Of course, there's Americans like me who criticize our own. As a matter of fact there's lots of Americans who criticize our own. Usually those of us in the U.S. like to defend or condemn individual issues and yes, like it or leave it is often the answer, but I think you'll find not all of use generalize as much as you are.
I'm with you. We should legalize pot, the RIAA is a bunch of A-Holes that need to get shut down, and yes, our government is way to powerful and sticks its nose where it doesn't belong. One of the biggest fights in this country right now boils down to just that, the ones who think the federal government is to strong and needs to be boiled back down to what it was, and those who want it to get bigger.
I think you, personally, are overgeneralizing the entire populace based on a little bit of what you've seen on TV or some message board rhetoric, I hope not everyone in your country overgeneralizes as much as you do. Granted, I did a bit of generalizing in my original post, but I'm making a projection based on past trends, I have a feeling the denial will happen at first, at least internally, but in the end I think the problem will be cleaned up, not because they're Chinese, but because they're Microsoft.
Oddly enough, I'm a long term Microsoft hater, but I'm starting to like them more and more these days.
the Chinese portion of anything is going to deny it's theft and call the original coders liars. The Chinese are great about this, the government mindset is embedded in the younger citizens - such as "We do not filter our Internet access, we have a few routing issues."
In my case it's not paying the money, it's who the money goes to. I don't want Microsoft taxing computers - it's philosophical.
Another reason I want to find a system with Linux pre-installed is when I wipe it and put my distro of choice on there, if it was sold with Linux chances are I can make all of it work with Linux. There's still a lot of crappy software based hardware out there that practically requires Windows to work, or requires so much effort and maintenance to work/keep working in Linux it's not worth messing with.
I got a eeePC for my kid, it came preinstalled with Xandros. Xandros looks like it started out on the right page, but then ASUS had to mess it up for them. My six year old kid is now running eeeBuntu NBE and is quite happpy with it.
I've tried and I've tried to find an Athlon Neo system WITHOUT Windows and I flat can't do it. Sure, a lot of the Intel ones have Linux, but even most of those have Windows on them. Seriously, if I can't find an Athlon Neo system without Windows it's not telling me people want to buy the Linux versions, it's telling me they "settle" for Linux, and I don't like that.
My vote goes to Cartridge World, I don't do a lot of printing, which is part of why I use them. My ink tends to dry out or clog during the six months between times that I print, I just haul my cartridges in, exchange them when I need to print until those dry out. It's a hell of of a lot cheaper than to let $16 ink cartridges dry out in the printer than it is to let $70 ink cartridges do it.
Good news is, I printed about a month ago, it worked great, I think my year old printer is doing much better than my 8 year old one that Hurricane Ike took.
Does this remind anyone of the machine gun on the Not For Hire from Phillip Jose' Farmers River World series? Sure, it shot plastic bullets, but close enough.
1. The people and government of New Orleans 2. Orleans Parish 3. The state of Louisiana I'm going to throw in a lots of in between stuff because things really should be handled down at these levels some of these can involve Governor Blankstare among others.
eventually
4+in-betweens Feds not counting Corps of Engineers
Bush really doesn't fit in here anywhere as much as I know people like to blame him.
They don't enforce it much, but there's no reason to make a cellphone / texting law because they only thing you're technically allowed to take your hands off the wheel for while driving is shifting gears. It's in the Texas drivers handbook that I had drivers ed from in 94 and it's still the law now.
I don't see where another place passing this law is news.
Subsidies are NOT necessarily a way to make solar happen, it's a way of owning part of it and being able to have your fingers in it once it gets here. Say some private company gets solar cheap, available, and prevalent without a single subsidy, will the state like it? NO! Chances are they'll make an excuse to forbid it, declare it dangerous, tax it to death, and all around make life miserable for anyone wanting to make it happen. If they can subsidize it however, they have their fingers in it and the state will lose money on the deal, but I guarantee politicians who helped it along will get a well padded bank account out of the deal in kickbacks and outright laundering.
Subsidies - good for politicians and crooked businesses, bad for the people and straight up businesses.
The blinders you socialist wear. The free market wants to do it but hippies are stopping it. Sure, there's plenty, but there could be so much more.
I don't care what it is, the Left Wingers who lip service to clean power are also the same ones who block it. Now that Ted Kennedy is dead hopefully that huge windfarm can be built.
See, that was my first RPG, I got up to the end, but I didn't beat it. I wanted to keep leveling my character and I didn't know if I could or not if I beat it, so I was holding off on beating it. I even "saw" the guy at the end, but I wouldn't actually fight him. Then I accidentally erased my game and didn't beat it until 14 years later or so.
I've never actually played it online, only way I've played the DS version is solo. I've actually played the GBA version linked, I made it a point to get my daughter, my nephew, and an ex girlfriends kids Gameboy Micros, I got the link cables, and the SP to Micro adapter. The ex girlfriend especially liked it since she has two boys, they link up all the time (nothing bitter, we still get along).
Back in the day of the classic SNES version, and even the GBA version (I didn't play the 64 or GCN version enough to say much about those) there were weapons, but you had to use a little skill to utilize them. If you were in first there was always someone aiming a brown shell at you (and on the SNES version I was a damned good shot with a green shell), there was the star to contend with, mushroom burst, and the only unskilled weapon in the game, the lightning bolt. Unlike the modern lightning bolt ALL players were affected evenly. If you wanted to win you had to have some skill.
Of course the old versions the CPU character had advantages humans didn't. Unlimited specialized ammo, no coins needed/lost so they didn't spin out from collisions where you did, etc... Oh, and the order of finish line crossing was preset, but you could jack that up, one of my favorite things to do.
No so much that, if they saw the red light on, it was getting turned off. Also, to this day my dad has it in his head the A/V inputs from my Nintendo were what caused our LXI TV to need service all the time. (hint, that started well before I ever plugged anything in with those cables)
lets see, if the California government gets out of both the energy and consumer appliance size regulation game then capitalism could take over they could possibly build, I don't know, a clean solar power plant out in the Mojave? Maybe even put some wind power in away from the hippies? Then the downward trend of TV power consumption could continue on its current path and there wouldn't be a lot to worry about.
To this day I haven't beaten the original Super Mario Brothers. See, my parents were actually involved back then also, only the TV was in the living room and leaving the NES on for a week was unacceptable. My parents would actually play the game, but they called warp zones cheating, so I never actually beat it. I would occasionally get to work 7 and call it quits, even if I had lives left.
I should make that one of my goals. I set goals to play and beat the original Zelda as a kid (I didn't have that one). I finally did. Two years ago on my GBA. Around that same time I finally beat Dragon Warrior (1 & 2) and the first two Final Fantasy games, all on my GBA. Dragon Warrior was the GBC version. Yep, when I say I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna do it. Even if it is over a decade later.
I have to disagree, NSMB was dead on awesome. The DS Version of Mario Kart on the other hand, well, I just can't get over the "socialist weapons" that punish you for doing well.
Have you ever played "The New Super Mario Brothers" for the DS? As far as I'm concerned that was gap bridging done right. It had all the good things that made classic Super Mario Brothers right, simplistic game play, 2D side scroller, didn't over use the touch screen, but it had a lot of newer system touches with the graphics and some of the power ups. It was very win-win. Even my friends who stopped playing video games a decade ago, or will ONLY play classic games (yes, I have these types of friends) will play that particular game. I almost have to break their fingers to get my DS back.
a) Agreed - however the OTHER demographics are guilty of the same. I'm not saying it makes it ok in ANY demographic but
b) sins of the fathers was something supposedly done away with long ago - seriously, we're not sanctioning against Germany for WWII, or Japan for that or the way they used to treat the Chinese, nor are we attacking descendants of Africans that sold other Africans to the white slave traders that I'm supposed to be the one paying for their sins despite the fact I'm at least a little Cherokee and a good portion of my heritage is from Europeans that didn't come here until the time period between WWI & WWII.
I'm going to say the only way we're actually going to make this work is when we all decide to forget our heritage beyond all of us adopting the common founding fathers heritage. Uhmm, Native population excepted.
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Of course, there's Americans like me who criticize our own. As a matter of fact there's lots of Americans who criticize our own. Usually those of us in the U.S. like to defend or condemn individual issues and yes, like it or leave it is often the answer, but I think you'll find not all of use generalize as much as you are.
I'm with you. We should legalize pot, the RIAA is a bunch of A-Holes that need to get shut down, and yes, our government is way to powerful and sticks its nose where it doesn't belong. One of the biggest fights in this country right now boils down to just that, the ones who think the federal government is to strong and needs to be boiled back down to what it was, and those who want it to get bigger.
I think you, personally, are overgeneralizing the entire populace based on a little bit of what you've seen on TV or some message board rhetoric, I hope not everyone in your country overgeneralizes as much as you do. Granted, I did a bit of generalizing in my original post, but I'm making a projection based on past trends, I have a feeling the denial will happen at first, at least internally, but in the end I think the problem will be cleaned up, not because they're Chinese, but because they're Microsoft.
Oddly enough, I'm a long term Microsoft hater, but I'm starting to like them more and more these days.
the Chinese portion of anything is going to deny it's theft and call the original coders liars. The Chinese are great about this, the government mindset is embedded in the younger citizens - such as "We do not filter our Internet access, we have a few routing issues."
Yeah, right.
and people just noticed today?
Wow Microsofts open source really is grabbing attention!
In my case it's not paying the money, it's who the money goes to. I don't want Microsoft taxing computers - it's philosophical.
Another reason I want to find a system with Linux pre-installed is when I wipe it and put my distro of choice on there, if it was sold with Linux chances are I can make all of it work with Linux. There's still a lot of crappy software based hardware out there that practically requires Windows to work, or requires so much effort and maintenance to work/keep working in Linux it's not worth messing with.
I got a eeePC for my kid, it came preinstalled with Xandros. Xandros looks like it started out on the right page, but then ASUS had to mess it up for them. My six year old kid is now running eeeBuntu NBE and is quite happpy with it.
I've tried and I've tried to find an Athlon Neo system WITHOUT Windows and I flat can't do it. Sure, a lot of the Intel ones have Linux, but even most of those have Windows on them. Seriously, if I can't find an Athlon Neo system without Windows it's not telling me people want to buy the Linux versions, it's telling me they "settle" for Linux, and I don't like that.
My vote goes to Cartridge World, I don't do a lot of printing, which is part of why I use them. My ink tends to dry out or clog during the six months between times that I print, I just haul my cartridges in, exchange them when I need to print until those dry out. It's a hell of of a lot cheaper than to let $16 ink cartridges dry out in the printer than it is to let $70 ink cartridges do it.
Good news is, I printed about a month ago, it worked great, I think my year old printer is doing much better than my 8 year old one that Hurricane Ike took.
at least legitimate prospective audience, and it's going to last for 30 hours.
Then, some ass-hat goes and post it on fucking SLASHDOT!
Wow, I guess that's after my time. I have a kid, but we watch different cartoons together.
Good enough to kill with even.
Does this remind anyone of the machine gun on the Not For Hire from Phillip Jose' Farmers River World series? Sure, it shot plastic bullets, but close enough.
Your answer about who's responsible.
1. The people and government of New Orleans
2. Orleans Parish
3. The state of Louisiana
I'm going to throw in a lots of in between stuff because things really should be handled down at these levels some of these can involve Governor Blankstare among others.
eventually
4+in-betweens Feds not counting Corps of Engineers
Bush really doesn't fit in here anywhere as much as I know people like to blame him.
They don't enforce it much, but there's no reason to make a cellphone / texting law because they only thing you're technically allowed to take your hands off the wheel for while driving is shifting gears. It's in the Texas drivers handbook that I had drivers ed from in 94 and it's still the law now.
I don't see where another place passing this law is news.
Subsidies are NOT necessarily a way to make solar happen, it's a way of owning part of it and being able to have your fingers in it once it gets here. Say some private company gets solar cheap, available, and prevalent without a single subsidy, will the state like it? NO! Chances are they'll make an excuse to forbid it, declare it dangerous, tax it to death, and all around make life miserable for anyone wanting to make it happen. If they can subsidize it however, they have their fingers in it and the state will lose money on the deal, but I guarantee politicians who helped it along will get a well padded bank account out of the deal in kickbacks and outright laundering.
Subsidies - good for politicians and crooked businesses, bad for the people and straight up businesses.
well said!
The blinders you socialist wear. The free market wants to do it but hippies are stopping it. Sure, there's plenty, but there could be so much more.
I don't care what it is, the Left Wingers who lip service to clean power are also the same ones who block it. Now that Ted Kennedy is dead hopefully that huge windfarm can be built.
It occurred to me I had Double Dash on standby and I never actually played it. I just played it for a few hours.
That was awesome, I love it. The DS tried to emulate it in so many ways, and fell so short of the mark.
See, that was my first RPG, I got up to the end, but I didn't beat it. I wanted to keep leveling my character and I didn't know if I could or not if I beat it, so I was holding off on beating it. I even "saw" the guy at the end, but I wouldn't actually fight him. Then I accidentally erased my game and didn't beat it until 14 years later or so.
I've never actually played it online, only way I've played the DS version is solo. I've actually played the GBA version linked, I made it a point to get my daughter, my nephew, and an ex girlfriends kids Gameboy Micros, I got the link cables, and the SP to Micro adapter. The ex girlfriend especially liked it since she has two boys, they link up all the time (nothing bitter, we still get along).
Back in the day of the classic SNES version, and even the GBA version (I didn't play the 64 or GCN version enough to say much about those) there were weapons, but you had to use a little skill to utilize them. If you were in first there was always someone aiming a brown shell at you (and on the SNES version I was a damned good shot with a green shell), there was the star to contend with, mushroom burst, and the only unskilled weapon in the game, the lightning bolt. Unlike the modern lightning bolt ALL players were affected evenly. If you wanted to win you had to have some skill.
Of course the old versions the CPU character had advantages humans didn't. Unlimited specialized ammo, no coins needed/lost so they didn't spin out from collisions where you did, etc... Oh, and the order of finish line crossing was preset, but you could jack that up, one of my favorite things to do.
No so much that, if they saw the red light on, it was getting turned off. Also, to this day my dad has it in his head the A/V inputs from my Nintendo were what caused our LXI TV to need service all the time. (hint, that started well before I ever plugged anything in with those cables)
lets see, if the California government gets out of both the energy and consumer appliance size regulation game then capitalism could take over they could possibly build, I don't know, a clean solar power plant out in the Mojave? Maybe even put some wind power in away from the hippies? Then the downward trend of TV power consumption could continue on its current path and there wouldn't be a lot to worry about.
To this day I haven't beaten the original Super Mario Brothers. See, my parents were actually involved back then also, only the TV was in the living room and leaving the NES on for a week was unacceptable. My parents would actually play the game, but they called warp zones cheating, so I never actually beat it. I would occasionally get to work 7 and call it quits, even if I had lives left.
I should make that one of my goals. I set goals to play and beat the original Zelda as a kid (I didn't have that one). I finally did. Two years ago on my GBA. Around that same time I finally beat Dragon Warrior (1 & 2) and the first two Final Fantasy games, all on my GBA. Dragon Warrior was the GBC version. Yep, when I say I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna do it. Even if it is over a decade later.
I have to disagree, NSMB was dead on awesome. The DS Version of Mario Kart on the other hand, well, I just can't get over the "socialist weapons" that punish you for doing well.
Have you ever played "The New Super Mario Brothers" for the DS? As far as I'm concerned that was gap bridging done right. It had all the good things that made classic Super Mario Brothers right, simplistic game play, 2D side scroller, didn't over use the touch screen, but it had a lot of newer system touches with the graphics and some of the power ups. It was very win-win. Even my friends who stopped playing video games a decade ago, or will ONLY play classic games (yes, I have these types of friends) will play that particular game. I almost have to break their fingers to get my DS back.
a) Agreed - however the OTHER demographics are guilty of the same. I'm not saying it makes it ok in ANY demographic but
b) sins of the fathers was something supposedly done away with long ago - seriously, we're not sanctioning against Germany for WWII, or Japan for that or the way they used to treat the Chinese, nor are we attacking descendants of Africans that sold other Africans to the white slave traders that I'm supposed to be the one paying for their sins despite the fact I'm at least a little Cherokee and a good portion of my heritage is from Europeans that didn't come here until the time period between WWI & WWII.
I'm going to say the only way we're actually going to make this work is when we all decide to forget our heritage beyond all of us adopting the common founding fathers heritage. Uhmm, Native population excepted.