Or maybe the gov't failed by snapping up all of those mortgage-backed securities in the secondary market through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, contributing to an unnatural housing bubble. Maybe the problem isn't so much a lack of "risk regulation" as it is a problem of moral hazard stemming from the ability of primary lenders to offset the risks from sub-prime lending to secondary lenders, and if the gov't and other buyers had made those loans directly we wouldn't be in this mess.
We need some medicine but we ought to make sure it's the right kind of medicine, otherwise things will just get worse or happen again.
People could be teaching their kids DVORAK. Then nobody relearns anything and eventually we make the full transition. We ought to be smart enough to mandate that public grade schools make the switch.
That's not exactly what I was picturing but I bet it would be way better for Iran to show right now than LotR. Anything where the rebels are humans, though, and not literally aliens?
Put control in the user's hands. On the preferences section of your website, after the first login, allow users to decide whether or not they'd like to have their password masked on the login screen. There, I just ended your entire adolescent bickering match over which option is better, now you can all go flame-war each other over some other trivial issue in another article.
We probably mostly agree on everything. I was really just talking about this issue in the abstract... in the originally referenced song the author is addressing everyone who might listen instead of an individual. I'd never try to steamroll over anybody by insisting on using their "old" gender pronouns in conversation when they'd rather be seen differently; it doesn't hurt anybody else if they want to be called "she" instead of "he," and saying something like "heshe" every time would just be passive-aggressive and plain rude. Your point that the most respectful thing is to call someone what they want to be called is excellent.
I don't know how I feel about the way that game sounds but I'm not beyond enjoying a "kill everything that moves" game. Recently I've been enjoying Prototype which is more or less that kind of game, but with an interesting sci-fi story and some pretty wicked platform gaming action thrown in. I just like a little variety and I feel that there's room for literary and artistic elements in gaming. The plot of Planescape: Torment for example easily rivals the writing of any popular fantasy novel.
All good points. Gender and sexuality are both more of a continuum than a binary state. At any rate I think that deciding what to call transgendered people is a relatively minor issue when compared to the larger ongoing issue of whether or not they'll be accepted into society at all. Persecution of LBGT individuals is a deplorable witch hunt. It's too bad people can't just live and let live.
You must be one of those blokes who thinks that reading a good book is about as much fun as sticking needles under your fingernails. Seriously, some people enjoy a game with a good story and "kill everything that moves" just isn't enough to get them going.
Seriously, getting us to stop eating meat will be like trying to get smokers to stop puffing on cancer sticks. I'm not ready to give up my meat. So I think you'd better just bite the bullet and at least be thankful we're willing to eat meat out of a vat in order to conserve resources.
I just want to point out that that's not generally considered respectful language
I'm not so sure that holding a different definition of the word "girl" than you do is really disrespectful. I get what you're saying but you've got to understand that to the population at large there is a difference between someone born biologically female and someone who surgically removed their genitals and started hormone therapy (or whatever other combination of measures you took to legally change your gender). For example, you never could and never will bear a child. Not that all women can, but they've generally got a higher likelihood of being able to do so. So people like to have different words for those different things. You've got to face the music, to Joe six-pack you're not a girl, you're a post-op transsexual.
I get what you're trying to say but I also feel like you're trying to strongarm others into changing the definitions of their words. If somebody doesn't think you're "really a girl" and you take offense to that, you're just picking a fight over semantics. Go ahead and wait until they say something really inflammatory and hateful before you bust out the righteous indignation, you'll win more hearts and minds.
Why do you just assume that planting trees would be more efficient than building machine-trees? It's entirely possible that machine-trees could have a greater lifespan, require less maintenance, and be more space-efficient than real trees. I'm not going to say either way because I don't know but anybody who assumes they have the answer to a solution without even considering the alternatives or doing any research at all is just fumbling around blindly, probably throughout their entire life, not to mention in their business decisions and the science they do.
I never played Basic. I realize that "elf" was a class in Basic but I didn't realize that "dwarf" was as well. Man, that version was screwy. I once heard that the game listed a common domesticated cat as having better statistics than a peasant.
Don't you have something better to do with your mod points than systematically modding down all of my posts as "offtopic" or "overrated" even when they're spot-on? What did I ever do to offend you so badly that you're obsessed with harassing me? Seriously, get a life you dimwit.
I'm pretty sure that if you were born in this country, that makes you an American, whether or not you agree with that person's policy positions.
Also, I don't see how a national healthcare system would keep anyone from obtaining private healthcare. If the gov't can't treat you fast enough then pony up and pay for treatment like you would have had to in the first place.
If games aren't censored, then explain why it was possible to kill children in the 1998 Fallout but impossible to kill them in the 2008 Fallout 3. I think you do a good job of already explaining this, but it just goes to show that censorship doesn't have to be institutionalized to be effective.
I'm not sure if they're really the same thing. A team and a crowd are two different things; one consists of a finite number of people who are hand-selected, and the other consists of a theoretically infinite number of people who are randomly and anonymously selected.
I haven't played one that I would consider high art yet
The original Fallout series made a lot of pretty profound social commentary while still managing to mix it with some humor. If Fallout existed as a novel instead of a game I'm pretty sure it would have literary merit. Furthermore, Fallout was a great example of how explicit content can deepen a game's experience; it was possible to do some really rotten things to the NPC's in that game for personal gain, including killing women and children. The possibility of doing so made it more meaningful when the player acted with nobility instead. It also showed how difficult it can be to treat others with justice when times are hard which is a theme worthy of any novel; scarcity tempts the player to take advantage of others, and the NPC's in the lawless and desperate setting frequently turn to slavery, looting and cannibalism to survive.
Another game that might be considered art is Zeno Clash. The visual style of the game is very unique and surreal, and the plot of the game is inspired as well. I'd describe some of the literary aspects of the game but I don't want to spoil the plot twists.
I realize I'm just posting in a troll thread, which is exactly what the troll wants, but I just couldn't resist... it's like nerd honey...
There aren't any racial levels in "Dwarf." You could have a level 5 fighter who happens to be a dwarf. There are racial levels for other races though, usually monstrous ones. You could have, for example, a level 5 doppelganger.
Although personally I would rather make my doppelganger a 10th level assassin, 10th level rogue. Oh yeah... *drools*
P.S. I don't use Linux. I play Crysis on my 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate (TM) machine. I need it to run my dual-core GPU (the Radeon HD3870 X2) and to access my 8gb of system RAM. Oh and my quad-core CPU doesn't really require 64-bit operating, but it's still pretty nifty. Anyway, I can't really bite on the Linux stuff because I just don't care. Maybe a Linux fanboy could help feed the troll?
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Or maybe the gov't failed by snapping up all of those mortgage-backed securities in the secondary market through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, contributing to an unnatural housing bubble. Maybe the problem isn't so much a lack of "risk regulation" as it is a problem of moral hazard stemming from the ability of primary lenders to offset the risks from sub-prime lending to secondary lenders, and if the gov't and other buyers had made those loans directly we wouldn't be in this mess.
We need some medicine but we ought to make sure it's the right kind of medicine, otherwise things will just get worse or happen again.
People could be teaching their kids DVORAK. Then nobody relearns anything and eventually we make the full transition. We ought to be smart enough to mandate that public grade schools make the switch.
it is fairly radical to tinker with an area of hardware which has been largely unchanged since the 19th century
What I find to be "radical" is that we still insist on using the QWERTY layout when it is well-known to be inefficient.
Ok, what if I "believe" the photo is from her at age 18. Does that make this all ok?
I don't know, ask the jury.
That's not exactly what I was picturing but I bet it would be way better for Iran to show right now than LotR. Anything where the rebels are humans, though, and not literally aliens?
I'm pretty sure that some organizations use a selection process for hiring managers that somewhat resembles this
Put control in the user's hands. On the preferences section of your website, after the first login, allow users to decide whether or not they'd like to have their password masked on the login screen. There, I just ended your entire adolescent bickering match over which option is better, now you can all go flame-war each other over some other trivial issue in another article.
I happen to have a digital projector in my living room that I use for entertainment. Stop making assumptions, you know what happens when you do that.
I realize you were being sarcastic, but you raise an interesting question ... is there ANY movie like that in the history of cinema?
We probably mostly agree on everything. I was really just talking about this issue in the abstract ... in the originally referenced song the author is addressing everyone who might listen instead of an individual. I'd never try to steamroll over anybody by insisting on using their "old" gender pronouns in conversation when they'd rather be seen differently; it doesn't hurt anybody else if they want to be called "she" instead of "he," and saying something like "heshe" every time would just be passive-aggressive and plain rude. Your point that the most respectful thing is to call someone what they want to be called is excellent.
I don't know how I feel about the way that game sounds but I'm not beyond enjoying a "kill everything that moves" game. Recently I've been enjoying Prototype which is more or less that kind of game, but with an interesting sci-fi story and some pretty wicked platform gaming action thrown in. I just like a little variety and I feel that there's room for literary and artistic elements in gaming. The plot of Planescape: Torment for example easily rivals the writing of any popular fantasy novel.
All good points. Gender and sexuality are both more of a continuum than a binary state. At any rate I think that deciding what to call transgendered people is a relatively minor issue when compared to the larger ongoing issue of whether or not they'll be accepted into society at all. Persecution of LBGT individuals is a deplorable witch hunt. It's too bad people can't just live and let live.
You must be one of those blokes who thinks that reading a good book is about as much fun as sticking needles under your fingernails. Seriously, some people enjoy a game with a good story and "kill everything that moves" just isn't enough to get them going.
Easier? EASIER!? You insensitive clod!
Seriously, getting us to stop eating meat will be like trying to get smokers to stop puffing on cancer sticks. I'm not ready to give up my meat. So I think you'd better just bite the bullet and at least be thankful we're willing to eat meat out of a vat in order to conserve resources.
How is this funny? It's insightful.
Whoever modded this as "Troll" is playing slashdot censor.
I just want to point out that that's not generally considered respectful language
I'm not so sure that holding a different definition of the word "girl" than you do is really disrespectful. I get what you're saying but you've got to understand that to the population at large there is a difference between someone born biologically female and someone who surgically removed their genitals and started hormone therapy (or whatever other combination of measures you took to legally change your gender). For example, you never could and never will bear a child. Not that all women can, but they've generally got a higher likelihood of being able to do so. So people like to have different words for those different things. You've got to face the music, to Joe six-pack you're not a girl, you're a post-op transsexual.
I get what you're trying to say but I also feel like you're trying to strongarm others into changing the definitions of their words. If somebody doesn't think you're "really a girl" and you take offense to that, you're just picking a fight over semantics. Go ahead and wait until they say something really inflammatory and hateful before you bust out the righteous indignation, you'll win more hearts and minds.
Why do you just assume that planting trees would be more efficient than building machine-trees? It's entirely possible that machine-trees could have a greater lifespan, require less maintenance, and be more space-efficient than real trees. I'm not going to say either way because I don't know but anybody who assumes they have the answer to a solution without even considering the alternatives or doing any research at all is just fumbling around blindly, probably throughout their entire life, not to mention in their business decisions and the science they do.
I never played Basic. I realize that "elf" was a class in Basic but I didn't realize that "dwarf" was as well. Man, that version was screwy. I once heard that the game listed a common domesticated cat as having better statistics than a peasant.
Don't you have something better to do with your mod points than systematically modding down all of my posts as "offtopic" or "overrated" even when they're spot-on? What did I ever do to offend you so badly that you're obsessed with harassing me? Seriously, get a life you dimwit.
I'm pretty sure that if you were born in this country, that makes you an American, whether or not you agree with that person's policy positions.
Also, I don't see how a national healthcare system would keep anyone from obtaining private healthcare. If the gov't can't treat you fast enough then pony up and pay for treatment like you would have had to in the first place.
games are NOT 'censored'
If games aren't censored, then explain why it was possible to kill children in the 1998 Fallout but impossible to kill them in the 2008 Fallout 3. I think you do a good job of already explaining this, but it just goes to show that censorship doesn't have to be institutionalized to be effective.
I'm not sure if they're really the same thing. A team and a crowd are two different things; one consists of a finite number of people who are hand-selected, and the other consists of a theoretically infinite number of people who are randomly and anonymously selected.
I haven't played one that I would consider high art yet
The original Fallout series made a lot of pretty profound social commentary while still managing to mix it with some humor. If Fallout existed as a novel instead of a game I'm pretty sure it would have literary merit. Furthermore, Fallout was a great example of how explicit content can deepen a game's experience; it was possible to do some really rotten things to the NPC's in that game for personal gain, including killing women and children. The possibility of doing so made it more meaningful when the player acted with nobility instead. It also showed how difficult it can be to treat others with justice when times are hard which is a theme worthy of any novel; scarcity tempts the player to take advantage of others, and the NPC's in the lawless and desperate setting frequently turn to slavery, looting and cannibalism to survive.
Another game that might be considered art is Zeno Clash. The visual style of the game is very unique and surreal, and the plot of the game is inspired as well. I'd describe some of the literary aspects of the game but I don't want to spoil the plot twists.
I realize I'm just posting in a troll thread, which is exactly what the troll wants, but I just couldn't resist ... it's like nerd honey ...
There aren't any racial levels in "Dwarf." You could have a level 5 fighter who happens to be a dwarf. There are racial levels for other races though, usually monstrous ones. You could have, for example, a level 5 doppelganger.
Although personally I would rather make my doppelganger a 10th level assassin, 10th level rogue. Oh yeah ... *drools*
P.S. I don't use Linux. I play Crysis on my 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate (TM) machine. I need it to run my dual-core GPU (the Radeon HD3870 X2) and to access my 8gb of system RAM. Oh and my quad-core CPU doesn't really require 64-bit operating, but it's still pretty nifty. Anyway, I can't really bite on the Linux stuff because I just don't care. Maybe a Linux fanboy could help feed the troll?