I was looking for something that would really open up the experience in MMOs. Looks like I found my class.
My mains have always been tanks, and it's sad depending huntards and suicidal rogues, and healers who think they're DPS. Now, I can peacefully wait for my quest targets to walk by or get pushed in by my pet Jedi... and PWNED.
Sweet.
The tough thing, though, is when that prime target you've always hoped for just tumbles right into your gaping maw... and then escapes. And then, somehow, falls in again, and then escapes again... You'll keep thinking you've finally got the perfect chance to pick him apart over thousands of years, that this time your monstrous tentacles and many rows of teeth will keep him from escaping - but somehow, once again, he'll be out. And then one day he'll be gone forever, and you'll be left with an empty feeling inside.
technical criteria. But what is passing over geek sites in waves the last six months is not:
"I really want different features. I wouldn't buy this."
I think what's going on is that a lot of people feel this way, but a lot of the people who do feel that way don't necessarily see the point in broadcasting their viewpoint. I mean, who cares how I feel about the iPad? Now, on the other hand, if I could take my opinion, extrapolate from it, and project it onto the entire world, then that makes my opinion relevant to everyone!
Jobs and Apple wouldn't be where they are today if they waited around for you to spread your legs. They have a history of throwing the consumer on the ground and mounting them while the consumer cries "No! Please! Not there! I've never done that before! I can't!... Oh! Oh! Yes! Yes! More! Please! More! Oh God! Yes! I never knew it could be so good!"
Additionally, posting a "Please stop" comment on April 1 is karma whoring. It's a +5 Insightful for what amounts to a first post.
Posting anything that people will agree with is karma whoring! So stop playing up to the masses all the time! If your comments aren't constantly being modded "overrated" or "troll" then you're just karma whoring!
1) Mount a satellite dish on the wall of a long room. 2) Place a chair at the opposite end of the room. 3) Have this guy sit in the chair for an hour. 4) See how much he complains about headaches, how much he acts up, how he has been brain-poisoned etc. 5) Show him that the dish is not connected to anything, and never has been.
Proves nothing. It could be that the subject's own brainwaves are being projected toward the dish, where they reflect and converge on the receiving element, which resonates and (due to lack of a load on the receiving element) bounces the waves back at the dish and back at his head again, but out of phase due to propagation delay. That would give anyone a headache!
The actions of one inside one's house and freedom of movement and ability to do what you want within the law? That's not freedom? That wouldn't fall under their human rights? Seriously?
Well, the point is that the radio waves aren't confined to just the one house. Personally I don't believe this claim is legitimate, but if you think this is somehow confined to "inside one's house" your wireless gear must be worse than mine...
>Good neighbours put up their own EM shielding when they suffer from imaginary conditions.
And if this guy is so cognitively challenged that he can't fold his own aluminum foil hat, someone should show him how. This is the traditional counter measure used by delusional hypochondriacs.
No, no, no... The aluminum ones are no good, it has to be tin foil.
Be careful when saying things like "mental illness is as real as any physical illness". In order to equate mental illness with physical illness, you must equate imagination with reality. If I imagine my arm is broken, that doesn't make it physically broken. If I imagine I have a brain tumor, that doesn't mean I have a brain tumor.
That's just artificial sources. The earth is bombarded by radio waves, gamma rays, etc. all the time from outer space. To avoid all EM, you'd have to find a deep cave with heavy shielding rock miles into the earth's crust.
Done and done. Now I just need some sharks for my tank...
I'm sorry but I don't believe that's accurate. I pour HFCS right on my pancakes. The interesting part is that I can cook additional pancakes with the power of the mind that I get from that sweet corny nectar.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the high fructose corn syrup that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
(The Mentat litany is utter garbage IMO, but it seemed so fitting!)
To phrase my point as a tautology: if you were harassing someone, that would be harassment. What you describe isn't by itself harassment, but you said "Oh wait, would that be cyberbullying?" as though you expected every little thing would be called "cyberbullying". "Cyberbullying" is just a form of harassment in which, conveniently, the whole exchange has been recorded - if it seems there's a rash of cyberbullying cases, that's probably because cyberbullying makes it uniquely easy to build a harassment case.
Not even political free speech is without limits. The first amendment grants that the government has no stake in what you choose to say. However, that doesn't mean people can't make [i]personal[/i] claims as a result of what you do or say. It is possible that a message that's protected as political free speech could be delivered in a way that qualifies as harassment - and the first amendment would not protect you from the consequences of that action. In practice, it'd have to be something pretty serious, though, or they wouldn't bother.:)
Eh... this isn't real rape. If it was, they'd go for that.
Yeah, it's kind of a weird choice of terminology. It's "rape" in the sense that the law doesn't grant minors the authority to legally consent to sex. Thus, sex with a minor is, in legal terms, non-consensual and thus "rape". I can see the logical chain of decisions that lead to this terminology, but if you compare this offense to actual rape, it's like a joke. I think there may be cases where statutory rape is a type or rape - when there's coercion involved, basically... But in general the offense is like a catch-all... Kind of like "open container" laws in cars (i.e. "we don't care what's in the container, you can't drive with an open container because it might be alcohol.")
Oh wait, would that be cyberbullying? I thought it would have been Constitutionally protected.....
If it crosses over into harassment or slander, that's another matter. In that case you are (allegedly, at least) harming another person with what you say - and while the federal government may not have a valid claim to curb what you have to say, that person may.
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Blah, I thought he had a Stormtrooper costume and was going out and taking photos...
Most of us are Americans(TM) anyway, and have no idea where this "Essex" or "Finnish" you speak of is located.
Essex? Oh, that's over by Manchester, Gloucester, and Ipswitch...
I was looking for something that would really open up the experience in MMOs. Looks like I found my class.
My mains have always been tanks, and it's sad depending huntards and suicidal rogues, and healers who think they're DPS. Now, I can peacefully wait for my quest targets to walk by or get pushed in by my pet Jedi... and PWNED.
Sweet.
The tough thing, though, is when that prime target you've always hoped for just tumbles right into your gaping maw... and then escapes. And then, somehow, falls in again, and then escapes again... You'll keep thinking you've finally got the perfect chance to pick him apart over thousands of years, that this time your monstrous tentacles and many rows of teeth will keep him from escaping - but somehow, once again, he'll be out. And then one day he'll be gone forever, and you'll be left with an empty feeling inside.
It's hard to be a Sarlacc.
Baltimore!
Look pretty, but you can only do what they allow
Legally, this is true when dealing with any woman, actually, not just strippers...
Not all women are pretty
Oh yeah, I meant just the second bit actually. Sorry, my mistake.
technical criteria. But what is passing over geek sites in waves the last six months is not:
"I really want different features. I wouldn't buy this."
I think what's going on is that a lot of people feel this way, but a lot of the people who do feel that way don't necessarily see the point in broadcasting their viewpoint. I mean, who cares how I feel about the iPad? Now, on the other hand, if I could take my opinion, extrapolate from it, and project it onto the entire world, then that makes my opinion relevant to everyone!
Jobs and Apple wouldn't be where they are today if they waited around for you to spread your legs. They have a history of throwing the consumer on the ground and mounting them while the consumer cries "No! Please! Not there! I've never done that before! I can't!... Oh! Oh! Yes! Yes! More! Please! More! Oh God! Yes! I never knew it could be so good!"
You've clearly given this some thought.
Well, iPad and for that matter iPhone are more like strippers.
Look pretty, but you can only do what they allow
Legally, this is true when dealing with any woman, actually, not just strippers...
People needs to stop dying on April 1st. Nobody takes the news seriously (at first).
Hey, dying isn't fun, let me tell you. I expect if I were dying, I'd be looking for ways to make it fun.
Ed Roberts is now in Hell
Damn, I never knew God hated the Altair so much...
2010 - 1941 = 69
Interestingly enough, at any given time if you were to ask the man what number he was thinking of, that would have been his reply!
Clearly he had some kind of latent premonition of his death.
Additionally, posting a "Please stop" comment on April 1 is karma whoring. It's a +5 Insightful for what amounts to a first post.
Posting anything that people will agree with is karma whoring! So stop playing up to the masses all the time! If your comments aren't constantly being modded "overrated" or "troll" then you're just karma whoring!
Information: You are all going to die.
1) Mount a satellite dish on the wall of a long room.
2) Place a chair at the opposite end of the room.
3) Have this guy sit in the chair for an hour.
4) See how much he complains about headaches, how much he acts up, how he has been brain-poisoned etc.
5) Show him that the dish is not connected to anything, and never has been.
Proves nothing. It could be that the subject's own brainwaves are being projected toward the dish, where they reflect and converge on the receiving element, which resonates and (due to lack of a load on the receiving element) bounces the waves back at the dish and back at his head again, but out of phase due to propagation delay. That would give anyone a headache!
The actions of one inside one's house and freedom of movement and ability to do what you want within the law? That's not freedom? That wouldn't fall under their human rights? Seriously?
Well, the point is that the radio waves aren't confined to just the one house. Personally I don't believe this claim is legitimate, but if you think this is somehow confined to "inside one's house" your wireless gear must be worse than mine...
>Good neighbours put up their own EM shielding when they suffer from imaginary conditions.
And if this guy is so cognitively challenged that he can't fold his own aluminum foil hat, someone should show him how. This is the traditional counter measure used by delusional hypochondriacs.
No, no, no... The aluminum ones are no good, it has to be tin foil.
Or even better. Ask him how he knows the wireless devices are on?
That's easy. "Because they're making me sick." XD
Be careful when saying things like "mental illness is as real as any physical illness". In order to equate mental illness with physical illness, you must equate imagination with reality. If I imagine my arm is broken, that doesn't make it physically broken. If I imagine I have a brain tumor, that doesn't mean I have a brain tumor.
But if you die in Canada, you die in real life!
That's just artificial sources. The earth is bombarded by radio waves, gamma rays, etc. all the time from outer space. To avoid all EM, you'd have to find a deep cave with heavy shielding rock miles into the earth's crust.
Done and done. Now I just need some sharks for my tank...
I blame High Fructose Corn syrup consumption.
I'm sorry but I don't believe that's accurate. I pour HFCS right on my pancakes. The interesting part is that I can cook additional pancakes with the power of the mind that I get from that sweet corny nectar.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the high fructose corn syrup that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
(The Mentat litany is utter garbage IMO, but it seemed so fitting!)
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b87/hurt911gen/wat.jpg?t=1248974475
404'd!
To phrase my point as a tautology: if you were harassing someone, that would be harassment. What you describe isn't by itself harassment, but you said "Oh wait, would that be cyberbullying?" as though you expected every little thing would be called "cyberbullying". "Cyberbullying" is just a form of harassment in which, conveniently, the whole exchange has been recorded - if it seems there's a rash of cyberbullying cases, that's probably because cyberbullying makes it uniquely easy to build a harassment case.
Not even political free speech is without limits. The first amendment grants that the government has no stake in what you choose to say. However, that doesn't mean people can't make [i]personal[/i] claims as a result of what you do or say. It is possible that a message that's protected as political free speech could be delivered in a way that qualifies as harassment - and the first amendment would not protect you from the consequences of that action. In practice, it'd have to be something pretty serious, though, or they wouldn't bother. :)
Eh... this isn't real rape. If it was, they'd go for that.
Yeah, it's kind of a weird choice of terminology. It's "rape" in the sense that the law doesn't grant minors the authority to legally consent to sex. Thus, sex with a minor is, in legal terms, non-consensual and thus "rape". I can see the logical chain of decisions that lead to this terminology, but if you compare this offense to actual rape, it's like a joke. I think there may be cases where statutory rape is a type or rape - when there's coercion involved, basically... But in general the offense is like a catch-all... Kind of like "open container" laws in cars (i.e. "we don't care what's in the container, you can't drive with an open container because it might be alcohol.")
Oh wait, would that be cyberbullying? I thought it would have been Constitutionally protected.....
If it crosses over into harassment or slander, that's another matter. In that case you are (allegedly, at least) harming another person with what you say - and while the federal government may not have a valid claim to curb what you have to say, that person may.
Last time this came up I joked about the Larkin Decision... I didn't think he'd really look into laying claim to Lunar territory.. XD
(Larkin Decision wouldn't actually apply, though - owning a piece of gear on the Moon isn't enough, you have to live there...)