Unfortuanately for you, your premise is flawed. One hour watching a good film is infinitely more enjoyable than going through the motions of a computer game.
How is Jackson a good director? His films are just pure cheese, with cartoonish special effects and dialogue that clunks like a safe falling on a tank. Not to mention plenty of ham acting.
The main achievement with LOTR is that it got made at all, it probably would have been better with someone like Coppola or Spielberg in charge.
They don't have the capacity for that. Websites fill all available space, whereas most gigabyte sized email accounts have barely a few hundred kilobytes in.
1. Don't have the plethora of horrible boring time sinks (gotta fish for 20 more hours to bump my skill level from 5 to 6!) that cause people to say "screw this" and cancel the account.
If works for World of Warcraft. It seems that five million people enjoy fishing for 20 hours.
Google hasn't banned or closed down any web sites. They're just not linking to them. They have every right to not link to any site they want.
If I make a website, and don't link to Chinese pro-democracy sites, am I guilty of helping the Chinese government? Google doesn't have any obligation to link to any sites whatsoever, in fact they could link to none if they wanted.
If Google hadn't given in, their site would have been banned altogether, which would effectively be 100% censorship. I don't think that would have been an improvement.
People like Napoleon or Hitler get a lot of style points reduced because of the short time(historically speaking) it took to beat them.
Modern warfare is a lot quicker and more deadly than it was thousands of years ago. I doubt Genghis Kahn would have fared very well against tanks and bombers.
Alexander conquered countries that were not very highly militarised or advanced. Napoleon was surrounded by countries with equally strong armies.
it's not a lot slower than a car when you factor in all the traffic in dense urban settings,
Not many people live in dense urban settings. And even those who do will at many points in their journey reach speeds unattainable on a bike. I for one save about an hour a day using the car rather than the bike.
and the biggest advantage over a car is that you don't have to deal with the nightmare of parking.
Instead you get the nightmare of: 1. Finding somewhere to chain it up. 2. Spending half an hour getting out of your soaking wet clothes, finding them places to dry etc. 3. Mending punctures in the rain in pitch darkness whilst cars speed past. 4. Turning up to work soaked to the skin and covered in dirt. 5. Constant maintenance.
The sad thing is that excessive swearing is a sign that the person in question is lacking in vocabulary.
What a load of bollocks. There's no such thing as 'swear' words, just words that some self-righteous, indignant, religious moral guardians have decided we're not allowed to use, for no apparent reason whatsoever.
Swear words are mostly used in sentences as replacement for more complex words or sentence structures.
Can you tell me how 'vagina' is more complex than 'cunt' or 'twat', or how 'testicles' is more complex than 'bollocks'? You can't.
Face it, the definitions of what words are acceptable and which are unacceptable are completely arbitrary. We're apparently supposed to say 'faeces' rather than 'shit' because one was derived from the wrong ancient language.
The second to Joe "Windows == computers" Average, when are you going to treath your computer like you would treath your house or car and lock it properly and not put all you valuables on the seat of your convertable with the top down?
You're assuming that people know they're putting their valuables on the seat of their car (computer). You're coming at this from a nerd's perspective. From the perspective of a normal person, computer's are just a tool, an appliance. You don't think about the security of your microwave, so why your computer?
Most people don't know that 'botnets' even exist.
Computers are complicated and confusing even to geeks, and they invented the things!
Would sitting in an office being hassled by the bosses a more fullfilling use of his time? That sounds pretty empty and dull. At least in his situation he can have a bath or crack one off when he feels like it.
Good work if you can get it: great money, you work from home, easy hours, light workload, and the only people who really hate you can only express it by whining on internet forums. Sign me up!
I suppose it would be like shoplifting. They'd be more pissed off about not getting the money.
Mind you anyone who rapes a prostitute is just being cheap. Is £10 really worth prison?
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It's a NAME. N-A-M-E.
Yes, and the name comes from the continent. Some states were united, that were in America, hence the name 'United States of America'. If the country started in Asia, it would be called the 'United States of Asia'.
Before the US was formed, the area currently occupied by the fifty states was not known collectively as 'America', that word referred to the whole continent.
The only reason the US is called 'America' is because the name USA is too long, and the only reason that US citizens are called 'Americans' is because there is no other word to refer to them by.
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Nothing. It's a continent named "North America".
Why would it be called North America if there is no America? You're really not making any sense here. May as well call a place 'North Znvcmnvxcvcx'.
I think that in a computer game based on a franchise, it's playability that should come before loyalty to the material. You can argue all day about whether the game is accurate to the time it's set in, but only purists will worry about that, most people just want a fun game to play with light sabers and storm troopers etc.
The answer is not to set it in any time period, just bring in the best bits of Star Wars from all the films. The hardcore geeks will bitch and moan, but most people will just get on with enjoying it and pretending they're yoda etc.
Of course the real problem with SWG isn't accuracy or which time it's set in, it's that the game is badly implemented and badly maintained by people who don't really know what they're doing.
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Unfortuanately for you, your premise is flawed. One hour watching a good film is infinitely more enjoyable than going through the motions of a computer game.
How is Jackson a good director? His films are just pure cheese, with cartoonish special effects and dialogue that clunks like a safe falling on a tank. Not to mention plenty of ham acting.
The main achievement with LOTR is that it got made at all, it probably would have been better with someone like Coppola or Spielberg in charge.
We can do it!
They don't have the capacity for that. Websites fill all available space, whereas most gigabyte sized email accounts have barely a few hundred kilobytes in.
1. Don't have the plethora of horrible boring time sinks (gotta fish for 20 more hours to bump my skill level from 5 to 6!) that cause people to say "screw this" and cancel the account.
If works for World of Warcraft. It seems that five million people enjoy fishing for 20 hours.
Google hasn't banned or closed down any web sites. They're just not linking to them. They have every right to not link to any site they want.
If I make a website, and don't link to Chinese pro-democracy sites, am I guilty of helping the Chinese government? Google doesn't have any obligation to link to any sites whatsoever, in fact they could link to none if they wanted.
If Google hadn't given in, their site would have been banned altogether, which would effectively be 100% censorship. I don't think that would have been an improvement.
People like Napoleon or Hitler get a lot of style points reduced because of the short time(historically speaking) it took to beat them.
Modern warfare is a lot quicker and more deadly than it was thousands of years ago. I doubt Genghis Kahn would have fared very well against tanks and bombers.
Alexander conquered countries that were not very highly militarised or advanced. Napoleon was surrounded by countries with equally strong armies.
The geeks who generations ago would be making things with transistors are today programming things on their computers.
it's not a lot slower than a car when you factor in all the traffic in dense urban settings,
Not many people live in dense urban settings. And even those who do will at many points in their journey reach speeds unattainable on a bike. I for one save about an hour a day using the car rather than the bike.
and the biggest advantage over a car is that you don't have to deal with the nightmare of parking.
Instead you get the nightmare of:
1. Finding somewhere to chain it up.
2. Spending half an hour getting out of your soaking wet clothes, finding them places to dry etc.
3. Mending punctures in the rain in pitch darkness whilst cars speed past.
4. Turning up to work soaked to the skin and covered in dirt.
5. Constant maintenance.
The sad thing is that excessive swearing is a sign that the person in question is lacking in vocabulary.
What a load of bollocks. There's no such thing as 'swear' words, just words that some self-righteous, indignant, religious moral guardians have decided we're not allowed to use, for no apparent reason whatsoever.
Swear words are mostly used in sentences as replacement for more complex words or sentence structures.
Can you tell me how 'vagina' is more complex than 'cunt' or 'twat', or how 'testicles' is more complex than 'bollocks'? You can't.
Face it, the definitions of what words are acceptable and which are unacceptable are completely arbitrary. We're apparently supposed to say 'faeces' rather than 'shit' because one was derived from the wrong ancient language.
Well fuck that.
The second to Joe "Windows == computers" Average, when are you going to treath your computer like you would treath your house or car and lock it properly and not put all you valuables on the seat of your convertable with the top down?
You're assuming that people know they're putting their valuables on the seat of their car (computer). You're coming at this from a nerd's perspective. From the perspective of a normal person, computer's are just a tool, an appliance. You don't think about the security of your microwave, so why your computer?
Most people don't know that 'botnets' even exist.
Computers are complicated and confusing even to geeks, and they invented the things!
Would sitting in an office being hassled by the bosses a more fullfilling use of his time? That sounds pretty empty and dull. At least in his situation he can have a bath or crack one off when he feels like it.
Good work if you can get it: great money, you work from home, easy hours, light workload, and the only people who really hate you can only express it by whining on internet forums. Sign me up!
I suppose it would be like shoplifting. They'd be more pissed off about not getting the money.
Mind you anyone who rapes a prostitute is just being cheap. Is £10 really worth prison?
It's a NAME. N-A-M-E.
Yes, and the name comes from the continent. Some states were united, that were in America, hence the name 'United States of America'. If the country started in Asia, it would be called the 'United States of Asia'.
Before the US was formed, the area currently occupied by the fifty states was not known collectively as 'America', that word referred to the whole continent.
The only reason the US is called 'America' is because the name USA is too long, and the only reason that US citizens are called 'Americans' is because there is no other word to refer to them by.
Nothing. It's a continent named "North America".
Why would it be called North America if there is no America? You're really not making any sense here. May as well call a place 'North Znvcmnvxcvcx'.
If there is no 'America', then what is 'North America' the 'North' part of?
If there is no continent of America, then what are the 'United States of America'? United states of a place that doesn't exist?
And if you don't have any, quit and try again.
I don't think that living on the streets eating out of bins would bring any more money, power or satisfaction.
Jobs that are enjoyable are few and far between, and usually require rare qualifications, and are all taken anyway.
Paycut? I make 15k, if I was paid any less I wouldn't be able to pay the mortgage.
You're joking right? The worst thing about half life is sitting in that train thing at the beginning seemingly forever. It ruins the game.
The ipod can't even get MW, how are you supposed to listen to the football on five live? What a load of rubbish.
As long as some Norweigen chick sucks me off and spits the load into a test tube.
I think that in a computer game based on a franchise, it's playability that should come before loyalty to the material. You can argue all day about whether the game is accurate to the time it's set in, but only purists will worry about that, most people just want a fun game to play with light sabers and storm troopers etc.
The answer is not to set it in any time period, just bring in the best bits of Star Wars from all the films. The hardcore geeks will bitch and moan, but most people will just get on with enjoying it and pretending they're yoda etc.
Of course the real problem with SWG isn't accuracy or which time it's set in, it's that the game is badly implemented and badly maintained by people who don't really know what they're doing.
You're really really petty.
It's much more convenient as I can read them from anywhere at anytime.
You can read newspapers anywhere, but you can only read websites when you're at internet-enabled computers.
Of course, Linux is completely stress free, especially for novice users.
EVERY Doctor Who episode ends in a deus ex machina.