I work in the forestry field and, even though work is terrible at winter or when the sun is actively trying to fry your brain, there is absolutely nothing better than walking around forests, collecting mushrooms and taking pictures of trees, and actually getting paid to do that.
Indeed, the problem is how, in order to garner support for the War on Drugs, anyone using drugs was for years painted as a complete and utter social failure. Your son is smoking pot? Holy shit you better call the cops on his ass or tomorrow morning he will be shooting speed!!!! The fear of drugs was implanted so deep in our societies that anyone willing to call out the WoD on it's uselessness might as well claim he fiddles little children's weewees at night, he might generate a lighter backlash with this claim.
No politician in our PC-heavy climate would even dare to think about it.
They went a different road from the original(s).
In the original it was more dark and grimy, it felt more dramatic, and the atmosphere in general was sad... very sad. In the remake, you have drum trucks and flamethrower electric guitars, it's a much more humor-ish comic take, which makes this, again, not a sequel, but a cash-in remake. It's not a Mad Max movie. The main character isn't Max, the atmosphere isn't Mad Max's, it just happened to have spiked cars chasing plated cars in the wastland.
But hey, how many movies with spiked cars and crazy wasteland chase scenes do we get every year? Am still down for it.
Yeah well, I once went to a GP thinking that I had cancer because it was what the internet said I had. He nearly got mad at me for bringing the internet up because, according to him, if every person who self-diagnosed their cancer actually had it, half the country would be on chemo by now. He proceeded to rant on how misinformed people on the internet are and after a check up told me that I had some unwarranted worries and everything was fine.
Remember that part when Microsoft announced that there will be free upgrades to windows 10 for everyone, even pirated copies, and then boom, the next day some "clarifications" about the legitimacy of these upgrades were released? Same thing here. The engi will say whatever he wants, the final decision is taken by accounting/legal departments and, yeah, they *love* open source stuff...
So imagine if some researcher somewhere manages to prove that plants actually feel pain...
What's PETA's next move? Sustain themselves on a diet of willpower and positive energy from the universe?
Honestly I don't want to wave a tin foil here, but you have to admit certain parties would benefit a lot from an eventual panic or a "wide spread" Ebola occurrence.
I hear that, as of right now, posting one of the noodies of Jennifer Lawrence is an autoban ticket. As far as I know posting one without modifying it a little is impossible... Why? I know that you value the "organized anarchy" and self moderation of 4chan in general, and/b/ in particular, and I do understand the necessity of at least making sure that no CP is posted there (who am I kidding?) and I will not question that. But don't you think that the autoban on JLaw noodies might be the start of a trend? What will happen next when X decides to force your hand and ask for an autoban on his images too since, after all, JLaw already did it.
Maybe this is the point? Maybe it was accepted as a form of irony, of self-criticism? Maybe the editors realized that the process of filtering and reviewing submissions lost so much of it's quality that, in a wake-up call,/. editors decided to accept the crappiest of fake stories and front page it anyway. Maybe this story is supposed to be the epitome of what plagued/. for so long now... News that doesn't matter. News that's not for nerds.
Old age... True enough, but this doesn't say much about testicular or breast cancers, who hit people in their 20s and up. Understanding why testicular cancer, for example, can be diagnosed in kids as young as 15 might be an interesting venture, me thinks.
Am a bioengi and, a long time ago, I had to choose between what I will study in university, biology or mechanics... I chose biology because I wanted to have >fun tinkering with mechanical things... Looking at my biology/chemistry sets that I abandoned long ago, I think I made the right choice.
It's a marketing stunt to spark interest. I don't have one, nor was I ever that interested in it, but when I read the/. headline, the first thought that came to my mind was "I might as well buy one now".
Am still shocked at this part... "Biologists have found them at altitudes of up to 4 km"
Do you realize what this implies? One day a spider got bored and he decided to see how high he could fly... and he went 4 fucking kilometers in the sky...
I always wondered whether I had a fascination with all this because it's something excitingly forbidden, or because I have a freaking pyromaniac asleep inside of me.
I don't know about you, but I bet half the kids I met would fail the Voigt-kampff test, and fail it HARD. These kids are spawns of hell itself, and babysitting them is the last thing you will ever want to do...
A single key for the Lord Obama, in the land of the NSA where the shadows lie. One Key to rule them all, one Key to find them. One Key to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
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I work in the forestry field and, even though work is terrible at winter or when the sun is actively trying to fry your brain, there is absolutely nothing better than walking around forests, collecting mushrooms and taking pictures of trees, and actually getting paid to do that.
Indeed, the problem is how, in order to garner support for the War on Drugs, anyone using drugs was for years painted as a complete and utter social failure. Your son is smoking pot? Holy shit you better call the cops on his ass or tomorrow morning he will be shooting speed!!!!
The fear of drugs was implanted so deep in our societies that anyone willing to call out the WoD on it's uselessness might as well claim he fiddles little children's weewees at night, he might generate a lighter backlash with this claim.
No politician in our PC-heavy climate would even dare to think about it.
They went a different road from the original(s).
In the original it was more dark and grimy, it felt more dramatic, and the atmosphere in general was sad... very sad.
In the remake, you have drum trucks and flamethrower electric guitars, it's a much more humor-ish comic take, which makes this, again, not a sequel, but a cash-in remake.
It's not a Mad Max movie. The main character isn't Max, the atmosphere isn't Mad Max's, it just happened to have spiked cars chasing plated cars in the wastland.
But hey, how many movies with spiked cars and crazy wasteland chase scenes do we get every year? Am still down for it.
Yeah well, I once went to a GP thinking that I had cancer because it was what the internet said I had. He nearly got mad at me for bringing the internet up because, according to him, if every person who self-diagnosed their cancer actually had it, half the country would be on chemo by now. He proceeded to rant on how misinformed people on the internet are and after a check up told me that I had some unwarranted worries and everything was fine.
It was a testicular cancer anyway.
Remember that part when Microsoft announced that there will be free upgrades to windows 10 for everyone, even pirated copies, and then boom, the next day some "clarifications" about the legitimacy of these upgrades were released? Same thing here.
The engi will say whatever he wants, the final decision is taken by accounting/legal departments and, yeah, they *love* open source stuff...
So imagine if some researcher somewhere manages to prove that plants actually feel pain...
What's PETA's next move? Sustain themselves on a diet of willpower and positive energy from the universe?
Honestly I don't want to wave a tin foil here, but you have to admit certain parties would benefit a lot from an eventual panic or a "wide spread" Ebola occurrence.
I hear that, as of right now, posting one of the noodies of Jennifer Lawrence is an autoban ticket. As far as I know posting one without modifying it a little is impossible... Why? I know that you value the "organized anarchy" and self moderation of 4chan in general, and /b/ in particular, and I do understand the necessity of at least making sure that no CP is posted there (who am I kidding?) and I will not question that. But don't you think that the autoban on JLaw noodies might be the start of a trend? What will happen next when X decides to force your hand and ask for an autoban on his images too since, after all, JLaw already did it.
Kanedaaaaaa!!!
(It sounds like the SimCity4 OST soo much too)
Maybe this is the point? Maybe it was accepted as a form of irony, of self-criticism? Maybe the editors realized that the process of filtering and reviewing submissions lost so much of it's quality that, in a wake-up call, /. editors decided to accept the crappiest of fake stories and front page it anyway. Maybe this story is supposed to be the epitome of what plagued /. for so long now... News that doesn't matter. News that's not for nerds.
Or maybe they'r just lazy fucks.
Old age... True enough, but this doesn't say much about testicular or breast cancers, who hit people in their 20s and up.
Understanding why testicular cancer, for example, can be diagnosed in kids as young as 15 might be an interesting venture, me thinks.
In this case, it's the publishers who are being generous, and not the players. Did EA participate?
Am a bioengi and, a long time ago, I had to choose between what I will study in university, biology or mechanics... I chose biology because I wanted to have >fun tinkering with mechanical things... Looking at my biology/chemistry sets that I abandoned long ago, I think I made the right choice.
Funny how making a good product to get a lot of satisfied costumers became such a vintage concept...
They will do what they always did. Bury it somewhere and pretend it never existed.
Looks like I still can't download a car... but I sure as hell will be pirating one!
This was obviously written by a bacteria.
It's a marketing stunt to spark interest. I don't have one, nor was I ever that interested in it, but when I read the /. headline, the first thought that came to my mind was "I might as well buy one now".
"They build their houses right next to active volcanoes, and then wonder why there is lava in the living room."
i don't think that the richest 1 billion people on the planet read /., either...
Am still shocked at this part... "Biologists have found them at altitudes of up to 4 km"
Do you realize what this implies? One day a spider got bored and he decided to see how high he could fly... and he went 4 fucking kilometers in the sky...
Only if you wear a red shirt.
I always wondered whether I had a fascination with all this because it's something excitingly forbidden, or because I have a freaking pyromaniac asleep inside of me.
I don't know about you, but I bet half the kids I met would fail the Voigt-kampff test, and fail it HARD. These kids are spawns of hell itself, and babysitting them is the last thing you will ever want to do...
A single key for the Lord Obama, in the land of the NSA where the shadows lie. One Key to rule them all, one Key to find them. One Key to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.