Perna: I agree, scifi writers often seem to just be ahead of the curve, fortunately and unfortunately :( I would say that most people that actually give a shit are voting for a party, but you're probably right that the majority of Americans are voting for an individual. The problem to me is that while we like to think all…
FIrst don't use Wix. I did the same mistake starting out. It can be slow on loading for certain computers and wastes the reviewers time. All the images or compressed and visually modified. In my experience it sharpened the images after losing details from compression at import. Wix sites look unprofessional when they have…
1) In Canada, it MIGHT be easier to get a job without a Visa to which the company will get it for you, but companies are more willing to hire people from inside the country, rather then the outside. Even people from US and France, who only need a "We need him" paper from the company to keep them in Canada can run into some…
Weiser, you and I can both agree that when Iranians detained American citizens without cause in their country in the early 80's and didn't grant U.S. citizens international rights that they agreed to previously (American's never install an embassy w/o those rights) was wrong. it was totally wrong. This is the same…
A couple nights ago I had a HL2 related dream. I had finished the game a few days earlier, and I hadn't played it since, so I don't know where the dream came from. Anyway, so here's the dream: I was Gordon Freeman (of course), and I'm pretty sure the dream took place shortly after the end of HL2 (maybe a few days or a…
on the kinetic point i don't see any augment other then "they would not do that there good guys". i already posted a link to microsofts site which admits they have given various agencies over 70,000 taps on peoples connections to there servers in 2012 alone. thats only the stuff they can divulge to the public. obviously…
I'm going to interject here, admitting I did not read the full banter in here. This is a far more complex issue than people like to make it out to be. Here are the facts. Guns are designed to destroy whatever they are fired at, humans included. By design, a gun is a weapon intended to kill. This is undeniable. Insurance…
Face-Weighted Normal Modelling Workflow for Large-Scale Environment Props Hi again. I'm going to use the jet engine that appears in my finished scene to give a run-through of the Face Weighted Normal method (FWN from here onward) used to model the large props. To see the FWN workflow in practice, check out Star…
I'm not in the industry, but I did go back to school when I was 22; One person who may be able to help you out with this is Catstyle, he's a UK resident who just got a job over in California and is therefore presumably quite familiar with the visa process. I'm currently studying a degree in Architectural Design, about 3…
It is very much applicable. It was a law that was very wrong and criminalized people for helping others that were subjugated by another very wrong law. Forget the emotional content and think of the basic ethics of the issue. Criminalizing certain speech is no more right than criminalizing people who give aid to slaves.…