Fine protest, but let's not go overboard with our cynicism and say the government does nothing good ever. Then we look like a bunch of ridiculous, clueless archanists. Plus I come to your house and steal all your stuff and call you a hypocrite if you go to the police.
So, if your job demanded it, you'd rather lose your job than go through airport security?
You know, I'm all for shorter lines at the airport, and an end to the ridiculous security procedures like tossing out toenail clippers, and I probably wouldn't go to the US more than twice if I didn't live here, but it's not like you have to swear an oath against your God and be branded on the face to enter the country.
And if you're doing it out of protest, well, it's not working. I mean I for one didn't even notice, and those humps working at TSA are much dumber than I am.
Well then perhaps it's a good thing that you're feeling a little stressed -- if not for anything other than the fact that the repercussions of meddling (not mediating) in international politics are almost certainly going to be (and have been) felt in America.
OOOH, I SEE! Thank you so much for pointing that out! I never would have recognized that on my own!
Hey by the way, Mr.Preacher man, what's this sign I have around my neck? "Choir?" What's that mean????
Could you educate me a little more on things I already clearly know? Or maybe I should start playing that game myself...
It's an unfortunate situation caused by rampant myopia, which reinforces the fact that educating kids about politics and the world is a Good Thing.
Well you know, caffinemessiah, I think america has done some meddling in the world, and it has created an unfortunate situation. America is going to be feeling the reprecussions from it as well. You guys shouldn't be so myopic about world politics and should start educating your kids about politics and the world!:-P (note that the intentional overreaction is for comedic purposes only)
Not meaning to troll, but this aversion to politics and world-affairs as "stress inducers" seems to be uniquely American
Seems plausible to me that politics and world affairs are more stressful to americans because we feel responsible. "Oh crap, what has my country gone and done now?"
As an american, the answer is usually "I really don't want to know, it will only raise my blood pressure, I can only vote so many times each election."
If I were german, the answer might be "Well, probably nothing too bad compared to... you know..."
Hey, whoa, you left out a major thing the publishers do: they print and publish the actual journal! For all 10 subscribers who wait months for the print version rather than just getting it online. Do they put ads in the physical copy to subsidize the printing costs? Yes, but still, someone has to make the table of contents.
Another major cost of publishing: hiring lobbyists to keep it subscription based. They don't work for free, ya know.
The 2d ones were so limited in what you could do that I'm prepared to say it was not sandbox. In GTA 2 you could steal cars that were of varying speeds, listen to really horrible radio (an entire channel of 1 minute looped chinese in a high female voice) pick up aproximately 4 weapons, run over strings of elvis impersonators, and collect "GTA" logos. And then do the missions. I suppose the 2d ones had vehicle jumps, but how could you tell?
There was more freedom with just the sniper rifle in GTA 3 than anything in GTA 2. The 2d ones were about as sandboxy as pac man.
Yeah, no one likes censoring, but for months someone would write "Frosty piss" or some variant as the first post. Say you can't post that phrase in the first 10 minutes.
Matter of fact, why let ACs post immediately after a story is posted anyway? They already have a tiering system to encourage subscribers.
You know, if GTA had been cloned after san andreas, I think a lot of people would have been happy. Not to say that innovation is bad, just pointing out that changing up your cash cow is a risky move that doesn't always work out best for everyone.
Of course, I liked the new GTA even if I did miss some of the elements of san andreas. It's also worth noting that the transition from 2d GTAs, which were great for their time but got old fast, to the 3d sandbox with cutscenes is a risk I don't see EA taking ever.
Yes they are introducing new interesting IP's such as Spore, Mirror's Edge and Dead Space. However they wont win any heats with hostile takeovers and horrible DRM!
Tsk tsk, PC gamers are so self-centered and idealistic sometimes. The lesson they're going to take from the DRM issues this round is "Making games available on the PC is more trouble than it is worth, consoles only from now on." It's reasoning like that which makes me want to kick them in the face, but their security guards always stop me.
We need EA to start caring about more than the bottom line. Again too much to hope for. Would be solved by gamers not spending money on crap games released year after year with just a different number and no actual improvements. Again...
I think he was expressing an emotion that often is characterized by people saying "Thank the lord" but was, uh, oddly religious? I don't think anyone is actually honestly pastafarian, and I don't care if that offends anyone.
I think he was hoping to provoke angry outbursts from the same socially conservative christians who got upset about walmart saying "happy holidays" maybe. A noble goal, but of course few of them browse on slashdot, and couldn't figure out how to respond (assuming they can read), so it's not very effective.
You could at least ban the text of the first post trolls. They're not usually unique text.
Could also have a probation period for each story where any posts that happen say within the first 10 minutes of a story being posted, very blatantly obvious trolls will be deleted by an administrator or something like that. Maybe a post made in the first 2 minutes if it gets modded troll or off topic a certain number of times, it will be automatically deleted. Is anyone really going to be upset if the running trolls are deleted? I mean besides the trolls themselves?
Well, for idle chatter on slashdot, should statements are about all that there is. There are two types of discussions here: one about arguing over facts, usually resolvable by a wiki search. The other is how something should be, an idle normative statement without enforcement. The only real-world impacts that would come out of this is if a manager reads that and thinks "He's right, there's no reason why I should waste my time googling people and not hiring them based on pictures, it's pointless as they're not going to be worse employees if there are or are not pictures of them getting drunk up on facebook."
Act like an ass in public and you will have to deal with results. I don't find Googleing somebodies name "to be sticking your noise up their ass" as you put it.
Anyone with a camera can make your private life public, especially with the face recognition google may be putting in soon. If we can't stop private life from being public, employers need to smarten up about what should bar someone from employment. They do have to make a judgement call, and you're right, there are bad reasons why people aren't considered. That's one reason that again I'm saying should and not will.
As far as the not wanting that job, that's again good in principle, but when is the last time you were looking for an entry-level job with student loans to pay off? You can't be that picky. Waiting around for a perfect job you're qualified for that pays well and hires based on real things instead of non-issues, and offers career advancement is ficticious for most people.
I was aware of the writing to a CD. That's a timesuck though, and I don't want to waste the CDs.
As far as the mp3 conversion, the last time I tried, several years ago, that was not an option that worked.
I'm not sure if I was overthinking it, but we're not talking vital songs here, and tinkering around with software settings to get the latest catchy song is pretty low on my priorities list, not to mention being more frustrating than doing the dishes or cleaning out the catbox, (which are two of the aforementioned things that are higher up on the to do list.)
Yes there are: tighter emission standards, higher safety requirements, America's penchant for higher performing engines. There's really no incentive for us here the USA to buy more fuel efficient vehicles. Over in Europe they have 2 things that drive the sales of smaller cars: 1) much higher fuel prices and, 2) more taxes to pay on larger engines.
I have a feeling I'm not following you 100%, but how do sales of the prius and the Yaris fit into that? I'm not current on sales, but those are selling like hotcakes to my knowledge. They're not very powerful and have extremely low gas mileage.
These are fairly recent hot sellers that only picked up once the gas prices really shot up. Were you talking about the period of time between the 80's and until the more recent higher fuel prices? Because it really seems to me that right now, there is in fact a lot of incentive for us to buy more fuel efficient vehicles.
I know a lot of people are still stuck in the "I want a tank to protect my kids from nearly anything that I run into" but I don't see how higher safety requirements affect MPG for non-soccer moms.
You know, it sounded like you may have had a point, but I really don't feel like picking it out of all that rage. Start taking decaf and then come back and try to make whatever point it was you were trying to.
Buy Once, Play Anywhere, as long as you let us put our intrusive DRM schemes on your devices and let your devices phone home to get our approval first
I go to forums about videogames on consoles and I see zero DRM topics. I go to any news item about games here on/. and I see nothing but DRM topics, primary issue be dammned. If this gambit works, one good thing to come out of it will be that we can talk about other things for once!
Kidding of course. As the owner of a non-ipod MP3 player, that would suck. My wife buys tons of songs on itunes and I can't listen to them. Moreover, if music and video formats get as bad as consoles with exclusitivity (they're not actually quite there yet, cynics), I'm going to give up on them entirely. I can't afford to buy the systems on which to play all the games I want to, which I am pissed about. If the only way to watch all the movies you want were to buy two different expensive DVD players? Fucking ridiculous.
You say that public drunkenness shouldn't prevent someone from getting a job. That is just opinion.
Pretty much every statement that uses the word "should" (except when the word itself is the subject as it is here) is an opinion. I've been aware this whole time that I was expressing an opinion as a normative statement. Any confusion over whether it was an opinion or not seems to have been yours.
I was also not advocating that any laws be changed or that no company ever should discriminate based off of use of alchohol. I am also aware that using alchohol can decrease your job performance and get you fired, and justifyably so. That you had a job where using alchohol was frowned on in no way impacts what I was saying.
As far as what is in your personal life. If it is personal, keep it personal and private.
If someone can snap a picture of you at any time, post it online, and then future employers can pull those up at will, there is no personal, private life. That's a bigger concern because hiring managers are often too stupid to tell what's relevant and what's not.
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I'm going to build motorized, retractable cover for my front license plate if this system is implimented. Fuck that.
Well, I think that alone would be grounds for the blue knights to arrest you, and then you'll have no privacy.
I find principles are hard to maintain when I have no money. Except for my "I won't try cocaine" principle.
THAT is what we're all wary of and protesting....
Fine protest, but let's not go overboard with our cynicism and say the government does nothing good ever. Then we look like a bunch of ridiculous, clueless archanists. Plus I come to your house and steal all your stuff and call you a hypocrite if you go to the police.
So, if your job demanded it, you'd rather lose your job than go through airport security?
You know, I'm all for shorter lines at the airport, and an end to the ridiculous security procedures like tossing out toenail clippers, and I probably wouldn't go to the US more than twice if I didn't live here, but it's not like you have to swear an oath against your God and be branded on the face to enter the country.
And if you're doing it out of protest, well, it's not working. I mean I for one didn't even notice, and those humps working at TSA are much dumber than I am.
Well then perhaps it's a good thing that you're feeling a little stressed -- if not for anything other than the fact that the repercussions of meddling (not mediating) in international politics are almost certainly going to be (and have been) felt in America.
OOOH, I SEE! Thank you so much for pointing that out! I never would have recognized that on my own!
Hey by the way, Mr.Preacher man, what's this sign I have around my neck? "Choir?" What's that mean????
Could you educate me a little more on things I already clearly know? Or maybe I should start playing that game myself...
It's an unfortunate situation caused by rampant myopia, which reinforces the fact that educating kids about politics and the world is a Good Thing.
Well you know, caffinemessiah, I think america has done some meddling in the world, and it has created an unfortunate situation. America is going to be feeling the reprecussions from it as well. You guys shouldn't be so myopic about world politics and should start educating your kids about politics and the world! :-P (note that the intentional overreaction is for comedic purposes only)
Not meaning to troll, but this aversion to politics and world-affairs as "stress inducers" seems to be uniquely American
Seems plausible to me that politics and world affairs are more stressful to americans because we feel responsible. "Oh crap, what has my country gone and done now?"
As an american, the answer is usually "I really don't want to know, it will only raise my blood pressure, I can only vote so many times each election."
If I were german, the answer might be "Well, probably nothing too bad compared to... you know..."
Or maybe P(e)wned 1N73RN3...
He was bullied out for a misquote.
Man that's too bad. On an unrelated note, isn't the internet great? Good thing Gore invented it!
Hey, whoa, you left out a major thing the publishers do: they print and publish the actual journal! For all 10 subscribers who wait months for the print version rather than just getting it online. Do they put ads in the physical copy to subsidize the printing costs? Yes, but still, someone has to make the table of contents.
Another major cost of publishing: hiring lobbyists to keep it subscription based. They don't work for free, ya know.
The 2d ones were so limited in what you could do that I'm prepared to say it was not sandbox. In GTA 2 you could steal cars that were of varying speeds, listen to really horrible radio (an entire channel of 1 minute looped chinese in a high female voice) pick up aproximately 4 weapons, run over strings of elvis impersonators, and collect "GTA" logos. And then do the missions. I suppose the 2d ones had vehicle jumps, but how could you tell?
There was more freedom with just the sniper rifle in GTA 3 than anything in GTA 2. The 2d ones were about as sandboxy as pac man.
Ha ha, but this takes 2 mins as opposed to much longer for the CD transfer.
I still have better things to do with my time.
Yeah, no one likes censoring, but for months someone would write "Frosty piss" or some variant as the first post. Say you can't post that phrase in the first 10 minutes.
Matter of fact, why let ACs post immediately after a story is posted anyway? They already have a tiering system to encourage subscribers.
You know, if GTA had been cloned after san andreas, I think a lot of people would have been happy. Not to say that innovation is bad, just pointing out that changing up your cash cow is a risky move that doesn't always work out best for everyone.
Of course, I liked the new GTA even if I did miss some of the elements of san andreas. It's also worth noting that the transition from 2d GTAs, which were great for their time but got old fast, to the 3d sandbox with cutscenes is a risk I don't see EA taking ever.
Yes they are introducing new interesting IP's such as Spore, Mirror's Edge and Dead Space. However they wont win any heats with hostile takeovers and horrible DRM!
Tsk tsk, PC gamers are so self-centered and idealistic sometimes. The lesson they're going to take from the DRM issues this round is "Making games available on the PC is more trouble than it is worth, consoles only from now on." It's reasoning like that which makes me want to kick them in the face, but their security guards always stop me.
We need EA to start caring about more than the bottom line. Again too much to hope for. Would be solved by gamers not spending money on crap games released year after year with just a different number and no actual improvements. Again...
I think he was expressing an emotion that often is characterized by people saying "Thank the lord" but was, uh, oddly religious? I don't think anyone is actually honestly pastafarian, and I don't care if that offends anyone.
I think he was hoping to provoke angry outbursts from the same socially conservative christians who got upset about walmart saying "happy holidays" maybe. A noble goal, but of course few of them browse on slashdot, and couldn't figure out how to respond (assuming they can read), so it's not very effective.
You could at least ban the text of the first post trolls. They're not usually unique text.
Could also have a probation period for each story where any posts that happen say within the first 10 minutes of a story being posted, very blatantly obvious trolls will be deleted by an administrator or something like that. Maybe a post made in the first 2 minutes if it gets modded troll or off topic a certain number of times, it will be automatically deleted. Is anyone really going to be upset if the running trolls are deleted? I mean besides the trolls themselves?
You keep saying should. Well that is irrelevant.
Well, for idle chatter on slashdot, should statements are about all that there is. There are two types of discussions here: one about arguing over facts, usually resolvable by a wiki search. The other is how something should be, an idle normative statement without enforcement. The only real-world impacts that would come out of this is if a manager reads that and thinks "He's right, there's no reason why I should waste my time googling people and not hiring them based on pictures, it's pointless as they're not going to be worse employees if there are or are not pictures of them getting drunk up on facebook."
Act like an ass in public and you will have to deal with results. I don't find Googleing somebodies name "to be sticking your noise up their ass" as you put it.
Anyone with a camera can make your private life public, especially with the face recognition google may be putting in soon. If we can't stop private life from being public, employers need to smarten up about what should bar someone from employment. They do have to make a judgement call, and you're right, there are bad reasons why people aren't considered. That's one reason that again I'm saying should and not will.
As far as the not wanting that job, that's again good in principle, but when is the last time you were looking for an entry-level job with student loans to pay off? You can't be that picky. Waiting around for a perfect job you're qualified for that pays well and hires based on real things instead of non-issues, and offers career advancement is ficticious for most people.
I was aware of the writing to a CD. That's a timesuck though, and I don't want to waste the CDs.
As far as the mp3 conversion, the last time I tried, several years ago, that was not an option that worked.
I'm not sure if I was overthinking it, but we're not talking vital songs here, and tinkering around with software settings to get the latest catchy song is pretty low on my priorities list, not to mention being more frustrating than doing the dishes or cleaning out the catbox, (which are two of the aforementioned things that are higher up on the to do list.)
Yes there are: tighter emission standards, higher safety requirements, America's penchant for higher performing engines. There's really no incentive for us here the USA to buy more fuel efficient vehicles. Over in Europe they have 2 things that drive the sales of smaller cars: 1) much higher fuel prices and, 2) more taxes to pay on larger engines.
I have a feeling I'm not following you 100%, but how do sales of the prius and the Yaris fit into that? I'm not current on sales, but those are selling like hotcakes to my knowledge. They're not very powerful and have extremely low gas mileage.
These are fairly recent hot sellers that only picked up once the gas prices really shot up. Were you talking about the period of time between the 80's and until the more recent higher fuel prices? Because it really seems to me that right now, there is in fact a lot of incentive for us to buy more fuel efficient vehicles.
I know a lot of people are still stuck in the "I want a tank to protect my kids from nearly anything that I run into" but I don't see how higher safety requirements affect MPG for non-soccer moms.
Shit, oil ready to go in barrels in some sand in ontario?
1. Why does it cost $30 to dig them out?
2. How fast can we invade whatever country ontario is in?!?!
(joking on several levels, nothing here is even remotely serious)
You know, it sounded like you may have had a point, but I really don't feel like picking it out of all that rage. Start taking decaf and then come back and try to make whatever point it was you were trying to.
Buy Once, Play Anywhere, as long as you let us put our intrusive DRM schemes on your devices and let your devices phone home to get our approval first
I go to forums about videogames on consoles and I see zero DRM topics. I go to any news item about games here on /. and I see nothing but DRM topics, primary issue be dammned. If this gambit works, one good thing to come out of it will be that we can talk about other things for once!
Kidding of course. As the owner of a non-ipod MP3 player, that would suck. My wife buys tons of songs on itunes and I can't listen to them. Moreover, if music and video formats get as bad as consoles with exclusitivity (they're not actually quite there yet, cynics), I'm going to give up on them entirely. I can't afford to buy the systems on which to play all the games I want to, which I am pissed about. If the only way to watch all the movies you want were to buy two different expensive DVD players? Fucking ridiculous.
The implication there was actually only that gaming has evolved nearly in every way to a point where the standards are completely different.
You say that public drunkenness shouldn't prevent someone from getting a job. That is just opinion.
Pretty much every statement that uses the word "should" (except when the word itself is the subject as it is here) is an opinion. I've been aware this whole time that I was expressing an opinion as a normative statement. Any confusion over whether it was an opinion or not seems to have been yours.
I was also not advocating that any laws be changed or that no company ever should discriminate based off of use of alchohol. I am also aware that using alchohol can decrease your job performance and get you fired, and justifyably so. That you had a job where using alchohol was frowned on in no way impacts what I was saying.
As far as what is in your personal life. If it is personal, keep it personal and private.
If someone can snap a picture of you at any time, post it online, and then future employers can pull those up at will, there is no personal, private life. That's a bigger concern because hiring managers are often too stupid to tell what's relevant and what's not.