I think the world in 20 years will only be playing Christian games. Sigh...
...
Wait! The Bible is one of the most bloodiest books in history so if they make a game out of that fully photorealistic and true to the story, were in for an epic gory game of 'biblical proportions'!! I hope you can play as Jesus with powers like standard no-clipping, flying, walking on water, God mode and infinite health, cure leprosy within people before their guts and gibs start to pour out and fall off! You probably get to slaughter a few followers of Jesus playing as the Romans or the levels with the great flood where you play as Noah: Rescue and collect as many animals as you can before bloodthirsty Dinosaurs eat them all, when you win the level all Dinosaurs die because they didn't survive the flood all folowing the true story of the Bible!
I wonder what kind of rating that would get, it's the Bible in it's true form packed in one epic game! It will probably educate kids with having faith in God and Jesus and learn the story. I think they will give it an 'All audiences' rating.:D
This is certainly great news for the colourblind people amongst us! And I hope this research gets enough funding.
Maybe it's also an idea to find out what happens if you can make the therapy so that animals who have a natural colourblindedness can see a full spectrum. I wonder if that is possible aswell.:)
I know why, the post you made that got the 'Troll' flag put on is full of claims but none are properly cited. The post 'Chrisje' made isn't all cited aswell but the claims this poster made are researchable.
Example:
- Chrisje: Stupid Southerners. They exist. As do oppressed blacks. And criminals. There is a correlation between stupidity, oppression, a lack of education and crime.
- Dr. Impossible: Liberals say those things all the time.
It comes down to this: Your post 'sounds' more like trolling then constructive dialog.
- And seeing as how liberals are some of the most unintelligent people on the planet, you're really in no position to call other people stupid.
- Liberals say those things all the time.
- Neither will liberals.
These are not helping your point at all so it's maybe wise to refrain this type of expression, constructivity is, again, adviced.
Now the counter arguments that fall within my opinion:
- And yet it's the Western nations full of Christians that are the most liberal...
o Yes they are and you are right with that, however the USA holds the lowest position and not that this really matters here it's an indication of how ugly people can get in a 'modern western country'.
- Women are not stupid, yet they lack the intelligence to use birth control and be careful with sex? I sense a contradiction there.
o It's only a contradiction if one sees the use of birth control as something unintelligent people would consider. And just for that the point is invalid because it's a mere opinion. I don't see it as a contradiction, not because I'm equally as dumb but my views are different on the subject. These kind of claims cannot be made with personal opinion. Someone isn't dumb because one does something, someone else might consider immoral/unethical etc.
- There is not a single valid argument against the ownership and use of firearms. Self-defense is a natural and inalienable human right, and firearms are essential to self-defense (as well as law enforcement and national defense).
o Yes there is, Self-defense is a natural human right but it must be bounded by a set of rules. The US constitution for example says that every American has the right to defend one self. But it's not stated on how this should be managed. Where I come from the same right applies but guns are restricted. I can still defend myself with other stuff and that is already enough because with that gun restriction in place, I don't have to worry about defending myself against firearms. Sure they are used but people refrain from using them because the punishment is quite severe for shooting outside of allocated shooting ranges. Plus it's all licenced, so every gun owner can be tracked. Hence why we here don't have many incidents revolving around guns. Now I know that the US for instance gets a great deal of money from weapon trade but to allow everyone a gun with the high risk of death by a firearm (even in schools) is in my opinion not wise. I think it's the same kind of trade that tells people to use guns 'for defending themselves' as the sigarette companies telling kids to start smoking.
People talk about evolution as it is an religion. Terms like 'Worship' and 'belief' are posted. I don't get this.
Evolution is nicely proven by observation and not just a theory people 'believe' in. Evolution is science. Science is derived from Latin: 'scientia' which means 'knowledge'. Faith/religion/beliefsystem is a total different aspect which when combined with a scientific subject is a fallacy in terminology.
Actually MY theory is that (especially religious) people tend to call it a beliefsystem so they can relate to their own mindset. Darwin was a naturalist. And naturalists study the science behind plants and animal life. One might call it a 'flora and fauna scientist' but thats quite the mouth full.
I also like to think that faith combined with science makes a whole.
Yeah, but on an international platform I think they did right by using Twitter, Youtube etc. then just a website. You either have to watch the VPRO and go to the website to learn what the website is where the expedition is hosted on or read it on forums like Slashdot.
Thats what I ment with obscure and I was referring to the website.;)
Also I fully endorse this expedition. Many people see it as a waste of time but a lot of new discoveries and/or insights are found when recreating an old scenario or walking an old path. New understanding and technology also helps a great deal.
The Dutch founded New York (then: New Amsterdam). The other colonists lived, or within that city, or outside but did not found that particular city. It were colonists of the VOC so to speak and that last company was Dutch.
My guess would be that more people visit Facebook, Twitter and Youtube then some obscure educational/informative/scientific website where only specific magazines and Slashdot news items refer to the URL.
Frankly the laws are supposed to be guidelines, some are stricter then others. But it should not always be applied by the letter. Simply because a specific law doesn't really apply to all specific situations. You are a sex offender when the general public sees you as one. A 18-19 year old fooling around with someone of the age of 16-17 should be no problem and mostly no one has a problem with that, except for those who grab the lawbook and follow it blindly. Is it a 18-19 year old fooling around with someone the age of 6 it's a different matter. It is mostly wise to follow the law as a guideline of how things should go and look at every situation specific if the law applies and when it does, in what context and how hard it applies. Commonsense is something lawsystems sometimes lack (a system is a non-human entity) shamefully.
Perhaps a little offtopic but let me explain how I see this:
Bigotry is a type of mindset of someone devoted to his/her own prejudices and/or opinions.
That said, I don't think being a bigot or not is still a choice, and by making a choice you select a side of the matter. But that is not always appropriate:
- So you are bigoted against bigots? --> I try not to be a bigot at all, thats hopefully the only side I have to pick.
- Hate Christians while admiring odd religions you know little about? --> Hate is wrong the most ways, I like to keep an open mind to any religion or ideas and theory's that came forth from a non-religious perspective (atheist).
- Pro-Choice but against the death penalty? --> Everyone should be able to make certain (moral) calls based on religious or non-religious backgrounds (since this is mostly the case in these type of decission making).
- Brown good, White bad? --> Both have qualities and problems, they are equal and shall not further refer to them as seperate.
- Women good, men bad? --> Both have qualities and problems, they are equal and shall not further refer to them as seperate.
- Stupid southerners (except for the amazing brilliance of the uneducated and oppressed black criminals)? --> No one really is stupid, only less-interested. Oppresion is something we can do something about politically not psychologically (only that it starts with racial prejudice.
- City dwellers smart and sophisticated while rural folk are ignorant rednecks clinging to guns and religion? --> I'd like to say that it is a complete different culture between people of the same land. It's a matter of interests and priority. Based on that, certain choices are made. That's how people work.
Sorry for my rant but liberal, conservative, left-wing or right-wing politics I see as outdated and old politics.
So what makes me then? In what category?
I can link this aswell to mister Turing who in my vision deserved better treatment and this apology is well accepted. But I don't condemn the people of the time since they were working by the law of that time. Are we condemning our stoneage ancestors aswell for canibalism and other things we find unlawfull now? How far are we going back before it's accepted as: "Well other times, other cares!" and all becomes good?
Well if there is a sonic cycle or not, I still got my hopes up. Why? Because I am a positive person. Like it or not but they made good Sonic games. They were on Genesis but there were there. So they should be able to make a good Sonic game again. After 10 years of sucky Sonic games (with an exceptions of Sonic Adventure) they had enough time to think about it.
When it's released, I'll look for reviews and screens, and if it's released for the PC, I'll probably buy it.
'calculate that the sun will burn out in a few billion years, and decide to play video games for the remainder of its existence'.
I have a few friends that live by this.
"United States Citizens" would actually be more appropriate since Americans refer to inhabitants of the Americas as in the 'continent of America' if I play it by the book.
Where are my mod points when you need them. I wholeheartly agree with MrNaz here. I collect lego from since I can remember and since 2004, the quality is downright awfull. Just only a few pieces in each box (which still cost as much as it did before 2004 oddly enough), pieces becoming larger so that you are done with 10 pieces stuck together and the movie based packs.
Where are the big trains with electrified rails?
Where are the gigantic packs with bricks only?
Where are the packs with buildings where you need more then 200 pieces to construct?
Where is my money gone? Lego bricks became less abundant but we still can pay for it.
One bit of light on the matter: Lego lost it's monopoly on the bricks which may open the doors for other companies that are able to make Lego based bricks that are fully compatible. Now I just wait for some cheapass Chinese company starting up a business creating Lego bricks as we know them (read: pre-2004) for half the price.
What I meant is a conjunction of the word 'critical' with the fact that Scientology wants to remove websites that are facilitating any form of anonymous posting of messages.
As in the following sentence: "The removal of these websites are critical for succes of the new law imposed by the Church of Scientology because they facilitated posters to post messages anonymously."
Yes I understand the English language. Better now?
Computer programmers aswell?
Oh my! This will be the end of the world when Windows 7 comes out which will be soon.
I have my bunker ready you can come along but you would have to bring your own deal of food, they say computer programmers only live on bugs and pizzas!
2 stupid questions:
- Can someone make a car analogy?
- Are there any applications for it within our understanding of physics?
When I hear of monopoles it's often in a bad context, and in combination with news about LHC creating blackholes and other Earth eating stuff.
I don't think the LHC is a doomsday device but I don't really get magnetic monopoles.
Music is something of the old days, today it's money and control.
The day a form of art will be available under the sum of culture instead of the sum of property and rights, will be the day companies like the RIAA start to have commonsense and really do it for the artists and their consumers.
Too bad it will also be the advent of hell freezing over, I'm afraid.:(
Slashdot Mirror
then I predict a mass exodus from gasoline to electric powered cars that will make the Toyota Prius looks fat.
There, fixed that for you
I think the world in 20 years will only be playing Christian games. Sigh...
...
Wait! The Bible is one of the most bloodiest books in history so if they make a game out of that fully photorealistic and true to the story, were in for an epic gory game of 'biblical proportions'!! I hope you can play as Jesus with powers like standard no-clipping, flying, walking on water, God mode and infinite health, cure leprosy within people before their guts and gibs start to pour out and fall off! You probably get to slaughter a few followers of Jesus playing as the Romans or the levels with the great flood where you play as Noah: Rescue and collect as many animals as you can before bloodthirsty Dinosaurs eat them all, when you win the level all Dinosaurs die because they didn't survive the flood all folowing the true story of the Bible!
I wonder what kind of rating that would get, it's the Bible in it's true form packed in one epic game! It will probably educate kids with having faith in God and Jesus and learn the story. I think they will give it an 'All audiences' rating. :D
This is certainly great news for the colourblind people amongst us! And I hope this research gets enough funding.
Maybe it's also an idea to find out what happens if you can make the therapy so that animals who have a natural colourblindedness can see a full spectrum. I wonder if that is possible aswell. :)
I know why, the post you made that got the 'Troll' flag put on is full of claims but none are properly cited. The post 'Chrisje' made isn't all cited aswell but the claims this poster made are researchable.
Example:
- Chrisje: Stupid Southerners. They exist. As do oppressed blacks. And criminals. There is a correlation between stupidity, oppression, a lack of education and crime.
- Dr. Impossible: Liberals say those things all the time.
It comes down to this: Your post 'sounds' more like trolling then constructive dialog.
- And seeing as how liberals are some of the most unintelligent people on the planet, you're really in no position to call other people stupid.
- Liberals say those things all the time.
- Neither will liberals.
These are not helping your point at all so it's maybe wise to refrain this type of expression, constructivity is, again, adviced.
Now the counter arguments that fall within my opinion:
- And yet it's the Western nations full of Christians that are the most liberal...
o Yes they are and you are right with that, however the USA holds the lowest position and not that this really matters here it's an indication of how ugly people can get in a 'modern western country'.
- Women are not stupid, yet they lack the intelligence to use birth control and be careful with sex? I sense a contradiction there.
o It's only a contradiction if one sees the use of birth control as something unintelligent people would consider. And just for that the point is invalid because it's a mere opinion. I don't see it as a contradiction, not because I'm equally as dumb but my views are different on the subject. These kind of claims cannot be made with personal opinion. Someone isn't dumb because one does something, someone else might consider immoral/unethical etc.
- There is not a single valid argument against the ownership and use of firearms. Self-defense is a natural and inalienable human right, and firearms are essential to self-defense (as well as law enforcement and national defense).
o Yes there is, Self-defense is a natural human right but it must be bounded by a set of rules. The US constitution for example says that every American has the right to defend one self. But it's not stated on how this should be managed. Where I come from the same right applies but guns are restricted. I can still defend myself with other stuff and that is already enough because with that gun restriction in place, I don't have to worry about defending myself against firearms. Sure they are used but people refrain from using them because the punishment is quite severe for shooting outside of allocated shooting ranges. Plus it's all licenced, so every gun owner can be tracked. Hence why we here don't have many incidents revolving around guns. Now I know that the US for instance gets a great deal of money from weapon trade but to allow everyone a gun with the high risk of death by a firearm (even in schools) is in my opinion not wise. I think it's the same kind of trade that tells people to use guns 'for defending themselves' as the sigarette companies telling kids to start smoking.
People talk about evolution as it is an religion. Terms like 'Worship' and 'belief' are posted. I don't get this.
Evolution is nicely proven by observation and not just a theory people 'believe' in. Evolution is science. Science is derived from Latin: 'scientia' which means 'knowledge'. Faith/religion/beliefsystem is a total different aspect which when combined with a scientific subject is a fallacy in terminology.
Actually MY theory is that (especially religious) people tend to call it a beliefsystem so they can relate to their own mindset. Darwin was a naturalist. And naturalists study the science behind plants and animal life. One might call it a 'flora and fauna scientist' but thats quite the mouth full.
I also like to think that faith combined with science makes a whole.
Why do you think it's a waste of time?
Yeah, but on an international platform I think they did right by using Twitter, Youtube etc. then just a website. You either have to watch the VPRO and go to the website to learn what the website is where the expedition is hosted on or read it on forums like Slashdot.
;)
Thats what I ment with obscure and I was referring to the website.
Also I fully endorse this expedition. Many people see it as a waste of time but a lot of new discoveries and/or insights are found when recreating an old scenario or walking an old path. New understanding and technology also helps a great deal.
The Dutch founded New York (then: New Amsterdam). The other colonists lived, or within that city, or outside but did not found that particular city. It were colonists of the VOC so to speak and that last company was Dutch.
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=7712
My guess would be that more people visit Facebook, Twitter and Youtube then some obscure educational/informative/scientific website where only specific magazines and Slashdot news items refer to the URL.
Yes I am. With atheist, I didn't mean to say what I was but more what I was on about with the last few words. ;)
:)
But yeah, I'm quite agnostic.
Frankly the laws are supposed to be guidelines, some are stricter then others. But it should not always be applied by the letter. Simply because a specific law doesn't really apply to all specific situations. You are a sex offender when the general public sees you as one. A 18-19 year old fooling around with someone of the age of 16-17 should be no problem and mostly no one has a problem with that, except for those who grab the lawbook and follow it blindly. Is it a 18-19 year old fooling around with someone the age of 6 it's a different matter. It is mostly wise to follow the law as a guideline of how things should go and look at every situation specific if the law applies and when it does, in what context and how hard it applies. Commonsense is something lawsystems sometimes lack (a system is a non-human entity) shamefully.
Perhaps a little offtopic but let me explain how I see this:
Bigotry is a type of mindset of someone devoted to his/her own prejudices and/or opinions.
That said, I don't think being a bigot or not is still a choice, and by making a choice you select a side of the matter. But that is not always appropriate:
- So you are bigoted against bigots? --> I try not to be a bigot at all, thats hopefully the only side I have to pick.
- Hate Christians while admiring odd religions you know little about? --> Hate is wrong the most ways, I like to keep an open mind to any religion or ideas and theory's that came forth from a non-religious perspective (atheist).
- Pro-Choice but against the death penalty? --> Everyone should be able to make certain (moral) calls based on religious or non-religious backgrounds (since this is mostly the case in these type of decission making).
- Brown good, White bad? --> Both have qualities and problems, they are equal and shall not further refer to them as seperate.
- Women good, men bad? --> Both have qualities and problems, they are equal and shall not further refer to them as seperate.
- Stupid southerners (except for the amazing brilliance of the uneducated and oppressed black criminals)? --> No one really is stupid, only less-interested. Oppresion is something we can do something about politically not psychologically (only that it starts with racial prejudice.
- City dwellers smart and sophisticated while rural folk are ignorant rednecks clinging to guns and religion? --> I'd like to say that it is a complete different culture between people of the same land. It's a matter of interests and priority. Based on that, certain choices are made. That's how people work. Sorry for my rant but liberal, conservative, left-wing or right-wing politics I see as outdated and old politics.
So what makes me then? In what category?
I can link this aswell to mister Turing who in my vision deserved better treatment and this apology is well accepted. But I don't condemn the people of the time since they were working by the law of that time. Are we condemning our stoneage ancestors aswell for canibalism and other things we find unlawfull now? How far are we going back before it's accepted as: "Well other times, other cares!" and all becomes good?
Well if there is a sonic cycle or not, I still got my hopes up. Why? Because I am a positive person. Like it or not but they made good Sonic games. They were on Genesis but there were there. So they should be able to make a good Sonic game again. After 10 years of sucky Sonic games (with an exceptions of Sonic Adventure) they had enough time to think about it.
When it's released, I'll look for reviews and screens, and if it's released for the PC, I'll probably buy it.
I'm wondering what the latency and ping times are. I must say the routing and switching is something of the past!
Cynical perhaps but that doesn't make it less true IMO.
'calculate that the sun will burn out in a few billion years, and decide to play video games for the remainder of its existence'. I have a few friends that live by this.
"United States Citizens" would actually be more appropriate since Americans refer to inhabitants of the Americas as in the 'continent of America' if I play it by the book.
Now where does this 'anti-American' attitude come from?
Anonymous Coward writes: "I'll assume you don't and you just like spouting your anti-american bullshit because you are a jealous piece of euro trash."
Ah! There it is.
Where are my mod points when you need them. I wholeheartly agree with MrNaz here. I collect lego from since I can remember and since 2004, the quality is downright awfull. Just only a few pieces in each box (which still cost as much as it did before 2004 oddly enough), pieces becoming larger so that you are done with 10 pieces stuck together and the movie based packs.
Where are the big trains with electrified rails?
Where are the gigantic packs with bricks only?
Where are the packs with buildings where you need more then 200 pieces to construct?
Where is my money gone? Lego bricks became less abundant but we still can pay for it.
One bit of light on the matter: Lego lost it's monopoly on the bricks which may open the doors for other companies that are able to make Lego based bricks that are fully compatible. Now I just wait for some cheapass Chinese company starting up a business creating Lego bricks as we know them (read: pre-2004) for half the price.
What I meant is a conjunction of the word 'critical' with the fact that Scientology wants to remove websites that are facilitating any form of anonymous posting of messages.
As in the following sentence: "The removal of these websites are critical for succes of the new law imposed by the Church of Scientology because they facilitated posters to post messages anonymously."
Yes I understand the English language. Better now?
Computer programmers aswell? Oh my! This will be the end of the world when Windows 7 comes out which will be soon.
I have my bunker ready you can come along but you would have to bring your own deal of food, they say computer programmers only live on bugs and pizzas!
But scientologists are in every layer of society. Interwoven in all kinds of branches. Including but not limited to hospitals...
Oh my Thetan!
Do they define 'critical' as every website that speaks negatively about Scientology? By the way: There goes Slashdots anonymous features!
2 stupid questions: - Can someone make a car analogy? - Are there any applications for it within our understanding of physics? When I hear of monopoles it's often in a bad context, and in combination with news about LHC creating blackholes and other Earth eating stuff. I don't think the LHC is a doomsday device but I don't really get magnetic monopoles.
Music is something of the old days, today it's money and control.
:(
The day a form of art will be available under the sum of culture instead of the sum of property and rights, will be the day companies like the RIAA start to have commonsense and really do it for the artists and their consumers.
Too bad it will also be the advent of hell freezing over, I'm afraid.