I spent a year teaching high school kids that had been for one reason or another (or another and another) expelled from standard public schools. Empirical evidence to be sure, but none of my "troubled" kids (violence, gangs, drugs) had the misfortune of having two parents working too hard. Many did come from "broken" homes, but divorce situations create tensions that far exceed having two parents working all the time and it is indeed an entirely different topic.
So, shall we compare crime rates of affluenct (thus high property values, thus expensive lifestyle, thus many children have both parents working) public schools and those of inner cities? Please do.
To get back to the original topic and to clearly state a point that went over your head (because you argued points that agree with it while apparently believing that you were disagreeing), videogames don't create bad kids; bad parenting creates bad kids.
Oh no, disaffected children of suburban elites. Oh the terror, oh the humanity. Oh the mindless rhetoric. So scared. Welcome to 1985.
Do you believe that in a neighborhood made up entirely of your ideal family situation (one parent at home full-time) will have less crime than a neighborhood where both parents work full time?
Explain how you think that a child goes from perceiving that his parents got an education and work hard to get what they want out of life to learning life lessons from video games.
Kids have played videogames and smoked joints while both parents were away working since the big business 80s. Somehow I missed the huge jump in, what, suburban thuggery?
Oh! But I did notice the correlation between the financial situation of a family and the crime rate of the children. Of course correlation does NOT mean causation (if you think it does then I have a chart about pirates to show you) but it is food for thought, eh?
Sorry, it's the Blue Sun logo she was cutting. If you listen to the commentaries they reveal that Blue Sun is the corporation behind the government, and they were going to factor hugely in the series' plot with River.
Note: she peeled off the labels from the cans with blue sun on them Note: after cutting Jayne's blue sun shirt (the first time in the series he had worn that in front of her) she says "that color [the red of his blood] looks better on you"
Flawed reasoning. Your argument incorrectly assumes that the poster was talking about European countries when, in fact, the poster's point was that the US is not the only county centrally founded on individual liberties and moreover, in recent years the US has, compared to similar individual liberty countries, curtailed individual liberties a considerable, and surprising, amount.
Your one sentence reply also contained an ad hominem attack. (That's bad.)
How it having a large external any different than having a large internal? They are both single points of failure. That's kind of why you have a large external drive. To... you know, backup stuff.
E.g. If you enter Crash Time when viewing from behind, you guide left to take out that other car--but the camera switches to view from the front, you have to flip the control to the right. It's kind of dumb, but you get used to it.
You actually have to think about switching control perspectives? I didn't even realize that it worked that way until you just described it. Back to remedial Mario 64 for you!:-)
You get ranked up to awesome (four stars) by racing well (doing lots of things like oncoming driving, drifting, boosting, checking). The gold medal adds one star to achieve a perfect 5 star rating.
In my experience, getting a gold means that you almost always have an awesome rating because you have to drive well to win. So in practice, getting a gold almost always means a perfect 5-star rating, but not always.
Anachronism eh? SO. Since you feel that in the Future we will all have equal access to all technology, how do you explain the fact that we are chatting to each other via a global information network while many thousands of people still live in subsistance communities?
Do you think that when phasers, lasers, or other -ers are invented; that they will be handed out to all who ask? Do you think that when terraforming dozens of planets, that each planet will receive state of the art machinery requiring expensive fuel and electricity? You don't think that there will be a place for livestock at all?
Where do you think hamburgers and the like come from? Do you think that food will be delivered via spaceship to entire planets? If so, where does the food come from in your idealized scifi universe?
Please, describe your all "futuristic and shit" universe. Explain how people living on the edge of civilization will have access to very expensive technology other than that required to maintain their lifestyle. I guess you believe that the Iraqi insurgents have helicopters, tanks, tactical nuclear weapons, submarines, etc. I guess that's why they are taking on our military directly instead of doing makeshift hit and run attacks, oh. Wait.
Does it not make more sense that people would use the scifi tech they need and can afford, and make do with the rest? I.e. they have a scifi space engine, but use guns. Their scifi engine does the job they need it to do, their guns do the job they need them to do.
So I guess I should get over to Mongolia and help out with the water well-based community IPO they are offering next month. Maybe get them to finally upgrade from horses and oxen to cars and tractors, because gas is so cheap and easily available to them; unlike grass. The grass that grows on the hills. That feeds the horses and oxen directly. Yeah. I guess that makes sense in your head.
I wouldn't if I was watching commercials for stuff I'm interested in. Just think how we geeks flood servers that host trailers (commericals) for new movies that we are excited about.
The commercial torrent server could have ad preference settings (with some ads broadcast to all of course). If I was watching commercials for video games, apple products, geek websites, cool podcasts, cool movies, cool tv shows, and other new products in any specified product area: soft drinks? pizza specials? volkswagen jetta parts?
Bring on the targetted advertising! Then companies will spend less on advertising because they will be able to focus their campaigns on their buyers and likely buyers instead of *everyone*. HOPEFULLY the companies will realize that they can use that extra cash to lower product costs and maintain the same profit margins on items sold but sell more of them! Think lots more $30 new video games. Or $10 released straight to DVD movies advertised to specific markets.
The possibilities for effective advertising are huge and could really help geek friendly companies if they'd only realize it.
Forget the movies. Unless said martial artist is very good; a significant mass difference wins over skill.
I.e. a 100-150 pound martial arts expert could not expect to easily or reliably defeat a 300 pound unskilled foe. The difference in size provides a huge advantage. That's why martial arts competitions are classed by both belt AND weight.
A 200 pound unskilled fighter vs. a 150 pound martial artist would be a good fight.
Now if you are a 150 pound unskilled fighter facing a 300 pound martial artist...hope that you can run really, really fast.
Note: all of these fights assume serious fighting to incapacity. If any sort of martial arts tagging and hit zone games are played, obviously someone skilled at the game will have a huge advantage.
I, for one, would be happy to download torrents of my favorite tv shows with commercials included. Sell the torrent ad space! At least the ads would be semi-targetted (as on slashdot) to thinks that I might actually care about. Hell, I'd even pay to subscribe to torrents of specific shows with ads. My purchasing power as an emerging late-20s demographic should be worth a pretty penny to corporations. So let them vie for my attention by supporting awesome shows.
First we get the coporate tv torrents; then we get torrent Neilson ratings; then they see the massive popularity of shows like Firefly and Battlestar Galactica and just how many people are watching; then we have more awesome shows to watch.
The downside? Oh no, I'll have to watch commercials again. What ever will I do?
They didn't just throw up a "to be continued" in BSG (Galactica, btw) [and "sic" is only used when you are directly quoting another source and are absolving yourself of a grammatical error that they made]. This mid-season finale has been planned for months and well publicized to fans of the show.
While we don't get new episodes until January, I'm glad they the cast and crew got the break they deserved (they are back at work now filming the next episodes).
In reference to the Mars rovers AND the snide comment about corporations: they are, they both truly are. We were able to land two robots on frakkin' Mars and get them to operate well past their life expectancy. We are a culture that loves shiny things that are easily explained and cool to see.
Do you see how these two things are in direct correlation? No? Well they both result from the significant amount of leisure time that we, as a civilization, have. Our minds are free to pursue whatever interests us, and ignore whatever doesn't. Don't like it? Tough. Because you can't have one without the o-ther.
Microsoft won't send you a copy of the CD image just because you say you have the license on the side of your computer? Oh no! I guess you'd better keep track of that $200+ dollar piece of computing equipment (the frakkin' MS CD) next time huh?
If you misplace a game CD do you expect to be able to download it for free since you still have the case and the instructions?
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I spent a year teaching high school kids that had been for one reason or another (or another and another) expelled from standard public schools. Empirical evidence to be sure, but none of my "troubled" kids (violence, gangs, drugs) had the misfortune of having two parents working too hard. Many did come from "broken" homes, but divorce situations create tensions that far exceed having two parents working all the time and it is indeed an entirely different topic.
So, shall we compare crime rates of affluenct (thus high property values, thus expensive lifestyle, thus many children have both parents working) public schools and those of inner cities? Please do.
To get back to the original topic and to clearly state a point that went over your head (because you argued points that agree with it while apparently believing that you were disagreeing), videogames don't create bad kids; bad parenting creates bad kids.
Oh no, disaffected children of suburban elites. Oh the terror, oh the humanity. Oh the mindless rhetoric. So scared. Welcome to 1985.
Do you believe that in a neighborhood made up entirely of your ideal family situation (one parent at home full-time) will have less crime than a neighborhood where both parents work full time?
Explain how you think that a child goes from perceiving that his parents got an education and work hard to get what they want out of life to learning life lessons from video games.
Kids have played videogames and smoked joints while both parents were away working since the big business 80s. Somehow I missed the huge jump in, what, suburban thuggery?
Oh! But I did notice the correlation between the financial situation of a family and the crime rate of the children. Of course correlation does NOT mean causation (if you think it does then I have a chart about pirates to show you) but it is food for thought, eh?
The Earth is actually 5,000 years old and was created by the great Flying Spaghetti Monster. But in His infinite wisdom, he created it old.
I.E. He created a world that was millions of years old 5,000 years ago.
Sorry, it's the Blue Sun logo she was cutting. If you listen to the commentaries they reveal that Blue Sun is the corporation behind the government, and they were going to factor hugely in the series' plot with River.
Note: she peeled off the labels from the cans with blue sun on them
Note: after cutting Jayne's blue sun shirt (the first time in the series he had worn that in front of her) she says "that color [the red of his blood] looks better on you"
If she were going after Jayne, he'd be dead.
Hmm. Uh. Hmm.
Oh! Maybe you have a cat that likes to secretly...lick dust. No, cat's can jump. Ok a really fat cat or perhaps a little wiener dog?
Flawed reasoning. Your argument incorrectly assumes that the poster was talking about European countries when, in fact, the poster's point was that the US is not the only county centrally founded on individual liberties and moreover, in recent years the US has, compared to similar individual liberty countries, curtailed individual liberties a considerable, and surprising, amount.
Your one sentence reply also contained an ad hominem attack. (That's bad.)
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How it having a large external any different than having a large internal? They are both single points of failure. That's kind of why you have a large external drive. To ... you know, backup stuff.
E.g. If you enter Crash Time when viewing from behind, you guide left to take out that other car--but the camera switches to view from the front, you have to flip the control to the right. It's kind of dumb, but you get used to it.
:-)
You actually have to think about switching control perspectives? I didn't even realize that it worked that way until you just described it. Back to remedial Mario 64 for you!
No self image basing on tv shows here; but I would base my self image on my ability to think about theoretical situations logically.
The attitude that the future is coming and we'll all get to ride is based on such flawed idealism that just irks me to the core.
Ahh, reasonable opinion found. Urge to kill...falling, falling, RISING, falling, gone.
No it's as stated by the grandparent.
You get ranked up to awesome (four stars) by racing well (doing lots of things like oncoming driving, drifting, boosting, checking). The gold medal adds one star to achieve a perfect 5 star rating.
In my experience, getting a gold means that you almost always have an awesome rating because you have to drive well to win. So in practice, getting a gold almost always means a perfect 5-star rating, but not always.
So it's EA, so what? If it's a good game, I'll play it. If it isn't, I won't.
If enough people choose to work there, then the games will be good. If enough people don't choose to work there, it won't.
BTW, it's a Criterion game.
Great, pet peeve alert.
Anachronism eh? SO. Since you feel that in the Future we will all have equal access to all technology, how do you explain the fact that we are chatting to each other via a global information network while many thousands of people still live in subsistance communities?
Do you think that when phasers, lasers, or other -ers are invented; that they will be handed out to all who ask? Do you think that when terraforming dozens of planets, that each planet will receive state of the art machinery requiring expensive fuel and electricity? You don't think that there will be a place for livestock at all?
Where do you think hamburgers and the like come from? Do you think that food will be delivered via spaceship to entire planets? If so, where does the food come from in your idealized scifi universe?
Please, describe your all "futuristic and shit" universe. Explain how people living on the edge of civilization will have access to very expensive technology other than that required to maintain their lifestyle. I guess you believe that the Iraqi insurgents have helicopters, tanks, tactical nuclear weapons, submarines, etc. I guess that's why they are taking on our military directly instead of doing makeshift hit and run attacks, oh. Wait.
Does it not make more sense that people would use the scifi tech they need and can afford, and make do with the rest? I.e. they have a scifi space engine, but use guns. Their scifi engine does the job they need it to do, their guns do the job they need them to do.
So I guess I should get over to Mongolia and help out with the water well-based community IPO they are offering next month. Maybe get them to finally upgrade from horses and oxen to cars and tractors, because gas is so cheap and easily available to them; unlike grass. The grass that grows on the hills. That feeds the horses and oxen directly. Yeah. I guess that makes sense in your head.
Ha! I haven't actually chuckled at a post in a while. Good one :-)
Sorry, no mod points.
I wouldn't if I was watching commercials for stuff I'm interested in. Just think how we geeks flood servers that host trailers (commericals) for new movies that we are excited about.
The commercial torrent server could have ad preference settings (with some ads broadcast to all of course). If I was watching commercials for video games, apple products, geek websites, cool podcasts, cool movies, cool tv shows, and other new products in any specified product area: soft drinks? pizza specials? volkswagen jetta parts?
Bring on the targetted advertising! Then companies will spend less on advertising because they will be able to focus their campaigns on their buyers and likely buyers instead of *everyone*. HOPEFULLY the companies will realize that they can use that extra cash to lower product costs and maintain the same profit margins on items sold but sell more of them! Think lots more $30 new video games. Or $10 released straight to DVD movies advertised to specific markets.
The possibilities for effective advertising are huge and could really help geek friendly companies if they'd only realize it.
Forget the movies. Unless said martial artist is very good; a significant mass difference wins over skill.
I.e. a 100-150 pound martial arts expert could not expect to easily or reliably defeat a 300 pound unskilled foe. The difference in size provides a huge advantage. That's why martial arts competitions are classed by both belt AND weight.
A 200 pound unskilled fighter vs. a 150 pound martial artist would be a good fight.
Now if you are a 150 pound unskilled fighter facing a 300 pound martial artist...hope that you can run really, really fast.
Note: all of these fights assume serious fighting to incapacity. If any sort of martial arts tagging and hit zone games are played, obviously someone skilled at the game will have a huge advantage.
I, for one, would be happy to download torrents of my favorite tv shows with commercials included. Sell the torrent ad space! At least the ads would be semi-targetted (as on slashdot) to thinks that I might actually care about. Hell, I'd even pay to subscribe to torrents of specific shows with ads. My purchasing power as an emerging late-20s demographic should be worth a pretty penny to corporations. So let them vie for my attention by supporting awesome shows.
First we get the coporate tv torrents; then we get torrent Neilson ratings; then they see the massive popularity of shows like Firefly and Battlestar Galactica and just how many people are watching; then we have more awesome shows to watch.
The downside? Oh no, I'll have to watch commercials again. What ever will I do?
Well Photopia isn't exactly a game. It's more like a book that you experience.
A celeste or celesta (used in the HP theme) is most certainly not a "toy piano." Listen to the "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" by Tchaikovsky.
They didn't just throw up a "to be continued" in BSG (Galactica, btw) [and "sic" is only used when you are directly quoting another source and are absolving yourself of a grammatical error that they made]. This mid-season finale has been planned for months and well publicized to fans of the show.
While we don't get new episodes until January, I'm glad they the cast and crew got the break they deserved (they are back at work now filming the next episodes).
Another triumph of modern civilization.
In reference to the Mars rovers AND the snide comment about corporations: they are, they both truly are. We were able to land two robots on frakkin' Mars and get them to operate well past their life expectancy. We are a culture that loves shiny things that are easily explained and cool to see.
Do you see how these two things are in direct correlation? No? Well they both result from the significant amount of leisure time that we, as a civilization, have. Our minds are free to pursue whatever interests us, and ignore whatever doesn't. Don't like it? Tough. Because you can't have one without the o-ther.
Just call Thoreau Emerson-moocher and you'd have it right.
True, but they're close enough for the masses.
Microsoft won't send you a copy of the CD image just because you say you have the license on the side of your computer? Oh no! I guess you'd better keep track of that $200+ dollar piece of computing equipment (the frakkin' MS CD) next time huh?
If you misplace a game CD do you expect to be able to download it for free since you still have the case and the instructions?
Wacky.
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Because it makes their copy sound cooler, thus increasing the price they can overcharge.