, but not everyone needs to be color-sighted.
I'm an electrical engineer, and I can tell you that anyone who says you can't be one because you can't read resistors is a complete idiot. I am deeply saddened that you could not pursue that interest because of that extremely minor issue.
Democracy as a form of government is done. While the lack of corruption and abundance of liberty make it an attractive target platform, there are simply too many problems related to iron-fisted political control to sustain democracy as a viable platform for much longer.
Oppression? It won't be an issue when you are keylocked to your personal console and media. You won't even notice the oppression.
Funny how easily that translates... Also, whoever thought "strong" was a good replacement for the "b" tag obviously never wrote HTML by hand, the jerk.
What was up with Poland, seriously? We always learned in high school that they did it to get to France. Then in college I looked at a map of Europe, and I think the Germans could have benefited from doing the same.
Note: I've always been an extremely poor student, thus the lack of looking at maps.
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A buddy of mine is from Venezuela. He said no one really takes that guy seriously, except the dumb Americans.
I don't understand why us borrowing money makes us weaker... can't we just default and bankrupt China? You know, like when we had our little housing problem we're just now getting out of and decided the banks didn't need to pay back the tons of money they'd got from foreign investors?
Ya, that's like saying some kind of investigation into the war in Iraq could possibly show that the evidence for the war was faulty. Don't be absurd.
That Dalai Lama, he's such a whiner.
It's obvious, the Target logo must be the pentagram for saucerers!
Could it be they're just trying to stir up controversy to increase their head-space and sell more boxes of Old Faithful (TM) before New and Inferior (TM) becomes the norm?
Ah, yes. The rarely seen New Coke fallacy.
Lies! Capitalism is the one true faith!
Only a few on the fringes seriously took NDEs as evidence for heaven, because the possibility of hallucinations was too obvious.
Actually, most people don't think about this kind of thing too seriously, and do assume NDEs are actual connections with God. I don't know if you're aware of this, but normal people don't really sit around and debate their beliefs, they just take them at face value.
So, no, it wasn't just fringes. It may have been the fringes of serious debate, but normal people do believe in this kind of bunk. Because they just don't question it at all.
Now if this device was cheap and easy enough to appear in nightclubs...
Then it'd be your mother...
In astronomy, the Julian year is a unit of time, defined as 365.25 days of 86,400 SI seconds each.
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Interesting.
I have not... I do understand that it has gone somewhat downhill of late, yes?
Like indie developers?
need more and better RPG elements in games imo
This is a rising trend, though. More and more games are coming out with different types of "leveling systems." Borderlands is a prime example of this misplacement of RPG elements. If you've played it, you know that what you put your points into is fairly arbitrary, and has little to no bearing on how effective your character is.
This is the problem. We all wanted an RPG FPS like Deus Ex, but no company wanted to put the time or effort into making the RPG element meaningful. Now we have a ton of crummy games with watered down RPG junk in them, like Borderlands. Even Fallout 3 was a major let down in that arena.
In D&D, when you gain a level, you become more specialized. By level 7 or 8, you are already set down a very specific course. WoW manages this specialization effect fairly nicely as well. This is what people want with RPG, not whatever the crap Borderlands has.
I'm just saying, it's important to be exact in your wording. No one wants another big let down like Borderlands, or even Fallout 3. We want specialization, not just vague RPG elements thrown in.
No.
No, we didn't.
Wait, this... this isn't ice cream? Oh... oh god... oh god no...
(image editing being a possible exception)
Psh, real graphic designers do all their image editing from a CLI using ImageMagick.
It's fairly well accepted that IP theft is completely different from physical theft, if no meaningful legal distinction exists.
Okay, here's the problem:
I thought you wanted everyone to have the procedure, without asking.
You thought I wanted no one to have it, without asking.
Here's the reality:
We both completely agree with one another. People should make their own choices.
Isn't that handy?
Are you getting 50 cents for these posts? "Those who do not conform from birth are inferior, and must be cleansed!"
But that's not really the point. Being color-sighted isn't better in every scenario, thus there will always be a beneficial situation for colorblind folk. Not everyone needs to be colorblind, but not everyone needs to be color-sighted.
I'm an electrical engineer, and I can tell you that anyone who says you can't be one because you can't read resistors is a complete idiot. I am deeply saddened that you could not pursue that interest because of that extremely minor issue.
I beg to differ. Color-sighted people are physically incapable of doing something that colorblind people can do.
Democracy as a form of government is done. While the lack of corruption and abundance of liberty make it an attractive target platform, there are simply too many problems related to iron-fisted political control to sustain democracy as a viable platform for much longer.
Oppression? It won't be an issue when you are keylocked to your personal console and media. You won't even notice the oppression.
Funny how easily that translates... Also, whoever thought "strong" was a good replacement for the "b" tag obviously never wrote HTML by hand, the jerk.
What was up with Poland, seriously? We always learned in high school that they did it to get to France. Then in college I looked at a map of Europe, and I think the Germans could have benefited from doing the same.
Note: I've always been an extremely poor student, thus the lack of looking at maps.