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The Thin Line Between Reality and Video Games
Boomzilla writes "San Jose Mercury news is carrying an article about a 2-year-old Silicon Valley start-up called Keyhole and their product Earthviewer. The Mountain View company makes interactive 3-D maps that fuse high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery, elevation data, GPS coordinates, and overlay information about cities and businesses to deliver a streaming, 3D map of the entire globe. Since the start of the war, many news networks have been using the maps to zoom in on, over and around the Iraqi landscape to help viewers see where the war is being fought. Keyhole is financed by Sony Broadband Entertainment, graphics-chip maker Nvidia and others. Keyhole uses satellite images, aerial photos and other data to create 3-D maps that perform much like high-quality video games. Way cool!"
What American censorship doesn't want you to see.
Please let them be Prisioners of War, and not Illegal combatants andt tortured until they are near death. Please Sadaam, show us that you are our moral better!
Sad but true.
Please let our captured comrades be treated as true P.O.W's, That they might have safety.
Please let our captured soldiers not be tortured, not be placed in inhumanely small cells outside of the view of the world, not given any rights, kept from the sun, their family, with no hope of ever being released.
In short, O Dear lord, please let them be treated as men, and not be shipped off to Guantanamo bay, as Donald Rumsfeld bitches that they were put on television, which is a minor, if that, breach of the Geneva convention, while we torture the fuck out of those fucking sand niggers that fought us in Afghanistan.
--An American patriot
Mudslums are subhuman animals!
Face it people, we have to exterminate them all - they have no place in 2003,
only in the 7th century.
FUCK ALL MUDSLUMS.
I wrote more than just this, but it was all redundant explanations about what video games are- it got longer than I wanted this post to be, so I'll summarize:
I have no writing skills. I am dyslexic. My mother dresses me funny. My sister likes to blow me. My boss is replacing me with a small shell script and a cheap developer in Lithuania. I smell bad. My right hand is my best friend. The sun hurts my eyes. My bit is too small to bite.
I eat stale bread occasionally
<french>we surrender</french>
I'm left handed, you moron.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All