There is nothing wrong with playing games as long as it doesn't preclude living a real life, owning and improving a house, raising kids etc.
I'm not exactly sure what those things have to do with "growing up". It's quite possible to be mature without having a yard, and not having kids, just as it's possible (if not common) to be irresponsible while having both.
You really think that the fact that people had children and manual labor jobs in the past was better than having children and non-back-breaking jobs later? Do you think that having children and manual labor jobs actually meant that people were more responsible, more capable of properly raising children, and more likely to understand the consequences of their actions? And what does "having larger families" have to do with being responsible? There's a large number of situations where it's very irresponsible.
I think you've been infected with the "good ol' days" syndrome.
Any time the consumer pays money and then gets something that is less in resale than they put out for it, they "lose". It's very rare for the consumer to "win" when buying things. I suppose if you could find a way to quantify people's enjoyment of a game, you could look at a different definition of "winning" for the consumer (I think this is the attempt behind how many hours of gameplay it takes to finish something, on average).
I never really understood (yes, I understand it was ultimately a stylistic choice to retain the FX that were in place 20 years ago) why a galactic society would have such a problem with video and audio quality in their communications.
I had a similar experience looking at code I did in college a short while ago (archived all the code to CD and just recently rediscovered it). I was both amazed that the code was so good, but at the same time was saddened to realize that I just don't have the same interest level to do it that I used to. For whatever reason, it just doesn't appeal to me anymore.
Actually most of this training isn't happening in Universities (though it is certain that IBM would love that, too). IBM contracts out to "business partners" for their training classes now.
I think the point was that the people who figure that out on their own likely have the ability to develop skills required for high-level programming jobs.
Well, assuming it was a deliberate deception they might be able to sue, but I don't think the general stockholder has the resources to do such a thing.
This is of course why people are supposed to do research on companies they buy into, rather than take it from someone else that it's a good investment.
I think it probably depends a lot on the type of crossbow in question. There were the little crossbows that just required a little effort to load, while on the other hand there were the bigass ones that you had to set one end on the ground and use a great deal of strength to winch back into firing position.
Obviously the former is much more point and click than the latter.
Oh, and the handbrake works on the *front* brakes, not the back, and will actually safely stop you in an emergency (takes a long time though).
Are you talking about only your car? Because I know in some of my mid-80's craptastic Ford Escort "cars" that the parking brake effected the rear wheels.... (incidentally, they didn't work... the parking brakes, not the wheels... took me until I got my Civic EX to finally have a car where the parking brake worked)
This question was very poorly phrased, as it's not easy to tell if the goal is to go entirely FOSS for OS and applications, or just for some applications and leaving the underlying MS Windows platform in place.
Stock shares don't get split because they stay still. They get split because they've increased in value and management wants to make sure the price is within the range of a certain segment of stockholders (and for a variety of papershuffly reasons). Any stock that has been split can still be recombined (not officially, but mathematically) to show what the price would have been, had there been no splits. In other words, the overall price still matters. If BRKA had split twice the stockholder still has the same value, and _that_ number is what matters, not the price of the two split stocks.
My advice to you is to go outside and get some sun, you'll feel better.
So you're saying that the capital gains appreciation is the important part, not the stock price itself, which was my assertion all along.
You can't have capital gains without that little number at some point going from a lower value to a higher value. That little number represents the stock price. Stop trying to win this one, go pick a battle that you're not certain to lose.
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I suggest in the future you think a little bit longer before hitting submit.
I'm not exactly sure what those things have to do with "growing up". It's quite possible to be mature without having a yard, and not having kids, just as it's possible (if not common) to be irresponsible while having both.
You really think that the fact that people had children and manual labor jobs in the past was better than having children and non-back-breaking jobs later? Do you think that having children and manual labor jobs actually meant that people were more responsible, more capable of properly raising children, and more likely to understand the consequences of their actions? And what does "having larger families" have to do with being responsible? There's a large number of situations where it's very irresponsible. I think you've been infected with the "good ol' days" syndrome.
Any time the consumer pays money and then gets something that is less in resale than they put out for it, they "lose". It's very rare for the consumer to "win" when buying things. I suppose if you could find a way to quantify people's enjoyment of a game, you could look at a different definition of "winning" for the consumer (I think this is the attempt behind how many hours of gameplay it takes to finish something, on average).
If you spend the money on a decent LCD you most certainly can. It's not like LCDs are fixed resolution, or something like that.
Yeah, I've always liked that explanation a lot more. It fits in better with Solo's personality.
I never really understood (yes, I understand it was ultimately a stylistic choice to retain the FX that were in place 20 years ago) why a galactic society would have such a problem with video and audio quality in their communications.
I had a similar experience looking at code I did in college a short while ago (archived all the code to CD and just recently rediscovered it). I was both amazed that the code was so good, but at the same time was saddened to realize that I just don't have the same interest level to do it that I used to. For whatever reason, it just doesn't appeal to me anymore.
Actually most of this training isn't happening in Universities (though it is certain that IBM would love that, too). IBM contracts out to "business partners" for their training classes now.
(though it occurs to me that you could be taking real estate as a whole and not just residential real estate)
I think the point was that the people who figure that out on their own likely have the ability to develop skills required for high-level programming jobs.
I thank my lucky stars that I, infact, do not.
I'm not so sure that isn't still the case ;P
This is of course why people are supposed to do research on companies they buy into, rather than take it from someone else that it's a good investment.
Obviously the former is much more point and click than the latter.
Gimme a ballista anyday.
Ah, gotcha.
Are you talking about only your car? Because I know in some of my mid-80's craptastic Ford Escort "cars" that the parking brake effected the rear wheels.... (incidentally, they didn't work... the parking brakes, not the wheels... took me until I got my Civic EX to finally have a car where the parking brake worked)
This question was very poorly phrased, as it's not easy to tell if the goal is to go entirely FOSS for OS and applications, or just for some applications and leaving the underlying MS Windows platform in place.
How exactly are "crack, PCP, etc" automatically liabilities to others?
My advice to you is to go outside and get some sun, you'll feel better.
Yeah unfortunately to read WoT you have to have some measure of incredible patience, on multiple levels.
You can't have capital gains without that little number at some point going from a lower value to a higher value. That little number represents the stock price. Stop trying to win this one, go pick a battle that you're not certain to lose.
That's not really the point. The point is the capital gains appreciation in spending $200 which is now worth $83,000.
Oh for those options....
Oh to be Warren. That'd rock. A lot.