How can someone who hate homesexuals, is against abortion and talkes about gods will be a bad person?
Ok, I'll bite.
1) It's unfair and shortsighted to assume that people who vote for Bush hate homosexuals. Just because a (large) group of people don't agree with the lifestyle of another, doesn't mean that they hate those people, nor does it mean they should be forced to condone or support it.
2) You seem to be grouping the "homosexual haters" and the right to life crowd under the same label, so I'll address it that way. I know that a lot of you left leaning people like to think that us "right-wing zealots" are all about taking peoples' rights away and oppressing women, blacks and anyone different than us, but you are just wrong. You don't get it and I doubt you ever will. The people in this country who oppose abortion oppose it for the express reason of defending the rights of a group of people who can't defend it themselves. When it comes down to a womans right to do as she pleases and a child's right to *life*, I'll choose the child's right to life. It may be a difference of opinion, but I feel that a persons right to their life is more important than another persons right to their own convenience.
It's disgusting to call into question the ability for someone to make a competent voting decision because they support another individuals right to life.
Why should USA listen to anyone else? We are the best and strongest, we should do what we feel like.
I agree with your first sentence here, but not for the reasons you claim. Why *should* we listen to other countries? We are a soverign nation, with our own culture, values, traditions and beliefs. Be damned the rest of the world if they don't like the things we do here in America. It's our Nation, not theirs.
This is so typical of the Bush hating crowd. Another individual that has a different opinion, outlook on life or moral compass is an idiot who couldn't think their way through a Taco Bell drive through.
What kind of balls do you have to have, in order to be so arrogant as to think that your opinion is the "correct" opinion, simply because it's yours?
No doubt, our fair moderators here at slashdot will mod me down as a troll or flamebait when this buffoon got a +4 Insightful for his narrowminded, fascist comments.
I actually got to the very end, but never beat the last boss. I find that I do that often, though. With most games, in the end, I've already seen what there is to see and the idea of sitting an hour through a disproportionatly difficult boss just to see a really, really crappy ending, doesn't strike me as very fun. =)
Oh, Germany and Japan are too recent for you? Well, how about the American Civil War? How about we go all the way back to the Roman empire? The Roman's brought peace and stability to a lot of countries that were nothing more than savages, constanly brutalizing and killing each other. (lol, I'm sure you'll enjoy drawing correlations between America and Rome, now that I've said that.)
It's obvious from your shallow argument and it's ignorant followup that what you really meant to say is that freedom can not be imposed from the point of a gun, by an occupying AMERICAN army, right?
If that's your real argument, what about Afganistan? Did you happen to hear that they just held elections?
How does EnderWiggnz's post get modded insightful? He has totally ignored modern history. As another poster pointed out, Japan and Germany are two great examples of how freedom and peace have been imposed by the business end of a weapon.
Does the public education system in this country even teach history any longer? EnderWiggnz isn't insighful, he's embarrassingly ignorant.
Hint to moderators... when someone tells someone else they are full of shit, that usually indicates the presence of a troll or flamebait.
Look, no one has ever said that shows like O'Reilly aren't biased. He's a political commentator, not a news anchor. By definition, you are going to get his opinion, not necessarily facts.
You are confusing this sort of programming with regular news and anchoring, something that most networks try to seperate, but only Fox News succeeds in doing. Does anyone remember Peter Jennings remarks on the morning of 9/11? There is your bias.. straight from the news desk.
No, I never said that Fox News was the ultimate source of authority over any factual information. I simply pointed out to the original poster that the existence of dissenting information doesn't make one or the other more or less valid.
I agree with your last statement though, my grief has always been that the majority of the people here at slashdot tend to just ride the bandwagon. It's popular to hate Bush|Ashcroft|Fox News|both major presidential parties|Religious people|Microsoft and the list goes on. I doubt few people could make real cogent arguments for their hatred of any of those things without calling names like school children. The simple fact that it tends to be fueled by hatred makes it's almost impossible.
Oh, good point. You can always trust a documentary, no matter who makes it, or what agenda they might have.
Remember slashdot kids, if it's on TV on in your local movie theater, it's got to be true, right? Honestly, I think most people here just tow the slashdot-party line, if you take my meaning. It's just popular to bash Fox News, because, heaven forbid, they might have intelligently voiced conservative viewpoints along with the intelligently voiced liberal viewpoints IN THE SAME SHOW!
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Don't expect leadership from the U.S. government. Members of the Bush administration can't even say Iran. It's not I-ran.
What the hell do you want? Strong words from Bush aren't going to make a bit of difference to the Iranian government.
Instead of trying to thinly veil your hate-rant about Bush and his administration in some pitiful complaint about them not taking a stand on this matter, just be a man and come out with it... get on the old i-hate-bush-bandwagon and ride it to November! YEE HAW!
You are a pretty sad individual to be so consumed with hate and vitriol that someone's accent stokes your hate fire so well. Do you feel the same way about the huge number of immigrants and minorities in this country? Or are their accents ok, as long as they vote Democrat?
It's both... the idea of free speech guarantees that both and idiot or an asshole can say or do what they want to do as long as it doesn't impede the rights of another.
Since, in this case, the candidate doesn't have the right to any domain he wishes except through normal, fair and public channels, he loses. He really should have been savy enough to consider purchasing domains that benefit him instead of this rival.
No one knows, it's about trust. The Won ident system for Half-life has been running since 1998 and it was only decommissioned last year for steam to take over.
If we are just talking abut random software distribution systems, maybe you have a point, but we are talking about a known, trusted (all jokes aside) software company that a majority of people believe will continue to support Steam, based on previous experiences. Namely, being able to use Won to play multi-player half-life/counter-strike/DoD for years now.
At first, Steam wasn't all that appealing to me other than a single point to access my online games or hookup with buddies, but now that I've seen that steam allows you to easily move your account from one computer to another and that games like HL2 are going to be offering options like pre-caching the game before release, the idea of downloading a 2GB game on release day isn't so daunting. Now, throw in a nice discount over the storebought copy and make sure you can download it from steam a day or so early, and you will have my money for sure.
How could you have the right to download any game you wish for all eternity, when the company that produces it doesn't have the right to stop offering said game if they want to? Maybe they they don't have the money to indefinitley offer the game for download. Maybe they just don't feel like doing it?
What makes you so special, that your rights are more important than anyone elses?
Surely you are joking. You don't expect us to believe that a Trooper in any state, even in the southern states people love to make fun of, doesn't know that Wisconsin is a state in the union?
I agree that it's inexcusable to not know where Canada is located, or any other country, for that matter. But to expect anyone from another country to know all of the territories/states/provinces,etc. in your country is a bit arrogant and short sighted. Not only do I not know every territory/state/province in your country, I couldn't give a flying fsck about them and it won't make my life any better or worse to know or not to know them. It won't even make me look smarter in front of other people because it's just Canada.
Can you point out and name each province in Japan? Quick! Where is the Osaka province? What about the Dhahran province in India? Here's a hint.. basmati is grown there. No?
Instead of yucking it up about how stupid 'mercans are, why don't you pull your head out of your ass and postfix CANADA to the end of your little introduction so that people who don't live in Canada know where you live.
No, your post is very insightful. Instead of using "Ask Slashdot" for a firstline of techsupport, most of the tools who send these questions in should simply do the obvious thing. That being, either google for it, or ask the person/entity involved. 90% of the ask slashdot questions can be solved in one of those ways and it's usually quickly pointed out in the comments.
"I would wager that the majority of the public buys CDs at placed such as that. Call it FUD, but I can take pictures, if need be."
And, I would wager that Walmart, Best Buy and Amazon.com, just to name a few do more music CD sales in one year than FYE dreams of doing in it's lifetime.
Yeah, pictures would be nice. Just because you like to waste your money at your local FYE, doesn't mean the rest of the country does. I want to see the pictures of thousands of eager music fans clamouring to buy those $18 CD's because they have no alternative other than the precious FYE at your mall.
Where do you shop? Overpriced boutiques where the thin waif of a sales person tries to sell you some idiotic membership card?
I downloaded a free song from iTMS last week.. "They" by Jem. I liked it so much, I went to Best Buy and bought the entire album for $9.99, the same price as iTMS and with art and a real stamped CD. And I got to rip it at my choice of quality.
Invariably, when talking about purchasing music online, someone likes to bring up FUD about Cd's that cost around $18-22. Reality check: Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon.com and countless other stores routinely sell music for well under $15 and closer to $10 when you get right down to it.
Honestly, I never got into it. The idiotic looking hair of the Centarians (sp?) just totally turned me off. As vapid and short-sighted as that may be... I'm being honest.
The original poster's post was informative, filled with reasonable information and logical debate. Yours is filled with illogical emotional outbursts, wide ranging, unrealized claims and typical gloom and doom. Your only decent point, littered with sarcasm and cursing, was in regards to the fallout.
Something I totally forgot to mention when I was ridiculing your idiotic post earlier. The game being discussed here... isn't it just an advertisement for a restaurant chain? Where is the risk in that? Other than advertising dollars being lost?
And how does this nippon-wannabe gaijin get modded to insightful? He's blowing hot smoke up any moderators ass who thinks he might even have half a correct thought in this matter.
$100 on the table that right at this moment, he has a life-size pillow in his bedroom with some lolikon picture of a underage school-girl on it with her pantsu showing.
HELLO INTARWEB SIR: THE NIPPON PEOPLES DO MAKE TEH BAD VIDEO GAMES! BUT zOMFG, YOU ARE NIPPON, SO YOU MAYBE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?
Seriously, why don't drop the anime/manga/gaigokujin/mecha/asian_girlfriend_lust ing stereotype crap and use your brain for a sec. The Japanese industry does produce crap... it's just not sold here.
Geez, talk about opening yourself up to flames of hell here at slashdot. You just confirmed their hatred with that Bible remark. Not only is he st00pid, but now he's a Bible reading hayseed.
Who cares what you install first, why the hell do you reformat your machine once a month? Does the spyware you install and the hourly virus infections get so bad that re-installing is your only choice?
A seemingly little known fact. The cost of living in the south is very different from the north, east, west and most of the midwest. All "backwater" jokes aside... that salary that barely paid the bills in Cleveland, etc. will net you a nice standard of living down here. And no fscking snow to shovel either.
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How can someone who hate homesexuals, is against
abortion and talkes about gods will be a bad person?
Ok, I'll bite.
1) It's unfair and shortsighted to assume that people who vote for Bush hate homosexuals. Just because a (large) group of people don't agree with the lifestyle of another, doesn't mean that they hate those people, nor does it mean they should be forced to condone or support it.
2) You seem to be grouping the "homosexual haters" and the right to life crowd under the same label, so I'll address it that way. I know that a lot of you left leaning people like to think that us "right-wing zealots" are all about taking peoples' rights away and oppressing women, blacks and anyone different than us, but you are just wrong. You don't get it and I doubt you ever will. The people in this country who oppose abortion oppose it for the express reason of defending the rights of a group of people who can't defend it themselves. When it comes down to a womans right to do as she pleases and a child's right to *life*, I'll choose the child's right to life. It may be a difference of opinion, but I feel that a persons right to their life is more important than another persons right to their own convenience.
It's disgusting to call into question the ability for someone to make a competent voting decision because they support another individuals right to life.
Why should USA listen to anyone else?
We are the best and strongest, we should do
what we feel like.
I agree with your first sentence here, but not for the reasons you claim. Why *should* we listen to other countries? We are a soverign nation, with our own culture, values, traditions and beliefs. Be damned the rest of the world if they don't like the things we do here in America. It's our Nation, not theirs.
This is so typical of the Bush hating crowd. Another individual that has a different opinion, outlook on life or moral compass is an idiot who couldn't think their way through a Taco Bell drive through.
What kind of balls do you have to have, in order to be so arrogant as to think that your opinion is the "correct" opinion, simply because it's yours?
No doubt, our fair moderators here at slashdot will mod me down as a troll or flamebait when this buffoon got a +4 Insightful for his narrowminded, fascist comments.
The Florida Supreme Court should have the sole power to interpret Florida's statutes and make Florida law.
Since when is any judical branch given the right to make law? In any state?
You have a really, really poor understanding of how our system of government works.
I actually got to the very end, but never beat the last boss. I find that I do that often, though. With most games, in the end, I've already seen what there is to see and the idea of sitting an hour through a disproportionatly difficult boss just to see a really, really crappy ending, doesn't strike me as very fun. =)
Oh, Germany and Japan are too recent for you? Well, how about the American Civil War? How about we go all the way back to the Roman empire? The Roman's brought peace and stability to a lot of countries that were nothing more than savages, constanly brutalizing and killing each other. (lol, I'm sure you'll enjoy drawing correlations between America and Rome, now that I've said that.)
It's obvious from your shallow argument and it's ignorant followup that what you really meant to say is that freedom can not be imposed from the point of a gun, by an occupying AMERICAN army, right?
If that's your real argument, what about Afganistan? Did you happen to hear that they just held elections?
How does EnderWiggnz's post get modded insightful? He has totally ignored modern history. As another poster pointed out, Japan and Germany are two great examples of how freedom and peace have been imposed by the business end of a weapon.
... when someone tells someone else they are full of shit, that usually indicates the presence of a troll or flamebait.
Does the public education system in this country even teach history any longer? EnderWiggnz isn't insighful, he's embarrassingly ignorant.
Hint to moderators
Look, no one has ever said that shows like O'Reilly aren't biased. He's a political commentator, not a news anchor. By definition, you are going to get his opinion, not necessarily facts.
You are confusing this sort of programming with regular news and anchoring, something that most networks try to seperate, but only Fox News succeeds in doing. Does anyone remember Peter Jennings remarks on the morning of 9/11? There is your bias.. straight from the news desk.
No, I never said that Fox News was the ultimate source of authority over any factual information. I simply pointed out to the original poster that the existence of dissenting information doesn't make one or the other more or less valid.
I agree with your last statement though, my grief has always been that the majority of the people here at slashdot tend to just ride the bandwagon. It's popular to hate Bush|Ashcroft|Fox News|both major presidential parties|Religious people|Microsoft and the list goes on. I doubt few people could make real cogent arguments for their hatred of any of those things without calling names like school children. The simple fact that it tends to be fueled by hatred makes it's almost impossible.
Remember slashdot kids, if it's on TV on in your local movie theater, it's got to be true, right? Honestly, I think most people here just tow the slashdot-party line, if you take my meaning. It's just popular to bash Fox News, because, heaven forbid, they might have intelligently voiced conservative viewpoints along with the intelligently voiced liberal viewpoints IN THE SAME SHOW!
Don't expect leadership from the U.S. government. Members of the Bush administration can't even say Iran. It's not I-ran.
What the hell do you want? Strong words from Bush aren't going to make a bit of difference to the Iranian government.
Instead of trying to thinly veil your hate-rant about Bush and his administration in some pitiful complaint about them not taking a stand on this matter, just be a man and come out with it... get on the old i-hate-bush-bandwagon and ride it to November! YEE HAW!
You are a pretty sad individual to be so consumed with hate and vitriol that someone's accent stokes your hate fire so well. Do you feel the same way about the huge number of immigrants and minorities in this country? Or are their accents ok, as long as they vote Democrat?
It's both... the idea of free speech guarantees that both and idiot or an asshole can say or do what they want to do as long as it doesn't impede the rights of another.
Since, in this case, the candidate doesn't have the right to any domain he wishes except through normal, fair and public channels, he loses. He really should have been savy enough to consider purchasing domains that benefit him instead of this rival.
No one knows, it's about trust. The Won ident system for Half-life has been running since 1998 and it was only decommissioned last year for steam to take over.
If we are just talking abut random software distribution systems, maybe you have a point, but we are talking about a known, trusted (all jokes aside) software company that a majority of people believe will continue to support Steam, based on previous experiences. Namely, being able to use Won to play multi-player half-life/counter-strike/DoD for years now.
At first, Steam wasn't all that appealing to me other than a single point to access my online games or hookup with buddies, but now that I've seen that steam allows you to easily move your account from one computer to another and that games like HL2 are going to be offering options like pre-caching the game before release, the idea of downloading a 2GB game on release day isn't so daunting. Now, throw in a nice discount over the storebought copy and make sure you can download it from steam a day or so early, and you will have my money for sure.
How could you have the right to download any game you wish for all eternity, when the company that produces it doesn't have the right to stop offering said game if they want to? Maybe they they don't have the money to indefinitley offer the game for download. Maybe they just don't feel like doing it?
What makes you so special, that your rights are more important than anyone elses?
Surely you are joking. You don't expect us to believe that a Trooper in any state, even in the southern states people love to make fun of, doesn't know that Wisconsin is a state in the union?
I call bullshit here.
I agree that it's inexcusable to not know where Canada is located, or any other country, for that matter. But to expect anyone from another country to know all of the territories/states/provinces,etc. in your country is a bit arrogant and short sighted. Not only do I not know every territory/state/province in your country, I couldn't give a flying fsck about them and it won't make my life any better or worse to know or not to know them. It won't even make me look smarter in front of other people because it's just Canada.
Can you point out and name each province in Japan? Quick! Where is the Osaka province? What about the Dhahran province in India? Here's a hint.. basmati is grown there. No?
Instead of yucking it up about how stupid 'mercans are, why don't you pull your head out of your ass and postfix CANADA to the end of your little introduction so that people who don't live in Canada know where you live.
No, your post is very insightful. Instead of using "Ask Slashdot" for a firstline of techsupport, most of the tools who send these questions in should simply do the obvious thing. That being, either google for it, or ask the person/entity involved. 90% of the ask slashdot questions can be solved in one of those ways and it's usually quickly pointed out in the comments.
And, I would wager that Walmart, Best Buy and Amazon.com, just to name a few do more music CD sales in one year than FYE dreams of doing in it's lifetime.
Yeah, pictures would be nice. Just because you like to waste your money at your local FYE, doesn't mean the rest of the country does. I want to see the pictures of thousands of eager music fans clamouring to buy those $18 CD's because they have no alternative other than the precious FYE at your mall.
Where do you shop? Overpriced boutiques where the thin waif of a sales person tries to sell you some idiotic membership card?
I downloaded a free song from iTMS last week.. "They" by Jem. I liked it so much, I went to Best Buy and bought the entire album for $9.99, the same price as iTMS and with art and a real stamped CD. And I got to rip it at my choice of quality.
Invariably, when talking about purchasing music online, someone likes to bring up FUD about Cd's that cost around $18-22. Reality check: Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon.com and countless other stores routinely sell music for well under $15 and closer to $10 when you get right down to it.
Honestly, I never got into it. The idiotic looking hair of the Centarians (sp?) just totally turned me off. As vapid and short-sighted as that may be... I'm being honest.
stwrtpj,
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The original poster's post was informative, filled with reasonable information and logical debate. Yours is filled with illogical emotional outbursts, wide ranging, unrealized claims and typical gloom and doom. Your only decent point, littered with sarcasm and cursing, was in regards to the fallout.
H3 pwnz j00
Something I totally forgot to mention when I was ridiculing your idiotic post earlier. The game being discussed here... isn't it just an advertisement for a restaurant chain? Where is the risk in that? Other than advertising dollars being lost?
And how does this nippon-wannabe gaijin get modded to insightful? He's blowing hot smoke up any moderators ass who thinks he might even have half a correct thought in this matter.
$100 on the table that right at this moment, he has a life-size pillow in his bedroom with some lolikon picture of a underage school-girl on it with her pantsu showing.
HELLO INTARWEB SIR: THE NIPPON PEOPLES DO MAKE TEH BAD VIDEO GAMES! BUT zOMFG, YOU ARE NIPPON, SO YOU MAYBE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?
t ing stereotype crap and use your brain for a sec. The Japanese industry does produce crap... it's just not sold here.
Seriously, why don't drop the anime/manga/gaigokujin/mecha/asian_girlfriend_lus
Geez, talk about opening yourself up to flames of hell here at slashdot. You just confirmed their hatred with that Bible remark. Not only is he st00pid, but now he's a Bible reading hayseed.
Who cares what you install first, why the hell do you reformat your machine once a month? Does the spyware you install and the hourly virus infections get so bad that re-installing is your only choice?
A seemingly little known fact. The cost of living in the south is very different from the north, east, west and most of the midwest. All "backwater" jokes aside... that salary that barely paid the bills in Cleveland, etc. will net you a nice standard of living down here. And no fscking snow to shovel either.