The problem is when you buy a set of Legos most of the premium you pay isn't going for superior build quality, it's going for licensing because you're getting "Harry Potter" or "Star Wars" wrapped up in the deal, but don't worry they're nice enough to spread the cost to all their lines.
You also have to deal with the politics of Lego. No modern weapons, no Nazis for Indiana Jones to foil. I love my Legos, and the build quality is superior, but there are plenty of other reasons to shop Megablocks.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, brought in to work on short notice for less than two years when most of the skilled labor was probably already invested in the war effort.
If they can build machines to separate Uranium isotopes I bet they can handle a powerplant under enough supervision. I bet they could rebuild the destroyed sections of New Orleans while they were at it too.
How are any of you objections any worse than the current system of giving people money for nothing?
Welfare and unemployment cost money, produce nothing tangible, and in most cases do nothing to prepare workers for anything they weren't prepared for beforehand.
Yes but they don't make money on each and every rental in addition to the money they were paid for the rental copy in the first place and the money they're paid when someone decides they want to own it.
If they can't get you coming, going, and everywhere in between there's still work to be done.
Excellent game.
Nothing like setting the wind too high or adding some rubber walls and watching everyone simply try to escape the devastation of their own weapons.
The interesting thing to consider is that making a 20 hour game game doesn't cost 10x as much as making a 2 hour game. So, while marketing a two hour title (perhaps something like a shortened version of Resident Evil 2) for $5 is somewhat impractical, one would think there is a point where enough basic framework can be reused that smaller units can be produced for smaller prices.
Studios have been trying this with episodic content, but honestly these shortened units just don't have the depth in shorter units that a movie can because games have to balance narrative along with providing interaction while movies can simply tell their story.
The incredible success of WoW should be proof enough that a game requiring a massive investment in time is not enough to qualify it as "hard core" and that there are plenty of people willing to pay a lot more than $50 to get a good time sink.
Switzerland is a representative direct democracy, the only benefit they have (and it is a nice one, I think) is that they can choose to try to override federal decisions with a popular vote, they do not however vote on everything or even most things.
I don't know how well the system would scale given the lengths our system has gone to to try and prevent larger groups from gaining unquestionable power, I can see it making it very hard to make necessary but unpopular moves.
That's funny, according to those voter advocates that did the huge documentary on Diebold incumbents favor failure prone electronic voting machines, with no regard to party.
As someone who greatly misses the old style giant mechanical voting machines I call bullshit if you think there was any way you knew, postively, that they had counted your vote correctly or at all.
I voted for Obama because I felt he was a better choice to lead the nation. A well-spoken and intelligent man who also shown on occassion to be shrewd politician.
That's why it bother me the level of celebration from some of the people (all white) I know that we finally have a black president. What does it matter if he's black? I didn't vote for or against him because of it, I don't feel better or worse about our future because of it. Tokenizing his win as finally filling some obviously unfilled niche is a disservice to his qualifications if that was the basis of anyones choice.
Of course the morning headline the next day on CNN was an expose that the poor blacks of Atlanta feel like they finally have a shot in life. Hint: they don't have any more or less of a shot than they did before because Barack Obama isn't a successful black man, he's a success in general. How much of one has been under debate for a while due to the cloud surrounding his academic career, but the point is he's accomplished more than most people of any race will thus far and making it about race cheapens everyone.
The real bad ones out here are the ones put out by the unions to stop a couple amendments. They don't mention what the amendments do, just that voting for them is a vote against firefighters, teachers, and policemen. That's literally the content of the ads, that if you vote yes you don't trust them and don't want them to be able to do their jobs.
I guess they could potentially work against those groups, if their job was undocumented campaign contributions in return for no-bid government contracts.
If they were I would have said that, but if you need to cling to a 1% margin of superiority and think that no matter how bad Obama's ads are that McCains are at least a little bit worse there's probably not much I can do to persuade you.
Well, I'm not an expert on the subject, all I did was Google and read the first dozen or so entries, but yeah that's about how it looks.
I'm not going to go on record as saying that he's the Affirmitive Action HLR president, but considering how closely his selection coincides with a massive political campaign at Harvard to get minorities into power at Harvard law I can't say it's completely out of the realm of possibility given that his grades getting into Harvard were well below their standards and his selection to editor was only possible after they removed the academic basis for it.
I voted for him either way, but it doesn't look like this is one of his strong qualities.
I work, very unsafely, with an uncovered razor blade, cutting towards myself and scraping without any thought to possible laceration and I bet I have fewer cuts than some of the people here claim to have. How hard is it to cut something without hurting yourself? Do you need safety knives with dinner?
I think people should have IDs, I wish there was some sort of basic identification, not tied to biometrics, address, social security information or anything of the sort, sadly it hasn't happened and probably wont happen any time soon. Right now the closest thing we have is drivers licenses, and they're not only completely optional but they cost money leading to all sorts of arguments about how things like that can't be asked of people. [sarcasm] Obviously the only purpose of verifying someones identity is to disenfranchise the poor [/sarcasm]
we know many month prior to the voting day how many will vote in each location
We already know how many people are voting prior to election day, very few places allow same day registration. It's never done anything to affect how much the local polling administrations do to assure there is enough resources dedicated to the problem. I would half bet that the reason their is frequently not enough machines in poor democratic districts is so that the party can claim every year that the rich are trying to disenfranchise them. You don't hear of rich democratic districts ever having the problem do you?
So they don't show to vote.
So it's not really mandatory voting, it's mandatory registration you're after. No complaints here, I have no issue making sure everyone eligible is properly documented if those documented people can still choose not to show up.
There is such thing as bad choices.
And if your only argument is preventing voter fraud, I don't see that this is one of them. People can get fake IDs, people can enter fake registrations. If someone can fake an ID well enough to burn through someones whole identity you don't think they could tamper with elections if there was any money in it?
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It also would have cost $800 if were a Lego set.
The problem is when you buy a set of Legos most of the premium you pay isn't going for superior build quality, it's going for licensing because you're getting "Harry Potter" or "Star Wars" wrapped up in the deal, but don't worry they're nice enough to spread the cost to all their lines.
You also have to deal with the politics of Lego. No modern weapons, no Nazis for Indiana Jones to foil. I love my Legos, and the build quality is superior, but there are plenty of other reasons to shop Megablocks.
Maybe maybe not.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, brought in to work on short notice for less than two years when most of the skilled labor was probably already invested in the war effort.
If they can build machines to separate Uranium isotopes I bet they can handle a powerplant under enough supervision. I bet they could rebuild the destroyed sections of New Orleans while they were at it too.
How are any of you objections any worse than the current system of giving people money for nothing?
Welfare and unemployment cost money, produce nothing tangible, and in most cases do nothing to prepare workers for anything they weren't prepared for beforehand.
Yes but they don't make money on each and every rental in addition to the money they were paid for the rental copy in the first place and the money they're paid when someone decides they want to own it.
If they can't get you coming, going, and everywhere in between there's still work to be done.
Excellent game. Nothing like setting the wind too high or adding some rubber walls and watching everyone simply try to escape the devastation of their own weapons.
It's a striking metaphor.
The interesting thing to consider is that making a 20 hour game game doesn't cost 10x as much as making a 2 hour game. So, while marketing a two hour title (perhaps something like a shortened version of Resident Evil 2) for $5 is somewhat impractical, one would think there is a point where enough basic framework can be reused that smaller units can be produced for smaller prices.
Studios have been trying this with episodic content, but honestly these shortened units just don't have the depth in shorter units that a movie can because games have to balance narrative along with providing interaction while movies can simply tell their story.
The incredible success of WoW should be proof enough that a game requiring a massive investment in time is not enough to qualify it as "hard core" and that there are plenty of people willing to pay a lot more than $50 to get a good time sink.
They probably will be with all this damn nay saying. What ever happened to thinking positive?
You mean like Call of Duty?
And not to worry, if someone can't rent or borrow they'll just pirate, then the manufacture gets all the money they're entitled... wait.
You've clearly never driven what amounts to a giant sail on wheels.
Yes, it's much worse with an empty trailer, but even with a full one high winds make for a long day.
Switzerland is a representative direct democracy, the only benefit they have (and it is a nice one, I think) is that they can choose to try to override federal decisions with a popular vote, they do not however vote on everything or even most things.
I don't know how well the system would scale given the lengths our system has gone to to try and prevent larger groups from gaining unquestionable power, I can see it making it very hard to make necessary but unpopular moves.
There still used to be change. Unless you still vote for the Fedralists, Bullmoose, Whigs, or their like.
That's funny, according to those voter advocates that did the huge documentary on Diebold incumbents favor failure prone electronic voting machines, with no regard to party.
As someone who greatly misses the old style giant mechanical voting machines I call bullshit if you think there was any way you knew, postively, that they had counted your vote correctly or at all.
I hope it didn't, from either side.
I voted for Obama because I felt he was a better choice to lead the nation. A well-spoken and intelligent man who also shown on occassion to be shrewd politician.
That's why it bother me the level of celebration from some of the people (all white) I know that we finally have a black president. What does it matter if he's black? I didn't vote for or against him because of it, I don't feel better or worse about our future because of it. Tokenizing his win as finally filling some obviously unfilled niche is a disservice to his qualifications if that was the basis of anyones choice.
Of course the morning headline the next day on CNN was an expose that the poor blacks of Atlanta feel like they finally have a shot in life. Hint: they don't have any more or less of a shot than they did before because Barack Obama isn't a successful black man, he's a success in general. How much of one has been under debate for a while due to the cloud surrounding his academic career, but the point is he's accomplished more than most people of any race will thus far and making it about race cheapens everyone.
I've never had a problem with any HDD left sitting in a box or on a shelf being powered back up and working fine, but of course YMMV.
I think we call it a dupe around here.
I'm glad the election is past so you can stop telling me what I saw somewhere that you aren't.
The real bad ones out here are the ones put out by the unions to stop a couple amendments. They don't mention what the amendments do, just that voting for them is a vote against firefighters, teachers, and policemen. That's literally the content of the ads, that if you vote yes you don't trust them and don't want them to be able to do their jobs.
I guess they could potentially work against those groups, if their job was undocumented campaign contributions in return for no-bid government contracts.
Well, no.
If they were I would have said that, but if you need to cling to a 1% margin of superiority and think that no matter how bad Obama's ads are that McCains are at least a little bit worse there's probably not much I can do to persuade you.
Well, I'm not an expert on the subject, all I did was Google and read the first dozen or so entries, but yeah that's about how it looks.
I'm not going to go on record as saying that he's the Affirmitive Action HLR president, but considering how closely his selection coincides with a massive political campaign at Harvard to get minorities into power at Harvard law I can't say it's completely out of the realm of possibility given that his grades getting into Harvard were well below their standards and his selection to editor was only possible after they removed the academic basis for it.
I voted for him either way, but it doesn't look like this is one of his strong qualities.
I'm pretty sure they don't count them, although it's entirely possible that they just don't report on it because they're so few and far between.
That's always been my question.
I work, very unsafely, with an uncovered razor blade, cutting towards myself and scraping without any thought to possible laceration and I bet I have fewer cuts than some of the people here claim to have. How hard is it to cut something without hurting yourself? Do you need safety knives with dinner?
we know many month prior to the voting day how many will vote in each location
We already know how many people are voting prior to election day, very few places allow same day registration. It's never done anything to affect how much the local polling administrations do to assure there is enough resources dedicated to the problem. I would half bet that the reason their is frequently not enough machines in poor democratic districts is so that the party can claim every year that the rich are trying to disenfranchise them. You don't hear of rich democratic districts ever having the problem do you?
So they don't show to vote.
So it's not really mandatory voting, it's mandatory registration you're after. No complaints here, I have no issue making sure everyone eligible is properly documented if those documented people can still choose not to show up.
There is such thing as bad choices.
And if your only argument is preventing voter fraud, I don't see that this is one of them. People can get fake IDs, people can enter fake registrations. If someone can fake an ID well enough to burn through someones whole identity you don't think they could tamper with elections if there was any money in it?