Wow, it must suck to be so profoundly wrong. Where to begin? I mean, your unnecessarily personal attacks and flames aside, of course.
I hate republicans I'm not Republican. I have no side here.
incessant inability to leave obnoxious bullshit SPIN out of anything they say. This isn't "bullshit spin", this is one possible interpretation of what Obama said. We'll get back to this one.
Here's a quote so you can stop spreading that bullshit I'm perfectly aware of what he said. In fact, when I heard about the quote from a friend, the first thing I did was go look it up on CNN to see if it was really as bad as it sounded. Yep, sure enough, it was.
He did NOT say "people cling to religion and guns because they're poor" Oh really? Your source would beg to differ:
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not." ie: These communities are poor. So far, so good.
"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion...." What!? Oh snap! Looks like Obama did, in fact, say what you claim he didn't say! In fact, "These poor people cling to guns or religion..." is exactly what he said. Hmm. Guess you were too blind with rage to see that one. It's ok, happens to the best of us.
Take your obnoxious right-wing out-of-context political spin and shove it up your ass. As I mentioned before, this isn't "right-wing spin". This is simply the way I interpret what he said. There's more than one possible interpretation (isn't it wonderful to have a language where the same words can convey different things?), and I stated what I believe his intended meaning was. If you disagree, fair enough (there is more than one possible interpretation, after all)... but that doesn't mean I'm putting a bullshit spin on things. Furthermore, the "out-of-context" accusation is patently ludicrous. I didn't take him out of context at all, in fact, as I pointed out just a little bit ago, "Poor people cling to guns and religion" is exactly what he said, despite your claim to the contrary.
So no, I don't think I'll be shoving anything up my ass, thank you very much.
It's a metaphor. The literal meaning is irrelevant, the point is that that scientists thinks our biology is rather haphazard and jumbled, not well-structured. I think you're reading the statement too literally.
Even assuming what you say is true (that McCain would be under much heavier scrutiny if he were in Obama's shoes), that doesn't make it right or acceptable. I'd be just as opposed to people getting up in McCain's grill over his pastor.
I didn't say he was perfect, I was just throwing him out there. I can't honestly pick someone out for you with any degree of accuracy, because I haven't put any serious research into the candidates yet.
Just cause you can live through it, doesn't mean you want to. I've made it through 100+ degree days (I think the hottest I can remember seeing is like 110), and through 0-degree days (I've made it through winters where -40 wind chill wasn't uncommon). Both are hella unpleasant, so I'd say that yeah, 0F does deserve to be called wicked cold, and 100F does deserve to be called wicked hot.
That entirely depends on your definition of "rights of the citizenry", of course, but for my money, Bob Barr seems good. The point is, it's far better to find a third-party candidate you agree with and vote for them, than to throw your vote away.
Which is not to say that you shouldn't exercise your freedom of speech as well, but you don't have to pick one or the other.
To the mods who all modded me troll: every single one of you is unworthy of the mod points you had, and is a disgrace to this forum. Not to mention a coward: only a coward sits and penalizes people for expressing honest, calm opinions, no matter how wrong one thinks they are. I hope you're happy with yourself, because you have made/. a worse place to post.
Thanks to those that responded, though. Good to know that not everyone who frequents this forum hates rational discussion as much as those who modded this thread do.
Calling his own grandmother a "typical white woman"? Is that caring and accepting? It's neutral.
Or what about his spiritual advisor, who baptized his children and married him and his wife, saying that the white US Government created AIDS to kill black people? What about his relationship with someone who has bombed United States buildings? So he knows some crazy people. Big fucking deal. I have some friends whose opinions are moronic beyond belief, but that doesn't mean I agree with them in the slightest.
Funny how you touch on shit that doesn't matter in the least, yet leave out the one thing that really does paint Obama as an elitist, insensitive bastard: him going on about how people only like guns/religion because they're poor, a month or two ago.
For the love of God, man! If you don't like the Republican/Democratic candidates, don't sit at home: vote for a third-party candidate. Surely there has to be one out there who you agree with, and anything whatsoever is better than not voting.
I do consider the battles fairly fun, yeah. But all in all, FF7 isn't a game I'd ever hold up as a shining example of what great gameplay is (it's great RPG gameplay, but RPGs have the weakest gameplay element of all genres, in my experience)... it's a great, great story though, which is why I rate the game so highly overall.
My point is just that, for me at least, an excellent story can trump mediocre gameplay. Conversely, excellent gameplay can trump a mediocre story just as well (GTA 3, hell, all GTA games really, comes to mind). It's a mix, I don't feel that either element is more important than the other.
Not really, no. I've never needed anything better than.doc or.rtf (hell, for the vast majority of my purposes,.txt works just fine), so I don't really pay any attention to the OOXML vs ODF debate.
The fact that TFA says it doesn't make it correct, and I suspect that the GP would heartily disagree with TFA (as I did, for that matter).
Course, I find Half-Life 1/2 and Portal to be exceptionally weak in terms of storytelling (for the love of God, Valve, learn to use the cutscene! It's by far the best way to immerse your players in the drama, things just feel detached when you go through a first-person view), so we'd probably have to chalk the disagreement up to a matter of personal taste.
If you have a story to tell that needs to be told interactively, a game is a great medium to do it in. If you have a story to tell where the audience is supposed to mainly watch and listen, make a movie. If you have an indepth story with deep characters, a huge plotline, where no interaction is really necessary - write a novel. And if you have NONE of the above, reconsider what you're making story-wise. Your medium is your message after all. Counterexample: Final Fantasy 7, which, for my money, is the best damn game ever made, even though it has the type of story you say should fit a movie. The gameplay is fun, but the story is what truly makes the game excel. Gameplay is not, in my opinion, the be-all end-all of games like people say it is. It's one element in a diverse collection.
That's ok, let her whine. Later on, you get girlfriends who actually have benefits, instead of just dating you. Once you get the lawyer who can clear your wanted level... how can Michelle possibly compete?
Cut scenes, etc, just remove us from the game and make the story and the game separate entities. TFA is saying that the two need to be the same thing. Course, if the game industry ever really does drop cutscenes altogether, I might have to quit playing games. I have yet to see a game which shows that storytelling, without cutscenes, can come anywhere near the story immersion that cutscenes provide.
Thankfully, a great many companies seem to get this, so I'm not too worried.
And? You may as well be complaining that we should have an international standard language, or currency system. As long as you can work between the two standards, it doesn't matter.
And you expect those of us who use imperial units to greatly inconvenience ourselves like that... why? Just cause imperial units piss you off? There are people who use imperial units, deal with it. When I read measurements in metric units, I don't whine because I think in imperial rather than metric, I go and look up a conversion to put the number in a frame of reference which is meaningful to me.
Wouldn't it be reasonable, then, to tell them that until they can remember (not have written down!) a strong password, they can't have any mobile devices, because it's too big of a liability to the company otherwise?
Of course, possible is another scenario entirely, but that would seem to me to be a reasonable policy.
(And if a company laptop doesn't contain ANYTHING worth stealing, the employee should probably be fired for not producing anything worthwhile:) ) That, or they're (God bless them!) putting their data on network drives, not on their PC. Harder, but still doable, with a laptop, even on the go, as long as you have VPN access. It's always tragic/amusing when someone loses all their data, when they knew damn well they should've been keeping it in a location that's backed up regularly.:/
It's not true standards compliance, but it's what we call an "intermediary step". The idea is that the meta tag gets put in sites which are in active development, where one tag isn't going to make any difference in the workload anyway. Sites which are already broken will stay broken, sites which are already working will stay working, but it improves the situation for NEW sites, without any real amount of work.
And? What's your point? So, Microsoft should've been doing better in the past. That is entirely immaterial now. What matters is, moving forward while breaking as little as possible... which is NOT what Microsoft is doing.
...and it is better that they do this... No it isn't. This is going to make half the Web break in IE8. The smart thing to do was what they did originally: default to legacy IE mode, and allow site developers to put a meta tag in to force standards mode. Then, some number of years down the road, when the majority of people were running sites that were standards-compliant (with or without the special meta tag), IE could've defaulted to standards mode. It's called phasing out old stuff, which is something you have to do when the old behavior is so widespread.
Microsoft caved in to the complaints of people who don't give a damn about breaking functionality for the majority of users, and they're a bunch of retards for doing so.
My other reason (which is enough to prompt a 5-page flame war all by itself) is the so-called "viral" aspect of the GPL. I firmly believe that it is an arbitrary and unnecessary restriction of freedom, which, since the GPL is supposed to promote freedom, pretty much makes the GPL an exercise in hypocrisy.
That's just my 2c, though, I realize I'm in the minority.
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You mean a $100 OS (probably even less if you get it bundled with a PC from a big-name manufacturer), and a $100 office suite. Nice troll, though.
I would. Candidates' pastors have nothing to do with the candidates themselves, despite people's idiotic persistence in believing otherwise.
So no, I don't think I'll be shoving anything up my ass, thank you very much.
It's a metaphor. The literal meaning is irrelevant, the point is that that scientists thinks our biology is rather haphazard and jumbled, not well-structured. I think you're reading the statement too literally.
Even assuming what you say is true (that McCain would be under much heavier scrutiny if he were in Obama's shoes), that doesn't make it right or acceptable. I'd be just as opposed to people getting up in McCain's grill over his pastor.
I didn't say he was perfect, I was just throwing him out there. I can't honestly pick someone out for you with any degree of accuracy, because I haven't put any serious research into the candidates yet.
Just cause you can live through it, doesn't mean you want to. I've made it through 100+ degree days (I think the hottest I can remember seeing is like 110), and through 0-degree days (I've made it through winters where -40 wind chill wasn't uncommon). Both are hella unpleasant, so I'd say that yeah, 0F does deserve to be called wicked cold, and 100F does deserve to be called wicked hot.
Which is not to say that you shouldn't exercise your freedom of speech as well, but you don't have to pick one or the other.
Thanks to those that responded, though. Good to know that not everyone who frequents this forum hates rational discussion as much as those who modded this thread do.
Funny how you touch on shit that doesn't matter in the least, yet leave out the one thing that really does paint Obama as an elitist, insensitive bastard: him going on about how people only like guns/religion because they're poor, a month or two ago.
For the love of God, man! If you don't like the Republican/Democratic candidates, don't sit at home: vote for a third-party candidate. Surely there has to be one out there who you agree with, and anything whatsoever is better than not voting.
My point is just that, for me at least, an excellent story can trump mediocre gameplay. Conversely, excellent gameplay can trump a mediocre story just as well (GTA 3, hell, all GTA games really, comes to mind). It's a mix, I don't feel that either element is more important than the other.
Not really, no. I've never needed anything better than .doc or .rtf (hell, for the vast majority of my purposes, .txt works just fine), so I don't really pay any attention to the OOXML vs ODF debate.
Course, I find Half-Life 1/2 and Portal to be exceptionally weak in terms of storytelling (for the love of God, Valve, learn to use the cutscene! It's by far the best way to immerse your players in the drama, things just feel detached when you go through a first-person view), so we'd probably have to chalk the disagreement up to a matter of personal taste.
That's ok, let her whine. Later on, you get girlfriends who actually have benefits, instead of just dating you. Once you get the lawyer who can clear your wanted level... how can Michelle possibly compete?
Thankfully, a great many companies seem to get this, so I'm not too worried.
And? You may as well be complaining that we should have an international standard language, or currency system. As long as you can work between the two standards, it doesn't matter.
This isn't that hard.
Of course, possible is another scenario entirely, but that would seem to me to be a reasonable policy.
It's not true standards compliance, but it's what we call an "intermediary step". The idea is that the meta tag gets put in sites which are in active development, where one tag isn't going to make any difference in the workload anyway. Sites which are already broken will stay broken, sites which are already working will stay working, but it improves the situation for NEW sites, without any real amount of work.
And? What's your point? So, Microsoft should've been doing better in the past. That is entirely immaterial now. What matters is, moving forward while breaking as little as possible... which is NOT what Microsoft is doing.
...and it is better that they do this... No it isn't. This is going to make half the Web break in IE8. The smart thing to do was what they did originally: default to legacy IE mode, and allow site developers to put a meta tag in to force standards mode. Then, some number of years down the road, when the majority of people were running sites that were standards-compliant (with or without the special meta tag), IE could've defaulted to standards mode. It's called phasing out old stuff, which is something you have to do when the old behavior is so widespread.Microsoft caved in to the complaints of people who don't give a damn about breaking functionality for the majority of users, and they're a bunch of retards for doing so.
That's just my 2c, though, I realize I'm in the minority.