You can tell they're full of shiat when they rank Doom III above GTA. In Doom, you kill demons. In GTA, you kill human beings. Hell, you kill demons in their recommended game Prince of Persia; the biggest difference is the atmosphere.
Yeah, I think that young kids (pre-teen, at least) should be protected from GTA's brand of somewhat mind warping shiat, but this group clearly has no idea what they're talking about, because of the above and because the kind of group who releases this kind of ranking is clearly never going to actually play the games in question, and is just going on knee-jerk press response. Same goes for their listing Hitman, or Manhunt; these things actually are harmful to children. I think kids can handle playing the bad guy, even without heavy moralizing or justification, but not on such an extreme scale as most violent video games.
But I think Doom, Half-Life, Halo and the like are perfectly fine, for a kid. If it scares them, they won't play it. If it doesn't, the fantasy provided is the kind lived out daily by tens of millions of kids, all over the world. The lone hero against the alien/demon onslaught stuff playtime is built on. Despite what the progressive immasculation of our society, and worst of all the pussification of our children would suggest, this kind of fantasy, violent though it may be, is inherently healthy. Girls play Mommy, boys play Commando, though I'm all for eliminating traditional gender roles; my point is: boys, at least, need violent fantasy - it's biologically programmed, and trying to unnaturally suppress it causes the kind of desperate overcompensation which causes people to vote for George W. Bush (flame on!). Yeah, playing these videogames instead of getting a few buddies and making a heroic last defense of the junglegym against the Intergalactic Martian Horde is antisocial, unhealthy and degrades the imagination, but the same goes for Disney Presents Mickey and Pooh's Homoerotic Adventure.
Not that any of this shiat matters. Good parents already know and are taking action, bad parent's aren't and won't. And the government won't act on it, in fear of the great Cheeto Insurrection that would surely follow. This shiat does nothing except let some bible-farking, holier-than-thou adulterers, coveters and liars feel self-righteous (not that they need any help with that).
You can tell they're full of shiat when they rank Doom III above GTA. In Doom, you kill demons. In GTA, you kill human beings. Hell, you kill demons in their recommended game Prince of Persia; the biggest difference is the atmosphere.
Yeah, I think that young kids (pre-teen, at least) should be protected from GTA's brand of somewhat mind warping shiat, but this group clearly has no idea what they're talking about, because of the above and because the kind of group who releases this kind of ranking is clearly never going to actually play the games in question, and is just going on knee-jerk press response. Same goes for their listing Hitman, or Manhunt; these things actually are harmful to children. I think kids can handle playing the bad guy, even without heavy moralizing or justification, but not on such an extreme scale as most violent video games.
But I think Doom, Half-Life, Halo and the like are perfectly fine, for a kid. If it scares them, they won't play it. If it doesn't, the fantasy provided is the kind lived out daily by tens of millions of kids, all over the world. The lone hero against the alien/demon onslaught stuff playtime is built on. Despite what the progressive immasculation of our society, and worst of all the pussification of our children would suggest, this kind of fantasy, violent though it may be, is inherently healthy. Girls play Mommy, boys play Commando, though I'm all for eliminating traditional gender roles; my point is: boys, at least, need violent fantasy - it's biologically programmed, and trying to unnaturally suppress it causes the kind of desperate overcompensation which causes people to vote for George W. Bush (flame on!). Yeah, playing these videogames instead of getting a few buddies and making a heroic last defense of the junglegym against the Intergalactic Martian Horde is antisocial, unhealthy and degrades the imagination, but the same goes for Disney Presents Mickey and Pooh's Homoerotic Adventure.
Not that any of this shiat matters. Good parents already know and are taking action, bad parent's aren't and won't. And the government won't act on it, in fear of the great Cheeto Insurrection that would surely follow. This shiat does nothing except let some bible-farking, holier-than-thou adulterers, coveters and liars feel self-righteous (not that they need any help with that).
The only meaningful statistic in that is 13% visible minorities (I checked the Census, and it is true; I doubted it because my university is around 40% white), but the true utter idiocy is to equate diversity with equality. Yeah, the US has a large percentage minorities, but you, on the whole, hate each other. Yeah, there are bigots here, and even the occasional police racial profiling scandal, but they're not anywhere near as common as in the US, and they're certainly not the norm, as they seem to be there. There's far less hate, and not just superficial acceptence, like in America, but actual.
Yes, there are grouped ethnic neighborhoods in most of our cities, but everyone goes everywhere freely and happily; we intermingle and we fully embrace what diversity we have. And these neighborhoods are usually the result of a wave of immigration, and the inhabitants spread out among the general populace, again without a "there goes the neighborhood" sentiment. It's a 1- or 2-generation immigrant thing, not a racial thing. Also, no one gives interracial couples a second glance; hell, I wouldn't even know this was an issue if I hadn't seen people (trying badly to hide their) staring at an Asian guy with a white girl, while on vacation in LA.
Yeah, the Quebec Language Gestapo is a problem. I didn't say we were perfect, and it's only a problem in our "deep south" in the east centre. Frankly, I suck at French and don't much like having had to learn it, but it makes us unique. I've heard some pretty convincing arguments for the policy, but they've only temporarily swayed me. Again, we're not perfect, but I'd certainly rather have to learn French than Doublespeak. (burn!)
But the dumbest thing I think I've ever read (and, after due consideration, I really believe that) is your 2nd last paragraph. Paraphrased and annotated:
Canada's population is dying off because of your acceptence of gay people, who wouldn't be gay if you denied them basic human rights, and who don't constitute the same percentage of the population as in the US, destroying our birth rate and forcing us to accept filthy stinking immigrants (who we let in only if they'll be going straight on welfare and staying there forever, to their children's childeren's children, and couldn't possibly contribute to our society in any way), leading to *shudder* diversity (which, as I said in my 1st paragraph, is a bad thing) all of whom are gay. Furthermore, I have absolutely no clue that many of Canada's major cities' anti-smoking laws are actually a point of shame as being among the most fascist on the books, and smoking is at an all-time low and falling. Worst of all, everybody's always overdosing on The Mary-jewanna, raising healthcare costs (note: medical-grade Doritos, maybe?), which costs much more than imprisoning a tenth of our population for such a horribly harmful and victim-ridden crime.
Not much more to say, really. Canadians are much more socially liberal and accepting than Americans, on the whole, and if you think that's a bad thing, I'll very intolerantly and unliberally tell you to fuck off until your mind opens a pinprick (hey, I'm not that patient; I like to help people further open their minds (ie, learn), but it's beyond me to breach it in the first place). You knew you were wrong, which is why you posted AC. Again, I'm always a sucker for trolls.
All right! Time for our turn for blind patriotism. We've got free health care, we've got real (ie, not just lip service) equality (racial, sexual orientation, &c), we have effective 3rd parties (debatably leading to accountable government), we don't have Bush, we won't have Kerry, and we do have nearly-legal weed.
And, just to piss off some neocon Bush babies who hate our freedom even more: remeber, we're half French!
Ô Canada!
Terre de nos aïeux,
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux!
Car ton bras sait porter l'épée,
Il sait porter la croix!
Ton histoire est une épopée
Des plus brillants exploits.
Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits!
"I'm a pacifist" - Medic "You're a thing that babies suck on?" - Caboose "No dude, that's a pedophile." - Tucker "Tucker, I think he means a PACIFIER." - Church "Oh yeah, right. Man, I was TOTALLY thinking of something else." - Tucker
Easily one of the hardest I've ever laughed to anything online.
This type of thing has actually been a real problem for me. Between Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle and pretty much anything Harry Turtledove's ever written, I have no clue what's actually happened. 8 years of histroy classes right out the fucking window.
You don't give much information about what you're planning, but it sounds a bit like you might be planning on going backpacking with your laptop (if this is not the case, ignore).
My advice to you in this case is to leave the tech at home. Your inner self, geek, child, or otherwise, will be much better, for it. If you want to do some writing, bring a notebook and some pens. If you absolutely need computer access, this is the 21st century; just ask Junis. But if you're going on the kind of trip that necessitates a tough bag, and can be described as "whirlwind", provided the trip is not explicitly for business, deny the urge to do some coding, or your addiction to instantaneous connectivity, and keep it all natural.
Weapons come first: it's far easier to create the energy than control it. Massive amounts of uncontrolled energy = weapon. Control = energy source, can only come afterwards. Case in point: Fusion.
More akin to Newton patenting gravity than Edison patenting the Cylinder Phonograph? I know stating this on Slashdot is preaching to the choir, an intellectual circle-jerk, and all, but this is fucking retarded.
...this government is looking towards alternative energy sources: to power their space fighters, they favour solar power, but only if supplied from twin parallel hexagonal panels on either side of the crew compartment (which, for a maximized surface-area-to-volume ratio, will likely be spherical).
Their inquiries into the efficency of ion engines when used in pairs is also of great interest, in the science community.
Slashdot Mirror
Take that, Big Brother!
Definitely 11.8 seconds.
Yeah, I think that young kids (pre-teen, at least) should be protected from GTA's brand of somewhat mind warping shiat, but this group clearly has no idea what they're talking about, because of the above and because the kind of group who releases this kind of ranking is clearly never going to actually play the games in question, and is just going on knee-jerk press response. Same goes for their listing Hitman, or Manhunt; these things actually are harmful to children. I think kids can handle playing the bad guy, even without heavy moralizing or justification, but not on such an extreme scale as most violent video games.
But I think Doom, Half-Life, Halo and the like are perfectly fine, for a kid. If it scares them, they won't play it. If it doesn't, the fantasy provided is the kind lived out daily by tens of millions of kids, all over the world. The lone hero against the alien/demon onslaught stuff playtime is built on. Despite what the progressive immasculation of our society, and worst of all the pussification of our children would suggest, this kind of fantasy, violent though it may be, is inherently healthy. Girls play Mommy, boys play Commando, though I'm all for eliminating traditional gender roles; my point is: boys, at least, need violent fantasy - it's biologically programmed, and trying to unnaturally suppress it causes the kind of desperate overcompensation which causes people to vote for George W. Bush (flame on!). Yeah, playing these videogames instead of getting a few buddies and making a heroic last defense of the junglegym against the Intergalactic Martian Horde is antisocial, unhealthy and degrades the imagination, but the same goes for Disney Presents Mickey and Pooh's Homoerotic Adventure.
Not that any of this shiat matters. Good parents already know and are taking action, bad parent's aren't and won't. And the government won't act on it, in fear of the great Cheeto Insurrection that would surely follow. This shiat does nothing except let some bible-farking, holier-than-thou adulterers, coveters and liars feel self-righteous (not that they need any help with that).
You can tell they're full of shiat when they rank Doom III above GTA. In Doom, you kill demons. In GTA, you kill human beings. Hell, you kill demons in their recommended game Prince of Persia; the biggest difference is the atmosphere. Yeah, I think that young kids (pre-teen, at least) should be protected from GTA's brand of somewhat mind warping shiat, but this group clearly has no idea what they're talking about, because of the above and because the kind of group who releases this kind of ranking is clearly never going to actually play the games in question, and is just going on knee-jerk press response. Same goes for their listing Hitman, or Manhunt; these things actually are harmful to children. I think kids can handle playing the bad guy, even without heavy moralizing or justification, but not on such an extreme scale as most violent video games. But I think Doom, Half-Life, Halo and the like are perfectly fine, for a kid. If it scares them, they won't play it. If it doesn't, the fantasy provided is the kind lived out daily by tens of millions of kids, all over the world. The lone hero against the alien/demon onslaught stuff playtime is built on. Despite what the progressive immasculation of our society, and worst of all the pussification of our children would suggest, this kind of fantasy, violent though it may be, is inherently healthy. Girls play Mommy, boys play Commando, though I'm all for eliminating traditional gender roles; my point is: boys, at least, need violent fantasy - it's biologically programmed, and trying to unnaturally suppress it causes the kind of desperate overcompensation which causes people to vote for George W. Bush (flame on!). Yeah, playing these videogames instead of getting a few buddies and making a heroic last defense of the junglegym against the Intergalactic Martian Horde is antisocial, unhealthy and degrades the imagination, but the same goes for Disney Presents Mickey and Pooh's Homoerotic Adventure. Not that any of this shiat matters. Good parents already know and are taking action, bad parent's aren't and won't. And the government won't act on it, in fear of the great Cheeto Insurrection that would surely follow. This shiat does nothing except let some bible-farking, holier-than-thou adulterers, coveters and liars feel self-righteous (not that they need any help with that).
*smacks forehead* *sighs* Next time there's a knock on your door, I suggest you answer it promptly. I hear Cuba's nice, this time of year.
Everyday objects become approximately 5 to 7x funnier when qualified as lab tools. Now please excuse me while I go calibrate the ol' science pole.
Are you kidding? The spirit of sacred Bear has been corrupted. They'd never work in tech.
I've already been an augmented reality tourist.
Aren't there any falling whitepapers?
The only meaningful statistic in that is 13% visible minorities (I checked the Census, and it is true; I doubted it because my university is around 40% white), but the true utter idiocy is to equate diversity with equality. Yeah, the US has a large percentage minorities, but you, on the whole, hate each other. Yeah, there are bigots here, and even the occasional police racial profiling scandal, but they're not anywhere near as common as in the US, and they're certainly not the norm, as they seem to be there. There's far less hate, and not just superficial acceptence, like in America, but actual.
Yes, there are grouped ethnic neighborhoods in most of our cities, but everyone goes everywhere freely and happily; we intermingle and we fully embrace what diversity we have. And these neighborhoods are usually the result of a wave of immigration, and the inhabitants spread out among the general populace, again without a "there goes the neighborhood" sentiment. It's a 1- or 2-generation immigrant thing, not a racial thing. Also, no one gives interracial couples a second glance; hell, I wouldn't even know this was an issue if I hadn't seen people (trying badly to hide their) staring at an Asian guy with a white girl, while on vacation in LA.
Yeah, the Quebec Language Gestapo is a problem. I didn't say we were perfect, and it's only a problem in our "deep south" in the east centre. Frankly, I suck at French and don't much like having had to learn it, but it makes us unique. I've heard some pretty convincing arguments for the policy, but they've only temporarily swayed me. Again, we're not perfect, but I'd certainly rather have to learn French than Doublespeak. (burn!)
But the dumbest thing I think I've ever read (and, after due consideration, I really believe that) is your 2nd last paragraph. Paraphrased and annotated:
Canada's population is dying off because of your acceptence of gay people, who wouldn't be gay if you denied them basic human rights, and who don't constitute the same percentage of the population as in the US, destroying our birth rate and forcing us to accept filthy stinking immigrants (who we let in only if they'll be going straight on welfare and staying there forever, to their children's childeren's children, and couldn't possibly contribute to our society in any way), leading to *shudder* diversity (which, as I said in my 1st paragraph, is a bad thing) all of whom are gay. Furthermore, I have absolutely no clue that many of Canada's major cities' anti-smoking laws are actually a point of shame as being among the most fascist on the books, and smoking is at an all-time low and falling. Worst of all, everybody's always overdosing on The Mary-jewanna, raising healthcare costs (note: medical-grade Doritos, maybe?), which costs much more than imprisoning a tenth of our population for such a horribly harmful and victim-ridden crime.
Not much more to say, really. Canadians are much more socially liberal and accepting than Americans, on the whole, and if you think that's a bad thing, I'll very intolerantly and unliberally tell you to fuck off until your mind opens a pinprick (hey, I'm not that patient; I like to help people further open their minds (ie, learn), but it's beyond me to breach it in the first place). You knew you were wrong, which is why you posted AC. Again, I'm always a sucker for trolls.
Of course I know that. Tabarnaque! I had to Google for the French anthem. Still, you miss the point.
And, just to piss off some neocon Bush babies who hate our freedom even more: remeber, we're half French!
Ô Canada!
Terre de nos aïeux,
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux!
Car ton bras sait porter l'épée,
Il sait porter la croix!
Ton histoire est une épopée
Des plus brillants exploits.
Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits!
Whoo! Aaaaargoooos!! Strike, Leafs, strike!!!
Damn, got here too late to karma whore.
Or a PSB agent just off camera?
Why the hell would anyone pay PPC prices to run Windows?!
I demand equal time in flamewars! No "keRry SI teH SUxx0rS omgROfLmaolololoOLOL!!!21!1@11!" should ever go unanswered!
"I'm a pacifist" - Medic
"You're a thing that babies suck on?" - Caboose
"No dude, that's a pedophile." - Tucker
"Tucker, I think he means a PACIFIER." - Church
"Oh yeah, right. Man, I was TOTALLY thinking of something else." - Tucker
Easily one of the hardest I've ever laughed to anything online.
I haven't seen an RvB since episode 30. Anyone want to fill in the story?
This type of thing has actually been a real problem for me. Between Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle and pretty much anything Harry Turtledove's ever written, I have no clue what's actually happened. 8 years of histroy classes right out the fucking window.
My advice to you in this case is to leave the tech at home. Your inner self, geek, child, or otherwise, will be much better, for it. If you want to do some writing, bring a notebook and some pens. If you absolutely need computer access, this is the 21st century; just ask Junis. But if you're going on the kind of trip that necessitates a tough bag, and can be described as "whirlwind", provided the trip is not explicitly for business, deny the urge to do some coding, or your addiction to instantaneous connectivity, and keep it all natural.
Weapons come first: it's far easier to create the energy than control it. Massive amounts of uncontrolled energy = weapon. Control = energy source, can only come afterwards. Case in point: Fusion.
More akin to Newton patenting gravity than Edison patenting the Cylinder Phonograph? I know stating this on Slashdot is preaching to the choir, an intellectual circle-jerk, and all, but this is fucking retarded.
...this government is looking towards alternative energy sources: to power their space fighters, they favour solar power, but only if supplied from twin parallel hexagonal panels on either side of the crew compartment (which, for a maximized surface-area-to-volume ratio, will likely be spherical). Their inquiries into the efficency of ion engines when used in pairs is also of great interest, in the science community.
How does that last screenshot show them calculating pi? Also, it's 'only' running at 5.5GHz, in that screen.
(disclaimer: shamelessly lifted from an old article on fuel cells)