I agree with everything up to the punishment. I think you can simply say "son/daughter, I know you weren't doing research for health class. I looked at the logs. Why did you lie to me?" And say it calmly.
Then have a discussion about what you think is and isn't acceptable to look at. If you feel confident enough in your position then you should be able to argue it. Kids are not stupid.
I was raised being treated as an adult. I think it is the best way. I got to learn my lessons young when the consequences were minimal instead of being treated like a child and having my rage and immaturity boil until I was old enough to have my actions seriously affect my life.
I grew up in China, behind the "great firewall of China." Because of this I could not go to many, many sites. The selection ranged from porn to int'l media sites. I manged to get to ALL of those sites, however, because there were a few sites, none of which I remember, unfortunately, that allowed you to load a website through their's.
For instance if I went to supertunneling.com and wanted to see cnn.com it would give me something like this http://supertunneling.com/cgi-bin/redirect?site=cn n.com. I could then surf all of CNN through this site. If such a site was eventually blocked by the great firewall, others would come up.
This doesn't make logging or firewalling pointless. It does, however, mean that you might have to look a little more closely.
Spend a weekend trying to not get caught by your own traps. After all, the technology I'm talking about was circa 1993-1995.
Just a note -- the great firewall has become considerably more relaxed over the years. That and I stopped looking at porn. (I don't need too -- I have a girlfriend of four years taking a nap in my bed as we speak!)
This "we need one unified desktop" argument always puzzles me. It is impossible.
"Get rid of all the little windows managers..." It's impossible.
"Get rid of all the different text editors." It's impossible.
"Get rid of all the different shells." It's impossible.
GNU/Linux is about choice. Because it is about choice, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get rid of the choices. No one person owns all of this. No one person can ban any of this. It's like saying, "let's just get all people to agree on one idea and one path for the future." It doesn't work; it is impossible.
This is because it is not compatible with the fundamental rule that people can make choices in their lives. The Free Software World works by the same priciple. That is why it's impossible.
So let's start working with what we CAN do.
People are not stupid. They do not need everything to look precisely the same to figure it out. They figured XP out even though it was blue and the control panel had a different layout.
Look at http://www.freedesktop.org. THAT is a good idea. Have the distributions put some pressure on the desktop systems to conform more fully to that. Put some pressure on them yourself.
The people who have some authority in other areas, like printer configuration and on the available printing systems, should make similar guidelines. We should then support those guidelines.
And these guidelines can be collaboratively developed, as freedesktop's are.
Distributed systems can be as effective as controled ones -- they just run under different rules. The key is collaboration and respect. If the developers feel they are being respected and that they have a say in how a standard is developed then a third party can develop a standard that all concerned parties can appreciate, respect, and follow. The fourth party, the community, can contribute by support such efforts at dialogue.
So let us think about what IS possible, rather than wish for something that is not. Option number two will not die, so let us find a new way of thinking so that it doesn't have to and that is is BETTER that it doesn't. Poison into medicine.
If the lights were red then people would have to stop ahead of the emergency vehicle. It allows the resulting confusion of the people at the red light while they try to figure out which lane has the emergency vehicle and the confusion of those who can't figure out why the light is red and whether they should go or not...
I have recently had a relative and family friend die from cancer.
In the case of my friend he only found out nine months before his death that he even had cancer. They tried every treatment available, but it had spread too far.
Something like this would have been wonderful. Once they had found out that it was far too wide-spread for normal treatments Ronnie would have jumped at a chance for this.
Some may say that we should try it without knowing the long-term effects, I disagree. With terminally ill patients there is no hope. This provides a double solution -- not only should the virus kill the cancer, it provides the patient with a reason to keep on fighting.
I hope they get this to all the terminally ill patients that they can ASAP.
As much as that is a fun solution... an easier one would simply be to get it on bittorrent. If it is popular enough it will be available and it will be less likely that those debian servers would be shut down.
I doubt that OSX on X86 commodity hardware would be nearly as good as it seems to be on Apple hardware.
I understand that BSD runs well on i386, but BSD doesn't have all of the nice features of OSX.
When you get down to things like suporting all firewire devices on all the different x86 firewire controllers and having graphics run as well as graphics do but on ati mach 64s.... that it becomes a little less polished. (if it was sold by a big company on x86 hardware it might be better... then they could pick the best hardware for the job.)
This could be a profitable setup if you expanded it. Set up www.freemailsomethingorother.com and have it grab many popular web-based email sites' email and provide it as pop or imap email to it's subscribers. Put a little add at the bottom of the emails, or in a periodical digest, and you could probably make enough money to pay for it. a good weekend project, at least.
Yeah... I have the zsnes version. I would just like to support them and buy their wonderful product. (Not to mention that I wouldn't mind it redone with modern graphics... though I don't know if they could manage it as well as they had.)
Wow... you've got some some boiling blood there...
I also lived in Taiwan. On Yangmingshan, in Taibei.
And just so you know, the guomingdang were just as bad as the CCP. They are gone, thank goodness. But it took time, didn't it?
Oh.. and the Hans are being sent to Xinjiang to disrupt the Uigers. The Tibet situation is handled slightly differently.
I am familar with all of the accusations but the one of slavery and rape. I would like to know where that is happening, though I would not be surprised.
China has a lot of problems. I am the first to admit it. I wrote a 40000 word report on them. That doesn't mean that a revolution helps, though.
China is not the same China as it was under Mao. More importantly, it is not the China that was under the Guomingdang and their European partners. THAT was the aweful China.
China is moving in the right direction. Their problems are very complex. It is not a perfect system. I don't want to just allow the government to do whatever they want, but I don't want to suggest revolution. I think that, if the hand is played properly, progression can continue towards a freer China. If we want it to sustain itself, however, it has to be a gradual change.
And please don't think I"m not genuine. I have been very pained, and very angry, with what China has become, at times. There is a tremendous increase in prostitution stemming from the many rural female immigrants who can not find work in the city because of their poor education. That is something that needs to change. There are many unemployed. That needs to change. There is a lot of corruption. That needs to change. Many things need to change.
Feel free to email me. I would love to discuss this. I want what is best for China, and the world, and am willing to chat with anyone with the same intentions.
Well, Deng Xiaoping isn't, unfortunately. He was the greatest leader of China since independence.
I spent seven years in China, from 1992 to 1999, on U.S. government orders. They have done more than a face-lift. They are not perfect, but they are doing a pretty good job of transitioning their country into modernity. I hope that someday a governmental model similar to ours will be applicable, but it just isn't right now.
Every country has its own peculiarities. A government system can not be super-imposed. That is what led the the failure of the first communist government in China. This new version, a more malleable one, is close to the right thing. And if you want to speak about what is best while considering the past, this is it.
They need to continue to evolve base on the market and not on some odd 5 or 10-year plans, but they are doing that.
Do you have sound equipment for us musicians who only do vocals? (Meaning, do you have any persons who make beats? (
I make some myself -- and get paid a pretty penny to do so. But I generally just sell to the local D.C. rap scene. I don't like my own beats enough to use them in my music, however.)
Doesn't a record label have to have some ability to record things? This looks like a distribution lable.
I love the model, I just wish that they had a studio somewhere. I am a musician myself and would love to have some talented studio professionals who also happened to have some ethics.
Which makes you wonder... what do they do for you? They won't get you into a music store. They won't get you gigs. They will sell your music on their website. True, you don't lose too much, but you don't get a whole lot either.
Just my thoughts. Upon re-reading them, they don't make as much sense as they did in my head.
Just to make things a little clearer... (so you don't have to read any manuals...)
Tell me to slow down. Some of this stuff doesn't make sense to non-tech people (aka "geeks.")
Knoppix is a "live-cd." Meaning, it doesn't have to be installed on your computer. When you run it, you run it straight from the CD. This slows things down considerably, but makes it so you don't have to mess with the hassle of installation (and don't have to worry about going "cold turkey" to a new computer operating system.)
Using a live-cd also means that you can not save to your harddrive. The CDs are, indeed, writeable. They are not, however, always re-writeable. Even if they were, there are no live-CDs, of any operating system, that allow the CD to be rewritten while in use. It would be an interesting feature, however. It could possibly be created so when you shut down it asks whether you would like to save your data. If you say "yes," then it could copy what it needed to the RAM disk (a virtual disk is made from your memory. Unfortunately memory losses its data when the computer is turned off or rebooted) and rewrite the portions of the disk that were needed. This wouldn't be too simple to implement, however. You would need to have sufficient memory to store all the necessary data, programs, etc as well as enough running memory to use the programs. If the Knoppix people happen to read this, though, I hope they ponder over it for longer than the 30 seconds that I have.
This release of Knoppix is supposed to make saving a little easier. You can enable an external device (such as a USB harddrive) or internal partition for writing. I have not used Knoppix for a while. It was do-able when I used it, though not too "intuitively." Maybe they have worked on that.
This would explain why you had your experience. You can install Knoppix on your harddrive, which would allow you to save data. It would also speed up Openoffice. Once Openoffice 1.1 is released, however, I'd suggest upgrading to it (if you install this to your hard drive) -- it is considerably faster.
Oh yeah -- and I wouldn't consider windows mellenium edition "intuitive," it's easy of use is simply the product of many years of windows dominance and the associated familiarity. You must admit, Knoppix couldn't have been too bad if you managed to type a document during your first go. (also, another note, a good rule for technology, open or closed, take baby steps. write a small document before you do your thesis... make sure you're not missing anything (like the fact that you're writing a paper on a live-CD without any reasonable way of saving it.)
I have a portable digital audio player with 64 megs. It is not my home system, where things are done at 128 (really, the default of oggenc...), it is what I carry around. I'd rather listen to (almost) twice as many songs at 64kbps then half as many at the same quality (since I am using cheap-o earphones.) Currently I am doing it at 96kbps, but I might go down to 64 after reading this article.
My favortive game ever was Final Fantasy III on SNES (in the U.S. It seems to have been something like IV in Japan.) I have only played some of the subsequent FF games (well, really only watch a friend play one or two...), but none of them kept my interest. I would love to see FFIII redone (with a GNU/Linux release, since I don't have Windows or MacOS) with modern graphics, an extended story (that is very well thought out) and (even) more variables.
I still play the original SNES game. I feel like I can happily walk around the FFIII world for hours and still find interesting things to do.
People talk about "scripted" games and "open-ended" games, and which are better. I think FFIII was a perfect combination.
3. Companies would then become even more controlling. They would say "we will protect you from these fines, so long as we have absolute control over your system. We can install software when we feel we need to, etc. Okay?" and the 50,000,000 internet users who don't want to worry about updating their anti-virus software say, "okay."
I read this article yesterday. I promptly emailed the editor. Here is a copy of my email.
To Whom it May Concern:
I have recently read an article on your website claiming there is no way to set up a dual-boot system on the new toshiba laptop. This is not true.
There are now non-destructive ntfs filesystem resizing tools for linux. I personally used a live-CD to resize my windows partition before installing debian. I know that Mandrake comes with the tools by default and has the option for resizing windows partitions (NTFS) from the installer.
here is a link to the FAQ: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfsr esize. html
I hope you can attach an editor's note so future readers will not be misled by this article.
He wasn't asking for evidence that they played violent video games. He was asking for evidence they THEY named themselves after a video game, and not this lawyer.
"When I see some hardcore FPS gamer have a visit to the hospital, and watch a real human life disappear before their eyes, then come out smiling, I'll believe video games might, over the long term, desensitize children."
I think that every person in the world (and especially the developed world) should do just that. I have. I also observed a dramatic change in my friends when they saw me get hit by a SUV going 45 mph while crossing the street (at a crosswalk) after having just said goodbye to them. I didn't die, but it gave them a better grasp of life.
wonderfully written. I would agree, it is an important question to ask. I usually would not stoop to referencing a T.V. show, but I was watching a ST:TNG rerun yesterday that had Picard captured by the Cardasians (sp?). The daughter of his captor came into the room and Picard asked, "how can you let her see this." The Cardasian responded, "she's been raised her whole life to know who her enemies were."
I think that violent games are one influence (and an increasingly large one,) but that the influences are also strong in politics, music, and in the words of our leaders. (How many more people do you think have said "bring em' on!" since Bush challenged our enemies to do the same?)
FF4 (FF3 in America, if we're talking about the same thing) is my absolute favorite game of all time. I was a lot younger then, but Terra and Celeb... oo!
I don't really play computer games any more (expect maybe tuxracer once a month), but I'd buy that in a second (if i could manage it in wine/there was a gnu/linux port)
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I agree with everything up to the punishment. I think you can simply say "son/daughter, I know you weren't doing research for health class. I looked at the logs. Why did you lie to me?" And say it calmly.
Then have a discussion about what you think is and isn't acceptable to look at. If you feel confident enough in your position then you should be able to argue it. Kids are not stupid.
I was raised being treated as an adult. I think it is the best way. I got to learn my lessons young when the consequences were minimal instead of being treated like a child and having my rage and immaturity boil until I was old enough to have my actions seriously affect my life.
Let me tell you a story.
n n.com. I could then surf all of CNN through this site. If such a site was eventually blocked by the great firewall, others would come up.
I grew up in China, behind the "great firewall of China." Because of this I could not go to many, many sites. The selection ranged from porn to int'l media sites. I manged to get to ALL of those sites, however, because there were a few sites, none of which I remember, unfortunately, that allowed you to load a website through their's.
For instance if I went to supertunneling.com and wanted to see cnn.com it would give me something like this http://supertunneling.com/cgi-bin/redirect?site=c
This doesn't make logging or firewalling pointless. It does, however, mean that you might have to look a little more closely.
Spend a weekend trying to not get caught by your own traps. After all, the technology I'm talking about was circa 1993-1995.
Just a note -- the great firewall has become considerably more relaxed over the years. That and I stopped looking at porn. (I don't need too -- I have a girlfriend of four years taking a nap in my bed as we speak!)
This "we need one unified desktop" argument always puzzles me. It is impossible.
"Get rid of all the little windows managers..." It's impossible.
"Get rid of all the different text editors." It's impossible.
"Get rid of all the different shells." It's impossible.
GNU/Linux is about choice. Because it is about choice, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get rid of the choices. No one person owns all of this. No one person can ban any of this. It's like saying, "let's just get all people to agree on one idea and one path for the future." It doesn't work; it is impossible.
This is because it is not compatible with the fundamental rule that people can make choices in their lives. The Free Software World works by the same priciple. That is why it's impossible.
So let's start working with what we CAN do.
People are not stupid. They do not need everything to look precisely the same to figure it out. They figured XP out even though it was blue and the control panel had a different layout.
Look at http://www.freedesktop.org. THAT is a good idea. Have the distributions put some pressure on the desktop systems to conform more fully to that. Put some pressure on them yourself.
The people who have some authority in other areas, like printer configuration and on the available printing systems, should make similar guidelines. We should then support those guidelines.
And these guidelines can be collaboratively developed, as freedesktop's are.
Distributed systems can be as effective as controled ones -- they just run under different rules. The key is collaboration and respect. If the developers feel they are being respected and that they have a say in how a standard is developed then a third party can develop a standard that all concerned parties can appreciate, respect, and follow. The fourth party, the community, can contribute by support such efforts at dialogue.
So let us think about what IS possible, rather than wish for something that is not. Option number two will not die, so let us find a new way of thinking so that it doesn't have to and that is is BETTER that it doesn't. Poison into medicine.
Tata.
Wouldn't work, unfortunately.
If the lights were red then people would have to stop ahead of the emergency vehicle. It allows the resulting confusion of the people at the red light while they try to figure out which lane has the emergency vehicle and the confusion of those who can't figure out why the light is red and whether they should go or not...
otherwise a good idea.
I have recently had a relative and family friend die from cancer.
In the case of my friend he only found out nine months before his death that he even had cancer. They tried every treatment available, but it had spread too far.
Something like this would have been wonderful. Once they had found out that it was far too wide-spread for normal treatments Ronnie would have jumped at a chance for this.
Some may say that we should try it without knowing the long-term effects, I disagree. With terminally ill patients there is no hope. This provides a double solution -- not only should the virus kill the cancer, it provides the patient with a reason to keep on fighting.
I hope they get this to all the terminally ill patients that they can ASAP.
As much as that is a fun solution... an easier one would simply be to get it on bittorrent. If it is popular enough it will be available and it will be less likely that those debian servers would be shut down.
I doubt that OSX on X86 commodity hardware would be nearly as good as it seems to be on Apple hardware.
I understand that BSD runs well on i386, but BSD doesn't have all of the nice features of OSX.
When you get down to things like suporting all firewire devices on all the different x86 firewire controllers and having graphics run as well as graphics do but on ati mach 64s.... that it becomes a little less polished. (if it was sold by a big company on x86 hardware it might be better... then they could pick the best hardware for the job.)
This could be a profitable setup if you expanded it. Set up www.freemailsomethingorother.com and have it grab many popular web-based email sites' email and provide it as pop or imap email to it's subscribers. Put a little add at the bottom of the emails, or in a periodical digest, and you could probably make enough money to pay for it. a good weekend project, at least.
Yeah... I have the zsnes version. I would just like to support them and buy their wonderful product. (Not to mention that I wouldn't mind it redone with modern graphics... though I don't know if they could manage it as well as they had.)
Thanks for the correction on the numbering.
Wow... you've got some some boiling blood there...
I also lived in Taiwan. On Yangmingshan, in Taibei.
And just so you know, the guomingdang were just as bad as the CCP. They are gone, thank goodness. But it took time, didn't it?
Oh.. and the Hans are being sent to Xinjiang to disrupt the Uigers. The Tibet situation is handled slightly differently.
I am familar with all of the accusations but the one of slavery and rape. I would like to know where that is happening, though I would not be surprised.
China has a lot of problems. I am the first to admit it. I wrote a 40000 word report on them. That doesn't mean that a revolution helps, though.
China is not the same China as it was under Mao. More importantly, it is not the China that was under the Guomingdang and their European partners. THAT was the aweful China.
China is moving in the right direction. Their problems are very complex. It is not a perfect system. I don't want to just allow the government to do whatever they want, but I don't want to suggest revolution. I think that, if the hand is played properly, progression can continue towards a freer China. If we want it to sustain itself, however, it has to be a gradual change.
And please don't think I"m not genuine. I have been very pained, and very angry, with what China has become, at times. There is a tremendous increase in prostitution stemming from the many rural female immigrants who can not find work in the city because of their poor education. That is something that needs to change. There are many unemployed. That needs to change. There is a lot of corruption. That needs to change. Many things need to change.
Feel free to email me. I would love to discuss this. I want what is best for China, and the world, and am willing to chat with anyone with the same intentions.
Well, Deng Xiaoping isn't, unfortunately. He was the greatest leader of China since independence.
I spent seven years in China, from 1992 to 1999, on U.S. government orders. They have done more than a face-lift. They are not perfect, but they are doing a pretty good job of transitioning their country into modernity. I hope that someday a governmental model similar to ours will be applicable, but it just isn't right now.
Every country has its own peculiarities. A government system can not be super-imposed. That is what led the the failure of the first communist government in China. This new version, a more malleable one, is close to the right thing. And if you want to speak about what is best while considering the past, this is it.
They need to continue to evolve base on the market and not on some odd 5 or 10-year plans, but they are doing that.
so you have a full studio at berkeley?
Do you have sound equipment for us musicians who only do vocals? (Meaning, do you have any persons who make beats? (
I make some myself -- and get paid a pretty penny to do so. But I generally just sell to the local D.C. rap scene. I don't like my own beats enough to use them in my music, however.)
David (from nowhere)
Doesn't a record label have to have some ability to record things? This looks like a distribution lable.
I love the model, I just wish that they had a studio somewhere. I am a musician myself and would love to have some talented studio professionals who also happened to have some ethics.
Which makes you wonder... what do they do for you? They won't get you into a music store. They won't get you gigs. They will sell your music on their website. True, you don't lose too much, but you don't get a whole lot either.
Just my thoughts. Upon re-reading them, they don't make as much sense as they did in my head.
Just to make things a little clearer... (so you don't have to read any manuals...)
Tell me to slow down. Some of this stuff doesn't make sense to non-tech people (aka "geeks.")
Knoppix is a "live-cd." Meaning, it doesn't have to be installed on your computer. When you run it, you run it straight from the CD. This slows things down considerably, but makes it so you don't have to mess with the hassle of installation (and don't have to worry about going "cold turkey" to a new computer operating system.)
Using a live-cd also means that you can not save to your harddrive. The CDs are, indeed, writeable. They are not, however, always re-writeable. Even if they were, there are no live-CDs, of any operating system, that allow the CD to be rewritten while in use. It would be an interesting feature, however. It could possibly be created so when you shut down it asks whether you would like to save your data. If you say "yes," then it could copy what it needed to the RAM disk (a virtual disk is made from your memory. Unfortunately memory losses its data when the computer is turned off or rebooted) and rewrite the portions of the disk that were needed. This wouldn't be too simple to implement, however. You would need to have sufficient memory to store all the necessary data, programs, etc as well as enough running memory to use the programs. If the Knoppix people happen to read this, though, I hope they ponder over it for longer than the 30 seconds that I have.
This release of Knoppix is supposed to make saving a little easier. You can enable an external device (such as a USB harddrive) or internal partition for writing. I have not used Knoppix for a while. It was do-able when I used it, though not too "intuitively." Maybe they have worked on that.
This would explain why you had your experience. You can install Knoppix on your harddrive, which would allow you to save data. It would also speed up Openoffice. Once Openoffice 1.1 is released, however, I'd suggest upgrading to it (if you install this to your hard drive) -- it is considerably faster.
Oh yeah -- and I wouldn't consider windows mellenium edition "intuitive," it's easy of use is simply the product of many years of windows dominance and the associated familiarity. You must admit, Knoppix couldn't have been too bad if you managed to type a document during your first go. (also, another note, a good rule for technology, open or closed, take baby steps. write a small document before you do your thesis... make sure you're not missing anything (like the fact that you're writing a paper on a live-CD without any reasonable way of saving it.)
Bare minimum? I don't think so.
I have a portable digital audio player with 64 megs. It is not my home system, where things are done at 128 (really, the default of oggenc...), it is what I carry around. I'd rather listen to (almost) twice as many songs at 64kbps then half as many at the same quality (since I am using cheap-o earphones.) Currently I am doing it at 96kbps, but I might go down to 64 after reading this article.
Another reply says 1/6th... and that's not even true.
1/5 is the closest single digit fraction. 1.3 billion Chinese/6.3 billion people in the world. India would hold the 1/6 spot.
I have a different idea of perfection.
.02.
My favortive game ever was Final Fantasy III on SNES (in the U.S. It seems to have been something like IV in Japan.) I have only played some of the subsequent FF games (well, really only watch a friend play one or two...), but none of them kept my interest. I would love to see FFIII redone (with a GNU/Linux release, since I don't have Windows or MacOS) with modern graphics, an extended story (that is very well thought out) and (even) more variables.
I still play the original SNES game. I feel like I can happily walk around the FFIII world for hours and still find interesting things to do.
People talk about "scripted" games and "open-ended" games, and which are better. I think FFIII was a perfect combination.
My
3. Companies would then become even more controlling. They would say "we will protect you from these fines, so long as we have absolute control over your system. We can install software when we feel we need to, etc. Okay?" and the 50,000,000 internet users who don't want to worry about updating their anti-virus software say, "okay."
Good-bye, Software Choice. You were a swell guy.
I read this article yesterday. I promptly emailed the editor. Here is a copy of my email.
r esize. html
To Whom it May Concern:
I have recently read an article on your website claiming there is no way
to set up a dual-boot system on the new toshiba laptop. This is not true.
There are now non-destructive ntfs filesystem resizing tools for linux.
I personally used a live-CD to resize my windows partition before installing
debian. I know that Mandrake comes with the tools by default and has the
option for resizing windows partitions (NTFS) from the installer.
here is a link to the FAQ:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs
I hope you can attach an editor's note so future readers will not be
misled by this article.
thank you,
david tansey
He wasn't asking for evidence that they played violent video games. He was asking for evidence they THEY named themselves after a video game, and not this lawyer.
"When I see some hardcore FPS gamer have a visit to the hospital, and watch a real human life disappear before their eyes, then come out smiling, I'll believe video games might, over the long term, desensitize children."
I think that every person in the world (and especially the developed world) should do just that. I have. I also observed a dramatic change in my friends when they saw me get hit by a SUV going 45 mph while crossing the street (at a crosswalk) after having just said goodbye to them. I didn't die, but it gave them a better grasp of life.
wonderfully written. I would agree, it is an important question to ask. I usually would not stoop to referencing a T.V. show, but I was watching a ST:TNG rerun yesterday that had Picard captured by the Cardasians (sp?). The daughter of his captor came into the room and Picard asked, "how can you let her see this." The Cardasian responded, "she's been raised her whole life to know who her enemies were."
I think that violent games are one influence (and an increasingly large one,) but that the influences are also strong in politics, music, and in the words of our leaders. (How many more people do you think have said "bring em' on!" since Bush challenged our enemies to do the same?)
Here here!
FF4 (FF3 in America, if we're talking about the same thing) is my absolute favorite game of all time. I was a lot younger then, but Terra and Celeb... oo!
I don't really play computer games any more (expect maybe tuxracer once a month), but I'd buy that in a second (if i could manage it in wine/there was a gnu/linux port)
the good ol' days...
I hope everything works out between you two.
Or else this will give a whole new meaning to the Slashdot Effect.
More brain mass, but not as dense.