Great - the ol' "lack of training" / "conveniently forgetting we are the invaders, and single-handedly caused the war" line of reasoning. Fantastic. That makes it alright, I guess.
Jesus you're really showing your lack of knowledge in this thread. Truly amazing. You seem to think it's OK for someone to invade another country and destroy an entire city using banned weapons on people. What a cunt.
"Seen civilian casualties" != "Civilian casualties". Just because you didn't see them doesn't mean they didn't exist. I'd fuckin' fire some RPGs at some idiot invading my home city. Fuck yes I would. You would, too, I bet.
Are you fucking kidding me? The US killed well over 300,000 civilians by bombing them in WWII. The Germans got about 100,000. And the US dropped TWO NUCLEAR WEAPONS on Japanese cities, and killed more civilians in Tokyo in TWO DAYS than the Germans managed to kill by bombing in the entire fucking war. More humane my ass. Fucking disgusting white-washing of history. Especially when you consider only 1,700 US civilians died in WWII, compared to the millions in other countries. Where the fuck did you attend school? The G.I. Joe Academy of Isn't America Fucking Brilliant and Fuck the Brown People?
And the US started the war in Iraq, not the people of Fallujah. So your last line kind of says "The US wants to kill civilians". Nice.
You should spend some money on a dictionary. A terrorist is someone who uses force, or the threat of force, against a people in order to coerce them. Not people hiding among civilian populations. Fucking retard.
Because bullets don't indiscriminately burn down whole city blocks (with fire that can't be put out by water), and are aimed at individual bad guys - completely unlike WP. That's the problem. It's not as if you can single someone out for WP - what happened is shitloads of the stuff was dumped on a city that contained shitloads of innocent civilians caught up in the fighting. They got burned, their houses got burned, their possessions got burned, and more people pissed off with the US were made.
A login prompt to something most consumers consumers don't want. Brilliant. Oh, and a bios that doesn't run Windows itself, and needs SeaBIOS as well. Yay.
You should read the article before assuming the Slashdot title describes it perfectly, as in this case, it doesn't. Obama didn't call for anything of the sort.
You'd have a point if the UK has a massive gun-crime problem. It doesn't. Far from it. Every single unlicensed handgun that is found is destroyed, whether it be in someone's house, or being imported. So please, try not to use the UK as an example of how firearm bans don't work, as it does. How shootings have there been in the US recently? And the UK? Oh, right. You muppet.
Don't get me wrong - I *love* the genre. It's my favourite genre by far. What I don't understand is people defending it by saying it's on the same level as modern closed-source games. That simply isn't the case. And the 10 years "bollocks" is not bollocks - it's based on the freakin' Quake engine, which was created 13 years ago. Sure, bump-mapping and dynamic lighting is great, but hardly on-par with the shed-loads of further advances that are present in closed-source games. It looks nicer than UT2K4? Really? Considering the UT2 engine supports sooo many more effects, it's almost - almost - like you're making stuff up to suit your argument. I know a lot of people feel strongly about FOSS, but really - saying a game based on a slightly-modified Quake engine looks better than the UT2 engine is frankly hilarious. I mean no offence in this post, I'm not trolling by any means. I just care about results, not excuses. And you won't be seeing me on any servers:)
That sounds lovely and all - I appreciate the immense amount of work the developers put in, but they ended up with a game that looks 10 years out of date. So what you're saying is that FOSS FPS games are made by people with the best intentions and skill, but end up being terrible when compared to closed-source commercial games.
If what you said was true, NVIDIA and ATI would be OEM suppliers only - most folks would never have heard of them, and their products wouldn't be sitting on shelves, in nice pretty boxes, being sold to the general public all over the world.
It's even worse than that - a POST request describes the length of the POST-ed data with a Content-Length header and includes a Content-Type header to describe the fact it has data in the request, so it takes up even more space than a GET.
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That's enough to make you proud? Jesus.
Great - the ol' "lack of training" / "conveniently forgetting we are the invaders, and single-handedly caused the war" line of reasoning. Fantastic. That makes it alright, I guess.
Jesus you're really showing your lack of knowledge in this thread. Truly amazing. You seem to think it's OK for someone to invade another country and destroy an entire city using banned weapons on people. What a cunt.
"Seen civilian casualties" != "Civilian casualties". Just because you didn't see them doesn't mean they didn't exist. I'd fuckin' fire some RPGs at some idiot invading my home city. Fuck yes I would. You would, too, I bet.
Are you fucking kidding me? The US killed well over 300,000 civilians by bombing them in WWII. The Germans got about 100,000. And the US dropped TWO NUCLEAR WEAPONS on Japanese cities, and killed more civilians in Tokyo in TWO DAYS than the Germans managed to kill by bombing in the entire fucking war. More humane my ass. Fucking disgusting white-washing of history. Especially when you consider only 1,700 US civilians died in WWII, compared to the millions in other countries. Where the fuck did you attend school? The G.I. Joe Academy of Isn't America Fucking Brilliant and Fuck the Brown People?
And the US started the war in Iraq, not the people of Fallujah. So your last line kind of says "The US wants to kill civilians". Nice.
You should spend some money on a dictionary. A terrorist is someone who uses force, or the threat of force, against a people in order to coerce them. Not people hiding among civilian populations. Fucking retard.
Because bullets don't indiscriminately burn down whole city blocks (with fire that can't be put out by water), and are aimed at individual bad guys - completely unlike WP. That's the problem. It's not as if you can single someone out for WP - what happened is shitloads of the stuff was dumped on a city that contained shitloads of innocent civilians caught up in the fighting. They got burned, their houses got burned, their possessions got burned, and more people pissed off with the US were made.
Nice! Gut feelings are now +3, Interesting! Who knew? I guess rampant luddism is +5, Insightful? Yay!
No, they're not. Get a grip.
A login prompt to something most consumers consumers don't want. Brilliant. Oh, and a bios that doesn't run Windows itself, and needs SeaBIOS as well. Yay.
Yay baseless speculation! That'll help us get to the truth!
Microsoft is not a company of 15 guys in a small office, fyi. :) I think they have more than enough resources to properly focus on security.
... and a lot worse for sites that depend on their users receiving the adverts to pay for hosting.
He also annoyed websites by removing their ability to pay for their hosting. Yay.
You should read the article before assuming the Slashdot title describes it perfectly, as in this case, it doesn't. Obama didn't call for anything of the sort.
You'd have a point if the UK has a massive gun-crime problem. It doesn't. Far from it. Every single unlicensed handgun that is found is destroyed, whether it be in someone's house, or being imported. So please, try not to use the UK as an example of how firearm bans don't work, as it does. How shootings have there been in the US recently? And the UK? Oh, right. You muppet.
Don't get me wrong - I *love* the genre. It's my favourite genre by far. What I don't understand is people defending it by saying it's on the same level as modern closed-source games. That simply isn't the case. And the 10 years "bollocks" is not bollocks - it's based on the freakin' Quake engine, which was created 13 years ago. Sure, bump-mapping and dynamic lighting is great, but hardly on-par with the shed-loads of further advances that are present in closed-source games. It looks nicer than UT2K4? Really? Considering the UT2 engine supports sooo many more effects, it's almost - almost - like you're making stuff up to suit your argument. I know a lot of people feel strongly about FOSS, but really - saying a game based on a slightly-modified Quake engine looks better than the UT2 engine is frankly hilarious. I mean no offence in this post, I'm not trolling by any means. I just care about results, not excuses. And you won't be seeing me on any servers :)
That sounds lovely and all - I appreciate the immense amount of work the developers put in, but they ended up with a game that looks 10 years out of date. So what you're saying is that FOSS FPS games are made by people with the best intentions and skill, but end up being terrible when compared to closed-source commercial games.
[citation needed]
If what you said was true, NVIDIA and ATI would be OEM suppliers only - most folks would never have heard of them, and their products wouldn't be sitting on shelves, in nice pretty boxes, being sold to the general public all over the world.
It's even worse than that - a POST request describes the length of the POST-ed data with a Content-Length header and includes a Content-Type header to describe the fact it has data in the request, so it takes up even more space than a GET.
Methinks your bias and inability to compare numbers is showing.
Umm just put a 64bit version of Windows on there? Problem solved.
I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by the lack of sense there.
Try reading my post again. You seem to be awfully confused about something.