The initial level is pretty much empty. You walk and there is the creepy atmosphere and you keep walking. You walk, expecting something to jump out at you any second, but it doesn't. You walk and... wait, I think I... HOLY FUCK! DIE DIE DIE!
Then there was the one level where a large open room with a cat walk above. After nearly buying the farm about 6 times, I just stayed in there and waited. For 30 minutes. I sat, in a corner, twitching at every sound, doing nothing for 30 minutes. And I was not bored at all.
I read somewhere that some guys coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan who are a bit more morally flexible than your average Joe have been making and selling IEDs to gangs.
Just saying I read it somewhere, not saying that its necessarily true.
To start, I'm not a fan of this surveillance society and I'd oppose this if it ever came to my town.
Having said that, I'm somewhat puzzled by the claims that this would violate privacy. There is no privacy in public. The street corners and intersections are simply not private.
There is a bizarre misuse of the word which seems to stem from the belief anything you do, regardless of where you do it, is private unless you want other people to know about it. It does not make any sense.
Rational being of wonder? Seeing as I do not believe that I am the possessor of the one true truth, I'd have to say no. Most of the time when I think I've had an insight, someone comes along and points out that there has already been such an insight, usually long before I came along. Oddly enough, you calling Poe's law (with which I was not familiar) caused me to look it up and again such occurred; my thought came with me figuring that a parody of feminism and feminism would be indistinguishable.
All who oppose me are stupid and evil? No, obviously. While some small number are evil, so are a small number of every grouping. Neither are they stupid, for the most part, though those exist too, I'm sure. They do tend to be heavily dogmatic.
Er, I've never met an open minded liberal... Thus far in my 36 years, I've only met the "we are morally supreme, utterly rational beings of wonder, all who oppose us are stupid and evil!" variety.
Years and years ago, I was in a bar, sloshed. Absolutely mind boggling drunk. I was so thoroughly intoxicated that I was seeing double. An easy solution to this was to slap one hand over one eye and thus eliminate the duality. And there was this girl. This really hot, blond dreadlocked, sleeve tattoo girl. So I gave money to the bartender to get whatever she wanted and I lurch back to my table.
The girl and her friend sit at the neighboring table and she turns to me and says, "You're going to buy me a drink and not talk to me?" I give my present state of blitzness as an impediment to conversation, but she won't hear of it. For an hour or so, we chat and she laughs and she touches and all is great. But at some point, my party affiliation becomes a topic of conversation.
"You're a Republican?" she asks.
"Yep."
She gets up and leaves the table. She would never speak to me nor even make eye contact ever again.
"It was because of a complete LACK of government controls on the banking industry that this fell apart in the first place."
You really need no basis in reality to assert things, do you?
"The founders warned of the power of government IN THE WRONG HANDS, and also warned of the IMBALANCE of power, that's why there's a tripolar split, and one branch should never get control of anothers."
This is true. The Supreme Court has been intruding on the others for most of a century. The Presidency has also grown too greatly in power. The legislative branch, because it is full of democratic (please note the absence of a capital letter) politicians who want nothing to be their fault, thus allowing others to exercise power that is reserved to themselves so they can get re-elected.
"I really was waiting for Bush to ignore the 8 year deadline"
That is because you are delusional.
"praising that individuals of great achievement can get things done, guess what, you finally elected one"
In my opinion, thanks for asking, psychopaths are attracted to violent entertainment, because it is violent and they are psychopaths. For others (normal-ish people) the violence isn't real (because it is a game, after all) and it is fun. Your over or underweight gaming fanatic probably plays vastly more of this stuff than anyone else and killing large swaths of people at school would cut into his gaming time.
We've formed an orderly queue and are waiting for it to turn up."
Made me laugh. My co-workers are now even more convinced that I am insane.
With regards to your distinction between Stalinism and Fascism, I've come to believe that there is really little difference aside from aesthetics and what the thugs babble about when beating you to death. My personal preference is for either totalitarian socialism (nationalist and internationalist are both covered) or Marxist-Fascism (makes an opening for conversation on the topic when people look at you dumbly.) Just my two cents, herr comrade.
I read the first 9 issues of ASBAR in one sitting. While initially it was very much a "huh?" phenomenon, if you roll with it, it is pretty damn fun. Not DKR quality, of course, but I did find it fun.
"Your society is the most unfair and exclusive society in history."
It is pretty obvious that you are an ignorant tool.
"You ever read about how people in communist countries make such a pittance, and wonder how the hell they live?"
Well, not infrequently, they didn't live. See Stalin, Pol Pot, Cultural Revolution, etc. Another alternative is kicking people a lot of people out like Cuba did.
You do realize that 1984 was a warning and not a how-to on utopia creation, don't you?
BTW, could you please get a napkin? All of your drooling is pretty disgusting.
I think that, right now, no one is really sure what to do. I don't think that it is a cause for war (traditionally speaking), but it is a violation of sovereignty. I'm not sure what we can do about it at this point aside from defense and counter-offense.
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"Try saying something negative about Ubuntu and see what happens." /me non-nonchalantly starts his chainsaw...
The initial level is pretty much empty. You walk and there is the creepy atmosphere and you keep walking. You walk, expecting something to jump out at you any second, but it doesn't. You walk and... wait, I think I... HOLY FUCK! DIE DIE DIE!
Then there was the one level where a large open room with a cat walk above. After nearly buying the farm about 6 times, I just stayed in there and waited. For 30 minutes. I sat, in a corner, twitching at every sound, doing nothing for 30 minutes. And I was not bored at all.
An imperative to remove yourself from his lawn is located in his signature.
"jack of all trades, and fool at none"
Jack of all trades, master of none ;)
Hmm, our experiences seem to be completely different. I didn't even know Slumdog had been in theaters until people started talking Oscars.
heh that's harsh. Was there ever a period during which MS sold copies?
Infinite porno movies!
One possible reason why no one has said "you must go and see Slumdog" before is because never before has a movie been called slumdog.
All, jackassery on my part aside, nobody flipped you knew flipped out over Dark Knight?
I read somewhere that some guys coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan who are a bit more morally flexible than your average Joe have been making and selling IEDs to gangs.
Just saying I read it somewhere, not saying that its necessarily true.
To start, I'm not a fan of this surveillance society and I'd oppose this if it ever came to my town.
Having said that, I'm somewhat puzzled by the claims that this would violate privacy. There is no privacy in public. The street corners and intersections are simply not private.
There is a bizarre misuse of the word which seems to stem from the belief anything you do, regardless of where you do it, is private unless you want other people to know about it. It does not make any sense.
If anyone made those assumptions after reading my post, I'd would have questions as to their literacy.
"considering you are a member of a group of people that consider themselves "open minded" and all."
citation?
"Your own bias may have a bit to do with that. Folks don't respond well to being insulted"
*sigh*
Morally supreme? Not even approaching it.
Rational being of wonder? Seeing as I do not believe that I am the possessor of the one true truth, I'd have to say no. Most of the time when I think I've had an insight, someone comes along and points out that there has already been such an insight, usually long before I came along. Oddly enough, you calling Poe's law (with which I was not familiar) caused me to look it up and again such occurred; my thought came with me figuring that a parody of feminism and feminism would be indistinguishable.
All who oppose me are stupid and evil? No, obviously. While some small number are evil, so are a small number of every grouping. Neither are they stupid, for the most part, though those exist too, I'm sure. They do tend to be heavily dogmatic.
For an illustration of my point, please see your own post.
If by "conservatives" you mean liberals, radicals, Marxists, Trotskyites and socialists.
Er, I've never met an open minded liberal... Thus far in my 36 years, I've only met the "we are morally supreme, utterly rational beings of wonder, all who oppose us are stupid and evil!" variety.
Years and years ago, I was in a bar, sloshed. Absolutely mind boggling drunk. I was so thoroughly intoxicated that I was seeing double. An easy solution to this was to slap one hand over one eye and thus eliminate the duality. And there was this girl. This really hot, blond dreadlocked, sleeve tattoo girl. So I gave money to the bartender to get whatever she wanted and I lurch back to my table.
The girl and her friend sit at the neighboring table and she turns to me and says, "You're going to buy me a drink and not talk to me?" I give my present state of blitzness as an impediment to conversation, but she won't hear of it. For an hour or so, we chat and she laughs and she touches and all is great. But at some point, my party affiliation becomes a topic of conversation.
"You're a Republican?" she asks.
"Yep."
She gets up and leaves the table. She would never speak to me nor even make eye contact ever again.
Ah, open mindedness.
"It was because of a complete LACK of government controls on the banking industry that this fell apart in the first place."
You really need no basis in reality to assert things, do you?
"The founders warned of the power of government IN THE WRONG HANDS, and also warned of the IMBALANCE of power, that's why there's a tripolar split, and one branch should never get control of anothers."
This is true. The Supreme Court has been intruding on the others for most of a century. The Presidency has also grown too greatly in power. The legislative branch, because it is full of democratic (please note the absence of a capital letter) politicians who want nothing to be their fault, thus allowing others to exercise power that is reserved to themselves so they can get re-elected.
"I really was waiting for Bush to ignore the 8 year deadline"
That is because you are delusional.
"praising that individuals of great achievement can get things done, guess what, you finally elected one"
No, we elected a man of no achievement.
In my opinion, thanks for asking, psychopaths are attracted to violent entertainment, because it is violent and they are psychopaths. For others (normal-ish people) the violence isn't real (because it is a game, after all) and it is fun. Your over or underweight gaming fanatic probably plays vastly more of this stuff than anyone else and killing large swaths of people at school would cut into his gaming time.
"Goose-stepping, are you mad.
We've formed an orderly queue and are waiting for it to turn up."
Made me laugh. My co-workers are now even more convinced that I am insane.
With regards to your distinction between Stalinism and Fascism, I've come to believe that there is really little difference aside from aesthetics and what the thugs babble about when beating you to death. My personal preference is for either totalitarian socialism (nationalist and internationalist are both covered) or Marxist-Fascism (makes an opening for conversation on the topic when people look at you dumbly.) Just my two cents, herr comrade.
"the same level of credibility as the 4 out of 5 dentists or recommend Crest"
8~(
I read the first 9 issues of ASBAR in one sitting. While initially it was very much a "huh?" phenomenon, if you roll with it, it is pretty damn fun. Not DKR quality, of course, but I did find it fun.
"Your society is the most unfair and exclusive society in history."
It is pretty obvious that you are an ignorant tool.
"You ever read about how people in communist countries make such a pittance, and wonder how the hell they live?"
Well, not infrequently, they didn't live. See Stalin, Pol Pot, Cultural Revolution, etc. Another alternative is kicking people a lot of people out like Cuba did.
You do realize that 1984 was a warning and not a how-to on utopia creation, don't you?
BTW, could you please get a napkin? All of your drooling is pretty disgusting.
Man that is nothing.
Game: Far Cry 2
Time of day: 3 AM
Weather: Thunderstorm.
Distance: 200-300 yards
Location: Jungle with heavy undergrowth.
Position: crouching behind a tree, not moving.
Result: Spotted and snipered.
I think that, right now, no one is really sure what to do. I don't think that it is a cause for war (traditionally speaking), but it is a violation of sovereignty. I'm not sure what we can do about it at this point aside from defense and counter-offense.