Yeah.. that's if you way overshot the dosage, and actually, I kind of doubt you'd get anywhere near throwing enough of that shit in the air, nor that it would last long enough.
And I don't think it's about responsibility, but more about what happens if we do nothing vs. what happens if we follow certain courses of action. I.e. it's all about the bottom line.
To sum it up : sure, it's very slightly unprofessional of the US Army. This being said, who cares, plus the movie's actually funny, it might even have alleviated some of the guy's boredom. If I've watched that movie half a dozen times, surely a most infamous and ruthless dictator can watch it more than that.
Actually your comparison is flawed, 10.5 isn't supposed to run on a 800 MHz PPC, it asks for at least 867 MHz, whereas Vista asks for 800 MHz, and you talked about 2,000 MHz.
Sure, Vista is not a horrible failure. The Wikipedia article about Criticism of Windows Vista is only half as long as Barack Obama's article. If it was just as long, then it would be an horrible failure.
I think the point you're missing is that while we want to kill people to win battles and wars, we want to do it as humanely, painlessly and clean-lookingly as possible. Ideally weapons would work like in Call of Duty, they either kill you quickly or you get to resume your life normally.
Besides, killing people in a most horrible way tends to throw oil on the fire of the enemy's hatred.
Actually one main reason you wouldn't have an holocaust game would be because the game play would be boring. A fish-in-a-barrel shooter would be more fun than telling a bunch of prisoners what to do, lock them in a room and push a lever.
Yay, I got myself a stalker coming back to haunt me with hardly even related discussions! If you thought that linking to that discussion would get me to finally read your unread handful of book chapter-long comments because it really aches you that I brought such a frustrating end to this fascinating debate then think again, failtroll.
Here's what the actual stimulus law says on the topic:
US Geological Survey
For an additional amount for ''Surveys, Investigations, and Research'', $140,000,000, for repair, construction and restoration of facilities; equipment replacement and upgrades including stream gages, and seismic and volcano monitoring systems; national map activities; and other critical deferred maintenance and improvement projects.
Although when I looked for the source here it says $200M instead..
Anyways, I don't see the controversy, those things need public funding, and that's what it's about, they won't magically fund themselves, and they do cost money.
Wait, fantasy isn't all about dragons and fairies, is it? Isn't fantasy also things like X-Files, where it all takes place in the present but there's only a few things that are impossible? Or what do you call that genre then?
Congratulations sir, you've successfully applied the problem-solving techniques pioneered by the Bush administration!
1) Problem : 96% of netbooks run Windows 2) Solution : Redefine "netbook" to exclude anything that runs Windows 3) Problem solved : 0% of netbooks run Windows!!!
Just one problem : who'll want to give up the possibility of running Windows on a netbook, or rather, how much of a price difference/battery life difference could make people abandon that possibility?
Yeah well, I must agree that you guys' Labour party is pretty full of shit, and what they've done since they're in power is pretty mind boggling considered they're supposed to be leaning left, but everytime they make the slightest mood goes "DOOOOOOOM!!!" "OMG totalitarian nazi fascist dictatorship!!" "First they came for X and I didn't speak!" "OMG tis 1984 except it's 2009!!!" and so on...
Yay, paranoid hippie rethoric. Oh noes, our monstrous and heartless dictator Gordon Brown is trying to make e-mail providers retain some info about e-mail traffic! The unspeakable horror! Crime against humanity!
Oh cut the crap, Slashdot just keeps making a feast of nascent bills and legislations that won't actually have any impact, either because they won't actually be put in effect or because they're absurd.
Besides, it's nothing like dictatorship, cause it involves, you know, a dictator... If hippies like the ones who crowd Slashdot could attempt to make sense and make reasonable claims instead of spouting drivel by borrowing sensational words and concept that don't actually mean or imply what they wish. It's just like veggie nutjobs calling meat production "genocide" when "genocide" is really only for people.
lol.. no seriously, do you fools even know what a dictatorship is? "a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)"
You see, "dictatorship" is made of two parts, "dictator", and "ship". That usually involves an actual dictator. If it was a dictatorship, David Cameron would have disappeared and you'd sing songs to the glory of your great and majestic leader Gordon Brown.
Usually that kind of legislation doesn't ever see the light of the day, but okay, sure, watch out, they're all out to get you, whatever floats your boat..
Or more realistically : no one's gonna give a fuck, as usual, and that "directive" and anything similar won't turn into anything significant and will have at best a legislative life expectancy of a few years.
Yeah, a dictatorship, right, now excuse me while I'm being deported to a secret gulag in Devonshire. I miss those good old days when you could trust that only the telephone lady was eavesdropping on your conversations.
You're right, the world would not end, long dead is the configuration we were in until the late 1980s when two blocks were a twitch away from letting the ICBMs rain, but still you don't want a blitzkrieg between North Korea and Japan where Japan would end up losing 100,000-200,000 civilians and where we'd all have to go kick the ass of a North Korea in state of total war. Because it's very doubtful we'd even send one nuke back to North Korea, for multiple reasons, one being how frowned upon it would be and another being how China and South Korea would disapprove of suffering the poisonous consequences.
I totally agree, and I realise that this is done with good intentions, to make sure the nutcases or just the guys who already have too much power in the region to our taste don't get it, but talking about a "nuke-free world" is just so hypocritical because anyone knows that it's bullshit, the guy who says it is the last guy who'd throw his gun away, and everyone knows he never will.
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Yeah.. that's if you way overshot the dosage, and actually, I kind of doubt you'd get anywhere near throwing enough of that shit in the air, nor that it would last long enough.
And I don't think it's about responsibility, but more about what happens if we do nothing vs. what happens if we follow certain courses of action. I.e. it's all about the bottom line.
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with that. Besides moot or Stephen Colbert becoming president of the world that is..
To sum it up : sure, it's very slightly unprofessional of the US Army. This being said, who cares, plus the movie's actually funny, it might even have alleviated some of the guy's boredom. If I've watched that movie half a dozen times, surely a most infamous and ruthless dictator can watch it more than that.
Everybody knows that they're libertarians. Actually I can't think of any more vocal libertarians in the USA after Ron Paul.
Actually your comparison is flawed, 10.5 isn't supposed to run on a 800 MHz PPC, it asks for at least 867 MHz, whereas Vista asks for 800 MHz, and you talked about 2,000 MHz.
Sure, Vista is not a horrible failure. The Wikipedia article about Criticism of Windows Vista is only half as long as Barack Obama's article. If it was just as long, then it would be an horrible failure.
Who fucking cares, get over it, loser. lol.
I think the point you're missing is that while we want to kill people to win battles and wars, we want to do it as humanely, painlessly and clean-lookingly as possible. Ideally weapons would work like in Call of Duty, they either kill you quickly or you get to resume your life normally.
Besides, killing people in a most horrible way tends to throw oil on the fire of the enemy's hatred.
Actually one main reason you wouldn't have an holocaust game would be because the game play would be boring. A fish-in-a-barrel shooter would be more fun than telling a bunch of prisoners what to do, lock them in a room and push a lever.
they are always extremely one sited
Not true, in most games I've played they have maps of very different locations.
Yay, I got myself a stalker coming back to haunt me with hardly even related discussions! If you thought that linking to that discussion would get me to finally read your unread handful of book chapter-long comments because it really aches you that I brought such a frustrating end to this fascinating debate then think again, failtroll.
Here's what the actual stimulus law says on the topic :
US Geological Survey
For an additional amount for ''Surveys, Investigations, and Research'', $140,000,000, for repair, construction and restoration of facilities; equipment replacement and upgrades including stream gages, and seismic and volcano monitoring systems; national map activities; and other critical deferred maintenance and improvement projects.
Although when I looked for the source here it says $200M instead..
Anyways, I don't see the controversy, those things need public funding, and that's what it's about, they won't magically fund themselves, and they do cost money.
Surely you mean Fyxyon
Wait, fantasy isn't all about dragons and fairies, is it? Isn't fantasy also things like X-Files, where it all takes place in the present but there's only a few things that are impossible? Or what do you call that genre then?
10 billion last year
Congratulations sir, you've successfully applied the problem-solving techniques pioneered by the Bush administration!
1) Problem : 96% of netbooks run Windows
2) Solution : Redefine "netbook" to exclude anything that runs Windows
3) Problem solved : 0% of netbooks run Windows!!!
Just one problem : who'll want to give up the possibility of running Windows on a netbook, or rather, how much of a price difference/battery life difference could make people abandon that possibility?
Yeah well, I must agree that you guys' Labour party is pretty full of shit, and what they've done since they're in power is pretty mind boggling considered they're supposed to be leaning left, but everytime they make the slightest mood goes "DOOOOOOOM!!!" "OMG totalitarian nazi fascist dictatorship!!" "First they came for X and I didn't speak!" "OMG tis 1984 except it's 2009!!!" and so on...
Yay, paranoid hippie rethoric. Oh noes, our monstrous and heartless dictator Gordon Brown is trying to make e-mail providers retain some info about e-mail traffic! The unspeakable horror! Crime against humanity!
Oh cut the crap, Slashdot just keeps making a feast of nascent bills and legislations that won't actually have any impact, either because they won't actually be put in effect or because they're absurd.
Besides, it's nothing like dictatorship, cause it involves, you know, a dictator... If hippies like the ones who crowd Slashdot could attempt to make sense and make reasonable claims instead of spouting drivel by borrowing sensational words and concept that don't actually mean or imply what they wish. It's just like veggie nutjobs calling meat production "genocide" when "genocide" is really only for people.
lol.. no seriously, do you fools even know what a dictatorship is? "a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)"
You see, "dictatorship" is made of two parts, "dictator", and "ship". That usually involves an actual dictator. If it was a dictatorship, David Cameron would have disappeared and you'd sing songs to the glory of your great and majestic leader Gordon Brown.
Usually that kind of legislation doesn't ever see the light of the day, but okay, sure, watch out, they're all out to get you, whatever floats your boat..
Or more realistically : no one's gonna give a fuck, as usual, and that "directive" and anything similar won't turn into anything significant and will have at best a legislative life expectancy of a few years.
Yeah, a dictatorship, right, now excuse me while I'm being deported to a secret gulag in Devonshire. I miss those good old days when you could trust that only the telephone lady was eavesdropping on your conversations.
You're right, the world would not end, long dead is the configuration we were in until the late 1980s when two blocks were a twitch away from letting the ICBMs rain, but still you don't want a blitzkrieg between North Korea and Japan where Japan would end up losing 100,000-200,000 civilians and where we'd all have to go kick the ass of a North Korea in state of total war. Because it's very doubtful we'd even send one nuke back to North Korea, for multiple reasons, one being how frowned upon it would be and another being how China and South Korea would disapprove of suffering the poisonous consequences.
I totally agree, and I realise that this is done with good intentions, to make sure the nutcases or just the guys who already have too much power in the region to our taste don't get it, but talking about a "nuke-free world" is just so hypocritical because anyone knows that it's bullshit, the guy who says it is the last guy who'd throw his gun away, and everyone knows he never will.