Go play Planescape: Torment and then come back and tell me that it's not art. Granted, mindless shooters like Doom3 are not art, they couldn't be if they tried. But like with the music or film industries, there are rare games that rise above the level of the rest of the crap and achieve artistic status.
Your second point is very valid though. Kids don't get the fine arts and the subtleties of life these days because they don't imagine. They get to see everything they can imagine visualized for them by computers and movies. I grew up in the 80s, and I used to play army with sticks for guns (and I liked it) when I was a kid. Today, I would just play BF2.
Parents are doing this to the kids because they're as fascinated by the toys as the kids are. They want to see their kid playing video games because they wish they had the time to do it themselves. No adult wanted to play army with sticks.
I know that, but there are people that don't, and that aren't in positions to tell their bosses to fuck off.
The/. thing to say in response to that is that these put themselves in that position so it's their responsibility to get themselves out. That's beside the point.
Sooner or later everyone that works white-collar ends up in that position, unless they're born wealthy. They have no real choice to say no, because they can't afford to lose the job; maybe the market's bad in their area, they have a new baby, etc. The more success employers have with tactics like this, the more they will use them, until they are the norm and not the exception, and saying no won't be an option.
Sure, Lumbergh seems absurd to us at this point, that's what they want you to think. That there's no way in hell this could ever happen. Then you wake up, and it's saturday, and you have to be at work at 9.
There are some of us that have trouble tearing ourselves away from ours. I can't help but talking about it outside of work, and I certainly couldn't solve nearly as many problems if I didn't think about it when I am not working. Also, I don't think I'd do nearly as well if I wasn't taking little breaks like the one I'm taking now...the intermingling is so very important. You, sir, are a middle manager's wet dream.
I'm talking about the American [R]epublicans. I don't like to spell "republican" with a capital R because that makes it a proper name and they don't deserve the respect. However, this being an international forum, I can see your point, so it's corrected.
you took it way too far (in the/. tradition) when you said I like the interstitials. I don't. But I do trust them. Google is putting on too benign of an appearance for a company that size. The other shoe has to drop sometime.
You think the fact that they're not throwing ads in your face, but rather insidiously placing them throughout legitimate content, proves that they are not evil? I would say just the opposite. At least you know the motives of a company that uses popup and interstitial ads.
Back in college, I would frequently be in that situation- I would have homework and tests over my head, but end up helping the guy 3 doors down with his instead, because he needed help. It isn't a matter of being worthwhile- its a matter of doing whats right. You sap. The "right thing" in that situation would be to tell him to do his own goddamn homework and earn his degree instead of leeching off of your hard work.
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Your morality cost the store a sale. How long did you keep that job?
eh, it's ok. I got a +5 funny for the same joke yesterday, you can't win 'em all :)
Can I buy some pot from you?
In Soviet Australia, court contempts YOU!
Yeah, the artificial intelligence had to settle for VICE president!
Can I buy some pot from you?
that age didn't have nukes.
Go play Planescape: Torment and then come back and tell me that it's not art. Granted, mindless shooters like Doom3 are not art, they couldn't be if they tried. But like with the music or film industries, there are rare games that rise above the level of the rest of the crap and achieve artistic status.
Your second point is very valid though. Kids don't get the fine arts and the subtleties of life these days because they don't imagine. They get to see everything they can imagine visualized for them by computers and movies. I grew up in the 80s, and I used to play army with sticks for guns (and I liked it) when I was a kid. Today, I would just play BF2.
Parents are doing this to the kids because they're as fascinated by the toys as the kids are. They want to see their kid playing video games because they wish they had the time to do it themselves. No adult wanted to play army with sticks.
Don't be such a mindless dittohead. Just because it's government provided doesn't mean it's totalitarian.
I know that, but there are people that don't, and that aren't in positions to tell their bosses to fuck off.
/. thing to say in response to that is that these put themselves in that position so it's their responsibility to get themselves out. That's beside the point.
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Sooner or later everyone that works white-collar ends up in that position, unless they're born wealthy. They have no real choice to say no, because they can't afford to lose the job; maybe the market's bad in their area, they have a new baby, etc. The more success employers have with tactics like this, the more they will use them, until they are the norm and not the exception, and saying no won't be an option.
Sure, Lumbergh seems absurd to us at this point, that's what they want you to think. That there's no way in hell this could ever happen. Then you wake up, and it's saturday, and you have to be at work at 9.
So? Maybe that needs to happen.
Happiness in slavery is a sucker game.
There are some of us that have trouble tearing ourselves away from ours. I can't help but talking about it outside of work, and I certainly couldn't solve nearly as many problems if I didn't think about it when I am not working. Also, I don't think I'd do nearly as well if I wasn't taking little breaks like the one I'm taking now...the intermingling is so very important.
You, sir, are a middle manager's wet dream.
How much unpaid overtime did you work last year?
In Korea, only old people have non-clone dogs!
Security guards are by definition not equipped to be in pr0n flicks, therefore your example sucks :)
We need to quit laughing at the Lumbergh attitude. As long as we laugh at it, we aren't taking it seriously, and it'll never go away.
Do any of you assholes have a sense of humor? Geez.
prepare the feast of goldfish crackers!
No! We must not contaminate Mars with the neutral zone trap!
Tell the scandinavian countries, they know how to play real hockey, not that canadian thug shit.
I'm talking about the American [R]epublicans. I don't like to spell "republican" with a capital R because that makes it a proper name and they don't deserve the respect. However, this being an international forum, I can see your point, so it's corrected.
funny, how everyone loves Republicans here even though they're the ones in power and actively engaged in ass-raping our freedoms.
That's the best sig I've seen in a long while.
you took it way too far (in the /. tradition) when you said I like the interstitials. I don't. But I do trust them. Google is putting on too benign of an appearance for a company that size. The other shoe has to drop sometime.
You think the fact that they're not throwing ads in your face, but rather insidiously placing them throughout legitimate content, proves that they are not evil? I would say just the opposite. At least you know the motives of a company that uses popup and interstitial ads.
Back in college, I would frequently be in that situation- I would have homework and tests over my head, but end up helping the guy 3 doors down with his instead, because he needed help. It isn't a matter of being worthwhile- its a matter of doing whats right.
You sap. The "right thing" in that situation would be to tell him to do his own goddamn homework and earn his degree instead of leeching off of your hard work.
if there's no point then why did they have that added to the PATRIOT act? Looking for people who check out Catcher in the Rye a lot?