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I don't think this is really true actually. I believe Aristotle showed that the world was round in the Classical era. It wasn't so much that people felt the Earth was flat and that's why Columbus was crazy. It was more that they didn't believe a trip to India would really be feasible. Didn't the church supposedly disagree with Columbus on his calculations of the earths size? I recall someone telling me they told him that he'd made it too small or something like that. If true then it means they were correct incredibly enough. If you mean the scientific advisors to Spanish crown then yes - they were far closer to the real size of earth than Columbus. Columbus had to twist things a lot to prove he could make his voyage and IIRC his argument was that earth was pear-shaped so he could still make it by charting the correct route.

Since nuclear industry is utterly state-dependent it matters a great deal what people at the top think. And I really hope you don't mean that "earth is flat" Columbus nonsense made up by hollywood.

Support for Tribes Ascend unofficially dropped. I rarely have seen developer botch such a promising concept.

The price argument is hard fought all over the internet and I'm sure we won't solve it here. The problems with nuclear are the enormous investment costs/time and adherence to safety regulations. But the bigger issue may be that it's not flexible enough to cover off-days of renewable sources. A coal/gas plant can always throw more fuel into the burner.

That is by no means clear at this point. In fact in US the "renaissance" met with major setbacks. I don't understand your point. It has met with "setbacks" consisting of protests and sabotage from the same old Luddite faction who then says the project has failed? All I'm saying is that the nuclear future is by no mean certain. Nuclear will be an important energy source in developing world but the west is generally moving towards renewables and fossil-fuels.

Clive Barker’s Undying is on sale. Quite good old FPS for those who missed it back in the day.

That is by no means clear at this point. In fact in US the "renaissance" met with major setbacks.

That's quite a lot of exaggeration. While Germany's 'green now' plans are questionable the sky is certainly not falling on their heads. In fact I'd like to hear about the supposed change of course from a more reliable source than a blog.

Slaves were not the logistical support but the cornerstone of their entire economy. States like ancient Rome/Sparta or more recently southern US states pre-civil war have become utterly dependent on slave labor and were unable to let it go. And to get back on topic: Fracking apparently causes earthquakes.

The slaves matter not because they would sometimes be deployed into battles but because they enabled Sparta to field a massive fully professional army. Every other city-state had to put their men-folk into agriculture and would suffered greatly with prolonged hostilities. That's also why Spartans feared slave-revolts so much. They were a direct challenge to the foundation of their power. That class/military service argument originally ran much further. The theory put forward was that building massive fleets must naturally lead to democracy as it's not possible to keep lower classes fighting otherwise. But then in the Polynesian war Sparta won by building multiple massive fleets and it didn't democratize a single bit.

Hoplites and phalanax in Greece was a middle-class form of warware and it would not lead to democracy. In fact Spartans were arguably the biggest slave-holder in ancient Greece (the subject Messinian hatred for them was said to be such that they would gladly eat them raw). If anything the case made was that it was the fleet that made Athens a democracy as even the poorest male could serve as a rower. And that interpretation brings uncomfortable questions as to our modern practice of democracy. In a world of nuclear warheads, billion dollar stealth fighters what possible use is a citizen to his state? Especially since most of said citizens have long shirked any traditional duties and feel entitled to political rights by the virtue of their birth certificates.

I was agreeing with everything but you lost me at the last two sentences. If R* still feels activities like tennis are what players want how is it any different from the virtual friends circle of GTA4?

I wouldn't worry about that. Even if encrypted communication was easy to crack AI piloting is only a couple of generations away.

New thorium research reactor started in Norway.

What about Starcraft 1 or stuff like League of Legends? (LOL has crits, but that's about it) Starcraft 1 was among the first RTS with a solid online matchmaking system. LoL is free and you have a whole team to blame for any failings. Gamers have really fragile egos and it's natural for most to try and shift blame from themselves. And there was a little randomness in starcraft 1 as firing uphill had a considerable miss chance. In starcraft 2 only attack delay is random.

If the operation is fast to begin with that hardly matters. And depending on the algorithm using double hashing may actually weaken your protection.

...and how! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23173794 Morsi is gone. This is more like the start of a potentially drawn-out conflict. Remember we're talking about a democratically elected leader. Should people overthrow democratically elected leaders when their approval ratings reach 30%? With the support of the army and the sheer amount of protesters I doubt the conservative part of Egypt matters at this point. People will remember it come next election. Or next revolution if a new liberal government won't deliver.

Just no. They may not have lived to the "ripe old age" by our standards but plenty of Emperors went by what in their day would be natural causes.

I don't think Relic can make a game fit for e-sports. The closest they got was WCG with the original Dawn of War and then decided to go in a completely different direction. Even if return to games with high-skill celling was on the table they certainly cannot match Blizzard in established fan-base or production budget. That's too many risks to take for the sake of dying genre.

But that's an interesting classification in and of itself. When it comes to WWII most westerners easily call Russian what should in fact be Soviet. Unless of course it comes to nazi collaboration.

Maybe because that's not the usual subject of a strategy game. At least not without making it much more "hollywood".

Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't republicans essentially in favor of PRISM? It doesn't seem to me like there is much of a split in political circles.

You don't really have to right to know every detail of software you use. It just needs to fulfill certain requirements.

I think you overestimate the ability to effect things with voting. Frankly I believe that no matter which president US elected PRISM would still happen.

I doubt you will ever get to anyone responsible for these changes or get any documentation. If you need to know what the changes do you'll just have to debug them.