No, no, no! The whole reason the media likes to shout that every story is about our "national security" is to peak people's interest so they don't change the channel back to "Friends" or "Just Shoot Me". We Americans seem to enjoy being scared out of our wits, considering the popularity of UFOs who anal-probe people, people losing their identity on the Net, or smoking cigar guys walking around in your underwear at your house.
In an age where most companies embrace chat/irc/etc. for communication for their employees, the spooks take it 10 steps back and go on a witch hunt for people using IRC!
Sorry, I have to disagree. Consider this: Every second those "hackers" spend on chat/irc/etc. is a second wasted when they could be doing something constructive, like, their job.
The CIA exists for reasons of national security of the UNITED STATES
Ha! So helping rebels overthrow their government is part of the national security of the UNITED STATES? So, tell me, do you also believe in Santa Claus?
A country like China dosn't have those little things we call a sense of ethics concerning the use/abuse of nuclear weapondry.
We didn't either before dropping two on civilian populations. Even then, it took the media to report all those horrible effects that the bomb had on those exposed to the radiation and the environment before we Americans realized the horrors we unleashed. Apparently, China has yet to drop a single one on people.
That's a typo right? The Soviets concentrated their forces on their *western* borders.
Not, he was correct in using eastern, as in eastern Europe.
Actually, you're also neglecting to mention that the soviet union was preparing to push deep into Japan from the north up in Mongolia.
Well, you have to understand that the US and USSR had an agreement that they'll attack Japan (I don't think they agreed on when. Also, the Japanese did defeat the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War. If that had happened we would have faced a similarly divided Japan (except North being communist, south being free) as we saw in Germany after WWII. By dropping the two bombs they also didn't have to execute a full scale invasion of the island..
That's right, because we were the ones who were supposed to, not them. something that would have cost BOTH sides millions of lives, civilian and military.
Try looking up "Little Boy" and "Nagasaki". If you're going to spout revisionist history, at least study the actual events so you can sound more convincing.
IMHO, Using a PS2 to play a DVD is like using an M249 heavy machinegun with a 500-bullet chain to mow down three targets. In one word: Overkill.
I suppose it's also overkill to be playing older games on PIIIs/K7s? Or buying SUVs simply to drive around in the subburbs? Or watching classic B&W movies on color televisions?
And no real Christians is ever stark-mad raving loony.
Then would you care to explain why some post names and addresses of doctors who perform or have performed abortions, for the sake of others terrorizing them? Not to mention that some managed to convince the Kansas school board to stop teaching evolution.
How many times do they expect us to buy the same product, redone in as many ways as can be imagined?
Perhaps you'd like to tell the guys at Eidos/Core that when they release the next _Tomb Raider_ game
Haven't they realized that to sell stuff it has to be ORIGINAL?
I have. I hate the fact that the _Star Wars_ series is just a retelling of various 'classical' tales of the great warrior turning to 'the dark side', of the young warrior saving the princess/galaxy/universe/yada yada yada.
Is anyone but me getting tired of playing the same game over and over?
Yeah, screw Quake 1/2/3/..., we already have DOOM. Programmers need to be more ORIGINAL!!!
Wait, now here's the Ultimate Final Fantasy: They have removed ALL interactivity to provide the Ultimate Corny Japanimation Experience. Now you don't have to push any buttons at all, just sit back with your popcorn and watch as completely unrealistic characters do the most irrational things right before your eyes! And somehow it all turns out good in the end! I saw this coming, though. Each game takes more control away from the player. Each game concentrates less on strategy and real RP'ing and more on the ridiculously brain-dead dialog. And here's the climax.
Oh, yes, I do agree that RPGs are becoming more linear in their plotlines, however, considering that it takes massive amounts of processing power and programming to allow players do everything in such games, it'll take a while for CRPGs to match the flexibility of Pen&Paper RPGs, unless you want a horribly drab, seemingly plotless 'RPG' that gives you shitloads of 'nonlinearity' in gameplay (ie The Elder Scrolls: Arena and Daggerfall).
I seem to recall a somewhat recent controversy concerning the White House recruiting Hollywood in the "War against Drugs" campaign. Maybe this is an extension we don't know about.
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No, no, no! The whole reason the media likes to shout that every story is about our "national security" is to peak people's interest so they don't change the channel back to "Friends" or "Just Shoot Me". We Americans seem to enjoy being scared out of our wits, considering the popularity of UFOs who anal-probe people, people losing their identity on the Net, or smoking cigar guys walking around in your underwear at your house.
Sorry, I have to disagree. Consider this: Every second those "hackers" spend on chat/irc/etc. is a second wasted when they could be doing something constructive, like, their job.
Ha! So helping rebels overthrow their government is part of the national security of the UNITED STATES? So, tell me, do you also believe in Santa Claus?
We didn't either before dropping two on civilian populations. Even then, it took the media to report all those horrible effects that the bomb had on those exposed to the radiation and the environment before we Americans realized the horrors we unleashed. Apparently, China has yet to drop a single one on people.
Not, he was correct in using eastern, as in eastern Europe. Actually, you're also neglecting to mention that the soviet union was preparing to push deep into Japan from the north up in Mongolia.
Well, you have to understand that the US and USSR had an agreement that they'll attack Japan (I don't think they agreed on when. Also, the Japanese did defeat the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War. If that had happened we would have faced a similarly divided Japan (except North being communist, south being free) as we saw in Germany after WWII. By dropping the two bombs they also didn't have to execute a full scale invasion of the island..
That's right, because we were the ones who were supposed to, not them. something that would have cost BOTH sides millions of lives, civilian and military.
Try looking up "Little Boy" and "Nagasaki". If you're going to spout revisionist history, at least study the actual events so you can sound more convincing.
I suggest you do the same.
We all (hopefully) know that the Egyptian royal families survived on imbreeding. So, why bother testing Tut's DNA? To find how horribly imbred he was?
I suppose it's also overkill to be playing older games on PIIIs/K7s? Or buying SUVs simply to drive around in the subburbs? Or watching classic B&W movies on color televisions?
Hopefully, Israel will be demolished, so that we no longer will be bothered by all those stupid wars going on there.
Hmm, this might explain why my old P133 gets so moody after running Win98SE for several hours straight.
Or New York. Oh, wait, that movie sucked major @$$. Nevermind.
Then would you care to explain why some post names and addresses of doctors who perform or have performed abortions, for the sake of others terrorizing them? Not to mention that some managed to convince the Kansas school board to stop teaching evolution.
Hmm, yesterday there was an article about someone working on games that boot off the CDROM, and today news about the Amiga. What a coincidence...
But is it kosher?
Perhaps you'd like to tell the guys at Eidos/Core that when they release the next _Tomb Raider_ game
Haven't they realized that to sell stuff it has to be ORIGINAL?I have. I hate the fact that the _Star Wars_ series is just a retelling of various 'classical' tales of the great warrior turning to 'the dark side', of the young warrior saving the princess/galaxy/universe/yada yada yada.
Is anyone but me getting tired of playing the same game over and over?Yeah, screw Quake 1/2/3/..., we already have DOOM. Programmers need to be more ORIGINAL!!!
Wait, now here's the Ultimate Final Fantasy: They have removed ALL interactivity to provide the Ultimate Corny Japanimation Experience. Now you don't have to push any buttons at all, just sit back with your popcorn and watch as completely unrealistic characters do the most irrational things right before your eyes! And somehow it all turns out good in the end! I saw this coming, though. Each game takes more control away from the player. Each game concentrates less on strategy and real RP'ing and more on the ridiculously brain-dead dialog. And here's the climax.Oh, yes, I do agree that RPGs are becoming more linear in their plotlines, however, considering that it takes massive amounts of processing power and programming to allow players do everything in such games, it'll take a while for CRPGs to match the flexibility of Pen&Paper RPGs, unless you want a horribly drab, seemingly plotless 'RPG' that gives you shitloads of 'nonlinearity' in gameplay (ie The Elder Scrolls: Arena and Daggerfall).
I seem to recall a somewhat recent controversy concerning the White House recruiting Hollywood in the "War against Drugs" campaign. Maybe this is an extension we don't know about.
You seem to forget that here @ /., most ppl don't bother w/ the NYTimes 'cuz of the friggin' required login cr@p.