This is not a "Liberal" law. This is a Republican law. It isn't about protecting the people. This law is clearly about protecting the brick gambling establishments from the virtual ones. Perhaps you should review how and why laws are created in America?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff
This law is more about PAC money than it is about morals or people.
How could anyone think otherwise? It isn't like the law effects the mother you describe. What you think she hasn't already pawned everything? Do you really think laws that involve money are passed to protect people from themselves? BS! What about this law? http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/10/bankruptcy.htm http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.256: What is really telling about this law is that the wealthier you are the more debt you can escape and the poorer you are the less debt you can escape. Laws to protect people from gambling. Please. They don't care about people.
/sarcasm
Yes, because vista won't introduce an entirely new set of bugs, flaws, hacks and wormholes on the computer world.
Rush out and buy Vista so you can be the first fortune 500 company to discover the flaws.../sarcasm
When I sit down to the Nintendo 64 with my six-year-old son and play Pokemon Coliseum... It's not memory lane it's a Hell of a lot of fun. Older games are still fun if they were fun in the first place.
OBL will be caught for sure!
I'm sick of all this spying on Americans for three reasons:
1. It obviously doesn't work. (If it did why haven't we caught some real terrorists in the USA or caught OBL?)
2. It obviously violates the constitution. (Yes, I know they've *always* been doing it but before they had oversite. It hasn't always been this way.)
3. It's wasting valuable resources and time.
Worst leadership ever.
I enjoy both. I don't do spoiler sites or compare my stuff to other peoples stuff or buy gold.
Most of the people who buy stuff in games for real life money are the same kind of people who buy red sports cars to make up for their small penis. Seriously.
There's nothing wrong with the games. It's the people who are broken.
Please don't misunderstand. I'm not dismissing the reality only pointing out that when I take my six-year-old to school the first thing the teacher recommends when he's had a bad day the previous day is a doctors visit. When half the (5-7yr-old) boys in a classroom are on drugs for ADD and ADHD something is wrong with the way drugs are perscribed not the children. I'm a parent and I wish I was making this shit up but this is the reality I'm seeing. I feel as if, I have to fight to keep my children off perscriptions.
Certainly there are those who have real issues but far to many "normal" people are being told they aren't and what makes it worse is big pharma and big insurance and "counselors" are right there to make a profit off people who don't need drugs or even treatment.
My twelve-year-old son plays WoW and Neopets. I'm glad he does. It beats what's on TV for him to watch by a mile. Does he doe these things durig the summer four to six hours a day? Sure. His mother tells me about it. She's worried about it. I then remind her that as children we watched The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island and The Partridge Family (1 1/2 hours there) and in the evening we watched TV for another three or four hours... Saturday morning cartoons, there's eight hours. His game usage is normal compared to my TV use as a child.
Things change and yet they stay the same. The perspective is one of, are they doing essentially the same things with their lives that we did? Pretty much, yes. Are we adjusted to society? Pretty much, yes. They'll be fine.
Medical condition. Before the self obsessed BabyBoomers started raising children the majority of young boys didn't have A.D.D.. This is all just one more "What about me!" from the BabyBoomer generation. "My kids aren't perfect! Fix them!" This is coming from the people who invented, "Turn on. Tune in. Drop out." "Free love" and your classic 1960's 1970's do it if it feels good self absorbed generation.
As my hero George Carlin put it, "From cocaine to rogain".
""These are perfectly decent kids whose lives have been taken over by an addiction," said Mr Bakker, a former drug addict. "Some have given up school so they can play games. They have no friends. They don't speak to their parents.""
Giving up school? Normal.
No friends? Normal. Who didn't feel isolated in high school?
Not speaking to parents? Normal.
Sounds like the kids aren't watching TV all hours of the day and night and the new technology is frightening mummy.
World of Warcraft is the bane of the obsessive compulsive among us.
Not only is it the bane of them it's also a huge boon for people if they'd just accept the fact that they probably should see a good Physiatrist, if they are ruining their lives because of a computer game.
Just saying. I love playing Guild Wars but I only play it four or so hours a week because, you know, it's just a hobby.
No. I will not buy a new computer with vista and DX10 just to play a game.
M$ had better find a better reason for me upgrade to an OS that has the minimal specs Vista does.
A gig of RAM and a PIV CPU running at 2ghtz just for the OS? Stunning. Just stunning. I hope we find a way to run these games on DX9 or something.
I hear ya! When I pickout my super model wife it took like two seconds. When I decided on my car, Lamborghini Diablo Roadster, one second.
But deciding what to post off topic to/. to make myself seem superior to everyone else?...
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He spoke to and got money from. I have a bridge they'd be interested in.
Getting Sperm cells or reporductive gamets from fully formed true cells is not a minor thing. This is huge.
Just saying, this is a huge step toward the first fully man made human. By creating the Gamets from stem cells eventually a person could be created like a dress from whole cloth... We are much closer to designing people.
This is some seriously scary stuff. Blade Runner like stuff.
What an amazing waste of money. Seriously, to end up with something that will actually make Microsoft software look worse, less secure, less productive and slower... I'm pretty sure I could do that for a measly billion dollars.
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It opens some card reader doors, think I'll try it when I vote.
This is not a "Liberal" law. This is a Republican law. It isn't about protecting the people. This law is clearly about protecting the brick gambling establishments from the virtual ones. Perhaps you should review how and why laws are created in America?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff
This law is more about PAC money than it is about morals or people.
How could anyone think otherwise? It isn't like the law effects the mother you describe. What you think she hasn't already pawned everything? Do you really think laws that involve money are passed to protect people from themselves? BS! What about this law?
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/10/bankruptcy.htm
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.256:
What is really telling about this law is that the wealthier you are the more debt you can escape and the poorer you are the less debt you can escape. Laws to protect people from gambling. Please. They don't care about people.
/sarcasm Yes, because vista won't introduce an entirely new set of bugs, flaws, hacks and wormholes on the computer world. Rush out and buy Vista so you can be the first fortune 500 company to discover the flaws... /sarcasm
I just do not understand why anyone would want to run Vista? What's the advanage? where's the value?
When I sit down to the Nintendo 64 with my six-year-old son and play Pokemon Coliseum... It's not memory lane it's a Hell of a lot of fun. Older games are still fun if they were fun in the first place.
OBL will be caught for sure! I'm sick of all this spying on Americans for three reasons: 1. It obviously doesn't work. (If it did why haven't we caught some real terrorists in the USA or caught OBL?) 2. It obviously violates the constitution. (Yes, I know they've *always* been doing it but before they had oversite. It hasn't always been this way.) 3. It's wasting valuable resources and time. Worst leadership ever.
I enjoy both. I don't do spoiler sites or compare my stuff to other peoples stuff or buy gold. Most of the people who buy stuff in games for real life money are the same kind of people who buy red sports cars to make up for their small penis. Seriously. There's nothing wrong with the games. It's the people who are broken.
Please don't misunderstand. I'm not dismissing the reality only pointing out that when I take my six-year-old to school the first thing the teacher recommends when he's had a bad day the previous day is a doctors visit. When half the (5-7yr-old) boys in a classroom are on drugs for ADD and ADHD something is wrong with the way drugs are perscribed not the children. I'm a parent and I wish I was making this shit up but this is the reality I'm seeing. I feel as if, I have to fight to keep my children off perscriptions. Certainly there are those who have real issues but far to many "normal" people are being told they aren't and what makes it worse is big pharma and big insurance and "counselors" are right there to make a profit off people who don't need drugs or even treatment. My twelve-year-old son plays WoW and Neopets. I'm glad he does. It beats what's on TV for him to watch by a mile. Does he doe these things durig the summer four to six hours a day? Sure. His mother tells me about it. She's worried about it. I then remind her that as children we watched The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island and The Partridge Family (1 1/2 hours there) and in the evening we watched TV for another three or four hours... Saturday morning cartoons, there's eight hours. His game usage is normal compared to my TV use as a child. Things change and yet they stay the same. The perspective is one of, are they doing essentially the same things with their lives that we did? Pretty much, yes. Are we adjusted to society? Pretty much, yes. They'll be fine.
Medical condition. Before the self obsessed BabyBoomers started raising children the majority of young boys didn't have A.D.D.. This is all just one more "What about me!" from the BabyBoomer generation. "My kids aren't perfect! Fix them!" This is coming from the people who invented, "Turn on. Tune in. Drop out." "Free love" and your classic 1960's 1970's do it if it feels good self absorbed generation. As my hero George Carlin put it, "From cocaine to rogain". ""These are perfectly decent kids whose lives have been taken over by an addiction," said Mr Bakker, a former drug addict. "Some have given up school so they can play games. They have no friends. They don't speak to their parents."" Giving up school? Normal. No friends? Normal. Who didn't feel isolated in high school? Not speaking to parents? Normal. Sounds like the kids aren't watching TV all hours of the day and night and the new technology is frightening mummy.
World of Warcraft is the bane of the obsessive compulsive among us. Not only is it the bane of them it's also a huge boon for people if they'd just accept the fact that they probably should see a good Physiatrist, if they are ruining their lives because of a computer game. Just saying. I love playing Guild Wars but I only play it four or so hours a week because, you know, it's just a hobby.
How do I secure my lunch in the company fridge? When someone can provide an answer to that one the world will be a truly better place!
No. I will not buy a new computer with vista and DX10 just to play a game. M$ had better find a better reason for me upgrade to an OS that has the minimal specs Vista does. A gig of RAM and a PIV CPU running at 2ghtz just for the OS? Stunning. Just stunning. I hope we find a way to run these games on DX9 or something.
I hear ya! When I pickout my super model wife it took like two seconds. When I decided on my car, Lamborghini Diablo Roadster, one second. But deciding what to post off topic to /. to make myself seem superior to everyone else? ...
He spoke to and got money from. I have a bridge they'd be interested in.
Getting Sperm cells or reporductive gamets from fully formed true cells is not a minor thing. This is huge. Just saying, this is a huge step toward the first fully man made human. By creating the Gamets from stem cells eventually a person could be created like a dress from whole cloth... We are much closer to designing people. This is some seriously scary stuff. Blade Runner like stuff.
What an amazing waste of money. Seriously, to end up with something that will actually make Microsoft software look worse, less secure, less productive and slower... I'm pretty sure I could do that for a measly billion dollars.
That read more like a bitter rant about rejection more than a story about how hard it is to make games people want to play.
I for one welcome our new Republican Overloards and the Thought Police! Justice for all! +5 funny
I for one welcome our new Rice University overlords. +5 Funny
I for one welcome our new Songbird Source overlords.
I for one welcome our T-shit wearing overlords. +5 funny
get a job. I hope to win the power ball lottery at which time I will dedicate 20 million to the demise of /..
How does this mod this up post rate a + mod? I hate people.
In 1977... Long before most of you fags were born.