I bought each GTA game twice. Once on the PS2, and then once when the superior version came out on the Xbox.
I've sort of wanted to get a next-gen console. I haven't been able to find a Wii yet, and I will get one if they ever become available. I also want a high-end console such as the 360 or PS3. My sole criterion for this decision is which console has the better version of GTAIV. Game companies should realize the influence of this franchise.
The key is that the speed of sound in air and the speed of sound in the metal of the airframe are very different. One source I googled said that the speed of sound in steel is 4512 m/s, while the speed of sound in air at 20 C is a piddly 343 m/s.
What world have you been living in? Palestinian deaths tend to go almost completely unreported unless there are dozens at once
I think this would improve if they stopped strapping bombs to themselves and blowing them up in populated places. Honestly, I'm not all the surprise when another dies, since it is usually by his own hand or the hand of a fellow Palestinian. Ya know, if they adopted non-violent resistance, a la Gandhi, they would evoke much more sympathy from the world.
It supposedly gets 38/47 MPG, while the conventional gas Jetta gets 24/31. I've heard they're not available in all states, though. The TDI increases the price by about $5k, and I ran the numbers and figured out that I'd have to drive about 100k miles to make the difference in price worth it.
When you join the military, you swear an oath to go out and do whatever the current commander-in-chief tells you to do, as long as it doesn't violate the Geneva Conventions. Watada seems like a relatively smart guy, he should have known this going in. Anyone who has paid attention to reality for 30 seconds in his life would have been aware that the United States' record on international conflicts has been spotty at best for the last forty years, and that joining the military could involve *gasp* being sent to fight a war. So, Watada owes the US taxpayer whatever he has been paid up to this point and possibly a few years in the brig.
Only desensitizes people to the issues at hand. How peoples' minds were changed by "Bush is Hitler" slogans?
I said "what makes you think it's possible" in the political sense. As in, how long would a mechanism that censors communications last here in the US? Of course it's technically possible. When I said "have they ever done it?", I was referring to the story submitter's phrasing, since it would imply that we had taken steps in the direction of exercising prior restraint of private communication.
So, bzzt you fail basic reading comprehension.
And of course the people in power are ruthless, greedy scum. What type of person tends to want to have that much power? Tick. Tick. Tick... Ruthless greedy scum!
Political FUD is everyone's right, I agree. I just don't see how an article about Iran doing something so draconian is seen as yet another opportunity to ham-handedly bash the administration.
But keep on crying wolf, by all means. Nothing desensitizes people to actual bad things like droning on endlessly about imaginary bad things. Wonder why people weren't more pissed off about Abu Ghirab? The left had been accusing Bush of running secret death camps for years beforehand. Wonder there's not more outrage about Iraq? The left was declaring it a Vietnam even a few months before it began.
Many americans claim to be against the iraq war, in fact some sources claim the majority. So how exactly was Bush RE-ELECTED, how the fuck did he get elected in the first place and why are there no efforts to stop the war or at least hamper it?
Well, Kerry's didn't say he would end the war. Neither party's nominee had ending it as part of their platform, so in the 2004 election, Iraq wasn't an issue. Sadly, the big issue was gay marriage.
I didn't say it isn't technically feasible. Automatically sifting for keywords in plaintext is trivial. I meant legally. The summary seemed to imply that the US was far down that path already, and that is not the case, to the best of my knowledge.
Nancy Pelosi, Dennis Kucinich, and Howard Dean are such raging conservatives that it makes my stomach turn sometimes. If you perceive both parties as being conservative, you must be pretty far out there.
But it has luckily been fairly resistant to attacks. Both major parties are equally guilty of this. In the Clinton years, you had Tipper Gore wanting to apply "Explicit" labels to records and the DMCA, which prevents one from disseminating fairly obvious bits of knowledge. Under Bush, you have more of the same.
However, it's been a long time since I've seen a congressional hearing about anything that didn't have a member of Code Pink or some other lefty organization visible in the audience, covered in slogans. If we ever get to the point where they're kicked out before they start yelling and disrupting the proceedings, then I might start to get worried. Until then, this is just the same, tired hyperbole.
What, exactly, would make the poster think that it would be possible that text messages in the US would be filtered for content? Has the US censored IMs, phone conversations, e-mail, or any other means of communication, or is this just the nebulous political FUD we've had to endure for so long?
And most of the things we bitch about most were enumerated in the first ten amendments. Freedom of speech was the first among those, so we Americans are kind of bitchy about it, but for a good reason. As an American, I see the first amendment as the foremost of amendments. The second has its utility in guaranteeing the ability to revolt, but the first has the ability to avert that through peaceful and rational means.
I agree with you completely/ However, in reality those rights have been usurped. The 10th amendment is long gone. In the context of the laws applicable and their current interpretation, everything I described was by the books, but I in no way said it was right.
Let me solve that for you. They weren't right. Because the KKK do not need a permit to assemble under any circumstances. Freedom of assembly is guaranteed at the federal level by the 1st amendment; the 14th amendment says that Texas (and every other state) has to obey the first amendment and all the other amendments as well.
They did since it was held on state property. An informal gathering on Capitol grounds would have been fine, but an event that requires diversion of traffic or the use of amplified sound requires a permit here, which I have no real problem with as long as anyone can get a permit.
The reason you don't ban hate speech, at least, the reason beyond the fact that it leads to the suppression of all speech, can be illustrated by something that happened in my town about a year back.
I live in Austin, Texas. Texas is a conservative state, and Austin is a liberal city that also happens to be the capitol of our state. The means that groups from across the state congregate here to protest, rally, and so on. Well, about a year ago, the Ku Klux Klan of Texas decided to hold a rally in front of our city hall. For weeks beforehand, there was debate over whether the city was right to grant a permit for the rally to the KKK. They decided to in the end. And what happened?
Maybe ten Klan members showed up. Maybe. They were greeted by something close to a thousand protesters as cops watched on in riot gear. There was no altercation, it was just made clear for the crowd, the media, and the people at home that the Klan was exactly how they perceived it: a group of ugly, not-so-bright rednecks that is very few in number.
The lesson? Let these people expose themselves for who they are, the population's mean attitude towards such things has shifted to the point where even ultraconservatives find groups like the Klan repugnant, and they'll only diminish the popularity of their cause. If the rally had been suppressed, it would have only served to reinforce the perception that Klan members [and whites in general] are being persecuted, and groups like this operate by convincing economically disadvantaged people that they are being persecuted.
The solution to hate speech is to not listen. An even better solution is to listen and laugh.
He could, and still can, say anything he wants. He was dropped because sponsors were dropping ads on his show in large numbers. His freedom of speech was not violated, his employers just made a prudent decision.
Maybe his kids should go to Iraq first? I'm not an animal but there is a certain retributive justice in it, except you know Bush doesn't have thousands of kids.
I really fail to see how I could have misread that. You even cite retribution as your motive. If one of your parents did something horrible, would it be right to punish you for it? Or do things like logic, law, and reason just immediately go out the window when partisan bickering is you prime motivator in life?
You can't compel someone to enlist their kids in the service. The Bush daughters are adult citizens and can join the military if they so choose, but suggesting what you do isn't any form of justice, it's a really just a pathetic fantasy.
I recently got a used Xbox and put XBMC on it. I was astounded by the smoothness of it all. It streams video, DivX included, from the network, and it does it flawlessly. I know I'm not the target audience here, but this sounds like a less capable version of a six year old video game console that wasn't even intended to do what I do on it. It might have a lead on the interface/niceness front, but XBMC wins on the games, online gaming, and emulation.
It is kind of funny that someone throwing around the word "retarted" so much managed to make a mistake on almost every line of his post:
You obviousally are a young kid that knows nothing.
facts.
1 - government officials are retarted with IQ's below 100. 2 - Judges are retarted with IQ's below 100. 3 - Panic sells and the above people like to panic. 4 - The above love to punish someone for no real good reason. 5 - go to step 1.
This is in a nutshell government, police and Judicial America. Some of you younger kids try to think otherwise but us that have lived to 40 know better.
Most of your managers, leaders, judges, police are complete and utter idiots. This is a fact of today's society. it rewards the feeble minded that can talk others into giving them power.
the sooner you realize that the world is not run by the geniuses and smart people but by the idiots and morons, the sooner you understand how silly crap like this happens.
Line 1:obviousally -> obviously Line 2: facts. -> Facts: Line 3: retarted -> retarded; IQ's -> IQs Line 4: retarted -> retarded; IQ's -> IQs Line 8: This is -> This is, ; nutshell -> nutshell, ; police -> police, ; Judicial -> judicial; otherwise -> otherwise, ; us -> we Line 9: police -> police, ; feeble minded -> feeble-minded ; talk -> convince Line 10: the -> The , sooner you understand -> sooner you will understand.
Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Proofread your posts before insulting peoples' intelligence.
I can't imagine the number of hours I clocked on that game. I really wish it had had a timer like Melee. In the dorm days we would regularly set the stock to 99 or the timer to the maximum and play a single match for hours. It never got old.
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I bought each GTA game twice. Once on the PS2, and then once when the superior version came out on the Xbox.
I've sort of wanted to get a next-gen console. I haven't been able to find a Wii yet, and I will get one if they ever become available. I also want a high-end console such as the 360 or PS3. My sole criterion for this decision is which console has the better version of GTAIV. Game companies should realize the influence of this franchise.
The key is that the speed of sound in air and the speed of sound in the metal of the airframe are very different. One source I googled said that the speed of sound in steel is 4512 m/s, while the speed of sound in air at 20 C is a piddly 343 m/s.
What world have you been living in? Palestinian deaths tend to go almost completely unreported unless there are dozens at once
I think this would improve if they stopped strapping bombs to themselves and blowing them up in populated places. Honestly, I'm not all the surprise when another dies, since it is usually by his own hand or the hand of a fellow Palestinian. Ya know, if they adopted non-violent resistance, a la Gandhi, they would evoke much more sympathy from the world.
It supposedly gets 38/47 MPG, while the conventional gas Jetta gets 24/31. I've heard they're not available in all states, though. The TDI increases the price by about $5k, and I ran the numbers and figured out that I'd have to drive about 100k miles to make the difference in price worth it.
When you join the military, you swear an oath to go out and do whatever the current commander-in-chief tells you to do, as long as it doesn't violate the Geneva Conventions. Watada seems like a relatively smart guy, he should have known this going in. Anyone who has paid attention to reality for 30 seconds in his life would have been aware that the United States' record on international conflicts has been spotty at best for the last forty years, and that joining the military could involve *gasp* being sent to fight a war. So, Watada owes the US taxpayer whatever he has been paid up to this point and possibly a few years in the brig.
Only desensitizes people to the issues at hand. How peoples' minds were changed by "Bush is Hitler" slogans?
I said "what makes you think it's possible" in the political sense. As in, how long would a mechanism that censors communications last here in the US? Of course it's technically possible. When I said "have they ever done it?", I was referring to the story submitter's phrasing, since it would imply that we had taken steps in the direction of exercising prior restraint of private communication.
So, bzzt you fail basic reading comprehension.
And of course the people in power are ruthless, greedy scum. What type of person tends to want to have that much power? Tick. Tick. Tick... Ruthless greedy scum!
Political FUD is everyone's right, I agree. I just don't see how an article about Iran doing something so draconian is seen as yet another opportunity to ham-handedly bash the administration.
But keep on crying wolf, by all means. Nothing desensitizes people to actual bad things like droning on endlessly about imaginary bad things. Wonder why people weren't more pissed off about Abu Ghirab? The left had been accusing Bush of running secret death camps for years beforehand. Wonder there's not more outrage about Iraq? The left was declaring it a Vietnam even a few months before it began.
It might work.
Many americans claim to be against the iraq war, in fact some sources claim the majority. So how exactly was Bush RE-ELECTED, how the fuck did he get elected in the first place and why are there no efforts to stop the war or at least hamper it?
Well, Kerry's didn't say he would end the war. Neither party's nominee had ending it as part of their platform, so in the 2004 election, Iraq wasn't an issue. Sadly, the big issue was gay marriage.
I didn't say it isn't technically feasible. Automatically sifting for keywords in plaintext is trivial. I meant legally. The summary seemed to imply that the US was far down that path already, and that is not the case, to the best of my knowledge.
Check it out. They're a little out there, and they'll never have any success, but they exist.
Nancy Pelosi, Dennis Kucinich, and Howard Dean are such raging conservatives that it makes my stomach turn sometimes. If you perceive both parties as being conservative, you must be pretty far out there.
But it has luckily been fairly resistant to attacks. Both major parties are equally guilty of this. In the Clinton years, you had Tipper Gore wanting to apply "Explicit" labels to records and the DMCA, which prevents one from disseminating fairly obvious bits of knowledge. Under Bush, you have more of the same.
However, it's been a long time since I've seen a congressional hearing about anything that didn't have a member of Code Pink or some other lefty organization visible in the audience, covered in slogans. If we ever get to the point where they're kicked out before they start yelling and disrupting the proceedings, then I might start to get worried. Until then, this is just the same, tired hyperbole.
What, exactly, would make the poster think that it would be possible that text messages in the US would be filtered for content? Has the US censored IMs, phone conversations, e-mail, or any other means of communication, or is this just the nebulous political FUD we've had to endure for so long?
And most of the things we bitch about most were enumerated in the first ten amendments. Freedom of speech was the first among those, so we Americans are kind of bitchy about it, but for a good reason. As an American, I see the first amendment as the foremost of amendments. The second has its utility in guaranteeing the ability to revolt, but the first has the ability to avert that through peaceful and rational means.
I agree with you completely/ However, in reality those rights have been usurped. The 10th amendment is long gone. In the context of the laws applicable and their current interpretation, everything I described was by the books, but I in no way said it was right.
Let me solve that for you. They weren't right. Because the KKK do not need a permit to assemble under any circumstances. Freedom of assembly is guaranteed at the federal level by the 1st amendment; the 14th amendment says that Texas (and every other state) has to obey the first amendment and all the other amendments as well.
They did since it was held on state property. An informal gathering on Capitol grounds would have been fine, but an event that requires diversion of traffic or the use of amplified sound requires a permit here, which I have no real problem with as long as anyone can get a permit.
The reason you don't ban hate speech, at least, the reason beyond the fact that it leads to the suppression of all speech, can be illustrated by something that happened in my town about a year back.
I live in Austin, Texas. Texas is a conservative state, and Austin is a liberal city that also happens to be the capitol of our state. The means that groups from across the state congregate here to protest, rally, and so on. Well, about a year ago, the Ku Klux Klan of Texas decided to hold a rally in front of our city hall. For weeks beforehand, there was debate over whether the city was right to grant a permit for the rally to the KKK. They decided to in the end. And what happened?
Maybe ten Klan members showed up. Maybe. They were greeted by something close to a thousand protesters as cops watched on in riot gear. There was no altercation, it was just made clear for the crowd, the media, and the people at home that the Klan was exactly how they perceived it: a group of ugly, not-so-bright rednecks that is very few in number.
The lesson? Let these people expose themselves for who they are, the population's mean attitude towards such things has shifted to the point where even ultraconservatives find groups like the Klan repugnant, and they'll only diminish the popularity of their cause. If the rally had been suppressed, it would have only served to reinforce the perception that Klan members [and whites in general] are being persecuted, and groups like this operate by convincing economically disadvantaged people that they are being persecuted.
The solution to hate speech is to not listen. An even better solution is to listen and laugh.
He could, and still can, say anything he wants. He was dropped because sponsors were dropping ads on his show in large numbers. His freedom of speech was not violated, his employers just made a prudent decision.
Maybe his kids should go to Iraq first? I'm not an animal but there is a certain retributive justice in it, except you know Bush doesn't have thousands of kids.
I really fail to see how I could have misread that. You even cite retribution as your motive. If one of your parents did something horrible, would it be right to punish you for it? Or do things like logic, law, and reason just immediately go out the window when partisan bickering is you prime motivator in life?
You can't compel someone to enlist their kids in the service. The Bush daughters are adult citizens and can join the military if they so choose, but suggesting what you do isn't any form of justice, it's a really just a pathetic fantasy.
Considering "people" was Osama Bin-fucking Laden, I'd say good for him.
Interesting.I recently got a used Xbox and put XBMC on it. I was astounded by the smoothness of it all. It streams video, DivX included, from the network, and it does it flawlessly. I know I'm not the target audience here, but this sounds like a less capable version of a six year old video game console that wasn't even intended to do what I do on it. It might have a lead on the interface/niceness front, but XBMC wins on the games, online gaming, and emulation.
You're right. And I double-checked it to make sure this kind of embarrassment wouldn't happen. I guess I need to update my mental grammar check.
It is kind of funny that someone throwing around the word "retarted" so much managed to make a mistake on almost every line of his post:
You obviousally are a young kid that knows nothing.
facts.
1 - government officials are retarted with IQ's below 100.
2 - Judges are retarted with IQ's below 100.
3 - Panic sells and the above people like to panic.
4 - The above love to punish someone for no real good reason.
5 - go to step 1.
This is in a nutshell government, police and Judicial America. Some of you younger kids try to think otherwise but us that have lived to 40 know better.
Most of your managers, leaders, judges, police are complete and utter idiots. This is a fact of today's society. it rewards the feeble minded that can talk others into giving them power.
the sooner you realize that the world is not run by the geniuses and smart people but by the idiots and morons, the sooner you understand how silly crap like this happens.
Line 1:obviousally -> obviously
Line 2: facts. -> Facts:
Line 3: retarted -> retarded; IQ's -> IQs
Line 4: retarted -> retarded; IQ's -> IQs
Line 8: This is -> This is, ; nutshell -> nutshell, ; police -> police, ; Judicial -> judicial; otherwise -> otherwise, ; us -> we
Line 9: police -> police, ; feeble minded -> feeble-minded ; talk -> convince
Line 10: the -> The , sooner you understand -> sooner you will understand.
Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Proofread your posts before insulting peoples' intelligence.
I can't imagine the number of hours I clocked on that game. I really wish it had had a timer like Melee. In the dorm days we would regularly set the stock to 99 or the timer to the maximum and play a single match for hours. It never got old.