Everquest 2 also has something similar called "Mentoring" which essentially reduces your level to your friend's level as well as all your skills & abilities. I suspect the "free ride to level 90" is not probably going to bring new players to the game, so much as allow long-time players to quickly create an alternate character and have it be high level without grinding it out. $60 seems steep as a product from Blizzard, but on the flipside, in the past people have paid a lot of money for max-level characters on these games. Much more than $60.
Why the hell did this get marked insightful? This is a stupid cherry-picked example that is clearly trying to make a reasonable concern look absurd. That is NOT insightful.
The first paved roads were definitely built by governments. They just weren't (mostly) democracies, but rather were monarchies. The main difference then was that these monarchies tended to be run by the only people rich enough to build paved roads, so I guess an argument could be made that they were somehow both private and government-built, but I'm sure glad we don't live in those times.
You're being obtuse, and I can tell by your several posts in this thread that nobody, including me, is going to change your mind, but here goes anyway. The important thing here is not knowing the "right" water level in the aquifers, it's knowing that a trend toward less water is a bad thing for humans trying to use that water, which is fairly obvious.
Yes, irrigation systems help create farmland from land that was not previously suitable for farming, but there is lots more farmland out there that doesn't need irrigation than that does. Here in the midwest, farmers will often use irrigation systems but it is to prevent their crops from dying due to drought and generally is not intended to turn bad soil into good soil (although this does happen as well). It's a method of regulating water supply, not a way of terraforming.
The team are pinning their hopes on the European Space Agency which has already expressed interest. But would an international collaboration be a better option?
Isn't the ESA international by nature? Perhaps the submitter meant to ask about a joint venture with other space agencies, but the EU itself, as well as the ESA, are both already international entities.
We should make everything "communal"! Just like they did in that union that isn't there anymore.
You mean the United Kingdom? It's still there and seems pretty strong to me. The citizens, for the most part, seem to love their nationalized secondary education system. They tried moving back to a private system for a few years but hated it and switched back again.
I did not live on campus but even just talking tuition I spent a lot more than $3,500/yr in 2000, let alone books and other expenses. Make sure you're comparing apples to apples. Maybe $3,500 per semester is what you meant?
Also the STEM, medical and business students will end up subsidizing the fine art, journalism and french medieval poetry students and their professors.
I see this as the bigger problem. It's not that I don't think these degrees should exist, but there is low demand for these degrees so we should be discouraging too many people from pursuing them if we're going to make efficient use of these tax dollars. The problem is as soon as you start favoring some degrees over others, you'll have the anti-gov't folks yelling about how the gov't is trying to decide peoples' careers for them.
Another concern of mine would be: what if too many people pursue degrees that don't make money? Philosophy degrees, history degrees, etc -- would we limit the number of these degrees that are available to help ensure that people who graduate are going to be able to make enough money to pay this tax?
If you're interested in true nerd stuff, you need to go to Reddit
I haven't made this jump yet, but most of my friends have. I was holding out hoping there was some ray of hope left for Slashdot. Frankly the comments that get modded up anymore are not the smart ones, but the ones who say the hardest-hitting things instead. That combined with the company basically walking away from their primary user base might be the last straw.
Just out of curiosity, if they had decided to maintain a *normal* schedule and not let school or government offices out early, would this probably not have happened?
Further North streets are salted well in advance of a coming storm
No they aren't! We're lucky if they're salted within 24 hrs AFTER the storm. I waited for 3 days for my road to even be plowed after a big storm earlier this month. Where do you get this crap?
Agreed. Blaming the media is just another excuse. It's the same as how Congress's approval rate is extremely low, yet in the last election most seats didn't change hands. In both cases, people are saying "everyone else is the problem, not me!" -- they said "vote out your incumbents" but still voted for their incumbents claiming their incumbent isn't the problem. They say "The media is bad!" but the still watch the same channel they always did, claiming their news source is better than the others.
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Everquest 2 also has something similar called "Mentoring" which essentially reduces your level to your friend's level as well as all your skills & abilities. I suspect the "free ride to level 90" is not probably going to bring new players to the game, so much as allow long-time players to quickly create an alternate character and have it be high level without grinding it out. $60 seems steep as a product from Blizzard, but on the flipside, in the past people have paid a lot of money for max-level characters on these games. Much more than $60.
OP was a sarcastic callback to the older solar system models. I know they didn't use the sarcasm tag, but I thought it was pretty obvious.
Was going to say the same thing, you beat me to it.
Why the hell did this get marked insightful? This is a stupid cherry-picked example that is clearly trying to make a reasonable concern look absurd. That is NOT insightful.
Ovals are also symmetric... Just not in every direction.
A**e stands for arse, which is slang (similar to "ass") for "butt".
The first paved roads were definitely built by governments. They just weren't (mostly) democracies, but rather were monarchies. The main difference then was that these monarchies tended to be run by the only people rich enough to build paved roads, so I guess an argument could be made that they were somehow both private and government-built, but I'm sure glad we don't live in those times.
Uh... not quite the same...
Huh? I thought we were talking about tech companies. Which of those would that be?
You're being obtuse, and I can tell by your several posts in this thread that nobody, including me, is going to change your mind, but here goes anyway. The important thing here is not knowing the "right" water level in the aquifers, it's knowing that a trend toward less water is a bad thing for humans trying to use that water, which is fairly obvious.
Yes, irrigation systems help create farmland from land that was not previously suitable for farming, but there is lots more farmland out there that doesn't need irrigation than that does. Here in the midwest, farmers will often use irrigation systems but it is to prevent their crops from dying due to drought and generally is not intended to turn bad soil into good soil (although this does happen as well). It's a method of regulating water supply, not a way of terraforming.
U-S-A! U-S-A! Top 50 for over a decade! (That's called "spin" and most of these journalists are abundantly familiar with the concept)
Wish I had a mod point, this is the most informative comment so far.
Isn't the ESA international by nature? Perhaps the submitter meant to ask about a joint venture with other space agencies, but the EU itself, as well as the ESA, are both already international entities.
You mean the United Kingdom? It's still there and seems pretty strong to me. The citizens, for the most part, seem to love their nationalized secondary education system. They tried moving back to a private system for a few years but hated it and switched back again.
I did not live on campus but even just talking tuition I spent a lot more than $3,500/yr in 2000, let alone books and other expenses. Make sure you're comparing apples to apples. Maybe $3,500 per semester is what you meant?
I see this as the bigger problem. It's not that I don't think these degrees should exist, but there is low demand for these degrees so we should be discouraging too many people from pursuing them if we're going to make efficient use of these tax dollars. The problem is as soon as you start favoring some degrees over others, you'll have the anti-gov't folks yelling about how the gov't is trying to decide peoples' careers for them.
Another concern of mine would be: what if too many people pursue degrees that don't make money? Philosophy degrees, history degrees, etc -- would we limit the number of these degrees that are available to help ensure that people who graduate are going to be able to make enough money to pay this tax?
I haven't made this jump yet, but most of my friends have. I was holding out hoping there was some ray of hope left for Slashdot. Frankly the comments that get modded up anymore are not the smart ones, but the ones who say the hardest-hitting things instead. That combined with the company basically walking away from their primary user base might be the last straw.
Good job explaining it and clearing the air.
My fiefdom for a mod point...
You measure power in gallons?
(a "butt" as a unit of measure is approximately 126 gallons)
Acceptance is one thing we do NOT excel at!
Just out of curiosity, if they had decided to maintain a *normal* schedule and not let school or government offices out early, would this probably not have happened?
No they aren't! We're lucky if they're salted within 24 hrs AFTER the storm. I waited for 3 days for my road to even be plowed after a big storm earlier this month. Where do you get this crap?
Agreed. Blaming the media is just another excuse. It's the same as how Congress's approval rate is extremely low, yet in the last election most seats didn't change hands. In both cases, people are saying "everyone else is the problem, not me!" -- they said "vote out your incumbents" but still voted for their incumbents claiming their incumbent isn't the problem. They say "The media is bad!" but the still watch the same channel they always did, claiming their news source is better than the others.