I meant the argument doesn't get very far in the real world debate because the people you are debating with have these views against birth control as well, not that it is logically flawed in any way.
Sure, but the same people who are the biggest advocates against abortion also tend to be the ones that seek to limit access to birth control, so that argument doesn't get very far either.
Dammit, and I've been stockpiling dead babies for years waiting for the government to finally start funding embryonic stem cell research. I've got a whole garage full of them, what am I supposed to do now?
Except the attendees at a games expo (especially one hosted by the guys who write a comic that has been merciless in their criticism of Jack Thompson) are going to be overwhelmingly and passionately against Jack Thompson anyway.
PA wanted to get Jack Thompson in front of their crowd so they could knock him down and make themselves look like heroes in front of their adoring fans. The correct action for Thompson to take would have been to either privately (and politely) turn down the request, or simply ignore it. However, Thompson is apparently not capable of doing anything privately, so he turns them down publicly, hence giving them exactly the publicity he criticizes them for seeking.
The debate was a trap, Thompson was right about that, but the way he handled it was just stupid.
Maybe now someone will finally download (or, dare I say, contribute?) to my sourceforge project. It's an Open Source nuclear submarine guidance system forked from an early beta of GAIM. Still in alpha, and right now it's got a little bit of a bug where if you try to get the sub to surface it will occasionally launch all of its missiles, but it's still pretty usable.
Catching the consumers is easier. Catching a producer takes a lot more effort because you're usually dealing with people that are adept at avoiding being caught. However, you can catch a few consumers, splash it on the front page, and people think you're actually solving the problem. See also: drugs, child pornography.
1.) Dell does not have the tools or expertise in house to do this yet, but will in the future. So, they got pressured into releasing their Linux PCs before they were ready to support them. Incompetence maybe, but not malice.
2.) Dell simply put out Linux PCs to shut the geek crowd up and get them to buy Dells. However, they don't really want to support Linux, so they designed the program to fail. This way, when they cancel this offering in a year or two due to poor sales, they can say they tried, but Linux on the desktop just doesn't work.
I want to believe it's reason 1, but the added fact that Dell doesn't seem to be advertising this thing at all, and the fact that you actually have to jump through some hoops on the website to even see that the option is available, makes me think that reason 2 isn't entirely impossible either.
The only way they could claim ignorance at this point is by making a concerted effort to maintain said ignorance by ignoring any of the multitude of reports out there that contradict them. Going to that much effort to remain ignorant in order to avoid changing your opinion is evil in itself.
Vimacs is an affront to God...using it may very well bring about the Apocalypse. It's like what would happen if God came down to hang out with you for a while and you stole his wallet or coveted his ass or something: bad things are going to happen.
Ideally, you would have the same movie at the same price on both formats if you wanted to do a direct compare. Hell, if you wanted demographic data you could do that with several movies that each appeal to a different demographic. But, since exclusivity is the name of the game these days, that's not likely to happen for a while.
Sure, they may have planned the series to be exactly that long, but I doubt it. After all, these great creative visions tend to go out the window when the money starts rolling in. Any series with a planned timeline will have that timeline stretched with all sorts of filler if the show is popular enough. They start talking up the timeline again when the ratings slip.
The best recent example of this is Lost. That is another show that supposedly had the entire plot (beginning, middle, end) mapped out from the beginning. However, the show became a huge hit, and everything got stretched out to where a large chunk of the episodes are basically filler that doesn't actually move the story forward at all. Now that ratings are declining, they've put an end date on it. However, had the ratings not slipped, I guarantee they would not be talking about end dates now. In my opinion, the show has dragged on at least a season and a half longer than it should have, and it still have 3 more years to go.
Even if you're right, and I don't think you are, this law is still unconstitutional because the New York State Constitution, Article I, Section 8, prohibits passing laws abridging the freedom of speech:
Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
In my first job, we had a 250 MB rack mounted hard drive. In those days, a head crash was almost like a car crash in terms of violence and noise. These days, of course, head crashes are much less violent, but certainly still exist.
I'm going to be brutally honest here, and I may get nailed for it, but here it goes:
The primary reason I don't use Opera is because you goddamn zealots turn me off of it.
Seriously people, every single story we see about any sort of anything that even vaguely relates to web browsers, you can bank on several comments that basically just say "Use Opera!"
It used to be the same with Linux stories and Gentoo. These days, it's rapidly becoming Linux stories and Ubuntu. Opera zealotry, however, has shown remarkable staying power.
I do not like seeing the same parroted shit about how your browser is so superior to every other browser. Yes, Opera has nice features, and yes Opera was the first to offer tabbed browsing. I get it, really I do. However, this endless stream of posts parroting the same crap about Opera in EVERY SINGLE STORY even tangentially related to web browsers is a huge turn off. Okay, so Opera has awesome mouse gesture support. Guess what? I don't give a tin shit about mouse gestures. Load times? Firefox takes an average of about 2 seconds on a non-loaded machines to start up, I don't care if your load times are any faster. Better granular control over every aspect of stylesheets? I don't care! I want to browse the web, not customize every webpage I see.
I get that your browser is nice. I don't need to hear about it every time any other browser is mentioned. Give it a fucking rest already.
Why do you need an ethernet port when it has wireless built in? You can get a wireless access point these days for like 20 bucks, maybe even less if you are okay with 802.11b. An Ethernet port just takes up valuable real estate.
I could see a DVD player if they could fit it in while keeping the form factor as small as it is. I love that the Wii is so small and unobtrusive...I don't know if I'd like it nearly as much if it were as big and bulky as my XBox.
For HD, I think you're right that they'll probably be forced into it sooner or later. It's getting to the point where stores are carrying fewer SD TVs, and the HD TVs are getting much lower in price. Hell, I might even buy one myself in one or two years.
I got a Wii because my wife called the Gamestop down the street and they told her when their next shipment would be coming in, so she went there and waited an hour for the UPS truck.
Personally, I loved Super Paper Mario. Wii Sports is okay, but does get a little old after a while. I do still pick it up occasionally to play tennis though. Once you figure out how to hit home runs consistently, Baseball is really boring though. We'll be picking up Mario Party 8 today, so we'll see how we like that.
To us, the parts that have gotten the most play are the Virtual Console and the Gamecube. I really like how the wireless Internet is set up, it's easy to use, and works even with my locked down access point. My wife has loved playing Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario World again.
Since we didn't have a GameCube before, the GC interface has proven to be a really big deal for us. It's nice to be able to go out and buy games for $20 or less that the kids enjoy. The only bad thing is I can't seem to find a wireless GC controller that's worth a shit. I have one from Pelican and one from MadCatz, and they both have issues.
I'm guessing probably because GoDaddy had the capacity to take them, and probably approached ICANN with a canned solution ready to go at a time when ICANN was running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to figure out what to do. Now that customers have control over their domains again, they should be able to transfer them to whatever registrar they want.
I agree. It's unfortunate that he isn't running, I think he would have a real shot. I think he would probably carry a lot of the vote that he carried in 2000, plus pick up votes from people that voted for Bush at that time and now regret it. At any rate, it would make the Democratic primary a whole lot more interesting.
Of course, his campaign would have to bar him from using the word "lockbox" at any time.
I think this guy was a friend of the reporter looking to get himself in an international news story.
2 and a half minutes into the movie he says he gets his first glimpse of the droids he ALREADY KNOWS are called C-3PO and R2-D2, but he doesn't know which is which. So obviously he's had at least some exposure to Star Wars before, even if just through pop culture references. However, I have a really hard time believing that he was able to glean the (rather cryptic) names of two droids from pop culture, but didn't know that Vader was Luke's father (he ends the article apparently still under the impression that Vader killed Luke's father). After all, what reference is more prevalent in pop culture, the droids or "Luke, I am your father"?
I think this guy knows more about the franchise, but is concealing that knowledge to make for a better story.
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I meant the argument doesn't get very far in the real world debate because the people you are debating with have these views against birth control as well, not that it is logically flawed in any way.
Sure, but the same people who are the biggest advocates against abortion also tend to be the ones that seek to limit access to birth control, so that argument doesn't get very far either.
Dammit, and I've been stockpiling dead babies for years waiting for the government to finally start funding embryonic stem cell research. I've got a whole garage full of them, what am I supposed to do now?
Except the attendees at a games expo (especially one hosted by the guys who write a comic that has been merciless in their criticism of Jack Thompson) are going to be overwhelmingly and passionately against Jack Thompson anyway.
PA wanted to get Jack Thompson in front of their crowd so they could knock him down and make themselves look like heroes in front of their adoring fans. The correct action for Thompson to take would have been to either privately (and politely) turn down the request, or simply ignore it. However, Thompson is apparently not capable of doing anything privately, so he turns them down publicly, hence giving them exactly the publicity he criticizes them for seeking.
The debate was a trap, Thompson was right about that, but the way he handled it was just stupid.
Maybe now someone will finally download (or, dare I say, contribute?) to my sourceforge project. It's an Open Source nuclear submarine guidance system forked from an early beta of GAIM. Still in alpha, and right now it's got a little bit of a bug where if you try to get the sub to surface it will occasionally launch all of its missiles, but it's still pretty usable.
Catching the consumers is easier. Catching a producer takes a lot more effort because you're usually dealing with people that are adept at avoiding being caught. However, you can catch a few consumers, splash it on the front page, and people think you're actually solving the problem. See also: drugs, child pornography.
Either:
1.) Dell does not have the tools or expertise in house to do this yet, but will in the future. So, they got pressured into releasing their Linux PCs before they were ready to support them. Incompetence maybe, but not malice.
2.) Dell simply put out Linux PCs to shut the geek crowd up and get them to buy Dells. However, they don't really want to support Linux, so they designed the program to fail. This way, when they cancel this offering in a year or two due to poor sales, they can say they tried, but Linux on the desktop just doesn't work.
I want to believe it's reason 1, but the added fact that Dell doesn't seem to be advertising this thing at all, and the fact that you actually have to jump through some hoops on the website to even see that the option is available, makes me think that reason 2 isn't entirely impossible either.
The only way they could claim ignorance at this point is by making a concerted effort to maintain said ignorance by ignoring any of the multitude of reports out there that contradict them. Going to that much effort to remain ignorant in order to avoid changing your opinion is evil in itself.
Vimacs is an affront to God...using it may very well bring about the Apocalypse. It's like what would happen if God came down to hang out with you for a while and you stole his wallet or coveted his ass or something: bad things are going to happen.
My copy is for the Nintendo 64.
Ideally, you would have the same movie at the same price on both formats if you wanted to do a direct compare. Hell, if you wanted demographic data you could do that with several movies that each appeal to a different demographic. But, since exclusivity is the name of the game these days, that's not likely to happen for a while.
Sure, they may have planned the series to be exactly that long, but I doubt it. After all, these great creative visions tend to go out the window when the money starts rolling in. Any series with a planned timeline will have that timeline stretched with all sorts of filler if the show is popular enough. They start talking up the timeline again when the ratings slip.
The best recent example of this is Lost. That is another show that supposedly had the entire plot (beginning, middle, end) mapped out from the beginning. However, the show became a huge hit, and everything got stretched out to where a large chunk of the episodes are basically filler that doesn't actually move the story forward at all. Now that ratings are declining, they've put an end date on it. However, had the ratings not slipped, I guarantee they would not be talking about end dates now. In my opinion, the show has dragged on at least a season and a half longer than it should have, and it still have 3 more years to go.
In my first job, we had a 250 MB rack mounted hard drive. In those days, a head crash was almost like a car crash in terms of violence and noise. These days, of course, head crashes are much less violent, but certainly still exist.
I'm going to be brutally honest here, and I may get nailed for it, but here it goes:
The primary reason I don't use Opera is because you goddamn zealots turn me off of it.
Seriously people, every single story we see about any sort of anything that even vaguely relates to web browsers, you can bank on several comments that basically just say "Use Opera!"
It used to be the same with Linux stories and Gentoo. These days, it's rapidly becoming Linux stories and Ubuntu. Opera zealotry, however, has shown remarkable staying power.
I do not like seeing the same parroted shit about how your browser is so superior to every other browser. Yes, Opera has nice features, and yes Opera was the first to offer tabbed browsing. I get it, really I do. However, this endless stream of posts parroting the same crap about Opera in EVERY SINGLE STORY even tangentially related to web browsers is a huge turn off. Okay, so Opera has awesome mouse gesture support. Guess what? I don't give a tin shit about mouse gestures. Load times? Firefox takes an average of about 2 seconds on a non-loaded machines to start up, I don't care if your load times are any faster. Better granular control over every aspect of stylesheets? I don't care! I want to browse the web, not customize every webpage I see.
I get that your browser is nice. I don't need to hear about it every time any other browser is mentioned. Give it a fucking rest already.
If the Internet doesn't exist to host Harry Potter slash fanfic, then what the hell is it for?
I expect a torrent of slash fanfic featuring Yahoo executives shortly.
On Soviet Slashdot, cliched in-jokes post and re-post YOU.
Why do you need an ethernet port when it has wireless built in? You can get a wireless access point these days for like 20 bucks, maybe even less if you are okay with 802.11b. An Ethernet port just takes up valuable real estate.
I could see a DVD player if they could fit it in while keeping the form factor as small as it is. I love that the Wii is so small and unobtrusive...I don't know if I'd like it nearly as much if it were as big and bulky as my XBox.
For HD, I think you're right that they'll probably be forced into it sooner or later. It's getting to the point where stores are carrying fewer SD TVs, and the HD TVs are getting much lower in price. Hell, I might even buy one myself in one or two years.
I got a Wii because my wife called the Gamestop down the street and they told her when their next shipment would be coming in, so she went there and waited an hour for the UPS truck.
Personally, I loved Super Paper Mario. Wii Sports is okay, but does get a little old after a while. I do still pick it up occasionally to play tennis though. Once you figure out how to hit home runs consistently, Baseball is really boring though. We'll be picking up Mario Party 8 today, so we'll see how we like that.
To us, the parts that have gotten the most play are the Virtual Console and the Gamecube. I really like how the wireless Internet is set up, it's easy to use, and works even with my locked down access point. My wife has loved playing Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario World again.
Since we didn't have a GameCube before, the GC interface has proven to be a really big deal for us. It's nice to be able to go out and buy games for $20 or less that the kids enjoy. The only bad thing is I can't seem to find a wireless GC controller that's worth a shit. I have one from Pelican and one from MadCatz, and they both have issues.
I'm guessing probably because GoDaddy had the capacity to take them, and probably approached ICANN with a canned solution ready to go at a time when ICANN was running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to figure out what to do. Now that customers have control over their domains again, they should be able to transfer them to whatever registrar they want.
I intend to vote for Kodos. That way, no one can blame me.
I agree. It's unfortunate that he isn't running, I think he would have a real shot. I think he would probably carry a lot of the vote that he carried in 2000, plus pick up votes from people that voted for Bush at that time and now regret it. At any rate, it would make the Democratic primary a whole lot more interesting.
Of course, his campaign would have to bar him from using the word "lockbox" at any time.
I think this guy was a friend of the reporter looking to get himself in an international news story.
2 and a half minutes into the movie he says he gets his first glimpse of the droids he ALREADY KNOWS are called C-3PO and R2-D2, but he doesn't know which is which. So obviously he's had at least some exposure to Star Wars before, even if just through pop culture references. However, I have a really hard time believing that he was able to glean the (rather cryptic) names of two droids from pop culture, but didn't know that Vader was Luke's father (he ends the article apparently still under the impression that Vader killed Luke's father). After all, what reference is more prevalent in pop culture, the droids or "Luke, I am your father"?
I think this guy knows more about the franchise, but is concealing that knowledge to make for a better story.
I agree, video games are a perfectly good cause for murdering Jack Thompson.
See? Video games breed violence! (against Jack Thompson)