You just have to love the fact that you were there protecting their freedom to drive around in Ramadi if they decide they want to have a holiday there.
You mean the three Jewish-American hikers who strayed over the Iranian border. I am only mentioning the religion so as you can understand that they were really just normal hikers hiking in one of the safest places in the world for members of their religion.
Big bloody deal. There are places on earth where the people's incomes are so low they aren't measurable. They still appear to eat, sleep, clothe themselves and appear happier in general than us poor wage slaves. Plus, if civilisation was to collapse some of them wouldn't even notice.
Just out of interest have you ever had the flu? have you ever had flu vaccine? Did the two ever meet? Not trying to score a point just interested. It seems nearly every one I know that gets flu vaccinated gets the flu and the few I know that don't don't get the flu. I know it's hardly evidence of any sort just interested.
If you are going to bring up vaccination I feel beholden to bring up 911 and the Federal Reserve (just to keep the conversation grounded and balanced).
The flip side is, perhaps we will get back to deliver information instead of delivering effects. I am so tired of websites that make me work for the content
I couldn't agree more. How many websites do you visit where the ads consume the majority of the bandwidth, slow things down and make looking for the content akin to Where's Waldo? The flippier side is that we will end up having to pander to just about every disability out there. When does it stop? What about catering for Hemispatial Neglect at the local restaurant? Should the waiter rotate the plate 180 degrees when the patron thinks their meal is finished? I know it sounds like a bit of a troll but where the fsck does it all stop? Do corners require padding to make the world leprosy-friendly?
And to be quite frank why should the non-handicapped be responsible to make the world handi-friendly medium that is predominantly visual accesible to those without eyesight? Why was i required to install a very expensive handicapped access to my building when it never has any actual visitors? And, why can't I smoke in my own property that is never visited by the non-smoking nazi brigade.
If I have to make my damned websites accesible to the blind then so should those bastards that use flashy bandwidth hogging banner ads? I guess the biggest technhurdle for those bastards is how to make a 160 character text file consume 15MB.
Yes, I got out of my cardboard box on the wrong side.
So if the laws don't work, what is a better solution to preventing texting while driving accidents?
It's called common-fucking-sense. As I get older it seems to be becoming a a rarer commodity. Has anyone else(people with less than two decades of life experience need not apply) noticed this? Or is it I am becoming more cynical in my old age? I swear the human race appears to be getting dumber and dumber.
I have been expecting the US population to revolt for years. They are far too apathetic. So long as they have drivel on TV they aren't going to rebel against anything. The US Federal Government is passing laws restricting the population's ability to grow their own food and also conducting SWAT style raids (with assault rifles locked and loaded) on those evil criminals who sell raw milk to their neighbours. The USA has gone completely insane. The time for armed revolution was at least two decades ago and the opportunity has now passed.
I expect the numbers of people flying their planes into government buildings and other antisocial acts will increase dramatically over the next few years. I was reading one man's health care plan for older people (you know those that have lost everything except for the ability to continue paying taxes that are used to keep the CEOs of the companies that ruined them living in the luxury they don't deserve). It had free health, dental, food, accomodation, and helped to clean up the government. The plan is simplicity itself. Buy a gun, four bullets, take out some of the bastards that helped to destroy society whilst enriching themselves, then take yourself and all of the evidence to the local police station, surrender, and then live better for the rest of your life than you would of done if you had tried to get by on the nothing left to you after 50 years or so of contribution.
Inafune-san, on the extremely slim chance that you read this, I understand what you're saying, and I'm glad that you're coming to us to learn. However, don't give up entirely on Japanese developers. They have much to teach us as well.
For the sake of gaming in general I hope that Japanese designers (if they really are behind the times then thank [DEITY] for that) NEVER come to the west to learn anything from 'us'. If they did then the main lesson learnt would be that if you put enough money behind the marketing then you can nearly always turn rancid dead dogs testicles into a platinum market leader.
I agree with an earlier poster who stated(sort of) that the problem with gaming today is that far too many people willingly embrace mediocrity (Welcome to US culture). They have no idea that there is the possibility of better virtual worlds to play in. So long as they consider a polished dog turd acceptable they will keep tipping the provider of said turd, smiling as the giants of the gaming world shove it down their throat with a dirty toilet brush.
There's a couple of metaphors there(I think) but at least I didn't say how I really felt about the casual gamer's impact on the genre.
Slashdot Mirror
a) Sharing duplicates is not theft of the original b) There are no canons on ships involved.
Keeping the RIAA out of the picture completely
I wouldn't be too sure of that!
I was having such a good time till someone said 'free market' . Every comments section these days seems to have some Milton fanboi.
What are you his teacher?
You just have to love the fact that you were there protecting their freedom to drive around in Ramadi if they decide they want to have a holiday there.
You mean the three Jewish-American hikers who strayed over the Iranian border. I am only mentioning the religion so as you can understand that they were really just normal hikers hiking in one of the safest places in the world for members of their religion.
Anything I missed?
We have to attack them now as they are weaponising the moon.
Big bloody deal. There are places on earth where the people's incomes are so low they aren't measurable. They still appear to eat, sleep, clothe themselves and appear happier in general than us poor wage slaves. Plus, if civilisation was to collapse some of them wouldn't even notice.
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It's customary that new generations forget what has gone before and then rediscover it as if it were a new thing.
So there's still hope for my orange flares and tie-dyed purple-shirts?
That's not how survival of the fattest works though. ;)
Fixed it for our readers in the US
Just out of interest have you ever had the flu? have you ever had flu vaccine? Did the two ever meet? Not trying to score a point just interested. It seems nearly every one I know that gets flu vaccinated gets the flu and the few I know that don't don't get the flu. I know it's hardly evidence of any sort just interested.
Mod parent up until people get it.
When do you think that 'they will get it'?
If you are going to bring up vaccination I feel beholden to bring up 911 and the Federal Reserve (just to keep the conversation grounded and balanced).
The flip side is, perhaps we will get back to deliver information instead of delivering effects. I am so tired of websites that make me work for the content
I couldn't agree more. How many websites do you visit where the ads consume the majority of the bandwidth, slow things down and make looking for the content akin to Where's Waldo? The flippier side is that we will end up having to pander to just about every disability out there. When does it stop? What about catering for Hemispatial Neglect at the local restaurant? Should the waiter rotate the plate 180 degrees when the patron thinks their meal is finished? I know it sounds like a bit of a troll but where the fsck does it all stop? Do corners require padding to make the world leprosy-friendly?
And to be quite frank why should the non-handicapped be responsible to make the world handi-friendly medium that is predominantly visual accesible to those without eyesight? Why was i required to install a very expensive handicapped access to my building when it never has any actual visitors? And, why can't I smoke in my own property that is never visited by the non-smoking nazi brigade.
If I have to make my damned websites accesible to the blind then so should those bastards that use flashy bandwidth hogging banner ads? I guess the biggest technhurdle for those bastards is how to make a 160 character text file consume 15MB.
Yes, I got out of my cardboard box on the wrong side.
So if the laws don't work, what is a better solution to preventing texting while driving accidents?
It's called common-fucking-sense. As I get older it seems to be becoming a a rarer commodity. Has anyone else(people with less than two decades of life experience need not apply) noticed this? Or is it I am becoming more cynical in my old age? I swear the human race appears to be getting dumber and dumber.
oh and fuck that putz noam chomsky
You would have to buy me the beer first
Your thoughts would be millions of times faster than they are now.
You sound like a very quick yes man to me
Wait, sorry, did I get off track with a libertarian fantasy?
Not sure but you have made me very horny
That kind of paranoia really isn't healthy. When you start seeing shadowy conspiracies around every corner, it's time to seek help.
And when you can't or you stop seeing them then you are beyond all fucking help.
Welcome to Western media 101 - Iran's reactor bombed by West. Iran blamed for irradiating orphans - More crap at 11
I have been expecting the US population to revolt for years. They are far too apathetic. So long as they have drivel on TV they aren't going to rebel against anything. The US Federal Government is passing laws restricting the population's ability to grow their own food and also conducting SWAT style raids (with assault rifles locked and loaded) on those evil criminals who sell raw milk to their neighbours. The USA has gone completely insane. The time for armed revolution was at least two decades ago and the opportunity has now passed.
I expect the numbers of people flying their planes into government buildings and other antisocial acts will increase dramatically over the next few years. I was reading one man's health care plan for older people (you know those that have lost everything except for the ability to continue paying taxes that are used to keep the CEOs of the companies that ruined them living in the luxury they don't deserve). It had free health, dental, food, accomodation, and helped to clean up the government. The plan is simplicity itself. Buy a gun, four bullets, take out some of the bastards that helped to destroy society whilst enriching themselves, then take yourself and all of the evidence to the local police station, surrender, and then live better for the rest of your life than you would of done if you had tried to get by on the nothing left to you after 50 years or so of contribution.
Inafune-san, on the extremely slim chance that you read this, I understand what you're saying, and I'm glad that you're coming to us to learn. However, don't give up entirely on Japanese developers. They have much to teach us as well.
For the sake of gaming in general I hope that Japanese designers (if they really are behind the times then thank [DEITY] for that) NEVER come to the west to learn anything from 'us' . If they did then the main lesson learnt would be that if you put enough money behind the marketing then you can nearly always turn rancid dead dogs testicles into a platinum market leader.
I agree with an earlier poster who stated(sort of) that the problem with gaming today is that far too many people willingly embrace mediocrity (Welcome to US culture). They have no idea that there is the possibility of better virtual worlds to play in. So long as they consider a polished dog turd acceptable they will keep tipping the provider of said turd, smiling as the giants of the gaming world shove it down their throat with a dirty toilet brush.
There's a couple of metaphors there(I think) but at least I didn't say how I really felt about the casual gamer's impact on the genre.
Why congratulations? Commiserations maybe that he doesn't fit right in.
OMG I have finally met my first technosexual
When are you geeky nerds going to wake up and realise that EDLIN is your friend?