How are those statistics skewed by organizations split into many subdivisions for financial reasons?
The company I work for appears to have different corporate entities for different operations in different geographical locations, but they all fall under the jurisdiction of the main company.
How can you hate them? They're so quiet and polite! They don't even sue old ladies and dead people for downloading songs they couldn't possibly want to listen to!
Well, my entire generation has played video games, and the murder rate has gone down.
As an aside, isn't it strange that for some reason, the people who want to ban video games because they're dangerous and might possibly show a slight statistical increase in violence tend to be the same people who call it a 'socialist nanny state' when you're talking about regulating food safety or the environment or something that could actually save thousands of lives at once, contrary to this video game tripe, which could allegedly cause a few dozen murders here and there over time?
Yeah, I don't believe that you need criticality to become a reactor as long as you've got nuclear reactions, and in this case, I think he was using the neutron gun to transmute metals(It's been a few years since I read the article). If I remember, he's a labourer on a submarine these days.
The grandparent is a self pwning poster. I like it.
When you become as prolific as MySpace, you don't have to worry about PR nightmares as such. People aren't using your site because it's safe, they're using it because everyone they know is using it.
The single biggest problem, in my opinion, is that you can't be sure. Just because a person has registered with a certain name doesn't mean they are that ONE person. I've got the same name as a black minor league hockey player. But I'm not.
This is why it's not as simple as searching for string a in string b. You'll end up with half a million names, and not only do you have to monitor those half a million users to see what they're up to, you have to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Dougy is the infamous sex offender, and not an 11 year old trying to pick up 16 year olds.
I'm confused. Are you saying that the military didn't supply guns to their officers?
This assertion seems dubious at best.
Perhaps you're saying that the soldiers were ready to be soldiers because of the gun culture. Unfortunately, I remember vividly hearing a historian tell about how green American soldiers were avoided by other soldiers at first because they were loud and would attract mortar fire.
In the first world war, the Americans saved Europe by tipping the balance of power. In the second, they saved europe by being an economic powerhouse while Europe burned. Although both situations are wonderful and I'm sure everyone is quite glad the Germans didn't win either of the world wars, it was a well oiled economic engine paired with geographic isolation which gave the Americans their greatest strengths, not, if anything I've read is any indication, any particular superiority of soldier.
Did you watch Iraq? They had infinitely better weapons than you're likely to have. Presently, the most advanced military force in the world is so far beyond being defeated by a few yokels with rifles, it's not even worth trying. It's like kings, who had a trained, armed militia, versus serfs, who could only really choose to either be subjugated or die.
A child once built a breeder reactor in his back yard using easily available materials.
One problem with the state of science education in the world is that people don't realize just how close they are to destruction, causing them to fraudulently believe that they can protect themselves by giving up their freedom and privacy.
I never mentioned the legality, only whether it's tasteful or professional.
I could ALMOST see googling a date's name, but googling a potential employee then taking their blog as resume material smacks of unprofessionalism to me, sort of like heading down to the local bar and trying to dig up rumors.
I've written much on my gay-ass blog. The majority of it, I think, casts me in a light that you can't lie about or market yourself towards. I'm living the life I believe it is best to live, so the stuff I might post in any given blog which could cause me trouble is minimal.
But just because information is out there isn't a reason for companies to take it to carte blanche to look at it. My house has windows, that doesn't mean I think it's their business peering in to see what my private life is like.
History teaches me that any man actively seeking women on the internet either has something to hide or is a gibbering idiot. I've watched tragedy after tragedy unfold because people don't want to remember that this is an unreal place.
If I'm a troll for it, then I'm a troll. I've been a troll for 10 years, watching a person dear to me try again and again and again, trying to find someone who isn't a liar or an idiot on this medium. Sometimes the people are mere stereotypes, but once it was much worse, and they keep getting back up to ask this unreal electronic world for another go. It's like watching someone you love run at a wall again and again.
Trying to make something real in this unreal place has only one result. Lonliness isn't a tragedy compared to tragedy.
Any employer that would honestly take a blog like that seriously doesn't deserve applicants for the position.
HEY GUYS! I'M GOING TO GO MOLEST SOME CHILDREN AND THEN RUN SOME PLANES INTO BUILDINGS AND *THEN* I'M GOING TO VOTE DEMOCRAT EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT AMERICAN AND THERE'S NOT A DAMNED THING YOU CAN DO TO STOP ME!!!
There. I've just immunized myself against people stupid enough to believe everything they read on the internet.
Why even turn off the TV? Hitting kids is just plain fun. Is it friday? Are you bored? Beat the shit out of the snotnosed brat. It's great exercise, and fun, too.
When you're in public and it's not socially acceptable to hit your kids, why not try crippling verbal attacks that focus on their most deeply held insecurities? It's fun, it's free, and if any of your yuppie liberal friends complain about it, remind them that THEIR kid just took the fall and is going to jail because someone stumbled upon the principals gay-ass blog.
World of difference between walking into a bar to get a drink and walking into a bar to meet random single people.
But frankly, I find that you can do much better just drinking at home with friends. Booze is cheaper when you're not paying for a place to sit for twenty minutes.
You fail in life for searching for men on the internet.
Honestly, it's like walking into a bar you've never been in before. What the hell are you thinking? Life isn't a game, for chrissakes, use some common sense!
In this case, I think we need principals with thicker skin. Suing kids OR parents for posting mean stuff about you on the internet says to me that you honestly need to find a new line of work.
After a member of the gamefaqs forum committed suicide, Jack decided to take the opportunity to say disgusting and hateful things.
"Your "gamer friend" will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.
There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you gamers could use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.
The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.
All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid "gaming" really is.
You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this "culture of death?" Of course not. Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives.
Let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer "buds," knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess.
The oil sands are definitely not ready yet, but they're definitely on the way. They're the single largest capital investment in the entire country right now, and every tradesman, engineer, and technologist with a ticket and a year or two of experience is heading over there to make ridiculous dollars building and designing infastructure.
All that is a very nice discussion about the reasons, but it doesn't change the fact that they cock up the phone for consumers, which leads me to the conclusion that phones will never be one-tenth as useful as they should be.
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Because our democracy functions, and isn't the laughingstock of the entire first world?
How are those statistics skewed by organizations split into many subdivisions for financial reasons?
The company I work for appears to have different corporate entities for different operations in different geographical locations, but they all fall under the jurisdiction of the main company.
How can you hate them? They're so quiet and polite! They don't even sue old ladies and dead people for downloading songs they couldn't possibly want to listen to!
Well, my entire generation has played video games, and the murder rate has gone down.
As an aside, isn't it strange that for some reason, the people who want to ban video games because they're dangerous and might possibly show a slight statistical increase in violence tend to be the same people who call it a 'socialist nanny state' when you're talking about regulating food safety or the environment or something that could actually save thousands of lives at once, contrary to this video game tripe, which could allegedly cause a few dozen murders here and there over time?
Yeah, I don't believe that you need criticality to become a reactor as long as you've got nuclear reactions, and in this case, I think he was using the neutron gun to transmute metals(It's been a few years since I read the article). If I remember, he's a labourer on a submarine these days.
The grandparent is a self pwning poster. I like it.
When you become as prolific as MySpace, you don't have to worry about PR nightmares as such. People aren't using your site because it's safe, they're using it because everyone they know is using it.
The single biggest problem, in my opinion, is that you can't be sure. Just because a person has registered with a certain name doesn't mean they are that ONE person. I've got the same name as a black minor league hockey player. But I'm not.
This is why it's not as simple as searching for string a in string b. You'll end up with half a million names, and not only do you have to monitor those half a million users to see what they're up to, you have to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Dougy is the infamous sex offender, and not an 11 year old trying to pick up 16 year olds.
I'm confused. Are you saying that the military didn't supply guns to their officers?
This assertion seems dubious at best.
Perhaps you're saying that the soldiers were ready to be soldiers because of the gun culture. Unfortunately, I remember vividly hearing a historian tell about how green American soldiers were avoided by other soldiers at first because they were loud and would attract mortar fire.
In the first world war, the Americans saved Europe by tipping the balance of power. In the second, they saved europe by being an economic powerhouse while Europe burned. Although both situations are wonderful and I'm sure everyone is quite glad the Germans didn't win either of the world wars, it was a well oiled economic engine paired with geographic isolation which gave the Americans their greatest strengths, not, if anything I've read is any indication, any particular superiority of soldier.
Did you watch Iraq? They had infinitely better weapons than you're likely to have. Presently, the most advanced military force in the world is so far beyond being defeated by a few yokels with rifles, it's not even worth trying. It's like kings, who had a trained, armed militia, versus serfs, who could only really choose to either be subjugated or die.
A child once built a breeder reactor in his back yard using easily available materials.
One problem with the state of science education in the world is that people don't realize just how close they are to destruction, causing them to fraudulently believe that they can protect themselves by giving up their freedom and privacy.
I never mentioned the legality, only whether it's tasteful or professional.
I could ALMOST see googling a date's name, but googling a potential employee then taking their blog as resume material smacks of unprofessionalism to me, sort of like heading down to the local bar and trying to dig up rumors.
I've written much on my gay-ass blog. The majority of it, I think, casts me in a light that you can't lie about or market yourself towards. I'm living the life I believe it is best to live, so the stuff I might post in any given blog which could cause me trouble is minimal.
But just because information is out there isn't a reason for companies to take it to carte blanche to look at it. My house has windows, that doesn't mean I think it's their business peering in to see what my private life is like.
History teaches me that any man actively seeking women on the internet either has something to hide or is a gibbering idiot. I've watched tragedy after tragedy unfold because people don't want to remember that this is an unreal place.
If I'm a troll for it, then I'm a troll. I've been a troll for 10 years, watching a person dear to me try again and again and again, trying to find someone who isn't a liar or an idiot on this medium. Sometimes the people are mere stereotypes, but once it was much worse, and they keep getting back up to ask this unreal electronic world for another go. It's like watching someone you love run at a wall again and again.
Trying to make something real in this unreal place has only one result. Lonliness isn't a tragedy compared to tragedy.
I don't dial random numbers in the phone book. Do you?
Any employer that would honestly take a blog like that seriously doesn't deserve applicants for the position.
HEY GUYS! I'M GOING TO GO MOLEST SOME CHILDREN AND THEN RUN SOME PLANES INTO BUILDINGS AND *THEN* I'M GOING TO VOTE DEMOCRAT EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT AMERICAN AND THERE'S NOT A DAMNED THING YOU CAN DO TO STOP ME!!!
There. I've just immunized myself against people stupid enough to believe everything they read on the internet.
Why even turn off the TV? Hitting kids is just plain fun. Is it friday? Are you bored? Beat the shit out of the snotnosed brat. It's great exercise, and fun, too.
When you're in public and it's not socially acceptable to hit your kids, why not try crippling verbal attacks that focus on their most deeply held insecurities? It's fun, it's free, and if any of your yuppie liberal friends complain about it, remind them that THEIR kid just took the fall and is going to jail because someone stumbled upon the principals gay-ass blog.
World of difference between walking into a bar to get a drink and walking into a bar to meet random single people.
But frankly, I find that you can do much better just drinking at home with friends. Booze is cheaper when you're not paying for a place to sit for twenty minutes.
You fail in life for searching for men on the internet.
Honestly, it's like walking into a bar you've never been in before. What the hell are you thinking? Life isn't a game, for chrissakes, use some common sense!
In this case, I think we need principals with thicker skin. Suing kids OR parents for posting mean stuff about you on the internet says to me that you honestly need to find a new line of work.
I applaud your well thought out, articulate reply.
Well, I would, if your reply didn't amount to "Is not!"...
After a member of the gamefaqs forum committed suicide, Jack decided to take the opportunity to say disgusting and hateful things.
"Your "gamer friend" will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.
There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you gamers could use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.
The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.
All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid "gaming" really is.
You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this "culture of death?" Of course not. Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives.
Let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer "buds," knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess.
Sad. Sad for all of you."
Why does this guy still have the license to practice law? He should have been disbarred years ago for the stunts he's always trying to pull.
Hell, why is this guy still alive? After what he said about the gamefaqs community, he should have been struck down by God as an agent of the devil.
You make an interesting and arti-- IT'S A LIBERAL! LET'S GET 'IM, GUYS! ...
Oh yeah. It's the Internet. I can't do that.
The oil sands are definitely not ready yet, but they're definitely on the way. They're the single largest capital investment in the entire country right now, and every tradesman, engineer, and technologist with a ticket and a year or two of experience is heading over there to make ridiculous dollars building and designing infastructure.
All that is a very nice discussion about the reasons, but it doesn't change the fact that they cock up the phone for consumers, which leads me to the conclusion that phones will never be one-tenth as useful as they should be.