"The Internet connectivity outreach that we now see in the global routing tables seems like continuing evidence of Iran's long-term strategy: aggressively pursuing bilateral infrastructure and investment projects with its neighbors...."
I love Jack Thompson. How many other jokes do you know that are not only always good for some fresh laughs when you least expect it, but write their own punchline?
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary
Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the following treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it was read aloud in its entirety and unanimously approved. John Adams, having seen the treaty, signed it and proudly proclaimed it to the Nation.
Annals of Congress, 5th Congress
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
The founding fathers couldn't have said it better.
You should also remember that while WoW might be an outlier for progression difficulty, its also an outlier for customer base... and there's not a game company CEO out there that wouldn't kill their mothers for a customer base like that. WoW was the first game that took one simple fact to heart: while the hardcore players tend to be the most vocal, they're no where near the largest segment of gamers... no matter how much they try to claim that.
Silicon doesn't have much in the way of properties that would promote life. It's a nice sci-fi treatment, from maybe the 50's, but it's not realistic chemically for exactly the reason you mentioned. Silicon readily forms a single type of crystal with itself; carbon readily forms millions upon millions of different molecules with all sorts of other elements... especially hydrogen, who has a great way of bonding/not really bonding with itself.
It's spelled.. g o o g l e. You can use it and type "war of northern aggression" and see all the fucking idiots that use that term, including some very recent uses by southern republican congress members.
Wait.... you're trying to say that the reason they adopted single year budgets was to circumvent the specific line in the Constitution that was meant to assure there was not going to be a standing army? Why didn't they simply not put the line in the Constitution to start with?
Reading comprehension is a good thing, yes. Reading actual history instead of making up on the fly is even better. I suggest The Federalist Papers to you as something to read, so you can get a grasp of exactly how much loathing there was for the prospects of a standing army.... along with a great deal of insight into other things the Constitution was to mean; with a lot less emphasis on the silly, ignorant discourse of some of our current, intentionally less educated, pundits.
Lets go with the plan that our founding fathers had. Every abled body man between the ages of 16 and 56 is part of a well regulated militia, to be called up in case of invasion or insurrection. The only thing the federal government does is: establish the training program (for the well regulated part); provision weapon stocks; run a navy.
I'm sorry, did you not like the constitution? You know, the part where it says they will be no standing army.
I served. The military is a fine establishment, being abused by the military industrial complex. Defense spending is an entitlement for them, they produce things we don't need, and all the cowards in office listen to all the cowards in the population who are so scared of their shadow they piss their pants when the step into the daylight (who are also usually boisterous wanna-be bullies who are too cowardly to do their own fighting). Stop drinking the kool-aid.
Part of the reason it flopped was it was released 4-6 months too early, because of Sony. When it went live, even on high end machines, it was like the beta bug catcher was still on.. lag was atrocious, and the game was suffering horribly for it.
Yes, he also didn't listen to his beta testers. Worse, his devs were the rudest shits this side of Verants cs crap. The customer may not always be right, but they're never "wrong" (to their face). In 988/Verant, then Sigils view, the customer was not only always wrong, but they were also total fucking idiots... and they needed to know it.
I played EQ for 6 years, starting pre-Kunark, and am constantly amazed by DDO players that think WoW is bad because it's simple and easy, and DDO is good because it's hard and oh so challenging. Anyone up for a 36 hour Hate raid, or are you all still in that 15 hour Fear corpse recovery?
"These 'internet addicts' spent proportionately more time browsing sexually gratifying websites, online gaming sites and online communities..."
Ok, i know this is full of crap. I mean, this implies there's anything to the web other than "sexually gratifying websites." Give me a break, you can't fool us like that!!
To clarify what it means: If you make something idiot proof (just get the fraking vaccination), you spur the evolution of a vastly more ignorant and incompetent idiot (well, you know....).
And along the same lines, computer programs have been around for DECADES.. yet they still make news. Who'da thunk.
The GZ2 wasn't a relaunch in the typical sense, it was new and more precise information, with new goals. This galaxy merger tool is also new, and has yet another new goal.
Perhaps we could have gone with the idea back in the day that "Everything that can be invented has been invented," Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899.... yet, we didn't. New things are still making the news.
There is a slight difference in the two. The Wolfenstein recall in Germany had little to do with cultural sensitivity, and a lot more to do with the fact that in Germany it is illegal to perform a Hitler salute, wear a Nazi uniform or display the swastika, all of these being good for up to three years in prison.
Given that, it's probably not unreasonable to think that some people in a given culture might find being demonized for a game not to their liking. Make a game of the early white settlers murdering millions of native american indians, and you'd probably piss off the indians and the poor rednecks who were never taught about it before they dropped out of school.
Slashdot Mirror
The aliens of course...
They're waiting for the sequel to see how to successfully counterattack.
"The Internet connectivity outreach that we now see in the global routing tables seems like continuing evidence of Iran's long-term strategy: aggressively pursuing bilateral infrastructure and investment projects with its neighbors...."
The Horrors!!!!
I love Jack Thompson. How many other jokes do you know that are not only always good for some fresh laughs when you least expect it, but write their own punchline?
Warning: Being STUPID can cause injury or death.
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary
Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the following treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it was read aloud in its entirety and unanimously approved. John Adams, having seen the treaty, signed it and proudly proclaimed it to the Nation.
Annals of Congress, 5th Congress
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
The founding fathers couldn't have said it better.
You should also remember that while WoW might be an outlier for progression difficulty, its also an outlier for customer base... and there's not a game company CEO out there that wouldn't kill their mothers for a customer base like that. WoW was the first game that took one simple fact to heart: while the hardcore players tend to be the most vocal, they're no where near the largest segment of gamers... no matter how much they try to claim that.
Silicon doesn't have much in the way of properties that would promote life. It's a nice sci-fi treatment, from maybe the 50's, but it's not realistic chemically for exactly the reason you mentioned. Silicon readily forms a single type of crystal with itself; carbon readily forms millions upon millions of different molecules with all sorts of other elements... especially hydrogen, who has a great way of bonding/not really bonding with itself.
It's not that easy... I have less than 4k memory left, and the doctors still haven't figured out the problem.
It's spelled.. g o o g l e. You can use it and type "war of northern aggression" and see all the fucking idiots that use that term, including some very recent uses by southern republican congress members.
Wait.... you're trying to say that the reason they adopted single year budgets was to circumvent the specific line in the Constitution that was meant to assure there was not going to be a standing army? Why didn't they simply not put the line in the Constitution to start with?
Reading comprehension is a good thing, yes. Reading actual history instead of making up on the fly is even better. I suggest The Federalist Papers to you as something to read, so you can get a grasp of exactly how much loathing there was for the prospects of a standing army.... along with a great deal of insight into other things the Constitution was to mean; with a lot less emphasis on the silly, ignorant discourse of some of our current, intentionally less educated, pundits.
US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 includes:
"To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;"
Your "one of the few constitutional items the Feds actually spend money on" is unconstitutional.
Naturally, you also want to blame Clinton for Bush Sr.'s base closing imitative. Learn some history.
And for that huge social spending issue: http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm
Lets go with the plan that our founding fathers had. Every abled body man between the ages of 16 and 56 is part of a well regulated militia, to be called up in case of invasion or insurrection. The only thing the federal government does is: establish the training program (for the well regulated part); provision weapon stocks; run a navy.
I'm sorry, did you not like the constitution? You know, the part where it says they will be no standing army.
Yes, ignorance it horrible. Try this on for size to learn why you're numbers are wrong.
http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm
I served. The military is a fine establishment, being abused by the military industrial complex. Defense spending is an entitlement for them, they produce things we don't need, and all the cowards in office listen to all the cowards in the population who are so scared of their shadow they piss their pants when the step into the daylight (who are also usually boisterous wanna-be bullies who are too cowardly to do their own fighting). Stop drinking the kool-aid.
Part of the reason it flopped was it was released 4-6 months too early, because of Sony. When it went live, even on high end machines, it was like the beta bug catcher was still on.. lag was atrocious, and the game was suffering horribly for it.
Yes, he also didn't listen to his beta testers. Worse, his devs were the rudest shits this side of Verants cs crap. The customer may not always be right, but they're never "wrong" (to their face). In 988/Verant, then Sigils view, the customer was not only always wrong, but they were also total fucking idiots... and they needed to know it.
I played EQ for 6 years, starting pre-Kunark, and am constantly amazed by DDO players that think WoW is bad because it's simple and easy, and DDO is good because it's hard and oh so challenging. Anyone up for a 36 hour Hate raid, or are you all still in that 15 hour Fear corpse recovery?
When they confirm the spectrum of Plutonium Nyborg, then we'll have some serious interest.
But.. those chemicals could still be smarter than humans. Something I'm almost willing to bet on, most of the time.
"Excuse me. I have a question."
Or us vastly underestimating their proficiency as idiots....
"These 'internet addicts' spent proportionately more time browsing sexually gratifying websites, online gaming sites and online communities..."
Ok, i know this is full of crap. I mean, this implies there's anything to the web other than "sexually gratifying websites." Give me a break, you can't fool us like that!!
To clarify what it means: If you make something idiot proof (just get the fraking vaccination), you spur the evolution of a vastly more ignorant and incompetent idiot (well, you know....).
Actually i think stupidity is, although there's serious questions about the causes of said stupidity.
And along the same lines, computer programs have been around for DECADES.. yet they still make news. Who'da thunk.
The GZ2 wasn't a relaunch in the typical sense, it was new and more precise information, with new goals. This galaxy merger tool is also new, and has yet another new goal.
Perhaps we could have gone with the idea back in the day that "Everything that can be invented has been invented," Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899.... yet, we didn't. New things are still making the news.
There is a slight difference in the two. The Wolfenstein recall in Germany had little to do with cultural sensitivity, and a lot more to do with the fact that in Germany it is illegal to perform a Hitler salute, wear a Nazi uniform or display the swastika, all of these being good for up to three years in prison.
Given that, it's probably not unreasonable to think that some people in a given culture might find being demonized for a game not to their liking. Make a game of the early white settlers murdering millions of native american indians, and you'd probably piss off the indians and the poor rednecks who were never taught about it before they dropped out of school.