Comment Re:Hmm (Score 2) 530
If time is an emergent phenomenon, then how does the first event happen?
Funniest thing I have seen all day, and I watched the surgeon simulator video so that is saying something.
If time is an emergent phenomenon, then how does the first event happen?
Funniest thing I have seen all day, and I watched the surgeon simulator video so that is saying something.
As for TFA...how about making games that don't suck? How about that? Make smaller games that target a market instead of some crazy costing AAA title that you have to make as generic as possible to have "broad appeal" which is pretty much a codeword for "boring generic crap"
I had the opportunity recently to discuss game pitching protocols with a publisher reprasentative, he said "if you can't explain the idea in 5 minutes it is no good". I responded that this is only true for storyline/setting pitches, and suggested that a technical idea about how to implement new gameplay could not necessarily be explained in 5 minutes. He agreed. Does this publisher have a protocol for pitching innovative new gameplay? No. Do they even employ anyone who could understand a technical description of new gameplay mechanics? No. Are they deciding what game my company makes next? Yes.
Beyond culture, it's hope or lack of hope.
So close.
The statistical correlation actually points to poverty as the main cause of crime. Obviously only those crimes that the trolls accuse certain minorities of. Things like serious fraud, war crimes, treason and perjury are not so well correlated to poverty.
Sadly there will always be some doubt that there's still a hidden cache of it somewhere, just waiting for the day.
Yeah, that fact is not being disputed.
From Wikipedia
"The United States ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention which came into force in April 1997. This banned the possession of most types of chemical weapons"
"According to the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency by January, 2012, the United States had destroyed 89.75% of the original stockpile of nearly 31,100 metric tons (30,609 long tons) of nerve and mustard agents declared in 1997."
So when are the US going to destroy the rest of their stockpiles of chemical weapons? If my arithmetic is correct they are still sitting on 3,187.75 metric tons of the stuff.
but democratic values are less likely to be transmitted if I use Office?
If you are a teacher, yes. If you learn office at a young age, it becomes very unlikely you will switch to anything else. It can be difficult for some people too, as the interface is different. Once the students go home and have to set up their own computer they will likely use office. They will either pay for it or not pay for it. If they don't pay they are committing a crime which can be severely punished if they get caught. If they pay then the school is basically training them to give money to a large corporation. Not only that, a specific corporation, with a partial monopoly in that market. Evidenced by the fact that you write 'Office' with a capital O and take it as a given that everyone knows you mean Microsoft® Office®.
Training kids to give money to support a monopolistic corporation does not seem to be directly in line with the principles of democracy.
The joke was that Africa is still, for the most part, a poor 3rd world continent but whatever.
Yes I find poverty hilarious too. Good joke.
Oh, and this myth of rampart anti-US sentiments in Germany isn't really true, either.
It is in Berlin. It is more of a resigned complaining about depressing facts than any kind of personal dislike. I think most people would love to see the US overcome its problems and move forward, but they just don't believe it will happen.
On the other hand, operations which topple democratic governments, install anti-leftist dictators, support smaller third world dictatorships in their abuses, grab the resources of a country, fund terrorists to keep on destabilizing a country, etc., etc., these are not mentioned in the policing context.
This would be logical. The weird thing is they are. I have seen for example Vietnam, Cuba and Chile used in exactly the context you describe, including here on slashdot. It appears that most people in the US don't actually understand the details of what happened in those cases so people get away with such absurd and outrageous nonsense without being called on it.
No thanks, I'm more afraid of the Government than Terrorists.
Of course you are, just look at the statistics: Number of people killed by terrorists each year vs. number of people killed by governments each year.
It is like comparing marijuana to cigarettes.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol
