Speaking as an American who moved to Canada, most Americans are so deluded that they think if it were such a good idea they'd already have it. You can tell them that Cuba, Scandinavian countries, the UK, Canada, etc., all have it, and they'll point at that and say, "Well, there you go." They think it is a mark of how elite and amazing they are as a country that they get to pay for healthcare or something. It's ridiculous.
This is the product of spending 60 years terrifying people that the Communists are coming to kill them any minute, and that the Soyuz missiles have probably already been launched. I'll be so glad when the last of the Cold Warriors die out, because they've done harm to the psyche of the States that may be irreparable. Maybe, just maybe, we can get some real change when they're gone, but I doubt it. In the mean time we're going to have to deal with people who think that because it has the word "socialized" in it, that means Joseph Stalin is going to be in charge of it, and Felix Dzerzhinsky gets to decide what's covered.
Yeah I was going for shades of Wolfenstein, Bloodrayne, Manhunt, and some even more depraved and exploitative ideas that none of those three quite managed to harness. We have charted the heights of video gaming, but I am convinced that we have yet to fully sound the depths.
I found the article pretty amusing, but that's El Reg for you. I like their suggestion to refer to "negatively-strange" antihypernuclei as, perhaps, "ultramundane," or maybe "hyperboring."
As opposed to the newly announced Activision title, Call of Jewry-- telling the tale of two Polish Jews hardened by the camps who have escaped, and are now killing their way toward the Fuhrerbunker one. fucking. nazi. at a time. They're calling it a masterpiece of historical authenticity, and have already announced DLC where you can buy new single player maps, each with a prominent Third Reich figure as a boss, which you can horribly murder a la Rockstar's Manhunt games crossed with Bloodrayne.
One level is already generating controversy before it has even been released. Our steely antiheroes are caught in an SS Paranormal Division experiment and are flung back in time through an unstable portal. It is February 1904, days before the birth of Reinhard Heydrich-- the Butcher of Prague, and architect of the Final Solution. You are tasked with tracking down the pregnant mother before the temporal portal collapses and you are destroyed in the process. Will you kill the unborn child, kill the mother, or will you show the compassion that was not shown to you? What changes will your decision cause in Activision's dynamic gameplay system?
Don't miss Activision's newest blockbuster: Call of Jewry -- "Never Forget. Never Again."
Quintin Tarantino is reportedly having a boxing match with Uwe Boll to see who will direct the film adaption.
(If Activision is reading this, you can license this idea for a modest fee... It almost saddens me that I would probably pay money to play this.)
The Barrett rifles would still cost more than the drone you're shooting down. Granted, it's at least reusable, but every citizen would have to bag something like 15-20 drones for it to be cost effective.
My iPhone dropped about 12 inches, if that, to a sidewalk, and the screen shattered. It looked like I'd hit it with a hammer. I caught a ride to the airport from family for an early flight, and fell asleep in the passenger seat. The phone slipped out of my pants pocket, and when I opened the door to get out it fell and hit the sidewalk.
AT&T has a 30 day warranty on the iPhone. Anything beyond that, you're out of luck and you have to talk to Apple. I'd had the phone for maybe 3-4 days beyond that period. AT&T refused to do anything. I went to the Genius Bar at an Apple store, and they told me that, gosh, it's safety glass. It's not supposed to break like that. I said, "And yet..." They told me to talk to AT&T and see if they'd do anything. I got the sense that since I didn't buy Applecare, they didn't give a shit about me. I loved my iPhone, but the royal buttfucking Apple gave me over a product that they as much as admitted to me was defective completely took away any of the respect I had for their brand. The only Apple product I might consider buying now is an iMac, because I'm a musician. When I get one, I'll be getting it used, and Apple won't see a dime of my money.
Apple has jumped the shark as a company, and no longer feel like they have any responsibility to their customers. Pull the wool off your eyes and realize they're like any other big corp.
Even that doesn't work. At least in most of the US, you can still be considered "breaking and entering" even if the door is ajar, and you push it open. It's going into a place where you're not permitted for the purpose of committing a felony. The analogy here is more like being told there's a really juicy part in a book, so you flip through until you find the page. The author tries to sue you for circumventing his copyright protection, which was not putting a number on the page.
Exactly correct. There is a line in Albert Speer's memoir "Inside the Third Reich" regarding Hitler's religion where Hitler is quoted to have said: "You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion.Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" They-- the Nazi leadership-- paid lip service to Christianity to placate the population, but only had a use for it insofar as they could use it as a tool to get people to do things.
For those who are interested in what these people were actually like, "Inside the Third Reich" is fantastic. Albert Speer is certainly a biased source, and I'm sure he downplays some of his own involvement, but in historical scholarship it doesn't get any better than a primary source. I'll take Speer's biased account over the speculation of someone 70 years later who wasn't there.
Do you see the flaw in your reasoning? These people have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and you should not place the blame for stalking on the victims.
They jumped out of the graphics arms race and into the peripherals arms race. In Canada the Wii costs around 200 bucks at Costco, which is the cheapest I've seen it, and around 200 dollars cheaper than the xbox. But you need to get a nunchuk to play certain games: 25 dollars. A second controller and nunchuk, around 50 bucks total. Want to get motionplus for both of those to improve the motion sensing? 50 dollars. You're now at 325, compared to the xbox with a second controller which gets you to about 450 (and also comes with the Elite system, Modern Warfare 2, and a 250gb hard drive). The average new game for the 360 up here runs 60-70 dollars. For the Wii they're slightly cheaper... unless they're some hokey peripheral game like WiiFit, where you're going to pay 100 dollars. Want another balance board? That'll be 60 or 70 dollars. Want to buy Mario Kart and get two little steering wheel controllers? 90 dollars. If the Wii is not the most outright profitable console of this generation I'd be shocked, because they nickle and dime you to death with cheap peripherals, and people buy them. It seems like every game they come out with comes with some new gadget you need to buy, and I hardly think that's an accident. I'd like to see Microsoft and Sony put out a commercial comparing Total Cost of Ownership, because even if you're paying for Xbox Live Gold every a year, you'll probably end up spending more money for your Wii.
Not to mention that referring to the whole state as Rhode Island would make about as much sense as referring to the the whole of New York state as "Manhattan Island," or renaming Virginia to "Chincoteague Island." The state literally is Providence Plantation on land, as well as Rhode Island. For a similar concept see "Newfoundland and Labrador." These people don't just fail history, they fail geography.
I agree with your general point, but I'd like to point out that X-Men was 2 years ahead of Spiderman, and is more or less what started the superhero revival.
For bandwidth, yes. All major ISPs in Canada still cap bandwidth, and all of them additionally throttle P2P. I moved here from the states, and let me tell you, compared to this America is a shining beacon of the future when it comes to broadband.
I'm not sure why you'd say that, since the article is about cell phones which are usually vendor locked. Sure, you might be able to buy unlocked smartphones on eBay, but the vast majority go into an AT&T store and buy the thing. And then there are the contracts... Joe Bob goes into AT&T and buys a Blackberry, and to get the best deal he gets locked into a 2 year contract. Even if he pays the early termination fee, he still can't use his locked phone on another network.
Any time people pull this shit, kindly point out to them that since 1993, violent crime in all civilized nations has been on the decline, except in places like Sweden and Switzerland where it has stayed roughly the same, because it was never very high to begin with. This encompasses the era of pretty much all mass market video games. (For reference, Super Nintendo came out in 1992) Australia is actually an exception to this. I'm not saying that's significant, just that it's weird given the story.
An entire generation has grown up playing Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, Doom, Quake, Postal, Carmageddon, Grand Theft Auto Cop Killer Simulator Edition, etc., and violent crime has gone down. The homicide rate in the US is the lowest it's been since 1965, when there were 100,000,000 fewer people.
Kind of like how we tell our kids that all drugs are always unconditionally bad, unless they're handed out by mommy and daddy? This story is an interesting nexus of two things people lie to their kids about. If NASA were so full of American grit, they wouldn't have a problem getting Congress to get funding for (a return trip to the moon|an expedition to Mars|a space elevator).
There is almost always more to the truth than what we tell our kids, because of our own moral hangups and personal inadequacies. This is why, once they become teenagers and get their first trickled-down distorted taste of what the real world is actually going to be like, they rebel and hate you. It's the least they owe to the people who have lied to them their entire lives.
Drugs are like cars, or power tools, or guns. They're incredibly useful tools, but if you don't respect them they'll kill you.
And you should never mix them with cars, or power tools, or guns.
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Whatever the plural of millennium is?
That would be "milleniums."
Uh, yes? It's really not rocket science once someone has pointed out that it's possible.
I thought Jorge Luis Borges had died, but apparently he still browses Slashdot.
Speaking as an American who moved to Canada, most Americans are so deluded that they think if it were such a good idea they'd already have it. You can tell them that Cuba, Scandinavian countries, the UK, Canada, etc., all have it, and they'll point at that and say, "Well, there you go." They think it is a mark of how elite and amazing they are as a country that they get to pay for healthcare or something. It's ridiculous.
This is the product of spending 60 years terrifying people that the Communists are coming to kill them any minute, and that the Soyuz missiles have probably already been launched. I'll be so glad when the last of the Cold Warriors die out, because they've done harm to the psyche of the States that may be irreparable. Maybe, just maybe, we can get some real change when they're gone, but I doubt it. In the mean time we're going to have to deal with people who think that because it has the word "socialized" in it, that means Joseph Stalin is going to be in charge of it, and Felix Dzerzhinsky gets to decide what's covered.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. Hear, hear.
Yeah I was going for shades of Wolfenstein, Bloodrayne, Manhunt, and some even more depraved and exploitative ideas that none of those three quite managed to harness. We have charted the heights of video gaming, but I am convinced that we have yet to fully sound the depths.
I found the article pretty amusing, but that's El Reg for you. I like their suggestion to refer to "negatively-strange" antihypernuclei as, perhaps, "ultramundane," or maybe "hyperboring."
As opposed to the newly announced Activision title, Call of Jewry-- telling the tale of two Polish Jews hardened by the camps who have escaped, and are now killing their way toward the Fuhrerbunker one. fucking. nazi. at a time. They're calling it a masterpiece of historical authenticity, and have already announced DLC where you can buy new single player maps, each with a prominent Third Reich figure as a boss, which you can horribly murder a la Rockstar's Manhunt games crossed with Bloodrayne.
One level is already generating controversy before it has even been released. Our steely antiheroes are caught in an SS Paranormal Division experiment and are flung back in time through an unstable portal. It is February 1904, days before the birth of Reinhard Heydrich-- the Butcher of Prague, and architect of the Final Solution. You are tasked with tracking down the pregnant mother before the temporal portal collapses and you are destroyed in the process. Will you kill the unborn child, kill the mother, or will you show the compassion that was not shown to you? What changes will your decision cause in Activision's dynamic gameplay system?
Don't miss Activision's newest blockbuster: Call of Jewry -- "Never Forget. Never Again."
Quintin Tarantino is reportedly having a boxing match with Uwe Boll to see who will direct the film adaption.
(If Activision is reading this, you can license this idea for a modest fee... It almost saddens me that I would probably pay money to play this.)
Thanks for this. It's the entire reason I bothered to read comments for this story.
Or better yet, don't snort it, because the intranasal bioavailability of oxycodone is practically identical to the oral b/a.
The Barrett rifles would still cost more than the drone you're shooting down. Granted, it's at least reusable, but every citizen would have to bag something like 15-20 drones for it to be cost effective.
My iPhone dropped about 12 inches, if that, to a sidewalk, and the screen shattered. It looked like I'd hit it with a hammer. I caught a ride to the airport from family for an early flight, and fell asleep in the passenger seat. The phone slipped out of my pants pocket, and when I opened the door to get out it fell and hit the sidewalk.
AT&T has a 30 day warranty on the iPhone. Anything beyond that, you're out of luck and you have to talk to Apple. I'd had the phone for maybe 3-4 days beyond that period. AT&T refused to do anything. I went to the Genius Bar at an Apple store, and they told me that, gosh, it's safety glass. It's not supposed to break like that. I said, "And yet..." They told me to talk to AT&T and see if they'd do anything. I got the sense that since I didn't buy Applecare, they didn't give a shit about me. I loved my iPhone, but the royal buttfucking Apple gave me over a product that they as much as admitted to me was defective completely took away any of the respect I had for their brand. The only Apple product I might consider buying now is an iMac, because I'm a musician. When I get one, I'll be getting it used, and Apple won't see a dime of my money.
Apple has jumped the shark as a company, and no longer feel like they have any responsibility to their customers. Pull the wool off your eyes and realize they're like any other big corp.
Even that doesn't work. At least in most of the US, you can still be considered "breaking and entering" even if the door is ajar, and you push it open. It's going into a place where you're not permitted for the purpose of committing a felony. The analogy here is more like being told there's a really juicy part in a book, so you flip through until you find the page. The author tries to sue you for circumventing his copyright protection, which was not putting a number on the page.
Exactly correct. There is a line in Albert Speer's memoir "Inside the Third Reich" regarding Hitler's religion where Hitler is quoted to have said: "You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion.Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" They-- the Nazi leadership-- paid lip service to Christianity to placate the population, but only had a use for it insofar as they could use it as a tool to get people to do things.
For those who are interested in what these people were actually like, "Inside the Third Reich" is fantastic. Albert Speer is certainly a biased source, and I'm sure he downplays some of his own involvement, but in historical scholarship it doesn't get any better than a primary source. I'll take Speer's biased account over the speculation of someone 70 years later who wasn't there.
Alabama is the home of US Senator Richard Shelby, who is currently single-handedly holding all of President Obama's nominations hostage for pork-barrel earmarks to his home state. Let the retaliation begin!
Situation: I am being stalked.
Solution: Don't go outside.
Solution 2: Kill yourself.
Do you see the flaw in your reasoning? These people have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and you should not place the blame for stalking on the victims.
They jumped out of the graphics arms race and into the peripherals arms race. In Canada the Wii costs around 200 bucks at Costco, which is the cheapest I've seen it, and around 200 dollars cheaper than the xbox. But you need to get a nunchuk to play certain games: 25 dollars. A second controller and nunchuk, around 50 bucks total. Want to get motionplus for both of those to improve the motion sensing? 50 dollars. You're now at 325, compared to the xbox with a second controller which gets you to about 450 (and also comes with the Elite system, Modern Warfare 2, and a 250gb hard drive). The average new game for the 360 up here runs 60-70 dollars. For the Wii they're slightly cheaper... unless they're some hokey peripheral game like WiiFit, where you're going to pay 100 dollars. Want another balance board? That'll be 60 or 70 dollars. Want to buy Mario Kart and get two little steering wheel controllers? 90 dollars. If the Wii is not the most outright profitable console of this generation I'd be shocked, because they nickle and dime you to death with cheap peripherals, and people buy them. It seems like every game they come out with comes with some new gadget you need to buy, and I hardly think that's an accident. I'd like to see Microsoft and Sony put out a commercial comparing Total Cost of Ownership, because even if you're paying for Xbox Live Gold every a year, you'll probably end up spending more money for your Wii.
Not to mention that referring to the whole state as Rhode Island would make about as much sense as referring to the the whole of New York state as "Manhattan Island," or renaming Virginia to "Chincoteague Island." The state literally is Providence Plantation on land, as well as Rhode Island. For a similar concept see "Newfoundland and Labrador." These people don't just fail history, they fail geography.
The operative word was "revival." Superhero movies had been toxic waste after the Batman franchise was run into the ground.
I agree with your general point, but I'd like to point out that X-Men was 2 years ahead of Spiderman, and is more or less what started the superhero revival.
You're right, we may as well all just let our kids play in traffic. Oh wait, no, you're just wrong.
Does this go for hard drives and bandwidth?
For bandwidth, yes. All major ISPs in Canada still cap bandwidth, and all of them additionally throttle P2P. I moved here from the states, and let me tell you, compared to this America is a shining beacon of the future when it comes to broadband.
I'm not sure why you'd say that, since the article is about cell phones which are usually vendor locked. Sure, you might be able to buy unlocked smartphones on eBay, but the vast majority go into an AT&T store and buy the thing. And then there are the contracts... Joe Bob goes into AT&T and buys a Blackberry, and to get the best deal he gets locked into a 2 year contract. Even if he pays the early termination fee, he still can't use his locked phone on another network.
Any time people pull this shit, kindly point out to them that since 1993, violent crime in all civilized nations has been on the decline, except in places like Sweden and Switzerland where it has stayed roughly the same, because it was never very high to begin with. This encompasses the era of pretty much all mass market video games. (For reference, Super Nintendo came out in 1992) Australia is actually an exception to this. I'm not saying that's significant, just that it's weird given the story.
An entire generation has grown up playing Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, Doom, Quake, Postal, Carmageddon, Grand Theft Auto Cop Killer Simulator Edition, etc., and violent crime has gone down. The homicide rate in the US is the lowest it's been since 1965, when there were 100,000,000 fewer people.
Kind of like how we tell our kids that all drugs are always unconditionally bad, unless they're handed out by mommy and daddy? This story is an interesting nexus of two things people lie to their kids about. If NASA were so full of American grit, they wouldn't have a problem getting Congress to get funding for (a return trip to the moon|an expedition to Mars|a space elevator).
There is almost always more to the truth than what we tell our kids, because of our own moral hangups and personal inadequacies. This is why, once they become teenagers and get their first trickled-down distorted taste of what the real world is actually going to be like, they rebel and hate you. It's the least they owe to the people who have lied to them their entire lives.
Drugs are like cars, or power tools, or guns. They're incredibly useful tools, but if you don't respect them they'll kill you.
And you should never mix them with cars, or power tools, or guns.
Unless you're an astronaut.