You know people are going to just write this off as a partisan comment, but I've been watching a BBC Documentary called The Power of Nightmares, and as easy as it is to say 'Those BBC liberals hate Bush,' it contains a lot of commentary from Neo-conservatives themselves, and is about the man who orginally created the theories behind that movement. At points they suggest that the original conservative movement was to weak to lead America, and I came away from the thing with the sincere belief that if a Neocon had controlled the Whitehouse during the Cold War we might have entered a Nuclear conflict.
Honestly it's hard for me to believe that so many conservatives in this election have been so easily shifted to an almost completely different, and arguably a fanatical set of ideals. Although I suppose most Americans wouldn't even know what a Neo-conservative was if you asked them.
It's also the 2nd time you've tried to use your pity for me as a weapon. You come across as an extremely trollish person (or a person with an insane view of what radical means), and you can't even completely read my small responses, which makes it impossible to even HAVE an ongoing arguement, so yes I think you're acting like a moron.
Please quote me where I actually said FOX is biased, aside from right here: FOX is biased, watch Outfoxed, try to rationalize the leaked daily 'directives' as not being biased, I dare you.
Secondly: "the most highly suspect of all the wildly inept "news" outlets"
Sorry but it's hard to feel bad for calling you a moron. First you tried to defend an obviously inept AND biased news outlet by calling it's critics radical leftists, which is insane. And this is the 2nd time I've had to point out that my original post criticizes all news outlets.
Are you a moron? Making fun of FOX News is so mainstream it happens ON FOX at times.
Also, you need some perspective: a communist assassinating a fascist dictator is a radical leftist. Calling people radical for criticizing what has to be the most highly suspect of all the wildly inept "news" outlets we in America are cursed with, makes you look like a dipshit.
People probably say that a lot in repeats, but that's a pretty interesting question in this particular case. I mean, how the hell could anyone who reads the site forget a totally original story like this, from the front page? Maybe they missed it, since the original only appeared at 10AM on a working day.
The 'intellectual look' is only a bonus for people with thin lenses. I have horrible vision and when I used to wear glasses the lenses were thick enough that my eyes looked beady and strange. I thought I was just an ugly dweeb till I got contacts in highschool, then suddenly all the popular girls were trying to up my social status FOR me, so they could date me without being embarassed (that experience was worse than being a geek). I still have a pair today to wear when I take my contacts out, and despite the new fangled featherweight thin technology in all the ads, I still look ugly with them on.
While I think real-time combat would feel strange in Fallout, the focus on this issue is surprising to me. I'm much more worried that Bethesda will fail at recreating the same atmosphere that Fallout 1 & 2 had (sometimes I reinstall them just so I can see the intro movies again), or that they won't get Ron Perlman (I think that's the guy, right?) to voice the narrator.
Even the idea that it might be 3D doesn't bother me that much. The cutscenes weren't in isometric view, and what could be better than letting the fans play in that kind of view, face to face with the mutants, or staring across a dark, gore-covered room at The Master in Doom 3 quality graphics?
It's definitely improved my vocabulary, and I keep dictionary.com bookmarked. But I actually like to learn so maybe that's the reason. My niece certainly doesn't learn or benefit from using this thing.
There is one problem though. I've never understood those pronunciation keys, so I sound stupid in public sometimes. For instance I have a habit of saying "continue-ity" instead of "continuity".
I don't think it'll be bad, it looks like a spoof of CNN's Crossfire, and most importantly of all, the show looks to have one of the cast members of the late Upright Citizens Brigade, and anyone who didn't think that show was pure gold is insane.
At the very least, it'll be much better than Tough Crowd. Man that show sucks. So does Reno 911, who writes that crap? Is anyone writing it at all?
Your main issue with a movie based on a game, starring The Rock, and directed by a stunt coordinator, is that it might be redundant?
It's going to suck like no movie has ever sucked before. It's going to devour the soul of all movie goers with it's sucking prowess. In one massive sucking motion it.....well I think you get my point.
It may be redundant in that so MANY things suck, but I have confidence that it will set new boundaries on how much something can suck.
Ohhhh!!! See that??? See how I made a painfully simplistic observation as quickly as possible with a post that contains no arguement or insights whatsoever? I played on the assumption that 99% of readers would wonder the same thing, and now I'm going to benefit from it while making the least possible effort at any sort of useful contribution to this discussion!! GIMME THE KARMA!!!!
Anyone here optimistic enough to think that Congress will step in before we reach a point as catastrophic as, say, an era where all government documents are tracked and no whistleblowers ever succeed in bringing official misdeeds to light?
What a wonderful Democracy that would leave us with.
IANAL, or an open source guru, or a techie of any kind, but I find it hard to believe SCO could enter into deal under the GPL and then have any chance of convincing the courts that it's invalid. Did they not READ it the first time? And considering the kinds of lincenses that ARE easily enforced, it seems rediculous to think something like the GPL could be genuinely challenged. I've read it, and it basically says, "Use this however you like, do whatever you want with it, just be sure that once you're done with whatever you're doing you let others see what you've done and do whatever they want to do with what you've done. And yes, you can make money from your unique alterations to what we've done."
I've heard this story before, but what I'd be most interested in having (for comedic value), if anyone knows anything about it, is a heavily used screaming noise for crowds that is puncuated by a lady yelling "OH MY GOD!" South Park has used it more than once (frequent destruction of the entire town), and it's used in the Futurama episode about the 'What If' machine, when bender is a giant.
3,400,000 people are on Kazaa as I write this. For all I know, that might be half what it was (I doubt it though), but that doesn't seem like much of a victory for the RIAA. I use eMule personally....I find more obscure/interesting files there for some reason.
I will say that it seems to have worked on people too computer illiterate to share files in the first place. My mother, sister, and niece all suddenly decided they didn't want me making CD's for them afterall, once they heard about the lawsuits. And that's 3 out of the 4 people in my family who've asked about getting CD's made. None of them know how to get mp3's on their own, but the 4th (my brother) couldn't care less about copyright laws. He's an unorganized farm boy who's either lost, scratched, or had stolen, almost every CD he's ever owned. And I would guess he's just tired of spending $15-$20 a pop on them.
It was less than 50%, but it gets lower every election year so we'll reach 30% soon enough I'm sure. Although the more pessimistic among us might argue that even when it devolves into a debate between Dave Johnson and John Davidson over the positive aspects of good things and the negative aspects of bad things, they'll still be able to fool at least half of us into voting.
(Just FYI: While a little less than 50% voted, it only took 17% of eligible voters to actually elect the President)
To be fair, Bush actually improved upon Clinton's 1995 executive order on declassification. Ashcroft has encouraged challenging all FOIA requests, and Cheney is still fighting FOIA requests concerning his energy cabinet meetings.
You could also argue that they DID double their (black) budget (that would explain a lot really, who have we been waiting to fight since the cold war ended anyway?) and at the same time chose to cover it up.
...I wish I were joking when I say that a lot of the stuff in that article frightens me more than it amuses me. Some of this stuff I've done, and apparently I shouldn't have. I basically taught myself how to put a system together through trial and error (and error, and error, and ERROR).
I've got $12 that says the penalty for stealing bread involved massive arterial hemorrhage. Actually I don't have $12, but that's another topic. No wait, that's this topic. (Down with the record industry!)
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You know people are going to just write this off as a partisan comment, but I've been watching a BBC Documentary called The Power of Nightmares, and as easy as it is to say 'Those BBC liberals hate Bush,' it contains a lot of commentary from Neo-conservatives themselves, and is about the man who orginally created the theories behind that movement. At points they suggest that the original conservative movement was to weak to lead America, and I came away from the thing with the sincere belief that if a Neocon had controlled the Whitehouse during the Cold War we might have entered a Nuclear conflict.
Honestly it's hard for me to believe that so many conservatives in this election have been so easily shifted to an almost completely different, and arguably a fanatical set of ideals. Although I suppose most Americans wouldn't even know what a Neo-conservative was if you asked them.
It's also the 2nd time you've tried to use your pity for me as a weapon. You come across as an extremely trollish person (or a person with an insane view of what radical means), and you can't even completely read my small responses, which makes it impossible to even HAVE an ongoing arguement, so yes I think you're acting like a moron.
Please quote me where I actually said FOX is biased, aside from right here: FOX is biased, watch Outfoxed, try to rationalize the leaked daily 'directives' as not being biased, I dare you.
Secondly: "the most highly suspect of all the wildly inept "news" outlets"
Sorry but it's hard to feel bad for calling you a moron. First you tried to defend an obviously inept AND biased news outlet by calling it's critics radical leftists, which is insane. And this is the 2nd time I've had to point out that my original post criticizes all news outlets.
You must also be a moron, to reply to a post that claims all our news Media in America is inept with a post claiming I'm playing favorites.
Are you a moron? Making fun of FOX News is so mainstream it happens ON FOX at times.
Also, you need some perspective: a communist assassinating a fascist dictator is a radical leftist. Calling people radical for criticizing what has to be the most highly suspect of all the wildly inept "news" outlets we in America are cursed with, makes you look like a dipshit.
People probably say that a lot in repeats, but that's a pretty interesting question in this particular case. I mean, how the hell could anyone who reads the site forget a totally original story like this, from the front page? Maybe they missed it, since the original only appeared at 10AM on a working day.
I still have Firebird 0.7 (I'm lazy)
I would've upgraded by now, but I don't want to have to redo all my settings and junk.
The 'intellectual look' is only a bonus for people with thin lenses. I have horrible vision and when I used to wear glasses the lenses were thick enough that my eyes looked beady and strange. I thought I was just an ugly dweeb till I got contacts in highschool, then suddenly all the popular girls were trying to up my social status FOR me, so they could date me without being embarassed (that experience was worse than being a geek). I still have a pair today to wear when I take my contacts out, and despite the new fangled featherweight thin technology in all the ads, I still look ugly with them on.
While I think real-time combat would feel strange in Fallout, the focus on this issue is surprising to me. I'm much more worried that Bethesda will fail at recreating the same atmosphere that Fallout 1 & 2 had (sometimes I reinstall them just so I can see the intro movies again), or that they won't get Ron Perlman (I think that's the guy, right?) to voice the narrator.
Even the idea that it might be 3D doesn't bother me that much. The cutscenes weren't in isometric view, and what could be better than letting the fans play in that kind of view, face to face with the mutants, or staring across a dark, gore-covered room at The Master in Doom 3 quality graphics?
It's definitely improved my vocabulary, and I keep dictionary.com bookmarked. But I actually like to learn so maybe that's the reason. My niece certainly doesn't learn or benefit from using this thing.
There is one problem though. I've never understood those pronunciation keys, so I sound stupid in public sometimes. For instance I have a habit of saying "continue-ity" instead of "continuity".
I don't think it'll be bad, it looks like a spoof of CNN's Crossfire, and most importantly of all, the show looks to have one of the cast members of the late Upright Citizens Brigade, and anyone who didn't think that show was pure gold is insane.
At the very least, it'll be much better than Tough Crowd. Man that show sucks. So does Reno 911, who writes that crap? Is anyone writing it at all?
Your main issue with a movie based on a game, starring The Rock, and directed by a stunt coordinator, is that it might be redundant?
It's going to suck like no movie has ever sucked before. It's going to devour the soul of all movie goers with it's sucking prowess. In one massive sucking motion it.....well I think you get my point.
It may be redundant in that so MANY things suck, but I have confidence that it will set new boundaries on how much something can suck.
Ohhhh!!! See that??? See how I made a painfully simplistic observation as quickly as possible with a post that contains no arguement or insights whatsoever? I played on the assumption that 99% of readers would wonder the same thing, and now I'm going to benefit from it while making the least possible effort at any sort of useful contribution to this discussion!! GIMME THE KARMA!!!!
Anyone here optimistic enough to think that Congress will step in before we reach a point as catastrophic as, say, an era where all government documents are tracked and no whistleblowers ever succeed in bringing official misdeeds to light?
What a wonderful Democracy that would leave us with.
You shoulda suggested he start as a gorgy so he doesn't need to fight well. What are you some kinda non-gorging res whore? omfghomo!! ;]
IANAL, or an open source guru, or a techie of any kind, but I find it hard to believe SCO could enter into deal under the GPL and then have any chance of convincing the courts that it's invalid. Did they not READ it the first time? And considering the kinds of lincenses that ARE easily enforced, it seems rediculous to think something like the GPL could be genuinely challenged. I've read it, and it basically says, "Use this however you like, do whatever you want with it, just be sure that once you're done with whatever you're doing you let others see what you've done and do whatever they want to do with what you've done. And yes, you can make money from your unique alterations to what we've done."
I've heard this story before, but what I'd be most interested in having (for comedic value), if anyone knows anything about it, is a heavily used screaming noise for crowds that is puncuated by a lady yelling "OH MY GOD!" South Park has used it more than once (frequent destruction of the entire town), and it's used in the Futurama episode about the 'What If' machine, when bender is a giant.
3,400,000 people are on Kazaa as I write this. For all I know, that might be half what it was (I doubt it though), but that doesn't seem like much of a victory for the RIAA. I use eMule personally....I find more obscure/interesting files there for some reason.
I will say that it seems to have worked on people too computer illiterate to share files in the first place. My mother, sister, and niece all suddenly decided they didn't want me making CD's for them afterall, once they heard about the lawsuits. And that's 3 out of the 4 people in my family who've asked about getting CD's made. None of them know how to get mp3's on their own, but the 4th (my brother) couldn't care less about copyright laws. He's an unorganized farm boy who's either lost, scratched, or had stolen, almost every CD he's ever owned. And I would guess he's just tired of spending $15-$20 a pop on them.
It was less than 50%, but it gets lower every election year so we'll reach 30% soon enough I'm sure. Although the more pessimistic among us might argue that even when it devolves into a debate between Dave Johnson and John Davidson over the positive aspects of good things and the negative aspects of bad things, they'll still be able to fool at least half of us into voting.
(Just FYI: While a little less than 50% voted, it only took 17% of eligible voters to actually elect the President)
To be fair, Bush actually improved upon Clinton's 1995 executive order on declassification. Ashcroft has encouraged challenging all FOIA requests, and Cheney is still fighting FOIA requests concerning his energy cabinet meetings.
You could also argue that they DID double their (black) budget (that would explain a lot really, who have we been waiting to fight since the cold war ended anyway?) and at the same time chose to cover it up.
Because the military isn't responsible for deciding rather or not to announce it.
Anyway, that said I don't believe one way or the other personally.
...I wish I were joking when I say that a lot of the stuff in that article frightens me more than it amuses me. Some of this stuff I've done, and apparently I shouldn't have. I basically taught myself how to put a system together through trial and error (and error, and error, and ERROR).
...and if I catch wind of the RIAA propaganizing my niece during her school hours, I'll be meeting the spokesperson out on the playground.
I've got $12 that says the penalty for stealing bread involved massive arterial hemorrhage. Actually I don't have $12, but that's another topic. No wait, that's this topic. (Down with the record industry!)