Aww, how cute. You think that A) the government would let someone run who'd truly upset the system and B) that even if said radicals DID get elected that they would step down peacefully. I highly doubt that if someone came along and said "Our party just got elected and is going to completely undo everything that Republicans and Democrats have spent decades working on" that the Republicans and Democrats will just meekly walk away - even if it's done through bogus lawsuits and faking evidence instead of open combat, I don't see them going away without a fight.
Now if you and a thousand other people took to the streets chanting that passage, then they might take a little more notice.
Yea, they'd probably notice and point a few thousand rifles and several hundred tanks at said chanting people. It's sad that in the "land of the free" it is now criminal to want to actually follow what the nation was founded on....
No, you are copying it to a network drive that only you can access - no different than hosting your own server or copying it to an external hard drive (or even iPod for that matter). No one is able to make copies from another person's drive, which would be copyright infringement.
So basically the RIAA is trying to claim that if you legally own an MP3 and legally join a service that lets you store said MP3 on a server, you are not legally allowed to play it directly from the server and must download it to your car / computer / phone / mp3 player first? Sorry, but I doubt that'll hold up in court (though with the morons we have in the "justice" system, you never know).
Well that is why I said "a couple assholes" =) I can't count how often in non-rush hour driving I see three jerks all lined up across the highway not even doing the speed limit and everyone else backing up behind them.
Slower moving traffic means people may stop and see a business or store they decide to check out.
Other than women, who does that? If I'm driving it's because I have someplace I'm trying to get to, therefore I'm not going to make unnecessary stops on the way, especially when it might be a total waste of time since you've never been in the place before.
This. I understand traffic jams due to an accident, but the majority it's just because a couple assholes decided to drive really slow and cause everyone behind them to have to drive slow - then as soon as those assholes get off at an exit, everything clears right up.
This. The majority of people I come across screw around when getting up to speed on the on-ramp and end up trying to merge at around half the speed of traffic on the highway. I've even seen idiots who pull up and STOP at the end of the on-ramp and wait until they can't see any cars coming before they'll go.
Well like they said on Top Gear when discussing congestion charges, the reason things are congested is because everyone is trying to get to (or from) work - so the only way to use congestion charges to reduce traffic would be to raise them to the point where it's no longer profitable to go to work.
I can be longer than a four way stop / traffic light because if people keep coming in spaced closed enough, it can prevent you from having enough room to safely merge, thus keeping you sitting there far longer.
Yea.....I'd say the friend code crap was even more of a reason why hardcore gamers rejected the Wii than the graphics. I can understand having a parental control that uses the friend code so that parents can let younger kids go online without worry, but it just makes everything else a pain in the ass for online play.
If they want' me to work more then 40 I either get paid
And how the fuck do you think you being paid more money won't increase costs to the company, thus resulting in them raising the price of the game to maintain profit levels? You are completely clueless about how running a business works and have completely bought the pro-union lies. With few exceptions, a company will always raise the price of their product when the input prices for making said product increase. That's why fast food prices increased once gas prices went up - because it started costing more to produce it due to transportation costs increasing.
Except for movie production has been unionized since (if I recall correctly) before we were buying them for home use. If it had occurred later, they would have demanded more money and prices would be higher. It's no secret that union labor costs more than non-union labor - why else do you think people join unions to make more money? If it costs more for labor, then final product prices go up. If all labor on a game that takes say 3 years to make goes up, then the price of the game is most certainly going to go up from $60.
Then there's the fact that MSRP on movies is actually quite high ($40 for blu-ray) - it's just that stores know that people won't buy many movies at that price and lower it down to a more realistic price.
Developed countries wiped out poverty decades ago. Now what we have is "relative" poverty - where the poor are still exponentially better off than truly poor people could ever imagine, yet because they don't have as much as others, they're considered to be in "poverty". That's also why Obama made some statement about wanting to change the definition of being the bottom 25% of the income distribution so that no matter how high real wages get for everyone, 25% of the nation would always live in "poverty".
That narcissism right there is what I've been talking about. You can't even comprehend that there's a guy alive who doesn't want a girl making him miserable. I'm quite happy - the only times I'm ever unhappy are when I'm foolish enough to let someone convince me to give girls another chance. No guy actually enjoys being in a relationship - even the ones who say that they're "happily married" will privately admit to other guys that they hate it. It's because relationships are an utter farce, just like the whole concept of "love", which is nothing more than a con job to get a guy to shell out tons of money and be an utter slave to some girl who cares nothing for him.
I have plenty of girls who come to me wanting me to date them (not that I expect your narcissistic ass to believe me - you can't fathom that you're not always right) - I choose to not date because all that guys get out of dating is smaller bank accounts and lots of misery. That's why I'm strongly considering ditching the girl I've been dating for the last few months (because as I pointed out before, girls don't have hobbies which thus means that they expect guys to have no hobbies or interests outside of serving their will, so guys never get anything done).
But you'll just go through life with your goal of making as many men as miserable as possible while taking as much from them as you can get. It's not an innate "girl" thing, I'm well aware it's a social issue that created a couple generation of useless, sadistic gold diggers. Maybe someday many years from now girls will learn to act like human beings again.
Bingo. They don't want to be bothered with putting out time and effort to learn to program and create the games they want. It's much easier to just sit back and bitch that the evil men aren't kowtowing to their every demand. I say fuck 'em. Guys who wanted certain types of games got off their ass, learned to program, and made those games. Girls can do the same. Ain't equal rights a bitch?
I think it's better for society if one's partner has different interests and opinions.
There's a difference between having EVERY view and hobby in common and having MANY / MOST in common. Too many people fall into the same trap you're laying for yourself where you do a couple fun things and feel some adrenaline and "fall in love" with someone that you have nothing in common with and then spend years being miserable trying to make it work. Why do you think there's the stereotype of the significant other being dragged to Some Dumb Activity that they don't enjoy? Because people lack the brainpower to find someone who shares their interests, thus they can do something that they BOTH enjoy instead of one person being happy while making the other person miserable.
I did things your way when I was younger - now I refuse to date a girl who's not a nerd / geek because it only leads to constant disappointment that your SO doesn't give a fuck about your interests (and vice versa).
1) I've been playing games for a few decades now and never seen girls get shit for being girls when playing games. If anything it resembles real life and you have several guys going out of their way to do anything the girl wants.
2) If someone (regardless of gender) can't deal with someone calling them names then I don't want to deal with their pansy ass - grow the fuck up and deal with it because not everyone is going to like you.
Terrified of a woman who's intelligent and accomplished? More like "skeptical" because it's such a rare thing. It's not that girls are inherently less able mentally, merely that they usually choose not to use their brains because it's easier to just skate through life on your looks. That's one of the reasons I gave up on dating years ago - because finding a girl who's not hideous and actually uses the brain in her head is quite hard to find (and I'm far from the first guy to give up because of girls intentionally choosing to dumb themselves down because it's easier).
But I forgot, you're used to the current anti-male America where girls are told that they're perfect and that everything they want should magically be so without them ever lifting a finger and that anyone who dares to criticize them in any way is just an "evil sexist male" who needs to be sent to a re-education camp.
It depends on your definition of "women". Since to me "woman" / "women" holds the connotation of being older, I'd say yes, the OLDER females (over 40) are more likely to have a hobby, but the ones under that limit.........not so much, especially not the ones in their teens through 30 who are most likely to play video games. I'd noticed it long ago from girls I knew growing up / going to school with / family / friends but didn't think much about it - I just figured that they were a minority who were just boring. It wasn't until I decided that since I was getting older maybe I should start browsing dating sites (due to my job making it hard to meet people) that I realized that this isn't a "oh, I just know some boring girls" thing, it's a "good god, the majority of their gender seems to just sit there staring at the phone waiting for a guy to call if they're not busy with work / school" thing. Not only is the lack of hobbies unattractive in itself, but then it leads to issues when they date because guys have shit they want to get done and girls cannot comprehend that - so they harass the hell out of the guy and prevent him from getting shit done because they cannot comprehend that someone might have something they want to accomplish in their non-work time.
ESPECIALLY since I'm not sure people want to see women getting shot at, maimed, killed, and whatever else
I dunno, every time I hear some idiotic feminazi crap like this article, it makes me want to see the author of such blatantly bogus crap be maimed and tortured....
Well there's a problem with that. As someone who's browsed many profiles on dating sites over the last few years, I've realized something that I'd never thought about before - most girls don't have hobbies. Seeing as how essentially EVERY guy has at least one hobby, I never thought that there were people who essentially did NOTHING with their free time. However, if you start really asking girls what they like to do it's usually something like "party / shopping / get drunk / go clubbing / tanning". Is every girl like this? No, but well over 50% are. If a girl isn't interested in having hobbies PERIOD, how can you try to claim that she's a potential for a hobby that's historically been looked down on by the majority of people (at least those out of college) in both genders?
Ah yes, we hear this same idiotic argument all the time with why all characters need to be black, jewish, muslim, etc. Do you hear guys sit around bitching when the main character in a game is a girl? No. But girls like you have been raised over the last few decades to think that the sun shines out of your ass and that the world should bend to your will because you have a pair of tits (quality of said tits being irrelevant to your belief that you are superior to anything with a penis).
You specifically bashed military games like MW2 - guess what? In the REAL FUCKING WORLD the people doing that stuff are *wait for it*..........MEN - hence why they use MEN as the main characters. If you want a game where the main character is a girl and she shoots all the "evil males" or whatever, make it your damn self instead of demanding that the rest of the world change to fit your delusional idea of reality.
As for L4D? Even 25% of survivors being female is probably pushing the bounds of reality pretty hard..........yes, some girls are badass and can take care of themselves in a life or death situation - however, most can't as they're too busy crying like a two year old because they saw a mouse. Do you really think a girl like that is going to have what it takes to cut apart people (even if they're technically already dead)?
I really don't give a fuck if I get modded down for this. You thinking that everything should be focused on what you want is so fucking narcissistic and stereotypical of the self-absorbed bitches running rampant these days that it makes me want to punch something (or someone).
But don't forget that some people worked their guts out on the device.
Just because someone spent a lot of time and effort working on something doesn't mean it's GOOD. I can spend all day every day for 5 years trying to paint the New York skyline, but that doesn't mean that the resulting picture will be any good.
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Aww, how cute. You think that A) the government would let someone run who'd truly upset the system and B) that even if said radicals DID get elected that they would step down peacefully. I highly doubt that if someone came along and said "Our party just got elected and is going to completely undo everything that Republicans and Democrats have spent decades working on" that the Republicans and Democrats will just meekly walk away - even if it's done through bogus lawsuits and faking evidence instead of open combat, I don't see them going away without a fight.
Now if you and a thousand other people took to the streets chanting that passage, then they might take a little more notice.
Yea, they'd probably notice and point a few thousand rifles and several hundred tanks at said chanting people. It's sad that in the "land of the free" it is now criminal to want to actually follow what the nation was founded on....
No, you are copying it to a network drive that only you can access - no different than hosting your own server or copying it to an external hard drive (or even iPod for that matter). No one is able to make copies from another person's drive, which would be copyright infringement.
So basically the RIAA is trying to claim that if you legally own an MP3 and legally join a service that lets you store said MP3 on a server, you are not legally allowed to play it directly from the server and must download it to your car / computer / phone / mp3 player first? Sorry, but I doubt that'll hold up in court (though with the morons we have in the "justice" system, you never know).
Well that is why I said "a couple assholes" =) I can't count how often in non-rush hour driving I see three jerks all lined up across the highway not even doing the speed limit and everyone else backing up behind them.
Slower moving traffic means people may stop and see a business or store they decide to check out.
Other than women, who does that? If I'm driving it's because I have someplace I'm trying to get to, therefore I'm not going to make unnecessary stops on the way, especially when it might be a total waste of time since you've never been in the place before.
This. I understand traffic jams due to an accident, but the majority it's just because a couple assholes decided to drive really slow and cause everyone behind them to have to drive slow - then as soon as those assholes get off at an exit, everything clears right up.
This. The majority of people I come across screw around when getting up to speed on the on-ramp and end up trying to merge at around half the speed of traffic on the highway. I've even seen idiots who pull up and STOP at the end of the on-ramp and wait until they can't see any cars coming before they'll go.
Well like they said on Top Gear when discussing congestion charges, the reason things are congested is because everyone is trying to get to (or from) work - so the only way to use congestion charges to reduce traffic would be to raise them to the point where it's no longer profitable to go to work.
I can be longer than a four way stop / traffic light because if people keep coming in spaced closed enough, it can prevent you from having enough room to safely merge, thus keeping you sitting there far longer.
Yea.....I'd say the friend code crap was even more of a reason why hardcore gamers rejected the Wii than the graphics. I can understand having a parental control that uses the friend code so that parents can let younger kids go online without worry, but it just makes everything else a pain in the ass for online play.
If they want' me to work more then 40 I either get paid
And how the fuck do you think you being paid more money won't increase costs to the company, thus resulting in them raising the price of the game to maintain profit levels? You are completely clueless about how running a business works and have completely bought the pro-union lies. With few exceptions, a company will always raise the price of their product when the input prices for making said product increase. That's why fast food prices increased once gas prices went up - because it started costing more to produce it due to transportation costs increasing.
Except for movie production has been unionized since (if I recall correctly) before we were buying them for home use. If it had occurred later, they would have demanded more money and prices would be higher. It's no secret that union labor costs more than non-union labor - why else do you think people join unions to make more money? If it costs more for labor, then final product prices go up. If all labor on a game that takes say 3 years to make goes up, then the price of the game is most certainly going to go up from $60.
Then there's the fact that MSRP on movies is actually quite high ($40 for blu-ray) - it's just that stores know that people won't buy many movies at that price and lower it down to a more realistic price.
As a gamer, I don't want to be paying $100+ per game, so I sure as hell hope that they never unionize.
Developed countries wiped out poverty decades ago. Now what we have is "relative" poverty - where the poor are still exponentially better off than truly poor people could ever imagine, yet because they don't have as much as others, they're considered to be in "poverty". That's also why Obama made some statement about wanting to change the definition of being the bottom 25% of the income distribution so that no matter how high real wages get for everyone, 25% of the nation would always live in "poverty".
That narcissism right there is what I've been talking about. You can't even comprehend that there's a guy alive who doesn't want a girl making him miserable. I'm quite happy - the only times I'm ever unhappy are when I'm foolish enough to let someone convince me to give girls another chance. No guy actually enjoys being in a relationship - even the ones who say that they're "happily married" will privately admit to other guys that they hate it. It's because relationships are an utter farce, just like the whole concept of "love", which is nothing more than a con job to get a guy to shell out tons of money and be an utter slave to some girl who cares nothing for him.
I have plenty of girls who come to me wanting me to date them (not that I expect your narcissistic ass to believe me - you can't fathom that you're not always right) - I choose to not date because all that guys get out of dating is smaller bank accounts and lots of misery. That's why I'm strongly considering ditching the girl I've been dating for the last few months (because as I pointed out before, girls don't have hobbies which thus means that they expect guys to have no hobbies or interests outside of serving their will, so guys never get anything done).
But you'll just go through life with your goal of making as many men as miserable as possible while taking as much from them as you can get. It's not an innate "girl" thing, I'm well aware it's a social issue that created a couple generation of useless, sadistic gold diggers. Maybe someday many years from now girls will learn to act like human beings again.
Bingo. They don't want to be bothered with putting out time and effort to learn to program and create the games they want. It's much easier to just sit back and bitch that the evil men aren't kowtowing to their every demand. I say fuck 'em. Guys who wanted certain types of games got off their ass, learned to program, and made those games. Girls can do the same. Ain't equal rights a bitch?
I think it's better for society if one's partner has different interests and opinions.
There's a difference between having EVERY view and hobby in common and having MANY / MOST in common. Too many people fall into the same trap you're laying for yourself where you do a couple fun things and feel some adrenaline and "fall in love" with someone that you have nothing in common with and then spend years being miserable trying to make it work. Why do you think there's the stereotype of the significant other being dragged to Some Dumb Activity that they don't enjoy? Because people lack the brainpower to find someone who shares their interests, thus they can do something that they BOTH enjoy instead of one person being happy while making the other person miserable.
I did things your way when I was younger - now I refuse to date a girl who's not a nerd / geek because it only leads to constant disappointment that your SO doesn't give a fuck about your interests (and vice versa).
1) I've been playing games for a few decades now and never seen girls get shit for being girls when playing games. If anything it resembles real life and you have several guys going out of their way to do anything the girl wants.
2) If someone (regardless of gender) can't deal with someone calling them names then I don't want to deal with their pansy ass - grow the fuck up and deal with it because not everyone is going to like you.
Terrified of a woman who's intelligent and accomplished? More like "skeptical" because it's such a rare thing. It's not that girls are inherently less able mentally, merely that they usually choose not to use their brains because it's easier to just skate through life on your looks. That's one of the reasons I gave up on dating years ago - because finding a girl who's not hideous and actually uses the brain in her head is quite hard to find (and I'm far from the first guy to give up because of girls intentionally choosing to dumb themselves down because it's easier).
But I forgot, you're used to the current anti-male America where girls are told that they're perfect and that everything they want should magically be so without them ever lifting a finger and that anyone who dares to criticize them in any way is just an "evil sexist male" who needs to be sent to a re-education camp.
It depends on your definition of "women". Since to me "woman" / "women" holds the connotation of being older, I'd say yes, the OLDER females (over 40) are more likely to have a hobby, but the ones under that limit.........not so much, especially not the ones in their teens through 30 who are most likely to play video games. I'd noticed it long ago from girls I knew growing up / going to school with / family / friends but didn't think much about it - I just figured that they were a minority who were just boring. It wasn't until I decided that since I was getting older maybe I should start browsing dating sites (due to my job making it hard to meet people) that I realized that this isn't a "oh, I just know some boring girls" thing, it's a "good god, the majority of their gender seems to just sit there staring at the phone waiting for a guy to call if they're not busy with work / school" thing. Not only is the lack of hobbies unattractive in itself, but then it leads to issues when they date because guys have shit they want to get done and girls cannot comprehend that - so they harass the hell out of the guy and prevent him from getting shit done because they cannot comprehend that someone might have something they want to accomplish in their non-work time.
ESPECIALLY since I'm not sure people want to see women getting shot at, maimed, killed, and whatever else
I dunno, every time I hear some idiotic feminazi crap like this article, it makes me want to see the author of such blatantly bogus crap be maimed and tortured....
Well there's a problem with that. As someone who's browsed many profiles on dating sites over the last few years, I've realized something that I'd never thought about before - most girls don't have hobbies. Seeing as how essentially EVERY guy has at least one hobby, I never thought that there were people who essentially did NOTHING with their free time. However, if you start really asking girls what they like to do it's usually something like "party / shopping / get drunk / go clubbing / tanning". Is every girl like this? No, but well over 50% are. If a girl isn't interested in having hobbies PERIOD, how can you try to claim that she's a potential for a hobby that's historically been looked down on by the majority of people (at least those out of college) in both genders?
Ah yes, we hear this same idiotic argument all the time with why all characters need to be black, jewish, muslim, etc. Do you hear guys sit around bitching when the main character in a game is a girl? No. But girls like you have been raised over the last few decades to think that the sun shines out of your ass and that the world should bend to your will because you have a pair of tits (quality of said tits being irrelevant to your belief that you are superior to anything with a penis).
You specifically bashed military games like MW2 - guess what? In the REAL FUCKING WORLD the people doing that stuff are *wait for it*..........MEN - hence why they use MEN as the main characters. If you want a game where the main character is a girl and she shoots all the "evil males" or whatever, make it your damn self instead of demanding that the rest of the world change to fit your delusional idea of reality.
As for L4D? Even 25% of survivors being female is probably pushing the bounds of reality pretty hard..........yes, some girls are badass and can take care of themselves in a life or death situation - however, most can't as they're too busy crying like a two year old because they saw a mouse. Do you really think a girl like that is going to have what it takes to cut apart people (even if they're technically already dead)?
I really don't give a fuck if I get modded down for this. You thinking that everything should be focused on what you want is so fucking narcissistic and stereotypical of the self-absorbed bitches running rampant these days that it makes me want to punch something (or someone).
But don't forget that some people worked their guts out on the device.
Just because someone spent a lot of time and effort working on something doesn't mean it's GOOD. I can spend all day every day for 5 years trying to paint the New York skyline, but that doesn't mean that the resulting picture will be any good.