Bigotry at its finest. How did you get modded positive, let alone insightful?
A person can offer personal or semi-personal information to anyone they so damn please. In any reasonable country, sexual alignment is about as personal as your preference for coffee or tea. How the hell else are minority groups supposed to make finding the like-minded easier?
Sorry if I'm getting worked up but my predictions for the first few posts in this/. thread have been woefuly off. I was fully expecting the top post to be something along the lines of "That such a large and well known corporation situated in a supposedly free western country is so openly anti-gay and anti-rights offends the very fiber of my being. My personal belief that the world is steadily improving in human rights across the whole has been shattered".
Instead we have some guy complaining that he should be sheltered from his homophobia. Fantastic.
The dutch had a magnificent fleet. They actually had control of England at one point in history. Then they fucked up and put an englishman in charge of the Dutch fleet. You can guess what happened next.
In New Zealand, A-list games cost at minimum $90. Some console titles go up to $130-150 (to put that in context, that's about 50-100% of the average student's weekly income). Games also tend to take longer to come out here; often few months or more. Retail chains such as EB games and the like don't seem to put much effort into keeping stock levels of the latest games (or popular games).
The result is a huge reliance on BitTorrent for most gamers.
I'd imagine if prices were significantly cut here, not only would profits include but games would increase in mainstream popularity as they enter the realm of affordable entertainment. They can't blame the exchange rate for everything; Steam is miles cheaper than anywhere else here despite the US$1.00 = NZ$0.51 rate.
I can just imagine the courtroom filled with whispers and gasps as the defense lawyer unveils a gold-plated chest containing a sacred scroll. "It's the legendary King Kong defense!" is heard amongst the excited whispers.
As Per gingerly removes the scroll from its tube, the whispers hush to a silence, all eyes fixed upon him. Suddenly, in one quick motion he unfurls it before him, a wave of pure awesomeness eminating through the courtroom, his hair and suit (he also may or may not have a cloak on) rigorously billowing in the rays of awesome. He then intones in a loud, firm and commanding voice The Most Excellent Words forming the Legendary King Kong Defense, as his opponent cowers ever lower in his chair, terror permanently etched into his expression.
Wouldn't it be so awesome if Iran developed an Intercontinental Ballistic Nerf Missile?
One day the US gets an ICBM alert and they're going oh shit oh shit oh shit! Then it lands on the White House lawn and smashes a garden gnome or something. And then President Amjsnfsjfmed from Iran calls up Obama and tells him to look outside onto the front lawn, giggling, so Obama looks out, sees the nerf missile, replies with "ahhhhh you little terrorists!" with a big smile and maybe pointing a finger fonz-style.
I'm fairly sure that even the creepiest IRL girl isn't
a) dead
b) supernatural
So hiring sub-par creepy girls would break the suspense of disbelief that the game cultures. Going with cats is like a way of adknowledging that this is about as creepy as real-life gets, and people should instead buy FEAR2 to get their dose of argh's.
I just spent about 3 minutes having an internal monologue about how best to weave the hated word into a reply, without it being too obvious or douchey. And now I can't really be fucked.
Humans operate in a local environment and require themselves to go out of their way to view the global environment. Anything that doesn't affect the local environment is often ignored. It's perfectly natural and complaining about human nature won't do much.
If you're feeling particularly open minded, you could imagine EVE Online players wondering why the hell you don't care about this massive event.
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Bigotry at its finest. How did you get modded positive, let alone insightful?
/. thread have been woefuly off. I was fully expecting the top post to be something along the lines of "That such a large and well known corporation situated in a supposedly free western country is so openly anti-gay and anti-rights offends the very fiber of my being. My personal belief that the world is steadily improving in human rights across the whole has been shattered".
A person can offer personal or semi-personal information to anyone they so damn please. In any reasonable country, sexual alignment is about as personal as your preference for coffee or tea. How the hell else are minority groups supposed to make finding the like-minded easier?
Sorry if I'm getting worked up but my predictions for the first few posts in this
Instead we have some guy complaining that he should be sheltered from his homophobia. Fantastic.
Mods: this isn't a troll. Don't agree with != Downrate.
The dutch had a magnificent fleet. They actually had control of England at one point in history. Then they fucked up and put an englishman in charge of the Dutch fleet. You can guess what happened next.
In New Zealand, A-list games cost at minimum $90. Some console titles go up to $130-150 (to put that in context, that's about 50-100% of the average student's weekly income). Games also tend to take longer to come out here; often few months or more. Retail chains such as EB games and the like don't seem to put much effort into keeping stock levels of the latest games (or popular games).
The result is a huge reliance on BitTorrent for most gamers.
I'd imagine if prices were significantly cut here, not only would profits include but games would increase in mainstream popularity as they enter the realm of affordable entertainment. They can't blame the exchange rate for everything; Steam is miles cheaper than anywhere else here despite the US$1.00 = NZ$0.51 rate.
I googled "jonesday.com" and it came up with the correct info.
Then I added a single word, googling "jonesday.com babies". The first three results instantly changed to slashdot comments.
No time wasting options = not a real poll
it didn't like my <8 :(
The second option was meant to be IE<8
So apparently people use IE8. I'd be interested to see a poll of ./ user's browser of choice (or lack of one).
- IE8
- IE - Firefox
- Opera
- Konqueror
- Safari
- Lynx
- Who cares as long as it works
- I browse CowboyNeal
How do you tear a beard?
;)
Oh, you meant "off"
I can just imagine the courtroom filled with whispers and gasps as the defense lawyer unveils a gold-plated chest containing a sacred scroll. "It's the legendary King Kong defense!" is heard amongst the excited whispers.
As Per gingerly removes the scroll from its tube, the whispers hush to a silence, all eyes fixed upon him. Suddenly, in one quick motion he unfurls it before him, a wave of pure awesomeness eminating through the courtroom, his hair and suit (he also may or may not have a cloak on) rigorously billowing in the rays of awesome. He then intones in a loud, firm and commanding voice The Most Excellent Words forming the Legendary King Kong Defense, as his opponent cowers ever lower in his chair, terror permanently etched into his expression.
The Pirate Bay's services "can be compared to making cars that can be driven faster than the speed limit," [Per Samuelsson] said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_Trial
Wouldn't it be so awesome if Iran developed an Intercontinental Ballistic Nerf Missile?
One day the US gets an ICBM alert and they're going oh shit oh shit oh shit! Then it lands on the White House lawn and smashes a garden gnome or something. And then President Amjsnfsjfmed from Iran calls up Obama and tells him to look outside onto the front lawn, giggling, so Obama looks out, sees the nerf missile, replies with "ahhhhh you little terrorists!" with a big smile and maybe pointing a finger fonz-style.
Then we all live happily ever after.
Why not virtually? Does MS Flight Sim support network play?
Yes, my experience only reaches as far as your mum.
Financial leader standing on dam: "I promise to not to open the flood gates to foreign investment!"
Douchebag: "It's funny because he's on a dam and dams have flood gates"
Happyfriendlystan. The nation's president is bawling his eyes out over the matter as we speak.
I'm fairly sure that even the creepiest IRL girl isn't
a) dead
b) supernatural
So hiring sub-par creepy girls would break the suspense of disbelief that the game cultures. Going with cats is like a way of adknowledging that this is about as creepy as real-life gets, and people should instead buy FEAR2 to get their dose of argh's.
My point is he made the exact same joke with the exact same wording :p
Re: (Score:-1, Redundant) by GigaHurtsMyRobot (1143329)
In Soviet Russia, memes spread YOU!
Re: (Score:5, Funny) by Squeeonline (1323439)
In Soviet Russia memes spread you!
I just spent about 3 minutes having an internal monologue about how best to weave the hated word into a reply, without it being too obvious or douchey. And now I can't really be fucked.
Shinanigans!
Wow. You get +4 funny and the great-grandparent gets buried under rubble and given -1 overrated and -1 redundant. :P
Humans operate in a local environment and require themselves to go out of their way to view the global environment. Anything that doesn't affect the local environment is often ignored. It's perfectly natural and complaining about human nature won't do much.
If you're feeling particularly open minded, you could imagine EVE Online players wondering why the hell you don't care about this massive event.
Or even over... 9000?
/flee
That whistling sound is the joke flying at several hundred AU/s over your head.
Could somebody please paste the artical in here for the benefit of us poor sods working behind work proxy filters? :)
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
The "Wilhelm" has been removed.