yeah and then hooking up the archive of pause music up to your digital phone system, so when you put somebody on hold they will get a random pause music. makes sense, right? 'You are on pause.':)
why not? that's only an hour or so of downloading if you're on cable/dsl access... if you're on 56k, well, alot longer but that's what [this site resumes broken downloads] is for, as well as splitting the archive into 500 smaller parts (if one is corrupted, you only have to replace that one part instead of the whole thing)...
you know, seeing all these 'boycott the !!!' messages around, it's starting to get really old. i mean, come on... do you really think boycotting is going to do anything? the events and companies these days are so large, well positioned, and marketed that i seriously doubt a boycott will have much of an impact.
take mcdonald's for instance. let's say you decide you want REAL meat in your burgers and will only eat from places that serve it. great. so now instead of billions and billions served, it's billions and billions minus one. whoopee. 'but if lots of people do it,' you say, 'they'll HAVE to notice.' i doubt it. even if you convince 100,000 people never to eat mcdonald's again (an amazing feat), i wouldn't expect it to impact their bottom line very much. keywords here? 'billions served'. i doubt they're referring to the number of burgers they've cooked anymore; they're more likely referring to the number of customers that have access on a daily basis to their stores. there's a reason europeans hate them as infiltrations of hollow american culture... they're everywhere. (plus, they actually are infiltrations of hollow american culture imo, but that's another matter.)
the other thing is that, using your example of the indianapolis, there's probably plenty of people who adore that type of thing and will watch, attend, support events of that kind no matter what you say. the people you'd convince to boycott it are probably people who wouldn't drop a dime into it *anyway*. a zero-sum gain.
on the other hand, please don't interpret this as an expression of me attempting to prevent you from boycotting anything... far from it. boycott all you want. in fact, i encourage you. vote with your feet. just don't be disillusioned into thinking that a boycott on a giant will be effective. after things reach a certain point, boycotts are ineffective and other strategies must be selected to reach one's goals.
we need a new quote for this day and age (although that one is true more often than not). something like... "never attribute to stupidity that which is more adequately explained by greed."
i believe this has been mentioned before, but the reason is because every OLD game you play draws your precious attention away from each and every one of their NEW games that they're trying to get you to buy. Incoming money is their lifeblood, and there's no way they could possibly want you to spend your time on something that doesn't serve to increase that.
what i'm waiting for is for the agrocorps to do this, forcing a whole lot of sterile plants to be raised until the original, fertile breeds are lost and all we have left is seeds that won't grow. now THAT would be funny.
i'm just wondering when we're going to get something similar to Ender's Game... Ender thought he was in a training sim but they were actually remote-controlling real military forces in a battle.
Put some of these Counterstrike/Quake players in front of a computer which remote-controls a sniper bot or Johnny 5 unit...:)
didn't she even look at the ticket? the box? i haven't been to toys r us in a while (years) but iirc they still put game descriptions up next to the tickets.
it sounds to me like she didn't read anything about what she was buying.
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wouldn't a 15 minute dhcp lease time cause a lot of lost bandwidth in overhead for dhcp negotiations on the internal network?
eudas
yeah and he didn't mention a comparison between 'Snow Crash' and people turning into 'gargoyles'.
eudas
yeah and then hooking up the archive of pause music up to your digital phone system, so when you put somebody on hold they will get a random pause music. makes sense, right? 'You are on pause.' :)
eudas
why not? that's only an hour or so of downloading if you're on cable/dsl access... if you're on 56k, well, alot longer but that's what [this site resumes broken downloads] is for, as well as splitting the archive into 500 smaller parts (if one is corrupted, you only have to replace that one part instead of the whole thing)...
eudas
i wonder how it would change things if we were to repartition the states into equal-sized (square miles) parcels of land.
hmm.
eudas
you know, seeing all these 'boycott the !!!' messages around, it's starting to get really old. i mean, come on... do you really think boycotting is going to do anything? the events and companies these days are so large, well positioned, and marketed that i seriously doubt a boycott will have much of an impact.
take mcdonald's for instance. let's say you decide you want REAL meat in your burgers and will only eat from places that serve it. great. so now instead of billions and billions served, it's billions and billions minus one. whoopee. 'but if lots of people do it,' you say, 'they'll HAVE to notice.' i doubt it. even if you convince 100,000 people never to eat mcdonald's again (an amazing feat), i wouldn't expect it to impact their bottom line very much. keywords here? 'billions served'. i doubt they're referring to the number of burgers they've cooked anymore; they're more likely referring to the number of customers that have access on a daily basis to their stores. there's a reason europeans hate them as infiltrations of hollow american culture... they're everywhere. (plus, they actually are infiltrations of hollow american culture imo, but that's another matter.)
the other thing is that, using your example of the indianapolis, there's probably plenty of people who adore that type of thing and will watch, attend, support events of that kind no matter what you say. the people you'd convince to boycott it are probably people who wouldn't drop a dime into it *anyway*. a zero-sum gain.
on the other hand, please don't interpret this as an expression of me attempting to prevent you from boycotting anything... far from it. boycott all you want. in fact, i encourage you. vote with your feet. just don't be disillusioned into thinking that a boycott on a giant will be effective. after things reach a certain point, boycotts are ineffective and other strategies must be selected to reach one's goals.
yet another $0.04 in useless ranting from
eudas
yeah that'd be real funny up until you start getting ghost-hacks a la 'ghost in the shell'.
eudas
i want a HUD builtin to my eyes...
eudas
we need a new quote for this day and age (although that one is true more often than not). something like... "never attribute to stupidity that which is more adequately explained by greed."
eudas
i believe this has been mentioned before, but the reason is because every OLD game you play draws your precious attention away from each and every one of their NEW games that they're trying to get you to buy. Incoming money is their lifeblood, and there's no way they could possibly want you to spend your time on something that doesn't serve to increase that.
eudas
eudas
each and every one of them more or less as valuable and worthy as a real walt disney plotline, too.
eudas
the kid gets bored every 20 turns or so, hence, a war every 20 years.
eudas
that gives me a great idea...
:)
eudas
hey, if you can't solve a problem in 30 minutes, you've obviously forgotten your lines. ;)
eudas
what i'm waiting for is for the agrocorps to do this, forcing a whole lot of sterile plants to be raised until the original, fertile breeds are lost and all we have left is seeds that won't grow. now THAT would be funny.
eudas
#10 - dirk gently reference?
eudas
based on album sales, she's more popular than either, and has the $ for a campaign as well.
hehe.
eudas
how does it go? it takes a village to raise an idiot? :)
eudas
(who was raised by a village)
the money is peanuts compared to the pr.
eudas
alright, i'll bite...
what the devil could you possibly use 4000-5000 aol cd's for?
eudas
hmm, i've got an old 33.6 and a 56k (both internal) in a box 'round here... (a literal box, not a computer-box, hehe)...
eudas
i'm just wondering when we're going to get something similar to Ender's Game... Ender thought he was in a training sim but they were actually remote-controlling real military forces in a battle.
:)
Put some of these Counterstrike/Quake players in front of a computer which remote-controls a sniper bot or Johnny 5 unit...
eudas
didn't she even look at the ticket? the box? i haven't been to toys r us in a while (years) but iirc they still put game descriptions up next to the tickets.
it sounds to me like she didn't read anything about what she was buying.
eudas
yeah, well, there's also (to my knowledge, i've only played the demo) no blacks, jews, or women worth raping in it, so YMMV.
eudas