"Sports Riots?" Come on, dood, you're not even trying hard... jeez. OK, name a single "sports riot" on the scale of what you're seeing happening across the mid-east because of this cartoon. Citation to include number of rioters, number injured, dead body count, estimated expense of property damage, and duration (rounded up to days).
When the best you can pull out of your l'il Google-hat is LA '92 and Detroit '67, you provide what those of with clues call "The Exceptions Which Prove The Rule."
...it's a good thing it's not fundamentalist Christians doing the rioting.
That would be indefensible by the media.
Hey, come to think of it, there really isn't a lot of that rioting and setting-things-ablaze-for-days thing at all here in The West. Why d'you suppose that is?
g'head, g'head, discuss this amongst yourselves...
By a buncha Germans calling themselves Kraftwerk. And I still can't get that damned "Autobahn" outta my head. Damn you, Ralf and Forian! Damn you to Hell!!
What?!? Because it features the use of swords and plate armor prominently, it's "based on" medieval times? Nice try. What about the magic, orcs, and undead guys? Medieval times on which planet?
It's a fantasy world. Owned and created by Blizzard. Period. Full Stop. End of parchment. If Blizzard can make magic 'work,' gravity go up, teleportation a science, slavery legal, and dead people sexy, they can make homosexuality anathema -- in their world. Play there, or not. Support them with your dollars, or not. If they can nerf your character's dexterity and strength, what makes you think they can't nerf your... whatever you call it. Lord knows there's plenty of competition for your MMORPG dollar. Come play Eve; in space, no one cares who you shack up with.
All these people confusing MMORPGs with reality are starting to scare me...
...there'll be an interview with another crew-cut dude with a dot-mil e-mail address, not retired, who'll say the first dude had an axe to grind and is totally wrong. And he'll be right. And the first guy will have been right, too, well, mostly...
Yeah, but Fox is slanted.
Wait, I thought it was PBS that was slanted.
Hillary's moving to the right!!
But Condi's a snappier dresser.
Act before midnight tonight, and we'll throw in a debate on global warming!
Step Right Up! Choose yer channel, make yer choice!
What, that the NY Times is taking every opportunity it can to marginalize a Republican administration? No, not at all. The next headline will read that Fox News has talked to a team of scientists whose research runs counter to the United Nations' global warming initiatives, and the partisan rightwing nuts will jump over that in the same manner the leftwing loonies come to feast on the anti-Bush raw meat thrown to them in threads like this. Nobody actually learns anything, nobody has a genuine discussion, the agreeable pixels and warm hive-minding just make them feel good about opinions they've already formed and are uncomfortable about challenging.
The only winners are the people smart enough to be able to cash in on the pageviews.
friendly, inviting stores in which to buy the goods.
You find Apple stores inviting?!? I always feel like I've walked onto the set of a sequel to THX-1138 when I enter one of their ice caves. Since Apple always seems to have a handle on style above all else, I can only assume that "Early Post-Modern Soulless Dystopia" was the look they were going for, but, man! It's all like a lost verse from that Zager & Evans tune...
You're naive. Which is fine, if you weren't also so arrogant: THAT's an unfortunate combination.
The genesis of copyright law did not anticipate scanners, digitization, magnetic storage, the Internet, or any of that good stuff. It was, however, derived from and beholden to a centuries-old tradition of royal and governmental patronage of the arts. Kings paid poets with the money they skimmed from their people. Made sense that the ownership of the work "revert back" to the public eventually.
There is no substantive government subsidy for the arts (relative to those "days gone by" that you like to cite). Just about everyone does have a printing press, however. There's also about a half-dozen other real, meaningful technological and economic differences coloring copyright issues "then and now;" let's see if you can figure them out. The times could not be more different. Consequently, the way society views copyright, and its attendant laws, is changing as well. Legislators are starting to wonder why, in an era where no king or government uses public money to subsidize art, the public has some eventual claim to that art.
I'm saying there has been a ridiculous and often deliberate blurring of the distinction between that "freedom-wanting" information and "payment-wanting" entertainment ever since someone learned they could rip a CD to file and share it with 10,000 of their closest friends. You've asked me not to assume that just because something is entertainment that there is not intellectual freedom issue associated with it, and I say that's fair. But the state of things, in libraries and elsewhere, will be a lot better when people likewise understand that just because something can be digitized and easily disseminated does not makeit magically become "information" with a price tag of $0.
When it comes to protecting the availability of information most librarians don't give a damn about whether the information is for entertainment or education/research.
Uhhhhhh, do they give a damn whether it's an entry in an encyclopedia or Tom Clancy's latest book? The Clancy book is not "Information Wanting to Be Free," it's a friggin' novel, and it "wants" to be whatever its creator needs it to be. If the librarians don't distinguish between the two, then they're misguided, and they should consider trading in some of that "passion" for a clue.
So if I write a novel, distribute it via DRM'd e-book, I'm supposed to make a plain-text copy available to every library that wants it? I'm already trusting the "fans" not to crack the DRM and put the book's contents up on their blogs, now I'm going to trust total strangers (with that WTF-bizarro "Entertainment is Information and Information Cries Out To Be Free" chip on their shoulders) with an un-encrypted copy?
Sh'yeah. OK. That'll happen. I'll get right on it...
Dude, first off, begin sentences with caps and get a spell checker. It'll do wonders for your credibility.
seeing how Christains are such doubble standard people. they really just need to keep their mouth shut.
I'm a Christian. I don't have a double-standard. I talk a lot. What are you going to do to me? Cry all over my shoes?
there are jesus freaks and there are Christains.. some times they are the same but not always.
I'm not sure that was English, but, OK, I think I understand your point. And there are homosexuals and there are homosexuals with enormous chips on their shoulders who feel they are being oppressed and mocked if their local Walmart doesn't sell lavender-scented air freshener. So what's your point?
if i wanted my guild to then kick the butt of the jesus loving freaks than that would be a fun game.
"Jesus Loving Freaks"?
On second thought, let's just leave you as is, a testimony to the slashdot double-standard that makes Christians the only group (OK, besides Marketing) safe to malign or demean.
Dude, if a Christian posted here that he disagreed with the Blizzard policy cuz by having GLBT-friendly guilds clearly marked he could better target people for bashing, not only would he get modded down so fast he'd think the floor collapsed, but Cowboy Neal and Hemos themselves would be showing up on his front door within the hour with the arrest warrant for hate crimes.
So what's with this "cracker" in the headline? And "cracker-in-a-box" is a Saltine.
Please stop trying to kidnap the English language. C'mon, Geeks are supposed to be efficient: "Cracker" already means too many other things to effectively assume a new mantle, especially one already being served in the global media with "hacker." Yes, we're all sad that we benign computer hobbyists have to call ourselves "benign computer hobbyists" instead of the far more edgy-danger-cool "hacker" as we could for about a week-and-a-half in 1994, but time -- and language -- marches on.
Seriously. Get over it. You're embarrassing the rest of us.
He was also very forthright and VERY open about his personal life. Something you just don't see in other actors much.
I think you see it a bit too much, actually. "Cult of Celebrity," and all that. An odd societal quirk, to be sure, but clearly a big financial benefit to The Church of Scientology, so how bad can it be, right?
But I read the summary, and I clicked on and read the links, then I read and clicked and read again, and I still have absolutely no fuckin' idea what this is about. "Traveling roadshow?" Is that like a "stationary roadshow," only faster? But it's on my computer, right, so there's really no road per se, yes? And I'm looking at these sites why again? Because there's not enough websites about games, so someone stages this to introduce me to some? "Carnival" makes me think I'm gonna win something if I submit my personal game blog and it's selected, is that true? (Of course it's moot, because my wife is under orders to shoot me twice in the head at point blank range if I ever start a blog about gaming, so I guess I really don't care about that answer...) Does anyone sell zeppoles? Cuz I'll play along with y'all then, I love zeppoles. Slashdot keeps telling me that game journalism is the lowest form of journalism; did someone somewhere think this "traveling roadshow" is poised to somehow elevate its stature? Listen, I'm a pretty bright guy, and I've been around the track once or twice but this thing just stymies me. I'm going to lose sleep over this tonight, dammit. Did you lose a bet, and now slashdot has to promote something un-promotable? Am I the guinea pig in some kind of web-based Turing test, with this "carnival" the fever-dream of some cutting-edge AI that is googling random phrases and concepts and assembling them in an effort to trick me into thinking some actual human is behind all this? I've been three days without any hard liquor, everybody tells me I'm doing great, hey, keep it up, we knew you could do it! And now this!! Damn you, Zonk, damn you to hell!!
Slashdot Mirror
"Sports Riots?" Come on, dood, you're not even trying hard... jeez. OK, name a single "sports riot" on the scale of what you're seeing happening across the mid-east because of this cartoon. Citation to include number of rioters, number injured, dead body count, estimated expense of property damage, and duration (rounded up to days).
"Sports Riots." C'mon...!
When the best you can pull out of your l'il Google-hat is LA '92 and Detroit '67, you provide what those of with clues call "The Exceptions Which Prove The Rule."
Thanks for playing.
...it's a good thing it's not fundamentalist Christians doing the rioting.
That would be indefensible by the media.
Hey, come to think of it, there really isn't a lot of that rioting and setting-things-ablaze-for-days thing at all here in The West. Why d'you suppose that is?
g'head, g'head, discuss this amongst yourselves...
By a buncha Germans calling themselves Kraftwerk. And I still can't get that damned "Autobahn" outta my head. Damn you, Ralf and Forian! Damn you to Hell!!
medieval times, which WoW is based on
What?!? Because it features the use of swords and plate armor prominently, it's "based on" medieval times? Nice try. What about the magic, orcs, and undead guys? Medieval times on which planet?
It's a fantasy world. Owned and created by Blizzard. Period. Full Stop. End of parchment. If Blizzard can make magic 'work,' gravity go up, teleportation a science, slavery legal, and dead people sexy, they can make homosexuality anathema -- in their world. Play there, or not. Support them with your dollars, or not. If they can nerf your character's dexterity and strength, what makes you think they can't nerf your... whatever you call it. Lord knows there's plenty of competition for your MMORPG dollar. Come play Eve; in space, no one cares who you shack up with.
All these people confusing MMORPGs with reality are starting to scare me...
...there'll be an interview with another crew-cut dude with a dot-mil e-mail address, not retired, who'll say the first dude had an axe to grind and is totally wrong. And he'll be right. And the first guy will have been right, too, well, mostly...
Yeah, but Fox is slanted.
Wait, I thought it was PBS that was slanted.
Hillary's moving to the right!!
But Condi's a snappier dresser.
Act before midnight tonight, and we'll throw in a debate on global warming!
Step Right Up! Choose yer channel, make yer choice!
(Get away from me, Mod, ya bother me...)
What, that the NY Times is taking every opportunity it can to marginalize a Republican administration? No, not at all. The next headline will read that Fox News has talked to a team of scientists whose research runs counter to the United Nations' global warming initiatives, and the partisan rightwing nuts will jump over that in the same manner the leftwing loonies come to feast on the anti-Bush raw meat thrown to them in threads like this. Nobody actually learns anything, nobody has a genuine discussion, the agreeable pixels and warm hive-minding just make them feel good about opinions they've already formed and are uncomfortable about challenging.
The only winners are the people smart enough to be able to cash in on the pageviews.
friendly, inviting stores in which to buy the goods.
You find Apple stores inviting?!? I always feel like I've walked onto the set of a sequel to THX-1138 when I enter one of their ice caves. Since Apple always seems to have a handle on style above all else, I can only assume that "Early Post-Modern Soulless Dystopia" was the look they were going for, but, man! It's all like a lost verse from that Zager & Evans tune...
You're naive. Which is fine, if you weren't also so arrogant: THAT's an unfortunate combination.
The genesis of copyright law did not anticipate scanners, digitization, magnetic storage, the Internet, or any of that good stuff. It was, however, derived from and beholden to a centuries-old tradition of royal and governmental patronage of the arts. Kings paid poets with the money they skimmed from their people. Made sense that the ownership of the work "revert back" to the public eventually.
There is no substantive government subsidy for the arts (relative to those "days gone by" that you like to cite). Just about everyone does have a printing press, however. There's also about a half-dozen other real, meaningful technological and economic differences coloring copyright issues "then and now;" let's see if you can figure them out. The times could not be more different. Consequently, the way society views copyright, and its attendant laws, is changing as well. Legislators are starting to wonder why, in an era where no king or government uses public money to subsidize art, the public has some eventual claim to that art.
I'm saying there has been a ridiculous and often deliberate blurring of the distinction between that "freedom-wanting" information and "payment-wanting" entertainment ever since someone learned they could rip a CD to file and share it with 10,000 of their closest friends. You've asked me not to assume that just because something is entertainment that there is not intellectual freedom issue associated with it, and I say that's fair. But the state of things, in libraries and elsewhere, will be a lot better when people likewise understand that just because something can be digitized and easily disseminated does not makeit magically become "information" with a price tag of $0.
When it comes to protecting the availability of information most librarians don't give a damn about whether the information is for entertainment or education/research.
Uhhhhhh, do they give a damn whether it's an entry in an encyclopedia or Tom Clancy's latest book? The Clancy book is not "Information Wanting to Be Free," it's a friggin' novel, and it "wants" to be whatever its creator needs it to be. If the librarians don't distinguish between the two, then they're misguided, and they should consider trading in some of that "passion" for a clue.
So if I write a novel, distribute it via DRM'd e-book, I'm supposed to make a plain-text copy available to every library that wants it? I'm already trusting the "fans" not to crack the DRM and put the book's contents up on their blogs, now I'm going to trust total strangers (with that WTF-bizarro "Entertainment is Information and Information Cries Out To Be Free" chip on their shoulders) with an un-encrypted copy?
Sh'yeah. OK. That'll happen. I'll get right on it...
she was quite passionate about information freedom
Was she equally passionate about Entertainment Freedom? I'm sure she didn't confuse the two... did she?
Did you?
"/target: age?"
And I'm good to go.
Did you just cite Wikipedia on a geo-political-economic matter?!?
Dude, first off, begin sentences with caps and get a spell checker. It'll do wonders for your credibility.
seeing how Christains are such doubble standard people. they really just need to keep their mouth shut.
I'm a Christian. I don't have a double-standard. I talk a lot. What are you going to do to me? Cry all over my shoes?
there are jesus freaks and there are Christains.. some times they are the same but not always.
I'm not sure that was English, but, OK, I think I understand your point. And there are homosexuals and there are homosexuals with enormous chips on their shoulders who feel they are being oppressed and mocked if their local Walmart doesn't sell lavender-scented air freshener. So what's your point?
if i wanted my guild to then kick the butt of the jesus loving freaks than that would be a fun game.
"Jesus Loving Freaks"?
On second thought, let's just leave you as is, a testimony to the slashdot double-standard that makes Christians the only group (OK, besides Marketing) safe to malign or demean.
Dude, if a Christian posted here that he disagreed with the Blizzard policy cuz by having GLBT-friendly guilds clearly marked he could better target people for bashing, not only would he get modded down so fast he'd think the floor collapsed, but Cowboy Neal and Hemos themselves would be showing up on his front door within the hour with the arrest warrant for hate crimes.
Lighten up, Francis; you'll live longer.
...as a Leader of the Revolution.
So what's with this "cracker" in the headline? And "cracker-in-a-box" is a Saltine.
Please stop trying to kidnap the English language. C'mon, Geeks are supposed to be efficient: "Cracker" already means too many other things to effectively assume a new mantle, especially one already being served in the global media with "hacker." Yes, we're all sad that we benign computer hobbyists have to call ourselves "benign computer hobbyists" instead of the far more edgy-danger-cool "hacker" as we could for about a week-and-a-half in 1994, but time -- and language -- marches on.
Seriously. Get over it. You're embarrassing the rest of us.
I suppose this will lead to DDR being a sport in WV like Soccer and wrestling...
More in the, um, realm of figure skating, synchronized swimming, and that gymnastics thing with all the twirly flags on sticks.
If this was an Open Source project it would be called SPACKLE or The CRIPPLE.
...except they would probably make me keep a "blog."
So, no dice...
...but I still like to think it was inspired by this.
He was also very forthright and VERY open about his personal life. Something you just don't see in other actors much.
I think you see it a bit too much, actually. "Cult of Celebrity," and all that. An odd societal quirk, to be sure, but clearly a big financial benefit to The Church of Scientology, so how bad can it be, right?
Right?
But I read the summary, and I clicked on and read the links, then I read and clicked and read again, and I still have absolutely no fuckin' idea what this is about. "Traveling roadshow?" Is that like a "stationary roadshow," only faster? But it's on my computer, right, so there's really no road per se, yes? And I'm looking at these sites why again? Because there's not enough websites about games, so someone stages this to introduce me to some? "Carnival" makes me think I'm gonna win something if I submit my personal game blog and it's selected, is that true? (Of course it's moot, because my wife is under orders to shoot me twice in the head at point blank range if I ever start a blog about gaming, so I guess I really don't care about that answer...) Does anyone sell zeppoles? Cuz I'll play along with y'all then, I love zeppoles. Slashdot keeps telling me that game journalism is the lowest form of journalism; did someone somewhere think this "traveling roadshow" is poised to somehow elevate its stature? Listen, I'm a pretty bright guy, and I've been around the track once or twice but this thing just stymies me. I'm going to lose sleep over this tonight, dammit. Did you lose a bet, and now slashdot has to promote something un-promotable? Am I the guinea pig in some kind of web-based Turing test, with this "carnival" the fever-dream of some cutting-edge AI that is googling random phrases and concepts and assembling them in an effort to trick me into thinking some actual human is behind all this? I've been three days without any hard liquor, everybody tells me I'm doing great, hey, keep it up, we knew you could do it! And now this!! Damn you, Zonk, damn you to hell!!