Why did the communist China pulled the film from theaters?
I thought that the film is anti-capitalist, not anti-communist? Or at least so would some Hugo Chavez-praising loons on sites like digg and slashdot (most of them being on digg of course, people on/. are apparently more mature) say.
Shouldn't they also say that the film is pro-religion?
I never played Fallout3, but MW2 has possibly some of the best music I've heard in an FPS. I think it's written by Hans Zimmer, no less.
If you want to make a list of great games who had lousy music, I think that Half-Life should be near the top.
Atheism isn't a religion though. It's like saying not owning a dog is a form of dog ownership.
Unless you enjoy telling everyone how awesome it is to not own a dog, how dogs are evil because their owners won't pick up their crap after them and how dog owners are actually slaves to their dogs, living in delusion - that's how Richard Dawkins and his kind treat religion, right?
Of course, I don't care about other people's beliefs, but alot of anti-theists, Dawkins included, are really full of shit and I really wish they could shut the f**k up.
I like to describe myself as a "defensive Christian" - while I don't want creationism to be taught in schools since religion isn't one of natural sciences, I don't like when people are using some utterly stupid, straw-man argument to insult my religion - for example, saying that you can't be Christian if you don't believe that Earth is 4000 years old and that dinosaurs lived at same time as humans (which only shows their ignorance - I don't think that more of 1% of Christians - if even that - believe in such silly shit), even though it is their constitutional right and they have right to an opinion as much as anyone else.
Also, there are things happening which tell me that it *is* entirely logical to believe in God, even though it is hopeless to find any direct proofs of its existence. I'm talking about people remembering what happened in their previous lives, people awakening from clinical deaths and describing what seemed to be their contact with heaven or hell, and soul leaving people when they die. As advanced as it is today, science cannot create life. It is apparently a task reserved for God alone.
There were some wery good Bible-themed movies (most notably by Cecil B. DeMille) in the past, so I think it's entirely possible to have a good Bible-themed video game. It's just that nobody has put enough effort in it yet.
We wouldn't have any discussion about the idiocy that is "intelligent design" and stopping condom use (thereby increasing AIDS spread) in Africa if it wasn't for churches.
As a Christian, I totally agree. Religion should be more focused on sprituality (follow your conscience, don't do evil, be nice and kind to others) and less on material world. Just like physics and biology can't explain whether God exists or not, religion shouldn't try to explain how and when world was created.
However, it is known that power corrupts, so we'll always find evil people joining religion only to become rich, rule over others and fullfill whatever others selfish goals they have in mind. But that doesn't make religion bad per se.
What's the point of your post? That atheists should have their revenge on Christians for something that was happening five centuries ago? And I thought that Jack Thompson was totally ignorant and out of touch for saying that people play video games for no other reason but to satisfy their evil murderous desires. Now I see that such hateful, deranged people actually exist.
If I had the power to decide where to aim the asteroid, I would choose Australia. They're formal penal colony, have low density of population, lots of dangerous animal species, and their government wants to censor the Internet. Also, unlike Italy and France, they don't have famous wines and cheeses. I say go for Australia, asteroid!
So, where are the anti-theist nuts to contribute to this thread by saying something utterly stupid? Like that people are forming religions just to bang whores (that's just on the top on my head, I'm sure they'll be able to come up with even dumber theory)?
I am curious however about your perceived link between religion and consistency in own's views...
They you should read the first line in my previous comment again. I am saying you should apply the same criteria to religion as you do with communism, which you obviously are unable to do.
Communism says that all people should be equal and religion says that there's a supreme, universal, unavoidable law which surpasses all human laws and which basically tells you to do no evil, otherwise you'll suffer the consequences, even if you avoid being punished by other people or your own conscience. What's wrong with any of those ideas?
Just because every person who has attempted to implement it on a large scale has been either a complete douche or dumbass, does not mean that the whole idea is flawed.
But you can say pretty much the same about religion, right? It's another idea which sounds good in theory but in practice, people tend to abuse it for their own selfish goals.
Are you a religious person? I would assume that you are, at least if you're consistent in your views.
If you think JavaScript is a crime against humanity
I totally don't understand how anybody could think like that. Sure, javascript lets you mess lots of things up if you're a bad or sloppy coder, but in server-client world of web applications for some stuff it has no alternative (or the alternative would be user-unfriendly at best).
I smoke only on my balcony, but are you sure that would save me from Apple's idiocy? If you sent them your computer and they knew you're a smoker, they would probably outright refuse to open it, claiming it would endanger the health of their employees. You can say you don't smoke near your computer all you want but it wouldn't change anything (maybe you'll only provoke them to tell you to leave the store so they don't get a lung cancer by merely looking at you).
Of course I could be wrong and customers in question could have one of the filthiest computers on the world, in which case I could understand Apple's decision. But there are no screenshots to prove that and based from what I know of this story, of Apple and of treatment of smokers in the USA, I think it's far more likely they're putting all smokers in the same basket.
If we're going to start voiding warranties for computers that spent time in households that contributed to component failure, though, smokers aren't really the only place to look (or even necessarily the place to start). Pet-owning households are particularly bad, for example.
Of course, you can get far worse diseases from touching pet fur than you would from merely looking at ashtrays and yellow cigarette residue, but that would be discrimination against pet owners since they aren't the evil people bent of giving a lung cancer to everyone around them, as smokers are...I mean as anti-tobacco lobby wants you to believe smokers are.
Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but you should've written "Wish I had mod points, this entire thread is one of the funniest ever on/.." - the first dot is a dot in "slashdot" and the second dot ends the sentence properly.
Or you could've constructed your sentence differently if you don't like consecutive dots, like "Wish I had mod points, this is one of the funniest threads on/. ever.".
I would also add Heroes of Might & Magic 3 to the list, one of my favorite games which runs at fixed 800x600 and that looks blurry on my Lenovo L220x. However there is no widescreen solution for that game that I'm aware of.
Which accomplishments would those be? Closing Gitmo? Nope, haven't done that yet. Health Care Reform? Nope, haven't done that yet, and it's not really "reform" anyway. Creating a transparent White House? Nope, we gave up on that one pretty early on.
How about voting for the Patriot Act? And the FEMA immunity bill? You apparently forgot about that.
Not if you ask their censorship minister Stephen Goebbels-Conroy. He would probably say that everyone who doesn't like their idea wants to legalize padeophilia and that freedom of speech means watching child porn.
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I'm certainly not going to miss these two games when there are plenty of better games anyway (and I still don't have enough time to play them all)
You have my compassion.
(how is the film pro-religion?)
You haven't seen Avatar then? Their deity helps them fight back the human invaders.
Why did the communist China pulled the film from theaters? /. are apparently more mature) say.
I thought that the film is anti-capitalist, not anti-communist? Or at least so would some Hugo Chavez-praising loons on sites like digg and slashdot (most of them being on digg of course, people on
Shouldn't they also say that the film is pro-religion?
Wiping one's hard drive just because they use IE6 is just too harsh...I prefer redirection to goatse.
I never played Fallout3, but MW2 has possibly some of the best music I've heard in an FPS. I think it's written by Hans Zimmer, no less. If you want to make a list of great games who had lousy music, I think that Half-Life should be near the top.
Atheism isn't a religion though. It's like saying not owning a dog is a form of dog ownership.
Unless you enjoy telling everyone how awesome it is to not own a dog, how dogs are evil because their owners won't pick up their crap after them and how dog owners are actually slaves to their dogs, living in delusion - that's how Richard Dawkins and his kind treat religion, right?
Of course, I don't care about other people's beliefs, but alot of anti-theists, Dawkins included, are really full of shit and I really wish they could shut the f**k up.
I like to describe myself as a "defensive Christian" - while I don't want creationism to be taught in schools since religion isn't one of natural sciences, I don't like when people are using some utterly stupid, straw-man argument to insult my religion - for example, saying that you can't be Christian if you don't believe that Earth is 4000 years old and that dinosaurs lived at same time as humans (which only shows their ignorance - I don't think that more of 1% of Christians - if even that - believe in such silly shit), even though it is their constitutional right and they have right to an opinion as much as anyone else.
Also, there are things happening which tell me that it *is* entirely logical to believe in God, even though it is hopeless to find any direct proofs of its existence. I'm talking about people remembering what happened in their previous lives, people awakening from clinical deaths and describing what seemed to be their contact with heaven or hell, and soul leaving people when they die. As advanced as it is today, science cannot create life. It is apparently a task reserved for God alone.
There were some wery good Bible-themed movies (most notably by Cecil B. DeMille) in the past, so I think it's entirely possible to have a good Bible-themed video game. It's just that nobody has put enough effort in it yet.
We wouldn't have any discussion about the idiocy that is "intelligent design" and stopping condom use (thereby increasing AIDS spread) in Africa if it wasn't for churches.
As a Christian, I totally agree. Religion should be more focused on sprituality (follow your conscience, don't do evil, be nice and kind to others) and less on material world. Just like physics and biology can't explain whether God exists or not, religion shouldn't try to explain how and when world was created.
However, it is known that power corrupts, so we'll always find evil people joining religion only to become rich, rule over others and fullfill whatever others selfish goals they have in mind. But that doesn't make religion bad per se.
What's the point of your post? That atheists should have their revenge on Christians for something that was happening five centuries ago? And I thought that Jack Thompson was totally ignorant and out of touch for saying that people play video games for no other reason but to satisfy their evil murderous desires. Now I see that such hateful, deranged people actually exist.
If I had the power to decide where to aim the asteroid, I would choose Australia. They're formal penal colony, have low density of population, lots of dangerous animal species, and their government wants to censor the Internet. Also, unlike Italy and France, they don't have famous wines and cheeses. I say go for Australia, asteroid!
So, where are the anti-theist nuts to contribute to this thread by saying something utterly stupid? Like that people are forming religions just to bang whores (that's just on the top on my head, I'm sure they'll be able to come up with even dumber theory)?
I am curious however about your perceived link between religion and consistency in own's views...
They you should read the first line in my previous comment again. I am saying you should apply the same criteria to religion as you do with communism, which you obviously are unable to do.
Communism says that all people should be equal and religion says that there's a supreme, universal, unavoidable law which surpasses all human laws and which basically tells you to do no evil, otherwise you'll suffer the consequences, even if you avoid being punished by other people or your own conscience. What's wrong with any of those ideas?
Just because every person who has attempted to implement it on a large scale has been either a complete douche or dumbass, does not mean that the whole idea is flawed.
But you can say pretty much the same about religion, right? It's another idea which sounds good in theory but in practice, people tend to abuse it for their own selfish goals.
Are you a religious person? I would assume that you are, at least if you're consistent in your views.
If you think JavaScript is a crime against humanity
I totally don't understand how anybody could think like that. Sure, javascript lets you mess lots of things up if you're a bad or sloppy coder, but in server-client world of web applications for some stuff it has no alternative (or the alternative would be user-unfriendly at best).
I smoke only on my balcony, but are you sure that would save me from Apple's idiocy? If you sent them your computer and they knew you're a smoker, they would probably outright refuse to open it, claiming it would endanger the health of their employees. You can say you don't smoke near your computer all you want but it wouldn't change anything (maybe you'll only provoke them to tell you to leave the store so they don't get a lung cancer by merely looking at you).
Of course I could be wrong and customers in question could have one of the filthiest computers on the world, in which case I could understand Apple's decision. But there are no screenshots to prove that and based from what I know of this story, of Apple and of treatment of smokers in the USA, I think it's far more likely they're putting all smokers in the same basket.
If we're going to start voiding warranties for computers that spent time in households that contributed to component failure, though, smokers aren't really the only place to look (or even necessarily the place to start). Pet-owning households are particularly bad, for example.
Of course, you can get far worse diseases from touching pet fur than you would from merely looking at ashtrays and yellow cigarette residue, but that would be discrimination against pet owners since they aren't the evil people bent of giving a lung cancer to everyone around them, as smokers are...I mean as anti-tobacco lobby wants you to believe smokers are.
Their philanthropic efforts (while not making them deserve the prize) give them slightly more claim to one than Torvalds.
And much more than Obama.
Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but you should've written "Wish I had mod points, this entire thread is one of the funniest ever on /.." - the first dot is a dot in "slashdot" and the second dot ends the sentence properly.
/. ever.".
Or you could've constructed your sentence differently if you don't like consecutive dots, like "Wish I had mod points, this is one of the funniest threads on
I would also add Heroes of Might & Magic 3 to the list, one of my favorite games which runs at fixed 800x600 and that looks blurry on my Lenovo L220x. However there is no widescreen solution for that game that I'm aware of.
"Meanwhile, attorneys in the Netherlands remain afraid to use their phones." Apparently they need some Dutch courage.
Which accomplishments would those be? Closing Gitmo? Nope, haven't done that yet. Health Care Reform? Nope, haven't done that yet, and it's not really "reform" anyway. Creating a transparent White House? Nope, we gave up on that one pretty early on.
How about voting for the Patriot Act? And the FEMA immunity bill? You apparently forgot about that.
Then move away to Cuba. I'm sure that you'll have no trouble finding a Cuban who will be more than willing to switch their place with you.
Not if you ask their censorship minister Stephen Goebbels-Conroy. He would probably say that everyone who doesn't like their idea wants to legalize padeophilia and that freedom of speech means watching child porn.
Waldo isn't such a terrible name actually. He always can be found with some effort.