its not a matter of ignorance of the law. its a matter of punishment fitting the crime.
the sex offender database (in most states) is equiv to a single scarlet letter. a letter that carries no information other than sex offender.
the POINT is that there can be a HUGE difference between a single conviction of statutory rape and a true repeat sexual predator. just as there is a huge difference between offenders who violate children, and offenders who violate adults.
and i question teh sex offender database on the grounds that if you're giong to go so far as to label sex offenses as worthy of a public database, why not create a database of violent criminals? why not create a database of thieves? why not create a database of ALL criminals....i mean it would be good to know that the guy next door is a pyro!
so the question truly is where is the line? why are sex offenders that only ones worthy of a database?
not to mention that the database is a stop gap solution, not fixing the underlying problem......that the justice system isnt capable of allowing people to pay their penance to society and be done. a justice system that brands people is just a shitty justice system.
if there is a need for a database, there is a failure in the system. people need to be helped, or kept. if there where no repeat offenders (or very few) then we wouldnt need your "public safety" database!
yeah unfortunately the dialogue sux: anakin is a lamer, natalie portman is stuck with futility because her lines and scenes and requested emotions across from christensen are basically retarded.
there are plenty of kickass parts that remind me that this IS a star wars movie.
its just sad that 1-3 are marred by something, i cant exactly pinpoint it as at some point or another it pervades essentially every aspect of the 1-3 trilogy...but something is just LAME about these 3.
i choose to believe that its lucas, because of his lesser contributions to ep 5 and 6. his changing of vision about later episodes.
yay for nice progression of palpatine to corruption of anakin. excellent really, good star wars shit:)
torrent and emule need to be rolled into one. so some peeps can share massloads of files, while other people can share smaller numbers of files well also.
however the queue management in bittorrent is accomplished by the user. by him choosing what torrents to have active at any given time.
which is why torrent sux for sharing large number of files, because each file requires a tracker and active connections.
also a LOT of people on emule use share system so that people who have given you blocks before get higher priority.
i still contend that if everyone using torrent moved over to emule that emule would be really good. i say this because if you download files with 600+ sources they do 2 things 2) start downloading quickly 3) download speedily.
this only exists because not enuf people are using emule.
i think the most sources (seeds and peers) i've ever seen on emule is just about 1000. desperate housewives on torrent typically has 4000+
soo if everyone on torrent used emule then i doubt waits would be so long.
torrent is such a flawed system for what everyone tries to use it for...file sharing. having to have a tracker per file is a stupid way to distribute large amounts of files. its perfect for distributing specific things, but for general sharing its stupid.
yet torrent has become the de facto std for "sharing".
perhaps you like that ms had to sell consoles at a loss, and almost for sure will have to with xbox360. its esp sad when you consider the price that ms sells the xbox at vs the price of a gamecube which is a profitable hardware system.
i guess you just dont see the "niche" market of people who GET what nintendo is saying (and has always been about).....fun! go watch the e3 video for nintendo...the part where they say cool things like: download past content, bring in new games, new ideas, easy to program, graphics to make you go "wow", etc, etc.
contrast with "we have awesome technology".
time will prove that nintendo is still around for a reason, and will continue to be around...for a reason....that reason is, cuz they "get" gamers.
its impossible for the assumption of "convicting only the guilty" to be true if you admit that some innocent people are convicted.
its pretty weak to just shrug off the "vanishingly" small group of people who are falsely convicted. its not like you can give them the time spent in jail back. remove the memories of being convicted and being in jail.
still tho your point that incarceration happens to only people deemed as being guilty is true. the debate i have is about whether or not to assume that all who are labeled as guilty ARE guilty.
of course i own viewtiful joe. in fact i still have it. basically every major gc title actually.
for genres not served by nintendo (or sony) i have PC.
all will be revealed in summer 2006 tho. ps3 will have the best visuals, and revolution will have the best games, and ms will be left lagging. ps3 hardware > xbox2. nintendo philosophy > all.
its pretty hard to argue with all the titles nintendo has shown at e3.
all im saying about xbox is that for the vast majority of good titles, there exists a better title on either pc, ps2, or gc. the same cannot be said for gc, ps2, or pc. interesting.
man d00d great argument. yay for "nintendo fanbois":) hhehe.
yeah its pretty amazing how few people actually care about the quality that is out there. they are willing to accept acclaim/thq/most MS/most sony developers.
its pretty sad when you're requried to lose money on consoles to compete with a console that costs 2/3 as much and is profitable...cough microsoft...cough.
its also pretty sad when you get your start in the console market with the snes cd, then upgrade that and call it ps2. still tho i'll give sony credit in that they've paid their dues to be a valid console maker.
ms on the other hand, needs to get the fudge out....at least ps3 and revolution will own it HARDCORE (not only because of the 6months xtra of development that they (nintendo sony) get))
hah, just go read queef(E)GM. EVERY single month nintendo platforms have at least 5 of the top 10 most anticipated games. and we all know that egm is pretty biased against nintendo.
so perhaps on YOUR scale of "great" ps2 counts, cuz you count games like god of war and every sports franchise or something. but on the scale of games im willing to play continually until i die, gc has infinately more than ps2 or xbox.
not to mention i prefer comfortable wireless first party controllers:)
so if kids dont think that gamecube is for kids, then why do adults think its for kids?
advertising. in the shit ass american culture circa 2000, reality matters not, only perception.
in reality nintendo OWNZ xbox and ps2. add up all the great xbox & ps2 games and its still smaller than great gc games.
any statement suggesting gc is a kids console is blatant idiocy.
so please stop purpotrating it by even mentioning it.
and about god of war...god of war sux, and re4 is pretty much just as violent. sure you're primary attack isnt whipping swors around, but getting your head chopped off is pretty gruesome. not to mention that re4 is 100x more fun than god of war. esp how you DONT get lost in re4 all the time!
you fail to see that live doesnt make game inherently more fun. it offers possibilities, but those must be implemented into a game. and perhaps the time taken to implement online connectivity / features is time sacrificed from other areas of the game.
you act like xbox isnt just as much a hunk of shit as ps2 is? i'd argue that ps2 is better because altho most of its software library sucks, it still has more games of equal level to the xbox. that is to say ps2 has more mediocre and average games than xbox.
xbox is a big online piece of shit. games are developed by shitty companies. consumers by it up out of ingnorance (lack of knowledge). and ms marketing wins the world.
to say that strategy of game production for ps2/3 and nintendo is failing is a false claim for its truly the marketing that is "failing".
its pretty simple. sony had no business making consoles. and neither did ms. but at least sony has been around long enuf and worked with truly masterful game developers so now has enuf vision as a console maker. ms still is just about the benjamins.
nintendo as always is 100% about fun games. if you ever try to deny that you are a fool.
dont blame launch titles and teh basically shit games out for ds.
i dont remember the exact amount of time, but developers didnt have DS sdk's for very long before ds launched.
just wait...seriously much will come out for DS that will own.
i do agree that ds is boring now (only idk 3 useful games), but dual screen isnt some gimmic. i guess you dont understand the paradigm of 1 touch screen and 1 reg screen.
but how would pork get passed then? you forget that corruption ABOUNDS in congress. and therefore congresspeople serve almost exclusively their self interest.
i TOTALLY agree. why a provision for this wasnt made, i dont know. but then again maybe there IS a quality reason for allowing the attachment of ungermane attachments.
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i choose to accept this as reality.
its not a matter of ignorance of the law. its a matter of punishment fitting the crime.
the sex offender database (in most states) is equiv to a single scarlet letter. a letter that carries no information other than sex offender.
the POINT is that there can be a HUGE difference between a single conviction of statutory rape and a true repeat sexual predator. just as there is a huge difference between offenders who violate children, and offenders who violate adults.
and i question teh sex offender database on the grounds that if you're giong to go so far as to label sex offenses as worthy of a public database, why not create a database of violent criminals?
why not create a database of thieves?
why not create a database of ALL criminals....i mean it would be good to know that the guy next door is a pyro!
so the question truly is where is the line? why are sex offenders that only ones worthy of a database?
not to mention that the database is a stop gap solution, not fixing the underlying problem......that the justice system isnt capable of allowing people to pay their penance to society and be done. a justice system that brands people is just a shitty justice system.
if there is a need for a database, there is a failure in the system. people need to be helped, or kept. if there where no repeat offenders (or very few) then we wouldnt need your "public safety" database!
that is until the progression is destroyed.
:)
yeah unfortunately the dialogue sux: anakin is a lamer, natalie portman is stuck with futility because her lines and scenes and requested emotions across from christensen are basically retarded.
there are plenty of kickass parts that remind me that this IS a star wars movie.
its just sad that 1-3 are marred by something, i cant exactly pinpoint it as at some point or another it pervades essentially every aspect of the 1-3 trilogy...but something is just LAME about these 3.
i choose to believe that its lucas, because of his lesser contributions to ep 5 and 6. his changing of vision about later episodes.
yay for nice progression of palpatine to corruption of anakin. excellent really, good star wars shit
wow the dark side must be powerful if it only takes 2 sith in order to rule the universe :(
good points.
torrent and emule need to be rolled into one. so some peeps can share massloads of files, while other people can share smaller numbers of files well also.
i guess its balanced.
good point.
however the queue management in bittorrent is accomplished by the user. by him choosing what torrents to have active at any given time.
which is why torrent sux for sharing large number of files, because each file requires a tracker and active connections.
also a LOT of people on emule use share system so that people who have given you blocks before get higher priority.
i still contend that if everyone using torrent moved over to emule that emule would be really good. i say this because if you download files with 600+ sources they do 2 things 2) start downloading quickly 3) download speedily.
this only exists because not enuf people are using emule.
i think the most sources (seeds and peers) i've ever seen on emule is just about 1000. desperate housewives on torrent typically has 4000+
soo if everyone on torrent used emule then i doubt waits would be so long.
torrent is such a flawed system for what everyone tries to use it for...file sharing. having to have a tracker per file is a stupid way to distribute large amounts of files. its perfect for distributing specific things, but for general sharing its stupid.
yet torrent has become the de facto std for "sharing".
lame
rofl. as if nintendo is gonna go under.
perhaps you like that ms had to sell consoles at a loss, and almost for sure will have to with xbox360. its esp sad when you consider the price that ms sells the xbox at vs the price of a gamecube which is a profitable hardware system.
i guess you just dont see the "niche" market of people who GET what nintendo is saying (and has always been about).....fun!
go watch the e3 video for nintendo...the part where they say cool things like: download past content, bring in new games, new ideas, easy to program, graphics to make you go "wow", etc, etc.
contrast with "we have awesome technology".
time will prove that nintendo is still around for a reason, and will continue to be around...for a reason....that reason is, cuz they "get" gamers.
go look at preveiws for kill zone 2 on ps3. ps3 is by far the best visually. revolution is 2nd imo and xbox2 is 3rd. which makes sense really.
its impossible for the assumption of "convicting only the guilty" to be true if you admit that some innocent people are convicted.
its pretty weak to just shrug off the "vanishingly" small group of people who are falsely convicted. its not like you can give them the time spent in jail back. remove the memories of being convicted and being in jail.
still tho your point that incarceration happens to only people deemed as being guilty is true. the debate i have is about whether or not to assume that all who are labeled as guilty ARE guilty.
d00d what rock are you smoking?
of course i own viewtiful joe. in fact i still have it. basically every major gc title actually.
for genres not served by nintendo (or sony) i have PC.
all will be revealed in summer 2006 tho. ps3 will have the best visuals, and revolution will have the best games, and ms will be left lagging. ps3 hardware > xbox2. nintendo philosophy > all.
its pretty hard to argue with all the titles nintendo has shown at e3.
all im saying about xbox is that for the vast majority of good titles, there exists a better title on either pc, ps2, or gc. the same cannot be said for gc, ps2, or pc. interesting.
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man d00d great argument. yay for "nintendo fanbois" :) hhehe.
yeah its pretty amazing how few people actually care about the quality that is out there. they are willing to accept acclaim/thq/most MS/most sony developers.
its pretty sad when you're requried to lose money on consoles to compete with a console that costs 2/3 as much and is profitable...cough microsoft...cough.
its also pretty sad when you get your start in the console market with the snes cd, then upgrade that and call it ps2. still tho i'll give sony credit in that they've paid their dues to be a valid console maker.
ms on the other hand, needs to get the fudge out....at least ps3 and revolution will own it HARDCORE (not only because of the 6months xtra of development that they (nintendo sony) get))
actually sega was 2nd party developer for nintedo to publish.
f-zero is VERY sega.
hah, just go read queef(E)GM. EVERY single month nintendo platforms have at least 5 of the top 10 most anticipated games. and we all know that egm is pretty biased against nintendo.
:)
so perhaps on YOUR scale of "great" ps2 counts, cuz you count games like god of war and every sports franchise or something. but on the scale of games im willing to play continually until i die, gc has infinately more than ps2 or xbox.
not to mention i prefer comfortable wireless first party controllers
so if kids dont think that gamecube is for kids, then why do adults think its for kids?
advertising. in the shit ass american culture circa 2000, reality matters not, only perception.
in reality nintendo OWNZ xbox and ps2. add up all the great xbox & ps2 games and its still smaller than great gc games.
any statement suggesting gc is a kids console is blatant idiocy.
so please stop purpotrating it by even mentioning it.
and about god of war...god of war sux, and re4 is pretty much just as violent. sure you're primary attack isnt whipping swors around, but getting your head chopped off is pretty gruesome. not to mention that re4 is 100x more fun than god of war. esp how you DONT get lost in re4 all the time!
failing strategy?
you fail to see that live doesnt make game inherently more fun. it offers possibilities, but those must be implemented into a game. and perhaps the time taken to implement online connectivity / features is time sacrificed from other areas of the game.
you act like xbox isnt just as much a hunk of shit as ps2 is? i'd argue that ps2 is better because altho most of its software library sucks, it still has more games of equal level to the xbox. that is to say ps2 has more mediocre and average games than xbox.
xbox is a big online piece of shit. games are developed by shitty companies. consumers by it up out of ingnorance (lack of knowledge). and ms marketing wins the world.
to say that strategy of game production for ps2/3 and nintendo is failing is a false claim for its truly the marketing that is "failing".
its pretty simple. sony had no business making consoles. and neither did ms.
but at least sony has been around long enuf and worked with truly masterful game developers so now has enuf vision as a console maker.
ms still is just about the benjamins.
nintendo as always is 100% about fun games. if you ever try to deny that you are a fool.
>Whoever the hell this Madisen character he is, he's just aiding the terrorists by saying things like that. We should ship him off to Guantanamo.
>But, then you sound like a neocon turd-sandwhich.
first one sounds like a neocon turd-sandwhich to me!
you cant call it guantanamo, that makes you sound like a liberal douche bag. you have to call it gitmo!
dont blame launch titles and teh basically shit games out for ds.
i dont remember the exact amount of time, but developers didnt have DS sdk's for very long before ds launched.
just wait...seriously much will come out for DS that will own.
i do agree that ds is boring now (only idk 3 useful games), but dual screen isnt some gimmic. i guess you dont understand the paradigm of 1 touch screen and 1 reg screen.
but how would pork get passed then?
you forget that corruption ABOUNDS in congress. and therefore congresspeople serve almost exclusively their self interest.
i TOTALLY agree. why a provision for this wasnt made, i dont know. but then again maybe there IS a quality reason for allowing the attachment of ungermane attachments.
yay for the US
wow, the truth is currently buried with a score of only 1 :(
calling neocons republicans is an insult to republicans.
its a shame that congressional "republicans" toe the party line so much. "well the neocons say we should vote yes for this....i vote yes".
the republican party has been corrupted (as if it wasnt already!) by neocons.