Now I don't deny that playing many of these games at the top levels involves lots of skill and practice. But it's more akin to playing an instrument than participating a sport.
While it doesn't kill the US prosecution dead (these jackasses will pursue it until the day they die if you let them), it DOES take a gelding knife to it.
Can it print money (has to be usable denominations)? Can it get me in bed with women who're completely and utterly out of my league? Can I press a button and have the head of every Mac-tard within a square mile explode?
Come talk to me when you get it working the way I want...
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Tell that to the Taliban, Boko Haram, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc, etc.
What good company the American religious right keeps!
You'll get no arguments from me there.
Sorry, but being anti-science isn't the sole purview of the far right.
At least in the US, the left has it's own track record for hamstringing science and scientific advancement.
Fuck you.
The original statement was "nobody BUT Americans".
So stop trying to move the goalposts asshole. You're wrong. Man up.
Honestly I don't know enough about the rest of the world to make a cogent reply to this.
I *do* know that the Jesus freaks here who keep trying to insert bible study into science here are off their fucking gourds though.
Nobody but Americans talk about religion in science.
The rest of the planet doesn't care about old men in the sky.
Tell that to the Taliban, Boko Haram, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc, etc.
Please come back when you actually have a clue about the subject to which you're speaking and not simply sounding off from your nether orifice.
The problem is, government only functions properly when there's a certain amount of fear in the electorate for the populace.
Here in America, that ceased decades ago.
Now the slimy bastards fear nothing. And, thus, are willing to do ANYTHING, so long as it enriches them.
I'll do my bhttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5360761&cid=47380539#est to keep it tucked back.
Feel free bub.
Threats impress me even less than e-sports. If such a thing is technically possible within the bounds of our universe...
*Air Guitar*
Voting is masturbation with 10 grit sandpaper and a belt sander.
Shoot the fuckers and make sure the next bastard put in his place is appropriately scared for his life.
Pretty much.
Now I don't deny that playing many of these games at the top levels involves lots of skill and practice.
But it's more akin to playing an instrument than participating a sport.
Public: We believe! We believe! Pump pump pump!
Private: Sell! Sell that shit! Dump dump dump!
While it doesn't kill the US prosecution dead (these jackasses will pursue it until the day they die if you let them), it DOES take a gelding knife to it.
Cabinets I see.
Holy cow this stuff is rare!
Get in good with Grams.
So articulate!
Can you provide a 35 page thesis on this by Friday?
Wipe the cheeto crumbs from your beard fatty.
They're Doritos you insensitive clod!
My buddy GLaDOS would have some words with you.
*Pulls out a portal gun*
Health issues aside, this sort of nanny-state-ism needs to just die in a fire.
I look at it the same way I look at some busybody grabbing food out of people's hands going "no no no".
If people want it, and they spend the money for it, it's nobody's business if they actually do so.
And that's BEFORE getting into how arbitrary the enforcement of this was.
Momma-Mayor Busybody-Blomberg can now go back to screwing up his own life and stop pestering people who just was a cup of soda.
Mr. President! We must not allow...a mineshaft gap!
That's basically what this whole "We'll control it all ourselves. Mineminemineminemine!" idiocy is.
Sure, maybe by stellar object standards, that's quite cool.
But an object that's rocking out at nearly 5000F isn't something I'd classify as "chilly".
Can it print money (has to be usable denominations)?
Can it get me in bed with women who're completely and utterly out of my league?
Can I press a button and have the head of every Mac-tard within a square mile explode?
Come talk to me when you get it working the way I want...
If that 80 hours means two full time jobs, then I'd agree with you. But in most states no employer can demand you work more than 40 hours
Which is why people aren't doubling up at their main jobs. They're holding two separate jobs.
And it's before taxes. So figure $1200 a month.
Rent in this area is between $700-1200 unless your drive is REALLY long, or you're living in an absolute shithole.
George Lucas has selected Chicago over Los Angeles and San Francisco
Great Choice Georgee it fits with the theme.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
Poor Han he still won't be able to shoot first there either. Maybe you should have picked Florida instead, we have more reasonable gun laws down here.
HEH!
Okay that got a laugh outta me.
So.
Damn.
TRUE!
Seriously. Try getting by on $30-35K a year. Now try doing it WITH KIDS.
Cost of living alone is insane. Let alone other things, like an apartment/house, utilities, etc.
Now have a bad month or two. Or get sick, or injure yourself in a way that prevents you from working. Rent/mortgage don't pay itself!
Most people in this country aren't working +40 hours because they WANT to, or because they LIKE it.
They're doing it as a buffer to stay ahead of instantaneous bankruptcy and poverty in case they cannot work for some reason.