... you hated the Phantom Menace, don't like Hayden, don't like Portman, don't like the earlier trailers, and don't seem inclined to like this episode either.
Yet, you're going to watch the movie, and to top it off on OPENING DAY ! Is that pathetic or what ? If you don't like the movies and the actors, just don't freaking go see it. Less people on the line and less whiners in the theater the better for the rest of us.
Pong, first generation PC game ?!??!
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To The Pain
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The game itself is based on the first-generation PC game known as Pong, or bar tennis, and is followed by both players through a graphics display in the center of the table.
Huh, the author makes it sound like pong was first implemented on a PC. Hello ???
No such thing happened. And nobody in their right mind was going to invest money in a pipeline inside of Afghanistan, so get over that.
> But he did deal with them. He did not refuse to deal with them 'cause of terrorist ties, or the way they treat their women. He dealt with them to get things he wanted.
He didn't deal with them because it was already the US policy not to deal with them, they were not the recognized government. Why is that so hard to understand ?
(a) Nobody pretended this was the main objective, but a very nice benefit.
(b) Nobody is saying that women are now at equal freedom level as in the US, but you sure as heck can't dismiss the fact that they're more free today and have better prospects for the future.
BTW, there are women in the new government today, there are women at the University today (I heard about 50% of people signing up were women).
The other aspect is that Karzai was never a member of the Norther Alliance !
C'mon, why don't you just admit that you don't want to say some good has come out of the whole mess. Be honest.
> Nation building? What exactly is Bush W. doing right now in Afghanistan? He has killed and imprisoned the leadership of the country whom he formerly supported, and replaced it with the warlords that people hated so much before the Taliban drove them out.
Bush II never "supported" the Taliban regime, as it wasn't even the recognized government of Afghanistan.
And please, don't mention the millions of dollars given in aid, that wasn't for the Taliban, but for humanitarian aid.
It may interest you to know that some of the bands in the Northern Alliance have the same history of human rights violations that the Taliban have been accused of.
It might interest you to know that most NA areas provided women a lot more freedoms than any Taliban controlled cities.
It might also interest you to know, that before the Taliban takeover, most of the educators (over 60%) were women. Which explains why there weren't any teachers in Taliban controlled Hell.
In your line of thinking, the NA could only be a better alternative to the Taliban if they were politically like US feminists. Please, get a clue.
... and you get all your pointless character development, made up characters and ridiculous love story.
This is about real life, and a real event, you don't get to go into long speeches and jokes in the middle of a firefight.
Too much action ? What do you think this movie is about, the local cheerleading team ?
Women & Children shields not cowardly ?!?!?!?
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It's a cultural thing I guess, but most civilized cultures (and even most great ancient ones) consider hiding behind women and children as cowardly.
You could argue that being suicidal in the face of a highly technologically superior opponent could be argued as a brave tactic or not, but women and children shields ?
The best setup should be the default setup. It's nice you can disable the draggable menus, but that's not the default option, thus most people won't.
As for the handle, it's not that there shouldn't be one, it's just that's it's a very distracting graphical object just for expressing a "hint" (hey , you can drag this).
When you have a couple of draggable toolbars and menus next to each other, the "handle" looks like some random garbage.
"Compiling a kernel" means collecting seeds for aunt Tillie.
This seems like a bad idea if it's a desktop icon or an easy to access program. Let aunt Tillie mess with the kernel and watch how fast the computer will grind to a halt, heck, we're lucky if aunt Tillie knows that a computer mouse is not a rodent !
Sorry, but GNOME just look butt ugly on it's default install, and default installs are what matter (so please, spare me the themes, color changes, etc.)
The only visual improvement I see is the icons on the Gnome Control Center, they look kind of nice.
The buttons on the "taskbar" on the bottom on the other hand are such a waste of space. Too big and too much empty space there.
The indicator that a menu or toolbar is draggable is too cluncky and distracting.
And draggable toolbars are a waste of time. Just because Windows does it, doesn't mean it's a good idea. That's probably one of the stupidest UI design decision since the one button mouse !
It's a very fun game, and I love the single player campaings too.
The Trade Federation is a very, cool civilization, and I just finished the "bonus" mission, sort of an alternate recreation of the Battle of Naboo.
Cool game, but yes, very similar to AOE2 (i've heard, haven't played AOE) since it's the same engine. However, it seems aircrafts and shielding make add a lot of different gameplay to the game. (specially the famba shields by the gungangs).
And just because the "Rebels" won, that doesn't mean that peace is sure to reign; just look at todays real world. The underdog defeated the mighty evil over in Afghanistan (Mujihaddin(?) vs. USSR), but did it bring on an era of peace? No, they immediately fell to in-fighting, and opened the door for an even greater nemesis - the Taliban.
Wow, you sure don't have any fun. Sucks to be you !
STOP the 43 million to the Taliban myth !!!
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Globalization
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Please stop spreading this stupid rumor.
It's almost as bad as the Nostradamous non-sense.
It was started by an article written by "Robert Scheer", and it's factually wrong.
> Eli Lake, who covers the State Department for UPI and who wrote an accurate report about the $43 million grant last May, calls the notion that the White House gave the money to the Taliban as a reward for their anti-drug efforts " just absurd." He notes that one of the Bush administration's first actions upon taking office was to shut down the Taliban's mission in New York, in compliance with UN sanctions.
> Do you consider the death of 1.5 million Iraqi children as a good price for the good cause?
Heck no, but you ignore the real point, it's Saddam who's starving those children. You have to wonder, how people acn die due to lack of medicine, while at the same time the government spends millions in bio weapons.
As for Bin Laden's excuses, he can parrot all the complaints he wants, but they're just excuses. Funny how he feels bad for Iraq now, when he suggested to the Saudis to fight against Hussein.
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... you hated the Phantom Menace, don't like Hayden, don't like Portman, don't like the earlier trailers, and don't seem inclined to like this episode either.
Yet, you're going to watch the movie, and to top it off on OPENING DAY ! Is that pathetic or what ? If you don't like the movies and the actors, just don't freaking go see it. Less people on the line and less whiners in the theater the better for the rest of us.
The game itself is based on the first-generation PC game known as Pong, or bar tennis, and is followed by both players through a graphics display in the center of the table.
Huh, the author makes it sound like pong was first implemented on a PC. Hello ???
Interesting, they have a free eval version, I'm going to try that.
Do you know if they plan to provide 1.4 support anytime soon ?
Oh god, just buy a laptop with a DVD drive and get yourself a cople of batteries.
Or even better, get a portable DVD player !
... trust "me", and anonymous coward posting on slashdot.
Gee , you inspire a lot of trust, eh ?
> and for access to natural gas and oil.
No such thing happened. And nobody in their right mind was going to invest money in a pipeline inside of Afghanistan, so get over that.
> But he did deal with them. He did not refuse to deal with them 'cause of terrorist ties, or the way they treat their women. He dealt with them to get things he wanted.
He didn't deal with them because it was already the US policy not to deal with them, they were not the recognized government. Why is that so hard to understand ?
(a) Nobody pretended this was the main objective, but a very nice benefit.
(b) Nobody is saying that women are now at equal freedom level as in the US, but you sure as heck can't dismiss the fact that they're more free today and have better prospects for the future.
BTW, there are women in the new government today, there are women at the University today (I heard about 50% of people signing up were women).
The other aspect is that Karzai was never a member of the Norther Alliance !
C'mon, why don't you just admit that you don't want to say some good has come out of the whole mess. Be honest.
> Nation building? What exactly is Bush W. doing right now in Afghanistan? He has killed and imprisoned the leadership of the country whom he formerly supported, and replaced it with the warlords that people hated so much before the Taliban drove them out.
Bush II never "supported" the Taliban regime, as it wasn't even the recognized government of Afghanistan.
And please, don't mention the millions of dollars given in aid, that wasn't for the Taliban, but for humanitarian aid.
It may interest you to know that some of the bands in the Northern Alliance have the same history of human rights violations that the Taliban have been accused of.
It might interest you to know that most NA areas provided women a lot more freedoms than any Taliban controlled cities.
It might also interest you to know, that before the Taliban takeover, most of the educators (over 60%) were women. Which explains why there weren't any teachers in Taliban controlled Hell.
In your line of thinking, the NA could only be a better alternative to the Taliban if they were politically like US feminists. Please, get a clue.
... and you get all your pointless character development, made up characters and ridiculous love story.
This is about real life, and a real event, you don't get to go into long speeches and jokes in the middle of a firefight.
Too much action ? What do you think this movie is about, the local cheerleading team ?
It's a cultural thing I guess, but most civilized cultures (and even most great ancient ones) consider hiding behind women and children as cowardly.
You could argue that being suicidal in the face of a highly technologically superior opponent could be argued as a brave tactic or not, but women and children shields ?
The best setup should be the default setup. It's nice you can disable the draggable menus, but that's not the default option, thus most people won't.
As for the handle, it's not that there shouldn't be one, it's just that's it's a very distracting graphical object just for expressing a "hint" (hey , you can drag this).
When you have a couple of draggable toolbars and menus next to each other, the "handle" looks like some random garbage.
"Compiling a kernel" means collecting seeds for aunt Tillie.
This seems like a bad idea if it's a desktop icon or an easy to access program. Let aunt Tillie mess with the kernel and watch how fast the computer will grind to a halt, heck, we're lucky if aunt Tillie knows that a computer mouse is not a rodent !
Sorry, but GNOME just look butt ugly on it's default install, and default installs are what matter (so please, spare me the themes, color changes, etc.)
The only visual improvement I see is the icons on the Gnome Control Center, they look kind of nice.
The buttons on the "taskbar" on the bottom on the other hand are such a waste of space. Too big and too much empty space there.
The indicator that a menu or toolbar is draggable is too cluncky and distracting.
And draggable toolbars are a waste of time. Just because Windows does it, doesn't mean it's a good idea. That's probably one of the stupidest UI design decision since the one button mouse !
... probably still in there.
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There is such a thing as su on NT, YOU MORON
Heh, moron, that's exactly what he said.
*sigh*
> Wasn't this iteration of FF supposed to require the hard drive addon? Or was that FFXI? Anyone know?
Nope, there's no need for a hard drive in this one, plus the load times are very quick (specially switching between gameplay and CGI).
If there's a hard drive requirement, it would probably be for FFXI.
... it came from here.
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It's a very fun game, and I love the single player campaings too.
The Trade Federation is a very, cool civilization, and I just finished the "bonus" mission, sort of an alternate recreation of the Battle of Naboo.
Cool game, but yes, very similar to AOE2 (i've heard, haven't played AOE) since it's the same engine. However, it seems aircrafts and shielding make add a lot of different gameplay to the game. (specially the famba shields by the gungangs).
12 Buildings on fire now.
1st, what the heck is a "trailor" ?
and 2nd, it's called a "teaser", but hey don't let me get in the way of your inane rantings.
And just because the "Rebels" won, that doesn't mean that peace is sure to reign; just look at todays real world. The underdog defeated the mighty evil over in Afghanistan (Mujihaddin(?) vs. USSR), but did it bring on an era of peace? No, they immediately fell to in-fighting, and opened the door for an even greater nemesis - the Taliban.
Wow, you sure don't have any fun. Sucks to be you !
Please stop spreading this stupid rumor.
It's almost as bad as the Nostradamous non-sense.
It was started by an article written by "Robert Scheer", and it's factually wrong.
Did the White House give the Taliban $43 million?
> Eli Lake, who covers the State Department for UPI and who wrote an accurate report about the $43 million grant last May, calls the notion that the White House gave the money to the Taliban as a reward for their anti-drug efforts " just absurd." He notes that one of the Bush administration's first actions upon taking office was to shut down the Taliban's mission in New York, in compliance with UN sanctions.
> Do you consider the death of 1.5 million Iraqi children as a good price for the good cause?
Heck no, but you ignore the real point, it's Saddam who's starving those children. You have to wonder, how people acn die due to lack of medicine, while at the same time the government spends millions in bio weapons.
As for Bin Laden's excuses, he can parrot all the complaints he wants, but they're just excuses. Funny how he feels bad for Iraq now, when he suggested to the Saudis to fight against Hussein.
> And the stupid US public is so uninformed anyway (as I can see from your posting), that he has its full backing.
As the more informed Afghan public and "free" press. Yeah right.