People who own a house and have a short (under 40 miles) drive to work are the elite few??
Bull shit. I'm from Texas. When I had to drive across town to go to work in Austin my drive was still only 25 miles.
I drove from my place in Leander all the way past down town Austin and it was under 30 miles. That's a long drive to work for most people here. (most of the people I know would move closer to work if they had to drive that every day).
I have family who live out in the country (Happy Texas, Amarillo Texas, etc) and driving anything over 5 or 10 miles is considered A LOT to them.
I seriously doubt driving 40 miles to work every day is considered the norm. What a load of crap.
Except for the fact that Exxon wouldn't have been offered $5,000 to settle and if they felt like the settlement price was also unfair they wouldn't have settled.
My cousin and her fiance were both fired from Circuit City when all of this went down.
The decision was handed down from the top. Store management had little or no say in any of this.
Most people that work in a store like that don't have what it takes to work their way up to VP status and not every smart person in the store can be a store manager.
Besides nobody said they had management smarts. I said good SALES people, knowledgeable (since when do managers fall into that category?) people and experienced people.
Overwhelmingly? Perhaps. Maybe I went a bit far when I said "most" but even if 70 or 80% were in favor that still leaves 20-30% who weren't in favor and that's only taking into consideration the people who actually voted. Did they all vote?
And even though these people might have voted to free the slaves it doesn't mean that they actually saw them as equals. They were still racists who segregated the blacks and gave them little to no rights whatsoever.
Anyway the point I was trying to make is that the North isn't exactly an innocent little angle in all of this like some of you would try to have us believe.
Why single out the American south when the American north was obviously involved in slavery as well?
Even if you're talking about a time near the Civil War you would still be wrong. Most of the north didn't want to get rid of slavery either. Nor did most of the soldiers fighting for the north.
Where do you think they put the black people who fought with them? The front lines.. in front of all the white people.. so they died first.
Don't be a hypocrite. It was a sad period in our history and our entire country is to blame not just the south.
If stuff like this is so rare then why do I read about it every day and most of the time several times a day?
Read sites that cover or link to local news sites all around the US and Europe and you will see what I mean. Fark posts similar stories almost every day.
Hell cops are bullies on a daily basis in the small town my parents live in and none of it ever makes it on the internet much less local news.
Just because it's not on YouTube doesn't mean it's rare or not happening.
What kind of crappy vibrator technology did they use that was only good for a few days?
Seriously that technology isn't exactly rocket science and most products these days that use that technology (phones, game controllers, uhm vibrators, etc) last more than just a few hours or days.
They only designed it to last for a few hours? They designed it to break? I don't get it.
I agree. Doom 2 was by far my favorite. Hell I still enjoy a little Doom 2 DM once in a while.
Doom 1 and 2 feel faster to me compared to the more sluggish Doom 3. Kind of like Quake vs Quake 3. Quake 3 feels like you're running through thick muddy water compared to Quake 1.
A perfect Doom 4 for me would have the same weapons as Doom 2 with maybe a new weapon or two thrown in for good measure. I wouldn't mind seeing a few levels done in the style of Doom 1 or 2 levels for nostalgia, and like you said the main thing I'd like to see is the old Doom enemies. I never got bored of fighting those things and they progressed really really well in difficulty.
That's hard to answer. If you read much gaming news in the mid to late 90's or early 2000's it would be almost impossible to not hear about him. Lately he's gotten a lot less press it seems... at least when compared to people like Will Wright. Probably because id hasn't made a game worth a damn in the past few years.
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People who own a house and have a short (under 40 miles) drive to work are the elite few??
Bull shit. I'm from Texas. When I had to drive across town to go to work in Austin my drive was still only 25 miles.
I drove from my place in Leander all the way past down town Austin and it was under 30 miles. That's a long drive to work for most people here. (most of the people I know would move closer to work if they had to drive that every day).
I have family who live out in the country (Happy Texas, Amarillo Texas, etc) and driving anything over 5 or 10 miles is considered A LOT to them.
I seriously doubt driving 40 miles to work every day is considered the norm. What a load of crap.
Except for the fact that Exxon wouldn't have been offered $5,000 to settle and if they felt like the settlement price was also unfair they wouldn't have settled.
I call BS on that number.
Not once have I ever been asked who I'm purchasing a game for (my 7 year old daughter, birthday presents for cousins, friends kids, etc).
Not once have I ever been carded when buying a game or asked for my age.
Not once have I ever seen or taken a survey asking me questions along these lines.
So where are they getting their numbers from?
How many kids do you know that don't play video games?
How many pre-teens, tweens and teens do you see taking survey's?
If the survey was done online, was it a site that pre-teens, tweens and teens surf often?
If the average gamer is 30 then why has Nintendo cornered the market with "kiddie" games?
You could point out how well M rated games sell, and I could point out a lot of parents who purchase those games for their teenagers.
Why does everybody on here always complain about all the young teens on x-box live and other online services?
If the average gamer was 30 wouldn't most the people on those services be 30 and not 14?
I could go on forever.
I bet there are as many kids from age 3 to 17 that play games as there are 18 to 32 year olds.
I disagree. If I wanted to see ads I wouldn't have installed ABP in the first place.
I don't want to click no on every site I visit for the first time. It's a PITA. As much so as seeing the ads themselves.
This idea is stupid.
Eh, whatever, I didn't read the article.
If it turns out to be fake it could have been a $20,000 waste.
According to Pizza Hut, no.
hence the metric to standard conversion problem
Taking half of whatever remained of his in the process.
What am I supposed to use +1 Funny for if not my own opinion?
not another one!
This is getting played out.
My cousin and her fiance were both fired from Circuit City when all of this went down.
The decision was handed down from the top. Store management had little or no say in any of this.
Most people that work in a store like that don't have what it takes to work their way up to VP status and not every smart person in the store can be a store manager.
Besides nobody said they had management smarts. I said good SALES people, knowledgeable (since when do managers fall into that category?) people and experienced people.
No, he's upset that they fired all of their best and most experienced employee's.
It wasn't just top sellers. It effected everybody.
And why the hell would you fire your top sellers anyway? How retarded is that?!?!?!
When you fire your top sellers and your most knowledgeable employee's what does that leave you with?
It wasn't exactly a brilliant move. I'm sure it saved them money in the short run but 2 years later they're bankrupt and closing most of their stores.
Agreed. Luckily for me I still have onboard sound and my speakers have 2 inputs. I use onboard sound while I'm in linux and the SB while in Windows.
And what exactly are your qualifications then? Oh, that you can link to clueless websites.
Show me an author who doesn't write books for money once a series gets popular.
Almost all of them do it.
Just because the climate is changing doesn't mean that humans had anything to do with it.
The problem is that we're so freaking arrogant that we think if something is changing with the earth it *has* to be our fault.
I still think we should do our part to try to minimize our impact on the earth/climate as much as possible though.
Overwhelmingly? Perhaps. Maybe I went a bit far when I said "most" but even if 70 or 80% were in favor that still leaves 20-30% who weren't in favor and that's only taking into consideration the people who actually voted. Did they all vote?
And even though these people might have voted to free the slaves it doesn't mean that they actually saw them as equals. They were still racists who segregated the blacks and gave them little to no rights whatsoever.
Anyway the point I was trying to make is that the North isn't exactly an innocent little angle in all of this like some of you would try to have us believe.
Delusional.
Why single out the American south when the American north was obviously involved in slavery as well?
Even if you're talking about a time near the Civil War you would still be wrong. Most of the north didn't want to get rid of slavery either. Nor did most of the soldiers fighting for the north.
Where do you think they put the black people who fought with them? The front lines.. in front of all the white people.. so they died first.
Don't be a hypocrite. It was a sad period in our history and our entire country is to blame not just the south.
If stuff like this is so rare then why do I read about it every day and most of the time several times a day?
Read sites that cover or link to local news sites all around the US and Europe and you will see what I mean. Fark posts similar stories almost every day.
Hell cops are bullies on a daily basis in the small town my parents live in and none of it ever makes it on the internet much less local news.
Just because it's not on YouTube doesn't mean it's rare or not happening.
What kind of crappy vibrator technology did they use that was only good for a few days?
Seriously that technology isn't exactly rocket science and most products these days that use that technology (phones, game controllers, uhm vibrators, etc) last more than just a few hours or days.
They only designed it to last for a few hours? They designed it to break? I don't get it.
That's what I was thinking. Where's the beef?
I agree. Doom 2 was by far my favorite. Hell I still enjoy a little Doom 2 DM once in a while.
Doom 1 and 2 feel faster to me compared to the more sluggish Doom 3. Kind of like Quake vs Quake 3. Quake 3 feels like you're running through thick muddy water compared to Quake 1.
A perfect Doom 4 for me would have the same weapons as Doom 2 with maybe a new weapon or two thrown in for good measure. I wouldn't mind seeing a few levels done in the style of Doom 1 or 2 levels for nostalgia, and like you said the main thing I'd like to see is the old Doom enemies. I never got bored of fighting those things and they progressed really really well in difficulty.
I thought Stromatolites were the oldest known evidence of life on earth?
That's hard to answer. If you read much gaming news in the mid to late 90's or early 2000's it would be almost impossible to not hear about him. Lately he's gotten a lot less press it seems... at least when compared to people like Will Wright. Probably because id hasn't made a game worth a damn in the past few years.