Apparently the "value of women" is solely related to sex in your world.
As people? Sure let's get it out of the way that they're plenty capable now that they're liberated and they're great thinkers, hard workers, fiercely independent, etc. etc. Nobody is trying to keep women down.
As prospects in a relationship? Let me pose this question to you: If love and sex are completely separate things, what does a romantic relationship provide that a platonic or familial relationship does not? Your answer automatically fails if it has anything to do with physical contact (i.e. sex).
All of the mod points for you, even if you are already at +5 and I don't actually have any. I like myself a Start Menu and I'd like it even more if developers read and followed these commandments.
I know! How come these people don't use their powers of omniscience to avoid all the infected people they meet?? And those nurses assigned to HIV patients are such dirty whoring sluts, too.
If you didn't like FFX and you don't like MMOs I would recommend against XII, as it gets much worse. Between almost any given location you will have to traverse vast stretches of land swarming with enemies that your characters will mostly be fighting for you, due to the gambit system's deal of automating what characters do during an encounter. It's a long, tedious game that IMHO, involves a lot of suffering in between cut scenes.
If the OP isn't even willing to attempt the casual watered down version of an already free class and it didn't occur to him to read the book, or even a book on the subject, then I guess he has no choice but to hook himself up to the Nebuchadnezzar through a socket in the back of his neck and download the information he seeks.
Despite the attention-grabbing way he phrased it, he does have a point. Stereotyping all Americans as a bunch of obese gun-toting xenophobic anti-intellectuals is the same as pigeonholing all the colored people into the category of... well, obese gun-toting xenophobic anti-intellectuals. Funny how the negative stereotypes for blacks are so similar to the negative stereotypes for whites, isn't it??? The analogy works, and the n-bomb drove the point home.
Now that said, whatever you might think about the American public, the government has rightly earned a reputation for supporting greed and nasty foreign policies, and since American claims to be a democracy, it certainly would look like the public supports them too.
I agree with the poster above that said it was about addiction. Veteran gamers, especially the ones old enough to have played 8-bit games, played some shitty games in their time. Games with horrible control, obnoxious sound, maybe even unrealistic difficulty, that required investing a considerable amount of time into the game just to make any real progress. Why are these gamers even looking forward to sequels they'll hate so much in the first place? But after hoisting a series onto such a high pedestal with such expectations a little disappointment is pretty much inevitable. Then some get into the strange habit of lingering around games long after losing the ability to enjoy anything. Consider the Final Fantasy fans who thought part 4 was the pinnacle of the RPG experience and that FFVII was the series jumping the shark. Yet for many, FFVII was an exciting introduction to the franchise. As games get better and better at doing it for the game, it becomes harder and harder to outdo those magical experiences. Much like a startling loud noise being less startling if heard again not too long after, or a druggie needing stronger goods to get his fix.
Agreed. Ghetto culture is a cancer that only serves to perpetuate the racism so crippling people of African descent. To be fair entertainment on the whole is part of the problem-- in media they want their "blacks" to be very strongly, perhaps even exaggeratedly pronounced in their speech and mannerisms. And just as the first Godfather movie wound up influencing and exaggerating the way mobsters and Italian tough-guy types carried themselves, minorities in popular media resonate with the minorities that watch them and vice versa, bouncing these exaggerations back and forth off each other in a way that amplifies these traits altogether. If you watch some of the older black and white films, the colored characters in them are not so quirky. Heck, if you listen to country music from much further back, there is less exaggeration in what you hear than in country music in the present.
What we should be reaching towards is an America where every citizen is simply an American, regardless of whether they are of European descent, African descent, Native, oriental, etc.
Re-reading and re-watching stories that have already been seen and digested have more to do with taking in details that were missed the first time, however. Maybe with a little bit of reliving fond experiences thrown in. I don't know about others, but especially when I was younger it was only on second or greater go through a story I'd have a clear understanding of what was going on and why things were happening. And of course some stories that have surprise twists later on purposefully drop hints to those twists early on in the form of fine details that are only going to be noticed with a better understanding of what's going on.
Isn't it a little obtuse to not acknowledge that when people on/. say "corporation" they mean "big corporation"? Big corporations are wealthy corporations, wealthy corporations are powerful corporations, and power does what it wants to do. Sometimes that isn't in the best interest of the average bloke.
AOL 2.5, on a 28.8kbps dial-up modem. It cost $3/hour to connect to the internet, and combine that with the MMOs of those days, I ran up some bills. And, of course I was addicted. I had learned so much and my literary capabilities skyrocketed. It's too bad that there are articles these days of youth becoming worse at English and submitting assignments with emoticons, "ROFLMAO", etc., my vocabulary grew, and in a positive way.
Both should be ditched altogether, especially the latter one being the harmful misnomer that it is. Many "blacks" have plenty of European or Native blood in their heritage but for even being half or quarter African they're simply "black," and rarely get acknowledged for whatever other components of their heritage might be... which would be okay if instead of "black" they were simply "American" but the country still doesn't quite frame things that way yet. What the labels are really trying to target is the subculture that involves that accent and those impoverished origins. Which honestly should be considered a separate thing from colored skin and kinky hair.
The republicans would like nothing better than the situation where all former democratic votes would be split up fifty-fifty between democrats the third party. Of course they might lose a few too, but as long as they lose less than the democrats, they're basically sure of winning.
Or so they did until the Tea Party thing started catching. Now in a smashing irony it is Republicans interested in Approval Voting.
Why should anyone laugh at you? Al Jazeera English has been a refreshing breath of fresh air as far as international news is concerned. The website, anyway.
Would that I had mod points for you; this seems to have been America's elephant in the living room with regards to racial issues. When the poor and the downtrodden are violent, unlawful, or otherwise engaged in shameful activities, it's always because they are (other ethnicity), never because they were impoverished and possibly not raised well. It's always so easy to beeline towards a subject's race as the reason they've done something wrong, which then becomes proof that the whole race has something wrong with it. On an underlying level the people who come from backgrounds that are educated or value education generally are going to be more likely to have connections that will provide them with an edge and less likely to serve bad stereotypes, and the people who had harsher times growing up will generally have that uphill battle against their background that makes them easy to label as "some stupid [derogatory term]."
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Or even more simply, add "in bed" or "in between the sheets" to strengthen passwords.
Apparently the "value of women" is solely related to sex in your world.
As people? Sure let's get it out of the way that they're plenty capable now that they're liberated and they're great thinkers, hard workers, fiercely independent, etc. etc. Nobody is trying to keep women down.
As prospects in a relationship? Let me pose this question to you: If love and sex are completely separate things, what does a romantic relationship provide that a platonic or familial relationship does not? Your answer automatically fails if it has anything to do with physical contact (i.e. sex).
"You were supposed to be watching the factory!"
"I was watching! First it started falling over, and then it fell over!"
All of the mod points for you, even if you are already at +5 and I don't actually have any. I like myself a Start Menu and I'd like it even more if developers read and followed these commandments.
I know! How come these people don't use their powers of omniscience to avoid all the infected people they meet?? And those nurses assigned to HIV patients are such dirty whoring sluts, too.
If you didn't like FFX and you don't like MMOs I would recommend against XII, as it gets much worse. Between almost any given location you will have to traverse vast stretches of land swarming with enemies that your characters will mostly be fighting for you, due to the gambit system's deal of automating what characters do during an encounter. It's a long, tedious game that IMHO, involves a lot of suffering in between cut scenes.
If the OP isn't even willing to attempt the casual watered down version of an already free class and it didn't occur to him to read the book, or even a book on the subject, then I guess he has no choice but to hook himself up to the Nebuchadnezzar through a socket in the back of his neck and download the information he seeks.
Not only that, the AI class has a "light" version that's simpler than the full course.
Despite the attention-grabbing way he phrased it, he does have a point. Stereotyping all Americans as a bunch of obese gun-toting xenophobic anti-intellectuals is the same as pigeonholing all the colored people into the category of... well, obese gun-toting xenophobic anti-intellectuals. Funny how the negative stereotypes for blacks are so similar to the negative stereotypes for whites, isn't it??? The analogy works, and the n-bomb drove the point home.
Now that said, whatever you might think about the American public, the government has rightly earned a reputation for supporting greed and nasty foreign policies, and since American claims to be a democracy, it certainly would look like the public supports them too.
Is that so...
I agree with the poster above that said it was about addiction. Veteran gamers, especially the ones old enough to have played 8-bit games, played some shitty games in their time. Games with horrible control, obnoxious sound, maybe even unrealistic difficulty, that required investing a considerable amount of time into the game just to make any real progress. Why are these gamers even looking forward to sequels they'll hate so much in the first place? But after hoisting a series onto such a high pedestal with such expectations a little disappointment is pretty much inevitable. Then some get into the strange habit of lingering around games long after losing the ability to enjoy anything. Consider the Final Fantasy fans who thought part 4 was the pinnacle of the RPG experience and that FFVII was the series jumping the shark. Yet for many, FFVII was an exciting introduction to the franchise. As games get better and better at doing it for the game, it becomes harder and harder to outdo those magical experiences. Much like a startling loud noise being less startling if heard again not too long after, or a druggie needing stronger goods to get his fix.
Agreed. Ghetto culture is a cancer that only serves to perpetuate the racism so crippling people of African descent. To be fair entertainment on the whole is part of the problem-- in media they want their "blacks" to be very strongly, perhaps even exaggeratedly pronounced in their speech and mannerisms. And just as the first Godfather movie wound up influencing and exaggerating the way mobsters and Italian tough-guy types carried themselves, minorities in popular media resonate with the minorities that watch them and vice versa, bouncing these exaggerations back and forth off each other in a way that amplifies these traits altogether. If you watch some of the older black and white films, the colored characters in them are not so quirky. Heck, if you listen to country music from much further back, there is less exaggeration in what you hear than in country music in the present. What we should be reaching towards is an America where every citizen is simply an American, regardless of whether they are of European descent, African descent, Native, oriental, etc.
Does it count if they put shoes on MABEL? Because they tried that too. It doesn't look as graceful this way though.
Re-reading and re-watching stories that have already been seen and digested have more to do with taking in details that were missed the first time, however. Maybe with a little bit of reliving fond experiences thrown in. I don't know about others, but especially when I was younger it was only on second or greater go through a story I'd have a clear understanding of what was going on and why things were happening. And of course some stories that have surprise twists later on purposefully drop hints to those twists early on in the form of fine details that are only going to be noticed with a better understanding of what's going on.
Isn't it a little obtuse to not acknowledge that when people on /. say "corporation" they mean "big corporation"? Big corporations are wealthy corporations, wealthy corporations are powerful corporations, and power does what it wants to do. Sometimes that isn't in the best interest of the average bloke.
AOL 2.5, on a 28.8kbps dial-up modem. It cost $3/hour to connect to the internet, and combine that with the MMOs of those days, I ran up some bills. And, of course I was addicted. I had learned so much and my literary capabilities skyrocketed. It's too bad that there are articles these days of youth becoming worse at English and submitting assignments with emoticons, "ROFLMAO", etc., my vocabulary grew, and in a positive way.
Both should be ditched altogether, especially the latter one being the harmful misnomer that it is. Many "blacks" have plenty of European or Native blood in their heritage but for even being half or quarter African they're simply "black," and rarely get acknowledged for whatever other components of their heritage might be... which would be okay if instead of "black" they were simply "American" but the country still doesn't quite frame things that way yet. What the labels are really trying to target is the subculture that involves that accent and those impoverished origins. Which honestly should be considered a separate thing from colored skin and kinky hair.
Depressing post.
The republicans would like nothing better than the situation where all former democratic votes would be split up fifty-fifty between democrats the third party. Of course they might lose a few too, but as long as they lose less than the democrats, they're basically sure of winning.
Or so they did until the Tea Party thing started catching. Now in a smashing irony it is Republicans interested in Approval Voting.
Beetlejuice from the Howard Stern show!
Great, encourage users to willfully catalogue their reading habits and news sources for Google by making a game out of it.
AC you nearly made me spit out my drink.
Oh come now, is making learning fun really a bad thing?
Why should anyone laugh at you? Al Jazeera English has been a refreshing breath of fresh air as far as international news is concerned. The website, anyway.
Would that I had mod points for you; this seems to have been America's elephant in the living room with regards to racial issues. When the poor and the downtrodden are violent, unlawful, or otherwise engaged in shameful activities, it's always because they are (other ethnicity), never because they were impoverished and possibly not raised well. It's always so easy to beeline towards a subject's race as the reason they've done something wrong, which then becomes proof that the whole race has something wrong with it. On an underlying level the people who come from backgrounds that are educated or value education generally are going to be more likely to have connections that will provide them with an edge and less likely to serve bad stereotypes, and the people who had harsher times growing up will generally have that uphill battle against their background that makes them easy to label as "some stupid [derogatory term]."