Quoth DarcSeed: High school is one seriously fucked up place. When is this country going to realize that!!?? For the record, I was a picked-on wierdo geek for most of my school years, too. Introverts are definitely not valued in our society. I can relate to these stories more than I feel comfortable saying in a public forum.
In my honest opinion, a lot of the problem here is that schools really are staright out of 1984 -- they're government-run, government-funded, government-controlled down to what cirriculum can be taught. Think about it. The teachers themselves have to go through years of brainwashing to get a Teaching degree.
The entire friggin' United States government has a near-monopoly on education. Of course difference is repressed and conformity is the rule!
I have a 1-year old son, and I do not want him to go through the hell I went through. But how to fight the System?
Well... I tell you, I believe there's only one way to fix this. You can bitch and complain all you like, but it's not getting any better until there are real alternatives. And that's why I moved to New Hampshire.
To prevent the same experience for you son, teach not to be antisocial. My jr. high school experince was horrible. I was picked on, singled out for being poor, and badly mistreated. In high school I got into school events, I did school plays ect.. and all of sudden no one picked on me, I still wasn't cool. I was a geek (now a drama geek) for sure. But I was liked enough. It's not the system per se but how we react to it. If we feel entitled and think that we're oppressed, well the other kids will pick that up like wild animals and pick on you and opress you. If walk with confidence and are social, people tend to either ignore you or like you.
Then again I live in canada, whole different culture.
"Thats just Karmic revenge for being complete bastards from 1895-1945. All japanese people living during that time have been reported as being re-encarnated as butt plugs to punish them for being one of the most evil conquers since Ghengis Khan." What's funny is if this comment was about the USA, it'd have been modded up. I can't wait until that fad passes.
Hmm.. Some sensitive pro-Japanese people I see(white Otaku). Perhaps they don't know about the history of Japan from 1895 till 1945. The raping of asia, the fact all their neighbors still hate them for the things they did during that period of time. There's nothing flamebait/troll about it. The japanese of that time were very indutrious but were horrible horrible people. I can understand maybe a 1 over rated but truly -1 troll/flamebait is a bit much. It is fatually accurate. During that 50 year span there have been few empires as evil. Arguably the Nazi's were more civilized then the Japanese of that time.
That doesn't make any sense -- "linux" and "unix" are functionally more or less the same these days (licensing issues aside of course); the only real difference is historical.
A hummer built at a honda factory?
OSX and XP are easy to compare. Throwing in other stuff inevitablly makes strained metaphors.
Unix is more expensive but very useful. Linux is very cheap and very useful. Their virtually the same in a lot of ways. Not too many car comparisons available.
I'm worried. Tokyo might be destroyed by the impending eruption.
At least the Japanese have experience. I mean, Tokyo's been destroyed at *least* 500 times before hasn't it?
Thats just Karmic revenge for being complete bastards from 1895-1945. All japanese people living during that time have been reported as being re-encarnated as butt plugs to punish them for being one of the most evil conquers since Ghengis Khan.
1. Windows = Yugo (w/Automatic Transmission and Power Steering) 2. Mac OS X = DeLorean 3. GNOME = Kit Car 4. KDE = Yugo (w/Manual Transmission and Manual Steering + DeLorean cardboard facade option)
more accurate anology:
1. Windows = Chrystler, Caravan (ugly, functional, breaks down semi-often. Is better then generally given credit for) 2. Mac OS X = Toyota, Celica (Sporty, attractive, functional enough. Hyped beyond its' actual capabilities. Girls like it more then boys) 3. Linux = Honda, Civic (So many after market bits that you can make it generally what ever you want. Has some hard limits that can't be surpased. Can be pretty; can be fast; can be beautiful and fast. Cheap) 4. UNIX = Hummer (Real ugly, real powerful, real expensive)
Need to do some quick multiplication? Instead of searching google for a bloody online calculator, press F12 and out of nowhere pops up a calculator instantly.
Re:BS? (Score:1, Flamebait) by cowscows (103644) on Sunday July 03, @10:02AM (#12973430) (http://shawn.redhive.com/) Well, if you would bother to read all the bullshit, you'd learn that this whole theory of the universe is being stonewalled by the institutionalized fields of science . All of the so called "cosmologists" are too comfortable with their huge grants and budgets, not to mention their lucrative telescope manufacturer endorsements. They want to keep control of their billions of dollars, and their fancy cars, and their huge mansions, so they won't let any idea that might threaten that see the light of day.
You think the church was bad during the dark ages? They've got nothing on these astrophysicists. They're all a bunch of selfish bastards, more interested in taking our hard earned money than finding out the truth. Of course, joe public isn't smart enough to see through it, so everyone keeps sending them wheelbarrows full of money, so nothing will ever change, EVER!
Or maybe I'm thinking of the RIAA or something. I'm not sure. [ Reply to This ]
it's a pitty the parent got -1 flamebait. It's obvious sarcastic satire of any and all "alternative" thinker arguements we find here. Against evolution, against quantum mechanics, against a round earth theory ect.. I think anyone with mod points shoudl change it to +3 funny.
Personally, I'm distrustful of them because the US veto has consistently kept them from being effective. When the #1 threat to world peace and prosperity has a veto on anything you do, your options are pretty limited...
Actually world peace is not threatened very hard these days. The three major world powers (USA/China/USSR) all have similiar goals and are achieving them economically. They find economic warfare has better PR, lower costs, and is more effective then troops. The single thing hobbling the Un is it's "democratic" nature. In so far as 1 country = 1 vote with a few notable countries gettign vetoes. The vast majority of those countries are run by horrible people trying to enrich themselves at everyone elses expense.
The Us itself is trying to secure oil to shore up it's resources in the coming all out economic war with China and the EU. As for peace, my peace as a chinese middle class canadian is threatened more by the Muslim populace (not just terrorists, but also because most of the thugs in my city happen to be lebenese.)
In the last 30 years I'm glad to have seen many, many great movies made by Hollywood Studios, along with films made by independent production companies. I was gonna list some great recent movies made by the majors, but what for?
Not just Hollywood my friend. the HK film companies release a good film.. once every 2 years or so. The Chinese film industry also cranks out a gem every year or two. The Korean one always has a melodrama worht watching. The Japs make a gory film spectacle worth the price of admission every year. India makes some great films if you don't mind oddly paced musicals with the same plot (if you watch hollywood films, the sameness of plot problably doesn't bother you). Europe has some great films too.
What if everything was here of its own accord, and God didn't actually exist? Would you be fine with that too?
Yup. My beliefs will not change reality. What ever the truth happens to be, I have to live with it. Denial won't help. As well Does it really matter? I can live a happy life struggling in on with the real problems in life without ever having to ask why? It is, thus why doesn't help you. And Why is also unknowable and mostly tangential to anything else. Even you knew why, it won't help much. I doubt very much there is a why.
It is, pyrokinesis is great. I never need a lighter, and my enemies don't last long. Hell campign is great fun, and just a touch of it on a attractive woman leads to many revealing scenes.
As much as I would like to play WOW and explore the world I have no interest in supporting Blizzards game until they do the right thing by Australian players and put a server in Oceania. Its not like they are short on cash.
I just stole 49.95 from your bank account because you live in australia. Don't worry, it's not like your short of money, it must mean it's okay.
There needs to be a why because we need meaning. Otherwise, what's the difference between existing and not existing?
You ask 'why' because you need meaning. I don't. I can cope with springing forth from the randomness of the universe. My life has it's own meaning. I am and that is all. Why is not a scientific question, why is a superflous philisophical question. Many people don't need a why. Although I am a christian, I don't need to know why, I don't even think there is a why.
The big picture is about existance itself. Why does "existance" exist? It's a depressing question because I don't think it'll ever be answered, and I can't keep thinking about it.
Does there need to be a why? As history has shown us, hows are all there is, why are often superflous questiosn we ask because we're bored.
A skull and bones conspiracy waco? This hot off the press: both Bush and Kerry like french fries too. They are the same man!!!.
They were int he same fraternity. I'm not alludig to some secret conspiracy, just stating that the two men have very similiar back grounds, as do almost all of the men in power in the US.
Cuba is not getting along well "on its own". They are still governed by a colonial governor put in place by the Soviets. There is no democracy or sovereignty there.
Err... point to a place where there is real democracy? Not the US, not Canada, not europe. All those places have oligarchy. A select group who rules, and they just tell us it's a democracy to make us feel better. What we're ruled by is populist oligarchy. We are ruled by the same group of lawyers and families. Is it a surprise that both kerry and bush belonged to the same fraternity? Your vaunted democracy doesn't really exsists. We just have verying degrees of tyranny.
Are you on the dope? The original final fantasy had almost no story. Four heroes show up, fight a bunch of bad guys, and save the world. Wow, brilliant. Super Mario Brothers had an awesome story. Two plumbers fight turtle-like monsters to save a princess. If you want argue old games have more staying power than new ones, that's one thing. But to base it on story?? New games have almost universally more time put into story and more compelling stories.
And this almost no story game still had a thousand times more story then the games it was peers to. Also all it's bugs gave it character and added to it.. oddly.
In my opinion, *most* console games are nothing more than eye-candy where you can control a character, gameplay is an afterthought. But that's beside the point...
Some game concepts don't require a lot of CPU power. Civilization is one of the all-time greats, and despite MicroProse's horrible coding, still played on old, weak hardware. On the other hand, some game concepts aren't as easy to get along with, when you start trying to fill a large world with lots of AI-driven characters, then things become very different.
steve
By the same token, most PC games are too... and a lot of them are FPS's.
I am a hardcore PC gamer. I was Ranked in Blizzards Bnet ladder. But your generalizations apply everywhere. On a side note, most experimental games are garbage too. Actually most of everything is garbage but hindsight seems to filter out the parts we didn't like. For instance at the moment I love HK films. Because in the past 3 weeks I've bought and watched almost all the good ones from 1990 onwards... however 80% (at least) of HK films are crappy formulaic, low budget b movies with a gem here and there. By the same token 80% (really low balling here) of what hollywood makes is complete garbage, but once in a while a good movie pops out.
Re:Down with the evil empire!
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BlizzCon Cometh
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But hey guys, isn't Blizzard evil? We should be boycotting them because of the whole bnetd fiasco, right? Who's with me? Let's go.... ooooh...shiny...
Jeff
We decided that a shitty server emulator wasn't worth the effort to care. So we don't care anymore.
Earth is a system that uses energy. More energy equals more biological activity. For the sake of life, global warming rocks. for the sake of us, the unstable weather is nto so good.
Sure, as long as that person gets shot, and they accidentally bring him to this research facility instead of a hospital...
at the Umbrella Ashford medical center we offer the best medical treatment available to the poor and needy. Offfering emergency care to those who could not otherwise afford it. With the support of the federal and state governments we offer the latest advances in medical science to bring hope to the underprivliged.
All we ask is that the patients sign a all encompassing waiver and provide feedback on some of our cutting edge genetic and surgical treatments.
Umbrella is dedicated to providing care and support to all.
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As read in BBC news:
Man convicted for chipping Xbox Xbox console
(image)
(NOTE: extra-tiny caption. almost invisible)"The Xbox was fitted with a 200GB hard drive packed with games"
A 22-year-old man has become the first person in the UK to be convicted for modifying a video games console."
It's like seeing this on slashdot front page:
headline "Man convicted for running a distro of linux"
in the story: "-CD through the skull of a apple fan boi."
Quoth DarcSeed:
High school is one seriously fucked up place. When is this country going to realize that!!??
For the record, I was a picked-on wierdo geek for most of my school years, too. Introverts are definitely not valued in our society. I can relate to these stories more than I feel comfortable saying in a public forum.
In my honest opinion, a lot of the problem here is that schools really are staright out of 1984 -- they're government-run, government-funded, government-controlled down to what cirriculum can be taught. Think about it. The teachers themselves have to go through years of brainwashing to get a Teaching degree.
The entire friggin' United States government has a near-monopoly on education. Of course difference is repressed and conformity is the rule!
I have a 1-year old son, and I do not want him to go through the hell I went through. But how to fight the System?
Well... I tell you, I believe there's only one way to fix this. You can bitch and complain all you like, but it's not getting any better until there are real alternatives. And that's why I moved to New Hampshire.
To prevent the same experience for you son, teach not to be antisocial. My jr. high school experince was horrible. I was picked on, singled out for being poor, and badly mistreated. In high school I got into school events, I did school plays ect.. and all of sudden no one picked on me, I still wasn't cool. I was a geek (now a drama geek) for sure. But I was liked enough. It's not the system per se but how we react to it. If we feel entitled and think that we're oppressed, well the other kids will pick that up like wild animals and pick on you and opress you. If walk with confidence and are social, people tend to either ignore you or like you.
Then again I live in canada, whole different culture.
"Thats just Karmic revenge for being complete bastards from 1895-1945. All japanese people living during that time have been reported as being re-encarnated as butt plugs to punish them for being one of the most evil conquers since Ghengis Khan."
What's funny is if this comment was about the USA, it'd have been modded up. I can't wait until that fad passes.
Hmm.. Some sensitive pro-Japanese people I see(white Otaku). Perhaps they don't know about the history of Japan from 1895 till 1945. The raping of asia, the fact all their neighbors still hate them for the things they did during that period of time. There's nothing flamebait/troll about it. The japanese of that time were very indutrious but were horrible horrible people. I can understand maybe a 1 over rated but truly -1 troll/flamebait is a bit much. It is fatually accurate. During that 50 year span there have been few empires as evil. Arguably the Nazi's were more civilized then the Japanese of that time.
That doesn't make any sense -- "linux" and "unix" are functionally more or less the same these days (licensing issues aside of course); the only real difference is historical.
A hummer built at a honda factory?
OSX and XP are easy to compare. Throwing in other stuff inevitablly makes strained metaphors.
Unix is more expensive but very useful. Linux is very cheap and very useful. Their virtually the same in a lot of ways. Not too many car comparisons available.
I'm worried. Tokyo might be destroyed by the impending eruption.
At least the Japanese have experience. I mean, Tokyo's been destroyed at *least* 500 times before hasn't it?
Thats just Karmic revenge for being complete bastards from 1895-1945. All japanese people living during that time have been reported as being re-encarnated as butt plugs to punish them for being one of the most evil conquers since Ghengis Khan.
1. Windows = Yugo (w/Automatic Transmission and Power Steering)
2. Mac OS X = DeLorean
3. GNOME = Kit Car
4. KDE = Yugo (w/Manual Transmission and Manual Steering + DeLorean cardboard facade option)
more accurate anology:
1. Windows = Chrystler, Caravan (ugly, functional, breaks down semi-often. Is better then generally given credit for)
2. Mac OS X = Toyota, Celica (Sporty, attractive, functional enough. Hyped beyond its' actual capabilities. Girls like it more then boys)
3. Linux = Honda, Civic (So many after market bits that you can make it generally what ever you want. Has some hard limits that can't be surpased. Can be pretty; can be fast; can be beautiful and fast. Cheap)
4. UNIX = Hummer (Real ugly, real powerful, real expensive)
That's twice now that you completely missed his point.
NOT EVERYONE HAS THEIR BROSWER OPEN AT ALL TIMES.
How many times does he have to say it?
?? In this day and age the browser is the most used application. My computer spends about 5s/day without some sort of browser up.
Need to do some quick multiplication? Instead of searching google for a bloody online calculator, press F12 and out of nowhere pops up a calculator instantly.
Umm... google is an online calculator too.
Re:BS? (Score:1, Flamebait)
by cowscows (103644) on Sunday July 03, @10:02AM (#12973430)
(http://shawn.redhive.com/)
Well, if you would bother to read all the bullshit, you'd learn that this whole theory of the universe is being stonewalled by the institutionalized fields of science . All of the so called "cosmologists" are too comfortable with their huge grants and budgets, not to mention their lucrative telescope manufacturer endorsements. They want to keep control of their billions of dollars, and their fancy cars, and their huge mansions, so they won't let any idea that might threaten that see the light of day.
You think the church was bad during the dark ages? They've got nothing on these astrophysicists. They're all a bunch of selfish bastards, more interested in taking our hard earned money than finding out the truth. Of course, joe public isn't smart enough to see through it, so everyone keeps sending them wheelbarrows full of money, so nothing will ever change, EVER!
Or maybe I'm thinking of the RIAA or something. I'm not sure.
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it's a pitty the parent got -1 flamebait. It's obvious sarcastic satire of any and all "alternative" thinker arguements we find here. Against evolution, against quantum mechanics, against a round earth theory ect.. I think anyone with mod points shoudl change it to +3 funny.
Personally, I'm distrustful of them because the US veto has consistently kept them from being effective. When the #1 threat to world peace and prosperity has a veto on anything you do, your options are pretty limited...
Actually world peace is not threatened very hard these days. The three major world powers (USA/China/USSR) all have similiar goals and are achieving them economically. They find economic warfare has better PR, lower costs, and is more effective then troops. The single thing hobbling the Un is it's "democratic" nature. In so far as 1 country = 1 vote with a few notable countries gettign vetoes. The vast majority of those countries are run by horrible people trying to enrich themselves at everyone elses expense.
The Us itself is trying to secure oil to shore up it's resources in the coming all out economic war with China and the EU. As for peace, my peace as a chinese middle class canadian is threatened more by the Muslim populace (not just terrorists, but also because most of the thugs in my city happen to be lebenese.)
In the last 30 years I'm glad to have seen many, many great movies made by Hollywood Studios, along with films made by independent production companies. I was gonna list some great recent movies made by the majors, but what for?
Not just Hollywood my friend. the HK film companies release a good film.. once every 2 years or so. The Chinese film industry also cranks out a gem every year or two. The Korean one always has a melodrama worht watching. The Japs make a gory film spectacle worth the price of admission every year. India makes some great films if you don't mind oddly paced musicals with the same plot (if you watch hollywood films, the sameness of plot problably doesn't bother you). Europe has some great films too.
What if everything was here of its own accord, and God didn't actually exist? Would you be fine with that too?
Yup. My beliefs will not change reality. What ever the truth happens to be, I have to live with it. Denial won't help. As well Does it really matter? I can live a happy life struggling in on with the real problems in life without ever having to ask why? It is, thus why doesn't help you. And Why is also unknowable and mostly tangential to anything else. Even you knew why, it won't help much. I doubt very much there is a why.
wow, quite a skill to grasp melting objects.
It is, pyrokinesis is great. I never need a lighter, and my enemies don't last long. Hell campign is great fun, and just a touch of it on a attractive woman leads to many revealing scenes.
As much as I would like to play WOW and explore the world I have no interest in supporting Blizzards game until they do the right thing by Australian players and put a server in Oceania. Its not like they are short on cash.
I just stole 49.95 from your bank account because you live in australia. Don't worry, it's not like your short of money, it must mean it's okay.
If you don't need meaning, why are you a Christian?
Because that's what I grew up with. But I needn't a reason. If God created everything for shits and giggle I'd be fine with that.
There needs to be a why because we need meaning. Otherwise, what's the difference between existing and not existing?
You ask 'why' because you need meaning. I don't. I can cope with springing forth from the randomness of the universe. My life has it's own meaning. I am and that is all. Why is not a scientific question, why is a superflous philisophical question. Many people don't need a why. Although I am a christian, I don't need to know why, I don't even think there is a why.
The big picture is about existance itself. Why does "existance" exist? It's a depressing question because I don't think it'll ever be answered, and I can't keep thinking about it.
Does there need to be a why? As history has shown us, hows are all there is, why are often superflous questiosn we ask because we're bored.
A skull and bones conspiracy waco? This hot off the press: both Bush and Kerry like french fries too. They are the same man!!!.
They were int he same fraternity. I'm not alludig to some secret conspiracy, just stating that the two men have very similiar back grounds, as do almost all of the men in power in the US.
Cuba is not getting along well "on its own". They are still governed by a colonial governor put in place by the Soviets. There is no democracy or sovereignty there.
Err... point to a place where there is real democracy? Not the US, not Canada, not europe. All those places have oligarchy. A select group who rules, and they just tell us it's a democracy to make us feel better. What we're ruled by is populist oligarchy. We are ruled by the same group of lawyers and families. Is it a surprise that both kerry and bush belonged to the same fraternity? Your vaunted democracy doesn't really exsists. We just have verying degrees of tyranny.
Now when we have that un-nerving feeling gator seems to be pre-installed on our machines, it'll be true.
Are you on the dope? The original final fantasy had almost no story. Four heroes show up, fight a bunch of bad guys, and save the world. Wow, brilliant. Super Mario Brothers had an awesome story. Two plumbers fight turtle-like monsters to save a princess. If you want argue old games have more staying power than new ones, that's one thing. But to base it on story?? New games have almost universally more time put into story and more compelling stories.
And this almost no story game still had a thousand times more story then the games it was peers to. Also all it's bugs gave it character and added to it.. oddly.
In my opinion, *most* console games are nothing more than eye-candy where you can control a character, gameplay is an afterthought. But that's beside the point...
Some game concepts don't require a lot of CPU power. Civilization is one of the all-time greats, and despite MicroProse's horrible coding, still played on old, weak hardware. On the other hand, some game concepts aren't as easy to get along with, when you start trying to fill a large world with lots of AI-driven characters, then things become very different.
steve
By the same token, most PC games are too... and a lot of them are FPS's.
I am a hardcore PC gamer. I was Ranked in Blizzards Bnet ladder. But your generalizations apply everywhere. On a side note, most experimental games are garbage too. Actually most of everything is garbage but hindsight seems to filter out the parts we didn't like. For instance at the moment I love HK films. Because in the past 3 weeks I've bought and watched almost all the good ones from 1990 onwards... however 80% (at least) of HK films are crappy formulaic, low budget b movies with a gem here and there. By the same token 80% (really low balling here) of what hollywood makes is complete garbage, but once in a while a good movie pops out.
But hey guys, isn't Blizzard evil? We should be boycotting them because of the whole bnetd fiasco, right? Who's with me? Let's go....
ooooh...shiny...
Jeff
We decided that a shitty server emulator wasn't worth the effort to care. So we don't care anymore.
Earth is a system that uses energy. More energy equals more biological activity. For the sake of life, global warming rocks. for the sake of us, the unstable weather is nto so good.
Sure, as long as that person gets shot, and they accidentally bring him to this research facility instead of a hospital...
at the Umbrella Ashford medical center we offer the best medical treatment available to the poor and needy. Offfering emergency care to those who could not otherwise afford it. With the support of the federal and state governments we offer the latest advances in medical science to bring hope to the underprivliged.
All we ask is that the patients sign a all encompassing waiver and provide feedback on some of our cutting edge genetic and surgical treatments.
Umbrella is dedicated to providing care and support to all.