A position without intelligence; it is simply far too unrealistic and invents an uberstrict morality which cannot function within this universe.
Death is the natural result of a number of things... war only being the most obvious. Budget cuts. HMO policies. Vehicles. I hope you don't have a driver's license and a car, or else you're being a hypocrite!
You name it, death can result from all sorts of policies and actions by government or other groups. Death happens. To mandate zero casualties as a consequence of anything we do will simply paralyze us.
Go ahead and be paralyzed if you desire. Might as well lie down and die. In the mean time, the Armed Forces are protecting you, your way of life (even though you object to and likely hate them) and even your freedom to spout such rediculous and unrealistic ideas which completely ignore the facts of the matter and the gaping differences in intent and action between "us" and "them".
Frequency-hopping and establishing an encrypted communications network of sorts isn't especially new. We've been doing it in the US miliary for years with SINCGARS systems.
Try Netscrape 6.x... I'm betting you'll see something different. I actually tolerated NS until v4.7, but after that things began to get rediculous. Most especially, the addition of various Features without fixing the various problems that NS had in the first place. (Table support for instance... NS is still touchy as hell)
For the time being, it appears (according to more information from Matt Soell in the various Halo forums) that Take Two is mainly interested in creating a Myth III. Bungie continues to supply the matchmaker server for Myth players from its current location in Redmond, and they expect to do so for the indefinite future... We'll see if that changes at some point.
Bah! Tribes was good (I even worked on the #1 most popular mod for it - Renegades) but it was the "missing link" of action games. It was a team-oriented game from the start, but only halfheartedly so. Tribes 2 doesn't yet appear to enter the realm of full team-oriented reinforcement within the gameplay.
And frankly, the engine for Halo is much, MUCH more powerful. I've been tracking the two games, and noted that Dynamix appeared (up until the buyout) to be very intimidated by Halo. In fact, shortly after any feature was described for Halo, they tended to announce the very same feature for Tribes 2. How original. ("Look! We have independent wheel movement now!")
One big thing to note... almost as soon as Bungie becomes a part of the Microsoft Games Group, Dynamix decides that it's no longer that interested in releasing T2 for PC and Mac. I tend to think the competition just loosened up.
Don't get me wrong. I'll buy Tribes 2 and I'll most likely play it quite a bit, but I'd seen and heard what Bungie was doing for Halo (beyond just a simple screenshot or movie) and was duly impressed. I'm just hoping that these recent changes don't derail their train of creativity and impose unreasonable restrictions.
It's all very well and good to show off one's expertise but peoples' lives are not something to be played with. These exposed persons earlier risked tremendous torture and death for themselves and their familes in order to help the world which benefits from having the freedom to print stuff like this. How ironic that our own freedoms should translate to such a lack of personal responsibility and gratitude to these persons.
To John Young and the offending employees of the NYT: you deserve to have every last detail of your lives published to the world. Including credit card numbers. Shoot... that's NOTHING compared to what could happen to these agents. Why not advertise you as great targets for recently released sodomizers? Let YOU see what it's like to be hung out to dry, placed in peril by the fully premeditated yet incompassionate actions of others!
Should any retribution be taken against these agents, no amount of finger-pointing or personal denials will be able to wash the blood from your hands. I hope your little game was worth it.
Being a webmaster at in the Bungie fan community, awhile ago I asked Loki Games about the prospects for porting more Bungie products - especially Halo - to Linux. I've just barely received a reply:
Thank you for your interest, and apologies for the delay in responding to your inquiry.
Our company line now that Bungie has been purchased by Microsoft is as follows...
We are not aware of anything relating to Bungie's acquisition that would affect our rights to continue to sell and support the Linux version Myth II, and we fully intend to continue to do so.
Whether or not we'll have access to future Bungie titles is an open question. We just don't have enough information right now, so any comment would be mere speculation.
Sincerely,
Kayt Sorhaindo
Loki Entertainment Software
Who here thinks it's likely now? Guess we'll have to see what the Supreme Court has to say on the matter.
There are natural, oil-eating bacteria already! Oil is, after all, an organic chemical.
After the Exxon Valdez disaster, bacteria moved in and started gobbling up all that oil. Soon other species in the food chain came along and began devouring them... and now that area is even richer in some respects than it was before.
Really, what was more catastrophic than the oil spill was the OIL CLEANUP. They sprayed hot water and detergent all over everything up there... both of which really helped to sterilize things. It was only something to make good PR, while in fact it HARMED the local ecosystem far worse than the oil spill.
Such is the way of most Greenpeacers and other Green groups... ignorant ranting and actions taken in matters that they know extremely little about.
-Rob Swenson
(Whose father is an environmental attorney that holds several special, additional certifications. One that only five people in the U.S. have obtained)
Slashdot Mirror
A position without intelligence; it is simply far too unrealistic and invents an uberstrict morality which cannot function within this universe.
Death is the natural result of a number of things... war only being the most obvious. Budget cuts. HMO policies. Vehicles. I hope you don't have a driver's license and a car, or else you're being a hypocrite!
You name it, death can result from all sorts of policies and actions by government or other groups. Death happens. To mandate zero casualties as a consequence of anything we do will simply paralyze us.
Go ahead and be paralyzed if you desire. Might as well lie down and die. In the mean time, the Armed Forces are protecting you, your way of life (even though you object to and likely hate them) and even your freedom to spout such rediculous and unrealistic ideas which completely ignore the facts of the matter and the gaping differences in intent and action between "us" and "them".
- Noctavis
nospam@noctavis.com
SGT, Combat Nurse, US Army
-Rob Swenson, SGT, US Army
Try Netscrape 6.x... I'm betting you'll see something different. I actually tolerated NS until v4.7, but after that things began to get rediculous. Most especially, the addition of various Features without fixing the various problems that NS had in the first place. (Table support for instance... NS is still touchy as hell)
-Noctavis
For the time being, it appears (according to more information from Matt Soell in the various Halo forums) that Take Two is mainly interested in creating a Myth III. Bungie continues to supply the matchmaker server for Myth players from its current location in Redmond, and they expect to do so for the indefinite future... We'll see if that changes at some point.
-Noctavis
(Webmaster in the Bungie fan community)
Bah! Tribes was good (I even worked on the #1 most popular mod for it - Renegades) but it was the "missing link" of action games. It was a team-oriented game from the start, but only halfheartedly so. Tribes 2 doesn't yet appear to enter the realm of full team-oriented reinforcement within the gameplay.
And frankly, the engine for Halo is much, MUCH more powerful. I've been tracking the two games, and noted that Dynamix appeared (up until the buyout) to be very intimidated by Halo. In fact, shortly after any feature was described for Halo, they tended to announce the very same feature for Tribes 2. How original. ("Look! We have independent wheel movement now!")
One big thing to note... almost as soon as Bungie becomes a part of the Microsoft Games Group, Dynamix decides that it's no longer that interested in releasing T2 for PC and Mac. I tend to think the competition just loosened up.
Don't get me wrong. I'll buy Tribes 2 and I'll most likely play it quite a bit, but I'd seen and heard what Bungie was doing for Halo (beyond just a simple screenshot or movie) and was duly impressed. I'm just hoping that these recent changes don't derail their train of creativity and impose unreasonable restrictions.
-Noctavis
It's all very well and good to show off one's expertise but peoples' lives are not something to be played with. These exposed persons earlier risked tremendous torture and death for themselves and their familes in order to help the world which benefits from having the freedom to print stuff like this. How ironic that our own freedoms should translate to such a lack of personal responsibility and gratitude to these persons.
To John Young and the offending employees of the NYT: you deserve to have every last detail of your lives published to the world. Including credit card numbers. Shoot... that's NOTHING compared to what could happen to these agents. Why not advertise you as great targets for recently released sodomizers? Let YOU see what it's like to be hung out to dry, placed in peril by the fully premeditated yet incompassionate actions of others!
Should any retribution be taken against these agents, no amount of finger-pointing or personal denials will be able to wash the blood from your hands. I hope your little game was worth it.
There are natural, oil-eating bacteria already! Oil is, after all, an organic chemical.
After the Exxon Valdez disaster, bacteria moved in and started gobbling up all that oil. Soon other species in the food chain came along and began devouring them... and now that area is even richer in some respects than it was before.
Really, what was more catastrophic than the oil spill was the OIL CLEANUP. They sprayed hot water and detergent all over everything up there... both of which really helped to sterilize things. It was only something to make good PR, while in fact it HARMED the local ecosystem far worse than the oil spill.
Such is the way of most Greenpeacers and other Green groups... ignorant ranting and actions taken in matters that they know extremely little about.
-Rob Swenson
(Whose father is an environmental attorney that holds several special, additional certifications. One that only five people in the U.S. have obtained)