Apparently Microsoft programmers did some quick cover-up
At some point, somebody had to program the censorship in. I'm surprised Microsoft would order their programmers to do so and risk them reporting it to the press.
like a bunch of 1940s-era Germans digging-up bodies and burning them to hide the evidence.
What you saw is 100% typical. Fox News really makes no effort at concealing its nature as propaganda. It's like US vs. Iranian democracy: sure, ours may be a scam as well, but at least we have the decency to pretend it's not rigged.
Anyway, to answer your question: Yes, it's watched. In fact, last I heard (this was before Bush's falling out of favor here), it was the most-watched 24-hour news channel by a significant margin, though not a majority by itself.
a decade later there are no more Mac games of any repute
Wha'? As far as I can tell, at least as many games are ported to Mac as ever, including everything Blizzard created and continues to create. With Macs more popular than they've been in a couple decades and TransGaming coming out with Cider, companies like EA are actually making simultaneous Mac/PC releases.
its developers were forced to scale back to a more restrictive Creative Commons License (still freely available, but without source code) after unscrupulous parties decided to rename the original and try to resell it for profit.
As currently constituted, Paint.net qualifies for only the âoefreeâ part of the FOSS acronym
What's seeing goatse going to do, turn them into sexual deviants? Burglars? Murderers? Liars? Will it even give them nightmares? No, it won't do any of those things. Everyone seems to accept ideas about what kinds of things harm children on faith, without worrying about how.
But you don't actually get to *be* evil. Sure, you can practice an evil speech, do an evil dance, steal candy from babies, and even become the evil overlord. But any actual evil behavior (rape, murder, torture) is conspicuously absent from the game.
"Evil" is an imaginary thing, like the devil. Evil is a fantasy motive. It's not simply doing bad things like rape, murder and torture. Evil is doing those things simply because one is "evil". The bad things may be less extreme, but that's exactly what "evil" is in the Sims 3: your sim having Wishes to do bad things because they're Evil.
His book is a warning about that - "1984" is not the utopia that Socialists hope for, but it is the end result when liberty is abandoned in pursuit of the utopian society.
As far as I know, he never gave any indication of *why* "totalitarianism" comes about instead of the socialism he advocated. Animal Farm was, as we all know, an allegory for the soviet revolution in Russia and what followed, but he didn't try to explain where the original flaw was, what should have been differently. For a socialist, he was very cynical and fatalistic.
They were willing to accept loss of liberty and loss of democracy for the greater good, even to the point of accepting the Socialism of the Soviet Union.
Two things wrong with this sentence (ignore the fact that I'm quoting you out of order). First, "for the greater good" is not generally the bogeyman for socialists, Orwell included. The loss of liberty and democracy itself is Orwell's bogeyman which is always against the "greater good". Second, it should be noted that Orwell grudgingly admitted that it would be necessary for a socialist to support the Soviet Union if it were attacked.
Your sig really is ignorant. The world in 1984 is against everything Orwell believed in and what all socialists consider socialism "gone right": democracy, equality, freedom and, yes, the "greater good" - the good of the majority against the powerful minority so loathed by Orwell.
Psychopathy and sociopathy are synonyms. I think you may be thinking of the common confusion between the terms psychopathy and psychosis (the popular term "psycho" probably having a lot to do with that confusion). Also, as far as I know, the two aren't commonly found together - and if a person *did* have both, it would probably be difficult to diagnose.
I don't know what your book is, but you should read/The Myth of the Good War/ if you want to lose that one reason you still had to feel good about your (if you live in the US) government.
I'm not a liberal, I'm just as upset about the fire bombings, and bombing civilian targets in order to send a message to their government is atrocious and never acceptable. "Pissant brinksman" out.
One of the main reasons for bashing Japan is the perceived (incorrectly IMHO) rejection by Japan of the existence of the said war crimes.
It's not so much that Japan has never admitted it committed *some* war crimes. In fact, it's not even that there are war crimes Japan still won't admit. Okay, it's *mainly* that, but it's also that Japan is constantly trying forget those admissions and begin indoctrinating school children in the glory of the Japanese empire again.
And in doing so, unequivocally saved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives
Wow, unequivocally, huh? Ignoring for a moment that the US was ignoring Japanese attempts to open a dialog for an end to the war, what does flattening cities - you know, those places civilians like to hang out in - have to do with saving lives?
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My point wasn't that C was correct, though I suppose I made it sound that way. Where, though, did you hear that you get a choice?
How do you know they don't want it pronounced "saizen"?
Because there are rules for Romanization schemes. No, you don't get a choice.
I've heard (sorry, "heared")
I'm pretty sure in Britain they spell it "heart".
I see you're a fan of the old vaudeville blackface shows.
Apparently Microsoft programmers did some quick cover-up
At some point, somebody had to program the censorship in. I'm surprised Microsoft would order their programmers to do so and risk them reporting it to the press.
like a bunch of 1940s-era Germans digging-up bodies and burning them to hide the evidence.
O_O
It's called humor. Learn to enjoy or ignore it instead of abusing on the moderation system, Slashdot.
What you saw is 100% typical. Fox News really makes no effort at concealing its nature as propaganda. It's like US vs. Iranian democracy: sure, ours may be a scam as well, but at least we have the decency to pretend it's not rigged.
Anyway, to answer your question: Yes, it's watched. In fact, last I heard (this was before Bush's falling out of favor here), it was the most-watched 24-hour news channel by a significant margin, though not a majority by itself.
I'm not about to show it to them, but I wouldn't have a heart attack if my hypothetical kids and grandkids found it.
Yeah, now that they have nothing better to do.
a decade later there are no more Mac games of any repute
Wha'? As far as I can tell, at least as many games are ported to Mac as ever, including everything Blizzard created and continues to create. With Macs more popular than they've been in a couple decades and TransGaming coming out with Cider, companies like EA are actually making simultaneous Mac/PC releases.
its developers were forced to scale back to a more restrictive Creative Commons License (still freely available, but without source code) after unscrupulous parties decided to rename the original and try to resell it for profit.
As currently constituted, Paint.net qualifies for only the âoefreeâ part of the FOSS acronym
And thus the article loses all credibility.
Who appointed Apple to be the legal guardian and nanny of iPhone users?
I'm pretty sure Apple did.
FWIW, my mom is the person I know who was the most interested in getting an iPhone.
Slippery slope is a falacy. End of discussion. /sarcasm
What's seeing goatse going to do, turn them into sexual deviants? Burglars? Murderers? Liars? Will it even give them nightmares? No, it won't do any of those things. Everyone seems to accept ideas about what kinds of things harm children on faith, without worrying about how.
But you don't actually get to *be* evil. Sure, you can practice an evil speech, do an evil dance, steal candy from babies, and even become the evil overlord. But any actual evil behavior (rape, murder, torture) is conspicuously absent from the game.
"Evil" is an imaginary thing, like the devil. Evil is a fantasy motive. It's not simply doing bad things like rape, murder and torture. Evil is doing those things simply because one is "evil". The bad things may be less extreme, but that's exactly what "evil" is in the Sims 3: your sim having Wishes to do bad things because they're Evil.
His book is a warning about that - "1984" is not the utopia that Socialists hope for, but it is the end result when liberty is abandoned in pursuit of the utopian society.
As far as I know, he never gave any indication of *why* "totalitarianism" comes about instead of the socialism he advocated. Animal Farm was, as we all know, an allegory for the soviet revolution in Russia and what followed, but he didn't try to explain where the original flaw was, what should have been differently. For a socialist, he was very cynical and fatalistic.
They were willing to accept loss of liberty and loss of democracy for the greater good, even to the point of accepting the Socialism of the Soviet Union.
Two things wrong with this sentence (ignore the fact that I'm quoting you out of order). First, "for the greater good" is not generally the bogeyman for socialists, Orwell included. The loss of liberty and democracy itself is Orwell's bogeyman which is always against the "greater good". Second, it should be noted that Orwell grudgingly admitted that it would be necessary for a socialist to support the Soviet Union if it were attacked.
Your sig really is ignorant. The world in 1984 is against everything Orwell believed in and what all socialists consider socialism "gone right": democracy, equality, freedom and, yes, the "greater good" - the good of the majority against the powerful minority so loathed by Orwell.
Psychopathy and sociopathy are synonyms. I think you may be thinking of the common confusion between the terms psychopathy and psychosis (the popular term "psycho" probably having a lot to do with that confusion). Also, as far as I know, the two aren't commonly found together - and if a person *did* have both, it would probably be difficult to diagnose.
I don't know what your book is, but you should read /The Myth of the Good War/ if you want to lose that one reason you still had to feel good about your (if you live in the US) government.
I'm not a liberal, I'm just as upset about the fire bombings, and bombing civilian targets in order to send a message to their government is atrocious and never acceptable. "Pissant brinksman" out.
One of the main reasons for bashing Japan is the perceived (incorrectly IMHO) rejection by Japan of the existence of the said war crimes.
It's not so much that Japan has never admitted it committed *some* war crimes. In fact, it's not even that there are war crimes Japan still won't admit. Okay, it's *mainly* that, but it's also that Japan is constantly trying forget those admissions and begin indoctrinating school children in the glory of the Japanese empire again.
And in doing so, unequivocally saved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives
Wow, unequivocally, huh? Ignoring for a moment that the US was ignoring Japanese attempts to open a dialog for an end to the war, what does flattening cities - you know, those places civilians like to hang out in - have to do with saving lives?
Which one's actually used a nuke?
The people who were borderline will think "That's enough" and everyone else will carry on as normal.
The people who were borderline on the side of paying the RIAA. Small but important difference.