[quote]People in Germany pay more for gas than in the US, so driving an SUV would be really expensive and that is why cars that have very proficient motors which use very little gas are popular.[/quote] My SUV is a German vehicle. (BMW X5).
[quote]It's not that practical to try and make people only travel a certain number of miles to work since there are a scarce number of houses close to the main work locations, so some people will have to be further away (typically those who are poorer and so can't afford to pay much more for the convenience of a shorter travel to work). However it is far more feasible to require people to reduce their emissions per mile traveled, since it is possible for everyone to do it, and there aren't su
In no particular order… Scientists are Democrats…right? Pew Research says that 55% of scientists say they are Democrats, 6% Republicans . Gosh, must mean people who value the scientific method are Democrats while Republicans are just a bunch of religious nut jobs right? Strangely, the <a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1155220/Study-Highlights-Gap-Between-Views-of-Scientists-and-the-Publ
We're still in Germany, Japan and Korea.
Online IQ tests and such are pretty meaningless. I've taken plenty of them over the years and even when you purposely get every question wrong, you still end up with a high IQ. Online, EVERYONE has an IQ of 147. In the real world, only 4% of the population over 130. So take your online IQ and subtract 47 points. There's your IQ. :)
I know I was just talking about pure performance premium. You get 80% of the way with just having 8 gigs of RAM on a 64-bit system. The disk caching available with that kind of RAM makes things immensely faster. But to get another 20% of speed, SSD is the way to go on TOP of the 8 gigs. I wouldn't bother with SSD without the extra RAM though as the RAM helps more in my experience. But can you justify the cost? I dunno. Depends on how valuable your time is.
[quote]Dear taltamir, if you believe that the 2nd amendmend is a very sensible thing today, has been in the past and will be in the future, then you should be able to make that argument and explain why that is so without becoming condescending yourself. That is the point I try to make, not that your opinion is wrong.[/quote] I'm not Talamir but I think I've made the case why the 2nd amendment is a good thing.
Couple of clarifications: 1) I never said it was 1 nuke. From the first paragraph: [quote]5 container ships in the gulf of Mexico fire medium range SCUD missiles high into the atmosphere until it reaches far above Kansas and other states. [/quote] That's because SCUD missiles have a maximum altitutde of about 150km so I said 5 container ships shooting them above various states to get the blanket protection. 2) The article explicitly mentions air lifting. Howeve
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[quote]As an objective outsider, I can tell you that they are right and you are wrong. The second amendment IS a very sensible thing today. It was a very sensible thing in the past, it will be very sensible in the future. You make up condenscending explanations why "they cannot objectively and reasonably see why it is wrong", where you are in the wrong. I have lived in many countries, and I never again want to live where the citizens do not have access to arms.[/quote] <p
[quote]whoa, what exactly do you mean now? Balkans as in Bulgaria or Kosovo or the war in Croatia and Bosnia.. my mother is from Croatia, and the US had no sympathy for Croatia wanting independence at all. They wanted Yugoslavia to exist because it was a stable country and stabilized the region. Croatia even had to give back land to the serbs that they had conquered back - thanks to your glorious former sec of state James Baker and president Bush sr.and the Daton agreement. A lot of good that
[quote]Access to weapons had nothing to do with the Holocaust or WW2, I already said that.[/quote] You saying that doesn't make it true. Put the Nazis in control of the US and let's see them TRY to round up people for extermination. When the US government attempts to take on groups by force it always ends poorly. Look at Waco in the US or Ruby Ridge and those are people who weren't even trained or organized. If Germans had had access to weapons, I don't thin
Review: One Second After Wow! One Second After is a fictional story in which the United States is attacked by an Elect
One of the cooler technologies that has really come of age in the past few years is level of detail. It doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. But it’s a big, big deal in terms of letting us make a game that scales seamlessly from an old laptop all the way up to a Core I7 system with a monster video card. Level of detail lets us seamlessly use different models and assets depending on the level of d
I think we have different ideas of what "grave importance" means. Iran was not really relevant in WW2 one way or the other IMO.
You'll have to excuse me if I am unimpressed with Iran. While the geographic space of Iran once housed the Persian Empire, Iran has been relatively unimportant since the Mongols obliterated the Caliphate nearly a thousand years ago.
[quote]Retail sales are bad? Maybe they are overpriced. Here in Germany the game costs 50 € as a retail box. This is roughly 20 € more than a digital download. This is too much for a game with only 8 maps and no single-player campaign. Also Atari did a poor job on Marketing the game.[/quote] Retail in the US is doing well. As some know, Demigod has been in the top 10 best selling PC games for 2 months which is pretty good I'd say, especially given how much digital distributio
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It's not just waiting for stuff to load, it's everything from the time it takes to come out of suspend to boot time to doing basic shell operations (right clicking and choosing a new something) to a zillion other things. The hard drive crunches all the time in Windows. Not anymore.
The Elemental alpha continues to move forward now that the team is back on it full time. The first alpha that any users will see will look a bit lik
The main difference is RAM. Having more RAM means more disk caching, more "stuff" instantly available.
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So utemia, let me make sure I understand you: I can live a life that minimized my impact on the environment and in fact have a far smaller impact on the environment than say Al Gore but I am not an enviromentalist unless I have faith in global warming being manmade? Sounds like a religion. I always find it amusing when I meet people who think of themselves as climatologists because they've read a few articles and seen An inconvenient truth. I have been following th
So I got a scanner recently (Uniden 396XT) and it’s amazing how professional the police are despite having to deal unbelievably stupid people. Tonight I had it on and the cops were reporting on a lady who was running down the street screaming (while naked) that she could fly. The police reporting this remained calm, cool, and detached. That’s an extreme case but they deal professionally with all kinds of crazy or stupid people.
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