All languages evolve like this. The only reason we feel the need to fixate them on a standard is it gives a pretence of security. The rules themselves are just a long winded way of trying to legitimise the eccentricity of a language (English) pasted together from various other European languages. Our words are disparate, our Italian alphabet is lacking several letters and our accent changes every five miles down the road in a country of 80 million. Occasionally, we are lucky enough to get away with flouting the rules without being shot down by some jobsworth pedant. There will never be any kind of reform from the top down, if that were possible in any way whatsoever there would be no French 'weekend' for sure.
You want to put the rules in perspective, consider the many millions of human beings to come that are born into the world all thinking the same thing: 'frankly, I could not give a toss about cultural heritage mammy, now where is my coke and crisps please?'. If you don't want to be paddling a canoe up a waterfall the rest of your life, then it is much more pragmatic to be relaxed about such matters, because people are much more willing to respect convention when they are not beaten over the head with it.
calling out jews are [sic] unpopular (result of successful mind control) is is [sic] bound to get you ostracized.[sic]
Or it could just be that people are slightly sensitive to the fact that 5 or 6 million Jews were systematically murdered in unprecedented computer administrated death camps for supposedly being the sole cause of all of Germany's problems. But hey I could be barking up the wrong tree..
Actually, you owe your reading ability to the ancient Canaanites of the Middle east. You are backdated on royalty payments so I suggest you start coughing up like the rest of us law abiding citizens.
I would love to hear Roald Dahl's opinion on this. I believe it would be particularly succinct given the nature of all his stories [recap: wicked adults torment innocent children in various ways]. Too bad he is dead...
Your own link questions the complete authenticity of that quote. Ironically, it was mistranslated by Iranian press itself.
"the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time."
If I say the Taliban should be history, it doesn't mean that I want to nuke Afghanistan. Because that would start WWIII and end us all. Which would be stupid. I am of course extending the Iranian regime the courtesy of assuming it is not stupid.
I suspect that is the actual motivation behind it all. They don't have the cycle infrastructure in place to tempt people off the roads, so they just price you off instead. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the homicidal bus drivers:)
Its nothing to do with politics I think. It's more that it seems slightly odd, as it would be if you called your thumb a hand. Or a trunk an elephant. Or a steak a cow. Oh well anyway, I like the word gringo:)
Imagine a day where insurance companies can deny you coverage because you haven't had the "cigarette/alcohol/fatty-foods vaccine".
Hah, if those things existed, then anyone with problems related to them wouldn't think twice about getting the vaccine, they wouldn't need encouragement. Some things are hard to stop because they involve fighting with yourself, its not like anyone actually wants to be a fat wheezy alcoholic. Addiction is a corruption of the impulses that under normal circumstances would actually be harmless, if there weren't artificial products out there that hijack them.
So let me summarise your post - you do your whatever it is you do because you want to be better than me. Well done for being a hypocrite. I was talking about doing something that you can actually enjoy, which doesn't have to be riding a bike, but it doesn't have to be overthought, fitness for its own sake bullshit either.
You want to educate people out of their sofa's? Try not boring them to death! We live in a world where there is practically no motivation for being fit, because everyone's money earning life involves sitting at a desk looking at a computer, and this is exactly where all these religiously prescribed 'you can enjoy my fitness too if you follow this recipe' training regimes spring from. Wake up, this entire thread is about what would be best for the disenchanted, chair bound desk army, who end up in front a tv because life barely gives them a reason to breathe in and out, let alone bow down to the likes of Men's Health magazine.
When they say healthy mind, healthy body, they mean you have to start by giving people some reason to want to be fit, which generally doesn't mean asking them to dress up in spandex and drink fucking creatine or any other 'stay ahead of the pack' pseudo science.
I smoke, drink, and eat some godawful crap, I'm nearly 30 and I still run up and down stairs two at a time like a ten year old. Because rather than all this pretentious exercise, I go out and play in the mud once a week like god intended!
This fitness freak thing is really getting old. People don't avoid the gym because they are lazy, they avoid it because they DONT WANT TO BE LIKE YOU!
Whitney Houston's death was a chance for Sony to make more money, so they took it
I really can't blame Sony for doing such a thing, even when it's kind of bad taste
Well, I really can't blame people if their knee jerk reaction is to want to punch whoever thought that was okay in the face. I find that rather encouraging actually. And I say this as someone who is not exactly a fan of her music. But in any case, they fucked up their profit angle, people don't exactly like to knowingly spend their money on exceptionally bad taste. Graverobbing doesn't come without its karma.
If Michael Jackson is anything to go by, I'm sure we'll be experiencing a 'revival' shortly. Isn't it all so touching.
I agree with this, I think the reverse of the article should be true - PC's should be taking a few lessons from CONSOLES!
Nobody wants to spend hours researching the best value for money for upgrades, but that is the reality of how it happens. AMD and Nvidia release half a dozen cards at a time, all with frankly misleading model numbers and gobbledygook specs, and you have to know the game they play in order to not get stung. Which is ok for hardcore gamers, but a serious strain on everyone else - right from the days of the Geforce4 MX. Remember when you either had a Voodoo 2 or... 2 Voodoo 2's ? Good times:)! It is one of the main causes of the poor market share of pc games today, make no mistake. The other is being treated like a hostage by progressively more invasive security - whether that is the fault of pirates or publishers does not matter, while they fight together, everybody who matters loses.
So two of the precise reasons that give PC gaming a huge benefit (ie open hardware and upgrade flexibility) are actually growing into monsters that are stabbing it in the back. I don't want either of those advantages to be harmed, but they do need to fucking reel it in!
Consoles should learn from pc's as well. There is no reason I shouldn't be able to use USB stuff freely between my pc and my console, or write and play third party games on them - but the advantage of the console has become a double edged sword as well, it is too strict. The base unit can be a rock solid standard, fine, but the closed ecosystem also looks like an iron curtain to everyone except the manufacturers.
This whole idea is incredibly blinkered. Both platforms need to look very deep at the relative advantages and disadvantages they have and move closer together.
I am absolutely certain that no amount of extension in copyright will cause Walt Disney to rise from the grave and plagiarise more from classic fairy tales.
I have always believed that all you have to do to stop piracy is sell at a price point that doesn't scream extortion. And then steam / gog etc came along, and it seems like all everyone ever says about them is how many games they have bought and not even played yet because they are so cheap and they go into impulse shopping mode. So I feel vindicated in my opinion. I've even bought games again that I paid for on disc, just to have the modern convenience, and I am a thrifty bastard!
Where the fuck do publishers get the idea that £50 quid is an acceptable price for anyone? They are making entertainment for people who work a shitty job to earn a living, and they are surprised that those same people have no respect for them. What a fucking joke. They made the used game market, they made piracy - who would actually go to the trouble, in other words, to have a second hand copy, or to break the law, if there was no reasonable motivation to do so?
Here is a thought excercise - try and think of any individual item that you buy on a regular basis, that is anywhere near the price of a new game. I dont think my food bill for a month even comes to that.
I suppose you are referring to a slum, but whichever way you look at it, it is still a roof over your head. You might not be able to imagine yourself there, but take it away and you'd be tripping over homeless people every three steps. And for what, because the thought of a medieval style village in modern times offends you?
For the sake of argument, London used to be a festering slum whose streets were lined with sewage and animal entrails, but now it is the most expensive place to live in the UK!
I would live in a van happily, or a boat, but a car would be a stretch.
I'd be more worried about needing an address for some things, and the actual stigma itself, than not having brick walls around me. I've met a few sailors that live this way, and all of them were very happy well adjusted people.
Society seems to think it has a right to view you as a non-entity if you don't have a home, and then makes sure the barrier to entry is as high as it can get away with. If somebody has lost their hose, what the fuck gives society the right to punish them even more?
The key thing is everyone needs somewhere to retreat to sleep and keep warm. For most people that is a house or flat, but the bare minimum is just food, a bed, and if you are at an extreme latitude, some heat source - surely something that is very easy to provide, so what is the problem?
Well, nobody seems to have a right to build their own house how they please, and the only way to afford one is a lifelong commitment to a miserable but stable job. Who in their right mind can stand the thought of that?
Me, I'll keep saving up to buy a boat... it gives me a lot more confidence in my future than a pension.
Newspaper is actually pretty handy - if you need to fill a hole in a hollow wall, you could end up pushing a kilo or two of filler in there before it starts to build up, but if you just stuff it full of newspaper first, you only need as much as you would to cover the surface. It might seem like a bodge, but really it just saves you materials. It can also be used to stop the draft from under the floorboards underneath a carpet. I've worked on houses that get wrecked by students every single year, and to be perfectly frank, if you have to bodge something up to make it look clean, it doesn't matter, because next year it will invariably be trashed again.
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All languages evolve like this. The only reason we feel the need to fixate them on a standard is it gives a pretence of security. The rules themselves are just a long winded way of trying to legitimise the eccentricity of a language (English) pasted together from various other European languages. Our words are disparate, our Italian alphabet is lacking several letters and our accent changes every five miles down the road in a country of 80 million. Occasionally, we are lucky enough to get away with flouting the rules without being shot down by some jobsworth pedant. There will never be any kind of reform from the top down, if that were possible in any way whatsoever there would be no French 'weekend' for sure.
You want to put the rules in perspective, consider the many millions of human beings to come that are born into the world all thinking the same thing: 'frankly, I could not give a toss about cultural heritage mammy, now where is my coke and crisps please?'. If you don't want to be paddling a canoe up a waterfall the rest of your life, then it is much more pragmatic to be relaxed about such matters, because people are much more willing to respect convention when they are not beaten over the head with it.
calling out jews are [sic] unpopular (result of successful mind control) is is [sic] bound to get you ostracized.[sic]
Or it could just be that people are slightly sensitive to the fact that 5 or 6 million Jews were systematically murdered in unprecedented computer administrated death camps for supposedly being the sole cause of all of Germany's problems. But hey I could be barking up the wrong tree..
I skipped straight to the song. From now on I propose all argument be null and void unless articulated in the form of a song.
Actually, you owe your reading ability to the ancient Canaanites of the Middle east. You are backdated on royalty payments so I suggest you start coughing up like the rest of us law abiding citizens.
I would love to hear Roald Dahl's opinion on this. I believe it would be particularly succinct given the nature of all his stories [recap: wicked adults torment innocent children in various ways]. Too bad he is dead...
If you have actually convinced yourself that, there is no redeeming you.
THANK YOU FOR THE 1990'S NETIQUETTE LESSON
Your own link questions the complete authenticity of that quote. Ironically, it was mistranslated by Iranian press itself.
"the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time."
If I say the Taliban should be history, it doesn't mean that I want to nuke Afghanistan. Because that would start WWIII and end us all. Which would be stupid. I am of course extending the Iranian regime the courtesy of assuming it is not stupid.
I suspect that is the actual motivation behind it all. They don't have the cycle infrastructure in place to tempt people off the roads, so they just price you off instead. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the homicidal bus drivers :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17069235
Durr, everyone and their mother would like to put a box on your tv. Have you been into this technology thing much?
Its nothing to do with politics I think. It's more that it seems slightly odd, as it would be if you called your thumb a hand. Or a trunk an elephant. Or a steak a cow. Oh well anyway, I like the word gringo :)
Imagine a day where insurance companies can deny you coverage because you haven't had the "cigarette/alcohol/fatty-foods vaccine".
Hah, if those things existed, then anyone with problems related to them wouldn't think twice about getting the vaccine, they wouldn't need encouragement. Some things are hard to stop because they involve fighting with yourself, its not like anyone actually wants to be a fat wheezy alcoholic. Addiction is a corruption of the impulses that under normal circumstances would actually be harmless, if there weren't artificial products out there that hijack them.
So let me summarise your post - you do your whatever it is you do because you want to be better than me. Well done for being a hypocrite. I was talking about doing something that you can actually enjoy, which doesn't have to be riding a bike, but it doesn't have to be overthought, fitness for its own sake bullshit either.
You want to educate people out of their sofa's? Try not boring them to death! We live in a world where there is practically no motivation for being fit, because everyone's money earning life involves sitting at a desk looking at a computer, and this is exactly where all these religiously prescribed 'you can enjoy my fitness too if you follow this recipe' training regimes spring from. Wake up, this entire thread is about what would be best for the disenchanted, chair bound desk army, who end up in front a tv because life barely gives them a reason to breathe in and out, let alone bow down to the likes of Men's Health magazine.
When they say healthy mind, healthy body, they mean you have to start by giving people some reason to want to be fit, which generally doesn't mean asking them to dress up in spandex and drink fucking creatine or any other 'stay ahead of the pack' pseudo science.
If you want to make fun of anybody's spelling, make fun of the french. Please. For their own sake.
Ride a BIKE
I smoke, drink, and eat some godawful crap, I'm nearly 30 and I still run up and down stairs two at a time like a ten year old. Because rather than all this pretentious exercise, I go out and play in the mud once a week like god intended!
This fitness freak thing is really getting old. People don't avoid the gym because they are lazy, they avoid it because they DONT WANT TO BE LIKE YOU!
Sony is a profit-oriented corporation
Their mission is to make profit
Whitney Houston's death was a chance for Sony to make more money, so they took it
I really can't blame Sony for doing such a thing, even when it's kind of bad taste
Well, I really can't blame people if their knee jerk reaction is to want to punch whoever thought that was okay in the face. I find that rather encouraging actually. And I say this as someone who is not exactly a fan of her music. But in any case, they fucked up their profit angle, people don't exactly like to knowingly spend their money on exceptionally bad taste. Graverobbing doesn't come without its karma.
If Michael Jackson is anything to go by, I'm sure we'll be experiencing a 'revival' shortly. Isn't it all so touching.
I agree with this, I think the reverse of the article should be true - PC's should be taking a few lessons from CONSOLES!
Nobody wants to spend hours researching the best value for money for upgrades, but that is the reality of how it happens. AMD and Nvidia release half a dozen cards at a time, all with frankly misleading model numbers and gobbledygook specs, and you have to know the game they play in order to not get stung. Which is ok for hardcore gamers, but a serious strain on everyone else - right from the days of the Geforce4 MX. Remember when you either had a Voodoo 2 or... 2 Voodoo 2's ? Good times :)! It is one of the main causes of the poor market share of pc games today, make no mistake. The other is being treated like a hostage by progressively more invasive security - whether that is the fault of pirates or publishers does not matter, while they fight together, everybody who matters loses.
So two of the precise reasons that give PC gaming a huge benefit (ie open hardware and upgrade flexibility) are actually growing into monsters that are stabbing it in the back. I don't want either of those advantages to be harmed, but they do need to fucking reel it in!
Consoles should learn from pc's as well. There is no reason I shouldn't be able to use USB stuff freely between my pc and my console, or write and play third party games on them - but the advantage of the console has become a double edged sword as well, it is too strict. The base unit can be a rock solid standard, fine, but the closed ecosystem also looks like an iron curtain to everyone except the manufacturers.
This whole idea is incredibly blinkered. Both platforms need to look very deep at the relative advantages and disadvantages they have and move closer together.
I am absolutely certain that no amount of extension in copyright will cause Walt Disney to rise from the grave and plagiarise more from classic fairy tales.
There, thats better.
I have always believed that all you have to do to stop piracy is sell at a price point that doesn't scream extortion. And then steam / gog etc came along, and it seems like all everyone ever says about them is how many games they have bought and not even played yet because they are so cheap and they go into impulse shopping mode. So I feel vindicated in my opinion. I've even bought games again that I paid for on disc, just to have the modern convenience, and I am a thrifty bastard!
Where the fuck do publishers get the idea that £50 quid is an acceptable price for anyone? They are making entertainment for people who work a shitty job to earn a living, and they are surprised that those same people have no respect for them. What a fucking joke. They made the used game market, they made piracy - who would actually go to the trouble, in other words, to have a second hand copy, or to break the law, if there was no reasonable motivation to do so?
Here is a thought excercise - try and think of any individual item that you buy on a regular basis, that is anywhere near the price of a new game. I dont think my food bill for a month even comes to that.
I rather liked hammer and tongs - its a bit of a blur though, i cant remember if it was the taste or the price point...
Yes, why not preserve the silent e and the sliding 'ai'.. or better yet, lets pronounce it! strah... teh.. hmm yes
Thanks. I felt lonely in my world view until I read this...
I suppose you are referring to a slum, but whichever way you look at it, it is still a roof over your head. You might not be able to imagine yourself there, but take it away and you'd be tripping over homeless people every three steps. And for what, because the thought of a medieval style village in modern times offends you?
For the sake of argument, London used to be a festering slum whose streets were lined with sewage and animal entrails, but now it is the most expensive place to live in the UK!
I would live in a van happily, or a boat, but a car would be a stretch.
I'd be more worried about needing an address for some things, and the actual stigma itself, than not having brick walls around me. I've met a few sailors that live this way, and all of them were very happy well adjusted people.
Society seems to think it has a right to view you as a non-entity if you don't have a home, and then makes sure the barrier to entry is as high as it can get away with. If somebody has lost their hose, what the fuck gives society the right to punish them even more?
The key thing is everyone needs somewhere to retreat to sleep and keep warm. For most people that is a house or flat, but the bare minimum is just food, a bed, and if you are at an extreme latitude, some heat source - surely something that is very easy to provide, so what is the problem?
Well, nobody seems to have a right to build their own house how they please, and the only way to afford one is a lifelong commitment to a miserable but stable job. Who in their right mind can stand the thought of that?
Me, I'll keep saving up to buy a boat... it gives me a lot more confidence in my future than a pension.
Newspaper is actually pretty handy - if you need to fill a hole in a hollow wall, you could end up pushing a kilo or two of filler in there before it starts to build up, but if you just stuff it full of newspaper first, you only need as much as you would to cover the surface. It might seem like a bodge, but really it just saves you materials. It can also be used to stop the draft from under the floorboards underneath a carpet. I've worked on houses that get wrecked by students every single year, and to be perfectly frank, if you have to bodge something up to make it look clean, it doesn't matter, because next year it will invariably be trashed again.