"Displacement of Arabs was caused by wars against Israel initiated by neighboring Arab countries"
You say that as it if justified it. Palestinian civilians have nothing to do with Syria or Egypt's wars with Israel. They are people who were living their daily lives there, and all of a sudden they're told they have to leave because they're Arabs. Goodbye, family house, goodbye, natal village. This is followed by mass-spread of settlers the Israeli government gives free houses to so that at some point in the future (like, say, now) they can say "oh, we can't allow those Palestinians back now, our people are already there. Our 7500 settlers are more important than 1.3 million Palestinians in Gaza!"
"but there is a special resentment towards Microsoft, probably due to an incident few years ago when they put adverts all over Israel thanking the Israeli army."
Does someone have a link to an article that covers this? I tried googling, but to no avail.
No one cares about your old Gameboy games. If we wanted to play old games, we wouldn't be buying a new system.
If for some unforeseen reason you have a sudden urge to play an old Gameboy game you have, either play it on your Gameboy (ie, don't sell it for that measily 20$ credit EB will give you for it), or download the ROM and play it on an emulator (legal if you own the game). There are GBA emulators for PC (obviously), DC, and Xbox.
No seriously what's with this backwards-compatibility-is-so-important attitude? It's been going on ever since the PS2.
Soldier of Fortune made a more interesting kind of political statement.
When you were in the US levels, shooting a civilian was instant Game Over. When you were in Iraq levels, shooting a civilian was a-OK.
Seems to reinforce the impression I get from the US media where only the lives of Americans matter. I bet if there was a poll in the US about this a majority would think there has been under 1000 Iraqi deaths.
"The problem is that the ACLU selectively defends the constitution. They don't defend the rights of gun owners for one."
The ACLU defends the parts of the constitution that no one else is defending.
The right to bear arms has a lot of republican money backing it. It doesn't need the ACLU. Privacy rights, freedom of speech, and equality rights are not backed by big money, hence the ACLU focusing on those.
Ignoring the fact that unlike freedom of speech, the right to bear arms does not translate well to modern situations, it would be redundant for the ACLU to protect the 2nd amendment.
Homer: What are you doing! That putter is to you what a bat is to a baseball player! What a violin is...to the...the guy that...the violin guy! Now c'mon! Give your putter a name. Bart: What? Homer: C'mon, give it a name. Bart: Mister Putter. Homer: D'oh...You wanna try a little harder son? C'mon give it a girl's name. Bart: Mom. Homer: Your putter's name is Charlene! Bart: Why? Homer: It just is, that's why! Now this, is a picture of your enemy, Todd Flanders. Every day, I want you to spend fifteen minutes staring at it. And concentrating on how much you hate him, and how glorious it will be when you and Charlene annihilate him! Bart: Who's Charlene? Homer: [raises the putter, about to wallop Bart with it] I'll show you who Charlene is! Now start hating!
What's "objectionable scenes" though? Who decides?
I consider PG-13 movies like Bring It On or Coyote Ugly to be FAR more damaging to a child's mental well-being than Terminator 2 or Total Recall. Without showing nudity and without using swear words, they manage to squeeze in the MTV lesson of conforming and dressing and acting like sluts to be cool.
"You have to wonder if there's any way to go after the district managers and/or corporate for knowingly demanding certain performance levels that could not be reasonably achieved with the number of "billable hours" allowed."
Heh. Happened to me when I worked at Couche-Tard, a 7/11 chain here in Quebec.
Basically, they do 6-hour shifts. However, you actually spent about 8 hours working every day.
The trick was that you needed to count all the lottery tickets/games and all the cigarette packs and cartons at the counter and in stock, before, and after your shift, and write a report, so that they can track errors better. Every employee had to do it, so basically 2 persons counted everytime (the person leaving, and the person taking his/her place).
Translation: if my shift starts at noon, I have to be there at 11:30am to start counting the stuff. When I spoke to the manager about this, he said I should be able to count them in 5 minutes, which is BS because even the 4-year veteran took 20 minutes to count them.
And if shift was supposed to end at 6:00pm, I stayed until 7:15pm because on top of doing the end-shift counting, I also had to count the money (how many pieces of 1c, 5c, 10c, etc etc) and write a report, as well as sweep the floors with a broom. When I spoke to the manager about this, he said that there's no reason for me to stay overtime, that I should be able to do all this when there aren't any customers. Right. No customers in a popular 7/11 between 4pm to 6pm when everyone is coming back from work. He was full of shit.
This was posted like 3 days ago. Unfortunately the Search feature is gone from the front page so I can't find it.
I remember all the jokes about how the guy looked and his lack of clothing...uh...as well as all the many insightful and informative comments, of course.
" it must be said that the XBOX was not successful enough (especially in Japan, where it counts)"
What? We're not in the 90's anymore. The importance of the markets (in terms of size) goes in this order: North America, Europe, and THEN Japan.
I remember when you'd be hard-pressed to find a good western console game. Now look at any "top ten rated games" chart for this generation, and 9 out of 10 are western. Tony Hawk, Halo, Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, Metroid Prime, Project Gotham 2, etc etc ad nauseum, it's all western-developed games. Japan seems to have shot its load and passed out in fatigue after releasing Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2 in 2001. I can't name a single AAA-status game they've released since then.
If the Israelis want peace, why does the government keep creating more and more settlements on the lands they should be withdrawing from?
Face it, they care more about land-grabbing than they do about the couple of hundreds Israelis that died from the uprising. Not saying the Palestinians are innocent victims, but the Israelis are the ones with the power to stop this and they have yet to stop fueling the fire. This "security fence" BS is just an excuse to keep doing what they've been doing since Sharon came to power: steal as much as possible.
If I tried to shake your hand while kneeing you in the guts, and you refused to shake my hand, that wouldn't mean you're antisocial.
The GC is doing average in Japan, but horrible in Europe and North America. Their top titles' sales are merely a shadow of their former selves, and the poor sales of 3rd party games (ie non-Nintendo games) made several publishers stop making games for it (which is understandable, considering that the majority of GC software sales come from parents buying games for their kids, and that customerbase typically ignores the more teen/mature-minded 3rd party games).
"Matt Groening says he was only joking about Fox News suing the Simpsons. So it was a story that was completely made up by one person, and all the lefty blogs were up in arms over it. Where are the slashdotters complaining that Fox News was thin-skinned, censoring or plain evil now?"
Nice try. Too bad for you I RTFA you linked. NOWHERE does Groening go back on his words. The closest thing to that is the Fox News suit denying it (ya, no shit).
So lemme get this straight: Step 1: Be a rightwing jerk. Step 2: Read a Slashdot story that exposes THE main pillar of the rightwing media as the morons that they are. Step 3: Get annoyed. Step 4: Link to article that doesn't invalidate the step 2 story in any way, with a hint of triumph in your tone. Step 5: ??? Step 6: You win the argument. Hooray!
"Poll: 75% of Palestinians support Haifa restaurant attack: "
Next time you're gonna quote a poll result, please use the original article rather than the paraphrasing found in american newspapers.
The actual poll results were that 75% of palestinians saw the Haifa restaurant attack as justifiable revenge for the attacks they endured. It sounds the same but there's a HUGE difference. This is a perfect example of how word spin can affect the angle at which something is viewed, and why americans exposed to their biased media automatically assume the Israelis are the good guys (as if there were any good guys in this bullshit).
Btw, 85% of the same people polled want a mutual ceasefire and an end to the violence. But I guess anything that puts the pals in a good light isn't something you'd be interested in sigging.
This is a short article on the recent Senate hearing on P2P.
"Chuck D wasn't about to let online freedoms be curbed. "P2P to me means power to the people," he said. "I trust the consumer more than I trust the people at the helm of these [record] companies."
""As a guy in the record industry and as a parent, I am shocked that these services are being used to lure children to stuff that is really ugly," said Andrew Lack, the chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment."
He didn't seem to be shocked when his barbies (there's no way I'm calling them artists) were tongue-kissing then strip-teasing in front of millions of kids.
"My Dad lost a lot of weight on Adkins... but it killed his kidneys and that caused congestive heart failure."
You got modded as Funny so I'm not certain you're being serious. I've been doing Atkins for 3 weeks, lost 15 pounds so far, and was planning on keeping it up for another 2 months.
Are you sure your father's problems aren't from old age?
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"Displacement of Arabs was caused by wars against Israel initiated by neighboring Arab countries"
You say that as it if justified it. Palestinian civilians have nothing to do with Syria or Egypt's wars with Israel. They are people who were living their daily lives there, and all of a sudden they're told they have to leave because they're Arabs. Goodbye, family house, goodbye, natal village. This is followed by mass-spread of settlers the Israeli government gives free houses to so that at some point in the future (like, say, now) they can say "oh, we can't allow those Palestinians back now, our people are already there. Our 7500 settlers are more important than 1.3 million Palestinians in Gaza!"
"but there is a special resentment towards Microsoft, probably due to an incident few years ago when they put adverts all over Israel thanking the Israeli army."
Does someone have a link to an article that covers this? I tried googling, but to no avail.
No one cares about your old Gameboy games. If we wanted to play old games, we wouldn't be buying a new system.
If for some unforeseen reason you have a sudden urge to play an old Gameboy game you have, either play it on your Gameboy (ie, don't sell it for that measily 20$ credit EB will give you for it), or download the ROM and play it on an emulator (legal if you own the game). There are GBA emulators for PC (obviously), DC, and Xbox.
No seriously what's with this backwards-compatibility-is-so-important attitude? It's been going on ever since the PS2.
"this is about the 8th time this has been posted on slashdot. seems like the editors should be required to at least read /."
Vous etes nouveau ici n'est-ce pas?
"I should have RTFA first."
I won't have that kind of talk in here, young mister!
Soldier of Fortune made a more interesting kind of political statement.
When you were in the US levels, shooting a civilian was instant Game Over. When you were in Iraq levels, shooting a civilian was a-OK.
Seems to reinforce the impression I get from the US media where only the lives of Americans matter. I bet if there was a poll in the US about this a majority would think there has been under 1000 Iraqi deaths.
"The problem is that the ACLU selectively defends the constitution. They don't defend the rights of gun owners for one."
The ACLU defends the parts of the constitution that no one else is defending.
The right to bear arms has a lot of republican money backing it. It doesn't need the ACLU. Privacy rights, freedom of speech, and equality rights are not backed by big money, hence the ACLU focusing on those.
Ignoring the fact that unlike freedom of speech, the right to bear arms does not translate well to modern situations, it would be redundant for the ACLU to protect the 2nd amendment.
Homer: What are you doing! That putter is to you what a bat is to a baseball player! What a violin is...to the...the guy that...the violin guy! Now c'mon! Give your putter a name.
Bart: What?
Homer: C'mon, give it a name.
Bart: Mister Putter.
Homer: D'oh...You wanna try a little harder son? C'mon give it a girl's name.
Bart: Mom.
Homer: Your putter's name is Charlene!
Bart: Why?
Homer: It just is, that's why! Now this, is a picture of your enemy, Todd Flanders. Every day, I want you to spend fifteen minutes staring at it. And concentrating on how much you hate him, and how glorious it will be when you and Charlene annihilate him!
Bart: Who's Charlene?
Homer: [raises the putter, about to wallop Bart with it]
I'll show you who Charlene is! Now start hating!
What's "objectionable scenes" though? Who decides?
I consider PG-13 movies like Bring It On or Coyote Ugly to be FAR more damaging to a child's mental well-being than Terminator 2 or Total Recall. Without showing nudity and without using swear words, they manage to squeeze in the MTV lesson of conforming and dressing and acting like sluts to be cool.
Let me guess, you'll get mad if I don't call you Maestro.
Think I can rent a house in Tuscany?
"You have to wonder if there's any way to go after the district managers and/or corporate for knowingly demanding certain performance levels that could not be reasonably achieved with the number of "billable hours" allowed."
Heh. Happened to me when I worked at Couche-Tard, a 7/11 chain here in Quebec.
Basically, they do 6-hour shifts. However, you actually spent about 8 hours working every day.
The trick was that you needed to count all the lottery tickets/games and all the cigarette packs and cartons at the counter and in stock, before, and after your shift, and write a report, so that they can track errors better. Every employee had to do it, so basically 2 persons counted everytime (the person leaving, and the person taking his/her place).
Translation: if my shift starts at noon, I have to be there at 11:30am to start counting the stuff. When I spoke to the manager about this, he said I should be able to count them in 5 minutes, which is BS because even the 4-year veteran took 20 minutes to count them.
And if shift was supposed to end at 6:00pm, I stayed until 7:15pm because on top of doing the end-shift counting, I also had to count the money (how many pieces of 1c, 5c, 10c, etc etc) and write a report, as well as sweep the floors with a broom. When I spoke to the manager about this, he said that there's no reason for me to stay overtime, that I should be able to do all this when there aren't any customers. Right. No customers in a popular 7/11 between 4pm to 6pm when everyone is coming back from work. He was full of shit.
This was posted like 3 days ago. Unfortunately the Search feature is gone from the front page so I can't find it.
I remember all the jokes about how the guy looked and his lack of clothing...uh...as well as all the many insightful and informative comments, of course.
McAffee detected a "bt.ow" or some such virus, in the html page of his website (twice). Just a heads-up for the people on unprotected computers.
Forgive me if I didn't use the proper nomenclature to describe what happened, I don't know the exact terms to use.
" it must be said that the XBOX was not successful enough (especially in Japan, where it counts)"
What? We're not in the 90's anymore. The importance of the markets (in terms of size) goes in this order: North America, Europe, and THEN Japan.
I remember when you'd be hard-pressed to find a good western console game. Now look at any "top ten rated games" chart for this generation, and 9 out of 10 are western. Tony Hawk, Halo, Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, Metroid Prime, Project Gotham 2, etc etc ad nauseum, it's all western-developed games. Japan seems to have shot its load and passed out in fatigue after releasing Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2 in 2001. I can't name a single AAA-status game they've released since then.
I think Japan stopped counting long ago.
If the Israelis want peace, why does the government keep creating more and more settlements on the lands they should be withdrawing from?
Face it, they care more about land-grabbing than they do about the couple of hundreds Israelis that died from the uprising. Not saying the Palestinians are innocent victims, but the Israelis are the ones with the power to stop this and they have yet to stop fueling the fire. This "security fence" BS is just an excuse to keep doing what they've been doing since Sharon came to power: steal as much as possible.
If I tried to shake your hand while kneeing you in the guts, and you refused to shake my hand, that wouldn't mean you're antisocial.
"I have a radical solution[...]: throw out your television, it has worked for me"
You wouldn't happen to be this guy , would you?
Huh? Did you even SEE a GC game sales chart?
The GC is doing average in Japan, but horrible in Europe and North America. Their top titles' sales are merely a shadow of their former selves, and the poor sales of 3rd party games (ie non-Nintendo games) made several publishers stop making games for it (which is understandable, considering that the majority of GC software sales come from parents buying games for their kids, and that customerbase typically ignores the more teen/mature-minded 3rd party games).
Q: How many college students does it take to screw a lightbulb?
A: I don't know, will this be on the test?
"Matt Groening says he was only joking about Fox News suing the Simpsons. So it was a story that was completely made up by one person, and all the lefty blogs were up in arms over it. Where are the slashdotters complaining that Fox News was thin-skinned, censoring or plain evil now?"
Nice try. Too bad for you I RTFA you linked. NOWHERE does Groening go back on his words. The closest thing to that is the Fox News suit denying it (ya, no shit).
So lemme get this straight:
Step 1: Be a rightwing jerk.
Step 2: Read a Slashdot story that exposes THE main pillar of the rightwing media as the morons that they are.
Step 3: Get annoyed.
Step 4: Link to article that doesn't invalidate the step 2 story in any way, with a hint of triumph in your tone.
Step 5: ???
Step 6: You win the argument. Hooray!
"Poll: 75% of Palestinians support Haifa restaurant attack: "
Next time you're gonna quote a poll result, please use the original article rather than the paraphrasing found in american newspapers.
The actual poll results were that 75% of palestinians saw the Haifa restaurant attack as justifiable revenge for the attacks they endured. It sounds the same but there's a HUGE difference. This is a perfect example of how word spin can affect the angle at which something is viewed, and why americans exposed to their biased media automatically assume the Israelis are the good guys (as if there were any good guys in this bullshit).
Btw, 85% of the same people polled want a mutual ceasefire and an end to the violence. But I guess anything that puts the pals in a good light isn't something you'd be interested in sigging.
Just thought you should know.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1479466/20031001/ ll_cool_j.jhtml?headlines=true
This is a short article on the recent Senate hearing on P2P.
"Chuck D wasn't about to let online freedoms be curbed. "P2P to me means power to the people," he said. "I trust the consumer more than I trust the people at the helm of these [record] companies."
""As a guy in the record industry and as a parent, I am shocked that these services are being used to lure children to stuff that is really ugly," said Andrew Lack, the chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment."
He didn't seem to be shocked when his barbies (there's no way I'm calling them artists) were tongue-kissing then strip-teasing in front of millions of kids.
I find your lack of pants disturbing.
"BTW: Real cyclists don't wear underwear."
Thanks for the info, I'll make sure to steer clear of real cyclists from now on!
"My Dad lost a lot of weight on Adkins ... but it killed his kidneys and that caused congestive heart failure."
You got modded as Funny so I'm not certain you're being serious. I've been doing Atkins for 3 weeks, lost 15 pounds so far, and was planning on keeping it up for another 2 months.
Are you sure your father's problems aren't from old age?