I also completed Portal in a rather short period of time. I remember sitting down one night at about 10pm and remember completing it around 3-4am. I completely lost track of time. Portal 2 MP I was playing with a friend and we completed 3 stages in a few hours. I have not done the single player part yet.
You are a young boy, forced into a chess competition to save your family from being murdered. Since you are a gifted child, the chess matches should be cake... except you are playing chess against other gifted children who also had their families held for ransom. It's a fight to the death and you are but a pawn in a greater underground chess tournament. Mortal Chessbat!
I'm sorry, but Red Dead was a terrible game. I got so sick of watching the butchering cut scene that I altogether stopped butchering. After robbing a train and finding it was pointless I wound up venturing off to find a new town with better missions than the follow the dog to the same spot every time to catch the same criminal stealing the same horse at night. I was killed by cougars just about every time I'd go off the beaten path (and sometimes when I was on the path) with absolutely no chance of being able to get them before they leaped out of nowhere. Even the "karma" system that was in the game was horrible. They pushed you as a "good guy" the whole time in the cut scenes. The only reward for getting negative karma was a horse which was slightly faster than the 30 odd ones you could have stolen by then. Taking out a hideout before the story line took you there also caused issues and I wasn't about to restart my game for that. It was so dead simple to do anyway. I'd hide behind a rock, and head shot people one at a time. Nobody even tried to come out of the buildings and get me. The beginning of the game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I stuck it on the shelf and haven't returned.
Otherwise, I agree. Cut scenes suck, as do those Quick Time Events I never bought God of War 2/3 because of them.
Yes, I did. I don't disagree, but I don't agree that money should be "taken" from the rich and given to the poor either. Money just handed out will be mis-appropriated and fall right back in the hands of those that don't "need" it and we'll be right back to where we are today. Sure, there may be a few "glory years" but eventually it will come crashing back to what it is now. I do not know of a good way to "resolve" the problem though besides a thorough revamp of the system along with a mass re-education (fat chance) of the people who don't spend wisely. If you establish a poverty line where there are no taxes and you have enough to live, people will live on that line and do no more than they need to continue living. They'll be struck by a natural disaster (planning is for chumps!) and be screaming on the news on how some President hates them. If you don't have some barrier, you'll have people who don't want to or can't work living on the streets asking for handouts. Now you have the people that feel the need to help others spending their "allotment" helping them and reducing their overall net worth... again, crashing back into the same routine.
When I see goo.gl I'm trained to think it's goatse because I believe anyone can use that domain where Google stated that g.co will be for Google to use only.
Yeah... that's what I said. I don't know why you feel the need to argue. If more people had fancy houses instead of just a few, more people would buy fancy things for those fancy houses and create even more jobs.
But to blatantly say the rich don't create jobs is a fallacy.
I assume they wouldn't have just one data center... but they'd consolidate all military data under one collective of centers distributed throughout the nation, buried in non-disclosed locations.
I would think that it would help to consolidate all military data centers into a few (for redundancy). Better logistics for internal data sharing, less transmission of data to other centers... heck, you may even be able to roll FBI and the other acronyms into this center as well. It could be the Defense Data Center.
I also figure the Tax, Social Security, and other public services could share one. You could call this the Internal Data Center.
I don't see why they each need their own building, infrastructure, etc. You could theoretically set up a few dedicated/redundant data centers across the US and have a team dedicated to securing the data, keeping the system running, and bring everyone under one (figurative) roof. Military would have access to military data, IRS would have access to citizen tax data... the people working the center could do their jobs without having access to any private data. You'd have a few top secret clearance personnel who could swap out drives that fail and destroy the failures before leaving the "heart" and everyone else would have restricted access to the actual hardware. Heck, I can imagine all kinds of fancy workings to bring machines up to special rooms where maintenance would be performed without granting people access to other hardware as well.
Rich buy fancy houses with fancy windows, fancy decks, fancy pools, fancy furniture and all kinds of fancy stuff. Who makes that stuff? They created jobs. They didn't have to think about doing it. They just did it.
Granted, there would be more jobs to create fancy stuff if more people had fancy houses, but that's not the point of my post. To state that the rich don't create jobs is a misnomer. You make it sound as though the rich don't buy expensive stuff to show off and they hoard all their cash.
Taxes go sky high before the 1920s... great depression happens. Lowered taxes, great depression ends just as the first war starts... There were also high taxes during the 70s and I wouldn't call them "enlightened years." Economic condition has little to do with the amount of taxes on the rich and you are disingenuous to try to pin the worlds woes on the richer part of the community. According to only the information on that chart, jacking up the taxes on the rich will only put us into another great depression.
Why would you assume that the wealthy hoard because of taxes? They hoard when they estimate lows. It has little to do with income taxes. If I have money in hoard and the government jacks up taxes, I'm not going to go spend all that money. I'm going to keep it in hoard until taxes go down so I can get more for my money. Jobs and money circulate when people feel good about the stability of the country. Lately, people haven't been feeling stable. They've been feeling robbed.
That was my impression as well. I thought the whole idea of a time capsule was being able to go back a week in the file's life if you needed. The solution in the article does not do that.
You ask for supporting arguments (ie: proof) but I assume, like most religious folks, you fall back on "faith" when asked for the same of your religion?
Every time someone gives me change for a dollar, blesses me when I sneeze, say's "God willing", "Thank God", or one of the other various religion based sayings.
This doesn't count the number of license plates I see on a regular basis: GZUSLIVS, BLESSD, etc. or bumper stickers with Bible quotes. There's even one car in the area with hand painted on all four sides "Jesus Saves"
There's also the very large and sometimes garish monuments built depicting various bible events outside or on top of churches. One common one is a device used to display and possibly kill people commonly called a cross. I suppose if you lived in Rio / Brazil you could also point to a very large statue as yet another example.
You don't understand Libertarianism either. What you describe is more akin to Anarchism.
Libertarians do not resist all government. Just that which gets in the way of personal freedom. Using a public road with a license to do so does not invade my personal freedom. Telling me what I can('t) do with my own body does. Preventing me from killing someone protects their personal freedom from my meddling and is an acceptable compromise to a real Libertarian.
You mean, like any other religion? Most of the things taught to the religious today are "on faith" that the pastor is telling you what actually happened and/or what will happen. Actual evidential religions don't really exist. That's part of what makes them religions.
Someone above mentioned gay marriage, I wonder why government has anything to do with marriage at all? Why should a single parent of one child pay more in taxes than a childless married couple who earn the same amount of income? Marriage itself is a religious rite, and government should stay the hell out. I shouldn't have to get a license to get married, and a judge shouldn't have the authority to marry anyone.
I've argued this point many times. The granted legal benefits of marriage can be separated from the actual act of marriage and you should be able to register anyone as a "trusted confidant" for legal reasons where a decision must be made in your absence or inability. It would make the whole gay marriage debate null and void and get the government out of personal mating affairs.
I'm mostly met with arguments about how I'm trying to weaken the strength of marriage or something.
I've been running flash on my 64-bit Debian Intel/Intel laptop for 3(?) years now and only recently I had it completely lock up the system when I went to drop flash out of full screen watching a Zero Punctuation video.
I have to be fair here... evince and/or xpdf haven't impressed me for PDF readers. Yes, they work... but the interfaces need some love (mainly xpdf, but evince has it's quirks.) It only started to matter to me though since I'm buying a house and my agent insists on sending me papers to sign in PDF format. Otherwise the only use I have for PDF is pen/paper sheets for the rare game nights.
The 'V' is the important part of the conversation though.
It's like the difference between having a virtual woman and a real woman... except the difference of usability of the computer application aspect is far more similar.
Slashdot Mirror
...a Trojan horse filled with cyanide pills. Don't eat any.
I also completed Portal in a rather short period of time. I remember sitting down one night at about 10pm and remember completing it around 3-4am. I completely lost track of time. Portal 2 MP I was playing with a friend and we completed 3 stages in a few hours. I have not done the single player part yet.
Borderlands filled a niche. I wouldn't call it FPS as much as I'd call it a mix of FPS and Diablo.
You are a young boy, forced into a chess competition to save your family from being murdered. Since you are a gifted child, the chess matches should be cake... except you are playing chess against other gifted children who also had their families held for ransom. It's a fight to the death and you are but a pawn in a greater underground chess tournament. Mortal Chessbat!
AAA games are those where you drive around in a tow truck and rescue people from ditches or help replace their battery/tire.
I'm sorry, but Red Dead was a terrible game. I got so sick of watching the butchering cut scene that I altogether stopped butchering. After robbing a train and finding it was pointless I wound up venturing off to find a new town with better missions than the follow the dog to the same spot every time to catch the same criminal stealing the same horse at night. I was killed by cougars just about every time I'd go off the beaten path (and sometimes when I was on the path) with absolutely no chance of being able to get them before they leaped out of nowhere. Even the "karma" system that was in the game was horrible. They pushed you as a "good guy" the whole time in the cut scenes. The only reward for getting negative karma was a horse which was slightly faster than the 30 odd ones you could have stolen by then. Taking out a hideout before the story line took you there also caused issues and I wasn't about to restart my game for that. It was so dead simple to do anyway. I'd hide behind a rock, and head shot people one at a time. Nobody even tried to come out of the buildings and get me. The beginning of the game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I stuck it on the shelf and haven't returned.
Otherwise, I agree. Cut scenes suck, as do those Quick Time Events I never bought God of War 2/3 because of them.
Yes, I did. I don't disagree, but I don't agree that money should be "taken" from the rich and given to the poor either. Money just handed out will be mis-appropriated and fall right back in the hands of those that don't "need" it and we'll be right back to where we are today. Sure, there may be a few "glory years" but eventually it will come crashing back to what it is now. I do not know of a good way to "resolve" the problem though besides a thorough revamp of the system along with a mass re-education (fat chance) of the people who don't spend wisely. If you establish a poverty line where there are no taxes and you have enough to live, people will live on that line and do no more than they need to continue living. They'll be struck by a natural disaster (planning is for chumps!) and be screaming on the news on how some President hates them. If you don't have some barrier, you'll have people who don't want to or can't work living on the streets asking for handouts. Now you have the people that feel the need to help others spending their "allotment" helping them and reducing their overall net worth... again, crashing back into the same routine.
When I see goo.gl I'm trained to think it's goatse because I believe anyone can use that domain where Google stated that g.co will be for Google to use only.
Yeah... that's what I said. I don't know why you feel the need to argue. If more people had fancy houses instead of just a few, more people would buy fancy things for those fancy houses and create even more jobs.
But to blatantly say the rich don't create jobs is a fallacy.
For a couple of reasons this is still by no means any better than a lot of "poor" people having enough money to spend.
Thus when I said:
Granted, there would be more jobs to create fancy stuff if more people had fancy houses
I assume they wouldn't have just one data center... but they'd consolidate all military data under one collective of centers distributed throughout the nation, buried in non-disclosed locations.
I would think that it would help to consolidate all military data centers into a few (for redundancy). Better logistics for internal data sharing, less transmission of data to other centers... heck, you may even be able to roll FBI and the other acronyms into this center as well. It could be the Defense Data Center.
I also figure the Tax, Social Security, and other public services could share one. You could call this the Internal Data Center.
I don't see why they each need their own building, infrastructure, etc. You could theoretically set up a few dedicated/redundant data centers across the US and have a team dedicated to securing the data, keeping the system running, and bring everyone under one (figurative) roof. Military would have access to military data, IRS would have access to citizen tax data... the people working the center could do their jobs without having access to any private data. You'd have a few top secret clearance personnel who could swap out drives that fail and destroy the failures before leaving the "heart" and everyone else would have restricted access to the actual hardware. Heck, I can imagine all kinds of fancy workings to bring machines up to special rooms where maintenance would be performed without granting people access to other hardware as well.
Rich buy fancy houses with fancy windows, fancy decks, fancy pools, fancy furniture and all kinds of fancy stuff. Who makes that stuff? They created jobs. They didn't have to think about doing it. They just did it.
Granted, there would be more jobs to create fancy stuff if more people had fancy houses, but that's not the point of my post. To state that the rich don't create jobs is a misnomer. You make it sound as though the rich don't buy expensive stuff to show off and they hoard all their cash.
What a load of crap.
Taxes go sky high before the 1920s... great depression happens. Lowered taxes, great depression ends just as the first war starts... There were also high taxes during the 70s and I wouldn't call them "enlightened years." Economic condition has little to do with the amount of taxes on the rich and you are disingenuous to try to pin the worlds woes on the richer part of the community. According to only the information on that chart, jacking up the taxes on the rich will only put us into another great depression.
Why would you assume that the wealthy hoard because of taxes? They hoard when they estimate lows. It has little to do with income taxes. If I have money in hoard and the government jacks up taxes, I'm not going to go spend all that money. I'm going to keep it in hoard until taxes go down so I can get more for my money. Jobs and money circulate when people feel good about the stability of the country. Lately, people haven't been feeling stable. They've been feeling robbed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Undersea_Cable_System
Its capacity is used by NASA, the United States Department of Defense, the European Space Agency, UNIS and others.
That was my impression as well. I thought the whole idea of a time capsule was being able to go back a week in the file's life if you needed. The solution in the article does not do that.
You ask for supporting arguments (ie: proof) but I assume, like most religious folks, you fall back on "faith" when asked for the same of your religion?
You can't debate/argue logically with someone who bases their entire argument on faith. Faith requires discarding logic.
100%
Every time someone gives me change for a dollar, blesses me when I sneeze, say's "God willing", "Thank God", or one of the other various religion based sayings.
This doesn't count the number of license plates I see on a regular basis: GZUSLIVS, BLESSD, etc. or bumper stickers with Bible quotes. There's even one car in the area with hand painted on all four sides "Jesus Saves"
There's also the very large and sometimes garish monuments built depicting various bible events outside or on top of churches. One common one is a device used to display and possibly kill people commonly called a cross. I suppose if you lived in Rio / Brazil you could also point to a very large statue as yet another example.
You don't understand Libertarianism either. What you describe is more akin to Anarchism.
Libertarians do not resist all government. Just that which gets in the way of personal freedom. Using a public road with a license to do so does not invade my personal freedom. Telling me what I can('t) do with my own body does. Preventing me from killing someone protects their personal freedom from my meddling and is an acceptable compromise to a real Libertarian.
You mean, like any other religion? Most of the things taught to the religious today are "on faith" that the pastor is telling you what actually happened and/or what will happen. Actual evidential religions don't really exist. That's part of what makes them religions.
Someone above mentioned gay marriage, I wonder why government has anything to do with marriage at all? Why should a single parent of one child pay more in taxes than a childless married couple who earn the same amount of income? Marriage itself is a religious rite, and government should stay the hell out. I shouldn't have to get a license to get married, and a judge shouldn't have the authority to marry anyone.
I've argued this point many times. The granted legal benefits of marriage can be separated from the actual act of marriage and you should be able to register anyone as a "trusted confidant" for legal reasons where a decision must be made in your absence or inability. It would make the whole gay marriage debate null and void and get the government out of personal mating affairs.
I'm mostly met with arguments about how I'm trying to weaken the strength of marriage or something.
I've been running flash on my 64-bit Debian Intel/Intel laptop for 3(?) years now and only recently I had it completely lock up the system when I went to drop flash out of full screen watching a Zero Punctuation video.
I have to be fair here... evince and/or xpdf haven't impressed me for PDF readers. Yes, they work... but the interfaces need some love (mainly xpdf, but evince has it's quirks.) It only started to matter to me though since I'm buying a house and my agent insists on sending me papers to sign in PDF format. Otherwise the only use I have for PDF is pen/paper sheets for the rare game nights.
The 'V' is the important part of the conversation though.
It's like the difference between having a virtual woman and a real woman... except the difference of usability of the computer application aspect is far more similar.