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lol Yeah.. well I was going to say they were in the car 90% of the time, but I figured I'd be safe saying 75% just in case.. Don't want to make cops more pissed off than I already do;)
Not ALL of our public schools are terrible. What I went to back in the day was a great school, and still is. They taught me just as much as a private school would have, and they have plenty of both advanced and remedial classes. Anyway, I'll assume you mean the inner-city schools and such.. My point is, don't try to say all our public schools are terrible. The area I live in is not rich by any standard, but our schools are great. My *question* is.. compared to what? Certainly not 75% of the world.. Not terrible compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, most of Africa, South America, and so on..
Our education system IS one of the best..
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In one way you make sense.. No one wants to be watched every second of their job, but these cops are NOT being watched the whole time, only during the 5-10 minutes they're having to interact with someone that's probably broken the law.. Cops can still goof off and buy some donuts, talk on the phone, or watch pretty girls(or guys should they be female cops) from their cruiser window while they're parked or driving around waiting for something to happen.. Most cops are not in an out-of-car situation 100% of the time on the job.. More like 25% from what I see..
I forget who did the interview, if I could find it I would, but.. It was where Lucas was comparing himself to Peter Jackson, he said something to the effect of (if not exactly) Peter is making three movies out of one book, and I [Lucas] am making nine movies out of one book. At the time I didn't see many people commenting on it, maybe I just didn't look hard enough, but it seemed really weird..
tits on a boar.. but anyway, I agree with you.. In the old days, people cared abou their business.. now it's just profit profit.. They you think you don't increase your bottom line by hiring people.. You increase it by efficiency, computers, lying cheating stealing etc;) but yeah.. I always say.. if you don't have employees.. who's going to afford your product?
It could, but it won't. The industry has nothing new to sell, you have to have something people want and are able to buy to be successful. This was the major problem with the original IT burst in my opinion.. Rather, why it crashed.. Anyway, they're mostly hiring people in other countries where they don't have to pay them shit (Or else they'd be hiring right here where they're selling a huge majority of their products).. This isn't the rule, just a thought, but it seems to me that IT-oriented people by IT products.. They hire people in other countries, that can't afford their products.. They try to sell it here in the USA, but the people wanting to buy stuff aren't employed.. I'm all for sharing the wealth, but the way things are going.. We aren't actually helping *anyone* by outsourcing.. I mean do you really think Nike sweatshops are helping any economies? No.. The industry is dead until people want and can buy the products for sale..
Thankya very much.. I actually think I've seen this game before, it's kinda cool. I love old games like this for those days when you're feeling lazy and just want to put off work or something;)
Aww.. I don't suppose you can dig it up again eh?;( I always wanted to play a game like it.. I've seen a few wannabes, but the "game" in the movie was so neat looking =P
Personally, I can't imagine them having to be afraid of counterattacks. Everyone hates them anyway, yet very little seems to happen to them.
I think this is great though, the RIAA (etc) sucks, and while some of their abusive schemes might can be hidden in legal/moral grey-areas.. When people start getting hit with viruses/DoS/whatever though, I think they'll realize that the music industry is evil;)
Personally.. I think it'd make it easier for those people (is that good or bad?) by the things you could create to make navigation easier.. As in.. Like you could have a virtual office, notebook here (notepad/pico), calendar on the wall.. Visual representation of files, mom's cooking recipes in 3d kitchen.. Dad's workshop plans in the garage.. Games in the virtual bedroom.. ooh.. new possibilites..
GTA/GTA2/GTA3/GTA3:Vice City are Computer Games as well.. (At least, I thought Vice City for PC was out.. but if not it will be soon)
Now that I'm done splitting hairs..
"This is a console game. In other words, it is much more accessable to everyone"
Uhm.. Howso?.. I mean sure, there's the case of older brother or dad or mom or whoever leaving the game out or something, but hey.. Maybe the adults should pay some freaking attention to what's going on in their house.
Other than that.. Have you seen the price of console/pc games lately?? From tetris like games to GTA3, you're looking at around $50 a pop.. Young children running around unsupervised with $50 to buy whatever they want is a problem itself. I mean seriously, you wouldn't let a kid buy $50 worth of candy and ice cream, so why do you let them randomly buy a game?.. I do believe that bad parenting is a huge problem in the US.. I really don't see minors indulging in GTA3 as much as you might believe.. Regardless of this "major gaming site" you speak of.
I talk to a wonderful, beautiful, smart, cute, funny girl every day;) I have a job, a family, friends, co-workers I talk to regularly, play basketball, read slashdot, work as a coder on a few small projects, and... I play a bit of GTAIII.. My point is, just because you think that the only people that play games are losers or whatever.. It's not nearly true. Sometimes there is just an appeal to being the bad guy. I mean sure, you may still think less of me because I play games like GTA3, but so far it hasn't affected my relationship with my girlfriend, my work habits, or my health.. Oh and it hasn't made me more violent or anything either;) I mean.. I would leave your friends and family the fuck alone even if you weren't posting as an anonymous coward, which I'm sure you are in real life too.
That interests me.. just because I would say that depending on how you look at things.. The internet and all the objects on it (webpages, servers, etc).. Could easily be compared to the human body, just instead of webpages and servers there are things like bacteria and organs;) In the internet being, viruses can easily be said to be alive..
I doubt you care about my opinion, but I just wanted to add to what you were saying about Lucas being a better writer than director/producer.. To me, I don't think he's that great of a *writer*, but that he has some pretty good ideas overall. I mean, Episode I & II even both had a good IDEA, but to me he just wanted to fit too much timespan into three movies and ended up losing a lot of detail and such.
Casting abilities really sucked though, I always wonder how he got such great actors in American Graffiti and the original StarWars, but got a bunch of crap in the prequels.. It's almost as if he thought the prequels wouldn't work without bad acting..
So how does the 13-20+ females with 5 kids and living off of welfare/foodstamps/WIC figure into human evolution?
Perhaps they're the control group... This is what happens when you don't evolve......
When you pay money for a service that is password protected, an average non-paranoid person will take it for granted. The fact is AT&T or whoever could have easily made it so you can't use the service until you change the password.. I mean, when I got my ATM card, I couldn't use it until *I* set a pin number and such for it.. Why can't the voicemail service people do the same thing? On the other hand.. If a thief picks my lock, I can't sue the lock company.. So I agree, at&t shouldn't be held fully accountable, but still..
Freakin AC.. It said it *could affect* future financial plans.. Not that Drudge thought SONY would go under just because of a movie. I mean seriously.. If I see a new video card and decide I wanna buy it.. shelling out the $300 out of my checking account is going to *affect my future financial plans*.. As in.. I'm going to have to save more than I planned to buy some new games or whatever.. If you wanna come down on someone for bullshitting, at least have a good reason.
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While I can't read minds, I believe Loki's little project may have retarded native port development. I realize it was taking a long time for Loki to get anything out there, but the fact is that if Loki had been making money hand over fist.. The big developers (EA etc) wouldve said hey.. Let's exploit this new market.. but it didn't happen.. I wouldve thought there were enough Linux people out there to start a market, but I guess not. Probably the next best thing would have to be a company (like Loki) just receiving massive donations so they stay afloat and can advertise better..
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lol Yeah.. well I was going to say they were in the car 90% of the time, but I figured I'd be safe saying 75% just in case.. Don't want to make cops more pissed off than I already do ;)
Not ALL of our public schools are terrible. What I went to back in the day was a great school, and still is. They taught me just as much as a private school would have, and they have plenty of both advanced and remedial classes. Anyway, I'll assume you mean the inner-city schools and such.. My point is, don't try to say all our public schools are terrible. The area I live in is not rich by any standard, but our schools are great. My *question* is.. compared to what? Certainly not 75% of the world.. Not terrible compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, most of Africa, South America, and so on..
Our education system IS one of the best..
In one way you make sense.. No one wants to be watched every second of their job, but these cops are NOT being watched the whole time, only during the 5-10 minutes they're having to interact with someone that's probably broken the law.. Cops can still goof off and buy some donuts, talk on the phone, or watch pretty girls(or guys should they be female cops) from their cruiser window while they're parked or driving around waiting for something to happen.. Most cops are not in an out-of-car situation 100% of the time on the job.. More like 25% from what I see..
Right now it looks like someone's been using the cd-tray as a cup holder..
I forget who did the interview, if I could find it I would, but.. It was where Lucas was comparing himself to Peter Jackson, he said something to the effect of (if not exactly) Peter is making three movies out of one book, and I [Lucas] am making nine movies out of one book. At the time I didn't see many people commenting on it, maybe I just didn't look hard enough, but it seemed really weird..
tits on a boar.. but anyway, I agree with you.. In the old days, people cared abou their business.. now it's just profit profit.. They you think you don't increase your bottom line by hiring people.. You increase it by efficiency, computers, lying cheating stealing etc ;) but yeah.. I always say.. if you don't have employees.. who's going to afford your product?
It could, but it won't. The industry has nothing new to sell, you have to have something people want and are able to buy to be successful. This was the major problem with the original IT burst in my opinion.. Rather, why it crashed.. Anyway, they're mostly hiring people in other countries where they don't have to pay them shit (Or else they'd be hiring right here where they're selling a huge majority of their products).. This isn't the rule, just a thought, but it seems to me that IT-oriented people by IT products.. They hire people in other countries, that can't afford their products.. They try to sell it here in the USA, but the people wanting to buy stuff aren't employed.. I'm all for sharing the wealth, but the way things are going.. We aren't actually helping *anyone* by outsourcing.. I mean do you really think Nike sweatshops are helping any economies? No.. The industry is dead until people want and can buy the products for sale..
Thankya very much.. I actually think I've seen this game before, it's kinda cool. I love old games like this for those days when you're feeling lazy and just want to put off work or something ;)
Aww.. I don't suppose you can dig it up again eh? ;( I always wanted to play a game like it.. I've seen a few wannabes, but the "game" in the movie was so neat looking =P
Personally, I can't imagine them having to be afraid of counterattacks. Everyone hates them anyway, yet very little seems to happen to them. ;)
I think this is great though, the RIAA (etc) sucks, and while some of their abusive schemes might can be hidden in legal/moral grey-areas.. When people start getting hit with viruses/DoS/whatever though, I think they'll realize that the music industry is evil
Farscape = SciFi Channel = Does anyone actually watch SciFi Channel anymore outside of maybe.. /. people =P
Personally.. I think it'd make it easier for those people (is that good or bad?) by the things you could create to make navigation easier.. As in.. Like you could have a virtual office, notebook here (notepad/pico), calendar on the wall.. Visual representation of files, mom's cooking recipes in 3d kitchen.. Dad's workshop plans in the garage.. Games in the virtual bedroom.. ooh.. new possibilites..
GTA/GTA2/GTA3/GTA3:Vice City are Computer Games as well.. (At least, I thought Vice City for PC was out.. but if not it will be soon)
Now that I'm done splitting hairs..
"This is a console game. In other words, it is much more accessable to everyone"
Uhm.. Howso?.. I mean sure, there's the case of older brother or dad or mom or whoever leaving the game out or something, but hey.. Maybe the adults should pay some freaking attention to what's going on in their house.
Other than that.. Have you seen the price of console/pc games lately?? From tetris like games to GTA3, you're looking at around $50 a pop.. Young children running around unsupervised with $50 to buy whatever they want is a problem itself. I mean seriously, you wouldn't let a kid buy $50 worth of candy and ice cream, so why do you let them randomly buy a game?.. I do believe that bad parenting is a huge problem in the US.. I really don't see minors indulging in GTA3 as much as you might believe.. Regardless of this "major gaming site" you speak of.
Hey, you mustve played GTA3 pretty extensively before you decided it was such a bad game, huh? =P
I talk to a wonderful, beautiful, smart, cute, funny girl every day ;) I have a job, a family, friends, co-workers I talk to regularly, play basketball, read slashdot, work as a coder on a few small projects, and... I play a bit of GTAIII.. My point is, just because you think that the only people that play games are losers or whatever.. It's not nearly true. Sometimes there is just an appeal to being the bad guy. I mean sure, you may still think less of me because I play games like GTA3, but so far it hasn't affected my relationship with my girlfriend, my work habits, or my health.. Oh and it hasn't made me more violent or anything either ;) I mean.. I would leave your friends and family the fuck alone even if you weren't posting as an anonymous coward, which I'm sure you are in real life too.
That interests me.. just because I would say that depending on how you look at things.. The internet and all the objects on it (webpages, servers, etc).. Could easily be compared to the human body, just instead of webpages and servers there are things like bacteria and organs ;) In the internet being, viruses can easily be said to be alive..
I doubt you care about my opinion, but I just wanted to add to what you were saying about Lucas being a better writer than director/producer.. To me, I don't think he's that great of a *writer*, but that he has some pretty good ideas overall. I mean, Episode I & II even both had a good IDEA, but to me he just wanted to fit too much timespan into three movies and ended up losing a lot of detail and such.
Casting abilities really sucked though, I always wonder how he got such great actors in American Graffiti and the original StarWars, but got a bunch of crap in the prequels.. It's almost as if he thought the prequels wouldn't work without bad acting..
So how does the 13-20+ females with 5 kids and living off of welfare/foodstamps/WIC figure into human evolution?
Perhaps they're the control group... This is what happens when you don't evolve......
No, they should not. The moon has had millions of years to come clean.
Now just imagine running over the people on bicycles....
When you pay money for a service that is password protected, an average non-paranoid person will take it for granted. The fact is AT&T or whoever could have easily made it so you can't use the service until you change the password.. I mean, when I got my ATM card, I couldn't use it until *I* set a pin number and such for it.. Why can't the voicemail service people do the same thing? On the other hand.. If a thief picks my lock, I can't sue the lock company.. So I agree, at&t shouldn't be held fully accountable, but still..
wtf..
I thought the poll's function was to tell us how many people have no interest in it ;)
Freakin AC.. It said it *could affect* future financial plans.. Not that Drudge thought SONY would go under just because of a movie. I mean seriously.. If I see a new video card and decide I wanna buy it.. shelling out the $300 out of my checking account is going to *affect my future financial plans*.. As in.. I'm going to have to save more than I planned to buy some new games or whatever.. If you wanna come down on someone for bullshitting, at least have a good reason.
While I can't read minds, I believe Loki's little project may have retarded native port development. I realize it was taking a long time for Loki to get anything out there, but the fact is that if Loki had been making money hand over fist.. The big developers (EA etc) wouldve said hey.. Let's exploit this new market.. but it didn't happen.. I wouldve thought there were enough Linux people out there to start a market, but I guess not. Probably the next best thing would have to be a company (like Loki) just receiving massive donations so they stay afloat and can advertise better..