I swear to God, just reading that little blurb made part of my brain melt. If your link leads to more of *that* I'd humbly request we classify your post as a weapon of potential mass destruction.
As I understand it, Scientologists use scare tactics to convince people that they are infected with ancient alien souls which are causing health complaints, and then take advantage of their victims' vulnerable (and gullible?) state to extort money.
That qualifies as terrorism in my book.
Really? Most reasonable people would refer to these practices as "conning", "hustling" or maybe "extortion".
Can we save the moniker terrorism for when people arbitrarily gun down/gas/bomb innocent bystanders please?
And to put things in perspective, Scientologists claim you have an alien inside you causing health problems. Christians claim you're going to burn in the fiery pits of hell for eternity. Creepy cunning cult? Yes. Terruhrists? Nah, not really.
Does a smoking addiction sprouts from "lack of skills needed for success in adult lives" as well? How about achool addiction? What sort of skills might a person be "lacking" to "fall" into a smoking habit?
The same skill as with any addiction. Self-control. Except with smoking 1 cigaratte is already too much, and in the case of alcohol or gaming the limit isn't quite as low. (yes, i realize that for someone who is already an alcoholic 1 drink is 1 too many).
I don't see anything implying that gaming is only for kids, just that doing it excessively is harmful. And since adults typically don't live with parents that revoke their computer rights anymore, they turn elsewhere for help.
In the Netherlands, it's really funny to see how people avoid making contact on the train...except when there's some sort of issue. Then all of a sudden it's ok to talk, find a six-pack and a deck of cards somewhere and have a good time.
Vehicle manufactures should come equipped with GPS based governors, alcohol detection, sex detection
Just for the record, are we talking: a) I'm detecting you're receiving a blowjob while driving, so I'm just going to pull over for a bit b) I'm detecting you're a woman, so I'm limiting top speed to 50(kph, not mph) or simply not starting at all
Besides, this is/., neither will happen all that often anyway...
Indeed. God forbid they convince management that using 40 FTE (every last one of them exhausted, pissed off and planning to leave asap) to churn out a crappy product might not be as good an idea as using 50 happy FTE to produce a good product. And hey, you might even turn out to be one of the missing 10!
Disturbing? To the contrary! I've been trying to corroborate stories of these "gods" most of my life. A face-to-face meeting would be a most welcome way to finally establish the existence of one or more of them! Could you make an introduction?
Thanks, Peter
In your particular case that might be a bad idea, unless you're really fond of heavy lifting. See also Matthew 16:18;-)
Art is in the eye of the beholder. I find this piece to be interesting, funny and though-provoking. Therefore to me it is art. Your opinion...is irrelevant.
Wow, so because you (apparently) don't like WoW it only appeals to brainless people?
Seriously, some day I'm gonna come up with a game that only appeals to high and mighty folks like yourself and make a killing. If arrogance and misplaced superiority complexes could be converted to electricity we'd be home and dry overnight.
A piece of _____________. (What goes in the blank is up to you)
Hmmm...
- A piece of music on a modern medium that stops working because the players aren't made anymore and the DRM stops you from copying it? - A piece of software that "phones home", finds the company that wrote it no longer exists because of bankrupty and stops working? - A piece of plastic with ridiculous rules attached as to how you're allowed to "own" it?
Heck, if there's one group this should appeal to it's/.ians.
The element of a virtual world that I'd like to see in my RL workspace is a large rail gun out of Eve Online that I could use to convince clients to pay on time...
You'd likely run into tracking problems though.
Besides, even a 200mm autocannon should be more than enough to convince any client to cough up the dough. That, or a smartbomb(several kilometer range might cause some collateral damage in a corporate office though).
Here in the Netherlands I can still watch all of the content on the Comedy Central site. I *do* get ads for dutch companies however. And since they only seem to have been able to attract 2 advertisers so far...
Speaking as someone who lives in the Netherlands, there's 1 group of people for whom legalizing pot would be disastrous...the folks that make money off of it. It's amazing how much less interesting the stuff gets when you can buy it everywhere and the aura of illegality has been taken away.
Heck, any decent proper TBS with small squads would do it for me. Even the mods that came out after the source for Jagged Alliance 2 was released will only keep me busy for so long:-)
Do you know who owns the IP to the original game? Do they have a habit for litigating? Do they even know they have the IP or did they acquire it by buying distributor X that bought then bankrupt studio Y that got it from independent coder Z?
And is the original game Hardwar or X-com? Because in that case, keep programming, whatever happens;-)
(Make sure you release the source before getting dragged off by some goons into a black helicopter though)
Actually, my freedom of expression is doing just fine, thank you very much. And it isn't the extremists I am defending, it's the massive majority of muslims that just want to get a damn job, raise their kids, put food on the table and be left alone.
Sharia law is scary and the way it treats women is abysmal. However, since this country already has laws dealing with abuse, rape, murder and all the other nastiness, I do not see the point of singling out 1 complete religion and getting all high and mighty about it. As a matter of fact, I am truly convinced that doing so will only give the kind of people that do want to shoot politicians more ammunition.
And yes, the deaths of Theo van Gogh, Pim Fortuijn and others are tragic.
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I swear to God, just reading that little blurb made part of my brain melt. If your link leads to more of *that* I'd humbly request we classify your post as a weapon of potential mass destruction.
As I understand it, Scientologists use scare tactics to convince people that they are infected with ancient alien souls which are causing health complaints, and then take advantage of their victims' vulnerable (and gullible?) state to extort money.
That qualifies as terrorism in my book.
Really? Most reasonable people would refer to these practices as "conning", "hustling" or maybe "extortion".
Can we save the moniker terrorism for when people arbitrarily gun down/gas/bomb innocent bystanders please?
And to put things in perspective, Scientologists claim you have an alien inside you causing health problems. Christians claim you're going to burn in the fiery pits of hell for eternity. Creepy cunning cult? Yes. Terruhrists? Nah, not really.
Does a smoking addiction sprouts from "lack of skills needed for success in adult lives" as well? How about achool addiction? What sort of skills might a person be "lacking" to "fall" into a smoking habit?
The same skill as with any addiction. Self-control. Except with smoking 1 cigaratte is already too much, and in the case of alcohol or gaming the limit isn't quite as low. (yes, i realize that for someone who is already an alcoholic 1 drink is 1 too many).
I don't see anything implying that gaming is only for kids, just that doing it excessively is harmful. And since adults typically don't live with parents that revoke their computer rights anymore, they turn elsewhere for help.
Actually, that all sounds pretty cool. However, I happen to be addicted to Eve Online instead of World of Warcraft, so where's my spaceships?
So do what everyone else does in these institutions...have lots of sex with total strangers.
In the Netherlands, it's really funny to see how people avoid making contact on the train...except when there's some sort of issue. Then all of a sudden it's ok to talk, find a six-pack and a deck of cards somewhere and have a good time.
Vehicle manufactures should come equipped with GPS based governors, alcohol detection, sex detection
Just for the record, are we talking:
a) I'm detecting you're receiving a blowjob while driving, so I'm just going to pull over for a bit
b) I'm detecting you're a woman, so I'm limiting top speed to 50(kph, not mph) or simply not starting at all
Besides, this is /., neither will happen all that often anyway...
Indeed. God forbid they convince management that using 40 FTE (every last one of them exhausted, pissed off and planning to leave asap) to churn out a crappy product might not be as good an idea as using 50 happy FTE to produce a good product. And hey, you might even turn out to be one of the missing 10!
Ah yes, the good old "robot that feeds information from his brain, to a display, to his optical system, back into his brain" loop.
Kinda like one of us talking to ourselves I guess ;-)
So does that make Ballmer a dreamwalker? Because I'm not sure I want to live in a world where that's the case...
Disturbing? To the contrary! I've been trying to corroborate stories of these "gods" most of my life. A face-to-face meeting would be a most welcome way to finally establish the existence of one or more of them! Could you make an introduction?
Thanks,
Peter
In your particular case that might be a bad idea, unless you're really fond of heavy lifting. See also Matthew 16:18 ;-)
Congrats, you're a nerd and you don't get it.
Art is in the eye of the beholder. I find this piece to be interesting, funny and though-provoking. Therefore to me it is art. Your opinion...is irrelevant.
Wow, so because you (apparently) don't like WoW it only appeals to brainless people?
Seriously, some day I'm gonna come up with a game that only appeals to high and mighty folks like yourself and make a killing. If arrogance and misplaced superiority complexes could be converted to electricity we'd be home and dry overnight.
And no, I don't play WoW.
However I say it's still a piece no matter what!
A piece of _____________. (What goes in the blank is up to you)
Hmmm...
- A piece of music on a modern medium that stops working because the players aren't made anymore and the DRM stops you from copying it?
- A piece of software that "phones home", finds the company that wrote it no longer exists because of bankrupty and stops working?
- A piece of plastic with ridiculous rules attached as to how you're allowed to "own" it?
Heck, if there's one group this should appeal to it's /.ians.
The element of a virtual world that I'd like to see in my RL workspace is a large rail gun out of Eve Online that I could use to convince clients to pay on time...
You'd likely run into tracking problems though.
Besides, even a 200mm autocannon should be more than enough to convince any client to cough up the dough. That, or a smartbomb(several kilometer range might cause some collateral damage in a corporate office though).
Here in the Netherlands I can still watch all of the content on the Comedy Central site. I *do* get ads for dutch companies however. And since they only seem to have been able to attract 2 advertisers so far...
Flamebait = comments = pagehits.
And considering the state of US politics, it doesn't take a lot to get the folks riled up.
Legalizing pot would be a great idea.
Speaking as someone who lives in the Netherlands, there's 1 group of people for whom legalizing pot would be disastrous...the folks that make money off of it. It's amazing how much less interesting the stuff gets when you can buy it everywhere and the aura of illegality has been taken away.
Note to zxsqkty: share more.
I'll bring the Bunahabhain and the MacAllan.
(totally unrelated: within my circle we refer to Lagavulin as "smells like wet dog, tastes like old tires")
The TSA booth monitor requested a pat-down of my daughter - and thankfully did a very poor job.
Of the request or the pat-down? And if the latter...you actually allowed some TSA creep to put his hands on your 10 year old?
""Seriously, dude, this chicken tastes like ass."
Heck, any decent proper TBS with small squads would do it for me. Even the mods that came out after the source for Jagged Alliance 2 was released will only keep me busy for so long :-)
Aww jeez, they do that in WoW as well? Thought it was an EVE thing. Should have known better I guess.
Do you know who owns the IP to the original game? Do they have a habit for litigating? Do they even know they have the IP or did they acquire it by buying distributor X that bought then bankrupt studio Y that got it from independent coder Z?
And is the original game Hardwar or X-com? Because in that case, keep programming, whatever happens ;-)
(Make sure you release the source before getting dragged off by some goons into a black helicopter though)
Actually, my freedom of expression is doing just fine, thank you very much. And it isn't the extremists I am defending, it's the massive majority of muslims that just want to get a damn job, raise their kids, put food on the table and be left alone.
Sharia law is scary and the way it treats women is abysmal. However, since this country already has laws dealing with abuse, rape, murder and all the other nastiness, I do not see the point of singling out 1 complete religion and getting all high and mighty about it. As a matter of fact, I am truly convinced that doing so will only give the kind of people that do want to shoot politicians more ammunition.
And yes, the deaths of Theo van Gogh, Pim Fortuijn and others are tragic.
I'll let you get back on your high horse now.