The pound stirling hasn't been a factor in global reserves since WWII. Today the Euro and the Dollar(US) account for over 90% of all reserve currency in the world.
I don't know about the service or call quality specificly, but having spent a good amount of time in the mountains the sheer task of providing any infastructure at all makes it very impressive in my mind what they've accomplished.
It's silly unless you've ever been to a developing nation (let's take India) that has an absolutely incredible cell phone network, cheap internet access, and frequently undrinkable water and large families living in homes pieced together from old sheet metal. Yes I think everyone should be able to enjoy Youtube, but I think they should be able to enjoy a stable electrical grid and drinkable water first.
It's even worse when you look at the pronounciation differences between North American English (that's right Canada) and the English spoken in the rest of the former Commonwealth countries. Nothing like a completely different set of vowels to confuse people.
Funny, most of the Europeans I know that speak English do most of their speaking in it to others who learned it as a second language as a solution to living on a continent with a dozen languages and no logical reason to know all of them.
No game that I've seen has had the level of zoomability that Supreme Commander did with the top level being simply abstract symbols. Of course the problem became that it was so much easier to manage things on a macro level that by the end of my time playing I never went any closer because what good is a display with two giant spiders when I can watch the entire battlefield?
And this is your solution to a problem that was created by people being unable to correctly punch out small pieces of paper or line up arrows correctly? Lowest common denominator please.
If you read the post his trail concerned a department of about 100 people within a company. Assuming that he has control of the software usage of anyone that the company works with or even other employees in the same company but outside of his department is quite a leap of logic. It only takes about five minutes reading/. to see just how many people are still using the most cobbled, backwards systems they can imagine.
I've lived the daily hell of multiple versions of Office personally, but saying "just switch everyone" is about as useful as telling the OO.org crew to "just make everything compatible."
Whose brilliant ideas about having the difficulty increase based on the parties level in fact made the game easier to beat with Lvl. 10 characters that had been dead for half the game then with a Lvl. 99 party.
This of course made it somewhat interesting, but as a novelty rather than a design element I wish to see continued.
By banks yes, they'll be nice enough to give you the Queen's pounds in exchange as I've had the nice folks at NatWest do a number of times. Retailers? Perhaps the major ones are better about it. I've never been told off per say, but I don't know a single person who hasn't been less than politely refused the use of their BoS notes at some point.
I guess useless for some practical purposes, sadly just not when I'm arguing with a chipper, would be more correct.
The best part about money in the UK is that Scotland and Northern Ireland are allowed to print their own notes which are completely useless for all practical purposes in England and in the other territory despite being the same currency and the English pounds being universally accepted.
If U2s next album was an ode to pederasty and the rise of the Fourth Riech I doubt that Best Buy would stock it, but there's absolutely nothing stoping them or groups that profess cold blooded murder, drug abuse, overflowing the government, or just about anything else for that matter from producing and distributing their thoughts. Unpopularity is not censorship, and an artists right to say whatever they want does not trump the right of anyone else to say exactly what they think with their wallets.
If you don't think there's enough variation in how people print to give it a life of it's own I can't help you. I'm sitting next to 600 pages of journals and not a word of it is written in the cursive they forced me to learn when I was a child.
The boards themselves from almost all modern electronics are fairly valuable (around $2 a pound the last time I was involved with it) if you happen to know a smelter that deals in such things, and most large scale operations that I know of do. The problem with the profitability of a business in that field is that common items such as TVs are generally at best break-even affairs due to the small amount of actual circuitry in comparison to other hazardous materials that need to be dealt with. This is doubly true with older electronics whose boards contain lower concentrations of precious metals.
It's not just the Western Nations that don't recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent, it's (at least the last time I checked) no one but Russia and Nicaragua. It's a bit of an odd situation though, as Abkhazia does have some basis in claiming a seperate history, just as South Ossetia wanted independence to join with North Ossetia, That the Russians are taking them both on as puppet states truly taints any hope for a reasonable discussion of the subject. A lot of the post-Soviet borders of the area are screwy, it's unfortunate that fighting is the only method anyone has figured out to try to change them.
I had the pleasure of being in Georgia a few weeks ago. Last years war began at the end of Russia's yearly Anti-Terror training in the region, this year they moved it up in response to the NATO ops in the region and we found ourselves right across the border from the largest "training" in the history of the region. People there are still VERY sensitive about it, a man who gave us a lift through Gori pointed out an entire series of buildings had been bombed during the invasion as well as a bridge that they were still repairing because a Russian tank fell through it. I could barely believe how nice the town looked but I've seen the pictures and I recognize a lot of the buildings.
If you purchase a firearm in the U.S. there's a blank for your SSN, it's entirely optional and they're required by law to tell you that, but it really cuts down the number of background checks that go awry because you share a few other credentials with someone who's done some bad things.
I disagree that it creates a market. If there is nothing given in return what motivation is provided for the production of new content? Do you believe is some sort of altruistic child pornography patron who funds these things for the good of the community as a whole when he sees the demand?
The people that produce and profit from, or fund the creation of, would do so regardless of whether an ecosystem of unrelated interested parties who provide them absolutely nothing, and in fact that they are more than likely completely unaware of.
When I download a song from a random person on a filesharing network, does that increase demand for the artist to produce more music? No, because he doesn't know, he doesn't profit, and unless I tell other people he'll never know the difference.
I'm not the person who replied to you about the comparison of that to any other fantasies, but in reply, actually the form does matter. There's been quite a debate over whether victimization of fiction children constitutes a crime. It seems as though you'd agree that it does because it creates a culture of acceptance towards the victimization of children. I would argue that it's not because the only victim is your sense of good taste.
The problem is that in most if not all of these groups there is frequently a detrimental ratio of men to women already, as well as an existing social hierarchy. Although the latter can work in your favor if you're the kind to shake things up, but even then you're competing for a scarce resource that everyone present is acutely aware is scarce. LARPing can change the ratio, depending on the setting, but you're even more likely to be competing with entrenched personalities and you may find yourself in a battle of status against people who very frequently share many if not more of the same social problems you do.
And my point is that, sure, they dissolution was smooth in that whatever was left of the Soviet Union didn't start an all out war to keep them in, but that's not the whole story.
Almost half of Georgia is occupied by Russian troops right now, at this very second. Russia has been battling Muslims who would be better off connected to Azerbaijan ever since they split off. Moldova has two unrecognized countries within its borders, one of which recently agreed to limited autonomy but the other of which is one step away from rejoining Russia much in the same vein as a similar splinter group in the Ukraine.
Or hey, beyond that, Russia invaded the Ukraine in 2005 and is still holding the territory.
The dissolution was not successful because they didn't use guns, it was successful because the Soviet Union gave up, and Russia has been reclaiming territory lost ever since. None of which has been bloodless.
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If they come home, dealing with people whose immune systems have been compromised isn't exactly a new or unexplored problem.
Nabukov makes most other writers of English look like highschool essay contest papers.
Say what you will about the content but Lolita truly is, as he describes it, a testement to his love of the English language.
The pound stirling hasn't been a factor in global reserves since WWII. Today the Euro and the Dollar(US) account for over 90% of all reserve currency in the world.
I don't know about the service or call quality specificly, but having spent a good amount of time in the mountains the sheer task of providing any infastructure at all makes it very impressive in my mind what they've accomplished.
It's silly unless you've ever been to a developing nation (let's take India) that has an absolutely incredible cell phone network, cheap internet access, and frequently undrinkable water and large families living in homes pieced together from old sheet metal. Yes I think everyone should be able to enjoy Youtube, but I think they should be able to enjoy a stable electrical grid and drinkable water first.
Even at it's lowest (about $.80 to the Euro) it's still a $24 shirt. Too rich for my blood, that's more than overpriced concert merchandise.
Damnit! I never played it after moving to dual monitors!
It's even worse when you look at the pronounciation differences between North American English (that's right Canada) and the English spoken in the rest of the former Commonwealth countries. Nothing like a completely different set of vowels to confuse people.
Funny, most of the Europeans I know that speak English do most of their speaking in it to others who learned it as a second language as a solution to living on a continent with a dozen languages and no logical reason to know all of them.
No game that I've seen has had the level of zoomability that Supreme Commander did with the top level being simply abstract symbols. Of course the problem became that it was so much easier to manage things on a macro level that by the end of my time playing I never went any closer because what good is a display with two giant spiders when I can watch the entire battlefield?
And this is your solution to a problem that was created by people being unable to correctly punch out small pieces of paper or line up arrows correctly? Lowest common denominator please.
No offense to Oregon, but I don't even like trusting the USPS to handle my postcards. There's no way I'll be trusting them with my votes.
If you read the post his trail concerned a department of about 100 people within a company. Assuming that he has control of the software usage of anyone that the company works with or even other employees in the same company but outside of his department is quite a leap of logic. It only takes about five minutes reading /. to see just how many people are still using the most cobbled, backwards systems they can imagine.
I've lived the daily hell of multiple versions of Office personally, but saying "just switch everyone" is about as useful as telling the OO.org crew to "just make everything compatible."
Certainly not the sites FAQ. "Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem."
Whose brilliant ideas about having the difficulty increase based on the parties level in fact made the game easier to beat with Lvl. 10 characters that had been dead for half the game then with a Lvl. 99 party.
This of course made it somewhat interesting, but as a novelty rather than a design element I wish to see continued.
By banks yes, they'll be nice enough to give you the Queen's pounds in exchange as I've had the nice folks at NatWest do a number of times. Retailers? Perhaps the major ones are better about it. I've never been told off per say, but I don't know a single person who hasn't been less than politely refused the use of their BoS notes at some point.
I guess useless for some practical purposes, sadly just not when I'm arguing with a chipper, would be more correct.
The best part about money in the UK is that Scotland and Northern Ireland are allowed to print their own notes which are completely useless for all practical purposes in England and in the other territory despite being the same currency and the English pounds being universally accepted.
If U2s next album was an ode to pederasty and the rise of the Fourth Riech I doubt that Best Buy would stock it, but there's absolutely nothing stoping them or groups that profess cold blooded murder, drug abuse, overflowing the government, or just about anything else for that matter from producing and distributing their thoughts. Unpopularity is not censorship, and an artists right to say whatever they want does not trump the right of anyone else to say exactly what they think with their wallets.
If you don't think there's enough variation in how people print to give it a life of it's own I can't help you. I'm sitting next to 600 pages of journals and not a word of it is written in the cursive they forced me to learn when I was a child.
The boards themselves from almost all modern electronics are fairly valuable (around $2 a pound the last time I was involved with it) if you happen to know a smelter that deals in such things, and most large scale operations that I know of do. The problem with the profitability of a business in that field is that common items such as TVs are generally at best break-even affairs due to the small amount of actual circuitry in comparison to other hazardous materials that need to be dealt with. This is doubly true with older electronics whose boards contain lower concentrations of precious metals.
It's not just the Western Nations that don't recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent, it's (at least the last time I checked) no one but Russia and Nicaragua. It's a bit of an odd situation though, as Abkhazia does have some basis in claiming a seperate history, just as South Ossetia wanted independence to join with North Ossetia, That the Russians are taking them both on as puppet states truly taints any hope for a reasonable discussion of the subject. A lot of the post-Soviet borders of the area are screwy, it's unfortunate that fighting is the only method anyone has figured out to try to change them.
I had the pleasure of being in Georgia a few weeks ago. Last years war began at the end of Russia's yearly Anti-Terror training in the region, this year they moved it up in response to the NATO ops in the region and we found ourselves right across the border from the largest "training" in the history of the region. People there are still VERY sensitive about it, a man who gave us a lift through Gori pointed out an entire series of buildings had been bombed during the invasion as well as a bridge that they were still repairing because a Russian tank fell through it. I could barely believe how nice the town looked but I've seen the pictures and I recognize a lot of the buildings.
I'd say laziness.
If you purchase a firearm in the U.S. there's a blank for your SSN, it's entirely optional and they're required by law to tell you that, but it really cuts down the number of background checks that go awry because you share a few other credentials with someone who's done some bad things.
I disagree that it creates a market. If there is nothing given in return what motivation is provided for the production of new content? Do you believe is some sort of altruistic child pornography patron who funds these things for the good of the community as a whole when he sees the demand?
The people that produce and profit from, or fund the creation of, would do so regardless of whether an ecosystem of unrelated interested parties who provide them absolutely nothing, and in fact that they are more than likely completely unaware of.
When I download a song from a random person on a filesharing network, does that increase demand for the artist to produce more music? No, because he doesn't know, he doesn't profit, and unless I tell other people he'll never know the difference.
I'm not the person who replied to you about the comparison of that to any other fantasies, but in reply, actually the form does matter. There's been quite a debate over whether victimization of fiction children constitutes a crime. It seems as though you'd agree that it does because it creates a culture of acceptance towards the victimization of children. I would argue that it's not because the only victim is your sense of good taste.
The problem is that in most if not all of these groups there is frequently a detrimental ratio of men to women already, as well as an existing social hierarchy. Although the latter can work in your favor if you're the kind to shake things up, but even then you're competing for a scarce resource that everyone present is acutely aware is scarce. LARPing can change the ratio, depending on the setting, but you're even more likely to be competing with entrenched personalities and you may find yourself in a battle of status against people who very frequently share many if not more of the same social problems you do.
Plus LARPing is the deepest pit of gaming hell.
And my point is that, sure, they dissolution was smooth in that whatever was left of the Soviet Union didn't start an all out war to keep them in, but that's not the whole story.
Almost half of Georgia is occupied by Russian troops right now, at this very second. Russia has been battling Muslims who would be better off connected to Azerbaijan ever since they split off. Moldova has two unrecognized countries within its borders, one of which recently agreed to limited autonomy but the other of which is one step away from rejoining Russia much in the same vein as a similar splinter group in the Ukraine.
Or hey, beyond that, Russia invaded the Ukraine in 2005 and is still holding the territory.
The dissolution was not successful because they didn't use guns, it was successful because the Soviet Union gave up, and Russia has been reclaiming territory lost ever since. None of which has been bloodless.