With very few exceptions, 80's and 90's games are the only ones I play.
Really, anything made after 1977 is lame modern crap.
Fancy new games like NES Open Tournament are just pale imitations of games like Apawamis Golf on the PDP-10. If you thought Moral Combat was controversial, you haven't played Dr. Sluggo's Torture Chamber!
Did anyone ever make a sci-fi survival horror game that could compete with Jeff Shaevel's Chase?
they can be hipsters with good taste
Wait, if they have good taste, would they still be hipsters?
It depends. Do you want your children living in your basement 40 years from now?
Had any of the major insurers committed the architectural, design, programming, security, and implementation crimes this project did, there would be hell to pay
Like Bush's Medicare D program system screwups? (Which Republicans conveniently forgot about.)
My post menopausal wife has birth control coverage. What kind of idiot government bureaucrat doesn't know what menopause is?
I'm sure there are things that don't apply to any given individual per anatomy or life style, but by pooling them, then risk is spread. And I bet your old plan had some significant and important gaps that you are not sharing with us. I'd bet money on it.
Why is our government doing this to us?
Because naked capitalism failed to adequately cover people, going for only the profitable low-hanging fruit. And polls have consistently shown that only roughly 35% to 40% of people were happy with the existing system.
Ha! Yup! Great link
3 words:
Only cowards censor.
It's rambling, obtuse, and pretty much incomprehensible. One can read it, but there's nothing of value to be obtained by reading it. [...] its lack of substance and insight, if not its outright incorrectness, means that reading it is a pointless activity.
Agreed. I'll answer your question in a moment
I've been online for 20+ years. The cycle of online human communication is *always* the same.
* Forum (BBS / newgroup / website) provides a common ground for people to share info. / tips / opinions
* Site is small as only the "geeks" use it
* Site gains Momentum and goes mainstream
* The crazies come out of the woodwork -- Name Calling / Ad Hominem / Trolls attack -- people keep forgetting authority needs accountability
* Moderators are either
a) 45% of the time non-existent
b) 45% of the time grammar/spelling/free-thought nazis where posters need to tow the party line,
c) 4% of the time does it rarely exist there are balanced moderators who allow a difference of opinion as long as it it kept civil and intelligent
d) 1% site allows members to self-moderate
* All the old members complain about "the good ole days" when the noobs / newbs / hipsters, etc. didn't drive the S/N from Signal into Noise
* New site starts that promises to be "Bigger, Better, Cheaper", etc.
* Old site membership is split as some members leave to check out "Awesome new site" (temporarily, others for good),
* Old site lingers but never really recovers from the mass influx of growth and decay.
* Rinse and Repeat ad nauseum.
What
Newspaper used to exist because people saw the value in someone else filtering the amount of information to collect mostly signal and to present THAT to you so you didn't have to waste your time filtering the S/N.
Now to answer your question:
Why is *good* moderation so HARD?
1. Because it involves TRUST. Are you an expert? Prove it? etc.
2. The problem is that Truth is NOT only objective, but ALSO subjective. The majority fall into the fallacy of duality. "I'm right, THEREFORE you're wrong." instead of being humble and honest enough to admit. "My POV has + and -, Your POV has + and -. What *new* things can we learn from the difference and intersection of these strengths and weaknesses?"
As a Mystic I am able to see the Strengths and Weakness in *everything*. The question is NOT about simple-minded good vs evil, but about being able to have an open mind and consider ALL the possibilities: the short-term, the long-term, how the strengths of short-term thinking/action might eventually become the negative in the long-term, and vice versa, what did the negative teach us, etc. Most people are not able to communicate with clear, simple, logic free of mis-guided emotion, let analyze something to that depth.
Being passionate is fine. Be able to walk the line between Logic and Emotion -- yeah, we're all still trying to figure that one out. Especially when some noob / fanboi makes an ignorant comment and you just want to flame his ass for being a stupid git.
cue oblg. xkcd
http://xkcd.com/591/
http://3d.xkcd.com/802/
References:
* "A Community Membership Life Cycle Model" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1006.4271.pdf
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_community
It sounds like you need to regulate solar inverters a bit better. Any reasonable quality one will avoid the problems you mention by backing off when the voltage is rising too high.
Except that solar power is clean, unlike what his utility company is producing which is probably polluting. The cost of pollution is externalized of course, but it still exists. Nuclear also gets massive government subsidies, so if his state has that his solar panels are still costing his neighbour less.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
