I've never raged playing a single player game. On the other hand raging in multiplayer FPS is very common.
My worst raging experience was in a multiplayer air combat game called Air Warrior. My joystick was mounted on the desk with screws initially, but I I ripped it out in a fit of rage when I kept getting shot down by laggy headon noobs. Next I epoxied the joystick onto the desk, but that too got ripped out while raging.
Finally I drilled holes in the desk and mounted the joystick using steel wire threaded through the holes and looped around the base of the joystick. This turned out to be the most rage-resistant setup, since ripping out the joystick didn't break any hard parts.
why would that net him decades in prison? He's guilty of writing a virus program, not stealing 60 million credit cards.
Like if I sold a gun to Guido, and later Guido murders 5 people with it, am I going to prison for life? No, I am just going to get charged with selling a gun to a felon.
So no, the scientific method works, and has worked for centuries, and will continue to work as long as scientists are rewarded based on the scientific method
Very true. However climate science isn't doing this, they are "hiding the decline" and fudging numbers and silencing critics. Oh and beating other scientists who disagree with them to a pulp with their bare fists. Talking about doing that, at any rate.
Walking is also a privilege, not a right. You will comply when gov't requires you to wear a GPS device around your neck at all times to track your location. It is for a safe and efficient society.
If you were trying to make money from climate research and looked around to see which side would bring the most bucks, you would come to the conclusion that the global warmist side has the most to offer.
The grants from government and government-like bodies are in the billions. Oil companies don't spend billions trying to disprove global warming despite what you may think. They can't, it would raise too many alarm bells and draw shareholder ire besides. Last figure I saw was $23 million... a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the money spent trying to prove global warming.
On a physically secure machine (ATMs with heavy gauge steel armor on all sides) that's not connected to the internet.... who cares if it's running an old OS? They could run DOS and Win 3.11 for that matter without a problem.
he was probably talking about when Gmail was new, around 2003-2004ish. Enough people griped about not being able to delete email that Google obliged some years later.
And as far as I know, even today Google doesn't actually delete anything, it just keeps the "deleted" email out of your view.
Ancient humans had things called spears. They didn't need to chase prey until it died of exhaustion, they only needed to chase it until it slowed down enough from heat exhaustion for them to stick a spear in it.
Wolves are also excellent endurance runners (in cold weather though, unlike humans) and they often catch rabbits and things that are faster than them.
And in both cases, teamwork and strategy play a big role. Not a coincidence that both humans and wolves developed large brains.
It's the government's job to protect us from ourselves. Or so it thinks.
Or put another way, a regulatory agency exists to create regulations.
While I would agree that some regulations are necessary for a functional society, this ain't one of them. The people giving out money to Kickstarter and its ilk are not poor, not illiterate and they know what they're getting into. They're spending disposable income on toys and entertainment, not their rent money.
Personally I don't give money to crowfunding and my opinion is that if some scoundrel absconds with your funds, well you kinda deserve it.
also having excellent spaceships. By excellent I mean able to accelerate to a significant percent of lightspeed.
Say you wanna go back to 1920 and assassinate Hitler while he was a nobody and easy to get to. You build a time machine and POOF, you're in 1920. And you're also dead, since you're also in the vacuum of space... unless your time machine is also a spaceship. The earth is in a different position around the sun, and the sun has orbited to a different spot in the galaxy, and our galaxy has shifted position in the local group, and all this time the universe itself has expanded quite a bit.
I have no idea how far from earth you would be if you time traveled from 2014 to 1920, but I'm guessing it would be measured in parsecs.
Problem with Goggle Glass is that it's in your face. It's conspicuous. It may not be recording at the moment, but you don't know that for sure.
It's like, if I'm walking around holding a cellphone in hand with arm stretched out and pointed in such a way that it looks like I'm recording a video, and then started engaging in conversation with people while still in that pose, but now the camera is pointed directly at them, people will get uncomfortable. (unless of course the person I"m talking to wants to be recorded). It's in their face. It's annoying.
Google Glass is kind of like that, all the time.
Another example: you might be walking around in a city where it's perfectly legal to carry firearms in public if you have a permit. And say it's a shall-issue state where anyone can get a permit if they don't have criminal records, so a large percentage of the population does. Now you're in a crowded city area, and you *know* many of the people are packing concealed heat. But it rarely crosses your mind because it's not in your face. Out of sight, out of mind.
But suppose instead of concealed carry, people are walking around openly wearing their Glocks on their hips, AK-47s slung across their shoulder and so on. This is in your face. Your reaction is going to be much different.
Then you are a moron.
When 15 states have mandatory (politically imposed by republicans) creationism brainwashing sessions in their biology cursus in high school How is it NOT a political issue ?
What's more it isn't about education, it is a political issue about religion...
You're looking for a political fight when there isn't a need for one. The evolution poll breaking down the results by party affiliation serves no constructive purpose and is only intended to stir the pot and bring out reactions such as you display above.
Of course whichever party that has more religious fundamentalists will have less percentage of people believing in evolution, it should be obvious. But it's tangential to the issue on public knowledge on science. Political affiliations come and go. It's just fodder for launching political attacks and has no significance other than confirming that the religious zealots prefer party X.
You might not have heard of it, but there was a case called the Scopes Monkey Trial. It was a big deal, the granddaddy of evolution court cases. Politicians in Tennessee passed a law called the Butler Act, which forbade public schools from teaching evolution. Representative Butler, who wrote the law... guess which party he belonged to? (hint: it's not Republican)
You must be living in some alternate reality version of America. Because where I live, people with PhD in physics/math have 0 or 1 children while the welfare moms and illegal immigrant street vendors have 3++.
Economic success is only loosely correlated with IQ. You know what the best indicator of IQ is? A direct IQ test. An advanced degree is far closer to an IQ test than how much money one has.
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I've never raged playing a single player game. On the other hand raging in multiplayer FPS is very common.
My worst raging experience was in a multiplayer air combat game called Air Warrior. My joystick was mounted on the desk with screws initially, but I I ripped it out in a fit of rage when I kept getting shot down by laggy headon noobs. Next I epoxied the joystick onto the desk, but that too got ripped out while raging.
Finally I drilled holes in the desk and mounted the joystick using steel wire threaded through the holes and looped around the base of the joystick. This turned out to be the most rage-resistant setup, since ripping out the joystick didn't break any hard parts.
why would that net him decades in prison? He's guilty of writing a virus program, not stealing 60 million credit cards.
Like if I sold a gun to Guido, and later Guido murders 5 people with it, am I going to prison for life? No, I am just going to get charged with selling a gun to a felon.
Is there anything stopping you from disabling Windows updates?
I disabled all Windows updates on my MS machines in 2012. But I do run a good antivirus program on all of them and the antivirus updates itself.
Never had a virus or malware problem since then. Not visiting warez sites and not clicking on email attachments helps a lot too.
So no, the scientific method works, and has worked for centuries, and will continue to work as long as scientists are rewarded based on the scientific method
Very true. However climate science isn't doing this, they are "hiding the decline" and fudging numbers and silencing critics. Oh and beating other scientists who disagree with them to a pulp with their bare fists. Talking about doing that, at any rate.
there can be no dissenting opinion because the science is SETTLED!
*fist banging*
There is a consensus. Now repeat after me.
There is a consensus.
There is a consensus.
There is a consensus.
Walking is also a privilege, not a right. You will comply when gov't requires you to wear a GPS device around your neck at all times to track your location. It is for a safe and efficient society.
If you were trying to make money from climate research and looked around to see which side would bring the most bucks, you would come to the conclusion that the global warmist side has the most to offer.
The grants from government and government-like bodies are in the billions. Oil companies don't spend billions trying to disprove global warming despite what you may think. They can't, it would raise too many alarm bells and draw shareholder ire besides. Last figure I saw was $23 million... a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the money spent trying to prove global warming.
On a physically secure machine (ATMs with heavy gauge steel armor on all sides) that's not connected to the internet.... who cares if it's running an old OS? They could run DOS and Win 3.11 for that matter without a problem.
for a brief period after Challenger, NASA became Now After Seven Astronauts
CIA has grown into a monster, so I'm gonna disband it. Then Kennedy is assassinated and nothing happens to the CIA.
2014: Obama says NSA has grown into a monster, it needs to be disbanded. Then Obama is assassinated and nothing happens to NSA.
You don't have to study, you go to BU!
happen to climate scientists? That would make a lot of sense.
No that's the other Zimmerman... I think this one is the guy who sells you a black suit and says "You're gonna like the way you look"
I lost my tech collusion virginity when I realized the hard drive makers were artificially inflating prices after the Thailand flood.
Since when did the doomsday clock include climate change? Since Al Gore became master of earth?
Call me crazy or old but I thought it was about nuclear holocaust.
Try learning the difference between a patent and copyright before opening your mouth.
What's the last piece of software you wrote? Did you get it patented? No, you didn't. Yet you still wrote it.
he was probably talking about when Gmail was new, around 2003-2004ish. Enough people griped about not being able to delete email that Google obliged some years later.
And as far as I know, even today Google doesn't actually delete anything, it just keeps the "deleted" email out of your view.
Ancient humans had things called spears. They didn't need to chase prey until it died of exhaustion, they only needed to chase it until it slowed down enough from heat exhaustion for them to stick a spear in it.
Wolves are also excellent endurance runners (in cold weather though, unlike humans) and they often catch rabbits and things that are faster than them.
And in both cases, teamwork and strategy play a big role. Not a coincidence that both humans and wolves developed large brains.
It's the government's job to protect us from ourselves. Or so it thinks.
Or put another way, a regulatory agency exists to create regulations.
While I would agree that some regulations are necessary for a functional society, this ain't one of them. The people giving out money to Kickstarter and its ilk are not poor, not illiterate and they know what they're getting into. They're spending disposable income on toys and entertainment, not their rent money.
Personally I don't give money to crowfunding and my opinion is that if some scoundrel absconds with your funds, well you kinda deserve it.
also having excellent spaceships. By excellent I mean able to accelerate to a significant percent of lightspeed.
Say you wanna go back to 1920 and assassinate Hitler while he was a nobody and easy to get to. You build a time machine and POOF, you're in 1920. And you're also dead, since you're also in the vacuum of space... unless your time machine is also a spaceship. The earth is in a different position around the sun, and the sun has orbited to a different spot in the galaxy, and our galaxy has shifted position in the local group, and all this time the universe itself has expanded quite a bit.
I have no idea how far from earth you would be if you time traveled from 2014 to 1920, but I'm guessing it would be measured in parsecs.
All the whiners apparently have never used a cellphone before. Do they not have them in the Libertarian paradise of Somalia or something?
No, they're from the socialist paradise of North Korea.
And it's not "inevitable". Just hip fanboi hype.
Problem with Goggle Glass is that it's in your face. It's conspicuous. It may not be recording at the moment, but you don't know that for sure.
It's like, if I'm walking around holding a cellphone in hand with arm stretched out and pointed in such a way that it looks like I'm recording a video, and then started engaging in conversation with people while still in that pose, but now the camera is pointed directly at them, people will get uncomfortable. (unless of course the person I"m talking to wants to be recorded). It's in their face. It's annoying.
Google Glass is kind of like that, all the time.
Another example: you might be walking around in a city where it's perfectly legal to carry firearms in public if you have a permit. And say it's a shall-issue state where anyone can get a permit if they don't have criminal records, so a large percentage of the population does. Now you're in a crowded city area, and you *know* many of the people are packing concealed heat. But it rarely crosses your mind because it's not in your face. Out of sight, out of mind.
But suppose instead of concealed carry, people are walking around openly wearing their Glocks on their hips, AK-47s slung across their shoulder and so on. This is in your face. Your reaction is going to be much different.
Then you are a moron.
When 15 states have mandatory (politically imposed by republicans) creationism brainwashing sessions in their biology cursus in high school How is it NOT a political issue ?
What's more it isn't about education, it is a political issue about religion...
You're looking for a political fight when there isn't a need for one. The evolution poll breaking down the results by party affiliation serves no constructive purpose and is only intended to stir the pot and bring out reactions such as you display above.
Of course whichever party that has more religious fundamentalists will have less percentage of people believing in evolution, it should be obvious. But it's tangential to the issue on public knowledge on science. Political affiliations come and go. It's just fodder for launching political attacks and has no significance other than confirming that the religious zealots prefer party X.
You might not have heard of it, but there was a case called the Scopes Monkey Trial. It was a big deal, the granddaddy of evolution court cases. Politicians in Tennessee passed a law called the Butler Act, which forbade public schools from teaching evolution. Representative Butler, who wrote the law... guess which party he belonged to? (hint: it's not Republican)
Maybe the Westboro Baptist Church...
And Windows 8 is Scientology.
You must be living in some alternate reality version of America. Because where I live, people with PhD in physics/math have 0 or 1 children while the welfare moms and illegal immigrant street vendors have 3++.
Economic success is only loosely correlated with IQ. You know what the best indicator of IQ is? A direct IQ test. An advanced degree is far closer to an IQ test than how much money one has.