I may have something wrong here, but it seems as though the company is blaming the gay player for harassment that might come from other players.
You may indeed have it wrong. Replace the word "blaming" with "protecting" and the word "for" with "from" and you'll have it correct.
That would be like banning women from playing so that men don't harass them. It seems pretty backwards to me.
Yes, that would be backward, except that that's not an apt analogy. More accurately, it would be like preventing women from announcing that they're women in an environment in which it is possible or even likely that men would harrass them.
It's like Star Trek, but with more Civil War-type uniforms. Kinda.
I've only watched the first episode or two. I wasn't impressed.
I didn't really "get it" at first either, but it turns out it makes so much more sense when the episodes are in order.;)
See, those first two episodes ('Train Job' and 'Bushwhacked') are the first two episodes, not the 2-part pilot (Serenity, parts 1 & 2), which didn't play until episodes 11 and 12.
It's almost '06 now, and I don't know where this has gone since then... which may or may not say something about the technology, the company, the market, and/or my inherent laziness at looking this shit up on google.
Totally off-topic, but the title is NOT a Beatles lyric.
The actual lyric is "You say you want a revolution".
The article title is in fact closer to a lyric by Tracy Chapman:
"They're talkin' bout a revolution / It sounds like a whisper"
The question of which song best embodies the aesthetics paradigm (huh?) of Nintendo's new controller interface is left as a frivolous excercise for the reader.
The scary part to me is the e-mail address... now they can start getting a shortlist of people to look at closer for copyright violation issues. I know I'll let someone else ask for the hack and Google it myself...
Not scary at all. Just give them a free disposable e-mail account from Yahoo!..:)
And I'm not even sure this new practice of locking software to one's own brand of PC is even going to be legal.
Huh?!? Of course it's legal. Apple's already been doing it from the beginning. Have you really ever been able to run MacOS on anything other than Apple hardware (until Darwin)? IANAL, nor am I all-knowledgeable, but this is just common sense.
"T-Mobile suffered some bad press for its lousy security, nothing more. It'll spend some money improving its security, but it'll be security designed to protect its reputation from bad PR, not security designed to protect the privacy of its customers."
And I seriously doubt if the treatment of security would be or is any better from any of the other cellular carriers.
"But since it's an organization with a decidedly and unabashedly liberal political agenda, I guess they must be telling the truth 100%, whereas anyone on the conservative or Republican side of the spectrum is a greedy, money grubbing liar who would just LOVE to see an end to all environmental concerns."
While you may have a point (albeit heavily biased; not that I'm not (see below), I'm just calling a spade a spade) about the first part, you are mostly wrong about conservatives and republicans being greedy (although I'm sure some are, as are some 'liberals'), money-grubbing (again, tit for tat) liars (see previous).
What you are right about, despite your attempted affectation of sarcasm, is that they really would like to see an end to all environmental concerns, since that's one of the keystones to hastening the return of Jesus Christ.
No, I'm not kidding.
A quote from a recent article from Bill Moyers:
"Remember James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's first secretary of the interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."
"Beltway elites snickered. The press corps didn't know what he was talking about. But James Watt was serious. So were his compatriots out across the country. They are the people who believe the Bible is literally true -- one-third of the American electorate, if a recent Gallup poll is accurate. In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index. ...
"So what does this mean for public policy and the environment? Go to Grist to read a remarkable work of reporting by the journalist Glenn Scherer -- "The Road to Environmental Apocalypse." Read it and you will see how millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even hastened -- as a sign of the coming apocalypse."
To fix that, they implemented server caps and a line that could take TWO HOURS to get in and play.
The queue system was actually there at the initial release and was something they took out after doubling the server capacity. It's sad that they've had to reinstate it..
"Video games don't affect kids. If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around a darkened room, munching on candy and listening to repetetive music."
Hence, raves. (tongue firmly in cheek)
Seriously, video games are not a gateway to deviant behavior. Just because I play a game in which the object is to evade or elude police and drive in a wreckless fashion doesn't mean I'm any more or less likely to undertake such behavior when driving on the freeway. Presuming that it does also presumes that one has no ability whatsoever to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
That said, mature content is for mature individuals. And while I would have a problem with my child viewing violent or sexually explicit content, I would have more of a problem with the violence and less of a problem with the sexuality.
Actually, no they didn't... at least not ALL of them. In fact, the majority of them were forged in a manner common among Al Qaida operatives. It's in the 9/11 Commission's report. Read it some time.:)
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Am I the only one who thinks this thing looks like a TI Speak&Spell?
p e5.jpg = en&q=speak'n'spell&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.antiquetech.com/pictures%20thumbnail/w
http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls
Eeek! We'll be flooded by Dvorak for 6 months due to a misplaced double negative!
Now all it needs is an acid-filled hypodermic needle!
..you'll probably never see an Apple product on the list.
;)
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Sorry, totally off-topic...
Just that I initially read the title as "2005 Moddb (mwahd-DEEB = Muad 'Dib) Awards".
REZ
I may have something wrong here, but it seems as though the company is blaming the gay player for harassment that might come from other players.
You may indeed have it wrong. Replace the word "blaming" with "protecting" and the word "for" with "from" and you'll have it correct.
That would be like banning women from playing so that men don't harass them. It seems pretty backwards to me.
Yes, that would be backward, except that that's not an apt analogy. More accurately, it would be like preventing women from announcing that they're women in an environment in which it is possible or even likely that men would harrass them.
It's like Star Trek, but with more Civil War-type uniforms. Kinda.
;)
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I've only watched the first episode or two. I wasn't impressed.
I didn't really "get it" at first either, but it turns out it makes so much more sense when the episodes are in order.
See, those first two episodes ('Train Job' and 'Bushwhacked') are the first two episodes, not the 2-part pilot (Serenity, parts 1 & 2), which didn't play until episodes 11 and 12.
Way to go, FOX!!
http://www.tv.com/firefly/show/7097/episode_listi
Even better...
:)
http://www.splashpower.com/
Here's an article from '03 about charging multiple devices at once via magnetic induction.
:)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2861987.stm
It's almost '06 now, and I don't know where this has gone since then... which may or may not say something about the technology, the company, the market, and/or my inherent laziness at looking this shit up on google.
Actually, if you read the exchange site, you'll find that they're offering the MP3s in addition to the "rootkitless" CDs, not in place of them.
Just what we need: a way to slow down our own evolution.
One of the nicest things about life is that it doesn't go on forever.
This is to say nothing of the sociopolitical consequences, such as state-mandated birth control, and their sociopolitical consequences.
Not until they take away the football channels.
:)
Not bloody likely.. 'They' want people distracted (and/or slow/stupid/docile), which is why you also see beer ads during Monday night football.
I'll go put on my tinfoil hat now...
"Mitsubishi Heavy Industries conceived of Wakamuru as a pleasant companion offering a range of electronic-age valet services."
To my ear, that translates roughly to "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!"
Totally off-topic, but the title is NOT a Beatles lyric.
The actual lyric is "You say you want a revolution".
The article title is in fact closer to a lyric by Tracy Chapman:
"They're talkin' bout a revolution / It sounds like a whisper"
The question of which song best embodies the aesthetics paradigm (huh?) of Nintendo's new controller interface is left as a frivolous excercise for the reader.
The scary part to me is the e-mail address... now they can start getting a shortlist of people to look at closer for copyright violation issues. I know I'll let someone else ask for the hack and Google it myself...
:)
Not scary at all. Just give them a free disposable e-mail account from Yahoo!..
And I'm not even sure this new practice of locking software to one's own brand of PC is even going to be legal.
Huh?!? Of course it's legal. Apple's already been doing it from the beginning. Have you really ever been able to run MacOS on anything other than Apple hardware (until Darwin)? IANAL, nor am I all-knowledgeable, but this is just common sense.
...Not to mention the ridiculously antiquated methodology employed by the EPA for measuring vehicular fuel efficiency.
From the latest CryptoGram by Bruce Schneier:
"T-Mobile suffered some bad press for its lousy security, nothing more. It'll spend some money improving its security, but it'll be security designed to protect its reputation from bad PR, not security designed to protect the privacy of its customers."
And I seriously doubt if the treatment of security would be or is any better from any of the other cellular carriers.
- SR
"But since it's an organization with a decidedly and unabashedly liberal political agenda, I guess they must be telling the truth 100%, whereas anyone on the conservative or Republican side of the spectrum is a greedy, money grubbing liar who would just LOVE to see an end to all environmental concerns."
...
While you may have a point (albeit heavily biased; not that I'm not (see below), I'm just calling a spade a spade) about the first part, you are mostly wrong about conservatives and republicans being greedy (although I'm sure some are, as are some 'liberals'), money-grubbing (again, tit for tat) liars (see previous).
What you are right about, despite your attempted affectation of sarcasm, is that they really would like to see an end to all environmental concerns, since that's one of the keystones to hastening the return of Jesus Christ.
No, I'm not kidding.
A quote from a recent article from Bill Moyers:
"Remember James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's first secretary of the interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."
"Beltway elites snickered. The press corps didn't know what he was talking about. But James Watt was serious. So were his compatriots out across the country. They are the people who believe the Bible is literally true -- one-third of the American electorate, if a recent Gallup poll is accurate. In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index.
"So what does this mean for public policy and the environment? Go to Grist to read a remarkable work of reporting by the journalist Glenn Scherer -- "The Road to Environmental Apocalypse." Read it and you will see how millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even hastened -- as a sign of the coming apocalypse."
To fix that, they implemented server caps and a line that could take TWO HOURS to get in and play.
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The queue system was actually there at the initial release and was something they took out after doubling the server capacity. It's sad that they've had to reinstate it..
Penny Arcade has more.. http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2005-0
"Video games don't affect kids. If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around a darkened room, munching on candy and listening to repetetive music."
Hence, raves. (tongue firmly in cheek)
Seriously, video games are not a gateway to deviant behavior. Just because I play a game in which the object is to evade or elude police and drive in a wreckless fashion doesn't mean I'm any more or less likely to undertake such behavior when driving on the freeway. Presuming that it does also presumes that one has no ability whatsoever to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
That said, mature content is for mature individuals. And while I would have a problem with my child viewing violent or sexually explicit content, I would have more of a problem with the violence and less of a problem with the sexuality.
Seems Secunia is also vulnerable to /.'ing... 6 minutes and it's fried.
Actually, no they didn't... at least not ALL of them. In fact, the majority of them were forged in a manner common among Al Qaida operatives. It's in the 9/11 Commission's report. Read it some time. :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't MacOS X 10.2 also shipping with gcc-3.1, and wasn't that before today?