I actually think the whole Wikileaks thing is kinda funny. Whistleblowing is a necessary element of democracy and capitalism, and yet when someone can't hide their dirty laundry in time they get all pissed off. If they did their secret black ops cover ups, and document shredding parties a little better they probably wouldn't be in this mess.
Its very simple. AOL was once the internet home of a large number of internet retards. No, it was the internet home for 'duuuuuurrrrrrrrrrr'. These idiots keep giving AOL money, even though they don't offer a ISP service anymore. And thats how AOL isn't dead yet. Its probably technically fraud, except that none of these dipshits notice that a service they're paying a monthly subscription to doesn't actually exist anymore. Don't try to reason with the non-logic. Just go with it.
Integrity of the office? What the fuck? Its a damn crime, stand up for your position, fuckwad! It is illegal for any unauthorized person to attempt in guise, manner, appearance, or behavior to give the impression that they are a judge, police officer, marshal, federal agent, or pretty much any other government position. Hell you can't even buy police uniforms for this very reason.
Sounds like EA needs to take a look at Blizzard's success and their unofficial "It will be ready when its ready" motto. EA appears to employ short sighted business execs who lack common sense, as a general rule.
I was one of the people who played at launch, and quit shortly after. A few things bothered me (not the issues with the Bright Mage snares; I was playing one after all). The linear, progressive nature of the campaign was really irritating. Finish an area? Good, your done, forget about it and never come back. Other than maybe pick up some old titles you might have missed there was probably no reason to go back. Coming from WoW where there are good excuses to revisit old areas (farming, achievements, old instances/raids, etc.) it was annoying to realize that once you finished up with the campaign, there was literally nothing to do, except pvp constantly (which I suck at anyway). The public quests were an interesting idea, but ultimately a failure. For about a week after launch it was fairly easy to get people to stop by and join in. After that everyone moved on, and the only way to do them was with a guild or friends. For someone that doesn't have very many friends that mmo game (and the ones that do, didn't bother trying WAR), this was a killer. The crafting system was a steaming sack of shit. I don't think I ever did more than glance at it and gather a few things, in the three or so weeks I played. Finally, there was little reason to go to the major cities. You could find all the vendors, skill trainers, and almost everything else you needed along the way (I didn't play to far, but the library and the trophy stuff seemed to be the main reason to visit the cities). Again, for someone coming from WoW this was a huge turn off.
On the good side, the idea of public quests was solid. It just needed a better player finding feature. The titles, the lorebook, the bonuses for killing lots of creatures of a single type, were all very cool, much better than WoW's achievement system, simply because there were tons of titles for all kinds of crap, and you could get alot of them with very little work, making it easy to feel like you were really accomplishing something. For example, there were titles for thing like clicking on yourself 50 times, or doing pvp naked, scoring critical hits, and survivng pvp fights with 5% hp or less (getting that one was awesome; I wish WoW had a Toothskinner title), as well as situational titles that you got if you found certain static world objects and such. This game showed alot of promise. Its a shame EA fucked everything up.
If I go to the hospital with a knife in my stomach, they take the knife out, treat me, and send me a bill. If I don't pay the bill, they (presumably) send a bill collector after me. They don't leave me on the ER waiting room floor to die. The analogy isn't true in every case, cause the US hospital system is crap, but in immediately life threatening cases I expect to get treated then billed (and thus is my point served). Granted, the victim, in this case, lived in a rural area and thus was probably of less danger to his neighbors. But it is more serious, when its in a city. At any rate, I don't agree with a fire department being able to put a fee on their services, but if that the way their gonna do it they need to put the fire out first and hire a bill collector (potentially raising the original fee to pay for the collector). The people would be best served by just accepting it as a tax.
And what happens when your house sets the house next to it on fire, because fire crews wouldn't put it out? Then your whole neighborhood is on fire. What happens if someone is trapped? Do they let the person die?
This sets a dangerous and scary precedent. Whats next? Are the police gonna start saying, "You didn't pay us our fee last month month. We're not gonna bother trying to find the guy who broke into your house." This IS government extortion, pure and simple.
Government, at a local, state, and federal have a responsibility to maintain order, and as far as I'm concerned they failed to do that. The people responsible for this should be fired, sued, and put in prison for arson.
WoW has changed enormously since launch. Its barely even the same game anymore. New races, classes, professions, zones, instances, raids, gear, battlegrounds, as well as new innovations like achievements and flying mounts have kept things interesting. Much has been streamlined, including making hybrid classes a viable option, talent tree's constantly (and positively) being revamped, new designs in raid content (no raid requires 40 people anymore, and the preparations and time spent just getting ready for a raid are gone as well). Heirloom gear, RAF, and enchanting scrolls make levelling an alt far easier, and random dungeons help you gear new max level toons with ease. WoW has been tuned into an experience that is easy to play, but hard to master, with some fresh challenge always ready to be attempted.
I thought of doing this about five years ago, but ultimately decided the target just wasn't worth it. I just didn't hate the guy that much, but also:
First off, one would have to acquire kiddie porn, which is first off disgusting, and also highly illegal. The second part involves not only covering the tracks you leave, but also laying a convincing trail of evidence suggesting that the target in fact did it himself. Doing that takes a lot of time and work, and just isn't something that any asshole can successfully do.
Yes, but in order to work large scale boycotts like that have to be organized. Its all well and good if you say "I'm not going to buy this game, because I don't like the DRM restrictions" but 10 million other people are just going to suck it up and buy the game anyway in spite of the jumping-through-hoops DRM. So if you actually want to make a difference, you have to make a very vocal round up of the entire gaming community and get everybody in on it. But then again if you get that far a boycott probably wouldn't even be necessary. Good luck with that.
But now that I think about it, a true math geek would probably start with the first few digits of Pi and add to every once in awhile. A sterile design, full body wrap around is possible eventually (what math geek, wouldn't relish being covered in numbers?), but a really creative mind would work an artistic design into it.
I'm in the army and no one has ever told me that I have to clear what I post with anyone. The exception would be when we deploy then they require everyone to submit their Facebook, Myspace, whatever, for constant scrutiny (understandable, I guess) during a deployment. Heck, my current unit actually encourages people to friend the unit FRG page (I don't and never will), and our sergeant major posts updates from his office.
Does this make sense to anybody else, or I am just getting it wrong? From what I understand the event horizon is just a boundary signaling a point of absolutely no return due to the intense gravity pulling anything and everything into it. Neutralize the event horizon and you neutralize the gravity, which is proposed to be the element of the blackhole. Without gravity, no blackhole, or at least its a blackhole in stasis. Is the article meaning to neutralize gravity in the area around the blackhole, while leaving said hole itself intact?
Seriously, self-censorship is a good thing, often under-practiced.
I agree.
And as to the ACLU fighting to say profanity is everyone's right, well, it's everyone's right to be a fool too, but that doesn't mean it's the best thing to be.... Is the ACLU going to go to court and support the Constitutional right be a fool too? It makes about as much sense.
I find it amazing that people will say a Christian doesn't have the right to spread/proselytize their religion, or the symbols of Christianity offend them, and want all symbols of Christianity wiped out, while they will fight for the right to offend someone else with their profanity. It's nothing but pure hypocrisy.
I'd quote the original, but the post seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Poster lacks coherent understanding of the issue at hand. Government endorsement of any religion, Christianity in this case, is a serious threat to our national identify, freedom, and way of life. Dropping an f-bomb is not. The two aren't in the same ballpark. They aren't in the same league. It ain't even the same fucking game, so shut the fuck up.
I remember the days of loading up a tricked out Daishi with ERPPCs and large lasers to one shot guys in some Atlas/Uriel/whatever bumfuck mech configuration and listen to them scream OMG!!!HAXX!!!!!1!! while I laughed. Only downside was the end result of my tinkering with the mech was so slow it couldn't dodge anything, and the whole thing would overheat with 1 or two shots, so I would wind up getting taken out by someone loaded up with LRM's, while not being able to shoot back. Also, for whoever was saying it back there, MW4 had no ground personnel for a machinegun to shoot at.
First off where exactly does Nikola Tesla predict the Blackberry? This could the an Android phone, or the Iphone or any modern phone, given what the article said. Shameless product placement. Also Nikola Tesla doesn't need Tesla Motors to 'live on'. I wonder what the writer got paid to use his hackneyed sense of journalism for this piece.
Is that what the government is wasting our tax dollars on these days? Detecting thumbdrives on networks? Come on, it shouldn't take the NSA to come up with something like this. I'll bet money that somebody has already written a piece of software to do just this. Even if they haven't there are loads of ways within Windows to watch and report stuff like this. I guess if they could upgrade it to work remotely on computers outside a network it might be useful (and if and only if, it gives specific details on the media and extends to other types beyond USB), but I don't really see the point on a network.
This doesn't even sound like it should be all that hard to break. Download/code a script or application that makes your computer think its connected when its not plugged in. It might be a little more difficult if the game chooses to verify the status of the connection by continually attempting to pass data over it, but I have faith that some entreprising cracker will come up with a way around that too, should the need arise.
Also, when did the people coming up with this stuff get so godawful stupid? This is the best they can come up with? Come on.
Pat has a long history of saying stuff like this. He's kinda like the Fred Phelps prototype (except that he's not near the hatemonger Phelps is; just a senile old troll).
I absolutely second this. That would quite possibly make for an outstanding tv show. Lets get the petition rolling. Might actually make this channel worth watching (sometimes).
As part of the penalties, the church was ordered to publish the results of the verdict in several national and international magazines to warn people, the judge said, about what Scientology offers and what was discovered at trial. -http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/27/france.scientology.fraud/index.html
Scientology is no better than extremist Islam, or psychic nutjobs defrauding people over the internet. Its really just that their particular brand of evil is greed based, and instead of fanaticism based like most other religions. I mean seriously Operation Freakout? Operation Snow White? Its disturbing to think that a 'religious organization', and I use that phrase loosely in reference to Scientology, would undertake something of that nature.
Offtopic: Actually in regards to certain groups, or time periods the French versions of the inquisition were incredibly brutal. Just ask Jacques de Molay.
Anyway, I'd whole heartedly agree with banning Scientology; not because of their ridiculous 'beliefs', but because they're a dangerous cult with a long history of fraud, conspiracy, and extortion, as well as abuse, neglect, and mistreatment of members, with no indication of stopping. Scientology is not actually a religion; its a criminal organization, and such deserves none of the protection given to religion, nor any of the respect.
(I might be inclined to be a little more friendly with the Freezoners, but seriously, fuck the CoS)
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I actually think the whole Wikileaks thing is kinda funny. Whistleblowing is a necessary element of democracy and capitalism, and yet when someone can't hide their dirty laundry in time they get all pissed off. If they did their secret black ops cover ups, and document shredding parties a little better they probably wouldn't be in this mess.
Its very simple. AOL was once the internet home of a large number of internet retards. No, it was the internet home for 'duuuuuurrrrrrrrrrr'. These idiots keep giving AOL money, even though they don't offer a ISP service anymore. And thats how AOL isn't dead yet. Its probably technically fraud, except that none of these dipshits notice that a service they're paying a monthly subscription to doesn't actually exist anymore. Don't try to reason with the non-logic. Just go with it.
The real question is how they understood enough of his speech to take that quote down.
Integrity of the office? What the fuck? Its a damn crime, stand up for your position, fuckwad! It is illegal for any unauthorized person to attempt in guise, manner, appearance, or behavior to give the impression that they are a judge, police officer, marshal, federal agent, or pretty much any other government position. Hell you can't even buy police uniforms for this very reason.
Sounds like EA needs to take a look at Blizzard's success and their unofficial "It will be ready when its ready" motto. EA appears to employ short sighted business execs who lack common sense, as a general rule.
I was one of the people who played at launch, and quit shortly after. A few things bothered me (not the issues with the Bright Mage snares; I was playing one after all). The linear, progressive nature of the campaign was really irritating. Finish an area? Good, your done, forget about it and never come back. Other than maybe pick up some old titles you might have missed there was probably no reason to go back. Coming from WoW where there are good excuses to revisit old areas (farming, achievements, old instances/raids, etc.) it was annoying to realize that once you finished up with the campaign, there was literally nothing to do, except pvp constantly (which I suck at anyway). The public quests were an interesting idea, but ultimately a failure. For about a week after launch it was fairly easy to get people to stop by and join in. After that everyone moved on, and the only way to do them was with a guild or friends. For someone that doesn't have very many friends that mmo game (and the ones that do, didn't bother trying WAR), this was a killer. The crafting system was a steaming sack of shit. I don't think I ever did more than glance at it and gather a few things, in the three or so weeks I played. Finally, there was little reason to go to the major cities. You could find all the vendors, skill trainers, and almost everything else you needed along the way (I didn't play to far, but the library and the trophy stuff seemed to be the main reason to visit the cities). Again, for someone coming from WoW this was a huge turn off.
On the good side, the idea of public quests was solid. It just needed a better player finding feature. The titles, the lorebook, the bonuses for killing lots of creatures of a single type, were all very cool, much better than WoW's achievement system, simply because there were tons of titles for all kinds of crap, and you could get alot of them with very little work, making it easy to feel like you were really accomplishing something. For example, there were titles for thing like clicking on yourself 50 times, or doing pvp naked, scoring critical hits, and survivng pvp fights with 5% hp or less (getting that one was awesome; I wish WoW had a Toothskinner title), as well as situational titles that you got if you found certain static world objects and such. This game showed alot of promise. Its a shame EA fucked everything up.
If I go to the hospital with a knife in my stomach, they take the knife out, treat me, and send me a bill. If I don't pay the bill, they (presumably) send a bill collector after me. They don't leave me on the ER waiting room floor to die. The analogy isn't true in every case, cause the US hospital system is crap, but in immediately life threatening cases I expect to get treated then billed (and thus is my point served). Granted, the victim, in this case, lived in a rural area and thus was probably of less danger to his neighbors. But it is more serious, when its in a city. At any rate, I don't agree with a fire department being able to put a fee on their services, but if that the way their gonna do it they need to put the fire out first and hire a bill collector (potentially raising the original fee to pay for the collector). The people would be best served by just accepting it as a tax.
And what happens when your house sets the house next to it on fire, because fire crews wouldn't put it out? Then your whole neighborhood is on fire. What happens if someone is trapped? Do they let the person die? This sets a dangerous and scary precedent. Whats next? Are the police gonna start saying, "You didn't pay us our fee last month month. We're not gonna bother trying to find the guy who broke into your house." This IS government extortion, pure and simple. Government, at a local, state, and federal have a responsibility to maintain order, and as far as I'm concerned they failed to do that. The people responsible for this should be fired, sued, and put in prison for arson.
WoW has changed enormously since launch. Its barely even the same game anymore. New races, classes, professions, zones, instances, raids, gear, battlegrounds, as well as new innovations like achievements and flying mounts have kept things interesting. Much has been streamlined, including making hybrid classes a viable option, talent tree's constantly (and positively) being revamped, new designs in raid content (no raid requires 40 people anymore, and the preparations and time spent just getting ready for a raid are gone as well). Heirloom gear, RAF, and enchanting scrolls make levelling an alt far easier, and random dungeons help you gear new max level toons with ease. WoW has been tuned into an experience that is easy to play, but hard to master, with some fresh challenge always ready to be attempted.
Maybe the reviewer could concentrate more on reviewing and less on literary masturbation, perhaps?
I thought of doing this about five years ago, but ultimately decided the target just wasn't worth it. I just didn't hate the guy that much, but also: First off, one would have to acquire kiddie porn, which is first off disgusting, and also highly illegal. The second part involves not only covering the tracks you leave, but also laying a convincing trail of evidence suggesting that the target in fact did it himself. Doing that takes a lot of time and work, and just isn't something that any asshole can successfully do.
Yes, but in order to work large scale boycotts like that have to be organized. Its all well and good if you say "I'm not going to buy this game, because I don't like the DRM restrictions" but 10 million other people are just going to suck it up and buy the game anyway in spite of the jumping-through-hoops DRM. So if you actually want to make a difference, you have to make a very vocal round up of the entire gaming community and get everybody in on it. But then again if you get that far a boycott probably wouldn't even be necessary. Good luck with that.
You forgot Blizzard.
But now that I think about it, a true math geek would probably start with the first few digits of Pi and add to every once in awhile. A sterile design, full body wrap around is possible eventually (what math geek, wouldn't relish being covered in numbers?), but a really creative mind would work an artistic design into it.
E=mc2
I'm in the army and no one has ever told me that I have to clear what I post with anyone. The exception would be when we deploy then they require everyone to submit their Facebook, Myspace, whatever, for constant scrutiny (understandable, I guess) during a deployment. Heck, my current unit actually encourages people to friend the unit FRG page (I don't and never will), and our sergeant major posts updates from his office.
Does this make sense to anybody else, or I am just getting it wrong? From what I understand the event horizon is just a boundary signaling a point of absolutely no return due to the intense gravity pulling anything and everything into it. Neutralize the event horizon and you neutralize the gravity, which is proposed to be the element of the blackhole. Without gravity, no blackhole, or at least its a blackhole in stasis. Is the article meaning to neutralize gravity in the area around the blackhole, while leaving said hole itself intact?
Seriously, self-censorship is a good thing, often under-practiced.
I agree.
And as to the ACLU fighting to say profanity is everyone's right, well, it's everyone's right to be a fool too, but that doesn't mean it's the best thing to be.... Is the ACLU going to go to court and support the Constitutional right be a fool too? It makes about as much sense.
I find it amazing that people will say a Christian doesn't have the right to spread/proselytize their religion, or the symbols of Christianity offend them, and want all symbols of Christianity wiped out, while they will fight for the right to offend someone else with their profanity. It's nothing but pure hypocrisy.
I'd quote the original, but the post seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Poster lacks coherent understanding of the issue at hand. Government endorsement of any religion, Christianity in this case, is a serious threat to our national identify, freedom, and way of life. Dropping an f-bomb is not. The two aren't in the same ballpark. They aren't in the same league. It ain't even the same fucking game, so shut the fuck up.
I remember the days of loading up a tricked out Daishi with ERPPCs and large lasers to one shot guys in some Atlas/Uriel/whatever bumfuck mech configuration and listen to them scream OMG!!!HAXX!!!!!1!! while I laughed. Only downside was the end result of my tinkering with the mech was so slow it couldn't dodge anything, and the whole thing would overheat with 1 or two shots, so I would wind up getting taken out by someone loaded up with LRM's, while not being able to shoot back. Also, for whoever was saying it back there, MW4 had no ground personnel for a machinegun to shoot at.
First off where exactly does Nikola Tesla predict the Blackberry? This could the an Android phone, or the Iphone or any modern phone, given what the article said. Shameless product placement. Also Nikola Tesla doesn't need Tesla Motors to 'live on'. I wonder what the writer got paid to use his hackneyed sense of journalism for this piece.
Is that what the government is wasting our tax dollars on these days? Detecting thumbdrives on networks? Come on, it shouldn't take the NSA to come up with something like this. I'll bet money that somebody has already written a piece of software to do just this. Even if they haven't there are loads of ways within Windows to watch and report stuff like this. I guess if they could upgrade it to work remotely on computers outside a network it might be useful (and if and only if, it gives specific details on the media and extends to other types beyond USB), but I don't really see the point on a network.
This doesn't even sound like it should be all that hard to break. Download/code a script or application that makes your computer think its connected when its not plugged in. It might be a little more difficult if the game chooses to verify the status of the connection by continually attempting to pass data over it, but I have faith that some entreprising cracker will come up with a way around that too, should the need arise. Also, when did the people coming up with this stuff get so godawful stupid? This is the best they can come up with? Come on.
Pat has a long history of saying stuff like this. He's kinda like the Fred Phelps prototype (except that he's not near the hatemonger Phelps is; just a senile old troll).
I absolutely second this. That would quite possibly make for an outstanding tv show. Lets get the petition rolling. Might actually make this channel worth watching (sometimes).
As part of the penalties, the church was ordered to publish the results of the verdict in several national and international magazines to warn people, the judge said, about what Scientology offers and what was discovered at trial. -http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/27/france.scientology.fraud/index.html Scientology is no better than extremist Islam, or psychic nutjobs defrauding people over the internet. Its really just that their particular brand of evil is greed based, and instead of fanaticism based like most other religions. I mean seriously Operation Freakout? Operation Snow White? Its disturbing to think that a 'religious organization', and I use that phrase loosely in reference to Scientology, would undertake something of that nature.
Offtopic: Actually in regards to certain groups, or time periods the French versions of the inquisition were incredibly brutal. Just ask Jacques de Molay. Anyway, I'd whole heartedly agree with banning Scientology; not because of their ridiculous 'beliefs', but because they're a dangerous cult with a long history of fraud, conspiracy, and extortion, as well as abuse, neglect, and mistreatment of members, with no indication of stopping. Scientology is not actually a religion; its a criminal organization, and such deserves none of the protection given to religion, nor any of the respect. (I might be inclined to be a little more friendly with the Freezoners, but seriously, fuck the CoS)