> I plug it into Google News to increase my understanding
I used to think that Google News was this great equalizer of news media. But when you think about it, the stories that make the google news page are just the ones that are the most popular. The more exactly alike the reporting is, the more likely it'll aggregate to the top.
But then people who think journalism standards are shoddy in the mainstream press have never come across an Indymedia Collective. I'm pretty well left-of-center myself, but these guys make Marx look like Ayn Rand.
Well put -- you expressed in far more damning detail my exact sentiments: N-Brain couldn't hack it with their lousy derivative product, so they blame open source for killing their market.
You don't hear JetBrains whining; IDEA is selling briskly. Possibly because it's actually a good product that people want.
It's really charming how they went and patented incremental search, something Emacs has had probably about as long as these business-school babies have been alive.
And I believe that if one died from fluoride toxicity before dying of water toxicity, there's something else wrong.
Of course flouride in the water (which at least half the time is naturally occurring) isn't going to kill you, but there are flouride rinses and good old toothpaste that have it in much higher concentrations. No one's banning it, but concentrations of fluoride above a certain level do require a prescription, at least in the USA.
> Fluoride? As in, "Precious bodily fluids" fluoride?
Flouride definitely has a toxicity level, and it is neurotoxic (it binds calcium, which your nervous system needs) among other things (formation of hydroflouric acid in the stomach is... not pleasant). However, the summary that lumps it in with other environmental toxins suggests to me that yeah, it's the usual anti-flouridation conspiracy garbage.
The underworld path is almost completely linear, so it wasn't hard to get to LB without the journal. I never consulted it once when I played. Stones is of course the main theme of the game (but only played on the C128, the C64 didn't have the RAM for any music), and I'm pretty sure it's given to you in-game somewhere.
It's probably no coincidence that the more hostile forms of checks came after EA's acquisition of Origin.
So in order to punish the Walmart shopping 300-lb father of eight, you are willing to punish me, a 170 lb father of one who uses his car to drive to work and to the grocery store to feed my "spawn"?
If environmentalists were concerned about human-centric issues, then we WOULD be drilling of the coasts of Florida, California and ANWR. But since this may harm a dolphin, jelly fish or caribou, they are against it.
You can call me a latte-sipping proust-quoting turtleneck-wearning liberal if you like, but I still can help but look down on people who are ready to trample on any species and bulldoze roads through any forest so they can line the pockets of oil company executives and pay a quarter less a gallon to drive their 300-lb ass to Wal-Mart twice a week to pick up Dora the Explorer DVD's for their eighteen spawn.
See, I can play the tribalism game too without any shame. So do you think your scorn is actually having any effect?
> public libraries are stocking e-book checkout systems
And most of them suck so badly you'd think someone was out to sabotage the technology.
Take the San Francisco public library. You can check out an ebook for 24 hours. No renewal. Forget about portable readers. And my guess is their vendor has locked them into this crappy system so they won't ever be able to change it. Well, at least til they discontinue it for lack of interest.
HOPEFULLY the next administration will concentrate on stimulating the growth of high-rise / high-quality / low-income housing within 2 miles of urban centers throughout the nation.
I solidly predict they will do precisely nothing. This is and very much should be a local issue. Some support from the fed gov would certainly be welcome, however, but I'm not holding my breath.
My guess is, billions more poured into ADM's pocket for ethanol.
BTW, my previous comment shouldn't be taken as any kind of endorsement of the amount of debt we've run up. Debt isn't intrinsically bad, but let's say that our time has now become more than a little bit overvalued and due for a long and painful correction.
> Maybe I won't have described the process perfectly correctly
ALL money based on an arbitrary valuation is inflationary. Backing it with a shiny metal provides something of a natural cap to inflation, but it's not like there wasn't hyperinflation when our money was "good as gold". In fact, banks were collapsing left and right throughout the 1800's when we were solidly on a gold standard.
> Check out money as debt on google video.
Certainly do so just for edification, but it's eye-rollingly bad stuff. Full of ominous conspiratorial whisperings, and a general emphasis on how evil the whole notion of debt is. How about thinking of it this way: debt is an added valuation on time. And time is about as universal a commodity as it gets.
The problem with HyperTalk/AppleScript is that they still have rigid syntax that's intolerant of ambiguity, but now it's merely verbose and expressed in a language where you might expect some constructions to work, but they don't, because they're English, not Hypertalk.
A perfect example is "the location of me". You can't say "my location", which is a far more common idiom.
Of course the saving grace of HyperTalk was that it was also a pretty darn good language for its time, aside from the syntax.
I used to GM some shadowrun games, but it was back in first edition. Its game mechanics were *seriously* flawed. For example, the faster your character was, the faster a fully automatic weapon would fire.
I understand that sort of thing was fixed, but the kinds of systems that require a brick of d6's just never appealed to me. And the backstory was always a little too cliched, though it was still a lot of fun after embracing the overall cheesiness of it.
> Do they carry round pockets full of bunnies so they can kill them if they ever need to teleport?
If a player ever asked me that question, I would immediately respond "Yes. Yes, you do. Start rounding up bunnies. And it has to be *combat* with the bunnies, not just bunny murder, so roleplay it out."
Not quite correct. As you mentioned below, there are encounter and daily spells. Those you have to "prepare" ahead of time. Still I agree it's way too much uniformity of treatment for my tastes -- every ability is basically the same thing with different descriptions.
And for the 10000000000000000000000000th time, the "tanking" ability is not a binary "aggro" mechanic, it just creates penalties for the the target if he/she/it tries to attack someone else. This does accurately model a real-life tactic called "getting up in their face".
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and with Storm using the latest generation of P2P technology, it cannot be disabled by simply 'cutting off its head.'
I suspect a few public decapitations of the people running Storm would put a pretty quick stop to it. Just gotta pick the right targets, see.
> I never was bothered by SPAM
Says the guy not publishing his email address on slashdot.
> Unless OS X supports hardware-enforced signed binaries, of course. Which it doesn't.
It could. Every mac has a TPM module. They just don't use it yet (and likely won't for a long time if ever)
Great, wrinkly cars. Heck you could leave 'em that way. From Chery Automotive, introducing the Shar-Pei.
> A lot of over blown skepticism from hippies in denial.
It isn't hippies kicking down doors.
> I plug it into Google News to increase my understanding
I used to think that Google News was this great equalizer of news media. But when you think about it, the stories that make the google news page are just the ones that are the most popular. The more exactly alike the reporting is, the more likely it'll aggregate to the top.
But then people who think journalism standards are shoddy in the mainstream press have never come across an Indymedia Collective. I'm pretty well left-of-center myself, but these guys make Marx look like Ayn Rand.
Marijuana causes acute toxic reactions in people, psychosis, LSD-like hallucinations, paranoia, anxiety, depression, recurrent flashbacks and depersonalization, habitual use, apathy. etc
That must be some powerful bud you're smoking there. Consider packing it a little lighter.
> It is not an institution to help boys grow up to be women
Yeah, I see they taught you some real fine lessons. I think you just made our point.
I was a scout. The BSA can go pound sand.
Well put -- you expressed in far more damning detail my exact sentiments: N-Brain couldn't hack it with their lousy derivative product, so they blame open source for killing their market.
You don't hear JetBrains whining; IDEA is selling briskly. Possibly because it's actually a good product that people want.
It's really charming how they went and patented incremental search, something Emacs has had probably about as long as these business-school babies have been alive.
And I believe that if one died from fluoride toxicity before dying of water toxicity, there's something else wrong.
Of course flouride in the water (which at least half the time is naturally occurring) isn't going to kill you, but there are flouride rinses and good old toothpaste that have it in much higher concentrations. No one's banning it, but concentrations of fluoride above a certain level do require a prescription, at least in the USA.
> Fluoride? As in, "Precious bodily fluids" fluoride?
... not pleasant). However, the summary that lumps it in with other environmental toxins suggests to me that yeah, it's the usual anti-flouridation conspiracy garbage.
Flouride definitely has a toxicity level, and it is neurotoxic (it binds calcium, which your nervous system needs) among other things (formation of hydroflouric acid in the stomach is
The underworld path is almost completely linear, so it wasn't hard to get to LB without the journal. I never consulted it once when I played. Stones is of course the main theme of the game (but only played on the C128, the C64 didn't have the RAM for any music), and I'm pretty sure it's given to you in-game somewhere.
It's probably no coincidence that the more hostile forms of checks came after EA's acquisition of Origin.
So in order to punish the Walmart shopping 300-lb father of eight, you are willing to punish me, a 170 lb father of one who uses his car to drive to work and to the grocery store to feed my "spawn"?
No, I'm not. Whoosh.
I don't even like lattes.
If environmentalists were concerned about human-centric issues, then we WOULD be drilling of the coasts of Florida, California and ANWR. But since this may harm a dolphin, jelly fish or caribou, they are against it.
You can call me a latte-sipping proust-quoting turtleneck-wearning liberal if you like, but I still can help but look down on people who are ready to trample on any species and bulldoze roads through any forest so they can line the pockets of oil company executives and pay a quarter less a gallon to drive their 300-lb ass to Wal-Mart twice a week to pick up Dora the Explorer DVD's for their eighteen spawn.
See, I can play the tribalism game too without any shame. So do you think your scorn is actually having any effect?
> Actually only the peak-oil loonies are on about food production
Funny, I thought they were going on about peak oil. Crazy people like oil company executives...
> public libraries are stocking e-book checkout systems
And most of them suck so badly you'd think someone was out to sabotage the technology.
Take the San Francisco public library. You can check out an ebook for 24 hours. No renewal. Forget about portable readers. And my guess is their vendor has locked them into this crappy system so they won't ever be able to change it. Well, at least til they discontinue it for lack of interest.
HOPEFULLY the next administration will concentrate on stimulating the growth of high-rise / high-quality / low-income housing within 2 miles of urban centers throughout the nation.
I solidly predict they will do precisely nothing. This is and very much should be a local issue. Some support from the fed gov would certainly be welcome, however, but I'm not holding my breath.
My guess is, billions more poured into ADM's pocket for ethanol.
(not replying to myself this time)
BTW, my previous comment shouldn't be taken as any kind of endorsement of the amount of debt we've run up. Debt isn't intrinsically bad, but let's say that our time has now become more than a little bit overvalued and due for a long and painful correction.
Gah, mod -99234 offtopic.
> Maybe I won't have described the process perfectly correctly
ALL money based on an arbitrary valuation is inflationary. Backing it with a shiny metal provides something of a natural cap to inflation, but it's not like there wasn't hyperinflation when our money was "good as gold". In fact, banks were collapsing left and right throughout the 1800's when we were solidly on a gold standard.
> Check out money as debt on google video.
Certainly do so just for edification, but it's eye-rollingly bad stuff. Full of ominous conspiratorial whisperings, and a general emphasis on how evil the whole notion of debt is. How about thinking of it this way: debt is an added valuation on time. And time is about as universal a commodity as it gets.
The problem with HyperTalk/AppleScript is that they still have rigid syntax that's intolerant of ambiguity, but now it's merely verbose and expressed in a language where you might expect some constructions to work, but they don't, because they're English, not Hypertalk.
A perfect example is "the location of me". You can't say "my location", which is a far more common idiom.
Of course the saving grace of HyperTalk was that it was also a pretty darn good language for its time, aside from the syntax.
I used to GM some shadowrun games, but it was back in first edition. Its game mechanics were *seriously* flawed. For example, the faster your character was, the faster a fully automatic weapon would fire.
I understand that sort of thing was fixed, but the kinds of systems that require a brick of d6's just never appealed to me. And the backstory was always a little too cliched, though it was still a lot of fun after embracing the overall cheesiness of it.
> Do they carry round pockets full of bunnies so they can kill them if they ever need to teleport?
If a player ever asked me that question, I would immediately respond "Yes. Yes, you do. Start rounding up bunnies. And it has to be *combat* with the bunnies, not just bunny murder, so roleplay it out."
> No more memorized spells at all
Not quite correct. As you mentioned below, there are encounter and daily spells. Those you have to "prepare" ahead of time. Still I agree it's way too much uniformity of treatment for my tastes -- every ability is basically the same thing with different descriptions.
And for the 10000000000000000000000000th time, the "tanking" ability is not a binary "aggro" mechanic, it just creates penalties for the the target if he/she/it tries to attack someone else. This does accurately model a real-life tactic called "getting up in their face".
Naw, I reply to myself with my own account, and it's not to praise my insightful commentary.
:)
Here, I'll prove it. Microsoft. See, I can type the whole name out
It doesn't matter -- this is a treaty. The iron heel means to crush you everywhere and respects no national boundaries.