Amen. A girl bitches at me because I play so many games. (Never mind the fact that I am getting paid to do so, albeit not a king's ransom...) Then, she turns around and just HAS to catch EVERY episode of every shitty reality TV show to be injected into the airwaves. Double standard, thine name is woman.
Awesome, just awesome. I saw one of these proponents speak on an episode of Penn and Teller: Bullshit!, and his logic (or lack thereof) was amazing. "Wouldn't it be great if the state let the parents sit down with their children and choose as a family what they're going to believe?" Uh, no, simply for the reason that SCIENCE IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. You can't ignore facts just because you don't like them. Of course, given that this is the same Middle America (tm) that still believes there is a PROVEN link between 9/11 and Iraq, and that we've found actual WMDS...
Exactly which passle of nations has the balls and wherewithal wage war against the U.S.? Perhaps the EU? Yeah, right - pull the other finger. The EU can't even manage to get all of its members to accept the Euro, much less wage war against a nation that would kick their asses six ways to Sunday. Not that the citizens of the EU would be that fucking insane, since any such attempt would end in their own nuclear annihilation.
The US is having massive issues fighting (and paying for) wars against two countries. Fighting all the EU would be a recipe for disaster alright... ours. Not to mention the effect that nuking the EU would have on the world economy.
But hey, keep on believing the nice talking heads on Fox News and talk radio that tell you that we'll automatically win any conflict we're involved in, because we're AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
If the US dropped a nuclear weapon on any country - hell, if ANY country dropped a nuke on any other - it would mean the complete and total destruction of modern society across the board. Mutually assured destruction might very well be the one thing Reagan got right.
But please, don't let that stop you from your trolling. LET'S ROLL!
The newspaper I write for wanted to do this huge writeup on this overhyped marketingspeak word. When I explained that "Podcasting" is nothing more than a digital audio file to a server....but downloading it AUTOMATICALLY!!!!!11111!!1, they scrapped it.
So in a way, I feel like I've done my part to scrap this bullshit. I'm proud.
I can't fucking wait to see AXE ads in city 17 and hear my merry band of rebels blast out the pop/nu-metal flavor of the week from an old stereo as they fight the strikers.
You may not think that would ever happen, but I wouldn't put it past EA, if they thought we'd put up with it. And really,how many of us would just buy it anyway.
Controllers are always more, and live will not cost money for basic features, so if you don't play online, it's not a big deal.
However, it would just be bad business to suddenly declare all Xbox 360 units useless when the HD drive hits. It will be an upgrade, sure, but an optional and competitively priced one.
Logic states that if MS demands all Xbox owners go out and buy new systems to be able to play new games, they'll piss off millions of people. And by the time the HD drive hits market, such a move would undoubtedly drive disgruntled gamers into Sony's waiting arms.
Hey, you're preaching to the choir. I dig the pr0n just as much if not more than your average/.'er. Also, I never said you *couldn't* do whatever you like in your own bedroom. You want to be splooged by 50 guys in an hour? Have at it. It's your funeral if one of them has HIV.
The only thing I take issue with in your post is the idea that somehow, the actions portrayed in a good deal of Internet pornography is realistic, natural, or - most importantly - healthy for someone who is JUST LEARNING ABOUT SEX to view.
In context, this is a troll. If consenting adults gangbang, fine, so be it. "Your right to extend your arm..." and such. But I think you'd have to be pretty extreme left to say that it's a good idea to allow children to watch some chick get spooged on by 50 guys in an hour.
I think most Slashdotters have been around this terrible thing we call the Internet enough times to know that while sex might be natural, a lot of the porn availible on the web is anything but. Do you really want kids to have access to things like slap happy, max hardcore, or - god forbid - anything out of Japan or Brazil's porn industry?
That said, I don't see how the fuck this will actually protect children. The free previews will remain explicit, a lot of porn sites are hosted off shore anyway, and the increase in prices will just be passed on to consumers.
Of course, nobody actually buys porn anymore, right?;)
You've got a cartel situation, with 4 major studios that own the majority of affiliate studios, ditto for record labels and publishing houses.
Sticking a feather up your ass doesn't make you a chicken, and having a bunch of subsidary companies that all follow the same rules as the parent doesn't a "free market" make.
Of course, you go ahead and keep apologizing for big corporations. It's so cool and rebellious to be against the people who are against "the man."
That's rich. You're the flaming troll that has to resort to unoriginal, redundant insults on a regular basis because your own arguments are lacking, but yet, I'm the one who's "not that bright." Neocon logic, ladies and gentlemen! Your e-Penis must be HUGE!
Nor, it seems, can you spell.
Nor, it seems, would you know sarcasm if it came up behind you and bit you in the ass.
Perhaps you've heard of something called "minority rights?" No? Look into it sometime.
I do have a right to expect private corporations not to be able to set such invasive terms on my doing business. This "you don't have a right... private property...you can't set the terms" bullshit is just a cop-out by apologists for corporate america.
Fact: it's not that people decide to do business with these soulless corps despite the drawbacks as your kind wish us to believe, it's that the public is too stupid to realize what half of these companies are doing, and these capitalists well... capitalize on that.
By your view, all consumer protection laws are null and void because hey, the free market guys, am I rite?
I think this whole thing (LOL LET'S NAIL VIDEO GAMES FOR THE CHILD'NS!) is bullshit, but does that patch (sims) unlock content that was left on the disc by the devs, or is it completely user made? Rockstar's is the first, and I think that's what opened them up for this. I can't see why it was left on the master disc.
I think it's pretty obvious Lucas stopped being an artist a long time ago. Now he's just like Todd McFarlane (or should I say, McFarlane is just like him)... a really good businessman with no creative soul.
That is incorrect, especially with the movie industry. The majors have armies of accountants and lawyers to cook the books so that even the most profitable film stays "in the red" for taxation purposes. For instance: Spider Man 2 actually "lost" money in their books, depriving the screenwriter of any and all royalties for that film.
Only half of us did. Probably less, I would not put it past the GOP to fix the election twice..
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AH! I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!
You capitalized on the whole "Slashdot reader is a fat lonely nerd that lives in the basement" cliche. Boy, you are something else!
Thank you, Richard Simmons. Internet toughguy and bodybuilder.
The fact is, it's not easy for a lot of people. Yeah, there are your stereotypical fatass nerds who just don't give a shit.
But what about people with thyroid problems? Or metabolism so low it's like watching pain dry? What about people who take medications that interfere with already low metabolism?
I myself have the latter problem. Lexapro + low metabolism = I may be a touch over your exacting standards, no matter how much I work out. I'm sure e-gurus like yourself will just say LOL STOP PLAYING EVERQUEST AND WORK OUT HAHAHA PUT DOWN THE FORK, but that just betrays a good deal of ignorance about the reality of the situation.
Not everyone who is overweight is such by choice. Not everyone who has "manboobs" earned them.
They face sentences of up to five years in prison, and up to US$250,000 in fines, in addition to the possibility of being forced to pay restitution to copyright holders.
Sure. What's going to happen? Are they going to mow the lawns of all those poor copyright holders to make the money to pay them off?
These people are ridiculous. The more they pass these ridiculous laws, the more they keep these lawsuits up, the more they will have the control they so obsessively desire slip through their grasp.
It's no longer on me to obey your outdated copyright laws. It's up to you, the content provider, to make me want to buy your product. Oh noes!
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Uh, digital cable with 130 channels, PVR and HDTV service is 28 bucks a month here. Seems reasonable to me.
We're calling OK Go musicians now? Hmm. Isn't that like calling Britney Spears a singer?
Amen. A girl bitches at me because I play so many games. (Never mind the fact that I am getting paid to do so, albeit not a king's ransom...) Then, she turns around and just HAS to catch EVERY episode of every shitty reality TV show to be injected into the airwaves. Double standard, thine name is woman.
He admits he made his living (a nice one, I'm sure) off of media production for major networks. He's a biased little troll.
Follow the money!
Awesome, just awesome. I saw one of these proponents speak on an episode of Penn and Teller: Bullshit!, and his logic (or lack thereof) was amazing. "Wouldn't it be great if the state let the parents sit down with their children and choose as a family what they're going to believe?" Uh, no, simply for the reason that SCIENCE IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. You can't ignore facts just because you don't like them. Of course, given that this is the same Middle America (tm) that still believes there is a PROVEN link between 9/11 and Iraq, and that we've found actual WMDS...
It's everyone's favorite /. troll, maxpublic!
Exactly which passle of nations has the balls and wherewithal wage war against the U.S.? Perhaps the EU? Yeah, right - pull the other finger. The EU can't even manage to get all of its members to accept the Euro, much less wage war against a nation that would kick their asses six ways to Sunday. Not that the citizens of the EU would be that fucking insane, since any such attempt would end in their own nuclear annihilation.
The US is having massive issues fighting (and paying for) wars against two countries. Fighting all the EU would be a recipe for disaster alright... ours. Not to mention the effect that nuking the EU would have on the world economy.
But hey, keep on believing the nice talking heads on Fox News and talk radio that tell you that we'll automatically win any conflict we're involved in, because we're AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
If the US dropped a nuclear weapon on any country - hell, if ANY country dropped a nuke on any other - it would mean the complete and total destruction of modern society across the board. Mutually assured destruction might very well be the one thing Reagan got right.
But please, don't let that stop you from your trolling. LET'S ROLL!
So in a way, I feel like I've done my part to scrap this bullshit. I'm proud.
You may not think that would ever happen, but I wouldn't put it past EA, if they thought we'd put up with it. And really ,how many of us would just buy it anyway.
However, it would just be bad business to suddenly declare all Xbox 360 units useless when the HD drive hits. It will be an upgrade, sure, but an optional and competitively priced one.
Logic states that if MS demands all Xbox owners go out and buy new systems to be able to play new games, they'll piss off millions of people. And by the time the HD drive hits market, such a move would undoubtedly drive disgruntled gamers into Sony's waiting arms.
The only thing I take issue with in your post is the idea that somehow, the actions portrayed in a good deal of Internet pornography is realistic, natural, or - most importantly - healthy for someone who is JUST LEARNING ABOUT SEX to view.
I think most Slashdotters have been around this terrible thing we call the Internet enough times to know that while sex might be natural, a lot of the porn availible on the web is anything but. Do you really want kids to have access to things like slap happy, max hardcore, or - god forbid - anything out of Japan or Brazil's porn industry?
That said, I don't see how the fuck this will actually protect children. The free previews will remain explicit, a lot of porn sites are hosted off shore anyway, and the increase in prices will just be passed on to consumers.
Of course, nobody actually buys porn anymore, right? ;)
You've got a cartel situation, with 4 major studios that own the majority of affiliate studios, ditto for record labels and publishing houses. Sticking a feather up your ass doesn't make you a chicken, and having a bunch of subsidary companies that all follow the same rules as the parent doesn't a "free market" make. Of course, you go ahead and keep apologizing for big corporations. It's so cool and rebellious to be against the people who are against "the man."
Nor, it seems, can you spell.
Nor, it seems, would you know sarcasm if it came up behind you and bit you in the ass.
I do have a right to expect private corporations not to be able to set such invasive terms on my doing business. This "you don't have a right... private property...you can't set the terms" bullshit is just a cop-out by apologists for corporate america.
Fact: it's not that people decide to do business with these soulless corps despite the drawbacks as your kind wish us to believe, it's that the public is too stupid to realize what half of these companies are doing, and these capitalists well... capitalize on that.
By your view, all consumer protection laws are null and void because hey, the free market guys, am I rite?
I think this whole thing (LOL LET'S NAIL VIDEO GAMES FOR THE CHILD'NS!) is bullshit, but does that patch (sims) unlock content that was left on the disc by the devs, or is it completely user made? Rockstar's is the first, and I think that's what opened them up for this. I can't see why it was left on the master disc.
"Must mate" = "Must reproduce," and I think zombies do that quite well, at least by Romero rulesets.
Nice rant. Two words: "Stop Me."
I think it's pretty obvious Lucas stopped being an artist a long time ago. Now he's just like Todd McFarlane (or should I say, McFarlane is just like him)... a really good businessman with no creative soul.
That is incorrect, especially with the movie industry. The majors have armies of accountants and lawyers to cook the books so that even the most profitable film stays "in the red" for taxation purposes. For instance: Spider Man 2 actually "lost" money in their books, depriving the screenwriter of any and all royalties for that film.
Only half of us did. Probably less, I would not put it past the GOP to fix the election twice..
AH! I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE! You capitalized on the whole "Slashdot reader is a fat lonely nerd that lives in the basement" cliche. Boy, you are something else!
The fact is, it's not easy for a lot of people. Yeah, there are your stereotypical fatass nerds who just don't give a shit.
But what about people with thyroid problems? Or metabolism so low it's like watching pain dry? What about people who take medications that interfere with already low metabolism?
I myself have the latter problem. Lexapro + low metabolism = I may be a touch over your exacting standards, no matter how much I work out. I'm sure e-gurus like yourself will just say LOL STOP PLAYING EVERQUEST AND WORK OUT HAHAHA PUT DOWN THE FORK, but that just betrays a good deal of ignorance about the reality of the situation.
Not everyone who is overweight is such by choice. Not everyone who has "manboobs" earned them.
haha...
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do you have stairs in your house?
Sure. What's going to happen? Are they going to mow the lawns of all those poor copyright holders to make the money to pay them off?
These people are ridiculous. The more they pass these ridiculous laws, the more they keep these lawsuits up, the more they will have the control they so obsessively desire slip through their grasp.
It's no longer on me to obey your outdated copyright laws. It's up to you, the content provider, to make me want to buy your product. Oh noes!
Hey, when it comes to SPORTS games, sony IS the little guy. Sorry, try again!