As a longtime terrier owner I would have to say while very willfull and active, they are some of the most intelligent dogs I've known. The American Staffordshire Terrier in particular is a very strong-willed and intelligent breed, but their temperament makes them hard to control, generally they just want to do what they want, and don't think they should listen to you. Anyway the point I am making is that how an animal behaves or how well trained it is isn't necessarily only dependent on intelligence, and I agree with your statement about beagles.
This isn't necessarily on the job, as most military personal are given a little leeway on what they do in free time, and it makes sense that some people just wanted to reconnect with their friends and family back home.
Actually in the US using police or federal services for personal use as an officer is a felony, thus if this guy was an American police officer he would be arrested and all his information would be confiscated as evidence for his trial.
If Windows 7 is as good as everyone seems to be saying, and I have been hearing a strangely large amount of good things about it, then XP will become what windows 98 was, as everyone switches to Windows 7. I have to wonder if this wasn't all part of the plan as you so put it, but I honestly think that Microsoft didn't realize the lemon they were putting out with Vista.
Because this isn't some creepy dude telling where to rape some kidnap victims. This is more like a machine that tells you when and where the next public illegal viewing of a movie is gonna be, most likely in your home, and then a company sues the creator of the machine for showing everyone where these events are being held. It seems kind of petty to me.
If these had been sent to a reputable company or someone with an actual name and face that they had met. Or perhaps even if they just had some assurance as to who this person was, sure I could understand your analogy. The problem is, this was Craigslist. I can sue if someone hits me on the sidewalk and likely win. I most likely can't sue if I get hit while trying to cross an inter-state highway.
I said it was common sense not to do things that would put yourself in danger. I also said the actions were absurd, I never once said that my hypothetical woman deserved what she got.
Don't worry about my love life, I would never date someone without the common sense to preserve their own life and sanctity. Keep in mind that attacking the person you are debating with is a common sign that you have already lost the debate.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." This quote while attributed to Obi-Wan talking about Mos Eisley spaceport, in fact he was really talking about the internet. Now let me give you an example you can probably understand, say you're a woman, you go out and find the most seediest group of individuals who are strung out on more drugs then you can poke a stick at and most likely carry some form of firearm, and get so drunk you pass-out in their presence, next you wake up and find your purse missing as well as several articles of clothing. Obviously you should contact the law, but obviously your actions were absurd.
You don't respond to a personal ad on Craigslist with a picture and real information and certainly not from a real E-mail address. It is common sense. Human beings are sensible intelligent creatures and the defective ones who can't learn to be smart with their information need to be corrected or weeded out.
I'm sorry but just by assuming the claim that Christians go to heaven when they die, shows your lack of understanding about what the bible actually says... Or perhaps you've been taught otherwise, either way you should go back and reread the bible. Better yet take some Greek classes and then go find the original Greek translations of the bible, there are many nuances lost in translation to English.
And I'm not saying Christianity is right or anything of the sort, I'm just telling you that from what I've read of the bible it seems like a moderately just religion, as religions go.
Frankly I would be happy for them to continue to believe vinyl flooring is the problem. After all, that clearly explains why autism has existed throughout history as its common knowlege stone age mankind prefered vinyl flooring, giving rise the now near epidemic levels of autistics like me which must now be cured from the face of humanity.;)... so I'm all for them believing vinyl flooring is the problem.;)
I'm sorry but just because you are afflicted with a malady it does not make you an expert on it. Also.
Yes, finally someone who shares my opinion that all Hypercapnia problems since the stone age have been caused by people trying to breathe in from the tail pipes of cars, lets just forget about the fact that cars have only been around a few centuries!/sarcasm Listen, I'm not saying that this is THE cause, in fact I don't even know if this is A cause. There is a correlation, perhaps the chemical can help aid people's brains into that direction. We don't know, that is what more sciencing is for.;D
Lastly, through wikipedia and other varies sources. You can see vinyl usage becoming very prevalent around the 1980s, ever since it was discovered by a scientist in the 1920s there have been more and more uses for it. Now if you look at Autism they have a jump in Autistic diagnosis in the 1980s, unfortunately due to new diagnostic means at the time, they can't draw a conclusion because of it, because they were also realizing a lot more people were autistic than previously diagnosed.
The problem with your example is the child would have to grow up around vinyl flooring to develop autism. So basically the example says because autistic children like staring at vinyl carpets, children who stare at vinyl carpets will become autistic. No, and I understand it is just an example, but with this study, the logical next step is to run some control studies, where you have this number of families with vinyl flooring and this number without and find out the number of children with autism. Hopefully without people like you obfuscating the issue, with correlation and causation. Yes the article does jump to conclusions, but the correlation is still there and a good beginning theory are the phthalates. Now stop being so anal.
Enter Christianity. Rather than examine the basis of other religions and cultures reverence for the cat (understanding their practical utility shouldn't have been that hard, even in the middle ages), they associated cats with pagan religions and eventually witchcraft. Cats were feared, driven out of human habitations and killed en mass. Now, the bubonic plague arrives. Societies that didn't buy into the cat loathing of Christianity fared far better then those that did.
Well, to be frank most of the hate mongering came from the Roman Catholic Church and as other 'churches' were later formed also spread to them. Christianity in it's origins seems to much like Judaism sometimes helping sometimes harming in it's suggestions. Generally only in Christians who haven't fully read the Bible do you find the ignorance and prejudice.
Depending upon the complexity of it all it would be be done easily with quest chains that loop.
You have two villages.
Village 1 is in disrepair, they give you quests to go gather wood to help them repair the building after enough wood is gathered and some time has passed the village is no longer run down.
Village 2 and Village 1 are in conflict.
Village 2 offers you quest to go kill players around village 1 and then to take their wood and burn it.
Village 2 also offers quests to go destroy village 1 if Village 1 is in good shape.
If Village 1 never gets the wood it needs it eventually gets destroyed, then after a random amount of time has passed a new species or a player guild moves in and claims said spot and starts to build a village complete with the quest to gather wood to help build the buildings.
Village 1 and 2 would both offer the same quests under different conditions though and with different stipulations and rewards.
Of course you could just make things immensely more complex by making this back and forth chain into a AI mapping component. Where you have X number of NPC's who give quests to attack Y faction or support Z faction, if these quests get done then the world changes towns switch control, new resources become available to Z faction and Y faction loses resources. Then because Z faction has more territory they have more borders and thus more enemies, now they give quests to go attack Y, K, J, and L faction. This doesn't even take into account some of the large PVE content but I suppose if a certain faction get's big enough they gain the ability to summon large creatures, which if you wanted to kill would require large number of people working in coordination. Players would act as mercenaries if they didn't have a guild and would work for whatever faction would take them with different benefits for different factions, while guilds could form their own factions by taking over small territories and spreading outward their cities would give out quests of their own, but they could also set a small number of custom quests, to gather resources they need or to kill someone they are not particularly fond of.
Needless to say I've been looking forward to this type of content for a while, although I had hoped it would come from a well known MMO company, I suppose a relatively new company in the MMO world will have to do for now, until other companies start to realize how much this can make a player feel like they are making a difference in a virtual world.
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Actually there isn't but there is scientific evidence, i.e. repeated attempts at creating a communist government, which eventually led to dictatorship or a tyrannical rule as the government had too much power. Now I have to admit in comparison to other communist governments China seems to actually be trying to do what it considers right for the majority of its citizens, although obviously that is going to create conflict due to the very nature of what they have to control.
Does anyone else feel like there is no solution to the growing problem of American apathy?
If I use peaceful means, no one cares.
If I use violent means, people become martyrs and I am vilified.
Sometimes I feel like there is no solution to the current government's problem short of a revolution which will occur far down the road, long after I am gone, and that is rather frustrating.
About Wolfenstein, it's best to just consider it a alternate reality WWII shooter, I don't think the game ever really took itself seriously so why should we, and that is where half the fun is.
Also it seems like FPS's in general have been trying more and more to make us use an extra-dimensional elements, PREY's spirit form and 'shroud'. What else could developers do to expand on the game play without overwhelming players? Any ideas?
Actually this reminds me of an anime recently released in Japan by the name of Ghost Hound, apparently by the same person who did Ghost in the Shell and supposedly of the same quality. I wouldn't know, I've only seen half the series but what I saw was relatively thought provoking and definitely interesting.
I'm a guncollectory, by industry and by education and if I saw a couple of pistols, rifles, and semi-automatics sitting around full of gunnery stuff I'd want some authority to check it out. My response to this is based simply on my understanding of what someone can easily do with guns and ammunition let alone ammunition bought special and assault equipment. However, I do have to wonder if the outrage at the fascist authorities would be replaced by support if the guy's name was Ali Akid Jabbabi or equivalent and he had an extensive(for home use) gun collection. Now ideally, our Mr. Deeb would have had an inventory[or the government] of everything and [would] have separated the guns appropriately for saftey[safety's] sake.
Forgetting everything else that makes this comment seem worthless like your inappropriate use of the word chemistry and quickly followed up by your note of the "chemistry stuff", I'm sure you feel that the government has every right to search every single house at least once a year to make sure nothing illegal is going on inside, and if they find something which scares them even if it isn't illegal they can take it anyway, because it is best if the government watches our for our well being. After all what other reason would the government exist for?
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As a longtime terrier owner I would have to say while very willfull and active, they are some of the most intelligent dogs I've known. The American Staffordshire Terrier in particular is a very strong-willed and intelligent breed, but their temperament makes them hard to control, generally they just want to do what they want, and don't think they should listen to you. Anyway the point I am making is that how an animal behaves or how well trained it is isn't necessarily only dependent on intelligence, and I agree with your statement about beagles.
This isn't necessarily on the job, as most military personal are given a little leeway on what they do in free time, and it makes sense that some people just wanted to reconnect with their friends and family back home.
Actually in the US using police or federal services for personal use as an officer is a felony, thus if this guy was an American police officer he would be arrested and all his information would be confiscated as evidence for his trial.
If Windows 7 is as good as everyone seems to be saying, and I have been hearing a strangely large amount of good things about it, then XP will become what windows 98 was, as everyone switches to Windows 7. I have to wonder if this wasn't all part of the plan as you so put it, but I honestly think that Microsoft didn't realize the lemon they were putting out with Vista.
No, your argument isn't sound.
Because this isn't some creepy dude telling where to rape some kidnap victims. This is more like a machine that tells you when and where the next public illegal viewing of a movie is gonna be, most likely in your home, and then a company sues the creator of the machine for showing everyone where these events are being held. It seems kind of petty to me.
If these had been sent to a reputable company or someone with an actual name and face that they had met. Or perhaps even if they just had some assurance as to who this person was, sure I could understand your analogy. The problem is, this was Craigslist. I can sue if someone hits me on the sidewalk and likely win. I most likely can't sue if I get hit while trying to cross an inter-state highway.
Reread my post...
I said it was common sense not to do things that would put yourself in danger. I also said the actions were absurd, I never once said that my hypothetical woman deserved what she got.
Don't worry about my love life, I would never date someone without the common sense to preserve their own life and sanctity. Keep in mind that attacking the person you are debating with is a common sign that you have already lost the debate.
You must be new here.
Let me elaborate.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." This quote while attributed to Obi-Wan talking about Mos Eisley spaceport, in fact he was really talking about the internet. Now let me give you an example you can probably understand, say you're a woman, you go out and find the most seediest group of individuals who are strung out on more drugs then you can poke a stick at and most likely carry some form of firearm, and get so drunk you pass-out in their presence, next you wake up and find your purse missing as well as several articles of clothing. Obviously you should contact the law, but obviously your actions were absurd.
You don't respond to a personal ad on Craigslist with a picture and real information and certainly not from a real E-mail address. It is common sense. Human beings are sensible intelligent creatures and the defective ones who can't learn to be smart with their information need to be corrected or weeded out.
Revelation 20:12 and 13. States at what time the Judgement will occur.
I'm sorry but just by assuming the claim that Christians go to heaven when they die, shows your lack of understanding about what the bible actually says... Or perhaps you've been taught otherwise, either way you should go back and reread the bible. Better yet take some Greek classes and then go find the original Greek translations of the bible, there are many nuances lost in translation to English.
And I'm not saying Christianity is right or anything of the sort, I'm just telling you that from what I've read of the bible it seems like a moderately just religion, as religions go.
In the Christian system, nobody is judged until everyone has heard the laws... So I find it interested you would make this point. =)
Thanks, I hate it when I get those two mixed up.
If the movie is good the positive feedback will bring out more viewers, if the movie sucks then nobody will want to go see it in theaters.
Frankly I would be happy for them to continue to believe vinyl flooring is the problem. After all, that clearly explains why autism has existed throughout history as its common knowlege stone age mankind prefered vinyl flooring, giving rise the now near epidemic levels of autistics like me which must now be cured from the face of humanity. ;) ... so I'm all for them believing vinyl flooring is the problem. ;)
/sarcasm Listen, I'm not saying that this is THE cause, in fact I don't even know if this is A cause. There is a correlation, perhaps the chemical can help aid people's brains into that direction. We don't know, that is what more sciencing is for. ;D
I'm sorry but just because you are afflicted with a malady it does not make you an expert on it. Also.
Yes, finally someone who shares my opinion that all Hypercapnia problems since the stone age have been caused by people trying to breathe in from the tail pipes of cars, lets just forget about the fact that cars have only been around a few centuries!
Lastly, through wikipedia and other varies sources. You can see vinyl usage becoming very prevalent around the 1980s, ever since it was discovered by a scientist in the 1920s there have been more and more uses for it. Now if you look at Autism they have a jump in Autistic diagnosis in the 1980s, unfortunately due to new diagnostic means at the time, they can't draw a conclusion because of it, because they were also realizing a lot more people were autistic than previously diagnosed.
The problem with your example is the child would have to grow up around vinyl flooring to develop autism. So basically the example says because autistic children like staring at vinyl carpets, children who stare at vinyl carpets will become autistic. No, and I understand it is just an example, but with this study, the logical next step is to run some control studies, where you have this number of families with vinyl flooring and this number without and find out the number of children with autism. Hopefully without people like you obfuscating the issue, with correlation and causation. Yes the article does jump to conclusions, but the correlation is still there and a good beginning theory are the phthalates. Now stop being so anal.
Would a company really wanna piss off someone who has knowledge of illegal doings and is trying to fix it?
That seems counter-intuitive to me.
Enter Christianity. Rather than examine the basis of other religions and cultures reverence for the cat (understanding their practical utility shouldn't have been that hard, even in the middle ages), they associated cats with pagan religions and eventually witchcraft. Cats were feared, driven out of human habitations and killed en mass. Now, the bubonic plague arrives. Societies that didn't buy into the cat loathing of Christianity fared far better then those that did.
Well, to be frank most of the hate mongering came from the Roman Catholic Church and as other 'churches' were later formed also spread to them. Christianity in it's origins seems to much like Judaism sometimes helping sometimes harming in it's suggestions. Generally only in Christians who haven't fully read the Bible do you find the ignorance and prejudice.
Depending upon the complexity of it all it would be be done easily with quest chains that loop.
You have two villages.
Village 1 is in disrepair, they give you quests to go gather wood to help them repair the building after enough wood is gathered and some time has passed the village is no longer run down.
Village 2 and Village 1 are in conflict.
Village 2 offers you quest to go kill players around village 1 and then to take their wood and burn it.
Village 2 also offers quests to go destroy village 1 if Village 1 is in good shape.
If Village 1 never gets the wood it needs it eventually gets destroyed, then after a random amount of time has passed a new species or a player guild moves in and claims said spot and starts to build a village complete with the quest to gather wood to help build the buildings.
Village 1 and 2 would both offer the same quests under different conditions though and with different stipulations and rewards.
Of course you could just make things immensely more complex by making this back and forth chain into a AI mapping component. Where you have X number of NPC's who give quests to attack Y faction or support Z faction, if these quests get done then the world changes towns switch control, new resources become available to Z faction and Y faction loses resources. Then because Z faction has more territory they have more borders and thus more enemies, now they give quests to go attack Y, K, J, and L faction. This doesn't even take into account some of the large PVE content but I suppose if a certain faction get's big enough they gain the ability to summon large creatures, which if you wanted to kill would require large number of people working in coordination. Players would act as mercenaries if they didn't have a guild and would work for whatever faction would take them with different benefits for different factions, while guilds could form their own factions by taking over small territories and spreading outward their cities would give out quests of their own, but they could also set a small number of custom quests, to gather resources they need or to kill someone they are not particularly fond of.
Needless to say I've been looking forward to this type of content for a while, although I had hoped it would come from a well known MMO company, I suppose a relatively new company in the MMO world will have to do for now, until other companies start to realize how much this can make a player feel like they are making a difference in a virtual world.
Actually there isn't but there is scientific evidence, i.e. repeated attempts at creating a communist government, which eventually led to dictatorship or a tyrannical rule as the government had too much power. Now I have to admit in comparison to other communist governments China seems to actually be trying to do what it considers right for the majority of its citizens, although obviously that is going to create conflict due to the very nature of what they have to control.
Does anyone else feel like there is no solution to the growing problem of American apathy?
If I use peaceful means, no one cares.
If I use violent means, people become martyrs and I am vilified.
Sometimes I feel like there is no solution to the current government's problem short of a revolution which will occur far down the road, long after I am gone, and that is rather frustrating.
You aren't really missing anything. You just don't get that only Congress shall make no law, anyone else can make as many laws as they want.
About Wolfenstein, it's best to just consider it a alternate reality WWII shooter, I don't think the game ever really took itself seriously so why should we, and that is where half the fun is.
Also it seems like FPS's in general have been trying more and more to make us use an extra-dimensional elements, PREY's spirit form and 'shroud'. What else could developers do to expand on the game play without overwhelming players? Any ideas?
Actually this reminds me of an anime recently released in Japan by the name of Ghost Hound, apparently by the same person who did Ghost in the Shell and supposedly of the same quality. I wouldn't know, I've only seen half the series but what I saw was relatively thought provoking and definitely interesting.
I'm a guncollectory, by industry and by education and if I saw a couple of pistols, rifles, and semi-automatics sitting around full of gunnery stuff I'd want some authority to check it out. My response to this is based simply on my understanding of what someone can easily do with guns and ammunition let alone ammunition bought special and assault equipment. However, I do have to wonder if the outrage at the fascist authorities would be replaced by support if the guy's name was Ali Akid Jabbabi or equivalent and he had an extensive(for home use) gun collection. Now ideally, our Mr. Deeb would have had an inventory[or the government] of everything and [would] have separated the guns appropriately for saftey[safety's] sake.
Forgetting everything else that makes this comment seem worthless like your inappropriate use of the word chemistry and quickly followed up by your note of the "chemistry stuff", I'm sure you feel that the government has every right to search every single house at least once a year to make sure nothing illegal is going on inside, and if they find something which scares them even if it isn't illegal they can take it anyway, because it is best if the government watches our for our well being. After all what other reason would the government exist for?
Go ahead mod me troll...
Only until that business becomes a public company then you turn Republican.