Why form a guild of GLBTs when GLBT has no meaning inside the game at all?
Are you for serious? Do you really think people don't talk about sexuality at all on WoW? They don't talk about their boyfriends & girlfriends & what they think is attractive? People don't make friends on WoW? They don't use sexuality based slurs?
Sure, I know what's prohibited, but that's irrelevant. It happens just the same.
So if roles were reversed, 98% of WoW users were gay, and slurs against straight people were common on WoW, and I actually hoped to meet other people on WoW with whom I might become friends with (and, you know, maybe date), then I can totally imagine joining a guild for straight people. How is this not obvious? You sound like you've intentionally deluded yourself (and you sound a little like all the idiot homophobes up in this discussion).
It's not the odd idiot. It's the guaranteed presence of trolls.
There are all kinds of changes to/. that they could make but don't. It seems as if either their code is difficult to modify or they aren't interested in doing so.
And why do you think that OSX will be able to run windows binaries better than WINE and/or Cedega considering that the people at WINE etc. have been trying to reverse engineer the windows libraries for many years now.
Because VirtualPC & VMWare has been "able to run windows binaries better than WINE and/or Cedega" for many years now. Virtualization will work nicely here. No one expects to reverse engineer the windows libraries any better than WINE.
Dunno why no one in this thread seems to be talking about vanderpool. Maybe y'all should just wait to hear from someone who knows what they're talking about. (Not me, for example.)
The problem is increasing the power of the executive branch of the government. This was wrong when Clinton did it, because they should have known that some dickhead like Bush would eventually abuse it.
3) This is the stuff that they are admitting they are doing, without the benefit of the Patriot Act.
This is the stuff where they think added media will help. Believe it.
This leaves us with several other scenarios to consider:
They aren't doing any searches of this (political!) nature secretly and under the auspices of the Patriot Act.
They are doing searches of this nature via the patriot act and Google has complied.
They are doing searches of this nature and Google has not complied.
What are the punishments if someone doesn't comply with a Patriot Act sneak & peak warrant? Are there Google employees in jail for failing to comply with the Patriot Act in this capacity? I don't think there are...
You aren't paying attention. Everything that you've listed is a success for the administration. If we run out of money, that just means we have to cut services that they never wanted anyway. Spreading the army too thin means that they can use contractors & mercenaries instead.
And Brownie was an idiot patsy. He never had control over FEMA when it counted. Whenever we heard about FEMA doing something wrong, I guarantee the decision was pushed down from DHS. He was sending around idiotic emails because he didn't have anything to do. He did do a heck of a job: taking a well-cushioned fall.
People who have vulnerable shit underground pay to be notified about excavation. Then when someone excavates, they are notified. Everyone with an interest in the area shows up and spraypaints the pavement.
Then the excavators don't cut where things have been marked.
If you would like to point out where the flaws are in this system (certainly there are flaws) then I'm all fucking ears. So to speak.
Uh... the reason I said "in my experience" was to point out that I understand my experience is limited. This is your opportunity to say that either your experience or some third party indicates otherwise & people really do use crutches all the time when they shouldn't.
Otherwise, your experience coincides with mine, & perhaps crutches aren't exactly the best metaphor for addictive drugs. Because crutches almost always a good thing in real life.
No, I understand the metaphor. I just think it's worthless. In my experience, people do not use crutches rather than face the pain of rehabilitation.
Please, consider the possibility that I actually had a point and that I'm not mentally limited in such a way that I "can only understand literal meanings".
I might be wrong here, but I am quite capable of all types of abstract thought.
likely she is using it as a crutch instead of dealing with other problems
Uh... ok. When you break your leg we won't let you use a crutch either.
That metaphor has always boggled me. Since when were crutches bad? Who uses crutches when they don't need to? Is this some kind of epidemic I've never heard of?
Addictions aren't like crutches. They're like addictions.
Upon further examination, I may be full of crap about the "right now" bit. Depending on whether Apple changed the motherboard configuration, Winders might not directly install easily.
So it might take a little time before people work out how to dual boot. But it'll be done.
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Sure, I know what's prohibited, but that's irrelevant. It happens just the same.
So if roles were reversed, 98% of WoW users were gay, and slurs against straight people were common on WoW, and I actually hoped to meet other people on WoW with whom I might become friends with (and, you know, maybe date), then I can totally imagine joining a guild for straight people. How is this not obvious? You sound like you've intentionally deluded yourself (and you sound a little like all the idiot homophobes up in this discussion).
It's not the odd idiot. It's the guaranteed presence of trolls.
/. that they could make but don't. It seems as if either their code is difficult to modify or they aren't interested in doing so.
There are all kinds of changes to
Dunno why no one in this thread seems to be talking about vanderpool. Maybe y'all should just wait to hear from someone who knows what they're talking about. (Not me, for example.)
Goodlink only runs on a very few RIM handsets. They've been locked out for a while.
Uh, just use HTML. It's like any other website.
/. has a custom short form:
<a href="http://YOUR URL HERE">YOUR LINK TEXT HERE</a>
Alternatively,
<url:http://YOUR URL HERE>
The problem is increasing the power of the executive branch of the government. This was wrong when Clinton did it, because they should have known that some dickhead like Bush would eventually abuse it.
3) This is the stuff that they are admitting they are doing, without the benefit of the Patriot Act.
This is the stuff where they think added media will help . Believe it.
This leaves us with several other scenarios to consider:
- They aren't doing any searches of this (political!) nature secretly and under the auspices of the Patriot Act.
- They are doing searches of this nature via the patriot act and Google has complied.
- They are doing searches of this nature and Google has not complied.
What are the punishments if someone doesn't comply with a Patriot Act sneak & peak warrant? Are there Google employees in jail for failing to comply with the Patriot Act in this capacity? I don't think there are...Dunno what you were expecting.
You aren't paying attention. Everything that you've listed is a success for the administration. If we run out of money, that just means we have to cut services that they never wanted anyway. Spreading the army too thin means that they can use contractors & mercenaries instead.
And Brownie was an idiot patsy. He never had control over FEMA when it counted. Whenever we heard about FEMA doing something wrong, I guarantee the decision was pushed down from DHS. He was sending around idiotic emails because he didn't have anything to do. He did do a heck of a job: taking a well-cushioned fall.
It's all according to plan.
What leads you to believe that cost has to do with price?
This is a local monopoly we're talking about.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
People who have vulnerable shit underground pay to be notified about excavation. Then when someone excavates, they are notified. Everyone with an interest in the area shows up and spraypaints the pavement.
Then the excavators don't cut where things have been marked.
If you would like to point out where the flaws are in this system (certainly there are flaws) then I'm all fucking ears. So to speak.
Prion disease kills less people than lightning.
It's important to fix for a number of reasons, but way less important than the many other areas of medicine in which this development could be useful.
In my even less informed opinion.
R U busy saturday night??
As someone who is dying to buy a new Intel mac just as soon as they can run windows games with decent performance:
Who cares? I will buy windows. Consider it console emulation software for your Mac.
So I'll just ignore all the intelligent people who work porting games to the mac who disagree with you?
Using OpenGL helps porting, but it doesn't make it into a compiler option.
So, in your extensive experience, do people use actual physical crutches when they are not needed? For example, after they have broken their leg?
IIRC, the ham was always green.
Go on. Look it up.
Uh... the reason I said "in my experience" was to point out that I understand my experience is limited. This is your opportunity to say that either your experience or some third party indicates otherwise & people really do use crutches all the time when they shouldn't.
Otherwise, your experience coincides with mine, & perhaps crutches aren't exactly the best metaphor for addictive drugs. Because crutches almost always a good thing in real life.
Ugh.
I'll point out that occasionally "because we can" coincides with "what they need". Just based on luck & volume.
A huge number of ph.d.s doing whatever "because we can" is kindof elegant. imo.
No, I understand the metaphor. I just think it's worthless. In my experience, people do not use crutches rather than face the pain of rehabilitation.
Please, consider the possibility that I actually had a point and that I'm not mentally limited in such a way that I "can only understand literal meanings".
I might be wrong here, but I am quite capable of all types of abstract thought.
The point of the metaphor is that if something is like a crutch it is something you don't need and are depending upon because you are weak.
There is no simpler way to put it. I'm not being overly literal when I say that has nothing to do with a "crutch".
That metaphor has always boggled me. Since when were crutches bad? Who uses crutches when they don't need to? Is this some kind of epidemic I've never heard of?
Addictions aren't like crutches. They're like addictions.
Upon further examination, I may be full of crap about the "right now" bit. Depending on whether Apple changed the motherboard configuration, Winders might not directly install easily.
So it might take a little time before people work out how to dual boot. But it'll be done.