How does hating the idea of a profitable company getting [unneeded] subsidies make one either ignorant or anti-capitalist? Wouldn't a true capitalist prefer the company be left alone?
This comparison is asanine. A marginally better one would be to say that Finland has a population density of 15.5/km^2, while the US has a population density of 31/km^2 [though this doesn't really say much either, as both countries have large swaths that are extremely sparsely populated].
I would gladly pay $6/gallon if it would get all the jackasses driving Yukons with one passenger off the road. The public transit would be nice, but it would require everyone to not live on 3/4 acre in a development 35 miles from the center of the city for it to be even plausable.
You can't possibly be a Member of the American Political System.
The American Political System does not value someone like you. Virtually everytime a Candidate appears to be someone like you, the American Political System pushes them to the side and or dumps them entirely from the American Political System. Moral and ethical behavior is not a core value in the leadership of today's American Political System. You can thank Tom "The Hammer" Delay and many similar 'leaders' in the American Political System for staying the course that has been set for the last 150 years.
I've never played SL - does that mean if you keep your cursor in the middle of the screen, you'll generally be staring down at an angle? That would seem like a relatively simple reason why people don't make eye contact.
So I should have the same assumption of personal risk walking outside at night as I should sending nude pictures of myself with detailed contact information to someone I don't know over the 'net? Sure, the guy is an asshole. But I have a hard time feeling very sorry for people looking outside their marriage for a tryst. You can't get caught cheating if you don't do it.
Your mail carrier must be lazy. Mine always delivers everything, and even has the decency to toss anything that isn't marked as fragile and won't fit through the mail slot up onto my balcony so it won't get stolen.
And in my mind, being able to send something from New Jersey to California in 2-4 days for 41c is still a pretty good deal. 60% inflation in price over 15 years? Not too bad. Lower rate of increase than college tuition or gas prices, to be sure.
A former roommate of mine (from a pretty well off family) bought a Alienware computer - but after two DOA motherboards and a few dozen angry calls to tech support, he gave up and got a Dell. This was 5 or 6 years ago - I don't know if they've improved much since then.
I also had a CS professor who had an Alienware laptop - his specialty was AI in games, so it was a pretty high end model and seemed to suit him well.
Neither of these were people you'd really call "rich", but they were upper-middle class anyway, and those are the only two Alienwares I've every actually seen people buy.
Philadelphia strikes me as a poor example of your point. The traffic on the interstates in Philly rarely flows nicely - especially the Schuylkill, Blue Route, and I-95 - and you had better be paying constant attention with a foot over the brake because Philly drivers will slow down to 45 on a dime to rubberneck at anything. Except at off hours, I almost never am above 55 on 76/476/676 or 65 on 95 simply because the flow of the road makes it impossible.
You are free to ignore 40 years of traffic engineering studies.
You've cited this in almost every one of your posts without providing any evidence as to where one might find these studies.
Its people like you that are sliding our country closer and closer to facism.
Gee, this isn't a baseless troll remark. I'd come up with something creative linking [high speed driving - interstate - autobahn - hitler - fascism] but I don't feel like it.
Speeding (violating the posted limit) by itself is not unsafe. Usually, if many people are 'speeding' on a road, its because the state intends that road to generate revenue in the form of tickets. The limit is actually set dangerously low, and raising it would actually make the road safer. Not paying attention is another matter... but that will cause an accident no matter what speed you're going.
We have 40 years of research telling us how to set speed limits that are safe; the problem is that speeding is an easy revenue for the state.
Do you have any references you can supply to back this up? It boggles the mind that driving too slowly could ever be unsafe, unless by that you mean "driving at 45 on I-95 when everyone else is doing 80", which is a completely different situation from driving at 35 instead of 55 on a two-lane country blacktop. At lower speeds, you can cut the wheel harder without spinning, and your braking distances are far improved.
The chips carry an encrypted digital photograph of the passport holder. The chip is designed to be read by a special device that will be used by U.S. government workers who check passports when travelers come through border crossings.
This won't make it any easier to beat than the current system. It'll be harder - maybe not much harder - but a little. You'll never catch the smartest crooks, but it seems to me that this will weed out a few more of the idiots with no obvious downsides.
HA! I laugh at your incompetence. Have we forgotten the backward compatibility of the GameBoy line?
Yes, the GameBoy line was backward compatable - up until the DS, at which point they dropped backwards compatability with anything from before the GBA. Either way, this doesn't refute the fact that the PS2 was backwards compatable with almost every PS1 game, and that seems like the best indicator of the PS3 situation.
first party Nintendo games DO tend to be consistently entertaining. This is a matter of opinion. I gave Mario Golf about two hours total, which was more than Mario Tennis, Mario Baseball, and the entire Mario Party line got combined. Mario Sunshine is a good game, and the Zelda series has always been great. SSMB and Mario Kart are great multiplayer, but the single player is repetitive and boring. I haven't played Metroid, but it's $7 now so it might be worth a look. Animal Crossing? Please. So in my opinion, Nintendo has its fair share of misses too. But I digress.
What about the abundance of failed DVD drives on the PS2? So the PS3 might not play movies because of hardware failure? If my toaster breaks, it won't toast bread, either. That's why you get a warranty. I couldn't find numbers as to how abundant the disk drive failure was, though it did generate a class action lawsuit.
No direct consequence, yes. However it does ruin some of their consumer confidence, which can lead to people turning away from the Sony brand. I doubt Joe Blow who makes up most of the US consumer base knows what a rootkit is. I don't know enough about Japanese or European markets to say much beyond the PS3 and Wii will probably both blow the Xbox 360 out of the water in Japan.
True, true. I especially noticed your objective analysis that when Nintendo charges for backwards compatability, it's only A couple dollars a pop. Big deal., but when Sony has [free / $500] backwards compatibility that has a history of working better than any other console company's, we should expect it to not work properly.
I also noticed that 1st party Nintendo games tend to be consistently entertaining while PS2 games were mostly shitty clones that weren't worth paying for. You stated that you think it is likely for the PS3 to fail, which at this point is still speculation.
This statement: The PS3, on the other hand, will play games and (maybe) movies. is asanine. We have no reason to believe that the PS3 will only maybe play movies. And whatever your opinion is of Sony's rootkit fiasco, it doesn't seem to have much to do with a console.
For the record, I'm unlikely to buy either of the systems, but that doesn't stop me from being irritated with people who let such an obvious bias show through while trying to pass it off as objective.
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How does hating the idea of a profitable company getting [unneeded] subsidies make one either ignorant or anti-capitalist? Wouldn't a true capitalist prefer the company be left alone?
This comparison is asanine. A marginally better one would be to say that Finland has a population density of 15.5/km^2, while the US has a population density of 31/km^2 [though this doesn't really say much either, as both countries have large swaths that are extremely sparsely populated].
I would gladly pay $6/gallon if it would get all the jackasses driving Yukons with one passenger off the road. The public transit would be nice, but it would require everyone to not live on 3/4 acre in a development 35 miles from the center of the city for it to be even plausable.
The world supply of scum-suckers is far greater than Google's supply of money.
You can't possibly be a Member of the American Political System. The American Political System does not value someone like you. Virtually everytime a Candidate appears to be someone like you, the American Political System pushes them to the side and or dumps them entirely from the American Political System. Moral and ethical behavior is not a core value in the leadership of today's American Political System. You can thank Tom "The Hammer" Delay and many similar 'leaders' in the American Political System for staying the course that has been set for the last 150 years.
I fixed that for you.
Hot blooded. If you're too lazy to follow his suggestion and RTFA, at least don't be an ass about it.
And you can't drink champagne at your wedding - but you can be drafted. The minimum legal ages for lots of things are fucked up here.
I've never played SL - does that mean if you keep your cursor in the middle of the screen, you'll generally be staring down at an angle? That would seem like a relatively simple reason why people don't make eye contact.
Whoa. Would have made that movie make marginally more sense. Thanks.
So I should have the same assumption of personal risk walking outside at night as I should sending nude pictures of myself with detailed contact information to someone I don't know over the 'net? Sure, the guy is an asshole. But I have a hard time feeling very sorry for people looking outside their marriage for a tryst. You can't get caught cheating if you don't do it.
Your mail carrier must be lazy. Mine always delivers everything, and even has the decency to toss anything that isn't marked as fragile and won't fit through the mail slot up onto my balcony so it won't get stolen.
And in my mind, being able to send something from New Jersey to California in 2-4 days for 41c is still a pretty good deal. 60% inflation in price over 15 years? Not too bad. Lower rate of increase than college tuition or gas prices, to be sure.
It's been too long since you've watched Saturday morning cartoons, spoilsport.
Care to give me yours?
A former roommate of mine (from a pretty well off family) bought a Alienware computer - but after two DOA motherboards and a few dozen angry calls to tech support, he gave up and got a Dell. This was 5 or 6 years ago - I don't know if they've improved much since then.
I also had a CS professor who had an Alienware laptop - his specialty was AI in games, so it was a pretty high end model and seemed to suit him well.
Neither of these were people you'd really call "rich", but they were upper-middle class anyway, and those are the only two Alienwares I've every actually seen people buy.
This is what I get for browsing at -1....
You've cited this in almost every one of your posts without providing any evidence as to where one might find these studies. Gee, this isn't a baseless troll remark. I'd come up with something creative linking [high speed driving - interstate - autobahn - hitler - fascism] but I don't feel like it.
Seconded. If someone who has [a lot] of mod points could fix this, it really is a problem.
Do you have any references you can supply to back this up? It boggles the mind that driving too slowly could ever be unsafe, unless by that you mean "driving at 45 on I-95 when everyone else is doing 80", which is a completely different situation from driving at 35 instead of 55 on a two-lane country blacktop. At lower speeds, you can cut the wheel harder without spinning, and your braking distances are far improved.
What's the site that automatically generates these? I refuse to believe that you actually wrote all of this.
This won't make it any easier to beat than the current system. It'll be harder - maybe not much harder - but a little. You'll never catch the smartest crooks, but it seems to me that this will weed out a few more of the idiots with no obvious downsides.
HA! I laugh at your incompetence. Have we forgotten the backward compatibility of the GameBoy line?
Yes, the GameBoy line was backward compatable - up until the DS, at which point they dropped backwards compatability with anything from before the GBA. Either way, this doesn't refute the fact that the PS2 was backwards compatable with almost every PS1 game, and that seems like the best indicator of the PS3 situation.
first party Nintendo games DO tend to be consistently entertaining.
This is a matter of opinion. I gave Mario Golf about two hours total, which was more than Mario Tennis, Mario Baseball, and the entire Mario Party line got combined. Mario Sunshine is a good game, and the Zelda series has always been great. SSMB and Mario Kart are great multiplayer, but the single player is repetitive and boring. I haven't played Metroid, but it's $7 now so it might be worth a look. Animal Crossing? Please. So in my opinion, Nintendo has its fair share of misses too. But I digress.
What about the abundance of failed DVD drives on the PS2?
So the PS3 might not play movies because of hardware failure? If my toaster breaks, it won't toast bread, either. That's why you get a warranty. I couldn't find numbers as to how abundant the disk drive failure was, though it did generate a class action lawsuit.
No direct consequence, yes. However it does ruin some of their consumer confidence, which can lead to people turning away from the Sony brand.
I doubt Joe Blow who makes up most of the US consumer base knows what a rootkit is. I don't know enough about Japanese or European markets to say much beyond the PS3 and Wii will probably both blow the Xbox 360 out of the water in Japan.
True, true. I especially noticed your objective analysis that when Nintendo charges for backwards compatability, it's only A couple dollars a pop. Big deal., but when Sony has [free / $500] backwards compatibility that has a history of working better than any other console company's, we should expect it to not work properly.
I also noticed that 1st party Nintendo games tend to be consistently entertaining while PS2 games were mostly shitty clones that weren't worth paying for. You stated that you think it is likely for the PS3 to fail, which at this point is still speculation.
This statement: The PS3, on the other hand, will play games and (maybe) movies. is asanine. We have no reason to believe that the PS3 will only maybe play movies.
And whatever your opinion is of Sony's rootkit fiasco, it doesn't seem to have much to do with a console.
For the record, I'm unlikely to buy either of the systems, but that doesn't stop me from being irritated with people who let such an obvious bias show through while trying to pass it off as objective.
This "-1, troll" echoed my sentiments exactly. I kept waiting for a joke to come up. And waiting...
You forgot the "fanboy" tags for your post.