Skin color is useful for the evil socialists who look at the average income of a community, the number of tax dollars spent on school and police, the crime rate, the abortion rate, the amount of fast food purchased, or any other piece of information that may be useful to someone, and try to find a correlation between that and race.
But do you think Martin Luther King would have supported turning a blind eye to race? I'm pretty sure that when some people were prohibited from drinking at certain fountains, he noticed what color they were.
I wonder if the women will be ordered to lose - I can imagine if they were playing a lot they'd get pretty good at the games and if some guy with low self esteem keeps getting his butt handed to him by a girl he's paying for the privilege, he's not going to be too pleased... well, not unless getting his butt handed to him by a girl is "his thing" of course!
I wonder if she would be ordered to lose, just long enough to let the guy feel like he's letting her win.
People in financial trouble tend to get desperate and throw all logic out the door. I got taken for an incredibly stupid scam, once. It was one of those "The post office is hiring. Pay us for the training kit" scams, and I cannot stress hard enough that it was stupid. But, I had an unemployed wife and a baby to support, and I had just lost my job.
Things seemed desperate, and in those situations, people tend to throw logic out the door. So, the problem isn't just that most people are stupid, and some of us are smart. It is that our critical thinking skills are often impaired when we are at our most vulnerable, and that is the truly pathetic thing about these scams. Get rich quick schemes are not taking advantage of the people who have some money and want more. They're most effective when taking advantage of the people on fixed incomes, the unemployed, and anybody else who doesn't know how the next bill will be paid. They are profiting by kicking those of us who are already down.
The problem is that, if they had come up with a viable product, then they would be a legitimate business and the people scammed would be either investors, or retailers. The only difference between them and a hot dog vendor, or a guy who sells cellphones at the mall, would be the location.
How many ads for fast food, soft drinks, candy bar, restaurants, etc. do you see during an hour of watching TV versus during an hour of using the computer?
Food cues might play a strong role, too.
It would be interesting to see how much difference the power of suggestion makes, but, if true, wouldn't this also have strong ramifications for the video game violence controversy?
It probably depends on what you use the computer for. If it's a child's room, it will probably be used for first person shooters and pornography. It's hard to eat pizza while engaging in either one of those.
Rock Band 2 was released in 2008, and had some time to die down before 2009. Same for Guitar Hero World tour.
Harmonix released Beatles Rock Band. Were they expecting that to do as well as Rock Band 2? The only logic I can see to Beatles Rock Band is that maybe they are hoping that Beatles fans are like Star Trek fans; there are some compulsive enough to pay any price for anything branded with their favorite franchise. (Before you get angry, The Beatles could have made a great series of track packs, but you cannot expect one band to carry half the industry).
I own Guitar Hero 5. It's alright, but most reviews complained about a weak song list, and Guitar Hero Van Halen didn't exactly bring people to stores.
So, is it possible that the decline was due to a weak offering in 2009? These companies are shooting themselves in the foot by providing an even weaker offering in 2010.
Yeah. That's why we don't let marketing folks near our servers.
I have always wanted to see just one episode of Enterprise, or any similar show, in which someone breaks out a keyboard, because some problems cannot be solved by yelling commands at Majel Barret.
I can confirm that is the case for comcast, in my area. Well, they charge a $15 fee for not having tv, or an 18.95 fee for limited basic. So, we're paying a fifteen dollar illegal-bundling-because-of-local-monopoly fee, and $3.95 extra for the privilege of having a few channels when we watch tv.
I am about one month into having only "limited basic" (network programming, several religious channels, and whatever HD channels the local cable company forgot to block out). My wife and I had been telling ourselves we were going to rent movies using our local video store's five older movies for five days for $5 deal. But, instead, we have been playing wii fit for 45 minutes to an hour a day, each, watching an occasional show on network, and have barely missed cable.
I can't stress enough how much this has helped with my diet.
And every profession can say the same about how much smarter people were before they had calculators/internet research tools/software, when they had to use slide rules and learn mental shortcuts, because they didn't have the tools we have today. That's life; One generation plants a tree...The next one gets the shade.
that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
Free publicity was the entire point. You can argue the merits of whether this should have been effective, but it would be hard to argue that they didn't accomplish anything.
So, if I move next door and buy a PA system loud enough to fill a stadium, dump toxic and foul-smelling chemicals in my lawn, and invite morbidly obese friends over for a front lawn orgy, then you have no problem? You can just look the other way, hold your nose, and cover year ears?
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Skin color is useful for the evil socialists who look at the average income of a community, the number of tax dollars spent on school and police, the crime rate, the abortion rate, the amount of fast food purchased, or any other piece of information that may be useful to someone, and try to find a correlation between that and race.
But do you think Martin Luther King would have supported turning a blind eye to race? I'm pretty sure that when some people were prohibited from drinking at certain fountains, he noticed what color they were.
I wonder if the women will be ordered to lose - I can imagine if they were playing a lot they'd get pretty good at the games and if some guy with low self esteem keeps getting his butt handed to him by a girl he's paying for the privilege, he's not going to be too pleased... well, not unless getting his butt handed to him by a girl is "his thing" of course!
I wonder if she would be ordered to lose, just long enough to let the guy feel like he's letting her win.
I don't think those are really girls. They are just guys hoping to get gifts.
So do you think this will lead to failing CS students showing up in drag?
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People in financial trouble tend to get desperate and throw all logic out the door. I got taken for an incredibly stupid scam, once. It was one of those "The post office is hiring. Pay us for the training kit" scams, and I cannot stress hard enough that it was stupid. But, I had an unemployed wife and a baby to support, and I had just lost my job.
Things seemed desperate, and in those situations, people tend to throw logic out the door. So, the problem isn't just that most people are stupid, and some of us are smart. It is that our critical thinking skills are often impaired when we are at our most vulnerable, and that is the truly pathetic thing about these scams. Get rich quick schemes are not taking advantage of the people who have some money and want more. They're most effective when taking advantage of the people on fixed incomes, the unemployed, and anybody else who doesn't know how the next bill will be paid. They are profiting by kicking those of us who are already down.
The problem is that, if they had come up with a viable product, then they would be a legitimate business and the people scammed would be either investors, or retailers. The only difference between them and a hot dog vendor, or a guy who sells cellphones at the mall, would be the location.
This isn't like global warming, where a relatively small group can fuck it up for everyone;
Al Gore: Trying to fuck up global warming since 1976.
Also, the MS "monopoly" is far less problematic than what would happen if Apple's way of doing biz took hold.
So how is that relevant? Even if Microsoft was a non-profit dedicated to helping sick puppies, that wouldn't make them above the law.
Well, I've lost the will to live after reading these two posts. Thanks, guys. :(
So i guess you're SOL.
I wonder if having a name so similar to Jack Thompson caused any problems for this guy...probably not, but who knows?
His first study was entitled "Why do people keep punching me?" Unfortunately, he concluded that gamers _are_prone to violence.
Nice. I have to choose one eh? I don't fit. I'm in the Lagrange point between Orpheus and Anteros. :(
Or to put it another way,
I live on a planet that has more than one thing on it
How many ads for fast food, soft drinks, candy bar, restaurants, etc. do you see during an hour of watching TV versus during an hour of using the computer?
Food cues might play a strong role, too.
It would be interesting to see how much difference the power of suggestion makes, but, if true, wouldn't this also have strong ramifications for the video game violence controversy?
It probably depends on what you use the computer for. If it's a child's room, it will probably be used for first person shooters and pornography. It's hard to eat pizza while engaging in either one of those.
That Higgs Boson is finding more and more creative ways... Seems this time it went so far back as to flaw the LHC's design.
How long do we have before it goes further back and destroys humanity?
If some time-traveling something doesn't want to be found, why not just send back a dead nuke with a note attached that reads
Dear asshole:
Leave us alone.
Your truly,
The Future
So, what happened in 2009?
Rock Band 2 was released in 2008, and had some time to die down before 2009. Same for Guitar Hero World tour.
Harmonix released Beatles Rock Band. Were they expecting that to do as well as Rock Band 2? The only logic I can see to Beatles Rock Band is that maybe they are hoping that Beatles fans are like Star Trek fans; there are some compulsive enough to pay any price for anything branded with their favorite franchise. (Before you get angry, The Beatles could have made a great series of track packs, but you cannot expect one band to carry half the industry).
I own Guitar Hero 5. It's alright, but most reviews complained about a weak song list, and Guitar Hero Van Halen didn't exactly bring people to stores.
So, is it possible that the decline was due to a weak offering in 2009? These companies are shooting themselves in the foot by providing an even weaker offering in 2010.
Steve Jobs could through a baby into a industrial tree shredder and you would still defend him.
In his defense the baby was being kind of a dick.
He could have grown up to be the next Hitler. Jobs saved us from Hitler.
You sir just sent the English Language screaming through a tree shredder.
And no one defended him...
Thank you. You just described he crap-stack that is my livelihood, but the sad part is that you haven't even gotten to flash yet.
Yeah. That's why we don't let marketing folks near our servers.
I have always wanted to see just one episode of Enterprise, or any similar show, in which someone breaks out a keyboard, because some problems cannot be solved by yelling commands at Majel Barret.
I can confirm that is the case for comcast, in my area. Well, they charge a $15 fee for not having tv, or an 18.95 fee for limited basic. So, we're paying a fifteen dollar illegal-bundling-because-of-local-monopoly fee, and $3.95 extra for the privilege of having a few channels when we watch tv.
I am about one month into having only "limited basic" (network programming, several religious channels, and whatever HD channels the local cable company forgot to block out). My wife and I had been telling ourselves we were going to rent movies using our local video store's five older movies for five days for $5 deal. But, instead, we have been playing wii fit for 45 minutes to an hour a day, each, watching an occasional show on network, and have barely missed cable.
I can't stress enough how much this has helped with my diet.
And every profession can say the same about how much smarter people were before they had calculators/internet research tools/software, when they had to use slide rules and learn mental shortcuts, because they didn't have the tools we have today. That's life; One generation plants a tree...The next one gets the shade.
that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
Free publicity was the entire point. You can argue the merits of whether this should have been effective, but it would be hard to argue that they didn't accomplish anything.
Decapitate, stake through the heart, and bury underneath a crossroads, just to make sure it won't come back.
Would the modern equivalent be "uninstall, virus scan, reformat"?
Why government should have no powers.
We have that.
So, if I move next door and buy a PA system loud enough to fill a stadium, dump toxic and foul-smelling chemicals in my lawn, and invite morbidly obese friends over for a front lawn orgy, then you have no problem? You can just look the other way, hold your nose, and cover year ears?