True. However, it's really easy for someone to imagine that they can withstand things like sleep deprivation or heat/cold extremes Long Enough to be rescued or let go. For lay-people at home, going to the extreme is the easiest way to describe a point where nearly all of us would say anything (even lie) to avoid further pain.
And, as a corollary, what are the odds of Battle.net going away any time soon? They've had matchmaking support for Starcraft for twelve years. Comparing Blizzard to Ubisoft is a technically correct comparison that overlooks the history of Blizzard's support for Battle.net.
In many ways, the pandas were Samwise's pet easter egg. However, he was one of the lead graphics artists responsible with creating a LOT of the Warcraft concept art, and was very influential. Nearly every Warcraft nerd (which is not the same as all the players), when WoW first came out, knew of the Pandaren, and I recall people speculating and hoping that the first expansion (which brought us Draenei and Blood Elves) would give us Pandaren. Many people wanted to play a Brewmaster, even though they had only a faint idea of what that meant.
The pandaren started as a creation of lead artist Samwise Didier and an April Fool's joke, but they got a massive response from Warcraft fans.[4] When the expansion to Warcraft III was announced, the Pandaren Brewmaster was added as a neutral hero, available and playable on nearly every melee map. One Brewmaster, Chen Stormstout was included as an optional playable hero in the expansion's orc campaign. Due to this popularity, pandaren were rumored to be the new playable Alliance race to be introduced in the Burning Crusade expansion
The Burning Crusade expansion was released in 2007, a year before Kung Fu Panda, and a significant section of the population had a pretty good idea of who the Pandaren were, even then -- despite them starting as a "joke". Moreover, the World of Warcraft tabletop RPG has had the Pandaren race since 2003. Even at that time, elements of eastern philosophy and martial arts were intimately tied to the Pandaren cultural concept.
I think it's safe to say that the Pandaren were well developed before Kung Fu Panda, even if they were not a playable race in the MMO yet. I'm sure that the success of the movie made it an easier decision to make them the next playable race, but they were certainly not designed in some copycat attempt.
No, Torture only gets you what the prisoner believes you want to hear.
If an interrogator straps you to a chair, and tells you that they know you've been kidnapping neighborhood kids (and you know you haven't), and if you sign this confession you'll only get 10 years instead of 20, you'll tell me to fuck off and ask for a lawyer. You might even accept that it's better to go to prison for a crime you didn't commit than confess to lies.
When the interrogator gets dissatisfied with your refusal to confess, and they start cutting off fingers and toes, how long do you hold out before confessing to a lie? When they start to immerse your head in a bucket long enough that you're choking on water, or start applying sharp implements to sensitive (or irreplaceable) parts of your body, how long do you maintain the truth, rather than tell them what they want to hear?
Like with Les Miserables, the key is to learn when you can skim. If you're after the plot, skim or skip the pages of description of Tom Bombadil's stomping grounds, or the sewers of Paris (in Victor Hugo's case). The next time you read it, you already know the plot, so you're not really looking at "what happens!?" and more at the setting, what's happening, and how things might inter-relate in subtle ways.
If you find you skipped too far, it's easy to turn back and re-read a few pages, or a chapter... but for example you can skip almost the entire chapter of Les Miserables about Waterloo. "Waterloo happened... ", and then read the last page of the chapter to see how it relates at all to the rest of the story. You miss a very vivid description of the battle, but lose nothing plot-wise by skipping it. I found it helpful at times to suspend my burning thirst for plot development, and instead (sometimes) read as if I were listening to someone tell a series of fireside stories, which always start out disjointed, and then end up weaving into a larger narrative in ways I can't always predict.
The pacing and major common elements (powerful magi/gods, warring races, monsters) are something that might be due to being based on an oral tradition, which is something that much of the mythology (both Norse and Greek) shared.
Okay; outside of academic circles, which one had a bigger impact on cultural works? Consider that Tolkein's vision of dwarves, elves, halflings, orcs, humans, and their relations have had immense impact on our cultural view of what they're supposed to be like. A huge swath of nerd-dom has been heavily influenced by it (D&D nerds, gaming nerds) and the things derived from it. (Would Starcraft exist if Blizzard had not first made Warcraft, based on Warhammer?)
It's possible that that isn't the basis or purpose of the Nobel Price; but I would argue that people nearly a century later considering your work valuable is a pretty good measure of someone's work being good. In contrast, I have never heard the names of several others on the list, and likely would not unless I were specifically in a course studying literature.
Steam often has ads in the launcher that pop up (when I start steam, but not at random other times) advertising things like steam sales or new games on Steam. Other than that, I'm unaware of ads.
A good first step is to drive responsibly, not over the speed limit into the realm where you'd be embarassed to expose your speed. I have no fear of my insurance company finding my speed data, because I don't speed (much). The only reason to fear the contents of a black box enough to destroy it is if you've already been driving like an idiot -- don't do that, and you'll feel no need to destroy the box.
True. And, the only reason this is an issue is that a "marriage" and a "civil union" (and the parties thereto) are not considered identical (except in name) by many institutions or laws.
For one, I had not know anything about what was going on in Bahrain (and has been for almost a year, or more) until I read this article and the journalist's other articles at the Atlantic.
Exposing the behavior of a repressive regime to the world is something that many of us would feel is part of standing up to an oppressor. Heck, the government of Bahrain felt the same way, or they wouldn't have treated him the way they did in the first place.
I completely agree with Dhalka: The man was both immensely courageous, and in some ways very foolish. One might argue that a willful disregard for one's safety is a big part of courage, but a less-foolish actor would have posted the videos anonymously, and not talked about them on Facebook. That, and take them from some place where people don't know you. Either way, posting the videos in the first place (and being seen filming) were tremendously risky.
An officer of the state, however, is acting as more than an individual, and should not be allowed to discriminate.
So, your local priest or rabbi might decline to marry you and your (hypothetical) gay fiancee, but I dislike the idea of the local judge or magistrate declining to do so.
Australian term, meaning "An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying in between the footpath part and the roadway proper". Basically: Fools store their beer in their front yard, and complain when people take them for free.
What the heck platform do you run on that the Humble Bundle games don't work? (I'm genuinely curious, as I didn't realize they had non-Windows versions?)
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True. However, it's really easy for someone to imagine that they can withstand things like sleep deprivation or heat/cold extremes Long Enough to be rescued or let go. For lay-people at home, going to the extreme is the easiest way to describe a point where nearly all of us would say anything (even lie) to avoid further pain.
And, as a corollary, what are the odds of Battle.net going away any time soon? They've had matchmaking support for Starcraft for twelve years. Comparing Blizzard to Ubisoft is a technically correct comparison that overlooks the history of Blizzard's support for Battle.net.
In many ways, the pandas were Samwise's pet easter egg. However, he was one of the lead graphics artists responsible with creating a LOT of the Warcraft concept art, and was very influential. Nearly every Warcraft nerd (which is not the same as all the players), when WoW first came out, knew of the Pandaren, and I recall people speculating and hoping that the first expansion (which brought us Draenei and Blood Elves) would give us Pandaren. Many people wanted to play a Brewmaster, even though they had only a faint idea of what that meant.
http://www.wowpedia.org/Pandaren has a good deal of info on them, but the interesting section is the "History" one.
The pandaren started as a creation of lead artist Samwise Didier and an April Fool's joke, but they got a massive response from Warcraft fans.[4] When the expansion to Warcraft III was announced, the Pandaren Brewmaster was added as a neutral hero, available and playable on nearly every melee map. One Brewmaster, Chen Stormstout was included as an optional playable hero in the expansion's orc campaign. Due to this popularity, pandaren were rumored to be the new playable Alliance race to be introduced in the Burning Crusade expansion
The Burning Crusade expansion was released in 2007, a year before Kung Fu Panda, and a significant section of the population had a pretty good idea of who the Pandaren were, even then -- despite them starting as a "joke". Moreover, the World of Warcraft tabletop RPG has had the Pandaren race since 2003. Even at that time, elements of eastern philosophy and martial arts were intimately tied to the Pandaren cultural concept.
I think it's safe to say that the Pandaren were well developed before Kung Fu Panda, even if they were not a playable race in the MMO yet. I'm sure that the success of the movie made it an easier decision to make them the next playable race, but they were certainly not designed in some copycat attempt.
Torture can net you verifiable truths. Period.
No, Torture only gets you what the prisoner believes you want to hear.
If an interrogator straps you to a chair, and tells you that they know you've been kidnapping neighborhood kids (and you know you haven't), and if you sign this confession you'll only get 10 years instead of 20, you'll tell me to fuck off and ask for a lawyer. You might even accept that it's better to go to prison for a crime you didn't commit than confess to lies.
When the interrogator gets dissatisfied with your refusal to confess, and they start cutting off fingers and toes, how long do you hold out before confessing to a lie? When they start to immerse your head in a bucket long enough that you're choking on water, or start applying sharp implements to sensitive (or irreplaceable) parts of your body, how long do you maintain the truth, rather than tell them what they want to hear?
I believe that Bulwer-Lytton is the canonical definition of purple prose. ;) ( http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ )
Like with Les Miserables, the key is to learn when you can skim. If you're after the plot, skim or skip the pages of description of Tom Bombadil's stomping grounds, or the sewers of Paris (in Victor Hugo's case). The next time you read it, you already know the plot, so you're not really looking at "what happens!?" and more at the setting, what's happening, and how things might inter-relate in subtle ways.
If you find you skipped too far, it's easy to turn back and re-read a few pages, or a chapter... but for example you can skip almost the entire chapter of Les Miserables about Waterloo. "Waterloo happened ... ", and then read the last page of the chapter to see how it relates at all to the rest of the story. You miss a very vivid description of the battle, but lose nothing plot-wise by skipping it. I found it helpful at times to suspend my burning thirst for plot development, and instead (sometimes) read as if I were listening to someone tell a series of fireside stories, which always start out disjointed, and then end up weaving into a larger narrative in ways I can't always predict.
What makes the writing good or bad, though? I don't even know how I'd begin to quantify such a thing.
The pacing and major common elements (powerful magi/gods, warring races, monsters) are something that might be due to being based on an oral tradition, which is something that much of the mythology (both Norse and Greek) shared.
Okay; outside of academic circles, which one had a bigger impact on cultural works? Consider that Tolkein's vision of dwarves, elves, halflings, orcs, humans, and their relations have had immense impact on our cultural view of what they're supposed to be like. A huge swath of nerd-dom has been heavily influenced by it (D&D nerds, gaming nerds) and the things derived from it. (Would Starcraft exist if Blizzard had not first made Warcraft, based on Warhammer?)
It's possible that that isn't the basis or purpose of the Nobel Price; but I would argue that people nearly a century later considering your work valuable is a pretty good measure of someone's work being good. In contrast, I have never heard the names of several others on the list, and likely would not unless I were specifically in a course studying literature.
Where can I find good, concrete (well, hypothetical) examples that I can use for explaining this to friends or family?
Baen has it, it appears. I'm not sure if this is the full text.
A logic named Joe
Steam often has ads in the launcher that pop up (when I start steam, but not at random other times) advertising things like steam sales or new games on Steam. Other than that, I'm unaware of ads.
Which is infinitely nicer than an EMT knocking on the window. (:
You merely need to find a very large pair of graham crackers, some slabs of chocolate, and the local elementary school population.
Wiretapping requires the video feed to have audio.
A good first step is to drive responsibly, not over the speed limit into the realm where you'd be embarassed to expose your speed. I have no fear of my insurance company finding my speed data, because I don't speed (much). The only reason to fear the contents of a black box enough to destroy it is if you've already been driving like an idiot -- don't do that, and you'll feel no need to destroy the box.
How does one go researching the local laws about Terry Stops? Short of Wikipedia, I don't really know where to go looking for that kind of stuff.
Yes, but is a stop at a random checkpoint a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity? I doubt that would fly far in court.
True. And, the only reason this is an issue is that a "marriage" and a "civil union" (and the parties thereto) are not considered identical (except in name) by many institutions or laws.
For one, I had not know anything about what was going on in Bahrain (and has been for almost a year, or more) until I read this article and the journalist's other articles at the Atlantic.
Exposing the behavior of a repressive regime to the world is something that many of us would feel is part of standing up to an oppressor. Heck, the government of Bahrain felt the same way, or they wouldn't have treated him the way they did in the first place.
I completely agree with Dhalka: The man was both immensely courageous, and in some ways very foolish. One might argue that a willful disregard for one's safety is a big part of courage, but a less-foolish actor would have posted the videos anonymously, and not talked about them on Facebook. That, and take them from some place where people don't know you. Either way, posting the videos in the first place (and being seen filming) were tremendously risky.
I would never have found the courage to do that.
An officer of the state, however, is acting as more than an individual, and should not be allowed to discriminate.
So, your local priest or rabbi might decline to marry you and your (hypothetical) gay fiancee, but I dislike the idea of the local judge or magistrate declining to do so.
Linked:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/technology/hacker-attacks-like-stratfors-require-fast-response.html?_r=1
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nature_strip
Australian term, meaning "An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying in between the footpath part and the roadway proper". Basically: Fools store their beer in their front yard, and complain when people take them for free.
What the heck platform do you run on that the Humble Bundle games don't work? (I'm genuinely curious, as I didn't realize they had non-Windows versions?)