I dunno about that. As far as presidential daughters go, they're about as good as it gets. There are also certainly worse looking people making porn. The novelty of "Daughter of the President!" porn alone makes up for anything wrong with their appearances.
Nintendo has always had rules about the content -- everyone who has owned a Nintendo console owns this. But the games are still fun enough, and I enjoy them. I don't expect Disney Pictures to release hardcore anime tentacle porn any more than I expect AO games on a Nintendo console -- they've never went for that market (anyone remember when "Holy" was changed to "Pearl" in FF6 because holy was a religious reference?), so they're at least being honest about who they are and it's the same as it was back when they brutalized Wolfenstein 3D.
This isn't to say I don't think it's silly of them. I think it's ridiculous of all of them involved (well, except Rockstar). I think it's silly that Walmart won't sell AO games (they sell R rated movies!).
Unrelated rant: Sony has presented themselves as being "cooler" than Nintendo. All I've heard from Sony fans for like, ten years now is how "kiddie" Nintendo is. I had a PS2 and PSX, and yeah, they had some violent games Nintendo didn't, but: Kind of interesting now to find Sony balking at AO games after all the hype.
I don't see a single thing on that list which shouldn't earn each of these companies the contempt of every person who gives even the slightest of shits about freedom of expression and censorship.
I have no problem with AO games, but: Nintendo doesn't owe anyone free expression. They're a business, and we're talking about their product. Same for Sony. If they don't want to license the games, that's their right. It'd be great if there was a way for the game to be made without the license, but they don't have to license a game if they don't want, and Wal-Mart/Target/etc don't have to sell anything they don't want. Their choice.
Very few, if any, companies actually care about freedom of expression. Why should they? They're not under any mandate to care about what I want them to care about. I don't have to buy their products. It's their right to express whatever they want. If the market wants it bad enough, then some competition will sprout up.
But the majority apparently don't. Or they just don't care.
Didn't we have an article just the other day about Britain banning Manhunt 2?
I know it's hip to hate on the "moral majority situation" in the US but c'mon, your governments are dictating the rules. And believe me, govt has more power than Walmart.
For example; I bought a laser two years ago (from a company that rhymes with hell)
And there's your problem. As others have said, these are likely rebranded Lexmark printers. I wouldn't hook a Lexmark to one of my computers unless it really pissed me off. They're not self aware yet, but man, Lexmark printers are just cruel and unusual.
You also might want to try repeating the "roll the toner around" step from the instructions. This can help.
At the time I figured this was because there was no toner but the proof was now in my hands (and all over my desk for that matter)
Okay, really -- dude, don't open ink/toner cartridges on your desk! You can never be sure what kind of idiot design the inside has that may slosh the stuff all over and stain things.
I guarantee I will never buy another 'rhymes with hell' printer again.
I can tell you from experience that their inkjets do basically the same thing. Don't buy Lexmark.
I have a Samsung Laser printer I got from Newegg. When I bought it the thing was around $150 (and a quick newegg check says it still is). I haven't replaced the initial toner yet, and I've had it for a year now. Ml-2250. I'm sure there are better printers but this one was better than Samsung's cheapo-laser they offered at the time for $100, and: It has Linux support. It was somewhat of a pain to configure in Slackware, but Ubuntu was easier than Windows XP. (true story: install driver, print test page, go get a drink, come back, Windows had spit out 20 pages of garbage characters. I still have them, use the back sides to write notes and save paper.)
And what happens if it Murphy kills your printer after the warranty expires? Say it dies after three years -- $333 a year on your printer? I know most lasers are built to last, but there are lemons, and shit happens.
I have a monochrome laser printer, and I am very happy with it. Unless you're a business, I can't see needing a thousand dollar printer. Most color use at home is easily handled by a ~$100 color inkjet.
I hate people like you, always slowing everything down while the cashier checks back to base for your card.
I hate waiting on someone to fish out the 77 cents instead of just breaking a fucking dollar bill. I swipe my card, enter my PIN, and I'm out. No change, no waiting for it to be counted. Also:
To hard to carry
Too* hard to carry.
Waiting til you get to the front of the line to get your card out.
Do you walk around with your cash out? No? Then don't bitch about this.
Wasting my time when you realise you handed over the wrong card, and you have another one somewhere.
As opposed to wasting my time when you can't find the twenty that you just know is in your pockets/purse?
Can you really say that you have no problem with EVERYBODY knowing what you buy, where you have been.
Well, if anyone wanted to know what I was buying at the grocery store or renting at Blockbuster, they could just stand in line behind me and peer at the items in question. Unless you stuff cash in your CD drive trying to buy things online and they're delivered from anonymous addresses in unlabeled brown boxes... then people know what you're buying online, which is where most people would buy things they didn't want to be seen buying.
And, oh my God, the cashier knows what you bought, too!
Unless you get checked out by a blind woman and have them surround you with a privacy curtain while you shop, people are going to know what you buy.
Interestingly, I notice you use the non-United-States version of "realise" (Americans use a Z, "realize") -- are you perhaps located in the UK? You're complaining about people knowing where you've been. If you *are* from the UK, this is kind of a ridiculous thing to chalk up to using a debit card: How many cameras are there in the metropolitan areas of England?
Jack Valenti, former head of the MPAA, said once that if you want a backup of a movie you should buy two. The MPAA and RIAA both want to maximize revenue for their member companies. MPAA companies tried disposable, few-view discs, a while ago. Neither company will concede anything that could cost them a dime. These are people who would, to use an old phrase, steal the pennies from a dead man's eyes. I don't usually like the "X corporation is evil!" or "Y company is satan!" type discussions on Slashdot, but the RIAA/MPAA companies piss me off, moreso than Microsoft ever has (and that says a lot coming from someone who has to deal with IE's stupid CSS behavior). They're scummy, greedy, shifty fuckers.
This is (probably) mostly an excuse for AT&T to reduce the bandwidth going across their networks while still being able to charge their users full price. I've not had much personal experience with AT&T, but if they're anything like the cable companies I've dealt with... well.
Not too mention they are refusing a business credit card for that purchase.
Moron.
Man.
Hi, Pot, the Kettle couldn't be here today. Instead, you can talk to the Clue Stick:
Clue Stick says there's only one 'o' in the word 'to' as 'too' means 'also'. Clue Stick also says not to call people morons when you make a mistake usually reserved for people asking questions like "where can I get pirate version of newest linux?"
hey hey hey, don't forget Wolfenstein 3D.;) That game still stands as one of the more revolutionary games of all time, despite not being as popular as Doom.
So because your brother-in-law and his friends are stupid bums, this means *I* shouldn't be able to play a video game? Besides, someone has to work fast food jobs.
What's that quote about the plural of anecdote?
I don't know what kind of college party town you live in that their behavior is common, but it's not as if everyone who plays video games acts that way. If this were the case, western society and Japan would grind to a halt.
Also: I do not know of a game that actually features rape. Please cite one. I'd honestly like to know because I hear this but never hear the title being discussed.
As for popularizing it: Well you can keep your Leave it to Beaver DVD collection, but the vast majority of gamers are responsible people who don't go around and do everything they see in a video game. The truth is, those who commit acts of violence -- video game related or not -- are in the tiny minority. The rest of us don't. Most people aren't violent criminals. We aren't mindless drones who ape what we see on screen. Otherwise there would be no turtles left after Super Mario Bros. came out. Don't even get me started on the ramifications of the Kirby series.
'cept your anger about Sony rants is misplaced: Sony is the company that Marvel worked with on the Spider-Man movies. Thus, they're the appropriate company to bitch about in this case.;)
For the most part, you're right, however: EWTN is basically made up of televangelists, and they rake in money. EWTN doesn't have a lot of cost to run, either. There's no way the people who watch EWTN wouldn't pay up to keep the channel. Religious people do a lot for their religion, including donate money.
(rant coming)
I'd be happy not to have BET, EWTN, or Nickelodeon on my lineup. I might actually get cable if I didn't have to spend $50 for a bunch of shit I'll never watch. Lifetime -- "Television for women who think men are all evil rapist bastards." BET/MTV/VH1 -- "Television for the stupid." Even TLC, which used to be fairly interesting, degraded into this stupid redecorating bullshit. When they started they showed stuff like The Human Animal. Now it's fat women with no tits getting their living room redone by a dumbass who didn't even qualify to be the sit in host for America's Funniest Home Videos.
Careful, you might get labeled as part of a "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" by daring to ask her a question that, y'know, isn't approved by her staff first.
Seriously, if Hillary Clinton gets the nomination, how is she going to debate anyone on the Republican side? Bush isn't running again, so it's not like she's going to get served up a moron. She says far too many stupid things -- like John Kerry did. And when you lose a race -- basically because you say stupid things -- to George W. Bush that's the first sign you say too many stupid things.
It's like losing an ass kicking contest with a one legged man. People just stare in awe and wonder, How did he fuck that up? It was a sure thing!
I know, my tan line (pun NOT intended) wasn't meant seriously.
I'm not sure we'd notice after the light went away, if the sun just vanished, for a little longer. Maybe not MUCH longer, but I think at first there would be some confusion before it occurred to anyone that "hey, maybe the sun vanished."
If it were to explode, on the other hand... we'd probably notice when the bands of helium gas vaporized us.
If the sun disappeared, it would take a few minutes for the last rays of light to reach us before it went dark. Around eight, if I recall correctly. Light doesn't get here instantly from the sun.
If it exploded, it should still take the same amount of time. Unless I'm missing something and an exploding star can send energy faster than light.
The math, for anyone interested:
The sun is roughly 150 million kilometers from us, or 150,000,000,000 meters. The speed of light is (rounded off) 300,000,000 meters per second. Dividing the first by the second, that's 500 seconds, or 8.33 minutes.
So, basically, if the sun disappears we all have about eight minutes, twenty seconds to work on our tans. (all numbers, of course, rounded to make the math easier because/. doesn't grade me on significant digits.:)
Well, one, Sharpton is a professional race-baiter (see Tawana Brawley). But the vandalism part *is* the difference. He never said he'd break into a CBS studio and bust up their radio equipment if they didn't fire Imus.
If he did, maybe then I wouldn't have to hear him every time he thinks he can make a buck off the suffering of blacks.
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I dunno about that. As far as presidential daughters go, they're about as good as it gets. There are also certainly worse looking people making porn. The novelty of "Daughter of the President!" porn alone makes up for anything wrong with their appearances.
psst, the Bush twins are like, 26. That's only "teenage" on a porn site.
I haven't seen him sharing a cell with Paris Hilton lately.
Lately? Does this imply you have seen Steve Jobs sharing a cell with Paris Hilton at some point? Is there a sex tape I don't (want to) know about?
Nintendo has always had rules about the content -- everyone who has owned a Nintendo console owns this. But the games are still fun enough, and I enjoy them. I don't expect Disney Pictures to release hardcore anime tentacle porn any more than I expect AO games on a Nintendo console -- they've never went for that market (anyone remember when "Holy" was changed to "Pearl" in FF6 because holy was a religious reference?), so they're at least being honest about who they are and it's the same as it was back when they brutalized Wolfenstein 3D.
This isn't to say I don't think it's silly of them. I think it's ridiculous of all of them involved (well, except Rockstar). I think it's silly that Walmart won't sell AO games (they sell R rated movies!).
Unrelated rant:
Sony has presented themselves as being "cooler" than Nintendo. All I've heard from Sony fans for like, ten years now is how "kiddie" Nintendo is. I had a PS2 and PSX, and yeah, they had some violent games Nintendo didn't, but: Kind of interesting now to find Sony balking at AO games after all the hype.
I don't see a single thing on that list which shouldn't earn each of these companies the contempt of every person who gives even the slightest of shits about freedom of expression and censorship.
I have no problem with AO games, but: Nintendo doesn't owe anyone free expression. They're a business, and we're talking about their product. Same for Sony. If they don't want to license the games, that's their right. It'd be great if there was a way for the game to be made without the license, but they don't have to license a game if they don't want, and Wal-Mart/Target/etc don't have to sell anything they don't want. Their choice.
Very few, if any, companies actually care about freedom of expression. Why should they? They're not under any mandate to care about what I want them to care about. I don't have to buy their products. It's their right to express whatever they want. If the market wants it bad enough, then some competition will sprout up.
But the majority apparently don't. Or they just don't care.
Didn't we have an article just the other day about Britain banning Manhunt 2?
I know it's hip to hate on the "moral majority situation" in the US but c'mon, your governments are dictating the rules. And believe me, govt has more power than Walmart.
For example; I bought a laser two years ago (from a company that rhymes with hell)
And there's your problem. As others have said, these are likely rebranded Lexmark printers. I wouldn't hook a Lexmark to one of my computers unless it really pissed me off. They're not self aware yet, but man, Lexmark printers are just cruel and unusual.
You also might want to try repeating the "roll the toner around" step from the instructions. This can help.
At the time I figured this was because there was no toner but the proof was now in my hands (and all over my desk for that matter)
Okay, really -- dude, don't open ink/toner cartridges on your desk! You can never be sure what kind of idiot design the inside has that may slosh the stuff all over and stain things.
I guarantee I will never buy another 'rhymes with hell' printer again.
I can tell you from experience that their inkjets do basically the same thing. Don't buy Lexmark.
I have a Samsung Laser printer I got from Newegg. When I bought it the thing was around $150 (and a quick newegg check says it still is). I haven't replaced the initial toner yet, and I've had it for a year now. Ml-2250. I'm sure there are better printers but this one was better than Samsung's cheapo-laser they offered at the time for $100, and: It has Linux support. It was somewhat of a pain to configure in Slackware, but Ubuntu was easier than Windows XP. (true story: install driver, print test page, go get a drink, come back, Windows had spit out 20 pages of garbage characters. I still have them, use the back sides to write notes and save paper.)
Buy a $1K color laser
And what happens if it Murphy kills your printer after the warranty expires? Say it dies after three years -- $333 a year on your printer? I know most lasers are built to last, but there are lemons, and shit happens.
I have a monochrome laser printer, and I am very happy with it. Unless you're a business, I can't see needing a thousand dollar printer. Most color use at home is easily handled by a ~$100 color inkjet.
I hate people like you, always slowing everything down while the cashier checks back to base for your card.
I hate waiting on someone to fish out the 77 cents instead of just breaking a fucking dollar bill. I swipe my card, enter my PIN, and I'm out. No change, no waiting for it to be counted. Also:
To hard to carry
Too* hard to carry.
Waiting til you get to the front of the line to get your card out.
Do you walk around with your cash out? No? Then don't bitch about this.
Wasting my time when you realise you handed over the wrong card, and you have another one somewhere.
As opposed to wasting my time when you can't find the twenty that you just know is in your pockets/purse?
Can you really say that you have no problem with EVERYBODY knowing what you buy, where you have been.
Well, if anyone wanted to know what I was buying at the grocery store or renting at Blockbuster, they could just stand in line behind me and peer at the items in question. Unless you stuff cash in your CD drive trying to buy things online and they're delivered from anonymous addresses in unlabeled brown boxes... then people know what you're buying online, which is where most people would buy things they didn't want to be seen buying.
And, oh my God, the cashier knows what you bought, too!
Unless you get checked out by a blind woman and have them surround you with a privacy curtain while you shop, people are going to know what you buy.
Interestingly, I notice you use the non-United-States version of "realise" (Americans use a Z, "realize") -- are you perhaps located in the UK? You're complaining about people knowing where you've been. If you *are* from the UK, this is kind of a ridiculous thing to chalk up to using a debit card: How many cameras are there in the metropolitan areas of England?
Then he'd have a hell of a time getting admitted to a college.
No, you won't.
Jack Valenti, former head of the MPAA, said once that if you want a backup of a movie you should buy two. The MPAA and RIAA both want to maximize revenue for their member companies. MPAA companies tried disposable, few-view discs, a while ago. Neither company will concede anything that could cost them a dime. These are people who would, to use an old phrase, steal the pennies from a dead man's eyes. I don't usually like the "X corporation is evil!" or "Y company is satan!" type discussions on Slashdot, but the RIAA/MPAA companies piss me off, moreso than Microsoft ever has (and that says a lot coming from someone who has to deal with IE's stupid CSS behavior). They're scummy, greedy, shifty fuckers.
This is (probably) mostly an excuse for AT&T to reduce the bandwidth going across their networks while still being able to charge their users full price. I've not had much personal experience with AT&T, but if they're anything like the cable companies I've dealt with... well.
Not too mention they are refusing a business credit card for that purchase.
Moron.
Man.
Hi, Pot, the Kettle couldn't be here today. Instead, you can talk to the Clue Stick:
Clue Stick says there's only one 'o' in the word 'to' as 'too' means 'also'. Clue Stick also says not to call people morons when you make a mistake usually reserved for people asking questions like "where can I get pirate version of newest linux?"
Stoning homosexuals.
hey hey hey, don't forget Wolfenstein 3D. ;) That game still stands as one of the more revolutionary games of all time, despite not being as popular as Doom.
So because your brother-in-law and his friends are stupid bums, this means *I* shouldn't be able to play a video game? Besides, someone has to work fast food jobs.
What's that quote about the plural of anecdote?
I don't know what kind of college party town you live in that their behavior is common, but it's not as if everyone who plays video games acts that way. If this were the case, western society and Japan would grind to a halt.
Also: I do not know of a game that actually features rape. Please cite one. I'd honestly like to know because I hear this but never hear the title being discussed.
As for popularizing it: Well you can keep your Leave it to Beaver DVD collection, but the vast majority of gamers are responsible people who don't go around and do everything they see in a video game. The truth is, those who commit acts of violence -- video game related or not -- are in the tiny minority. The rest of us don't. Most people aren't violent criminals. We aren't mindless drones who ape what we see on screen. Otherwise there would be no turtles left after Super Mario Bros. came out. Don't even get me started on the ramifications of the Kirby series.
What's with all these people lately bitching about the stories on /. and citing the "Stuff that matters" part of the tagline?
Slashdot has *always* talked about comic and scifi/fantasy novel movies.
I will defer to an expert opinion. And thank you for your service.
However, for my use of a rifle, fully-auto isn't necessary. Not until paper targets and beer cans become sentient anyway...
Could you afford to pay $20,000 for an automatic M16?
:)
I'd rather have a semi-automatic, thanks. Fully-automatic is a waste of bullets.
And still we wonder why it's hard to get women into computing.
:)
That's silly.
Women can neither read nor do math. Why do we need them in computing?
I will now refer you to every single female stand-up comedian ever to see jokes about men. Get over yourself.
'cept your anger about Sony rants is misplaced: Sony is the company that Marvel worked with on the Spider-Man movies. Thus, they're the appropriate company to bitch about in this case. ;)
For the most part, you're right, however: EWTN is basically made up of televangelists, and they rake in money. EWTN doesn't have a lot of cost to run, either. There's no way the people who watch EWTN wouldn't pay up to keep the channel. Religious people do a lot for their religion, including donate money.
(rant coming)
I'd be happy not to have BET, EWTN, or Nickelodeon on my lineup. I might actually get cable if I didn't have to spend $50 for a bunch of shit I'll never watch. Lifetime -- "Television for women who think men are all evil rapist bastards." BET/MTV/VH1 -- "Television for the stupid." Even TLC, which used to be fairly interesting, degraded into this stupid redecorating bullshit. When they started they showed stuff like The Human Animal. Now it's fat women with no tits getting their living room redone by a dumbass who didn't even qualify to be the sit in host for America's Funniest Home Videos.
(rant ended)
I feel better now.
Careful, you might get labeled as part of a "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" by daring to ask her a question that, y'know, isn't approved by her staff first.
Seriously, if Hillary Clinton gets the nomination, how is she going to debate anyone on the Republican side? Bush isn't running again, so it's not like she's going to get served up a moron. She says far too many stupid things -- like John Kerry did. And when you lose a race -- basically because you say stupid things -- to George W. Bush that's the first sign you say too many stupid things.
It's like losing an ass kicking contest with a one legged man. People just stare in awe and wonder, How did he fuck that up? It was a sure thing!
I know, my tan line (pun NOT intended) wasn't meant seriously.
I'm not sure we'd notice after the light went away, if the sun just vanished, for a little longer. Maybe not MUCH longer, but I think at first there would be some confusion before it occurred to anyone that "hey, maybe the sun vanished."
If it were to explode, on the other hand... we'd probably notice when the bands of helium gas vaporized us.
If the sun disappeared, it would take a few minutes for the last rays of light to reach us before it went dark. Around eight, if I recall correctly. Light doesn't get here instantly from the sun.
/. doesn't grade me on significant digits. :)
If it exploded, it should still take the same amount of time. Unless I'm missing something and an exploding star can send energy faster than light.
The math, for anyone interested:
The sun is roughly 150 million kilometers from us, or 150,000,000,000 meters. The speed of light is (rounded off) 300,000,000 meters per second. Dividing the first by the second, that's 500 seconds, or 8.33 minutes.
So, basically, if the sun disappears we all have about eight minutes, twenty seconds to work on our tans. (all numbers, of course, rounded to make the math easier because
Well, one, Sharpton is a professional race-baiter (see Tawana Brawley). But the vandalism part *is* the difference. He never said he'd break into a CBS studio and bust up their radio equipment if they didn't fire Imus.
If he did, maybe then I wouldn't have to hear him every time he thinks he can make a buck off the suffering of blacks.