People will be perfectly content with whatever happens, so long as they have their Feelies and Orgy Porgies. The government doesn't need to burn books when no one bothers to read them in the first place.
But what you have right now isn't always the best that it can be in this moment. Complete satisfaction breeds complacency. We need desire to strive for better situations, even if complete satisfaction will never truly be within reach. This reality only becomes a problem when expectations are unrealistically formed, and ultimately dashed. That doesn't create desire or drive either... it only creates animosity in the moment.
I saw a huge upgrade when Frontier took over from Verizon in the area. My telephone line doesn't drop in and out when it rains anymore and there is DLS literally everywhere. Of course, around here, it's a miracle to see any utility company put the effort in. My road doesn't even have cable television, let alone internet.
Used to? They still do. The last time I went in there was to buy the last Wolfenstein (2009). The very day it came out, yet they someone only had the display copy for PC. The box was on display, the game was shoved in a paper envelope and filed away in a drawer. They expected me to pay full price for an opened product. I walked across the parking lot and got it from Wal-Mart instead, where they had dozens sitting on the shelf. I didn't have to put up with any sales pitches over frequent shopper cards or subscriptions to lame-ass magazines either.
Why? Four days a week is plenty. Most children are already forced to spent far too much time in public schools. How much time you spend there doesn't really matter when the entire system is geared toward the lowest common denominator. Besides, now instead of assigning an hour or two worth of homework, I'm sure the teachers will go for that missed days worth.
The public educational system is terrible. Making students waste even more time within it won't fix the problem or create brighter students.
I seem to recall at least a few of the Pokemon games doing just that. It worked pretty well too, considering I'd leave the game sit for days or weeks at a time.
Furthermore, it is only the most restrictive, covenant-bound suburb that limits the color you can paint your house.
That was simply taking an already ridiculous mentality to its logical extreme. You'd be lucky to put up a simple fence or plant a tree in your yard without it being zoned and inspected. The government has to make its money somehow, right? You give up so much freedom by living in or even near cities.
Farmers markets? We have that out here in the country as well, but with actual farmers instead of scene kids and hipsters. Hell, I even have a decent sized garden in my backyard to provide much of my produce. Cities are rancid because there are people there. People are dirty and moronic. I don't want to live anywhere near them. I value my privacy, peace and quiet. Besides, there is no way I'd ever put up with the kind of laws you city folk do. I like being able to paint my house without applying for a permit and having the color decided upon my the city council.
I suppose at least you don't have the kind of yuppies that the suburbs do. I would never be able tolerate that either. I have better things to do than show off just how green my lawn is.
Encourage people to move out of suburbs, closer to their actual jobs
Ew. As if the suburbs aren't bad enough, now you want everyone living in those rancid cities instead?
Fuel taxes could take care of these problems, and all without letting the authorities track your every single movement. If you're within biking distance of your workplace, then great. I'd probably bike on most days as well. For the rest of us however, that don't like living within our neighbors sewage, we'll just get smaller and more efficient cars. No one needs a full cab, long bed, dual axle, 4x4 to put around grocery shopping in.
So yes, if Blizzard decides it can do without people living in remote locations buying this title, they will exclude them. They have every right to and they already did so before with their cash cow WoW, so it's not like they need those people to make the product viable.
Except that WoW was an entirely new game set in a genre that is expected to always be online. On the other hand, Diablo 3 the the second sequel in a series of games that had very enjoyable singleplayer modes, supported LAN play, and gave you the option of creating a character on Battle.net for multplayer. It's pretty clear to see that Diablo 3 is not living up to the feature expectations of the past two games. If anything, it's devolving into a some sort of halfbaked WoW.
Why not just do as they did with Diablo 2? If you want to play online, on Battle.net, you have to create a chracter that is housed on their servers. Otherwise, you can have your local (offline) singleplayer character to use by yourself, on the LAN, or on "Open Battle.net". Those are not difficult, or even unreasonable options to provide. Blizzard is apparently afraid of those imaginary software pirates though, and wants to make sure everyone can be monitored at all times... how else can an in-game economy work, right?
I very much enjoy the Diablo series. I played the first one for countless hours, both on and offline. I still routinely install D2:LoD on fresh systems, because it gets a fair amount of LAN play within the house. Diablo 3 though? Blizzard is shooting themselves in the foot. They've already shown off some flaky design choices (WoW-esque color pallette and character proportions, insta-health pickups, in-game stores, etc) but I was still keen to purchase the game and give it a go. But now? No, just no. Having to always be connected is a hassle at best that will add nothing positive to my experience, and not having LAN play will severly undermine the longevity of the game if the past two titles are any indication.
Blizzard has taken what would have otherwise been an immediate, thoughtless purchase and turned it into something that I don't even want to touch with a ten-foot pole. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised though, as all of the bigshots that made the previous two games great have long since left Blizzard. Here's hoping that Torchlight 2 can fill the void.
It's no different than the situation some of us face at work, where we have to run the software that our employers require.
Except that in this case the employers are the parents. The schools needs to cater to them, not the other way around. Or maybe you've been listening to too many principals on power trips?
If you're a young-ish child going to a public school, all you will need is the internet for research and a basic word processor to write your papers with. Most highschools won't require too much more... unless they're hellbent on requesting stupid PowerPoint presentations for everything.
Sheep are far less maintenance, and you don't have to worry so much about them getting into what you don't want them to. Besides, there is no way he'd need upwards of two dozen of any livestock to keep only six acres down. Try a handful.
Bu yeah, overall that is a much better idea. Too bad the yuppie really likes mowing his lawn on that stupid John Deere. Must live out in the suburbs. I doubt his housing associate would allow for something as practical as goats anyway. Haha!
Hahaha! Sorry, but I live where I do with as much land as I do precisely because I don't want to have to look at neighbors. Of course, yuppies like this guy, who enjoy mowing their pristine little lawn will curl up and die the moment the electricity goes out. If indeed American collapses, I won't have to worry about any of these retards from the city and suburbs.
Exactly. Bragging about how he enjoys to mow his lawn every single week with his John Deere 757 zero-turn makes makes him a yuppie and a complete tool. He obviously needs to move out of suburbia.
I have about three acres of actual yard. Not lawn, but yard. It's a mix-match of various grasses and is anything but flat. The other four acres of my property is hardwoods, and beyond that is nationally protected forest. It has also been my goal to outright eliminate the lawn immediately surrounding my house. I've taken a somewhat similar path by planting trees and laying down stone walkways everywhere. I've been pleased to see that while the grass doesn't fair very well, I have a lot of soft moss coming up instead. It's been too hot to really plant any younglings this year, but I'm hoping to get a bunch of ferns in next spring. They're provide even better ground cover for the moss, and also make the ground a little more varied and interesting.
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Exactly.
People will be perfectly content with whatever happens, so long as they have their Feelies and Orgy Porgies. The government doesn't need to burn books when no one bothers to read them in the first place.
But what you have right now isn't always the best that it can be in this moment. Complete satisfaction breeds complacency. We need desire to strive for better situations, even if complete satisfaction will never truly be within reach. This reality only becomes a problem when expectations are unrealistically formed, and ultimately dashed. That doesn't create desire or drive either... it only creates animosity in the moment.
That's where the revolution comes into play. We need to kill off enough people to make person cooperation plausible. ;)
We don't need better paid cops, we need less asinine laws.
Sounds like it involves Hastur to me...
anarchy breeds tyranny.
It's hard to have tyranny without the police there to enforce it...
Dead cops and dead marines is your preference, coward?
Yes, please! Kill 'em all!
I saw a huge upgrade when Frontier took over from Verizon in the area. My telephone line doesn't drop in and out when it rains anymore and there is DLS literally everywhere. Of course, around here, it's a miracle to see any utility company put the effort in. My road doesn't even have cable television, let alone internet.
Used to? They still do. The last time I went in there was to buy the last Wolfenstein (2009). The very day it came out, yet they someone only had the display copy for PC. The box was on display, the game was shoved in a paper envelope and filed away in a drawer. They expected me to pay full price for an opened product. I walked across the parking lot and got it from Wal-Mart instead, where they had dozens sitting on the shelf. I didn't have to put up with any sales pitches over frequent shopper cards or subscriptions to lame-ass magazines either.
But mostly it is a delusion transferred from parents to their children, and more general from society to the next generation.
Exactly, it's child abuse.
Why? Four days a week is plenty. Most children are already forced to spent far too much time in public schools. How much time you spend there doesn't really matter when the entire system is geared toward the lowest common denominator. Besides, now instead of assigning an hour or two worth of homework, I'm sure the teachers will go for that missed days worth.
The public educational system is terrible. Making students waste even more time within it won't fix the problem or create brighter students.
My concern is more for professionalism. Teachers really shouldn't casually interacting with their students outside of class.
I seem to recall at least a few of the Pokemon games doing just that. It worked pretty well too, considering I'd leave the game sit for days or weeks at a time.
John Romero begs to differ... :P
Instagib is fun and all, but Generations Arena is the only way to go with Quake3. :)
I bet the doughnut shop is ripe for potential crimes. Better go check it out!
Furthermore, it is only the most restrictive, covenant-bound suburb that limits the color you can paint your house.
That was simply taking an already ridiculous mentality to its logical extreme. You'd be lucky to put up a simple fence or plant a tree in your yard without it being zoned and inspected. The government has to make its money somehow, right? You give up so much freedom by living in or even near cities.
Farmers markets? We have that out here in the country as well, but with actual farmers instead of scene kids and hipsters. Hell, I even have a decent sized garden in my backyard to provide much of my produce. Cities are rancid because there are people there. People are dirty and moronic. I don't want to live anywhere near them. I value my privacy, peace and quiet. Besides, there is no way I'd ever put up with the kind of laws you city folk do. I like being able to paint my house without applying for a permit and having the color decided upon my the city council.
I suppose at least you don't have the kind of yuppies that the suburbs do. I would never be able tolerate that either. I have better things to do than show off just how green my lawn is.
Encourage people to move out of suburbs, closer to their actual jobs
Ew. As if the suburbs aren't bad enough, now you want everyone living in those rancid cities instead?
Fuel taxes could take care of these problems, and all without letting the authorities track your every single movement. If you're within biking distance of your workplace, then great. I'd probably bike on most days as well. For the rest of us however, that don't like living within our neighbors sewage, we'll just get smaller and more efficient cars. No one needs a full cab, long bed, dual axle, 4x4 to put around grocery shopping in.
So yes, if Blizzard decides it can do without people living in remote locations buying this title, they will exclude them. They have every right to and they already did so before with their cash cow WoW, so it's not like they need those people to make the product viable.
Except that WoW was an entirely new game set in a genre that is expected to always be online. On the other hand, Diablo 3 the the second sequel in a series of games that had very enjoyable singleplayer modes, supported LAN play, and gave you the option of creating a character on Battle.net for multplayer. It's pretty clear to see that Diablo 3 is not living up to the feature expectations of the past two games. If anything, it's devolving into a some sort of halfbaked WoW.
Why not just do as they did with Diablo 2? If you want to play online, on Battle.net, you have to create a chracter that is housed on their servers. Otherwise, you can have your local (offline) singleplayer character to use by yourself, on the LAN, or on "Open Battle.net". Those are not difficult, or even unreasonable options to provide. Blizzard is apparently afraid of those imaginary software pirates though, and wants to make sure everyone can be monitored at all times... how else can an in-game economy work, right?
I very much enjoy the Diablo series. I played the first one for countless hours, both on and offline. I still routinely install D2:LoD on fresh systems, because it gets a fair amount of LAN play within the house. Diablo 3 though? Blizzard is shooting themselves in the foot. They've already shown off some flaky design choices (WoW-esque color pallette and character proportions, insta-health pickups, in-game stores, etc) but I was still keen to purchase the game and give it a go. But now? No, just no. Having to always be connected is a hassle at best that will add nothing positive to my experience, and not having LAN play will severly undermine the longevity of the game if the past two titles are any indication.
Blizzard has taken what would have otherwise been an immediate, thoughtless purchase and turned it into something that I don't even want to touch with a ten-foot pole. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised though, as all of the bigshots that made the previous two games great have long since left Blizzard. Here's hoping that Torchlight 2 can fill the void.
Somehow, I don't see these computers running Windows 7 very well. If they could, I don't think they'd be getting donated.
It's no different than the situation some of us face at work, where we have to run the software that our employers require.
Except that in this case the employers are the parents. The schools needs to cater to them, not the other way around. Or maybe you've been listening to too many principals on power trips?
If you're a young-ish child going to a public school, all you will need is the internet for research and a basic word processor to write your papers with. Most highschools won't require too much more... unless they're hellbent on requesting stupid PowerPoint presentations for everything.
Sheep are far less maintenance, and you don't have to worry so much about them getting into what you don't want them to. Besides, there is no way he'd need upwards of two dozen of any livestock to keep only six acres down. Try a handful.
Bu yeah, overall that is a much better idea. Too bad the yuppie really likes mowing his lawn on that stupid John Deere. Must live out in the suburbs. I doubt his housing associate would allow for something as practical as goats anyway. Haha!
Hahaha! Sorry, but I live where I do with as much land as I do precisely because I don't want to have to look at neighbors. Of course, yuppies like this guy, who enjoy mowing their pristine little lawn will curl up and die the moment the electricity goes out. If indeed American collapses, I won't have to worry about any of these retards from the city and suburbs.
Exactly. Bragging about how he enjoys to mow his lawn every single week with his John Deere 757 zero-turn makes makes him a yuppie and a complete tool. He obviously needs to move out of suburbia.
I have about three acres of actual yard. Not lawn, but yard. It's a mix-match of various grasses and is anything but flat. The other four acres of my property is hardwoods, and beyond that is nationally protected forest. It has also been my goal to outright eliminate the lawn immediately surrounding my house. I've taken a somewhat similar path by planting trees and laying down stone walkways everywhere. I've been pleased to see that while the grass doesn't fair very well, I have a lot of soft moss coming up instead. It's been too hot to really plant any younglings this year, but I'm hoping to get a bunch of ferns in next spring. They're provide even better ground cover for the moss, and also make the ground a little more varied and interesting.