Don't forget what Apple was like in '95. No Steve Jobs and an altogether different company. Also no nextstep OS so no OSX. But one thing is for sure, their OS was pretty secure.
True, but I picked up a dreamcast for £15 the other day and you can download games of the internet. For free! And I didnt have to go to the hastle of getting a mod chip. Add to that the fact that Virtua Tennis 2 is simply fantastic!
I think he's saying that the ibooks get a higher charge with the same current level of technology because of efficiency. IANAZ but I think that's the reason.
Actually you can't take a king with a king, a king cannot even exist in the adjoing spaces. In fact if you attempted to set up such a game Chess itself would be destroyed!
You think I'm arrogant? Try not to sound so amazingly condescending next time you reply to my comment, as you admitted in your comment, it was you who made the mistake.
Im sorry if you posted in the wrong thread, but the original comment was close to the description you gave, but only if misinterpreted, here is the original text:
I'm assuming this is an attempt at sarcasm, but apart from the "wonderful climate" I wouldn't have realised. Sure we have a reputation for crap food, but then Americans have a reputation as ignorant redneck fuckwits, and we all know that's true, right?
Hmmm, someone has a problem with Brits, no?
The poster is sarcastically calling Americans ignorant redneck fuckwits, not suggesting they are. He is comparing their reputation to the state of English cuisine which is considered crap but is in fact very good at the moment. He is saying that just because people think Americans are ignorent racists, doesnt mean they are. Looking back on it, I can see that it is possible your comment had nothing to do with the parent but from my perspective it then appeared as if you misinterpreted this comment and proceeded to turn it around, suggesting that in fact you found English people to be by and large rude and arrogant based on those you had met i.e. the anecdotal evidence. I then turned your argument around by using your logic saying that 'well based on the type of people I know who go to New Zealand from England, i can tell what the people over there are like'. I admit it was a little standoffish but come on you opened with a comment in a thread about the UK describing us, in your experience, as rude and arrogant. You don't just say those things without expecting some sort of response.
I insulted you because you replied to my response with a 'funny' quip about how this is exactly the sort of arrogance you expected, when I was pointing out the your illogical answer based on anecdotal evidence. You obviously missed the point and dismissed me in a totally arrogant manner. It made me angry. Sorry.
Im going to leave this argument being a rude and arrogant Brit. But next time you want to call a culture rude and arrogant try not to sound so superior when someone challenges you. Being condescending is the combined distillation of the qualities you accuse me and my culture of.
Ok I like where you have taken this argument and agree with you wholeheartedly, but this is far removed from the original point you made. It is far removed enough to make a misinterpretation from me almost impossible and I believe the fact that you are linking this with your original statement because in hindsight you realise that the line of logic you followed was just plain wrong, using examples of a particular slice of the backpacker culture (the backpackers who go to Australasia are often very different from the ones who go to Asia or South America, all twats, just different types of twats). The comments I made were not meant to infer any insult on Australasia I was just following the same line of logic you were (but in reverse), making a judgement call on the place and culture you live in based on the type of people who go there, or as I said in that comment, anecdotal evidence. The LOTR comment was below the belt though, Im sorry about that.
But yes, you are right, Americans and Australasians do have many cultural similarities. But just think how you look from 'rude and arrogant' side of the fence too. All the Americans and Australasians I have met are uncouth, impolite and culturally lacking (i.e they don't read at all, have no idea about the world around them and celebrate there own ignorence). It doesn't mean I can say Australiasians and Americans are uncouth, impolite and uncultured because I have not really experienced their culture (to really do so, in my belief, requires about twenty years, and for some cultures it is a lifetime i.e. Chinese, Indian or Arabic simply because of the variety)
I'd also like to point out the comment made earlier by the person who said that the UK has traditionally sent the detrius of it's society 'down under' is indicitve of the attitude that many people in the UK have as far as Australasia is concerned and was far ruder and more arrogant than anything I said (although quite amusing)
So, to clarify, I attacked your argument rather than your culture and am not guilty of the stereotyping you accused me of and you have learnt a lesson about making sweeping statments and applying stereotypes based on anecdotal evidence from a section of British society because, whatever your views on the cultural differences between our people, it is still a stupid thing to say...
I cant use Connetix Virtual Game Station anymore! Thank god PCSX came out, I was having to use my G3 DV iMac to play Playstation games. Seriously, Classic can't emulate whatever CVGS needs, which is annoying.
Of course i purchased my copy of CVGS several years ago when it was legal software.
It's true! Everyday I use anonymous communication/travel methods in order to stop big brother from monitoring me. I don't have any evidence there watching me, I just feel it, because of my sixth sense you see.
I have no problem being rude and arrogant to you because, yes, you are a cock and I am better than you. Stereotyping cultures is equivalent to racism. Remember, Jews love money and all Arabs are terrorists! But a well known sterotype of the region you live in is the xenophobia you exude, which I guess is a sterotype you choose to reinforce. You can't say that stereotypes can be applied to cultures, especially negative ones. Because it's these sterotypes which lead to the 'us and them' syndrome.
Hmm anecdotal evidence to form an opinion on a culture?
Well ok I have a piece of anecdotal evidence information myself - the only people who I know who went backpacking in New Zealand were there because they wanted no cultural insights and they didnt want to meet interesting people all they wanted from it was sun, sea, pretty landscape and to drink themselves stupid. They got exactly what they wanted from that experience. Therefore I can come to the conclusion that only retarded people would backpack around New Zealand because it is a cultural vacuum with boring people in it with it's only redeeming feature being it's pretty landscape. Sorry, but for making comments like that, as a British person I am proud to be rude to you.
Just because we all saw how beautiful New Zealand is in LOTR doesnt mean were prepared to forgive you for your total lack of culture. How do you like that stereotype?
'I believe that a few large "umbrella corperations" will control 90% of the market. I'm not saying that is a bad thing...'
Surely that is an oligarchy and unless a market is a natrual oligarchy then it an example of market failure.
The difference is Napster offer 14 day trial, meaning that you an download as much as possible and rencode at the same time, meaning you can download, with a reasonable amount of effort, a thousand free songs. In iTunes you can burn 'perfect' recordings of downloaded songs without any audio 'trickery' but you still have to pay for them! So Jobs can call them out on this, but he still shouldnt. Nobody likes a snitch!
Thus giving the people who make great books into rubbish films more money and incentive to continue naking said rubbish films. Then 90% of the world will assume the film is the be all and end all of HHGTTG and never read the books because the film was shit. Oh great, another classic ruined.
Sopt this from happening! Pirate the movie and if it sucks, break into your local cinema and destroy the reels! I think there should be some way movie companies can be held directly responsible for ruining classic books/films/comics. Im not talking about banning adaptations, just making sure the director/screenplay/studio exec think long and hard about what they are going to do. I dont want LOTR all of the time but neither do I want some of the appaling movie adaptations to see the light of day ever again
It's true i mean neither Monkey Island or Sam and Max were funny...
Oh wait, yes they were.
As was the Discworld game (only played the first one). I know these were all point and click adventures but it shows it can be done.
Hey personal opinion, bar the sunday roast (including Shepards Pie) I hate all traditional english food I find it bland. And I buy all meat from my local butcher. I don't love the supermarkets (but if you do want good meat from a supermarket, try Waitrose, my local Surrey butcher sells to them). I was only comparing to supermarket food to highlight the difference between US and UK food. No point comparing a UK butcher to a US supermarket because the difference is huge. Don't know if the US has butchers or if they've all been swallowed by Wall Mart.
You know actual English cuisine is disgusting but the stuff we sell in the supermarkets etc is a lot better quality than the stuff you buy in the US. Even cheaper meat tastes fairly good and everything has a lot of flavour. I couldn't help notice that if you didn't eat Deli fresh in the US everything tasted like processed cardboard. Bland man.
(this is for people who have ever used a British train, Virgin or any other) We apologise for the delay to the 11:20 Virgin Suborbital. This is due to the fact that their are leaves on the launchpad. The suborbital will be delayed aproximately six weeks.
Actually a Braveheart 2 wouldn't be a bad idea, I mean literally picking up the story where the film left off (in case you didn't know the film actually has an element of history in it) After William Wallace died Robert the Bruce fought against the English, lost, hid in a cave and watched a spider building his web, inspiring him to take up arms again. Good Story.
It just seems highly unlikely that a belegured press and government that is being accused of lying to it's people would attempt to cover up or ignore a significantly dangerous cache of chemical weapons. When the press and the people scream where are the WMD's would the Bush adminstration just forget to mention these? Explain it to me? The only reason I can think for the govt. and the press covering it up and not mentioning it is some sort of cover up, whereby those weapons were sold to the Iraqis by the US recently or something? In which case the motive for the war becomes even murkier...
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Don't forget what Apple was like in '95. No Steve Jobs and an altogether different company. Also no nextstep OS so no OSX. But one thing is for sure, their OS was pretty secure.
Hmm yes you and all the other people who sacrifice usability for features. Me, I don't need anymore features and boy the iPod is easy to use.
True, but I picked up a dreamcast for £15 the other day and you can download games of the internet. For free! And I didnt have to go to the hastle of getting a mod chip. Add to that the fact that Virtua Tennis 2 is simply fantastic!
I think he's saying that the ibooks get a higher charge with the same current level of technology because of efficiency. IANAZ but I think that's the reason.
Actually you can't take a king with a king, a king cannot even exist in the adjoing spaces. In fact if you attempted to set up such a game Chess itself would be destroyed!
Ignorant not ignorent. Sorry, no excuse for poor spelling and no previewing!
I'm assuming this is an attempt at sarcasm, but apart from the "wonderful climate" I wouldn't have realised. Sure we have a reputation for crap food, but then Americans have a reputation as ignorant redneck fuckwits, and we all know that's true, right? Hmmm, someone has a problem with Brits, no?
The poster is sarcastically calling Americans ignorant redneck fuckwits, not suggesting they are. He is comparing their reputation to the state of English cuisine which is considered crap but is in fact very good at the moment. He is saying that just because people think Americans are ignorent racists, doesnt mean they are. Looking back on it, I can see that it is possible your comment had nothing to do with the parent but from my perspective it then appeared as if you misinterpreted this comment and proceeded to turn it around, suggesting that in fact you found English people to be by and large rude and arrogant based on those you had met i.e. the anecdotal evidence. I then turned your argument around by using your logic saying that 'well based on the type of people I know who go to New Zealand from England, i can tell what the people over there are like'. I admit it was a little standoffish but come on you opened with a comment in a thread about the UK describing us, in your experience, as rude and arrogant. You don't just say those things without expecting some sort of response.
I insulted you because you replied to my response with a 'funny' quip about how this is exactly the sort of arrogance you expected, when I was pointing out the your illogical answer based on anecdotal evidence. You obviously missed the point and dismissed me in a totally arrogant manner. It made me angry. Sorry.
Im going to leave this argument being a rude and arrogant Brit. But next time you want to call a culture rude and arrogant try not to sound so superior when someone challenges you. Being condescending is the combined distillation of the qualities you accuse me and my culture of.
Ok I like where you have taken this argument and agree with you wholeheartedly, but this is far removed from the original point you made. It is far removed enough to make a misinterpretation from me almost impossible and I believe the fact that you are linking this with your original statement because in hindsight you realise that the line of logic you followed was just plain wrong, using examples of a particular slice of the backpacker culture (the backpackers who go to Australasia are often very different from the ones who go to Asia or South America, all twats, just different types of twats). The comments I made were not meant to infer any insult on Australasia I was just following the same line of logic you were (but in reverse), making a judgement call on the place and culture you live in based on the type of people who go there, or as I said in that comment, anecdotal evidence. The LOTR comment was below the belt though, Im sorry about that. But yes, you are right, Americans and Australasians do have many cultural similarities. But just think how you look from 'rude and arrogant' side of the fence too. All the Americans and Australasians I have met are uncouth, impolite and culturally lacking (i.e they don't read at all, have no idea about the world around them and celebrate there own ignorence). It doesn't mean I can say Australiasians and Americans are uncouth, impolite and uncultured because I have not really experienced their culture (to really do so, in my belief, requires about twenty years, and for some cultures it is a lifetime i.e. Chinese, Indian or Arabic simply because of the variety) I'd also like to point out the comment made earlier by the person who said that the UK has traditionally sent the detrius of it's society 'down under' is indicitve of the attitude that many people in the UK have as far as Australasia is concerned and was far ruder and more arrogant than anything I said (although quite amusing) So, to clarify, I attacked your argument rather than your culture and am not guilty of the stereotyping you accused me of and you have learnt a lesson about making sweeping statments and applying stereotypes based on anecdotal evidence from a section of British society because, whatever your views on the cultural differences between our people, it is still a stupid thing to say...
Aghhhhh!!!!! How did you know about that letter?????? Oh god, you're one of THEM arent you? Now ill have to burn everything and move again.
I cant use Connetix Virtual Game Station anymore! Thank god PCSX came out, I was having to use my G3 DV iMac to play Playstation games. Seriously, Classic can't emulate whatever CVGS needs, which is annoying. Of course i purchased my copy of CVGS several years ago when it was legal software.
It's true! Everyday I use anonymous communication/travel methods in order to stop big brother from monitoring me. I don't have any evidence there watching me, I just feel it, because of my sixth sense you see.
I have no problem being rude and arrogant to you because, yes, you are a cock and I am better than you.
Stereotyping cultures is equivalent to racism.
Remember, Jews love money and all Arabs are terrorists!
But a well known sterotype of the region you live in is the xenophobia you exude, which I guess is a sterotype you choose to reinforce.
You can't say that stereotypes can be applied to cultures, especially negative ones. Because it's these sterotypes which lead to the 'us and them' syndrome.
Hmm anecdotal evidence to form an opinion on a culture? Well ok I have a piece of anecdotal evidence information myself - the only people who I know who went backpacking in New Zealand were there because they wanted no cultural insights and they didnt want to meet interesting people all they wanted from it was sun, sea, pretty landscape and to drink themselves stupid. They got exactly what they wanted from that experience. Therefore I can come to the conclusion that only retarded people would backpack around New Zealand because it is a cultural vacuum with boring people in it with it's only redeeming feature being it's pretty landscape. Sorry, but for making comments like that, as a British person I am proud to be rude to you. Just because we all saw how beautiful New Zealand is in LOTR doesnt mean were prepared to forgive you for your total lack of culture. How do you like that stereotype?
'I believe that a few large "umbrella corperations" will control 90% of the market. I'm not saying that is a bad thing...' Surely that is an oligarchy and unless a market is a natrual oligarchy then it an example of market failure.
The difference is Napster offer 14 day trial, meaning that you an download as much as possible and rencode at the same time, meaning you can download, with a reasonable amount of effort, a thousand free songs. In iTunes you can burn 'perfect' recordings of downloaded songs without any audio 'trickery' but you still have to pay for them! So Jobs can call them out on this, but he still shouldnt. Nobody likes a snitch!
Thus giving the people who make great books into rubbish films more money and incentive to continue naking said rubbish films. Then 90% of the world will assume the film is the be all and end all of HHGTTG and never read the books because the film was shit. Oh great, another classic ruined. Sopt this from happening! Pirate the movie and if it sucks, break into your local cinema and destroy the reels! I think there should be some way movie companies can be held directly responsible for ruining classic books/films/comics. Im not talking about banning adaptations, just making sure the director/screenplay/studio exec think long and hard about what they are going to do. I dont want LOTR all of the time but neither do I want some of the appaling movie adaptations to see the light of day ever again
It's true i mean neither Monkey Island or Sam and Max were funny... Oh wait, yes they were. As was the Discworld game (only played the first one). I know these were all point and click adventures but it shows it can be done.
Scorched earth.
reminds me of cowboy bebop... maybe thats a little extreme.
Hey personal opinion, bar the sunday roast (including Shepards Pie) I hate all traditional english food I find it bland. And I buy all meat from my local butcher. I don't love the supermarkets (but if you do want good meat from a supermarket, try Waitrose, my local Surrey butcher sells to them). I was only comparing to supermarket food to highlight the difference between US and UK food. No point comparing a UK butcher to a US supermarket because the difference is huge. Don't know if the US has butchers or if they've all been swallowed by Wall Mart.
You know actual English cuisine is disgusting but the stuff we sell in the supermarkets etc is a lot better quality than the stuff you buy in the US. Even cheaper meat tastes fairly good and everything has a lot of flavour. I couldn't help notice that if you didn't eat Deli fresh in the US everything tasted like processed cardboard. Bland man.
(this is for people who have ever used a British train, Virgin or any other) We apologise for the delay to the 11:20 Virgin Suborbital. This is due to the fact that their are leaves on the launchpad. The suborbital will be delayed aproximately six weeks.
Actually a Braveheart 2 wouldn't be a bad idea, I mean literally picking up the story where the film left off (in case you didn't know the film actually has an element of history in it) After William Wallace died Robert the Bruce fought against the English, lost, hid in a cave and watched a spider building his web, inspiring him to take up arms again. Good Story.
Actually, in relation to it's budget, surely Waterworld is worse?
It just seems highly unlikely that a belegured press and government that is being accused of lying to it's people would attempt to cover up or ignore a significantly dangerous cache of chemical weapons. When the press and the people scream where are the WMD's would the Bush adminstration just forget to mention these? Explain it to me? The only reason I can think for the govt. and the press covering it up and not mentioning it is some sort of cover up, whereby those weapons were sold to the Iraqis by the US recently or something? In which case the motive for the war becomes even murkier...