It's fun to blame things on Puritans, something like a teenager hating on his parents for not letting him go to the party. Gambling is also illegal in many nations with no Puritans and largely different histories though, including most Asian nations (say, Thailand, China, Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia...which is more than half the world's population I've just listed, none because of the evil effect of Puritans)
Gambling demonstratively can be a compulsion that ruins individual lives for a great number of people. Of course that's a "reason" to make it illegal, whether or not you do agree with laws against gambling.
Not really. The game costs $60 new. If you're going to beat the game in less than a month, and never play it again, it makes more sense to rent it.
Alternatively, perhaps you play it for one day and decide it's not your thing. It certainly makes more sense than paying $60 for a game where there's a 50% chance you won't like it.
A friend of mine in SF went in to pickup a copy of LA Noire on launch day. The salesdroid rather rudely stated, "We don't have any copies for non-preorders. If you wanted to play this game, then you should have preordered it." At which point he promptly went 5 minutes down the street to the pit of hell known as Best Buy and picked up one of the hundred or so copies on the shelf. He then returned to GameStop to give them a hearty "fuck you".
The real question is why this guy doesn't have anything better to do with his time.
Facebook can be a good way to find out about people before you get to know them, and Julian Assange should look on the good side of Facebook as well. Like, when you meet a groupie online, you can easily search her background to make sure she's cool with going raw.
"Bad guys" is a basic story-telling convention. How do you establish they're bad? One option would be to make them Nazis or maybe have them wearing a black cowboy hat or some other recognized storytelling convention. The other way would be to show them doing bad things.
No, text messages are free to receive for me and for everybody I know. I remember it used to cost money to receive texts, but I haven't heard of that for like 7 or 8 years. Since there are millions of different kinds of contracts out there I wouldn't be surprised if some really low-end ones do cost money to receive texts, but it 's certainly not common.
The game is in no danger of being lost to time. And a copyright violation notice has nothing to do with whether or not it will be lost to time.
The game was based around wandering around a fantasy kingdom killing monsters. That made up approximately 100% of gameplay. They mentioned morality in the parts nobody cared about. It's no more deep than the cut scenes in Mario, where the Princess is in another castle.
The morality system of Bioware games is so incredibly trite, who cares what its inspirations were?
There's plenty of options...Metro PCS being one of them. Or just paying a few dollars more on your monthly fee for unlimited...or not using the phone for 2+ hours/day during work hours, in which case even the cheapest contracts will be more than enough to cover you...
Wow, you mean there's a wiki *besides* wikipedia, out there on the web? One that deals with a specialized topic in more detail than would be appropriate for wikipedia? That's amazing, a definite first, thanks a lot timothy!
China's filter is not bypassable. At least not for the large majority of Chinese internet users. You'd have to have a hookup to a proxy in another country (not practical for most people), or have access to paypal/a foreign credit card, and use that to get a proxy for $8/month. Regardless, even if that allows access to facebook & youtube, access to more sensitive items such as pornography or Falun Gong websites will still be blocked.
For what it's worth, because basically every single post in this discussion is wrong:
1) Hong Kong Google provides uncensored Internet search results. However, the websites themselves are still censored. For instance, using Hong Kong Google won't be a magic way to access blocked porn sites. Really the uncensored results are kind of a pain for normal use, it just means a bunch of broken links.
2) Hong Kong Google isn't anything new to China. Before Google set up a PRC Google, 3 years ago or so, that was the way PRC China users accessed Google. And for the past 3 years, Hong Kong Google has always been accessible.
3) Hong Kong is China, but the government in effect is guaranteed independence until 2047. Obviously there's some caveats and whatnot, but the PRC wouldn't just renege on this and tell HK Google what to do, because it would look bad internationally, and because they'd like Taiwan to agree to something similar.
4) Really, what this will do is slow Google searches by.03 seconds, and search results will provide a lot of links to websites that have been blocked (which if you're searching non-sensitive items in Chinese language, doesn't happen all that often - if you're searching non-sensitive English items, there are a fair number of false positives). I'm guessing a lot of localizations also will be lost or left undeveloped (for instance, Google Maps can tell you which subways to take to get around Shanghai).
Because that would limit the job pool to people who already live in the suburb, or are willing to re-locate just for the job. And depending on the type of business, it would also severely limit the clientele. If the businesses have to get services from other businesses, they'd be limited to the ones in the suburb. Taking your logic even further, maybe businesses should all re-locate to the plains of Montana.
You seem to have a blind faith that everything the Chinese Communist party decides to do not only makes good sense for China, but also would make good sense for the United States. The country is still ranked around #100 on a GDP/person basis, infrastructure is still being planned out and over-developed by bureaucrats with no real connection to reality except "Great Leap Forward"-like goals, and if you don't think China is in a bubble economy you have another thing coming.
High speed rail just isn't that good of an idea, in a country which already has a massive highway system, people already have cars, freight can already moved by rail, cities's public transportation isn't designed to handle a bunch of people being dropped off at the train station without a vehicle, and cities are small and far away.
Sure I love railway transport in Europe or Japan, even here in China it's OK and getting better. But there's good reason it's never caught on in America or Australia or a number of other nations.
Europe is secular precisely because most European countries have entrenched state religions.
Really, looking on European "secularism" as a role model! Perhaps you've heard about the genocide against Jews, or the genocide against Muslims, or widespread laws infringing on the rights of Muslims. Europe's lengthy history of religious discrimination and religious genocide is something every single nation should be working hard to avoid.
I realize I'm being pedantic, but in 1922, back when German cinema was arguably the world's biggest and best, Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse the Gambler featured an extended car chase sequence between the Dr. Mabuse, and the investigator hot on his trails. The policeman actually first had to follow after Mabuse on a horse, before quickly getting into a car - Germany was still transitioning at the time!
Although obviously it's been surpassed by other car chase scenes, it's uncanny how similar it is to a modern one, guns blazing and all. Maybe there's not much you can do with the basic idea.
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And the most litigious state in the nation is New Jersey.
It's fun to blame things on Puritans, something like a teenager hating on his parents for not letting him go to the party. Gambling is also illegal in many nations with no Puritans and largely different histories though, including most Asian nations (say, Thailand, China, Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia...which is more than half the world's population I've just listed, none because of the evil effect of Puritans)
Gambling demonstratively can be a compulsion that ruins individual lives for a great number of people. Of course that's a "reason" to make it illegal, whether or not you do agree with laws against gambling.
Not really. The game costs $60 new. If you're going to beat the game in less than a month, and never play it again, it makes more sense to rent it.
Alternatively, perhaps you play it for one day and decide it's not your thing. It certainly makes more sense than paying $60 for a game where there's a 50% chance you won't like it.
People care about hockey? And enough to riot?
A friend of mine in SF went in to pickup a copy of LA Noire on launch day. The salesdroid rather rudely stated, "We don't have any copies for non-preorders. If you wanted to play this game, then you should have preordered it." At which point he promptly went 5 minutes down the street to the pit of hell known as Best Buy and picked up one of the hundred or so copies on the shelf. He then returned to GameStop to give them a hearty "fuck you".
The real question is why this guy doesn't have anything better to do with his time.
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Arnold+s+new+ride+BHtgXqYT6Ail.jpg is in better shape than 99.8% of Slashdot and taken this year. There were a few bad pictures the guy took after his open-heart surgery, but the guy is still fucking built.
Dark Forces boils down to walking around pressing "a" over and over and over. That and some bullshit Mario 3D style jumping is the entire game.
KotOR on the other hand is a fucking classic.
A comet doing exactly what everybody knows it would do is not exactly news.
Future Slashdot headlines?
Moon still orbiting.
Sun still hot.
Rings still around Saturn.
Timothy posting stupid stories.
Facebook can be a good way to find out about people before you get to know them, and Julian Assange should look on the good side of Facebook as well. Like, when you meet a groupie online, you can easily search her background to make sure she's cool with going raw.
I view it as being more realistic. Large businesses don't exist to cater to the needs of obscure rural areas.
"Bad guys" is a basic story-telling convention. How do you establish they're bad? One option would be to make them Nazis or maybe have them wearing a black cowboy hat or some other recognized storytelling convention. The other way would be to show them doing bad things.
No, text messages are free to receive for me and for everybody I know. I remember it used to cost money to receive texts, but I haven't heard of that for like 7 or 8 years. Since there are millions of different kinds of contracts out there I wouldn't be surprised if some really low-end ones do cost money to receive texts, but it 's certainly not common.
The game is in no danger of being lost to time. And a copyright violation notice has nothing to do with whether or not it will be lost to time.
The game was based around wandering around a fantasy kingdom killing monsters. That made up approximately 100% of gameplay. They mentioned morality in the parts nobody cared about. It's no more deep than the cut scenes in Mario, where the Princess is in another castle.
The morality system of Bioware games is so incredibly trite, who cares what its inspirations were?
Is slashdot broken? There's supposedly 49 replies, why can't I see any of them?
If you want story, read a book, watch a movie, go to a play. Video game "plots" are laughably moronic and that isn't going to change any time soon.
There's plenty of options...Metro PCS being one of them. Or just paying a few dollars more on your monthly fee for unlimited...or not using the phone for 2+ hours/day during work hours, in which case even the cheapest contracts will be more than enough to cover you...
Wow, you mean there's a wiki *besides* wikipedia, out there on the web? One that deals with a specialized topic in more detail than would be appropriate for wikipedia? That's amazing, a definite first, thanks a lot timothy!
China's filter is not bypassable. At least not for the large majority of Chinese internet users. You'd have to have a hookup to a proxy in another country (not practical for most people), or have access to paypal/a foreign credit card, and use that to get a proxy for $8/month. Regardless, even if that allows access to facebook & youtube, access to more sensitive items such as pornography or Falun Gong websites will still be blocked.
Not Tradewars 2002?
For what it's worth, because basically every single post in this discussion is wrong: 1) Hong Kong Google provides uncensored Internet search results. However, the websites themselves are still censored. For instance, using Hong Kong Google won't be a magic way to access blocked porn sites. Really the uncensored results are kind of a pain for normal use, it just means a bunch of broken links. 2) Hong Kong Google isn't anything new to China. Before Google set up a PRC Google, 3 years ago or so, that was the way PRC China users accessed Google. And for the past 3 years, Hong Kong Google has always been accessible. 3) Hong Kong is China, but the government in effect is guaranteed independence until 2047. Obviously there's some caveats and whatnot, but the PRC wouldn't just renege on this and tell HK Google what to do, because it would look bad internationally, and because they'd like Taiwan to agree to something similar. 4) Really, what this will do is slow Google searches by .03 seconds, and search results will provide a lot of links to websites that have been blocked (which if you're searching non-sensitive items in Chinese language, doesn't happen all that often - if you're searching non-sensitive English items, there are a fair number of false positives). I'm guessing a lot of localizations also will be lost or left undeveloped (for instance, Google Maps can tell you which subways to take to get around Shanghai).
Because that would limit the job pool to people who already live in the suburb, or are willing to re-locate just for the job. And depending on the type of business, it would also severely limit the clientele. If the businesses have to get services from other businesses, they'd be limited to the ones in the suburb. Taking your logic even further, maybe businesses should all re-locate to the plains of Montana.
High speed rail just isn't that good of an idea, in a country which already has a massive highway system, people already have cars, freight can already moved by rail, cities's public transportation isn't designed to handle a bunch of people being dropped off at the train station without a vehicle, and cities are small and far away.
Sure I love railway transport in Europe or Japan, even here in China it's OK and getting better. But there's good reason it's never caught on in America or Australia or a number of other nations.
Really, looking on European "secularism" as a role model! Perhaps you've heard about the genocide against Jews, or the genocide against Muslims, or widespread laws infringing on the rights of Muslims. Europe's lengthy history of religious discrimination and religious genocide is something every single nation should be working hard to avoid.
Although obviously it's been surpassed by other car chase scenes, it's uncanny how similar it is to a modern one, guns blazing and all. Maybe there's not much you can do with the basic idea.
Widespread fast broadband access is key to a healthy economy and world-leading software industry. Just look at Japan, where...ohh, wait.