[It] could have been so much more of a scathing critique of high school social politics than it turned out to be.
Well, I am sure this issue will be addressed by the many copy cat games which will follow. Or perhaps in the charity-commission games which will contain a bold and powerful message against bullying.
I want to play Bully. Not because I want to run around beating up children or because I think the whole premise is amusing, but because the plot and story seem different and new compared to the current crop of games. I am sick to the back teeth of Animal Crossing: Wild World. It doesn't follow that I do not appreciate the seriousness of bullying or understand the horrendous burden placed upon the bullied.
Some people just need to take a deep breath and realise that entertainment = entertainment and that if they do not feel it is commensurate with their own agenda or message, they should do a better job themselves of getting that message out, rather than hoping other agencies/industries will.
Seems like he is really buying into his company's own hot air. I hope he is earning lots of nice money.
Windows customers expect the best, safest experience with their PCs out of the box, especially around the web browser. We're investing so much time and effort in IE in order to give Windows customers a great, secure, default experience.
After they solve this dimension of the security issue, they can deal with a slightly more important one - securing the laptops against theft.
DEAREST SIR MY NAME IS BARRISTER MUMBAGWE SMYTHE AND I WRITE TO YOU IN GRAVE NEED FOR ASSIST. RECENTLY MY GOVERNMENT UNCLE DIED AND LEFT ME MANY MILLION LAPTOP WHICH MUST BE EXITED FROM COUNTRY.
I predict more dead third world children! Oh yes. Still, it makes a nice change from diamonds/oil/etc....instead there shall be many a colourful laptop for sale on eBay, due to demand created by Linux fetishists.
If only they had used OS X - then there would be no desire for such hideous laptops by those OS fans. Sniffle.
The woman lost my sympathy when I read that. What an utterly ridiculous lack of perspective and scale. It almost seems she is trying to link this to the death of her son, in that "this kind of thing" is directly responsible, as though the original murder all stemmed from people on the internet "being racist".
It is a shame that she couldn't at least forgive him for the moronic (which is really all they are) things he wrote, rather than simply taking glee at his sentence which seems mostly due to the child pornography anyway.
She could learn a lot from the Amish in this respect, I feel.
Ah well. I am off to throw bananas at Trevor Phillips. Oops, my evil fantasy internet persona just slipped out. Letters of apology are in the mail - free child porn included.
Well, anyone can BUY into something like MySpace. But it is strange how these "kids" actually chose to "make friends" with Burger King, a fast food place with no appreciable "cool factor" that I have ever been aware of, and affiliate themselves with it.
China is market for companies like Google and Yahoo. Wikipedia has no revenue-chasing to be doing by getting out to the largest number of people possible. Wales' stance would, I imagine, be rather different if each Wikipedia page had income-generating adverts dependent on page views and click-throughs.
How wonderful it is to act nobly when one has not simply nothing to lose but actually nothing to gain.
Check the contract with your bank, but I'd be prepared to bet that are within their rights to call in that debt - ie. demand it is repaid in full - at any time.
But then the banks would blatantly be profiting from terrorists! That is just going to look bad when slapped all over the tabloids. Though they can't just let them off with the debt - that would be like giving money to the terrorists!
Aaaargh! SYNTAX ERROR! DOES NOT COMPUTE!
"Okay learners, I want you to open up your MySpace profiles to page 85. Yesterday we left off at animated GIFs. Now, who can tell me the maximum number of animated GIFs one should use? That's right, Brad: it is a trick question - there IS no maximum! You get three shares of MSFT. Well done. Now, about Flash..."
But why would someone go out of their way to continue to use it? I can understand practical and pragmatic answers like "It's still functional for me" or "I just like it better and I haven't had any problems". But are there other reasons?
Uh...the guy kidnapped and kept a child locked up under his house for eight years. If you find yourself able to understand any of the rather curious things he did, then you might like to contact the Austrian police and give them some advice.
(Unless that advice is "He couldn't afford an Amiga 500.")
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I want to play Bully. Not because I want to run around beating up children or because I think the whole premise is amusing, but because the plot and story seem different and new compared to the current crop of games. I am sick to the back teeth of Animal Crossing: Wild World. It doesn't follow that I do not appreciate the seriousness of bullying or understand the horrendous burden placed upon the bullied.
Some people just need to take a deep breath and realise that entertainment = entertainment and that if they do not feel it is commensurate with their own agenda or message, they should do a better job themselves of getting that message out, rather than hoping other agencies/industries will.
How To Be A Game Industry Lawyer, by Jack Thompson.
I imagine the same proportion of sites are still worth visiting.
(He said, posting from his very reasonably priced 24" iMac.)
Poor old Microsoft. Like information, they just want to be free!
And they would have been able to be so if it weren't for those meddling European kids...
"Old Man Gates! It was you all along!"
After they solve this dimension of the security issue, they can deal with a slightly more important one - securing the laptops against theft.
DEAREST SIR MY NAME IS BARRISTER MUMBAGWE SMYTHE AND I WRITE TO YOU IN GRAVE NEED FOR ASSIST. RECENTLY MY GOVERNMENT UNCLE DIED AND LEFT ME MANY MILLION LAPTOP WHICH MUST BE EXITED FROM COUNTRY.
I predict more dead third world children! Oh yes. Still, it makes a nice change from diamonds/oil/etc....instead there shall be many a colourful laptop for sale on eBay, due to demand created by Linux fetishists.
If only they had used OS X - then there would be no desire for such hideous laptops by those OS fans. Sniffle.
The woman lost my sympathy when I read that. What an utterly ridiculous lack of perspective and scale. It almost seems she is trying to link this to the death of her son, in that "this kind of thing" is directly responsible, as though the original murder all stemmed from people on the internet "being racist".
It is a shame that she couldn't at least forgive him for the moronic (which is really all they are) things he wrote, rather than simply taking glee at his sentence which seems mostly due to the child pornography anyway.
She could learn a lot from the Amish in this respect, I feel.
Ah well. I am off to throw bananas at Trevor Phillips. Oops, my evil fantasy internet persona just slipped out. Letters of apology are in the mail - free child porn included.
I have control over my bodily functions and pay...zero on nappies.
Never mind all that. They have a video of Steve Balmer dresses as a butterfly. Instant win.
Speaking of Apple, that link to MS's site looks rather Apple-y in style...
Google may as well change their motto to "Do no evil pro bono".
So basically...KIDS THESE DAYS! PFFFFT!
Even taking into account the entity being not Burger King but "The King", that 120,000 people have fallen for it is just...incredible.
Well, anyone can BUY into something like MySpace. But it is strange how these "kids" actually chose to "make friends" with Burger King, a fast food place with no appreciable "cool factor" that I have ever been aware of, and affiliate themselves with it.
China is market for companies like Google and Yahoo. Wikipedia has no revenue-chasing to be doing by getting out to the largest number of people possible. Wales' stance would, I imagine, be rather different if each Wikipedia page had income-generating adverts dependent on page views and click-throughs.
How wonderful it is to act nobly when one has not simply nothing to lose but actually nothing to gain.
But then the banks would blatantly be profiting from terrorists! That is just going to look bad when slapped all over the tabloids. Though they can't just let them off with the debt - that would be like giving money to the terrorists!
Aaaargh! SYNTAX ERROR! DOES NOT COMPUTE!
Tip Number 11 - Have a friend shill for you to drive up the price.
Or did that so he could teach incorrect economics in order to keep all the money for himself, muahahahaha.
Most of the tips are common sense or obvious to people who have used eBay a few times, to both buy and sell.
"Okay learners, I want you to open up your MySpace profiles to page 85. Yesterday we left off at animated GIFs. Now, who can tell me the maximum number of animated GIFs one should use? That's right, Brad: it is a trick question - there IS no maximum! You get three shares of MSFT. Well done. Now, about Flash..."
Uh...the guy kidnapped and kept a child locked up under his house for eight years. If you find yourself able to understand any of the rather curious things he did, then you might like to contact the Austrian police and give them some advice.
(Unless that advice is "He couldn't afford an Amiga 500.")
To Terry Pratchett, by the look of it.
40% better video performance but NO LINK TO IT? Come on!