I can think of a fantastic way for the US military to reduce recruiting costs AND increase recruiting.
Operate ethically. Stop going to war for lies and treasure. Demonstrate (not just talk about) care for servicefolks and vets.
I almost applied to enlist in the AF as a teenager, but in the end my conscience couldn't support it. I wanted to support my country, but the politics of the last half century of American warfare has made most of the country appropriately skeptical. I was worried that I'd be used as a murderbot and then dumped if I break. My recent experiences talking with some new vets has confirmed my worst fears, too. I still think I made the right choice, but it makes me sad as well.
If the military thinks advertising and PR can "fix" their recruiting problems without altering their actual behavior, they're acting like every huge corporation - actions don't matter, only spin. It's sickening.
Yes and local businesses who depend on these air shows for tourist income will flirt with failure and pit more people out of work, fucktard.
So let's take the money and use it to start fixing our massive national infrastructure problems. Because... you know. Hiring people to do work that needs doing seems like a more efficient way to put people to work than showing off fancy airplanes.
That may be a little bit true. Religious nutjobs have condemned them in the past.
Although, in my limited experience, religious nutjobs aren't major consumers of computer games, or mass media in general for that matter. They tend to shut the world out so they can more completely indoctrinate their young and maintain their cognitive dissonance.
To be clear, I am speaking only of the nutjobs, not people of faith as a whole.
they refuse to stop players from making gay characters in games.
You can make them, just as long as no one else ever has to see it. It's the worst kind of lie - they can claim to support LGBT while still forcing members of that community to stay in the closet.
... We don't hate them because we're homophobes...
Speak for yourself...
If you're uncomfortable please continue posting as AC, but I'm sincerely interested to know if this is just a drive-by troll or if you really made a decision not to buy EA products because of their LGBT handwaving, and why.
I appreciate (and to a degree share) your anger, but I think you vastly underestimate the power and influence of digital entertainment now and over the next few decades at least.
You are gravely mistaken, at least in the US. HFCS is found in very nearly every product I can put my hands on in the local supermarket including pickles, yogurt and ham (all the ones that don't have it contain some other form of either corn or soy.)
They also sell new indie games for small/individual developers, totally bypassing the corporate structure of publishing (with its attendant CEO salaries and censorship).
No only that, but it seems like everyone is either selling their company to them or working for them. I realize that companies go under and people need work, but if they end up owning all the decent IP, there is going to be nowhere else to turn BUT to buy from EA.
There are thousands of indie devs in garages as we speak working on their first games with remarkable (free!) tools like Unity3D. The market is shifting back away from corporations, just like direct-sale music and local bands are starving the "music" industry. In the end, people who care will make excellent products, sell them for less, and keep a vastly larger share of the profit.
Have your Fionna and Cake and eat it too! (Er... but not in a creepy way.)
It is unwatchable unless your brain is so used to being soaked in endorphins from neuromarketing tactics that it starts to shut down conscious thought.
The Super Bowl glorifies a sport that has been causing massive brain injuries in kids and adults alike for decades. If blood sports are what you consider appropriate but a human breast is out of bounds...
I don't know how to finish that thought, because it hurts my brain too much.
That, plus precious little Bobby and Suzie spend all of their time on 4chan and have seen more horrifying things than their parents even knew existed. And laughed over it.
Honestly, if my siblings knew the shit my nieces and nephews see online the kids would never see the light of day again. Being an uncle is awesome.
Despite your cynicism, I'm fairly sure that if you're being interviewed for a post whose criteria include being published in academic journals, the interviewer is likely to be at that level themselves.
I doubt they let the new girl in HR do the interviews for a new Professor of Difficult Sums.
I appreciate your perspective, but you have committed the logical fallacy of personal incredulity. My experience (not data, etc) is that uninformed and utterly unqualified HR people are almost always the ones that are most motivated to block me from being hired. To be fair though, I've never applied for Professor of Difficult Sums.
Until the interviewer asks, "Wow, that's amazing! What did you publish in there?" And it becomes obvious that your papers aren't worth paper....
Yes, if the last 20 years have taught me anything, it's that interviewers are always well-informed on basic scientific standards, ask tough questions, and demand thorough answers.
Before anyone asks, the sky in my world is purple and simply beautiful.
Oh boy, seriously? Unjust laws? Okay, 35 years might be high, but there is a huge difference between penalties being too high for a specific criminal behavior and really unjust laws like enforced segregation or discrimination based on gender, race or orientation.
How do you measure the injustice of an entire life's course torn away with a bogus felony charge? Just because this isn't an issue of gender, race or orientation doesn't mean it isn't about civil rights.
Yes! Jesus said turn the other cheek, but he also flipped out on the moneylenders (if my dim recollection of Sunday school is accurate). There's a time for tolerance and there's a time for taking a stand.
I don't think two wrongs make a right either, and I don't support threats of violence, but our collective voice is amplified enough to be heard for the first time in human history. All the old roads of communication have tollbooths (and armed guards). We do what we must because we can.
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I can think of a fantastic way for the US military to reduce recruiting costs AND increase recruiting.
Operate ethically. Stop going to war for lies and treasure. Demonstrate (not just talk about) care for servicefolks and vets.
I almost applied to enlist in the AF as a teenager, but in the end my conscience couldn't support it. I wanted to support my country, but the politics of the last half century of American warfare has made most of the country appropriately skeptical. I was worried that I'd be used as a murderbot and then dumped if I break. My recent experiences talking with some new vets has confirmed my worst fears, too. I still think I made the right choice, but it makes me sad as well.
If the military thinks advertising and PR can "fix" their recruiting problems without altering their actual behavior, they're acting like every huge corporation - actions don't matter, only spin. It's sickening.
Yes and local businesses who depend on these air shows for tourist income will flirt with failure and pit more people out of work, fucktard.
So let's take the money and use it to start fixing our massive national infrastructure problems. Because... you know. Hiring people to do work that needs doing seems like a more efficient way to put people to work than showing off fancy airplanes.
I don't see how Time Warner is not the worst.
Because Comcast.
1000% this. What gamers need to learn is that it's about talent - people - not studios and brand names. Follow the good work, not the promos.
I started off on Dune II on Windows 3.1.
That release is DOS only
As was Windows 3.1
That may be a little bit true. Religious nutjobs have condemned them in the past.
Although, in my limited experience, religious nutjobs aren't major consumers of computer games, or mass media in general for that matter. They tend to shut the world out so they can more completely indoctrinate their young and maintain their cognitive dissonance.
To be clear, I am speaking only of the nutjobs, not people of faith as a whole.
they refuse to stop players from making gay characters in games.
You can make them, just as long as no one else ever has to see it. It's the worst kind of lie - they can claim to support LGBT while still forcing members of that community to stay in the closet.
Quite despicable, in my opinion.
Speak for yourself...
If you're uncomfortable please continue posting as AC, but I'm sincerely interested to know if this is just a drive-by troll or if you really made a decision not to buy EA products because of their LGBT handwaving, and why.
BoA didn't try to blame their poor reputation on homophobes.
No, they blamed it on poor people.
I appreciate (and to a degree share) your anger, but I think you vastly underestimate the power and influence of digital entertainment now and over the next few decades at least.
It kinda makes you the product, though...
Brilliant and horrifying.
+1, bleak reality
As for HFCS, it's mostly found in junk food
You are gravely mistaken, at least in the US. HFCS is found in very nearly every product I can put my hands on in the local supermarket including pickles, yogurt and ham (all the ones that don't have it contain some other form of either corn or soy.)
They also sell new indie games for small/individual developers, totally bypassing the corporate structure of publishing (with its attendant CEO salaries and censorship).
GOG is doing it right, right now.
It's like spam- 99% of us hate it, but the other 1% keep it going financially.
So we made laws and international treaties to curtail the predatory practice.
Just saying.
No only that, but it seems like everyone is either selling their company to them or working for them. I realize that companies go under and people need work, but if they end up owning all the decent IP, there is going to be nowhere else to turn BUT to buy from EA.
There are thousands of indie devs in garages as we speak working on their first games with remarkable (free!) tools like Unity3D. The market is shifting back away from corporations, just like direct-sale music and local bands are starving the "music" industry. In the end, people who care will make excellent products, sell them for less, and keep a vastly larger share of the profit.
Have your Fionna and Cake and eat it too! (Er... but not in a creepy way.)
These are the same people who compared VCRs to the Boston Strangler. Why be surprised that they don't like TiVo?
As everyone knows, skipping commercials is un-American and no different from terrorism.
Eyelid tape and saline drip sold separately.
It is unwatchable unless your brain is so used to being soaked in endorphins from neuromarketing tactics that it starts to shut down conscious thought.
The Super Bowl glorifies a sport that has been causing massive brain injuries in kids and adults alike for decades. If blood sports are what you consider appropriate but a human breast is out of bounds...
I don't know how to finish that thought, because it hurts my brain too much.
That, plus precious little Bobby and Suzie spend all of their time on 4chan and have seen more horrifying things than their parents even knew existed. And laughed over it.
Honestly, if my siblings knew the shit my nieces and nephews see online the kids would never see the light of day again. Being an uncle is awesome.
we could reallocate all that useful TV bandwidth to something useful.
Ooh! Ooh!
Free high speed internet?
Naah...it would never catch on...
Yeah, that's crazy. Consumers wouldn't go for it.
How about unreasonably expensive high speed internet? This is something the public has been demanding!
That is a good question when you consider that Margaret Mead, Dr Kinsey and Steven Jay Gould faked much of their data.
I was going to dismiss you because of your AC status, but after referencing your citations I can see your point.
It's on your head.
Despite your cynicism, I'm fairly sure that if you're being interviewed for a post whose criteria include being published in academic journals, the interviewer is likely to be at that level themselves.
I doubt they let the new girl in HR do the interviews for a new Professor of Difficult Sums.
I appreciate your perspective, but you have committed the logical fallacy of personal incredulity. My experience (not data, etc) is that uninformed and utterly unqualified HR people are almost always the ones that are most motivated to block me from being hired. To be fair though, I've never applied for Professor of Difficult Sums.
Until the interviewer asks, "Wow, that's amazing! What did you publish in there?" And it becomes obvious that your papers aren't worth paper....
Yes, if the last 20 years have taught me anything, it's that interviewers are always well-informed on basic scientific standards, ask tough questions, and demand thorough answers.
Before anyone asks, the sky in my world is purple and simply beautiful.
Oh boy, seriously? Unjust laws? Okay, 35 years might be high, but there is a huge difference between penalties being too high for a specific criminal behavior and really unjust laws like enforced segregation or discrimination based on gender, race or orientation.
How do you measure the injustice of an entire life's course torn away with a bogus felony charge? Just because this isn't an issue of gender, race or orientation doesn't mean it isn't about civil rights.
Yes! Jesus said turn the other cheek, but he also flipped out on the moneylenders (if my dim recollection of Sunday school is accurate). There's a time for tolerance and there's a time for taking a stand.
I don't think two wrongs make a right either, and I don't support threats of violence, but our collective voice is amplified enough to be heard for the first time in human history. All the old roads of communication have tollbooths (and armed guards). We do what we must because we can.