Yeah, caring for your young is found in nature too. Should we stop doing that because animals do it? I'm still not hearing an explanation of why homosexuality should be considered a crime.
What sexual immorality? If you are talking about promiscuity, last time I checked it wasn't limited to homosexuals. In fact, the last time I checked, homosexual couples all over the country were fighting for the right to have thier monogomous relationships recognised by the state.
Show me evidence of a god saying that, other than a collection of middle-eastern nomadic mythology
I don't consider a book to be a guide to morality if it says that the punishment for a man raping a girl is that he has to pay money to the girl's father, then marry her. (Deuteronomy 22:28,29)
Murderers and rapists hurt people. Who do homosexuals hurt?
Lumping in homosexuals with murderers and rapists is obscenely lazy. It is just an excuse so you don't have to come up with anything intelligent to say about the subject. Explain why you discriminate againsts gays. And BTW, saying "because (god|the bible) says to" isn't good enough. Give an ACTUAL reason.
when someone decides to make a movie "based off of the book," you should sit back and realize that it's not going to be the same thing.
It's not going to be exactly the same, no. But it should at least somewhat resemble the book. The only thing that the movie 'I, Robot' had in common with the book was the title and the names of the characters. NOTHING ELSE. They took a random sci-fi script and grafted the names onto it.
I, Robot didn't suck. It just had absolutly nothing to do with the book. I bet your opinion of it would be a lot higher if they had stuck with the original title, "Hardwired".
My review of this book is irrelevent. I could sooner review Newton's Principia Mathematica or the Book of the Subgenius. My point being, this is a book that should be read by everyone, if not for enjoyment then for cultural reference; moreover, anything I have to say about it would neither add to or detract from the book, and would only make me look like an ass (the braying kind). --Hoopy Frood (06/06/2001)
...and the operator didn't seem to know anything about it being available now and insisted that it would be out sometime in the next year. I live in Maryland and I'm pretty sure that when I was a kid (not too far from here) we had Bell Atlantic.
Is this just a case of cluelessness on the part of Verizon employees, or so you think they are trying to force people to keep paying for local service?
It depends on the game. You would expect to see ads for these kind of things in the world that GTA is set in, modern day USA. Anarchy Online, on the other hand, is set 30,000 years in the future.
I understand if they need to use advertisement to support the free version of the game, but do not insult our intelligence by telling us that we want it.
Ads for Sprite and Motley Crue albums in a game set 30,000 years in the future do not highten the realism. The Alienware ads, however, weren't that bad. They fit right into the style of the game.
I mean a future where people can't even do 2*3 without a calculator.
Although now that I think about it, chances are that we will eventually have computers implanted in our brains that do all kinds of things, one of which will be to instantly give us the answer to any math problem that enters our heads.
One problem that arises from that is that learning math is the beginning of learning how to think logically.
I recall a story I once read by Issac Azimov about a future culture where all knowledge of mathematics has been lost to humans, who have to rely on computers and calulators to do even the simplest math problems (older computers make the new computers and humans are left completly out of the process).
A janitor at a science lab rediscovers the 'ancient knowledge' on his own. The military quickly gets ahold of it and immediatly puts it to use in weapons research, whereapon the janitor promptly takes his own life in shame.
Anyone think there might be a future where humans rely on computers so much that they don't bother learning math at all any more?
WHY did it have to be the DNA of a T-Rex? Why couldn't it have been a nice herbivore, like a stegosaurus, or even better, one of those little chicken-sized dinos?
Now there's going to be running and screaming, and it's all going to be a big huge mess.
I live in Maryland and all I can get in my area is Comcast. I would love to be able to get Adelphia. A friend of mine has it and she pays less for both cable(with HBO) and internet through them than I pay for just extended basic alone.
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Yeah, caring for your young is found in nature too. Should we stop doing that because animals do it? I'm still not hearing an explanation of why homosexuality should be considered a crime.
You sir, are the kind of Christian that the world needs more of. ;)
If homosexuality is so unnatural, then why is it found in nature? Homosexual behavior can be found in nearly all warm-blooded species.
What sexual immorality? If you are talking about promiscuity, last time I checked it wasn't limited to homosexuals. In fact, the last time I checked, homosexual couples all over the country were fighting for the right to have thier monogomous relationships recognised by the state.
Show me evidence of a god saying that, other than a collection of middle-eastern nomadic mythology
I don't consider a book to be a guide to morality if it says that the punishment for a man raping a girl is that he has to pay money to the girl's father, then marry her. (Deuteronomy 22:28,29)
And yet, STILL no explanation. A vague claim that it is unhealthy to society isn't a reason either. Try explaining why it is detrimental to society.
Murderers and rapists hurt people. Who do homosexuals hurt?
Lumping in homosexuals with murderers and rapists is obscenely lazy. It is just an excuse so you don't have to come up with anything intelligent to say about the subject. Explain why you discriminate againsts gays. And BTW, saying "because (god|the bible) says to" isn't good enough. Give an ACTUAL reason.
when someone decides to make a movie "based off of the book," you should sit back and realize that it's not going to be the same thing.
It's not going to be exactly the same, no. But it should at least somewhat resemble the book. The only thing that the movie 'I, Robot' had in common with the book was the title and the names of the characters. NOTHING ELSE. They took a random sci-fi script and grafted the names onto it.
I, Robot didn't suck. It just had absolutly nothing to do with the book. I bet your opinion of it would be a lot higher if they had stuck with the original title, "Hardwired".
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My review of this book is irrelevent. I could sooner review Newton's Principia Mathematica or the Book of the Subgenius. My point being, this is a book that should be read by everyone, if not for enjoyment then for cultural reference; moreover, anything I have to say about it would neither add to or detract from the book, and would only make me look like an ass (the braying kind). --Hoopy Frood (06/06/2001)
has had one too many pan-galactic gargle blasters
That's not technically possible.
...and the operator didn't seem to know anything about it being available now and insisted that it would be out sometime in the next year. I live in Maryland and I'm pretty sure that when I was a kid (not too far from here) we had Bell Atlantic. Is this just a case of cluelessness on the part of Verizon employees, or so you think they are trying to force people to keep paying for local service?
No. The companies have seen to it that laws were passed to protect their monopolies and that their power to make draconian rules is protected.
Not to mention "Enemy of the State"
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Admit it. You would swear you're looking at a real slashdot story
It depends on the game. You would expect to see ads for these kind of things in the world that GTA is set in, modern day USA. Anarchy Online, on the other hand, is set 30,000 years in the future.
A couple months ago Trond Aas, the CEO at Funcom, said "we know that most gamers want in-game advertisement to heighten the sense of realism."
I understand if they need to use advertisement to support the free version of the game, but do not insult our intelligence by telling us that we want it.
Ads for Sprite and Motley Crue albums in a game set 30,000 years in the future do not highten the realism. The Alienware ads, however, weren't that bad. They fit right into the style of the game.
I mean a future where people can't even do 2*3 without a calculator.
Although now that I think about it, chances are that we will eventually have computers implanted in our brains that do all kinds of things, one of which will be to instantly give us the answer to any math problem that enters our heads.
One problem that arises from that is that learning math is the beginning of learning how to think logically.
I recall a story I once read by Issac Azimov about a future culture where all knowledge of mathematics has been lost to humans, who have to rely on computers and calulators to do even the simplest math problems (older computers make the new computers and humans are left completly out of the process).
A janitor at a science lab rediscovers the 'ancient knowledge' on his own. The military quickly gets ahold of it and immediatly puts it to use in weapons research, whereapon the janitor promptly takes his own life in shame.
Anyone think there might be a future where humans rely on computers so much that they don't bother learning math at all any more?
Enough! Make it stop! Make it stop!
If there's anything more important than my ego around here, I want it caught and shot now.
It was an interesting concept, a lot of good ideas, and putting all the G,T,C, and As in the opening credits in bold was a nice touch...
But the actual execution was boring as hell
WHY did it have to be the DNA of a T-Rex? Why couldn't it have been a nice herbivore, like a stegosaurus, or even better, one of those little chicken-sized dinos?
Now there's going to be running and screaming, and it's all going to be a big huge mess.
I live in Maryland and all I can get in my area is Comcast. I would love to be able to get Adelphia. A friend of mine has it and she pays less for both cable(with HBO) and internet through them than I pay for just extended basic alone.
some people should be hung by their toes over a shark pool.
...wait for it...
sharks with
frikin' laser beams on their heads!