No, it fucking wasn't. And I watch a LOT of movies. A LOT. Especially crappy movies. And it was definitely in the nonsense bullshit category. Black Hawk Down was a good military movie. The Hurt Locker was ruined by DUMB fucking plot line twists. And I mean REALLY REALLY FUCKING DUMB.
Men Who Stare At Goats was more accurate portrayal of military life than Hurt Locker.
I'm not military and even I saw the movie as complete bullshit. And I wanted to like it. Just too many little bs things added up to ruin it for me. Hey I'm a bomb tech and I'm gonna walk up and cowboy the shit out of every bomb I come across, not to save some children, but to just act like a badass. Quick, let's go outside our operating zone and SPLIT UP!
That and the fact that the Nesquik cereal he is looking at near the end of the movie is not distributed in the US anymore. That was the most significant portion of the movie for me.
Sounds like you aren't thinking in terms of State and Local law vs Federal law. State law requires a business license (or 'tax') to conduct business, if you are making money doing something as a 'business' and are not employed by someone who already has a business tax paid, you are running a business and have to pay this tax. Its annoying but its the standard across the country.
OS/2 was a commercial competitor with Windows, Wine is there for convenience.
Its up to developers to move to Linux, it will happen regularly as the big players get massive and small time guys can't afford to pay for patent licensing to develop a game that HAS to use proprietary technologies as a result of the host OS, we just haven't quite hit that point.
FACT: you own your land, but are subject to zoning requirements for safety purposes, and are subject to taxes based on the asshole politicians you elect locally to fleece you in the name of schools/roads/water reclamation funds that get shifted around behind the scenes. (Privatizing school lunches? More expensive services for more money? Where do you think that money for the new trend in privatization of all sorts of public services comes from...)
Land ownership requires responsibility and competency beyond the bare minimum. You own it until the local government wants to build a highway or an 'economic development' strip mall through your yard and the government is forced to pay you a "fair" rate. Involvement in your local government can help you fight and prevent shit like that. It takes effort, even in the age of ubiquitous internet instant gratification, to make things happen in the slow world of your local bureaucracy.
I won't disagree that shit has gotten out of hand with excessive taxes and fees for permits, but there is an underlying purpose/justification for the existence of such things in the first place.
Steam is a whole other nightmare. I'm used to it know, but it still feels like a whore thing to have to use just to play a game. And have fun giving Valve a cut if you sell games through the system.
Impulse is the only workable competitor to Steam I have come across, wish it would get some traction to lighten the grip Steam is gaining.
LAN play is finally worth-fucking-while with Wifi everywhere, LAN play at your local coffee shop/mcdonalds/insert-everywhere-here would be epic and convenient for games like Starcraft 2 et al. Doom Shareware multiplayer was dialup modem action or LAN using IPX (with Kali/mPlayer/etc for those with real internets)
Anyone who actually played games that allowed direct TCP connections without first having to connect to a third party internet based service know how superior it feels.
Its an artificial feature removal, battle net forces an interface on top of a TCP interface.
I didn't hear the OP as whining, but you sure come off as complaining about complaining. Let's see just how many levels of it we can get!;)
Desktops: Dell Optiplex or Precision (unless someone wants some fancy looking bullshit, then one of the vostro all in one piece of shit machines)
Laptops: Dell Latitude or Precision
If you buy the cheaper lines, you get what you pay for. Also, don't buy as a home user, always buy as small business.
As far as Apple, iMacs seem to have much less longevity than the more expensive Mac Pro, same with MacBook vs MacBook Pro. Regardless with Apple, you are paying a higher premium for the hardware and REALLY get fucked if you buy their upgrades and not using third party memory and hard drive upgrades after purchase.
That said, I'll take my fantastic MBP battery life running OS X over my Dell Latitude with its 9-cell battery running any variant of Windows. And I reboot into bootcamped Windows if I need more performance for gaming than the Parallels based Windows VM can give me.
Incorporate a theremin into an actual guitar hero guitar and use the buttons for real wtih 'air' strumming. Or Maybe a wireless powerglove deal for your other hand to play the notes
I feel bad for you. My grandfather was fucking awesome and would occasionally even use fancy curse words like 'shitass' and 'fuckered' around us grandkids.
Note: He was a sailor in WW2.
(disclaimer: I once considered myself a christian then woke up one day and realized it was all goddamn make-believe bullshit) (subdisclaimer: you can thank the baptists for my initial realization of the truth behind 'the Word')
Can we just make a rule that any item that takes absolute minimum time and effort to reproduce doesn't cost money anymore? Anyone with sense already figured that out in 1978.
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No, it fucking wasn't. And I watch a LOT of movies. A LOT. Especially crappy movies. And it was definitely in the nonsense bullshit category. Black Hawk Down was a good military movie. The Hurt Locker was ruined by DUMB fucking plot line twists. And I mean REALLY REALLY FUCKING DUMB.
Men Who Stare At Goats was more accurate portrayal of military life than Hurt Locker.
I'm not military and even I saw the movie as complete bullshit. And I wanted to like it. Just too many little bs things added up to ruin it for me. Hey I'm a bomb tech and I'm gonna walk up and cowboy the shit out of every bomb I come across, not to save some children, but to just act like a badass. Quick, let's go outside our operating zone and SPLIT UP!
That and the fact that the Nesquik cereal he is looking at near the end of the movie is not distributed in the US anymore. That was the most significant portion of the movie for me.
Because these assholes are trying to wall garden the internet itself, which is contrary to the very existence of the internet.
I bought the computer, I bought the software, I bought the camera, why the fuck should I have to pay to distribute videos made with said equipment?
(Note, I know 'why', but ITS FUCKING CRAZY.)
Windows is for the games.
MORE IMPORTANTLY:
Jedi is a Hebrew origin name, meaning God knows / God protects.
took me all of literally 10 seconds of google searching to discover this.
There's a Jedi's Restaurant in Chicago that existed before Starwars. So yes, they fucking can call it Jedi.
Cheers.
Sounds like you aren't thinking in terms of State and Local law vs Federal law. State law requires a business license (or 'tax') to conduct business, if you are making money doing something as a 'business' and are not employed by someone who already has a business tax paid, you are running a business and have to pay this tax. Its annoying but its the standard across the country.
OS/2 was a commercial competitor with Windows, Wine is there for convenience.
Its up to developers to move to Linux, it will happen regularly as the big players get massive and small time guys can't afford to pay for patent licensing to develop a game that HAS to use proprietary technologies as a result of the host OS, we just haven't quite hit that point.
Its funny that Apple turns out to be every goddamn bit as evil and/or unethical as Microsoft.
FACT: you own your land, but are subject to zoning requirements for safety purposes, and are subject to taxes based on the asshole politicians you elect locally to fleece you in the name of schools/roads/water reclamation funds that get shifted around behind the scenes. (Privatizing school lunches? More expensive services for more money? Where do you think that money for the new trend in privatization of all sorts of public services comes from...)
Land ownership requires responsibility and competency beyond the bare minimum. You own it until the local government wants to build a highway or an 'economic development' strip mall through your yard and the government is forced to pay you a "fair" rate. Involvement in your local government can help you fight and prevent shit like that. It takes effort, even in the age of ubiquitous internet instant gratification, to make things happen in the slow world of your local bureaucracy.
I won't disagree that shit has gotten out of hand with excessive taxes and fees for permits, but there is an underlying purpose/justification for the existence of such things in the first place.
Suing someone is fucking hard. And expensive. And sometimes they file bankruptcy and you're fucked anyway. Its just not that simple.
So do we burn these guys out now?
The real question is how do we keep these damn kids off our lawns?
Anyone else read that as Forced Aids coming to OS X?
Steam is a whole other nightmare. I'm used to it know, but it still feels like a whore thing to have to use just to play a game. And have fun giving Valve a cut if you sell games through the system.
Impulse is the only workable competitor to Steam I have come across, wish it would get some traction to lighten the grip Steam is gaining.
LAN play is finally worth-fucking-while with Wifi everywhere, LAN play at your local coffee shop/mcdonalds/insert-everywhere-here would be epic and convenient for games like Starcraft 2 et al. Doom Shareware multiplayer was dialup modem action or LAN using IPX (with Kali/mPlayer/etc for those with real internets)
Anyone who actually played games that allowed direct TCP connections without first having to connect to a third party internet based service know how superior it feels.
Its an artificial feature removal, battle net forces an interface on top of a TCP interface.
I didn't hear the OP as whining, but you sure come off as complaining about complaining. Let's see just how many levels of it we can get! ;)
Cheers.
Kali was king in the days of Warcraft 2 (albeit perhaps Descent was the most played on there) and no TCP/IP built into games (lovely novell's IPX)
I really miss kali.
Just get married, your wife will make the decision for you. Or move across country with a house full of furniture. Or both. ;)
(I once had a garage full of old equipment, marriage corrected that down to 2 laptops and a media server on the tv)
Desktops: Dell Optiplex or Precision (unless someone wants some fancy looking bullshit, then one of the vostro all in one piece of shit machines)
Laptops: Dell Latitude or Precision
If you buy the cheaper lines, you get what you pay for. Also, don't buy as a home user, always buy as small business.
As far as Apple, iMacs seem to have much less longevity than the more expensive Mac Pro, same with MacBook vs MacBook Pro. Regardless with Apple, you are paying a higher premium for the hardware and REALLY get fucked if you buy their upgrades and not using third party memory and hard drive upgrades after purchase.
That said, I'll take my fantastic MBP battery life running OS X over my Dell Latitude with its 9-cell battery running any variant of Windows. And I reboot into bootcamped Windows if I need more performance for gaming than the Parallels based Windows VM can give me.
Can we please have a permanent ban on asking and answering your on questions? I say yes.
Incorporate a theremin into an actual guitar hero guitar and use the buttons for real wtih 'air' strumming. Or Maybe a wireless powerglove deal for your other hand to play the notes
I feel bad for you. My grandfather was fucking awesome and would occasionally even use fancy curse words like 'shitass' and 'fuckered' around us grandkids.
Note: He was a sailor in WW2.
(disclaimer: I once considered myself a christian then woke up one day and realized it was all goddamn make-believe bullshit) (subdisclaimer: you can thank the baptists for my initial realization of the truth behind 'the Word')
Can we just make a rule that any item that takes absolute minimum time and effort to reproduce doesn't cost money anymore? Anyone with sense already figured that out in 1978.
FTFY
I think you mean the side effect of 'uncontrollable gas with an oily discharge.'
Gotta reference the whole thing, it really makes the side effect fantastic.