Why is open-mindedness always naievete? One can keep their mind open about something without leaving it completely unguarded. Not every instance of closed mindedness is "NO. A chevy IS a primate, and if you don't agree with me on this, then we can't agree on ANYTHING. Good day.",after all.
OW! OW! OW! Your silly hippy talk is hurting my eyes! If you don't want to ever convince anyone of anything then you don't need to say a word, you'll manage to not convince them!
Compromise is not a swear word, you know. Considering that most people who follow religions are far from slaves to it, all you're managing to do is get the people who agree with you completely to nod their heads, and make everyone else think you're a psycho!
Who comes out on top in the case of non-scientific articles? In an article about the holocaust, does the holocaust survivor get stepped on because a Ph. D in holocaustology who won a major award in holocaustology (who is 30, therefore not being a witness) offered to write?
Only a tiny minority of things are black and white science. When I wanted to learn about prussia, I'm sure a german would have something to tell me about it. When I wanted to learn about slovenia, I didn't need the leading expert in sloveniaology to tell me about the place. When you get enough people together, you'd be suprised about the stupid stuff some people have dedicated their lives to knowing, and wikipedia is proof.
If the government is willing to act so callously in it's own interests in constantly supporting those who would become mad tyrants, by what moral standard does it have the right to depose those tyrants?they act in their own interest, just like we were.
Wouldn't an anti-personnel laser be circumvented by a particularly shiny surface on a soldiers armour?
The nice thing about a bullet is that even if you stop it, it does something. It seems to me that a laser would bounce harmlessly off any defense greater than an austin powers style shiny jumpsuit making it largely unsuitable as an antipersonnel weapon except against antiquated troops (who admittedly, seem to be the only people fought today).
I suspect that when you're dealing with lasers in the 20 Watt range, the goggles are a formality, because even though your eyes will be OK after a blast, that nasty hole in your head could cause problems.
3(for nes) and onward were much better. 2 was impossible, 1 sucked, but you know what? They were revolutionary somehow -- if they weren't, they wouldn't have sold a gajabugilion copies.
Doom is suprisingly bearable for me. After you add the jdoom source-port, it becomes downright playable, especially in multiplayer, where few of todays weapons have the same viceral impact.
During the era of Quake 2, SiN, and Soldier of Fortune, Doom was the game I still played the most. It's design is feindishly fun, sort of like Soldier of Fortune.
Wolf has the problem of being one of the first, so it's missing things it's hard to ignore, like mlook or strafing.
Considering that much of the past few years has been stagnant in multiplayer (more levels, more weapons, more polygons, but few staggering changes int he genre), it's pretty easy to pick up doom or even quake 1 with some decent mods installed. I still do it all the time.
No, no they weren't. There are incredible games today, just as there were one, two, five, seven, twenty years ago.
Seriously, take a Neverwinter nights or a Star Wars:Knights of the Old Republic. Take half life or it's sequel. Take System Shock 2 or Thief 3, even(though they aren't really my tastes anymore) the Final Fantasy franchise. Only nostolgia or perhaps the novelty when they were new could convince a person that the best of the best today is far worse than the best of the best then, and that's coming from a person who is a conneseur of old games.
That's not to say that the old greats are crap, but there were a thousand truly horrible games for every genius game (Remember E.T. for Atari? Any game from KOEI for SNES? BC3KAD? All suck, disregarding their eras), then and now, but you don't remember those, only the great games.
Text games are the bane of all articulate, imaginative humans.
There is an enemy in front of you. >KICK HIM IN THE CROTCH. I'm sorry, I don't know how to CROTCH. >ATTACK HIM WITH YOUR SWORD I'm sorry, I don't know how to ATTACK. >TRY TO REASON WITH HIM I'm sorry, I don't know how to TRY. >ATTACH THE SWORD TO THE CHANDALEIR HANGING FROM THE CEILING AND SWING IT AT HIM I'm sorry, that's a good idea. >USE INVENTORY TO CREATE A COMPLICATED ASSAULT WEAPON The clouds are pretty outside. >USE SWORD ON ENEMY You use the sword. He dies. >FUCKER. Don't swear.
Blaming the "evil empire" for all the bad stuff that happens doesn't have a political leaning, you ignoramus. Only someone who ignores the past could forget that less than a generation ago, it was the communists of the soviet union responsible for all the ills of the world.
Of course, I guess it's probably called knee-jerk conservatism. These idiots can't think for themselves, so they pull a standard answer out of their asses when something like this happens.
Dude, my clothes are all made in china. America had a peripheral role in their creation at best.
Nobody needs to be reminded that there are McDonalds in nearly every country in the world, serving more people than the population of spain. Congratulations, the amoral "fuck everything and everyone" corporate approach is brutally efficient. If you could take any personal credit for it, I'd congratulate you.
As it is, congratulations on being a proleriat. Being born in a country where the rich and amoral managed to coherce the ruling class to give them extraordinary powers, greater than that of a normal person, is something that the world has never seen since the last time it happened.
We'll ignore that a generation ago you would have been having the same conversation with someone angry at the british.
What do you suggest? Killing everyone involved at the drop of a hat?
The American solution is proving to be even more ineffectual than the UN approach. You simpletons who think that lethal force can fix every problem deserve a taste of that which you wish to inflict upon others.
Mine is turned off, locked in a safe with adamantium chains affixed to a tectonic plate deep beneath the earth and therefore grounded against thousands of amps of charge.
It's turned off. On the harddrive is 13 bytes, encrypted using encryption which takes up the entire 30GB on the drive to store them, requiring a 300 character passkey to be manually entered, and a hardware key containing an additional 2kb key and a biometric scan.
Obviously, there are reasons to use the greek letters(though in English, you can form letters together to create sounds called 'words', so a 50 letter alphabet isn't needed;P), but the problem remains.
Perhaps the smart thing would be to teach kids from a young age to do math combining the two, so when real math comes about later on there are no mental barriers when they see a sigma, omega, or phi.
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Why is open-mindedness always naievete? One can keep their mind open about something without leaving it completely unguarded. Not every instance of closed mindedness is "NO. A chevy IS a primate, and if you don't agree with me on this, then we can't agree on ANYTHING. Good day.",after all.
OW! OW! OW! Your silly hippy talk is hurting my eyes! If you don't want to ever convince anyone of anything then you don't need to say a word, you'll manage to not convince them!
Compromise is not a swear word, you know. Considering that most people who follow religions are far from slaves to it, all you're managing to do is get the people who agree with you completely to nod their heads, and make everyone else think you're a psycho!
Who comes out on top in the case of non-scientific articles? In an article about the holocaust, does the holocaust survivor get stepped on because a Ph. D in holocaustology who won a major award in holocaustology (who is 30, therefore not being a witness) offered to write?
Only a tiny minority of things are black and white science. When I wanted to learn about prussia, I'm sure a german would have something to tell me about it. When I wanted to learn about slovenia, I didn't need the leading expert in sloveniaology to tell me about the place. When you get enough people together, you'd be suprised about the stupid stuff some people have dedicated their lives to knowing, and wikipedia is proof.
I would not let someone who claims to be an expert doctor to operate on ANY part of my body if my sole contact with them was through the internet.
:P
Real life and the internet. Two different things.
Let me know when you meet a person with absolutely no bias or agenda whatsoever. He probably won't be against me putting him out of his misery.
There is NO public evidence of torture at Abu Ghraib under US occupation.
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There are no americans in baghdad! NEVER!
That is to say...
Bob, is that you?
If it was a fact, this discussion would not even be needed.
You're new here, right?
If the government is willing to act so callously in it's own interests in constantly supporting those who would become mad tyrants, by what moral standard does it have the right to depose those tyrants?they act in their own interest, just like we were.
Wouldn't an anti-personnel laser be circumvented by a particularly shiny surface on a soldiers armour?
The nice thing about a bullet is that even if you stop it, it does something. It seems to me that a laser would bounce harmlessly off any defense greater than an austin powers style shiny jumpsuit making it largely unsuitable as an antipersonnel weapon except against antiquated troops (who admittedly, seem to be the only people fought today).
I suspect that when you're dealing with lasers in the 20 Watt range, the goggles are a formality, because even though your eyes will be OK after a blast, that nasty hole in your head could cause problems.
revolutionary != good.
3(for nes) and onward were much better. 2 was impossible, 1 sucked, but you know what? They were revolutionary somehow -- if they weren't, they wouldn't have sold a gajabugilion copies.
Sometimes you have to look past the shiny games to find one worth playing. That goes today as yesterday.
And OMF tournament play is the best. ever. period.
Doom is suprisingly bearable for me. After you add the jdoom source-port, it becomes downright playable, especially in multiplayer, where few of todays weapons have the same viceral impact.
During the era of Quake 2, SiN, and Soldier of Fortune, Doom was the game I still played the most. It's design is feindishly fun, sort of like Soldier of Fortune.
Wolf has the problem of being one of the first, so it's missing things it's hard to ignore, like mlook or strafing.
Considering that much of the past few years has been stagnant in multiplayer (more levels, more weapons, more polygons, but few staggering changes int he genre), it's pretty easy to pick up doom or even quake 1 with some decent mods installed. I still do it all the time.
No, no they weren't. There are incredible games today, just as there were one, two, five, seven, twenty years ago.
Seriously, take a Neverwinter nights or a Star Wars:Knights of the Old Republic. Take half life or it's sequel. Take System Shock 2 or Thief 3, even(though they aren't really my tastes anymore) the Final Fantasy franchise. Only nostolgia or perhaps the novelty when they were new could convince a person that the best of the best today is far worse than the best of the best then, and that's coming from a person who is a conneseur of old games.
That's not to say that the old greats are crap, but there were a thousand truly horrible games for every genius game (Remember E.T. for Atari? Any game from KOEI for SNES? BC3KAD? All suck, disregarding their eras), then and now, but you don't remember those, only the great games.
Text games are the bane of all articulate, imaginative humans.
There is an enemy in front of you.
>KICK HIM IN THE CROTCH.
I'm sorry, I don't know how to CROTCH.
>ATTACK HIM WITH YOUR SWORD
I'm sorry, I don't know how to ATTACK.
>TRY TO REASON WITH HIM
I'm sorry, I don't know how to TRY.
>ATTACH THE SWORD TO THE CHANDALEIR HANGING FROM THE CEILING AND SWING IT AT HIM
I'm sorry, that's a good idea.
>USE INVENTORY TO CREATE A COMPLICATED ASSAULT WEAPON
The clouds are pretty outside.
>USE SWORD ON ENEMY
You use the sword. He dies.
>FUCKER.
Don't swear.
Rubbing alcohol can leave a residue. Other kinds shouldn't.
Personally, I use an eraser to remove corrosion on connectors. Works like a charm on old sticks of ram.
Blaming the "evil empire" for all the bad stuff that happens doesn't have a political leaning, you ignoramus. Only someone who ignores the past could forget that less than a generation ago, it was the communists of the soviet union responsible for all the ills of the world.
Of course, I guess it's probably called knee-jerk conservatism. These idiots can't think for themselves, so they pull a standard answer out of their asses when something like this happens.
Dude, my clothes are all made in china. America had a peripheral role in their creation at best.
Nobody needs to be reminded that there are McDonalds in nearly every country in the world, serving more people than the population of spain. Congratulations, the amoral "fuck everything and everyone" corporate approach is brutally efficient. If you could take any personal credit for it, I'd congratulate you.
As it is, congratulations on being a proleriat. Being born in a country where the rich and amoral managed to coherce the ruling class to give them extraordinary powers, greater than that of a normal person, is something that the world has never seen since the last time it happened.
We'll ignore that a generation ago you would have been having the same conversation with someone angry at the british.
Whoever created the .torrent file owns the copyright to the .torrent file.
What do you suggest? Killing everyone involved at the drop of a hat?
The American solution is proving to be even more ineffectual than the UN approach. You simpletons who think that lethal force can fix every problem deserve a taste of that which you wish to inflict upon others.
I was thinking something similar; He wated to keep the stuff he downloaded...so...he...
Put it on another remote server?
If you're going to download something, it seems counterproductive to store it on a remote server.
Mine is turned off, locked in a safe with adamantium chains affixed to a tectonic plate deep beneath the earth and therefore grounded against thousands of amps of charge.
:P
It's turned off. On the harddrive is 13 bytes, encrypted using encryption which takes up the entire 30GB on the drive to store them, requiring a 300 character passkey to be manually entered, and a hardware key containing an additional 2kb key and a biometric scan.
Wanna piece of me?
How's that?
Obviously, there are reasons to use the greek letters(though in English, you can form letters together to create sounds called 'words', so a 50 letter alphabet isn't needed ;P), but the problem remains.
Perhaps the smart thing would be to teach kids from a young age to do math combining the two, so when real math comes about later on there are no mental barriers when they see a sigma, omega, or phi.
Because then, and read this next part carefully, it's not creationism, it's evolution!