You should have been pickier, then. If you're going to promise to spend the rest of your life with a woman, she'd better have a sexy voice. You'll be hearing it often, after all.
I wouldn't mind running KDE instead of Explorer on Windows. If anything, it would certainly screw with my boss' head. What I really want to know, as a Mac user, is whether it run alongside Finder on OS X, or whether it can replace Finder.
I've met a couple of decent lawyers. I've yet to see a politician who thinks that 'decency' is anything but a rhetorical sledgehammer to be brandished every time somebody gets pissy over how much sex or violence is shown on TV.
You just nailed the reason that I stopped watching TV: I got sick of all the damned advertisements. Why in the name of Lilith's heart-shaped ass should I pay to watch adverts?
I won't say that I'm "too smart" for TV, but why should I bother arrange my life around a TV schedule? Why should I give Comcast at least fifty bucks a month when there might not be anything I want to watch on TV? Why should I bother with TV when I could be writing, reading, playing games, or just curling up with my wife and listening to her talk about her day?
I don't need the Web to replace TV. I have a life.
You won't be missing much. I played the demo last night. It was crap. When I told my wife about this, she said, "They couldn't just credit everybody with 1000 points to spend; they had to give away a crappy game? Idiots."
If we're going to call the scum infesting Congress (and other legislative bodies around the world) what they are, then "mostly lawyers" doesn't quite cover it. Let's use words like "racketeers", "gangsters", "criminals", "thugs", "extortionists", "looters", "thieves", "cowards", "robbers", and "assholes".
Mod me down for the following if you like: the only good politician is a dead politician.
Don't forget to blame your government for the fact that you pay more in Australia. In the US, retail prices do not reflect sales taxes, as sales tax is levied by state and local governments. We don't have a VAT or a GST in the US. Australia does, and that tax is factored into the retail price. So, if you think you're getting fucked in the ass, take a look at Canberra before you blame the manufacturers.
By the way, I know about the GST because I've been to Australia, and my wife's an Aussie.
An honest politician is one who stays bought. Frankly, it's about time the games industry started using its money to bribe the Congresscritters. The Uptight Christians Brigade has been doing it for years, and getting in the way of everybody who just wants to kick back and enjoy the only life any of us are going to get.
I'd cook for my girlfriend, but as I understand it, the penalties for poisoning someone are rather harsh...
It's not that hard if you get a cookbook and follow the instructions. Now that I think of it, when I got my first apartment ten years ago, one of the first things I bought was a cookbook.
I do the cooking because, frankly, I'm better at it. My wife is good at baking cookies and cakes, but I'm good at the other stuff. Since she'd only ask me to help her, it's easier for me to do it myself.
That sounds like Buddhism to me, and I am not a Buddhist. A man is not a motion picture, and while I cannot always control what has happened to me, I can attempt to control how I react to my experiences. I am the sum of my actions, my thoughts, my choices, and my experiences.
If I do not own myself, then neither do you. And if you do not own yourself, then who is making you reply to my posts?
So, the right to self-ownership isn't a "right", just something merely convenient? I know we're going off-topic, but I think I have to disagree with you here. As far as I'm concerned, all negative rights are property rights rooted in self-ownership.
I'll see your Proudhon and raise you Hagbard Celine:
Without private property there is no private life.
As far as I'm concerned, the belief that private property is inimical to society is a belief endemic among those who reify society instead of viewing society as nothing more than the sum of interactions between individuals.
Actually, I was a gold member at the time. I let it expire, and as of tomorrow I'm a silver member. Also, not all of the gold members are paying gold members. When you first join Xbox Live, you get a free month's worth of gold membership for the same reason that the first month of World of WarCrack is free.
Why spend three or four years killing yourself to live when you've got a decade's worth of experience? Get a new position, give your two weeks' and get the hell out before you resort to punching kittens in order to work off job stress.
Seriously, get the hell out. For the kittens' sake, if not your own.
Heck, what can you even do with Silver other than download updates and post a Gamerscore? They can download trailers and demos, and can still buy content from the XBL Marketplace.
XBL outages don't just mean that online multiplayer is unavailable. It also means that you can't download demos and trailers, and that you can't shop the XBL Marketplace.
I'm not worried, and I never claimed to be. At worst, I'll just break out the road atlas and plan a route that avoids toll roads if the tolls prove particularly onerous. As we say on FARK: I'll get over it.
Rent BioShock, play it to the end, and you might change your mind about COD4 -- especially if you're interested in what can happen when flawed people try to create a flawless society.
I'm not poor (it's hard to think of myself as poor when I'm fat, have a HDTV, and a Xbox 360), and I still get up early. Doing so lets me avoid the traffic getting to work, and getting home from work. I get to the office two hours early, get home two hours early, and have dinner ready for my wife when she gets home.
If you're serious about reducing traffic, then you may want to take an interest in my aversion to people. I am probably not the only person who prefers to pay more for a solitary commute instead of having to share with others. This isn't Field of Dreams; you can build it, but you can't just assume that if you do, the people will come.
You're right, but where I live, the mass transit system is such that it would take an hour and a half by bus to get to work, versus twenty minutes by car. Furthermore, the lack of a car would mean that all non-work activity must be tied to the bus schedule, which isn't exactly conducive to having anything that resembles a life.
It's one thing to do without a car in New York City. Try doing without a car in smaller cities. You won't like it.
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You should have been pickier, then. If you're going to promise to spend the rest of your life with a woman, she'd better have a sexy voice. You'll be hearing it often, after all.
I wouldn't mind running KDE instead of Explorer on Windows. If anything, it would certainly screw with my boss' head. What I really want to know, as a Mac user, is whether it run alongside Finder on OS X, or whether it can replace Finder.
I've met a couple of decent lawyers. I've yet to see a politician who thinks that 'decency' is anything but a rhetorical sledgehammer to be brandished every time somebody gets pissy over how much sex or violence is shown on TV.
You just nailed the reason that I stopped watching TV: I got sick of all the damned advertisements. Why in the name of Lilith's heart-shaped ass should I pay to watch adverts?
I won't say that I'm "too smart" for TV, but why should I bother arrange my life around a TV schedule? Why should I give Comcast at least fifty bucks a month when there might not be anything I want to watch on TV? Why should I bother with TV when I could be writing, reading, playing games, or just curling up with my wife and listening to her talk about her day?
I don't need the Web to replace TV. I have a life.
You won't be missing much. I played the demo last night. It was crap. When I told my wife about this, she said, "They couldn't just credit everybody with 1000 points to spend; they had to give away a crappy game? Idiots."
If we're going to call the scum infesting Congress (and other legislative bodies around the world) what they are, then "mostly lawyers" doesn't quite cover it. Let's use words like "racketeers", "gangsters", "criminals", "thugs", "extortionists", "looters", "thieves", "cowards", "robbers", and "assholes".
Mod me down for the following if you like: the only good politician is a dead politician.
Don't forget to blame your government for the fact that you pay more in Australia. In the US, retail prices do not reflect sales taxes, as sales tax is levied by state and local governments. We don't have a VAT or a GST in the US. Australia does, and that tax is factored into the retail price. So, if you think you're getting fucked in the ass, take a look at Canberra before you blame the manufacturers.
By the way, I know about the GST because I've been to Australia, and my wife's an Aussie.
An honest politician is one who stays bought. Frankly, it's about time the games industry started using its money to bribe the Congresscritters. The Uptight Christians Brigade has been doing it for years, and getting in the way of everybody who just wants to kick back and enjoy the only life any of us are going to get.
It's not that hard if you get a cookbook and follow the instructions. Now that I think of it, when I got my first apartment ten years ago, one of the first things I bought was a cookbook.
I do the cooking because, frankly, I'm better at it. My wife is good at baking cookies and cakes, but I'm good at the other stuff. Since she'd only ask me to help her, it's easier for me to do it myself.
Can you prove any of this, or are you just trying to fuck with people's heads?
That sounds like Buddhism to me, and I am not a Buddhist. A man is not a motion picture, and while I cannot always control what has happened to me, I can attempt to control how I react to my experiences. I am the sum of my actions, my thoughts, my choices, and my experiences.
If I do not own myself, then neither do you. And if you do not own yourself, then who is making you reply to my posts?
So, the right to self-ownership isn't a "right", just something merely convenient? I know we're going off-topic, but I think I have to disagree with you here. As far as I'm concerned, all negative rights are property rights rooted in self-ownership.
I'll see your Proudhon and raise you Hagbard Celine:
Without private property there is no private life.
As far as I'm concerned, the belief that private property is inimical to society is a belief endemic among those who reify society instead of viewing society as nothing more than the sum of interactions between individuals.
Actually, I was a gold member at the time. I let it expire, and as of tomorrow I'm a silver member. Also, not all of the gold members are paying gold members. When you first join Xbox Live, you get a free month's worth of gold membership for the same reason that the first month of World of WarCrack is free.
Why spend three or four years killing yourself to live when you've got a decade's worth of experience? Get a new position, give your two weeks' and get the hell out before you resort to punching kittens in order to work off job stress.
Seriously, get the hell out. For the kittens' sake, if not your own.
If the baseball bat was made by Microsoft, it might break as soon as the technician takes a swing.
Why indeed? IT is nothing but thankless jobs; do you think that being an IT manager will be better? Why be a professional fall guy?
XBL outages don't just mean that online multiplayer is unavailable. It also means that you can't download demos and trailers, and that you can't shop the XBL Marketplace.
I bet the Silver members will have to wait their turn to get their consolation prize.
I'm not worried, and I never claimed to be. At worst, I'll just break out the road atlas and plan a route that avoids toll roads if the tolls prove particularly onerous. As we say on FARK: I'll get over it.
Rent BioShock, play it to the end, and you might change your mind about COD4 -- especially if you're interested in what can happen when flawed people try to create a flawless society.
I'm not poor (it's hard to think of myself as poor when I'm fat, have a HDTV, and a Xbox 360), and I still get up early. Doing so lets me avoid the traffic getting to work, and getting home from work. I get to the office two hours early, get home two hours early, and have dinner ready for my wife when she gets home.
If you're serious about reducing traffic, then you may want to take an interest in my aversion to people. I am probably not the only person who prefers to pay more for a solitary commute instead of having to share with others. This isn't Field of Dreams; you can build it, but you can't just assume that if you do, the people will come.
You're right, but where I live, the mass transit system is such that it would take an hour and a half by bus to get to work, versus twenty minutes by car. Furthermore, the lack of a car would mean that all non-work activity must be tied to the bus schedule, which isn't exactly conducive to having anything that resembles a life.
It's one thing to do without a car in New York City. Try doing without a car in smaller cities. You won't like it.