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Alternate Reality Games Grab Mindshare
An nonymous reader points to articles at the New York Times and on the BBC about online games that require a lot more audience participation and curiosity than conventional games do. "Known as ARGs or Alternate Reality Games, these immersive experiences mix real world clues, phone calls, voicemail, email chatter-bots, real people playing roles in real life and a bevy of bogus and legit websites, to create a fully rounded gaming experience that bleeds over into everyday life. With central sites like ARGN, Unfiction, and endless forums and Yahoo groups, the BBC claims that this is not only a quickly emerging gaming trend, but that it may also have real-world applications like group dynamics and problem solving. Chasing the Wish claims to already have a few thousand people worldwide playing since it opened for play on Feb. 28. One sure sign of having people's attention is the fact that it's already spawned a parody site, Chasing the Fish."
Why Your so-called government doesn't do what you want
it to do.
1). Colin Powell -- Secretary of State, ex-chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, of Jamaican origin, he has one Jewish ancestor on his father's side. He grew up in a heavily Jewish-populated neighborhood in New York, and speaks Yiddish. The first day of being picked (12/16) he said he wanted to toughen sanctions on Iraq, and will work to "re-energize the sanctions regime."
2). Richard Perle -- One of Bush's Foreign Policy Advisors. He is chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. He had worked as Bush's Jewish national security campaign advisor. A very likely Israeli agent, Perle was expelled from Senator Henry Jackson's office in the 1970's after the National Security Agency (NSA) caught him passing Highly-Classified (National Security) documents to the Israeli Embassy. He later worked for the Israeli weapons firm, Soltam.
3). Paul Wolfowitz -- Deputy Defense Secretary, Bush's Jewish foreign policy campaign advisor, close
associate of Israeli agent Richard Perle, and reportedly has close ties to the Israeli military.
4). Robert Satloff -- U.S. National Security Council Advisor, Satloff was the executive director of the
Israeli lobby's "think tank," Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Many of the Israeli lobby's
"experts" come from this front group, like Martin Indyk.
5). Dov Zekheim -- Under Secretary of Defense and Comptroller. He was Bush's Jewish foreign policy
advisor and reportedly holds Israeli citizenship.
6). Douglas Feith -- Under Secretary of Defense and Policy Advisor at the Pentagon. He is a close
associate of Perle and served as his Special Counsel. Like Perle and the others, Feith is a pro-Israel
extremist, who has advocated anti-Arab policies in the past. He is closely associated with the extremist
group, the Zionist Organization of America, which even attacks Jews that don't agree with its extremist
views. Feith frequently speaks at ZOA conferences. Feith runs a small law firm, Feith and Zell, which
only has one International office, in Israel. The majority of their legal work is representing Israeli
interests. His firm's own website stated, prior to his appointment, that Feith "represents Israeli Armaments
Manufacturer." Feith basically represents the Israeli War Machine.
7). Elliott Abrams -- National Security Council Advisor. He previously worked at Washington-based
"Think Tank" Ethics and Public Policy Center. During the Reagan Adminstration, Abrams was the Assistant
Secretary of State,handling, for the most part, Latin American affairs. He played an important role in the Iran-Contra
Scandal, which involved illegally selling U.S. weapons to Iran to fight Iraq, and illegally funding the
contra rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government. He also actively deceived three
congressional committees about his involvement and thereby faced felony charges based on his testimony.
Abrams pled guilty in 1991 to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to a year's probation and 100 hours of
community service. A year later, former President Bush (Senior) granted Abrams a full pardon. He was one of
the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Reagan Administration's State Department.
8). Marc Grossman -- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was Director General of the
Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources at the Department of State. Grossman is one of many of the
Jewish officials from the Clinton Administration that Bush has promoted to higher posts.
9). Richard Haass -- Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and Ambassador at large. He is
also Director of National Security Programs and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He
was one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the first Bush (Sr) Administration who sat on the National
Security Council, and who consistently advocates bombing Iraq.
10). Henry Kissinger -- One of ma
Even if you don't go to shul, please remember to pray, along with Klal Yisrael, "for the safety of our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael and throughout the world, and for the protection of all the brave young men and women in the Allied Forces." (quote from a rabbi in LA)
It is said that G-d is especially attentive to our united prayer on this fast day.
Monday night the Megillah is read for the beginning of Purim. Tuesday is the celebration of Purim. Please read the book of Esther if you are not familiar with the story of our military victory.
The end guy was hard.
In some bizarre parallel universe, Mr Goat drives this car. Mr Goat prefers to have an exhaust pipe stretched to unearthly proportions.
I agree here, if you want to play games, play games but don't let them take over your life, I can't imagine anything worse than having a game invade my life! One thing that should be established, is the clear seperation between "Real Life" and the domains of escapism that is the Internet and online gaming. If this does not happen then events such as killing related to the violence seen in Online games etc will increase because the kids and other players wont make a clear distinction between real life and their game. Not clearly recognising that if someone dies then they aren't going to respawn
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Hippies are the discusting filth that builds around the base of my toilet.
We started coding like madmen. Code flowed from me as I knelt on the ground in front of my P90 laptop. I soon noticed a rythmic motion to myself. It was to the beat of 'The Bad Touch'. This was being played on our OGG streamer. But, I wasn't keeping beat. I took a long pull on the glass pipe and turned around to see Patrick 'Doctor Gateskiller' Czrapadunski fucking me in the ass. He was wearing a code poet shirt and looked blissful. He gave me a hit off of his glass pipe. Then I remember seizing up, a scream, and blacking out.
Now, I have a bloody dick stuck in my ass. I tried to get it out with a pair of salad tongs, but that just lodged it in deeper. I REALLY don't want to go to hospital, but what else can I do? Anyone out there have any previous experience? Thanks.
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Every good jew must help with the ethnic cleansing of our g-d given land. These arab heathens have been on our rightful land for too long.
Oh and if you can't find any arabs to shoot you can always run over an unarmed american with a bulldozer. Anything for the homeland!
The wind coming out of your WHAT?!
What are you, some kind of gay college boy?