Exactly. I don't vote for either party at it irks me when I hear Dems say "Keep your morals off my body!"
Republicans should be pro-choice. Republicans should be advocating the decriminalization of marajuana, gay marriage, etc etc. Why? Because the Republican Party is supposedly for getting the government the hell out of peoples private lives, that's why. Unfortunatly, the GOP has been a lot better at exploiting issues to get elected than they've been on being consistent with their supposed core party values.
then demand universal healthcare
Not having univeral healthcare is assinine. Our current system of paying insurance companies huge premiums so they can try to deny or limit coverage wastes ungodly amounts of money. But that's a classic anti-government position for the GOP: they'd rather pay twice as much to a private industry than have the government do the same thing for less money.
or public smoking bans because it's the moral/humane thing for the government to do.
Why is it moral for people to put drugs into my body without my prior explicit permission?
That is very, very true. I've witnessed many an intellectual roll their eyes in digust when they find out a person (or group of people) have any kind of Christian beliefs.
Suuure you have.
Especially on college campuses, where even though free speech should reign supreme, liberal groups will bend themselves into a pretzel to prevent/cancel meetings and conferences featuring conservative ideology.
When. You might also be interested in a little comparison between conservative colleges and not conservative collages on who's more tolerant of crazy speech.
How far has Slashdot fallen when Slashdot readers fall for anything someone puts in a press realease and refuse to consider any other information or alternate point of view on a subject?
When the subject is something fact based, like science, your faith based "alternative viewpoints" mean jack squat and have no place in the discussion.
The new version is: "You're with the Lord? We hate you. You are now a second-class citizen."
Ah yes, because the 180 million Christians are so oppressed when they walk into a Target and see a "Happy Holidays" sign instead of one that says "Merry Christmas". And right-wing Christians are simply violated when they can't push their crap onto the rest of the population.
Since intelligent design is an ideology, then opposition to ID is also an ideology
Um, no. Opposition to ID is based on facts, not on what scientists wish was true. Your statement here is as much nonsense as tryign to claim that athiesm is a religion. But nice red herring...do you work at Fox?
I disagree with ID, but there has got to be a better way.
Like what? Scientists have been demonstrating that ID has no scientific merit whatsoever ever since it was introduced, but religious activists and pandering politicians haven't stopped pushing it. Some scientists finally took the regrettable but necessary action of forming a lobbying group so the ID peddlars/global warming deniers aren't the only voices being heard in the political arena.
You mean keep moral beliefs out of things that matter like, say, the definition of what is right and what is wrong? Or like the presupposition of where the initial matter and initial force came from that was responsible for the existence of the entire universe (which is the determining factor on subsequent hypothesis about the origin of life)? Or whether human life has any purpose or inherent value?
Yup. Millions of people all over the world manage to do this every singe day, without any religion whatsoever.
What the fuck are you talking about. This has nothing to do with server operators, who, by the way, should not be responsible for defucking things that Valve shouldn't have fucked up in the first place. Someone else said Valve had to change the names of the guns in the game because of trademark issues. Fine, if that's the case, than change the name of the Desert Eage to Super Duper Spud Gun, but leave it's menu position alone for gods sakes.
Again, you can NOT claim a product is superior and better then another product if you have never used or tried a different product. No amount of typing or you repeating the same thing over and over again is going to change that.
Nonsense. Let's got back to the time that the iPod was first released. Did I have to use a Rio to know that I'd prefer 5 gigabytes of storage to 64 megabytes? No. Did I have to try a Nomad to know I didn't want to carry two frikkin pounds of mp3 player in my pocket? Did I have to try everyone elses offerings to know that I'd prefer a 400 Mbs interface to an 11 Mbs interface? Hell no. The iPod was a vastly superior product, and no amount of typing you do is going to change that fact. Deal with it. And you never answered my question: how many other players are worth knowing?
Vastly superior in what way and compared to what? Your statement is exactly what I was trying to counter and you completely avoided my scenario by repeating the same thing as I was trying to point out. Again, how many people that bought an iPod actually looked or even thought of another product to determine what was more superior? How many people have bought an iPod can even name a company or a specific model of portable player other then an iPod. How can you claim a product is superior if you never looked at anything else or even know what else is in the market?
Because you could say the exact same thing about Apple when they released the iPod, obviously. The closest the company came to flirting with the consumer electronics industry was the Pippen, which was a dud and never heavily pushed. Why wouldn't consumers go with Creative, a well known name in computer audio, with their larger Nomad players? Or how about Diamond Multimedia, who invented the mp3 player in the first place? And then there was Sony, who had dominated the portable player market with their Walkmans and then had compact minidisc players.
When the iPod was released, the conventional wisdom was that it was too expensive, and a Mac-only product would not be a success (PC compatability came later). See Taco's imoratalized "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." Apple did not do a soft-drink style marketing blitz with hundreds of millions of dollars. Consumers figured out for themselves that the iPod was vastly superior than its compeditors on their own or by word of mouth.
And why was it superior? Physical size / capacity + speed + interface + integration. There were larger players available - if you wanted to carry a desktop hard drive around in your pocket. There were smaller players available - if you wanted to be limited to 256 megabytes or less. The iPod gave you 5 gigabytes. And the others used usb 1.1, wheras Apple used the much faster Firewire. And then there was the scrollwheel and the excellent software integration, and with nice touches like remembering where you stopped listening to an audiobook.
You ask how many people know of players other than the iPod, to which I counter with: how many other players are worth knowing? Yes, the iPod's size and speed advantages have long since been matched, but most compeditors seem to belive that "longer billeted list of features == superior product," which isn't necessarily the case. Consumers who want wmv, ogg, or FM radio support will certinally find options, but most consumers obviously don't care. Finally, saving $20 over an iPod doesn't make up for the loss of the iTunes integration and Clickwheel.
Apple took over the market not because of hype, but because of a winning combination of features. And for a compeditor to make a dent in that market, they either need to do the same, or come out with a large capacity cell phone that doubles as an excellent mp3 player.
The problem with the GOP pushing their term "Islamofacism" is that they are just as much facists as the Muslims they are critizising. Extremely militaristic? Check. Their way or the highway? Check - you're either with them or you're with the terrorists. Gross abuse of civil and human rights in the pursuit of government power without accountability? Check. Right wing Republicans should not throw stones in the glass houses they built for themselves.
Then your problem is not with Steam, it's with the server admins who patch their server.
No, it's not.
Seriously -- you and many others in this thread seem to be very confused about how this works. Valve/Steam do not run the multiplayer game servers.
Straw man.
It's really either ignorance or dishonesty (I'm really not sure which) to blame Valve and Steam for something that can (and is!) easily controlled by the server admins.
No, it's not easily controlled by the admins. The game is automattically updated, so when Valve fucks something up, all copies of the game get fucked up at the same time. See the riot sheild and when they nerfed jumping, for good examples. Then the admins have to wait until Valve gets bitched at enough to make the mandated changes optional, or wait for a mod and then take the time to install it.
Sure, changes took place all the time when Counter-Strike was first released as a free mod, but it was a lot easier to keep running an old copy back then. But then it was in beta, and now the game will install updates before you can even play, and Counter-Strike is now a separate, for money game. Valve has the responsibility not to make mandatory and controversial changes in the game without good reason. Server opps who paid $30 for Counter-Strike (yes, the dedicated server is free, but how many people run dedicated servers that don't play) and $100 a month for a game server have every right to be pissed that they have to install a mod to defuck what Valve fucked up, for something that should have been an optional addition in the first place.
It's a lot easier for Valve to add a "cv_usevariablepricing" variable to start with than it is for thousands of servers to wait for AdminMod to do it for Valve.
False delimas and red herrings ARE deceptive word games. Watch Fox News or just about any Republican speak for more than, oh, five seconds or so and you should hear one of those, plus a straw man or two.
Facts are not trolling. For example, check out the recent Administration soundbyte that "no one said Saddam ordered the 911 attacks" which is both a straw man and red herring. Straw man because no one has accused the administration of saying that Saddam ordered the attacks, and a red herring because their claim was that there were ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
Ok...maybe I should have said "credibly debunked" and it would have cleared things up.
Since nothing of the kind happened...not so much.
My debunking was based on the polling analysis performed by the very company that conducted the polls.
So? No news organization had the backbone to stand behind their own polling. Rather than say "hey, the results don't match the polls, maybe this deserves a closer look" they all threw up their hands and said it must have been the polling that was wrong. Yawn.
Your "debunking" is done by Steven Freeman, who has a book out titled "Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count". I am sure he isn't biased.
Um, hello? Not trying to bring attention to this would have shown bias, not to mention negligence. And if you read the article, you'll also see the "Democrats are more likely to respond in polls than Republicans" chestnut was addressed.
Barring videotaped evidence of tampering with Diebold machines, or a hand recount like the one the press did (but did not report on) for the 2000 election that proved Gore got more votes in Florida, we'll probably never know if the election really was stolen from Kerry. But we do know that Republicans like Ken Blackwell certinally tried, just as Katherine Harris succeeded in 2000. No, we can't say for sure that Kerry should be in the Oval Office right now, but we can say for sure that some deep investigations need to be done and people like Blackwell ought to be sitting in jail, not running for governor.
and I still don't really think that the claim that the Ohio election was out right stolen has a great deal of substance. There is certainly a smell about the 2004 exit poll results from Ohio, but I think Manjoo does a pretty good job of putting the ball back in Kennedy's court; Kennedy needs to do some work to actually establish some fraud,
I think the rebuttal pretty much puts the smackdown on Manjoo. And the problem wasn't so much fraud as in altering votes, but in disenfranchisement, which the GOP has turned into a real artform these last few elections. Barring videotaped evidence of tampering with Diebold machines, we'll probably never know for sure if Kerry really won or not, but it certianally demands vigorous investigation, and some nice long prison terms for people like Ken Blackwell.
They didn't start with the US, they started with Afghanistan - one of the poorest countries in the world.
Looks like you're thinking of the Taliban, which gave shelter to Al Queda but is a completely different entity.
I think you are probably being intellectually dishonest here.
No, you're being stubborn. This isn't like "cattails", which don't have anything to do with cats or tails. Nationalism is the ardent support for a nation, and without one, there is no nationalism. You might as well try and separate Catholicism from Catholics.
What about a militia is not militaristic? They have training camps.
Because it's stretching it to call Al Qaeda a militia in the first place, because militias are made up of part time soldiers or civilians, and because they have no intentions of being a powerful army. The arms race between the USSR and the US? That was nationalism. China's desire to build a military to rival that of the United States? That is nationalism. Israel building nukes and maintaining vast military superiority over it's neighbors? That is nationalism. Some 17 year old kid learning how to shoot an AK-47 and plant bombs to blow up airplanes? That is terrorism, not nationalism.
Let me repeat that last part for you - they teach and believe that the best, most honorable way to die is as a martyr.
And this would be different from Christians...how? Ask any Chrisitian what the best way to die is, and they'd proabably answer for family, for their god, or for their country. Which is exactly the problem with the GOP pushing their "Islamofacism" term - the right wing of the Republican Party is already standing hip deep in facism country already. Anyone who questions their policy is "part of the blame America first crowd". There was the our-way-or-the-highway "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists". Fanatical support of the military, except for when it comes to serving in it or providing enough armored vehicles or body armor. Which makes them pretty cowardly facists. Throwing civil liberties out the window in favor of more government power. Demanding the right to torure suspects, use secret evidence at secret trials, and holding people, even American citizens, indefinetly without a hearing.
So, broadening the term "facism" enough so it applies to all these Amerian-hating Muslisms means that just about the entire Republican party are also facists, along with a number of Democrats (I'm looking at you, Lieberman).
That's it? That's the best you could come up with?
Why bother, when even the pathological liars in the Bush Administration now admit there was no connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq? I wonder if your ancestors were still insisting the world was flat in 1800 AD.
Iraq supported dozens of terrorist organizations for over 20 years. This is a documented fact that you haven't even attempted to refute.
Because it's bullshit, that's why. Those "dozens" of connections are either hearsay (like the right wing's "documented fact" that Iraqi intelligence meeting with Mohamed Atta) or supporting groups opposing Israel, which is just as much a terrorist organization as Hamas or Hezbollah (see their recent cluster bombing of Lebanon). Supporting terrorism means backing hijacking/bombing of airlines like Libya did in the 80's, not cutting a check for twenty bucks to the family of a suicide bomber.
It's an absurd argument, and the fact that you are making it tells me that you have lost the ability to look at the facts objectively.
No, I just ignore "facts" from right-wing websites with as much credibility as Baghdad Bob. Which is about all that turns up if you Google for "saddam hussein terrorism".
And this is a GOOD thing. We have been shipping jobs overseas for decades. We have shipper far more jobs overseas than we even have people living in this country.
Creating jobs overseas is a good thing. Destroying American jobs to make those overseas jobs is not a good thing.
IF you believed the Unions, everybody would be unemployed
Straw man.
Unemployment has remained relatively constant for decades.
Sure the economy is flush with jobs - just not well paying jobs. Housing, health and fuel costs have skyrocketed, while middle class earning power is at the lowest it's been in 60 years. Low unemployment is nothing to crow about when a large part of the population has to work a full and a part time job to maintain the same standard of living.
Everytime we ship a job overseas, *WE* get more stuff, for less money, and we get new jobs to replace those old jobs.
Yeah we get more jobs - shitty ones working at Wal-Mart or Burger King, which are no replacements for blue collar manufacturing that has been destroyed by offshoring.
First of all: Clinton did not lie. Starr wanted to use a definition of "sexual relations" that was so broad that merely brushing past someone in a bus or airplane aisle could be considered "sex". Clinton rightfully complained that this was crazy, and the judge agreed, basically defining "sexual relations" to mean sexual intercourse, as in penis in vagina. In fact, if he would have said "yes I had sexual relations with that woman" at that point it would have been a lie.
Secondly, lying under oath != perjury. For it to be perjury, it not only has to be a lie, it has to be relevant to the case at hand. If Clinton's attorney had asked Paula Jones how much she weighed that particular day, and she answered 140 lbs when she knew she was 155, that would not have been perjury because it was batshit irrelevant to the case at hand. Similarily, wether or not Clinton had consensual sex with Monica is completely irrelevant to wether or not he harrased Paula. So, not perjury. Deal with it.
I wonder if you get as bent out of shape about Bush saying that no one could have predicted terrorists flying planes into buildings or that the levees would fail in New Orleans. You know, bald-face lies about things that actually matter. I bet not. No, the impeachment of Clinton was nothing more than a partisan Inquisition, and if there were any justice a good number of Republicans would have been sent to jail for malicious prosecution.
Did you miss the part where the judge defined sexual relations==intercourse? If he had said "yes I had sexual relations with that woman" he would have been lying.
So, was he in the habit of getting a BJ with other people present?
Maybe he was? SS confidentiality, and all that.
... bullshit. So, if you're ever thrown in jail, and some guy decides to make you his bitch, you'd happily suck his cock because "blow jobs are not intercourse"? Or is that the excuse you used when you were caught behind the school... "its not sex"...:-)
First of all, fuck you, you son of a bitch. Second, sexual intercourse as in penis in vagina. This has always been the primary definition, but if you broaden it enough, much like with "sexual relations", just about any contact with another persons genitals can constitute "intercourse." The problem with this of course is that merely brushing past another person in a narrow walkway on a bus or plane could be called "intercourse" or "sexual relations", and Starr wanted to use such a sweeping definition. Clinton of course, rightfully complained, and the judge agreed. So, once again, sexual relations != blow jobs.
And in any case, you can hardly fault someone for avoiding the "truth" when the subject is Not Your Fucking Business in the first place. There isn't a person on this planet who wouldn't split hairs or lie if trapped in that republican Inquisition, starting with the very Republicans who went after him in the first place.
Great, then change the names but leave their position in the buy menu alone. Screwing with that has probably made Valve the most cursed game company in history from all the people pissed off because they bought the wrong guns.
I'm not up on the buzzwords in whatever sort of deceptive game you play.
False delimas and red herrings ARE deceptive word games. Watch Fox News or just about any Republican speak for more than, oh, five seconds or so and you should hear one of those, plus a straw man or two.
By that logic, the kissing disease is not a virus.
Ah, thanks for the completely irrelevant comment. Do you do political commentary for Fox News?
Previewing a what seems a ordinary e-mail that in turn infects you, can be considered to be a Trojan -- You should read up on the original story.
I suppose I could see it that way, if I were stupid. The virus in question acted by taking an advantage of a flaw in Outlook, not by tricking the user into running a separate application.
Seeing how Trojans are still documented under virus databases of anti-virus scanners rather than it's own category (like spyware/scumware/adware is). I'm just not going to believe you.
Of course companies like Symantic are going to call trojans like Leap.h viruses, because they want to charge Mac users $50 dollars a year for anti-virus software they don't need. Duh. But if your that concerned about it, go ahead and give them your hard earned cash. You can put the box next to your tiger stone, the one that keeps tigers from attacking you. The rest of us wont bother, and will happily stay virus free, thank you.
You either have to have your own server or hunt for those that defuck whatever Valved fucked up in the first place, as opposed to being able to hop on any one of tens of thousands of servers.
Well, first up, you don't have to patch it. (tel lsteam to not update it) you can thus still paly on LANs, and servers that have not updated.
Not mollified. You go from thousands of servers you can hop on in a second, to hunting for servers that haven't been updated, or having to drag people to a lan just so you can play.
If it is option 1 then you just use any of the Admin Mod/what ever the other server mod utils are plugins that lets you set prices. (Wow that was hard)
Not acceptable. People shouldn't have to make a mod to make mandatory changes optional that should have been optional in the first place.
Remember, the HL Community is one of the most mod hapy communities out there.
Major changes in gameplay should only be done to fix serious problems with the game, not willy nillie. Variable weapons pricing should be an optional setting, not a default or mandated one.
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Exactly. I don't vote for either party at it irks me when I hear Dems say "Keep your morals off my body!"
Republicans should be pro-choice. Republicans should be advocating the decriminalization of marajuana, gay marriage, etc etc. Why? Because the Republican Party is supposedly for getting the government the hell out of peoples private lives, that's why. Unfortunatly, the GOP has been a lot better at exploiting issues to get elected than they've been on being consistent with their supposed core party values.
then demand universal healthcare
Not having univeral healthcare is assinine. Our current system of paying insurance companies huge premiums so they can try to deny or limit coverage wastes ungodly amounts of money. But that's a classic anti-government position for the GOP: they'd rather pay twice as much to a private industry than have the government do the same thing for less money.
or public smoking bans because it's the moral/humane thing for the government to do.
Why is it moral for people to put drugs into my body without my prior explicit permission?
That is very, very true. I've witnessed many an intellectual roll their eyes in digust when they find out a person (or group of people) have any kind of Christian beliefs.
Suuure you have.
Especially on college campuses, where even though free speech should reign supreme, liberal groups will bend themselves into a pretzel to prevent/cancel meetings and conferences featuring conservative ideology.
When. You might also be interested in a little comparison between conservative colleges and not conservative collages on who's more tolerant of crazy speech.
How far has Slashdot fallen when Slashdot readers fall for anything someone puts in a press realease and refuse to consider any other information or alternate point of view on a subject?
When the subject is something fact based, like science, your faith based "alternative viewpoints" mean jack squat and have no place in the discussion.
The new version is: "You're with the Lord? We hate you. You are now a second-class citizen."
Ah yes, because the 180 million Christians are so oppressed when they walk into a Target and see a "Happy Holidays" sign instead of one that says "Merry Christmas". And right-wing Christians are simply violated when they can't push their crap onto the rest of the population.
Since intelligent design is an ideology, then opposition to ID is also an ideology
Um, no. Opposition to ID is based on facts, not on what scientists wish was true. Your statement here is as much nonsense as tryign to claim that athiesm is a religion. But nice red herring...do you work at Fox?
I disagree with ID, but there has got to be a better way.
Like what? Scientists have been demonstrating that ID has no scientific merit whatsoever ever since it was introduced, but religious activists and pandering politicians haven't stopped pushing it. Some scientists finally took the regrettable but necessary action of forming a lobbying group so the ID peddlars/global warming deniers aren't the only voices being heard in the political arena.
You mean keep moral beliefs out of things that matter like, say, the definition of what is right and what is wrong? Or like the presupposition of where the initial matter and initial force came from that was responsible for the existence of the entire universe (which is the determining factor on subsequent hypothesis about the origin of life)? Or whether human life has any purpose or inherent value?
Yup. Millions of people all over the world manage to do this every singe day, without any religion whatsoever.
What the fuck are you talking about. This has nothing to do with server operators, who, by the way, should not be responsible for defucking things that Valve shouldn't have fucked up in the first place. Someone else said Valve had to change the names of the guns in the game because of trademark issues. Fine, if that's the case, than change the name of the Desert Eage to Super Duper Spud Gun, but leave it's menu position alone for gods sakes.
Again, you can NOT claim a product is superior and better then another product if you have never used or tried a different product. No amount of typing or you repeating the same thing over and over again is going to change that.
Nonsense. Let's got back to the time that the iPod was first released. Did I have to use a Rio to know that I'd prefer 5 gigabytes of storage to 64 megabytes? No. Did I have to try a Nomad to know I didn't want to carry two frikkin pounds of mp3 player in my pocket? Did I have to try everyone elses offerings to know that I'd prefer a 400 Mbs interface to an 11 Mbs interface? Hell no. The iPod was a vastly superior product, and no amount of typing you do is going to change that fact. Deal with it. And you never answered my question: how many other players are worth knowing?
Vastly superior in what way and compared to what? Your statement is exactly what I was trying to counter and you completely avoided my scenario by repeating the same thing as I was trying to point out. Again, how many people that bought an iPod actually looked or even thought of another product to determine what was more superior? How many people have bought an iPod can even name a company or a specific model of portable player other then an iPod. How can you claim a product is superior if you never looked at anything else or even know what else is in the market?
Because you could say the exact same thing about Apple when they released the iPod, obviously. The closest the company came to flirting with the consumer electronics industry was the Pippen, which was a dud and never heavily pushed. Why wouldn't consumers go with Creative, a well known name in computer audio, with their larger Nomad players? Or how about Diamond Multimedia, who invented the mp3 player in the first place? And then there was Sony, who had dominated the portable player market with their Walkmans and then had compact minidisc players.
When the iPod was released, the conventional wisdom was that it was too expensive, and a Mac-only product would not be a success (PC compatability came later). See Taco's imoratalized "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." Apple did not do a soft-drink style marketing blitz with hundreds of millions of dollars. Consumers figured out for themselves that the iPod was vastly superior than its compeditors on their own or by word of mouth.
And why was it superior? Physical size / capacity + speed + interface + integration. There were larger players available - if you wanted to carry a desktop hard drive around in your pocket. There were smaller players available - if you wanted to be limited to 256 megabytes or less. The iPod gave you 5 gigabytes. And the others used usb 1.1, wheras Apple used the much faster Firewire. And then there was the scrollwheel and the excellent software integration, and with nice touches like remembering where you stopped listening to an audiobook.
You ask how many people know of players other than the iPod, to which I counter with: how many other players are worth knowing? Yes, the iPod's size and speed advantages have long since been matched, but most compeditors seem to belive that "longer billeted list of features == superior product," which isn't necessarily the case. Consumers who want wmv, ogg, or FM radio support will certinally find options, but most consumers obviously don't care. Finally, saving $20 over an iPod doesn't make up for the loss of the iTunes integration and Clickwheel.
Apple took over the market not because of hype, but because of a winning combination of features. And for a compeditor to make a dent in that market, they either need to do the same, or come out with a large capacity cell phone that doubles as an excellent mp3 player.
The problem with the GOP pushing their term "Islamofacism" is that they are just as much facists as the Muslims they are critizising. Extremely militaristic? Check. Their way or the highway? Check - you're either with them or you're with the terrorists. Gross abuse of civil and human rights in the pursuit of government power without accountability? Check. Right wing Republicans should not throw stones in the glass houses they built for themselves.
Do you routinely let stuff sail over your head?
Then your problem is not with Steam, it's with the server admins who patch their server.
No, it's not.
Seriously -- you and many others in this thread seem to be very confused about how this works. Valve/Steam do not run the multiplayer game servers.
Straw man.
It's really either ignorance or dishonesty (I'm really not sure which) to blame Valve and Steam for something that can (and is!) easily controlled by the server admins.
No, it's not easily controlled by the admins. The game is automattically updated, so when Valve fucks something up, all copies of the game get fucked up at the same time. See the riot sheild and when they nerfed jumping, for good examples. Then the admins have to wait until Valve gets bitched at enough to make the mandated changes optional, or wait for a mod and then take the time to install it.
Sure, changes took place all the time when Counter-Strike was first released as a free mod, but it was a lot easier to keep running an old copy back then. But then it was in beta, and now the game will install updates before you can even play, and Counter-Strike is now a separate, for money game. Valve has the responsibility not to make mandatory and controversial changes in the game without good reason. Server opps who paid $30 for Counter-Strike (yes, the dedicated server is free, but how many people run dedicated servers that don't play) and $100 a month for a game server have every right to be pissed that they have to install a mod to defuck what Valve fucked up, for something that should have been an optional addition in the first place.
It's a lot easier for Valve to add a "cv_usevariablepricing" variable to start with than it is for thousands of servers to wait for AdminMod to do it for Valve.
False delimas and red herrings ARE deceptive word games. Watch Fox News or just about any Republican speak for more than, oh, five seconds or so and you should hear one of those, plus a straw man or two.
Facts are not trolling. For example, check out the recent Administration soundbyte that "no one said Saddam ordered the 911 attacks" which is both a straw man and red herring. Straw man because no one has accused the administration of saying that Saddam ordered the attacks, and a red herring because their claim was that there were ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
Ok...maybe I should have said "credibly debunked" and it would have cleared things up.
Since nothing of the kind happened...not so much.
My debunking was based on the polling analysis performed by the very company that conducted the polls.
So? No news organization had the backbone to stand behind their own polling. Rather than say "hey, the results don't match the polls, maybe this deserves a closer look" they all threw up their hands and said it must have been the polling that was wrong. Yawn.
Your "debunking" is done by Steven Freeman, who has a book out titled "Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count". I am sure he isn't biased.
Um, hello? Not trying to bring attention to this would have shown bias, not to mention negligence. And if you read the article, you'll also see the "Democrats are more likely to respond in polls than Republicans" chestnut was addressed.
Barring videotaped evidence of tampering with Diebold machines, or a hand recount like the one the press did (but did not report on) for the 2000 election that proved Gore got more votes in Florida, we'll probably never know if the election really was stolen from Kerry. But we do know that Republicans like Ken Blackwell certinally tried, just as Katherine Harris succeeded in 2000. No, we can't say for sure that Kerry should be in the Oval Office right now, but we can say for sure that some deep investigations need to be done and people like Blackwell ought to be sitting in jail, not running for governor.
and I still don't really think that the claim that the Ohio election was out right stolen has a great deal of substance. There is certainly a smell about the 2004 exit poll results from Ohio, but I think Manjoo does a pretty good job of putting the ball back in Kennedy's court; Kennedy needs to do some work to actually establish some fraud,
I think the rebuttal pretty much puts the smackdown on Manjoo. And the problem wasn't so much fraud as in altering votes, but in disenfranchisement, which the GOP has turned into a real artform these last few elections. Barring videotaped evidence of tampering with Diebold machines, we'll probably never know for sure if Kerry really won or not, but it certianally demands vigorous investigation, and some nice long prison terms for people like Ken Blackwell.
They didn't start with the US, they started with Afghanistan - one of the poorest countries in the world.
Looks like you're thinking of the Taliban, which gave shelter to Al Queda but is a completely different entity.
I think you are probably being intellectually dishonest here.
No, you're being stubborn. This isn't like "cattails", which don't have anything to do with cats or tails. Nationalism is the ardent support for a nation, and without one, there is no nationalism. You might as well try and separate Catholicism from Catholics.
What about a militia is not militaristic? They have training camps.
Because it's stretching it to call Al Qaeda a militia in the first place, because militias are made up of part time soldiers or civilians, and because they have no intentions of being a powerful army. The arms race between the USSR and the US? That was nationalism. China's desire to build a military to rival that of the United States? That is nationalism. Israel building nukes and maintaining vast military superiority over it's neighbors? That is nationalism. Some 17 year old kid learning how to shoot an AK-47 and plant bombs to blow up airplanes? That is terrorism, not nationalism.
Let me repeat that last part for you - they teach and believe that the best, most honorable way to die is as a martyr.
And this would be different from Christians...how? Ask any Chrisitian what the best way to die is, and they'd proabably answer for family, for their god, or for their country. Which is exactly the problem with the GOP pushing their "Islamofacism" term - the right wing of the Republican Party is already standing hip deep in facism country already. Anyone who questions their policy is "part of the blame America first crowd". There was the our-way-or-the-highway "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists". Fanatical support of the military, except for when it comes to serving in it or providing enough armored vehicles or body armor. Which makes them pretty cowardly facists. Throwing civil liberties out the window in favor of more government power. Demanding the right to torure suspects, use secret evidence at secret trials, and holding people, even American citizens, indefinetly without a hearing.
So, broadening the term "facism" enough so it applies to all these Amerian-hating Muslisms means that just about the entire Republican party are also facists, along with a number of Democrats (I'm looking at you, Lieberman).
That's it? That's the best you could come up with?
Why bother, when even the pathological liars in the Bush Administration now admit there was no connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq? I wonder if your ancestors were still insisting the world was flat in 1800 AD.
This is a very intellectually dishonest argument.
Hardly.
Iraq supported dozens of terrorist organizations for over 20 years. This is a documented fact that you haven't even attempted to refute.
Because it's bullshit, that's why. Those "dozens" of connections are either hearsay (like the right wing's "documented fact" that Iraqi intelligence meeting with Mohamed Atta) or supporting groups opposing Israel, which is just as much a terrorist organization as Hamas or Hezbollah (see their recent cluster bombing of Lebanon). Supporting terrorism means backing hijacking/bombing of airlines like Libya did in the 80's, not cutting a check for twenty bucks to the family of a suicide bomber.
It's an absurd argument, and the fact that you are making it tells me that you have lost the ability to look at the facts objectively.
No, I just ignore "facts" from right-wing websites with as much credibility as Baghdad Bob. Which is about all that turns up if you Google for "saddam hussein terrorism".
And this is a GOOD thing. We have been shipping jobs overseas for decades. We have shipper far more jobs overseas than we even have people living in this country.
Creating jobs overseas is a good thing. Destroying American jobs to make those overseas jobs is not a good thing.
IF you believed the Unions, everybody would be unemployed
Straw man.
Unemployment has remained relatively constant for decades.
Sure the economy is flush with jobs - just not well paying jobs. Housing, health and fuel costs have skyrocketed, while middle class earning power is at the lowest it's been in 60 years. Low unemployment is nothing to crow about when a large part of the population has to work a full and a part time job to maintain the same standard of living.
Everytime we ship a job overseas, *WE* get more stuff, for less money, and we get new jobs to replace those old jobs.
Yeah we get more jobs - shitty ones working at Wal-Mart or Burger King, which are no replacements for blue collar manufacturing that has been destroyed by offshoring.
First of all: Clinton did not lie. Starr wanted to use a definition of "sexual relations" that was so broad that merely brushing past someone in a bus or airplane aisle could be considered "sex". Clinton rightfully complained that this was crazy, and the judge agreed, basically defining "sexual relations" to mean sexual intercourse, as in penis in vagina. In fact, if he would have said "yes I had sexual relations with that woman" at that point it would have been a lie.
Secondly, lying under oath != perjury. For it to be perjury, it not only has to be a lie, it has to be relevant to the case at hand. If Clinton's attorney had asked Paula Jones how much she weighed that particular day, and she answered 140 lbs when she knew she was 155, that would not have been perjury because it was batshit irrelevant to the case at hand. Similarily, wether or not Clinton had consensual sex with Monica is completely irrelevant to wether or not he harrased Paula. So, not perjury. Deal with it.
I wonder if you get as bent out of shape about Bush saying that no one could have predicted terrorists flying planes into buildings or that the levees would fail in New Orleans. You know, bald-face lies about things that actually matter. I bet not. No, the impeachment of Clinton was nothing more than a partisan Inquisition, and if there were any justice a good number of Republicans would have been sent to jail for malicious prosecution.
Did you miss the part where the judge defined sexual relations==intercourse? If he had said "yes I had sexual relations with that woman" he would have been lying.
So, was he in the habit of getting a BJ with other people present?
Maybe he was? SS confidentiality, and all that.
First of all, fuck you, you son of a bitch. Second, sexual intercourse as in penis in vagina. This has always been the primary definition, but if you broaden it enough, much like with "sexual relations", just about any contact with another persons genitals can constitute "intercourse." The problem with this of course is that merely brushing past another person in a narrow walkway on a bus or plane could be called "intercourse" or "sexual relations", and Starr wanted to use such a sweeping definition. Clinton of course, rightfully complained, and the judge agreed. So, once again, sexual relations != blow jobs.
And in any case, you can hardly fault someone for avoiding the "truth" when the subject is Not Your Fucking Business in the first place. There isn't a person on this planet who wouldn't split hairs or lie if trapped in that republican Inquisition, starting with the very Republicans who went after him in the first place.
Great, then change the names but leave their position in the buy menu alone. Screwing with that has probably made Valve the most cursed game company in history from all the people pissed off because they bought the wrong guns.
I'm not up on the buzzwords in whatever sort of deceptive game you play.
False delimas and red herrings ARE deceptive word games. Watch Fox News or just about any Republican speak for more than, oh, five seconds or so and you should hear one of those, plus a straw man or two.
We might not have an In-and-Out or whatever it is called, but we have a lot of Culvers, and they supposedly do the same thing.
Haven't been to that other place, but my future cardiologist will be sending thank-you notes to Culvers.
By that logic, the kissing disease is not a virus.
Ah, thanks for the completely irrelevant comment. Do you do political commentary for Fox News?
Previewing a what seems a ordinary e-mail that in turn infects you, can be considered to be a Trojan -- You should read up on the original story.
I suppose I could see it that way, if I were stupid. The virus in question acted by taking an advantage of a flaw in Outlook, not by tricking the user into running a separate application.
Seeing how Trojans are still documented under virus databases of anti-virus scanners rather than it's own category (like spyware/scumware/adware is). I'm just not going to believe you.
Of course companies like Symantic are going to call trojans like Leap.h viruses, because they want to charge Mac users $50 dollars a year for anti-virus software they don't need. Duh. But if your that concerned about it, go ahead and give them your hard earned cash. You can put the box next to your tiger stone, the one that keeps tigers from attacking you. The rest of us wont bother, and will happily stay virus free, thank you.
You either have to have your own server or hunt for those that defuck whatever Valved fucked up in the first place, as opposed to being able to hop on any one of tens of thousands of servers.
Well, first up, you don't have to patch it. (tel lsteam to not update it) you can thus still paly on LANs, and servers that have not updated.
Not mollified. You go from thousands of servers you can hop on in a second, to hunting for servers that haven't been updated, or having to drag people to a lan just so you can play.
If it is option 1 then you just use any of the Admin Mod/what ever the other server mod utils are plugins that lets you set prices. (Wow that was hard)
Not acceptable. People shouldn't have to make a mod to make mandatory changes optional that should have been optional in the first place.
Remember, the HL Community is one of the most mod hapy communities out there.
This guy doesn't seem to think so.
Major changes in gameplay should only be done to fix serious problems with the game, not willy nillie. Variable weapons pricing should be an optional setting, not a default or mandated one.