See, where you go wrong is that there IS NO classic American reasoning. We don't agree, and we like it that way. We can respect each other because we don't agree AND we don't violently overthrow our government when it isn't to our liking. In that respect, America is like no other nation on earth. There have been no coups, no military takeovers. Republicans didn't try to assassinate Clinton, and Democrats won't assassinate Bush. Americans can disagree without civil war. We have learned how to, and it hasn't been easy. I am an aggressive right wing american, but if anyone tries to harm my favorite leftist pinko hippie I will fight to the death to protect him. I served in the military, and every time I find myself angry at any particular political activity I simply remind myself that we all serve so that these actions of the people can continue. So the experiment goes on. It's not utopia, thank god, for utopias are one man's or one group's vision of a perfect world, and all who live in it must share the goals of the utopian society or die. Utopias are scary. Logan's run scary. And I will endure a million more hippies before I would let Europe or Asia decide the fate of the American people. So fuck you. For you, your little fairy tale utopia rides into town with a gun and forces everyone to get along and like each other. It's saccharine. It's illusory. Well, I don't like the KKK any more than you do, but it's their right to say what they say, and it's our right to both think what we want to about them for it, and say it out loud as well. These rednecks have to hide their faces because they fear the social consequences of the idiocy they preach. I'm glad they do. That way they are aware of just how tiny the group that thinks like them is. If you muzzle them, they go underground and start causing real trouble. Luckily, your closing line reveals your true motives, and underscores the fact that these objections we're being told are from reasonable parties are actually being made by rabid, murderous America-haters. You just endorsed the deaths of my countrymen, you scum. I don't care if they're all massachusetts liberals. They're Americans and they're US. We. We don't agree, and it's ok. You, on the other hand, are different. You can't disagree without wishing death on others. That's sad. Maybe something to do with how you were raised?
I thought the article was about speech. You're talking about beating the shit out of people. Hate speech and assault are totally separate items. It is legal in the United States to claim that the "JOOOOS" control the media, etcetera. It's also legal to call white people Crackers. True freedom is extended even to those who differ from you, and all of your friends. True freedom applies to everybody, even assholes. You're missing the fact that the whole reason for the USA is to not be Europe. We are not the same, and we don't think the same way in regards to people's rights.
The true meaning of the Constitution isn't to promote some utopian vision of everyone getting along toward a common goal. The vision is more of a hundred million individuals each pursuing his or her OWN goals. That's how it's supposed to be. Structured, lawful anarchy.
It's a fucking fictional game setting, man! Can you hold the sanctimoniousness for one fucking second? In case you're wondering, I AM deliberately being unpleasant. Anyway, the book of Revelations is fascinating from a horror standpoint. Have you seen The Omen movies? Come on, the notion of an "anti-christ", kind of a balancing evil figure rising to power is an interesting premise. The surreal nature of the book is so over the top that it would be difficult to write something that compared to it. And many Christians don't give a flying crap about the interpretation of Revelations, as it seems INTENDED to be cryptic. I don't know, maybe something about it being a puzzle to be solved at a later date. Even if it wasn't "divinely inspired" it's still way fucking weird. Think about it, man- an entire planet being used as a stage for a fight between good and evil. Classical storymaking. Okay, I don't get the cups, bowls, and seals, either. It's okay. Many great novels and movies have expanded on the concepts of the apocalypse as presented (or hinted at) in Revelations. And Pentagrams of blood are creepy. There was a FPS game in the early 90s with this theme, but I can't remember what it was. Anyway, if you have gotten this far, I want you to know all the cussin' was for dramatic effect. I have nothing against you. Truly I don't like evangelical atheists any more than I like Evangelical anything-else, but I meant no ill will. Just funnin'.
I agree. If I had a hundred thousand dollars, I would probably purchase this crap and then spend the next 4 years auctioning it all off individually and making oh, say,
dum dum DUM!
ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!
It's an evil plan, but someone's gonna get rich on this guy.
I shall thank you, kind sir, to kindly avoid extremely funny comedic references in the future, as you have caused rather grevious harm to my monitor. I was not imbibing a liquid, but rather, am experiencing a bit of a flu, and my monitor now bears a more smeary and irresolute image of slashdot. It's really quite dreadful. /gross
OTOH it may be breach of contract if the seller signed contracts promising not to sell this equipment. Also, this equipment may be LEASED from the licensor, which would make it sale of stolen property if the seller is not the original leasing party.. yadda yadda.
It isn't illegal to sell the Dev kits. It looks like a bankruptcy liquidation or a collector. What would be illegal would be duplication of copyrighted games. Using an eBay acquired dev kit to produce unauthorized games isn't illegal at least in the USA.
In reality, though, most wars are not so much fought for idealogical reasons as you might think. War is simply law enforcement on the large scale. Since men cannot live in an anarchic society, leaders of men must also live to international standards. War is fought to enforce this, or to steal territory, or resources. In the 1930s, the Japanese realized that their population was exploding, and their resources were insufficient to grant them any quality of life. To gain resources, they invaded China. It wasn't because they were evil, it was because they were desperate for iron, coal, and petroleum. Wars between fascist dictators are generally fought for the commodity of pride and appearance. These "cult of personality" types see their own image as their nation's most valuable commodity, and will invade their neighbors, etc. to save face. Take that however you choose.
The ironic part of HDTV is that because of it, videographers will be very likely to use either an unsharp mask or a diffusion lens in closeups such as interviews, etc. So they'll take our high-resolution, super-sharp television and blur it as soon as a face or skin is shown!
You are an idiot, and you don't know what you're talking about. There is no way for a nuclear reactor of the type used on spacecraft to go critical and form a nuclear explosion. The worst case scenario would be thermal runaway leading to melt down. Melt down means the fuel liquefies. And quite a few people DO want to send fission reactors to space.
It's a shame. I had heard that there was more to this than simply the licensing. If David has a poor attitude, it's best that developers move beyond him. That's the beauty of the GPL; there is no single point of failure. It doesn't depend on any one person, group, or corporation in order to expand, improve, and mature. The rants I have been reading on Xfree86's forums basically support my initial impression that David believes that he controls X in the free *nix world. It's funny that because of the GPL, the scenario being complained about (with developers leaving and funding a project for their own best interest) is EXACTLY why FOSS is attractive. You can MAKE LINUX AND FOSS DO WHAT YOU WANT. This is good news. This period of flux is also proof to industry that Linux and other open source software can recover from a setback faster than proprietary software can. Linux. It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
I got my MDK 10 disks from linuxcentral for supercheap, had some minor installation problems related to my Nforce2 motherboard. In advance, if you have problems during install, just boot linux noapic nolapic.
Same results here on Athlon XP systems. Suse was bogged down in a big way, Mandrake 10 seems crisper and more responsive. I would have to say that Suse needs some better kernel optimizations. I didn't do a kernel recompile on either installation, maybe I will do that before nuking the Suse partition.
That is a totally ridiculous post. What you're saying, without a shred of evidence, is that the existence of kP actively discouraged the abuse of children. Such a position would require some sort of evidence to back it up. You than assert that there is no difference between a simple nude and a genital closeup. The difference is the clear intent of the photographer. If the purpose is to show the private bodily areas of a child for enjoyment by adults, I think most would agree that's kP for reason of lasciviousness. Your moral relativist post reveals more about your character than any insight into the facts of child abuse. Basically, you believe that nothing can really be defined as "bad" or "wrong" since the actual material changes between innocent photography and porn are small and incremental. You're saying that the existence of incremental changes between the two negates the perception of diffenence between the two endpoints. That's just silly. You are in effect saying that the existence of grey proves that neither black nor white can exist! Furthermore, you imply that doing chores as a child is equally exploitative as being anally raped on film at seven years old. These arguments, while appearing logical, are simply the abscence of human intelligence in decision making. Human intelligence is discernment, and it's more complicated than boolean logic. You can't use OR and XNOR in everyday life because it doesn't work there. Real live has more than 4 possible results for two events. It is decidedly analog, not binary. I suggest you learn to tell the difference. Also, your attempt to blame Reagan for the "explosion" in child abuse reveals an ignorance of the topic. Child sexual abuse has always been prevalent. This is evidenced by numerous scientifically documented reports by sociologists and psychologists who document case studies of the profound psychological effects of child abuse. What you see as an explosion in child abuse is a complicated blend of factors including increases in reporting rates of abuse, the increase in publicity in the media, and a society which is increasingly sexualized and sexually narcissistic. It's not as logical as "A" therefore "B", it's more nuanced, such as "A, 50%", "C, 120%", "V, 105%", therefore "B=B+10". It defies your attempts to simplify, and any attempt to tie one single cause to it makes you look silly.
Wait- you mean I could buy a multiprocessor RISC machine to surf the web, play PC games on, etc. AND be able to get console games perfectly optimized for my system's architecture and completely tested with my hardware? And for SIX HUNDRED BUCKS? Count me IN. Of course, the ability to hook up standard firewire or USB2 hard drives, network cards, etc etc. would be a total bonus.
I wasn't defending it's use, I was clarifying the difference between a homosexual and an effeminate man. Did that go over your head? And linking my statement to the violence perpetrated against both is simply weak. Sorry you couldn't grasp what I meant. I shall strive to be more clear and definite in future posts.
I disagree heartily. I find the sun's core pressure to be rational and completely predictable. I think insane is too inflammatory a word for the center of the sun. Besides, there are many stars with a core pressure much higher than Sol's, and nobody's calling them names. Is it because they're white, maybe?
I actually agree. There had to be a patsy senator to move to grant power to palpatine. He's the only one stupid enough to be that controllable. Jar-Jar's character is necessary but annoying. I wish they didn't do the roger rabbit/step'n'fetchit hybrid job on him, though. I thought that was retarded.
Episode II was rather unlikeable until you "get it" as well. Unfortunately, the fireplace love speech in it was the most disgustingly trite and poorly written drek I have ever seen. Watch it again- it turnes the stomach. Some of the criticism is well deserved though- like the fact that apparently the entire first battle of the clone wars begins in an arena. Okay, it progresses out of there, but why is the chancellor's character so completely without motive? Is he just evil for the purpose of being evil? If so, that's ludicrous. People do bad stuff because it benefits them.
Hey, how about they stay home and make their own country better instead of simply exporting all of their intelligent people here? How about they ditch communism and get a real representative government? How about they build their own businesses apart from their military? How come all of the ills of the world are the fault of the USA?
See, your main problem in this "line" of argument is that you assert that America claiming the moon like some brat in a sandbox is BAD whereas the rather less socially conscious Chinese government doing so would be less bad. I would also like you to justify the claim you made about Bush cutting NASA spending. Even if he did, I would say NASA needs a bit of redirection, as their big spendy program, the ISS, accomplishes nothing. I built all 20 of the Space Station Emergency Lighting Power Supplies and battery packs. It kept me employed for 3 years. But really, it doesn't do anything up there. At least giving them a goal accomplishes something. In the past, setting goals lit the fires under our scientific community and got development of new tech started. Even if we fail, it's better to fail with a goal than to meander aimlessly with a multibillion dollar budget.
I know it's offensive, but here fag is used to describe a weak, sissy person, not merely homosexual. As any of us knows, there is a difference between a homo and a faggot. A homosexual is a man who likes other men sexually. A faggot sounds like he's from philadelphia no matter where he grew up, uses extremely gay-centric mannerisms, is generally prissy, girly overall, and generally not quite male. He doesn't have to be gay, just extremely effeminate and trite. It's used like the term "fanboy", to show disdain for those who have completely bought in and sold their soul to a particular affectation or lifestyle. See GOTH. Also POSEUR.
A truly gay man likes MEN. To like faggots you have to actually be another faggot, or a gay man who still kinda wants women. Or womany men.
Fags also like to overshare about their sexual exploits in an attempt to get a reaction from their "straight" friends- and by straight I don't mean heterosexual per se, but instead I refer to those of us who don't share information about whether our wives spit or swallow with perfect strangers and peripheral acquaintances.
I understand that the homosexual community certainly has much cause to maintain vigilance to prevent persecution. However, it is unreasonable for all unpleasant words to be purged from our society to please everyone. Fag will remain in the vernacular to refer to specific highly annoying mannerisms. Ask Chris Rock if he thinks the word "nigger" should be banned or neglected. It refers to a specific stereotype which is unfortunately reinforced by those who actually fit the stereotype. Some gays are also faggots. If a "straight" friend of mine team kills me in UT2003, then for the next 5 minutes HE is a faggot too.
It's just how it works.
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See, where you go wrong is that there IS NO classic American reasoning. We don't agree, and we like it that way. We can respect each other because we don't agree AND we don't violently overthrow our government when it isn't to our liking. In that respect, America is like no other nation on earth. There have been no coups, no military takeovers. Republicans didn't try to assassinate Clinton, and Democrats won't assassinate Bush. Americans can disagree without civil war. We have learned how to, and it hasn't been easy. I am an aggressive right wing american, but if anyone tries to harm my favorite leftist pinko hippie I will fight to the death to protect him. I served in the military, and every time I find myself angry at any particular political activity I simply remind myself that we all serve so that these actions of the people can continue. So the experiment goes on. It's not utopia, thank god, for utopias are one man's or one group's vision of a perfect world, and all who live in it must share the goals of the utopian society or die. Utopias are scary. Logan's run scary. And I will endure a million more hippies before I would let Europe or Asia decide the fate of the American people. So fuck you. For you, your little fairy tale utopia rides into town with a gun and forces everyone to get along and like each other. It's saccharine. It's illusory. Well, I don't like the KKK any more than you do, but it's their right to say what they say, and it's our right to both think what we want to about them for it, and say it out loud as well. These rednecks have to hide their faces because they fear the social consequences of the idiocy they preach. I'm glad they do. That way they are aware of just how tiny the group that thinks like them is. If you muzzle them, they go underground and start causing real trouble.
Luckily, your closing line reveals your true motives, and underscores the fact that these objections we're being told are from reasonable parties are actually being made by rabid, murderous America-haters. You just endorsed the deaths of my countrymen, you scum. I don't care if they're all massachusetts liberals. They're Americans and they're US. We. We don't agree, and it's ok. You, on the other hand, are different. You can't disagree without wishing death on others. That's sad. Maybe something to do with how you were raised?
I thought the article was about speech. You're talking about beating the shit out of people. Hate speech and assault are totally separate items. It is legal in the United States to claim that the "JOOOOS" control the media, etcetera. It's also legal to call white people Crackers. True freedom is extended even to those who differ from you, and all of your friends. True freedom applies to everybody, even assholes. You're missing the fact that the whole reason for the USA is to not be Europe. We are not the same, and we don't think the same way in regards to people's rights. The true meaning of the Constitution isn't to promote some utopian vision of everyone getting along toward a common goal. The vision is more of a hundred million individuals each pursuing his or her OWN goals. That's how it's supposed to be. Structured, lawful anarchy.
They're less likely to blindly follow a religion. Yeah, whatever.
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It's a fucking fictional game setting, man! Can you hold the sanctimoniousness for one fucking second? In case you're wondering, I AM deliberately being unpleasant.
Anyway, the book of Revelations is fascinating from a horror standpoint. Have you seen The Omen movies? Come on, the notion of an "anti-christ", kind of a balancing evil figure rising to power is an interesting premise. The surreal nature of the book is so over the top that it would be difficult to write something that compared to it.
And many Christians don't give a flying crap about the interpretation of Revelations, as it seems INTENDED to be cryptic. I don't know, maybe something about it being a puzzle to be solved at a later date. Even if it wasn't "divinely inspired" it's still way fucking weird. Think about it, man- an entire planet being used as a stage for a fight between good and evil. Classical storymaking. Okay, I don't get the cups, bowls, and seals, either. It's okay. Many great novels and movies have expanded on the concepts of the apocalypse as presented (or hinted at) in Revelations. And Pentagrams of blood are creepy. There was a FPS game in the early 90s with this theme, but I can't remember what it was.
Anyway, if you have gotten this far, I want you to know all the cussin' was for dramatic effect. I have nothing against you. Truly I don't like evangelical atheists any more than I like Evangelical anything-else, but I meant no ill will. Just funnin'.
I agree. If I had a hundred thousand dollars, I would probably purchase this crap and then spend the next 4 years auctioning it all off individually and making oh, say,
dum dum DUM!
ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!
It's an evil plan, but someone's gonna get rich on this guy.
It would have succeeded, too, but their controller had only one button, and no games were ever made for it.
/obligatory, my apologies.
I shall thank you, kind sir, to kindly avoid extremely funny comedic references in the future, as you have caused rather grevious harm to my monitor. I was not imbibing a liquid, but rather, am experiencing a bit of a flu, and my monitor now bears a more smeary and irresolute image of slashdot. It's really quite dreadful.
/gross
OTOH it may be breach of contract if the seller signed contracts promising not to sell this equipment. Also, this equipment may be LEASED from the licensor, which would make it sale of stolen property if the seller is not the original leasing party.. yadda yadda.
It isn't illegal to sell the Dev kits. It looks like a bankruptcy liquidation or a collector. What would be illegal would be duplication of copyrighted games. Using an eBay acquired dev kit to produce unauthorized games isn't illegal at least in the USA.
In reality, though, most wars are not so much fought for idealogical reasons as you might think. War is simply law enforcement on the large scale. Since men cannot live in an anarchic society, leaders of men must also live to international standards. War is fought to enforce this, or to steal territory, or resources. In the 1930s, the Japanese realized that their population was exploding, and their resources were insufficient to grant them any quality of life. To gain resources, they invaded China. It wasn't because they were evil, it was because they were desperate for iron, coal, and petroleum. Wars between fascist dictators are generally fought for the commodity of pride and appearance. These "cult of personality" types see their own image as their nation's most valuable commodity, and will invade their neighbors, etc. to save face. Take that however you choose.
The ironic part of HDTV is that because of it, videographers will be very likely to use either an unsharp mask or a diffusion lens in closeups such as interviews, etc. So they'll take our high-resolution, super-sharp television and blur it as soon as a face or skin is shown!
You are an idiot, and you don't know what you're talking about. There is no way for a nuclear reactor of the type used on spacecraft to go critical and form a nuclear explosion. The worst case scenario would be thermal runaway leading to melt down. Melt down means the fuel liquefies. And quite a few people DO want to send fission reactors to space.
Just look at his user number.
It's a shame. I had heard that there was more to this than simply the licensing. If David has a poor attitude, it's best that developers move beyond him. That's the beauty of the GPL; there is no single point of failure. It doesn't depend on any one person, group, or corporation in order to expand, improve, and mature. The rants I have been reading on Xfree86's forums basically support my initial impression that David believes that he controls X in the free *nix world. It's funny that because of the GPL, the scenario being complained about (with developers leaving and funding a project for their own best interest) is EXACTLY why FOSS is attractive. You can MAKE LINUX AND FOSS DO WHAT YOU WANT. This is good news. This period of flux is also proof to industry that Linux and other open source software can recover from a setback faster than proprietary software can. Linux. It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
I got my MDK 10 disks from linuxcentral for supercheap, had some minor installation problems related to my Nforce2 motherboard. In advance, if you have problems during install, just boot linux noapic nolapic.
Same results here on Athlon XP systems. Suse was bogged down in a big way, Mandrake 10 seems crisper and more responsive. I would have to say that Suse needs some better kernel optimizations. I didn't do a kernel recompile on either installation, maybe I will do that before nuking the Suse partition.
That is a totally ridiculous post. What you're saying, without a shred of evidence, is that the existence of kP actively discouraged the abuse of children. Such a position would require some sort of evidence to back it up.
You than assert that there is no difference between a simple nude and a genital closeup. The difference is the clear intent of the photographer. If the purpose is to show the private bodily areas of a child for enjoyment by adults, I think most would agree that's kP for reason of lasciviousness. Your moral relativist post reveals more about your character than any insight into the facts of child abuse. Basically, you believe that nothing can really be defined as "bad" or "wrong" since the actual material changes between innocent photography and porn are small and incremental. You're saying that the existence of incremental changes between the two negates the perception of diffenence between the two endpoints. That's just silly. You are in effect saying that the existence of grey proves that neither black nor white can exist!
Furthermore, you imply that doing chores as a child is equally exploitative as being anally raped on film at seven years old. These arguments, while appearing logical, are simply the abscence of human intelligence in decision making. Human intelligence is discernment, and it's more complicated than boolean logic. You can't use OR and XNOR in everyday life because it doesn't work there. Real live has more than 4 possible results for two events. It is decidedly analog, not binary. I suggest you learn to tell the difference. Also, your attempt to blame Reagan for the "explosion" in child abuse reveals an ignorance of the topic. Child sexual abuse has always been prevalent. This is evidenced by numerous scientifically documented reports by sociologists and psychologists who document case studies of the profound psychological effects of child abuse. What you see as an explosion in child abuse is a complicated blend of factors including increases in reporting rates of abuse, the increase in publicity in the media, and a society which is increasingly sexualized and sexually narcissistic. It's not as logical as "A" therefore "B", it's more nuanced, such as "A, 50%", "C, 120%", "V, 105%", therefore "B=B+10". It defies your attempts to simplify, and any attempt to tie one single cause to it makes you look silly.
Wait- you mean I could buy a multiprocessor RISC machine to surf the web, play PC games on, etc. AND be able to get console games perfectly optimized for my system's architecture and completely tested with my hardware? And for SIX HUNDRED BUCKS? Count me IN. Of course, the ability to hook up standard firewire or USB2 hard drives, network cards, etc etc. would be a total bonus.
I wasn't defending it's use, I was clarifying the difference between a homosexual and an effeminate man. Did that go over your head?
And linking my statement to the violence perpetrated against both is simply weak. Sorry you couldn't grasp what I meant. I shall strive to be more clear and definite in future posts.
I disagree heartily. I find the sun's core pressure to be rational and completely predictable. I think insane is too inflammatory a word for the center of the sun. Besides, there are many stars with a core pressure much higher than Sol's, and nobody's calling them names. Is it because they're white, maybe?
I actually agree. There had to be a patsy senator to move to grant power to palpatine. He's the only one stupid enough to be that controllable. Jar-Jar's character is necessary but annoying. I wish they didn't do the roger rabbit/step'n'fetchit hybrid job on him, though. I thought that was retarded.
Episode II was rather unlikeable until you "get it" as well. Unfortunately, the fireplace love speech in it was the most disgustingly trite and poorly written drek I have ever seen. Watch it again- it turnes the stomach.
Some of the criticism is well deserved though- like the fact that apparently the entire first battle of the clone wars begins in an arena. Okay, it progresses out of there, but why is the chancellor's character so completely without motive? Is he just evil for the purpose of being evil? If so, that's ludicrous. People do bad stuff because it benefits them.
Your post almost infers that the slave labor is the Americans' fault. Are you inferring that or not?
Hey, how about they stay home and make their own country better instead of simply exporting all of their intelligent people here? How about they ditch communism and get a real representative government? How about they build their own businesses apart from their military? How come all of the ills of the world are the fault of the USA?
Feeding the troll.
See, your main problem in this "line" of argument is that you assert that America claiming the moon like some brat in a sandbox is BAD whereas the rather less socially conscious Chinese government doing so would be less bad.
I would also like you to justify the claim you made about Bush cutting NASA spending. Even if he did, I would say NASA needs a bit of redirection, as their big spendy program, the ISS, accomplishes nothing. I built all 20 of the Space Station Emergency Lighting Power Supplies and battery packs. It kept me employed for 3 years. But really, it doesn't do anything up there. At least giving them a goal accomplishes something. In the past, setting goals lit the fires under our scientific community and got development of new tech started. Even if we fail, it's better to fail with a goal than to meander aimlessly with a multibillion dollar budget.
I know it's offensive, but here fag is used to describe a weak, sissy person, not merely homosexual. As any of us knows, there is a difference between a homo and a faggot. A homosexual is a man who likes other men sexually. A faggot sounds like he's from philadelphia no matter where he grew up, uses extremely gay-centric mannerisms, is generally prissy, girly overall, and generally not quite male. He doesn't have to be gay, just extremely effeminate and trite. It's used like the term "fanboy", to show disdain for those who have completely bought in and sold their soul to a particular affectation or lifestyle. See GOTH. Also POSEUR.
A truly gay man likes MEN. To like faggots you have to actually be another faggot, or a gay man who still kinda wants women. Or womany men.
Fags also like to overshare about their sexual exploits in an attempt to get a reaction from their "straight" friends- and by straight I don't mean heterosexual per se, but instead I refer to those of us who don't share information about whether our wives spit or swallow with perfect strangers and peripheral acquaintances.
I understand that the homosexual community certainly has much cause to maintain vigilance to prevent persecution. However, it is unreasonable for all unpleasant words to be purged from our society to please everyone. Fag will remain in the vernacular to refer to specific highly annoying mannerisms. Ask Chris Rock if he thinks the word "nigger" should be banned or neglected. It refers to a specific stereotype which is unfortunately reinforced by those who actually fit the stereotype. Some gays are also faggots. If a "straight" friend of mine team kills me in UT2003, then for the next 5 minutes HE is a faggot too. It's just how it works.