Now get off my desert. Liberal scum. Go pay more taxes while yer at it.
We do pay more taxes, as it happens. I would think as a resident of a state which pays less federal tax than it takes in federal money, you'd be a little less spiteful.
The ideal usage for a screwdriver is to remove screws, but tool manufacturers don't stand over your shoulder and slap your hand when you want to use one to open a can of paint.
I also can't help but notice there's a spike in ACs in this topic writing long, thoughtful posts supportive of Blizzard in an article that reads like yet another slashvert.
That's my answer too. Ever since Activision, every move Blizzard makes gets seedier and seedier. I've played every Blizzard game since Blackthorne, but I'm done. If I wanted to pay to win, I'd...
"I am Akara, High Priestess of the Sisterhood of the Sightless Eye. I welcome you, traveler, to our camp, but I'm afraid I can offer you but poor shelter within these rickety walls."
She'll reset your stats once per difficulty level now.
The black kid was in the gated community too, since the entire story is that he was not there as a criminal but as a visitor of family, his BLACK family was living in the same gated community as the white man that this BLACK family KNEW was part of the neighborhood watch. Do you have any evidence that Zimmerman ever protested this residence of this BLACK family?
Gosh, how easy it is to point out your bigoted nature. Clearly a white man living in a gated community is a racist but a black family doing the same is.... well is just what? Why are they different?
Local cops in Florida making up a little bullshit to let a white guy in a gated community go for murdering a black guy isn't a terribly extraordinary claim, in my opinion. I'd like to see the crime scene photos of Zimmerman's wounds, but they either haven't been released or were never taken. The video is inconclusive, and Zimmerman himself is in hiding.
Personally, I think Zimmerman should be charged even if he was attacked, but I don't find your pearl-clutching at the thought of police massaging facts in a report very credulous.
I agree... I don't doubt that there was a physical confrontation that escalated into a shooting. There seems to be evidence to support that part of the story. The identity of the screamer is a bit of a moot point, considering that there wouldn't have been a confrontation in the first place if the over-zealous, paranoid, and armed Zimmerman had not pursued the kid and created the confrontation (against the instructions given to him by the 9-1-1 dispatcher).
I do wonder how this story would have turned out if Zimmerman had been the one killed in this. Would it have been dismissed as self-defense under the Stand Your Ground law (since Zimmerman was pursuing him in a way that could easily be perceived as threatening), or would he have been arrested at the scene? If he had been arrested, would there have been a public outcry? What if he had been released?
If Zimmerman had been killed, Treyvon Martin's life would still be over. He would be locked up for half his life or more.
Prior to 9/11 hijackings were usually intended to divert the plan or hold hostages and people rarely died. Jetliners themselves had never been used as a weapon before. The simple and expedient solution to that vulnerability was simply installing secure cockpit doors and appropriate procedures about keeping it shut. Simple and cheap.
I'm waiting for Homeland Security to start scaring us about other vulnerabilities and convincing congress to pour even more money their way. Stupid simple things like blowing up pipelines or poisening water supplies. Things that are dirt cheap to do, but our govt is willing to spend billions to prevent.
The dictionary shows common usage, not correct usage. This usage was clearly based on a mistake. They mean devastate and it caught on because people didn't know better. The educated should defend the word imo.
I agree. Public ignorance really decimated the original use of the word hacker, but we won that fight, so we should be able to adjust the meaning of decimate back 2000 years with no problem....~
I think we witnessed that crap in the US with Iowa, Nevada, Maine, and a few other recent caucus contests (where Romney won since he's the guy the GOP elite want).
Um, no. I think you meant to say 'he's the guy the *media* elite want'. The GOP faithful have been rallying around Santorum, as they say Romney's not 'conservative' enough.
The "GOP faithful" are not in the same set as the "GOP elite". The GOP elite aren't crazy about Romney, but they REALLY don't like Santorum because he's a true radical and can't be controlled.
I suppose that games are headed towards full immersion (kinect is a first step, VR will probably be next). Maybe in 2020 games will take control of our every sense and give us a roleplaying experience we cannot even imagine today
20 years ago, MUDs were doing things in the MMORPG realm that have yet to be achieved by modern gaming. High end graphics don't define an RPG, and every technological advance in gaming makes the industry take two big hops backwards in story, world, and mechanical depth. I like pretty visuals, high poly count, multiple light sources, etc - but I'd love to see graphics in games take a back seat to atmosphere, story, writing and voice talent for a decade or so. I think we'd have a most remarkable crop of games.
Hey! You're that other guy who played this remarkable game! Great to hear from you again. Quarterstaff was a definitive RPG for me. Not only did it come with a parchment, but a wooden coin! And it was damned hard. Well, I was pretty small when I played it, so maybe it wasn't that tough. I can still feel the atmosphere of that game though - death lurked behind every turn of the staircase.
Quarterstaff was released in 1987 and then again in '88 when Activision bought it )which must be the version I played on my mac plus).
A human could murder someone for no reason. Therefore, we need to punish everyone before that happens! Let's just throw everyone in prison! That'll show them!
In some cases, that's really it: the public school system can prove inadequate. (Is that even conceivable to you?)
Oh don't get me wrong, I think there are big problems with public education in the US, but that doesn't amount to a law which requires people to enroll children in private school. No one is being forced to pay for private school (okay, actually we're all forced to help pay for private (religious) schools, but that's a different conversation), which is what you claimed.
I have no children at all, but I still help pay for public schools with my taxes. If I took your position, I might use the analogy that since I don't own a car, I shouldn't have to pay money to get the streets fixed. But then I would starve to death.
Anyway, this conversation seems redundant since it's just the same I-shouldn't-have-to-pay-taxes fight that the top 0.1% use to get poor-on-poor violence started. My argument is and will remain that, all things being equal, citizens (even those without children) benefit from a public school system (even one that needs as much work as ours).
Lectures certainly have deficiencies, but a live lecture in front of an audience has one crucial advantage: feedback. Questions, or even informal groans or "huh?" from the audience lead to clarification or correction. The inflexibility of a difficult text can make learning nearly impossible.
Don't underestimate the value of Being There. I'm not a fan of the lecture style, but it certainly helps some people tremendously - most especially auditory learners.
Or when you say "free market" do you actually mean something like "give all parents a voucher to choose a school"?...
At the very least, don't force parents to pay double: once for their own kids' private education, and once again for the public system they don't use.
And don't make them pay for road maintenance for roads they don't use! It's unconstitutional!!~
This argument is absurd on its face. We benefit as a society when we all have access to education. The 40 year old slinging coffee may not seem like much of a poster boy for public education, but without it he might instead be trying to rob you at gunpoint.
The debate over airport "security" hasn't been rational for at least a decade. We haven't gotten anywhere with the American public using reason, so why not fight fear with fear? I'm not saying it's the best way, but it seems to be working for the other guys.
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Now get off my desert. Liberal scum. Go pay more taxes while yer at it.
We do pay more taxes, as it happens. I would think as a resident of a state which pays less federal tax than it takes in federal money, you'd be a little less spiteful.
the ideal usage
The ideal usage for a screwdriver is to remove screws, but tool manufacturers don't stand over your shoulder and slap your hand when you want to use one to open a can of paint.
I also can't help but notice there's a spike in ACs in this topic writing long, thoughtful posts supportive of Blizzard in an article that reads like yet another slashvert.
Troubling.
or possibly 24.
because - maths.
So only 8 times playing boring parts rather than 1... awesome.
You mean "only 27 times playing boring parts rather than 3"? I don't understand why people play games like this past the Normal Mode section.
This is what Torchlight II is for.
That's my answer too. Ever since Activision, every move Blizzard makes gets seedier and seedier. I've played every Blizzard game since Blackthorne, but I'm done. If I wanted to pay to win, I'd...
I don't ever want to pay to win.
Remember this?
"I am Akara, High Priestess of the Sisterhood of the Sightless Eye. I welcome you, traveler, to our camp, but I'm afraid I can offer you but poor shelter within these rickety walls."
She'll reset your stats once per difficulty level now.
The black kid was in the gated community too, since the entire story is that he was not there as a criminal but as a visitor of family, his BLACK family was living in the same gated community as the white man that this BLACK family KNEW was part of the neighborhood watch. Do you have any evidence that Zimmerman ever protested this residence of this BLACK family?
Gosh, how easy it is to point out your bigoted nature. Clearly a white man living in a gated community is a racist but a black family doing the same is.... well is just what? Why are they different?
One of them is dead.
Are you claiming it's not?
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
Local cops in Florida making up a little bullshit to let a white guy in a gated community go for murdering a black guy isn't a terribly extraordinary claim, in my opinion. I'd like to see the crime scene photos of Zimmerman's wounds, but they either haven't been released or were never taken. The video is inconclusive, and Zimmerman himself is in hiding.
Personally, I think Zimmerman should be charged even if he was attacked, but I don't find your pearl-clutching at the thought of police massaging facts in a report very credulous.
I agree... I don't doubt that there was a physical confrontation that escalated into a shooting. There seems to be evidence to support that part of the story. The identity of the screamer is a bit of a moot point, considering that there wouldn't have been a confrontation in the first place if the over-zealous, paranoid, and armed Zimmerman had not pursued the kid and created the confrontation (against the instructions given to him by the 9-1-1 dispatcher).
I do wonder how this story would have turned out if Zimmerman had been the one killed in this. Would it have been dismissed as self-defense under the Stand Your Ground law (since Zimmerman was pursuing him in a way that could easily be perceived as threatening), or would he have been arrested at the scene? If he had been arrested, would there have been a public outcry? What if he had been released?
If Zimmerman had been killed, Treyvon Martin's life would still be over. He would be locked up for half his life or more.
You know it's true.
That comic left off Origin.
Also left out EA's first victim: Electronic Arts.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2751915&cid=39495327
Risking my karma to tell you that none of the people discussing this topic care. Please take your petty, off-topic vendetta elsewhere.
AS
Prior to 9/11 hijackings were usually intended to divert the plan or hold hostages and people rarely died. Jetliners themselves had never been used as a weapon before. The simple and expedient solution to that vulnerability was simply installing secure cockpit doors and appropriate procedures about keeping it shut. Simple and cheap.
I'm waiting for Homeland Security to start scaring us about other vulnerabilities and convincing congress to pour even more money their way. Stupid simple things like blowing up pipelines or poisening water supplies. Things that are dirt cheap to do, but our govt is willing to spend billions to prevent.
I take it you are not familiar with VIPR? http://www.naturalnews.com/033961_TSA_security_checkpoints.html
The dictionary shows common usage, not correct usage. This usage was clearly based on a mistake. They mean devastate and it caught on because people didn't know better. The educated should defend the word imo.
I agree. Public ignorance really decimated the original use of the word hacker, but we won that fight, so we should be able to adjust the meaning of decimate back 2000 years with no problem. ...~
I think we witnessed that crap in the US with Iowa, Nevada, Maine, and a few other recent caucus contests (where Romney won since he's the guy the GOP elite want).
Um, no. I think you meant to say 'he's the guy the *media* elite want'. The GOP faithful have been rallying around Santorum, as they say Romney's not 'conservative' enough.
The "GOP faithful" are not in the same set as the "GOP elite". The GOP elite aren't crazy about Romney, but they REALLY don't like Santorum because he's a true radical and can't be controlled.
I suppose that games are headed towards full immersion (kinect is a first step, VR will probably be next). Maybe in 2020 games will take control of our every sense and give us a roleplaying experience we cannot even imagine today
20 years ago, MUDs were doing things in the MMORPG realm that have yet to be achieved by modern gaming. High end graphics don't define an RPG, and every technological advance in gaming makes the industry take two big hops backwards in story, world, and mechanical depth. I like pretty visuals, high poly count, multiple light sources, etc - but I'd love to see graphics in games take a back seat to atmosphere, story, writing and voice talent for a decade or so. I think we'd have a most remarkable crop of games.
Also, I want a pony.
The best Infocom game was Quarterstaff, actually.
Hey! You're that other guy who played this remarkable game! Great to hear from you again. Quarterstaff was a definitive RPG for me. Not only did it come with a parchment, but a wooden coin! And it was damned hard. Well, I was pretty small when I played it, so maybe it wasn't that tough. I can still feel the atmosphere of that game though - death lurked behind every turn of the staircase.
Quarterstaff was released in 1987 and then again in '88 when Activision bought it )which must be the version I played on my mac plus).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterstaff:_The_Tomb_of_Setmoth
A human could murder someone for no reason. Therefore, we need to punish everyone before that happens! Let's just throw everyone in prison! That'll show them!
We're working on it. Please remain where you are.
How about clean while you're there like it happens in our place? (Unless you can't handle a minor interruption once a day)
Yeah, like I'm going to pick up trash in my f**king $6300 suit.
Come on!
(/gob)
In some cases, that's really it: the public school system can prove inadequate. (Is that even conceivable to you?)
Oh don't get me wrong, I think there are big problems with public education in the US, but that doesn't amount to a law which requires people to enroll children in private school. No one is being forced to pay for private school (okay, actually we're all forced to help pay for private (religious) schools, but that's a different conversation), which is what you claimed.
I have no children at all, but I still help pay for public schools with my taxes. If I took your position, I might use the analogy that since I don't own a car, I shouldn't have to pay money to get the streets fixed. But then I would starve to death.
Anyway, this conversation seems redundant since it's just the same I-shouldn't-have-to-pay-taxes fight that the top 0.1% use to get poor-on-poor violence started. My argument is and will remain that, all things being equal, citizens (even those without children) benefit from a public school system (even one that needs as much work as ours).
At the very least, don't force parents to pay double: once for their own kids' private education, and once again for the public system they don't use.
And don't make them pay for road maintenance for roads they don't use! It's unconstitutional!!~
A better analogy would be being forced to pay for your own road, as well as that of your competitor.
That would be a fantastic analogy if people were forced to send their children to private school.
Lectures certainly have deficiencies, but a live lecture in front of an audience has one crucial advantage: feedback. Questions, or even informal groans or "huh?" from the audience lead to clarification or correction. The inflexibility of a difficult text can make learning nearly impossible.
Don't underestimate the value of Being There. I'm not a fan of the lecture style, but it certainly helps some people tremendously - most especially auditory learners.
Or when you say "free market" do you actually mean something like "give all parents a voucher to choose a school"? ...
At the very least, don't force parents to pay double: once for their own kids' private education, and once again for the public system they don't use.
And don't make them pay for road maintenance for roads they don't use! It's unconstitutional!!~
This argument is absurd on its face. We benefit as a society when we all have access to education. The 40 year old slinging coffee may not seem like much of a poster boy for public education, but without it he might instead be trying to rob you at gunpoint.
Noblesse Oblige, and all that.
We were talking about religions, not about cults.
Potato, Catholicism.
.. to catch terrorists. Yet, they haven't caught any.
To be fair, there haven't been any terrorist attacks either. Perhaps there was just nobody to catch yet?
So your argument FOR these enhanced "security" measures is that there aren't any terrorists?
Check please.
The debate over airport "security" hasn't been rational for at least a decade. We haven't gotten anywhere with the American public using reason, so why not fight fear with fear? I'm not saying it's the best way, but it seems to be working for the other guys.