I'd like the public option (or even better, single payer). But I think I will pass on the car surveillance system. We already have a tax on how much we travel, it is called taxing gas. Large vehicles that waste gas and are harder on the roads naturally get taxed more than smaller fuel-efficient vehicles. I see nothing wrong with this system.
Hmm, maybe they are worried about tax revenue once electric cars come out? That would make a little bit of sense then. But I'd rather just have them read the odometer once a year than track me. On the upside though, if my car was ever stolen, the government would know where it is!
Actually, Obama's speeches are actually really well done. Not only does he deliver it well, they are full of logic and reason that has been sorely lacking in our leader's speeches the past 8 years. But people refuse to actually listen because they are so polarized. Very sad.
The GP was obviously making fun of the Miss USA pageant contestant that blew the questions/answer portion. Maybe you were just trying to be funny, but if you were serious, I really feel sorry for you.
Except that it isn't an issues with xp sp2 and later. Why do we mod up so many people who didn't bother to read the article and don't know any of the facts. You guys assume the worst of MS and the best from Apple. Wake up already.
Clearly, you didn't read the article as it is not an issue for XP SP2 and SP3. Maybe remember this the next time you decide to use the word "clearly" and postulate on crap you don't know the details about. Fox News style indeed.
Wow. You must get all your new from biased sources since you have everything backwards.
Buying insurance as an individual is incredibly expensive. The reason employers get a better deal is because they have a larger pool of people and can negotiate down prices. As an individual, you do not have that leverage so you get screwed. You are also screwed no matter how much you are willing to pay if you have a pre-existing condition (like pregnancy).
A public option would allow you to take it across state lines...so I don't know what you are complaining about there.
You are already paying for coverage you never use. And on top of that, you are paying for all the profits that go to the shareholders and the large CEO salaries. There is no way that it will be more expensive than the current system.
Again, one device being preferred over the other is already in the current system.
It has gotten vastly better for every industrialized country that has a single payer system. The mantra that government is bad is stupid and childish. Too much government is bad. Too little government is bad. It is time to realize for our businesses to compete and for us as individuals to be actually getting raises instead of paying more for health care, we need to do away with the for profit business of health insurance.
Quite frankly, the people on here crying about DRM are the sheeple. DRM is here to stay whether you like it or not, so let's make sure it is reasonable instead of removing ourselves from the conversation.
It is false to say that there is no benefits to not having games on your local machine. I can think of a few off the top of my head. You don't have physical media to damage and lose. You can get to your games anywhere by simply using your login (unless they tie it to a box). Not having to buy physical media means less waste. Games are instantly on demand.
If you don't like the model, don't by. But the irrational emotional arguments against DRM are getting old. That ship has sailed. Too many people pirate games and this is the result of those actions.
No, they have a (probably rational) fear of people carrying around guns in the open. If I am not at a shooting range or out hunting with a friend, and I see a person or people walking around with a large weapon, I am not going to hang out and see what their intentions are. It might be legal, but it is pretty stupid.
Guns don't kill people. People do. And people are pretty damn stupid in general. Forgive me if I'd rather not see everyone walking around with ones in their hands.
Sorry, that argument falls apart pretty quickly when you think about it. How? If we used your thought process, everyone should be allowed to have nuclear weapons. I mean, nuclear weapons don't kill people, people kill people.
Obviously, we differentiate between how deadly something is. Everything just isn't a tool. Nuclear weapons can kill many people extremely easily so we don't want everyone accessing them. Guns also make it a lot easier to kill someone (not to the same extreme as nuclear weapons, but easier than with our fists). The question is where you draw the line on what is acceptable and what isn't.
Your description of WoW end game reminds me of a journalist writing in a newspaper about something tech related. You kind of have the general idea, but miss a few things and have some inaccuracies.
First off, hardcore is one of those terms that is in the eye of the beholder. To many, nothing in WoW is hardcore (including end game). Hardcore really just tends to be the type of person who schedules times to do raids with their guild.
Next, inaccuracies. Each boss (in raids) drops multiple items, not just one. They also drop tokens so that if you get unlucky on a lot of rolls or the loot system, you can trade those tokens for better gear. Yes, you still run the same areas over and over again. But if you are doing it right, it is fun since you like the people you are doing it with.
Also, there is more to it than just gear. Gear is important, but strategy is way more important. Even some of the more casual raids (ones that take less than an hour) will destroy a group if they can not work together and implement a strategy. It can take just a few people out of 25 to not know what they are doing and it will make you fail.
This has nothing to do with children. Plenty of adults sink a lot of time in to these things. Quite frankly, this is how WoW keeps subscribers. You can not create content faster than people complete it. By having you run thing multiple times to improve your character, it keeps people busy. This is just the nature of MMOs. If there isn't some sort of mechanism like this, people won't play the game.
Disclaimer: I play WoW when the expansions come out. I do the raids once or twice and quit because it takes up too much time. The game is fun, but I enjoy other things in life.
Really, this is only going to work in a very limited number of situations. The parents have to be smart and be able to spend a lot of time with their kids (or a tutor). It only works if the kid is actually motivated to learn anything. And even then, I would hope the family has a lot of money or a business the kid can inherit because they are not going to be learning the things they need to get in to a college.
Really, the only reason this is appealing to people because there are many people in this country that don't believe in the education system. They want to force their political and/or religious beliefs on their child rather than to let them think on their own. You are much better off sending your kid to a top notch private school where they can learn and grow socially. Home schooling or unschooling is most likely dooming them to a life as an outcast of society.
Yes, but they still wear jean skirts and have no idea how to communicate other than with their family. Vast generalization, I'll admit. But I have met a lot of home schoolers, and not one of them was comfortable in social situations.
Now we have unschooling, let's take the anti-social home schoolers and don't teach them any standard curriculum. Now they can't communicate and they can't get in to college. Sounds brilliant to me.
Yet somehow the Wii and 360 are doing better than the PS3. So does that mean cracking is good for business? Sorry, I don't buy it. This just makes it so people don't build clusters of PS3s anymore. When the console is sold at a loss, you really only want the gamers buying your product...not the people who want to install Linux on it to get to play with a cell processor on the cheap.
This shouldn't be surprising though. And you are right, the Dreamcast booting ordinary CDs was a far bigger deal. It is probably the major reason it failed as a console since it allowed very easy piracy.
With the exception of Nintendo, consoles are sold at a loss. If you are using it for non-gaming purposes, then you are causing Sony to lose money. So people buying PS3 to make cheap clusters are a detriment. This is simply a business decision that makes sense. They were hoping that Slashdot types would be interested in this and then also buy games. The problem is the type of person who is inclined to put Linux on a PS3 tend to be the type who doesn't buy any games. So why support it?
I don't believe they are enemies of free software. They are just friends with making a profit. That's just capitalism.
Just summarize the article, don't whine to me about how you don't like Sony. I am able to evaluate actions they take individually. Rootkit = bad. PS3 not supporting linux = good business decision. They are in no way related to each other since this isn't replacing Linux on the PS3 with a rootkit.
And seriously wake up. If you get pissed at Sony for the dumb things they do, then you probably wouldn't buy a product from anyone if you actually paid attention to all the crap that has gone on in each company's history.
The problem that you don't realize and probably can't realize is that you are messed up in the head. While human history has show awful things have been done, believing fringe conspiracy theories shows that your brain is susceptible to garbage. You probably consider yourself to be more open minded than others...why can't we understand the truth you are saying? In reality, being open minded means that you can consider a thought, but still be able to dismiss it when it doesn't prove itself out.
Let's consider your ideas. On one hand, you have a vaccine that kills a certain percentage of people (let's assume it is less than 300% since I would hope that is a typo). On the other hand, you believe people are creating vaccines for diseases that don't exist yet. The problem is if that were true, why aren't we being vaccinated every month with all these new diseases coming out? I haven't required any strange vaccines for a new disease, have you? H1N1 is just the flu that is slightly more deadly. It has been shown that these things can alter without scientific human intervention. It just changes as it goes from species to species and mutant strains can take off due to natural selection.
But you want to believe that the military complex designed these things. Is this some sort of backward Intelligent Design theory you have?
If everyone is modding you down, it isn't because you see things more clearly. It is because your mind is broken. It is unfortunate that when you are insane, everyone seems against you. You can't see that you fail to see the world correctly since you have some sort of chemical imbalance. So your life is full of anger and mistrust. The problem is you can't trust your own perception. You have to trust others and let them help you. But your insanity doesn't allow you to trust. It's sad.
You claim to want independence, but that is a lie. You don't come to an online forum to find independence. You obviously are here because you want to find others that share your viewpoints so you don't feel so alone. Unfortunately, your viewpoints are wrong and extreme. Until you get past your ego and realize you know nothing and that you need help, your existence will be lonely.
It's amazing how intelligent people become retarded when it comes to guns. They guy was just trying to counter someone saying that no one died from AIDS. Obviously, AIDS is the reason why many people die. Their lack of immune system allows them to contract a disease that we would be able to recover from typically.
We all know that it requires someone or something to fire a gun for it to kill you. The GP was responding to someone saying something like: "Even though Bob shot the guy with a gun, let's not fool ourselves. Bob did not kill him, nor did the gun. He died because he lost too much blood." Obviously, that is ridiculous. He died because someone shot him with a gun. Bob is to blame. The gun can actually be blamed as well since it is possible Bob would be to weak the kill person without the aid.
But saying AIDS doesn't kill people is just semantic garbage that detracts from actually talking about something meaningful. And focusing on the guns part of what they guy was saying shows you completely missed the point.
Yes, I am human. Just so we are on the same page, are you?
I know that as a human, we die. We can die in many different ways. You could die trying to save people from a burning building. You could die in bed choosing a lethal injection. Doesn't really matter to the person, they are both dead. It does matter to the people around them. A person who choses to die so his family does not have to watch them suffer or have to pay his bills is not a coward. Life is not pain. There are many other sensations as well.
Shame on you for looking at the world so black and white. You judge yet you know nothing and are nothing. Do not presume that your path should be the same that everyone should follow.
I completely disagree with you. There is no catch-22. There are plenty of rational reason to want to die on your own terms. People being forced in to euthanasia is not acceptable. If people want to die, the Dr. is not doing harm, they are doing their patients wishes. Not allowing them the option is causing harm.
We have no ethical qualms about putting animals "to sleep". In fact, we consider that humane. Is it any different for humans? No, only to religious people that want to force their beliefs on others.
This isn't a complicated issue. This isn't even close to a new issue either. So your "inappropriate and dangerous" comment isn't warranted. It is just an excuse to delay what doesn't need to be delayed.
Umm, if you knew this, then you understand why your original post is stupid, right? It isn't implying anything. I could say someone is brave to commit suicide and face death. I could say someone is brave to face pain instead of death. You could also say the opposite about people. We really don't know what is the case with this person. We just knew he died. The OP was just trying to look at this person in a good light despite how many people view suicide. But you have to come along and argue semantics? Pointless. A guy dies. Someone tries to say something nice. You go off the deep end pulling implications out of your ass while you ignore what the guy was trying to say.
Then sky dive, land, and then take a bunch of pills or a lethal injection. Don't traumatize people and make a huge mess. You are also damaging the sport you supposedly love by putting a death on record for a sky diving company. You are completely thinking about yourself. GP is thinking of others. Do you not understand the definition of selfish? Look it up and go feel stupid for awhile.
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I'd like the public option (or even better, single payer). But I think I will pass on the car surveillance system. We already have a tax on how much we travel, it is called taxing gas. Large vehicles that waste gas and are harder on the roads naturally get taxed more than smaller fuel-efficient vehicles. I see nothing wrong with this system.
Hmm, maybe they are worried about tax revenue once electric cars come out? That would make a little bit of sense then. But I'd rather just have them read the odometer once a year than track me. On the upside though, if my car was ever stolen, the government would know where it is!
Actually, Obama's speeches are actually really well done. Not only does he deliver it well, they are full of logic and reason that has been sorely lacking in our leader's speeches the past 8 years. But people refuse to actually listen because they are so polarized. Very sad.
The GP was obviously making fun of the Miss USA pageant contestant that blew the questions/answer portion. Maybe you were just trying to be funny, but if you were serious, I really feel sorry for you.
Except that it isn't an issues with xp sp2 and later. Why do we mod up so many people who didn't bother to read the article and don't know any of the facts. You guys assume the worst of MS and the best from Apple. Wake up already.
Clearly, you didn't read the article as it is not an issue for XP SP2 and SP3. Maybe remember this the next time you decide to use the word "clearly" and postulate on crap you don't know the details about. Fox News style indeed.
Wow. You must get all your new from biased sources since you have everything backwards.
Buying insurance as an individual is incredibly expensive. The reason employers get a better deal is because they have a larger pool of people and can negotiate down prices. As an individual, you do not have that leverage so you get screwed. You are also screwed no matter how much you are willing to pay if you have a pre-existing condition (like pregnancy).
A public option would allow you to take it across state lines...so I don't know what you are complaining about there.
You are already paying for coverage you never use. And on top of that, you are paying for all the profits that go to the shareholders and the large CEO salaries. There is no way that it will be more expensive than the current system.
Again, one device being preferred over the other is already in the current system.
It has gotten vastly better for every industrialized country that has a single payer system. The mantra that government is bad is stupid and childish. Too much government is bad. Too little government is bad. It is time to realize for our businesses to compete and for us as individuals to be actually getting raises instead of paying more for health care, we need to do away with the for profit business of health insurance.
Game companies wouldn't have problem with pirates...
If pirates actually paid for the games they play.
That's all. Seems like their demands seem fairly reasonable.
Quite frankly, the people on here crying about DRM are the sheeple. DRM is here to stay whether you like it or not, so let's make sure it is reasonable instead of removing ourselves from the conversation.
It is false to say that there is no benefits to not having games on your local machine. I can think of a few off the top of my head. You don't have physical media to damage and lose. You can get to your games anywhere by simply using your login (unless they tie it to a box). Not having to buy physical media means less waste. Games are instantly on demand.
If you don't like the model, don't by. But the irrational emotional arguments against DRM are getting old. That ship has sailed. Too many people pirate games and this is the result of those actions.
No, they have a (probably rational) fear of people carrying around guns in the open. If I am not at a shooting range or out hunting with a friend, and I see a person or people walking around with a large weapon, I am not going to hang out and see what their intentions are. It might be legal, but it is pretty stupid.
Guns don't kill people. People do. And people are pretty damn stupid in general. Forgive me if I'd rather not see everyone walking around with ones in their hands.
Sorry, that argument falls apart pretty quickly when you think about it. How? If we used your thought process, everyone should be allowed to have nuclear weapons. I mean, nuclear weapons don't kill people, people kill people.
Obviously, we differentiate between how deadly something is. Everything just isn't a tool. Nuclear weapons can kill many people extremely easily so we don't want everyone accessing them. Guns also make it a lot easier to kill someone (not to the same extreme as nuclear weapons, but easier than with our fists). The question is where you draw the line on what is acceptable and what isn't.
Well, at least you were smart enough to name yourself correctly.
Your description of WoW end game reminds me of a journalist writing in a newspaper about something tech related. You kind of have the general idea, but miss a few things and have some inaccuracies.
First off, hardcore is one of those terms that is in the eye of the beholder. To many, nothing in WoW is hardcore (including end game). Hardcore really just tends to be the type of person who schedules times to do raids with their guild.
Next, inaccuracies. Each boss (in raids) drops multiple items, not just one. They also drop tokens so that if you get unlucky on a lot of rolls or the loot system, you can trade those tokens for better gear. Yes, you still run the same areas over and over again. But if you are doing it right, it is fun since you like the people you are doing it with.
Also, there is more to it than just gear. Gear is important, but strategy is way more important. Even some of the more casual raids (ones that take less than an hour) will destroy a group if they can not work together and implement a strategy. It can take just a few people out of 25 to not know what they are doing and it will make you fail.
This has nothing to do with children. Plenty of adults sink a lot of time in to these things. Quite frankly, this is how WoW keeps subscribers. You can not create content faster than people complete it. By having you run thing multiple times to improve your character, it keeps people busy. This is just the nature of MMOs. If there isn't some sort of mechanism like this, people won't play the game.
Disclaimer: I play WoW when the expansions come out. I do the raids once or twice and quit because it takes up too much time. The game is fun, but I enjoy other things in life.
Really, this is only going to work in a very limited number of situations. The parents have to be smart and be able to spend a lot of time with their kids (or a tutor). It only works if the kid is actually motivated to learn anything. And even then, I would hope the family has a lot of money or a business the kid can inherit because they are not going to be learning the things they need to get in to a college.
Really, the only reason this is appealing to people because there are many people in this country that don't believe in the education system. They want to force their political and/or religious beliefs on their child rather than to let them think on their own. You are much better off sending your kid to a top notch private school where they can learn and grow socially. Home schooling or unschooling is most likely dooming them to a life as an outcast of society.
Yes, but they still wear jean skirts and have no idea how to communicate other than with their family. Vast generalization, I'll admit. But I have met a lot of home schoolers, and not one of them was comfortable in social situations.
Now we have unschooling, let's take the anti-social home schoolers and don't teach them any standard curriculum. Now they can't communicate and they can't get in to college. Sounds brilliant to me.
So that means you can get one of the PS3s out there right now and still do exactly what you wanted.
Then don't get a slim. Duh.
Yet somehow the Wii and 360 are doing better than the PS3. So does that mean cracking is good for business? Sorry, I don't buy it. This just makes it so people don't build clusters of PS3s anymore. When the console is sold at a loss, you really only want the gamers buying your product...not the people who want to install Linux on it to get to play with a cell processor on the cheap.
This shouldn't be surprising though. And you are right, the Dreamcast booting ordinary CDs was a far bigger deal. It is probably the major reason it failed as a console since it allowed very easy piracy.
With the exception of Nintendo, consoles are sold at a loss. If you are using it for non-gaming purposes, then you are causing Sony to lose money. So people buying PS3 to make cheap clusters are a detriment. This is simply a business decision that makes sense. They were hoping that Slashdot types would be interested in this and then also buy games. The problem is the type of person who is inclined to put Linux on a PS3 tend to be the type who doesn't buy any games. So why support it?
I don't believe they are enemies of free software. They are just friends with making a profit. That's just capitalism.
Just summarize the article, don't whine to me about how you don't like Sony. I am able to evaluate actions they take individually. Rootkit = bad. PS3 not supporting linux = good business decision. They are in no way related to each other since this isn't replacing Linux on the PS3 with a rootkit.
And seriously wake up. If you get pissed at Sony for the dumb things they do, then you probably wouldn't buy a product from anyone if you actually paid attention to all the crap that has gone on in each company's history.
The problem that you don't realize and probably can't realize is that you are messed up in the head. While human history has show awful things have been done, believing fringe conspiracy theories shows that your brain is susceptible to garbage. You probably consider yourself to be more open minded than others...why can't we understand the truth you are saying? In reality, being open minded means that you can consider a thought, but still be able to dismiss it when it doesn't prove itself out.
Let's consider your ideas. On one hand, you have a vaccine that kills a certain percentage of people (let's assume it is less than 300% since I would hope that is a typo). On the other hand, you believe people are creating vaccines for diseases that don't exist yet. The problem is if that were true, why aren't we being vaccinated every month with all these new diseases coming out? I haven't required any strange vaccines for a new disease, have you? H1N1 is just the flu that is slightly more deadly. It has been shown that these things can alter without scientific human intervention. It just changes as it goes from species to species and mutant strains can take off due to natural selection.
But you want to believe that the military complex designed these things. Is this some sort of backward Intelligent Design theory you have?
If everyone is modding you down, it isn't because you see things more clearly. It is because your mind is broken. It is unfortunate that when you are insane, everyone seems against you. You can't see that you fail to see the world correctly since you have some sort of chemical imbalance. So your life is full of anger and mistrust. The problem is you can't trust your own perception. You have to trust others and let them help you. But your insanity doesn't allow you to trust. It's sad.
You claim to want independence, but that is a lie. You don't come to an online forum to find independence. You obviously are here because you want to find others that share your viewpoints so you don't feel so alone. Unfortunately, your viewpoints are wrong and extreme. Until you get past your ego and realize you know nothing and that you need help, your existence will be lonely.
It's amazing how intelligent people become retarded when it comes to guns. They guy was just trying to counter someone saying that no one died from AIDS. Obviously, AIDS is the reason why many people die. Their lack of immune system allows them to contract a disease that we would be able to recover from typically.
We all know that it requires someone or something to fire a gun for it to kill you. The GP was responding to someone saying something like: "Even though Bob shot the guy with a gun, let's not fool ourselves. Bob did not kill him, nor did the gun. He died because he lost too much blood." Obviously, that is ridiculous. He died because someone shot him with a gun. Bob is to blame. The gun can actually be blamed as well since it is possible Bob would be to weak the kill person without the aid.
But saying AIDS doesn't kill people is just semantic garbage that detracts from actually talking about something meaningful. And focusing on the guns part of what they guy was saying shows you completely missed the point.
Yes, I am human. Just so we are on the same page, are you?
I know that as a human, we die. We can die in many different ways. You could die trying to save people from a burning building. You could die in bed choosing a lethal injection. Doesn't really matter to the person, they are both dead. It does matter to the people around them. A person who choses to die so his family does not have to watch them suffer or have to pay his bills is not a coward. Life is not pain. There are many other sensations as well.
Shame on you for looking at the world so black and white. You judge yet you know nothing and are nothing. Do not presume that your path should be the same that everyone should follow.
I completely disagree with you. There is no catch-22. There are plenty of rational reason to want to die on your own terms. People being forced in to euthanasia is not acceptable. If people want to die, the Dr. is not doing harm, they are doing their patients wishes. Not allowing them the option is causing harm.
We have no ethical qualms about putting animals "to sleep". In fact, we consider that humane. Is it any different for humans? No, only to religious people that want to force their beliefs on others.
This isn't a complicated issue. This isn't even close to a new issue either. So your "inappropriate and dangerous" comment isn't warranted. It is just an excuse to delay what doesn't need to be delayed.
Umm, if you knew this, then you understand why your original post is stupid, right? It isn't implying anything. I could say someone is brave to commit suicide and face death. I could say someone is brave to face pain instead of death. You could also say the opposite about people. We really don't know what is the case with this person. We just knew he died. The OP was just trying to look at this person in a good light despite how many people view suicide. But you have to come along and argue semantics? Pointless. A guy dies. Someone tries to say something nice. You go off the deep end pulling implications out of your ass while you ignore what the guy was trying to say.
Then sky dive, land, and then take a bunch of pills or a lethal injection. Don't traumatize people and make a huge mess. You are also damaging the sport you supposedly love by putting a death on record for a sky diving company. You are completely thinking about yourself. GP is thinking of others. Do you not understand the definition of selfish? Look it up and go feel stupid for awhile.
It was a joke. De-clench.