To be fair, he's delivered, and strongly, many more times than he's not. Populous, Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper......although the "scientific achievement" bit is a little weird.
If you're a higher risk, you have to provide a higher reward to the company in order to be accepted. Your higher risk is only offset to a degree by their lower risk, and if they know up-front that you're a higher risk there's no reason not to take that into account ahead of time.
Er. Forgot to address the other part. With regards to state-or-federal--I'm just growing sick and tired of all the different laws between the states--standardize!
Can you explain? I'm not disagreeing, I just want to see your reasoning. People who are sick will cost an insurer more. Thus, it is unreasonable for an insurer to close his eyes and go "dah dah dah, I don't know about it!".
That's for new insurance policies, of course; if you get sick and the insurer wants to raise rates, fuck 'im in the ear.
Good--this is necessary. You have states like Maine, with absolutely draconian rules (because the party in power desperately wants to enforce a single-payer system and drive out all the other insurers), and this is a great way to tell them to fuck off.
Laws to prevent insurers from charging sick people extra are potentially dangerous, but even if not--they should be federal, not state-by-state.
Greenpeace needs to restrain their feel good agendas to the campus, where they serve as handy attraction lures for identity seeking idealists with more free time than sense. Hey, don't foist those morons off on campuses. Those of us with IQs over room temperature don't want them here either.
No problem. I'm ripping Gendarme apart and including its functionality in my Google Summer of Code project, so I'd be interested in hearing any feedback from you regarding it. Feel free to drop me a line. =)
Are you so trapped in an idealistic, geek fantasy world that you don't realize that a company slogan is not legally binding? Of course it's not legally binding. It is, however, morally binding.
Do you not understand that when a company goes public, it is responsible to its shareholders, not to its slogan? I realize it. I also don't care. Hypocrisy is bad.
So if they changed their slogan to "Make more money!" and continued ratting out foreigners to their governments, you'd be perfectly happy? I wouldn't, but at least they'd be honest about it.
Though Churchill's famous quote gets most of the press, I kind of like Kant's: "The great defect of democracy is its tendency to put mediocrity into power." Good quote, but I would counter with "everything else puts scary motherfuckers into power," as you alluded to in your post.
Make no mistake, I'm not saying Eclipse is useless. I am saying that it's bloated, slow (it was so bad on Linux that I ended up running Eclipse inside of a Windows virtual machine because that was faster), and what additional features it sports are of relatively questionable utility.
I'm very much not a fan of XAML, and I don't think WPF in its current form is going to be all Microsoft thinks it's going to be.
[i]I just don't understand the logic of these guys who think that VS is the greatest IDE ever.[/i]
Because, currently, nothing comes close to standing up to it. That's all there is to it, for me. Eclipse is slug-slow. Code::Blocks could be good in another few years, but is much more minimalist (which is fine, don't get me wrong, but right now I wouldn't use it for anything serious). MonoDevelop is getting better, but feels like it's trying to be Visual Studio (no offense meant to mhutch or the other people working on it, it's a great tool).
I'm not sure that's actually true, though. The aggregate tends to get it right most of the time; why mess with what works?
(And most of the illiterate don't vote anyway, so your concern isn't really a big deal; the tools used to help the visually impaired are largely similar to the ones used to help the illiterate.)
Generally speaking, commercial desktop apps are still way ahead of their open counterparts, with the exception of code development tools and anything that directly implements a standard (browsers, mail clients, etc.) Code development tools? VS says hi. (And somebody is now going to leap in and say that that monstrosity Eclipse is somehow "better" than VS...this will be amusing.)
I don't like the drum section, though. I love the guitar and bass, and they're just way too easy. Even Through the Fire and Flames is easier than, say, GH2's Jordan.
I haven't played any mods for it; I wasn't interested enough in a second-rate clone to play it. And the lack of whammy support is not an encouragement to play it.
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To be fair, he's delivered, and strongly, many more times than he's not. Populous, Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper... ...although the "scientific achievement" bit is a little weird.
If you're a higher risk, you have to provide a higher reward to the company in order to be accepted. Your higher risk is only offset to a degree by their lower risk, and if they know up-front that you're a higher risk there's no reason not to take that into account ahead of time.
Er. Forgot to address the other part. With regards to state-or-federal--I'm just growing sick and tired of all the different laws between the states--standardize!
That's for new insurance policies, of course; if you get sick and the insurer wants to raise rates, fuck 'im in the ear.
Good--this is necessary. You have states like Maine, with absolutely draconian rules (because the party in power desperately wants to enforce a single-payer system and drive out all the other insurers), and this is a great way to tell them to fuck off.
Laws to prevent insurers from charging sick people extra are potentially dangerous, but even if not--they should be federal, not state-by-state.
Drugs--the parent is on them.
Makes sense, though. Phoenix's BIOS flash tool is called PHLASH.EXE.
No problem. I'm ripping Gendarme apart and including its functionality in my Google Summer of Code project, so I'd be interested in hearing any feedback from you regarding it. Feel free to drop me a line. =)
I believe Gendarme might be of some use. Just don't invoke the Portability assemblies and I can't see why it'd fail.
More like "paranoid".
Make no mistake, I'm not saying Eclipse is useless. I am saying that it's bloated, slow (it was so bad on Linux that I ended up running Eclipse inside of a Windows virtual machine because that was faster), and what additional features it sports are of relatively questionable utility.
I'm very much not a fan of XAML, and I don't think WPF in its current form is going to be all Microsoft thinks it's going to be.
Best joke account ever.
[i]I just don't understand the logic of these guys who think that VS is the greatest IDE ever.[/i]
Because, currently, nothing comes close to standing up to it. That's all there is to it, for me. Eclipse is slug-slow. Code::Blocks could be good in another few years, but is much more minimalist (which is fine, don't get me wrong, but right now I wouldn't use it for anything serious). MonoDevelop is getting better, but feels like it's trying to be Visual Studio (no offense meant to mhutch or the other people working on it, it's a great tool).
Naturally we need spinning cutting ring presses to mark the holes. ELIMINATE THE CHADS!
(No, not the African Chads, you racist. But you can eliminate people named Chad if you like.)
I'm not sure that's actually true, though. The aggregate tends to get it right most of the time; why mess with what works?
(And most of the illiterate don't vote anyway, so your concern isn't really a big deal; the tools used to help the visually impaired are largely similar to the ones used to help the illiterate.)
It already does increase score. And for most GH songs, the Star Power bonus is pretty important to getting a decent score.
I don't like the drum section, though. I love the guitar and bass, and they're just way too easy. Even Through the Fire and Flames is easier than, say, GH2's Jordan.
The OLPC program is going exactly where Negroponte has intended for it to go.
Do you actually think they'll do this? I don't.
I haven't played any mods for it; I wasn't interested enough in a second-rate clone to play it. And the lack of whammy support is not an encouragement to play it.
I don't own a Wii, a 360, or a PS3.
Therefore, fuck you.