The Dead Ringer and Your Eternal Reward are clearly better than the default spy weapons. Same with the Backburner and Axtinguisher for the Pyro.
Maybe for you. I find the default Pryo weapon better than the backburner (putting out allies can be very useful, as well as reflecting projectiles -- I've gotten tons of kills from stupid soldiers who just keep firing and getting hit by their own rockets) and for a smart spy, the default cloak is infinitely more useful for actual sneaking around than the Dead Ringer, if you know where ammo drops are.
If there's one thing Valve is good at, it's balance. I don't think any of the additional weapons are clearly better than the original ones.
Nope. But then I'm Canadian. Doesn't change the fact that there is a strong belief among many Americans that America is "God's Chosen Country" (and therefore her people are, naturally, better than most others).
Plenty of Americans would care. It's a not-well hidden but not-well-talked-about tenet of being an American that American's are born superior to the rest of the world. That's why only a true American can be the leader of America; anyone else would be inferior.
No experiments or repetition of speciation? Are you kidding me? There have been several geographic isolation experiments that have resulted in speciation (with fruit flys), and several natural geographic isolation events that result in speciation (such as with Ensatina salamanders).
Evolution isn't just a thought experiment, we can see it happen, make predictions, and perform experimentation.
Plenty of businesses pay for RHEL, despite it being "free". Support, peace-of-mind, and ease are all worth cash over the absolutely free DIY alternative.
There's a reason strictly multiplayer games like WoW are hardly pirated: you're paying for the experience (AKA the servers you play on) not the disc. It's also why Netflix and other a la carte services are so popular: paying for the convenience and peace-of-mind knowing that if you want a movie, you can just get it. Sure there will always be a minority that don't see these things as worth the cost, but the main point of DRM (used to be) to stop casual infringement, not the hardcore, and with services replacing goods there is less of a casual market for infringement.
Do you really need to wade through garbage at sourceforge? If you want the "elite" apps, then just sort them by popularity/ranking. That's how they would be picked for an "elite" list anyway.
I will grant that sourceforge's design is absolutely horrible for the masses. However, that necessitates a better design, not an entirely new website.
Good idea, except that the people most likely to use such open-source apps are the same people who are likely to just download the source and compile if binaries aren't available. Where's the profit? Plus, we already have sourceforge.
Is the plot of Heavy Metal really any more sophisticated than that of Avatar? Guy saves a girl('s people) on a different planet for sexual favours.
The point is that Pandora was awesome to look at. Same with the environments of Heavy Metal (I'd argue, more so, since they're completely fantastical rather than just alien).
Yet you're assuming she's guilty of fraudulently filing a police report. Did you even consider that? It's far more likely that she's telling the truth, both statistically and reasonably.
Yeah, because there's absolutely zero social stigma or consequences for being a victim of rape, and having your rape known by your entire community. It's all just a wash compared to your dad finding out you had sex. After all, she's a woman, we all know they're just bitches and ho's, and most of them are asking for it and just play the victim after.
And people wonder why the term "rape culture" exists...
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Do you really need uber-1337 passwords for pictures you're sharing with your grandmother?
The Dead Ringer and Your Eternal Reward are clearly better than the default spy weapons. Same with the Backburner and Axtinguisher for the Pyro.
Maybe for you. I find the default Pryo weapon better than the backburner (putting out allies can be very useful, as well as reflecting projectiles -- I've gotten tons of kills from stupid soldiers who just keep firing and getting hit by their own rockets) and for a smart spy, the default cloak is infinitely more useful for actual sneaking around than the Dead Ringer, if you know where ammo drops are.
If there's one thing Valve is good at, it's balance. I don't think any of the additional weapons are clearly better than the original ones.
I didn't realize "among many" and "plenty" was synonymous with "all".
Nope. But then I'm Canadian. Doesn't change the fact that there is a strong belief among many Americans that America is "God's Chosen Country" (and therefore her people are, naturally, better than most others).
Plenty of Americans would care. It's a not-well hidden but not-well-talked-about tenet of being an American that American's are born superior to the rest of the world. That's why only a true American can be the leader of America; anyone else would be inferior.
Plenty of vaccines and pro-active considerations, no outbreak = vaccines are useless and medicine just a money-grubbing scam
Plenty of vaccines and pro-active considerations, mild outbreak = vaccines clearly didn't do anything, medicine is just a money-grubbing scam
No vaccines, no pro-active considerations, major outbreak = stupid government, why didn't you take pro-active steps to prevent this!?
Why would I upgrade when this is ~8900 less than my current 9400m?
Having the energy and drive to act on it is a positive symptom, as opposed to the lack of energy and drive one experiences during depression.
The people don't care whether the computer has a CPU with 3.2GHz or 2.8GHz, so why advertise that?
Intel would care to disagree.
Give me 10 attempts and I guarantee I can guess this digit faster than the computer can compute it.
Not everything needs to be secure; every OS has an FTP client built-in, and FTP works with minimal overhead. It's just one tool to do a job.
Because then he's out $40 and still has the potential to get sued for copyright infringement. Why do both?
No experiments or repetition of speciation? Are you kidding me? There have been several geographic isolation experiments that have resulted in speciation (with fruit flys), and several natural geographic isolation events that result in speciation (such as with Ensatina salamanders).
Evolution isn't just a thought experiment, we can see it happen, make predictions, and perform experimentation.
Perhaps the answer exists in other mediums, like Netflix with movies. Games a la carte.
Plenty of businesses pay for RHEL, despite it being "free". Support, peace-of-mind, and ease are all worth cash over the absolutely free DIY alternative.
There's a reason strictly multiplayer games like WoW are hardly pirated: you're paying for the experience (AKA the servers you play on) not the disc. It's also why Netflix and other a la carte services are so popular: paying for the convenience and peace-of-mind knowing that if you want a movie, you can just get it. Sure there will always be a minority that don't see these things as worth the cost, but the main point of DRM (used to be) to stop casual infringement, not the hardcore, and with services replacing goods there is less of a casual market for infringement.
Do you really need to wade through garbage at sourceforge? If you want the "elite" apps, then just sort them by popularity/ranking. That's how they would be picked for an "elite" list anyway.
I will grant that sourceforge's design is absolutely horrible for the masses. However, that necessitates a better design, not an entirely new website.
Good idea, except that the people most likely to use such open-source apps are the same people who are likely to just download the source and compile if binaries aren't available. Where's the profit?
Plus, we already have sourceforge.
Exactly. Spammers are more likely to abuse such a feature than an actual person is to use it.
The only question is who are the bigger trolls?
It definitely went right over your head, but I see you could care less.
Is the plot of Heavy Metal really any more sophisticated than that of Avatar? Guy saves a girl('s people) on a different planet for sexual favours.
The point is that Pandora was awesome to look at. Same with the environments of Heavy Metal (I'd argue, more so, since they're completely fantastical rather than just alien).
Yet you're assuming she's guilty of fraudulently filing a police report. Did you even consider that? It's far more likely that she's telling the truth, both statistically and reasonably.
Yeah, because there's absolutely zero social stigma or consequences for being a victim of rape, and having your rape known by your entire community. It's all just a wash compared to your dad finding out you had sex. After all, she's a woman, we all know they're just bitches and ho's, and most of them are asking for it and just play the victim after.
And people wonder why the term "rape culture" exists...
Yes! Read the Game, because women are just like Pavlov's dogs!
What about dorks?