Mass Effect 3 is a game with, according to the esrb, "Sexual content" and "Partial nudity" (butts, breasts off screen sex) and is of course rated M. The hell sort of "children" are playing that? According to folks like the FRC, children should be able to buy such a game, so what do they care? Of all the things in such a game to get angry about. One would think they would be requiring EA to take out the whole relationship thing as a whole due to the sex. Crap. I gave them an idea.
I must disagree. There is nothing any more inherently flawed about the shuttle design than there is about a car, and we send those to rescue themselves all the time. I would say bully for them having that docking technology in place for these sorts of rescue missions.
This company sells rings with ferric meteorite inlays. They are a bit pricey, but very pretty. You could tell your beloved that nothing on earth was good enough for her, so you got her something that fell from the sky.
http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/Damascus_Rings_Meteorite_Rings/
Honestly, I blame the public. Our space program is boring, so NASA resorts to this stupid stuff just to remind people that we still HAVE a space program. The only way to stop this ridiculous stuff is to make the people appreciate the science and exploration that our space program does. In other words, until exploration and science is popular, NASA is going to continue to make a joke of itself with silly pranks like this.
Sorry for the all caps, but I thought everone would want to leave the company doing this a nice 'thank you' letter for helping destroy society. Here is the address to their feeback page. Feel sorry for the low-paid worker that has to sift through this. Though, if we send enough, someone with a tie and bloated salary may get wind of it, at least.
Well, this pretty much grounds James Bond, eh? I mean how can he NOT have sex? Though, nasa should talk to him about the physics of doing the nasty in zero-g. I'm sure he could write a book about it!:-P
It has been very disturbing to me to see the big corporations villifying file sharing technologies, and the internet in general instead of leveraging it as a distribution and selling point. A hardy amount of money is spent by anime distributors in the US on marketing and packaging. They simply don't sell enough copies in stores to justify the costs being any less than they are! I think i'd be happy to spend 50 bucks to legally download a series from ADV, or even Funimation!(Though that would make me feel dirty) At this point my only options for getting a series is: a) Chinese ripoffs from ebay or certain websites b) Get fansubs(some legal others, not-so-much) c) Spend 120+ dollars
That was the point. Good fansubing means companies have to actually try when doing their own translations. Without fan subs, I doubt any anime being released right now would have any better translations to them than this, or Dragonball Z. In fact, Dragonball Z DVDs have with them subtitles only because of fansubers and their followers complaining about Funimation's crappy dubbing. Fansubbing is an integral part of anime distribution. It is nothing like Napster ver. 1, as some of you want to think.
I just don't think Lt. Skat is riveting enough to make hard core gamers switch:-(
I put on a bisemester LAN party for my University's ACM chapter. We always have the two or three linux game boxes, and a vast majority of windows boxes. It would be pretty cool to be able to pass this disk out at the beginning of the lan party. They only problem is, this is too hard of a sell with this list of games. I really don't think the gamers at the party will want to reboot their boxes to play torcs! when the alternative is UT. We really need some competitive open source games to compete with the non-open alternatives. That's the only way this kind of project could ever be effective.
Well, I thought the batchelor/fear factor/apprentice/survivor was a bad idea, but this takes the cake. People will now watch ANYTHING on TV. I think Gerry Springer is more wholesome than a Sims show.:-(
The next thing you know, they'll be seeding kiddy porn.mpg's listed as music videos, and then informing the FBI on you. Technically, I do believe that they could almost get away with that.
All that you've said is true, but there is hope. All we have to do is raise a fuss and get the laws change. Our opinions do matter. We must contact our law makers and raise a fuss. For those that don't listen, remember their deafness and make sure they don't get elected again. And make sure they know that. Our government, at it's core is a democracy. WE have the power. We must but decide to use it.......
Well, assuming they're not hipocrites, and don't use cordless phones,baby monitors or cell phones, we have to consider the idea that maybe they're right. Imagine if all those mysterious ethereal waves DO give us cancer? Then again, they could just be backwater holdovers from the middle ages, not wanting to imbrace new scary ideas (like electricty, or flight;-P) A Dark Age monk named Savanarola tried to stop the Rennaissance in Italy. Maybe this is about the same?
This is obsurd. The RIAA must think that we will not do anything about their little spree of gleefully delivered lawsuits. They might has well go on the streets and steal an old lady's purse or stolen a sucker from a three year old for what this kind of action should do for their image. This can't continue. Even our big business loving president is going to have to take notice and act against them. Of course, this IS the president that punished Microsoft for being a monopoly by making them give cheap software to schools, there by furthuring the monopoly. I just wish one of the major news companies would pick this one up and run with it. The RIAA wouldn't stand a chance. Anyone here work at CNN or Fox?:-P
Great! So instead of buying from a monoply that came to power through shrewd, unfettered free enterprise, the Chinese have decided to buy from one they created themselves. Great Idea, China!
When I want a tissue, I say I want a kleenex. This means I have permanantly associated the company Kleenex with tissue paper. In other words, I'm not gonna buy a box of tissue unless it says Kleenex on it. Its the same way with web searches and google. Why wouldn't a company be proud of such an honor and happy for the free publicity? Jackal
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Mass Effect 3 is a game with, according to the esrb, "Sexual content" and "Partial nudity" (butts, breasts off screen sex) and is of course rated M. The hell sort of "children" are playing that? According to folks like the FRC, children should be able to buy such a game, so what do they care? Of all the things in such a game to get angry about. One would think they would be requiring EA to take out the whole relationship thing as a whole due to the sex. Crap. I gave them an idea.
I can personally point to 5 soon to graduate students at LSU that could do at least 4 out of 5 of these, easily. Ask about ACM programming contest!
I must disagree. There is nothing any more inherently flawed about the shuttle design than there is about a car, and we send those to rescue themselves all the time. I would say bully for them having that docking technology in place for these sorts of rescue missions.
This company sells rings with ferric meteorite inlays. They are a bit pricey, but very pretty. You could tell your beloved that nothing on earth was good enough for her, so you got her something that fell from the sky. http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/Damascus_Rings_Meteorite_Rings/
Honestly, I blame the public. Our space program is boring, so NASA resorts to this stupid stuff just to remind people that we still HAVE a space program. The only way to stop this ridiculous stuff is to make the people appreciate the science and exploration that our space program does. In other words, until exploration and science is popular, NASA is going to continue to make a joke of itself with silly pranks like this.
Great. 9 million dollars to build the thing, 15 million dollars to build the infastructure to power and cool it, probably.
Sorry for the all caps, but I thought everone would want to leave the company doing this a nice 'thank you' letter for helping destroy society. Here is the address to their feeback page. Feel sorry for the low-paid worker that has to sift through this. Though, if we send enough, someone with a tie and bloated salary may get wind of it, at least.
t .asp
http://citywatcher.com/cwpage.asp?pagename=contac
It would seem as if they have a feedback page. Let's tell this great company what we think of them, guys!!!t .asp
http://citywatcher.com/cwpage.asp?pagename=contac
Both parents and kid deserve a darwin award. Kudos to the kid for removing himself from the gene pool
Well, this pretty much grounds James Bond, eh? I mean how can he NOT have sex? Though, nasa should talk to him about the physics of doing the nasty in zero-g. I'm sure he could write a book about it!:-P
It has been very disturbing to me to see the big corporations villifying file sharing technologies, and the internet in general instead of leveraging it as a distribution and selling point. A hardy amount of money is spent by anime distributors in the US on marketing and packaging. They simply don't sell enough copies in stores to justify the costs being any less than they are! I think i'd be happy to spend 50 bucks to legally download a series from ADV, or even Funimation!(Though that would make me feel dirty) At this point my only options for getting a series is:
a) Chinese ripoffs from ebay or certain websites
b) Get fansubs(some legal others, not-so-much)
c) Spend 120+ dollars
Am I the only one who thinks it's really funny to see AMD and "no heatsink" in the same sentence?
That was the point. Good fansubing means companies have to actually try when doing their own translations. Without fan subs, I doubt any anime being released right now would have any better translations to them than this, or Dragonball Z. In fact, Dragonball Z DVDs have with them subtitles only because of fansubers and their followers complaining about Funimation's crappy dubbing. Fansubbing is an integral part of anime distribution. It is nothing like Napster ver. 1, as some of you want to think.
Do not use cartoon to describe anime. There is a huge difference between most anime and what we Americans think of when we hear cartoon.
I just don't think Lt. Skat is riveting enough to make hard core gamers switch :-(
I put on a bisemester LAN party for my University's ACM chapter. We always have the two or three linux game boxes, and a vast majority of windows boxes. It would be pretty cool to be able to pass this disk out at the beginning of the lan party. They only problem is, this is too hard of a sell with this list of games. I really don't think the gamers at the party will want to reboot their boxes to play torcs! when the alternative is UT. We really need some competitive open source games to compete with the non-open alternatives. That's the only way this kind of project could ever be effective.
Well, I thought the batchelor/fear factor/apprentice/survivor was a bad idea, but this takes the cake. People will now watch ANYTHING on TV. I think Gerry Springer is more wholesome than a Sims show. :-(
The next thing you know, they'll be seeding kiddy porn .mpg's listed as music videos, and then informing the FBI on you. Technically, I do believe that they could almost get away with that.
All that you've said is true, but there is hope. All we have to do is raise a fuss and get the laws change. Our opinions do matter. We must contact our law makers and raise a fuss. For those that don't listen, remember their deafness and make sure they don't get elected again. And make sure they know that. Our government, at it's core is a democracy. WE have the power. We must but decide to use it.......
If that doesn't work, @.com
Why pay 15 bucks for an animated gif of a F*****g jet, when you just hack the source and get them for free. This is just plain stupid. Jackal
Well, assuming they're not hipocrites, and don't use cordless phones,baby monitors or cell phones, we have to consider the idea that maybe they're right. Imagine if all those mysterious ethereal waves DO give us cancer? Then again, they could just be backwater holdovers from the middle ages, not wanting to imbrace new scary ideas (like electricty, or flight ;-P) A Dark Age monk named Savanarola tried to stop the Rennaissance in Italy. Maybe this is about the same?
This is obsurd. The RIAA must think that we will not do anything about their little spree of gleefully delivered lawsuits. They might has well go on the streets and steal an old lady's purse or stolen a sucker from a three year old for what this kind of action should do for their image. This can't continue. Even our big business loving president is going to have to take notice and act against them. Of course, this IS the president that punished Microsoft for being a monopoly by making them give cheap software to schools, there by furthuring the monopoly. I just wish one of the major news companies would pick this one up and run with it. The RIAA wouldn't stand a chance. Anyone here work at CNN or Fox? :-P
Great! So instead of buying from a monoply that came to power through shrewd, unfettered free enterprise, the Chinese have decided to buy from one they created themselves. Great Idea, China!
When I want a tissue, I say I want a kleenex. This means I have permanantly associated the company Kleenex with tissue paper. In other words, I'm not gonna buy a box of tissue unless it says Kleenex on it.
Its the same way with web searches and google. Why wouldn't a company be proud of such an honor and happy for the free publicity?
Jackal