I assume office employees get up and move around more often than someone engaged in a real time video game. I can save a document or source code and get coffee. I don't know how many MMO games people can pause at any point (I know Starcraft gives each player 3 time outs), and I don't know how many people would appreciate their party members randomly vanishing in mid-battle.
I'm not saying it's impossible, just not likely. If you're addicted enough to get more than one account, chances are, you sit there the entire time.
Or take the laptop with wifi into the bathroom with you...
It's possible their parents are playing WoW or another MMORPG, too. I knew a (very irritating) girl who was the only person in her family who didn't play WoW obsessively.
That, or they're like American parents, and they think their kids are everyone else's responsibility. Is there a Chinese Jack Thompson?
People get addicted to games. It shouldn't be surprising when the really addicted get around the filters. I imagine it was top priority for a lot of them.
But, really, more than 5 hours a day? Doesn't your ass get numb?
There are some states where the age of consent is fourteen. I don't see a whole lot of legal sites with fourteen year olds having sex, at least not based in the United States.
I could be wrong. I'm not sure where to look for the laws. I Am Not A Lawyer Or A Pornographer (well not professionally;), I'm just going on what I've observed.
Hm. I think I'd say "I'm the top guy in an elite anti-kiddie porn operation." (I should so be in marketing)
How many DBA's do you know that have cute chicks walk up and talk to them? What bars are these? And howcome he doesn't wet himself and pass out in response to her question?
But, but, but, if it were a law then if criminals didn't buy this ammo they'd be criminals!
Oh. Wait.
Fuck.
And thus is the logic behind 90%+ of gun laws -- if you think someone intent on killing/robbing is going to obey gun laws you're off your nut. I agree; this isn't going to do jack, even if it did take off.
Can we not introduce a new possibility for fucking up to firearms?
First of all the yellow is pretty gaudy, and if anything the yellow and white should be reversed, so that the URL box below the picture has a background that is highlighted, not the way it is now. The black/white reverse for the top URL would look better then.
The whole Independence/Rushmore thing is a little insulting. I've used OO.o for a long time, and wrote most of my school papers in it up until I started using AbiWord. I still use OO.o occasionally, but I don't see it as being nearly as important as the Declaration of Independence -- which is what I get from the ad --
I'd change the tag below the URL to "Great (all the features) in one free package."
Emphasizing the freedom/free software aspect is good. Highlighting compatibility and guaranteed future compatibility would be good. I don't know how to fit "You won't have to use OO.o x.0 just because everyone else does and Sun decided to be snarky and make changes to screw backwards compatibility" into an ad, but I'm sure someone else could.
OO.o has a lot of nice features. Being free is one of them, but interface wise, I just don't know if it's ready to take on Microsoft Office. It's bloated and MS Office is just easier on the eyes. In my experience and opinion.
Of course, in a weird twist, OO.o saves documents in Word/Excel format that are actually smaller than the same exact documents saved in Word/Excel... might be true for other aspects of Office, but I never compared them.
Maybe when I bid early it puts the item on more people's radar and makes it look more attractive, so they outbid me.
Sometimes, this is true. I try and avoid auctions with bids on them, simply to avoid having to pay more, but I've seen a 7 day auction go three with no bids, and then once one person bids, it explodes.
How is it not fair if I bid my maximum bid in the last ten minutes? Assuming the other person has bid their maximum as well, that sounds very fair. It avoids the Dueling Bids phenomenon and saves both parties money in the end.
Bid your maximum, and let it go how it will. I stopped participating in auctions until near the end because of all the people who bid, then once they get outbid, they bid up as little as eBay will allow until they get me to my maximum bid (you can tell if you bit $27.79, and it stops at $28, because that's less than the minimum increment), because I'm willing to pay my maximum bid, but I don't want to just because some dick is angry that I outbid them.
Bid wars suck. A $10 item is suddenly going for $60. The only people sniping hurts are the sellers, because it takes away the inflated value of items caused by bid wars.
(And yes, I've been sniped before, and it irritates me, but that's the way it works.)
A bid will extend the auction by ~10 minutes if received in the last 10 minutes.
And it's the auction that never ends. It goes on and on my friends...
This is not true. Since I started using Linux my social life is just fine, sort of.
I can't figure out why everyone I know is now male and owns 2d20 dice, though.
Maybe that'll change with 2.6.18. We need a "girl" module...whoops, gotta go, Leroy's glasses broke and he needs me to drive him to get some duct tape.
Um, I was for it being a crime before I was against it.;)
I don't see the issue in black and white, and I'm torn between not wanting more laws, especially laws pertaining to video games, and wanting the issue settled in a way that I'm comfortable with. Barring minors from buying violent/sexual games leaves said games available for everyone else.
What can I say? I'm not perfect, or right all the time. "I'm a man of contradictions, as my therapist said..."
Because no one wants to sit there reverting an article every five minutes because a jackass keeps putting a penis on the George W. Bush/Tony Blair/Christina Aguilera page, or replacing the picture of the newly elected Pope with Hitler, or changing the Hitler article to "JEWS SUCK LOLOLOL."
As well he should be. If a parent thinks a game is appropriate for their kid, who the hell are you to refuse to sell to them? Why do you think it's your job to be everyone's mommy?
She. And she was bitched at because the mom had to get off her ass to go buy the game. She was going by store policy, the store that employs her. It's her job to not violate said policy, since she wanted to keep the job. She could sell the game to the mother, and did. But not without getting an earful about: 1. A policy she did not make, 2. A policy she could not change, and 3. A policy she had to follow to stay employed.
I've never heard a convincing argument that any video game content is harmful to minors. It's just taken as "obvious", I don't think it is. People just lose their heads when they're trying to "protect the children". Violent video games are just this century's cops & robbers. How is playing GTA any more harmful?
I'm not saying they are bad for kids, but rather: "Come on, the name is "Grand Theft Auto." Do you NEED to be told that it's more mature than Super Mario Brothers?"
I played Doom as a kid and nothing bad happened.
Same here, and I've beat GTA: Vice City three or four times through. No dead people yet.
Can't you see how violent video games are just another scapegoat for societies ills?
I agree -- I'm just saying, as long as there are violent video games, people are going to bitch. I'm completely fine with stores checking I.D's to sell games -- they check them to sell sinus medicine -- and only selling age appropriate games to the right people. If a kid's parent approves, the parent can go buy the game. Most movie theaters don't allow twelve year olds in to R movies.
Except, the first Rodney King was pretty stupid -- his passenger, which 90% of the world don't know about, walked away without a scratch on him. For one simple reason: He didn't fight the police. The jury saw more than the limited video the media has shown us. While I'm not saying the police were right in what they did -- the guy was doing 110mph down a residential neighborhood. He's not a good example for this, because the guy fought with the cops and was on PCP. From the wikipedia article:
One piece of evidence offered to support this argument was that King showed no response after having been shot by at least one Taser weapon
If I shoot someone with a Taser and it doesn't phase them, I'm going to take to clubbing them in the head, too.
Selling games to minors that don't fit into the ESRB ages should be a crime.
Agreed. Rant mode:
Some places don't even sell M rated games (which is their choice), and I've known people who worked in game/rental places where they could get fired for selling an game to someone in the wrong age bracket. One friend of mine has actually been bitched at by a twelve year old, and then his mom for refusing to sell the kid a game that he wasn't old enough to play.
People are going to bitch no matter what happens, as long as the violent games are made. Music has warning labels, and people still try and blame music for stuff. Even without labels -- come on, a game named Doom? Grand Theft Auto? You must be stupid to not realize that this might not be appropriate. Halo? Well, that one sounds acceptable (moreso than Super Smash Brothers name wise).
Until we live in Carebear land where everything is flowers and unicorns we're going to have to put up with these stupid people and their crummy elected officials.
Okay, rant mode off. This issue just pisses me off because the people involved are so stupid and deliberately ignorant. Gr. Argh. And stuff.
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I assume office employees get up and move around more often than someone engaged in a real time video game. I can save a document or source code and get coffee. I don't know how many MMO games people can pause at any point (I know Starcraft gives each player 3 time outs), and I don't know how many people would appreciate their party members randomly vanishing in mid-battle.
I'm not saying it's impossible, just not likely. If you're addicted enough to get more than one account, chances are, you sit there the entire time.
Or take the laptop with wifi into the bathroom with you...
It's possible their parents are playing WoW or another MMORPG, too. I knew a (very irritating) girl who was the only person in her family who didn't play WoW obsessively.
That, or they're like American parents, and they think their kids are everyone else's responsibility. Is there a Chinese Jack Thompson?
People get addicted to games. It shouldn't be surprising when the really addicted get around the filters. I imagine it was top priority for a lot of them.
But, really, more than 5 hours a day? Doesn't your ass get numb?
If I plan on that body part clenching up tightly, rhythmically, after a few minutes? Hell yes.
/. so... (I have like four jokes, and none of them are funny.)
If a girl had a jaw spasm halfway through oral sex, that would suck (bada-baaa).
Of course, this is
We can grow teeth now. Next step, growing teeth in places not the mouth.
Now all those nightmares I have about a woman with teeth in her vagina are going to come true.
Thanks a lot Canada!!
IBM is speaking for Linux, in this case.
Actually I just use that to push the mouse around. Double clicking is really exciting.
There are some states where the age of consent is fourteen. I don't see a whole lot of legal sites with fourteen year olds having sex, at least not based in the United States.
;), I'm just going on what I've observed.
I could be wrong. I'm not sure where to look for the laws. I Am Not A Lawyer Or A Pornographer (well not professionally
False.
The age of consent is the age to which someone can consent to having sex.
Taking a picture of said sex prior to 18 is still illegal.
Hm. I think I'd say "I'm the top guy in an elite anti-kiddie porn operation." (I should so be in marketing)
How many DBA's do you know that have cute chicks walk up and talk to them? What bars are these? And howcome he doesn't wet himself and pass out in response to her question?
But, but, but, if it were a law then if criminals didn't buy this ammo they'd be criminals!
Oh. Wait.
Fuck.
And thus is the logic behind 90%+ of gun laws -- if you think someone intent on killing/robbing is going to obey gun laws you're off your nut. I agree; this isn't going to do jack, even if it did take off.
Can we not introduce a new possibility for fucking up to firearms?
Those of us born without bones find this post offensive!
Don't ask how I type without bones. You really don't want to know.
No, it's certainly not just you.
Rant/ramble ahead.
First of all the yellow is pretty gaudy, and if anything the yellow and white should be reversed, so that the URL box below the picture has a background that is highlighted, not the way it is now. The black/white reverse for the top URL would look better then.
The whole Independence/Rushmore thing is a little insulting. I've used OO.o for a long time, and wrote most of my school papers in it up until I started using AbiWord. I still use OO.o occasionally, but I don't see it as being nearly as important as the Declaration of Independence -- which is what I get from the ad --
I'd change the tag below the URL to "Great (all the features) in one free package."
Emphasizing the freedom/free software aspect is good. Highlighting compatibility and guaranteed future compatibility would be good. I don't know how to fit "You won't have to use OO.o x.0 just because everyone else does and Sun decided to be snarky and make changes to screw backwards compatibility" into an ad, but I'm sure someone else could.
OO.o has a lot of nice features. Being free is one of them, but interface wise, I just don't know if it's ready to take on Microsoft Office. It's bloated and MS Office is just easier on the eyes. In my experience and opinion.
Of course, in a weird twist, OO.o saves documents in Word/Excel format that are actually smaller than the same exact documents saved in Word/Excel... might be true for other aspects of Office, but I never compared them.
Rant/ramble mode off.
Maybe when I bid early it puts the item on more people's radar and makes it look more attractive, so they outbid me.
Sometimes, this is true. I try and avoid auctions with bids on them, simply to avoid having to pay more, but I've seen a 7 day auction go three with no bids, and then once one person bids, it explodes.
How is it not fair if I bid my maximum bid in the last ten minutes? Assuming the other person has bid their maximum as well, that sounds very fair. It avoids the Dueling Bids phenomenon and saves both parties money in the end.
Bid your maximum, and let it go how it will. I stopped participating in auctions until near the end because of all the people who bid, then once they get outbid, they bid up as little as eBay will allow until they get me to my maximum bid (you can tell if you bit $27.79, and it stops at $28, because that's less than the minimum increment), because I'm willing to pay my maximum bid, but I don't want to just because some dick is angry that I outbid them.
Bid wars suck. A $10 item is suddenly going for $60. The only people sniping hurts are the sellers, because it takes away the inflated value of items caused by bid wars.
(And yes, I've been sniped before, and it irritates me, but that's the way it works.)
A bid will extend the auction by ~10 minutes if received in the last 10 minutes.
And it's the auction that never ends. It goes on and on my friends...
First. I think.
This is not true. Since I started using Linux my social life is just fine, sort of.
I can't figure out why everyone I know is now male and owns 2d20 dice, though.
Maybe that'll change with 2.6.18. We need a "girl" module...whoops, gotta go, Leroy's glasses broke and he needs me to drive him to get some duct tape.
Um, I was for it being a crime before I was against it. ;)
I don't see the issue in black and white, and I'm torn between not wanting more laws, especially laws pertaining to video games, and wanting the issue settled in a way that I'm comfortable with. Barring minors from buying violent/sexual games leaves said games available for everyone else.
What can I say? I'm not perfect, or right all the time. "I'm a man of contradictions, as my therapist said..."
I don't think there should be a law -- I'm fine with stores making that decision.
Yeah, more coffee for Khaed.
Because no one wants to sit there reverting an article every five minutes because a jackass keeps putting a penis on the George W. Bush/Tony Blair/Christina Aguilera page, or replacing the picture of the newly elected Pope with Hitler, or changing the Hitler article to "JEWS SUCK LOLOLOL."
I'm surprised they're not a little stricter.
As well he should be. If a parent thinks a game is appropriate for their kid, who the hell are you to refuse to sell to them? Why do you think it's your job to be everyone's mommy?
She. And she was bitched at because the mom had to get off her ass to go buy the game. She was going by store policy, the store that employs her. It's her job to not violate said policy, since she wanted to keep the job. She could sell the game to the mother, and did. But not without getting an earful about: 1. A policy she did not make, 2. A policy she could not change, and 3. A policy she had to follow to stay employed.
I've never heard a convincing argument that any video game content is harmful to minors. It's just taken as "obvious", I don't think it is. People just lose their heads when they're trying to "protect the children". Violent video games are just this century's cops & robbers. How is playing GTA any more harmful?
I'm not saying they are bad for kids, but rather: "Come on, the name is "Grand Theft Auto." Do you NEED to be told that it's more mature than Super Mario Brothers?"
I played Doom as a kid and nothing bad happened.
Same here, and I've beat GTA: Vice City three or four times through. No dead people yet.
Can't you see how violent video games are just another scapegoat for societies ills?
I agree -- I'm just saying, as long as there are violent video games, people are going to bitch. I'm completely fine with stores checking I.D's to sell games -- they check them to sell sinus medicine -- and only selling age appropriate games to the right people. If a kid's parent approves, the parent can go buy the game. Most movie theaters don't allow twelve year olds in to R movies.
Except, the first Rodney King was pretty stupid -- his passenger, which 90% of the world don't know about, walked away without a scratch on him. For one simple reason: He didn't fight the police. The jury saw more than the limited video the media has shown us. While I'm not saying the police were right in what they did -- the guy was doing 110mph down a residential neighborhood. He's not a good example for this, because the guy fought with the cops and was on PCP. From the wikipedia article:
One piece of evidence offered to support this argument was that King showed no response after having been shot by at least one Taser weapon
If I shoot someone with a Taser and it doesn't phase them, I'm going to take to clubbing them in the head, too.
If you think 80% of /. agree on anything, I think you've been reading the wrong site.
Selling games to minors that don't fit into the ESRB ages should be a crime.
Agreed. Rant mode:
Some places don't even sell M rated games (which is their choice), and I've known people who worked in game/rental places where they could get fired for selling an game to someone in the wrong age bracket. One friend of mine has actually been bitched at by a twelve year old, and then his mom for refusing to sell the kid a game that he wasn't old enough to play.
People are going to bitch no matter what happens, as long as the violent games are made. Music has warning labels, and people still try and blame music for stuff. Even without labels -- come on, a game named Doom? Grand Theft Auto? You must be stupid to not realize that this might not be appropriate. Halo? Well, that one sounds acceptable (moreso than Super Smash Brothers name wise).
Until we live in Carebear land where everything is flowers and unicorns we're going to have to put up with these stupid people and their crummy elected officials.
Okay, rant mode off. This issue just pisses me off because the people involved are so stupid and deliberately ignorant. Gr. Argh. And stuff.