Or it's just a case of mass over-prescription of antipsychotics. Nothing is normal anymore, EVERYONE has some kind of mental or physical disorder that must be treated by drugs.
The heading, and a main talking point of TFA, suggest that, when asked, 41% of Facebook users will simply hand over personal information. But really what's shown is that about 44% of Facebook users will happily accept a random friend invitation and of those users more than 80% of them ALREADY HAD personal information posted on their profile. What does that tell us really?
It tells us that nearly all of the idiots on Facebook who are stupid enough to accept a friend invitation from a total stranger are ALSO stupid enough to post personal information in their profiles. Wow! 80+ percent of all Facebook idiots are really HUGE idiots! Amazing!
I think you're confusing 'forcing' with 'enforcing'; as in, enforcing the law.
What's wrong with government telling us how to 'better manage' our energy resources? When government passes into law bills that essentially force one of this country's major employers to shut down some of their sizable manufacturing operations here in the U.S. and open new factories in China, thus robbing American citizens of jobs in the process, then I'd say the government screwed up; wouldn't you? That's not to mention that environmental standards for industry in China are severely lacking compared to the U.S. meaning that little to no environmental benefit has been attained. But oh... that's right... our government did it all with our 'best interests' in mind which makes it OK.
Because humankind should never embark on a long journey when the threat of sickness (or hunger, or environmental dangers, or giant monsters) looms. Come on. If, as a species, we didn't take risks we'd either still be stuck in caves or dead.
NASA needs to get their heads out of their rear ends and stop dinking around with robots and probes and experiments that might possibly be useful sometime in the future when there's a plan. They need to set big, definitive goals to get mankind back on the moon and out to Mars and work towards those ends. Otherwise they might as well rename themselves the NAA and stop squandering taxpayer dollars on space all together.
I had a feeling someone would beat me to this. Though the quote is, "Come on, man! Don't hold out on me like this!" And I'm not sure it's $1000 because in a later episode when everyone gets their $200 tax refunds the same guy says "No cheap crack houses for me no more!" and walks up to a crack mansion.
If the first things you think of when you think of a "fun game" are murdering family members, bestiality and genocide you may have other issues to work out before you can understand why The Sims is fun for a lot of people.
Putting aside your obviously strong beliefs against any kind of violence for a moment...
Actually it looks like geekmux held up games like Full Spectrum Warrior as examples of games that portray combat in a semi-realistic manner as well as demonstrate situations of justifiable violence. He also pointed to the American Revolution as a war instrumental in creating the most successful and prosperous nation in history and World War II as a war that was necessary to bring about an end to the barbarism of Hitler and concentration camps such as those at Auschwitz.
It seems to me that geekmux was effectively utilizing the subtle art of sarcasm to illustrate his points that many games are respectful of violent conflicts, the reasons behind them, and that sometimes wartime violence is an unfortunate, yet necessary path to travel to put an end to things like tyranny, torture and mass murder.
Absolutely absurd. I would've ripped my bag out of her hands and walked out of the class before I let her take anything of mine. If your instructor did in fact take and keep your binder - your propery - I would contact the department head (in a level-headed and calm manner), describe the situation and (if necessary) threaten to get the police involved. If that fails... go over the department head's... head... and get the police involved.
No instructor has the right to take and destroy any materials they didn't provide you with in the first place. You did the work, you wrote down the notes. Anything and everything that you created to assist your learning is your property.
Attempting to control the flow of information coming from that course in such a totalitarian manner is a fallacy anyway. Any instructor operating under the delusion that she can prevent her students from passing on information learned in her class lacks a grasp on reality.
"You don't like us making fun of stupid religious people, but then you call us stupid."
Replace "religious" with "black" "asian" "jewish" "muslim" or any other name and you might actually realize how offensive your statements are.
I thought it was Amerigo Vespucci, not Richard Amerike, whose name was used to derive "America." Though the Wikipedia entries for each person consider them both candidates for the origin of the name.
All you've done is explain short term genetic mutations. Hair color and pattern can be altered due to selective breeding. Even genetic defects (as well as advantages) can be passed on and enhanced. But how does a fish with gills suddenly grow a lung? Genes and DNA don't just spontaneously say "I think I'll try to make a lung in the next generation."
Gravitational theory is still just theory. It's called theory because we have no idea what else might be out there in the universe that could make us re-think how gravity functions. It's a theory because, though we have plenty of proofs, there is still a possibility (however slim) that we're wrong. The same is true for evolutionary theory. No matter how many proofs we currently have, we still don't have enough to call it a law of nature. There is a very specific, scientific reason the "theory of evolution" hasn't become the "law of evolution."
Indeed. There are highly talented people in many fields all over the country - all over the world. Just because they don't move to the West Coast doesn't mean they don't exist.
Indeed. The author of this article seems to have only the most rudimentary understanding of procedural programming. The attempts to explain the process in a simplified manner are feeble, lack insight, and are generally not very informative.
Thanks. I know I've heard the quote before Drawn Together was ever on the air, but I never knew where it was from as I heard it from a friend who probably heard it from someone else who heard it somewhere...
I'm not sure where you get "year 7." Spore was only publicly announced at E3 2005. Counting the amount of time Will Wright has spent privately developing the idea before that is ridiculous. I'm sure there are many other developers that have been going through a similar multi-year pre-production process on games that we know nothing about.
So, let's quit exaggerating things and call it at the 2 years and 3 months that it's actually been.
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Or it's just a case of mass over-prescription of antipsychotics. Nothing is normal anymore, EVERYONE has some kind of mental or physical disorder that must be treated by drugs.
The heading, and a main talking point of TFA, suggest that, when asked, 41% of Facebook users will simply hand over personal information. But really what's shown is that about 44% of Facebook users will happily accept a random friend invitation and of those users more than 80% of them ALREADY HAD personal information posted on their profile. What does that tell us really?
It tells us that nearly all of the idiots on Facebook who are stupid enough to accept a friend invitation from a total stranger are ALSO stupid enough to post personal information in their profiles. Wow! 80+ percent of all Facebook idiots are really HUGE idiots! Amazing!
Wait... there's already been a Star Wars prequel? Since when?
I think you're confusing 'forcing' with 'enforcing'; as in, enforcing the law.
What's wrong with government telling us how to 'better manage' our energy resources? When government passes into law bills that essentially force one of this country's major employers to shut down some of their sizable manufacturing operations here in the U.S. and open new factories in China, thus robbing American citizens of jobs in the process, then I'd say the government screwed up; wouldn't you? That's not to mention that environmental standards for industry in China are severely lacking compared to the U.S. meaning that little to no environmental benefit has been attained. But oh... that's right... our government did it all with our 'best interests' in mind which makes it OK.
Didn't this same Firstenberg guy ALREADY DO THIS to another neighbor back in January?
Why is anyone even paying attention to him and his absurd claims?
Because humankind should never embark on a long journey when the threat of sickness (or hunger, or environmental dangers, or giant monsters) looms. Come on. If, as a species, we didn't take risks we'd either still be stuck in caves or dead.
NASA needs to get their heads out of their rear ends and stop dinking around with robots and probes and experiments that might possibly be useful sometime in the future when there's a plan. They need to set big, definitive goals to get mankind back on the moon and out to Mars and work towards those ends. Otherwise they might as well rename themselves the NAA and stop squandering taxpayer dollars on space all together.
I had a feeling someone would beat me to this. Though the quote is, "Come on, man! Don't hold out on me like this!" And I'm not sure it's $1000 because in a later episode when everyone gets their $200 tax refunds the same guy says "No cheap crack houses for me no more!" and walks up to a crack mansion.
Me? A Futurama geek? Noooo...
If the first things you think of when you think of a "fun game" are murdering family members, bestiality and genocide you may have other issues to work out before you can understand why The Sims is fun for a lot of people.
Putting aside your obviously strong beliefs against any kind of violence for a moment...
Actually it looks like geekmux held up games like Full Spectrum Warrior as examples of games that portray combat in a semi-realistic manner as well as demonstrate situations of justifiable violence. He also pointed to the American Revolution as a war instrumental in creating the most successful and prosperous nation in history and World War II as a war that was necessary to bring about an end to the barbarism of Hitler and concentration camps such as those at Auschwitz.
It seems to me that geekmux was effectively utilizing the subtle art of sarcasm to illustrate his points that many games are respectful of violent conflicts, the reasons behind them, and that sometimes wartime violence is an unfortunate, yet necessary path to travel to put an end to things like tyranny, torture and mass murder.
Absolutely absurd. I would've ripped my bag out of her hands and walked out of the class before I let her take anything of mine. If your instructor did in fact take and keep your binder - your propery - I would contact the department head (in a level-headed and calm manner), describe the situation and (if necessary) threaten to get the police involved. If that fails... go over the department head's... head... and get the police involved.
No instructor has the right to take and destroy any materials they didn't provide you with in the first place. You did the work, you wrote down the notes. Anything and everything that you created to assist your learning is your property.
Attempting to control the flow of information coming from that course in such a totalitarian manner is a fallacy anyway. Any instructor operating under the delusion that she can prevent her students from passing on information learned in her class lacks a grasp on reality.
"You don't like us making fun of stupid religious people, but then you call us stupid." Replace "religious" with "black" "asian" "jewish" "muslim" or any other name and you might actually realize how offensive your statements are.
I thought it was Amerigo Vespucci, not Richard Amerike, whose name was used to derive "America." Though the Wikipedia entries for each person consider them both candidates for the origin of the name.
Agreed. I've been seeing this exact projection on the Science and Discovery channels for years now. I wasn't even aware there was a competing theory.
All you've done is explain short term genetic mutations. Hair color and pattern can be altered due to selective breeding. Even genetic defects (as well as advantages) can be passed on and enhanced. But how does a fish with gills suddenly grow a lung? Genes and DNA don't just spontaneously say "I think I'll try to make a lung in the next generation."
Gravitational theory is still just theory. It's called theory because we have no idea what else might be out there in the universe that could make us re-think how gravity functions. It's a theory because, though we have plenty of proofs, there is still a possibility (however slim) that we're wrong. The same is true for evolutionary theory. No matter how many proofs we currently have, we still don't have enough to call it a law of nature. There is a very specific, scientific reason the "theory of evolution" hasn't become the "law of evolution."
Indeed. There are highly talented people in many fields all over the country - all over the world. Just because they don't move to the West Coast doesn't mean they don't exist.
So when does the book burning begin? It's beginning to look like the UK expects it's people to give up their freedom if they want to keep it.
It was pretty cool until it fell apart.
Indeed. The author of this article seems to have only the most rudimentary understanding of procedural programming. The attempts to explain the process in a simplified manner are feeble, lack insight, and are generally not very informative.
Thanks. I know I've heard the quote before Drawn Together was ever on the air, but I never knew where it was from as I heard it from a friend who probably heard it from someone else who heard it somewhere...
I'm not sure where you get "year 7." Spore was only publicly announced at E3 2005. Counting the amount of time Will Wright has spent privately developing the idea before that is ridiculous. I'm sure there are many other developers that have been going through a similar multi-year pre-production process on games that we know nothing about.
So, let's quit exaggerating things and call it at the 2 years and 3 months that it's actually been.