Heh. Wrestlers are too tame to be deadly. There's nothing deadly about rolling around on a sweaty mat with your hands between some half-naked guy's legs that is deadly. Ick. My teammate did stick with it and become a wrestler for the Army and went (and won at, I believe) the last summer olympics (Oscar Woods - don't know whatever happened to his brother).
Still, wrestling... ick... I've had my nuts closer to most men's prostate than anyone without a medical degree should ever have to.:(
When I was younger (I'm nearing thirty now), I was a wrestler. I was also very successful in judo and soccer, but wrestling was my focus for more than a decade. I won plenty of state and national championships. I never lost a single grecco match in my life. Wrestling, though something I excelled tremendously at, was a sport I was forced into by my step-dad. I'm not unique. Many kids are forced into their parents' sports or endeavors and many sports - especially in environments where a parent is likely to seek some form of retribution against you if you aren't perfect at it (such as hours and hours of being yelled at or being physically abused nightly for "poor" performance in practice) - will induce poor attitude and self-control as a result.
I can tell you that as a kid, I would never turn down a fight. I would never START a fight, but if you picked on my enough or tried to gang up on me with your friends, I would beat you into a bloody pulp. When I was ten, I gave an 18 year old kid down the street 17 stitches across his skull for jumping me (with his friends) in the pitch black dark on my way home one night.
Fortunately, once I was out of that situation (the step-dad), I spent what was left of my childhood living with my grandfather who was a peacemaker. He was a pacifist of sorts who served his country and was a stand-up guy that nobody in the world had a bad thing to say about. I didn't even start playing videogames until long after he started taking care of me. And you know what? With good "parenting", all the videogames in the world won't change you. Nor the books nor the movies or music. But with bad parenting, your children will be prone to act out and be violent and physical and let things affect them in a much harsher way.
Videogames don't make you impatient. Videogames don't make it hard for you to understand, deal with or cope with people. Videogames don't make you react to bad situations with physical solutions. Poor upbringings and role models do. I'm proud to be an adult who, though I could stand up for myself in any fight with any person(s) at any time anywhere, has not been in a fight in over a decade (and not at all in my adult life). I play a sick amount of videogames and watch terrible movies and read horrible books - but I still somehow know that it's not that difficult to diffuse situations or take a supposed momentary hit in pride to avoid having to hurt someone (I never liked hurting people when I got in fights anyway and I felt sick to my stomach afterward - but it was a matter of beat the shit out of them or get the shit beat out of me when I got home and my step-dad found out that I didn't beat the shit out of the person who did me wrong).
I'm so fucking tired of hearing everything blamed but the parents. If you live in the ghetto and are raised by parents who are seldom there, are violent and loud amongst each other, aren't loving or close and treat you more like a posession or obligation than a family member and don't know how to reason things out without fists and arguments - chances are you will be that way too. Chances are videogames will instigate that violent impulse you already have - but just about anything else that gets your blood pressure up and riles you will cause you to return the same response - not just video games.
I'm not sure that's accurate. At least, the first part of it. I recall seeing an article on Slashdot awhile ago that most webmasters don't even know what an RSS feed is. And I'm sure we've all been to plenty of sites where we thought "I'm going to add this to my RSS reader", only to find that we can't find an RSS link anywhere... not even a crappy ATOM link.
I'm sure I will have the support of my fellow tech industry slashdot brothers when I say how horrible this is. Why are we, gaming geeks that we are, tolerating the export of good old American jobs to China?! There are people in this country perfectly capable and willing to earn a living farming our gold, but we ship it overseas just for a few extra bucks worth of savings and avoidance of OSHA ordinances? This is a TRAVESTY!!!
I dunno. I guess I just prefer having one device for each purpose. Plus, what about battery life? I have a Treo 650 and the last thing I want to do is eat up my battery playing pacman or Fish Tycoon. I use my phone as a phone and occasionally to take a note and that's it. I'm not opposed to the idea of putting your entire life on one little portable device, but I don't thikn phones are "there" yet. And neither are the games.... although maybe you could talk me into playing Lemonade Stand on it if it's available:)
I don't understand that sentence. Ensure that their children don't become victims of what?! Unless you're kidnapped, sold into the white-slave-trade (whatever that is, exactly) and forced to star in porno films - how is seeing a naked tit or something a "crime" and how is one "victimized" by seeing it?!
The reason I don't want to use real information has nothing to do with spam. For me, it's concern for my safety. I run a site with about 40,000 members and a very small number of those people are very unstable. Unstable in that, because they were banned for their behavior, they've taken it upon themselves to register similar domains to mine, spread lies about my site and me personally, send me harassing emails, contact police departments in various regions and invent random shit to complain about and even harass my existing users. These are slighted people who have nothing more important to do than upset other people for their own inability to get along.
The last thing I want is to be forced to spend money getting another phone number and mailing address JUST for the website *or* put my home address and phone number and name on the internet for any psychotic stalker freak to grab.
It wouldn't be acceptable for me as a webmaster to post every single users's personal information on the internet (even though they did sign up with my service) - so it shouldn't be right for every webmaster's information to be put up on the internet (even though we did sign up for the domain service).
The registrar should be given your proper phone number and that should be kept private. Your email address should be provided for people to contact you at. If people need your private information, they can file a request with the court and get a subpeona just like everyone else would have to in other situations.
While we're at it, let's never EVER let a user delete ANYTHING. After all, they can always just buy another hard drive. Also, every website they ever visit should be bookmarked the moment the page loads. And email should ALWAYS be sent automatically. None of this "send later" or "save draft" crap. And no deleting a message. We should just assume everything the user writes is to be immediately disseminated.
Yeha, it's not like they'll ever decide to require you to sign up and go through a special set of hoops to be legally allowed to view news or political or activist content over the web in the future or anything!
I may not have acted upon what I was seeing and playing, but I was still being exposed to it.
My step dad was with us for about ten years. He was a racist, womanizing bastard. I was, unfortunately, exposed to his racist hateful attitude. Interestingly enough, I'm not racist in the slightest and have no tolerance for those who are. Isn't it strange how not everyone is a mush-brained skull full of goop just waiting for others to tell them what to do?
It's sad that you're so young and apparently can't think for yourself. "Everyone tells us X so there must be something to it!".
I'm not a historian, but one time a really smart person said something along the lines of "I don't want to be part of any government that gives a completely ignorant and careless moron the same power to decide the fate of my society as the brightest and best informed".
And when I hear people say some of the things they do these days, I have to agree. Just because you have an opinion doesn't mean you should have the same weight as someone else. The dude who wants to turn the country into one of the "proud white aryan race ONLY" shouldn't have the same voting weight as . . . well, most anyone for that matter.
The other day, someone asked me why I cared about privacy. Then I suggested that they go out to the parking lot and unlock their car and leave the doors open and the keys in the ignition while they go back to the office for the rest of the day.
"What?! Why?!" they asked.
"Well, because - if you have nothing to hide, what do you care if someone has access to your vehicle and everything in it?", I replied.
"Yeah, but a bad person could just as well dig through all the stuff in my car or steal it as a good guy!" they complained.
I don't know how old you are, so perhaps you don't have any work experience.
However, anyone who has been around the block understands the dramatic difference between "fired" and "let go / RIF'd". When you are fired, it means you did something wrong or failed to meet demands required of your position and they don't want you there anymore. When you are let go or RIF'd, it means that they needed to reduce the number of positions. Why is there a difference? Because in one, you are fucked. In the other situation, you can still file for unemployment and get severance pay and benefits.
Since I've only played Halo 1 a bit (on PC) and Halo 2 a TINY bit (one sitting), I don't even really care. I'll probably watch it if it ever shows up on cable late one night and hopefully Jackson will do a good job with it.
Seriously, how many people are lame enough to play games on their cell phones? Christ, I haven't even changed the ring-tone on my phone from... well... a ring.
You're right. "Someone" cares about these nobody bloggers sort of like "someone" cares about what some random starlet is wearing on the red carpet of some movie premier. That is to say - nobody except E! and Entertainment Tonight. Basically navel-gazing butt-sniffing sycophants. The day I get my news from some dickhead in a turtleneck at his powerbook spending all morning sipping from a cup in a starbucks is the day I shoot myself in the nuts.
So basically, the NIMF is upset that the free-market determined that adult-only titles aren't worth selling rather than NIMF getting to decide it for them?
Next time, have the kid write his own impressions. That'll be interesting to read.
Considering it says he's "their newest reporter", you would think he'd do... you know... his own reporting?
Oh well. I just feel sorry for the kid. Not even ten years old and his dad is already turning him into a pathetic dork that goes to conventions. *sigh*
Well, lojack is under $1,000 and they have a huge recovery rate with most being returned within 90 minutes to 24 hours. Since they don't let you see it get installed (don't want you to know where it's at for obvious reasons), I have no idea how big it is - but I would presume it might work on your bike.
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Still, wrestling... ick... I've had my nuts closer to most men's prostate than anyone without a medical degree should ever have to. :(
My HANDS, I mean. My HANDS. Not that it sounds much better, but still . . . (Too sick to pay attention today.. stupid flu!)
Heh. Wrestlers are too tame to be deadly. There's nothing deadly about rolling around on a sweaty mat with your hands between some half-naked guy's legs that is deadly. Ick. My teammate did stick with it and become a wrestler for the Army and went (and won at, I believe) the last summer olympics (Oscar Woods - don't know whatever happened to his brother).
:(
Still, wrestling... ick... I've had my nuts closer to most men's prostate than anyone without a medical degree should ever have to.
What kind of features are you requesting?
You pay a few bucks. They give you a domain registration. What else is there to do?
I'll share something I normally don't share.
When I was younger (I'm nearing thirty now), I was a wrestler. I was also very successful in judo and soccer, but wrestling was my focus for more than a decade. I won plenty of state and national championships. I never lost a single grecco match in my life. Wrestling, though something I excelled tremendously at, was a sport I was forced into by my step-dad. I'm not unique. Many kids are forced into their parents' sports or endeavors and many sports - especially in environments where a parent is likely to seek some form of retribution against you if you aren't perfect at it (such as hours and hours of being yelled at or being physically abused nightly for "poor" performance in practice) - will induce poor attitude and self-control as a result.
I can tell you that as a kid, I would never turn down a fight. I would never START a fight, but if you picked on my enough or tried to gang up on me with your friends, I would beat you into a bloody pulp. When I was ten, I gave an 18 year old kid down the street 17 stitches across his skull for jumping me (with his friends) in the pitch black dark on my way home one night.
Fortunately, once I was out of that situation (the step-dad), I spent what was left of my childhood living with my grandfather who was a peacemaker. He was a pacifist of sorts who served his country and was a stand-up guy that nobody in the world had a bad thing to say about. I didn't even start playing videogames until long after he started taking care of me. And you know what? With good "parenting", all the videogames in the world won't change you. Nor the books nor the movies or music. But with bad parenting, your children will be prone to act out and be violent and physical and let things affect them in a much harsher way.
Videogames don't make you impatient. Videogames don't make it hard for you to understand, deal with or cope with people. Videogames don't make you react to bad situations with physical solutions. Poor upbringings and role models do. I'm proud to be an adult who, though I could stand up for myself in any fight with any person(s) at any time anywhere, has not been in a fight in over a decade (and not at all in my adult life). I play a sick amount of videogames and watch terrible movies and read horrible books - but I still somehow know that it's not that difficult to diffuse situations or take a supposed momentary hit in pride to avoid having to hurt someone (I never liked hurting people when I got in fights anyway and I felt sick to my stomach afterward - but it was a matter of beat the shit out of them or get the shit beat out of me when I got home and my step-dad found out that I didn't beat the shit out of the person who did me wrong).
I'm so fucking tired of hearing everything blamed but the parents. If you live in the ghetto and are raised by parents who are seldom there, are violent and loud amongst each other, aren't loving or close and treat you more like a posession or obligation than a family member and don't know how to reason things out without fists and arguments - chances are you will be that way too. Chances are videogames will instigate that violent impulse you already have - but just about anything else that gets your blood pressure up and riles you will cause you to return the same response - not just video games.
I'm not sure that's accurate. At least, the first part of it. I recall seeing an article on Slashdot awhile ago that most webmasters don't even know what an RSS feed is. And I'm sure we've all been to plenty of sites where we thought "I'm going to add this to my RSS reader", only to find that we can't find an RSS link anywhere... not even a crappy ATOM link.
I'm sure I will have the support of my fellow tech industry slashdot brothers when I say how horrible this is. Why are we, gaming geeks that we are, tolerating the export of good old American jobs to China?! There are people in this country perfectly capable and willing to earn a living farming our gold, but we ship it overseas just for a few extra bucks worth of savings and avoidance of OSHA ordinances? This is a TRAVESTY!!!
I dunno. I guess I just prefer having one device for each purpose. Plus, what about battery life? I have a Treo 650 and the last thing I want to do is eat up my battery playing pacman or Fish Tycoon. I use my phone as a phone and occasionally to take a note and that's it. I'm not opposed to the idea of putting your entire life on one little portable device, but I don't thikn phones are "there" yet. And neither are the games.... although maybe you could talk me into playing Lemonade Stand on it if it's available :)
I don't understand that sentence. Ensure that their children don't become victims of what?! Unless you're kidnapped, sold into the white-slave-trade (whatever that is, exactly) and forced to star in porno films - how is seeing a naked tit or something a "crime" and how is one "victimized" by seeing it?!
I have a better - and far more fitting - idea. Blogs on toilet paper.
The reason I don't want to use real information has nothing to do with spam. For me, it's concern for my safety. I run a site with about 40,000 members and a very small number of those people are very unstable. Unstable in that, because they were banned for their behavior, they've taken it upon themselves to register similar domains to mine, spread lies about my site and me personally, send me harassing emails, contact police departments in various regions and invent random shit to complain about and even harass my existing users. These are slighted people who have nothing more important to do than upset other people for their own inability to get along.
The last thing I want is to be forced to spend money getting another phone number and mailing address JUST for the website *or* put my home address and phone number and name on the internet for any psychotic stalker freak to grab.
It wouldn't be acceptable for me as a webmaster to post every single users's personal information on the internet (even though they did sign up with my service) - so it shouldn't be right for every webmaster's information to be put up on the internet (even though we did sign up for the domain service).
The registrar should be given your proper phone number and that should be kept private. Your email address should be provided for people to contact you at. If people need your private information, they can file a request with the court and get a subpeona just like everyone else would have to in other situations.
While we're at it, let's never EVER let a user delete ANYTHING. After all, they can always just buy another hard drive. Also, every website they ever visit should be bookmarked the moment the page loads. And email should ALWAYS be sent automatically. None of this "send later" or "save draft" crap. And no deleting a message. We should just assume everything the user writes is to be immediately disseminated.
Yeha, it's not like they'll ever decide to require you to sign up and go through a special set of hoops to be legally allowed to view news or political or activist content over the web in the future or anything!
I may not have acted upon what I was seeing and playing, but I was still being exposed to it.
My step dad was with us for about ten years. He was a racist, womanizing bastard. I was, unfortunately, exposed to his racist hateful attitude. Interestingly enough, I'm not racist in the slightest and have no tolerance for those who are. Isn't it strange how not everyone is a mush-brained skull full of goop just waiting for others to tell them what to do?
It's sad that you're so young and apparently can't think for yourself. "Everyone tells us X so there must be something to it!".
Let me guess, you attend public school?
I'm not a historian, but one time a really smart person said something along the lines of "I don't want to be part of any government that gives a completely ignorant and careless moron the same power to decide the fate of my society as the brightest and best informed".
And when I hear people say some of the things they do these days, I have to agree. Just because you have an opinion doesn't mean you should have the same weight as someone else. The dude who wants to turn the country into one of the "proud white aryan race ONLY" shouldn't have the same voting weight as . . . well, most anyone for that matter.
The other day, someone asked me why I cared about privacy. Then I suggested that they go out to the parking lot and unlock their car and leave the doors open and the keys in the ignition while they go back to the office for the rest of the day.
"What?! Why?!" they asked.
"Well, because - if you have nothing to hide, what do you care if someone has access to your vehicle and everything in it?", I replied.
"Yeah, but a bad person could just as well dig through all the stuff in my car or steal it as a good guy!" they complained.
"Exactly", I answered.
I don't know how old you are, so perhaps you don't have any work experience.
However, anyone who has been around the block understands the dramatic difference between "fired" and "let go / RIF'd". When you are fired, it means you did something wrong or failed to meet demands required of your position and they don't want you there anymore. When you are let go or RIF'd, it means that they needed to reduce the number of positions. Why is there a difference? Because in one, you are fucked. In the other situation, you can still file for unemployment and get severance pay and benefits.
I agree. Slashdot promoting the fat-chicks-in-party-hats dude from Portland is very disturbing. What a dork.
Oh, it is certainly worth doing, and I applaud the effort. Not every country's patent system is as messed up as the US's is.
;)
That's why we're trying to spread democracy and Christianity you tard!
He directed Hellboy, Blade 2, and Mimic...
So . . . even with all three of those strikes against him - would you still want him directing?
I am a big Ron Perlman fan, but Hellboy probably sucked the most of the above movies.
Since I've only played Halo 1 a bit (on PC) and Halo 2 a TINY bit (one sitting), I don't even really care. I'll probably watch it if it ever shows up on cable late one night and hopefully Jackson will do a good job with it.
Small guys winning race that nobody cares about.
Seriously, how many people are lame enough to play games on their cell phones? Christ, I haven't even changed the ring-tone on my phone from... well... a ring.
You're right. "Someone" cares about these nobody bloggers sort of like "someone" cares about what some random starlet is wearing on the red carpet of some movie premier. That is to say - nobody except E! and Entertainment Tonight. Basically navel-gazing butt-sniffing sycophants. The day I get my news from some dickhead in a turtleneck at his powerbook spending all morning sipping from a cup in a starbucks is the day I shoot myself in the nuts.
So basically, the NIMF is upset that the free-market determined that adult-only titles aren't worth selling rather than NIMF getting to decide it for them?
Next time, have the kid write his own impressions. That'll be interesting to read.
Considering it says he's "their newest reporter", you would think he'd do... you know... his own reporting?
Oh well. I just feel sorry for the kid. Not even ten years old and his dad is already turning him into a pathetic dork that goes to conventions. *sigh*
God no. I'd rather be strapped down and forced to watch the original Battlestar Galactica, Wonderoman, The Incredible Hulk, Time Travelers or Batman!
Well, lojack is under $1,000 and they have a huge recovery rate with most being returned within 90 minutes to 24 hours. Since they don't let you see it get installed (don't want you to know where it's at for obvious reasons), I have no idea how big it is - but I would presume it might work on your bike.