Order of the Hammer Bureaucrat
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I have righteousness delusions, nothing wrong with that. If social drinking is drinking to be social, then I can no longer call myself a social drinker. I drink brandy for the taste as much as I eat ham.
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like "Hombre-newee"
I was thinking of answering him with how to pronounce your name, and the best I could come up with was "Ombre - nuit". You spelled it out better. It's funny.
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Or blinking lights in the distance on towers, that'd add some realism. Clouds which shift position and sometimes partially obscure the moon or stars?
A white wall movie-textured as shadow theatre?I can't think of a use for that in a non-sci-fi setting -
Making those movies is specific to each of the missions being made, and initially what we have here is not missions. Whether the toolset will provide outright support for such movies is unknown, but imo also irrelevant, because it's not hard in doom 3 with scripts and those screen thingies.
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Does the level of noise from the gun determine the extent of response from the dogs? Is there an option for gameplay to be so easy that a grandfather can play this while frequently leaving the computer to get more tea? I was thinking about buying this game after reading this thread, but confirmation of the above will reinforce my intent.
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nvidia geforce 5500 with ubuntu 5.06 and higher worked for me.
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Farming Siberia again? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Lands_Campaign
It surprisingly mentions it in a relatively positive light. This version of the same page describes it more accurately: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maagdelijke_gronden_campagne
Or, does anyone remember the starvation following Mao's great leap forward?
Wait a minute, why the hell am I ranting about the dangers of new farming initiatives? Oh, and another one, the American Dust Bowls.
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So polar bears will become extinct, we never needed them much anyways. The balance of fish will change, does it matter which fish predominates? I prefer monoculture forests when buying a summer cottage, old ones of course, so the saplings will be ready to sell for cottages in a few decades. Europe was all deforested, and nobody mourns it. The only thing that worries me is the massive reduction of oxygen producing "factories" on the planet, but even if the oxygen level shifts from 21 to 17% we won't notice it much.
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There should be absolutely no fear with regards to urban areas being flooded. We'll just engineer massive dams in NYC, and wherever else. (and if I had my way, I'd force them to speak nederlands as well.)
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Sewage recycling plants! There lies the future. And also fluidized bed coal combustion turbines with recycled sequestering of oxygen.
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A haunt? Let's have some imagination here!
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I had a strange dream I was a zombie. I'll write more about it when I don't have important stuff to do.
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What about apropos?
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I'm only posting it to prove Oddity right, not to prove someone wrong.
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Of course it's a brand name. The author approaches the publisher with a book, the publisher sees it's comprehensive, eye-catching, and simple enough, and gives the go-ahead. Both earn money. On any subject from fishing to tai-chi and even psychicness.
I always liked man or at least info pages. They're concise and usually contain all the info I need, especially with cross-referencing to other pages. Given enough attempts and re-reading the man page I can always learn some new concept, and then just quickly reading the man page for something is enough if the concept is the same another time.
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Scientifically proven this evening!
White people are the supreme race because it's cold up north!
Read all about it!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1138...ler-climes.html
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I'm of the opinion it's because we're getting older.
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Well, I never read any manifesto or anything like it, I'll think more tomrorw.
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What is the point of the above link? I'm asking which of the opinions is Marxist, the one against working or the one pro industrialism? because I remember there was something pro-industrialization about communism.
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I don't agree that (1) a specific individual's happiness will depend on that specific individual's industriousness,
First, I'm not saying happiness is proportional to the amount of goods and services one receives. Then again, one is more happy knowing there's always enough food rather than knowing that 20% of the population will starve to death because of some disturbance. Likewise, the goods and services or in other words work-output allows one to enjoy such happiness-inducing activities as Thief, or opera.
That's right, some people wanting to receive more work-results than to output will through certain manipulations coerce the others and create a economically-stratified society. I do however agree with you that currently overall people are outputting disproportionately more work than receiving, or said another way, one can get what one currently gets with less work, or get more for the same amount of work, and this is largely because of the inefficiency of our society. The inefficiency is caused by natural evolution of the society, which (like any complex evolving system is liable to) settled into a higher time-differential steady-state than is optimal. However, trying to artificially remodel it to more closely comply with the ideals wafts too much of communism.
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which one is Marxist?
Orb, I agree, in practice people live different lives. But imagine a closed system, filled with people and some forms of material and energy. Would you not agree that the quality of life will depend on their industriousness? and by quality of life I mean the availability of products and services that people want, such as barbering, food, toilets, pots, whatever.
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I don't know if the dichotomy is good or not, but all I meant is that to enjoy a good life people must be industrious, converting the raw natural resources around them into goods and services of a civilized lifestyle, and in return, through something called money, they'll get the fruits of other people's industriousness. Of course one can work alone, but for bigger productivity, one can save up, buy some machines, hire some labour, and have better capacity and more income, while paying the labour. The only problem that I see with it is the static nature of it. Such economic structures are established and ardently protect their interests. I must say though, it's much easier for the owner to become labour and for labour to become owner, and for the power of such economic establishments to wax and wane these days than it was before the 20th century.
But like most of you, I would like to see a change to a more optimal system for everyone.
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Well, people agree to buy DRM media anyways now, and whatever vista offers is still better than Edison's talking machine. It's still a free market, and some people have a choice as to what OS to use. The IBM-compatibleness of everything now is kind of a luxury, but this will even out the situation by having macs, windowses, and open-source IBM-compatible *n*x's. Everyone knew a long time ago they'll need special secure monitors etc to have high-quality visual output in vista. My friends ran vista 2 years ago and also beta-tested ubuntu, guess what they prefer.
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Right, so it's better to lounge around the beach with a cocktail your whole life?
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I loved the avatar too. That's why I watched all Gankutsuou episodes and loved it too.