The penis size study was for about 50 people. The aggression study was for about 300.
Do you really think you can draw meaningful conclusions for studies like those? Those are not studies, they're just polls. I mean, one freak with a foot long wang can skew the results without trying.
Why did the 8 jurors think they were guilty, if it was an open and shut case? Why did the CPS (or your equivalent) choose to prosecute, if it was an open and shut case? I'm sorry, but I'm not cynical enough to believe that the entire police, prosecution, and jury have somehow been subverted (though I don't know all the facts).
No one has true free speech.... it is an illusion, there are always restrictions.
The UK has had a tradition of free speech throughout the years, which has been eroded by the recent Labour government (See incitement to ??? laws for direct free speech violations). This is what the film is addressing, I assume, though I've not seen it as yet.
I'll say again : Free speech is not an absolute - It is all about degrees.
Basically, if you can't combine your genes with someone else's, using your own is the next best thing.
Think about it, evolutionarily (is that a word) the best tactic seems to be to mix your genes with others. However, if that is not an option, what is left for you to pass on your genes?
I absolutely agree - I'm still a windows user. Basically, it's what I grew up with - I didn't use 3.1 much, was using os/2, but NT4 and Win2k are the only operating systems I've ever used extensively on my own system. There has been no reason for me to upgrade or change, at all, except for curiosity's sake. I did try, however, to set up dual boot Linux on mine - it crashed and burned though, I think because of my seconary IDE being completely dead, and other hardware problems. However, win2k just works (though I'm not sure I'd like to try an install on this box... I think it just works because it doesn't look at the flakey hardware too much).
Having said all that, I don't think I'll ever buy another version of windows. DRM scares me, etc. Anyway, back to the point - I am computer literate, I know the ropes, I can problem solve, and I choose win2k for now because I'm lazy, and it works (and is 100% stable for me - I don't need my computer on for absurd lengths of time, I've had it on for over a month without a reboot).
Actually, I've just left Elementeo. Prior to joining Real Science-4-Kids, I set up a meeting on or about November 11, 2006 with Elementeo's CEO Anshul Samar to discuss my planned departure....At some point in the conversation Mr. Samar said: "Just tell me it's not Real Science-4-Kids." I told him it was Real Science-4-Kids.
At that point, Mr. Samar picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Samar then said: "They are fucking pussies. I'm going to fucking bury those guys, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Real Science-4-Kids."....
Thereafter, Mr. Samar resumed trying to persuade me to stay....Among other things, Mr. Ballmer told me that "Real Science-4-Kids's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
I do not want to breed chocobos for a few hours just to get to some damn island and get a summon. Nor do I want to jump rope, or master some other idiotic game in every town just to get a unique item.
Don't do it then... The side quests are just that. Complain about the game all you like, but don't complain about the optional side quests of the game.
A lot of people actually enjoy the "work". I definately do - in some circumstances. You refered to the FF series - it has changed, it will never be the same again. Menial and repetetive tasks are what some people look for, if they are useful enough. Look at all the pickups in GTA:SA.
If you are looking for a true, hard work RPG, look no furthern than Elite. That was work through and through, and an rpg.
People worry about the instant gratification that gamers have - it is all to sell product. It's not graphics, it's just instant push. People always worry - great games still come along. If anything the grind has got a lot less with single player games IMO.
X2 was one game that had real depth for me - I hadn't played the original, and loved every minute of playing it. The storyline was not important... the storyline was crap, to be honest, the gameplay was great.
If someone doesn't have a license, or any other form of photo identification, they probably shouldn't be driving.
Very very few people in the UK carry their full license with them when driving. Why should we? I carry my plastic card for id purposes more than anything else because sometimes my bank likes it when I take money out - nothing to do with driving though.
You don't need to prove you're able to drive on the road in the UK.
Channel Four is literally channel 4 on the dial for the whole country.
Never heard of S4C? Also, try using the "now and next" pages on teletext sometime - you'll be suprised how often most of it just says "regional variations".
Ok - I may be taller than the average person, and about a stone overweight - but I weigh around 230 pounds. I'd guess that around 50% of the male UK population is over 180lb. So this will need some refining if it ever comes here - and if it ever comes to the US - well, that's a different matter.
It would, however, be far cooler being picked up by a mechanoid person than a vanilla person - I want to know what it sounds like too. If there weren't hydralic hisses and whirrs I wouldn't be happy. Even if the suit doesn't make the noises, they should add them. I just love the idea of being walked down a hospital corridor by a 100lb woman in a suit - whoosh click whoosh click. Ok, perhaps I'm letting my imagination go too far - I won't continue, lest I embarrass myself.
You want a reliability review? How exactly would you yourself go about doing a reliability review?
I'd have to get at least 4 each of these 17 drives, and test them for 6 months at least. Even then it's be far from a true sample, though it might offer some insights. True reliability testing is long, expensive work - perfomance testing can be done quick and cheap comparatively.
Also, just because 1 drive fails doesn't mean the drive series is unreliable. I personally like maxtor - I've used and sold about 30 drives of differing vintages - all are still going strong. However, I may just be lucky with them.
True reliability scores are _very_ hard to test for.
The primary reason that TV shows continue to be made is to make money. TV shows make money from subscriptions or (mainly) from adverts. If loads of people don't watch the adverts, the revenue stream dries up. I'm not sure people here know how much advertising contributes to to some channels (erm, 100%?).
I hate adverts as much as anyone... I'm also the worst channel hopper too. I also hate the fact I have to pay to own my television - £131 annually - $200 or so. But the BBC consistently produces some great programs which I appreciate. It's a choice (apart from in the UK) - pay a _big_ premium for a few channels without adverts, or accept adverts on all.
those WWII-era bikes don't get nearly the fuel economy of a modern bike.:-)
Yes, but a huge proportion of the energy used in a typical bike or car's lifetime (ie around 1/2 on average) is used in its production now. Keeping stuff longer works out better for the environment than upgrading to newer, cleaner products almost always.
Same here too - The biggest reason I didn't go for XP was its "phone home" feature. I also didn't go for it because of the unnecessary expense, and the slowdown. I've seen systems like mine running XP, and they aren't pretty.
British Islands? Who uses that term? It's horribly misleading for one, since Northern Ireland is not an island and is not in Britain but is in the "British Islands". I assume also that somewhere like Bermuda is not included under "British Islands", even though it is a British Island. British Isles is the commonly used term, which includes all of Ireland and other close dependencies, but I guess this term creates problems of its own. At least most people understand what it means...
You seem to be implying that learning to play a video game well is equal in difficulty to learning to become a skilled pianist.
I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a very good pianist and a great pianist. However, I could easily tell the difference between a very good CS or Q3 player and a great one. If you think it's easy getting good at games, you really don't understand the hours that people put in to them.
For that matter, do you think that becoming a skilled basketball player or swimmer is no more difficult than becoming skilled at Halo 2?
Basketball is far more physical than game playing is, though skill and flair are a large portion of success. Swimming is a different league of physical. You're comparing apples with oranges.
I don't think all activities are equal in difficulty, particularly given that video games are created specifically to be playable. The piano wasn't created to be easy to learn. Video games are.
The piano _is_ easy to learn to a basic level - I can even play some tunes on a piano, after about... hrm, let me think.... no work at all. I've spent many many hours on some computer games I'll only ever be crap at. I'd wager more people would be able to get something out of a piano after 10 hours practice than they would out of many games. Bear in mind here, people spend inordinate ammounts of time playing games. I, myself, have spent over a month solid playing Guild Wars. I'm still far from great at that, especially in some areas. Anyway, if games weren't tough to play well, there would not be gaming professionals, simple as that.
Of course, in the UK, the cost of petrol is largely taxation. It's something like 75% of the price, which usually gets people going.
Taxation is actually around 66 pence a litre now IIRC - it's just hitting the 2/3rd mark, 67%. It used to be a higher percentage, but then the price of oil went up.
Of course you fail to mention that your country is also
a) lot smaller
I used to do a (relatively) regular drive of Ipswich to Durham and back, which is 300 miles or so. If you take it to extremes, Penzance to Thurso is over 800 miles. The UK is not tiny, it's pretty thin in places, though.
c) Full of weird as small cars [not a bad thing though]
I am curious as to why the octane is so high on that fuel in Britain. The engines that you use are more or less the same ones we use here and most run fine on 87 octane.
I just wandered about a bit & found the answer. There are two types of octane measurement, RON (Research Octane number) and MON (Motor Octane number). Most of the world uses RON, whereas the US and Canada use a mean of RON and MON. MON is 8-10 points lower than RON, depending on the fuel, thus the US octane number is the equivalent of 4-5 point lower for the same fuel. Therefore an octane rating of 95 in most of the world is equivalent to 90 or 91 in the US. I guess that does mean there is still a 3 or 4 point difference between your 87 and our 95, but it's not as large as I thought. Lots of European cars have a 95 octane recomended figure, minimum 91, which is about equivalent to your 87. Wikipedia is my friend : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating
Probably not in America. Everything at a filling pump is assumed to be of a certain quality over here in the UK.
Erm.... Just about all petrol companies offer different octanes. Standard unleaded in the UK is 95 octane, which is a lot higher than the US I think. BP offer "ultimate", which is 97, Shell offer a 98, and Tesco offer a 99. Most others offer higher than standard octane too - where do you buy petrol?
OT - As an aside to those in the US, it's horribly expensive, £1 per litre, which is about $7 a US gallon if my maths is correct. To fill up my car costs well over the equivalent of $100.
Straight marriages typically consist of a ceremony and a marriage license. Gays get the ceremony but not the license. What gays want from marriage is the license and the the LEGAL benefits that brings. These benefits have nothing to to with marriage as a social institution but rather are benefits specifically granted to some members of society and denied others.
We just got this in the UK - Civil Unions are legally identical to marriages and available to same sex couples. There are still many gay people petitioning for full marriage status, however.
As a sidenote, there are a couple of side effects too. There are some straight people who have got a civil union with a friend that they live with, just for the legal benefits. Also, there are some straight people using the laws to get citizenship in the UK, though marriage has been used for this for ages too.
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The penis size study was for about 50 people. The aggression study was for about 300.
Do you really think you can draw meaningful conclusions for studies like those? Those are not studies, they're just polls. I mean, one freak with a foot long wang can skew the results without trying.
(ps. I was the freak with the foot long wang)
Why did the 8 jurors think they were guilty, if it was an open and shut case? Why did the CPS (or your equivalent) choose to prosecute, if it was an open and shut case? I'm sorry, but I'm not cynical enough to believe that the entire police, prosecution, and jury have somehow been subverted (though I don't know all the facts).
No one has true free speech.... it is an illusion, there are always restrictions.
The UK has had a tradition of free speech throughout the years, which has been eroded by the recent Labour government (See incitement to ??? laws for direct free speech violations). This is what the film is addressing, I assume, though I've not seen it as yet.
I'll say again : Free speech is not an absolute - It is all about degrees.
Basically, if you can't combine your genes with someone else's, using your own is the next best thing. Think about it, evolutionarily (is that a word) the best tactic seems to be to mix your genes with others. However, if that is not an option, what is left for you to pass on your genes?
I absolutely agree - I'm still a windows user. Basically, it's what I grew up with - I didn't use 3.1 much, was using os/2, but NT4 and Win2k are the only operating systems I've ever used extensively on my own system. There has been no reason for me to upgrade or change, at all, except for curiosity's sake. I did try, however, to set up dual boot Linux on mine - it crashed and burned though, I think because of my seconary IDE being completely dead, and other hardware problems. However, win2k just works (though I'm not sure I'd like to try an install on this box... I think it just works because it doesn't look at the flakey hardware too much).
Having said all that, I don't think I'll ever buy another version of windows. DRM scares me, etc. Anyway, back to the point - I am computer literate, I know the ropes, I can problem solve, and I choose win2k for now because I'm lazy, and it works (and is 100% stable for me - I don't need my computer on for absurd lengths of time, I've had it on for over a month without a reboot).
Actually, I've just left Elementeo. Prior to joining Real Science-4-Kids, I set up a meeting on or about November 11, 2006 with Elementeo's CEO Anshul Samar to discuss my planned departure....At some point in the conversation Mr. Samar said: "Just tell me it's not Real Science-4-Kids." I told him it was Real Science-4-Kids.
....
At that point, Mr. Samar picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Samar then said: "They are fucking pussies. I'm going to fucking bury those guys, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Real Science-4-Kids."
Thereafter, Mr. Samar resumed trying to persuade me to stay....Among other things, Mr. Ballmer told me that "Real Science-4-Kids's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
Hehe - I read it as that too - woul be a fun fight to watch.
Don't do it then... The side quests are just that. Complain about the game all you like, but don't complain about the optional side quests of the game.
A lot of people actually enjoy the "work". I definately do - in some circumstances. You refered to the FF series - it has changed, it will never be the same again. Menial and repetetive tasks are what some people look for, if they are useful enough. Look at all the pickups in GTA:SA.
If you are looking for a true, hard work RPG, look no furthern than Elite. That was work through and through, and an rpg.
People worry about the instant gratification that gamers have - it is all to sell product. It's not graphics, it's just instant push. People always worry - great games still come along. If anything the grind has got a lot less with single player games IMO.
X2 was one game that had real depth for me - I hadn't played the original, and loved every minute of playing it. The storyline was not important... the storyline was crap, to be honest, the gameplay was great.
If someone doesn't have a license, or any other form of photo identification, they probably shouldn't be driving.
Very very few people in the UK carry their full license with them when driving. Why should we? I carry my plastic card for id purposes more than anything else because sometimes my bank likes it when I take money out - nothing to do with driving though.
You don't need to prove you're able to drive on the road in the UK.
Channel Four is literally channel 4 on the dial for the whole country.
Never heard of S4C? Also, try using the "now and next" pages on teletext sometime - you'll be suprised how often most of it just says "regional variations".
Ok - I may be taller than the average person, and about a stone overweight - but I weigh around 230 pounds. I'd guess that around 50% of the male UK population is over 180lb. So this will need some refining if it ever comes here - and if it ever comes to the US - well, that's a different matter.
It would, however, be far cooler being picked up by a mechanoid person than a vanilla person - I want to know what it sounds like too. If there weren't hydralic hisses and whirrs I wouldn't be happy. Even if the suit doesn't make the noises, they should add them. I just love the idea of being walked down a hospital corridor by a 100lb woman in a suit - whoosh click whoosh click. Ok, perhaps I'm letting my imagination go too far - I won't continue, lest I embarrass myself.
You want a reliability review? How exactly would you yourself go about doing a reliability review?
I'd have to get at least 4 each of these 17 drives, and test them for 6 months at least. Even then it's be far from a true sample, though it might offer some insights. True reliability testing is long, expensive work - perfomance testing can be done quick and cheap comparatively.
Also, just because 1 drive fails doesn't mean the drive series is unreliable. I personally like maxtor - I've used and sold about 30 drives of differing vintages - all are still going strong. However, I may just be lucky with them.
True reliability scores are _very_ hard to test for.
The primary reason that TV shows continue to be made is to make money. TV shows make money from subscriptions or (mainly) from adverts. If loads of people don't watch the adverts, the revenue stream dries up. I'm not sure people here know how much advertising contributes to to some channels (erm, 100%?).
I hate adverts as much as anyone... I'm also the worst channel hopper too. I also hate the fact I have to pay to own my television - £131 annually - $200 or so. But the BBC consistently produces some great programs which I appreciate. It's a choice (apart from in the UK) - pay a _big_ premium for a few channels without adverts, or accept adverts on all.
those WWII-era bikes don't get nearly the fuel economy of a modern bike. :-)
Yes, but a huge proportion of the energy used in a typical bike or car's lifetime (ie around 1/2 on average) is used in its production now. Keeping stuff longer works out better for the environment than upgrading to newer, cleaner products almost always.
Same here too - The biggest reason I didn't go for XP was its "phone home" feature. I also didn't go for it because of the unnecessary expense, and the slowdown. I've seen systems like mine running XP, and they aren't pretty.
British Islands? Who uses that term? It's horribly misleading for one, since Northern Ireland is not an island and is not in Britain but is in the "British Islands". I assume also that somewhere like Bermuda is not included under "British Islands", even though it is a British Island. British Isles is the commonly used term, which includes all of Ireland and other close dependencies, but I guess this term creates problems of its own. At least most people understand what it means...
Though I agree with your sentiments about www vs the internet :
The internet was created in the US, once called ARPANET.
That is patently false. The internet originated in the US, it was not created there, obviously.
You seem to be implying that learning to play a video game well is equal in difficulty to learning to become a skilled pianist.
I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a very good pianist and a great pianist. However, I could easily tell the difference between a very good CS or Q3 player and a great one. If you think it's easy getting good at games, you really don't understand the hours that people put in to them.
For that matter, do you think that becoming a skilled basketball player or swimmer is no more difficult than becoming skilled at Halo 2?
Basketball is far more physical than game playing is, though skill and flair are a large portion of success. Swimming is a different league of physical. You're comparing apples with oranges.
I don't think all activities are equal in difficulty, particularly given that video games are created specifically to be playable. The piano wasn't created to be easy to learn. Video games are.
The piano _is_ easy to learn to a basic level - I can even play some tunes on a piano, after about... hrm, let me think.... no work at all. I've spent many many hours on some computer games I'll only ever be crap at. I'd wager more people would be able to get something out of a piano after 10 hours practice than they would out of many games. Bear in mind here, people spend inordinate ammounts of time playing games. I, myself, have spent over a month solid playing Guild Wars. I'm still far from great at that, especially in some areas. Anyway, if games weren't tough to play well, there would not be gaming professionals, simple as that.
Of course, in the UK, the cost of petrol is largely taxation. It's something like 75% of the price, which usually gets people going.
Taxation is actually around 66 pence a litre now IIRC - it's just hitting the 2/3rd mark, 67%. It used to be a higher percentage, but then the price of oil went up.
Of course you fail to mention that your country is also
a) lot smaller
I used to do a (relatively) regular drive of Ipswich to Durham and back, which is 300 miles or so. If you take it to extremes, Penzance to Thurso is over 800 miles. The UK is not tiny, it's pretty thin in places, though.
c) Full of weird as small cars [not a bad thing though]
Weird small cars go round corners.
I am curious as to why the octane is so high on that fuel in Britain. The engines that you use are more or less the same ones we use here and most run fine on 87 octane.
I just wandered about a bit & found the answer. There are two types of octane measurement, RON (Research Octane number) and MON (Motor Octane number). Most of the world uses RON, whereas the US and Canada use a mean of RON and MON. MON is 8-10 points lower than RON, depending on the fuel, thus the US octane number is the equivalent of 4-5 point lower for the same fuel. Therefore an octane rating of 95 in most of the world is equivalent to 90 or 91 in the US. I guess that does mean there is still a 3 or 4 point difference between your 87 and our 95, but it's not as large as I thought. Lots of European cars have a 95 octane recomended figure, minimum 91, which is about equivalent to your 87. Wikipedia is my friend : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating
Probably not in America. Everything at a filling pump is assumed to be of a certain quality over here in the UK.
Erm.... Just about all petrol companies offer different octanes. Standard unleaded in the UK is 95 octane, which is a lot higher than the US I think. BP offer "ultimate", which is 97, Shell offer a 98, and Tesco offer a 99. Most others offer higher than standard octane too - where do you buy petrol?
OT - As an aside to those in the US, it's horribly expensive, £1 per litre, which is about $7 a US gallon if my maths is correct. To fill up my car costs well over the equivalent of $100.
None of these definitions apply to the OP's use of the word. I think the word he was searching for may have been "waste":
n.
1. The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted: a waste of talent; gone to waste.
Straight marriages typically consist of a ceremony and a marriage license. Gays get the ceremony but not the license. What gays want from marriage is the license and the the LEGAL benefits that brings. These benefits have nothing to to with marriage as a social institution but rather are benefits specifically granted to some members of society and denied others.
We just got this in the UK - Civil Unions are legally identical to marriages and available to same sex couples. There are still many gay people petitioning for full marriage status, however.
As a sidenote, there are a couple of side effects too. There are some straight people who have got a civil union with a friend that they live with, just for the legal benefits. Also, there are some straight people using the laws to get citizenship in the UK, though marriage has been used for this for ages too.