Oh, I see your argument. Maybe we should have defined a 'fair fight' to not include pets. But yeah, I don't think Batman or Spiderman could do much to Godzilla.
Pfft. Those dinosaurs were in a zoo man. All they ever hunted was the domesticated goats and cows that the handlers fed them. It's not like they were part of an actual ecosystem and had parents to teach them how to hunt. I'm sure just stomping on their tail would make them run away like the little girlosaurous they are. As for there being two of em, you gotta split em up, take em out one by one. The first velociraptor would be wonderin' where the second one got to and then BAM! got one of them Sun monitors smashed on its head. Not to mention tripwires.. see how smart they are when they're chasin' you down a hallway and they trip over one of those suckers. When they're tryin' to get to their feet you bash in their head with a fire extinguisher.
I learnt ninjutsu when I was a teenager. We learnt how to grapple with dogs. If you pin the front leg of a dog to the ground and yank on the other front leg the chest cavity will split down the middle. It's an instant, although extremely painful, death. I know it's cruel, but when people train dogs to be weapons against you it would be insane not to learn how to defeat them. My Sensei was a partner in a security company. We used to practice on his alsatian. I remember he used to say "anyone hurts my dog, we'll see if they can handle him in attack mode, whilst they're dealing with me."
I think the grandparent post was actually suggesting that palentology itself is a big waste of time. As such, all I can say is thank god we live in a free society where scientists are not forced to work on what is considered "most useful" by the powers that be.
and thinking I could kick the shit out of one of those Velociraptors. They're short, they have short little arms and these long ineffectual tails and they can't turn their heads more than 80 degrees to the left or right. Not to mention the fact that they have poor peripherial vision and can't recognise stationary objects. In particular, when the kids ran into the computer room and hid, thinking the raptors couldn't open the door, but they did, the kids could have kept low, circled around, jumped on the raptor's tail and kicked it in the spine.. it'd be snappin' at em but as long as you stay behind it you'll be fine.. then you could do a wind choke on its prehistoric neck or just snap it Bruce Lee style.
That's why I really liked Pitch Black. Instead of pitting blood hungry monsters against helpless little kids, they threw in a bad ass human to take em on and, unlike the useless soldiers in Aliens, he actually put up a fight!
Yes, and they needed to save candlewax because instead of getting up when the sun comes up and going and doing the things that need to be done in daylight, people were getting up on the tick of the clock.
Dude, WTF? When you buy a Cd you are actually purchasing the CD. You then own it. There's no license involved.
Sigh. You really don't know anything do you? You may own the physical media (all 4 pennies of it) but you don't own the music.
Regardless of all that, who do you think you are to decide that kids should have no rights to participate in the economic side of things?
I'm expressing my opinion that children should be taken out of the equation so people don't start banning things I want to buy for their sake. So what are you asking? Who am I to have an opinion? Why, I'm a citizen of a free country where everyone is allowed to have and express their opinion (even children!) I don't have to be a "somebody" to do that.
I'm not going to link to porn sites on Slashdot. Go google. How would they stop them? Uhhh, it's a violation of the EULA to sell mods. They also happen to be advertising these mods by using The Sims trademark. The fact that EA isn't defending their trademark will probably get them into serious trouble with their shareholders anyway.
Everyone always makes this stupid argument that kids need to participate in shopping, drinking, voting, etc, otherwise they'll never know how to do these things when they turn 18. It's amazing they never mention driving. Children need to be taught how to drive at an early age otherwise they'll never master it when they turn 16 (or whatever the age is where you live). It's just absurd. You learn the basic mechanics of driving a car by watching your parents drive the car and then you take lessons and pass a test. You can learn how to be a good little consumer by doing the same.
Of course, what's most absurd about this is that when my generation was growing up children typically didn't buy much of anything. Maybe we were given a few dollars of pocket money for doing chores around the house, which we spent at the school cantine or we bought candy at the corner store. Today kids are expected to have jobs and consume everything from clothes to music to video games. The idea that you can sell electronic entertainment of all things to children is rediculous. As we all know, when you buy a CD or a DVD or a video game, you're not actually purchasing the product, you're entering into a licensing agreement. How can you enter into a legal agreement with a child?
The 7-11 isn't complacent in the selling of porn, they do sell porn. The local government and you and I don't profit from the selling of porn. EA profits from pornographic mods to their game and they don't do anything to stop the people who are selling pornographic mods to their game, even though they have the power to do so. That makes them complacent and responsible. As a simple matter of trademark law I could probably get away with making a game called The Sims 3 and they wouldn't have a leg to stand on as they have failed to defend their trademark. So not only are their action unethical because they're profiting from porn and not declaring it, but because they're not acting in the best interests of their shareholders by defending their trademark.
Kids should have human rights, they shouldn't have any rights as citizens or elements of the economy. It's just bullshit to think that people who have no responsibilities should have the same rights as people who do.
Yeah, yeah, it's a big debate. On the one hand you've got responsible parents who declare they should be free to raise their kids as they see fit. On the other hand you've got parents who starve their kids, lock em in closets, hit em with things, force them to watch porn and even rape them. They have the right to raise their kids as they see fit right? No? Well which is it? Not only is the child's welfare at stake, there's also the affect this child will have on society when it grows up.
They're not selling porn, they're complacent in the selling of porn and they're profiting from it. They have the means to stop these people and they're doing nothing.
Dude, they can easily enforce their EULA. The pornographers are selling their mods. It's simple copyright infringement. What's even easier to enforce is their trademark. Every one of these pornography sites has "The Sims 2" logo on it. EA is doing nothing to prevent the sale of these mods because they make money from them when people buy the game to play the mod. If EA wants to enter into an agreement with pornographers and release an AO rated version of The Sims 2 then go ahead. But don't pretend that you're just making a Teen rated game and then ignore people peddling mods that exceed that rating.
I know it's an extremist viewpoint.. but I don't have kids, I don't terribly like kids, and frankly I don't give a shit if they lose some freedoms, as long as mine are protected.
Pointing to how movies are rated isn't going to change the opinion of these people who want games rated by a government funded body.. they want movies rated by a government funded body too.
Here in Australia every film/game is rated by a government classification board. If it has no rating it is illegal to sell it (to anyone). Personally I think that sucks, as an adult I should have the right to buy anything I want, but surely there's a happy medium between what is essentially censorship in Australia and what is essentially self-regulation in the US.
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Oh, I see your argument. Maybe we should have defined a 'fair fight' to not include pets. But yeah, I don't think Batman or Spiderman could do much to Godzilla.
Yeah, but neither batman nor spiderman live in the sea so aquaman wouldn't stand a chance.
it's flip-flopping.
"How do you have sex in weightlessness?"
I believe you need a third dolphin.
So, geeks don't only have unrealistic fantasies and expectations about sex?
geeks? I think you just mean men. Besides, what fund is a realistic fantasy? Isn't that an oxymoron?
Pfft. Those dinosaurs were in a zoo man. All they ever hunted was the domesticated goats and cows that the handlers fed them. It's not like they were part of an actual ecosystem and had parents to teach them how to hunt. I'm sure just stomping on their tail would make them run away like the little girlosaurous they are. As for there being two of em, you gotta split em up, take em out one by one. The first velociraptor would be wonderin' where the second one got to and then BAM! got one of them Sun monitors smashed on its head. Not to mention tripwires.. see how smart they are when they're chasin' you down a hallway and they trip over one of those suckers. When they're tryin' to get to their feet you bash in their head with a fire extinguisher.
Well, it was 13 years ago dude.. I may be paraphrasing.
I guess then you find out what the claws feel like. Better than running and hiding like a pussy.
Yeah, but Spiderman is poor. Batman has all that military research to fall back on. Spiderman has to make do on his photographer wage.
I learnt ninjutsu when I was a teenager. We learnt how to grapple with dogs. If you pin the front leg of a dog to the ground and yank on the other front leg the chest cavity will split down the middle. It's an instant, although extremely painful, death. I know it's cruel, but when people train dogs to be weapons against you it would be insane not to learn how to defeat them. My Sensei was a partner in a security company. We used to practice on his alsatian. I remember he used to say "anyone hurts my dog, we'll see if they can handle him in attack mode, whilst they're dealing with me."
I think the grandparent post was actually suggesting that palentology itself is a big waste of time. As such, all I can say is thank god we live in a free society where scientists are not forced to work on what is considered "most useful" by the powers that be.
and thinking I could kick the shit out of one of those Velociraptors. They're short, they have short little arms and these long ineffectual tails and they can't turn their heads more than 80 degrees to the left or right. Not to mention the fact that they have poor peripherial vision and can't recognise stationary objects. In particular, when the kids ran into the computer room and hid, thinking the raptors couldn't open the door, but they did, the kids could have kept low, circled around, jumped on the raptor's tail and kicked it in the spine.. it'd be snappin' at em but as long as you stay behind it you'll be fine.. then you could do a wind choke on its prehistoric neck or just snap it Bruce Lee style.
That's why I really liked Pitch Black. Instead of pitting blood hungry monsters against helpless little kids, they threw in a bad ass human to take em on and, unlike the useless soldiers in Aliens, he actually put up a fight!
Let's home it's space travel. :)
Yes, and they needed to save candlewax because instead of getting up when the sun comes up and going and doing the things that need to be done in daylight, people were getting up on the tick of the clock.
Dude, WTF? When you buy a Cd you are actually purchasing the CD. You then own it. There's no license involved.
Sigh. You really don't know anything do you? You may own the physical media (all 4 pennies of it) but you don't own the music.
Regardless of all that, who do you think you are to decide that kids should have no rights to participate in the economic side of things?
I'm expressing my opinion that children should be taken out of the equation so people don't start banning things I want to buy for their sake. So what are you asking? Who am I to have an opinion? Why, I'm a citizen of a free country where everyone is allowed to have and express their opinion (even children!) I don't have to be a "somebody" to do that.
I'm not going to link to porn sites on Slashdot. Go google. How would they stop them? Uhhh, it's a violation of the EULA to sell mods. They also happen to be advertising these mods by using The Sims trademark. The fact that EA isn't defending their trademark will probably get them into serious trouble with their shareholders anyway.
Everyone always makes this stupid argument that kids need to participate in shopping, drinking, voting, etc, otherwise they'll never know how to do these things when they turn 18. It's amazing they never mention driving. Children need to be taught how to drive at an early age otherwise they'll never master it when they turn 16 (or whatever the age is where you live). It's just absurd. You learn the basic mechanics of driving a car by watching your parents drive the car and then you take lessons and pass a test. You can learn how to be a good little consumer by doing the same.
Of course, what's most absurd about this is that when my generation was growing up children typically didn't buy much of anything. Maybe we were given a few dollars of pocket money for doing chores around the house, which we spent at the school cantine or we bought candy at the corner store. Today kids are expected to have jobs and consume everything from clothes to music to video games. The idea that you can sell electronic entertainment of all things to children is rediculous. As we all know, when you buy a CD or a DVD or a video game, you're not actually purchasing the product, you're entering into a licensing agreement. How can you enter into a legal agreement with a child?
The 7-11 isn't complacent in the selling of porn, they do sell porn. The local government and you and I don't profit from the selling of porn. EA profits from pornographic mods to their game and they don't do anything to stop the people who are selling pornographic mods to their game, even though they have the power to do so. That makes them complacent and responsible. As a simple matter of trademark law I could probably get away with making a game called The Sims 3 and they wouldn't have a leg to stand on as they have failed to defend their trademark. So not only are their action unethical because they're profiting from porn and not declaring it, but because they're not acting in the best interests of their shareholders by defending their trademark.
Kids should have human rights, they shouldn't have any rights as citizens or elements of the economy. It's just bullshit to think that people who have no responsibilities should have the same rights as people who do.
Yeah, yeah, it's a big debate. On the one hand you've got responsible parents who declare they should be free to raise their kids as they see fit. On the other hand you've got parents who starve their kids, lock em in closets, hit em with things, force them to watch porn and even rape them. They have the right to raise their kids as they see fit right? No? Well which is it? Not only is the child's welfare at stake, there's also the affect this child will have on society when it grows up.
They're not selling porn, they're complacent in the selling of porn and they're profiting from it. They have the means to stop these people and they're doing nothing.
So we agree, EA is making money off porn.
Yep, you're so into freedom you are willing to silence others to prove it. Genius.
Dude, they can easily enforce their EULA. The pornographers are selling their mods. It's simple copyright infringement. What's even easier to enforce is their trademark. Every one of these pornography sites has "The Sims 2" logo on it. EA is doing nothing to prevent the sale of these mods because they make money from them when people buy the game to play the mod. If EA wants to enter into an agreement with pornographers and release an AO rated version of The Sims 2 then go ahead. But don't pretend that you're just making a Teen rated game and then ignore people peddling mods that exceed that rating.
I know it's an extremist viewpoint.. but I don't have kids, I don't terribly like kids, and frankly I don't give a shit if they lose some freedoms, as long as mine are protected.
Pointing to how movies are rated isn't going to change the opinion of these people who want games rated by a government funded body.. they want movies rated by a government funded body too.
Here in Australia every film/game is rated by a government classification board. If it has no rating it is illegal to sell it (to anyone). Personally I think that sucks, as an adult I should have the right to buy anything I want, but surely there's a happy medium between what is essentially censorship in Australia and what is essentially self-regulation in the US.