Funny. I had the same experience with liberal friends. ("Republicans are all close minded militarists. Oh... I don't mean you, Hartree." That's an exact quote. I go by my fan name in some circles.)
But I gritted my teeth and kept on going.
Guess I have a strong stomach. And realized a lot of people spout BS when it comes to politics. If you get too sensitive to it, you wall yourself off.
Basicly it says "We went down, and took down lots of important stuff. That shows just how important we are and that lots of people use us. Thus, our cloud is a good thing."
The logic of that doesn't quite work.
I agree that it's a useful tool, but there are a lot of things that don't make sense to put in the cloud.
"You have a very odd view of the world is all I can say."
That wasn't my view of that, but the way it was portrayed in the show. At least the way I interpreted it.
Given the way that it showed Hawkeye sticking up for her (or at least cursing the officer) even when he heard the translations of what she was saying, it's hard to say the show was portraying her nearly as negatively as the ROK intelligence officer.
In fact, I had much the same reaction as you, not having a warm fuzzy for any one of them, including Hawkeye who seemed at best naive.
But there were many shows in that not long past Vietnam era that tried to be "cool" or "edgy" by showing rather sympathetic viewpoints of those opposing the US, and negative viewpoints of those we had supported.
I'm waiting to see when someone rigs up a TMS unit trying to find a spot in the brain to interfere with that renders the watcher more susceptible to suggestions in commercials.
Hey, it's more plausible than a lot of this sort of neuro-babble.
Why would a plant, a leafy plant, want to turn black and live on Tatooine, with a bunch of 3-foot-tall Jawas? That does not make sense!
But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this post?
Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this post! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a commenter on a computer geek chat board, and I'm talkin' about black plants! Does that make sense?
Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense!
If plants aren't green on Tatooine, you must acquit!
Yes, and you're completely free of influence of the games and culture around you muddying your thoughts.
Oh, wait. Lennier. You're a Minbari. Of course. You would have no trouble with moral questions like leaving Sheridan in the gas. And certainly wouldn't be influenced by popular culture like TV shows.;)
I don't know if I would or not. I didn't have to. Thank heavens.
I spent a year being ready to kill North Koreans. Why mince words and say, service, or standing ready or some such. We were standing by to kill them in large numbers if it came to that. And they would have been trying to do the same to us. It was a tense period right after the KAL shootdown. While I was there, NK agents set off a bomb in Yangon in an attempt to kill Chun Doo Wan, and succeeded in killing some of his cabinet. He was called President Chun but he was a dictator that we were supporting. The world's rarely neat and clean.
However, I wouldn't feel all that bad about inconveniencing a few electrons and wearing out hard drive bearings in an FPS.
Reminds me of a scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where a German soldier has killed a French soldier and finds an ID that gives his name, Gérard Duval, and that he was a printer.
I use a bit of irony to swap roles for our normal protaganists, and I'm modded troll. Yay.
The mods need to read Mark Twains "The War Prayer". Perhaps that will be blatant enough for getting through heads.
In an FPS, you're usually going to have someone who is portrayed negatively. It's nearly a given in the genre. If it was a game being aimed at a Moslem audience concerning the Crusades, you wouldn't expect it to portray the forces of Richard the LionHeart as nifty neato keen guys.
I do find it odd that people wonder if this is desensitizing people to killing the "other guys". Slashdot has long been a forum that mostly holds that violent video games and movies have no effect on people in the real world. Why doesn't that same idea hold here?
I don't recall MASH (the TV show) portraying the North Koreans all that badly. Generally it showed them as intelligent people in hard situations. Example, the NK doctor who was helping them treat patients and Hawkeye was trying to pass off as a Korean American. Or, the infiltrator into the camp that was loving the chow because it was so much better than the food he had had (Igor the cook's incompetence aside). Or the two NK soldiers passing themselves off as ROK medics to get medical supplies who took Maj Burns to get them through checkpoints and then released him.
The only NK I remember who was morally amiguous was a North Korean woman who attempted to kill US patients after Hawkeye had stuck up for her. She was turned over to a South Korean officer who was portrayed as a monster, and we saw that she was being patriotic to her side.
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Of course it's toxic. It's a CNS inhibitor. Lowers the ionic concentrations that nerves depend on to work.
So, you better tell that kid drinking at the water fountain that he's gulping down neurotoxin. ;)
Funny. I had the same experience with liberal friends. ("Republicans are all close minded militarists. Oh... I don't mean you, Hartree." That's an exact quote. I go by my fan name in some circles.)
But I gritted my teeth and kept on going.
Guess I have a strong stomach. And realized a lot of people spout BS when it comes to politics. If you get too sensitive to it, you wall yourself off.
Or AARP, or AIPAC, or NRA, or SEIU or AFLCIO etc. Yes, those are nonprofits and or unions, but I don't think that was what you were implying.
Just have money or organzation that can help with elections and they'll listen.
Will that be Jersey Giant, Rhode Island Red, or Leghorn?
Oh, and we tried fitting Barbie doll shorts, but they don't fit that well.
This article seems to be an apology for Amazon.
Basicly it says "We went down, and took down lots of important stuff. That shows just how important we are and that lots of people use us. Thus, our cloud is a good thing."
The logic of that doesn't quite work.
I agree that it's a useful tool, but there are a lot of things that don't make sense to put in the cloud.
I only wardrive in a grey Ford.
"You have a very odd view of the world is all I can say."
That wasn't my view of that, but the way it was portrayed in the show. At least the way I interpreted it.
Given the way that it showed Hawkeye sticking up for her (or at least cursing the officer) even when he heard the translations of what she was saying, it's hard to say the show was portraying her nearly as negatively as the ROK intelligence officer.
In fact, I had much the same reaction as you, not having a warm fuzzy for any one of them, including Hawkeye who seemed at best naive.
But there were many shows in that not long past Vietnam era that tried to be "cool" or "edgy" by showing rather sympathetic viewpoints of those opposing the US, and negative viewpoints of those we had supported.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SFVeBUPo94
I'll be foregoing my normal donation to you this year, and spending it on MMORPGs and cloud storage instead.
Sincerely,
The Internet
I'm waiting to see when someone rigs up a TMS unit trying to find a spot in the brain to interfere with that renders the watcher more susceptible to suggestions in commercials.
Hey, it's more plausible than a lot of this sort of neuro-babble.
Vetoed!
So, there was a photosynthetic war over green and purple?
Maybe that explains a lot about the Drazi onboard Babylon 5.
Why would a plant, a leafy plant, want to turn black and live on Tatooine, with a bunch of 3-foot-tall Jawas? That does not make sense!
But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this post?
Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this post! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a commenter on a computer geek chat board, and I'm talkin' about black plants! Does that make sense?
Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense!
If plants aren't green on Tatooine, you must acquit!
The defense rests.
Yes, and you're completely free of influence of the games and culture around you muddying your thoughts.
Oh, wait. Lennier. You're a Minbari. Of course. You would have no trouble with moral questions like leaving Sheridan in the gas. And certainly wouldn't be influenced by popular culture like TV shows. ;)
I don't know if I would or not. I didn't have to. Thank heavens.
I spent a year being ready to kill North Koreans. Why mince words and say, service, or standing ready or some such. We were standing by to kill them in large numbers if it came to that. And they would have been trying to do the same to us. It was a tense period right after the KAL shootdown. While I was there, NK agents set off a bomb in Yangon in an attempt to kill Chun Doo Wan, and succeeded in killing some of his cabinet. He was called President Chun but he was a dictator that we were supporting. The world's rarely neat and clean.
However, I wouldn't feel all that bad about inconveniencing a few electrons and wearing out hard drive bearings in an FPS.
Reminds me of a scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where a German soldier has killed a French soldier and finds an ID that gives his name, Gérard Duval, and that he was a printer.
The real world isn't as simple as an FPS.
Actually, I did feel that Marcus deserved most of what happened to him.
Though it did give Ivanova a chance to live on and do a lot of good.
I use a bit of irony to swap roles for our normal protaganists, and I'm modded troll. Yay.
The mods need to read Mark Twains "The War Prayer". Perhaps that will be blatant enough for getting through heads.
In an FPS, you're usually going to have someone who is portrayed negatively. It's nearly a given in the genre. If it was a game being aimed at a Moslem audience concerning the Crusades, you wouldn't expect it to portray the forces of Richard the LionHeart as nifty neato keen guys.
I do find it odd that people wonder if this is desensitizing people to killing the "other guys". Slashdot has long been a forum that mostly holds that violent video games and movies have no effect on people in the real world. Why doesn't that same idea hold here?
I don't recall MASH (the TV show) portraying the North Koreans all that badly. Generally it showed them as intelligent people in hard situations. Example, the NK doctor who was helping them treat patients and Hawkeye was trying to pass off as a Korean American. Or, the infiltrator into the camp that was loving the chow because it was so much better than the food he had had (Igor the cook's incompetence aside). Or the two NK soldiers passing themselves off as ROK medics to get medical supplies who took Maj Burns to get them through checkpoints and then released him.
The only NK I remember who was morally amiguous was a North Korean woman who attempted to kill US patients after Hawkeye had stuck up for her. She was turned over to a South Korean officer who was portrayed as a monster, and we saw that she was being patriotic to her side.
Good heavens. We have to make this right by making it be the US soldiers we're shooting.
Maybe we'll finally answer the question in the skit theme song.
"Is it a man, or is it a woman? It's Pat!"
"Yeah, we have some poor Vista users."
Well, if they're poor users, updgrading the machines will only help so much.
You beat me too it.
Besides, what other cartoon engineer has her own religion in Russia.
Hey, I've seen far worse things worshipped.
I'd like a machine that can travel at 100 mS per hour.
I think they call it a Tardis. It's just not a very good one.
"Japan has much bigger fish to fry right now"
At Chernobyl, fish fry you!