There are too many people in the U.S. and UK who are WAY too into meddling in this fight. This is something the Iranians have to do or not do on their own. Nothing good can come of western meddling in this case. It will only give the Ahmadinejad regime an excuse to crack down on the dissenters as western-sponsored traitors. Even in the best case scenarios, the people we help will likely only resent us for it in the end (since it will taint their movement with the possibility that it was just some CIA sponsored coup, instead of a legitimate grass roots movement).
The best thing the west can do right now is to stay out of it and stfu.
According to the specs it only shoots video in 1080p, not 5616x3744. And, regarding the "why not" argument, that's kind of like saying "If you can drive a nail with a wrench, why not buy a wrench to drive your nails?" when a hammer costs the same price and would be much better suited to the task.
With all this talk about wind being such a "clean" and environmentally friendly source of energy, the one thing I never hear considered is the possible negative impact of taking that much energy out of the atmosphere (i.e., the real potential for a negative impact on natural weather patterns, which are largely driven by wind energy). When you take a lot of energy out of a river with hydroelectric power, for example, it drastically cools the water and has a real impact on the species of fish living in that water and the "environment" of the water. Yet people seem to treat wind energy as it it were "free" energy just there for the taking. But all that wind energy in the atmosphere serves a real purpose (moving clouds, fronts, and other weather systems around), and taking it out on the kind of scale that some of these wind advocates are talking about is bound to have unpredictable (and perhaps really nasty) effects on our natural weather. I don't want to end up in a huge drought because Johnny-Wind-Lover didn't realize that it's wind energy that brings rain clouds in from the ocean (thinking we could just take it for free, with no impact).
Why would anyone use this camera to make an independent film? It's an SLR still camera that only has a video mode thrown in as an afterthought (meant for taking a few minutes of video). You could get a real HD video camera, much better suited for filmmaking, for the same price.
People joke about my HD-DVD player when they see it sitting next to my blu-ray player. They stop laughing when I tell them that almost all the HD discs I've bought recently are HD-DVD's that I've gotten on Amazon and half.com for $5. I even bought a $50 HD-DVD add-on for my 360 just so I can have a backup player if my main one ever fails. Beats the shit out of spending $30 a pop for blu-ray discs of many of the exact same movies.
You say that partially in jest, but I've got a buddy who I used to think was pretty tech savy (before he got married and had both his testicles and a good chunk of brain removed). I visited him recently to see the new PS3 he had bought. He was using it to play PS2 games and had it hooked up to his nice new HDTV with just the crappy composite cable it came with. I revoked his geek license then and there.
Sadly, we've come to accept most modern corporations as pretty much ammoral when it comes to stuff like this, and they're rarely ever held accountable in any meaningful way. The bulk of the population will no more hold this against Nokia/Seimens than they will hold Volkswagon responsible for its early Nazi roots (does it invoke Godwin's Law to mention that?), Yahoo/Google responsible for selling out dissidents in China, etc., etc.
George W. Bush got a SLIGHT plurality of the votes. Al Gore actually got MORE votes than him in his first election, which was essentially a tie that he won on a technicality. And he got about a 52% to 48% plurality of votes in his second election. So rembeber, when you say "why you elected George Bush twice," there is about a 50/50 chance that the American you're talking too voted for Al Gore or John Kerry.
Of course we should. They're all completely honest, good men who would never abuse or exploit their power in any way. Yes sir, they can be fully trusted.
What were the hard parts on HL2 you're talking about? I generally thought the game was pretty well designed. But there were two areas that did give me trouble too, though. There is one area where you have to shoot off a certain lock. I didn't know this and flailed around forever trying to figure out how to get past the area before I finally looked it up in a walkthrough and realized I was supposed to just shoot off the lock. Another part was the part where you have to take down the helicopter in the speed boat. It took me forever to finally do it, but MAN did it feel good when I did. That fucking helicopter had been a constant annoyance throughout that entire section of the game, and watching it fall felt GOOD!
What is it with Asians and conformity anyway? It must be some eastern religion thing, but it seems like China, Japan, Korea, etc. are absolutely OBSESSED with conformity, almost manically so. It's one of the reasons I hate their videogames. Every Japanese RPG is completely on-rails and plays pretty much exactly the same as the last. In the West, we love the sandbox game that allows for multiple approaches to any given problem. In Japan, it's all about "Go here, just like you're supposed to, and watch this long cut scene where we control the action!" You would just never see a game like Oblivion, Mass Effect, or Grand Theft Auto come out of Japan.
Except most people don't use their real, or full, names on social websites (not ones that are publicly viewable anyway). There is a certain expectation of privacy there.
Sure there are cities with good downtown areas (usually priced out of the range of anyone making less than 6 figures, but they're there). But the original article wasn't talking about those kind of cities. I'm pretty sure downtown Detroit doesn't count as the kind of urban nirvana you're talking about.
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There are too many people in the U.S. and UK who are WAY too into meddling in this fight. This is something the Iranians have to do or not do on their own. Nothing good can come of western meddling in this case. It will only give the Ahmadinejad regime an excuse to crack down on the dissenters as western-sponsored traitors. Even in the best case scenarios, the people we help will likely only resent us for it in the end (since it will taint their movement with the possibility that it was just some CIA sponsored coup, instead of a legitimate grass roots movement).
The best thing the west can do right now is to stay out of it and stfu.
Okay, I don't really believe that. I just always wanted to see what that sentence looked like in print.
According to the specs it only shoots video in 1080p, not 5616x3744. And, regarding the "why not" argument, that's kind of like saying "If you can drive a nail with a wrench, why not buy a wrench to drive your nails?" when a hammer costs the same price and would be much better suited to the task.
With all this talk about wind being such a "clean" and environmentally friendly source of energy, the one thing I never hear considered is the possible negative impact of taking that much energy out of the atmosphere (i.e., the real potential for a negative impact on natural weather patterns, which are largely driven by wind energy). When you take a lot of energy out of a river with hydroelectric power, for example, it drastically cools the water and has a real impact on the species of fish living in that water and the "environment" of the water. Yet people seem to treat wind energy as it it were "free" energy just there for the taking. But all that wind energy in the atmosphere serves a real purpose (moving clouds, fronts, and other weather systems around), and taking it out on the kind of scale that some of these wind advocates are talking about is bound to have unpredictable (and perhaps really nasty) effects on our natural weather. I don't want to end up in a huge drought because Johnny-Wind-Lover didn't realize that it's wind energy that brings rain clouds in from the ocean (thinking we could just take it for free, with no impact).
Why would anyone use this camera to make an independent film? It's an SLR still camera that only has a video mode thrown in as an afterthought (meant for taking a few minutes of video). You could get a real HD video camera, much better suited for filmmaking, for the same price.
"Killed by a guy who just couldn't wait until he got home to watch that 'Home Improvement' rerun"
You'd be better off just hitting them in the head with a rock.
I'll tell you what my grandfather told me as a child and what his grandfather told HIM as a child: Nothing good EVER comes out of Australia.
Now the telco's will just buy up some legislators to pass a law against it.
With a hammer, of course.
People joke about my HD-DVD player when they see it sitting next to my blu-ray player. They stop laughing when I tell them that almost all the HD discs I've bought recently are HD-DVD's that I've gotten on Amazon and half.com for $5. I even bought a $50 HD-DVD add-on for my 360 just so I can have a backup player if my main one ever fails. Beats the shit out of spending $30 a pop for blu-ray discs of many of the exact same movies.
You say that partially in jest, but I've got a buddy who I used to think was pretty tech savy (before he got married and had both his testicles and a good chunk of brain removed). I visited him recently to see the new PS3 he had bought. He was using it to play PS2 games and had it hooked up to his nice new HDTV with just the crappy composite cable it came with. I revoked his geek license then and there.
Sadly, we've come to accept most modern corporations as pretty much ammoral when it comes to stuff like this, and they're rarely ever held accountable in any meaningful way. The bulk of the population will no more hold this against Nokia/Seimens than they will hold Volkswagon responsible for its early Nazi roots (does it invoke Godwin's Law to mention that?), Yahoo/Google responsible for selling out dissidents in China, etc., etc.
Back in college I used to dream of an ethanol lake. I bet heaven has one.
They only speak French in Quebec. All the areas inhabited by human beings speak English.
George W. Bush got a SLIGHT plurality of the votes. Al Gore actually got MORE votes than him in his first election, which was essentially a tie that he won on a technicality. And he got about a 52% to 48% plurality of votes in his second election. So rembeber, when you say "why you elected George Bush twice," there is about a 50/50 chance that the American you're talking too voted for Al Gore or John Kerry.
Of course we should. They're all completely honest, good men who would never abuse or exploit their power in any way. Yes sir, they can be fully trusted.
What were the hard parts on HL2 you're talking about? I generally thought the game was pretty well designed. But there were two areas that did give me trouble too, though. There is one area where you have to shoot off a certain lock. I didn't know this and flailed around forever trying to figure out how to get past the area before I finally looked it up in a walkthrough and realized I was supposed to just shoot off the lock. Another part was the part where you have to take down the helicopter in the speed boat. It took me forever to finally do it, but MAN did it feel good when I did. That fucking helicopter had been a constant annoyance throughout that entire section of the game, and watching it fall felt GOOD!
Fortunately, real life soldiers are slightly more intelligent than AI cannon fodder.
What is it with Asians and conformity anyway? It must be some eastern religion thing, but it seems like China, Japan, Korea, etc. are absolutely OBSESSED with conformity, almost manically so. It's one of the reasons I hate their videogames. Every Japanese RPG is completely on-rails and plays pretty much exactly the same as the last. In the West, we love the sandbox game that allows for multiple approaches to any given problem. In Japan, it's all about "Go here, just like you're supposed to, and watch this long cut scene where we control the action!" You would just never see a game like Oblivion, Mass Effect, or Grand Theft Auto come out of Japan.
Except most people don't use their real, or full, names on social websites (not ones that are publicly viewable anyway). There is a certain expectation of privacy there.
Bah, as few people are there are in Montana, they're probably the same thing.
Yeah, but those aren't the ones they're bulldozing.
The ones referenced in the original article are pretty damn close to post-apocalyptic hellholes.
Sure there are cities with good downtown areas (usually priced out of the range of anyone making less than 6 figures, but they're there). But the original article wasn't talking about those kind of cities. I'm pretty sure downtown Detroit doesn't count as the kind of urban nirvana you're talking about.