*chuckle* Um, okay, you're gonna tell me that because people can lose their hearing because of accident, disease, old age, etc. that being born without it makes it a normal variation?
People are born who look like they're 80 years old by the time they're 12. Is that a normal variation?
Sure, there's no one "perfect" human template in existance which is why my "normals" were in quotes. However, since the method by which the mass of humanity has chosen to communicate is *audibly*, I would suggest that the idea of deafness being an acceptable and "normal" deviation is laughable at best, and deliberately dishonest at worst.
In my, admittedly limited experience from taking a semester of ASL and having "deaf culture" lessons intermingled with that, what you're saying doesn't seem to be the actual issue.
People who subscribe to "deaf culture" seem to have constructed a world-view in which deafness isn't a biological flaw, but rather a "variation". They promote the view that a diminished or absent ability to hear is a healthy variant of the human biological norm. This is, I assume, a social reaction to the idea of being "flawed" or broken, and stems, I am sure, from the fact that by and large deaf people are capable of fully interacting with human society, so long as concessions are made for their lack of hearing.
But now its gone far beyond that, and in some cases (such as this) its gone to ridiculous extremes. Instead of being ostracized by hearing (aka "normal") humans, they ostracize people who recognize that deafness is not the human norm, and actually use technology to fix it.
It saddened (and angered) me when I first encountered this. Deaf people of this opinion think that folks who want to "fix" them just don't "get it", and that we as hearing people (as they call it) are just some sort of other normal variation on homo sapiens. As if the ability to hear is akin to hair color or something equally as irrelevant to human functioning.
I wonder if the same people would consider other birth defects "normal variations", and acceptable.
Main Entry: irony
Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -nies
Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler
Date: 1502
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
Your definition, while accurate, is only one of many. While I myself am no great fan of Morisette, at least I recognize that to be a subjective preference.
Types like you, which need to _justify_ why something subjective like music is bad irk me to no end. It's even more ironic(!) when your objective reasoning for disliking something is, in fact, erroneous.
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You have got to be kidding me.
Anyone who is at the top of their "game" in any discipline will tell you that without practice (that is, activities that keep your skills honed and fresh), your ability to excel will diminish. No question about it.
Now, if you reach a certain level of performance in something (as in your example, hockey) and then play every night (or nearly), and manage to use all those essential skills on a regular basis, of course you will upkeep that level.
Oh please, Mallrats is more watchable that 99% of the "good" stuff out there today. Even Smith's self-disparaging remarks about Mallrats are tongue-in-cheek.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find people who dislike Mallrats involved in circle jerks about overrated "edgey/original" trash like "Oz" and "Sex in the City".
You probably think CSI and Boomtown are witty, well-written shows, don't you.
Well, the problem there isn't really the product, but the user's assumption about how it was going to behave at showtime.
Students are notorious for not planning ahead. If he'd done the footwork to see how his presentation was going to interact with the equipment available, and had run a practice session or two of his slideshow, this wouldn't be an issue.
Hell, competent people, even if they make it and present it in Powerpoint on the same laptop, won't go into a presentation cold.
I went to school down the street from Mounds Park Academy at a fairly expensive private highschool, but I have a good idea what your other two school choices were like (Were they North St Paul and...???)
I was always amazed in later years how much less work public high school kids had to do to get by academically as opposed to what I had to do.
Your problem happened way at the beginning. You're inflexible about your job preference and skillset.
You don't like EVERYTHING about management, for example. So what? No one likes EVERYTHING about their job (okay, the vast minority of people). There's always something you're not going to like.
As for the theoretical conflict with your boss or what not, try learning some people skills, some smoozing skills. It's amazing what you can accomplish if you know how to _say_ it the right way.
Sounds like a lot of whining based on false premises to me.
Now what's the chance you'll sell millions of copies (even if you're really good)?????
You know, not every musician/band has the singular goal to sell millions of albums. Some of us just like to make music, and if people like our stuff, hey maybe we should put out a CD so people can take us home.
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Hey, moron, read the rest of the review:
Called to action in WWII by patriotism and is famous cousin, Henry Stimson, the War Secretary, he personally made RADAR a reality (borrowing heavily from British, who he convinced to give us all they knew), building the MIT Rad Lab from scratch into a war-time R&D lab of 5,000 people.
Claiming that EQ ripped off DAOC is rather spurious - especially when DAOC owes so much to the groundbreaking design of EQ. That the live changes to EQ and the upcoming EQ2 share a lot of innovations with DAOC is only natural, since they all are merely following the evolutionary path of MMORPGs.
He said the released info of EQ2, not EQ itself, first off. And if the "evolutionary" change of MMORPG is to be your argument, then since EQ2 came out after DAoC, it would indeed be copying.
As for content, DAoC has plenty, I'm not sure that I buy that "more is better" when it comes to content. DAoC's game content is good stuff, and the multi-level quests are full of background story for the lands.
As for number of players, if Mythic had a sudden influx of players, I'm fairly certain their solution would be more servers, not raising the number of people per server (which I admit I don't know the cap for as it stands). I write this as of 4:41pm CST on a Friday after x-mas and the highest populated server at this moment has 2370 people on it. There's another dozen or so severs with users in the mid 1000's, and those will at least double by prime-time.
One of the nice things, though, that the parent poster pointed out is that you can actually play on different servers in different styles. PvE/RvR servers have your normal "player versus MOBs" inside each realm, and then as you get to higher levels (20-50) you have varying amounts of Realm vs Realm (RvR) fighting. PvP basically are free-for-all servers after level 10. PvE servers (or Coop in Mythic lingo) as the original poster stated, is more like EQ, with NPCs holding the forts that the realms normally defend against eachother on the PvE/RvR servers.
Plus, if you want to be on the bleeding edge and see the game in development, you can copy one of your characters over to the test server and interact/help out the developers before the patches get installed on the live servers.
Which is another thing that I said in my other post: Mythic actually gives a rat's ass about the gaming experience. They're constantly carefully adding/modifying the DAoC world to make it seem alive, and to add new features. This is demonstrated by the SI expansion quite nicely, in that while you can't get to the new "continents" without the SI patch, the items from those continents and the characters from those continents can still be used by people with the old clients. The only change is that you can't pick from the 2/per realm new character classes.
It's actually fun, there's a good array of different gameplay options for different playing preferences (not only in characters, but the normal Realm vs. Realm servers, the Coop server, the PVP servers... fun for the whole family).
Plus Mythic is much more responsive to their user base.
Quite a bit of whining about character classes being nerfed all the time, but I doubt you get away from that in any given MMORPG (this coming from my personal experience with my primary character being a Ranger that supposedly got nerfed quite a bit from its starting point... I enjoy it well enough...).
I happen to be good friends with some folks that run an anime store, so know a bit about this.
The anime merchandise market is full of bootleg products, from CDs to Wallscrolls to Action Figures. It's often very difficult to discern which products are real imports and which are bootlegs. You might want to look at a page like this.
The best advice, though, is that if the deal looks too good to be true, it is. You can't import an anime soundtrack from Japan that is authentic and sell it for under $12 and make a profit.
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*chuckle* Um, okay, you're gonna tell me that because people can lose their hearing because of accident, disease, old age, etc. that being born without it makes it a normal variation?
People are born who look like they're 80 years old by the time they're 12. Is that a normal variation?
Sure, there's no one "perfect" human template in existance which is why my "normals" were in quotes. However, since the method by which the mass of humanity has chosen to communicate is *audibly*, I would suggest that the idea of deafness being an acceptable and "normal" deviation is laughable at best, and deliberately dishonest at worst.
As for your last statement. Strawman.
Eh, that's alright. Chances are the users didn't know how to use the software properly on Windows anyway, so Linux won't be any different.
Oh you wrote *trading*, not *training*.
Nevermind. =)
*shrug*
Previous versions of the DSM had homosexuality as a disease, and all but called MPD a fallacy.
Appearance of something in "official literature" is no real indicator of its truth value.
In my, admittedly limited experience from taking a semester of ASL and having "deaf culture" lessons intermingled with that, what you're saying doesn't seem to be the actual issue.
People who subscribe to "deaf culture" seem to have constructed a world-view in which deafness isn't a biological flaw, but rather a "variation". They promote the view that a diminished or absent ability to hear is a healthy variant of the human biological norm. This is, I assume, a social reaction to the idea of being "flawed" or broken, and stems, I am sure, from the fact that by and large deaf people are capable of fully interacting with human society, so long as concessions are made for their lack of hearing.
But now its gone far beyond that, and in some cases (such as this) its gone to ridiculous extremes. Instead of being ostracized by hearing (aka "normal") humans, they ostracize people who recognize that deafness is not the human norm, and actually use technology to fix it.
It saddened (and angered) me when I first encountered this. Deaf people of this opinion think that folks who want to "fix" them just don't "get it", and that we as hearing people (as they call it) are just some sort of other normal variation on homo sapiens. As if the ability to hear is akin to hair color or something equally as irrelevant to human functioning.
I wonder if the same people would consider other birth defects "normal variations", and acceptable.
Main Entry: irony Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -nies Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler Date: 1502 1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony 2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance 3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony Your definition, while accurate, is only one of many. While I myself am no great fan of Morisette, at least I recognize that to be a subjective preference. Types like you, which need to _justify_ why something subjective like music is bad irk me to no end. It's even more ironic(!) when your objective reasoning for disliking something is, in fact, erroneous.
You have got to be kidding me.
Anyone who is at the top of their "game" in any discipline will tell you that without practice (that is, activities that keep your skills honed and fresh), your ability to excel will diminish. No question about it.
Now, if you reach a certain level of performance in something (as in your example, hockey) and then play every night (or nearly), and manage to use all those essential skills on a regular basis, of course you will upkeep that level.
But never practice? Ridiculous.
I think the major objection to this story should be that it reads like a below-average alt.sex.stories post.
How about trying to use context?
View Askew had to phrase it that way in order to get even an inkling of the concept into the thick studio exec's heads.
If you were paying attention to the interviews/voiceovers, you'd have known they use the term (again) tongue-in-cheek.
Oh please, Mallrats is more watchable that 99% of the "good" stuff out there today. Even Smith's self-disparaging remarks about Mallrats are tongue-in-cheek.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find people who dislike Mallrats involved in circle jerks about overrated "edgey/original" trash like "Oz" and "Sex in the City".
You probably think CSI and Boomtown are witty, well-written shows, don't you.
I wasn't aware Dr Who aired on any station *other* than PBS in the US.
Yeah, we don't want to have story arcs that require viewers to pay attention to a plot for longer than 30-odd minutes at a time.
Nope, can't have that. Must keep our TV in bite-sized, easy-to-swallow, Full House-like capsules!
Well, the problem there isn't really the product, but the user's assumption about how it was going to behave at showtime.
Students are notorious for not planning ahead. If he'd done the footwork to see how his presentation was going to interact with the equipment available, and had run a practice session or two of his slideshow, this wouldn't be an issue.
Hell, competent people, even if they make it and present it in Powerpoint on the same laptop, won't go into a presentation cold.
B2B Bombers?
*scrambles to get a patent filled out*
You're a moron. Central was well-known in the late-80's early 90's as a school you pretty much didn't want to send your kids to.
But, as he said, it may improved since our days.
And hate to say it, but the "smartest kids from the whole city" go to private schools or other "specialty" highschools, not public schools.
Or more precisely Pokey the Penguin
I went to school down the street from Mounds Park Academy at a fairly expensive private highschool, but I have a good idea what your other two school choices were like (Were they North St Paul and...???)
I was always amazed in later years how much less work public high school kids had to do to get by academically as opposed to what I had to do.
Actually, the "Surely you must..." wasn't written by Feynmann, it was written _about_ him, and included anecdotes he himself had written.
Not exactly the same thing.
Damn straight.
Your problem happened way at the beginning. You're inflexible about your job preference and skillset.
You don't like EVERYTHING about management, for example. So what? No one likes EVERYTHING about their job (okay, the vast minority of people). There's always something you're not going to like.
As for the theoretical conflict with your boss or what not, try learning some people skills, some smoozing skills. It's amazing what you can accomplish if you know how to _say_ it the right way.
Sounds like a lot of whining based on false premises to me.
Or, it could mean that this guy didn't do his homework before he put out the album.
Sounds like it to me.
You know, not every musician/band has the singular goal to sell millions of albums. Some of us just like to make music, and if people like our stuff, hey maybe we should put out a CD so people can take us home.
Hey, moron, read the rest of the review:
Called to action in WWII by patriotism and is famous cousin, Henry Stimson, the War Secretary, he personally made RADAR a reality (borrowing heavily from British, who he convinced to give us all they knew), building the MIT Rad Lab from scratch into a war-time R&D lab of 5,000 people.
Claiming that EQ ripped off DAOC is rather spurious - especially when DAOC owes so much to the groundbreaking design of EQ. That the live changes to EQ and the upcoming EQ2 share a lot of innovations with DAOC is only natural, since they all are merely following the evolutionary path of MMORPGs.
He said the released info of EQ2, not EQ itself, first off. And if the "evolutionary" change of MMORPG is to be your argument, then since EQ2 came out after DAoC, it would indeed be copying.
As for content, DAoC has plenty, I'm not sure that I buy that "more is better" when it comes to content. DAoC's game content is good stuff, and the multi-level quests are full of background story for the lands.
As for number of players, if Mythic had a sudden influx of players, I'm fairly certain their solution would be more servers, not raising the number of people per server (which I admit I don't know the cap for as it stands). I write this as of 4:41pm CST on a Friday after x-mas and the highest populated server at this moment has 2370 people on it. There's another dozen or so severs with users in the mid 1000's, and those will at least double by prime-time.
One of the nice things, though, that the parent poster pointed out is that you can actually play on different servers in different styles. PvE/RvR servers have your normal "player versus MOBs" inside each realm, and then as you get to higher levels (20-50) you have varying amounts of Realm vs Realm (RvR) fighting. PvP basically are free-for-all servers after level 10. PvE servers (or Coop in Mythic lingo) as the original poster stated, is more like EQ, with NPCs holding the forts that the realms normally defend against eachother on the PvE/RvR servers.
Plus, if you want to be on the bleeding edge and see the game in development, you can copy one of your characters over to the test server and interact/help out the developers before the patches get installed on the live servers.
Which is another thing that I said in my other post: Mythic actually gives a rat's ass about the gaming experience. They're constantly carefully adding/modifying the DAoC world to make it seem alive, and to add new features. This is demonstrated by the SI expansion quite nicely, in that while you can't get to the new "continents" without the SI patch, the items from those continents and the characters from those continents can still be used by people with the old clients. The only change is that you can't pick from the 2/per realm new character classes.
It's actually fun, there's a good array of different gameplay options for different playing preferences (not only in characters, but the normal Realm vs. Realm servers, the Coop server, the PVP servers... fun for the whole family).
Plus Mythic is much more responsive to their user base.
Quite a bit of whining about character classes being nerfed all the time, but I doubt you get away from that in any given MMORPG (this coming from my personal experience with my primary character being a Ranger that supposedly got nerfed quite a bit from its starting point... I enjoy it well enough...).
Plus, realm vs. realm is just a buncha fun.
I happen to be good friends with some folks that run an anime store, so know a bit about this.
The anime merchandise market is full of bootleg products, from CDs to Wallscrolls to Action Figures. It's often very difficult to discern which products are real imports and which are bootlegs. You might want to look at a page like this.
The best advice, though, is that if the deal looks too good to be true, it is. You can't import an anime soundtrack from Japan that is authentic and sell it for under $12 and make a profit.