To my knowledge, Clinton never gave a blanket order to the NSA that allowed the violation of every man, woman, and child's privacy in America. By all means, educate me.
Well, guess what, murder, genocide, and rape are nothing new either... that doesn't make them any less reprehensible.
McCarthy did the same thing with communism as Bush is doing with terrorism. I still can't believe Bush hasn't even *apolagized* for breaking our fundamental American rights. Just because doing so is unoriginal has no bearing on the fact of it being completely unethical conduct and grounds for legal action against his administration.
Oh well. I suppose we had a good enough run with freedom and personal liberty (something like... 30 or 40 years out of the thousands of years humans have been around?). Time for another Dark Ages. Hooray.
For decades, advertising firms and the companies they represent have held sway over the content of television. Not a few good shows haven't arisen despite the reigns of commercial liability, but if broadcasting companies really want to expand their markets, they need consumer demand in complete control without advertisements. Too many times has a well written program been cast off because they couldn't find companies willing to advertise on the show because of controversiality or because they didn't have a large portion of one demographic (You know, when all those big companies removed their advertisements from "Ellen" is one example that comes to mind). Perhaps a more massive switch to complete on demand viewing could change that.
Corporations might even be forced to put more money into product developement that insipid, mass advertising campaigns.
Exactly. Worse yet, it's possible Gene Roddenberry was merely a producer *from* the future, where his overacting contestants on a future reality tv show didn't make enough money, so he traveled back through time with them, using extremely advanced computer graphics to make it look like an ancient American SciFi TV show (you know, powerful Cell24 processors to make bad hair appear atop their heads). This way, they knew they'd at least gather a cult following and live off geek groupies' fandom and bad sex for decades!
So I was thinking just the other day, how to write a script or somesuch to use google to search for all the stories that have been posted more than once here on the ol slash and dot. Then someone could submit the list as an article, and again, and again....
Murdoch's News Corp. recently gained the rights to abject disgust, as it is currently the most thriving sentiment, running rife throughout what was once a great country, the United States.
And now, no sports at all. Go wash yourself with vigor.
Several years for a good movie? Where are you from? Idiotville? Few movies go over production time of 2 years, and that includes editing and sound. Even the Lord of the Rings movies took only 3 years *doing them all at the same time*, which comes out to guess what, 1 year apeice for those long, graphics intensive movies. Games take 10 times longer? what? Are you even going to say anything relatively coherent? Most games take between 1-3 years to make. Anything more and you have to rewrite what you've already written.
Furthermore, clarify what you mean between "art" and "graphics", as someone with a dictionary would probably think you mean the same goddamn thing. Do you mean "art" as in the "art of games"?
Who is this Gottman prick? And why does he feel threatened by "emotional intelligence"?
Emotional intelligence is not a dangerous idea, merely an expression of maturity without reguard to scholarly learning, as many intellectual elitists are fucking keen on to operate without maturity whatsoever. I believe the notion behind it is that actual ethical good trumps academic research, as academic research is completely fruitless without the purpose to better the lives of the people of the world.
Let me simplify my thoughts: Who is the better man, a simpleton who emulates Ghandi based on emotional intuition, or someone who sharpens his intellect to the point of brilliance if only to raise himself in the world?
Although Microsoft didn't do so hot with their "trusted computing" initiative, they'll do much better with "trusted people". Check out a future issue of Playboy: "Hottest Places to Have Your RFID Chip Inserted! Please Your Woman and Keep Your Nation Safe at the Same Time!"
Wait, wait... The corporate pansies are going to challenge piracy in Russia? Does anyone with any sense in the RIAA understand that the Russian Mob runs that? Along with a huge portion, something like 1 in 3 or more, of businesses in general?
Holy crap, I needed a good laugh. They have a hard enough time with college programmers, but they think organized crime in a country brutalized by totalitarian communism will be a peice of cake. Hoo boy, it was hard enough to take the recording industry serious before... are they trying to turn their organization in a farce? Come on. Well, then again, the world could use some comic relief. Keep it up, RIAA, you're lifting spirits everywhere. By making asses of yourselves.
Let me get this straight, big business has somehow modified the way we percieve property rights into an unholy amalgamation of lies and scams by buying off politicians, who are busy sending people off to die for their politicking in the middle of a god forsaken desert.
I tell ya, this country just gets more fucking brilliant by the minute. So, let me get this straight, the army can spend my fucking tax dollars on wiping out a school in the middle east, but I can't mod an x-box and sell it? Because it's under DMCA, I don't really own something I bought and paid for? But it's cool, my blood and sweat goes to pay for some private mercenary company parading around Iraq and shooting whoever the fuck they feel like. No, fuck this, this gets closer and closer to the goddamn last straw for me.
Would someone fucking explain to me why people I know are getting shot at for this sonofabitch Bush and his richboy consorts who are getting spoon fed by the corporations to help them rob us blind of our wallets and rights?
"Oh, but Mr. Noxx, these guys are protecting us from terrorists!" No, the "terrorists" are the ones who figured out Bush & Company were in it to rip them off and rape their land while bombing the shit out of their country and stood the fuck up. God dammit I'm pissed.
The rich and powerful can only be penalized by a slap on the wrist, unless, of course, they cause massive damage to an entire state like California (Keep crying, Mrs. Lay; I'm loving every tear).
I can't thank you enough for a civil reply, even if this topic does get me pretty irked. Labels like "Intense Violence" and "Blood and Gore" should be more than sufficient. If a parent believes that shooting someone to death in a city is unnacceptable violence, do you really think that there's an alternative "Blood and Gore" and "Intense Violence" that would be acceptable? Hacking someone to death with a sword? The reason that labels aren't entire, case-specific sentences is because any parent who thinks that burning someone to death isn't okay but beating someone bloody is okay is probably not entirely sane. Violence is violence.
While I can't think of a rental store that doesn't display the rating on the rental box itself, I do agree that they should put the warnings of graphics on the boxes as well. However, parents still rent these games because they are not only *just games*, but there are worse things on daytime television. Desensitization doesn't just occur to children that play these games, but to the parents raising them.
Right, so you've seen where the "M-rating" box EXPLAINS AND DETAILS EVERYTHING IN THE FUCKING GAME? God dammit, even someone who claims to work in a video and video game rental store doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. From the "GTA: San Andreas" box purchased the day it came out: "Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs"
I'm sorry, but they really do sound like whiney little shits filing this against ICANN and Verisign. If ICANN and Verisign had a monopoly over ALL domain names in creation, I could see how people would get upset. But they created the.com and.net just for themselves to sell, okay? If you don't want to pay an increase in subscription, just change to a different.whatever; it's not really all that difficult. Does anyone else see this as flamingly stupid?
Oh, I know about Algeria and, of course, their occupation of Vietnam, amongst other places in the European trend of raping and pillaging unsuspecting cultures in a politically chic colonization style. But I was just responding to the uber-conservative comment above.
I'm supposing that "pandering" was inexorably redefined to "not setting up fascist dictatorships for some 30-odd years to help thieve the oil from blindingly poor Islamic countries and violently oppress the resistant few before finally forcing what appears to be democracy at last into a single country in the middle of the desert through mass-bombing"
Thought I'd never see the day. Well, the French certainly do need a creative boost, and nothing gets the literary talents of Europe fermenting like a good upheaval of society and oppression of the lower classes. Maybe even ol' Bushie will make a cameo with Chirac and offer the dregs of society some cake 'n pie.
What? Are you high? Oh, wait, you're one of those that figures things based purely on intuitive science rather than academic science. Define for me: Homo habilus, homo erectus, australeopithicus. God save us from monumental ignorance.
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To my knowledge, Clinton never gave a blanket order to the NSA that allowed the violation of every man, woman, and child's privacy in America. By all means, educate me.
Pardon my ignorance, but where, precisely, does the Constitution give the President the authority to override the Bill of Rights?
Well, guess what, murder, genocide, and rape are nothing new either... that doesn't make them any less reprehensible.
McCarthy did the same thing with communism as Bush is doing with terrorism. I still can't believe Bush hasn't even *apolagized* for breaking our fundamental American rights. Just because doing so is unoriginal has no bearing on the fact of it being completely unethical conduct and grounds for legal action against his administration.
Oh well. I suppose we had a good enough run with freedom and personal liberty (something like... 30 or 40 years out of the thousands of years humans have been around?). Time for another Dark Ages. Hooray.
For decades, advertising firms and the companies they represent have held sway over the content of television. Not a few good shows haven't arisen despite the reigns of commercial liability, but if broadcasting companies really want to expand their markets, they need consumer demand in complete control without advertisements. Too many times has a well written program been cast off because they couldn't find companies willing to advertise on the show because of controversiality or because they didn't have a large portion of one demographic (You know, when all those big companies removed their advertisements from "Ellen" is one example that comes to mind). Perhaps a more massive switch to complete on demand viewing could change that.
Corporations might even be forced to put more money into product developement that insipid, mass advertising campaigns.
Exactly. Worse yet, it's possible Gene Roddenberry was merely a producer *from* the future, where his overacting contestants on a future reality tv show didn't make enough money, so he traveled back through time with them, using extremely advanced computer graphics to make it look like an ancient American SciFi TV show (you know, powerful Cell24 processors to make bad hair appear atop their heads). This way, they knew they'd at least gather a cult following and live off geek groupies' fandom and bad sex for decades!
That looks worse than a spanish telenovella... But I guess the bad acting is just a stab at what the future will actually be like. Points for realism.
Hey, I could be wrong. Maybe that fan series will be the next Twin Peaks. But I'll not hazard a viewing.
So I was thinking just the other day, how to write a script or somesuch to use google to search for all the stories that have been posted more than once here on the ol slash and dot. Then someone could submit the list as an article, and again, and again....
Maybe that way the mods would get the point.
Murdoch's News Corp. recently gained the rights to abject disgust, as it is currently the most thriving sentiment, running rife throughout what was once a great country, the United States.
And now, no sports at all. Go wash yourself with vigor.
Several years for a good movie? Where are you from? Idiotville? Few movies go over production time of 2 years, and that includes editing and sound. Even the Lord of the Rings movies took only 3 years *doing them all at the same time*, which comes out to guess what, 1 year apeice for those long, graphics intensive movies. Games take 10 times longer? what? Are you even going to say anything relatively coherent? Most games take between 1-3 years to make. Anything more and you have to rewrite what you've already written.
Furthermore, clarify what you mean between "art" and "graphics", as someone with a dictionary would probably think you mean the same goddamn thing. Do you mean "art" as in the "art of games"?
Who is this Gottman prick? And why does he feel threatened by "emotional intelligence"?
Emotional intelligence is not a dangerous idea, merely an expression of maturity without reguard to scholarly learning, as many intellectual elitists are fucking keen on to operate without maturity whatsoever. I believe the notion behind it is that actual ethical good trumps academic research, as academic research is completely fruitless without the purpose to better the lives of the people of the world.
Let me simplify my thoughts: Who is the better man, a simpleton who emulates Ghandi based on emotional intuition, or someone who sharpens his intellect to the point of brilliance if only to raise himself in the world?
Uh, wow, you're brilliant. So without the subject of the story, it's not a news story? Idiot.
Mod down.
Although Microsoft didn't do so hot with their "trusted computing" initiative, they'll do much better with "trusted people". Check out a future issue of Playboy: "Hottest Places to Have Your RFID Chip Inserted! Please Your Woman and Keep Your Nation Safe at the Same Time!"
Wait, wait... The corporate pansies are going to challenge piracy in Russia? Does anyone with any sense in the RIAA understand that the Russian Mob runs that? Along with a huge portion, something like 1 in 3 or more, of businesses in general?
Holy crap, I needed a good laugh. They have a hard enough time with college programmers, but they think organized crime in a country brutalized by totalitarian communism will be a peice of cake. Hoo boy, it was hard enough to take the recording industry serious before... are they trying to turn their organization in a farce? Come on. Well, then again, the world could use some comic relief. Keep it up, RIAA, you're lifting spirits everywhere. By making asses of yourselves.
Let me get this straight, big business has somehow modified the way we percieve property rights into an unholy amalgamation of lies and scams by buying off politicians, who are busy sending people off to die for their politicking in the middle of a god forsaken desert.
I tell ya, this country just gets more fucking brilliant by the minute. So, let me get this straight, the army can spend my fucking tax dollars on wiping out a school in the middle east, but I can't mod an x-box and sell it? Because it's under DMCA, I don't really own something I bought and paid for? But it's cool, my blood and sweat goes to pay for some private mercenary company parading around Iraq and shooting whoever the fuck they feel like. No, fuck this, this gets closer and closer to the goddamn last straw for me.
Would someone fucking explain to me why people I know are getting shot at for this sonofabitch Bush and his richboy consorts who are getting spoon fed by the corporations to help them rob us blind of our wallets and rights?
"Oh, but Mr. Noxx, these guys are protecting us from terrorists!"
No, the "terrorists" are the ones who figured out Bush & Company were in it to rip them off and rape their land while bombing the shit out of their country and stood the fuck up. God dammit I'm pissed.
And Bill Gates got Person of the Year from Time? Great, now the apocalypse really is on its way. Dammit.
The rich and powerful can only be penalized by a slap on the wrist, unless, of course, they cause massive damage to an entire state like California (Keep crying, Mrs. Lay; I'm loving every tear).
I can't thank you enough for a civil reply, even if this topic does get me pretty irked. Labels like "Intense Violence" and "Blood and Gore" should be more than sufficient. If a parent believes that shooting someone to death in a city is unnacceptable violence, do you really think that there's an alternative "Blood and Gore" and "Intense Violence" that would be acceptable? Hacking someone to death with a sword? The reason that labels aren't entire, case-specific sentences is because any parent who thinks that burning someone to death isn't okay but beating someone bloody is okay is probably not entirely sane. Violence is violence.
While I can't think of a rental store that doesn't display the rating on the rental box itself, I do agree that they should put the warnings of graphics on the boxes as well. However, parents still rent these games because they are not only *just games*, but there are worse things on daytime television. Desensitization doesn't just occur to children that play these games, but to the parents raising them.
Right, so you've seen where the "M-rating" box EXPLAINS AND DETAILS EVERYTHING IN THE FUCKING GAME? God dammit, even someone who claims to work in a video and video game rental store doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. From the "GTA: San Andreas" box purchased the day it came out: "Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs"
I'm sorry, but they really do sound like whiney little shits filing this against ICANN and Verisign. If ICANN and Verisign had a monopoly over ALL domain names in creation, I could see how people would get upset. But they created the .com and .net just for themselves to sell, okay? If you don't want to pay an increase in subscription, just change to a different .whatever; it's not really all that difficult. Does anyone else see this as flamingly stupid?
Oh, I know about Algeria and, of course, their occupation of Vietnam, amongst other places in the European trend of raping and pillaging unsuspecting cultures in a politically chic colonization style. But I was just responding to the uber-conservative comment above.
What? Another troll modded insightful?
I'm supposing that "pandering" was inexorably redefined to "not setting up fascist dictatorships for some 30-odd years to help thieve the oil from blindingly poor Islamic countries and violently oppress the resistant few before finally forcing what appears to be democracy at last into a single country in the middle of the desert through mass-bombing"
Thought I'd never see the day. Well, the French certainly do need a creative boost, and nothing gets the literary talents of Europe fermenting like a good upheaval of society and oppression of the lower classes. Maybe even ol' Bushie will make a cameo with Chirac and offer the dregs of society some cake 'n pie.
That's "Eyes of the Dragon"... my mistake. :)
What? Are you high? Oh, wait, you're one of those that figures things based purely on intuitive science rather than academic science. Define for me: Homo habilus, homo erectus, australeopithicus. God save us from monumental ignorance.
The book King wrote, "Dragon's Eye", reveals a great deal about Flagg, for those interested. It's an old book, fairly difficult to find.