To me, it's all about how evil a company is. There is obviously no benefit to them hoarding information unless they are really going to reuse it somewhere else. Just give it up, and maybe you can at least still see people enjoy your game even if you had to move on to a new job. Why not?!
I see a lot of gaming companies trying to DRM their stuff. As much as i like halflife 2, portal, and team fortress 2... i just have that feeling that one day they aren't going to have steam and my games wont work anymore.
Theoretically there should be a small percent of politicians that actually do their job to help people and the world. Not sure how easy they are to find though.
And pay your wife who shops all day a salary. And your son who travels to Europe every summer for fun a salary. And buy every piece of everything you own (car, truck, boat, blackberry, computer, etc. etc.) as a part of the business so it's an expense. And cost out the travel expenses of your son as an expense. And let's not forget you aren't huge so you are an LLC and don't get double taxed ANY FUGGING WAY.
Jesus.
Yeah, the gazillions of tax loopholes for the rich don't exist.
I love these stats. Oh my god, a huge portion of poor people pay no INCOME taxes. OMG!@
The reason is because they can't afford to buy healthy food, go to the doctor, insurance on property, etc. Why? B/c of two reasons.
a. OK, they are scum and don't try to get by. They cheat the system.
b. They try to work but are getting fucked by their company. Getting paid crap.
c. They pay a relatively huge amount of taxes when they buy things than any rich person pays out of their money. I mean, think of it like this. You are poor, and you pay 10 percent tax on food. You have zero dollars saved at the end of the month, so this 10 percent hurts bad. Or you are mega rich, and you pay 1,000,000 dollars in tax a year. But you have 50 million stashed away. You don't even notice that 1 million being gone relative to the little guy.
Obama is going after b. first since it's pretty obvious companies have been fucking people good as of late here in the US of fuck you over A.
Step 1: I'm going to start a company. Step 2: I make 100,000 dollars profit. Step 3: I pay myself 100,000 dollars salary. Step 4: I didn't make any profit, so I pay no taxes.
Obviously some of the steps are done in a sneaky fashion, but broken down that's what happens. A similar thing happened with one of those big financial bank type companies that just got bailed out here in the US... they paid a bunch of huge million dollar "bonuses" right before they went bankrupt. How fucking convenient. And the stock holders got screwed.
Companies will screw people over in most cases. I don't trust them. Never did.
Just trying to figure out if this is some political message. (Of course it is). But like, what are they really trying to say?
a. Conservatives are better because they typically lax border patrols because really they love cheap labor.
b. Conservatives are worse because under Bush the average American who isn't illegal has been screwed over by laws like these.
I could probably read tfa, but that wouldn't be any fun when I can just draw so many conclusions from a headline list 90 of the population does anyway.
I tend to agree. Since when are bad memories necessarily bad life lessons? I mean who would not be tempted to erase the memory of an ex-girlfriend. But can you imagine how many teens would be committing suicide if every break up was the first real break up?
But thankfully it's going to be really hard for this to ever work well on humans. Some reasons were mentioned earlier... memories are stored in different places, fragmented, etc. And I wonder just how easy it would be to have humans recall the memory they want to erase. Someone with really good concentration may just keep thinking about other things. At least for a while, until there isn't much left.
And to shed some light... I think it's because it's computer related that some of the masses are letting it slip. They think it's too technical to understand, etc. etc. Well in reality, the masses (in the US at least) are getting so involved with computers and the internet, they really need to fight to protect their freedoms. Don't let the bad guys screw us over before you realize what you'll lose!
The Dynamic Vehicle Control in my 350Z almost got me killed once or twice. I was turning left across oncoming traffic to drive into a side road, and because it was a sharp turn the inside rear wheel started to slip a little. But since there was oncoming traffic I needed to gun it a little to avoid any close calls... except that the friggin VDC decided my tire slipped too much so it apparently put on the brakes and cut some power to my engine... effectively slowing me to a crawl. Oh yeah, that was FUN! I thought for sure I was gonna die from one of the SUVs coming my way.
Now when I think about it, I turn it off (via a button) unless it's raining.
All the extra brain activity is due to all the crpa you run into on a simple google search: annoyance , anger, fear, doubt, wonder, excitement, sexual, etc.
Annoyance that you didn't find what you wanted.
Anger that what you did find was an advertisement.
Fear that you won't find what you need even if you search for an hour.
Doubt that if you find something it could be a lie.
Wonder that what you found might be true!
Excitement, because you might not have to work late if google just gave you the answer to your server error message!
And of course sexual because you can't search for anything without running across the pr0n.
Yeah, I have to agree. LAN parties are great and are some of the best Diablo/D2 memories of the game. It makes no sense to hurt the consumer in this way. It smacks of greed, honestly.
Starcraft is a great game, but I tend to agree that the APM thing is really out of control. You lose a lot of freedom to choose what you want to do when you don't have time to do anything except by "reflex". So you often see those pro guys lose because something unexpected happened and they are unable to adapt... they just keep doing what they had done before. That gets boring.
I'm hoping starcraft 2 finds that perfect match of needing quick hands AND a quick mind.
Those are some funny statistics. Let's not forget that you might be smart, have a gene that gives quick response times (reflexes is popularly used incorrectly... that's only for stuff like how fast you blink when you are poked in the eye), and be good at a game much better than Halo. Let's go with Team Fortress 2, despite it not being the most "competitive" RTS around, it's still the most fun for 99% of players... human or not.
that just whoops ass. I might go watch all the old MacGuyver episodes one day, without having to fill my hard drive full of stuff.
Now if I can only get my mom to get internet at her house again (all the kids moved out), she can watch her favorite soap opera without having to deal with VCR tapes.
The music for Doom 2 was and is my favorite gaming music. It fits the tortured sound effects of the monsters and weapons and hero's panting/screaming perfectly.
Seriously, I'm a parent, and the only thing I really worry about them seeing are some commercials. After all, sex and violence on TV are (hopefully) not going to affect my kid too much... but I notice that advertising does sadly have an effect on lots of people. I mean, advertising and marketing is there for a reason. They don't portray their product as make believe (even though it is in a sense), instead they try to make it as real as possible.
I'm talking about junkfood, softdrinks, fast food, alcohol, prescription drugs, cheating on people/divorce being the norm (whoops, that's more TV shows than commercials), etc. etc. etc. I don't want my kid seeing much of this crap, and my options are pretty much throw away all TVs or let my kids be exposed to this stuff. Not that easy of a choice to be honest.
On the one hand I'd like to think my wife's and my influence would override some of the crap they see and that our kids will have enough sense to think for themselves. But the other side of me thinks that if America is in a state of everybody getting overweight, taking pills, and getting divorced more often than not... well... the odds are against any kid out there. And no offense to the ladies, but females seem to have a greater tendency to allow self-confidence issues cloud their thinking and believing the popular opinion, which is what commercials pretend to sell.
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That's it. it's about time. They should make it like that anywhere theft isn't an issue.
To me, it's all about how evil a company is. There is obviously no benefit to them hoarding information unless they are really going to reuse it somewhere else. Just give it up, and maybe you can at least still see people enjoy your game even if you had to move on to a new job. Why not?!
I see a lot of gaming companies trying to DRM their stuff. As much as i like halflife 2, portal, and team fortress 2... i just have that feeling that one day they aren't going to have steam and my games wont work anymore.
Theoretically there should be a small percent of politicians that actually do their job to help people and the world. Not sure how easy they are to find though.
And pay your wife who shops all day a salary. And your son who travels to Europe every summer for fun a salary. And buy every piece of everything you own (car, truck, boat, blackberry, computer, etc. etc.) as a part of the business so it's an expense. And cost out the travel expenses of your son as an expense. And let's not forget you aren't huge so you are an LLC and don't get double taxed ANY FUGGING WAY.
Jesus.
Yeah, the gazillions of tax loopholes for the rich don't exist.
I love these stats. Oh my god, a huge portion of poor people pay no INCOME taxes. OMG!@
The reason is because they can't afford to buy healthy food, go to the doctor, insurance on property, etc. Why? B/c of two reasons.
a. OK, they are scum and don't try to get by. They cheat the system.
b. They try to work but are getting fucked by their company. Getting paid crap.
c. They pay a relatively huge amount of taxes when they buy things than any rich person pays out of their money. I mean, think of it like this. You are poor, and you pay 10 percent tax on food. You have zero dollars saved at the end of the month, so this 10 percent hurts bad. Or you are mega rich, and you pay 1,000,000 dollars in tax a year. But you have 50 million stashed away. You don't even notice that 1 million being gone relative to the little guy.
Obama is going after b. first since it's pretty obvious companies have been fucking people good as of late here in the US of fuck you over A.
Scary report http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08957.pdf (i just started on it), but the gist seems to be:
Step 1: I'm going to start a company.
Step 2: I make 100,000 dollars profit.
Step 3: I pay myself 100,000 dollars salary.
Step 4: I didn't make any profit, so I pay no taxes.
Obviously some of the steps are done in a sneaky fashion, but broken down that's what happens. A similar thing happened with one of those big financial bank type companies that just got bailed out here in the US... they paid a bunch of huge million dollar "bonuses" right before they went bankrupt. How fucking convenient. And the stock holders got screwed.
Companies will screw people over in most cases. I don't trust them. Never did.
Is there a way to get this to work? I get a lot of junk... no usable displayed values though.
Because it is fairly isolated. If it gets blown up, space-time torn, or radiated, there is less chance of contamination to other continents.
Just trying to figure out if this is some political message. (Of course it is). But like, what are they really trying to say?
a. Conservatives are better because they typically lax border patrols because really they love cheap labor.
b. Conservatives are worse because under Bush the average American who isn't illegal has been screwed over by laws like these.
I could probably read tfa, but that wouldn't be any fun when I can just draw so many conclusions from a headline list 90 of the population does anyway.
I tend to agree. Since when are bad memories necessarily bad life lessons? I mean who would not be tempted to erase the memory of an ex-girlfriend. But can you imagine how many teens would be committing suicide if every break up was the first real break up?
But thankfully it's going to be really hard for this to ever work well on humans. Some reasons were mentioned earlier... memories are stored in different places, fragmented, etc. And I wonder just how easy it would be to have humans recall the memory they want to erase. Someone with really good concentration may just keep thinking about other things. At least for a while, until there isn't much left.
How do we know his study is true if most studies are false?!
Good points.
And to shed some light... I think it's because it's computer related that some of the masses are letting it slip. They think it's too technical to understand, etc. etc. Well in reality, the masses (in the US at least) are getting so involved with computers and the internet, they really need to fight to protect their freedoms. Don't let the bad guys screw us over before you realize what you'll lose!
And did it?
The Dynamic Vehicle Control in my 350Z almost got me killed once or twice. I was turning left across oncoming traffic to drive into a side road, and because it was a sharp turn the inside rear wheel started to slip a little. But since there was oncoming traffic I needed to gun it a little to avoid any close calls... except that the friggin VDC decided my tire slipped too much so it apparently put on the brakes and cut some power to my engine... effectively slowing me to a crawl. Oh yeah, that was FUN! I thought for sure I was gonna die from one of the SUVs coming my way.
Now when I think about it, I turn it off (via a button) unless it's raining.
Now when I
All the extra brain activity is due to all the crpa you run into on a simple google search: annoyance , anger, fear, doubt, wonder, excitement, sexual, etc.
Annoyance that you didn't find what you wanted.
Anger that what you did find was an advertisement.
Fear that you won't find what you need even if you search for an hour.
Doubt that if you find something it could be a lie.
Wonder that what you found might be true!
Excitement, because you might not have to work late if google just gave you the answer to your server error message!
And of course sexual because you can't search for anything without running across the pr0n.
That guy from heroes isn't right for Spock ... i'm sure he's a fine actor, but man he irritates the hell outta me on that tv show.
Otherwise, pumped about John "Harold" Cho being in it. The villain looks cool. Should be fun.
I'm not buying anything where "the man" can kill something on it remotely. Screw that. Never going to happen, sorry!!!
Yeah, I have to agree. LAN parties are great and are some of the best Diablo /D2 memories of the game. It makes no sense to hurt the consumer in this way. It smacks of greed, honestly.
Well, I'm just playing the odds. Out of 100 million, there's gotta be a good one in there somewhere.
Starcraft is a great game, but I tend to agree that the APM thing is really out of control. You lose a lot of freedom to choose what you want to do when you don't have time to do anything except by "reflex". So you often see those pro guys lose because something unexpected happened and they are unable to adapt... they just keep doing what they had done before. That gets boring.
I'm hoping starcraft 2 finds that perfect match of needing quick hands AND a quick mind.
Whoops, that's what i get for typing a post in a hurry.
Those are some funny statistics. Let's not forget that you might be smart, have a gene that gives quick response times (reflexes is popularly used incorrectly... that's only for stuff like how fast you blink when you are poked in the eye), and be good at a game much better than Halo. Let's go with Team Fortress 2, despite it not being the most "competitive" RTS around, it's still the most fun for 99% of players... human or not.
that just whoops ass. I might go watch all the old MacGuyver episodes one day, without having to fill my hard drive full of stuff.
Now if I can only get my mom to get internet at her house again (all the kids moved out), she can watch her favorite soap opera without having to deal with VCR tapes.
The music for Doom 2 was and is my favorite gaming music. It fits the tortured sound effects of the monsters and weapons and hero's panting/screaming perfectly.
Seriously, I'm a parent, and the only thing I really worry about them seeing are some commercials. After all, sex and violence on TV are (hopefully) not going to affect my kid too much... but I notice that advertising does sadly have an effect on lots of people. I mean, advertising and marketing is there for a reason. They don't portray their product as make believe (even though it is in a sense), instead they try to make it as real as possible.
I'm talking about junkfood, softdrinks, fast food, alcohol, prescription drugs, cheating on people/divorce being the norm (whoops, that's more TV shows than commercials), etc. etc. etc. I don't want my kid seeing much of this crap, and my options are pretty much throw away all TVs or let my kids be exposed to this stuff. Not that easy of a choice to be honest.
On the one hand I'd like to think my wife's and my influence would override some of the crap they see and that our kids will have enough sense to think for themselves. But the other side of me thinks that if America is in a state of everybody getting overweight, taking pills, and getting divorced more often than not... well... the odds are against any kid out there. And no offense to the ladies, but females seem to have a greater tendency to allow self-confidence issues cloud their thinking and believing the popular opinion, which is what commercials pretend to sell.