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RTCW: Enemy Territory Test Released
Ant writes "Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Test is released for Linux and Windows! It doesn't require the original game." See the news blurb and player guide.
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Algorithms final exam in an hour and a half... and I am posting on Slashdot instead of studying! The horror!
*prays*
lookout bullow.
the daze of the Godless payper liesense hostage ransom stock markup ?pr? FUDgePeddlers, is dissolving into coolapps.
consult yOUR creator regarding matters of the heart/mind/wallet.
How the fuck is that a "troll"? Mods, please correct! Mod parent up! Thanks in advance.
I have been thinkin' about the US, in particular what it says it is that it really is not. You see, I like certain things about the US, but it's certainly not the beacon for the world that it likes to claim it is.
For example, Americans when asked seem to be proudest of their so-called "freedom". America, the land of the free. While it's true that the US is more free than some other dictatorships, one can't logically call a country with 2 million people in jail (one out of every 140 people locked up in prison.) free. But the lack of freedom becomes even more clear when one realizes that the vast bulk of them are locked up, not for hurting or stealing from someone else, but simply for doing what they want to do with their own bodies. The lack of freedom to do drugs is symptomatic of a society that severely restricts freedom. America is not free.
Certainly, America doesn't seem very free to a gay couple who cannot legally celebrate their lifetime love with official marriage. Nor does America seem free to someone who wants to hike on public land without paying a fee. We're not free to ride without a seatbelt. We are forced by threat of arms to pay money to the government. Where does the claim of "freedom" come from? America is not free in any real sense.
How about the phrase "justice for all", so well known from the "pledge of allegiance". (Is freedom forcing children to swear allegiance to a piece of cloth?) Again the reality of America in no way lives up to its ideal. Does justice for all apply to Mike Hawash, in jail without accusation of a crime? Economic injustice is rampant in the US; legal justice only applies to those with money, the right skin color, and a good lawyer. So justice isn't anything for America to claim, either.
So if the US is neither free nor just, what are its bragging rights exactly? I guess it doesn't sound as good to say, "America is more free than some places, really," or to brag that it's "pretty just, most of the time."
What about democracy, "government of the people, by the people, and for the people"? That seems like something that America could be proud of. But again the reality doesn't match the ideal. Corruption, greed, and raw power politics run the country. Ask Paul Wellstone (oops, he's dead.) Secrecy, the code of Cheney, is the order of the day. The people can't be trusted to know what government is doing, so I guess we don't have government "by the people". America is governed by the rich, by corporations, by powerful aristocratic families. America is in no way democratic.
So what's left? All the ideals of America have been lost, corrupted, destroyed. The idea of America is bankrupt. It's time to start over again, taking what we do like, and ditching the rest. Building a new system that is closer to free, closer to just, and closer to democratic, in practice, not just in words. Finally, that is the thing I like best about America, that it was founded in the hope of building a better world. That hope is what I will carry forward as we go on beyond America.
Hello there. Suck on it, slashfags.
Your FAILURE of the algorithms exam is IMMINENT! PREPARE FOR VOMIT!
So what ever happened to those stupid scooter things that where supposed to change life for everyone in the industrial world by making us consume even more energy instead of walking?
Haha, looks like that was a big flop! SUCKAS!
bwahahaha! I hope you hit +5, Funny for that great crack!
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.