Frankly, the original poster is right... but only in an environment where the worker can expect to be able to support himself and his family even if he was fired or chose to switch jobs.
This freedom would have to go both ways and not only from a legal standpoint. Since companies have strived to work more efficiently (meaning with less staff), expecting that everyone will alwaqys have a job has become naive. But as long as you, as an employee, cannot expect to find new income with only little delay, you will always be the weaker party in such a deal. Most companies can live without a few bodies for a few months if need be. A family of three, four or five can't just shrug off the loss of one income.
So while I agree that philosophically an employer should be able to fire you for whatever reason, our world just can't work like that without reverting to quasi-slavery.
That's why, among other reasons, I'd live four our governments to try basic income. It would be intriguing.
Call me naive, crazy or whatever you wish, but IF these statements are true, I say Kudos to Iran. If they can build ICBMs, more Kudos to them. ICBMs in the hands of warmongering islamist fundamentalists can't be much worse than in the hands of warmongering christian/capitalist fundamentalists. Or any other type of warmongering asshole.
So if we survived Russia and the US having the capability to blow up this dirtball a thousand times over, one more player won't make me quake in fear no matter who that player is... well... unless they're suicidal... THAT would be dangerous. Interestingly enough, though, the leaders of most cults somehow very often do not join their brothers in faith in suicide induced death. Makes one wonder, doesn't it?
I'm confused... you were married to this women for only one year, in which her psycho-bitch tendencies became obvious enough to warrant a divorce.
How fucking long did you know her before marrying her?! I mean if you dated her for two years beforehand, are you freaking telling me there wasn't enough evidence to have you run far and run fast? And if you didn't have enough time to realize she was psycho, what the fuck were you doing marrying her?!
Seriously, someone help me come up with a scenario where this dude isn't just plain fucking stupid...
Yeah, go ahead, mod me down, but I keep hearing this sort of thing time and again. They always tell me "but she suddenly changed!". And I go: "So she didn't expect you to read her mind and moods before, ever? So she never gave you a hard time for forgetting something but expected you to treat her as if she was perfect?"
The reply: "Oh, come on! Every woman is like that!"
And I just go headdesk.
As long as men take whatever woman will have them and don't EXPECT to be treated fairly and as a partner instead of someone who has to be grateful to even be allowed around a female, this shit will keep repeating.
What it does mean is that the discussion about a kill-switch is moot. In most countries, only a handful of organizations run international backbones. Just about every country could take the net down in such a fashion.
A literal kill-switch might just work a bit faster.
That they could be forgiven for thinking they were seeing double shortly after the release of the game. Not before, though. Before it was inexcusable;).
It does sound awkward but factually it should be correct.
Which is bullshit. All this dude needed was a parabolic dish (and Archimedes WAS a mathematician) and reflective material. Polished metal would probably have done the trick. The mirrors on this dude's project aren't perfectly clean, either. Any imperfections due to less reflective materials could have been compensated by a larger size.
The only problematic thing is the focal point. Having it at a fixed distance isn't ideal for attacking movable objects.
There are a lot of GAGs (graphical adventure games) I remember fondly. Of course there's Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion and Indiana Jones (sorry, I missed some of the other big names of that time) and a bit later, Ripley's Believe It Or Not: The Secret of Master Lu (or whatever it was called in the US).
Then there's modern adventures and even modern instalments of some of those I have named. I did see a fall from grace. It's the same fall from grace a lot of other games had: While graphics, gimmicks, gadgets and gizmos skyrocketed, creativity withered and died. What games, in general, nowadays often lack is a good story, humour, interesting characters etc. A combination of those things, any combination, will do to keep one interested.
This is, of course, a matter of opinion, but frankly, I think game makers should rethink their business strategies. Even though Indiana Jones was just a bunch of pixels in Fate of Atlantis, I still felt the somewhat oppressive and clammy atmosphere in the maze, trying to avoid encounters with similarly pixelated Nazis. That is called immersion, folks. It is what makes any kind of entertainment enjoyable. This proves that you don't need high class graphics to obtain a high level of immersion. It's not the photorealistic artwork, that will enrapture your audience. It's the story you are telling.
If the story sucks, if you don't care about the characters when planning the game, how can you expect us to care when playing? Perhaps I just haven't found the right games for me, but lately it feels like these studios are 60% management, 40% development and one dude in a basement to whom the script has been outsourced. Then again, that one dude in the basement just might produce better work than what I've been seeing...
One would think they'd kick their legal teams in the balls for that one. Would it have been so hard to point this out to the developers before hitting that big, red C&D button? Marketing should have a field day kicking them in the 'nads right about now.
At least, if they do their jobs.
This is not a Chinese company selling pirated copies or anything, but a community member using Blizzard tools to create content. How that would ever warrant a C&D is beyond me and I have a hard time believing their legal monkeys don't know that difference.
We're just used to that old and lame excuse that 'Everything is more expensive in Switzerland *shrug*'... But frankly, that 1 GB limit is plain stupid. Especially when you consider that these plans aren't even primarily targeted at mobile devices like phones but mobile devices like laptops and netbooks and there, one GB is just a lame joke.
I apologize for my rudeness. Obviously I have confused you with environment zealots, and those really annoy me.
I agree with you. Personally, I see salvation in completely autonomous cars like in Minority Report IIRC. Being able to enter a car wherever you want and exiting it wherever you need is important for a society that believes in globalization. This flexibility is a must, IMO.
On the other hand, the network of fuel stations to support private vehicles must be an astounding drain on resources. Also, a car that is used twice a day for an hour is also a very inefficient drain on resources.
So yeah, an overhaul of public transportation would be a good idea, but in a way, this topic works toward that, doesn't it?
See? Fix the society first. This is exactly what I meant.
Switzerland does not have a real estate market as flexible as America. Once you've bought a home, you're likely going to stay there for a few decades if not your whole life.
Do you expect BOTH me and my wife to find jobs near our home (or vice versa) and keep them for the rest of our lives? Do you truly think that's a realistic outlook on life?
It doesn't matter whether you think I'm just bitching around. Fact is, a lot of people have to deal with these questions. If you don't, great for you. We do. So you'll have to excuse us for making different decisions than you do.
I am of the opinion that bending over backwards for some concept like environmentalism is pretty stupid. If we, as a society, want to reach certain goals (clean environment) then we need to implement global changes that will make it easier for us to achieve those. Not just demand everyone buckle down and 'do their part'. Because then someone has to define what this 'part' is and you can bet your sweet ass it's going to be defined by people who aren't inconvenienced by what they define.
Switzerland has one of the best public transportation systems I am aware of. And still, a 45 minute commute by car can often turn into 1.5h or more on public transportation, including standing around in the cold in winter for any amounts of time.
If you live in a city and work there, too, then yes, public transportation is a great thing. I wouldn't use my car to get to work there either. But believe it or not, even with all the congestion around Zurich, it was still much faster to drive when I had to back in the days.
Frankly, everyone else can go fuck themselves if they believe I'd sacrifice between one and three hours every day because they can't fix the society so they expect me to fix their problems for them.
Because, make no mistake, using public transportation is very stressful for me and don't even get me started on doing something productive with that time. Because you can't. If you have to change transportation every 10 to thirty minutes, you just CAN'T concentrate on something of consequence. Especially with all the noise that goes on around you. I know, I've tried for four long years.
Now that might be different if you're travelling first class. But, keeping the lack of flexibility in mind (because owning a car AND using public transportation is economic bullshit), public transportation becomes very, very expensive all of a sudden.
So I'd like to ask you to shut up and stop applying your situation to everybody else. Just because YOU can be happy and content with public transportation does not mean everybody else can.
Driving is fun when you're out driving for fun. But the daily commute is annoying and tedious. Especially with high traffic and traffic jams, such a system could free a lot of time for the occupant of the car.
On top of that, the risk of collision through inattention would be lowered. All around a good idea and not comparable to actual trains, because the moment you leave the highway, I'd assume, you'd be in control again and free to travel everywhere and not just where the buses and trains go.
Basically, this takes the pros from trains and replaces the cons of personal travel with them.
And nobody said you couldn't keep driving yourself on a leisure cruise.
Absolutely. Yet I must ask: Why should I care about this? I don't know him personally and have thus a hard time seeing the news-value in this... now if this was a stock market news site...
And right they are. That statement is so broad, a blind man without limbs couldn't miss it with a baseball even if he were looking the other way.
Yes, eating too much food of low quality, a lot of people can and probably will become obese.
Doesn't mean everyone will. Doesn't mean everybody who's obese ate too much food of low quality.
To differentiate and being objective are priceless skills... as in: They could be free. Still, it's a commodity more rare than an intelligent mob. Hmm... maybe there's a correlation there?;)
Perhaps you should read what you've just written...
Nobody here doubts that _excessive_ gaming is harmful, just like any other action that is done _excessively_ is harmful. See the connection? It's the action being done EXCESSIVELY that is the problem.
What we don't like is it being stated in a way that makes people think ANY kind of gaming would be harmful.
*rolls eyes* it's ONE possible scenario that is supposed to show that a possible way to impregnate a woman without gravity exists. That in turn means it can't be impossible.
And by the way, seeing as it happens often enough to have become a cliché, what's your beef with a scenario where a male has already ejaculated at the point the female orgasms?
Why would anyone wonder about this? From how I see it (and from what I believe to know about the mechanics involved), why should a child not be conceived in zero-G?
When a woman orgasms, her cervix dips into (depending on the position) pool of seed the man released, sucking it in. The female anatomy then helps transport the material to where it belongs, where several spermatozoa work together to crack the female egg shell.
This process is in no way a battle between the little guys to see which is the strongest but a joint effort and the female organism helps them along, too. So while conception might be a bit trickier due to the whole process being slower because of not enough contact with the female anatomy (and thus more time-consuming, possibly to the point where the spermatozoa die before doing their job), I see no reason why it shouldn't be possible.
From my experience, retiring XBMC would do you more good than such a hack;).
Ye gods, did I hate XBMC.
On topic: As many others have noted, this has nothing to do with the released keys. I for one admit that I don't care to run any other OS on my PS3 than the original. What I would appreciate, though, is being able to download 'pirated' software.
Me pirating, and then buying stuff I liked is a tried and true way to make not only the vendors of said stuff happy, but myself as well. And quite frankly, my happiness > happiness of vendors selling crappy software.
Of course we can get used to that, but frankly, I don't want to. I like my meat. I am pretty sure my body needs meat. Even if you sold insects in non-retching-inducing packaging, I'd still want meat.
As long as this is not a matter of survival, I'll stick to meat. Simple as that. As long as it's not about my own life, the rest of the world can go... well, you know. And I'm betting 99% of all other humans view this the same way whether they are honest about it or not.
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Ye gods, the mistakes I make early in the morning... I'd LOVE for our governments to try basic income...
Something similar came to my mind, too.
Frankly, the original poster is right... but only in an environment where the worker can expect to be able to support himself and his family even if he was fired or chose to switch jobs.
This freedom would have to go both ways and not only from a legal standpoint. Since companies have strived to work more efficiently (meaning with less staff), expecting that everyone will alwaqys have a job has become naive. But as long as you, as an employee, cannot expect to find new income with only little delay, you will always be the weaker party in such a deal. Most companies can live without a few bodies for a few months if need be. A family of three, four or five can't just shrug off the loss of one income.
So while I agree that philosophically an employer should be able to fire you for whatever reason, our world just can't work like that without reverting to quasi-slavery.
That's why, among other reasons, I'd live four our governments to try basic income. It would be intriguing.
Call me naive, crazy or whatever you wish, but IF these statements are true, I say Kudos to Iran. If they can build ICBMs, more Kudos to them. ICBMs in the hands of warmongering islamist fundamentalists can't be much worse than in the hands of warmongering christian/capitalist fundamentalists. Or any other type of warmongering asshole.
So if we survived Russia and the US having the capability to blow up this dirtball a thousand times over, one more player won't make me quake in fear no matter who that player is... well... unless they're suicidal... THAT would be dangerous. Interestingly enough, though, the leaders of most cults somehow very often do not join their brothers in faith in suicide induced death. Makes one wonder, doesn't it?
I'm confused... you were married to this women for only one year, in which her psycho-bitch tendencies became obvious enough to warrant a divorce.
How fucking long did you know her before marrying her?! I mean if you dated her for two years beforehand, are you freaking telling me there wasn't enough evidence to have you run far and run fast? And if you didn't have enough time to realize she was psycho, what the fuck were you doing marrying her?!
Seriously, someone help me come up with a scenario where this dude isn't just plain fucking stupid...
Yeah, go ahead, mod me down, but I keep hearing this sort of thing time and again. They always tell me "but she suddenly changed!". And I go: "So she didn't expect you to read her mind and moods before, ever? So she never gave you a hard time for forgetting something but expected you to treat her as if she was perfect?"
The reply: "Oh, come on! Every woman is like that!"
And I just go headdesk.
As long as men take whatever woman will have them and don't EXPECT to be treated fairly and as a partner instead of someone who has to be grateful to even be allowed around a female, this shit will keep repeating.
What it does mean is that the discussion about a kill-switch is moot. In most countries, only a handful of organizations run international backbones. Just about every country could take the net down in such a fashion.
A literal kill-switch might just work a bit faster.
That they could be forgiven for thinking they were seeing double shortly after the release of the game. Not before, though. Before it was inexcusable ;).
It does sound awkward but factually it should be correct.
Which is bullshit. All this dude needed was a parabolic dish (and Archimedes WAS a mathematician) and reflective material. Polished metal would probably have done the trick. The mirrors on this dude's project aren't perfectly clean, either. Any imperfections due to less reflective materials could have been compensated by a larger size.
The only problematic thing is the focal point. Having it at a fixed distance isn't ideal for attacking movable objects.
There are a lot of GAGs (graphical adventure games) I remember fondly. Of course there's Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion and Indiana Jones (sorry, I missed some of the other big names of that time) and a bit later, Ripley's Believe It Or Not: The Secret of Master Lu (or whatever it was called in the US).
Then there's modern adventures and even modern instalments of some of those I have named. I did see a fall from grace. It's the same fall from grace a lot of other games had: While graphics, gimmicks, gadgets and gizmos skyrocketed, creativity withered and died. What games, in general, nowadays often lack is a good story, humour, interesting characters etc. A combination of those things, any combination, will do to keep one interested.
This is, of course, a matter of opinion, but frankly, I think game makers should rethink their business strategies. Even though Indiana Jones was just a bunch of pixels in Fate of Atlantis, I still felt the somewhat oppressive and clammy atmosphere in the maze, trying to avoid encounters with similarly pixelated Nazis. That is called immersion, folks. It is what makes any kind of entertainment enjoyable. This proves that you don't need high class graphics to obtain a high level of immersion. It's not the photorealistic artwork, that will enrapture your audience. It's the story you are telling.
If the story sucks, if you don't care about the characters when planning the game, how can you expect us to care when playing? Perhaps I just haven't found the right games for me, but lately it feels like these studios are 60% management, 40% development and one dude in a basement to whom the script has been outsourced. Then again, that one dude in the basement just might produce better work than what I've been seeing...
That and pirating tv shows... What?! At least I'm honest about it...
One would think they'd kick their legal teams in the balls for that one. Would it have been so hard to point this out to the developers before hitting that big, red C&D button? Marketing should have a field day kicking them in the 'nads right about now.
At least, if they do their jobs.
This is not a Chinese company selling pirated copies or anything, but a community member using Blizzard tools to create content. How that would ever warrant a C&D is beyond me and I have a hard time believing their legal monkeys don't know that difference.
Blizzard first gets you intimidated by their figurative muscle, before the Don walks up to you, making you an offer you can't refuse?
We're just used to that old and lame excuse that 'Everything is more expensive in Switzerland *shrug*'... But frankly, that 1 GB limit is plain stupid. Especially when you consider that these plans aren't even primarily targeted at mobile devices like phones but mobile devices like laptops and netbooks and there, one GB is just a lame joke.
Since I have a minivan in anticipation of a family (and my do-it-yourself mentality), I offered. Nobody took me up on the offer.
I apologize for my rudeness. Obviously I have confused you with environment zealots, and those really annoy me.
I agree with you. Personally, I see salvation in completely autonomous cars like in Minority Report IIRC. Being able to enter a car wherever you want and exiting it wherever you need is important for a society that believes in globalization. This flexibility is a must, IMO.
On the other hand, the network of fuel stations to support private vehicles must be an astounding drain on resources. Also, a car that is used twice a day for an hour is also a very inefficient drain on resources.
So yeah, an overhaul of public transportation would be a good idea, but in a way, this topic works toward that, doesn't it?
See? Fix the society first. This is exactly what I meant.
Switzerland does not have a real estate market as flexible as America. Once you've bought a home, you're likely going to stay there for a few decades if not your whole life.
Do you expect BOTH me and my wife to find jobs near our home (or vice versa) and keep them for the rest of our lives? Do you truly think that's a realistic outlook on life?
It doesn't matter whether you think I'm just bitching around. Fact is, a lot of people have to deal with these questions. If you don't, great for you. We do. So you'll have to excuse us for making different decisions than you do.
I am of the opinion that bending over backwards for some concept like environmentalism is pretty stupid. If we, as a society, want to reach certain goals (clean environment) then we need to implement global changes that will make it easier for us to achieve those. Not just demand everyone buckle down and 'do their part'. Because then someone has to define what this 'part' is and you can bet your sweet ass it's going to be defined by people who aren't inconvenienced by what they define.
Excuse me for being blunt, but you're an idiot.
Switzerland has one of the best public transportation systems I am aware of. And still, a 45 minute commute by car can often turn into 1.5h or more on public transportation, including standing around in the cold in winter for any amounts of time.
If you live in a city and work there, too, then yes, public transportation is a great thing. I wouldn't use my car to get to work there either. But believe it or not, even with all the congestion around Zurich, it was still much faster to drive when I had to back in the days.
Frankly, everyone else can go fuck themselves if they believe I'd sacrifice between one and three hours every day because they can't fix the society so they expect me to fix their problems for them.
Because, make no mistake, using public transportation is very stressful for me and don't even get me started on doing something productive with that time. Because you can't. If you have to change transportation every 10 to thirty minutes, you just CAN'T concentrate on something of consequence. Especially with all the noise that goes on around you. I know, I've tried for four long years.
Now that might be different if you're travelling first class. But, keeping the lack of flexibility in mind (because owning a car AND using public transportation is economic bullshit), public transportation becomes very, very expensive all of a sudden.
So I'd like to ask you to shut up and stop applying your situation to everybody else. Just because YOU can be happy and content with public transportation does not mean everybody else can.
That is completely beside the point.
Driving is fun when you're out driving for fun. But the daily commute is annoying and tedious. Especially with high traffic and traffic jams, such a system could free a lot of time for the occupant of the car.
On top of that, the risk of collision through inattention would be lowered. All around a good idea and not comparable to actual trains, because the moment you leave the highway, I'd assume, you'd be in control again and free to travel everywhere and not just where the buses and trains go.
Basically, this takes the pros from trains and replaces the cons of personal travel with them.
And nobody said you couldn't keep driving yourself on a leisure cruise.
Absolutely. Yet I must ask: Why should I care about this? I don't know him personally and have thus a hard time seeing the news-value in this... now if this was a stock market news site...
And right they are. That statement is so broad, a blind man without limbs couldn't miss it with a baseball even if he were looking the other way.
Yes, eating too much food of low quality, a lot of people can and probably will become obese.
Doesn't mean everyone will. Doesn't mean everybody who's obese ate too much food of low quality.
To differentiate and being objective are priceless skills... as in: They could be free. Still, it's a commodity more rare than an intelligent mob. Hmm... maybe there's a correlation there? ;)
Video games do affect people.
Unfortunately, that's not true in the least. Both games and TV absolutely can negatively and positively affect people.
Erm...
Perhaps you should read what you've just written...
Nobody here doubts that _excessive_ gaming is harmful, just like any other action that is done _excessively_ is harmful. See the connection? It's the action being done EXCESSIVELY that is the problem.
What we don't like is it being stated in a way that makes people think ANY kind of gaming would be harmful.
*rolls eyes* it's ONE possible scenario that is supposed to show that a possible way to impregnate a woman without gravity exists. That in turn means it can't be impossible.
And by the way, seeing as it happens often enough to have become a cliché, what's your beef with a scenario where a male has already ejaculated at the point the female orgasms?
Why would anyone wonder about this? From how I see it (and from what I believe to know about the mechanics involved), why should a child not be conceived in zero-G?
When a woman orgasms, her cervix dips into (depending on the position) pool of seed the man released, sucking it in. The female anatomy then helps transport the material to where it belongs, where several spermatozoa work together to crack the female egg shell.
This process is in no way a battle between the little guys to see which is the strongest but a joint effort and the female organism helps them along, too. So while conception might be a bit trickier due to the whole process being slower because of not enough contact with the female anatomy (and thus more time-consuming, possibly to the point where the spermatozoa die before doing their job), I see no reason why it shouldn't be possible.
From my experience, retiring XBMC would do you more good than such a hack ;).
Ye gods, did I hate XBMC.
On topic: As many others have noted, this has nothing to do with the released keys. I for one admit that I don't care to run any other OS on my PS3 than the original. What I would appreciate, though, is being able to download 'pirated' software.
Me pirating, and then buying stuff I liked is a tried and true way to make not only the vendors of said stuff happy, but myself as well. And quite frankly, my happiness > happiness of vendors selling crappy software.
Of course we can get used to that, but frankly, I don't want to. I like my meat. I am pretty sure my body needs meat. Even if you sold insects in non-retching-inducing packaging, I'd still want meat.
As long as this is not a matter of survival, I'll stick to meat. Simple as that. As long as it's not about my own life, the rest of the world can go... well, you know. And I'm betting 99% of all other humans view this the same way whether they are honest about it or not.