While playing the demo of Far Cry, I actually made a double-take after blowing a mercenary away. The reaction on impact of my bullets, the body tumbling and crumpling and then its pose as it lay on the ground. It kind of creeped me out for exactly the reasons brought up in the topic.
Another point scored by the makers of Far Cry : makes some players cross the mental line between fun-filled slaughter fests and the notion of killing human beings.
... because of blog spamming by twits such as the Meowers (for example) who roll in and just bomb the forums with "meow", harrass any dissenters and generally destroy any kind of community feeling that there may have existed in the blog before their arrival.
I had this argument only this morning with a colleague. He shouts across the office to another colleague and has ongoing conversations with the other chap at the top of his voice.
When I asked him if he could have that conversation over IM he told me to stick my fingers in my ears or to listen to music.
The problem is that I refuse to listen to music *because* that inconsiderate prick has the manners of a five year old.
I listen to music when I know I'll be able to appreciate it fully, not as a means of protection. In the best of cases, I'm unable to concentrate on work when I have music playing : I love my tunes so much that I generally need to be able to dive into them fully. Impossible to concentrate on work when I have some lush tunes in my ears.
I guess it's really just my problem seeing how all the other people here at work are OK with wearing earphones all day in order to keep the twit's shrill nasal voice our of their heads.
Like I said to the other guy, I agree with some statements and not with others you guys have been making.
I disagree that there is anything special about the USA being *inherently* racist. All nations are, it's a function of the animal instinct of survival.
Want some examples of racism in civilised countries and which never get a mention ? #1, in Japan, white man goes to hot tub in the sauna, all the Japanese occupants leave because it's an accepted notion that gaijin are unclean. #2, in Saudi arabia, it is a punishable offence to exercise one's non-Islamic religion in private.
That's only two, the list is long. America is no more racist than any other country out there.
Funny how I totally reject your opinion that a proud nation requires that its citizens be armed but I agree with you that blame must be allotted where blame belongs.
"The Government of the United Kingdom evidently thinks it's people are an untrustworthy bunch of morons, uncapable of wielding deadly force in a just manner."
That statement is ludicrous. The choice to not bear arms comes not from any government as a deliberate form of mass control but from the cultural background of its people.
The USA is the exception with its "right" to bear arms for all. England has had its own civil wars, thank you very much. The people against the people. Google for Cromwell and get a clue.
When these wars came to an end, the people decided that strife and murder was something they'd rather not embrace as a way of life but leave to their armies to employ as a last resort. Normal people just want to get on with their lives.
How an American (I'm assuming you are one) can come along and can somehow claim that the rest of the world is wrong for not having the right to bear arms, makes me want to scream.
Our cultures may not be perfect but we don't have 10s of 1000s of mrders by firearms per year to fear.
There is certainly too much violence in our everyday lives but the last solution I'd consider is turning everyone into a weapon-wielding goon that thinks that blazing away with his guns is some kind of supreme freedom.
Go back to 10th grade. Come back when you've actually *read* the words you're trying to use at least once before trying to write them. When in doubt, check the dictionary.
It's "benefits", "incredibly" and "opinion".
I'm less concerned about the public's lack of awareness of Linux than I am of plain analphabetism.
People tend to mock France on its military record because each time the Germans felt like having their armies visit Paris, the French only slightly begrudgingly obliged each time.
I must say that only did the Wehrmacht - during its daily morning march up and down it - do justice to the Champs Elysees' elegance.
Simple as that. The owners simply switches the phone back on when they're back. They never ask who switched the phone off : they've been 0wn3d. Yourself, you've avoided getting wound up over the whole thing.
Now if we could do something against hysterical laughing....
Hammers are not optimised to kill, guns are. That's the difference. The widespread availability of devices designed to kill is what causes killings with guns.
And *only* 60% ? How can somebody other than a moron not see the benefit in having 60% less murders ?
You and your NRA buddies are really a bunch of idiots. I hope you get shot.
I don't know about the "EULA style" sticker but the passage about operating a car whilst using the cell phone is a matter of EU law. Too many people have caused accidents whilst talking on the phone so they passed a law. BMW is just covering their asses with regard to the law.
There's a huge difference between scanning a few ports and having root on a system. That would be your analogies for looking through the window and standing in the lounge.
This guy was *inside* the system with the power to wreak havoc. That *is* the same as someone standing in the lounge... and if he didn't have a can of gas and some matches well you can only count yourself lucky.
I guarantee that if I find someone standing in the middle of my lounge without having been invited I will fuck him up even if he introduces himself as One Of The Good Guys.
OK, so the UK plays on the same dirty level as the IRA and caps a few IRA heads. How does this compare to van bombs that kill/maim 100s of people at a time on the mainland ?
Talk about biased. Not a MS fanboy myself but it looks like they can do no right. First you complain about MS's dismal security record and when they finally start addressing the issue and release fixes you blast them again.
Standards will change too : win-win
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Maybe I'm being wildly optimistic but I'm guessing that if there was no way to hide deceptiveness from one another, maybe a whole lot of problems would go away.
Brain scans for all could be the greatest democratiser there ever was.
Katz, everyone here hates you ...
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If you had any pride you would have given up a long time ago. Your perseverance in this mistaken way just encourages people to give you the stick.
Are you the unemployed dad of one of the kids on the Slashdot staff ?
that's for the geeks who have nowhere to go outside of work. They have pizza boxes stacked up to the ceiling in their houses so they stay 12 hrs at work where it's clean and bright.
When you spend that much time at work, you also need the entertainment.
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While playing the demo of Far Cry, I actually made a double-take after blowing a mercenary away. The reaction on impact of my bullets, the body tumbling and crumpling and then its pose as it lay on the ground. It kind of creeped me out for exactly the reasons brought up in the topic.
Another point scored by the makers of Far Cry : makes some players cross the mental line between fun-filled slaughter fests and the notion of killing human beings.
... because of blog spamming by twits such as the Meowers (for example) who roll in and just bomb the forums with "meow", harrass any dissenters and generally destroy any kind of community feeling that there may have existed in the blog before their arrival.
I had this argument only this morning with a colleague. He shouts across the office to another colleague and has ongoing conversations with the other chap at the top of his voice.
When I asked him if he could have that conversation over IM he told me to stick my fingers in my ears or to listen to music.
The problem is that I refuse to listen to music *because* that inconsiderate prick has the manners of a five year old.
I listen to music when I know I'll be able to appreciate it fully, not as a means of protection. In the best of cases, I'm unable to concentrate on work when I have music playing : I love my tunes so much that I generally need to be able to dive into them fully. Impossible to concentrate on work when I have some lush tunes in my ears.
I guess it's really just my problem seeing how all the other people here at work are OK with wearing earphones all day in order to keep the twit's shrill nasal voice our of their heads.
Bummer.
Like I said to the other guy, I agree with some statements and not with others you guys have been making.
I disagree that there is anything special about the USA being *inherently* racist. All nations are, it's a function of the animal instinct of survival.
Want some examples of racism in civilised countries and which never get a mention ?
#1, in Japan, white man goes to hot tub in the sauna, all the Japanese occupants leave because it's an accepted notion that gaijin are unclean.
#2, in Saudi arabia, it is a punishable offence to exercise one's non-Islamic religion in private.
That's only two, the list is long. America is no more racist than any other country out there.
Funny how I totally reject your opinion that a proud nation requires that its citizens be armed but I agree with you that blame must be allotted where blame belongs.
I stopped reading your drivel at this line :
"The Government of the United Kingdom evidently thinks it's people are an untrustworthy bunch of morons, uncapable of wielding deadly force in a just manner."
That statement is ludicrous. The choice to not bear arms comes not from any government as a deliberate form of mass control but from the cultural background of its people.
The USA is the exception with its "right" to bear arms for all. England has had its own civil wars, thank you very much. The people against the people. Google for Cromwell and get a clue.
When these wars came to an end, the people decided that strife and murder was something they'd rather not embrace as a way of life but leave to their armies to employ as a last resort. Normal people just want to get on with their lives.
How an American (I'm assuming you are one) can come along and can somehow claim that the rest of the world is wrong for not having the right to bear arms, makes me want to scream.
Our cultures may not be perfect but we don't have 10s of 1000s of mrders by firearms per year to fear.
There is certainly too much violence in our everyday lives but the last solution I'd consider is turning everyone into a weapon-wielding goon that thinks that blazing away with his guns is some kind of supreme freedom.
Moron.
Go back to 10th grade. Come back when you've actually *read* the words you're trying to use at least once before trying to write them. When in doubt, check the dictionary.
It's "benefits", "incredibly" and "opinion".
I'm less concerned about the public's lack of awareness of Linux than I am of plain analphabetism.
"... when Apple designed the iPod, there was no internal speaker to annoy others with personal choices in music ..."
Ever heard of Sony ? The Walkman ? That was only 20 years before Apple's iPod.
'nuff said
People tend to mock France on its military record because each time the Germans felt like having their armies visit Paris, the French only slightly begrudgingly obliged each time.
I must say that only did the Wehrmacht - during its daily morning march up and down it - do justice to the Champs Elysees' elegance.
Because precisely of the case you make about LOL (are you really Laughing Out Loud ?) I came up with the col and the gol (Chuckle and Giggle).
I chuckle out loud at my screen numerous times a day but when I write LOL you know I sprayed Coke through my nose onto the keyboard.
Feel free to use my more accurate alternatives to lol, there's no copyright attached.
Simple as that. The owners simply switches the phone back on when they're back. They never ask who switched the phone off : they've been 0wn3d. Yourself, you've avoided getting wound up over the whole thing.
....
Now if we could do something against hysterical laughing
Hammers are not optimised to kill, guns are. That's the difference. The widespread availability of devices designed to kill is what causes killings with guns.
And *only* 60% ? How can somebody other than a moron not see the benefit in having 60% less murders ?
You and your NRA buddies are really a bunch of idiots. I hope you get shot.
I don't know about the "EULA style" sticker but the passage about operating a car whilst using the cell phone is a matter of EU law. Too many people have caused accidents whilst talking on the phone so they passed a law. BMW is just covering their asses with regard to the law.
Go on then, tell me why the drivel the brothers served us should not be disregarded as aimless ramblings ? I'm curious, educate me.
There's a huge difference between scanning a few ports and having root on a system. That would be your analogies for looking through the window and standing in the lounge.
... and if he didn't have a can of gas and some matches well you can only count yourself lucky.
This guy was *inside* the system with the power to wreak havoc. That *is* the same as someone standing in the lounge
I guarantee that if I find someone standing in the middle of my lounge without having been invited I will fuck him up even if he introduces himself as One Of The Good Guys.
Nuff said.
I wonder how many privacy freaks here are also information freedom fighters. Yes, this is flamebait.
I'd be curious to see how many people here are hypocritical enough to advocate privacy *and* freedom of information.
but ... but ... information wants to be free !
OK, so the UK plays on the same dirty level as the IRA and caps a few IRA heads. How does this compare to van bombs that kill/maim 100s of people at a time on the mainland ?
"This and the almost daily security updates"
Talk about biased. Not a MS fanboy myself but it looks like they can do no right. First you complain about MS's dismal security record and when they finally start addressing the issue and release fixes you blast them again.
Maybe I'm being wildly optimistic but I'm guessing that if there was no way to hide deceptiveness from one another, maybe a whole lot of problems would go away.
Brain scans for all could be the greatest democratiser there ever was.
If you had any pride you would have given up a long time ago. Your perseverance in this mistaken way just encourages people to give you the stick.
Are you the unemployed dad of one of the kids on the Slashdot staff ?
Just crawl under a rock and leave us alone.
that's for the geeks who have nowhere to go outside of work. They have pizza boxes stacked up to the ceiling in their houses so they stay 12 hrs at work where it's clean and bright.
When you spend that much time at work, you also need the entertainment.
QED