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Nintendo Declares GCN Most Popular Console Ever
PhReaKyDMoNKeY writes "According to IGNCube, Nintendo has declared GCN the fastest selling console ever. Additionally, Nintendo claims that Luigi's Mansion is the most popular launch title in history as well. I couldn't seem to find the actual press release, but here's a related news story from Nintendo's site. I don't know how valid the claim is, since it's in their best interest to exaggerate, clearly, but it seems like the console demand in general is pretty high. " Now mind you every store in town seems to have plenty of Gamecubes in stock, but if you want an X-Box, you have to kill for it. Fortunately most people in a video game store are like 12, so I can destroy them with my mind bullets.
two first posts in one day.
What is slashdot coming to?
Oh yeah, Mr. Taco? I can destroy you with my mind bullets as well!
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I killed for an X-Box. I didn't really want one... I just wanted to kill.
I thought they were talking about a different kind of "box" though.
hey xav, irc over to thisside.net #2600 sometime.
-- free as in swatantryam - not soujanyam.
How comes we can't post [nt] messages?
And Hemos doesn't mind, if he doesn't get pussy
He's got a full time boyfriend, he's doing all right
He can suck a cock just like anything
Saving it up for Friday night
With the faggots,
With the faggots of Slashdot
[hey]
LOL! great job! i really like dire straights, and this was a fun read.
because i am not 1337 enough, but if i had gotten first, i would have said "fp r0xx0rs my b0xx0rs"
Mod parent up! Subject is misleading, content is very ineteresting and relevant. Thanks.
all your mind bullets are belong to me...
Hemos, he wears chinos, around his ankles.
while taco licks his asshole, and his cock grows.
Rob Limo, bends over Hemos, inserts his dildoes.
your mom's cherry is impossible to find. Of course, no one want's to find it, either.
hah! you are found out, mister taco man! you thought we would find your mind bullets funny, BUT WE KNOW YOU ARE NOT FUNNY! IT IS TENACIOUS D WHO IS THE FUNNY MAN!
:P
you bastard
Al Gore declares self inventor of the internet.
if you're serious, holy shit
"You know what time it is? Tenacious D time, you motherfucker go! Fuck Yeah!"
Weird. I understand that your comment would be, well, questionable in isolation, but it appears in a thread on a Smallpox attack scenario (unfortunately I can't get at the original post right now since k5 is dead as a doornail but I follwed your link to the page on which your comment is found). There's no way I can see it could be construed as a direct threat, it was pretty obviously a comment on a hypothetical scenario posted by somebody else on k5. Nevertheless, infecting vice presidents with viruses is probably not a good topic for idle chat right now on the internet, as the Secret Service (ever notice that abbreviates to SS?) are watching. Remember Steve Jackson Games (actually, I barely do, but I remember the Secret Service stole lots of computers over some really silly nonsensical shit - I was, what, 13 or 14 years old at the time)? These aren't nice people.
Wow, you're pretty much a complete and total idiot for posting that.
Sure sure, freedom of speech, hypothetical scenario, and all that aside, what the hell did you think was going to happen? You can't yell fire in a movie theatre, you can't joke about having a bomb on a plane, and you can't talk, even in the hypothetical, about killing leaders of our country.
The mere fact that you seem suprised is evidence enough to me of your idiocy.
you know, even before all this went down it was illegal to make threats against the P or VP...the fact that you're essentially loading the gun for some idiot should make them suspicious -- i hope you werent _TOO_ surprised when they showed up for your cavity search.
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I'm not even sure where the "you can't talk, even hypothetically, about assinating our leaders" thing ever came from.
All of a sudden it's illegal to use the words "kill" and "president" in the same day, let alone sentence.
The SS is rightfully paranoid, that's what they're paid to be, but sometimes it's like "can't you read?!"
Does the fact that everyone else there was 12 not tell you something about your life? Go on, mod me down. This should provide adequate sustenance for the Dr Who marathon.
No gun loading involved.
Regards,
Lee
Wow. Basically it's illegal to threaten the POTUS, his successors, yadayada... Conspiring to kill them is also illegal.
It's certainly not a threat: A threat would be "Hey, Mr. Vice President, I'm going to kill you with smallpox." or even simply "I'm going to kill the VP with smallpox." (DISCLAIMER: I am not, will not, and have never considered nor do I condone the killing of the President or the Vice President or really any higher form of life than a cockroach.)
My journal has hot
... or really any higher form of life than a cockroach.
:)
Wait, I thought you said you didn't condone killing the P or VP.
what suprises me the most about this is not that the secret service is reading Kuro5hin, but that they're taking what they read there seriously....
If they really think they're getting good leads from there, perhaps they could donate a new server to Rusty to bring it back up!
Well, as many already said - watch out what words you combine into a phrase, or even a message.
"What do you mean you have to kill for them?"
:)
You just havent seen what the target employees make you do when you get there.
...with mind bullets.
I don't want free as in beer. I just want free beer.
Obviously the SS didn't think it was illegal, or you would be in prison right now, not posting on Slashdot.
That was funny - and your sig makes it funnier!
Culture is more than commerce
Hows this any different than a Tom Clancy novel wherein the same sort of scenario may take place? He's certainly not advocating anything with his post, he's speaking entirely within context, and it's not as if he's giving away national security secrets to terrorists. I've heard Rush Limbaugh say much more "threatening" things during the Clinton years. Clearly the only way they can get away with this kind of BS is because of the current national climate (a.k.a. scared out of our collective asses of anything that moves).
Do we really want a government that can trample our rights anytime they want to in the name of National Security? Where anyone who makes an off-color remark could be considered a terrorist? Benjamin Franklin once said that those who exchange liberty for security deserve neither.
Wow, you're pretty much a complete and total idiot for posting that.
I couldn't disagree more. One of the biggest problems leading up to the 9/11 attacks was failure of the imagination. Nobody had really toyed with the scenario of passenger airliners being used as missiles. Nobody had really stopped to consider that extremists could be that insane. As a result, nobody was prepared for the events of that day, and the toll (in terms of human life and monetary damages) was catastrophic.
So here we've got some people mulling over potential terrorist attacks involving biological agents. When you play these scenarios out, you have to consider the worst case, and it just so happens that the worst case would include the targeting of our nation's leaders. It isn't pleasant to think about, but if the events of 9/11 showed us anything, it's that we have to start thinking about this stuff. In short, the Secret Service cracked down on this poster because he was doing exactly the thing that the government should have been doing before 9/11. (If they had, perhaps the attacks wouldn't have happened.)
So now, even after the horrific events of September, the apparent stance of the Secret Service is that people should not be speculating on these types of things. If that is their policy, and if they are willing to stand behind it, then fine. But if something like 9/11 happens again, and if it's something that could have been prevented if we had engaged in exercises like the one in the Kuro5hin article, then the blood of the innocent will be on their hands.
We're going down, in a spiral to the ground
I'd like to confirm that it absolutely is NOT illegal to talk about killing our leaders. It's illegal to actively advocate it("Go kill George Bush!"), or to actually send threats, as you mentioned, but talking about it is 100% protected ("Someone should kill that fuck George Bush!"). It's not even illegal to send "sort of" threats. ("I hope someone kills you, George Bush!"). However, any of these things most certainly can get you investigated, as the SS does take it's job very seriously.
If you really had such an encounter with the secret service, why not submit it to
jackass.
But you put it much more eloquently.
-- Support Ometz le-Serev.
All of a sudden it's illegal to use the words "kill" and "president" in the same day, let alone sentence.
Hello Citizen,
Please remain where you are. Secret service agents are currently enroute to your residence. Do not be alarmed. We just wish to have a little chat. Brew a fresh pot of coffee and wait for us on the floor, face down, hands behind your back.
Thank you.
Remember "Bring 'em on"? *sigh
I can.
But then I'm not trapped in "The Land Of The Free".
He was talking about "non-Americans" not everyone visiting America or illegally enterying America is an American. If you went to visit Rome would you become an Italian? If after visiting the Sistine chapel you drive north and then hiked across the Alps would you then become Swiss? Even if you intended to live there? Even if you broke halting French or Italian or German?
A Saudi or Chinese student who goes to college at one of our state universities isn't an American and probably doesn't consider himself so. A migrant worker from Mexico isn't an American either, whether he receives welfare or not.
Under what circumstances such people should be allowed to become Americans if they so choose is irrelevant.
Thank our Lord Jesus Christ that the guilty do not know the sinful shelter of this wretched world. You should stay far, far away from godless sinners like the Center for Consitutional Rights who may try to tempt you to the path of sin.
<hyperbole>
"Sure thing, I've got this great vanilla almond blend, I'll brew up a pot. See you in a few!"
I have no such thing. I'm a culinary snob, a gourmet, not a gourmand. Only high quality coffees. Kona, Turkish, or French Roast. No flavored. But I might have some cheap "Kona Blend" from a care package a friend gave me when visiting from Hawai'i.
"I hope you like vanilla almond, it's all I have..."
There's real vanilla beans on my spice shelf. Madagascar or Tahiti... but there's probably some basic alcohol based pure vanilla extract in there as well, and it's a lot cheaper. There's almonds, and possibly almond extract, as well, but I'd never use that in coffee.
"Hold on a second, the coffee mugs are in my workshop..."
Well, this one might be true. Some of the coffee mugs, perhaps. Probably not next to the forge and steelworking gear. Certainly not in the steel hardening kit, in the little chemical vials full of interesting salt solutions...
"OK, got the mugs, how soon should I expect you?"
I've got a time release hypodermic kit in a cabinet, next to the first aid gear.
"Oh, good, looks like there's fresh cream in the fridge."
And little bags with Vitamin B-12ain saline solution 7.5g doses
All of which substances could be used for some nefarious purposes the nature of which I'll leave to the reader...
hint: one of the great steel hardening chemicals is also used to extract gold from ore... and might be convinced to disguise itself as flavoring in coffee, if mixed in solution and not overheated too much.
hyperbole
Now that the overly complex humor is over, time for the lecture.
This group is overrun with conspiracy theorists. It's easy to understand why... software is one of those cutting edge technologies that the majority of people don't understand, and that has a lot of misconceptions associated with it, and a lot of money. That means a lot of manipulative lobbying, deception, suppression of peoples' rights, so on and so forth. Beyond that, we've got a questionable election in America a year ago, a would be despot as president, a could be despot as VP (certainly, the sudden push for unreasonable executive power even before September leads one to reflect on this...), and some rather covert wings of federal security agencies that don't seem to have much in the way of scruples, ethics, or even manners. Certainly, there's a high probability of serious despotic behavior, meriting the kind of reaction I just hinted at, from certain federal agencies. But the Secret Service is not one of them! Seriously. In spite of their name, in spite of the way they shove their noses into places with pigheaded cluelessness from time to time. These people are the most single minded agency I can think of, the least political. They are the bodyguards, the detectives, the security force for the federal government...
These aren't the droids you need to be afraid of.
Hell, I'd be a lot more alarmed if the police showed up at my door than a couple of Secret Service agents. Of course, I do live in LA.
Mind you, the above post was funny... but I hope the poster didn't mean it seriously. I mean, if it were non local CIA agents with suspiciously unmemorable names, or NSA operatives, or personal agents of his imperial majesty George W. Bush (once he finishes disbanding the legislative branch and gets rid of the remaining four independant Supreme Court judges) or Lord Vader, sure, I'd be making sure the automated defense systems were online and ready for mayhem (in case you haven't noticed, the hyperbole light has come back on. Please return to your seats and remain seated, with your seatbelts fastened, until we come to a complete stop), but the situation described sounds like a bunch of slightly spooked (wouldn't you be) agents making sure every base is covered, even if they have to put people in the bleachers and locker rooms.
-- Still waiting for the Nike endorsement
You just talked about it...idiot!
Remind me, do we hold it self evidently true that all Americans are created equal?
If we can place historical revisionism aside for a second, let's not forget that the writers of the US constitution actually considered themselves as British (or German). Their point was that people of other nations must be treated with respect. "Other" from their (initial) point of view mean "America".
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Assuming this is true, then it's a sad, sad indictment of the "intelligence" services.
You posted a discussion of a hypothetical scenario for infecting the Vice President with a curable disease. Similar scenarios can be found in any number of Tom Clancy-esque pulp novels. You detailed why the method you suggested probably wouldn't work. You used your real name, and you provided your full details and address voluntarily, a few clicks away.
And the secret service decided that it was a good use of their resources to send a couple of goons to check your loyalty?
OK, the SS screwed the pooch on September 11th. They'll be super paranoid now (in the proper clinical sense). But if they can't distinguish between jawing and plotting, they have no chance of stopping the next attacks. None.
For what it's worth, it sounds like you handled this the right way. The agents themselves probably weren't morons. The problem is with the moron who sent them. He or she needs a good kicking.
For the record, one way to do this would be to trip him or her up, then kick him or her sharply and repeatedly in the kidneys.
Uh oh. What have I said? Now evil terrorists will know how to do it! Where should I report for my loyalty check?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Yup, that's the secret service.
If you've read The Hacker Crackdown you'll know that part of their job is to trawl through all the threats made on the presidents/VPs' life - visiting mental institutes, crims in jail, and even the people who post threats on public forums.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/hacker/lorder1.hTo quote:
So it was nothing personal, just doing their job. Understand I'm not making judgments on you, them, their job, your post...
In other words, he was silly to consent to the search, silly to talk to them, and silly to do anything once they showed up without first advising an attorney.
<sigh> From now on I'm gonna just put a grid reference in my signature...
For what it's worth, I've talked to people who answer phones at an FBI office, and you would have trouble believing the number of lunatics that call them. E.g., people who truly believe that the Secretary of Defense is using mind rays to control their hamster. After the Reagan/Hinkley/Foster debacle you can hardly blame the Secret Service for being a bit twitchy about potential nutcases.
On the bright side, it was probably a prize for the agents to interview you. After hunting down vagrant basket cases and militiamen, a garden variety Tom Clancy wannabe has to be a relief.
Good luck, Lee, and try not to worry about any further gov't action. If they were going to do something, you'd already be experiencing it. It simply isn't their style to pussyfoot around. I look forward to reading the details when Kuro5hin is back up.
-- ;-)
Kuro5hin.org: where the good times never end.
Actually, the Secret Service did their job perfectly on September 11 - the proof is that the President and Vice-President are still alive. The FBI and CIA screwed the pooch, though. The mission of the Secret Service is to investigate and prosecute crime involving the Treasury Department (of which they are a part) - and that gives them cover to handle almost anything with a financial component (hence the Steve Jackson Games case). They also provide protection to the President, Vice President, major party candidates, visiting heads of state, and so on. As a result, they handle threats to those who they protect.
But nothing in the Secret Service's functions would imply any responsibility for detecting the terrorist activity that culminated in the September 11 attacks. When it happened, they got the Vice President to shelter outside of Washington, and they got the President onto Air Force One (which isn't just an ordinary 747...) with fighter escorts and they started playing "where's Waldo" until they were sure they could bring him back to the White House safely.
As much as the Secret Service gets (justly) criticized for what we see as excesses in the computer-related cases they've had a hand in, the group that protects the Executive are as good as it gets. They take security very seriously, and would put themselves in front of a bullet or a bomb before allowing their charge to be hurt.
-- Josh Turiel
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."
Did k5 give over your user information? How?