Of course violent video games cause violence. I played GTA the other day, then I went out and stole a car, then I ran some people over, then I did some missions, got a rocket launcher and blew some stuff up, then I had 4 stars above my head and I knew I had some problems. The police came and killed me even though I totally loaded up an armor and life and all the weapons.
Fortunately I came back to life and appeared in front of the hospital, yet my sins felt strangely unforgiven.
I have to do that all the time in Ubuntu because Nautilus has a terrible search function and I'm too lazy to use anything else. WHY SHOULD I NEED ANYTHING BESIDES TEXT?!
It was my hopes he would be elected not for him, but for everyone who follows him. He's an icon, a paradigm. What he does is hardly relevant as long as he doesn't go sleeping around or calling China and saying they better shape up or he'll nuke them.
It's the actions of the people who wanted him there, the belief that this really is a free nation where people can work towards goals and it'll be less of a gamble that it'll be attained.
It's the ego stroking of millions of people that voted or wanted to vote for him, and I know today I'll try a little harder knowing this nation has finally matured enough to accept a young, black president.
It doesn't matter why people vote for a certain candidate, what reasoning they use. Well, it does but there's no reasoning that's better than another. If people had chosen to not vote for Obama because he was black, that's okay. If people had chosen to not vote for McCain because his running mate was a woman, that's okay.
All that matters is that the result, who gets elected, reflects the minds, the decisions, the mentality of the average of the nation, and the people have interpreted their desires, and Obama is what we have gotten.
Obama really is Joe Anyone as has been statistically selected.
Ugh, it's rants like that that anger me. Unfortunately, I'm in strange agreement to what you say.
That reminds me of those kids at Columbine, specifically what happened to me a year after that because of that shit.
I wasn't aware that it was the anniversary of the shootings, I ignored it trying to avoid getting sucked into it because I was one of the weird kids who wore trench coats and black all the time.
I came in, apparently hours after the announcements saying there was a zero-tolerance thing going on that day (I was always late, I wasn't a good student but I wasn't an emotional wreck out to kill anyone), and the one teacher I had real respect for, who I had trusted for months, suddenly got onto me about how I always acted so strange and was late and always sat in the back, in front of a room of 30 students.
I got pissed and got up and stomped out, confused that she had done this to me, and then a security guard rushed up behind me and tackled me, dislocating my shoulder.
After that got put back in place, I was 'escorted' to the vice principle's office, a former ROTC instructor, where he said all sorts of terrible things, used quite a bit of profanity, and had me expelled on the spot.
Then the police took me home, and they searched my bedroom and found an A1 bottle I was hiding vodka I stole from my mother inside of, and they concluded it was a bomb and got the bomb squad in and everything to bust the bottle up wearing the big bomb armor.
This was not a good day, and it's all because of those fucking Columbine kids. Not my fault at all. Not one bit. It's not like I could have handled myself better or anything.
Since EQ, which was released when most people still had 56k, disk space, bandwidth, and processing power have reduced in cost considerably.
If none of these had become less expensive over time, do you think EQ would still be as popular as it is?
Everquest still does exist, it's still coming out with expansions, and it's impressive that it still may be making money, but it won't forever.
How long do you think EQ will keep making money, getting subscribers, giving SOE enough incentive to keep the servers up? 5 years? 10 years? 100 years? 1000 years?
It will get shut down, eventually, one day, and surely in less than the lifetime of the average human being.
Why would anyone want a quieter computer? I replaced all my 80's with many 20's strung together just to get a more elaborate whining out of my computer, some I even put a little graphite to dirty the lubricant and get this really awesome, grating noise.
Next I have planned getting one of those old 400k hard drives and having it go through a preset cycle of writing random 1s and 0s to random locations on the disk, I don't want a moment to go by without the chatter of a stepper just'a steppin' around.
Oooo, I have another great idea, I'll mount a bicycle tire on the side of the computer with a motor and stick a card with a clothespin into it, this is going to be an absolute symphony of wailing before I'm done, I'll never get sleep again!
"... companies trying to grab a slice of the MMO pie, all of which will inevitably fail."
There, I fixed it. Nothing lasts forever, anyone who invests their time in an MMO believing it will be around forever (yes, that does include WoW, you damn lunatics) is seriously illusioned.
If you get a pet, you should be prepared for it to die. If you get a car, you should be prepared to eventually give it up for another.
This isn't any different, trying to resuscitate a dead game is just humoring nostalgia.
But it has everything to do with iPods, where do you think they get their popularity from? It's not culture, and it's certainly not because they're particularly useful, it's because they're using the power of this 8 minute connection to alter people's brainwaves so everyone eventually falls into sweet, wonderful bliss with Apple.
Clearly whoever made the !ipods tag was an Apple employee trying to get the best of us.
Ugh... I suddenly feel sick... I think.. I need an iPod... all this talk about iPods is making me want one. Must.. get.. iPod... and an iPhone.. even though I already have an old G3 Powerbook I suddenly feel like I need a brand new one.
I'm not all that into English media but Simon Pegg really sticks in my mind with Shaun of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, when I saw him in that one episode of Doctor Who it just really made my day.
Oh, yeah, didn't you know? Ubuntu already fif all that a year ago. Well, not solely, but it's certainly been the direction. All I want now is an easy way to set up surround sound.
Why?! Why do you leave us, David Tennant?! He was my favorite... Oh well! I'd love to see Simon Pegg but he was already an antagonist in another Doctor Who episode. Which isn't necessarily stopping anything...
I'd strongly suggest you keep active in the fields that play a more generic role in society, like checking the temperature of meats on a grill, using a cash register, and using those muscles of yours regularly. You may find that, by the time you graduate, you won't have a choice but to compete with open source and if you can't make money off it then it'll just as well be a well educated hobby.
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Of course violent video games cause violence. I played GTA the other day, then I went out and stole a car, then I ran some people over, then I did some missions, got a rocket launcher and blew some stuff up, then I had 4 stars above my head and I knew I had some problems. The police came and killed me even though I totally loaded up an armor and life and all the weapons.
Fortunately I came back to life and appeared in front of the hospital, yet my sins felt strangely unforgiven.
You just made pseudoterminals 4% more useful to me.
I have to do that all the time in Ubuntu because Nautilus has a terrible search function and I'm too lazy to use anything else. WHY SHOULD I NEED ANYTHING BESIDES TEXT?!
By the conker.
You could have just done a squigley in.
You could have just done a write in.
You betcha.
It was my hopes he would be elected not for him, but for everyone who follows him. He's an icon, a paradigm. What he does is hardly relevant as long as he doesn't go sleeping around or calling China and saying they better shape up or he'll nuke them.
It's the actions of the people who wanted him there, the belief that this really is a free nation where people can work towards goals and it'll be less of a gamble that it'll be attained.
It's the ego stroking of millions of people that voted or wanted to vote for him, and I know today I'll try a little harder knowing this nation has finally matured enough to accept a young, black president.
It doesn't matter why people vote for a certain candidate, what reasoning they use. Well, it does but there's no reasoning that's better than another. If people had chosen to not vote for Obama because he was black, that's okay. If people had chosen to not vote for McCain because his running mate was a woman, that's okay.
All that matters is that the result, who gets elected, reflects the minds, the decisions, the mentality of the average of the nation, and the people have interpreted their desires, and Obama is what we have gotten.
Obama really is Joe Anyone as has been statistically selected.
Either I need to work on my instant sarcasm in a cup or you need to work on your sarcasm detector.
Ugh, it's rants like that that anger me. Unfortunately, I'm in strange agreement to what you say.
That reminds me of those kids at Columbine, specifically what happened to me a year after that because of that shit.
I wasn't aware that it was the anniversary of the shootings, I ignored it trying to avoid getting sucked into it because I was one of the weird kids who wore trench coats and black all the time.
I came in, apparently hours after the announcements saying there was a zero-tolerance thing going on that day (I was always late, I wasn't a good student but I wasn't an emotional wreck out to kill anyone), and the one teacher I had real respect for, who I had trusted for months, suddenly got onto me about how I always acted so strange and was late and always sat in the back, in front of a room of 30 students.
I got pissed and got up and stomped out, confused that she had done this to me, and then a security guard rushed up behind me and tackled me, dislocating my shoulder.
After that got put back in place, I was 'escorted' to the vice principle's office, a former ROTC instructor, where he said all sorts of terrible things, used quite a bit of profanity, and had me expelled on the spot.
Then the police took me home, and they searched my bedroom and found an A1 bottle I was hiding vodka I stole from my mother inside of, and they concluded it was a bomb and got the bomb squad in and everything to bust the bottle up wearing the big bomb armor.
This was not a good day, and it's all because of those fucking Columbine kids. Not my fault at all. Not one bit. It's not like I could have handled myself better or anything.
I don't know, the math makes sense to me.
What? They made 500mhz computers?
Since EQ, which was released when most people still had 56k, disk space, bandwidth, and processing power have reduced in cost considerably.
If none of these had become less expensive over time, do you think EQ would still be as popular as it is?
Everquest still does exist, it's still coming out with expansions, and it's impressive that it still may be making money, but it won't forever.
How long do you think EQ will keep making money, getting subscribers, giving SOE enough incentive to keep the servers up? 5 years? 10 years? 100 years? 1000 years?
It will get shut down, eventually, one day, and surely in less than the lifetime of the average human being.
Define strong.
Why would anyone want a quieter computer? I replaced all my 80's with many 20's strung together just to get a more elaborate whining out of my computer, some I even put a little graphite to dirty the lubricant and get this really awesome, grating noise.
Next I have planned getting one of those old 400k hard drives and having it go through a preset cycle of writing random 1s and 0s to random locations on the disk, I don't want a moment to go by without the chatter of a stepper just'a steppin' around.
Oooo, I have another great idea, I'll mount a bicycle tire on the side of the computer with a motor and stick a card with a clothespin into it, this is going to be an absolute symphony of wailing before I'm done, I'll never get sleep again!
Exactly, besides the years of 12.95 a month.
"... companies trying to grab a slice of the MMO pie, all of which will inevitably fail."
There, I fixed it. Nothing lasts forever, anyone who invests their time in an MMO believing it will be around forever (yes, that does include WoW, you damn lunatics) is seriously illusioned.
If you get a pet, you should be prepared for it to die. If you get a car, you should be prepared to eventually give it up for another.
This isn't any different, trying to resuscitate a dead game is just humoring nostalgia.
But it has everything to do with iPods, where do you think they get their popularity from? It's not culture, and it's certainly not because
they're particularly useful, it's because they're using the power of this 8 minute connection to alter people's brainwaves so everyone eventually falls into sweet, wonderful bliss with Apple.
Clearly whoever made the !ipods tag was an Apple employee trying to get the best of us.
Ugh... I suddenly feel sick... I think.. I need an iPod... all this talk about iPods is making me want one. Must.. get.. iPod... and an iPhone.. even though I already have an old G3 Powerbook I suddenly feel like I need a brand new one.
I'm not all that into English media but Simon Pegg really sticks in my mind with Shaun of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, when I saw him in that one episode of Doctor Who it just really made my day.
You're playing with some pretty powerful forces just mentioning that, the universe is not a friendly place with all the things it can do.
Oh, yeah, didn't you know? Ubuntu already fif all that a year ago. Well, not solely, but it's certainly been the direction. All I want now is an easy way to set up surround sound.
Not when it's running on a 386... maybe...
Wasn't that last year? Let's just say instead it's the decade of Linux on The Desktop.
Why?! Why do you leave us, David Tennant?! He was my favorite... Oh well! I'd love to see Simon Pegg but he was already an antagonist in another Doctor Who episode. Which isn't necessarily stopping anything...
I'd strongly suggest you keep active in the fields that play a more generic role in society, like checking the temperature of meats on a grill, using a cash register, and using those muscles of yours regularly. You may find that, by the time you graduate, you won't have a choice but to compete with open source and if you can't make money off it then it'll just as well be a well educated hobby.