I wouldn't know as I have the pirated version i.e. RELOADED's release but not the fixed one they released due to one opcode being wrong.
I know the save function was grayed out for me once too but I don't know why. I lost four hours that way but I've given spore up as it isn't my type of game.
If what you saw of the game was to your liking I suggest getting a crack and trying again.
I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. If what you're talking about is that the save function is greyed out sometimes in the space stage it's because you need to be zoomed out to save. Zoom out to the star view and try saving.
I'm not the GP but advertising only works on me in two different ways. It shows that a company is established enough to afford airtime and thus probably has a decent product. Or it annoys me so much that I note it down and actively avoid their product. But I'm not an average guy and I tend to go for fringe stuff.
Heroin isn't physically damaging. It is addictive but you'll be hard pressed to find any physical side effects worse than constipation.
I know what I say is contrary to what you think you were told but I doubt even the propaganda sites will have any physical damage listed.
Heroin abuse and the life-style associated with that (unclean needles, adulturants, the cost) is physically damaging but not the heroin itself.
Greed or lack of demand? Any time a non-monopoly does something it's because not enough people exclude their product because of it. I'd bet that if only ten or so percent of those buying phones would exclude all phones having a non-standard charger all or most phones would come with standard chargers. When was the last time _your_ main criteria for a purchase was whether you could get a cheap charger?
I suggest that if you want companies to do what you want you should convince enough of the customer base that they want the same thing you do. The alternative is you forcing your views upon them.
Not him but the the psychological community's reaction to his study. If he could repeat his experiment in the same way Milgram did we would know a lot more or at least be more sure of what we know. However, it might be a good idea to end the experiment as soon as someone suffers a breakdown. I've completely lost my marbles once for a short while and while it wasn't a nice experience it wasn't harmful to me and I found the experience quite illuminating. In other words: I don't really understand why the experiment was considered so unethical.
You have no idea what libertarianism is about. Unions are fine but there will be no regulation for or against them. They can't stop scabs by violence for instance. As long as they don't violate anyone's rights unionists(?) can do whatever they want just like everybody else.
Unions may be a part of a free market. Most libertarians (more like minarchists) consider a market to be free when it's free of systematic fraud, violence and government regulation but I repeat myself.
They still don't even attempt close release dates for countries that uses subtitles and no dubs. I.e. all Scandinavian countries.
I don't know how many times I've seen trailers for a movie followed by a theater premiere date a week in the future for a movie I saw several months ago via bittorrent. It's difficult to know whether to laugh or cry.
If you buy an aftermarket cooler then HDD-thrashing will drown out the fan noise. Currently I've got a Scythe mine rev B (the fan is locked at 1500RPM by default) CPU-cooler and some 80MM fan from a broken power supply running at low speeds (just an in line resistor) and the HDD's are louder than the fans. The samsung drive is a bit louder than my older seagate but it's not maxtor loud. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention that both the motherboard and GPU are fanless. It's a 8600 that apparently runs almost all the latest games on high detail at lower resolutions (I've yet to give up my old 17" CRT).
Also, take the shuttle barebone computers. They've got a pretty agressive fan controller that has the only fan in the system (combined chassis and CPU fan thanks to heatpipes) normally running at 700 or so RPM. You can't even hear the fan running from a few metres away and the new 500GB Seagate I put in it is almost maxtor loud and greatly owerpowers what little fan sound there is.
That's true enough. Any large (more like unprecedented) positive change will cause problems in the short term and that is a given. But that is not Pratchett's argument, if it was I'd agree with him.
I'm a libertarian so I don't consider there to be an alternative to the current system (well, I'd like a laissez faire system) as long as resources are scarce. If resources weren't scarce or resources were so abundant that a capitalistic economy would be pointless then I don't have a problem with a substitute that works as long as people choose it voluntarily. However, I don't think ownership rights in the physical world will ever be pointless and if there is ownership there will be trade.
I'm disputing your claim that all metals are as good as each other when used as a trading tool.
We are not talking about tensile strength or whatever. We are talking about the different properties of different metals when they are used as currency (or the base of a currency). Are you still trying to say that all modes of transportation that gets you to your destination are interchangeable?
The only thing you're illustrating is your lack of reading and reasoning skills. If something was used in the past and the same conditions apply today then it is as good today as they were before.
If you're going to ignore half my post, call me a liar and cherry pick what to "answer" you can go fuck yourself and I'll go to bed. I consider this discussion (can't really call it a debate) over.
Sure I can. Doesn't mean it's a good idea but the point is how absurd it is to base your monetary system on a specific metal. There is NOTHING special about gold as a basis for a money supply. Gold is an asset - it is NOT money. Don't confuse the two.
Are you serious? Did you see me even mention the word money in my previous post? Furthermore, did I write anywhere that gold is the only commodity that can be used to base a currency on? Lastly, did I, in my previous post, write anywhere that I want to see a gold standard or any base at all?
Gold is VERY SPECIAL (see? I can use caps too) because it's relatively rare, doesn't corrode, is malleable and easily distinguished from other metals without special tools. It's by no means the only reasonable metal to use for trading but it's one of the most popular as shown by history.
It's not hard to tell elements apart these days. The element does NOT need to be rare to be used as a currency basis - it just needs to be tangible, inaccessible (can't pick it up on the beach), and in known and relatively stable quantities. It also does not need to be a metal - merely a commodity. Oil could be used as a currency basis in theory. I'm not saying it's ideal for one or a good idea but it could be done. Remember that even under the gold standard the gold itself wasn't exchanged regularly.
You have to be kidding...
Do you think it's reasonable to carry a mass spectrometer around? Do you think it's reasonable to carry around a few hundred kilos of copper if you want to buy anything expensive? Do you think it's reasonable to have to store megatons of copper when you could use gold (or another rare, stable metal) at a fraction of the mass and volume of copper?
Any metal could be used as a means of exchange in exactly the same way you could walk coast to coast. "Walking is exactly the same as flying as both modes of transportation gets you where you want to be" is what your "argument" boils down to. And that is the reason why I continually ask myself (and you) if you're serious.
I asked a lot of questions but they are not rhetorical and I would really like answers to them.
e-gold has tried spam as a marketing tool. When they stopped that, other spammers started following suit, phishing for account info--and e-gold's response was always "it's not our problem."
They've been actively aiding money laundering, and claiming they can't control what their customers do. Even now, Douglas Jackson is talking about fixing the flaws in an otherwise good system--despite the fact that he's likely going to jail for a few years.
e-gold is a dirty operation run by dirty crooks. It should be buried deep underground, and the gold reserves (if they really exist) used for something constructive.
I don't think that word means what you think it means...
I.e. treating an electronic currency exactly as cash is not actively aiding money laundering, in fact, it is at most passively aiding money laundering.
If a currency is backed by something it means it can be redeemed in that currency not that a government also owns gold (which was essentially stolen from the citizens).
If they wanted a fiat currency they should have redeemed all outstanding dollars to gold and then tried to force fiat. It wouldn't have worked and that should tell you something about fiat currency.
Terry Pratchett is an economical retard. In that book he states that an eternal and free energy/labor supply equates to poverty for everyone. If we discovered a few perpetual motion machines next month, do you suggest we bury them or make use of them? Would humanity as a whole be poorer for having found and made use of them?
That said, I love Pratchett's books and making money is the only one where he is so fucking wrong I don't even know where to start.
No, you can't point to any metal on the periodic table. It needs to be rare (high value per weight/volume), not corrode and you need to be able to easily tell it apart from other metals and alloys. Only a few metals fit that bill and gold is one of them.
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I wouldn't know as I have the pirated version i.e. RELOADED's release but not the fixed one they released due to one opcode being wrong.
I know the save function was grayed out for me once too but I don't know why. I lost four hours that way but I've given spore up as it isn't my type of game.
If what you saw of the game was to your liking I suggest getting a crack and trying again.
It's possible to download all current patches to SOASE from BT. They seem to be ordinary .exe's.
I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. If what you're talking about is that the save function is greyed out sometimes in the space stage it's because you need to be zoomed out to save. Zoom out to the star view and try saving.
I'm not the GP but advertising only works on me in two different ways. It shows that a company is established enough to afford airtime and thus probably has a decent product. Or it annoys me so much that I note it down and actively avoid their product. But I'm not an average guy and I tend to go for fringe stuff.
Heroin isn't physically damaging. It is addictive but you'll be hard pressed to find any physical side effects worse than constipation. I know what I say is contrary to what you think you were told but I doubt even the propaganda sites will have any physical damage listed.
Heroin abuse and the life-style associated with that (unclean needles, adulturants, the cost) is physically damaging but not the heroin itself.
Greed or lack of demand? Any time a non-monopoly does something it's because not enough people exclude their product because of it. I'd bet that if only ten or so percent of those buying phones would exclude all phones having a non-standard charger all or most phones would come with standard chargers. When was the last time _your_ main criteria for a purchase was whether you could get a cheap charger?
I suggest that if you want companies to do what you want you should convince enough of the customer base that they want the same thing you do. The alternative is you forcing your views upon them.
How do you know they're not just trying to get inside multiple times?
Not him but the the psychological community's reaction to his study. If he could repeat his experiment in the same way Milgram did we would know a lot more or at least be more sure of what we know. However, it might be a good idea to end the experiment as soon as someone suffers a breakdown. I've completely lost my marbles once for a short while and while it wasn't a nice experience it wasn't harmful to me and I found the experience quite illuminating. In other words: I don't really understand why the experiment was considered so unethical.
You have no idea what libertarianism is about. Unions are fine but there will be no regulation for or against them. They can't stop scabs by violence for instance. As long as they don't violate anyone's rights unionists(?) can do whatever they want just like everybody else.
Unions may be a part of a free market. Most libertarians (more like minarchists) consider a market to be free when it's free of systematic fraud, violence and government regulation but I repeat myself.
Why would you get aluminium oxide on the silver if you rinse it afterwards?
Thank you. I know the phrase is used that way in my mother tongue but I was uncertain if it's used that way in English.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss.
-Robert A Heinlein
I also suck dick for karma but not very enthusiastically.
Is "I'm sitting on [x]" used in the US or UK as a way of saying that you own/use [x] at all?
If you gave them a few years of any section of slashdot to read I think the first thing they'd say is this:
"My, what happened to that man's bottom?"
They still don't even attempt close release dates for countries that uses subtitles and no dubs. I.e. all Scandinavian countries.
I don't know how many times I've seen trailers for a movie followed by a theater premiere date a week in the future for a movie I saw several months ago via bittorrent. It's difficult to know whether to laugh or cry.
If you buy an aftermarket cooler then HDD-thrashing will drown out the fan noise. Currently I've got a Scythe mine rev B (the fan is locked at 1500RPM by default) CPU-cooler and some 80MM fan from a broken power supply running at low speeds (just an in line resistor) and the HDD's are louder than the fans. The samsung drive is a bit louder than my older seagate but it's not maxtor loud. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention that both the motherboard and GPU are fanless. It's a 8600 that apparently runs almost all the latest games on high detail at lower resolutions (I've yet to give up my old 17" CRT).
Also, take the shuttle barebone computers. They've got a pretty agressive fan controller that has the only fan in the system (combined chassis and CPU fan thanks to heatpipes) normally running at 700 or so RPM. You can't even hear the fan running from a few metres away and the new 500GB Seagate I put in it is almost maxtor loud and greatly owerpowers what little fan sound there is.
You said the economy is static if the money supply is static.
What were you trying to say then if that was incorrect?
How very droll.
There is a reason Pratchett is interesting and it's not because he writes pure fairy tales without any social commentary at all.
That's true enough. Any large (more like unprecedented) positive change will cause problems in the short term and that is a given. But that is not Pratchett's argument, if it was I'd agree with him.
I'm a libertarian so I don't consider there to be an alternative to the current system (well, I'd like a laissez faire system) as long as resources are scarce. If resources weren't scarce or resources were so abundant that a capitalistic economy would be pointless then I don't have a problem with a substitute that works as long as people choose it voluntarily. However, I don't think ownership rights in the physical world will ever be pointless and if there is ownership there will be trade.
I'm disputing your claim that all metals are as good as each other when used as a trading tool.
We are not talking about tensile strength or whatever. We are talking about the different properties of different metals when they are used as currency (or the base of a currency). Are you still trying to say that all modes of transportation that gets you to your destination are interchangeable?
The only thing you're illustrating is your lack of reading and reasoning skills. If something was used in the past and the same conditions apply today then it is as good today as they were before.
If you're going to ignore half my post, call me a liar and cherry pick what to "answer" you can go fuck yourself and I'll go to bed. I consider this discussion (can't really call it a debate) over.
Sure I can. Doesn't mean it's a good idea but the point is how absurd it is to base your monetary system on a specific metal. There is NOTHING special about gold as a basis for a money supply. Gold is an asset - it is NOT money. Don't confuse the two.
Are you serious? Did you see me even mention the word money in my previous post? Furthermore, did I write anywhere that gold is the only commodity that can be used to base a currency on? Lastly, did I, in my previous post, write anywhere that I want to see a gold standard or any base at all?
Gold is VERY SPECIAL (see? I can use caps too) because it's relatively rare, doesn't corrode, is malleable and easily distinguished from other metals without special tools. It's by no means the only reasonable metal to use for trading but it's one of the most popular as shown by history.
It's not hard to tell elements apart these days. The element does NOT need to be rare to be used as a currency basis - it just needs to be tangible, inaccessible (can't pick it up on the beach), and in known and relatively stable quantities. It also does not need to be a metal - merely a commodity. Oil could be used as a currency basis in theory. I'm not saying it's ideal for one or a good idea but it could be done. Remember that even under the gold standard the gold itself wasn't exchanged regularly.
You have to be kidding...
Do you think it's reasonable to carry a mass spectrometer around? Do you think it's reasonable to carry around a few hundred kilos of copper if you want to buy anything expensive? Do you think it's reasonable to have to store megatons of copper when you could use gold (or another rare, stable metal) at a fraction of the mass and volume of copper?
Any metal could be used as a means of exchange in exactly the same way you could walk coast to coast. "Walking is exactly the same as flying as both modes of transportation gets you where you want to be" is what your "argument" boils down to. And that is the reason why I continually ask myself (and you) if you're serious.
I asked a lot of questions but they are not rhetorical and I would really like answers to them.
e-gold has tried spam as a marketing tool. When they stopped that, other spammers started following suit, phishing for account info--and e-gold's response was always "it's not our problem."
They've been actively aiding money laundering, and claiming they can't control what their customers do. Even now, Douglas Jackson is talking about fixing the flaws in an otherwise good system--despite the fact that he's likely going to jail for a few years.
e-gold is a dirty operation run by dirty crooks. It should be buried deep underground, and the gold reserves (if they really exist) used for something constructive.
I don't think that word means what you think it means...
I.e. treating an electronic currency exactly as cash is not actively aiding money laundering, in fact, it is at most passively aiding money laundering.
If a currency is backed by something it means it can be redeemed in that currency not that a government also owns gold (which was essentially stolen from the citizens).
If they wanted a fiat currency they should have redeemed all outstanding dollars to gold and then tried to force fiat. It wouldn't have worked and that should tell you something about fiat currency.
Terry Pratchett is an economical retard. In that book he states that an eternal and free energy/labor supply equates to poverty for everyone. If we discovered a few perpetual motion machines next month, do you suggest we bury them or make use of them? Would humanity as a whole be poorer for having found and made use of them?
That said, I love Pratchett's books and making money is the only one where he is so fucking wrong I don't even know where to start.
No, you can't point to any metal on the periodic table. It needs to be rare (high value per weight/volume), not corrode and you need to be able to easily tell it apart from other metals and alloys. Only a few metals fit that bill and gold is one of them.