RTFA or watch the video. The first part of the plan is to renew and improve the already existing infrastructure to make things get better. It's not about dumping stretches of high-speed rail in random places.
Yes, how surprising, a highly educated president with an IQ of about 170 does think things through, as it turns out. Whereas you do think things through, but you do so before even knowing what you're talking about.
You don't understand, this is Slashdot, to us the RIAA is like Scientology to others, and in our twisted view anyone contaminated by the RIAA virus will for the rest of his life hell bent on being part of the "they" in Slashdot's collective subconscious "They're all out to get us!" cry.
And before anyone tells me I should have seen this mistake if I was using something as good as the Pro version, the Platinum version comes with an irony detector.
OK, first off there's two kids of Muslims in the USA, the Nation of Islam/5 percenters which are to Islam as the Mormons are to Christianity (really, their Allah was born in the early 1900s in Detroit) and immigrant Muslims, you can't mix the two.
How are the latter well integrated? The USA are the one place where most people think of them the strongest as linked to terrorism, whereas in Europe they're more like our own Mexicans.
There's a critical problem with popular, mainstream video games that isn't as large with other mediums; they are expensive to make and require a lot of time and effort put in to create something masterful.
Like.... movies?
Games that cost hundreds of million dollars to make aren't the best place to experiment. I think big game studios should create R&D departments where they'd make small games to test a new concept and give it to a number of people to test.
I know it makes sense, but I still get annoyed to see NPCs getting a different treatment than my player does, I mean, what's the fun in being magically and permanently different from all others? That's what's good about multiplayer games, everyone's equal and alike.
If all your squad died you'd rather be placed into another squad than have a whole new squad based around you.
That's the sad thing about most video games with NPCs, they're heavily unrealistically biased towards you. It's like in GTA games, any gangster can shoot you right before the eyes of a bunch of cops and not get in trouble, but if you so much as shoot back you'll have every cop in town on your tail.
It's called "too soon". Although it probably also has to do with getting to historically accurate.
Although the family in question does have a point, "When our loved one's 'health meter' dropped to '0', they didn't get to 'retry' the mission."
Instead of getting to retry you should switch bodies with another member of your unit, that would detrivialise things a bit and give a better sense of what death does. Actually I can't believe no war game ever used that idea before..
I'm really not sure what you mean by "very limited". If you mean that it doesn't export as well as American programs then, no, but that's the same thing for the rest of the entire world, only Americans excel at exporting their culture.
Not sure what you mean by "compete" either, if you mean in quality, then do point me to an American show that competes with Blackadder or A Bit of Fry & Laurie. If you judge how good a show is by how many viewers it would get on American television then I'm afraid few foreign shows are as "good" as say Scrubs;-).
Red Dwarf is pretty unique anyways, it's pure comedy but in a scifi setting, with scifi plots, but the comedy and characters really come first. Try watching it?
Pfft, what the hell do you think, that the US military are any worse than any other? But congrats for going from "showing a movie to a captured dictator" to "omg nukular end of the world", Lewis Black might have a job for you. By the way I'm European too, but I'm not acting like a pussy.
Do you guys even realise that there's no such product as Linux? Saying "Get Linux" is like saying "Got Milk?", except that anyone knows where to get milk. Where does my mom buy that "Linux" thing? Or is she supposed to find out what Linux is and figure out which distro is good for her?
Do you really think it would be anything like "hey, let's spray those aerosols for a few minutes and see what happens!" type of thing? They're scientists, they have methods. We know the effects of such chemicals on the global atmosphere from volcanic eruptions which have actually cooled the atmosphere for a few months/couple of years.
Based on that and more, they can predict what their eventual actions will do. Say anything you want about climate simulations and such (lots of BS spouted about what they're worth by complete laymen these days), but any climatologist worth his salt can correctly estimate the uncertainty and range of error of predictions/simulations, regardless of what people keep saying about scientists always being wrong about anything. If climatologists tell you it would help to dump a certain quantity of certain aerosols in the atmosphere, you should probably listen.
Speaking as a Principal Engineer at a Fortune 500 company
Are you hiring C/C++ software engineers by any chance?
A magical place where people of various appearances speak mysterious languages and live strongly varying lifestyles.
It may be of relevance to note that the richer and better educated of this "rest of the World" find it profoundly amusing that anyone would be stupid enough to doubt the scientific consensus on climatological "hot" topics, if you'll pardon the pun.
If you put your asteroid far enough then it will occult all of Earth while never occulting the Sun (as seen from Earth) fully but rather being a tiny black dot in the disc of the Sun.
Using an asteroid for that is hardly anywhere near vaguely and remotely possible. Some sort of dark sheet launched in space would be more like it, or even a constellation of them, but considered how large it would have to be that's also a bit out of reach.
Oh right, you mean, nuclear winter? Sure, see scientists are so fucking dumb and incompetent they wouldn't know they difference between turning the heat down a little and totally ruining the planet by preventing the least ray of light from reaching the ground.
By the way, careful with that glass of water, you might just drown yourself into it.
WTF, ok first of all, an ice age? I know it's popular to distrust scientists, but you'd think they'd know the difference between curbing the dramatic heat increases and inducing an ice age.
And then, WTF, in what twisted version of history did the Treaty of Versailles have any negative consequences? More importantly, what kind of comparison is that anyways?
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RTFA or watch the video. The first part of the plan is to renew and improve the already existing infrastructure to make things get better. It's not about dumping stretches of high-speed rail in random places.
Yes, how surprising, a highly educated president with an IQ of about 170 does think things through, as it turns out. Whereas you do think things through, but you do so before even knowing what you're talking about.
Buses with WiFi?!?!!
How could we forget them?
You don't understand, this is Slashdot, to us the RIAA is like Scientology to others, and in our twisted view anyone contaminated by the RIAA virus will for the rest of his life hell bent on being part of the "they" in Slashdot's collective subconscious "They're all out to get us!" cry.
And before anyone tells me I should have seen this mistake if I was using something as good as the Pro version, the Platinum version comes with an irony detector.
In the Pro version, all grammar is corrected. [...] It gives me a text field where I right in the correct answer
You should try the Platinum version, it even corrects syntax and makes your posts sound automatically both funny and insightful!
OK, first off there's two kids of Muslims in the USA, the Nation of Islam/5 percenters which are to Islam as the Mormons are to Christianity (really, their Allah was born in the early 1900s in Detroit) and immigrant Muslims, you can't mix the two.
How are the latter well integrated? The USA are the one place where most people think of them the strongest as linked to terrorism, whereas in Europe they're more like our own Mexicans.
Here, have a reality check
Y'all niggaz postin in a troll thread
There's a critical problem with popular, mainstream video games that isn't as large with other mediums; they are expensive to make and require a lot of time and effort put in to create something masterful.
Like.... movies?
Games that cost hundreds of million dollars to make aren't the best place to experiment. I think big game studios should create R&D departments where they'd make small games to test a new concept and give it to a number of people to test.
I know it makes sense, but I still get annoyed to see NPCs getting a different treatment than my player does, I mean, what's the fun in being magically and permanently different from all others? That's what's good about multiplayer games, everyone's equal and alike.
If all your squad died you'd rather be placed into another squad than have a whole new squad based around you.
That's the sad thing about most video games with NPCs, they're heavily unrealistically biased towards you. It's like in GTA games, any gangster can shoot you right before the eyes of a bunch of cops and not get in trouble, but if you so much as shoot back you'll have every cop in town on your tail.
It's called "too soon". Although it probably also has to do with getting to historically accurate.
Although the family in question does have a point, "When our loved one's 'health meter' dropped to '0', they didn't get to 'retry' the mission."
Instead of getting to retry you should switch bodies with another member of your unit, that would detrivialise things a bit and give a better sense of what death does. Actually I can't believe no war game ever used that idea before..
I'm really not sure what you mean by "very limited". If you mean that it doesn't export as well as American programs then, no, but that's the same thing for the rest of the entire world, only Americans excel at exporting their culture.
Not sure what you mean by "compete" either, if you mean in quality, then do point me to an American show that competes with Blackadder or A Bit of Fry & Laurie. If you judge how good a show is by how many viewers it would get on American television then I'm afraid few foreign shows are as "good" as say Scrubs ;-).
Red Dwarf is pretty unique anyways, it's pure comedy but in a scifi setting, with scifi plots, but the comedy and characters really come first. Try watching it?
Not to mention their suit thing is called HAL. Wake me up when they make an electric car called the USS Enterprise.
Well, you could try and explain the point I missed instead of being a short-fused twat.
Yeah, illegal gun ownership. I love how people like to be blind to the nuance.
Pfft, what the hell do you think, that the US military are any worse than any other? But congrats for going from "showing a movie to a captured dictator" to "omg nukular end of the world", Lewis Black might have a job for you. By the way I'm European too, but I'm not acting like a pussy.
Do you guys even realise that there's no such product as Linux? Saying "Get Linux" is like saying "Got Milk?", except that anyone knows where to get milk. Where does my mom buy that "Linux" thing? Or is she supposed to find out what Linux is and figure out which distro is good for her?
Market an actual product for fuck's sake!
How many is "over 90?" 91? 839,723,435? What?
People stopped caring about that issue at least 100 years ago.
Do you really think it would be anything like "hey, let's spray those aerosols for a few minutes and see what happens!" type of thing? They're scientists, they have methods. We know the effects of such chemicals on the global atmosphere from volcanic eruptions which have actually cooled the atmosphere for a few months/couple of years.
Based on that and more, they can predict what their eventual actions will do. Say anything you want about climate simulations and such (lots of BS spouted about what they're worth by complete laymen these days), but any climatologist worth his salt can correctly estimate the uncertainty and range of error of predictions/simulations, regardless of what people keep saying about scientists always being wrong about anything. If climatologists tell you it would help to dump a certain quantity of certain aerosols in the atmosphere, you should probably listen.
Speaking as a Principal Engineer at a Fortune 500 company
Are you hiring C/C++ software engineers by any chance?
Yeah.. the difference between poisonous snakes and aerosols is that aerosols haven't found yet a way to reproduce sexually.
A magical place where people of various appearances speak mysterious languages and live strongly varying lifestyles.
It may be of relevance to note that the richer and better educated of this "rest of the World" find it profoundly amusing that anyone would be stupid enough to doubt the scientific consensus on climatological "hot" topics, if you'll pardon the pun.
If you put your asteroid far enough then it will occult all of Earth while never occulting the Sun (as seen from Earth) fully but rather being a tiny black dot in the disc of the Sun.
Using an asteroid for that is hardly anywhere near vaguely and remotely possible. Some sort of dark sheet launched in space would be more like it, or even a constellation of them, but considered how large it would have to be that's also a bit out of reach.
Oh right, you mean, nuclear winter? Sure, see scientists are so fucking dumb and incompetent they wouldn't know they difference between turning the heat down a little and totally ruining the planet by preventing the least ray of light from reaching the ground.
By the way, careful with that glass of water, you might just drown yourself into it.
WTF, ok first of all, an ice age? I know it's popular to distrust scientists, but you'd think they'd know the difference between curbing the dramatic heat increases and inducing an ice age.
And then, WTF, in what twisted version of history did the Treaty of Versailles have any negative consequences? More importantly, what kind of comparison is that anyways?
Enjoy your skin cancer.