society is sick of sending cops to domestic violence scenes. therefore, society won't let troglodytes have games where there is violence against women. not because there is a definite connection, but simply because its insulting to all that society is working towards in terms of less violence towards women
so sorry assholes, deal with it, but your gaming needs, on a scale of importance of 1 to 10, ranks at zero, compared with some other agendas in the world, namely, less violence towards women and the need to teach people that it is wrong
most can understand that smacking a woman in a videogame does not mean it is socially acceptable. a few can't
no smacking women in videogames: i fully support that. deal with, "tough guy"
if you steal cash from a bank, the cash you have stolen is anonymous (well, it usually is): that is, there's no way to tell later if it is the same cash you stole from the bank
but this guy just moved around bits on someone's server. hey frank, the ton of chips with id #445566, where'd they go? hey jack, maybe its this guy here, with a ton of chips with id #445566?
i mean seriously: you're smart enough to hack a server, but not smart enough to play that scenario out?
you don't have to like peter jackson's lotr. but you do have to recognize that your judgment of his work is in the vanishing small minority. it's a smash success, critically and in the box office. you also have to recognize that mindlessly negative voices on any subject on the internet are cheap, easy, and everywhere
i guess you like giving your money to rent seeking middlemen. you're right, i'm not your god. some middleman is your god. oh, you thought the money goes to the artist? lol
i'm not smarter than everyone else. i work with people i clearly understand as more intelligent than i am. i understand my limitations on many issues in the world in which my comprehension is quite limited
but on the issue of the status of various freedoms in the usa as compared to other countries, i am clearly, unequivocally, much more intelligent than you. no, i don't have an alternative opinion than you. i am simply more intelligent on the issue than you. thi sis not an opinion. this is a fact when objectively evaluating what you have written above on this subject matter
you really need to educate yourself. you are quite genuinely, objectively ignorant, on a subject matter you feel a need to talk about. you really need to know what it is like in cuba and china in terms of political expression, religion, the press, before you start blindly, unintelligently, comparing it to the status quo in the usa
again, i'm not an apologist for the usa. you can find the usa guilty of many crimes and shortcomings. but you can't look at one of the usa's strengths, its respect for various domestic freedoms, and see equivalency with some of the most vile regimes in this world on the subject of those same freedoms. unless you are purposefully trying to sound like a low iq individual. again, not an insult. this is objectively determined by the quality of the words you have written, falsely equating pretty much polar opposites in the world in terms of respect for domestic freedoms
i'm not insulting you. i'm making a fair, objective appraisal of your intelligence based on the words you have written
for example, you ask me to know what its like for people outside of the usa. i asked you to do the very same thing in support of my argument in the grandfather post above this. like i said, you're a moron
additionally, i am not being patriotic. fuck the usa. i am not defending the usa, the usa has plenty of problems. but clearly, it is no where near the likes of china, cuba, iran, on the scale of lack of basic human freedoms. this is a logical coherent judgment anyone can make: brazilian, south african, egyptian, etc. you would know this if you, how do i say this, hmmm... "even visit those places -- and see what life is really like outside of the USA. It's not at all what you think."
oh, sorry, i forgot, one more thing: you're a moron. a genuine low iq ignorant moron. not an insult. a fair appraisal of your cognitive faculties based on your words on a subject matter you pretend to have an understanding of. you imagine that muslims are somehow persecuted in the usa as well. i believe muslims in the usa have more freedom in how they choose to practice their religion than in some muslim countries. you know, that whole freedom of religion thing, and all that. respected in the usa. not respected in many other countries. i'm sorry, did you know that?
please try to educate yourself on the subjects you try to talk about. then open your ignorant mouth
eventually, the chinese economy will stop growing. when unbridled horizons end, the people's expectations will turn to other matters. hopefully this sort of pressure will lead to peaceful reform, internally. nightmare scenario, the economy actually contracts or tanks, like japan in 1990 or thailand in 2000, and the domestic discontent is seized upon by some sort of demagogue, who effectively marshalls the propagandized hordes into power. then what, i don't even want to imagine, so powerful china is now becoming
for the sake of the future of civilization and mankind on this planet, it is imperative china becomes democratic, for the sake of legitimacy and therefore stability. without the legitimacy of democracy, the current chinese form of government is doomed as soon as the economy stops growing
for those not in the know, they are stretching out the hobbit to two movies, by delving into gandalf sparring with the necromancer (sauron), mentioned in the book only briefly
yes. and the time space travel is cheap enough to go to titan, the idea of going there to export hydrocarbons will make as much sense as inventing guns, rockets and laser cannons to go to endor to get more wood to make bows and arrows
you're imagining that it will be useful to use advanced technology to solve the problems of a dying technological era. the petroleum age is ending dude. by the time we're going to titan cheaply, we'll all have fusion power generators in our pockets
sir: with your words, you are only announcing your profound ignorance of places outside of the west, and what it is really like there
let's just say that if you were chinese, in china, or iranian, in iran, or cuban, in cuba, you wouldn't dare criticize the chinese or iranian or cuban government like you criticize the usa. you criticize the usa however, with impunity, merely because you are perfectly free and entitled to do so. and i'm glad you do. is anyone knocking on your door sir? no? is anyone in the american government going to persecute you for the words you just wrote? no?
so when you realize the truth of how different it is for citizens in these other countries to express themselves freely, maybe you can begin to understand the subject matter you are so ignorantly commenting on
the hobbit was under the table, and could clearly see who was about to shoot first, and han wasn't about to get the jump on greedo, so the hobbit had to rectify the situation
we want to make 5 years of employment in the usa mandatory after schooling as a condition for coming here in the first place. 4,000-5,000 of those students won't amount to anything impressive, but 4 or 5 of them will create 40,000-50,000 american jobs. the problem with your "entrepreneurial" visa idea is that you are assuming there exists some sort of criteria for identifying who can actually be a successful entrepreneur. no, there is no such criteria. you can't identify whose idea will work and whose won't. so bring them all, and keep them all
"You are assuming all the people that come to the usa to study are geniuses."
not at all. i am saying a few of them are geniuses, and those 4 or 5 will create 40,000-50,000 american jobs, which more than makes up for the 4,000-5,000 who aren't geniuses
"Nobody said employment is a zero sum game but unemployment is also very detrimental to our economy and the ability to sustain the businesses that do employ people."
yeah, no shit. the problem is why you think that is an argument against what i am saying
please try to understand that we need all the geniuses who come to the usa to study to stay, as a condition of their education. because they will create orders of magnitude more american jobs than they displace. sure, plenty of them won't create any jobs. but a handful will create tens of thousands. which ones are they? no one knows, so keep them all, so the next google, yahoo, or ebay is here, in the usa, and not in russian, china, or india
you're calling me ignorant, and you think employment is a zero sum game
look, i'm not your wet nurse. i don't have the interest or the time to write the paragraphs to explain it to you
suffice it to say, the job market is not a zero sum game. figure out how and why on your own, and shut your ignorant mouth until you do so
small hint: hire the right minds, at the right time, in the right industry, with the right ideas, and you create tens of thousands of jobs. in fact, you create whole industries
as a condition for coming here and studying, i am saying employment MUST follow, for say, 5 years, minimum
because stupid stories like we are posting under start with a false assumption: that employment is a zero sum game. that there are 100 jobs, and if you fill 40 of those jobs with foreigners, then that's 40 americans that you aren't employing
fucking ignorant bullshit
that's not the way the real world works. that's how a moron thinks about how the job market and the economy works
no, the truth is, employment in the right kind of industry with the right kind of idea CREATES ORDER OF MAGNITUDE MORE JOBS. employ 40 of those foreigners in the right industry, at the right time, with the right ideas, and you create 40,000 jobs. that's the economic truth. learn the truth, you xenophobic american morons
i would rather deport to the middle of the ocean, rather than send one immigrant home
my loyalty is to america, the principles for which this great country stands, not america "i was born here so i'm entitled just because i breathe air"
i'll take 10,000 poor "brown people not speaking English" than one "american" like you in this country, any day
because in my book, i don't really consider you to be my countryman. because you've abandoned the principles that make this country great. you're not an american, according to me
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many don't
society is sick of sending cops to domestic violence scenes. therefore, society won't let troglodytes have games where there is violence against women. not because there is a definite connection, but simply because its insulting to all that society is working towards in terms of less violence towards women
so sorry assholes, deal with it, but your gaming needs, on a scale of importance of 1 to 10, ranks at zero, compared with some other agendas in the world, namely, less violence towards women and the need to teach people that it is wrong
most can understand that smacking a woman in a videogame does not mean it is socially acceptable. a few can't
no smacking women in videogames: i fully support that. deal with, "tough guy"
if you steal cash from a bank, the cash you have stolen is anonymous (well, it usually is): that is, there's no way to tell later if it is the same cash you stole from the bank
but this guy just moved around bits on someone's server. hey frank, the ton of chips with id #445566, where'd they go? hey jack, maybe its this guy here, with a ton of chips with id #445566?
i mean seriously: you're smart enough to hack a server, but not smart enough to play that scenario out?
mod parent way up
you don't have to like peter jackson's lotr. but you do have to recognize that your judgment of his work is in the vanishing small minority. it's a smash success, critically and in the box office. you also have to recognize that mindlessly negative voices on any subject on the internet are cheap, easy, and everywhere
i guess you like giving your money to rent seeking middlemen. you're right, i'm not your god. some middleman is your god. oh, you thought the money goes to the artist? lol
i'm not smarter than everyone else. i work with people i clearly understand as more intelligent than i am. i understand my limitations on many issues in the world in which my comprehension is quite limited
but on the issue of the status of various freedoms in the usa as compared to other countries, i am clearly, unequivocally, much more intelligent than you. no, i don't have an alternative opinion than you. i am simply more intelligent on the issue than you. thi sis not an opinion. this is a fact when objectively evaluating what you have written above on this subject matter
you really need to educate yourself. you are quite genuinely, objectively ignorant, on a subject matter you feel a need to talk about. you really need to know what it is like in cuba and china in terms of political expression, religion, the press, before you start blindly, unintelligently, comparing it to the status quo in the usa
again, i'm not an apologist for the usa. you can find the usa guilty of many crimes and shortcomings. but you can't look at one of the usa's strengths, its respect for various domestic freedoms, and see equivalency with some of the most vile regimes in this world on the subject of those same freedoms. unless you are purposefully trying to sound like a low iq individual. again, not an insult. this is objectively determined by the quality of the words you have written, falsely equating pretty much polar opposites in the world in terms of respect for domestic freedoms
i'm not insulting you. i'm making a fair, objective appraisal of your intelligence based on the words you have written
for example, you ask me to know what its like for people outside of the usa. i asked you to do the very same thing in support of my argument in the grandfather post above this. like i said, you're a moron
additionally, i am not being patriotic. fuck the usa. i am not defending the usa, the usa has plenty of problems. but clearly, it is no where near the likes of china, cuba, iran, on the scale of lack of basic human freedoms. this is a logical coherent judgment anyone can make: brazilian, south african, egyptian, etc. you would know this if you, how do i say this, hmmm... "even visit those places -- and see what life is really like outside of the USA. It's not at all what you think."
oh, sorry, i forgot, one more thing: you're a moron. a genuine low iq ignorant moron. not an insult. a fair appraisal of your cognitive faculties based on your words on a subject matter you pretend to have an understanding of. you imagine that muslims are somehow persecuted in the usa as well. i believe muslims in the usa have more freedom in how they choose to practice their religion than in some muslim countries. you know, that whole freedom of religion thing, and all that. respected in the usa. not respected in many other countries. i'm sorry, did you know that?
please try to educate yourself on the subjects you try to talk about. then open your ignorant mouth
no american police or government enforcement is knocking on anyone's door just because they are muslim
really, you ignorant moron
eventually, the chinese economy will stop growing. when unbridled horizons end, the people's expectations will turn to other matters. hopefully this sort of pressure will lead to peaceful reform, internally. nightmare scenario, the economy actually contracts or tanks, like japan in 1990 or thailand in 2000, and the domestic discontent is seized upon by some sort of demagogue, who effectively marshalls the propagandized hordes into power. then what, i don't even want to imagine, so powerful china is now becoming
for the sake of the future of civilization and mankind on this planet, it is imperative china becomes democratic, for the sake of legitimacy and therefore stability. without the legitimacy of democracy, the current chinese form of government is doomed as soon as the economy stops growing
for those not in the know, they are stretching out the hobbit to two movies, by delving into gandalf sparring with the necromancer (sauron), mentioned in the book only briefly
http://forum.thehobbit-movie.com/viewtopic.php?p=1929&sid=5d7ebd0d347992d45e1ae7b312077fb6
yes. and the time space travel is cheap enough to go to titan, the idea of going there to export hydrocarbons will make as much sense as inventing guns, rockets and laser cannons to go to endor to get more wood to make bows and arrows
you're imagining that it will be useful to use advanced technology to solve the problems of a dying technological era. the petroleum age is ending dude. by the time we're going to titan cheaply, we'll all have fusion power generators in our pockets
it's like medieval mankind inventing guns, rockets, and laser cannons...
all in order to go to endor to get more wood to make bows and arrows
what the hell is wrong with you? seriously. you think its valid to get all this technology together, to go to titan, to get hydrocarbons!?
are you gw bush? i know the usa has a petroleum addiction, but this is hilarious
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang_(entrepreneur)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar
etc., etc.
bound to pop up in any discussion like this
sir: with your words, you are only announcing your profound ignorance of places outside of the west, and what it is really like there
let's just say that if you were chinese, in china, or iranian, in iran, or cuban, in cuba, you wouldn't dare criticize the chinese or iranian or cuban government like you criticize the usa. you criticize the usa however, with impunity, merely because you are perfectly free and entitled to do so. and i'm glad you do. is anyone knocking on your door sir? no? is anyone in the american government going to persecute you for the words you just wrote? no?
so when you realize the truth of how different it is for citizens in these other countries to express themselves freely, maybe you can begin to understand the subject matter you are so ignorantly commenting on
the hobbit was under the table, and could clearly see who was about to shoot first, and han wasn't about to get the jump on greedo, so the hobbit had to rectify the situation
they didn't want smaug to have eyeballs on his hands
we want to make 5 years of employment in the usa mandatory after schooling as a condition for coming here in the first place. 4,000-5,000 of those students won't amount to anything impressive, but 4 or 5 of them will create 40,000-50,000 american jobs. the problem with your "entrepreneurial" visa idea is that you are assuming there exists some sort of criteria for identifying who can actually be a successful entrepreneur. no, there is no such criteria. you can't identify whose idea will work and whose won't. so bring them all, and keep them all
but i wonder why you think that's the only topic that can be talked about
"You are assuming all the people that come to the usa to study are geniuses."
not at all. i am saying a few of them are geniuses, and those 4 or 5 will create 40,000-50,000 american jobs, which more than makes up for the 4,000-5,000 who aren't geniuses
understand yet?
wrong, moron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang_(entrepreneur)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar
etc., etc.
i stopped reading after your first sentence
"Nobody said employment is a zero sum game but unemployment is also very detrimental to our economy and the ability to sustain the businesses that do employ people."
yeah, no shit. the problem is why you think that is an argument against what i am saying
please try to understand that we need all the geniuses who come to the usa to study to stay, as a condition of their education. because they will create orders of magnitude more american jobs than they displace. sure, plenty of them won't create any jobs. but a handful will create tens of thousands. which ones are they? no one knows, so keep them all, so the next google, yahoo, or ebay is here, in the usa, and not in russian, china, or india
understand yet?
in soviet russia, comedians laugh at you!
do you think yakov smirnoff has any idea that he created a slashdot meme? someone should tell him
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff#Russian_reversal
you're calling me ignorant, and you think employment is a zero sum game
look, i'm not your wet nurse. i don't have the interest or the time to write the paragraphs to explain it to you
suffice it to say, the job market is not a zero sum game. figure out how and why on your own, and shut your ignorant mouth until you do so
small hint: hire the right minds, at the right time, in the right industry, with the right ideas, and you create tens of thousands of jobs. in fact, you create whole industries
that's the truth. try to figure it out
i agree. which is exactly what i am proposing
as a condition for coming here and studying, i am saying employment MUST follow, for say, 5 years, minimum
because stupid stories like we are posting under start with a false assumption: that employment is a zero sum game. that there are 100 jobs, and if you fill 40 of those jobs with foreigners, then that's 40 americans that you aren't employing
fucking ignorant bullshit
that's not the way the real world works. that's how a moron thinks about how the job market and the economy works
no, the truth is, employment in the right kind of industry with the right kind of idea CREATES ORDER OF MAGNITUDE MORE JOBS. employ 40 of those foreigners in the right industry, at the right time, with the right ideas, and you create 40,000 jobs. that's the economic truth. learn the truth, you xenophobic american morons
i would rather deport to the middle of the ocean, rather than send one immigrant home
my loyalty is to america, the principles for which this great country stands, not america "i was born here so i'm entitled just because i breathe air"
i'll take 10,000 poor "brown people not speaking English" than one "american" like you in this country, any day
because in my book, i don't really consider you to be my countryman. because you've abandoned the principles that make this country great. you're not an american, according to me
so fuck you, you useless fuck