I think what penny-arcade is trying to do is show that the end-result of these games (ie. the gamers) are not freaks on the verge of mass homicide, but people with hearts and minds that prefer to make people smile rather then bleed in the real world.
You know what? There are probably a lot of things you do that are "in bad taste" as seen by others. That doesn't mean you should tell people not to do it, or make them feel bad about it. The only people you are allowed to do that with is your family. Go tell your kids about what's in bad taste and what's not.
Okay, maybe what we need to do is pressure R. J. Dwayne Miller into releasing the movie to the public domain. After all, there are little school children around the world that would have thier entire perception of matter altered by this movie. Go slashdot minions! Find him, and guilt him into posting it here on slashdot. Mwahahaha!
Dude, no way. I was taking a "Modern Culture" class in my freshman year, and this dude's name was "Luke Walker". So the teacher asks him "Your middle name wouldn't happen to be Sky, would it?". This guy didn't know what the hell she was talking about. After some socializing I found out he was from middle-of-nowhere USA, and he had never even heard of Star Wars before. This was not a long time ago mind you; like 1997!
Anyways, I just wanted to share. You may all commence to bask in my story-telling glory.
PS: I agree with your "redundunt" judgement though. Anyone reading slashdot will know what star wars is.
Hey, could this stuff be used to isolate some compartments inside of a PC? Let's say I put some sheetmetal to isolate sections of the PC: motherboard, HD, powersuply.. etc. Now if I coated the sheetmetal with this stuff then can I be assured that each compartment will have an ISOLATED heating problem? If this is true it can help reduce the total number of fans needed in some PCs that have lots of components. For example, if I have a server with lots of drives (that I know are going to get hot) then I can isolate the drives, give them their own cooling method, and then just use normal cooling (simple CPU fan + back-of-tower-fan) to take care of the rest of the case. I wouldn't have to worry about the heat from the HDs going over to the MB/RAM... right? Please let me know if what I just said is dumb!:o)
Dude, true. I live in America, and you wouldn't believe the number of people I talk to about this stuff who think global warming is bull. I mean, what the hell? People here are nutz in general. A Large majority are the following: global warming is bull, "intelligent design" makes sense, "why do they hate us?".. etc etc etc. I am on the BRINK of moving out of here... But then I think, where is it any better? And if I leave, then am I helping those idiots get their way???
Re:I think they are fragile
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Diamonds are IMHO extremely fragile.
How fragile are they? I mean relative to, let's say, steal. will the force needed to bend a steal knife out of shape be enough to shatter a diamond knife blade?
Comment on second actual scenario: please ignore if that was sarcasm!
Did the Sumerians release massive quantities of green house gasses into the environment? Did the Sumerians have the ability to measure global temperature variations over a long period of time? Just because people haven't worried about something before doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about it now.
PS: I'm Persian == Sumerian + (sex with a lot of invaders: arabs, monguls, greeks, etc.).
That's still "byte code", which means it's still interpretted not "compiled" in the traditional sense. There are to-native compilers for Java, but their results are not by any means as fast as programs written in C++.
Amen. This is people not only gambling on what terrorist actions might take place, but they are also gambling on people getting killed. This seems extremely sick to me.
I know this is probably not what you really want, but what about Freenet? Freenet might be slow right now, but that's just because you aren't on it;o)
Re:Here's a different perspective
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Yes, yes, yes. There are many wrong things that every nation on earth has done. Frankly, I don't care about that. More importantly: I wasn't talking about that. I'm talking about a kid in Iraq right now who has to think, hear and see bombs being dropped down from the sky. I'm talking about the little kid in the chorus of Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Sky." I was also talking about what happens when people see that their local government is controlled by people who don't live locally.
Furthermore, "Islamic fundamentalism" was only a method, not a reason for the overthrow of western powers inside of Iran. People were pissed off that they are not allowed to live the way they feel like living. My grandparents are Muslim. My parents are Christian. I am Humanist. My SigOther is Buddhist. I try not to categorize human acts based on the religion of the perpetrators. That would go against the basic premise of my constitution. More immediately, it would result in at least one family member being offended by my statements. And, unavoidable, my mother will hear about it, and i will totally get smacked. So there you go. Does anyone of other religions wish to join my family? You'll be helping me be more tolerant of other people.;o)
Has anyone here ever thought about the full 5 season Bablyon 5 plot? One might be able to argue that it is an allusion to the USA/USSR conflicts within the Middle East. The Vorlons might represent USSR: scheduled, mandated order. The Shadows might represent USA: social and cultural evolution thru conflict. If the nations of this area had come to the same conclusion as the "lesser races" in Babylon 5, there wouldn't be so many problems. The Shadows have won.
On a less serious side note: I just noticed that my post was modded up to (Score:5, Insightful). Since this is my first contribution to discussions on/., I would like to borrow the proclamation which I have heard on many occasions from my younger brother: "woot!"
The way I like to look at things is that no one source will ever be the actual truth. "Actual truth" probably can't be written down anyways. I will be looking at sites that are at total opposites of the spectrum. Check out the following eclectic list:
Here's a different perspective
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I was born in Louisiana and now I live in Virginia. I was 3 years old and living in Tehran when Iraq attacked. I don't remember the war as a series of news reels on TV. I remember the war as nights filled with bombs whistling down on me. I remember the war by the faces of the uncles and cousins I lost. I remember the war by the silent nights that punctuated the months. All this time I knew that I was American. I remember, when I was 5, I thought that America was going to come and help me. They weren't going to let me die.
My parents didn't want to explain the dirty truths of the world to a little child. I had no idea that the bombs being dropped on my city were guided by America, but they were. I didn't know that the chemicals being used against my drafted uncles and cousins were provided to Iraq by America, but they were. I didn't know that my life was not as important as providing more oil for America, but I was not important. I am an American. I am an Iranian. I don't hate Iraqis. I don't hate Americans. I don't hate Saddam. I don't hate Bush. Hate is ignorance within fear. Fear is the mind killer.
But all occupied people rebel against their occupiers. No matter how wonderful they may be treated, they will rebel. Not because they hate their occupiers. Not because "they hate our freedoms" as my fearless leader so arrogantly phrased it. They will rebel because they are Iraqis, not Americans.
Why did America support Iraq when it attacked Iran? Iran had the audacity to tell America to leave. Iran no longer wanted to be a puppet state, and Iran deserved to be punished for that. Iraq will be the same. Conquerors often cloak themselves as liberators.
It might be easy for the average American citizen to accept that this is a "Just War." But, for someone who has been on the receiving end of a missile, this coupling of words is a
mockery of logic and respect for human life.
If you don't agree with me that is fine, but don't advocate war unless you feel so strongly that you are personally willing to run into a wall of enemy soldiers, armed with only a sword, knowing that you are going to die, and accepting it as the right thing to do. If you are not willing to do such a thing, then you do not truly believe that the fight is just.
But all that I just wrote is pointless because the spice must flow.
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I think what penny-arcade is trying to do is show that the end-result of these games (ie. the gamers) are not freaks on the verge of mass homicide, but people with hearts and minds that prefer to make people smile rather then bleed in the real world.
Touche.
You know what? There are probably a lot of things you do that are "in bad taste" as seen by others. That doesn't mean you should tell people not to do it, or make them feel bad about it. The only people you are allowed to do that with is your family. Go tell your kids about what's in bad taste and what's not.
Okay, maybe what we need to do is pressure R. J. Dwayne Miller into releasing the movie to the public domain. After all, there are little school children around the world that would have thier entire perception of matter altered by this movie. Go slashdot minions! Find him, and guilt him into posting it here on slashdot. Mwahahaha!
Dude, no way. I was taking a "Modern Culture" class in my freshman year, and this dude's name was "Luke Walker". So the teacher asks him "Your middle name wouldn't happen to be Sky, would it?". This guy didn't know what the hell she was talking about. After some socializing I found out he was from middle-of-nowhere USA, and he had never even heard of Star Wars before. This was not a long time ago mind you; like 1997!
Anyways, I just wanted to share. You may all commence to bask in my story-telling glory.
PS: I agree with your "redundunt" judgement though. Anyone reading slashdot will know what star wars is.
okay, it's good to be humbled once in a while ;) even if it's from someone who doesn't want to be identified. ;)
Hey, could this stuff be used to isolate some compartments inside of a PC? Let's say I put some sheetmetal to isolate sections of the PC: motherboard, HD, powersuply.. etc. Now if I coated the sheetmetal with this stuff then can I be assured that each compartment will have an ISOLATED heating problem? If this is true it can help reduce the total number of fans needed in some PCs that have lots of components. For example, if I have a server with lots of drives (that I know are going to get hot) then I can isolate the drives, give them their own cooling method, and then just use normal cooling (simple CPU fan + back-of-tower-fan) to take care of the rest of the case. I wouldn't have to worry about the heat from the HDs going over to the MB/RAM... right? Please let me know if what I just said is dumb! :o)
Dude, true. I live in America, and you wouldn't believe the number of people I talk to about this stuff who think global warming is bull. I mean, what the hell? People here are nutz in general. A Large majority are the following: global warming is bull, "intelligent design" makes sense, "why do they hate us?".. etc etc etc. I am on the BRINK of moving out of here... But then I think, where is it any better? And if I leave, then am I helping those idiots get their way???
Diamonds are IMHO extremely fragile.
How fragile are they? I mean relative to, let's say, steal. will the force needed to bend a steal knife out of shape be enough to shatter a diamond knife blade?
SciFi blows.
- disgruntled Farscape watcher -
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please ignore if that was sarcasm!
Did the Sumerians release massive quantities of green house gasses into the environment? Did the Sumerians have the ability to measure global temperature variations over a long period of time? Just because people haven't worried about something before doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about it now.
PS: I'm Persian == Sumerian + (sex with a lot of invaders: arabs, monguls, greeks, etc.).
It is i++ guys, it is every where. We are doomed
someone mod this guy up. that's freaking hilarious!
mod this guy up, the link was good.
When you say "at runtime" do you mean as the program loads, or as the code needs to be executed? I'm just wondering.
That's still "byte code", which means it's still interpretted not "compiled" in the traditional sense. There are to-native compilers for Java, but their results are not by any means as fast as programs written in C++.
Amen. This is people not only gambling on what terrorist actions might take place, but they are also gambling on people getting killed. This seems extremely sick to me.
I know this is probably not what you really want, but what about Freenet? Freenet might be slow right now, but that's just because you aren't on it ;o)
Yes, yes, yes. There are many wrong things that every nation on earth has done. Frankly, I don't care about that. More importantly: I wasn't talking about that. I'm talking about a kid in Iraq right now who has to think, hear and see bombs being dropped down from the sky. I'm talking about the little kid in the chorus of Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Sky." I was also talking about what happens when people see that their local government is controlled by people who don't live locally.
;o)
/., I would like to borrow the proclamation which I have heard on many occasions from my younger brother: "woot!"
Furthermore, "Islamic fundamentalism" was only a method, not a reason for the overthrow of western powers inside of Iran. People were pissed off that they are not allowed to live the way they feel like living. My grandparents are Muslim. My parents are Christian. I am Humanist. My SigOther is Buddhist. I try not to categorize human acts based on the religion of the perpetrators. That would go against the basic premise of my constitution. More immediately, it would result in at least one family member being offended by my statements. And, unavoidable, my mother will hear about it, and i will totally get smacked. So there you go. Does anyone of other religions wish to join my family? You'll be helping me be more tolerant of other people.
Has anyone here ever thought about the full 5 season Bablyon 5 plot? One might be able to argue that it is an allusion to the USA/USSR conflicts within the Middle East. The Vorlons might represent USSR: scheduled, mandated order. The Shadows might represent USA: social and cultural evolution thru conflict. If the nations of this area had come to the same conclusion as the "lesser races" in Babylon 5, there wouldn't be so many problems. The Shadows have won.
On a less serious side note: I just noticed that my post was modded up to (Score:5, Insightful). Since this is my first contribution to discussions on
The way I like to look at things is that no one source will ever be the actual truth. "Actual truth" probably can't be written down anyways. I will be looking at sites that are at total opposites of the spectrum. Check out the following eclectic list:
Iran
India
Switzerland
Russia
Saudi Arabia
I was born in Louisiana and now I live in Virginia. I was 3 years old and living in Tehran when Iraq attacked. I don't remember the war as a series of news reels on TV. I remember the war as nights filled with bombs whistling down on me. I remember the war by the faces of the uncles and cousins I lost. I remember the war by the silent nights that punctuated the months. All this time I knew that I was American. I remember, when I was 5, I thought that America was going to come and help me. They weren't going to let me die.
My parents didn't want to explain the dirty truths of the world to a little child. I had no idea that the bombs being dropped on my city were guided by America, but they were. I didn't know that the chemicals being used against my drafted uncles and cousins were provided to Iraq by America, but they were. I didn't know that my life was not as important as providing more oil for America, but I was not important. I am an American. I am an Iranian. I don't hate Iraqis. I don't hate Americans. I don't hate Saddam. I don't hate Bush. Hate is ignorance within fear. Fear is the mind killer.
But all occupied people rebel against their occupiers. No matter how wonderful they may be treated, they will rebel. Not because they hate their occupiers. Not because "they hate our freedoms" as my fearless leader so arrogantly phrased it. They will rebel because they are Iraqis, not Americans.
Why did America support Iraq when it attacked Iran? Iran had the audacity to tell America to leave. Iran no longer wanted to be a puppet state, and Iran deserved to be punished for that. Iraq will be the same. Conquerors often cloak themselves as liberators.
It might be easy for the average American citizen to accept that this is a "Just War." But, for someone who has been on the receiving end of a missile, this coupling of words is a mockery of logic and respect for human life.
If you don't agree with me that is fine, but don't advocate war unless you feel so strongly that you are personally willing to run into a wall of enemy soldiers, armed with only a sword, knowing that you are going to die, and accepting it as the right thing to do. If you are not willing to do such a thing, then you do not truly believe that the fight is just.
But all that I just wrote is pointless because the spice must flow.