I won't repeat what's already been said about coke, but I think this idea could actually take off.
Imagine a cinema packed full of fans, all drunk, a huge 3D screen that shows the whole field, surround sound relaying the noise of the stadium, it would be almost like being at the game. You wouldn't even need seats, let everyone stand up.
As long as there's no commentary, no angle changes, no half-time analysis, no replays/close-ups and all the other things that make televised sport so insufferable, I'd definitely go in for that.
You wouldn't need to buy beer at the cinema, just get bladdered before hand.
Football isn't kicking a ball back and forth. The 'hand using' equivalent of football would be hockey, not tennis. You don't seem to know much about sport.
This is undoubtedly a sad day for justice and liberty in Germany
Liberty? Please explain what piracy (which has been illegal for centuries) has to do with liberty? The government isn't suddenly banning piracy, the penalty is just being increased. If the sentences for counterfitting are increased would you consider that in infringement of your liberties?
It's the kind of abuse we generally get
Note the word 'we', meaning you're one of the pirates who's being clamped down on. That would explain your opinion on this matter. I doubt a money forger would agree with increased sentencing for forgery either.
when one group of thieves becomes the sole provider of necessary goods and services to the people.
Music and films are not necessary goods and services. Food and water and necessary goods and services, not the latest CD or DVD. What world do you live in? No group of people are the sole providers of any of these. There are independent film producers and record labels are there not?
This is all rehashing rehashes, but it bears repetition lest we find ourselves slowly and finally boiled in this slowly heating water.
You're acting as if the goverment is taking away your god-given right to piracy. Maybe you weren't aware, but internet piracy has never been legal, you have never had the right to do it. This is just increasing the punishment, which considering how rampant piracy is, may be a necessary deterrant.
Law abiding citizens like you and I have no more to worry about than we did before.
Older games had hardly any playability, you just went round collecting dots, jumping over snakes or aligning falling blocks, there was no depth whatsoever. After a few minutes you'd pretty much exhausted the game.
Am I the only person who thinks that Tetris and Pacman are utterly boring? Once you've played them for three seconds you've exhausted the entire depth of the games, there's nothing else other than to keep doing it over and over again.
To get to the bit where my head starts to hurts. If you were measuring all the movement that was occuring from the bridge which is connected to the shaft that the rest is spinning around then the ship is rotating around it. If you are measuring movement from the rotating part the shaft and bridge are rotating. There is no distinction between them. So if spining a ship around a shaft causes an outwards force how would that be different to spinning the shaft and nothing else. How would that exert any force on you at all? If that doesnt exert any force then how, with no point of refrence, do you determine which part is spinning around or within the other?
Type that out in English and I'll see if I can answer you.
They wish to preserve the legacy of representation and rule of law that are initiated with the Magna Carta, and succeeding 800 years of parliamentary rule.
Yeah, they wish to preserve those noble rights like fox-hunting, and keep Britain safe from that awful 'democracy' thing. Long live the house of lords...
Students don't pay the professor's wages. The university pays their wages, and the students pay the university, there is no direct payment unless you hire them as a private tutor.
If I buy a can of coke, can I go into the office of the CEO of coke and demand that he makes the cans purple, because I'm paying his wages?
Just because there's a new technology doesn't mean you have to use it. She's not a Luddite no more than walking to work rather than using the car is being a Luddite.
Power trip? It's her classroom, her rules. Kids these days have no respect for authority, they think they have the right to do whatever they want...
I pay for University and I'll be damned if a Professor will tell me how I'm going to learn and if I can/can't take my laptop to the class I am paying for.
If you pay for golf club membership you don't get to walk around in jeans. The obvious solution is to find another university where you'll be allowed to suckle on the electronic teat 24/7.
The mony you spend on a CD isn't going to get you anything if you invest it. To get anything decent out of an investment you need tens of thousands at the minimum.
I'd say non-rich people cannot afford not to invest.
You're joking right? When you have 1k a year left over after tax/living costs, you can't afford to throw that away on shares that may end up worthless, you need it in the bank for the next time you get a bill.
Speculative investing may be gambling, but diverse long-term investments in solid companies that pay dividends are not.
If it were that simple, everyone would do it. There's a reason that people selling investment advice make more money from giving the advice than they do following it.
Again nonsense; investing costs very little, and you have to put your life saving somewhere. Investment of your entire savings in bonds or cash is quite risky as it provides no protection from inflation.
Inflation is steady and easily countered with interest. If you invest in a company, the stock price could HALVE within a few months, I don't think inflation goes up 100% in that short space of time. A company could go completely bust, but currency isn't going to suddenly become worthless, this isn't the 20s.
I'm curious to see what his shot and spell accuracy looks like after 12 hours.
Hi comic book guy.
You're saying that of using a controller designed to fit well in your hands, designed solely for games, you should use a keyboard designed for typing, not playing games? Whereby using it for games requires awkward unnatural positioning of your fingers and wrists? Or a mouse which puts undue stress on your wrists?
Instead of sitting on a sofa, you should sit at a computer chair?
Instead of sitting 10-feet from a large TV, you should be hunched up in front of a 17" monitor?
Live below your means and invest in companies that you ethically agree with if you want.
Investing is just gambling, it's not an income unless you're lucky or have insider connections. Not to mention you already have to be wealthy before investing becomes a viable proposition. Non-rich people can't afford to gamble their life savings.
and use your newfound power as a voting shareholder to tell them what you think.
Yeah because having $100 worth of shares in a $10 billion company really gives you a lot of say..
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14% might claim Irish ancestry, but I doubt it's that high. Even if it was, one Irish great great grandparent out of sixteen doesn't make you Irish, I bet all these plastic paddies don't give much of a shit about national days of their other fifteen ancestries.
Soccer is completely out of balance; the defense is far too strong. When a 2-0 score is a blowout, then you know the sport is out of balance.
Don't let the erratic scoring system fool you, American football is very low scoring, and has touchdowns no more often than soccer has goals. Didn't the latest superbowl have only four touchdowns in four hours? Maybe if a goal in soccer was worth twelve points you'd think it was more interesting?
You neglect the fact that a low scoring game makes the scoring much more interesting, notice how a goal in soccer is a massive event, whereas scoring in basketball is completely irrelevent? A defense-orientated game is much more tactically interesting than where teams score every time they go forwards.
Do you know why Soccer doesn't catch on in the US?
Do you know why baseball doesn't catch on in Nigeria? The answer is just as irrelevent and uninteresting. For the record, more Americans play soccer than gridiron, which is largely just watched on TV. So much for American football being a 'sport', unless in America watching TV counts as a sport.
You know that in America, when talking about a sporting event, people spend more time talking about the adverts, sponsors TV channels, half-time shows, announcers etc than they do the actual game? That just about says it all.
We know that soccer sucks, because we have sports to compare them to.
You know that other countries also have other sports? Some countries even play baseball and basketball, and are actually better at it than Americans. But then in other countries, sport is about sport, it's not just a TV circus.
but almost every child here plays soccer. We know soccer. We just know that it's a bad sport.
They play it even though it's a bad sport? If it was that bad, why aren't all the kids playing gridiron instead? Maybe they've been brought up with the American ethic that gridiron is something to be watched on TV rather than played.
The solution? I've always thought that widening the goals posts would do a lot for the sport.
Yeah, that just about reinforces the stereotype of Americans having low attention spans. The only thing your idea would do is to dumb down the game to make it appeal to Americans, but we don't want people like you watching the game. We want people interested in the sport, not a Hollywood-style Entertainment Spectacle with cheerleaders and half-time shows, where the sport itself is just a sideshow.
Ever been to an NBA game? They have to pipe music over the tannoy throughout the entire game otherwise all the fans fall asleep. Great sport that eh?
Soccer has potential
If being the out and out, undisputed biggest and most popular game in the world is 'potential', then what exactly is the finished product? A few niche sports played almost entirely in North America?
I haven't bought a Nike product in over a decade, due to the dreadfully low quality. Nike have no football background, their sportswear is a joke that sells on marketing alone.
Btw their kits for the World Cup all look the same.
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"Paddy" (from the name Patrick) is U.S. slang for Irishman.
It's slang for an Irishman everywhere, and people were saying 'Patty', who the hell is that? That's a woman's name, and I'm pretty convinced that St Patrick was a man.
but Americans with Irish ancestry (and that's about 25% of us)
Are you sure about that? That's about 75 million, and Ireland only has five million people.
The only way to make something that a lot of people like is to make it bland, so as few people as possible can hate it. Anything remotely decent is an acquired taste and so only appreciated by a minority.
Also if a beer's sold all over the world, it won't be any good. In order for a beer to travel it has to be pasteurised, which kills all the flavour. Proper beer is live, which means it has a very short shelf life and so you won't see it in bars all over the world.
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And the Irish don't drink it either, it's purely an American phenomenom, when millions of plastic paddies who think they're Irish because their great great grandfather once looked at a picture of Ireland crawl out of the woodwork, wear green clothes and generally piss off anyone who genuinly IS Irish.
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I won't repeat what's already been said about coke, but I think this idea could actually take off.
Imagine a cinema packed full of fans, all drunk, a huge 3D screen that shows the whole field, surround sound relaying the noise of the stadium, it would be almost like being at the game. You wouldn't even need seats, let everyone stand up.
As long as there's no commentary, no angle changes, no half-time analysis, no replays/close-ups and all the other things that make televised sport so insufferable, I'd definitely go in for that.
You wouldn't need to buy beer at the cinema, just get bladdered before hand.
Football isn't kicking a ball back and forth. The 'hand using' equivalent of football would be hockey, not tennis. You don't seem to know much about sport.
a policy that supports the industry's demands fully while completely disregarding the rights and needs of its citizen.
German citizens have a right and a need to piracy?
That's funny, because in most of the developed world, piracy has never been a right, and no-one has ever needed it for anything.
This is undoubtedly a sad day for justice and liberty in Germany
Liberty? Please explain what piracy (which has been illegal for centuries) has to do with liberty? The government isn't suddenly banning piracy, the penalty is just being increased. If the sentences for counterfitting are increased would you consider that in infringement of your liberties?
It's the kind of abuse we generally get
Note the word 'we', meaning you're one of the pirates who's being clamped down on. That would explain your opinion on this matter. I doubt a money forger would agree with increased sentencing for forgery either.
when one group of thieves becomes the sole provider of necessary goods and services to the people.
Music and films are not necessary goods and services. Food and water and necessary goods and services, not the latest CD or DVD. What world do you live in? No group of people are the sole providers of any of these. There are independent film producers and record labels are there not?
This is all rehashing rehashes, but it bears repetition lest we find ourselves slowly and finally boiled in this slowly heating water.
You're acting as if the goverment is taking away your god-given right to piracy. Maybe you weren't aware, but internet piracy has never been legal, you have never had the right to do it. This is just increasing the punishment, which considering how rampant piracy is, may be a necessary deterrant.
Law abiding citizens like you and I have no more to worry about than we did before.
Prison rape is not funny.
What if your cell-mate's a clown?
No, you're thinking of basketball/ice hockey/tennis.
Older games had hardly any playability, you just went round collecting dots, jumping over snakes or aligning falling blocks, there was no depth whatsoever. After a few minutes you'd pretty much exhausted the game.
Am I the only person who thinks that Tetris and Pacman are utterly boring? Once you've played them for three seconds you've exhausted the entire depth of the games, there's nothing else other than to keep doing it over and over again.
To get to the bit where my head starts to hurts. If you were measuring all the movement that was occuring from the bridge which is connected to the shaft that the rest is spinning around then the ship is rotating around it. If you are measuring movement from the rotating part the shaft and bridge are rotating. There is no distinction between them. So if spining a ship around a shaft causes an outwards force how would that be different to spinning the shaft and nothing else. How would that exert any force on you at all? If that doesnt exert any force then how, with no point of refrence, do you determine which part is spinning around or within the other?
Type that out in English and I'll see if I can answer you.
They wish to preserve the legacy of representation and rule of law that are initiated with the Magna Carta, and succeeding 800 years of parliamentary rule.
Yeah, they wish to preserve those noble rights like fox-hunting, and keep Britain safe from that awful 'democracy' thing. Long live the house of lords...
With six hours sleep you can fit it in pretty easily. Relationships, recreation etc. are luxuries that working students can't afford.
Students don't pay the professor's wages. The university pays their wages, and the students pay the university, there is no direct payment unless you hire them as a private tutor.
If I buy a can of coke, can I go into the office of the CEO of coke and demand that he makes the cans purple, because I'm paying his wages?
Shes either a Luddite or on a power trip.
Just because there's a new technology doesn't mean you have to use it. She's not a Luddite no more than walking to work rather than using the car is being a Luddite.
Power trip? It's her classroom, her rules. Kids these days have no respect for authority, they think they have the right to do whatever they want...
I pay for University and I'll be damned if a Professor will tell me how I'm going to learn and if I can/can't take my laptop to the class I am paying for.
If you pay for golf club membership you don't get to walk around in jeans. The obvious solution is to find another university where you'll be allowed to suckle on the electronic teat 24/7.
Only if you are a day trader.
Explain.
Or video games, music CDs, or DVDs?
The mony you spend on a CD isn't going to get you anything if you invest it. To get anything decent out of an investment you need tens of thousands at the minimum.
I'd say non-rich people cannot afford not to invest.
You're joking right? When you have 1k a year left over after tax/living costs, you can't afford to throw that away on shares that may end up worthless, you need it in the bank for the next time you get a bill.
Speculative investing may be gambling, but diverse long-term investments in solid companies that pay dividends are not.
If it were that simple, everyone would do it. There's a reason that people selling investment advice make more money from giving the advice than they do following it.
Again nonsense; investing costs very little, and you have to put your life saving somewhere. Investment of your entire savings in bonds or cash is quite risky as it provides no protection from inflation.
Inflation is steady and easily countered with interest. If you invest in a company, the stock price could HALVE within a few months, I don't think inflation goes up 100% in that short space of time. A company could go completely bust, but currency isn't going to suddenly become worthless, this isn't the 20s.
I'm curious to see what his shot and spell accuracy looks like after 12 hours.
Hi comic book guy.
You're saying that of using a controller designed to fit well in your hands, designed solely for games, you should use a keyboard designed for typing, not playing games? Whereby using it for games requires awkward unnatural positioning of your fingers and wrists? Or a mouse which puts undue stress on your wrists?
Instead of sitting on a sofa, you should sit at a computer chair?
Instead of sitting 10-feet from a large TV, you should be hunched up in front of a 17" monitor?
But that Theo de Raadt is such a nice guy, who wouldn't want to give him money?
Live below your means and invest in companies that you ethically agree with if you want.
Investing is just gambling, it's not an income unless you're lucky or have insider connections. Not to mention you already have to be wealthy before investing becomes a viable proposition. Non-rich people can't afford to gamble their life savings.
and use your newfound power as a voting shareholder to tell them what you think.
Yeah because having $100 worth of shares in a $10 billion company really gives you a lot of say..
14% might claim Irish ancestry, but I doubt it's that high. Even if it was, one Irish great great grandparent out of sixteen doesn't make you Irish, I bet all these plastic paddies don't give much of a shit about national days of their other fifteen ancestries.
Soccer is completely out of balance; the defense is far too strong. When a 2-0 score is a blowout, then you know the sport is out of balance.
Don't let the erratic scoring system fool you, American football is very low scoring, and has touchdowns no more often than soccer has goals. Didn't the latest superbowl have only four touchdowns in four hours? Maybe if a goal in soccer was worth twelve points you'd think it was more interesting?
You neglect the fact that a low scoring game makes the scoring much more interesting, notice how a goal in soccer is a massive event, whereas scoring in basketball is completely irrelevent? A defense-orientated game is much more tactically interesting than where teams score every time they go forwards.
Do you know why Soccer doesn't catch on in the US?
Do you know why baseball doesn't catch on in Nigeria? The answer is just as irrelevent and uninteresting. For the record, more Americans play soccer than gridiron, which is largely just watched on TV. So much for American football being a 'sport', unless in America watching TV counts as a sport.
You know that in America, when talking about a sporting event, people spend more time talking about the adverts, sponsors TV channels, half-time shows, announcers etc than they do the actual game? That just about says it all.
We know that soccer sucks, because we have sports to compare them to.
You know that other countries also have other sports? Some countries even play baseball and basketball, and are actually better at it than Americans. But then in other countries, sport is about sport, it's not just a TV circus.
but almost every child here plays soccer. We know soccer. We just know that it's a bad sport.
They play it even though it's a bad sport? If it was that bad, why aren't all the kids playing gridiron instead? Maybe they've been brought up with the American ethic that gridiron is something to be watched on TV rather than played.
The solution? I've always thought that widening the goals posts would do a lot for the sport.
Yeah, that just about reinforces the stereotype of Americans having low attention spans. The only thing your idea would do is to dumb down the game to make it appeal to Americans, but we don't want people like you watching the game. We want people interested in the sport, not a Hollywood-style Entertainment Spectacle with cheerleaders and half-time shows, where the sport itself is just a sideshow.
Ever been to an NBA game? They have to pipe music over the tannoy throughout the entire game otherwise all the fans fall asleep. Great sport that eh?
Soccer has potential
If being the out and out, undisputed biggest and most popular game in the world is 'potential', then what exactly is the finished product? A few niche sports played almost entirely in North America?
I haven't bought a Nike product in over a decade, due to the dreadfully low quality. Nike have no football background, their sportswear is a joke that sells on marketing alone.
Btw their kits for the World Cup all look the same.
"Paddy" (from the name Patrick) is U.S. slang for Irishman.
It's slang for an Irishman everywhere, and people were saying 'Patty', who the hell is that? That's a woman's name, and I'm pretty convinced that St Patrick was a man.
but Americans with Irish ancestry (and that's about 25% of us)
Are you sure about that? That's about 75 million, and Ireland only has five million people.
Why must anything a lot of people like be awful?
The only way to make something that a lot of people like is to make it bland, so as few people as possible can hate it. Anything remotely decent is an acquired taste and so only appreciated by a minority.
Also if a beer's sold all over the world, it won't be any good. In order for a beer to travel it has to be pasteurised, which kills all the flavour. Proper beer is live, which means it has a very short shelf life and so you won't see it in bars all over the world.
And the Irish don't drink it either, it's purely an American phenomenom, when millions of plastic paddies who think they're Irish because their great great grandfather once looked at a picture of Ireland crawl out of the woodwork, wear green clothes and generally piss off anyone who genuinly IS Irish.
Btw, who is 'Patty'?