I'm inclined to agree on that front.
What with our so-called credit crunch at the moment the government is pouring how much money into contravention of privacy rights rather than digging us out of this huge economic crash?
Don't worry we have loads of cash.. After all we are building a huge database to monitor all communications while the banks are filing for bankruptcy..
Neither will women who have had a hysterectomy, but it makes them no less a woman.
The only thing you can argue is what chromosomes are possessed, but dictionary definition aside, there's more to being a woman than having two X chromosomes. The social definition is arguably as or more important than the textbook definition.
That makes no sense..
If you are XX you are female, if you are XY you are male. It is that simple, personally I don't particultarly care if people have GRS or not, or for that matter if they believe themselves to be the opposite gender due to a chemical inbalance in their brains.
If we did it your way, we would have to wait until a child grows up and then ask it "Do you feel more male or more female?" before we could assign them a gender.
In a world where people desire brevity, how do you simplify "a born male who sexually, emotionally, and intellectually identifies (him|her)self as a woman" without acting like a 14 year old?
Confused???
Just because a man has a urge to have his dick cut off, he dosen't not magically become a women.
It is also entirely possible that those that have GRS don't really care what I think.
The person who modded this "Troll", exemplifies that there's not a lot of difference, seen from an outside view. A fundamentalist Christian might mod me a sinner or Satanist or witch, and a moderate Christian might moderate me Troll, but in any case it shows off what the Christans share as seen from the outside-- a deep and fundamental resistance to accepting outside views as as valid as theirs.
Ahh but therein lies the the problem. If _ANY_ religious person were to accept evolution as fact, they would then in turn be forced to admit that God doesn't exist.
For the any faith to survive it must validate itself by invalidating everything else. For example if the cathloic church were to say Islam is a proper faith they would the have to answer questions on why the bible and koran are soo different, and they would then have to answer awkward questions on fundamental conflicts in the text.
Another example of this self validation is the way the church discounts evolution. It the church were to accept evolution then they would be forced to admit that adam and eve were infact 2 chimps and God looks like a chimp.
Pesonally I believe that when I die I'll find out the truth, as I head down the steps to be satan's bitch, because I didn't believe in God while I was alive
The fact that more atrocities have occured in the name of religion than anything else speaks volumes about it.. but then that's just my humble opinion, what would I know.
Ironically in the case of op flashpoint I had a hooky copy and it worked fine..:/
But then again that is what drives people to pirate.
If you tell me that I can buy a game for £30 but only install it 3 times then I have to buy another copy. 1 of 2 things will happen.
1. I will buy the game and the when my installs run out download a pirate copy.
2. I will just skip buying the game and get the pirate copy.
DRM only punishes the legit people. For jebus's sake Spore was cracked before it was released in the majority of the world.
That being said, I don't mind simple cdchecks, serial keys and even 1 time activations with NO LIMITS.
No modtools? That's a shame. Modtools really extend the life of a game- in fact, I'd say they probably extend the life of a game more than anything else.
I don't recall mod tools shipping with Fallout 1 or 2 - and the series has remained in print since 1997.
That's because they were made great from the start. The emphasis was on Gameplay and not graphics
That is the common problem with modern games,
The designers are all "oohhh ahh look at my pretty gfx, look i got this rag doll to be the most realistic ever" yet the game play sucks
At the most basic level take the game breakout (i think that's what it was called for the amiga), Peggle is the most recent take on it I think. It's the game with bricks at the top, you have a paddle at the bottom and you bounce a ball. It does't matter about the gfx as the gameplay is great.
In fallout III I wanted the same top down view as fallout I & II and I just wanted the world to be better textured. I don't care about rag dolls, physics, etc. I want the storyline, the character development, the ablity to pimp my wife, the bare knuckle and boxing fights you could rig. I don't want VATS it's just a gimmick for the younger generation who are used to pretty gfx and shit gameplay.
Take Doom III, I loved the previous Doom games, but Doom III for all the work that went into the gfx the game became a flashlight simulator. It was soo dark and you couldn't have a flashlight equiped at the same time as your firearm (i think they eventually released a patch to add flashlights to weapons). To top it all off the game was nowhere near as good or replable as Doom I or II (I still play them on dos box)
Another game that suffered was the Monkey Island series, I & II where great epic games, III was a complete revamp with pretty cartoon gfx and the game sucked harder that Monica Lewinsky
'Last month Mr Munajid condemned the Beijing Olympics as the "bikini Olympics", claiming that nothing made Satan happier than seeing females athletes dressed in skimpy outfits.'
Nothing makes ME happier than seeing females athletes dressed in skimpy outfits, that must mean I am... ohoh
Gotta go lads, hell doesn't run itself you know.
if he could hammer an 8" spike through a board. Then he would have GF galore.
Not sure what that means, but I guarantee you that won't get you the kind of quantity and quality of cootch that millions of dollars of play money can. If that kid plays his cards right he could have said millions and will be drowning in top shelf snatch.
Well he is 12, so that would be illegal. I feel compelled to stand in on his behalf. This one time I will "take one for the team".
iTunes works just fine, but you'll tell me that Steve Jobs is a money-grubbing ogre feeding off of the table scraps of the record companies. iTunes passes the Grandma test of technology, though. I haven't used iTunes for anything except a podcast manager, but I can see that it's easy to use. (I don't even own an iPod!) XBox Live and PSN are decent models for digital distribution, too - but those machines have hard drives! So, to re-iterate my point:
I thought that the Wii had a way to make digital distribution better, play things from the SD card. If that's really not possible/practical, then I am going to wait until Nintendo delivers something that's easier to deal with instead of doing the pirate thing so I don't inspire bad ethical practices amongst my children.
The wii does have a way to do this via homebrew and why do you assume that I am talking about piracy?
There are any number of vendors I can buy music from online that will let me download the mp3s and are not DRM protected like itunes.
I am not going to insult Steve either as he is there to make money and that's fair enough. I dislike the RIAA because the sue everyone, in alot of cases (by the look of things) even those that are innocent and they look damages for songs worth £0.50 in excess of several thousand pounds. Making someone pay for the song + say 20% as a punishment is fine but charging them 1000 times it's worth is taking the piss.
My jibe about the RIAA was because you implied that just because something arrives digially instead of physically that was a bad thing and must be illegal.
So respectfully get off your fucking highhose and stop being so narrow minded.
PS Not really sure if homebrew on the wii is against the license agreement but I paid £180 for the hardware so I'll do what I please with it.
p>I have an impressionable child in my house that still thinks music and movies come on disks, and not from Bittorrent, and I'd like to keep it that way for as long as possible.
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I'm inclined to agree on that front. What with our so-called credit crunch at the moment the government is pouring how much money into contravention of privacy rights rather than digging us out of this huge economic crash?
Don't worry we have loads of cash.. After all we are building a huge database to monitor all communications while the banks are filing for bankruptcy..
Bill Clinton
When asked he stated "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
Actually a lot if you use it as a desktop OS..
(Hopefully) not a lot when using it as a server.
ahh the old "subconsiously I wanted to be caught"
how remiss of me
Would be funny if the pc turned out to have child porn on it.
sed 's/he dosen't not magically/he dosen't magically/'
Neither will women who have had a hysterectomy, but it makes them no less a woman. The only thing you can argue is what chromosomes are possessed, but dictionary definition aside, there's more to being a woman than having two X chromosomes. The social definition is arguably as or more important than the textbook definition.
That makes no sense..
If you are XX you are female, if you are XY you are male. It is that simple, personally I don't particultarly care if people have GRS or not, or for that matter if they believe themselves to be the opposite gender due to a chemical inbalance in their brains.
If we did it your way, we would have to wait until a child grows up and then ask it "Do you feel more male or more female?" before we could assign them a gender.
In a world where people desire brevity, how do you simplify "a born male who sexually, emotionally, and intellectually identifies (him|her)self as a woman" without acting like a 14 year old?
Confused???
Just because a man has a urge to have his dick cut off, he dosen't not magically become a women.
It is also entirely possible that those that have GRS don't really care what I think.
The person who modded this "Troll", exemplifies that there's not a lot of difference, seen from an outside view. A fundamentalist Christian might mod me a sinner or Satanist or witch, and a moderate Christian might moderate me Troll, but in any case it shows off what the Christans share as seen from the outside-- a deep and fundamental resistance to accepting outside views as as valid as theirs.
Ahh but therein lies the the problem. If _ANY_ religious person were to accept evolution as fact, they would then in turn be forced to admit that God doesn't exist.
For the any faith to survive it must validate itself by invalidating everything else. For example if the cathloic church were to say Islam is a proper faith they would the have to answer questions on why the bible and koran are soo different, and they would then have to answer awkward questions on fundamental conflicts in the text.
Another example of this self validation is the way the church discounts evolution. It the church were to accept evolution then they would be forced to admit that adam and eve were infact 2 chimps and God looks like a chimp.
Pesonally I believe that when I die I'll find out the truth, as I head down the steps to be satan's bitch, because I didn't believe in God while I was alive
The fact that more atrocities have occured in the name of religion than anything else speaks volumes about it.. but then that's just my humble opinion, what would I know.
Trust noone! ;)
Ironically in the case of op flashpoint I had a hooky copy and it worked fine.. :/
But then again that is what drives people to pirate.
If you tell me that I can buy a game for £30 but only install it 3 times then I have to buy another copy. 1 of 2 things will happen.
1. I will buy the game and the when my installs run out download a pirate copy.
2. I will just skip buying the game and get the pirate copy.
DRM only punishes the legit people. For jebus's sake Spore was cracked before it was released in the majority of the world.
That being said, I don't mind simple cdchecks, serial keys and even 1 time activations with NO LIMITS.
No modtools? That's a shame. Modtools really extend the life of a game- in fact, I'd say they probably extend the life of a game more than anything else .
I don't recall mod tools shipping with Fallout 1 or 2 - and the series has remained in print since 1997.
That's because they were made great from the start. The emphasis was on Gameplay and not graphics
That is the common problem with modern games, The designers are all "oohhh ahh look at my pretty gfx, look i got this rag doll to be the most realistic ever" yet the game play sucks
At the most basic level take the game breakout (i think that's what it was called for the amiga), Peggle is the most recent take on it I think. It's the game with bricks at the top, you have a paddle at the bottom and you bounce a ball. It does't matter about the gfx as the gameplay is great.
In fallout III I wanted the same top down view as fallout I & II and I just wanted the world to be better textured. I don't care about rag dolls, physics, etc. I want the storyline, the character development, the ablity to pimp my wife, the bare knuckle and boxing fights you could rig. I don't want VATS it's just a gimmick for the younger generation who are used to pretty gfx and shit gameplay.
Take Doom III, I loved the previous Doom games, but Doom III for all the work that went into the gfx the game became a flashlight simulator. It was soo dark and you couldn't have a flashlight equiped at the same time as your firearm (i think they eventually released a patch to add flashlights to weapons). To top it all off the game was nowhere near as good or replable as Doom I or II (I still play them on dos box)
Another game that suffered was the Monkey Island series, I & II where great epic games, III was a complete revamp with pretty cartoon gfx and the game sucked harder that Monica Lewinsky
well tbh it is hard to protect againist a ddos from /.
the source code..
Can't see a link for it. Unless they are waiting until they start shipping to put it up..
or maybe its for customers only.
'Last month Mr Munajid condemned the Beijing Olympics as the "bikini Olympics", claiming that nothing made Satan happier than seeing females athletes dressed in skimpy outfits.'
Nothing makes ME happier than seeing females athletes dressed in skimpy outfits, that must mean I am... ohoh
Gotta go lads, hell doesn't run itself you know.
if he could hammer an 8" spike through a board. Then he would have GF galore.
Not sure what that means, but I guarantee you that won't get you the kind of quantity and quality of cootch that millions of dollars of play money can. If that kid plays his cards right he could have said millions and will be drowning in top shelf snatch.
Well he is 12, so that would be illegal. I feel compelled to stand in on his behalf. This one time I will "take one for the team".
Nowhere does the US constitution establish and intelligence requirement for voting.
Obviously..
Or you wouldn't have elected that retarded cowboy Bush..
na it's a klingon warship
4) I know.. I just mistyped and didn't preview the whole thing. :(
Pleasure arguing with you.. :)
iTunes works just fine, but you'll tell me that Steve Jobs is a money-grubbing ogre feeding off of the table scraps of the record companies. iTunes passes the Grandma test of technology, though. I haven't used iTunes for anything except a podcast manager, but I can see that it's easy to use. (I don't even own an iPod!) XBox Live and PSN are decent models for digital distribution, too - but those machines have hard drives! So, to re-iterate my point:
I thought that the Wii had a way to make digital distribution better, play things from the SD card. If that's really not possible/practical, then I am going to wait until Nintendo delivers something that's easier to deal with instead of doing the pirate thing so I don't inspire bad ethical practices amongst my children.
The wii does have a way to do this via homebrew and why do you assume that I am talking about piracy?
There are any number of vendors I can buy music from online that will let me download the mp3s and are not DRM protected like itunes.
I am not going to insult Steve either as he is there to make money and that's fair enough. I dislike the RIAA because the sue everyone, in alot of cases (by the look of things) even those that are innocent and they look damages for songs worth £0.50 in excess of several thousand pounds. Making someone pay for the song + say 20% as a punishment is fine but charging them 1000 times it's worth is taking the piss.
My jibe about the RIAA was because you implied that just because something arrives digially instead of physically that was a bad thing and must be illegal.
So respectfully get off your fucking highhose and stop being so narrow minded.
PS Not really sure if homebrew on the wii is against the license agreement but I paid £180 for the hardware so I'll do what I please with it.
p>I have an impressionable child in my house that still thinks music and movies come on disks, and not from Bittorrent, and I'd like to keep it that way for as long as possible.
Why do you work for RIAA??
Digital distrubution is the future!
not entirely true you can install the Internet channel from a WAD file..
I should probably add teh following disclaimer:
I do not support or codone piracy in any way shape or form. The views expressed above are not my own.
Well it's difficult to fight back but there is a way.
EVERYONE STOP buying the games from this company. PIRATE ALL of their games.
They want to play hard lets play harder, lets stop their revenue completely and force them to file a chapter 11.
Maybe the botnets could do some good, they could host & advertise the pirate copies
NO SURRENDER!
It's ok the US an UK will declare war on them soon enough for it.
Nope, It's a new country where freedom of speech is tolerated, and we don't spy on each other
Ok I lie, it's just a typo caused by dyslexic fingers and a lack of use of the preview button