We all knew some kids who took D & D (*cough*, AD & D) a little too seriously. Some of them didn't know when to shut up with the role playing, and made many emergency care doctors very rich in the eighties from the resulting punches they endured.
{This was offtopic in another article - this time I'm on-target, so here's a reprint.}
What better way for 3 evil powers to keep that power - by creating the illusion that they are keeping each other in check.
AOL/TimeWarner (which owns CNN) will scold the government and Big Business. The government will scold Big Business and the media (for *ahem* sex and violence - which are polar opposites in a way, but demagogues like to put them together). As long as they appear to be fighting each other, the useful idiot on the street will be happy.
Big Business needs only to keep government regulation down to maximize profits, so they can buy the cars, homes, and drugs that they love so much and throw extravegant parties on special occasions. Also they need to send their kids to the right schools so they can attain power in various secret societies that will ensure they secure high positions like their daddies.
Fake reviews- what a concept! Everything about Hollywood is phoney, so what do you expect from the jerks. But watch them cry foul if you sneak in with a fake ticket!
Then again, I used to write entire book reports in high school without ever reading a page...
I can't believe they didn't test any Mac platforms. Mac users are some of the most enthusiastic fans of SETI! Team MacAddict is #3 in the Club Competition, only behind Ars Technica and Team Art Bell. If fact they're almost tied with Team Art Bell, with only 5,000 users to Art Bell's 13,000 users !!
"Maui is quoted in The Guardian saying the story line of the game also bears a strong resemblance to the traditional stories told by the Polynesian people of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island."
Ever watch Spongebob Squarepants? They could sue Squidward Tenticles for misusing his Easter Island Head as a house.
Honestly, perceived bigotry, or even true bigotry, is neither a crime nor the basis for a lawsuit. I don't like Papal religon, I won't date ugly people, and I don't respect primitive cultures. So sue me! You don't have to be my friend, and I won't bother you at all.
Maybe Lego Co. could build them some plastic block houses to replace the grass-and-dung huts they're living in. Nahhh, they'll probably run out of roofing peices right at the end and start crying.
"The messy jumble of cash, keys, and credit cards will be distilled into a single smart card that can be carried in a pocket."
Wrong! We already rejected such a concept -- remember Bill Clinton's idea for a universal health card that would track all your information.. it's too much knowledge for the government, too easy to single you out for *ahem* protection, that is, relocation, confiscation of weapons, and eventual massacre.
I don't even carry a wallet - that way if I lose an important item, like a bank card, I don't have to worry that I also lost everything else. To hell with consolidation, it's far safer to lead a disseminated, ambiguous life.
Statistics are always being misused for the sake of LYING. Here are more examples:
One in three women will be sexually assaulted.
Translation: 1-in-3 will get drunk and have consentual sex, then regret it and decide that she was raped. Mike Tyson was a victim of one such woman. Additionally, you take the number of incidents and divide by the number of women - NOT ACCOUNTING for the fact that a lot of these women are habitually dating abusive guys.. they're the low-lifes you see on COPS every week. 1-in-3 my ass...
You are 8 times more likely to shoot someone you know than an unknown intruder in your home.
Translation: Yes it's true, (and guess what Einstein,) usually the person who is assaulting or robbing you IS somebody that you know - an ex-boyfriend, or a former friend or relative who has a problem with you and won't leave you alone. Such people SHOULD be shot.
Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for Napster all-the-way, but we should really beware of media-generated statistics like this.
... is how we treat kids, period. As stupid twerps that need to be sheltered until they're 21, and then thrown into the pressure cooker of life completely virginal in every resepct.. That's what the Connecticut legislators want, it has nothing to do with video games. They want to reinforce their partriarchal rule, by controlling kids and family.
Screw em. Let kids shoot REAL guns after taking a gun class. It'll come in useful when World War 3 happens in 10 years.
I'm looking for the day when I can spill a cup of coffee on my keyboard and wash it off. Or better yet, use my laptop in the pouring rain. Would it be so difficult to make them water-proof? Sounds like a challenge for Apple -- their iBooks already look that sporty!
Everyone knows that the universe began with an event known as the Big Gang Bang. As things cooled over time, many porno stars were formed, and that's why cyberspace is now filled with them. "Billions and billions," as Carl Sagen once said. Worlds revolve around these stars, and without them life would not be possible (or bearable). Scientists are now trying to determine whether the universe will expand forever, or collapse in on itself and finish abruptly.
If you can think of a more plausible theory, I'd love to here it.
In the US they sniff for keywords like drugs, bombs, and other interesting flag words. I wonder what flag words the Chinese will look for -- freedom, rights, sex...
Send 2 incredibly charged plates into space - no danger of discharge because space is a vacuum. When they near the asteroid, some gas is released that floods the region between the plates and surrounding the asteroid. Of course the gas ionizes, and one huge spark jumps between the plates, vaporizing the asteroid. The great thing about this method is it can't be used as a weapon, solving one of the concerns about nudging asteroid into earth's orbit.
If so, imagine we perfect cold fusion power, so we have an infinite source of electricity. Then we just charge up the asteroid with a like charge to some large body we can maneuver, and viola! It's deflected.
Or we could surround an area far above the earth with a metal net, and put opposite charge on the net and the asteroid so it will be caught. With infinite electrical power, I bet this would be possible.
Then again, maybe doing a magical fairy dance in your underware at sundown would do the same thing. Do I need a physics lesson?
I think it was CNN that did a whole documentry on the story. The ZDNet article seems to leave out one small detail -- a Russian double agent at the NSA gave the project away to the Soviets, and billions of dollars were lost on the project. Cool article though, at least they touched on some technical theories behind it.
Example: The lastest X-Files -- Mulder and Skinner are running from aliens, and yell "let's take the [Chevy] Blazer!" They go through this cool chase scene and get away. Only problem is their driving defies the laws of physics, only film editing makes it seem so fast. Driving like that in real life causes the vehicle to roll over and maybe kill someone. There are jerks out there who don't realize this, they think having a Blazer makes it OK to drive like a maniac. They're responsible for their own driving of course, but the X-Files and other tv shows put a false impression in these idiots' heads about the Blazer, and the rollover accident takes out innocent bystanders, passengers, etc...
Duck Hunt nothing... Lethal Enforcer is way better, and that's not even a 3-D shooter. Anyway it's better to shoot criminals and terrorists than those poor helpless ducks!
"Electric Boogaloo"... Would somebody please explain this joke to me -- I've seen it before, but how did it get started? Isn't that from the Wild Orchid sequil or something?
At what point is it a lie to do such a thing? At what point is it legally fraudulent? How can we make laws to protect consumers, without resorting to a "Ministry of Truth" in Washington that decides what reality is OK for people?
Let's only have disgusting, unattractive characters from now on. We'll replace Lara Croft with Rosie O'Donnell. Will that satisfy the Tipper Gores of the world?
NO!? In other words, basically nothing will make them happy, because they enjoy preaching and making people feel bad. It has nothing to do with their cause; if they actually got what they wanted they'd still bitch just as loud.
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We all knew some kids who took D & D (*cough*, AD & D) a little too seriously. Some of them didn't know when to shut up with the role playing, and made many emergency care doctors very rich in the eighties from the resulting punches they endured.
But hey, takes one to know one...
{This was offtopic in another article - this time I'm on-target, so here's a reprint.}
What better way for 3 evil powers to keep that power - by creating the illusion that they are keeping each other in check.
AOL/TimeWarner (which owns CNN) will scold the government and Big Business. The government will scold Big Business and the media (for *ahem* sex and violence - which are polar opposites in a way, but demagogues like to put them together). As long as they appear to be fighting each other, the useful idiot on the street will be happy.
Big Business needs only to keep government regulation down to maximize profits, so they can buy the cars, homes, and drugs that they love so much and throw extravegant parties on special occasions. Also they need to send their kids to the right schools so they can attain power in various secret societies that will ensure they secure high positions like their daddies.
Fake reviews- what a concept! Everything about Hollywood is phoney, so what do you expect from the jerks. But watch them cry foul if you sneak in with a fake ticket!
Then again, I used to write entire book reports in high school without ever reading a page...
I can't believe they didn't test any Mac platforms. Mac users are some of the most enthusiastic fans of SETI! Team MacAddict is #3 in the Club Competition , only behind Ars Technica and Team Art Bell. If fact they're almost tied with Team Art Bell, with only 5,000 users to Art Bell's 13,000 users !!
"Maui is quoted in The Guardian saying the story line of the game also bears a strong resemblance to the traditional stories told by the Polynesian people of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island."
Ever watch Spongebob Squarepants? They could sue Squidward Tenticles for misusing his Easter Island Head as a house.
Honestly, perceived bigotry, or even true bigotry, is neither a crime nor the basis for a lawsuit. I don't like Papal religon, I won't date ugly people, and I don't respect primitive cultures. So sue me! You don't have to be my friend, and I won't bother you at all.
Maybe Lego Co. could build them some plastic block houses to replace the grass-and-dung huts they're living in. Nahhh, they'll probably run out of roofing peices right at the end and start crying.
"The messy jumble of cash, keys, and credit cards will be distilled into a single smart card that can be carried in a pocket."
Wrong! We already rejected such a concept -- remember Bill Clinton's idea for a universal health card that would track all your information.. it's too much knowledge for the government, too easy to single you out for *ahem* protection, that is, relocation, confiscation of weapons, and eventual massacre.
I don't even carry a wallet - that way if I lose an important item, like a bank card, I don't have to worry that I also lost everything else. To hell with consolidation, it's far safer to lead a disseminated, ambiguous life.
- One in three women will be sexually assaulted.
- You are 8 times more likely to shoot someone you know than an unknown intruder in your home.
Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for Napster all-the-way, but we should really beware of media-generated statistics like this.Translation: 1-in-3 will get drunk and have consentual sex, then regret it and decide that she was raped. Mike Tyson was a victim of one such woman. Additionally, you take the number of incidents and divide by the number of women - NOT ACCOUNTING for the fact that a lot of these women are habitually dating abusive guys.. they're the low-lifes you see on COPS every week. 1-in-3 my ass...
Translation: Yes it's true, (and guess what Einstein,) usually the person who is assaulting or robbing you IS somebody that you know - an ex-boyfriend, or a former friend or relative who has a problem with you and won't leave you alone. Such people SHOULD be shot.
... is how we treat kids, period. As stupid twerps that need to be sheltered until they're 21, and then thrown into the pressure cooker of life completely virginal in every resepct.. That's what the Connecticut legislators want, it has nothing to do with video games. They want to reinforce their partriarchal rule, by controlling kids and family.
Screw em. Let kids shoot REAL guns after taking a gun class. It'll come in useful when World War 3 happens in 10 years.
"The goals of the 3CS mission include the demonstration of stereo imaging, formation flying and innovative command and data handling."
Looking forward to that huge array, like one giant CCD that can read a license plate on an alien planet.
Huh. Maybe I'm forgeting what MS stands for in "MSNBC".
Then again, "Pork a felon" also works.
I'm looking for the day when I can spill a cup of coffee on my keyboard and wash it off. Or better yet, use my laptop in the pouring rain. Would it be so difficult to make them water-proof? Sounds like a challenge for Apple -- their iBooks already look that sporty!
- There's no need for 2 shift keys if a single one were properly placed somewhere more centrally.
- CAPS LOCK is typically double the size of normal character keys, that's needless.
- The 4 arrow keys could be replaced by a single small joystick-like piece, that could even read odd angles if you set it to do so!
- Consider giving the delete key a shift-function above it, perhaps "Undo Delete" that would easily restore in a cut-and-paste fassion.
Other ideas....?
Everyone knows that the universe began with an event known as the Big Gang Bang. As things cooled over time, many porno stars were formed, and that's why cyberspace is now filled with them. "Billions and billions," as Carl Sagen once said. Worlds revolve around these stars, and without them life would not be possible (or bearable). Scientists are now trying to determine whether the universe will expand forever, or collapse in on itself and finish abruptly.
If you can think of a more plausible theory, I'd love to here it.
They really love those IM logs for one thing.
In the US they sniff for keywords like drugs, bombs, and other interesting flag words. I wonder what flag words the Chinese will look for -- freedom, rights, sex...
Failure & bankruptcy.
And there's no UNDO command.
Send 2 incredibly charged plates into space - no danger of discharge because space is a vacuum. When they near the asteroid, some gas is released that floods the region between the plates and surrounding the asteroid. Of course the gas ionizes, and one huge spark jumps between the plates, vaporizing the asteroid. The great thing about this method is it can't be used as a weapon, solving one of the concerns about nudging asteroid into earth's orbit.
If so, imagine we perfect cold fusion power, so we have an infinite source of electricity. Then we just charge up the asteroid with a like charge to some large body we can maneuver, and viola! It's deflected.
Or we could surround an area far above the earth with a metal net, and put opposite charge on the net and the asteroid so it will be caught. With infinite electrical power, I bet this would be possible.
Then again, maybe doing a magical fairy dance in your underware at sundown would do the same thing. Do I need a physics lesson?
I think it was CNN that did a whole documentry on the story. The ZDNet article seems to leave out one small detail -- a Russian double agent at the NSA gave the project away to the Soviets, and billions of dollars were lost on the project. Cool article though, at least they touched on some technical theories behind it.
Example: The lastest X-Files -- Mulder and Skinner are running from aliens, and yell "let's take the [Chevy] Blazer!" They go through this cool chase scene and get away. Only problem is their driving defies the laws of physics, only film editing makes it seem so fast. Driving like that in real life causes the vehicle to roll over and maybe kill someone. There are jerks out there who don't realize this, they think having a Blazer makes it OK to drive like a maniac. They're responsible for their own driving of course, but the X-Files and other tv shows put a false impression in these idiots' heads about the Blazer, and the rollover accident takes out innocent bystanders, passengers, etc...
"I'm going to play Duck Hunt now in celebration!"
Duck Hunt nothing... Lethal Enforcer is way better, and that's not even a 3-D shooter. Anyway it's better to shoot criminals and terrorists than those poor helpless ducks!
"Electric Boogaloo"... Would somebody please explain this joke to me -- I've seen it before, but how did it get started? Isn't that from the Wild Orchid sequil or something?
At what point is it a lie to do such a thing? At what point is it legally fraudulent? How can we make laws to protect consumers, without resorting to a "Ministry of Truth" in Washington that decides what reality is OK for people?
Let's only have disgusting, unattractive characters from now on. We'll replace Lara Croft with Rosie O'Donnell. Will that satisfy the Tipper Gores of the world?
NO!? In other words, basically nothing will make them happy, because they enjoy preaching and making people feel bad. It has nothing to do with their cause; if they actually got what they wanted they'd still bitch just as loud.