Television is MANY orders of magnitude worse than video gaming or computer gaming. Many people playing competitive games remain in a heightened state of awareness similar to the condition felt by atheletes during competition. The metabolic rate speeds up and more calories are burnt that when at actual rest. Also, gaming requires at least SOME movement of the hands. Television viewers tend to regress to a state of conciousness that involves even less movement than sleep! So while computer/video gaming isn't the healthiest of activities it's certainly not as bad as telivision from that stand point.
Dude, that's where I worked! I worked there about a year and a half, to two years ago. I came on as a Temp worker (from ETOCN), so the student worker rules didn't apply to me. I'd get to chase one or two down per semester usually. Then the Campus cops would show up and hold them until the real police got there. I think we managed to get all of them charged and none of them I chased ever got away from me.
No no, my FRIENDS watched people get away with it. I *LIVED* for shoplifters! I got to hit the campus cops button and chase the little fuckers down the street and tackle them.
I worked in a campus bookstore and kids would come in and steal the 120$ law books and try to sell them back to us downstairs. Of course, I got paid more than my friends did because they worked at Wal-Mart, and they weren't allowed to chase shoplifters. So I think most of them just didn't care.
I always went after the shoplifters though, I considered it a perk!
***Combat*** Combat is aweful. NPC's can shoot you through mountains and trees. When you fight melee it doesn't even look like you are hitting each other sometimes. Melee fighters almost always lose duels to ranged weapons because melee was nerfed before beta was released. The ranged weapon character can just run circles around the melee'er and shoot him/her/it.
Hence the old addage, "Never bring a knife to a gunfight".
The easiest thing to shoplift is actually large bags of stuff. Dogfood, catfood, garden stuff. Just grab a bag and throw it over your shoulder, walk out the door. No one even thinks about asking for a receipt for it. Of course, who the heck shoplifts dogfood? >:) Also, in a super walmart buy some groceries, put them in your cart, put a trashcan or something on the bottom of the cart, fill the trashcan with loot. Walk out with groceries + can full of loot. Wave to greeter on your way out.
They key is to get loot that doesn't set off any alarms. Books, CDs. electronics are all bad ideas for this. However over the counter medication, clothing (assuming you carry a pretty strong magnet around with you for removing those RF tags) and office supplies all work really well.
And no, I've never shoplifted anything more expensive than a pack of tictacs (on accident no less!), but I've worked in retail and had friends who worked at walmart and watched people get away with this stuff.
You apparently have to be some kind of supergenious haX0r private detective to buy anything from any of these companies. I've gone through all of my spam recieved in a day (about 40 pieces, give or take) and tried to find a place to send money to the company mentioned. In all but one case I failed to find any website, phone number or fax number that could lead me to a place that allowed me to exchange money for services/goods. The single exception was a spam from Radio Shack.
So apparently only the smartest people in the world are able to purchase from most spammers, talk about your niche market!
Sure, Leia in that slavegirl outfit.... The Twilik dancer girls.... Oooh, slavegirl Leia AND the Twilik girls at the same time! Nothing says Geek like Star Wars Porn!
Terrorists will almost always be middle and upper class for the simple reason that hungry people are not idealistic. You aren't going to find a lot of dirt poor starving people who have strong feelings about government or politics or religion. Most dirt poor starving people have strong feelings about food and shelter. If you educate those people and improve their situation then they have the leisure time to review their situation and decide who are there allies and enemies and to form strong beliefs about things.
Anyone seen the Charlies Angels - Full Throttle commercials? It's just a blurring collage of explosions and skin. I love it, but it tells you precisely nothing about the movie beyond the presence of explosions and skin.
Sony drops death ninja squads into your bedroom, the ninjas will torture you with their ancient secret ninja torture techniques until you agree to sign the one year contract for the game, once Sony has 1 million people tortured into the contract they will put the game on a 486 in a closet and shut down the customer service department. Then they will laugh! Oh how they will laugh! They learned their strategy from UBISoft.
I think you misunderstand the craftiest method of cashier theft. Someone walks up to the counter with a candy bar, you have a pocket full of bills and change or a small box of them or something. You tell them the price of the candy bar, they give you money, you give them change. The candy bar is never scanned, the transaction is never entered into the register. The customer gets their candy bar, the cashier gets the money, the store gets nothing.
Oh goodness yes! You'd never have to hear him try to act! That would go a long way towards preventing me from smashing the TV with a brick whenever I accidentaly flip to one of his movies when it's being rerun at 3am on some random channel.
I have TOO MUCH CAFFEINE! WHEEEEE!!! I will try to form some kind of rational non rantbased argument thingy here while buzzed. It should be ugly beyond reason, I suggest hiding.
I understand that the zebra fish may form the base of a chain in the ecology that would eventually effect us were we to whipe out all zebra fish or replace them with a poisonous version. However, The issue at hand involves none of those things, nor even the remote chance of those things occuring. Apparently you aren't aware that the nature of this genetic modification is WELL understood even though the extend of its effects on organisms is somewhat sporadic. The variable here is not how it affects things when spliced in, but only to the degree of the effect. Secondly, no one is going to be releasing Zebra fish into the wild in mass quantities here. A half dozen of these escaping into a lake or whatever isn't going to whipe out the existing species. Zebra fish are victim fish. Bass, Catfish, Snapping turtles, all manner of things will eat them. This abject panic over making a fish that is luminescent under UV lights is NOT caution. It's insane panic over something that has about a.000000000000000001 chance of being harmful.
Ok... so what's the difference between one glowing fish being born in this generation and one glowing fish being released in this generation? I'm not understanding why one would result in the mass excintion of the species and the other would result in a dead glowfish....
We won't know until we try you fucking whiner. What do you expect us to do? Sit on our hands until we know every single possible consequence of every action? We'd never do anything! Hell, you still be sitting in a fucking mud cave, naked, starving, and freezing because FIRE is too potentially harmful for humans to harness. So fuck off. We'll never master genetics if we don't try on something and trying on a fucking Zebra fish sounds like a great idea to me. I don't fucking care of the Zebra fish all disappear because the glowing version escapes and turns into SUPER ZEBAFISH or something. They aren't the only organisms occupying that ecological niche. And, I would assume that the SUPER GLOWING ZEBRAFISH version would occupy that same niche anyways. What danger are you looking for here? that one fish will escape into the wild and somehow trample tokyo? Do you spend a lot of time EATING Zebra fish so you are worried about getting poisoned? What possible danger could this pose? Glowing Zebra fish are not a threat to the world ecology. Sit down, shut up, and let people go about their business of trying to understand the world instead of cowering in frightened ignorance.
Kintanon
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AHA! Here we go, now we see why you have these misconceptions. You don't have ADHD, or any compulsive behaviour. The reason that things like this are diseases are that you CAN'T control them. Example, I have a mild obsessive compulsive habit. It's just a single habit luckily and it involves paralel lines. If I see two straight lines near each other which are not paralel but could be adjusted to become so I will adjust them to become so. Magazines get stacked, pieces of paper get rearanged, pencils get lined up, all manner of odd things will get adjusted just so there are no lines which are not paralel. I have no control over it. I don't usually notice when I do it, it just happens. I also have mild ADD, I have no control over when my mind will suddenly change subjects. In fact, it happened just now. I just went off on a 10 minute side thought about VNC and my current desktop setup.... Anyways. The key descriptor is that people CAN'T control these things. You can't just "Cheer up" if you are depressed, you can't just "pay attention" if you have ADHD/ADD.
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I believe it is you and the original poster who are the asshats. You can not tell me that there is no place for medication in the treatment of severe attention disorders or in the treatment of severe anger or depression. My father was borderline delusional paranoid while I was growing up, he believed that everyone was out to get him, that lead to some rage filled incidents that destroyed our house, cars, all manner of things. None of this was able to clear up until he began taking medication to clear up the chemical imbalance in his brain. My wife can't concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes and is prone to mood swings that take her from being happy and fine to murderous rage in minutes. Wellbutrin helps her to be able to concentrate on the stuff she wants to do and gets rid of that pesky urge to murder people. She doesn't care if they don't "cure" the problem, because the problem can't be cured. Her brain produces an incorrect amount of certain chemicals. End of story. Learning to "cope" or "deal with it" isn't going to make her brain produce the correct quantities of chemicals. So, you, and the other asshat can take a long walk off of a short pier. I like my wife without the homicidal tendencies thank you very much.
One of the explanations for the huge caffeine tolerance is that caffeine has an opposite effect on ADHD people than on "normals". It increases the ability to concentrate and has a calming effect. When my wife wants to go see a movie she always has a double espresso mocha before the movie so that she will be able to sit still. Caffeine has many of the same properties that ADHD drugs do.
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Television is MANY orders of magnitude worse than video gaming or computer gaming.
Many people playing competitive games remain in a heightened state of awareness similar to the condition felt by atheletes during competition. The metabolic rate speeds up and more calories are burnt that when at actual rest. Also, gaming requires at least SOME movement of the hands.
Television viewers tend to regress to a state of conciousness that involves even less movement than sleep!
So while computer/video gaming isn't the healthiest of activities it's certainly not as bad as telivision from that stand point.
Kintanon
Dude, that's where I worked! I worked there about a year and a half, to two years ago. I came on as a Temp worker (from ETOCN), so the student worker rules didn't apply to me. I'd get to chase one or two down per semester usually. Then the Campus cops would show up and hold them until the real police got there. I think we managed to get all of them charged and none of them I chased ever got away from me.
Kintanon
No no, my FRIENDS watched people get away with it. I *LIVED* for shoplifters! I got to hit the campus cops button and chase the little fuckers down the street and tackle them.
I worked in a campus bookstore and kids would come in and steal the 120$ law books and try to sell them back to us downstairs. Of course, I got paid more than my friends did because they worked at Wal-Mart, and they weren't allowed to chase shoplifters. So I think most of them just didn't care.
I always went after the shoplifters though, I considered it a perk!
Kintanon
***Combat***
Combat is aweful. NPC's can shoot you through mountains and trees. When you fight melee it doesn't even look like you are hitting each other sometimes. Melee fighters almost always lose duels to ranged weapons because melee was nerfed before beta was released. The ranged weapon character can just run circles around the melee'er and shoot him/her/it.
Hence the old addage, "Never bring a knife to a gunfight".
Kintanon
The easiest thing to shoplift is actually large bags of stuff. Dogfood, catfood, garden stuff. Just grab a bag and throw it over your shoulder, walk out the door. No one even thinks about asking for a receipt for it.
Of course, who the heck shoplifts dogfood?
>:)
Also, in a super walmart buy some groceries, put them in your cart, put a trashcan or something on the bottom of the cart, fill the trashcan with loot. Walk out with groceries + can full of loot. Wave to greeter on your way out.
They key is to get loot that doesn't set off any alarms. Books, CDs. electronics are all bad ideas for this. However over the counter medication, clothing (assuming you carry a pretty strong magnet around with you for removing those RF tags) and office supplies all work really well.
And no, I've never shoplifted anything more expensive than a pack of tictacs (on accident no less!), but I've worked in retail and had friends who worked at walmart and watched people get away with this stuff.
Kintanon
You apparently have to be some kind of supergenious haX0r private detective to buy anything from any of these companies. I've gone through all of my spam recieved in a day (about 40 pieces, give or take) and tried to find a place to send money to the company mentioned. In all but one case I failed to find any website, phone number or fax number that could lead me to a place that allowed me to exchange money for services/goods. The single exception was a spam from Radio Shack.
So apparently only the smartest people in the world are able to purchase from most spammers, talk about your niche market!
Kintanon
Sure, Leia in that slavegirl outfit.... The Twilik dancer girls.... Oooh, slavegirl Leia AND the Twilik girls at the same time!
Nothing says Geek like Star Wars Porn!
Kintanon
Terrorists will almost always be middle and upper class for the simple reason that hungry people are not idealistic. You aren't going to find a lot of dirt poor starving people who have strong feelings about government or politics or religion. Most dirt poor starving people have strong feelings about food and shelter.
If you educate those people and improve their situation then they have the leisure time to review their situation and decide who are there allies and enemies and to form strong beliefs about things.
Kintanon
Everytime I see the phrase "the real Bruce Perens" I just can't help think of Eminem....
Kintanon
Hah! Just go check out the "Xanth" trilogy from Piers Anthony, it's pushing 30 books now.
Kintanon
Heh, true. I'm going to see it at a matinee tommorow just for the explosions and skin, and as I mentioned I love the ad.
Kintanon
Anyone seen the Charlies Angels - Full Throttle commercials? It's just a blurring collage of explosions and skin. I love it, but it tells you precisely nothing about the movie beyond the presence of explosions and skin.
Kintanon
Right, cause everyone knows they could have done the R&D and built a giant fucking solar plane for $1.25 if they weren't so damned inefficient....
They already did the models, they already had one succesful test flight with this thing.
What would have been your next step?
Kintanon
Sony drops death ninja squads into your bedroom, the ninjas will torture you with their ancient secret ninja torture techniques until you agree to sign the one year contract for the game, once Sony has 1 million people tortured into the contract they will put the game on a 486 in a closet and shut down the customer service department. Then they will laugh! Oh how they will laugh!
They learned their strategy from UBISoft.
Kintanon
Nah, I usually go up to 40$ on something like that.>:) I'm very popular at resteraunts where I eat regularly.
Kintanon
Hey! If flinging shit at a picture of the pope is art, then so is Spike Lee! >:)
Kintanon
Heh, I tip to the next highes tens didget for most of my meals. A $23.17 gets a $6.83 tip. I like round numbers on my statements.
Kintanon
I think you misunderstand the craftiest method of cashier theft.
Someone walks up to the counter with a candy bar, you have a pocket full of bills and change or a small box of them or something. You tell them the price of the candy bar, they give you money, you give them change.
The candy bar is never scanned, the transaction is never entered into the register. The customer gets their candy bar, the cashier gets the money, the store gets nothing.
Kintanon
Oh goodness yes! You'd never have to hear him try to act! That would go a long way towards preventing me from smashing the TV with a brick whenever I accidentaly flip to one of his movies when it's being rerun at 3am on some random channel.
Kintanon
I have TOO MUCH CAFFEINE!
.000000000000000001 chance of being harmful.
WHEEEEE!!!
I will try to form some kind of rational non rantbased argument thingy here while buzzed. It should be ugly beyond reason, I suggest hiding.
I understand that the zebra fish may form the base of a chain in the ecology that would eventually effect us were we to whipe out all zebra fish or replace them with a poisonous version. However, The issue at hand involves none of those things, nor even the remote chance of those things occuring. Apparently you aren't aware that the nature of this genetic modification is WELL understood even though the extend of its effects on organisms is somewhat sporadic. The variable here is not how it affects things when spliced in, but only to the degree of the effect.
Secondly, no one is going to be releasing Zebra fish into the wild in mass quantities here. A half dozen of these escaping into a lake or whatever isn't going to whipe out the existing species. Zebra fish are victim fish. Bass, Catfish, Snapping turtles, all manner of things will eat them.
This abject panic over making a fish that is luminescent under UV lights is NOT caution. It's insane panic over something that has about a
Kintanon
Ok... so what's the difference between one glowing fish being born in this generation and one glowing fish being released in this generation?
I'm not understanding why one would result in the mass excintion of the species and the other would result in a dead glowfish....
Kintanon
We won't know until we try you fucking whiner.
What do you expect us to do? Sit on our hands until we know every single possible consequence of every action? We'd never do anything! Hell, you still be sitting in a fucking mud cave, naked, starving, and freezing because FIRE is too potentially harmful for humans to harness.
So fuck off. We'll never master genetics if we don't try on something and trying on a fucking Zebra fish sounds like a great idea to me. I don't fucking care of the Zebra fish all disappear because the glowing version escapes and turns into SUPER ZEBAFISH or something. They aren't the only organisms occupying that ecological niche. And, I would assume that the SUPER GLOWING ZEBRAFISH version would occupy that same niche anyways.
What danger are you looking for here? that one fish will escape into the wild and somehow trample tokyo? Do you spend a lot of time EATING Zebra fish so you are worried about getting poisoned?
What possible danger could this pose?
Glowing Zebra fish are not a threat to the world ecology. Sit down, shut up, and let people go about their business of trying to understand the world instead of cowering in frightened ignorance.
Kintanon
This rant brought to you by RANTMASTER 4000 (TM)
AHA! Here we go, now we see why you have these misconceptions. You don't have ADHD, or any compulsive behaviour.
The reason that things like this are diseases are that you CAN'T control them.
Example, I have a mild obsessive compulsive habit. It's just a single habit luckily and it involves paralel lines. If I see two straight lines near each other which are not paralel but could be adjusted to become so I will adjust them to become so. Magazines get stacked, pieces of paper get rearanged, pencils get lined up, all manner of odd things will get adjusted just so there are no lines which are not paralel. I have no control over it. I don't usually notice when I do it, it just happens.
I also have mild ADD, I have no control over when my mind will suddenly change subjects. In fact, it happened just now. I just went off on a 10 minute side thought about VNC and my current desktop setup.... Anyways. The key descriptor is that people CAN'T control these things. You can't just "Cheer up" if you are depressed, you can't just "pay attention" if you have ADHD/ADD.
Kintanon
I believe it is you and the original poster who are the asshats.
You can not tell me that there is no place for medication in the treatment of severe attention disorders or in the treatment of severe anger or depression. My father was borderline delusional paranoid while I was growing up, he believed that everyone was out to get him, that lead to some rage filled incidents that destroyed our house, cars, all manner of things. None of this was able to clear up until he began taking medication to clear up the chemical imbalance in his brain.
My wife can't concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes and is prone to mood swings that take her from being happy and fine to murderous rage in minutes. Wellbutrin helps her to be able to concentrate on the stuff she wants to do and gets rid of that pesky urge to murder people.
She doesn't care if they don't "cure" the problem, because the problem can't be cured. Her brain produces an incorrect amount of certain chemicals. End of story. Learning to "cope" or "deal with it" isn't going to make her brain produce the correct quantities of chemicals.
So, you, and the other asshat can take a long walk off of a short pier. I like my wife without the homicidal tendencies thank you very much.
Kintanon
One of the explanations for the huge caffeine tolerance is that caffeine has an opposite effect on ADHD people than on "normals". It increases the ability to concentrate and has a calming effect. When my wife wants to go see a movie she always has a double espresso mocha before the movie so that she will be able to sit still.
Caffeine has many of the same properties that ADHD drugs do.
Kintanon