Quoted from FatPanda:We need to embrace this, to keep pinball fresh, innovative, and fun, and to keep the big boys from rehashing old ideas with a different art package.
Hell to the fn ya!!!!
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Quoted from FatPanda:We need to embrace this, to keep pinball fresh, innovative, and fun, and to keep the big boys from rehashing old ideas with a different art package.
Hell to the fn ya!!!!
Quoted from jonesjb:Uh oh, we got a bad ass rebel here. Not doing Facebook, is the new 'sorry I don't own a tv'.
Facebook is for people who need to feel liked. and validated for every action they do. "Look at me! Im in Hawaii! It's so nice here!" They have a constant need to show off the amount of friends they have. "Check out me! I'm hanging out with my bitches at the club! YOLO!"
Lots of people I know with Facebook say it's dumb. Yet they go on it everyday. It's an addiction to some people.
Quoted from Potatoloco:This pretty much describes Facebook when it first launched. If you dig into the actual metrics and demographics today, it's a much different landscape and actually has a wide variety of applications for its users today.
Facebook makes lots of money off of each user they have. It's a smart way to gather data about people since everyone post about their everyday lives.
Facebook is fine for keeping in touch with friends and family but you also get stuck listening to people bitch about politics and such. It's also been proven to cause depression in people. I just don't get how some people say it's a necessity to have one today
Also I'm done posting about Facebook in this thread. Rather hear more about tna
Quoted from rai:of course, I was a scientest myself and use metric as an MD.
One thing (metric vs non metric) has nothing to do with the other (landing not he moon).
I was just pointing out that some people like to look down on US as saying they are not all that. But the US was able to land on the moon, develop *a lot* of computer technology, develop *a lot* of medical breakthroughs, develop atomic energy, first in flight etc..
I know that there was a lot of help from other countries etc. but the US is at the forefront of a lot of innovations.
In fact the cause of US being able to develop a lot of this is because US is/was the richest country in the world ever. I believe much had to do with our being the first country to exploit and sell oil to the rest of the world (long before the Middle East even knew they had oil). This led to the US being very rich and powerful and we were able to spend countless dollars on aerospace and computer technology.
The US does use metric measurements sometimes for example car engines are listed as CC's instead of CI displacement, soda is sold in 2L bottles and nutrition labels are in metric as well..
It is interesting that other countries like UK still will use some English Units while also using metric as well. For example they will describe engine TQ as lb ft but will measure the length in CM and the weight in KG. In fact UK car magazines list 0-62 MPH times for cars which is 0-100 Km/hr. UK still uses the description of MPG on cars and sells beer in pints instead of some metric volume.
In the US we will have 5K runs and 100 Meter dash but we will still use yards and pounds for other things.
Nice post! I didn't realize or even think about how much we actually do use the metric system.
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