As far as I'm concerned, there's not enough adult content out there in games. I can find better adult entertainment in 5 minutes on the web than in all the Playstation & PS2 games made.
Sure, people don't go bankrupt from medical costs in Europe-- they just die while waiting months and months for operations that are diagnosed and taken care of in a week or so here. And they don't get out of school and have to take a job at McDonald's-- they get out of school and don't have a job at all (have you compared unemployment rates between the US and Europe recently? 5.5% or so in the US, 8% in France, 10% in Germany).
And in such wonderful places like France and many places in Europe, there is widespread and open anti-Semitism. Yep, Europe is quite the place to be. (/sarcasm)
Vic Abell at Purdue, the author of lsof, is my favorite unsung open source hero. He was my boss's boss when I worked at Purdue, and he used to use my workstation to test out lsof on the latest AIX version.
For my money, there's no more intense game out there to this day than Robotron. And, I have real joysticks for my PSX so I can play Robotron for real! (Thumbpads do not cut it.)
Well, for my part, I remember reading about how every Led Zeppelin album when it was released got uniformly miserable reviews, especially from Rolling Stone.
Compared to what passes for 'music' in the 21st Century so far, Led Zeppelin looks like art in musical form nowadays.:-(
Please show me where there was any press at all about any intelligence agency/group/whatever saying that Iraq was planning terrorist attacks on the US post-9/11 before the war started.
I gave my reference. I'm not going to believe you one iota until you give yours.
Please tell me what Yasser Arafat has done to promote the cause of world peace, except for the trivial case of obtaining peace in the Middle East by killing all the Jews.
Shaking hands with an Israeli prime minister doesn't mean a damn thing, other than that he was playing the media. Where is the peace agreement that came out of that meeting?
You, sir, couldn't find your ass with both hands if your head was buried in it.
It's a sad day for our country indeed where one of the few opposing points of view (from the administration) is delivered on a comedic daily news show...
Sure, there are never any opposing points of view shown on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times,...........
Want to trade media? I'll trade you: I'll take those liberal media and you can have the conservative media: Fox News, the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, and Rush Limbaugh. Deal?
When I got to the theater there was a line down the block for people waiting to get in. The last time I had to wait in a line outside the theater to get into a movie was when I saw Return of the Jedi in '83.
You must not see many movies. I was in a hugely long line just over a year ago to see _Matrix Reloaded_.
I just find it hilarious how so many people have their panties in a wad about how Bush stayed with his planned event with the kids a whole seven minutes after the 2nd plane hit, but don't have a word to say about how Bill Clinton let terrorism fester for 8 years in the Oval Office while he was busy getting head from an intern.
Cite a factual error or gross oversimplification of the facts in 9/11. Cite how the Peace Prize and UN have been perverted by politics anymore than the GOP or the corporate dominated media.
Richard Clarke, who can hardly be labelled as a Bush supporter at this point, has come out recently and publically said that he was responsible for getting the bin Laden family out of the US after 9/11, and that no one above him ordered it or even knew about it.
Well, once Bill C-250 gets passed, that'll no longer be the case. It adds 'sexual orientation' to the hate speech law, which means any public criticism of homosexuality will be a crime in Canada.
Or maybe it's not so free already, even before that law passes:
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission ruled that a newspaper ad listing biblical passages that oppose homosexuality was a human-rights offense. The commission ordered the paper and Hugh Owens, the man who placed the ad, to pay $1,500 each to three gay men who objected to it.
A British Columbia court upheld the one-month suspension, without pay, of a high school teacher who wrote letters to a local paper arguing that homosexuality is not a fixed orientation but a condition that can and should be treated. The teacher, Chris Kempling, was not accused of discrimination, merely of expressing thoughts that the state defines as improper.
The incident Wednesday immediately became the biggest constitutional challenge to freedom of the press in Canada in decades, with the reporter, Juliet O'Neill, now facing possible criminal charges for violating Section 4 of the Security of Information Act, one of several sweeping measures passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Strange, coz my first thought was "Wow, that looks just like every other US city!"
But then, I'm from the UK, where (with one exception) cities aren't built on an unimaginative characterless grid that makes everywhere the same as everywhere else and takes all the fun out of navigation...
Heh. You should visit Atlanta sometime. People here would love to have a regular grid to simplify navigation.
Please read the Iraqi blog I linked to. It paints a very different picture of Iraq than you do, and I'm more inclined to believe the word of someone that lives there than I am yours.
As for the 'tens of thousands' claim, I keep hearing that claim that the US has killed tens of thousands of civilians, but I haven't seen any proof of it yet. Perhaps you're forgetting that our enemies there, in violation of the Geneva Convention, dress as civilians, hide behind civilians, use mosques as ammo dumps and sniper points, and generally do their best to use the people of Iraq as civilian shields?
The Iraqi people now can speak freely, there are a couple hundred newspapers being published in Baghdad alone, and they're buying satellite dishes and anything Western they can get their hands on (owning a satellite dish was a felony under Saddam). It's too bad your hatred of George W. Bush is blinding you to the fact that anything good could be happening in Iraq.
Neighborhoods weren't battlezones under Saddam because anyone that dissented in any way was killed or tortured. Electricity production passed its peak under Saddam several months ago. And no one could afford water or gasoline unless they worked for the Ba'ath party.
And the way you use the word 'global', I do not think it means what you think it means.
And in the meantime, we still would have had to keep troops in Saudi Arabia (much to their displeasure) and keep on with the no-fly patrols. And Saddam would still have been giving $25K to Palestinian suicide bomber families.
Not to mention that a lot more Iraqis would have been killed by Saddam, and arming the Kurds might have just meant that he would have gassed them with poison gas again.
Granted, Iraq isn't paradise now, but reading Iraqi blogs like http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/ make me realize that Iraq is a much better place now than it was under Saddam, and it's in the US's best interest to keep it improving.
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As far as I'm concerned, there's not enough adult content out there in games. I can find better adult entertainment in 5 minutes on the web than in all the Playstation & PS2 games made.
Sure, people don't go bankrupt from medical costs in Europe-- they just die while waiting months and months for operations that are diagnosed and taken care of in a week or so here. And they don't get out of school and have to take a job at McDonald's-- they get out of school and don't have a job at all (have you compared unemployment rates between the US and Europe recently? 5.5% or so in the US, 8% in France, 10% in Germany).
And in such wonderful places like France and many places in Europe, there is widespread and open anti-Semitism. Yep, Europe is quite the place to be. (/sarcasm)
They left out the perfect pessimist's job: sysadmin!
Vic Abell at Purdue, the author of lsof, is my favorite unsung open source hero. He was my boss's boss when I worked at Purdue, and he used to use my workstation to test out lsof on the latest AIX version.
A well-written program is its own heaven.
A poorly-written program is its own hell.
Welcome to Hell, Newham Council.
I stopped playing the game actively when it started taking me over an hour to finish one game. :-)
For my money, there's no more intense game out there to this day than Robotron. And, I have real joysticks for my PSX so I can play Robotron for real! (Thumbpads do not cut it.)
Yay, Tempest. Don't forget Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar and Tempest 3000 on Nuon.
Yeah, there are a number of websites about the links between Tolkien and Zeppelin. Like:
http://www.ledtolkien.com/
Well, for my part, I remember reading about how every Led Zeppelin album when it was released got uniformly miserable reviews, especially from Rolling Stone.
:-(
Compared to what passes for 'music' in the 21st Century so far, Led Zeppelin looks like art in musical form nowadays.
Too bad that directly contradicts what Putin said:
"the official services of the Saddam regime were preparing terrorist acts against military and civil targets on the territory of the U.S."
al-Qaeda didn't seem to have any trouble at all reaching US soil. Why would Saddam?
Please show me where there was any press at all about any intelligence agency/group/whatever saying that Iraq was planning terrorist attacks on the US post-9/11 before the war started.
I gave my reference. I'm not going to believe you one iota until you give yours.
Please tell me what Yasser Arafat has done to promote the cause of world peace, except for the trivial case of obtaining peace in the Middle East by killing all the Jews.
Shaking hands with an Israeli prime minister doesn't mean a damn thing, other than that he was playing the media. Where is the peace agreement that came out of that meeting?
You, sir, couldn't find your ass with both hands if your head was buried in it.
It's a sad day for our country indeed where one of the few opposing points of view (from the administration) is delivered on a comedic daily news show...
...........
Sure, there are never any opposing points of view shown on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times,
Want to trade media? I'll trade you: I'll take those liberal media and you can have the conservative media: Fox News, the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, and Rush Limbaugh. Deal?
I've heard this point made countless times, so I'm not ragging on you specifically for this: turns out this is so very not true.
From Russian President Vladimir Putin:
So what you're saying is that Clinton made a bad moral judgement and lied about it...
Bill Clinton lied under oath, which is a felony named perjury. Doesn't matter what he lied about, lying under oath is still perjury.
Not even the most extreme anti-Bush types can show any credible evidence that Bush has done the same.
Homework? This one was easier than a slow pitch down the middle to Barry Bonds.
Zarqawi: The Americans just came and drove us out of Afghanistan. Can I set up shop here in Iraq?
Hussein: Sure!
If that's not good enough for you, perhaps I could quote you the connections that Bill Clinton made between al-Qaeda and Iraq when he was in office.
When I got to the theater there was a line down the block for people waiting to get in. The last time I had to wait in a line outside the theater to get into a movie was when I saw Return of the Jedi in '83.
You must not see many movies. I was in a hugely long line just over a year ago to see _Matrix Reloaded_.
I just find it hilarious how so many people have their panties in a wad about how Bush stayed with his planned event with the kids a whole seven minutes after the 2nd plane hit, but don't have a word to say about how Bill Clinton let terrorism fester for 8 years in the Oval Office while he was busy getting head from an intern.
Cite a factual error or gross oversimplification of the facts in 9/11. Cite how the Peace Prize and UN have been perverted by politics anymore than the GOP or the corporate dominated media.
Richard Clarke, who can hardly be labelled as a Bush supporter at this point, has come out recently and publically said that he was responsible for getting the bin Laden family out of the US after 9/11, and that no one above him ordered it or even knew about it.
Yasser Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.
Next!
Well, once Bill C-250 gets passed, that'll no longer be the case. It adds 'sexual orientation' to the hate speech law, which means any public criticism of homosexuality will be a crime in Canada.
Or maybe it's not so free already, even before that law passes:
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission ruled that a newspaper ad listing biblical passages that oppose homosexuality was a human-rights offense. The commission ordered the paper and Hugh Owens, the man who placed the ad, to pay $1,500 each to three gay men who objected to it.
A British Columbia court upheld the one-month suspension, without pay, of a high school teacher who wrote letters to a local paper arguing that homosexuality is not a fixed orientation but a condition that can and should be treated. The teacher, Chris Kempling, was not accused of discrimination, merely of expressing thoughts that the state defines as improper.
Even reporters aren't safe in Canada:
TORONTO -- Officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have raided the home and newspaper office of a reporter for The Ottawa Citizen in an effort to learn how she obtained secret documents concerning a Syrian-born immigrant who was arrested in the United States as a suspected terrorist.
The incident Wednesday immediately became the biggest constitutional challenge to freedom of the press in Canada in decades, with the reporter, Juliet O'Neill, now facing possible criminal charges for violating Section 4 of the Security of Information Act, one of several sweeping measures passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Strange, coz my first thought was "Wow, that looks just like every other US city!"
But then, I'm from the UK, where (with one exception) cities aren't built on an unimaginative characterless grid that makes everywhere the same as everywhere else and takes all the fun out of navigation...
Heh. You should visit Atlanta sometime. People here would love to have a regular grid to simplify navigation.
.. or that Bavaria has a Murphy's Law card.
Please read the Iraqi blog I linked to. It paints a very different picture of Iraq than you do, and I'm more inclined to believe the word of someone that lives there than I am yours.
As for the 'tens of thousands' claim, I keep hearing that claim that the US has killed tens of thousands of civilians, but I haven't seen any proof of it yet. Perhaps you're forgetting that our enemies there, in violation of the Geneva Convention, dress as civilians, hide behind civilians, use mosques as ammo dumps and sniper points, and generally do their best to use the people of Iraq as civilian shields?
The Iraqi people now can speak freely, there are a couple hundred newspapers being published in Baghdad alone, and they're buying satellite dishes and anything Western they can get their hands on (owning a satellite dish was a felony under Saddam). It's too bad your hatred of George W. Bush is blinding you to the fact that anything good could be happening in Iraq.
Neighborhoods weren't battlezones under Saddam because anyone that dissented in any way was killed or tortured. Electricity production passed its peak under Saddam several months ago. And no one could afford water or gasoline unless they worked for the Ba'ath party.
And the way you use the word 'global', I do not think it means what you think it means.
And in the meantime, we still would have had to keep troops in Saudi Arabia (much to their displeasure) and keep on with the no-fly patrols. And Saddam would still have been giving $25K to Palestinian suicide bomber families.
Not to mention that a lot more Iraqis would have been killed by Saddam, and arming the Kurds might have just meant that he would have gassed them with poison gas again.
Granted, Iraq isn't paradise now, but reading Iraqi blogs like http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/ make me realize that Iraq is a much better place now than it was under Saddam, and it's in the US's best interest to keep it improving.