I agree with you. It is just too many people seem to have this impression that this site is exclusively for nerdy matters. They fail to even consider that a story may just be important enough to qualify as stuff that matters.
Personally I love to see the large news stories here for a number of reasons. The commentors tend to report in from other areas of the web that I don't visit. Reddit, 4-Chan, other specialized blogs.
I have never seen a better comment section then Slashdot's The moderations tend to average out pretty fair, the comment threading makes reading huge sections of comments do able. Try going to CNN or Newsvine. You will see replies that have to reference the comment number or the person they are replying to. Then you have to scroll up/down perhaps even go to the next/previous page of comments just to get some context. And threading? Good luck even getting one level of threading.
That and I enjoy seeing the opinion of other geeks. You can often enough find a decent back and forth conversation that actually adds to the story. A number of the convos have changed my mind on certain things. Go to CNN and greater then 50% of the comments are pure troll. I usually get a little queasy just trying to read more then a page of those comments.
For those reasons I will defend a lot of the "offtopic" stories that get posted.
I do have to admit that I do not have that much experience with facebook addicts. I was under the impression that as people got older they tended to drift away from such inane places. I could be wrong though.
So if the peeping tom is willing to share (getting naked) he should be allowed to see others getting naked. Because personally I would still classify that as a peeping tom. If we reapply this upgraded standard to facebook terms, everyone is a peeping tom on facebook.
lxs why are you a peeping tom?
In case you hear a woosh noise I'll break it down: Analogy fail.
You'd think his own dad would get a phone number or an address. Just saying is all...
I live over a thousand miles from my dad, and talk to him weekly. Either he picks up the phone and calls me, or I pick up my phone and call him. No facebook is needed.
Go look at the pictures. Stop and go look at them. I guarantee they look nothing like he ones you saw on the felt. They flatten when they hit something, the ones in those pictures are not flat.
So yeah felt is a nice low tech way to take a look at them, but to really see what is happening the camera gives you so much more detail and dimension.
we need to keep the costs down. That's all I'm interested in as a taxpayer -- don't buy premium when regular will do is all.
Horrid, horrid, horrid position to take. The only way to get it cheap, is to get it from someone you can't really trust. That is a very bad idea. You need to ask yourself, is it cheap because it's not "premium" or is it cheap to encourage its adoption? Remember to beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
This fight has been waged on Slashdot before, the side you are taking lost. The sad part is the only reason you would phrase it that way would be to cause confusion, and piss off your listeners. I can only assume that you are related to either Rush Limbaugh, or Glenn Beck.
If you complain about sexual jokes in public, you should not make sexual jokes in public. Yes, Twitter is just as, if not more, public then row 48 seat 25 in a conference.
Never played 3, so its a completely new game for me. I will say my biggest complaint is that it takes forever for them to get around to building anything. That and the tornadoes that take 2 game years to play out. Just let me know what fell down. That and I would appreciate some more numbers and heat maps. OK, just those three things.
So I won't get it. Cities XL looks mighty tempting now, though.
I thought the same thing. Its good, but its not quite Simcity 2k good.
Personally I am getting my kicks in Tropico right now. Just think Simcity in Cuba. Steam has the complete pack with all DLC for ten bucks this weekend.
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Shit, here in flyover country many people would call that communism. Don't worry they will pray for you though.
I had no idea that the definition of a word would get the vocabulary nazis riled up.
Ohh AC calling someone a bitch over the definition of a word.
Pot, meet kettle.
Spam as in email I did not request, do not want, and will not read, sent rather often to many different people who are in the same situation.
Frankly I do not care if it is "target advertising" it is spam in my book.
If I purchase something from a mail order catalog, and they insist upon sending me a postcard 4 to 5 times a week can I not call it junk mail?
For the most part it shows I shop online lol. Newegg spams me constantly.
I agree with you. It is just too many people seem to have this impression that this site is exclusively for nerdy matters. They fail to even consider that a story may just be important enough to qualify as stuff that matters.
Personally I love to see the large news stories here for a number of reasons.
The commentors tend to report in from other areas of the web that I don't visit. Reddit, 4-Chan, other specialized blogs.
I have never seen a better comment section then Slashdot's The moderations tend to average out pretty fair, the comment threading makes reading huge sections of comments do able. Try going to CNN or Newsvine. You will see replies that have to reference the comment number or the person they are replying to. Then you have to scroll up/down perhaps even go to the next/previous page of comments just to get some context. And threading? Good luck even getting one level of threading.
That and I enjoy seeing the opinion of other geeks. You can often enough find a decent back and forth conversation that actually adds to the story. A number of the convos have changed my mind on certain things. Go to CNN and greater then 50% of the comments are pure troll. I usually get a little queasy just trying to read more then a page of those comments.
For those reasons I will defend a lot of the "offtopic" stories that get posted.
Whenever one of you idiots wander in here and complain that its not "News for nerds" you always seem to forget the "Stuff that matters" part.
With an attitude like that, I would predict many more!
I do have to admit that I do not have that much experience with facebook addicts. I was under the impression that as people got older they tended to drift away from such inane places. I could be wrong though.
Is that like saying Beetlejuice three times?
I hate facebook, but comparing it to heroin is a bit much don't you think?
So if the peeping tom is willing to share (getting naked) he should be allowed to see others getting naked. Because personally I would still classify that as a peeping tom. If we reapply this upgraded standard to facebook terms, everyone is a peeping tom on facebook.
lxs why are you a peeping tom?
In case you hear a woosh noise I'll break it down: Analogy fail.
You'd think his own dad would get a phone number or an address. Just saying is all...
I live over a thousand miles from my dad, and talk to him weekly. Either he picks up the phone and calls me, or I pick up my phone and call him. No facebook is needed.
It required one for me to sign up, but that was back at the first gen touch. I cannot speak to anything more recently.
Go look at the pictures. Stop and go look at them. I guarantee they look nothing like he ones you saw on the felt. They flatten when they hit something, the ones in those pictures are not flat.
So yeah felt is a nice low tech way to take a look at them, but to really see what is happening the camera gives you so much more detail and dimension.
we need to keep the costs down. That's all I'm interested in as a taxpayer -- don't buy premium when regular will do is all.
Horrid, horrid, horrid position to take.
The only way to get it cheap, is to get it from someone you can't really trust. That is a very bad idea. You need to ask yourself, is it cheap because it's not "premium" or is it cheap to encourage its adoption?
Remember to beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
You are an idiot.
This fight has been waged on Slashdot before, the side you are taking lost. The sad part is the only reason you would phrase it that way would be to cause confusion, and piss off your listeners. I can only assume that you are related to either Rush Limbaugh, or Glenn Beck.
Bonus: You don't need to drain an aquifer to generate that either.
If you complain about sexual jokes in public, you should not make sexual jokes in public. Yes, Twitter is just as, if not more, public then row 48 seat 25 in a conference.
She is at the very least a hypocrite.
Unless you installed the patch listed at your link...
I'm not sure I see the voluntary part.
Never played 3, so its a completely new game for me.
I will say my biggest complaint is that it takes forever for them to get around to building anything. That and the tornadoes that take 2 game years to play out. Just let me know what fell down. That and I would appreciate some more numbers and heat maps. OK, just those three things.
I suppose this game isn't quite SC2K either.
So I won't get it. Cities XL looks mighty tempting now, though.
I thought the same thing. Its good, but its not quite Simcity 2k good.
Personally I am getting my kicks in Tropico right now. Just think Simcity in Cuba.
Steam has the complete pack with all DLC for ten bucks this weekend.
Free speech zones are for stifling protesters.
In direct contradiction to the right to free speech.
Lol what?
Quit smoking crack.
Freedom of religion means freedom FROM religion as well. Keep you religion out of my government, thank you very much.