Canada, for instance, has a parliamentry democracy that is very different from the US. The US is one of the few representative republics in the world.
and your FAITH in the fact that the US gov. doesnt hide things from congress during times of "peace" (we have been at war for the last 60 years: WWII, cold war, gulf war, war on poverty, war on drugs and war on terrorism) is rather silly. How could Congress become "cranky" if they DONT KNOW ABOUT IT? The only thing Congress can do is manipulate domestic policy: taxes, judges, health care, etc. etc. matters of "security" and foreign policy dont need Congress. The US was WAGED WAR without congress.
Finally, you cleary hold as a matter of faith that security and peace are best when they are enforced. This is a long standing American myth as old as Ulysses S. Grant and is reflected in the gun laws and American foreing policy since Roosevelt.
I can understand keeping military operations secret, but the development of the most powerful technology to grace the earth? Using taxpayers money?
i think you missed the point. Its not the bomb per se, its the ability of the government to do this anytime it pleases. If it can hide an operation this ENOURMOUS, then it can do pretty much as it pleases on any issue without a second thought of the people. Thats a big loophole, and it shows that democracy (ie elections by the people) does not equate to free and open government. Congress is merely an illusion and the government doesnt need it to do anything, including spend your money to kill people.
For me, the bomb is a really good case on the illegitamcy of democracy or at least the need to fix it up.
6 years 43,000 Employees 2.2 billion dollars in a time of war 7 installations operations in 19 states, including Canada the multinational marshalling of expertise
All this was hidden from congress, the vice president, and many other high ranking gov. officials. It was strictly censored from the media as well.
Once invented, the same companies that produced televisions were hired to manufactured the bomb for the government. I mean RCA, NBC, and General Electric.
Of the 85,000 feet of film shot in Japan depicting the massive chaos and suffering the bomb inflicted, ZERO made it onto television because of a STRICT GOVERNMENT PRESS BAN until the 1980s.
Production companies prefered to depict test explosions, especially at the beautiful Bikini Atoll (now non-existant).
How can we make any claim that we live in a democracy?
which means I recieved 1 for it being attributed to a writer (as opposed to its being annonymos) and 4 votes of +1: one for informative and 3 for insightful yet me score reads: 70% Insightful 30% Informative That is mathematically incorrect.
I know round numbers are nice, but realllllly.. have some respect for the faculty that gave birth to every modern invention known to man.
ummm, dont you think that if someone found, "an infallible way to predict before development starts which potential projects will be the best sellers" they would want to charge MORE? Companies like MORE money, you know.
Well I think there is something to this, however I have read a lot of studies that indicate piracy does not detract from corporate profits whatsoever. In fact it makes them grow because the ability for users to hear an artist inspires them to support them (at least they think they are by buying the CD). Piracy promotes numerous smaller artists.
The proof is in the pudding: Sony is one of the world's largest producers of music, and is one of the largest manufacturers of CD copying/producing hardware. This would be a conflict of interest if cd copying had any effect on sales.
My theory is that if companies can sell to the politicians the idea that they are losing money on CDs (which they do by donating large sums of money to their campaigns), then they can get laws passed like say, oh I dont know, levies on the sale of blank CDs, CD copying software, and MP3 players. In Canada these levies (at the bare minimum) double the price of the purchase.
you cant be serious. CNN is operated by those who made the DMCA and those who benefit from its being enforced. CNN has government "interns" working with the story-writers. CNN would never inspire popular debate on a topic that perfectly suits their interests and will go unchallenged as long as it remains out of mainstream media.
EA has a profit strategy: buy up well known brands or borrow logos. Thus you get them acquiring or using, Command and Conquer The Sims NFL/NBA/NHL They make HUGE profits, and largely by having abyssmal customer service and no maintainence of their games. I have been playing Red Alert 2 for a while now and it is absolutely hilarious. The entire online gaming environment has been hacked and it has been like this for months. The enivornment uses IRC to handle its chat and game rooms and people have got in and are now advertising stuff such as the www.fuckea.com website. Since EA pays NO ATTENTION to its games or users this isnt changing, nor will it ever soon. Thus I recommend you stay away from EA products, and check your games to make sure that the company you thinking you're buying from hasnt been recently acquired.
EA doesnt care
on
Sim-Dud?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Sure we can attribute the Sims' decline to the pay-for-play model or the lack of any moderation in a game played largely by teens, but I think there is a greater, overarching reason for this:
EA simply doesnt care about their customers, and they have no interest in maintaining the loyalty of them.
Anyone who has ever played one of their games knows this. They destroy every multiplayer enviroment by allowing cheats to be used, thus ruining the integrity and playability of their games. They refuse to do anything about cheats, thus cheating paying customers out of money. They outright refuse to help customers who have problems with their software. Many of their gaming environments have been taken over by hackers to which they REFUSE TO RESPOND! (In fact when logging on to multiplayer Red Alert one is met with a hacked ad for the site www.fuckea.com, set up by disgruntled players). They have discontinued the Westwood branch of their corporation in order stop maintainence of their games. Basically they simply refuse to help their paying customers enjoy their game, and in some cases ruin it for them.
I'm not surprised TSO failed, not am I that they used false advertising tactics in order to sell the game (apparently some features such as running a business or a casino are not available to users, yet this is advertised on the game box). This Christmas cash grab just goes on to prove to me how poor the company is, and I for one will not be supporting them at all in the future.
I demand morals and integrity from people, so why should I expect any less from a group of people?
Who do you think is the largest exporter of oil to the United States? Its not who you think it is. most people would say Saudi, Iran or Kuwait. WRONG. The largest exporter of oil to the United States is Mexico. Followed by Columbia and Venezuala. Ever heard of the FTAA? Wonder why the Americans seem to want it more than anyone else? Oh and lets look down the list to.. NUMBER SIX- IRAQ. Isnt that funny? And who is doing the importing of oil from Iraq? a little company called Haliburtant, chaired by our honourable friend Dick Chaney. Is anyone else finding this odd?
look it up. http://www.google.com and while you're at it, look up the Carlyle Group.
EDUCATE YOURSELF. Sometimes what you dont know is staring at you right in the face, you've just been traind not to look.
I leave you with this: We all know why the US went to war with Iraq. They've told us quite often, because Iraq invaded Kuwait. But why did Iraq invade Kuwait? look it up. It might surprise you.
You are a real moron. What you wrote here is stupid drivel.
I would sit here and write out why everything you have said is drivel, but I dont think anybody is going to have a problem figuring it out for themselves.
Dont you know? CmdrTaco is above us. As a writer of stories he occupies a position where direct interaction with us rabble would be considered surly and undignified. He built this site, he doesnt have to use it properly!!!
With your newfound knowledge of this review being a spoof, everyone should go back and read those comments that were deemed "insightful" and whatnot and do their own personal mod of the score of the literary intellect of slashdot posters/modders.
wow. I was seriously distrubed after reading this review. It is written so poorly it doesnt even begin to pass for a "review". The director's name is constantly misspelled, the attacks on the actors are uncalledfor (he doesnt even mention their names), the metaphors are simply annoying and rendundant, the constant impatient statements stilts the writing and breaks any flow it might have had, etc. etc.
Fortunatly, the review is a spoof. And all those people who posted things about this movie being old should now feel mighty stupid, ESPECIALLY those people that modded those comments up!
I so had this idea WAY before he did!! back before the xbox and gamecube even came out! I even sent a letter to commander taco telling him how cool of an idea it is.
Appeal to ignorance: claiming that he purports only and nothing but the truth. claiming that he states challengable facts. Observational selection: not telling us which or how many catagories he is NOT fitting into. Not telling us HOW WELL he fits the paradigm.
Wow! I'm pretty shocked at this post. Its really really old news. Its been around for about 6-9 months. I even have the Mountain Equipment Co-op catalogue from like 4 months ago with it in it.
These patents are not "inventions" in the conventional sense. These are functions that are inevitably going to be discovered. It is comparable to someone trying to patent the plus operator or the minus operator when they were discovered. These patents are not an assembly of discoveries (such as math or engineering) to create a tool (such the vacuum) they are simply discoveries. They will be taught in school one day. I find it hard to disgusting that a company will go so far as to say an idea is their own property. It is a bane on humankind and holds back progress.
That is exactly what I was thinking. These are not "inventions" in the conventional sense. These are mathematical functions that are inevitably going to be discovered. It is comparable to someone trying to patent the plus operator or the minus operator when they were discovered.
These patents are not an assembly of discoveries (such as math or engineering) to create an invention (such the vacuum) they are simply discoveries.
You are an ignoramous. How can you make such grotesque presumptions about marijuana users.
First of all, pot cannot kill you at all in the same way alchohol can. Alchohol poisens the body to a painful death. Marijuana simply does not. No you cannot "chock" to death on a room full of pot smoke, that, simply, is impossible. It is not a stretch, it is a stupid thing to say, and one that you obviously did not think about.
How can you make an assumption like "the little euphoria you feel and you fall down the stairs"(sic) if you have never experienced that euphoria. How can you make a comparision between marijuana and alchohol if you openly admit you have never tried either. That is ignorant idiocy. Lets look at past history, (looking at past history) oh wow! look at this! No one has died EVER from marijuana in its 8000 years of usage (which by the way is as old as farming give or take 2000 years (well, give actually)) let alone, in some moment af absolute insanity, fall out the 18th story window.. WHAT?!?! When has this EVER happened let alone to someone smoking marijuana.
Anyways, point being, you admit to knowing nothing on the topic, except you make aggrevating assumptions. I cant believe someone going to university still things like this.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you think I pulled this facts out of the air? No, they are from books. History books. Books that I read to reaserch my history thesis.
They cam from:
Nelson, Joyce, The Perfect Machine. Toronto : Between the Lines, 1987.
Canada, for instance, has a parliamentry democracy that is very different from the US. The US is one of the few representative republics in the world.
and your FAITH in the fact that the US gov. doesnt hide things from congress during times of "peace" (we have been at war for the last 60 years: WWII, cold war, gulf war, war on poverty, war on drugs and war on terrorism) is rather silly. How could Congress become "cranky" if they DONT KNOW ABOUT IT? The only thing Congress can do is manipulate domestic policy: taxes, judges, health care, etc. etc. matters of "security" and foreign policy dont need Congress. The US was WAGED WAR without congress.
Finally, you cleary hold as a matter of faith that security and peace are best when they are enforced. This is a long standing American myth as old as Ulysses S. Grant and is reflected in the gun laws and American foreing policy since Roosevelt.
I can understand keeping military operations secret, but the development of the most powerful technology to grace the earth? Using taxpayers money?
i think you missed the point. Its not the bomb per se, its the ability of the government to do this anytime it pleases. If it can hide an operation this ENOURMOUS, then it can do pretty much as it pleases on any issue without a second thought of the people. Thats a big loophole, and it shows that democracy (ie elections by the people) does not equate to free and open government. Congress is merely an illusion and the government doesnt need it to do anything, including spend your money to kill people.
For me, the bomb is a really good case on the illegitamcy of democracy or at least the need to fix it up.
6 years
43,000 Employees
2.2 billion dollars in a time of war
7 installations
operations in 19 states, including Canada
the multinational marshalling of expertise
All this was hidden from congress, the vice president, and many other high ranking gov. officials. It was strictly censored from the media as well.
Once invented, the same companies that produced televisions were hired to manufactured the bomb for the government. I mean RCA, NBC, and General Electric.
Of the 85,000 feet of film shot in Japan depicting the massive chaos and suffering the bomb inflicted, ZERO made it onto television because of a STRICT GOVERNMENT PRESS BAN until the 1980s.
Production companies prefered to depict test explosions, especially at the beautiful Bikini Atoll (now non-existant).
How can we make any claim that we live in a democracy?
Ok I recieved a score of 5 on this post.
which means I recieved 1 for it being attributed to a writer (as opposed to its being annonymos) and 4 votes of +1: one for informative and 3 for insightful
yet me score reads:
70% Insightful
30% Informative
That is mathematically incorrect.
I know round numbers are nice, but realllllly.. have some respect for the faculty that gave birth to every modern invention known to man.
ummm, dont you think that if someone found, "an infallible way to predict before development starts which potential projects will be the best sellers" they would want to charge MORE?
Companies like MORE money, you know.
Well I think there is something to this, however I have read a lot of studies that indicate piracy does not detract from corporate profits whatsoever. In fact it makes them grow because the ability for users to hear an artist inspires them to support them (at least they think they are by buying the CD). Piracy promotes numerous smaller artists.
The proof is in the pudding:
Sony is one of the world's largest producers of music, and is one of the largest manufacturers of CD copying/producing hardware. This would be a conflict of interest if cd copying had any effect on sales.
My theory is that if companies can sell to the politicians the idea that they are losing money on CDs (which they do by donating large sums of money to their campaigns), then they can get laws passed like say, oh I dont know, levies on the sale of blank CDs, CD copying software, and MP3 players. In Canada these levies (at the bare minimum) double the price of the purchase.
you cant be serious.
CNN is operated by those who made the DMCA and those who benefit from its being enforced. CNN has government "interns" working with the story-writers. CNN would never inspire popular debate on a topic that perfectly suits their interests and will go unchallenged as long as it remains out of mainstream media.
MAXIS doesnt run The Sims, MAXIS got bought.
EA has a profit strategy: buy up well known brands or borrow logos. Thus you get them acquiring or using,
Command and Conquer
The Sims
NFL/NBA/NHL
They make HUGE profits, and largely by having abyssmal customer service and no maintainence of their games. I have been playing Red Alert 2 for a while now and it is absolutely hilarious. The entire online gaming environment has been hacked and it has been like this for months. The enivornment uses IRC to handle its chat and game rooms and people have got in and are now advertising stuff such as the www.fuckea.com website. Since EA pays NO ATTENTION to its games or users this isnt changing, nor will it ever soon. Thus I recommend you stay away from EA products, and check your games to make sure that the company you thinking you're buying from hasnt been recently acquired.
Sure we can attribute the Sims' decline to the pay-for-play model or the lack of any moderation in a game played largely by teens, but I think there is a greater, overarching reason for this:
EA simply doesnt care about their customers, and they have no interest in maintaining the loyalty of them.
Anyone who has ever played one of their games knows this. They destroy every multiplayer enviroment by allowing cheats to be used, thus ruining the integrity and playability of their games. They refuse to do anything about cheats, thus cheating paying customers out of money. They outright refuse to help customers who have problems with their software. Many of their gaming environments have been taken over by hackers to which they REFUSE TO RESPOND! (In fact when logging on to multiplayer Red Alert one is met with a hacked ad for the site www.fuckea.com, set up by disgruntled players). They have discontinued the Westwood branch of their corporation in order stop maintainence of their games. Basically they simply refuse to help their paying customers enjoy their game, and in some cases ruin it for them.
I'm not surprised TSO failed, not am I that they used false advertising tactics in order to sell the game (apparently some features such as running a business or a casino are not available to users, yet this is advertised on the game box). This Christmas cash grab just goes on to prove to me how poor the company is, and I for one will not be supporting them at all in the future.
I demand morals and integrity from people, so why should I expect any less from a group of people?
Who do you think is the largest exporter of oil to the United States?
Its not who you think it is.
most people would say Saudi, Iran or Kuwait.
WRONG.
The largest exporter of oil to the United States is Mexico. Followed by Columbia and Venezuala. Ever heard of the FTAA? Wonder why the Americans seem to want it more than anyone else?
Oh and lets look down the list to.. NUMBER SIX- IRAQ. Isnt that funny? And who is doing the importing of oil from Iraq? a little company called Haliburtant, chaired by our honourable friend Dick Chaney.
Is anyone else finding this odd?
look it up. http://www.google.com
and while you're at it, look up the Carlyle Group.
EDUCATE YOURSELF. Sometimes what you dont know is staring at you right in the face, you've just been traind not to look.
I leave you with this:
We all know why the US went to war with Iraq. They've told us quite often, because Iraq invaded Kuwait.
But why did Iraq invade Kuwait?
look it up. It might surprise you.
You are a real moron. What you wrote here is stupid drivel.
I would sit here and write out why everything you have said is drivel, but I dont think anybody is going to have a problem figuring it out for themselves.
Dont you know? CmdrTaco is above us. As a writer of stories he occupies a position where direct interaction with us rabble would be considered surly and undignified. He built this site, he doesnt have to use it properly!!!
or something.....
With your newfound knowledge of this review being a spoof, everyone should go back and read those comments that were deemed "insightful" and whatnot and do their own personal mod of the score of the literary intellect of slashdot posters/modders.
wow. I was seriously distrubed after reading this review. It is written so poorly it doesnt even begin to pass for a "review". The director's name is constantly misspelled, the attacks on the actors are uncalledfor (he doesnt even mention their names), the metaphors are simply annoying and rendundant, the constant impatient statements stilts the writing and breaks any flow it might have had, etc. etc.
Fortunatly, the review is a spoof. And all those people who posted things about this movie being old should now feel mighty stupid, ESPECIALLY those people that modded those comments up!
Well Europe is by its very nature extremely sensitive to race and culutre.
.... not so much. =)
America, on the other hand,
I so had this idea WAY before he did!! back before the xbox and gamecube even came out! I even sent a letter to commander taco telling him how cool of an idea it is.
Well lets do a little baloney detection on you:
Appeal to ignorance: claiming that he purports only and nothing but the truth. claiming that he states challengable facts.
Observational selection: not telling us which or how many catagories he is NOT fitting into. Not telling us HOW WELL he fits the paradigm.
Yes its the FP
but seriously, with a name like Loki u have to expect a few mishaps and tricks. Its creating you're own desitiny!
Wow! I'm pretty shocked at this post. Its really really old news. Its been around for about 6-9 months. I even have the Mountain Equipment Co-op catalogue from like 4 months ago with it in it.
whats up with that?
Play BRE here: games.swirve.com its called Earth 2050 but its almost exactly like BRE
These patents are not "inventions" in the conventional sense. These are functions that are inevitably going to be discovered. It is comparable to someone trying to patent the plus operator or the minus operator when they were discovered. These patents are not an assembly of discoveries (such as math or engineering) to create a tool (such the vacuum) they are simply discoveries. They will be taught in school one day. I find it hard to disgusting that a company will go so far as to say an idea is their own property. It is a bane on humankind and holds back progress.
That is exactly what I was thinking. These are not "inventions" in the conventional sense. These are mathematical functions that are inevitably going to be discovered. It is comparable to someone trying to patent the plus operator or the minus operator when they were discovered. These patents are not an assembly of discoveries (such as math or engineering) to create an invention (such the vacuum) they are simply discoveries.
You are an ignoramous. How can you make such grotesque presumptions about marijuana users. First of all, pot cannot kill you at all in the same way alchohol can. Alchohol poisens the body to a painful death. Marijuana simply does not. No you cannot "chock" to death on a room full of pot smoke, that, simply, is impossible. It is not a stretch, it is a stupid thing to say, and one that you obviously did not think about. How can you make an assumption like "the little euphoria you feel and you fall down the stairs"(sic) if you have never experienced that euphoria. How can you make a comparision between marijuana and alchohol if you openly admit you have never tried either. That is ignorant idiocy. Lets look at past history, (looking at past history) oh wow! look at this! No one has died EVER from marijuana in its 8000 years of usage (which by the way is as old as farming give or take 2000 years (well, give actually)) let alone, in some moment af absolute insanity, fall out the 18th story window.. WHAT?!?! When has this EVER happened let alone to someone smoking marijuana. Anyways, point being, you admit to knowing nothing on the topic, except you make aggrevating assumptions. I cant believe someone going to university still things like this.