The economics of the game shift to using your resources more wisely. This means getting smarter with your rigs, and smarter about the situations you put yourself into. It also means that many pure PvP corps will begin either hiring industrialists or contracting indy corps to do the heavy ISK lifting. The dynamics will change, but only for the better. Anyone who quits the game because they can't buy wins any more is improving everyone else's experience by quitting.
That's the idea. This move is meant to pull in the Halo monkeys of the world who are in it to run-shoot-run.
The idea as I understand it is to have corps issue contracts for battles on planet surfaces. The battles determine regional control of planets, which ultimately determines control of the whole planet. Control the major planets of a system and you control the system, and so on up the scale to entire constellations and regions of space.
The shooters get their fun by fighting the ground battles for whoever pays them the most. The Corporate Overlords of EvE issue mercenary contracts and use the shooters as pawns in the much larger game/metagame. Both sides will (in theory) get a much richer experience from this move.
It's a huge gamble and I hope it pays off for CCP. My only wish is that they port the game to the PC so that I can enjoy it, because I have no intention of shelling out $350+ for a game console.
The commons? Do you mean the consumer? When a business is taxed, it is forced to pass that additional expense on to its customers in the form of price increases. Higher prices make that business less competitive and therefore damaged.
All taxes are ultimately imposed upon the individual, some just inflict collateral damage as they pass by.
My post was about the inherent corruption of authoritarian governments. Discussion of my signature is off-topic at best.
We're talking about twitter. This is the equivalent of running a steam roller over a chipmunk farm: Somewhat disturbing, oddly hilarious, and ultimately a loss of nothing but a bunch of chattering rodents.
Which of those two is preferable? The outcome is presumably the same.
The difference is this: in a socialist medical system your hope ends there. In an open market there exist hospitals and doctors that do charitable work. In a socialized medical world doctors do what the big scary government tells them to do and nothing more.
If the government wants to help people get medical coverage, here's the solution:
1. Cap lawsuit damages on malpractice suits. These outrageous settlements continue to drive up the cost of health care for everyone as doctors are forced to pay higher and higher malpractice premiums.
2. Kill off Medicare, Medicaid, and all of the other government managed health care programs and replace them with a simple voucher system for eligible citizens. If people can't afford medical insurance, the government can offer a credit voucher so the consumer gets to choose their coverage. Let the providers compete with each other and not the government and I guarantee you will be shocked at how affordable and excellent insurance suddenly becomes.
I switched to a credit union that has stayed healthy in an otherwise toxic financial environment. The answers to your two questions are 'no' and 'no' respectively.
Wells Fargo has made so much money charging their customers fees (I think there might be a fee for fee processing) that they not only didn't need to take bailout money, they can afford to build a nice shiny corporate office with heated sidewalks. HEATED SIDEWALKS.
When I found out that my bank was being bought by Wells Feego I changed banks. When I went in to close the account, they asked why. When I told the teller it was because of the impending transfer she told me she was planning on quitting on the day of the changeover.
A good friend of mine worked in their credit card department for a very short while, he had to quit because he wasn't getting any sleep.
I hope W.F. sues itself into oblivion. This is one time I'll actually cheer for them to win a lawsuit. Let's go for quadruple damages while we're at it and see to it that the lawyers get an 80% fee on the proceeds.
I'd love to start using this tech in my prototypes. The big question of course is how this stuff compares to an equivalently functional traditional PCB in price.
Another question that comes to mind has to do with the well established design principles used in RF level circuits. Parasitic capacitance calculations and all of the nastiness that goes along with it will become even more like black magic now that it has crossed into the third dimension.
Do you consider the phrase "patently offensive" to be well defined?
The problem with laws is that they have to deal with concepts that are often fuzzy at best, completely undefinable at worst and almost always irritatingly vague. This is why judges have jobs, because they are where the laws meet reality. Unfortunately judges are also humans subject to their own biases and preconceptions and so we often get objectionable outcomes.
Is this guy guilty of bad taste? Definitely. Is it kiddie porn? No, and shame on the D.A. for trying this.
That sounds good, can you make some toast for me please? Someone else here is bound to be a butter knife, so maybe we can get a team effort going?
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Thank you, you got the gist of my post.
Every language has its strengths, weaknesses, glaringly awful bits, shiningly wonderful bits, and all of the subculture that go with those things. No language is perfect or even acceptable for every job.
PHP is an extremely organic language. It is the result of hundreds of developers' efforts and the inclusion of many modules that were once addons.
I've been using it since very early version 3.0, so I know why things are named the way they are. That doesn't make them any more consistent and it certainly doesn't make old code that grew up with the language any less correspondingly organic (read ugly and hackish).
Also, you forgot:
C++ - The emo kids C# - The wannabes BASIC - Special Education Brainfuck - The kid who bit someone in third grade and now eats at his own table because he growls slightly too often
etc etc.
I'm hoping I can get a few more Underrated mods, I'd LOVE to have my first +5 Flamebait.
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Now I don't have to do a song and dance of ugly hacks to get what I need from a file on systems without the extention.
Oh wait, almost any PHP project eventually gets reduced to a song and dance of ugly hacks.
Please take your strawman off of your slippery slope and go home.
People who derive sexual pleasure from children are almost invariably broken in some fundamental way. They cannot be reformed and if given the chance they WILL reoffend.
You know what almost completely eliminates the risk of getting HIV? NOT HAVING SEX WITH RANDOM PEOPLE. Don't be such a whore (male or female) and your chances of acquiring all kinds of nasty things goes way down.
Fire the unions and cut every employee's pay by the exact amount of their union dues. Pass the savings on to the consumer either by dropping the price to match the lack of quality or improve the quality and keep the price the same. Tada!
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The economics of the game shift to using your resources more wisely. This means getting smarter with your rigs, and smarter about the situations you put yourself into. It also means that many pure PvP corps will begin either hiring industrialists or contracting indy corps to do the heavy ISK lifting. The dynamics will change, but only for the better. Anyone who quits the game because they can't buy wins any more is improving everyone else's experience by quitting.
There would be a lot less douchebaggery in WoW if you lost all of your purples on the first gank.
That's the idea. This move is meant to pull in the Halo monkeys of the world who are in it to run-shoot-run.
The idea as I understand it is to have corps issue contracts for battles on planet surfaces. The battles determine regional control of planets, which ultimately determines control of the whole planet. Control the major planets of a system and you control the system, and so on up the scale to entire constellations and regions of space.
The shooters get their fun by fighting the ground battles for whoever pays them the most. The Corporate Overlords of EvE issue mercenary contracts and use the shooters as pawns in the much larger game/metagame. Both sides will (in theory) get a much richer experience from this move.
It's a huge gamble and I hope it pays off for CCP. My only wish is that they port the game to the PC so that I can enjoy it, because I have no intention of shelling out $350+ for a game console.
The commons? Do you mean the consumer? When a business is taxed, it is forced to pass that additional expense on to its customers in the form of price increases. Higher prices make that business less competitive and therefore damaged.
All taxes are ultimately imposed upon the individual, some just inflict collateral damage as they pass by.
My post was about the inherent corruption of authoritarian governments. Discussion of my signature is off-topic at best.
Some people think the Rodney King riots were a justified response too. It would appear that they are cut from the same cloth.
The people who impose such limits invariably exempt themselves.
I would champion the "microwave your magazines" movement on day one.
is paved with good intentions. Notice to government officials and their supporters: QUIT TRYING TO FIX STUFF, YOU ONLY MAKE IT WORSE.
We're talking about twitter. This is the equivalent of running a steam roller over a chipmunk farm: Somewhat disturbing, oddly hilarious, and ultimately a loss of nothing but a bunch of chattering rodents.
Which of those two is preferable? The outcome is presumably the same.
The difference is this: in a socialist medical system your hope ends there. In an open market there exist hospitals and doctors that do charitable work. In a socialized medical world doctors do what the big scary government tells them to do and nothing more.
If the government wants to help people get medical coverage, here's the solution:
1. Cap lawsuit damages on malpractice suits. These outrageous settlements continue to drive up the cost of health care for everyone as doctors are forced to pay higher and higher malpractice premiums.
2. Kill off Medicare, Medicaid, and all of the other government managed health care programs and replace them with a simple voucher system for eligible citizens. If people can't afford medical insurance, the government can offer a credit voucher so the consumer gets to choose their coverage. Let the providers compete with each other and not the government and I guarantee you will be shocked at how affordable and excellent insurance suddenly becomes.
Congratulations, in an effort to extol a virtue of socialized medicine you beautifully summarized why it is desperately wrong on a human level.
I hope you never have the experience of a bureaucrat telling you that your life is not worth saving.
To keep out the illegal aliens!
*insert rimshot here*
I switched to a credit union that has stayed healthy in an otherwise toxic financial environment. The answers to your two questions are 'no' and 'no' respectively.
Wells Fargo has made so much money charging their customers fees (I think there might be a fee for fee processing) that they not only didn't need to take bailout money, they can afford to build a nice shiny corporate office with heated sidewalks. HEATED SIDEWALKS.
When I found out that my bank was being bought by Wells Feego I changed banks. When I went in to close the account, they asked why. When I told the teller it was because of the impending transfer she told me she was planning on quitting on the day of the changeover.
A good friend of mine worked in their credit card department for a very short while, he had to quit because he wasn't getting any sleep.
I hope W.F. sues itself into oblivion. This is one time I'll actually cheer for them to win a lawsuit. Let's go for quadruple damages while we're at it and see to it that the lawyers get an 80% fee on the proceeds.
You mean your prototypes don't work on the first try every time?
I'd love to start using this tech in my prototypes. The big question of course is how this stuff compares to an equivalently functional traditional PCB in price.
Another question that comes to mind has to do with the well established design principles used in RF level circuits. Parasitic capacitance calculations and all of the nastiness that goes along with it will become even more like black magic now that it has crossed into the third dimension.
Do you consider the phrase "patently offensive" to be well defined?
The problem with laws is that they have to deal with concepts that are often fuzzy at best, completely undefinable at worst and almost always irritatingly vague. This is why judges have jobs, because they are where the laws meet reality. Unfortunately judges are also humans subject to their own biases and preconceptions and so we often get objectionable outcomes.
Is this guy guilty of bad taste? Definitely.
Is it kiddie porn? No, and shame on the D.A. for trying this.
That sounds good, can you make some toast for me please? Someone else here is bound to be a butter knife, so maybe we can get a team effort going?
Thank you, you got the gist of my post.
Every language has its strengths, weaknesses, glaringly awful bits, shiningly wonderful bits, and all of the subculture that go with those things. No language is perfect or even acceptable for every job.
PHP is an extremely organic language. It is the result of hundreds of developers' efforts and the inclusion of many modules that were once addons.
I've been using it since very early version 3.0, so I know why things are named the way they are. That doesn't make them any more consistent and it certainly doesn't make old code that grew up with the language any less correspondingly organic (read ugly and hackish).
Also, you forgot:
C++ - The emo kids
C# - The wannabes
BASIC - Special Education
Brainfuck - The kid who bit someone in third grade and now eats at his own table because he growls slightly too often
etc etc.
I'm hoping I can get a few more Underrated mods, I'd LOVE to have my first +5 Flamebait.
Now I don't have to do a song and dance of ugly hacks to get what I need from a file on systems without the extention.
Oh wait, almost any PHP project eventually gets reduced to a song and dance of ugly hacks.
Please take your strawman off of your slippery slope and go home.
People who derive sexual pleasure from children are almost invariably broken in some fundamental way. They cannot be reformed and if given the chance they WILL reoffend.
Looks like a whore had some mod points and couldn't find the -1:I'm Offended
You know what almost completely eliminates the risk of getting HIV? NOT HAVING SEX WITH RANDOM PEOPLE. Don't be such a whore (male or female) and your chances of acquiring all kinds of nasty things goes way down.
Fire the unions and cut every employee's pay by the exact amount of their union dues. Pass the savings on to the consumer either by dropping the price to match the lack of quality or improve the quality and keep the price the same. Tada!
I just read your post in stunned disbelief. Your analogy is remarkable in many MANY ways. Congratulations to you good sir, you just won the internet.
Please mod parent up; if you don't understand, look up quants.