...is that if you (hypothetical you) have the time to flame, you have the time to respond correctly. Otherwise if you don't want to deal with it you should just ignore it.
"Terrorism comes from injustice. I don't mean to imply that terrorists are then on the side of justice -- but only that if people are treated justly and allowed redress for their grievences, they will not resort to self-destructive, violent behavior like this. "
Liberal 'everybody is a victim and not responsible for their actions' crap. Terroism doesn't come from injustice, it comes from misguided hatred and ignorance. They were likely manipulated by their psychotic leader who they worship as an idol.
Nope....supreme court ruled that it would be prohibiting religion.
"[I]f a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion." Justice O'connor Westside Community Schools v. Mergens, 496 U.S. 248 (1990).
The problem is the supreme court disagrees with you.
"[I]f a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion." Justice O'connor Westside Community Schools v. Mergens, 496 U.S. 248 (1990).
A school can not allow non-curricular clubs and then prohibit based on religion. Many legal battles against schools have been won based on this precedent.
Except the courts have upheld over and over again, that if the school allows after school clubs secular in nature, they cannot prohibit religious groups either.
Many schools have been taken to court and lost. One school even went so far as to cancel all after school activities that weren't directly related to classes.
...I wasn't saying that SW was a childs movie, but that the majority of people who remember if fondly, were children when they saw it.
Lots of things for children contained violence in any case. Saturday morning cartoons had more violence in them then some movies I wouldn't have been able to watch.
...is that if the title of the first movie back in '77 had been Star Wars: Attack of the Clones instead of just 'Star Wars' (Retroactively subtitled A new hope) and then the prequel, created in '99 was given a subtitle of 'A new hope' people would be whining and bitching about how lame the title was and how it couldn't compare to any of the titles in the first trilogy. If Jar Jar had been in the first movie, he would have been loved and had figures of him sold on the black market and been incorporated as a real character in fan fiction, while Ewoks would be universally hated and have fanfiction written about 1001 ways to kill them.
The problem is most of the people bitching, IMO, were children when they saw the movie. They saw with a child's eyes and a child's viewpoint on life. The people complaining have lost the ability to view the series through that childish viewpoint and have attached a sense of reverance towards it that will certainly get me modded down for saying this.
I think that the people who retain the ability (or a part of it) to view things as a child are probably the ones who loved ST:TPM as I did and yes, they will even like Jar Jar.
That the people making these distinctions between art and entertainment are putting up paper thin walls of distinction. Not only that put the paper walls are transparent to anyone who looks too hard.
Art has always been for entertainment. Its just that most people don't see thinking as entertainment anymore and so we get art that you don't have to think about.
...this is the reason most games today suck? Maybe I am just held in thrall by the power of nostalgia, but it seems to me that games done by comittee and with 'project managers' and the rest of business infrastructure around them do not seem as exciting or as well built, as when they were done by a few with vision.
Maybe, (and maybe I'm just talking out my ass), the shift to the 'proper' way to program in games has helped the increasing crapiness of modern games.
...that anyone who pays the licensing costs to the DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation can make DVDs and DVD drives, then yes it is an open standard.:)
...the fact that I walked into my local store two days after launch and picked up a PS2. Just because it didn't sell out there doesn't mean there wasn't a shortage.
Go to google and search on 'n64 shortage' admittedly it was a manufactured shortage and extra units showed up rather quickly, but this is what some people accuse Sony of doing anyway.
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That is just my two cents.
What are you talking about? How about justification for that statement, as I believe you are full of it.
Poll says 72% of Americans technologically illiterate.
Liberal 'everybody is a victim and not responsible for their actions' crap. Terroism doesn't come from injustice, it comes from misguided hatred and ignorance. They were likely manipulated by their psychotic leader who they worship as an idol.
...that if they wanted to cause a blow to that nations morale, flying into the statue of liberty might be more demoralizing.
...I assume that's what you meant, but it is possible that you didn't know that Warcraft Adventures was cancelled.
"[I]f a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion." Justice O'connor Westside Community Schools v. Mergens, 496 U.S. 248 (1990).
"[I]f a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion." Justice O'connor Westside Community Schools v. Mergens, 496 U.S. 248 (1990).
A school can not allow non-curricular clubs and then prohibit based on religion. Many legal battles against schools have been won based on this precedent.
Many schools have been taken to court and lost. One school even went so far as to cancel all after school activities that weren't directly related to classes.
Out of curiosity, anyone know what program he used to generate that webpage?
My own personally curiosity.
Lots of things for children contained violence in any case. Saturday morning cartoons had more violence in them then some movies I wouldn't have been able to watch.
Contrary to slashdot conventional wisdom, both children and adults enjoyed TPM.
The problem is most of the people bitching, IMO, were children when they saw the movie. They saw with a child's eyes and a child's viewpoint on life. The people complaining have lost the ability to view the series through that childish viewpoint and have attached a sense of reverance towards it that will certainly get me modded down for saying this.
I think that the people who retain the ability (or a part of it) to view things as a child are probably the ones who loved ST:TPM as I did and yes, they will even like Jar Jar.
...the problem with your line of thought is that the clone wars has been in planning since at least the first movie.
...alot of ham radio operators who wear them as well and I'm pretty sure the gay to straight ratio isn't much different from the populace at large.
Art has always been for entertainment. Its just that most people don't see thinking as entertainment anymore and so we get art that you don't have to think about.
Maybe, (and maybe I'm just talking out my ass), the shift to the 'proper' way to program in games has helped the increasing crapiness of modern games.
"Sunspire is ok (and, I believe, happy) with everything so long as the project doesn't go into direct competition with Tux Racer 1.0."
Other than being nice, does it matter if they are happy, or if in fact the free version competes with the commercial version?
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Realistically bits don't matter that much. Look at the Xbox, it is a 32bit machine and in can out perform the DC and the Jaguar (both 64 bit)
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...that anyone who pays the licensing costs to the DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation can make DVDs and DVD drives, then yes it is an open standard. :)
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I meant Google groups. (ie the old Deja news)
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Go to google and search on 'n64 shortage' admittedly it was a manufactured shortage and extra units showed up rather quickly, but this is what some people accuse Sony of doing anyway.
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Like they did with the N64 in '96?
Or maybe uf they weren't such 'fuck ups' they would have had a better selling console in the last generation.
Don't get me wrong, I own a N64, but they are a business just like Sony, prone to mistakes and really only out for one thing, your and my cash.
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People kept saying the GDROMs weren't cd's that they were something else and we all saw how wrong they were.
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