As if playing a male and looking at a male avatar would make you gay or mean that you were gay
Ok time for some lyrical education here. This is how King Missile explains the issue in "Gay not gay", especially see the discussion about pornography:
I saw an episode of the Jerry Springer show and the topic was "Tranvestites and the Men Who Love Them." And the guy who was on with his "girlfriend" was saying "To me, this is a beautiful woman. She's got a perfect body, beautiful blonde hair, everything. I love her, and I love making love to her. Now I ask you, does that make me gay?" Most of the audience thought so, and so did I, but it got me thinking about what is or isn't gay.
Discussing sex with a guy is gay.
Discussing sex with a woman is straight, even telling a woman "Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to suck a cock" is straight.
Sports are gay, especially contact sports, unless you're the only guy on both teams, in which case it is straight.
Gyms are always gay, because afterwords, in the locker room, you're showering with guys, and that is gay.
Watching pornography alone is neutral, like eating a sandwich. It's neither straight nor gay.
Watching pornos with one or more other guys in the room, no matter how many other women are also in the room, is gay.
Watching porn, even gay porn, with one or more women ONLY is straight.
Here's an interesting one: kissing a gay guy on the cheek, or having him kiss YOU on the cheek is neutral, as long as the guy is out of the closet. Hugging and/or kissing a straight guy . . . is gay.
See, look, I . . . I know I'm homophobic, but not about gay guys. They don't bother me at all. It's straight guys who don't know they're gay.
They fuck my shit right up.
Like a guy calls me up and says "A bunch of us guys are gonna sit around in our underwear and watch a football game and drink beer and eat chips, and, you know, maybe wrestle with each other a little, you know, just us guys! You wanna come over?"
And I'm like "No."
OK, you've got a guy sucking your dick, even if he's dressed like a beautiful woman, even if he's got the best breast implants you've ever seen, even if you're saying "Suck it bitch, I know you like it, you slut, you whore," that's gay. Adversely, if a woman straps on a dildo and you're dressed like a woman and you're suckin' her cock and she's sayin' "You like it, don't you, you like sucking my dick, you little fucking faggot" and she rolls you over and fucks you in the ass and says "you love it, you little pussy boy, you love getting fucked in the ass, I bet you wish I was a man, I bet you wish this was a cock, you fucking faggot" and you're getting off on this like you've never gotten off before . . . that's still straight.
But then, when you go off to the bar, and you discuss this, or any other sexual experience with any other guys, that's gay.
Here's the most interesting one: Sucking a guy's cock, can, under certain rare circumstances, be straight.
Let's say you've gotten into a betting game with a woman, and the bet is whoever loses has to be the other's sex slave for the night, the kind of thing that happens in Penthouse Forum all the time, and you lose, and the woman makes you have sex with another guy, that's not gay.
Biggest Pro: End user experiences are much more consistent. Biggest Con: Like you said. The end user doesn't get to decide for themselves.
Hey I wonder if Steve Jobs is somehow behind Second Life?
Because in Second Life the end user experience is very consistent regardless of what hardware you run it on; you can have the highest-end elite gaming rig and the experience will be pretty well the same as on an old lampstand iMac.
Getting users to have decent passwords can be very very hard.
I have still not convinced one of our directors that 'director' may not be the best password in the world... or that another one whose name is David should perhaps reconsider having 'david' for a password.
They just don't seem to be able to get it through their heads.
If Cindy from HR calls me and I have to verify that she is, in fact, Cindy from HR, every time she calls me, that reduces my productivity by a certain amount.
Yeah but it could produce some good phone sex...
Excuse me ma'am but I have to ask you a few questions to validate your identity, please bear with me.
What are you wearing? What are you wearing *underneath* that? Are you getting hot? Oh baby do you love it? Yeah thats the way...
In the US at least, the legal system has justified attacks on the possession of child pornography as attacks on the demand side of its production - treating possession as evidence of purchase (or of giving other benefits to the producer) and purchase/etc. as accessory after the fact to production and before the fact to future production.
I once had the job of creating a bootable CD which would, without any user intervention, wipe the hard drive. A nice hard scrub using, IIRC, autoclave.
Boot off of that and walk away... you could take the disk out once the scrub had started too and boot another one with it.
Yes, that was what the customer wanted and they were very pleased with the results.
we no longer include pictures; text ontent should be enough for anybody.
Someone browsing alt.sex.stories with no clue as to the meaning of the 'codes' in the subject lines could be very grateful for it being text content only...
I'd wager that most of the successful commercial software companies treat their developers with a modicum of dignity. Sure, there have been dozens of exceptions over the years, but by and large it's hard to stay in the business if you treat your programmers like shit.
Would you still place your wager if we were talking about a game company?
4. Official update mirrors would disappear for weeks at a time
What drove me away from Mandrake (as it was then) was that every time I wanted to install a new package I'd have to spend a couple of hours:
1. Searching for the new location for the repository. They seemed to constantly change the paths arbitrarily every few weeks or so, apparently because they 'decided' that the old path wasn't a good naming convention or something.
2. Downloading the updated package info.
In Debian/Ubuntu an apt-get update takes a little while, maybe a minute or so. In Mandrake the equivalent to apt-get update (using urpmi) would take an hour or so. On the same internet connection. Which was 100M.
I used the 'easy urpmi' site to keep track of the repositories but it was still very very slow and painful work.
unless you want to pay $50 for an app, to convert the database to any other mail program.
And these don't always work anyway; Eudora mail archives can get so out of hand and so munged that, eg, EmailAlchemy chokes on them.
The only reliable way is to copy them to an imap server. And the beautifully crafted (NOT!) Eudora user interface makes this HORRIBLY difficult and time consuming.
In other news, Eudora sucks and always has. And always will; if Mozilla give Thunderbird (what appears to be) a 'skin' to offer a Eudora-like experience it will, by *definition* suck as badly as Eudora.
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As if playing a male and looking at a male avatar would make you gay or mean that you were gay
Ok time for some lyrical education here. This is how King Missile explains the issue in "Gay not gay", especially see the discussion about pornography:
I saw an episode of the Jerry Springer show and the topic was "Tranvestites and the Men Who Love Them." And the guy who was on with his "girlfriend" was saying "To me, this is a beautiful woman. She's got a perfect body, beautiful blonde hair, everything. I love her, and I love making love to her. Now I ask you, does that make me gay?"
Most of the audience thought so, and so did I, but it got me thinking about what is or isn't gay.
Discussing sex with a guy is gay.
Discussing sex with a woman is straight, even telling a woman "Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to suck a cock" is straight.
Sports are gay, especially contact sports, unless you're the only guy on both teams, in which case it is straight.
Gyms are always gay, because afterwords, in the locker room, you're showering with guys, and that is gay.
Watching pornography alone is neutral, like eating a sandwich. It's neither straight nor gay.
Watching pornos with one or more other guys in the room, no matter how many other women are also in the room, is gay.
Watching porn, even gay porn, with one or more women ONLY is straight.
Here's an interesting one: kissing a gay guy on the cheek, or having him kiss YOU on the cheek is neutral, as long as the guy is out of the closet. Hugging and/or kissing a straight guy . . . is gay.
See, look, I . . . I know I'm homophobic, but not about gay guys. They don't bother me at all. It's straight guys who don't know they're gay.
They fuck my shit right up.
Like a guy calls me up and says "A bunch of us guys are gonna sit around in our underwear and watch a football game and drink beer and eat chips, and, you know, maybe wrestle with each other a little, you know, just us guys! You wanna come over?"
And I'm like "No."
OK, you've got a guy sucking your dick, even if he's dressed like a beautiful woman, even if he's got the best breast implants you've ever seen, even if you're saying "Suck it bitch, I know you like it, you slut, you whore," that's gay.
Adversely, if a woman straps on a dildo and you're dressed like a woman and you're suckin' her cock and she's sayin' "You like it, don't you, you like sucking my dick, you little fucking faggot" and she rolls you over and fucks you in the ass and says "you love it, you little pussy boy, you love getting fucked in the ass, I bet you wish I was a man, I bet you wish this was a cock, you fucking faggot" and you're getting off on this like you've never gotten off before . . .
that's still straight.
But then, when you go off to the bar, and you discuss this, or any other sexual experience with any other guys, that's gay.
Here's the most interesting one:
Sucking a guy's cock, can, under certain rare circumstances, be straight.
Let's say you've gotten into a betting game with a woman, and the bet is whoever loses has to be the other's sex slave for the night, the kind of thing that happens in Penthouse Forum all the time, and you lose, and the woman makes you have sex with another guy, that's not gay.
I don't know exactly why, but it's not.
Well ok I Recalled Wrongly.
But I do recall that many applications, including games, didn't work under SP2.
Thats a feature!
in Microsoft-speak. Service packs don't add features, do they?
Hey, XP SP2 added the feature of 'security'! Oh... wait...
(actually SP2 *did* add features, IIRC. The firewall for one).
Biggest Pro: End user experiences are much more consistent.
Biggest Con: Like you said. The end user doesn't get to decide for themselves.
Hey I wonder if Steve Jobs is somehow behind Second Life?
Because in Second Life the end user experience is very consistent regardless of what hardware you run it on; you can have the highest-end elite gaming rig and the experience will be pretty well the same as on an old lampstand iMac.
Getting users to have decent passwords can be very very hard.
I have still not convinced one of our directors that 'director' may not be the best password in the world... or that another one whose name is David should perhaps reconsider having 'david' for a password.
They just don't seem to be able to get it through their heads.
If Cindy from HR calls me and I have to verify that she is, in fact, Cindy from HR, every time she calls me, that reduces my productivity by a certain amount.
Yeah but it could produce some good phone sex...
Excuse me ma'am but I have to ask you a few questions to validate your identity, please bear with me.
What are you wearing? What are you wearing *underneath* that? Are you getting hot? Oh baby do you love it? Yeah thats the way...
The US has the MOAB and Soviet Russia has the FOAB. What's next? The Child Of All Bombs?
Look, your parents should have explained this but I'll do my best.
When a mummy bomb and a daddy bomb love one another very much...
Brazil needs to know... and they will be in a conundrum!
Strings or inflation???
What a choice!
In the US at least, the legal system has justified attacks on the possession of child pornography as attacks on the demand side of its production - treating possession as evidence of purchase (or of giving other benefits to the producer) and purchase/etc. as accessory after the fact to production and before the fact to future production.
Hey why not? It works for drugs!
Oh... wait...
They are about 1% of the population and apparently have a brain defect (akin to color blindness) that amounts to having no conscience.
Psychopathy is a 'fear deficit disorder', you insensitive clod.
back and reboot all their boxen to live cds
Better than that...
I once had the job of creating a bootable CD which would, without any user intervention, wipe the hard drive. A nice hard scrub using, IIRC, autoclave.
Boot off of that and walk away... you could take the disk out once the scrub had started too and boot another one with it.
Yes, that was what the customer wanted and they were very pleased with the results.
Unfortunately that is somewhat difficult in the UK as the Thatcher regime allowed them to establish a virtual high street monopoly by buying Currys.
Did Maggie allow them poppadoms as well?
Would it have been any better if they'd been forced to buy Kebabs?
Sorry, Dave Lister moment there...
L. Neither has very realistic physics... haven't seen much improvement in that in video games since Wing Commander.
You know, I was thinking of making a similar comparison between Wing Commander the movie and Phantom Menace.
we no longer include pictures; text ontent should be enough for anybody.
Someone browsing alt.sex.stories with no clue as to the meaning of the 'codes' in the subject lines could be very grateful for it being text content only...
Seems like such a person could make money honestly.
:-P
Anyone who can make $money honestly could make N * $money dishonestly.
How do you think corporatism works?
Its incredible that there are so many problems on the Mac Pro...
:-\
My partner plays WoW on a Mac *Mini* and has no problems whatsoever...
Adds a whole new meaning to sniffing for keystrokes...
Actually you could use some kind of olfactory sensor and at least be able to tell which keys were hit with the left and right hands...
I'd wager that most of the successful commercial software companies treat their developers with a modicum of dignity. Sure, there have been dozens of exceptions over the years, but by and large it's hard to stay in the business if you treat your programmers like shit.
Would you still place your wager if we were talking about a game company?
With schools, hospitals, nurseries.
A paradigm example of a war crime and crime against humanity.
It was sick and the continuing support of it is still sick.
Oooh! Oooh!
I know the answer to this one...
#1: Assuming what you think your customer needs is what your customer wants.
Apple.
#2: Assuming they are the ones who made the mistake when you lost the job.
Microsoft.
It never ceases to amaze me how proud Americans can be of their nations murderous history.
Proud of the use of nuclear weapons against *civilian* population centers.
As if modern Germans would be proud of concentration camps.
4. Official update mirrors would disappear for weeks at a time
What drove me away from Mandrake (as it was then) was that every time I wanted to install a new package I'd have to spend a couple of hours:
1. Searching for the new location for the repository. They seemed to constantly change the paths arbitrarily every few weeks or so, apparently because they 'decided' that the old path wasn't a good naming convention or something.
2. Downloading the updated package info.
In Debian/Ubuntu an apt-get update takes a little while, maybe a minute or so. In Mandrake the equivalent to apt-get update (using urpmi) would take an hour or so. On the same internet connection. Which was 100M.
I used the 'easy urpmi' site to keep track of the repositories but it was still very very slow and painful work.
unless you want to pay $50 for an app, to convert the database to any other mail program.
And these don't always work anyway; Eudora mail archives can get so out of hand and so munged that, eg, EmailAlchemy chokes on them.
The only reliable way is to copy them to an imap server. And the beautifully crafted (NOT!) Eudora user interface makes this HORRIBLY difficult and time consuming.
In other news, Eudora sucks and always has. And always will; if Mozilla give Thunderbird (what appears to be) a 'skin' to offer a Eudora-like experience it will, by *definition* suck as badly as Eudora.
The ability to concentrate is important?
No shit, Sherlock!
Why do you think those ever-efficient Germans set up concentration camps?
By the way, they were invented by the British; in South Africa back in the 1800s to help the Boers to develop some focus.
I was wondering why it is that back in the 1950's you never heard about people having attention problems.
Maybe because back then TV ads, such as they were, were *live* events, every one different. They were *worth* watching just for the bloopers.