Yet, I still fail to see how a videogame (or software programming at all) is in any way more "art" than a commercial or a sit-com or a board game is. Not all entertainment is "art". In fact, one could easily argue that the two things are rarely related and just because something involves creativity doesn't make it art, either.
Are you kidding, all the different flavors of chess boards & pieces and different styles of board games and you can't see that it is a work of art? Well, you most likly don't think of bridges, buildings, cars, boats, airplanes, or toasters as a work of art. Something doesn't have to made by an art major and judged by artists to be art. Trust me "anything" or medium can be a work of art. What is the difference between a blank page and an authors writings? Art, craftmanship. I guess that if you want to be elist than you could divide anything that could be used or has a useful purpose can call that craftmanship and call all truely useless things art. Paintings are useless as a wall covering. They are only good as a form of art or ads. Books can be used as teaching tools, or useless entertainment. So educational books are craftsmanship, and all that useless fiction is art.
Uh, as a rental its o.k. to play. The graphics for the time were pretty good. But if the only 2 games that you had to play were Pilotwings and Super Mario World for several months, would you still like it? I'm sorry, there just wasn't quite enough to keep me really interested in that game long term. It also got highly annoying with all the goals. At one point in time, I got bronze, or silver in most of the events. It just wasn't worth it to try over and over just to boost it up from bronze to gold.
The best part of it was just leaving what you were supposed to do and just flying around and running into things. Although there really should have been like 100s of different deaths esp. since that was all you were seeing in the early game.;)
That blanket statement is as stupid as people who would assume war is the solution to everything. Fighting aggression is as just as it comes.
Dude, you got this one wrong. It's that you aren't allowed to kill other Jew not Christain. (Christain generally treat it that they aren't supposed to kill anyone though.) The Jewish version, which is the real ten commandments is usually taught that their is a big exception their for war. War is fine and dandy as long as your Jewish King/leader/Rabi says that the war is o.k. The Jews believe in genocide for other people. Read the bible. The Jews committed genocide. I don't really feel bad in the abstract sense that karma finally came back to them. They deserved to be on the other end every now and then as a reminder that the Jews used to do that sort of thing to those that were non-Jewish.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_10c9.htm Not all murders are forbidden. Hebrew Scriptures specify many grounds for which this commandment is to be ignored, and a guilty party executed. Persons found guilty of temple prostitution, engaged women who are seduced by a man other than her future husband, women who practice black magic, some women who are raped in urban areas, children who cursed their parents, some non-virgin brides, Jews who collect firewood on Saturday to keep their families from freezing, persons proselytizing in favor of another religion, persons worshiping a deity other than Yahweh, strangers who entered the temple, etc; all were to be executed.
8. Don't steal - Taxation is theft, currency inflation is theft Um, I don't know the folks that you run into. I remember the don't steal, but nothing about taxation or inflation. I think that is a group that wants to stop those practices by labeling them as theft and getting other average folk Christains to go along with it. (It'd work in some areas.)
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_10c9.htm "...this Commandment has been interpreted to refer to only one kind of theft; namely, to someone who kidnaps a person, forces him or her to work for him, and then sells him or her into slavery. This, like the previous prohibitions mentioned in the verse, murder and adultery, is a Capital Crime; that is, punishable by the death-penalty." 2 Since slavery has now been abolished in North America, this commandment is no longer applicable. bullet
In modern times, the commandment is interpreted to mean the stealing of any piece of property. This is not directly related to its original meaning.
10. Don't be jealous or control what isn't yours - Zoning laws are wrong, business regulations are wrong, slavery is wrong (the draft)
What wierd Christian branch is this one from? I recall a don't envy what others have that you don't. Nothing else is mentioned though. This a good for a lord to instruct his serfs to believe in. Think about it don't wish that you could have anything that your lord has. Makes perfect sense.
1. To wish for enviously.
2. To desire inordinately or culpably ~ vi: to feel inordinate desire for what belongs to another. 3
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Well, if you really, really want to know a large chunck of those that attend a Christian church don't give a crap about the doctrine that has been pounded into their head since they were little. They can't stop going because that would be "wrong" some how. It's hey I was forced to listen to this stuff every Wednesday and Sun, and now my kids are too, even if they don't want to.
There is nothing worse than Christain peer pressure. I went to a public junior high and high school in Arkansas. I wanted to do extreme bodily harm to all the adults that would say "Schools are going down hill now that they've taken God/Ten commandents out of school." I said BS then and worse now. I couldn't go a week without being "witnessed" to in one class or another. God help you if you ever let them know that you don't personally believe in their religion.
Personnally, I'm against the Christain God for one little thing. Well, the central theme of that religion was that 1. a perfect individual was born lived a life and "wrongfully" died so that every one else could go to heaven.
I'm sorry, but the God that I believe in doesn't like the concept of killing humans for his glory or any other reason some exception is made for war though. I don't care if I have to invent an abstract God that only I believe in; I personally hate the basic concepts behind Christianity. Oh, and number 2. That the first perfect guy lived at all. I have serious issues with that. I don't believe that Christ was sinless. If he was, then he wasn't human.
I was brought up in that religion. Trust me. Spreading the faith in any form or fashion is what most of them do. Witnessing is what they should do. I'm not going to describe that evil verb. If you don't know what it means, consider yourself blessed by what ever personal spirits that you worship.;)
Some where along the line, the average folk got confused and started to believe that if we could only make everyone act like us, then we wouldn't need to witness any more. (Most of your average folk of church goers are not Christians in the true abstract sense. Its a nice little ideal, but I don't want to be a peasant that shares everything with all the other peasants and those poorer than me now or in an afterlife. Of course they are happy peasants that don't revolt and that is all that matters.)
I can't what for that revolution to come out. I'd like to pick up a gamecube and play those games for less than $20 each. The reason that I had bought a PS2 instead of GC was simple, I wanted to play all the FF games that were released on PS1 & the 1 for PS2. I picked up I think it was like 3 FF for $20 or slightly less each. To me, that was an excellent bargain. I paid $50 each for FFX, FFX2, and Kingdom Hearts. FFX and Kingdom Hearts were worth every cent. FFX2 was really worth some where between $30-$40 but heck, I got it just as it was released to I was willing to play a premium at that time.
I can't wait for these freaking new consoles to come out. I the Xbox came down enough I might even consider it. I doubt it though. I was always a die hard Nintendo follower until the PS2. (I truly believed that Sony had and excellent stragety for owning media console wars by sneaking one into every household in the giuse as a video game machine.)
Currently, with how our finances are, I could either buy a GC and the hardware all to get it going, and 3-5 games, or I could by any one of these new consoles and hope that what ever game they release is worth it. I'm not ever doing that again. I bought pilot wings for N64 back when it was one of only 3 games that you could get for the system. I'd much rather wait and rent a game to try it out and then decide to purchase it. N64 was o.k. in its time, but several games like maybe FF for N64 never showed up.
The underlying idea of A la carte programming seems like a good idea, and will even cost those of us who couldn't care less about sports a LOT less (disgustingly enough, the bulk of your "extended basic" cable bill goes toward subsidizing the sports channels, which cost more than premium channels like HBO and contractually force cable carriers to include them in anything beyond their most basic package).
I don't have cable. (I can't afford it.) The handful of channels that I'd like are: ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, & UPN, SCI-FI, Comedy Central, History Channel, 4 PBS channels, 5 kids toon channels, 2 anime channels, & 3 educational channels 2 aimmed at my kids and 1 aimmed more at me and my wife) for about $20 a month. (I wouldn't be opposed to packages of 3-5 channels bundled at a discount like Discovery, history and learning channel bundled together. I don't want MTV bundled with Sci-Fi & TNN just to get get the SCI-FI channel though. (I would be willing to pay for Sci-fi 1 Sci-Fi 2 and Sci-Fi 3 bundled together.)
My hearing loss has done far more to end my social life than my being a geek and/or nerd ever could.
Now, a device like this will likely make me effectively deaf. How? The hearing aids set their overall gain based on the sound level in the room, regardless of band. Thus, they will sense the loud HF sound and cut the gain way down, so, from my point of view (hearing?), the world will suddenly get really quiet.
Do not screw with what little hearing I have left.
I hate to say it, but this is a really, really good thing. Why? Because I would think that seniors would have the same problem and be even more pissed than you are. Some like me would just never ever shop there and tell the shops around the guy why, but not the guy that is doing it. Guys like you, might actually complain to the store manager or sue the guy under Americans with disabilities equal access laws.
I have high pitch hearing loss in one ear and have also had difficulty hearing conversations all my life. My office is even worse though I'm in a computer room with 3 switchs and 2 servers going behind me. The white noise that the fans generate makes conversations 6 ft away difficult for me hear. I treat it as a good reason to actually pay attention and listen. If I don't, I will not hear half the conversation at all. I never had to have hearing aids, just sitting on the front row was always enough (and it helped with being able to see as well.) Of course, kids trying to whisper to me, I couldn't hear at all. No wonder I was such a good student.
The sound is only annoying with constant exposure, and the only way someone is going to be constantly exposed is if they're loitering around outside the store. It will have no effect on people who are legitimate customers entering or leaving the store. No one, regardless of age, should be loitering outside this guy's store.
And as grandmama takes her grand kids into this guy's shop, they all start yelling and screaming after about 30 min. saying grandmama can't you hear that horrible noise? I don't know where it is coming from but it just suddenly started.
Or, as the store next do that is trying to attract this age demographic as customers, I'd be royally pissed to find that this neighbor is doing everything possible to drive away my loyal customers.
Oh, how about as just some one that lives a block away, but happens to jog around the block and passes that store a couple of time? Or a delievery driver? What is consant 30 seconds or 5 mins? What business is this guy in any way that doesn't have any teenage customers huh, selling porn, smokes, and/or liquor?
You must be new here. And by here, I mean society. It's one of the few things that not only are people still discriminated against for, it's one that no one complains about, or really even thinks about.
Ah, but we young ones, can force them old ones to early retirement. Of course, then we'd have to worry about the same thing. We could actually vote to remove the entire SS system. It would actually kill off old folks if they found out 80%-90% of the 18-30 age group voted to remove the entire system. They'd all panic and have heart attacks. Young ones (those under 18) have always been held back by being called minors and childern by anyone that is older than them. The oldest folks that should have one foot in the grave have always tried to hold society to what they thought life was like when they were young.;) And most actual adults, would wish that their parnets would shut up and stop trying to run their life now that they are marrieed with kids while also wishing that their kids would do what they want.
We really need to have all elected offices held by one those under 2 years of age. (Babies couldn't possibly do a worse job and well middle age folks wouldn't stand a chance of winning against a cute kid.;)
This just looks like an ultrasonic animal repeller to me.
Um, I don't know if I should be mentioning this on/. Oh, heck. My wife and I bought 3-4 of these when we were living out in the country in Arkansas. (I couldn't really tell that they were keeping any insects way but it was a good tech. symbol to believe in.) Well, warnings of these things was in very big and bold letters do not use if you have a pace maker or have guests that may have a pace maker. This device may disrupt the function of a pace maker causing death. These things were fun to listen to. It sounded like a very small click every now and again. I got a small glimmer of happiness thinking that bugs ought to be driven of by that ultrasonic noise. Of course, I always wondered about the pace maker thing...
Only he optimized his stereo for treble rather than bass.
And this guy is far more likely to get fined by your local police because most of those car noise ord. have something stating if the car audio is clearly audible at X amount of feet. A thumping bass truck, you can't hear the lyrics instead or a few feet from the car, any car that has treble optimized than you should be able to hear that a good long distance away, which means that you ought to warn your friend that he should tune into what ever his local cops like to hear.;)
You're probably thinking of "Lois and Clark". I highly doubt college girls would tune in to see two guys in the early 1800's map out the Louisana Purchase.
If that link of yours shows their picture, you are right! Now, with the right two male leads with alot of running around, swimming, and hiking in various states of undress, it'd sell. Heck, that's the main reason Survior ever really made it. If you really wanted to be evil, you could do a survior parody where random traveling companions get killed by wild life, natives, or each other along the way.
He's talking about Gamecube games, the Revolution is supposed to be fully backward compatible with the Gamecube. I. E. you can put a Gamecube disk in a revolution and it will work.
This is not a big deal (certainly not as big as PS2 playing PS1 gaems) but it is a minor selling point.
Not a big deal? Are you kidding? I wouldn't have bought the PS2 without the ability to play PS1 games & DVDs for the price. I'd have gotten a PS1 and a GameCube. There are alot of fun GC games that I'd like to actually buy and play. I'm not really that interested in buying a GC because the Revolution is about to come out. I am interested in playing games for both systems. I predict by the time that the Revolution is mid way through its life span that we'll see a new game boy system that is a game cube reduced down to portable size. I truely think that's why Nintendo is really doing it.
So when he was offered the chance to direct Superman, he told us that it came with so much extra baggage that he couldn't make it the way he wanted to at the same time as keeping corporate partners happy. But he felt it was his own fault, partially, caused by his Batman movie's success back in '89.
What ever happened to that guy that played in Louis and Clark? I know for a fact that college girls watched that show more for him than anything. They should have just used that guy, and had some funny scene of him changing and being half naked for the girls. It'd would sell like crazy.
Problem is, once you're that powerful, why be a villian anyway? You can already do whatever you want. Anyone worth Superman's effort to be fighting should be busy running for Congress anyway. Everyone knows that's where you go if you want to be able to do some real damage...
Um, they don't need to run for Congress, they'd either "own" congress or pull the proper strings within the government to have their own little shadow government going. They'd have very small laws passed making it legal. Then they'd make a small law that requires "super" humans to have a GPS reciever on them to track. Anyone without it, would be a criminal. Tada. Superman would be the government's number 1 most wanted criminal because he failed to register. Or if he did, it would make headlines.
Just give them lots of flash, explosions, and the occasional breast and all is good.
I don't want just the occasional breast. I'd like some nice attractive female butt & leg shots also. I'd like some actual or more realistic sex scenes. (It'd only take 1-5 minutes and wouldn't be that good anyway.) Most of us like to see things blowing up. Esp, bosses, politicans, and anyone working in management or the IRS.
Now, granted, consoles may not necessarily become the final media player in your living room, but if they're the ones that make it, quixotically, it seems like XBox is the most open way towards that for now.
O.k. If you define "open" as in its the easiest machine to hack, you'll most likely be right. I'd say 95%-98% of the target market of all 3 consoles defines "open" as backwards compatiable and able to play DVDs, CDs, and maybe MP3s. In that reguard, Nintendo & Sony are both "open", but MS are "closed." No consumer expects to play a Nintendo game on a MS console or a Sony game on a Nintendo, but we are starting to expect to be able to keep on playing our Sony games on our Sony consoles. Nintendo has promised that feature and it is the one big one that will most likly win it a purchase rather than MS. I'm getting a PS3 because I have PS1, & PS2 games that I'd like to continue playing.
It is precisely your unwillingness to confront the asshole who cut in front of you in line that allows him to continue cutting in front of people in line. Some people have no sense of common decency, and must have those kinds of things pointed out to them, sometimes forcefully.
Yes, but society in general doesn't think that I should beat to death the person that cuts in front of me no matter how much I personnal would like that stranger's behavior changed.
Fuck the records. Fuck the movies. CRAZY. When I was a kid, they used to seperate the crazy kids from everybody, When I wa a kid, the crazy kids went to school in a little-ass yellow bus and had classes at the end of the school and they used to get out of school at 1 PM just in case they went crazy that way they would only hurt the other crazy kids."
Um, so now we'll have a mini-prison system inside our school system for anyone deemed potentially troublesome? Those kids weren't "crazy." They were supposed to be learning disabled or mentally retarded. That's not crazy that's "slow." A "slow" individual should still know the difference between right and wrong and not breaking the rules as set down by their teachers and parents. I've never looked into the school shooting cases because I didn't care about them. They were just used as an excuse to make public schools more prison like. That was my perception at the time as a student, and, now as a parent with kids going to elementary public school, I believe it even more.
We should just build more freaking prison/schools for those don't follow any rules. If you don't follow school rules, you'll be assumed to break laws so we'll just lock you up now as a preventive measure. After years of forcible re-education, you may be released as a productive member of society.
After I played GTA (can't remember which one) at a friend's house for a couple of hours, I found myself thinking about ramming into other vehicles and stealing their cars. I'm really not joking. Of course, I also once pointed at a cop checking for speeders during my Quake years and yelling audibly, "Look at that camper!!!" Again, I'm really not joking.
While I neither rammed other people's cars nor pulled out a rocket launcher to teach the cop a lesson, I certainly KNOW that games can bleed into reality and if the person is just messed up enough in the head already, I don't doubt they could live out the game.
You need to chill a bit after playing games. I remember my first night of playing Doom II at a friends house. I must have jumped out of that chair atleast a dozen times that night. Did I think zombies or demons were going to come and get me? Nope. It was mainly something popping right out from a corner or the loud audio sych with the video of the demon shooting at me that usually got me. (Plus I'm really bad at those games.) I want to ram other people's cars all the time. Esp, waiting at gas stations. What keeps me from it? Hmm, I think damn my insurance wouldn't cover that and I'd likly go to jail. I'll just put up with it. Heck, there are times that I'd like grab the guy that had just cut infront of me at the gas station and beat them to death. Then, I think, but I'd have to get out of my safe car or act like a crazy idiot banging on some stranger's car window, and then I'd likely get stuck in jail. Yeap, thoughts of going to jail have keep random strangers safe from my thoughts of doing them extreme bodily harm.
At a certain price, a fan will see the value of safety and quality (versus thepiratebay) diminish quickly. My household spends $10,000 per year for music, but lately it is mostly shows. Our church mostly dumped our band and now invites various Christian rock bands to play (many of them are actually amazing). The market is completely crazy, and as Faith + 1 fans know, religious rock has always been a money maker, and even those bands are MP3-driven.
Dude, if I could afforde $10,000 a year for music, I might actually buy some! My household just listens to the radio. We, um, tape off air radio for personal use... to listen to the same song more than once. We might spend $100-$200 year on DVDs, but $10,000 on music damn that's 1/3 of my income!
I think the mice that had some fear would be more immortal than the mice that were fearless. Now, the fearless solider mice are the ones that you'd want to send biting lions and tigers to death while most of your immortal peasant mice run way because they are scared.
With "people address", there are three problems. First, no way to generalize routing rules. Secondly, there is the fact that all your stuff might not be in the same place. Most of it is at your house, but some of it is at the vacation home. Finally, there is the problem that people, unlike IP4 address, tend to move arround alot, geographically speaking. Usually, if you move from New York to LA, you get a different IP, even if you use the same national ISP. Under your scheme, the whole internet would have to be told to redirect your trafic. Yick.
You've missed the tin foil hat consipary theory. Assigning an IP address to all newly minted currency along with some RFID and GPS. Instantly, the MAN and your neighbor could ping all your money! The IRS would know exactly how much cash that you have stuffed under your bed!
Did he put Hi-Jackers and side pipes on the Enterprise?
What do you think those big round things in the back were? He was always having Scotty rig up the Enterprise to go faster. If that isn't a hitech military redneck, I don't know what is. And don't forget he had a shoot or bed it first policy. The only aliens he talked to were those that he was trying to bed. That character must have had issues.;)
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Yet, I still fail to see how a videogame (or software programming at all) is in any way more "art" than a commercial or a sit-com or a board game is. Not all entertainment is "art". In fact, one could easily argue that the two things are rarely related and just because something involves creativity doesn't make it art, either.
Are you kidding, all the different flavors of chess boards & pieces and different styles of board games and you can't see that it is a work of art? Well, you most likly don't think of bridges, buildings, cars, boats, airplanes, or toasters as a work of art. Something doesn't have to made by an art major and judged by artists to be art. Trust me "anything" or medium can be a work of art. What is the difference between a blank page and an authors writings? Art, craftmanship. I guess that if you want to be elist than you could divide anything that could be used or has a useful purpose can call that craftmanship and call all truely useless things art. Paintings are useless as a wall covering. They are only good as a form of art or ads.
Books can be used as teaching tools, or useless entertainment. So educational books are craftsmanship, and all that useless fiction is art.
What's wrong with Pilotwings?
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Uh, as a rental its o.k. to play. The graphics for the time were pretty good. But if the only 2 games that you had to play were Pilotwings and Super Mario World for several months, would you still like it? I'm sorry, there just wasn't quite enough to keep me really interested in that game long term. It also got highly annoying with all the goals. At one point in time, I got bronze, or silver in most of the events. It just wasn't worth it to try over and over just to boost it up from bronze to gold.
The best part of it was just leaving what you were supposed to do and just flying around and running into things. Although there really should have been like 100s of different deaths esp. since that was all you were seeing in the early game.
6. Never kill -- no war is just
That blanket statement is as stupid as people who would assume war is the solution to everything. Fighting aggression is as just as it comes.
Dude, you got this one wrong. It's that you aren't allowed to kill other Jew not Christain. (Christain generally treat it that they aren't supposed to kill anyone though.) The Jewish version, which is the real ten commandments is usually taught that their is a big exception their for war. War is fine and dandy as long as your Jewish King/leader/Rabi says that the war is o.k. The Jews believe in genocide for other people. Read the bible. The Jews committed genocide. I don't really feel bad in the abstract sense that karma finally came back to them. They deserved to be on the other end every now and then as a reminder that the Jews used to do that sort of thing to those that were non-Jewish.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_10c9.htm
Not all murders are forbidden. Hebrew Scriptures specify many grounds for which this commandment is to be ignored, and a guilty party executed. Persons found guilty of temple prostitution, engaged women who are seduced by a man other than her future husband, women who practice black magic, some women who are raped in urban areas, children who cursed their parents, some non-virgin brides, Jews who collect firewood on Saturday to keep their families from freezing, persons proselytizing in favor of another religion, persons worshiping a deity other than Yahweh, strangers who entered the temple, etc; all were to be executed.
8. Don't steal - Taxation is theft, currency inflation is theft
Um, I don't know the folks that you run into. I remember the don't steal, but nothing about taxation or inflation. I think that is a group that wants to stop those practices by labeling them as theft and getting other average folk Christains to go along with it. (It'd work in some areas.)
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_10c9.htm
"...this Commandment has been interpreted to refer to only one kind of theft; namely, to someone who kidnaps a person, forces him or her to work for him, and then sells him or her into slavery. This, like the previous prohibitions mentioned in the verse, murder and adultery, is a Capital Crime; that is, punishable by the death-penalty." 2 Since slavery has now been abolished in North America, this commandment is no longer applicable.
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In modern times, the commandment is interpreted to mean the stealing of any piece of property. This is not directly related to its original meaning.
10. Don't be jealous or control what isn't yours - Zoning laws are wrong, business regulations are
wrong, slavery is wrong (the draft)
What wierd Christian branch is this one from? I recall a don't envy what others have that you don't. Nothing else is mentioned though. This a good for a lord to instruct his serfs to believe in. Think about it don't wish that you could have anything that your lord has. Makes perfect sense.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_10c9.htm
"Covet" is a word that is gradually going out of usage. One set of definitions of the word is:
1. To wish for enviously.
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Why can't there be more Christians like you?
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Well, if you really, really want to know a large chunck of those that attend a Christian church don't give a crap about the doctrine that has been pounded into their head since they were little. They can't stop going because that would be "wrong" some how. It's hey I was forced to listen to this stuff every Wednesday and Sun, and now my kids are too, even if they don't want to.
There is nothing worse than Christain peer pressure. I went to a public junior high and high school in Arkansas. I wanted to do extreme bodily harm to all the adults that would say "Schools are going down hill now that they've taken God/Ten commandents out of school." I said BS then and worse now. I couldn't go a week without being "witnessed" to in one class or another. God help you if you ever let them know that you don't personally believe in their religion.
Personnally, I'm against the Christain God for one little thing. Well, the central theme of that religion was that 1. a perfect individual was born lived a life and "wrongfully" died so that every one else could go to heaven.
I'm sorry, but the God that I believe in doesn't like the concept of killing humans for his glory or any other reason some exception is made for war though. I don't care if I have to invent an abstract God that only I believe in; I personally hate the basic concepts behind Christianity. Oh, and number 2. That the first perfect guy lived at all. I have serious issues with that. I don't believe that Christ was sinless. If he was, then he wasn't human.
I was brought up in that religion. Trust me. Spreading the faith in any form or fashion is what most of them do. Witnessing is what they should do. I'm not going to describe that evil verb. If you don't know what it means, consider yourself blessed by what ever personal spirits that you worship.
Some where along the line, the average folk got confused and started to believe that if we could only make everyone act like us, then we wouldn't need to witness any more. (Most of your average folk of church goers are not Christians in the true abstract sense. Its a nice little ideal, but I don't want to be a peasant that shares everything with all the other peasants and those poorer than me now or in an afterlife. Of course they are happy peasants that don't revolt and that is all that matters.)
I can't what for that revolution to come out. I'd like to pick up a gamecube and play those games for less than $20 each. The reason that I had bought a PS2 instead of GC was simple, I wanted to play all the FF games that were released on PS1 & the 1 for PS2. I picked up I think it was like 3 FF for $20 or slightly less each. To me, that was an excellent bargain. I paid $50 each for FFX, FFX2, and Kingdom Hearts. FFX and Kingdom Hearts were worth every cent. FFX2 was really worth some where between $30-$40 but heck, I got it just as it was released to I was willing to play a premium at that time.
I can't wait for these freaking new consoles to come out. I the Xbox came down enough I might even consider it. I doubt it though. I was always a die hard Nintendo follower until the PS2. (I truly believed that Sony had and excellent stragety for owning media console wars by sneaking one into every household in the giuse as a video game machine.)
Currently, with how our finances are, I could either buy a GC and the hardware all to get it going, and 3-5 games, or I could by any one of these new consoles and hope that what ever game they release is worth it. I'm not ever doing that again. I bought pilot wings for N64 back when it was one of only 3 games that you could get for the system. I'd much rather wait and rent a game to try it out and then decide to purchase it. N64 was o.k. in its time, but several games like maybe FF for N64 never showed up.
I'm taking a wait and see attiude now a days.
The underlying idea of A la carte programming seems like a good idea, and will even cost those of us who couldn't care less about sports a LOT less (disgustingly enough, the bulk of your "extended basic" cable bill goes toward subsidizing the sports channels, which cost more than premium channels like HBO and contractually force cable carriers to include them in anything beyond their most basic package).
I don't have cable. (I can't afford it.) The handful of channels that I'd like are: ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, & UPN, SCI-FI, Comedy Central, History Channel, 4 PBS channels, 5 kids toon channels, 2 anime channels, & 3 educational channels 2 aimmed at my kids and 1 aimmed more at me and my wife) for about $20 a month. (I wouldn't be opposed to packages of 3-5 channels bundled at a discount like Discovery, history and learning channel bundled together. I don't want MTV bundled with Sci-Fi & TNN just to get get the SCI-FI channel though. (I would be willing to pay for Sci-fi 1 Sci-Fi 2 and Sci-Fi 3 bundled together.)
My hearing loss has done far more to end my social life than my being a geek and/or nerd ever could.
Now, a device like this will likely make me effectively deaf. How? The hearing aids set their overall gain based on the sound level in the room, regardless of band. Thus, they will sense the loud HF sound and cut the gain way down, so, from my point of view (hearing?), the world will suddenly get really quiet.
Do not screw with what little hearing I have left.
I hate to say it, but this is a really, really good thing. Why? Because I would think that seniors would have the same problem and be even more pissed than you are. Some like me would just never ever shop there and tell the shops around the guy why, but not the guy that is doing it. Guys like you, might actually complain to the store manager or sue the guy under Americans with disabilities equal access laws.
I have high pitch hearing loss in one ear and have also had difficulty hearing conversations all my life. My office is even worse though I'm in a computer room with 3 switchs and 2 servers going behind me. The white noise that the fans generate makes conversations 6 ft away difficult for me hear. I treat it as a good reason to actually pay attention and listen. If I don't, I will not hear half the conversation at all. I never had to have hearing aids, just sitting on the front row was always enough (and it helped with being able to see as well.) Of course, kids trying to whisper to me, I couldn't hear at all. No wonder I was such a good student.
The sound is only annoying with constant exposure, and the only way someone is going to be constantly exposed is if they're loitering around outside the store. It will have no effect on people who are legitimate customers entering or leaving the store. No one, regardless of age, should be loitering outside this guy's store.
And as grandmama takes her grand kids into this guy's shop, they all start yelling and screaming after about 30 min. saying grandmama can't you hear that horrible noise? I don't know where it is coming from but it just suddenly started.
Or, as the store next do that is trying to attract this age demographic as customers, I'd be royally pissed to find that this neighbor is doing everything possible to drive away my loyal customers.
Oh, how about as just some one that lives a block away, but happens to jog around the block and passes that store a couple of time? Or a delievery driver? What is consant 30 seconds or 5 mins? What business is this guy in any way that doesn't have any teenage customers huh, selling porn, smokes, and/or liquor?
You must be new here. And by here, I mean society. It's one of the few things that not only are people still discriminated against for, it's one that no one complains about, or really even thinks about.
Ah, but we young ones, can force them old ones to early retirement. Of course, then we'd have to worry about the same thing. We could actually vote to remove the entire SS system. It would actually kill off old folks if they found out 80%-90% of the 18-30 age group voted to remove the entire system. They'd all panic and have heart attacks. Young ones (those under 18) have always been held back by being called minors and childern by anyone that is older than them. The oldest folks that should have one foot in the grave have always tried to hold society to what they thought life was like when they were young.
We really need to have all elected offices held by one those under 2 years of age. (Babies couldn't possibly do a worse job and well middle age folks wouldn't stand a chance of winning against a cute kid.
This just looks like an ultrasonic animal repeller to me.
/. Oh, heck. My wife and I bought 3-4 of these when we were living out in the country in Arkansas. (I couldn't really tell that they were keeping any insects way but it was a good tech. symbol to believe in.) Well, warnings of these things was in very big and bold letters do not use if you have a pace maker or have guests that may have a pace maker. This device may disrupt the function of a pace maker causing death. These things were fun to listen to. It sounded like a very small click every now and again. I got a small glimmer of happiness thinking that bugs ought to be driven of by that ultrasonic noise. Of course, I always wondered about the pace maker thing...
Um, I don't know if I should be mentioning this on
Only he optimized his stereo for treble rather than bass.
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And this guy is far more likely to get fined by your local police because most of those car noise ord. have something stating if the car audio is clearly audible at X amount of feet. A thumping bass truck, you can't hear the lyrics instead or a few feet from the car, any car that has treble optimized than you should be able to hear that a good long distance away, which means that you ought to warn your friend that he should tune into what ever his local cops like to hear.
You're probably thinking of "Lois and Clark". I highly doubt college girls would tune in to see two guys in the early 1800's map out the Louisana Purchase.
If that link of yours shows their picture, you are right! Now, with the right two male leads with alot of running around, swimming, and hiking in various states of undress, it'd sell. Heck, that's the main reason Survior ever really made it. If you really wanted to be evil, you could do a survior parody where random traveling companions get killed by wild life, natives, or each other along the way.
He's talking about Gamecube games, the Revolution is supposed to be fully backward compatible with the Gamecube. I. E. you can put a Gamecube disk in a revolution and it will work.
This is not a big deal (certainly not as big as PS2 playing PS1 gaems) but it is a minor selling point.
Not a big deal? Are you kidding? I wouldn't have bought the PS2 without the ability to play PS1 games & DVDs for the price. I'd have gotten a PS1 and a GameCube. There are alot of fun GC games that I'd like to actually buy and play. I'm not really that interested in buying a GC because the Revolution is about to come out. I am interested in playing games for both systems. I predict by the time that the Revolution is mid way through its life span that we'll see a new game boy system that is a game cube reduced down to portable size. I truely think that's why Nintendo is really doing it.
So when he was offered the chance to direct Superman, he told us that it came with so much extra baggage that he couldn't make it the way he wanted to at the same time as keeping corporate partners happy. But he felt it was his own fault, partially, caused by his Batman movie's success back in '89.
What ever happened to that guy that played in Louis and Clark? I know for a fact that college girls watched that show more for him than anything. They should have just used that guy, and had some funny scene of him changing and being half naked for the girls. It'd would sell like crazy.
Problem is, once you're that powerful, why be a villian anyway? You can already do whatever you want. Anyone worth Superman's effort to be fighting should be busy running for Congress anyway. Everyone knows that's where you go if you want to be able to do some real damage...
Um, they don't need to run for Congress, they'd either "own" congress or pull the proper strings within the government to have their own little shadow government going. They'd have very small laws passed making it legal. Then they'd make a small law that requires "super" humans to have a GPS reciever on them to track. Anyone without it, would be a criminal. Tada. Superman would be the government's number 1 most wanted criminal because he failed to register. Or if he did, it would make headlines.
Just give them lots of flash, explosions, and the occasional breast and all is good.
I don't want just the occasional breast. I'd like some nice attractive female butt & leg shots also. I'd like some actual or more realistic sex scenes. (It'd only take 1-5 minutes and wouldn't be that good anyway.) Most of us like to see things blowing up. Esp, bosses, politicans, and anyone working in management or the IRS.
Now, granted, consoles may not necessarily become the final media player in your living room, but if they're the ones that make it, quixotically, it seems like XBox is the most open way towards that for now.
O.k. If you define "open" as in its the easiest machine to hack, you'll most likely be right. I'd say 95%-98% of the target market of all 3 consoles defines "open" as backwards compatiable and able to play DVDs, CDs, and maybe MP3s. In that reguard, Nintendo & Sony are both "open", but MS are "closed." No consumer expects to play a Nintendo game on a MS console or a Sony game on a Nintendo, but we are starting to expect to be able to keep on playing our Sony games on our Sony consoles. Nintendo has promised that feature and it is the one big one that will most likly win it a purchase rather than MS. I'm getting a PS3 because I have PS1, & PS2 games that I'd like to continue playing.
It is precisely your unwillingness to confront the asshole who cut in front of you in line that allows him to continue cutting in front of people in line. Some people have no sense of common decency, and must have those kinds of things pointed out to them, sometimes forcefully.
Yes, but society in general doesn't think that I should beat to death the person that cuts in front of me no matter how much I personnal would like that stranger's behavior changed.
Fuck the records. Fuck the movies. CRAZY. When I was a kid, they used to seperate the crazy kids from everybody, When I wa a kid, the crazy kids went to school in a little-ass yellow bus and had classes at the end of the school and they used to get out of school at 1 PM just in case they went crazy that way they would only hurt the other crazy kids."
Um, so now we'll have a mini-prison system inside our school system for anyone deemed potentially troublesome? Those kids weren't "crazy." They were supposed to be learning disabled or mentally retarded. That's not crazy that's "slow." A "slow" individual should still know the difference between right and wrong and not breaking the rules as set down by their teachers and parents. I've never looked into the school shooting cases because I didn't care about them. They were just used as an excuse to make public schools more prison like. That was my perception at the time as a student, and, now as a parent with kids going to elementary public school, I believe it even more.
We should just build more freaking prison/schools for those don't follow any rules. If you don't follow school rules, you'll be assumed to break laws so we'll just lock you up now as a preventive measure. After years of forcible re-education, you may be released as a productive member of society.
After I played GTA (can't remember which one) at a friend's house for a couple of hours, I found myself thinking about ramming into other vehicles and stealing their cars. I'm really not joking. Of course, I also once pointed at a cop checking for speeders during my Quake years and yelling audibly, "Look at that camper!!!" Again, I'm really not joking.
While I neither rammed other people's cars nor pulled out a rocket launcher to teach the cop a lesson, I certainly KNOW that games can bleed into reality and if the person is just messed up enough in the head already, I don't doubt they could live out the game.
You need to chill a bit after playing games. I remember my first night of playing Doom II at a friends house. I must have jumped out of that chair atleast a dozen times that night. Did I think zombies or demons were going to come and get me? Nope. It was mainly something popping right out from a corner or the loud audio sych with the video of the demon shooting at me that usually got me. (Plus I'm really bad at those games.) I want to ram other people's cars all the time. Esp, waiting at gas stations. What keeps me from it? Hmm, I think damn my insurance wouldn't cover that and I'd likly go to jail. I'll just put up with it. Heck, there are times that I'd like grab the guy that had just cut infront of me at the gas station and beat them to death. Then, I think, but I'd have to get out of my safe car or act like a crazy idiot banging on some stranger's car window, and then I'd likely get stuck in jail. Yeap, thoughts of going to jail have keep random strangers safe from my thoughts of doing them extreme bodily harm.
At a certain price, a fan will see the value of safety and quality (versus thepiratebay) diminish quickly. My household spends $10,000 per year for music, but lately it is mostly shows. Our church mostly dumped our band and now invites various Christian rock bands to play (many of them are actually amazing). The market is completely crazy, and as Faith + 1 fans know, religious rock has always been a money maker, and even those bands are MP3-driven.
Dude, if I could afforde $10,000 a year for music, I might actually buy some! My household just listens to the radio. We, um, tape off air radio for personal use... to listen to the same song more than once. We might spend $100-$200 year on DVDs, but $10,000 on music damn that's 1/3 of my income!
I think the mice that had some fear would be more immortal than the mice that were fearless. Now, the fearless solider mice are the ones that you'd want to send biting lions and tigers to death while most of your immortal peasant mice run way because they are scared.
Where we can get fearless, immortal, FLYING mice, then I'll be excited.
Especially if they can also sing "Here I come to save the day."
Hey, we just need to splice in some bat DNA and we can have vampire, flying fearless, immortal mice.
With "people address", there are three problems. First, no way to generalize routing rules. Secondly, there is the fact that all your stuff might not be in the same place. Most of it is at your house, but some of it is at the vacation home. Finally, there is the problem that people, unlike IP4 address, tend to move arround alot, geographically speaking. Usually, if you move from New York to LA, you get a different IP, even if you use the same national ISP. Under your scheme, the whole internet would have to be told to redirect your trafic. Yick.
You've missed the tin foil hat consipary theory. Assigning an IP address to all newly minted currency along with some RFID and GPS. Instantly, the MAN and your neighbor could ping all your money! The IRS would know exactly how much cash that you have stuffed under your bed!
Did he put Hi-Jackers and side pipes on the Enterprise?
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What do you think those big round things in the back were? He was always having Scotty rig up the Enterprise to go faster. If that isn't a hitech military redneck, I don't know what is. And don't forget he had a shoot or bed it first policy. The only aliens he talked to were those that he was trying to bed. That character must have had issues.