Pro 25:21-22 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
Feel free to take that out of context, but it basically says to be kind to your enemy. It'll probably make them even more mad at you, but it's still the right thing to do, and God will reward you in some way. Cool
Matt 5:43-44 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you
I don't know where you think people will stone you you for not reading a Bible, or for offending them. (I'm not naive enough to believe that more than 10% of Christians do what they really should, but most of them genuinely try)
I'm not sure what you mean there. Who cares if it has a couple of passages from the Qur'an? It's art, right? I play Castlevania and that is positively steeped in Biblical overtones and in the original Symphony of the Night Dracula quotes Jesus as he dies. I have no beef with that (yes I'm a Christian). I'm sure there are those that do, but I don't. If it offended me I would just not play it. Similarly, I don't watch South Park, not necessarily offensive but I find it distasteful. No big deal. God can defend Himself. And if he wants me to go out and slaughter a few wrongdoers... I'm very certain that I'm listening to the wrong voice in my head.
Something else for which to account is that the verses around those orders basically say that Israel is the force God has chosen for judgment on a particular nation or city. Other passages talk about other nations (Babylon and others) that God is going to use to drop the hammer on Israel for turning away.
Not that you have to agree with the reasoning. But I believe that it is much, much better than, "If they don't convert, kill them. If they convert away, kill them".
Yes, but then nobody will talk. Either one guy is going voice-over with a whisper for all eternity, or we all yell at each other and kill everything in sight.
I believe that if you had the answers to all those questions and nobody knew you did, then you could probably easily make a power grab and take over the world a la Pinky and the Brain.
OTOH, if anyone knows you know those answers, you're screwed. You won't even get the million. Either that or I've seen too many conspiracy movies.
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I take it you haven't played (or didn't enjoy) Gears of War or Call of Duty 4? Games that teach the masses that you can recover from any injury by "sucking it up" and taking a few breaths.
This is exactly the reason I left Verizon 5 or 6 years ago. They called it 'getitnow' or something. Renting ringtones for a month, the ability to keep your crappy phone photos, all that. I went with Cingular because their phones allowed me to make my own ringtones and transfer my crappy photos to my computer, for free. So what if I missed out on 100 minutes a month.
I detest ringback. So much so that I generally will just hang up any time I hear it. I have called some of the carriers and practically begged for a code that would disable the ringback crap on a per-case basis, but to no avail. It must be part of their scheme of making money. If people are too pissed off to call each other, then they won't use their minutes.
I think the main reason that you have people talking about how you can't tell the difference unless you're at such and such an angle is because they can sell 720p longer and make more money. I can instantly tell the difference in resolution, that is, provided the content being shown is in the higher resolution. Case in point.
I have a 15.4" wide screen laptop that I have had for almost three years. It has a resolution of 1920x1200. I bought this long before laptops were labeled as "OMG HD Display! +". Six years ago I was using a 15.4" 4:3 with 1600x1200.
After that the hi res LCDs disappeared for a while and are still pretty rare. Mine is perfectly reliable, so it can't be because of hardware issues. It was also very cheap. I can only believe that display makers are milking the lower res stuff as long as possible to squeeze every penny out of you before telling you that it's obsolete. Works just like most every other industry.
I'd love to own a 1080p TV of any size, but, well, I don't really have any need for one. I have hi res screens on my laptops because my eyes work well enough to see all the more data that fits on the screen!
I don't think that 90% of the consumers really know what DRM is. Those who do know what it is generally detest it. The rest of them see no reason to pay 100's of dollars for fancy DVD's.
Every time I walk into Target there is this Blu-Ray TV set 7 feet high in the electronics dept berating people for not owning Blu-Ray. It repeatedly tells people that using standard DVD with your hi-def TV "is like driving an expensive sports car in first gear", so the customer does know what the advantages are.
What I mean is that unless we're talking about some other time or universe, a med kit isn't going to do you any good because it takes more than a few seconds or even a few minutes to heal up. More like days or weeks. I always like the survival aspect of games.
I agree. I always thought it was a bit unrealistic (yes, I know I'm talking about a game here) that your health could ever be measured as a percentage. If you're arm is blown of does that mean you're at 84%? No, I'm pretty sure that means you're at around 2-3%.
For me it was always more exciting to not know how much health you may have in reserve. That and in some games I feel that the need to find a med kit sometimes hampers gameplay.
I agree 100%. I won't play a game that allows players to compensate for ability for cash. If you want to be able to level the playing field then use handicaps. If one guy is too good for everyone else. Reduce his/her health and damage dealing ability. How hard is that?
Certainly. I had a stable job in the cities and decided that I should live in the cities. Most of my friends were scattered throughout, so a change in position didn't bother that at all. I moved again recently because I'm back in school full time, and working full time. I live smack-dab in the middle of my work and school due to time constraints. I was biking from my old house (7.5 miles each way) once or twice a week, but now it's almost every day. And, yeah, I started biking to work to both save gas money and for the exercise.
I do see a lot of yahoos who think it's necessary to stop at the end of the entrance ramp and wait for a spot. I know what you mean about those cars that feel shaky and unstable at high speeds, I've owned a few of those, too.
I live in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul of Minnesota). Our suburban area now extends to well beyond 40 miles of the cities. Many people's commutes are well in excess of an hour. I work with some people who are traveling 70+ miles each way (traffic makes these trips over 2 hours). 8 years ago I was driving an hour to work every morning and (due to traffic) 1:45 on the way back. I got paid well enough that I didn't care about the commute. (and gas was still 'cheap')
High gas prices aren't doing anything to stop most of these people, either. I spend almost nothing on gas these days because I have a four mile commute, and typically ride a bicycle. The winter is another story. Our city is very bike friendly and plows most of the bike paths just as well as the roads.
My V6 has no problem flying up a hill at around 2200rpm without downshifting. It's got 235hp and I typically get around 27mpg. Then again, it was built by a good auto maker. (not 'American') I live in MN and while new diesels run great in our winters, older diesels (that I can afford) do not. My next car will probably be a Jetta TDI. I've gotten to drive a few and they're great.
You just have to try to figure out how much crap that other V6 is pulling. And who built the transmission/what kind of transmission. Or you may just be behind some idiot that doesn't know that going up hill requires a bit more power.
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Pro 25:21-22 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
Feel free to take that out of context, but it basically says to be kind to your enemy. It'll probably make them even more mad at you, but it's still the right thing to do, and God will reward you in some way. Cool
Matt 5:43-44 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you
I don't know where you think people will stone you you for not reading a Bible, or for offending them. (I'm not naive enough to believe that more than 10% of Christians do what they really should, but most of them genuinely try)
I'm not sure what you mean there. Who cares if it has a couple of passages from the Qur'an? It's art, right? I play Castlevania and that is positively steeped in Biblical overtones and in the original Symphony of the Night Dracula quotes Jesus as he dies. I have no beef with that (yes I'm a Christian). I'm sure there are those that do, but I don't. If it offended me I would just not play it. Similarly, I don't watch South Park, not necessarily offensive but I find it distasteful. No big deal. God can defend Himself. And if he wants me to go out and slaughter a few wrongdoers... I'm very certain that I'm listening to the wrong voice in my head.
Something else for which to account is that the verses around those orders basically say that Israel is the force God has chosen for judgment on a particular nation or city. Other passages talk about other nations (Babylon and others) that God is going to use to drop the hammer on Israel for turning away.
Not that you have to agree with the reasoning. But I believe that it is much, much better than, "If they don't convert, kill them. If they convert away, kill them".
I've looked most of the footage. It just looks like Assassin's Creed in a modern city. I'd rather play Assassin's Creed.
Yes, but then nobody will talk. Either one guy is going voice-over with a whisper for all eternity, or we all yell at each other and kill everything in sight.
What, like flexing for the camera to receive your strength stats? LOL
You can get VoiP software straight off of the Apple App Store.
I believe that if you had the answers to all those questions and nobody knew you did, then you could probably easily make a power grab and take over the world a la Pinky and the Brain.
OTOH, if anyone knows you know those answers, you're screwed. You won't even get the million. Either that or I've seen too many conspiracy movies.
I take it you haven't played (or didn't enjoy) Gears of War or Call of Duty 4? Games that teach the masses that you can recover from any injury by "sucking it up" and taking a few breaths.
This is exactly the reason I left Verizon 5 or 6 years ago. They called it 'getitnow' or something. Renting ringtones for a month, the ability to keep your crappy phone photos, all that. I went with Cingular because their phones allowed me to make my own ringtones and transfer my crappy photos to my computer, for free. So what if I missed out on 100 minutes a month.
I detest ringback. So much so that I generally will just hang up any time I hear it. I have called some of the carriers and practically begged for a code that would disable the ringback crap on a per-case basis, but to no avail. It must be part of their scheme of making money. If people are too pissed off to call each other, then they won't use their minutes.
I think the main reason that you have people talking about how you can't tell the difference unless you're at such and such an angle is because they can sell 720p longer and make more money. I can instantly tell the difference in resolution, that is, provided the content being shown is in the higher resolution. Case in point.
I have a 15.4" wide screen laptop that I have had for almost three years. It has a resolution of 1920x1200. I bought this long before laptops were labeled as "OMG HD Display! +". Six years ago I was using a 15.4" 4:3 with 1600x1200.
After that the hi res LCDs disappeared for a while and are still pretty rare. Mine is perfectly reliable, so it can't be because of hardware issues. It was also very cheap. I can only believe that display makers are milking the lower res stuff as long as possible to squeeze every penny out of you before telling you that it's obsolete. Works just like most every other industry.
I'd love to own a 1080p TV of any size, but, well, I don't really have any need for one. I have hi res screens on my laptops because my eyes work well enough to see all the more data that fits on the screen!
I don't think that 90% of the consumers really know what DRM is. Those who do know what it is generally detest it. The rest of them see no reason to pay 100's of dollars for fancy DVD's.
Every time I walk into Target there is this Blu-Ray TV set 7 feet high in the electronics dept berating people for not owning Blu-Ray. It repeatedly tells people that using standard DVD with your hi-def TV "is like driving an expensive sports car in first gear", so the customer does know what the advantages are.
Machine gun jumblies? Dang Fembots...
I'd be much, much more afraid of Uwe Boll.
What I mean is that unless we're talking about some other time or universe, a med kit isn't going to do you any good because it takes more than a few seconds or even a few minutes to heal up. More like days or weeks. I always like the survival aspect of games.
The best way to accomplish that goal will probably be with an angry email or two.
Will Dolph be playing the profit of some other random emotion?
(I consider that to be a feature, not a bug.)
I agree. I always thought it was a bit unrealistic (yes, I know I'm talking about a game here) that your health could ever be measured as a percentage. If you're arm is blown of does that mean you're at 84%? No, I'm pretty sure that means you're at around 2-3%.
For me it was always more exciting to not know how much health you may have in reserve. That and in some games I feel that the need to find a med kit sometimes hampers gameplay.
I agree 100%. I won't play a game that allows players to compensate for ability for cash. If you want to be able to level the playing field then use handicaps. If one guy is too good for everyone else. Reduce his/her health and damage dealing ability. How hard is that?
Wow, you've used a car metaphor and a girl metaphor. Bravo
Certainly. I had a stable job in the cities and decided that I should live in the cities. Most of my friends were scattered throughout, so a change in position didn't bother that at all. I moved again recently because I'm back in school full time, and working full time. I live smack-dab in the middle of my work and school due to time constraints. I was biking from my old house (7.5 miles each way) once or twice a week, but now it's almost every day. And, yeah, I started biking to work to both save gas money and for the exercise.
I do see a lot of yahoos who think it's necessary to stop at the end of the entrance ramp and wait for a spot. I know what you mean about those cars that feel shaky and unstable at high speeds, I've owned a few of those, too.
I live in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul of Minnesota). Our suburban area now extends to well beyond 40 miles of the cities. Many people's commutes are well in excess of an hour. I work with some people who are traveling 70+ miles each way (traffic makes these trips over 2 hours). 8 years ago I was driving an hour to work every morning and (due to traffic) 1:45 on the way back. I got paid well enough that I didn't care about the commute. (and gas was still 'cheap')
High gas prices aren't doing anything to stop most of these people, either. I spend almost nothing on gas these days because I have a four mile commute, and typically ride a bicycle. The winter is another story. Our city is very bike friendly and plows most of the bike paths just as well as the roads.
My V6 has no problem flying up a hill at around 2200rpm without downshifting. It's got 235hp and I typically get around 27mpg. Then again, it was built by a good auto maker. (not 'American') I live in MN and while new diesels run great in our winters, older diesels (that I can afford) do not. My next car will probably be a Jetta TDI. I've gotten to drive a few and they're great.
You just have to try to figure out how much crap that other V6 is pulling. And who built the transmission/what kind of transmission. Or you may just be behind some idiot that doesn't know that going up hill requires a bit more power.