Yeah, cos Spiderman 1 had such a brilliant, gripping storyline that didn't insult the intelligence of anyone over the age of five.
Superhero films aren't meant to be taken seriously, they're supposed to be pretty stupid, that's the whole point. Just look at X-men, it's like a live-action version of a children's cartoon "I know I'll use my magic laser vision to burn the rope."
I hate dubbing, there's nothing more odd and disturbing that Japanese characters speaking in American accents. I mean, they're often really heavy American accents as well. I'm afraid I can't really see samurai speaking like Texan prospectors.
If you find reading tiring perhaps you should read more.
And I bet those children in the 20s and 30s lived like shit. If I have kids I don't want to bring them up in a trailer. I want them to have a proper upbringing, not being beaten up at school for not being able to afford all the computer games and clothes that the other kids have.
I work in a factory and there are people there who've been there for 30-40 years. People who are there temporarily after school don't exist, they're there as full-time jobs. Not everyone grows up to be a computer programmer/manager/scientist/astronaut, most of us STAY in those worthless jobs for life.
I haven't said 'gimme', I don't want to be given anything, I just want people to keep what's theirs without it being taken.
I know this might be an unpopular opinion on Slashdot, but I don't like excessive government interference in our private lives, whether that be through censorship or property confiscation.
Did you ever enjoy your job? Did you ever plan on enjoying it? I have friends who are factory workers, and they all knew exactly what they signed up for and it delivers to their requirements fully.
Of course I've never enjoyed my job. What is there to enjoy about soul-crushing manual labour breathing in fumes and deforming my spine? I didn't expect to still be here, it was only supposed to be a temporary job, like 1-2 months.
If you hate your job but aren't trying to find a better one then you don't really have a firm base to complain from.
How am I supposed to find a better one? I have no qualifications at all.
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I'm afraid I'm overqualified to be a Slashdot editor.
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I can't change jobs because I've nowhere to go, I'm not qualified to do anything other than unskilled labour. I tried to get an education but I failed it, I'm not clever enough and can't afford it anyway. We're not all geniuses like you, sorry. Some of us have to do the soul-crushing grunt work so you can sit at your cushy office job reading Slashdot.
I don't have kids, I can't afford them. I can't afford a house to live in that can accomodate kids, I can't afford to bring them up properly. I don't want to be a benefit scrounger either. Having children is for people richer than me, just something I'll have to do without.
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Even with outsourcing, a mere McDonald's worker in America working 40 hours has a much higher standard of living than the average Indian or Chinese working 80. Indians by and large don't have Internet-capable computers or fancy TVs or cars or nice clean houses either. You do, yet you're still complaining? You expect more for less work because of where you were born?
For a good many decades, Americans have had it much better than people in the third world who work just as hard. So priviledge through birthright is being eroding, I don't think that's a bad thing, although I'm against things like the aristocracy and monarchy.
It's no fairer for an American to automatically live better than an Indian who works twice the hours than it is for someone born a Prince to live better than someone born a serf. I suppose this is an anti-capitalist viewpoint so will be modded down.
OK, let's see how your advice works in the real world:
1. All the shelf stackers and checkout workers decide to find jobs that they like, so they all quit. 2. All the factory workers decide to find jobs that they like, so they all quit. 3. All the bar workers, builders, plumbers, electricians, bus/train/taxi drivers and street cleaners realise that their occupation isn't satisfying, so they quit to find something better.
Now, tomorrow you wake up, and go to work. Except the bus doesn't turn up, because there's no-one to drive it. You can't get a taxi either. Your car is broken down because there's no mechanic to fix it, he's a painter now. You walk the 15 miles to work. On the way you're hungry so you pop into the shop for a sandwich. Except there's nothing to buy because the shelves are empty. The shelf stackers have all taken up architecture.
You get to work, two hours late. You sit down at your desk and start working at your computer. Except you don't. There is no computer, because the factory workers in China have all quit to become chefs and novelists. There are no desks or carpets either. And no electricity because the people who fit the electrics have become musicians.
Society NEEDS 90% of people to work meaningless, soul-crushing, degrading jobs in order to prop up society for the rich 10% with the glamorous jobs. It wouldn't work any other way. Unless you invent some robot which can do all the menial chores for everyone.
We can complain all we want, but there are only so many good, fullfilling jobs to go round. The rest of us have to slave away to make their lives better.
Well, that's just tough. We don't live in an artificial communist age, peoplec an earn what they earn, you can't just come in and take it because you think they have enough already. Seems like you're just bitter so you want to confiscate it and spend it on giant space toys.
Before we accept your question, you have to show that the research "doesn't actually matter".
No, you have to show that it matters before you disrupt the capitalistic process.
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Nah, I hate the graphics in the later civs, that diagonal view pisses me off. But then I hate all things that are there to look good but actually impede functionality. The new Civ IV looks even worse. Washed out watercolour landscapes. I prefer the bright, vibrant squares of Civ I.
Why should someone who earns $15 million a year have their wages forcibly confiscated so some scientists can find something out that doesn't actually matter?
I think that would just make the game less interesting to play, more frustrating and stressful. It's hard enough deciding where to make your units go and what your cities should build, let alone whether they actually go through with it.
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The problem with red Indian tribes is there are so many of them. Why Cherokee and not Apache or Comanches? Azteks were a much bigger empire. As far as I'm aware the indians didn't really have any technology, not even buildings, they weren't exactly a civilisation, just a level above Neanderthals, whereas the Azteks built cities and pyraminds and causeways and had organised armies.
As for the French vs Dutch, ever heard of the Napoleonic wars? France pretty much dominated European history for centuries. The Dutch were a pretty small anonymous country, never really had any wars or much of an empire.
I think they should have included a few more African civilisations though, although I think most of Africa pre-colonisation wasn't very organised, mainly small local tribes.
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Ask the Iraqis.
But I think in a wartime situation the tank would just run them all over rather than trying to keep the peace.
I'm more concerned with phalanxes beating battleships despite the ship being several miles off the coast. Or a collection of units dying because one of them was beaten. That's the thing that always makes me give up on Civilisation. I launch an invasion force over the sea, land about twenty knights, then some militia destroys the lot in a single go.
Hexagons look ugly. Rectangles are more simple natural shaps, hexagons just look wrong. Also rectangles make navigation and building a lot simpler, and easier representation within the game.
The edge of the map would be jagged as well. Unless do you a globe, but that's just complicating things.
Jesus, where do you people come from? All the interesting, valid questions being asked in this discussion, and some copyright whiner turns up complaining about something completely irrelevent. Grow up. People like you don't care about the law anyway so why not just download it from an abandonware site, and shut your moaning?
I'm afraid that you never had the freedom to trade copyrighted materials.
What freedoms exactly are you losing? The only reason this will effect you is if you were using Limewire to download illegal materials. But then Slashdot says that P2P is used for legal trading, so what's the problem?
This is nothing to do with the goverment, it's a private business doing something with their own software. Please put the tin-foil hats away.
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Well, I'm sure the price would have to be cheaper. But it's probably the fairest way of giving out Internet access. You don't worry about whether you've filled this month's water quota when you go to have a shower, or have your lights running on half power because you won't pay for higher-power electricity. Maybe half a penny per megabyte or something.
Actually it's a valid expression. Saying something is 'all but useless' means it's pretty bad, but HASN'T reached a state of uselessness, but is almost there. As in, it's gone through all the stages of awfulness, and useless is the only one left.
I, as someone for whom English is his first language, know this.
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Yeah, cos Spiderman 1 had such a brilliant, gripping storyline that didn't insult the intelligence of anyone over the age of five.
Superhero films aren't meant to be taken seriously, they're supposed to be pretty stupid, that's the whole point. Just look at X-men, it's like a live-action version of a children's cartoon "I know I'll use my magic laser vision to burn the rope."
I hate dubbing, there's nothing more odd and disturbing that Japanese characters speaking in American accents. I mean, they're often really heavy American accents as well. I'm afraid I can't really see samurai speaking like Texan prospectors.
If you find reading tiring perhaps you should read more.
And I bet those children in the 20s and 30s lived like shit. If I have kids I don't want to bring them up in a trailer. I want them to have a proper upbringing, not being beaten up at school for not being able to afford all the computer games and clothes that the other kids have.
I work in a factory and there are people there who've been there for 30-40 years. People who are there temporarily after school don't exist, they're there as full-time jobs. Not everyone grows up to be a computer programmer/manager/scientist/astronaut, most of us STAY in those worthless jobs for life.
Who's Ayn Rynd?
I haven't said 'gimme', I don't want to be given anything, I just want people to keep what's theirs without it being taken.
I know this might be an unpopular opinion on Slashdot, but I don't like excessive government interference in our private lives, whether that be through censorship or property confiscation.
Did you ever enjoy your job? Did you ever plan on enjoying it? I have friends who are factory workers, and they all knew exactly what they signed up for and it delivers to their requirements fully.
Of course I've never enjoyed my job. What is there to enjoy about soul-crushing manual labour breathing in fumes and deforming my spine? I didn't expect to still be here, it was only supposed to be a temporary job, like 1-2 months.
If you hate your job but aren't trying to find a better one then you don't really have a firm base to complain from.
How am I supposed to find a better one? I have no qualifications at all.
I'm afraid I'm overqualified to be a Slashdot editor.
I can't change jobs because I've nowhere to go, I'm not qualified to do anything other than unskilled labour. I tried to get an education but I failed it, I'm not clever enough and can't afford it anyway. We're not all geniuses like you, sorry. Some of us have to do the soul-crushing grunt work so you can sit at your cushy office job reading Slashdot.
I don't have kids, I can't afford them. I can't afford a house to live in that can accomodate kids, I can't afford to bring them up properly. I don't want to be a benefit scrounger either. Having children is for people richer than me, just something I'll have to do without.
Even with outsourcing, a mere McDonald's worker in America working 40 hours has a much higher standard of living than the average Indian or Chinese working 80. Indians by and large don't have Internet-capable computers or fancy TVs or cars or nice clean houses either. You do, yet you're still complaining? You expect more for less work because of where you were born?
For a good many decades, Americans have had it much better than people in the third world who work just as hard. So priviledge through birthright is being eroding, I don't think that's a bad thing, although I'm against things like the aristocracy and monarchy.
It's no fairer for an American to automatically live better than an Indian who works twice the hours than it is for someone born a Prince to live better than someone born a serf. I suppose this is an anti-capitalist viewpoint so will be modded down.
OK, let's see how your advice works in the real world:
1. All the shelf stackers and checkout workers decide to find jobs that they like, so they all quit.
2. All the factory workers decide to find jobs that they like, so they all quit.
3. All the bar workers, builders, plumbers, electricians, bus/train/taxi drivers and street cleaners realise that their occupation isn't satisfying, so they quit to find something better.
Now, tomorrow you wake up, and go to work. Except the bus doesn't turn up, because there's no-one to drive it. You can't get a taxi either. Your car is broken down because there's no mechanic to fix it, he's a painter now. You walk the 15 miles to work. On the way you're hungry so you pop into the shop for a sandwich. Except there's nothing to buy because the shelves are empty. The shelf stackers have all taken up architecture.
You get to work, two hours late. You sit down at your desk and start working at your computer. Except you don't. There is no computer, because the factory workers in China have all quit to become chefs and novelists. There are no desks or carpets either. And no electricity because the people who fit the electrics have become musicians.
Society NEEDS 90% of people to work meaningless, soul-crushing, degrading jobs in order to prop up society for the rich 10% with the glamorous jobs. It wouldn't work any other way. Unless you invent some robot which can do all the menial chores for everyone.
We can complain all we want, but there are only so many good, fullfilling jobs to go round. The rest of us have to slave away to make their lives better.
In my job as a factory worker breathing in chemicals and damaging my back, I have no pay nor happiness.
Where do I fit in this discussion? Or is it just aimed at rich computer programmers?
Well, that's just tough. We don't live in an artificial communist age, peoplec an earn what they earn, you can't just come in and take it because you think they have enough already. Seems like you're just bitter so you want to confiscate it and spend it on giant space toys.
Before we accept your question, you have to show that the research "doesn't actually matter".
No, you have to show that it matters before you disrupt the capitalistic process.
Nah, I hate the graphics in the later civs, that diagonal view pisses me off. But then I hate all things that are there to look good but actually impede functionality. The new Civ IV looks even worse. Washed out watercolour landscapes. I prefer the bright, vibrant squares of Civ I.
Why should someone who earns $15 million a year have their wages forcibly confiscated so some scientists can find something out that doesn't actually matter?
What are the odds? Is this because they're better at this sort of thing or do they just have more free time?
I think that would just make the game less interesting to play, more frustrating and stressful. It's hard enough deciding where to make your units go and what your cities should build, let alone whether they actually go through with it.
The problem with red Indian tribes is there are so many of them. Why Cherokee and not Apache or Comanches? Azteks were a much bigger empire. As far as I'm aware the indians didn't really have any technology, not even buildings, they weren't exactly a civilisation, just a level above Neanderthals, whereas the Azteks built cities and pyraminds and causeways and had organised armies.
As for the French vs Dutch, ever heard of the Napoleonic wars? France pretty much dominated European history for centuries. The Dutch were a pretty small anonymous country, never really had any wars or much of an empire.
I think they should have included a few more African civilisations though, although I think most of Africa pre-colonisation wasn't very organised, mainly small local tribes.
Ask the Iraqis.
But I think in a wartime situation the tank would just run them all over rather than trying to keep the peace.
I'm more concerned with phalanxes beating battleships despite the ship being several miles off the coast. Or a collection of units dying because one of them was beaten. That's the thing that always makes me give up on Civilisation. I launch an invasion force over the sea, land about twenty knights, then some militia destroys the lot in a single go.
Hexagons look ugly. Rectangles are more simple natural shaps, hexagons just look wrong. Also rectangles make navigation and building a lot simpler, and easier representation within the game.
The edge of the map would be jagged as well. Unless do you a globe, but that's just complicating things.
Jesus, where do you people come from? All the interesting, valid questions being asked in this discussion, and some copyright whiner turns up complaining about something completely irrelevent. Grow up. People like you don't care about the law anyway so why not just download it from an abandonware site, and shut your moaning?
Wow, what a intriguing, probing question! You don't by any chance work for Blizzard do you?
I'm afraid that you never had the freedom to trade copyrighted materials.
What freedoms exactly are you losing? The only reason this will effect you is if you were using Limewire to download illegal materials. But then Slashdot says that P2P is used for legal trading, so what's the problem?
This is nothing to do with the goverment, it's a private business doing something with their own software. Please put the tin-foil hats away.
Well, I'm sure the price would have to be cheaper. But it's probably the fairest way of giving out Internet access. You don't worry about whether you've filled this month's water quota when you go to have a shower, or have your lights running on half power because you won't pay for higher-power electricity. Maybe half a penny per megabyte or something.
Actually it's a valid expression. Saying something is 'all but useless' means it's pretty bad, but HASN'T reached a state of uselessness, but is almost there. As in, it's gone through all the stages of awfulness, and useless is the only one left.
I, as someone for whom English is his first language, know this.