Linux Games WIth Guns

ZaMoose writes: "Not to beat on the poor America's Army servers any further, but their sitrep for today featured the following interesting tidbit: "That's not all. We're also working on an in-game browser, linux port, and host of other features. Yes, we've been busy the past week!" (emphasis mine). For those not familiar with AA:Operations, it is a free (as in beer) first person shooter developed under the watchful eye of the US Army. It received mounds of praise at this year's E3 and was released to Windows users July 4th." Well, it says Linux server port, anyhow. And JD writes: "Apex Designs have announced that their GTA-style game Payback is coming to Linux. The port appears to already be fully playable as there is a status report here which includes some early screenshots. (And their website doesn't require IE. :)"

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Peer-to-peer pioneer kills self

[corebreech]

Story I submitted that got rejected follows. Yeah, it's off-topic. Bite me.

The New York Times tells us (after we register for free) that Gnutella developer Gene Kan has committed suicide. Let's see, he was young (25) and just over a year ago saw the company he started bought by Sun Microsystems. It would be wrong to jump to conclusions here. It would also be wrong to not start asking questions.

Re:A large misconception

[antirename]

I'll play. Ok, I happen to believe that all men are created equal, more or less. At least, whites aren't any better than blacks, etc. I don't think that that can be said for societies, though. Or countries. Some of them flat out suck, and wind up producing terrorists. If many sucky countries happen to share the same religion, you can't bitch when people make the correlation.

Re:I smell a jingo!

[antirename]

Note: Israel didn't steal anything. The Arabs attacked them and lost. LOST. They got their asses kicked, Israel took some strategic high ground, and thats that. Of course, now they're whining, but they started a war and lost it. Tough luck. Although I suppose you wish that the Arabs had nukes so that the fight would be "fair" the next time the decide to attack a democracy.

Re:I smell a jingo!

[Aurelius]

Then would you say that Native Americans would be justified in sending suicide bombers to your house?

As justified as we were in mudering an overwhelming majority of them, stealing their land, and pretending that it was the right thing to do. Yeah. They would be that justified.
So what you're basically trying to say is that the deliberate strike on civilians on 9/11 was a military action fully justified by past sins of the US govt?

What he's trying to say is that we aren't the good guys. We just have a better propoganda machine. You want to know where the best terrorist training camp in the world is? The good ol' US of A baby. The recently renamed School of the Americas is by far the leading "Counter Insurgency" (read: terrorism) training facility in the world. Nobody comes close.

There is a distinct difference, though. If Israeli soldiers kill an unarmed kid, there will be a big outcry from within Israel. Yet there is routine killing of kids by Arabs and only deafening silence from the Arab community. BTW, Arafat is no angel himself.
IF ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILLED AN UNARMED KID??? IF? Are you kidding? Can you read, or do you choose not to? Over a HUNDRED children have been killed in this intifada. Schoolgirls, infants, you name it. So there would be an outcry eh? Well, mirabile dictu, there ain't. What does that say about our number one aid beneficiary. And just in case you're one of the people that think that more Israelis than Palistineans have been killed in this intifada, maybe you should take a minute and look up some facts.

You know why Bin Laden hates the US? Because the infidels dared to set foot on the holy land. You know why he hates the Saudi Government, because they let the infidels do it. And still you equate his motives with the US's.

That bastard. I can't believe he got mad about a hostile foreign power occupying his homeland. It's a good thing that the Americans are a peace loving people, because they would let whomever wanted to build a big military base right next to Arlington National Cemetery, as long as they were real nice about it. His excuse for killing a couple thousand innocent people in unjustified, but our excuse for doing the same thing isn't even questioned. "Well, they shouldn't have started it" you might say. THEY DIDN'T START IT. Afghani peasants, the ones paying the real price for Dubya's war on terror, had absolutely nothing to do with the strikes. Saudi oil money probably had a lot to do with it, but we don't bomb them, because they sell us oil.

wars are fought by militaries

so the american revolution was a "terrorist act" because the American rebels targeted loyalist civilians sometimes and didn't have nation-state status?