California can be somewhat conservative at times. They have extremely strong liberal power centers in LA and the SF Bay Area, but outside... not as much.
That's a bit of an understatement. In many of his other interviews, he's publically taken credit for the attacks and was quite pleased they had the effect they did. So he'd already be caught by a lie even if he did say the above words.
Consider yourself lucky. At least in the UK the line where you are not allowed to protest is sharply defined -- half a mile from London. In America, it's gotten to the point where, when a famous politician is in town, you are allowed to protest only in predesignated "free speech zones," (oh, I love the irony of that phrase) and doing it anywhere else can be considered an offense at the discretion of the police.
It's opressive and totalitarian, and is a policy better suited for those "towel-head" theocracies that the US and Australian government are -- allegedly -- enemies of.
We may have similar policies, but sometimes not all totalitarian governments can be friends..
I uhh... I just applied for a uncensored Internet connection because I like to read a technology website that was blocked because it allows users to post anything they want. Even if only a few of them sometimes posted objectionable material that I didn't look at, it was enough to get the site marked as "adult."
Whether it was stealing magazines from their parents bedside drawer, or renting foreign films from the local corner shop, kids have had access to porn. There's also 12 year olds having sex, so naturally they are seeing naked people
Oh, but you know why 12 year olds are having sex when 12 year olds in past ages weren't, right? It's because this porn totally sexualizes them, makes them think sexual thoughts when otherwise they might still be watching Barney. Yeah, I know, sounds like BS to me too, but that's the argument they make..
And secondly, how in the world is anyone going to transfer a virus or keystroke logger by logging into their bank account
That's not the concern, the banks are worried about people who already have keyloggers installed that will snoop the account information when the user logs into the bank online site.
As someone else mentioned, Leroy Jenkins is a good PR person for the paladin community. He shows that a paladin doesn't have to be completely stuck up or a simpering whiner. It's nice to have a sense of humor.
The priest's and mage's shields absorb a finite amount of damage and then disappear. Perhaps you're used to seeing a priest shield a paladin before he runs into combat (not that uncommon)
The paladin's super-shield will absorb an infinite amount of damage, but only for a short amount of time (up to 12 seconds). The paladin also has a different shield which only absorbs melee damage (and thus any spell damage acts like it's not there) and, like the shields the priests and mages use, is also dispellable by priests and shaman.
That total invulnerability shield though, there's nothing you can do about it. It can be used when the paladin is stunned, rooted, frozen, sheeped.. And it's unbreakable, but only lasts 12 seconds. Often enough time for a paladin's backup to arrive at an Arathi Basin node, or for him to be reabsorbed into the larger attack.
Fortunately consecrate, an AoE spell, is still pretty underwhelming, so a paladin running out, consecrating, and running back is more of an annoyance than a big threat.
Oh, and don't listen to anyone who compares WoW's GMs with Slashdot's moderation system. Tell me, does WoW have meta-GMs??? If one GM slaps you down, can two more GMs bring you back up?
Yes, and in fact the inconsistency between GM decisions on game matters and how one GM may contradict another in "official" posts and decisions is one of the problems with their systems. (Is running up the graveyard cliffside in WSG an exploit? One GM says it's a terrain exploit and violators will be suspended. Another GM says it's "not actionable." Another GM says it's not a problem, but the problem will be fixed in the next patch anyway. Etc)
That's easy to handle, just don't make.xxx manditory, let people make their own choices as to register as.xxx or.com. Actually I'm not sure how it could be made manditory in the US, more than likely it wouldn't take long after such a law or regulation appeared before someone would sue.
Again, what would be the point of it if it's not mandatory? You say people could register either/or, but that won't happen. hotyoungchicks.com would just register hotyoungchicks.xxx. newpornco would register both newpornco.com and newpornco.xxx. The.xxx domain doesn't really address the issue that the proponents hope for. It seems like people are just assuming that with the introduction of the.xxx domain, adult content will just disappear from.com or be greatly reduced, people will be able to filter and everyone will be happy. I don't think that's a realistic hope.
I believe most websites selling porn would be happy to voluntarily move to a.xxx domain so their customers can find them and so they can be easily filtered by schools, etc. that porn vendors don't want wasting their bandwidth anyway.
So that a competing company can register their.com domain? Mmm, no, something tells me that all the porn companies will simply keep their.com domains and there will be a race to register a similar.xxx domain, and the only ones who will come out ahead for all of this will be the registrars who get to charge the same companies for another domain.
Umm, have you ever tried doing a web search? This town has more brothels in it than it does other businesses combined.
There is a big difference between "this is.com, everything sortof goes in here" and "this is.xxx, it is specifically reserved for porn."
The idea of moving porn all to one TLD would simply be a huge boon for accurate discovery of both porn and everything else and anyone who is arguing against that, is most likely either simple minded or arguing from an ulterior motive.
Or people who argue against.xxx might realize it would cause more damaging problems than currently exist. I've already covered why I think that in another post, so I won't repeat it here..
As a person, I'm not that comfortable with the USA having veto power. Why? Because of.XXX. It frightens me that a small group of religous right in the USA could cause something the rest of the globe agrees upon to be almost halted.
The rest of the globe? Seriously?
The religious right, the left, generally can agree that.xxx is a bad idea, though for different reasons. The religious right feels that it makes porn "acceptible." Many of the rest of us are worried about whose standard is used to put a website in.xxx. The United States's definition? The Netherlands's? Saudi Arabia's? What about sites that host user pages, and one or two of them have adult content? Is the entire site supposed to relocate? Or simply ban all "adult" material? And if sites aren't required to move all "adult" content to the.xxx, then you'll have just another top-level domain that all the existing porn sites will have to buy in addition to their.com one. And quite a few think that's all this.xxx plan was, pushed for by the registrars as a way to charge adult businesses more by having them buy an additional domain. In that case, it wouldn't reduce the amount of adult content in.com sites, it wouldn't make filtering any easier at all. So what would be the point of it?
I think you misunderstood the original poster's point. From the way I understood it, he was not saying that if there was an advertisement for a product that he would buy the production, but rather that the advertisement would not serve as an incentive to buy the product (something I agree with myself).
After a long hard battle, come in to Starbucks (now with locations in Undercity and Stormwind! Every other small town will have one within the month), put up your axe, and trade war stories over a latte!
2 years ago, I recall playing neverwinter nights for 2 straight months the same way and loving it all the way....do the maths...
I never could get into Neverwinter Nights. Absolutely horrible interface that game had, though it's nice that it was a little more flexible with hotkeys than WoW is.
I have been playing computer games, RPGs, Wargames, hack and slash, chess and GO for a long time (including Diablo I& II, warcraft II&III), so I know a bit about tactics, stategy and learning my character. Thanks.
And very little of that has much to do with learning your World of Warcraft class.
The fact is...If you are a demonist, being targeted by 4-5 monsters 10 levels lower than you is instant death.
Try casting a 2s-spell when you get stabbed by 5 monsters at the same time...
This is why you have a demon that can tank (voidwalker), use various channeled area of effect spells, etc. I don't play a warlock myself, but I've partied with warlocks who do that sort of thing. And yes, fighting 4-5 enemies at once, regardless of their level, can be pretty brutal, especially for a spellcaster. You're not supposed to sit back and just absorb hit after hit after hit.
The easy way would have been to play a TANK, I chose to go the hard way with the demonist
Ok.. yet you wanted to play your demonologist like a tank, which the class is not suited for. Every class intentionally has its strengths and weaknesses. If I pick a mage I don't expect him to do a lot of melee damage, and that lack of melee does not mean he is somewhat "underpowered." This is why the grandparent poster said "learn your class."
PvP sucks : the fact that you can't attack/harm your buddies really harms realism and social relation on WoW.
Lol, If a player of the same faction screws you (by lying, being too egoistical about spoils of war) you can't even attack him to make him pay.
This leads to griefing. It's one of those ideas that sounds great on paper and usually ends up being a disaster in reality. This sort of thing was awful on Battle.Net in DiabloII, as you had a bunch of kiddies getting off on killing low-level folks at will. Griefing. Oh, you say, well if two allies want to attack each other shouldn't they be allowed to do it? That's what dueling is for. The reduction in griefing far outweighs the desire to "pay another guy back."
Besides, they were talking with "grammaticaly correct english sentences"...you know...the thing called "roleplay"......
Man, the number of "need Tank 4 xyv quest" sentences you get on WoW servers (I translated..on the french server that would be "g pour lcdl"="group pour la caverne des lamentations"
And I have seen plenty of splendid roleplay on WoW servers (especially, of course, the RP servers) and seen tons of 'leet speak on other online games. World of Warcraft is not really better or worse in that respect.
Actually, in most cases, ripping a song from a CD you purchased is also a copyright violation.
Many people try to claim that is legal because U.S. copyright law allows you to make a backup copy. But that argument is flawed because the law specifically refers to software. It does not extend to music CDs.
So, while you are unlikely to be caught making such copies, it is not a legal practice at all.
If you were correct, then companies such as Apple and Creative would be in quite a bit of trouble. Fortunately for them, the above is not accurate. Copyright covers distribution. Space shifting and format shifting is definitely allowable. You are not allowed to distribute copies of songs to others, though casual copying is usually overlooked. If Apple made a device that hooked to the Internet and claimed to share your ripped songs with everything in the world, the recording industry would bleed them dry.
It fails being fun for casual players anyway. Casuals get to be farmed by the organized(and decked out in epics) teams who/AFK out from anything that looks like an even fight.
In the level 60 bracket, maybe. The other brackets are an entirely different experience. I played Warsong extensively in the 41-50 bracket, and then Arathi Basin in the 50-59 bracket, and the games there feel much more.. pure and balanced than at level 60. With the exception of a few twinkers, it always feels like both sides have the same amount of power, and it's usually pickup group vs pickup group, as opposed to pickup group vs preformed professional honor farming group. If you're a casual player interested in PvP, roll a character to play in the lower brackets. Those brackets are simply more fun.
Maybe my experience is worse than most people since my server is one of the most unbalanced out there - alliance outnumbers horde about two to one.
On my server, the Alliance outnumbers the Horde by about 3 or 3.5 to 1. And yet the Horde is utterly dominant in the Battlegrounds. There are a lot of theories why, but the commonly accepted one is that the Horde teams don't have to wait between battles and can play immediately, while Alliance have to wait in the queues. Others feel the Alliance there doesn't have the teamwork, gets frustrated too easily, or has too many egos. Probably all of the above.
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California can be somewhat conservative at times. They have extremely strong liberal power centers in LA and the SF Bay Area, but outside... not as much.
That's a bit of an understatement. In many of his other interviews, he's publically taken credit for the attacks and was quite pleased they had the effect they did. So he'd already be caught by a lie even if he did say the above words.
Like the Star Wars Holiday Special?
Or similar to many southern Democrats (see: Zell Miller)
Consider yourself lucky. At least in the UK the line where you are not allowed to protest is sharply defined -- half a mile from London. In America, it's gotten to the point where, when a famous politician is in town, you are allowed to protest only in predesignated "free speech zones," (oh, I love the irony of that phrase) and doing it anywhere else can be considered an offense at the discretion of the police.
I would say Saudi Arabia counts as an enemy, even though both governments pretend to be friends in public.
We may have similar policies, but sometimes not all totalitarian governments can be friends..
I uhh... I just applied for a uncensored Internet connection because I like to read a technology website that was blocked because it allows users to post anything they want. Even if only a few of them sometimes posted objectionable material that I didn't look at, it was enough to get the site marked as "adult."
Oh, but you know why 12 year olds are having sex when 12 year olds in past ages weren't, right? It's because this porn totally sexualizes them, makes them think sexual thoughts when otherwise they might still be watching Barney. Yeah, I know, sounds like BS to me too, but that's the argument they make..
That's not the concern, the banks are worried about people who already have keyloggers installed that will snoop the account information when the user logs into the bank online site.
The priest's and mage's shields absorb a finite amount of damage and then disappear. Perhaps you're used to seeing a priest shield a paladin before he runs into combat (not that uncommon)
The paladin's super-shield will absorb an infinite amount of damage, but only for a short amount of time (up to 12 seconds). The paladin also has a different shield which only absorbs melee damage (and thus any spell damage acts like it's not there) and, like the shields the priests and mages use, is also dispellable by priests and shaman.
That total invulnerability shield though, there's nothing you can do about it. It can be used when the paladin is stunned, rooted, frozen, sheeped.. And it's unbreakable, but only lasts 12 seconds. Often enough time for a paladin's backup to arrive at an Arathi Basin node, or for him to be reabsorbed into the larger attack.
Fortunately consecrate, an AoE spell, is still pretty underwhelming, so a paladin running out, consecrating, and running back is more of an annoyance than a big threat.
Yes, and in fact the inconsistency between GM decisions on game matters and how one GM may contradict another in "official" posts and decisions is one of the problems with their systems. (Is running up the graveyard cliffside in WSG an exploit? One GM says it's a terrain exploit and violators will be suspended. Another GM says it's "not actionable." Another GM says it's not a problem, but the problem will be fixed in the next patch anyway. Etc)
Again, what would be the point of it if it's not mandatory? You say people could register either/or, but that won't happen. hotyoungchicks.com would just register hotyoungchicks.xxx. newpornco would register both newpornco.com and newpornco.xxx. The .xxx domain doesn't really address the issue that the proponents hope for. It seems like people are just assuming that with the introduction of the .xxx domain, adult content will just disappear from .com or be greatly reduced, people will be able to filter and everyone will be happy. I don't think that's a realistic hope.
So that a competing company can register their .com domain? Mmm, no, something tells me that all the porn companies will simply keep their .com domains and there will be a race to register a similar .xxx domain, and the only ones who will come out ahead for all of this will be the registrars who get to charge the same companies for another domain.
There is a big difference between "this is .com, everything sortof goes in here" and "this is .xxx, it is specifically reserved for porn."
The idea of moving porn all to one TLD would simply be a huge boon for accurate discovery of both porn and everything else and anyone who is arguing against that, is most likely either simple minded or arguing from an ulterior motive.
Or people who argue against .xxx might realize it would cause more damaging problems than currently exist. I've already covered why I think that in another post, so I won't repeat it here..
The rest of the globe? Seriously? The religious right, the left, generally can agree that .xxx is a bad idea, though for different reasons. The religious right feels that it makes porn "acceptible." Many of the rest of us are worried about whose standard is used to put a website in .xxx. The United States's definition? The Netherlands's? Saudi Arabia's? What about sites that host user pages, and one or two of them have adult content? Is the entire site supposed to relocate? Or simply ban all "adult" material? And if sites aren't required to move all "adult" content to the .xxx, then you'll have just another top-level domain that all the existing porn sites will have to buy in addition to their .com one. And quite a few think that's all this .xxx plan was, pushed for by the registrars as a way to charge adult businesses more by having them buy an additional domain. In that case, it wouldn't reduce the amount of adult content in .com sites, it wouldn't make filtering any easier at all. So what would be the point of it?
He's started to send them annoying emails as well now.
Umm, it always was one from the very beginning, by design.
I think you misunderstood the original poster's point. From the way I understood it, he was not saying that if there was an advertisement for a product that he would buy the production, but rather that the advertisement would not serve as an incentive to buy the product (something I agree with myself).
After a long hard battle, come in to Starbucks (now with locations in Undercity and Stormwind! Every other small town will have one within the month), put up your axe, and trade war stories over a latte!
It depends on producer, it depends on the studio, it depends on the director.
For example, do you think John Lasseter had little involvement on all the Pixar movies he was "executive producer" for?
I never could get into Neverwinter Nights. Absolutely horrible interface that game had, though it's nice that it was a little more flexible with hotkeys than WoW is.
I have been playing computer games, RPGs, Wargames, hack and slash, chess and GO for a long time (including Diablo I& II, warcraft II&III), so I know a bit about tactics, stategy and learning my character. Thanks.
And very little of that has much to do with learning your World of Warcraft class.
The fact is...If you are a demonist, being targeted by 4-5 monsters 10 levels lower than you is instant death. Try casting a 2s-spell when you get stabbed by 5 monsters at the same time...
This is why you have a demon that can tank (voidwalker), use various channeled area of effect spells, etc. I don't play a warlock myself, but I've partied with warlocks who do that sort of thing. And yes, fighting 4-5 enemies at once, regardless of their level, can be pretty brutal, especially for a spellcaster. You're not supposed to sit back and just absorb hit after hit after hit.
The easy way would have been to play a TANK, I chose to go the hard way with the demonist
Ok.. yet you wanted to play your demonologist like a tank, which the class is not suited for. Every class intentionally has its strengths and weaknesses. If I pick a mage I don't expect him to do a lot of melee damage, and that lack of melee does not mean he is somewhat "underpowered." This is why the grandparent poster said "learn your class."
PvP sucks : the fact that you can't attack/harm your buddies really harms realism and social relation on WoW.
Lol, If a player of the same faction screws you (by lying, being too egoistical about spoils of war) you can't even attack him to make him pay.
This leads to griefing. It's one of those ideas that sounds great on paper and usually ends up being a disaster in reality. This sort of thing was awful on Battle.Net in DiabloII, as you had a bunch of kiddies getting off on killing low-level folks at will. Griefing. Oh, you say, well if two allies want to attack each other shouldn't they be allowed to do it? That's what dueling is for. The reduction in griefing far outweighs the desire to "pay another guy back."
Besides, they were talking with "grammaticaly correct english sentences"...you know...the thing called "roleplay"......
Man, the number of "need Tank 4 xyv quest" sentences you get on WoW servers (I translated..on the french server that would be "g pour lcdl"="group pour la caverne des lamentations"
And I have seen plenty of splendid roleplay on WoW servers (especially, of course, the RP servers) and seen tons of 'leet speak on other online games. World of Warcraft is not really better or worse in that respect.
Many people try to claim that is legal because U.S. copyright law allows you to make a backup copy. But that argument is flawed because the law specifically refers to software. It does not extend to music CDs.
So, while you are unlikely to be caught making such copies, it is not a legal practice at all.
If you were correct, then companies such as Apple and Creative would be in quite a bit of trouble. Fortunately for them, the above is not accurate. Copyright covers distribution. Space shifting and format shifting is definitely allowable. You are not allowed to distribute copies of songs to others, though casual copying is usually overlooked. If Apple made a device that hooked to the Internet and claimed to share your ripped songs with everything in the world, the recording industry would bleed them dry.
In the level 60 bracket, maybe. The other brackets are an entirely different experience. I played Warsong extensively in the 41-50 bracket, and then Arathi Basin in the 50-59 bracket, and the games there feel much more.. pure and balanced than at level 60. With the exception of a few twinkers, it always feels like both sides have the same amount of power, and it's usually pickup group vs pickup group, as opposed to pickup group vs preformed professional honor farming group. If you're a casual player interested in PvP, roll a character to play in the lower brackets. Those brackets are simply more fun.
Maybe my experience is worse than most people since my server is one of the most unbalanced out there - alliance outnumbers horde about two to one.
On my server, the Alliance outnumbers the Horde by about 3 or 3.5 to 1. And yet the Horde is utterly dominant in the Battlegrounds. There are a lot of theories why, but the commonly accepted one is that the Horde teams don't have to wait between battles and can play immediately, while Alliance have to wait in the queues. Others feel the Alliance there doesn't have the teamwork, gets frustrated too easily, or has too many egos. Probably all of the above.