I am sure it would work better if the decision was made by a secret court. The convicted user and its ISP would be informed by a National Security Letter with a gag order. After all this is about maintaining order, and we know it requires some secrecy. Otherwise pesky journalists brag about government wrongdoing about human rights, while it is just busy protecting the economy (and healthy economy means you may get a job if you apply where it has been off-shored, so this is for your own good).
Some raised issues about the whether it is possible to cut internet access without cutting the phone when the ISP provides both. There is a simple solution to that: instead of cutting internet access, the secret court could decide to abduct the user to a rehabilitation camp, where he could be taught about its wrongdoing using modern techniques such as waterboarding. That could be off-shored to some dictator-led third world country to save money, while still creating jobs opportunities at the same time (see above).
I say good sir. You raise some jolly good ideas you do. However I propose an alternative solution for your consideration. We have a large number of people infringing up on this problem. That represents a sizable force that could be utilized in some manner rather than occupying them for some time with your conditioning. Instead we could use them to shore up economic and militaristic deficits. Rather than wasting time trying to repair the mental facilities of those who are obviously unable to change, we could use their numbers to bolster our side in this conflict I hear we're planning, after of course they've repaid their social debt by doing repairs and the like they could repay their ethical debt to society by doing a bit of good for a change.
a) it could be rather hard to bar someone from the internet. the determined (even mildly) individual can find ways around it.
b) the thread of violence is supposed to be enough to stop violence. That's the principle behind many laws. I think that includes this law. I propose that the idea behind the law was that by cutting off people from the internet it was supposed to cow the rest into submission. It could be failing to cow anyone into submission
either of those cases represents "failure" of the law
I don't get it 'take photos of yourself, looking at tits'
so someone else hold your phone and snaps a pic of you when you stare at boobs of the girl across the street? How is that different from an app? or how would they app that concept?
So it's wrong for a guy to talk about "taking a picture of yourself staring at tits" and to simulate masturbation in public, but it's perfectly all right for Miley Cyrus to do the same (and more!) on national television in front of millions of people? I guess they should have done it on MTV; then it would have been ok.
Get out of your echochamber and you'll see that nobody thinks what Miley Cyrus was appropriate or mature either. Here's an example.
To be fair the appropriation argument is centred on the racial implications of the incident not the gendered ones.
Try to keep up. Feminist blogs were full of criticism of that performance. I realize that ruins your little rant and your fantasy of persecution, but there it is.
interesting.. not watching or caring about the VMAs I'm one of the few people who hasn't actually seen it. It never occurred to me to consider a feminist perspective on the incident. I generally don't seek feminist articles, I just read the ones recommended to me. But this is intriguing. Maybe i'll look it up
actually not that different. They've been singing this song for a long time. I haven't seen the WWDC stuff but I have minimal interest in playing games on a phone where my large fingers will cover up the playing area and that's my central problem with phone gaming.
i think that statistic has more relevance when we talk about girls gamers. They often cite numbers like >50% of the gaming market is female. and While I would like that to be true I think that includes phone games and facebook games which I still consider a vastly different market.
Now I've lost an hour watching Wil Wheaton's TableTop. Seriously, it was delightful. Funny thing is I saw his picture on the website (my first time seeing him in a while) and wondered why I was looking at Fawkes--a character, I was surprised to find out, he played in The Guild.
wait till you get to the "Ticket to Ride" episode.. that one is just.... well let's just say delightful. I'm not sure I've ever laughed at anything that hard on YouTube
I found it intriguingly interesting, but judging from its website, it doesn't allow for homosexuality, since only men may court the princess. Lame. And why did princess Annette lock herself in the palace anyway? Is she sexually frustrated or something?
assuming your being literal and serious it's not really an issue. The game does come with a great deal of story there's a bloody chapter of fiction in the little booklet and detailed character descriptions. That said the story is superfluous to the game itself. It's fun but it in no way affects the game itself. You can see this in the numerous Love Letter custom mods. Last month someone made an animal crossing version. The princess and the romance don't actually come into the gameplay.
That said there's nothing in the game that prevents you from playing it with homosexual characters. While that has no appeal to me you could play princesses courting another princess and it would literally not change the game at all. The prince seeking the court is the player not one of the cards. (The Prince card is not a courting prince but her brother who carries your message)
As to the question of why she's locked away in the first place. The instruction narrative explains this. It has to do with other games set in the same universe (Specifically Courtier). If I recall she's locked away because her mother, the Queen, was arrested for treason or something like that. It doesn't matter because it isn't important. The gameplay is fun, solid and quick. The theme while fun has literally no bearing on the game. You really could retheme it completely out of a story.
It's genuinely enjoyable. I suggest the "Formula D" or "Gloom" episodes to get a taste of the experience, but when I found the series I binged and watched them all in a single afternoon. And then went out and bought $150 worth of games.
I agree that TableTop has been rather influential. I would however suggest maybe Pandemic or Ticket to Ride as a starting episode. I found Formula D to be rather dull game by that video.
TableTop's success could be attributed to Wheton's celebrity but regardless of how I think you can't deny the shows influence. It has turned a lot of us to board games. I actually got turned on to board games and THEN TableTop but I think the show is a major reason why I'm keen to keep playing board games (no offense to my group)
I've been playing it as a waiting game. My sister and I were walking around Toronto for Burger Week today and while waiting for our food we played Love Letter. it honestly doesn't work AS well with just two players but it's an surprisingly fun game to play considering it's so light. It's about $14 CAD and I would happily recommend it to any fan of gaming sight unseen. With such a small investment you'll get your money's worth out of it quite easily.
more than pulling somehow we got the game blogs to report it as official. I saw it on a few sites and even I didn't remember until the dude popped up to say they jacked his name and I was there when he posted it originally.
Except the only content of XboxOne.com is advertising; as in domain parking, apparently.
ok.. sure then that's some news I hadn't heard before because i'm far too lazy to look up the site. If it's just advertising and the guy isn't using the email or anything then yeah MS's got this in the bag
i was thinking the same thing but to MS I'd have to think $3-4k is also pretty much nothing and yet they took the file complaint route rather than pay twice that for the domain. (assuming they didn't even try) They really could have offered quite a bit of money to make a single person happy and it would be a drop in the bucket for them. Which makes me think they didn't try. Who would turn that down?
were they?
that is to say were they obviously trying to leverage that market?
To an extent that's no different than say.. PS3Blog.net (a site I frequent and very very rarely write for) which leverages Sony's PS brand. Having not seen the site I would like to know what's on there? Are they impersonating MS? Or did the guy just pick a name that sounded like it would relate to MS to advertise his website that has to do with the MS Xbox console
Lets not attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.
And in this case, I hardly believe its about one being black,although it could play a part, it beingthe us,it seems more a thing about one being gun related and the other science related.
We all know what many americans hate most.
While there is a theory for that, it doesn't line up with the statements released. They're specifically citing the dangerous nature of the girls activities and the hallowed ground aspects of a school along with actions need consequences. I'm all for punishing the girl. Having actually read a few of the articles she did something stupid. Detention would be light. A suspension for a few days should be the most she gets in my opinion. Expulsion and charges are extremely overboard and charging her as an adult comes out of nowhere, considering both the lack of malice, the lack of injury, and uprightness of the accused. She didn't run away she was there when they came for her and owned up for her actions. She had support from students, teachers, and the principal directly. If this isn't a case for SOME sort of leniency what is?
Or African-Americans have a shared culture that glorifies violence and celebrates street crime/being a thug, causing them to commit more violent crimes. Most human beings of any color have difficulty resisting the influence of a poisonous culture.
While we appear to be on the same side regarding the instance cited in the article, and since this doesn't appear to have been posted facetiously, I know a lot of people who would disagree with this statement. In the first place where you see a shared culture of violence others would see a shared culture of persecution.
see also: the number of people who actually went out and bought new 360s when the ones they owned broke
a lot of gamers spend a brick of money man. If my PS3 died I'd cry for months because even at the deflated prices I'm not sure I could buy one until next year. Broke Phi Broke
while i concur that the XBL network is obviously more polished and the PSN inconsistencies are odd. But I haven't had issues signing up or recovering (for my UK account i forgot about during the blackout). I've always said that while the PSN isn't the greatest it works it does what it needs to do and I'd happily use it for free rather than paying to fix it. I actually find the 360 controller more awkward. The stick are splayed out, the button layout is kinda backward the d-pad is just a clunky circle. I've heard people rave about the triggers and while they are kinda nice I've never disliked the trigger on the dualshock3
in terms of the hardware and network i have been and remain quite content with the Sony offering. I'd like to get an 360 one day (my experience with the controller was one I bought for PC gaming) but I've rarely been annoyed with PSN.
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I am sure it would work better if the decision was made by a secret court. The convicted user and its ISP would be informed by a National Security Letter with a gag order. After all this is about maintaining order, and we know it requires some secrecy. Otherwise pesky journalists brag about government wrongdoing about human rights, while it is just busy protecting the economy (and healthy economy means you may get a job if you apply where it has been off-shored, so this is for your own good).
Some raised issues about the whether it is possible to cut internet access without cutting the phone when the ISP provides both. There is a simple solution to that: instead of cutting internet access, the secret court could decide to abduct the user to a rehabilitation camp, where he could be taught about its wrongdoing using modern techniques such as waterboarding. That could be off-shored to some dictator-led third world country to save money, while still creating jobs opportunities at the same time (see above).
I say good sir. You raise some jolly good ideas you do. However I propose an alternative solution for your consideration. We have a large number of people infringing up on this problem. That represents a sizable force that could be utilized in some manner rather than occupying them for some time with your conditioning. Instead we could use them to shore up economic and militaristic deficits. Rather than wasting time trying to repair the mental facilities of those who are obviously unable to change, we could use their numbers to bolster our side in this conflict I hear we're planning, after of course they've repaid their social debt by doing repairs and the like they could repay their ethical debt to society by doing a bit of good for a change.
a) it could be rather hard to bar someone from the internet. the determined (even mildly) individual can find ways around it. b) the thread of violence is supposed to be enough to stop violence. That's the principle behind many laws. I think that includes this law. I propose that the idea behind the law was that by cutting off people from the internet it was supposed to cow the rest into submission. It could be failing to cow anyone into submission either of those cases represents "failure" of the law
so they're basically about as effective as the other three strikes laws
I don't get it 'take photos of yourself, looking at tits' so someone else hold your phone and snaps a pic of you when you stare at boobs of the girl across the street? How is that different from an app? or how would they app that concept?
So it's wrong for a guy to talk about "taking a picture of yourself staring at tits" and to simulate masturbation in public, but it's perfectly all right for Miley Cyrus to do the same (and more!) on national television in front of millions of people? I guess they should have done it on MTV; then it would have been ok.
Get out of your echochamber and you'll see that nobody thinks what Miley Cyrus was appropriate or mature either. Here's an example.
To be fair the appropriation argument is centred on the racial implications of the incident not the gendered ones.
Try to keep up. Feminist blogs were full of criticism of that performance. I realize that ruins your little rant and your fantasy of persecution, but there it is.
interesting.. not watching or caring about the VMAs I'm one of the few people who hasn't actually seen it. It never occurred to me to consider a feminist perspective on the incident. I generally don't seek feminist articles, I just read the ones recommended to me. But this is intriguing. Maybe i'll look it up
um.. where are these schools that give you books in the first place?
actually not that different. They've been singing this song for a long time. I haven't seen the WWDC stuff but I have minimal interest in playing games on a phone where my large fingers will cover up the playing area and that's my central problem with phone gaming.
hey I thought it was funny
i think that statistic has more relevance when we talk about girls gamers. They often cite numbers like >50% of the gaming market is female. and While I would like that to be true I think that includes phone games and facebook games which I still consider a vastly different market.
Now I've lost an hour watching Wil Wheaton's TableTop. Seriously, it was delightful. Funny thing is I saw his picture on the website (my first time seeing him in a while) and wondered why I was looking at Fawkes--a character, I was surprised to find out, he played in The Guild.
wait till you get to the "Ticket to Ride" episode.. that one is just.... well let's just say delightful. I'm not sure I've ever laughed at anything that hard on YouTube
I found it intriguingly interesting, but judging from its website, it doesn't allow for homosexuality, since only men may court the princess. Lame. And why did princess Annette lock herself in the palace anyway? Is she sexually frustrated or something?
assuming your being literal and serious it's not really an issue. The game does come with a great deal of story there's a bloody chapter of fiction in the little booklet and detailed character descriptions. That said the story is superfluous to the game itself. It's fun but it in no way affects the game itself. You can see this in the numerous Love Letter custom mods. Last month someone made an animal crossing version. The princess and the romance don't actually come into the gameplay.
That said there's nothing in the game that prevents you from playing it with homosexual characters. While that has no appeal to me you could play princesses courting another princess and it would literally not change the game at all. The prince seeking the court is the player not one of the cards. (The Prince card is not a courting prince but her brother who carries your message)
As to the question of why she's locked away in the first place. The instruction narrative explains this. It has to do with other games set in the same universe (Specifically Courtier). If I recall she's locked away because her mother, the Queen, was arrested for treason or something like that. It doesn't matter because it isn't important. The gameplay is fun, solid and quick. The theme while fun has literally no bearing on the game. You really could retheme it completely out of a story.
I agree that TableTop has been rather influential. I would however suggest maybe Pandemic or Ticket to Ride as a starting episode. I found Formula D to be rather dull game by that video.
TableTop's success could be attributed to Wheton's celebrity but regardless of how I think you can't deny the shows influence. It has turned a lot of us to board games. I actually got turned on to board games and THEN TableTop but I think the show is a major reason why I'm keen to keep playing board games (no offense to my group)
I've been playing it as a waiting game. My sister and I were walking around Toronto for Burger Week today and while waiting for our food we played Love Letter. it honestly doesn't work AS well with just two players but it's an surprisingly fun game to play considering it's so light. It's about $14 CAD and I would happily recommend it to any fan of gaming sight unseen. With such a small investment you'll get your money's worth out of it quite easily.
more than pulling somehow we got the game blogs to report it as official. I saw it on a few sites and even I didn't remember until the dude popped up to say they jacked his name and I was there when he posted it originally.
Except the only content of XboxOne.com is advertising; as in domain parking, apparently.
ok.. sure then that's some news I hadn't heard before because i'm far too lazy to look up the site. If it's just advertising and the guy isn't using the email or anything then yeah MS's got this in the bag
i was thinking the same thing but to MS I'd have to think $3-4k is also pretty much nothing and yet they took the file complaint route rather than pay twice that for the domain. (assuming they didn't even try) They really could have offered quite a bit of money to make a single person happy and it would be a drop in the bucket for them. Which makes me think they didn't try. Who would turn that down?
were they? that is to say were they obviously trying to leverage that market? To an extent that's no different than say.. PS3Blog.net (a site I frequent and very very rarely write for) which leverages Sony's PS brand. Having not seen the site I would like to know what's on there? Are they impersonating MS? Or did the guy just pick a name that sounded like it would relate to MS to advertise his website that has to do with the MS Xbox console
it felt like that and that's how i ended up on LO. I remembered there being a major fork a while back and had to look it up
other schools don't?
Lets not attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.
And in this case, I hardly believe its about one being black,although it could play a part, it beingthe us,it seems more a thing about one being gun related and the other science related.
We all know what many americans hate most.
While there is a theory for that, it doesn't line up with the statements released. They're specifically citing the dangerous nature of the girls activities and the hallowed ground aspects of a school along with actions need consequences. I'm all for punishing the girl. Having actually read a few of the articles she did something stupid. Detention would be light. A suspension for a few days should be the most she gets in my opinion. Expulsion and charges are extremely overboard and charging her as an adult comes out of nowhere, considering both the lack of malice, the lack of injury, and uprightness of the accused. She didn't run away she was there when they came for her and owned up for her actions. She had support from students, teachers, and the principal directly. If this isn't a case for SOME sort of leniency what is?
Or African-Americans have a shared culture that glorifies violence and celebrates street crime/being a thug, causing them to commit more violent crimes. Most human beings of any color have difficulty resisting the influence of a poisonous culture.
While we appear to be on the same side regarding the instance cited in the article, and since this doesn't appear to have been posted facetiously, I know a lot of people who would disagree with this statement. In the first place where you see a shared culture of violence others would see a shared culture of persecution.
Yes, but what does it stand for?
as a side note i can't believe there's a website dedicated just to transcripts
see also: the number of people who actually went out and bought new 360s when the ones they owned broke a lot of gamers spend a brick of money man. If my PS3 died I'd cry for months because even at the deflated prices I'm not sure I could buy one until next year. Broke Phi Broke
while i concur that the XBL network is obviously more polished and the PSN inconsistencies are odd. But I haven't had issues signing up or recovering (for my UK account i forgot about during the blackout). I've always said that while the PSN isn't the greatest it works it does what it needs to do and I'd happily use it for free rather than paying to fix it. I actually find the 360 controller more awkward. The stick are splayed out, the button layout is kinda backward the d-pad is just a clunky circle. I've heard people rave about the triggers and while they are kinda nice I've never disliked the trigger on the dualshock3 in terms of the hardware and network i have been and remain quite content with the Sony offering. I'd like to get an 360 one day (my experience with the controller was one I bought for PC gaming) but I've rarely been annoyed with PSN.