I was going to purchase just to donate because I like companies that are DRM free. Then I was going to Donate because I love this business model. But when they said cross platform Linux didn't even cross my mind. Now that I see I can get these for my linux box, I'm going to have to buy these games at top shelf prices!
Because an increasing number of games incorporate telemetry systems that track our every action. They measure the time we play, they watch where we get stuck, and they broadcast our behavior back to the people that make the games so they can tune the experience accordingly.
And they suckered us right into their testing scheme. I love unlocking achievements.
I bet Chinese is the worst. The same sounding word can have four or more different meaning, depending on the inflection of the tones. It is so bad that even Chinese people have a hard time with the words unless they are written down or taken in a larger context.
So what are you going to do when the FCC decides that porn is immoral and removes it from the internet? I can't wait till the 7 forbidden words grows and expands on the internet.
I'm sorry I'll take profit driven corporations over popularity politics pressured by religious zealots.
tell me that the current way the news is reported is good for the political health of the United States
Of course it's not. But that does not mean that for the government to decide what news can be reported, and how it will be reported, is better.
I think we've established that lassez-faire capitalism isn't the answer. But you seem to be saying that the long tail is the answer, and yet the long tail is mostly disproven.
We haven't established laissez-fair capitalism isn't the answer; it has never been tried. Had laissez-fair capitalism been tried when the big banks defaulted there would have been no government bailout. Property prices would have plummeted and the true value would have stabilized as prices reached an equilibrium people would have started buying foreclosed properties on their own. I bought several pieces of foreclosed property because I wasn't a dumb-ass who over-leveraged myself like so many other American's and the financial crises was actually a financial boom to me. My job was in more demand, I had more cash on hand to buy everyone else's dirt cheap shit and came out ahead while everyone else suffered.
Now what is happening is that instead of wealth increasing to those who are responsible, more money is being dumped into the economy devaluing the dollar to those who didn't make mistakes; then on top of that people who actually saw what was happening and didn't over leverage themselves are now being taxed six ways from Sunday. So we're getting hit twice, once through inflation (more dollars in the system means my dollars are worth less) and two higher taxes to pay for the additional dollars.
So to say laissez-fair capitalism isn't the answer is total shit, laissez-fair capitalism has never been tried. And the intervention by the government(hence not laissez-fair) may have saved us in the short term to keep all the over-leveraged people afloat, but they are just digging a deeper hole which one day someone is going to have to fill.
I am scared of the government enforcing net neutrality. For starters the FCC does a horrible job managing television (Janet Jackson debacle, Carlin's 7 words, etc). The last thing we want is the internet being policed by the FCC and having government morality shoved down our throats. You may be asking for the government to step in and keep corporations from throttling the networks, but that would just how the FCC gets in the door. Once they get in there would be no getting rid of them and you'll regret handing over the networks to their authority. The internet has been working just fine for over twenty years without direct intervention from governments and now that the value of the internet is clear all the governments of the world are struggling to control it. And spare me the DARPA birth place of why government was necessary for the internet, it may have been ill conceived but the internet formed a life of its own away from rules and regulation. It was the ultimate repository of information, then something happened, someone clued in goody two shoes government officials who started talking about the evils of what can be found online and a wave of censorship has been sweeping the internet ever since. We built the worlds first completely free society and it was good, then someone clued in religious radicals and government idealists and they have started killing the internet. Net neutrality isn't a threat to the internet, censorship is and allowing the FCC control over the internet is going to be what kills it.
Another thing about Wii Fit that is being over looked is that the doctor can track the patients usage. Wii Fit tracks your daily fitness so the doctor could see that you have in fact done your exercises daily as prescribed.
That sounds like an awesome idea! Get a bank of really powerful lasers in different colors and project advertisements on the moon! I bet you could sell those ads for a fortune! Just don't let Google know.
I love the over reaction to the "150 miles or so" how about you put that in perspective, something that is often forgotten by the media these days. The cruising speed for a modern jet liner is over 500 mph closer to 600mph source. So some basic math tells us that to overshoot the runway by 150 miles means they were distracted for a whopping 15 minutes. Don't tell me you've never missed an exit while having a conversation with a passenger in your car. It happens.
Also they could have had a favorable tail wind they weren't expecting so they were on what was supposed to be a 6 hour flight and it ended up taking 5 and a half hours, they check 15 min before they were supposed to land and they overshot by 15 min. Once again, not that big a deal.
+1 Funny, But I already commented. Don't really get the Insightful, unless they wanted to give you Karma or something. But that comment is freaking hilarious.
There is some irony in your comment. California is legislating parental responsibility by not allowing happy meal toys, while at the same time it is leading the nation in personal responsibility when it comes to marijuana legislation.
You could make a really mean and nasty test.
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Except that I had a college roommate that was living on his own at age 16 and is already a productive member of society and yet cannot go see an R rated movie. Then there are people who get their GED early to not do the last year or two of High School and go work in a factory and are living on their own. 21 for drinking is also stupid. I had friends that got married at 20 and couldn't have wine at their wedding. It is just stupid.
FYI - The protestant church has for centuries declared the Pope the Anti-Christ. This just bolsters their claim.
Many Protestant reformers, including Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, John Knox, and Cotton Mather, identified the Roman Papacy as the Antichrist.[citation needed] The Centuriators of Magdeburg, a group of Lutheran scholars in Magdeburg headed by Matthias Flacius, wrote the 12-volume "Magdeburg Centuries" to discredit the papacy and identify the pope as the Antichrist. The fifth round of talks in the Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue notes,
In calling the pope the "antichrist," the early Lutherans stood in a tradition that reached back into the eleventh century. Not only dissidents and heretics but even saints had called the bishop of Rome the "antichrist" when they wished to castigate his abuse of power.[59]
The above section is from wikipedia; however I remember there being something along those lines in one of the catechisms.
Yes if you can garner more than 60% of the popular vote and even then you'll be lucky to get the law to change. Just look at NORML. Oh and then there was prohibition and slavery. One of those required a war to change the law. How many other laws have you seen repealed?
No, you're right. I do realize that American 'Evangelicals' pushed the homosexual bill, but for a while it had a lot of media traction and looked like it was going to pass. I guess I shouldn't over-react in a public forum.
However Africa as a whole still has issues with Genocide, this time with references: Rwanda Darfur Western Sahara
That being said I would love to go to Africa and help locals build roads and sanitation. With roads come security and sanitation comes health. Commerce and stability would follow. Any other aid usually gets in the way.
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I was going to purchase just to donate because I like companies that are DRM free. Then I was going to Donate because I love this business model. But when they said cross platform Linux didn't even cross my mind. Now that I see I can get these for my linux box, I'm going to have to buy these games at top shelf prices!
Because an increasing number of games incorporate telemetry systems that track our every action. They measure the time we play, they watch where we get stuck, and they broadcast our behavior back to the people that make the games so they can tune the experience accordingly.
And they suckered us right into their testing scheme. I love unlocking achievements.
I bet Chinese is the worst. The same sounding word can have four or more different meaning, depending on the inflection of the tones. It is so bad that even Chinese people have a hard time with the words unless they are written down or taken in a larger context.
Here is one. Oh, here is another. You must not be looking very hard.
I remember playing WC3 and watching someone just use hero's in tournament play and winning. They had crazy micro.
Wasn't Supreme commander the sequel to Total Annihilation? That was an awesome RTS.
Yeah it sucks that they are the same party that is pro-nuclear; which is really the only viable alternative to oil.
So what are you going to do when the FCC decides that porn is immoral and removes it from the internet? I can't wait till the 7 forbidden words grows and expands on the internet.
I'm sorry I'll take profit driven corporations over popularity politics pressured by religious zealots.
I think we've established that lassez-faire capitalism isn't the answer. But you seem to be saying that the long tail is the answer, and yet the long tail is mostly disproven.
We haven't established laissez-fair capitalism isn't the answer; it has never been tried. Had laissez-fair capitalism been tried when the big banks defaulted there would have been no government bailout. Property prices would have plummeted and the true value would have stabilized as prices reached an equilibrium people would have started buying foreclosed properties on their own. I bought several pieces of foreclosed property because I wasn't a dumb-ass who over-leveraged myself like so many other American's and the financial crises was actually a financial boom to me. My job was in more demand, I had more cash on hand to buy everyone else's dirt cheap shit and came out ahead while everyone else suffered.
Now what is happening is that instead of wealth increasing to those who are responsible, more money is being dumped into the economy devaluing the dollar to those who didn't make mistakes; then on top of that people who actually saw what was happening and didn't over leverage themselves are now being taxed six ways from Sunday. So we're getting hit twice, once through inflation (more dollars in the system means my dollars are worth less) and two higher taxes to pay for the additional dollars.
So to say laissez-fair capitalism isn't the answer is total shit, laissez-fair capitalism has never been tried. And the intervention by the government(hence not laissez-fair) may have saved us in the short term to keep all the over-leveraged people afloat, but they are just digging a deeper hole which one day someone is going to have to fill.
I am scared of the government enforcing net neutrality. For starters the FCC does a horrible job managing television (Janet Jackson debacle, Carlin's 7 words, etc). The last thing we want is the internet being policed by the FCC and having government morality shoved down our throats. You may be asking for the government to step in and keep corporations from throttling the networks, but that would just how the FCC gets in the door. Once they get in there would be no getting rid of them and you'll regret handing over the networks to their authority. The internet has been working just fine for over twenty years without direct intervention from governments and now that the value of the internet is clear all the governments of the world are struggling to control it. And spare me the DARPA birth place of why government was necessary for the internet, it may have been ill conceived but the internet formed a life of its own away from rules and regulation. It was the ultimate repository of information, then something happened, someone clued in goody two shoes government officials who started talking about the evils of what can be found online and a wave of censorship has been sweeping the internet ever since. We built the worlds first completely free society and it was good, then someone clued in religious radicals and government idealists and they have started killing the internet. Net neutrality isn't a threat to the internet, censorship is and allowing the FCC control over the internet is going to be what kills it.
Russia?
Another thing about Wii Fit that is being over looked is that the doctor can track the patients usage. Wii Fit tracks your daily fitness so the doctor could see that you have in fact done your exercises daily as prescribed.
That sounds like an awesome idea! Get a bank of really powerful lasers in different colors and project advertisements on the moon! I bet you could sell those ads for a fortune! Just don't let Google know.
Yes, we can find a shark big enough!
Did you know when reading you really only look at the first and last letter? Your mind fills in the rest. So that comment just shows where your mind is.
So were the 200,000 women in Taiwan? Don't you think a God would choose to have the quake target the people being indecent? Also there are earthquakes every single day.
I love the over reaction to the "150 miles or so" how about you put that in perspective, something that is often forgotten by the media these days. The cruising speed for a modern jet liner is over 500 mph closer to 600mph source. So some basic math tells us that to overshoot the runway by 150 miles means they were distracted for a whopping 15 minutes. Don't tell me you've never missed an exit while having a conversation with a passenger in your car. It happens.
Also they could have had a favorable tail wind they weren't expecting so they were on what was supposed to be a 6 hour flight and it ended up taking 5 and a half hours, they check 15 min before they were supposed to land and they overshot by 15 min. Once again, not that big a deal.
+1 Funny, But I already commented. Don't really get the Insightful, unless they wanted to give you Karma or something. But that comment is freaking hilarious.
There is some irony in your comment. California is legislating parental responsibility by not allowing happy meal toys, while at the same time it is leading the nation in personal responsibility when it comes to marijuana legislation.
You could make a really mean and nasty test.
...
Welcome to the Internet Security test. In order to get started would you please provide your name and social.
1: Open Outlook and mail your login credentials to your supervisor so that he/she can verify your access.
2:
Except that I had a college roommate that was living on his own at age 16 and is already a productive member of society and yet cannot go see an R rated movie. Then there are people who get their GED early to not do the last year or two of High School and go work in a factory and are living on their own. 21 for drinking is also stupid. I had friends that got married at 20 and couldn't have wine at their wedding. It is just stupid.
And even better than smoking it is using a vaporizer or baking into food. No need to ruin your lungs.
Many Protestant reformers, including Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, John Knox, and Cotton Mather, identified the Roman Papacy as the Antichrist.[citation needed] The Centuriators of Magdeburg, a group of Lutheran scholars in Magdeburg headed by Matthias Flacius, wrote the 12-volume "Magdeburg Centuries" to discredit the papacy and identify the pope as the Antichrist. The fifth round of talks in the Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue notes,
In calling the pope the "antichrist," the early Lutherans stood in a tradition that reached back into the eleventh century. Not only dissidents and heretics but even saints had called the bishop of Rome the "antichrist" when they wished to castigate his abuse of power.[59]
The above section is from wikipedia; however I remember there being something along those lines in one of the catechisms.
Yes if you can garner more than 60% of the popular vote and even then you'll be lucky to get the law to change. Just look at NORML. Oh and then there was prohibition and slavery. One of those required a war to change the law. How many other laws have you seen repealed?
No, you're right. I do realize that American 'Evangelicals' pushed the homosexual bill, but for a while it had a lot of media traction and looked like it was going to pass. I guess I shouldn't over-react in a public forum.
However Africa as a whole still has issues with Genocide, this time with references:
Rwanda
Darfur
Western Sahara
That being said I would love to go to Africa and help locals build roads and sanitation. With roads come security and sanitation comes health. Commerce and stability would follow. Any other aid usually gets in the way.