It looks like I misunderstood the OP. I thought he meant forcing the other guy to block not going solely for the weapon without endangering the other person. I agree that it doesn't make any sense to go for the weapon only because one would just move it out of the way and counterstrike.
I'm don't know anything about swordfighting but wouldn't it make sense to go after the other guy's sword so you could get in a position to actually hit him with lesser or no risk of getting slashed?
Did you know that the founder(s) of Valve software are old Microsoft employees? I would argue that Valve are one of the most successful game studios in the world. But that's just one data point.
You're basically saying that even if Gates does something good hes bad. If he makes money he's evil. If hey gives his money away to worthy causes he's evil. Your post is so much flaimbait I can't understand how it's +5.
One may dislike Gate's business practices but to ridicule his charity commitment just reeks of hypocrisy.
Welcome to the real world: words change meanings continuously. "Thing" once meant a council meeting (waay back in the norse times), now it mean, well, "thing". "Gay" once meant cheerful/happy, then it meant "homosexual", and now it's in the middle of becoming just "uncool". Etc.
Are you sure about the etymology of the word thing? Ting is a word in both Norwegian and Swedish. In Swedish it means at least two different things. It either means ting as in council (very archaic) and ting as in thing which is slightly archaic. I'm not sure if the Norwegians have a second meaning but ting as in council still applies to this day.
The only reason I can think of for not enabling games to be swapped between accounts is the cost. There is bound to be a lot of frauds that will eat up customer service hours. I haven't heard anyone getting banned for buying an account from someone and using it. The bad thing is you have to buy games on different accounts if you plan to sell them one by one.
I quite like Steam and would consider it the best online distribution system for noobs. The best one is of course pirated FTP's or Torrent's. I've only ever managed to use about half my download bandwidth (400KB) and that was just recently. It's usually slower than that but you can back up your steam account easily if that's a problem.
The thing is that most users can't be assed to install codecs as you are probably aware. This of course means that there is less incentive for companies to look into the issue. The thing is that games are the one place where Vorbis has really broken through. I've seen many games which use the Vorbis format for sounds instead of MP3 for obvious reasons. I first heard of Vorbis through the game Operation Flashpoint when I wanted to mess around with the sound and it came in a weird format.
When the market isn't hampered by install base the best solution will be used. Besides most of the closed format that has become de facto standard reached that status through not enforcing the patents until they became popular. Also I wouldn't call any market which relies on patents free but then again I'm a minority even amongst libertarians.
I know of at least two different sites which give out disposable e-mail addresses so I don't really understand why this is newsworthy.
http://www.spamgourmet.com/
You create an account and spamgourmet will bounce the mail to you. The syntax is: [word].[number of mails].[username]@spamgourmet.com. When the alloted number of e-mails has been used the mails will bounce unless you allow more through.
http://www.mailinator.com/
You just make up a string of letters and use those letters to view the account at mailinator. This is a truly disposable mail address since the inbox is open to anyone who chooses to look at the account. If the information is semiimportant you should choose a pretty random mail address.
I've seen several videos of people being tasered by the x26. The thing that astounded me the most was that the moment the burst is done the victim gets up.
There are alredy bombs with very fine shrapnel I'm not sure on which scale. They do now how ever work as you would think.
The weapon class is called DIME
I wouldn't agree. That would put libertarians and the conservatives in the same category. The political compass is a much better way. As it places social and economic authoritarianism on different axis.
Even if you do use them, the USA is not first, that place is still taken by luxemborg, and sweden and esp. norway are pretty close to that same top. Icidentely, all part of 'socialist Europe'. Your statement that if Sweden were in the USA it would be the poorest state is simply not true when looking at average income, or GDP per capita. 'Strange measures of well being like standard of living' happen to be the norm for measuring how well things work out for people for the simple reason that it compensates for 'buying power', whereas GDP per capita does not. Not compensating for this means that you are not measuring what people can afford on their local market.
I wasn't talking about standard of living or other strange measures of well being. I'm talking about GDP, average income and growth rate.
What is defined as poverty in the US is different than in Sweden.
Infant death is measured differently in the US.
The lower life expectancy isn't readily explained but could be caused by several different factors like more violence, obesity and more.
How well did the black popuation fare against the Swedes when comparing their wages?
As a famous economist said, in the long run we're all dead. Increased efficiency 10 years down the line is all well and good but that doesn't help the people that need the services now
Is the old teach a man to fish... proverb no longer true?
Saying that in the long run we're all dead is like saying that nothing matters ever. It's not a very valid argument. Also Keynes is a goddamn retard se this
Well yes, most countries in northern Europe, and especially Scandinavia are doing quite badly indeed.. I bet this is due to the socialist nature of their governments also.
Could you please tell me what good Sweden is doing? AFAIK if Sweden was a state in USA it would be the poorest. Also please do a comparison of the wages between [whatever you call your black population today] and the Swedes. You will be surprised.
Sweden may be doing well compared to even more socialist countries but not compared to USA or Hong Kong.
Which was my point. My views are summed up pretty neatly by this quote:
[O]bserve
that "property of land" confers the right to use and dispose of your
land as you see fit, while "intellectual property over an idea"
confers the right to prohibit others from using their copies of the
idea.
I can't really see the problem. If Microsoft subsidizes charities at the cost of commercial customers then the charities have everything to gain by going Microsoft. It doesn't say anything relevant about the TCO of Linux versus Windows in the commercial sector.
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It looks like I misunderstood the OP. I thought he meant forcing the other guy to block not going solely for the weapon without endangering the other person. I agree that it doesn't make any sense to go for the weapon only because one would just move it out of the way and counterstrike.
Thank you for the clarification.
I actually tried to make a joke since you were so careful to call them crackers. Sorry if I cased you any pain.
Don't you mean hacking...?
I'm don't know anything about swordfighting but wouldn't it make sense to go after the other guy's sword so you could get in a position to actually hit him with lesser or no risk of getting slashed?
Did you know that the founder(s) of Valve software are old Microsoft employees? I would argue that Valve are one of the most successful game studios in the world. But that's just one data point.
You're basically saying that even if Gates does something good hes bad. If he makes money he's evil. If hey gives his money away to worthy causes he's evil. Your post is so much flaimbait I can't understand how it's +5.
One may dislike Gate's business practices but to ridicule his charity commitment just reeks of hypocrisy.
Yes, I would consider that very likely but he stepped down peacefully which was the point.
Pinochet in Chile?
I just recently heard he stepped down peacefully and apparently the wikipedia article corroborates it
Are you sure about the etymology of the word thing? Ting is a word in both Norwegian and Swedish. In Swedish it means at least two different things. It either means ting as in council (very archaic) and ting as in thing which is slightly archaic. I'm not sure if the Norwegians have a second meaning but ting as in council still applies to this day.
The only reason I can think of for not enabling games to be swapped between accounts is the cost. There is bound to be a lot of frauds that will eat up customer service hours. I haven't heard anyone getting banned for buying an account from someone and using it. The bad thing is you have to buy games on different accounts if you plan to sell them one by one.
I quite like Steam and would consider it the best online distribution system for noobs. The best one is of course pirated FTP's or Torrent's. I've only ever managed to use about half my download bandwidth (400KB) and that was just recently. It's usually slower than that but you can back up your steam account easily if that's a problem.
The thing is that most users can't be assed to install codecs as you are probably aware. This of course means that there is less incentive for companies to look into the issue. The thing is that games are the one place where Vorbis has really broken through. I've seen many games which use the Vorbis format for sounds instead of MP3 for obvious reasons. I first heard of Vorbis through the game Operation Flashpoint when I wanted to mess around with the sound and it came in a weird format.
When the market isn't hampered by install base the best solution will be used. Besides most of the closed format that has become de facto standard reached that status through not enforcing the patents until they became popular. Also I wouldn't call any market which relies on patents free but then again I'm a minority even amongst libertarians.
I know of at least two different sites which give out disposable e-mail addresses so I don't really understand why this is newsworthy.
http://www.spamgourmet.com/
You create an account and spamgourmet will bounce the mail to you. The syntax is: [word].[number of mails].[username]@spamgourmet.com. When the alloted number of e-mails has been used the mails will bounce unless you allow more through.
http://www.mailinator.com/
You just make up a string of letters and use those letters to view the account at mailinator. This is a truly disposable mail address since the inbox is open to anyone who chooses to look at the account. If the information is semiimportant you should choose a pretty random mail address.
Here's a link to a study that supports the OP: http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/again st.htm (PDF-warning)
How many persons were born with congenital defects and died before they could make a great discovery?
Um....... No?
I've seen several videos of people being tasered by the x26. The thing that astounded me the most was that the moment the burst is done the victim gets up.
Se theese videos:
Drunk guy getting tasered more than once and getting up constantly
Woman getting tasered for five seconds and can stand up just fine.
Young man getting five seconds
There are alredy bombs with very fine shrapnel I'm not sure on which scale. They do now how ever work as you would think. The weapon class is called DIME
I wouldn't agree. That would put libertarians and the conservatives in the same category. The political compass is a much better way. As it places social and economic authoritarianism on different axis.
I wasn't talking about standard of living or other strange measures of well being. I'm talking about GDP, average income and growth rate. What is defined as poverty in the US is different than in Sweden. Infant death is measured differently in the US. The lower life expectancy isn't readily explained but could be caused by several different factors like more violence, obesity and more. How well did the black popuation fare against the Swedes when comparing their wages?
Saying that in the long run we're all dead is like saying that nothing matters ever. It's not a very valid argument. Also Keynes is a goddamn retard se this
Sweden may be doing well compared to even more socialist countries but not compared to USA or Hong Kong.
In a free market others can manufacture the things you stop selling if there still is a demand. For some reason this isn't possible.
I can't really see the problem. If Microsoft subsidizes charities at the cost of commercial customers then the charities have everything to gain by going Microsoft. It doesn't say anything relevant about the TCO of Linux versus Windows in the commercial sector.
It's very possible to drop cannabis. Haven't you ever heard of a spacecake?