Then how come I have to change the time on my phone every time a daylight savings transition occurs?
One person I knew was complaining to me that every message she received arrived a day late. Turned out her date was set one day fast so the phone wasn't accepting any messages from 'the future'. Correcting the date fixed it immediately.
Seriously, if I was concerned that my children would be exposed to extremely violent games, or overtly sexual games, then I would monitor what I got them.
That's very admirable, but how exactly would you go about monitoring what you get them?
Without some kind of censorship how do you know that Blues Clues Holiday Special DVD you just bought for your kids doesn't come with a bonus episode of "Joe Goes Apeshit In A Brothel And Shoots Kittens"?
The simple truth is that you can't watch everything your kids are exposed to 24/7. Today it's video games, what about billboards tomorrow? Will a "responsible parent" just have to keep their kids indoors?
There are some very, very sick people out there and I'm damned if I'm going to let them poison my kids minds.
Perhaps they're Jewish. Their religion doesn't allow them to write a name for God on anything that may be destroyed (paper, pottery or a computer screen).
The idea of Adam living for 50 million years before the fall is an interesting one, and certainly not absurd. Presumably that is used to explain phenomena such as geological formations that appear to have taken longer than 10,000 years to form. However it doesn't explain why a lot of these formations have fossils in them. Either there was death during those 50 million years (perhaps limited to animals), which doesn't seem to make much sense, or those events happened after the fall. Organisations like AiG and ICR believe that most fossils were deposited during the flood AIUI.
Well given that Iraq is situated on what used to be Babylon, perhaps when Iraq is renamed we can start referring to the old America as the new Babylon.
Then a lot of those end-time biblical prophecies might have been fulfilled.
and what a lot of people here forget is that DVD took off desipite massive DRM encumberment:
Hardware manufacturers bullied to obey no-skip and no-fast-forward flags.
CSS encoding
Region codes (that mercifully are illegal in NZ so we don't have that problem as much).
Slashdotters seem to think that consumers aren't going to stand for the DRM in these new generation DVDs, but history has shown us that they just don't care.
I for one won't be buying one of these players, or any media until I can play them DRM-free on my linux box, but it won't be without regret - despite claims of only minor improvements, the quality difference of HD content is staggering. The improvement over 576i/480i is close, but not quite equal, to the transition from B&W->Colour.
I'm amused to see that many of the gripes people here have with the prequels are the same as those voiced when another movie was released:
Overuse of unconvincing special effects, particularly the use of anthropomorphic puppets Lame expositions Unnecessary plot twists Awkward romance scenes Annoying characters that are just there for the kids
That was the initial reaction by a lot of people in 1980 when Empire Strikes Back was released. The general consensus has changed a bit since then, hasn't it?
I guess it shouldn't surprise me either. Less than 1% of my house's volume is taken up with sewer pipes, and I manage to spend exactly 0% of my time there.
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I'm interested in this. Can you please elaborate and point me to the relevant discussion or, even better, a patch?
Then how come I have to change the time on my phone every time a daylight savings transition occurs?
One person I knew was complaining to me that every message she received arrived a day late. Turned out her date was set one day fast so the phone wasn't accepting any messages from 'the future'. Correcting the date fixed it immediately.
Them: "Is Mark there?"
Me: "Yes, this is Mark, I told you not to call until you'd dumped the body"
Seriously, if I was concerned that my children would be exposed to extremely violent games, or overtly sexual games, then I would monitor what I got them.
That's very admirable, but how exactly would you go about monitoring what you get them?
Without some kind of censorship how do you know that Blues Clues Holiday Special DVD you just bought for your kids doesn't come with a bonus episode of "Joe Goes Apeshit In A Brothel And Shoots Kittens"?
The simple truth is that you can't watch everything your kids are exposed to 24/7. Today it's video games, what about billboards tomorrow? Will a "responsible parent" just have to keep their kids indoors?
There are some very, very sick people out there and I'm damned if I'm going to let them poison my kids minds.
Perhaps they're Jewish. Their religion doesn't allow them to write a name for God on anything that may be destroyed (paper, pottery or a computer screen).
Hey, it seems to work just fine on Mac OSX :)
But is it safe, Emo?
I'm not sure whether to tag this one "haha" or "evil"
The idea of Adam living for 50 million years before the fall is an interesting one, and certainly not absurd. Presumably that is used to explain phenomena such as geological formations that appear to have taken longer than 10,000 years to form. However it doesn't explain why a lot of these formations have fossils in them. Either there was death during those 50 million years (perhaps limited to animals), which doesn't seem to make much sense, or those events happened after the fall. Organisations like AiG and ICR believe that most fossils were deposited during the flood AIUI.
Yeah - just ask a Panda what it uses it's needle-pointed teeth for.
See here and here for some inspiration.
Ah, clearly you've never been to a cricket test match.
Freudian slip, perhaps?
Nope, just a good book since you'll probably be the only one there.
Well I think this puts to rest any last lingering predictions that the PS3 wasn't going to be popular.
Let me guess, you're going to be first in line for that console named after urine, right?
Apparently not...
Well given that Iraq is situated on what used to be Babylon, perhaps when Iraq is renamed we can start referring to the old America as the new Babylon.
Then a lot of those end-time biblical prophecies might have been fulfilled.
no... I think I would rather forget it, thanks.
Slashdotters seem to think that consumers aren't going to stand for the DRM in these new generation DVDs, but history has shown us that they just don't care.
I for one won't be buying one of these players, or any media until I can play them DRM-free on my linux box, but it won't be without regret - despite claims of only minor improvements, the quality difference of HD content is staggering. The improvement over 576i/480i is close, but not quite equal, to the transition from B&W->Colour.
I'm amused to see that many of the gripes people here have with the prequels are the same as those voiced when another movie was released:
Overuse of unconvincing special effects, particularly the use of anthropomorphic puppets
Lame expositions
Unnecessary plot twists
Awkward romance scenes
Annoying characters that are just there for the kids
That was the initial reaction by a lot of people in 1980 when Empire Strikes Back was released. The general consensus has changed a bit since then, hasn't it?
I guess it shouldn't surprise me either. Less than 1% of my house's volume is taken up with sewer pipes, and I manage to spend exactly 0% of my time there.
Not that different from pornography after all.
Damn where's the "-1, Head-In-Sand" moderation when I need it?
Americans are funny things. Apparently apart from the obvious firearm reference, Shotgun means "riding in the front passenger seat"? Well, okay...
Then again Americans also call Arkansas "Arkensaw" and solder "sodder", and about half of them seem to pronounce the Internet as "Ennernat".
Ah, but have you ever contemplated why you can't buy cost-effective solar panels? :)