You can go to Ontario and have sex with a 14 year old, as long as you a) are not in a position of authority over said minor, b) don't do her in the butt, and c) don't bring her into Michigan.
You can get to the supermarket, pick up a week's shopping, queue, pay for it and get home in 30 minutes? Do you live in an Asda or something?
30 minutes, plus the time to reorder and wait for delivery of the things they 'substituted' (read: forgot) the first time.
If you go to a real shop, and they don't have something, you can go to the shop next door and get it. With the Internet, you're fucked. You either wait several hours to get what you need from somewhere else, or make do with the rancid substitute.
I don't know. I find that the only thing I actually buy from B&M stores nowadays are perishables, things I must have immediately and things that really need to be examined (or tried on) in person.
Considering that the things people buy the most of are food and clothes, I think B&M shops are going to be around for a long time.
The things you're talking about, phones etc, are things you buy now and again. I doubt that internet shopping even makes up 1% of purchases worldwide.
I don't claim to have all the answers but I think that it involves something like paying people in the US a living wage, increasing the wages on "jobs Americans don't want" to the point where Americans would want them
Or, Americans could suck it up and take the jobs, and realise that they're not entitled to wages above what the job's worth just because they were fortuanate enough to be born in the right place?
A Mexican living in America flipping burgers has the same costs of living as an American, so how come the Mexican can live on it but the American can't? Maybe, just maybe, there is no entitlement to a 40" plasma TV and an SUV just because you hold the right passport.
I have a solution to America's problems: give the immigrants American passports, cancel welfare to the rednecks who don't want to work, and deport THEM to where the immigrants have come from.
It kills two birds with one stone: lazy people are replaced by people who want to work, and less money spent on welfare cuts the deficit, America is a better place.
I say consoles are the worst platform for FPS games. Leave them to the comptuers.
Yeah, that explains why no-one liked Goldeneye and it flopped.
Better to play a PC game with two hundred different keys that need thirty fingers to use, and where the developers and players are more interested in the framerate than the gameplay.
Both of those games (baseball, more so) existed and thrived long before television advertisers were around to care.
Back then the games took nowhere near as long as they do now. It's been padded out for the sake of TV and profit. You're more likely to be able to charge someone $200 for a ticket and $25 parking if they think they're getting four hours out of it than two hours, even if the ball's in play the same amount of time.
But none of the major televised sports were designed for TV, so why do the televised video games need to be?
Televised sports happened to develop into a format which worked on TV. These computer games haven't, so they need to change.
I think part of it also has to do with exactly how people watch these various events. Constant action is desirable in gaming, but viewers want breaks for analysis, replays, commentary, etc. Look at how baseball and American football are presented on TV. There's some action, then there's a pause that gives time for the viewers to digest and enjoy what they've seen, aided by whole mess of commentary and slow motion replays.
No, American football and baseball have constant breaks because the advertisers demand it (and the owners are only interested in profit). Americans have been conditioned to see regular commercial breaks as acceptable or even desirable. No matter what baseball fanatics say, it's not like there's anything to 'digest' about some no-hoper batter being caught out, and it shouldn't take five minutes for the next man to come up to bat.
Note how the most popular televised sport plays for 45 minutes without any breaks. I don't see fans complaining that they didn't stop after 20 minutes for analysis, replays and commercials.
Televised gaming might get off the ground if they designed a game from scratch to be suitable for TV. Not some FPS where you can see less than 1% of the playing area at one time, and the enemies are cartoon monsters.
Right, so if I'm driving in the left lane, and turning to the right, I can just swerve right in front of the cars in the left lane and it's their responsibility to slam the brakes on and not crash into me?
Why bother with either really? Motorcycles can get 45 or so miles per gallon and they are safe provided:
Great, all they have to do is invent a motorcycle that keeps out the rain, can take passengers, doesn't need a helmet or leathers and has large storage space.
I don't see the problem. If you're over 18 you can still buy them, and kids can't buy all sorts of stuff anyway like porn, drink etc. This whole thing is a mountain out of a molehill.
Silent Film's shitness was nothing to do with adherence to the 'canon'. The people complaining about it weren't the hardcore fanboys, it was the people who had never played the game. If the film was made well it wouldn't matter how loyal it was to the game.
LOTR took liberties with the book but was still good, only the minority of fanboys complained.
No, it's because games aren't taken seriously enough to warrant making a decent film out of them. Most of them just intend to cash in on the name, using the cheapest staff they can get. There are games that could have been made into decent films but weren't. For example imagine that Mortal Kombat had been made by Tarantino, or that Doom had been made by Spielburg. Same original material but they might actually be watchable.
Maybe if you're some sort of bike expert. It can take me half an hour, that's assuming the new innertube actually works, and that I have spares. And that I'm not on a road with no pavement in the dark. Maybe you have a deathwish.
My boss is not so much of a jackass that I would lose my job for being 5 or 10 minutes late on occasion.
Last time I got a puncture I was three quarters of an hour late, including time pushing the bike back home, phoning into work, changing the tyre and going back again. I'm now on a final warning, the next puncture I lose my job.
If there is heavy rain, I wear rain gear, carry my office clothes in a plastic bag and change in the bathroom. It's really not nearly as bad as you make it sound.
Rain gear doesn't keep all the water out, your shoes will be soaked through for one. With your system you need to carry a second, bulky bag, your clothes will all be creased up, and getting changed in the bathroom is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard. Never mind having to set off another 15-20 minutes earlier so you have time for all this constant changing.
You'll also need a towel, so you're going to need a pretty big bag. Can you carry a suitcase whilst riding a bike?
How quickly can you suddenly get into waterproofs and put your normal clothes in a bag if the heavens suddenly open as you set off for work? What if you're half way there when it starts, or at work?
And when everyone else clocks out and goes straight home, you've got to hang around dancing around on a piss-soaked floor putting on the clothes that got soaked through on the way in. Wonderful.
I get my exercise in the hour I'm commuting.
Short distance cycling is not exercise. My physical condition proves that. Maybe if you're 400lbs it might be a benefit, but tell me someone who only cycles who doesn't have pipecleaners for arms and a fat belly?
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Why would they publicly work against a government with which they're trying to cooperate?
And why would they care what you expect? I don't think that 'reporter (666905)' is very powerful or influential.
You could get a car for that price. I think that HDTV is going to be a niche for a long time unless the prices plummet.
The entire world? Back in my day, our crap jokes could only power a small peninsular, and we liked it that way.
How do you read and memorise a phone number in one second?
You can go to Ontario and have sex with a 14 year old, as long as you a) are not in a position of authority over said minor, b) don't do her in the butt, and c) don't bring her into Michigan.
Forget it then.
You're joking right?
Exclusive licences INCREASE sales.
What makes you think all car thieves are pros?
You can get to the supermarket, pick up a week's shopping, queue, pay for it and get home in 30 minutes? Do you live in an Asda or something?
30 minutes, plus the time to reorder and wait for delivery of the things they 'substituted' (read: forgot) the first time.
If you go to a real shop, and they don't have something, you can go to the shop next door and get it. With the Internet, you're fucked. You either wait several hours to get what you need from somewhere else, or make do with the rancid substitute.
I don't know. I find that the only thing I actually buy from B&M stores nowadays are perishables, things I must have immediately and things that really need to be examined (or tried on) in person.
Considering that the things people buy the most of are food and clothes, I think B&M shops are going to be around for a long time.
The things you're talking about, phones etc, are things you buy now and again. I doubt that internet shopping even makes up 1% of purchases worldwide.
Considering that a new type of horse in world of warcraft gets eighteen articles, this is pretty poor.
Never mind that everyone in the media talking about the name have been tearing it to pieces.
Imagine kids telling their parents what they want for Christmas: "Mummy I want a wee."
This name is a fucking disaster.
Yeah cos your mother or girlfriend is going to go into a computer shop and say 'Can I have a wee?'
What next, the Sony Poo? The Microsoft Cum?
Also known as the 'Homer Simpson Vending-Machine Trap'.
Military funerals are for people who die during service, not veterans.
I don't claim to have all the answers but I think that it involves something like paying people in the US a living wage, increasing the wages on "jobs Americans don't want" to the point where Americans would want them
Or, Americans could suck it up and take the jobs, and realise that they're not entitled to wages above what the job's worth just because they were fortuanate enough to be born in the right place?
A Mexican living in America flipping burgers has the same costs of living as an American, so how come the Mexican can live on it but the American can't? Maybe, just maybe, there is no entitlement to a 40" plasma TV and an SUV just because you hold the right passport.
I have a solution to America's problems: give the immigrants American passports, cancel welfare to the rednecks who don't want to work, and deport THEM to where the immigrants have come from.
It kills two birds with one stone: lazy people are replaced by people who want to work, and less money spent on welfare cuts the deficit, America is a better place.
I say consoles are the worst platform for FPS games. Leave them to the comptuers.
Yeah, that explains why no-one liked Goldeneye and it flopped.
Better to play a PC game with two hundred different keys that need thirty fingers to use, and where the developers and players are more interested in the framerate than the gameplay.
Both of those games (baseball, more so) existed and thrived long before television advertisers were around to care.
Back then the games took nowhere near as long as they do now. It's been padded out for the sake of TV and profit. You're more likely to be able to charge someone $200 for a ticket and $25 parking if they think they're getting four hours out of it than two hours, even if the ball's in play the same amount of time.
But none of the major televised sports were designed for TV, so why do the televised video games need to be?
Televised sports happened to develop into a format which worked on TV. These computer games haven't, so they need to change.
I think part of it also has to do with exactly how people watch these various events. Constant action is desirable in gaming, but viewers want breaks for analysis, replays, commentary, etc. Look at how baseball and American football are presented on TV. There's some action, then there's a pause that gives time for the viewers to digest and enjoy what they've seen, aided by whole mess of commentary and slow motion replays.
No, American football and baseball have constant breaks because the advertisers demand it (and the owners are only interested in profit). Americans have been conditioned to see regular commercial breaks as acceptable or even desirable. No matter what baseball fanatics say, it's not like there's anything to 'digest' about some no-hoper batter being caught out, and it shouldn't take five minutes for the next man to come up to bat.
Note how the most popular televised sport plays for 45 minutes without any breaks. I don't see fans complaining that they didn't stop after 20 minutes for analysis, replays and commercials.
Televised gaming might get off the ground if they designed a game from scratch to be suitable for TV. Not some FPS where you can see less than 1% of the playing area at one time, and the enemies are cartoon monsters.
Right, so if I'm driving in the left lane, and turning to the right, I can just swerve right in front of the cars in the left lane and it's their responsibility to slam the brakes on and not crash into me?
EA are set to release a version of Fifa to the Revolution which involves kicking the controller around your living room floor.
Why bother with either really? Motorcycles can get 45 or so miles per gallon and they are safe provided:
Great, all they have to do is invent a motorcycle that keeps out the rain, can take passengers, doesn't need a helmet or leathers and has large storage space.
Um, no, a cyclist or motorist has right of way over a car trying to turn in front of him. I don't see where passing comes into this.
I don't see the problem. If you're over 18 you can still buy them, and kids can't buy all sorts of stuff anyway like porn, drink etc. This whole thing is a mountain out of a molehill.
Silent Film's shitness was nothing to do with adherence to the 'canon'. The people complaining about it weren't the hardcore fanboys, it was the people who had never played the game. If the film was made well it wouldn't matter how loyal it was to the game.
LOTR took liberties with the book but was still good, only the minority of fanboys complained.
No, it's because games aren't taken seriously enough to warrant making a decent film out of them. Most of them just intend to cash in on the name, using the cheapest staff they can get. There are games that could have been made into decent films but weren't. For example imagine that Mortal Kombat had been made by Tarantino, or that Doom had been made by Spielburg. Same original material but they might actually be watchable.
It takes all of 5 minutes to change a flat tire.
Maybe if you're some sort of bike expert. It can take me half an hour, that's assuming the new innertube actually works, and that I have spares. And that I'm not on a road with no pavement in the dark. Maybe you have a deathwish.
My boss is not so much of a jackass that I would lose my job for being 5 or 10 minutes late on occasion.
Last time I got a puncture I was three quarters of an hour late, including time pushing the bike back home, phoning into work, changing the tyre and going back again. I'm now on a final warning, the next puncture I lose my job.
If there is heavy rain, I wear rain gear, carry my office clothes in a plastic bag and change in the bathroom. It's really not nearly as bad as you make it sound.
Rain gear doesn't keep all the water out, your shoes will be soaked through for one. With your system you need to carry a second, bulky bag, your clothes will all be creased up, and getting changed in the bathroom is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard. Never mind having to set off another 15-20 minutes earlier so you have time for all this constant changing.
You'll also need a towel, so you're going to need a pretty big bag. Can you carry a suitcase whilst riding a bike?
How quickly can you suddenly get into waterproofs and put your normal clothes in a bag if the heavens suddenly open as you set off for work? What if you're half way there when it starts, or at work?
And when everyone else clocks out and goes straight home, you've got to hang around dancing around on a piss-soaked floor putting on the clothes that got soaked through on the way in. Wonderful.
I get my exercise in the hour I'm commuting.
Short distance cycling is not exercise. My physical condition proves that. Maybe if you're 400lbs it might be a benefit, but tell me someone who only cycles who doesn't have pipecleaners for arms and a fat belly?