wouldn't homeless people and welfare mothers already be covered under medicare/aid ?? well what welfare mothers i know are. i don't know any homeless people so i haven't asked.
if they area already covered then are we not ALREADY paying for them??
Errr that would be just one event in a play the reads like a modern movie with all the murders and betrayals and rapes. Any lack there of can be seen as a limitation of the current technology and lack of wanting to watch some people getting it on, on stage.
why not quote one of the critics of Titus?
It (the play) has 14 killings, 9 of them on stage, 6 severed members, 1 rape (or 2 or 3 depending on how you count), 1 live burial, 1 case of insanity, and 1 of cannibalismâ"-an average of 5.2 atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines.
~S. Clark Hulse
This play was considered the goreporn of the Victorian era.
I myself haven't seen it on the stage but watching a few of the movie adaptations, one could be forgiven for thinking it was written a bit more recently.
you really only need to look to china and india to see this in action already. china especially, because of the governmental limit on children they tend to abort the females and keep trying until they have a male child. this has lead to a surplus of male children. iirc its something like 32million excess males (under the age of 20).
iirc the replicators in Star Trek were based on teleporters. they would take the waste organic materials that have been stored in the ship and recycle them into anything that there was the pattern in the system for. Basically taking the disorganized waste matter and reorganizing it into food and other stuff that would eventually become waste and then reorganized
in the GP's defense in his analysis he does give numbers for both with and with out Wii Sports; I wanna agree with the Wii Play as well, it was given as a freebie
This is exactly how I view my entertainment expenditures, cost/hour is so much more comparable to other things as well, like movies and rentals and bowling and billiards etc. I'm a movie buff so I use the cost/hour of my average trip to the movies (inc. concessions).
Now for those 60 dollar games with only 5-10 hours of entertainment... well that's just unreasonable. 20 hours a much better number.
While I do agree that not many people's moral compass is 100% one way or another I know more than a few who went to seminary and do take the bible as a list of rules, as the direct word of god. I know many more who take genesis at face value and believe it word for word.
While they do take away some morality that is separate from religion they firmly believe that anyone who does not believe in a supreme being are completely morally corrupt.
They are a minority but sadly I can't help but see the push of intelligent design into schools as a growth of this way of life.
And don't get me started on mormons. It is amazing at how fully a human can believe such things.
I've spoken with many different denominations, I guess I'm one of the few who will speak with them when they come down my street, and many are willing to be moderate in their thoughts and beliefs. I have spoken to too many that take a 2000 year old book very literally. It is that which I find scary.
I don't believe that everyone does, I would find it scary if that were the case. on the point of many cultures that have extreme punishments, it is no different in Borneo than it was in Europe in the middle ages. And don't forget that it was standard in Christian society at one point in time to allow children to marry the moment they could have children. At some point the legal age of marriage in some states (in the US) was 13 (with parents consent).
I don't mean to make morality simple but to simply illustrate that to base ones moral compass solely on the threat of a supreme being is ludicrous at best. And the denial of said being leaves you with no morals at all doubly so.
You receive your morality from a higher power. Is that really the only reason why you act morally? Is the only reason why you don't rape murder and steal just so that you don't get burned in fiery brimstone for all eternity?
If somehow it was proved that there was no higher powers at all would you really think "Well, theres no point in being all goody good now, that 13y/o girl looks like a nice first victim..."
I find the thought that the only thing keeping everyone from murdering each other is a supreme being waving his finger at us from 2000 years ago saying "Do it and I'll spank you!" quite scary.
If it costs so much for these people to live so long lets low jack everyone and require anyone at the age 35 to be euthan^H^H^H^H^H^H reborn into the next generation!
[warning]I'm being very flippant here but somehow I'm reminded of Logan's Run.[/warning]
English barrows words from almost every language it comes into contact with. Just because you barrow vocabulary does not make them related. The structure is completely different and the lack of words having gender alone should show anyone that french is very different from English.
even if you assume 1min per day to turn on you've got 20min per month. depending on your pay grade you maybe at that 36 dollars a month(200k/yearish). if you throw in having to download a profile from the server and security scripts running, even a an increase in that time of getting the computer to a usable state, say 3min per day, nets us 60min to month so that expands to people making err 70k a year? Automated off and on systems to prime the systems before the employees get in would be best. but how much to develop that? cost/benefit analysis always interests me.
But in FF each game is its own self contained world, with the exception of the horror that was X-2 *shudder*. While they all have a similar theme of fantasy RPG with crazy weird world and epic story line and there are similarities between the worlds, dragons spells sometimes, they are each a separate world and dont touch each other, much.
Sadly I can point to George Lucas as a good example of that. He's clearly stated that he wont make eps 7-9 for starwars because he wants to do something else before he dies!
I'm not that old, pushing 30, I've played all of those games, most when they were released and seen, and love, Logan's Run.
The vast majority of the list given don't even really qualify as influential, I mean FF12?.. 12!?!!??! what about the, you know, 11 before it? what about 7? or you know the 1st one? or what about the console RPG that started the whole FF thing, a little game called Dragon Quest?
the thought that me being, what i understand is, only a little older than that of the average gamer to have played the older games that have the most influence on our modern gaming experience and not to list them is incomprehensible! The list on kotaku doesn't consider influence. a lot of the games listed haven't been out long enough to influence anything. and all of the sequels that added little to no features and failed to push forward their genre. the list given is a great disappointment.
I was asking an idle question, why don't we do it anymore. I am glad that a few people put thought into it and gave reasonings. Though only reasons against, nothing for which makes me wonder what would be some good reasons to banish people.
a few people mentioned penal colonies and i was thinking more along the lines of when machiavelli was banished from venice, not sending people to an island to work or australia.
One AC mentioned some of the reasonings behind the old banishments being more politically motivated etc. I was quite interested in that, sadly he did post as an AC
I am thoroughly entertained that such a question has provoked such a response.
also would you really be okay with being forced to leave your homeland, never being able to go home again just to go micronesia or spain?
you know that makes me think, why dont we do old fashion banishment anymore? just kick them out of the country "We'll send you to any country of your choice with just the clothes on your back, and you can never set foot here again on penalty of death(or whatever)"
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wouldn't homeless people and welfare mothers already be covered under medicare/aid ?? well what welfare mothers i know are. i don't know any homeless people so i haven't asked.
if they area already covered then are we not ALREADY paying for them??
Errr that would be just one event in a play the reads like a modern movie with all the murders and betrayals and rapes. Any lack there of can be seen as a limitation of the current technology and lack of wanting to watch some people getting it on, on stage.
why not quote one of the critics of Titus?
It (the play) has 14 killings, 9 of them on stage, 6 severed members, 1 rape (or 2 or 3 depending on how you count), 1 live burial, 1 case of insanity, and 1 of cannibalismâ"-an average of 5.2 atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines.
~S. Clark Hulse
This play was considered the goreporn of the Victorian era.
I myself haven't seen it on the stage but watching a few of the movie adaptations, one could be forgiven for thinking it was written a bit more recently.
Titus Andronicus anyone? well no tits there i guess >>
I don't mean to troll but this quote just blasted its way through my head when I read your post
I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that?
you really only need to look to china and india to see this in action already. china especially, because of the governmental limit on children they tend to abort the females and keep trying until they have a male child. this has lead to a surplus of male children. iirc its something like 32million excess males (under the age of 20).
iirc the replicators in Star Trek were based on teleporters. they would take the waste organic materials that have been stored in the ship and recycle them into anything that there was the pattern in the system for. Basically taking the disorganized waste matter and reorganizing it into food and other stuff that would eventually become waste and then reorganized
Replicators
in the GP's defense in his analysis he does give numbers for both with and with out Wii Sports; I wanna agree with the Wii Play as well, it was given as a freebie
maybe you missed some key words in the analysis like
So for the Wii, excluding Wii Sports, that's 87 million top 10 games for 50 million consoles: 1.7 games per console
or
So that's 4.4 games per PS3 and 7 games per Wii (6 excluding Wii Sports).
It pays to read the whole comment, its not like we're asking you to read TFA or TFS.
This is exactly how I view my entertainment expenditures, cost/hour is so much more comparable to other things as well, like movies and rentals and bowling and billiards etc. I'm a movie buff so I use the cost/hour of my average trip to the movies (inc. concessions).
Now for those 60 dollar games with only 5-10 hours of entertainment ... well that's just unreasonable. 20 hours a much better number.
Its not a source of my Dogma *ahem*, it just happens to neatly coincide with it ^___^
While I do agree that not many people's moral compass is 100% one way or another I know more than a few who went to seminary and do take the bible as a list of rules, as the direct word of god. I know many more who take genesis at face value and believe it word for word.
While they do take away some morality that is separate from religion they firmly believe that anyone who does not believe in a supreme being are completely morally corrupt.
They are a minority but sadly I can't help but see the push of intelligent design into schools as a growth of this way of life.
And don't get me started on mormons. It is amazing at how fully a human can believe such things.
I've spoken with many different denominations, I guess I'm one of the few who will speak with them when they come down my street, and many are willing to be moderate in their thoughts and beliefs. I have spoken to too many that take a 2000 year old book very literally. It is that which I find scary.
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I don't believe that everyone does, I would find it scary if that were the case. on the point of many cultures that have extreme punishments, it is no different in Borneo than it was in Europe in the middle ages. And don't forget that it was standard in Christian society at one point in time to allow children to marry the moment they could have children. At some point the legal age of marriage in some states (in the US) was 13 (with parents consent).
I don't mean to make morality simple but to simply illustrate that to base ones moral compass solely on the threat of a supreme being is ludicrous at best. And the denial of said being leaves you with no morals at all doubly so.
You receive your morality from a higher power. Is that really the only reason why you act morally? Is the only reason why you don't rape murder and steal just so that you don't get burned in fiery brimstone for all eternity?
If somehow it was proved that there was no higher powers at all would you really think "Well, theres no point in being all goody good now, that 13y/o girl looks like a nice first victim..."
I find the thought that the only thing keeping everyone from murdering each other is a supreme being waving his finger at us from 2000 years ago saying "Do it and I'll spank you!" quite scary.
Good luck with asking that guy with the 1st edition of [insert incredibly rare 200 year old book here]. I'm sure he'll let you take it and butcher it.
like it says, flat
If it costs so much for these people to live so long lets low jack everyone and require anyone at the age 35 to be euthan^H^H^H^H^H^H reborn into the next generation!
[warning]I'm being very flippant here but somehow I'm reminded of Logan's Run.[/warning]
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English barrows words from almost every language it comes into contact with. Just because you barrow vocabulary does not make them related. The structure is completely different and the lack of words having gender alone should show anyone that french is very different from English.
even if you assume 1min per day to turn on you've got 20min per month. depending on your pay grade you maybe at that 36 dollars a month(200k/yearish). if you throw in having to download a profile from the server and security scripts running, even a an increase in that time of getting the computer to a usable state, say 3min per day, nets us 60min to month so that expands to people making err 70k a year? Automated off and on systems to prime the systems before the employees get in would be best. but how much to develop that? cost/benefit analysis always interests me.
But in FF each game is its own self contained world, with the exception of the horror that was X-2 *shudder*. While they all have a similar theme of fantasy RPG with crazy weird world and epic story line and there are similarities between the worlds, dragons spells sometimes, they are each a separate world and dont touch each other, much.
Sadly I can point to George Lucas as a good example of that. He's clearly stated that he wont make eps 7-9 for starwars because he wants to do something else before he dies!
I'm not that old, pushing 30, I've played all of those games, most when they were released and seen, and love, Logan's Run.
The vast majority of the list given don't even really qualify as influential, I mean FF12? .. 12!?!!??! what about the, you know, 11 before it? what about 7? or you know the 1st one? or what about the console RPG that started the whole FF thing, a little game called Dragon Quest?
the thought that me being, what i understand is, only a little older than that of the average gamer to have played the older games that have the most influence on our modern gaming experience and not to list them is incomprehensible! The list on kotaku doesn't consider influence. a lot of the games listed haven't been out long enough to influence anything. and all of the sequels that added little to no features and failed to push forward their genre. the list given is a great disappointment.
a few people mentioned penal colonies and i was thinking more along the lines of when machiavelli was banished from venice, not sending people to an island to work or australia.
One AC mentioned some of the reasonings behind the old banishments being more politically motivated etc. I was quite interested in that, sadly he did post as an AC
I am thoroughly entertained that such a question has provoked such a response.
also would you really be okay with being forced to leave your homeland, never being able to go home again just to go micronesia or spain?
you know that makes me think, why dont we do old fashion banishment anymore? just kick them out of the country "We'll send you to any country of your choice with just the clothes on your back, and you can never set foot here again on penalty of death(or whatever)"