Given the complexities of translation, it isn't hard to interpret his meaning to be that in Iran, most homosexuals are in the closet, they don't advertise their orientation the way they do in your country.
Well, of course not; it carries the death penalty.
It has nothing to do with him being mentally incompetent. We didn't just go out and pick someone who is mentally ill to kick around. This guy came after us. He made threats, he lied about us as gamers, he's trying to infringe on other people's free speech.
He gets attention from us because the media takes the man seriously. At least, they did before this -- I'm not sure how many interviews he'll get after this.
He is ridiculous, no one will argue that point (except perhaps Jack Thompson), but he is still a threat because he believes he is right and has not yet been discredited in the media.
Actually, I'm surprised the nut isn't cohosting a show with Nancy Grace yet, now that I think about it.
Of course they do, that's not the point OP was making. Recently, the president of Iran claimed "we have no homosexuals in Iran." He said it three times in a row at Columbia U. At first, the students laughed at him, then started booing (lightly) the ridiculous statement.
The reality is, they probably don't have anyone who will admit to being gay since it carries the death penalty.
The truth is, "hate crime" is such a hard concept to explain. How do we know it's a hate crime? I mean, what about the above case is less hateful than a few nooses in a tree?
There is no evidence the one who was beat down was involved in hanging the nooses. Even if he was, that does not justify what happened. but look at this thread, and this discussion. Related incidents or not, there is no justification for a six on one beatdown.
Sorry, but hanging nooses in a tree is barely above the level of a prank. Suspend them from school, end of story.
The charges of "attempted murder" got reduced greatly -- the book was thrown, but it was intercepted before hitting them.
1 doesn't concern me because I have no sympathy for artists who sign with the RIAA.
2 bothers me only a little, because I very rarely purchase RIAA music anymore.
3 bothers me, but less since I got an MP3 player.
4 is the one that really pisses me off. They never seem to target people who can fight back -- and this case of avoiding harvard is a perfect example of that fact.
And it is very illegal to prosecute someone above and beyond the full extent of the current law. New laws can't be retroactively applied to punish, only to free or acquit.
And we damn sure don't want to cross that line and start outlawing things retroactively because the consequences would be far too great to make up for any gains in THIS situation.
Since it would save them from going bankrupt and thus is worth money to have the immunity... how about a trade: Retroactive immunity that only applies up to this point, in exchange for net neutrality? They give up the profit of double-dipping in exchange for not going bankrupt.
I have to respectfully disagree. I grew up on the NES and SNES, and loved the Metroid and Zelda series's. I'm the biggest Zelda/Metroid fan I know.
I absolutely adore the 3D games. Twilight Princess is my second favorite Zelda game ever (after A Link to the Past), and the Metroid Prime series has yet to disappoint.
It's all down to a personal preference. I feel that Twilight Princess had a very good grasp of what was GREAT about Zelda 3, and I feel that the Prime series translated the exploration and feel of Super Metroid very well.
Um. The guy with the shotgun and the guy who got beat by the six are not the same, at least not according to Wikipedia. They're two separate incidents. The beating that is the focus and result of the "attempted 2nd degree murder" charge (that was reduced) happened at the school. Just thought I'd throw that out there. They didn't beat up the guy with the gun -- they just took it from him.
Psst -- the former incidents do not excuse a 6 on 1 beating. The guy was not the one who put up the nooses, nor did he point a gun at anyone. The guy who pointed the gun, as far as I can tell, was not even a student at the school. It should also be noted that one of the six had prior arrests for violent crimes, BEFORE Sept 1.
So really, we have three incidents:
Racist(s) put nooses on tree.
Idiot Racist points gun at people.
Six thugs beat up one guy, and at least one has a history.
Then they try and justify their beating of someone UNINVOLVED in the previous two (by all evidence) because of the previous two.
If six white kids beat up a black kid, people would call it a hate crime -- ESPECIALLY if there was some anti-white "prank" at school three months before. It would be presented as "White kids, angered by anti-white display, beat unrelated black kid."
Instead, it's "Their poor feelings were hurt, so these six black kids ganged up on some random white kid, and that's okay, because there was some racism three months before!"
I never played either System Shock game, but I'm currently on my second time through BioShock.
I like it a lot. The atmosphere, the story itself, it all just sort of rolls together in a really fun game. I'm not an FPS fan, and BioShock doesn't come off as a typical FPS.
What other high quality games are you talking about?
There actually are several reasons why Sony's been hard to take seriously lately. A bunch of people didn't spontaneously wake up with a craving to hate them.
and man, if I did wake up with an unusual urge to hate Sony with no actual reason, I might start wearing a tinfoil hat to keep Bill Gates's mind control rays out.
I am aware. I use Ubuntu, and had to install (possibly illegally) a metric shit-ton of codecs and multimedia support. It's gotten easier since I first started using Linux, but it's still an issue. I didn't intend to dispute that. I think Ubuntu should probably license a few codecs, including mp3.
I was replying to the turd that said:
I hope you realize that Dell is a COMMERICAL company, and would thus run far, far away from anything that has a GPL slapped on it...
Clearly, Dell, the commercial company, is selling something with the GPL slapped on it -- Ubuntu Linux, in this case.
I don't understand why these guys are so afraid to buy things.
Um. I bought my hardware for my PC, and my laptop, and they're both quality machines without paying Apple prices. Apple sells the brand as much as the hardware. We're talking about a company that charges $200 more for a black MacBook (with some trivial HDD upgrade).
As for paying for quality software -- I run Ubuntu on both machines. I did not spend 25 hours with config files in either case, and I didn't struggle to make it work then do nothing with the computer. Saying that the majority do and then "have nothing left to do" is simply erroneous. I feel that Ubuntu is better quality software than Windows XP, and much better than Vista.
Now, for some other points from your post:
When it takes several hours of research and hacking to make any random new thing work, the OS isn't doing its job anymore. It's this aspect of Linux that made me pick OS X.
I don't know when the last time you used Linux was, but it never took me several hours to get anything working in Ubuntu. Slackware, yes, but that's why Slackware isn't recommended for those new to Linux.
With this mode of thinking you can come to expect every positive point you make about another OS to receive baffling responses of "you can do that just as easily with..."
Well, of course. Why should someone use features easily available in one OS to praise another?
Furthermore, don't even bother mentioning Windows doing a better job at anything, ever, unless you want to induce so much frothing at the mouth that the whole discussion fills with foam.
Other than games, I can't think of anything Windows is better for...
In fact, mp3 is clearly the worst choice because Ogg is the best choice because Linux is the best choice because RMS told you so.
This sort of backhanded sarcasm may be why you get foaming at the mouth. The reason they don't distribute MP3 by default is because most Linux distributions don't profit on their releases, and can't afford to get around the patent issue. Also, considering there are a great many Linux users who dislike RMS, accusing them of blindingly following him might tick them off a bit. I know that line ticked me off a little. I usually use Ogg, but I could give a fig what RMS says.
Seriously, there is little or no basis in these arguments.
And little in yours, as well. Most people who use Linux aren't into "religious indoctrination." I imagine many who use Linux also dual-boot, and thus, at some point paid for software.
Also, considering all your talk about paying for software, I certainly hope you pay for all your music and other entertainment and don't pirate anything...
Also, what's the deal with everyone criticizing his personal appearance? What does that have to do with anything?
I'm no fan of RMS (I have nothing against him, either), but I have to say that this is ridiculous, too. Seriously, his work involves software and software philosophy, not modeling. I mean, I can understand poking fun at him as a popular figure, but in a real argument over what he says, it's unnecessary and off-topic.
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Given the complexities of translation, it isn't hard to interpret his meaning to be that in Iran, most homosexuals are in the closet, they don't advertise their orientation the way they do in your country.
Well, of course not; it carries the death penalty.
Either way, the man is a nut.
It also won't have "[di5tribut3d by l33tgr00p]" crammed into every goddamn ID3 tag, as pirate files often do.
I've never come across this. Ever. I had ONE album that had it in the comment tag. But never in every tag.
It has nothing to do with him being mentally incompetent. We didn't just go out and pick someone who is mentally ill to kick around. This guy came after us. He made threats, he lied about us as gamers, he's trying to infringe on other people's free speech.
He gets attention from us because the media takes the man seriously. At least, they did before this -- I'm not sure how many interviews he'll get after this.
He is ridiculous, no one will argue that point (except perhaps Jack Thompson), but he is still a threat because he believes he is right and has not yet been discredited in the media.
Actually, I'm surprised the nut isn't cohosting a show with Nancy Grace yet, now that I think about it.
Of course they do, that's not the point OP was making. Recently, the president of Iran claimed "we have no homosexuals in Iran." He said it three times in a row at Columbia U. At first, the students laughed at him, then started booing (lightly) the ridiculous statement.
The reality is, they probably don't have anyone who will admit to being gay since it carries the death penalty.
OPEC would be shitting their pants and lowering the price of a barrel of oil?
There are people in this thread who keep citing the noose hanging as though it justifies what happened.
this is especially annoying to some when whites perform a hate crime and don't get charged with it.
What about the Murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom? Rape, torture, murder and desecrating the bodies -- sounds like a hate crime to me... yet those involved said "there's no evidence it's a hate crime."
The truth is, "hate crime" is such a hard concept to explain. How do we know it's a hate crime? I mean, what about the above case is less hateful than a few nooses in a tree?
There is no evidence the one who was beat down was involved in hanging the nooses. Even if he was, that does not justify what happened. but look at this thread, and this discussion. Related incidents or not, there is no justification for a six on one beatdown.
Sorry, but hanging nooses in a tree is barely above the level of a prank. Suspend them from school, end of story.
The charges of "attempted murder" got reduced greatly -- the book was thrown, but it was intercepted before hitting them.
5 isn't a problem if they only eat ugly babies.
Seriously, of the other four:
1 doesn't concern me because I have no sympathy for artists who sign with the RIAA.
2 bothers me only a little, because I very rarely purchase RIAA music anymore.
3 bothers me, but less since I got an MP3 player.
4 is the one that really pisses me off. They never seem to target people who can fight back -- and this case of avoiding harvard is a perfect example of that fact.
And it is very illegal to prosecute someone above and beyond the full extent of the current law. New laws can't be retroactively applied to punish, only to free or acquit.
And we damn sure don't want to cross that line and start outlawing things retroactively because the consequences would be far too great to make up for any gains in THIS situation.
Since it would save them from going bankrupt and thus is worth money to have the immunity... how about a trade: Retroactive immunity that only applies up to this point, in exchange for net neutrality? They give up the profit of double-dipping in exchange for not going bankrupt.
I have to respectfully disagree. I grew up on the NES and SNES, and loved the Metroid and Zelda series's. I'm the biggest Zelda/Metroid fan I know.
I absolutely adore the 3D games. Twilight Princess is my second favorite Zelda game ever (after A Link to the Past), and the Metroid Prime series has yet to disappoint.
It's all down to a personal preference. I feel that Twilight Princess had a very good grasp of what was GREAT about Zelda 3, and I feel that the Prime series translated the exploration and feel of Super Metroid very well.
Um. The guy with the shotgun and the guy who got beat by the six are not the same, at least not according to Wikipedia. They're two separate incidents. The beating that is the focus and result of the "attempted 2nd degree murder" charge (that was reduced) happened at the school. Just thought I'd throw that out there. They didn't beat up the guy with the gun -- they just took it from him.
Psst -- the former incidents do not excuse a 6 on 1 beating. The guy was not the one who put up the nooses, nor did he point a gun at anyone. The guy who pointed the gun, as far as I can tell, was not even a student at the school. It should also be noted that one of the six had prior arrests for violent crimes, BEFORE Sept 1.
So really, we have three incidents:
Racist(s) put nooses on tree.
Idiot Racist points gun at people.
Six thugs beat up one guy, and at least one has a history.
Then they try and justify their beating of someone UNINVOLVED in the previous two (by all evidence) because of the previous two.
If six white kids beat up a black kid, people would call it a hate crime -- ESPECIALLY if there was some anti-white "prank" at school three months before. It would be presented as "White kids, angered by anti-white display, beat unrelated black kid."
Instead, it's "Their poor feelings were hurt, so these six black kids ganged up on some random white kid, and that's okay, because there was some racism three months before!"
I never played either System Shock game, but I'm currently on my second time through BioShock.
;)
I like it a lot. The atmosphere, the story itself, it all just sort of rolls together in a really fun game. I'm not an FPS fan, and BioShock doesn't come off as a typical FPS.
What other high quality games are you talking about?
Lair, Heavenly Sword?
There actually are several reasons why Sony's been hard to take seriously lately. A bunch of people didn't spontaneously wake up with a craving to hate them.
and man, if I did wake up with an unusual urge to hate Sony with no actual reason, I might start wearing a tinfoil hat to keep Bill Gates's mind control rays out.
I was replying to the turd that said:
Clearly, Dell, the commercial company, is selling something with the GPL slapped on it -- Ubuntu Linux, in this case.
Um.
Dumbass, they're selling computers with Linux on it.
Or... people just want to use their iPod in Linux.
It's not that difficult of a concept.
Wait, you're such a pussy you won't post the word "fuck" without an asterisk in an ANONYMOUS POST? Just what kind of a loser AC troll are you?
um. Not to take any side in the current dispute between Theo and Eben, but have you not noticed that a LOT of people tear down RMS, too?
/. who will shit on them. There is no one holy figure here.
And Torvalds.
And... name a person, there's a significant group of people on
See the link that Duffy13 left, and:
Why else would Sony's Games Division be losing so much money?
I don't understand why these guys are so afraid to buy things.
Um. I bought my hardware for my PC, and my laptop, and they're both quality machines without paying Apple prices. Apple sells the brand as much as the hardware. We're talking about a company that charges $200 more for a black MacBook (with some trivial HDD upgrade).
As for paying for quality software -- I run Ubuntu on both machines. I did not spend 25 hours with config files in either case, and I didn't struggle to make it work then do nothing with the computer. Saying that the majority do and then "have nothing left to do" is simply erroneous. I feel that Ubuntu is better quality software than Windows XP, and much better than Vista.
Now, for some other points from your post:
When it takes several hours of research and hacking to make any random new thing work, the OS isn't doing its job anymore. It's this aspect of Linux that made me pick OS X.
I don't know when the last time you used Linux was, but it never took me several hours to get anything working in Ubuntu. Slackware, yes, but that's why Slackware isn't recommended for those new to Linux.
With this mode of thinking you can come to expect every positive point you make about another OS to receive baffling responses of "you can do that just as easily with..."
Well, of course. Why should someone use features easily available in one OS to praise another?
Furthermore, don't even bother mentioning Windows doing a better job at anything, ever, unless you want to induce so much frothing at the mouth that the whole discussion fills with foam.
Other than games, I can't think of anything Windows is better for...
In fact, mp3 is clearly the worst choice because Ogg is the best choice because Linux is the best choice because RMS told you so.
This sort of backhanded sarcasm may be why you get foaming at the mouth. The reason they don't distribute MP3 by default is because most Linux distributions don't profit on their releases, and can't afford to get around the patent issue. Also, considering there are a great many Linux users who dislike RMS, accusing them of blindingly following him might tick them off a bit. I know that line ticked me off a little. I usually use Ogg, but I could give a fig what RMS says.
Seriously, there is little or no basis in these arguments.
And little in yours, as well. Most people who use Linux aren't into "religious indoctrination." I imagine many who use Linux also dual-boot, and thus, at some point paid for software.
Also, considering all your talk about paying for software, I certainly hope you pay for all your music and other entertainment and don't pirate anything...
Decimals or not:
30*5!=600
30*5=150
600/30=20
600/5=120
No matter how you look at it, OP's math is off.
Some places, they use decimal points instead of commas (why else would he use three trailing zeroes?).
Do you really want to have sex with people who write a program called The GIMP? ;)
And make the name a little better while you're at it...
GIMP is easily the worst-named popular F/OS software.
Also, what's the deal with everyone criticizing his personal appearance? What does that have to do with anything?
I'm no fan of RMS (I have nothing against him, either), but I have to say that this is ridiculous, too. Seriously, his work involves software and software philosophy, not modeling. I mean, I can understand poking fun at him as a popular figure, but in a real argument over what he says, it's unnecessary and off-topic.