I wasn't attempting to disprove your generalisation, sir. I merely attempted to prove, using deduction, that you had not in fact played Braid, and I was correct. Nyah.
Generally, I agree with your generalisation, that games haven't gotten any better. In fact, I think they've gotten worse - lost up their own asses, if you will - since they started adding five, six, seven, etc. buttons to the controllers. But Braid came along, and renewed my faith in the medium. It is a true work of art, and I recommend, highly, that you seek it out!
If this happens, and I believe to a certain extent it will, Internet providers will have to harden their networks to the point that outages are a rare occurrence - like the power companies hav#!5g45g%T+++ NO CARRIER.
Indeed, exactly. Speed does not cause many accidents, it simply exacerbates them, though to what level is difficult to determine. A crash at 150 km/h will be worse than one at 100 km/h, but then, why not lower the limit to 50 km/h, since that will reduce the damage even further. It's a stupid game, and this speeding witch hunt is turning law-abiding safe drivers into criminals, and causing people to spend more time watching their speedometers instead of keeping their eyes on the bloody road.
Most accidents are caused by poor training, and poor attention, as well as taking actions that other drivers don't expect, such as weaving, excessive braking, and the worst... Not using your turn signals - Americans, I'm looking at you. Use your signals!
It might just mean that after millions of years of putting things in our mouths, we happened to find one that hit that receptor, and helped us 'study for the big test tomorrow'.
That counts as probable cause, and they wouldn't require a warrant. If they saw the robber committing theft, they would just arrest his ass on sight, and wouldn't need the GPS device.
There is an argument that it's unreasonable, because as someone said above, without a warrant, it's unreasonable. That's what warrants are for.
Ah, but that's a '2' on the old OOS (Old OOS Scale) scale. In modern terms, that's a 7 as well. Excellent. Gentlemen, we have a consensus factor of 54, with an implied hearsay vector calculated at 1, leaving us free to continue speculating.
I just want to say, "good work, gentlemen". We've cracked it!
Somebody below mentioned that according to the laws of the EU, Intel will have to pay now, and appeal later. Can anyone ascribe some truthiness to this?
Don't the human rights amendments in the US constitution supersede all others? I know that there's the state protection in there, preventing Congress from abridging state rights, but if the fourth amendment is judged to be a basic human right, then I would imagine the states can do exactly (sharp intake of breath) fuck all to fight it.
My understanding here is that monitoring without a warrant would constitute (no pun intended) a breach of the 'unreasonable search and seizure' part of the US constitution. If a cop can't investigate someone on the sole basis of profiling (racial or otherwise), then he shouldn't be allowed to GPS tag them without a warrant either. Seems simple to me... No?
There's quite a few more lyrics on that record that could be considered offensive... For example:
Heresy: "Your God is dead, and no one cares - and if there is a hell, I'll see you there"
Reptile: "She spreads herself wide open to let the insects in... Seeds from a thousand others drip down from within"
Then there's the fan favourite, "Big Man With a Gun", a song with lyrics so offensive and puerile that Trent Reznor himself said that he wished he'd left it off the album.
Ah, you are correct - I wasn't aware of the 'good and evil' extension to that. That problem is, as I see it, that God created a species of being who are by their (and by extension, His) very nature curious, easily tempted, and without reasoning. Then, He put those people in a tempting situation whose outcome was utterly clear from the outset, since, if you use the Bible's definition of God's abilities, He is infallible and omni-present. But regardless of what His intentions would be, even if the tree was 'Knowledge of Good and Evil', that's purely semantic - knowledge is knowledge. The point of the story is the same, that 'some things man just wasn't meant to know'.
I didn't mean to paint everyone with the same accusatory brush, and I apologise for coming across that way, but I'm not going to lie; I do think that belief in religion requires either a) simplicity of cognition, or b) some impressive mental gymnastics. I think you fall into the latter camp, and I know you think that I probably lack empathy and you feel sorry for my soul, which is sure to be damned by my life full of blasphemy, but I don't for a second think that you're less of a person than I (just as I know you don't think that of others like me). Whatever gets you through the day, hey... Go with it. I believe in chewing gum that lasts for hours, that Roger Moore was a shit James Bond, and that the 1998 Volkswagen Passat has the most uncomfortable seats of any car ever made.
What it all really comes down to, though, is that if you believe the WORD of the Bible, literally, then you are a religious whacko, and are doing your religion a disservice. If, however, you believe that it's a flawed human interpretation of actual events, then you are a reasonable human being, and doing your race a favour.
... and you'll be charged with destruction of evidence, and obstruction of justice, and almost assuredly, they'll think you complicit, because silence = guilt here.
There's at least one instance in the Bible that I can recall where God actively dissuaded his curiosity-imbued creations from learning - The Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden... Supposedly man was at his peak when he knew nothing, and when his reach exceeding his grasp, he was cast from paradise. A more salient example, I don't think you'll find.
Regardless, even if this weren't true, Christians are encouraged every day to avoid questioning things, and to rely on faith. Well, that's not entirely fair, really, since that seems to be a basic tenet of all religions save for Buddhism or Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. Mousey Tongue was right - Religion *is* poison.
Unfortunately, I think you misunderestimate the capacity for not caring by the Public at Large. This will only affect a certain percentage of folks, not enough to make waves, I'm sure.
I see what you're saying - so the Coriolis force exists everywhere on the planet in equal measure? Could an elevator be placed, say, at the poles, or at the equator, and experience a lessened effect?
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For a second, I thought this was the act of laying siege to a populous by randomly and callously treating cancers through chemical means.
BASTARDS!
I wasn't attempting to disprove your generalisation, sir. I merely attempted to prove, using deduction, that you had not in fact played Braid, and I was correct. Nyah.
Generally, I agree with your generalisation, that games haven't gotten any better. In fact, I think they've gotten worse - lost up their own asses, if you will - since they started adding five, six, seven, etc. buttons to the controllers. But Braid came along, and renewed my faith in the medium. It is a true work of art, and I recommend, highly, that you seek it out!
Sincerely,
The guy who invented Braid*
*Not the guy who invented Braid.
I doubt the cause of this is the games; they haven't gotten any better lately in my opinion.
You clearly haven't played Braid.
If this happens, and I believe to a certain extent it will, Internet providers will have to harden their networks to the point that outages are a rare occurrence - like the power companies hav#!5g45g%T+++ NO CARRIER.
I refuse to drink nature's water... Fish fuck in it.
Indeed, exactly. Speed does not cause many accidents, it simply exacerbates them, though to what level is difficult to determine. A crash at 150 km/h will be worse than one at 100 km/h, but then, why not lower the limit to 50 km/h, since that will reduce the damage even further. It's a stupid game, and this speeding witch hunt is turning law-abiding safe drivers into criminals, and causing people to spend more time watching their speedometers instead of keeping their eyes on the bloody road.
Most accidents are caused by poor training, and poor attention, as well as taking actions that other drivers don't expect, such as weaving, excessive braking, and the worst... Not using your turn signals - Americans, I'm looking at you. Use your signals!
It might just mean that after millions of years of putting things in our mouths, we happened to find one that hit that receptor, and helped us 'study for the big test tomorrow'.
That counts as probable cause, and they wouldn't require a warrant. If they saw the robber committing theft, they would just arrest his ass on sight, and wouldn't need the GPS device.
There is an argument that it's unreasonable, because as someone said above, without a warrant, it's unreasonable. That's what warrants are for.
Ah, but that's a '2' on the old OOS (Old OOS Scale) scale. In modern terms, that's a 7 as well. Excellent. Gentlemen, we have a consensus factor of 54, with an implied hearsay vector calculated at 1, leaving us free to continue speculating.
I just want to say, "good work, gentlemen". We've cracked it!
Hrmm... Interesting, interesting. I like it.
And as for veracity?
Somebody below mentioned that according to the laws of the EU, Intel will have to pay now, and appeal later. Can anyone ascribe some truthiness to this?
Don't the human rights amendments in the US constitution supersede all others? I know that there's the state protection in there, preventing Congress from abridging state rights, but if the fourth amendment is judged to be a basic human right, then I would imagine the states can do exactly (sharp intake of breath) fuck all to fight it.
My understanding here is that monitoring without a warrant would constitute (no pun intended) a breach of the 'unreasonable search and seizure' part of the US constitution. If a cop can't investigate someone on the sole basis of profiling (racial or otherwise), then he shouldn't be allowed to GPS tag them without a warrant either. Seems simple to me... No?
There's quite a few more lyrics on that record that could be considered offensive... For example:
Heresy: "Your God is dead, and no one cares - and if there is a hell, I'll see you there"
Reptile: "She spreads herself wide open to let the insects in... Seeds from a thousand others drip down from within"
Then there's the fan favourite, "Big Man With a Gun", a song with lyrics so offensive and puerile that Trent Reznor himself said that he wished he'd left it off the album.
Ah, you are correct - I wasn't aware of the 'good and evil' extension to that. That problem is, as I see it, that God created a species of being who are by their (and by extension, His) very nature curious, easily tempted, and without reasoning. Then, He put those people in a tempting situation whose outcome was utterly clear from the outset, since, if you use the Bible's definition of God's abilities, He is infallible and omni-present. But regardless of what His intentions would be, even if the tree was 'Knowledge of Good and Evil', that's purely semantic - knowledge is knowledge. The point of the story is the same, that 'some things man just wasn't meant to know'.
I didn't mean to paint everyone with the same accusatory brush, and I apologise for coming across that way, but I'm not going to lie; I do think that belief in religion requires either a) simplicity of cognition, or b) some impressive mental gymnastics. I think you fall into the latter camp, and I know you think that I probably lack empathy and you feel sorry for my soul, which is sure to be damned by my life full of blasphemy, but I don't for a second think that you're less of a person than I (just as I know you don't think that of others like me). Whatever gets you through the day, hey... Go with it. I believe in chewing gum that lasts for hours, that Roger Moore was a shit James Bond, and that the 1998 Volkswagen Passat has the most uncomfortable seats of any car ever made.
What it all really comes down to, though, is that if you believe the WORD of the Bible, literally, then you are a religious whacko, and are doing your religion a disservice. If, however, you believe that it's a flawed human interpretation of actual events, then you are a reasonable human being, and doing your race a favour.
... and you'll be charged with destruction of evidence, and obstruction of justice, and almost assuredly, they'll think you complicit, because silence = guilt here.
There's at least one instance in the Bible that I can recall where God actively dissuaded his curiosity-imbued creations from learning - The Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden... Supposedly man was at his peak when he knew nothing, and when his reach exceeding his grasp, he was cast from paradise. A more salient example, I don't think you'll find.
Regardless, even if this weren't true, Christians are encouraged every day to avoid questioning things, and to rely on faith. Well, that's not entirely fair, really, since that seems to be a basic tenet of all religions save for Buddhism or Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. Mousey Tongue was right - Religion *is* poison.
V. B. A.
I should be getting hazard pay.
That seems to have gone over everyone's head.
It's asking me to enable my macaronis... Should I?
Holy shit, I'm going to hide under my desk now. Call me when it's all over.
Unfortunately, I think you misunderestimate the capacity for not caring by the Public at Large. This will only affect a certain percentage of folks, not enough to make waves, I'm sure.
Surely you can't be serious - It scores higher if you leave the browser window open for a minute?
What is it, an Oldsmobile?
+1: Boundless Optimism
I see what you're saying - so the Coriolis force exists everywhere on the planet in equal measure? Could an elevator be placed, say, at the poles, or at the equator, and experience a lessened effect?