Christmas flavored ? :gunwtf: Red skittles stuffed with reindeer meatballs ?
I played the second years ago, it was awesome. I have the first and the third too, but I still haven' t played them (on purpose, good J-RPGs are a rare treat nowadays so I kept a few jewels for the rainy days). As much as I' d like a brand new Mother game none of them was ever released in Europe anyway, here people kept wondering who this Ness dude was in SSB.
Ah yes, technically they don' t give it to us, but they don' t take it from us either. Schools have internet now, is all the web content state-approved ? From what I' ve seen private schools teach exactly the same things as public schools, which doesn' t seem as brain-washing as you make it sound with extra-stuff (religious stuff). I still think making school available to everyone is a good thing I stopped thinking in black and white terms a long time ago, I merely see gray nuances everywhere, advantages and inconveniences. Aw crap, a "false friend" (cursus exists in English but doesn' t mean the same thing). "Lessons" will do. Depends what you' re taught and how. Looks like something was erased from American history books, or have I been taught lies ? ^^ Spoiler Jules Ferry Two important works are associated with his administration, the non-clerical organization of public education, and the beginning of the colonial expansion of France. Following the republican programme he proposed to destroy the influence of the clergy in the university and found his own system of republican schooling. He reorganized the committee of public education (law of 27 February 1880), and proposed a regulation for the conferring of university degrees, which, though rejected, aroused violent polemics because the 7th article took away from the unauthorized religious orders the right to teach. He finally succeeded in passing his eponymous laws of 16 June 1881 and 28 March 1882, which made primary education in France free, non-clerical (laïque) and mandatory. In higher education, the number of professors, called the "hussards noirs de la République" ("Republic's black hussars") because of their Republican support, doubled under his ministry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Ferry They = the examples, they looked like they each are their own beast to me.
Oh thanks !!! I' m using it right now.
I would if I had one, I searched Windows but found nothing. Now that you mention it I could probably find a downloadable software, thanks, I' ll...
I know. ^^ I' m extremely poor atm and have other priorities.
They made it clear that each example is its own beast.
Because to me the best freedom we could be given is the freedom of mind and speech. By sending people to school they give them the tools for seeing the game for what it is. Ultimately what they chose to do with these tools is up to them. We might be let on, but we' re also made very much aware that we are let on, at least I was. It is alienating, and yet at the same time it isn' t, which makes me wonder if things are as simple as "Is law X alienating or not ? Even slightly alienating to the nth degree won' t do at all". Nope. In the end the money comes from the income taxes, poor people don' t pay those. Public schools are free until highschool no matter how old you are (I wasn' t sure what was the right word). Technically even beyond that there are a few free available cursus. They have more free reign that you give them credit for, at least here. When the state tries to meddle with school programs it always creates waves, the teachers-state relationship is in a love-hate dynamic. No, it could have been much worse I suppose. I ... uh ... ok, reset, I don' t know what you read between my lines but it' s all wrong. I should have stopped you sooner but I overlooked it. You asked what we thought of cops being turned into LEO. I think it somehow gets the job done and I wonder if a "no harm no foul" policy rid of any preventive aspect would be as successful at dropping crime rates. No, I am not familiar with the enforcement of a "no harm no foul" policy anywhere (or with a flawless law enforcement really). The far-west maybe ? So you would do something, just not a fine ? This is starting to make some sense, given what you said to Noroz I thought you would just let it slide.
Ah yes, I' m afraid my keyboard is broken. Half of the letters don' t work anymore, I have to copy and paste them one by one. It' s a major pain...
It is kinda harming, I guess, it' s just that whining over the freedom to drive at 140 kmh instead of just 130 seems really trivial to me. People who drive fast are already throwing their money down the carburetor anyway, maybe we should focus on a better example. As for the "crossing the street" example I' ve never heard of anyone being fined for crossing the street the "wrong" way. Maybe we should try to find a more striking example ? They save lives and gain money doing so. Two birds, one stone. Cops can' t live of fresh water, love and good will, money has to be collected at some point. In my area cops can only use two hours worth of fuel per night for their cars, despite the "riches" they take from us. I certainly agree that their collecting methods can seem ... peculiar. Yes, money money money. It was more a concern about not giving bad graded children a false feeling of uselessness at such a young age. Basically they thought the more bad grades a kid gets the less he' ll try to get better ones. I do understand how the same principle could lead to genuinely awful things. Same as you I guess, it' s just my personal hunch ? In my country in order to study laws decently you have to chose a law related career, this particular study subject is awfully large. Yes, I realized all this ... at school ... Public schools are free here until (college??) you' re eighteen. But yes, everything is built around profit, wouldn' t our lives revolve around material needs anyway, whith or without schools, laws or states ? I' d say it' s even, but that' s certainly extremely subjective. Because you asked what we thought of it ? Noroz already exposed the problem I have with the "no harm no foul" policy so I don' t really have anything to add. Was it ever attempted in the past ? If it was I' m unfamiliar with it. Wait what ? How did you get from what I' ve said to what you said ? I' m saying if you' re not happy with the system presented to you as "order" don' t forget you' re part of the system and your actions can influence it. Not yours alone, not overnight, but you can do things. I guess talking about it on KHV is already a small stone in the wall. Dude, it' s Terry Pratchett, not Oscar Wilde. ^^ It was a joke, the "because it is better organized" part being the joke. Basically however carefully we plan things the universe has a way of sending us some unforeseen cosmic joke that thwarts it all somehow, no one will ever fully control anything. Not us, nor states.
Holy crap ! I' m not gonna complain, the mere thought of answering you gave me a headache as soon as I saw your "short" answer. I' ll try to keep it "short" too. Yes, that' s it. The faster you drive the less distance you' ll be able to travel. Spoiler According to studies backed by the department of energy, the average car will be at its advertised MPG at 55 mph. But as the speed increases: - 3% less efficient at 60 mph - 8% less efficient at 65 mph - 17% less efficient at 70 mph - 23% less efficient at 75 mph - 28% less efficient at 80 mph http://mpgforspeed.com/ I would hardly describe speed limit fines as "harming", especially when every car crash statistics I' ve read tend to prove that they save lives indeed (not that one needs to be a genius to realize that speed has a huge influence over car crash casualties). I tried to find statistics to illustrate this and stumbled on the first counter-example I' ve ever seen : http://articles.sfgate.com/1998-11-02/news/17735730_1_speed-limits-mph-limit-death-rate There are so many things that could go wrong when we drive ... You seemed to imply that some people are car-smart, that they have enough skills and brains to make an objective assessment of their situation and safely bypass speed limits. I disagree. I' ve known lots of people who died in car crashes. Some were smart, some were skilled, some were cautious, cars are a ****ing morbid lottery. The fool' s idea is to drive a car to begin with. Some French schools tried to get rid of grades (people suggested that grades potentially discriminate and alienate some kids). This experience turned out to be an utter failure, even the best pupils became slackers in no time. Not that this one isolated experience is enough to draw broad conclusions of course. My stance would be to keep a "better safe than sorry" approach until it' s proven it isn' t needed because, well, better safe than sorry. Just like Noroz I think the "no harm no foul" policy is extremely flawed. Not that I believe in revenge, I believe in deterrents. Huh ? No, it' s just that if you couldn' t tell you were gonna be busted then what else couldn' t you tell ? I was underlining how the whole situation could be seen as a humility lesson, nothing more. Maybe, just maybe, some people would be reluctant to drive if everyone was allowed to drive as recklessly as they want ? My country doesn' t force people into the army anymore, this decision made me really euphoric at the time. My knowledge of laws is, let' s face it, quite poor. I can' t think of an overwhelmingly unjust law in my country, which I realize isn' t saying much given my unimpressive knowledge on the matter. No, the irony isn' t lost on me ! ^^ In my country teachers aren' t allowed to expose their political or religious colors. Although there are some mold-folding elements in our education I was also given the tools to think by myself (I' m mostly thinking about logic and philosophy), warnings about political manipulations, and libraries to pick whatever subject I might feel curious about. That' s quite paradoxical indeed ! I was assuming the American education wasn' t wildly different, am I mistaken ? Besides, all the knowledge we gain in school isn' t coming from the teacher' s mouth. As JK Rowling said it even a bad teacher is, in itself, a lesson. Our grade systems have the same flaws that our laws, one doesn' t need to be a genius to realize that his exercises have redundant patterns and don' t actually require him to fully understand the lesson, or to figure out what X would like to read in his copy. Surviving school bullies is also taught ... in a way. Basically law enforcement is a reasonably priced tool that gets a good part of the job done. I don' t doubt that a less robotic enforcement could be thought of, I just wonder if it would have at least the same price/efficiency ratio. No, I' m saying you can cheat, manifest, write articles or get into a political career. The counter power is us. Our government and laws are chosen by people for people, if they let us down somehow we have ways to deal with it. "Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized." - Terry Pratchett
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Speed limitations weren' t established for security reasons in my country, they cared little about that back then. It was established right after the oil crisis to put a halt to fuel consumption. For the sake of this discussion let' s ignore the ecologic reason to enforce speed limits. The problem with letting people judge what is safe or not is that most people are fools. As intelligent as you may or may not be sooner or later you' ll make a judgment mistake. Saying that it will serve as a lesson is not okay when your actions put other people' s life at stake, not just your own. Yes, even by crossing the street you put other lives than your own at stake. Furthermore cops have objective ways to measure your speed, they don' t have any objective way to measure the danger you put yourself and others into when you go faster than allowed. They can only enforce what they can objectively observe. Did you break a law yes or not ? If we were to listen to the endless complaints of people who got busted most of them would probably feel they had a perfectly good reason for breaking the law (even though they have no objective way to tell for sure if it' s a good enough reason). It' s not like we can afford to have a trial over every single little infraction now, is it ? Besides, if you got caught then in itself it' s proof your assessment of the situation was flawed. The people who established the speed limit law did it because they estimated than saving lives was more important than your right to be in a hurry, I' d say it seems perfectly reasonable, wouldn' t you ? Of course we could probably find a law you don' t agree with (say, totally randomly, the right to smoke in public areas), the system isn' t perfect, it can' t be perfect, but neither can people. That brings us to the fact that cops are people too. They aren' t machines, they can be wrong, but they can also be understanding. If there are overwhelming evidences that your actions were inoffensive they might not tell you anything. It happened to me several times, even for major infractions. I' m aware that cops often twist the original purpose of the law to, basically, collect taxes, and I look less kindly to that, but even then they still act as a deterrent for a law that is, overall, perceived as being useful. At the end of the day, if we weight the bad and the good, from where I stand our laws seem to bring more good than harm. Our laws don' t alienate people, I seem to recall a law that oblige every citizen to go to school and learn to think by themselves. If you are as smart and independent as you pride yourself to be then surely adding the risk to get caught, in a "wise" law-breaking move, to your assessment of a situation should be easy peasy.
Still one year to wait ? Damn ! >_<
I just told you how. ^^ To create a plane you just have to click the plane button in the "Object Type" list (you can see it in the video at 0:30, it' s the yellow button next to the Teapot button). What kind of file is your kh image ? I guess it' s probably either a .bmp .jpg or .gif. I forgot to mention I don' t know if animated gifs would work. If you want to drag and drop a .bmp file onto a plane but your image isn' t a .bmp file then open your image with any image software you have, like Windows Paint, and select "Save As". There should be a "Type" list in the Save As box with .bmp in it. Choose the .bmp type, save the image, it' s ready to be dragged and dropped on a 3DS Max plane. If you don' t know how to apply a texture (or is it called a material or a mapper in English ?) to an object then you should seriously look for a 3DS Max tutorial. 3DS Max is an extremely complex software, and applying a texure to an object is, like, one of the most basic things it can do. I mean a text tutorial that explain things, not a random youtube video. I think 3DS Max has built-in tutorials. This tutorial for instance explains how to create a leather texture : http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/leather/leather_material.html
It' s Riplukex ! ::L:
The king is dead, long live the king. First thing that came to mind. A quick google search showed me how impressively unoriginal it is.
How ? You' re gonna kill him ?
Yes, one of the real life twisted aristocrats I mentioned. Elizabeth Bathory also comes to mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
Yeah, I' m amazed people bothered to reply instead of just posting : However now there are quite a few things I' d like to say. ^^ Beforehand I' d better say I didn' t read any Twilight book, I merely watched the movie. That is only true if you look at the Cullen' side of things, all the other vampires seem closer to their "core" origin. The werewolves on the other hand seem funkier. It all comes from Christianity. Vampires were cold-blooded serial killers with superpowers so of course they had to be demons. Given the highly religious mind-frame most people had at that time vampires just couldn' t be thought to be anything else. So naturally any means to repel or identify them were objects believed to be imbued with holy properties. You already mentioned the cross and the holy water, there' s also the fact that they couldn' t reflect in mirrors. At that time mirrors were made with polished silver (silver was considered holy, silver bullet anyone ?). I suppose garlic and stakes were also considered to be holy but to be honest I' m not sure. As far as I know the European vampire myth originates from twisted real-life aristocrats whose cruel acts fueled folk tales. We have found graves from that era with decapitated and staked bodies. The European werewolf myth comes from a French historic fact that gave birth to a legend : "la bête du Gévaudan". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan The movie "Brotherhood of the wolf" is loosely based on that real story. Spoiler [video=youtube;D7DTv2uBA7I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7DTv2uBA7I[/video] Alternatively there' s also the more common clinical lycanthropy or "very hairy man" (I forgot the clinical term) origin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_lycanthropy The core itself has many variations, you' d be hard pressed to find one version that can be claimed to be "truer" than any other. Most authors just pick the characteristics that suit their metaphor needs, using them as simple monster-of-the-week empty creeps has been done to death and it would be hard to entertain anyone that way nowadays. Religion isn' t as popular as it was before so we tend to explore the human side of the beast. In a way even the pure devil versions were metaphors of human traits. Typically the stalker-blood sucker vampire is a metaphor for humans' urges and the lengths we' d go to to satisfy them, may it be food or sexual urges. Werewolves are usually used as a metaphor for humans' animal instincts and bestiality, they' re teenagers confused by their sudden growth into adults. Twilight vampires aren' t that different from, say, Anne Rice vampires. Although their specifics differ they open the same kind of metaphors. What Meyers chose to do with them is ... kinda pathetic imo, but I think it has more to do with the story she went for than with the characteristics she picked for her vampires. I can' t really say what I think of her werewolves though, they aren' t really explained in the movies and elude me.
