Agreed. And you should have added a 'fuck rogers' too. To give you an idea, if anyone in the 'States had Rogers for a day, they would beg to go back to even the worst American ISP/cable company. I'd call Rogers a bunch of cunts, but cunts are useful.
In fallout 3 you pay a penalty when you are bad. That is the point I am getting at... unless you only read enough to get a rant on. Either don't include the ability to let sociopaths exercise their dysfunction, or include it, but make the player pay a penalty for doing it... just like a character would incur in real life. If you are playing a part, then play the part... reality is that you will suffer some sort of consequence for doing something bad... even fallout 3 (which I also like to play... good and bad) recognizes this. People here say don't fee the trolls. Well I believe we shouldn't feed potential sociopaths and people with stunted social skills with content that will bend them the wrong way socially... unless the content also shows them the consequence of the actions.
Make a 'whack-a-mole' machine where the 'moles' are very realistic models of say old ladies, average joes going to work, or little kids, and then say add the feature of having them splatter spurting blood when you hit them with the hammer, and then your retarded analogy would be valid. Completely unreal looking toys are one thing, when you make icons you are 'killing' look and behave in a very real manner, that is another. But I guess you also get entertainment pulling the wings off flies, or setting cats on fire. See, I can use hyperbole too. What a goof you are.
Kind of sad commentary on the fucktards who think killing innocent people is fun. Even if it is in a video game, it reflects your values.
On another note, they could introduce killing civilians in video games in an "ethical" manner. Just set the rules that if you kill a civilian it will either immediately or eventually negatively impact your game. e.g. some time later in the game when you are found out, your player is executed for murder. But then, the AI would have to figure out whether it was accidental (usually forgivable in the fog of war) or intentional. Fallout 3 rewarded your karma level by sending hit squads (regulators) after you if you did enough "bad" things, and mercs after you if you were too good.
If you don't believe it, you are the first of a great many ID believers who are of this mindset. However for me to believe you have any brain power (if you are an ID believer) you would have to tell me that you think it is possible for God to have used evolution (starting with apes) as a means of creating and improving on 'man'. And that six days is allegorical and could just as well meant six billion years. Too many retards in your camp insist that six days means six days, and that the earth is six thousand years old. I don't believe that the allegories in the bible are mutually exclusive of evolution, and in fact believe evolution was the mechanism that lead to our present state of being (whether initiated by God or not).
Too bad the movie was about preventing things from blowing up or you would have liked it.
You sound like a: OOOO YA, It blowed up real good! hyuk hyuk hyuk hyuk! Now thars what I call a goooood movie. It would be even better with a CGI car chase that ends with a car blowing up reaaallll good!!
Well this explains McDonalds' and Burger King's new top ten rating in Zagat. Or do you think it might have to do with how much money they pay Google for Advertising?
I was thinking exactly the same thing. The hundred seat theatre is probably sized for the number of people who still think a Lucas film is worth watching after the last batch of star wars consumer rip off movies he made. Pure drek.
We already saw that the company used trickery in its side-by-side comparison of the iPad and Galaxy Tab; now it appears that it's fudging the comparison between the iPhone and Galaxy S as well."
And it isn't trickery or fudging when this happens in court. It is called perjury. Apple needs to be charged with it. A good legal slap upside the head might shut them the fuck up for a while. IANAL
I agree. This post seems to be an inflammatory 'chicken little' knee jerk reaction (phrased in keeping with the OP). It isn't censorship if you are doing it to yourself. More like a service for people who want to narrow their view.
Welcome to Canada's "hate crime" laws. If you say something that in the least offends someone, you are guaranteed to see someone trying to prosecute or at least have government sanctioned censorship of what you are saying. One fellow published a story about radical Islam in Canada and how we have to watch out for it as some Muslim clerics in Canada have been preaching it, and at least some people have been following those clerics. For example, a couple of years ago a terror cell was apprehended and a number of people were sentenced to up to 20 years or more in prison for plotting to set off bombs in Toronto and Ottawa. The same radical clerics tried to sue the magazine and have it censored under the hate crime laws; even though there was nothing factually wrong (or wrong in any other way) about the article. Censorship is bad no matter how you slice it. It can be abused far too easily. However when you can actually find someone making real threats and organizing violence or other activities that impact others' right to a peaceful and happy existence, then that is stepping over the line. That is how I see the fine line that Cameron is trying to walk. FWIW, I would rather allow the most blatant racists and other scum be able to say whatever they want wherever they want. At least that way we know who and where they are. The Klan exists in America still and has the right to say what they want. America still elected a non-white president. The first in the G8 as far as I can tell (omitting Japan naturally).
Nice article. I already had started to seriously consider cash only and leave the debit and credit cards at home for a month to get it to sink in (the mindset sometimes only changes when it has to:). This was that little extra that has convinced me. Once the month is over and my mindset is changed, I'll carry them again for emergencies.
When I lived in the U.S., for a while I had to go from Saint Louis to KC for one week a month for a while for work so listened to a lot of talk radio on the way.
I remember about 7 or 8 years ago listening to Bill O'Rielly on the radio talking about "socialist" Canada, and how rotten the place is, and wondering why anyone would talk nicely of it considering especially how it was always in debt and had spending out of control to finance its socialist agenda. All pure bullshit of course. I can think back on that now and smile.
The downgrade wasn't because the U.S. didn't cut spending. It was because they decided to keep deficit spending (increasing the debt ceiling) instead of addressing the "money in less than money out" issue. Tax increases and the lack of them also figured into the rating change, considering the U.S. has about the lowest tax rate of the G7 countries, but near the highest per capita debt. But hey, if they really wanted to cut spending how about looking at the notion that the U.S. spends more on its military than all the rest of the world does combined... sorry, forgot about the ego and paranoia problem. And a tax increase isn't really a good way to put some of what they could have done to increase revenue. For example, it could have started with getting rid of the Bush error (oops I mean era) tax cuts on the wealthy that was supposed to be temporary to begin with. Alas, the Tea Baggers were rabidly against doing that to their financial backers.
Fox wants to propagandize this to pander to its misinformed viewers to make it seem like the fact that the Tea Baggers prevented tax increases for the most wealthy had nothing to do with it. The most wealthy have the lowest tax rates they have ever had. They omit saying that during some of the most productive and economically booming times in the past century the tax rates on the upper income groups was much, much higher. e.g. In the 50's under Republican president Eisenhower, and during the 90's under Democratic president Clinton. Not increasing revenue by returning taxes to prior levels definitely figures into the credit downgrade.
FWIW, Canada balanced its budget and began paying down the debt starting in the early 90s through to 2008; the only member of the G7 IIRC that was doing so (and why Canada was one of the least affected countries from the current recession). The balanced budget went out the window around 2008 with this recession when the current conservative government went way overboard on stimulus spending.
I'll admit I was pretty choked with KDE when 4 first came out. But now that it has started to settle, I am OK with it for the most part. What is the general consensus now that 4 has been out for a while?
They might not have the right type of paper tape. You can always encrypt the hole patterns in the paper type if they do. At least if you are talking about the Telex that I and most of the rest of the world talk about when we use the word 'Telex'.
Ever wonder how many fewer women and children would be sold into slavery if prostitution were less tolerated? You think if brothels were legal and well regulated that the sex slaves would be a thing of the past? In Amsterdam on the fringes, many of the women are slaves. Sure, in the legal brothels, the women do it willingly, but if you think the only prostitutes in Amsterdam are in the legal brothels you are naive or stupid. Any place where prostitution is legal or tolerated, there are more sex slaves.
Sounds like the same fucktard I ranted against earlier. I paid to put myself through school working in a large pool hall in Winnipeg (murder rate at the time was close to Detroit's), next to the 'high track' (red light district with the more expensive girls) and not far from the 'low track' and central park where the crack dealers worked. I would see hookers come in a lot. Some did it because they liked the money. An awful lot did it because they got roped into drugs and were abused. I remember one pimp telling another that he had to smack out a new girl because she got proud that she could get a guy off twice. He said something along the lines of he slapped her out and told her if the guy spoofed twice, she had to make him pay double. I didn't care much at the time. But an older me (like now) might be tempted to call the police if I thought something would get done about it. But this AC is the type who would argue that if I did, I'd violate the girl's right to be abused. But he wouldn't see it that way. Left wing fucktard.
Live life from the armchair and tell everyone how they should do things because they know better. Go out and see the shit that happens. See blood from shootings cleaned up from the sidewalk in front of where you work. See guys you kick out one day followed in by the police the next day and arrested for a murder they did hours after you kicked them out. Listen to the single mothers congratulate another single mother for getting pregnant again because she would be able to get 800 dollars a month more than she does now from welfare. Or the other welfare victims who brag about being on the dole for 20 years... until his girlfriend ratted him out (lol). Fucking leftwing fucktards don't know shit about what really happens. They howl about abuse when the suggestion that people on welfare should help with civic duties like street cleaning etc for at least a few hours a week. Most left wing fucktards haven't seen a hard day in their lives trying to tell people about exploitation. What a crock of shit. They are kind of like environmentalists. You know environmentalists don't you? They're the ones who already have a cottage in the forest but don't want you moving there too.
And as long as Canada continues on its path of Right Wing extremism
Just fuck off. Left wing fringe fucktards in Canada are the vocal minority screaming because we elected a conservative government. They will yell that they didn't get a majority of the popular vote, but that is what happens in a multiparty system. They didn't scream blue murder like they are now when the Liberals were in power with a majority. They are sore losers and want the country run their way or they will scream out the Godwin's Law chants. People were tired of molly coddling criminals and ignoring victims, sending soldiers as 'peace keepers' into war zones but not equipping them for war, etc. The government tried to prosecute a store owner for chasing down a repeat criminal who stole from him a few hours earlier and who returned to do it again. They said he can't detain someone who stole from him even if he saw him, because too much time (a couple hours) had passed since he stole the last time. This "right wing government" is changing the law to allow people to better protect their own property. Something the left wing fucktards have traditionally fought against. GRRRRRRRRRR! yeah go ahead a mark this off topic... it is worth it to rant against assholes like this, even if it is a troll.
Oh God, I forgot about Anakin. I think that was the human ability to block extreme pain and horror from entering our conscious mind. Thank you for making relive those fucking horrible memories. I disagree that Anakin is more annoying. But I will concede that they are equally repugnant. And yes, they ruined the movie because the horrible writing and production included those characters and their actions and dialogue. The necessary suspension of disbelief in a galactic civilization was impossible because of the whole production. Those races that Anakin was were just retarded and made only for marketing toys. As was jar jar and the stupid soldier robots. Let's face it, the whole movie just sucked shit. Like I said elsewhere: CGI ruined special effects movies. The only movies I can think of that CGI was any good was maybe the Lord of The Rings trilogy with Gollum... but that was *just* passable. The ghost army sucked in my opinion, as did the oliphants and much of the CGI that was used in the foreground. The background CGI was fine (and until it is flawless that is where it should stay, filling in background elements). But I enjoyed those movies much, much more than Lucas's lastest shit. (But I wish they hadn't made the brave and stalwart Frodo into a whiny pussy only able to finish things because of Sam... but that is another story.)
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FYI, this isn't a troll... it is a widely held sentiment in Canada.
Agreed. And you should have added a 'fuck rogers' too. To give you an idea, if anyone in the 'States had Rogers for a day, they would beg to go back to even the worst American ISP/cable company. I'd call Rogers a bunch of cunts, but cunts are useful.
In fallout 3 you pay a penalty when you are bad. That is the point I am getting at... unless you only read enough to get a rant on. Either don't include the ability to let sociopaths exercise their dysfunction, or include it, but make the player pay a penalty for doing it... just like a character would incur in real life. If you are playing a part, then play the part... reality is that you will suffer some sort of consequence for doing something bad... even fallout 3 (which I also like to play... good and bad) recognizes this. People here say don't fee the trolls. Well I believe we shouldn't feed potential sociopaths and people with stunted social skills with content that will bend them the wrong way socially... unless the content also shows them the consequence of the actions.
Make a 'whack-a-mole' machine where the 'moles' are very realistic models of say old ladies, average joes going to work, or little kids, and then say add the feature of having them splatter spurting blood when you hit them with the hammer, and then your retarded analogy would be valid. Completely unreal looking toys are one thing, when you make icons you are 'killing' look and behave in a very real manner, that is another. But I guess you also get entertainment pulling the wings off flies, or setting cats on fire. See, I can use hyperbole too. What a goof you are.
Kind of sad commentary on the fucktards who think killing innocent people is fun. Even if it is in a video game, it reflects your values.
On another note, they could introduce killing civilians in video games in an "ethical" manner. Just set the rules that if you kill a civilian it will either immediately or eventually negatively impact your game. e.g. some time later in the game when you are found out, your player is executed for murder. But then, the AI would have to figure out whether it was accidental (usually forgivable in the fog of war) or intentional. Fallout 3 rewarded your karma level by sending hit squads (regulators) after you if you did enough "bad" things, and mercs after you if you were too good.
This is kind of how the house of commons works in Canada. Go figure.
If you don't believe it, you are the first of a great many ID believers who are of this mindset. However for me to believe you have any brain power (if you are an ID believer) you would have to tell me that you think it is possible for God to have used evolution (starting with apes) as a means of creating and improving on 'man'. And that six days is allegorical and could just as well meant six billion years. Too many retards in your camp insist that six days means six days, and that the earth is six thousand years old. I don't believe that the allegories in the bible are mutually exclusive of evolution, and in fact believe evolution was the mechanism that lead to our present state of being (whether initiated by God or not).
Too bad the movie was about preventing things from blowing up or you would have liked it.
You sound like a: OOOO YA, It blowed up real good! hyuk hyuk hyuk hyuk! Now thars what I call a goooood movie. It would be even better with a CGI car chase that ends with a car blowing up reaaallll good!!
I beg to differ. By my reckoning, this proves that the history of the earth now goes back at least 7000 years.
Well this explains McDonalds' and Burger King's new top ten rating in Zagat. Or do you think it might have to do with how much money they pay Google for Advertising?
Maybe this will kill off all the 'Ice Road Truckers' tv shows. One can only hope.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. The hundred seat theatre is probably sized for the number of people who still think a Lucas film is worth watching after the last batch of star wars consumer rip off movies he made. Pure drek.
And it isn't trickery or fudging when this happens in court. It is called perjury. Apple needs to be charged with it. A good legal slap upside the head might shut them the fuck up for a while. IANAL
I agree. This post seems to be an inflammatory 'chicken little' knee jerk reaction (phrased in keeping with the OP). It isn't censorship if you are doing it to yourself. More like a service for people who want to narrow their view.
Welcome to Canada's "hate crime" laws. If you say something that in the least offends someone, you are guaranteed to see someone trying to prosecute or at least have government sanctioned censorship of what you are saying. One fellow published a story about radical Islam in Canada and how we have to watch out for it as some Muslim clerics in Canada have been preaching it, and at least some people have been following those clerics. For example, a couple of years ago a terror cell was apprehended and a number of people were sentenced to up to 20 years or more in prison for plotting to set off bombs in Toronto and Ottawa. The same radical clerics tried to sue the magazine and have it censored under the hate crime laws; even though there was nothing factually wrong (or wrong in any other way) about the article. Censorship is bad no matter how you slice it. It can be abused far too easily. However when you can actually find someone making real threats and organizing violence or other activities that impact others' right to a peaceful and happy existence, then that is stepping over the line. That is how I see the fine line that Cameron is trying to walk. FWIW, I would rather allow the most blatant racists and other scum be able to say whatever they want wherever they want. At least that way we know who and where they are. The Klan exists in America still and has the right to say what they want. America still elected a non-white president. The first in the G8 as far as I can tell (omitting Japan naturally).
Nice article. I already had started to seriously consider cash only and leave the debit and credit cards at home for a month to get it to sink in (the mindset sometimes only changes when it has to :). This was that little extra that has convinced me. Once the month is over and my mindset is changed, I'll carry them again for emergencies.
When I lived in the U.S., for a while I had to go from Saint Louis to KC for one week a month for a while for work so listened to a lot of talk radio on the way.
I remember about 7 or 8 years ago listening to Bill O'Rielly on the radio talking about "socialist" Canada, and how rotten the place is, and wondering why anyone would talk nicely of it considering especially how it was always in debt and had spending out of control to finance its socialist agenda. All pure bullshit of course. I can think back on that now and smile.
Since O'Rielly is a darling of Fox, I just to look and see what Fox News' slant was on this was and how they were going to misinform their viewers/readers on the subject. And here it is... not even all that subtle: The three main credit agencies, which also include Moody's Investor Service and Fitch, had warned during the budget fight that if Congress did not cut spending far enough, the country faced a downgrade.. Completely misleading and feeding the Tea Bagger bullshit machine. Ah yeas, the Murdoch slime machine at work.
The downgrade wasn't because the U.S. didn't cut spending. It was because they decided to keep deficit spending (increasing the debt ceiling) instead of addressing the "money in less than money out" issue. Tax increases and the lack of them also figured into the rating change, considering the U.S. has about the lowest tax rate of the G7 countries, but near the highest per capita debt. But hey, if they really wanted to cut spending how about looking at the notion that the U.S. spends more on its military than all the rest of the world does combined... sorry, forgot about the ego and paranoia problem. And a tax increase isn't really a good way to put some of what they could have done to increase revenue. For example, it could have started with getting rid of the Bush error (oops I mean era) tax cuts on the wealthy that was supposed to be temporary to begin with. Alas, the Tea Baggers were rabidly against doing that to their financial backers.
Fox wants to propagandize this to pander to its misinformed viewers to make it seem like the fact that the Tea Baggers prevented tax increases for the most wealthy had nothing to do with it. The most wealthy have the lowest tax rates they have ever had. They omit saying that during some of the most productive and economically booming times in the past century the tax rates on the upper income groups was much, much higher. e.g. In the 50's under Republican president Eisenhower, and during the 90's under Democratic president Clinton. Not increasing revenue by returning taxes to prior levels definitely figures into the credit downgrade.
FWIW, Canada balanced its budget and began paying down the debt starting in the early 90s through to 2008; the only member of the G7 IIRC that was doing so (and why Canada was one of the least affected countries from the current recession). The balanced budget went out the window around 2008 with this recession when the current conservative government went way overboard on stimulus spending.
I'll admit I was pretty choked with KDE when 4 first came out. But now that it has started to settle, I am OK with it for the most part. What is the general consensus now that 4 has been out for a while?
They might not have the right type of paper tape. You can always encrypt the hole patterns in the paper type if they do. At least if you are talking about the Telex that I and most of the rest of the world talk about when we use the word 'Telex'.
Snicker.
Ever wonder how many fewer women and children would be sold into slavery if prostitution were less tolerated? You think if brothels were legal and well regulated that the sex slaves would be a thing of the past? In Amsterdam on the fringes, many of the women are slaves. Sure, in the legal brothels, the women do it willingly, but if you think the only prostitutes in Amsterdam are in the legal brothels you are naive or stupid. Any place where prostitution is legal or tolerated, there are more sex slaves.
Sounds like the same fucktard I ranted against earlier. I paid to put myself through school working in a large pool hall in Winnipeg (murder rate at the time was close to Detroit's), next to the 'high track' (red light district with the more expensive girls) and not far from the 'low track' and central park where the crack dealers worked. I would see hookers come in a lot. Some did it because they liked the money. An awful lot did it because they got roped into drugs and were abused. I remember one pimp telling another that he had to smack out a new girl because she got proud that she could get a guy off twice. He said something along the lines of he slapped her out and told her if the guy spoofed twice, she had to make him pay double. I didn't care much at the time. But an older me (like now) might be tempted to call the police if I thought something would get done about it. But this AC is the type who would argue that if I did, I'd violate the girl's right to be abused. But he wouldn't see it that way. Left wing fucktard.
Live life from the armchair and tell everyone how they should do things because they know better. Go out and see the shit that happens. See blood from shootings cleaned up from the sidewalk in front of where you work. See guys you kick out one day followed in by the police the next day and arrested for a murder they did hours after you kicked them out. Listen to the single mothers congratulate another single mother for getting pregnant again because she would be able to get 800 dollars a month more than she does now from welfare. Or the other welfare victims who brag about being on the dole for 20 years... until his girlfriend ratted him out (lol). Fucking leftwing fucktards don't know shit about what really happens. They howl about abuse when the suggestion that people on welfare should help with civic duties like street cleaning etc for at least a few hours a week. Most left wing fucktards haven't seen a hard day in their lives trying to tell people about exploitation. What a crock of shit. They are kind of like environmentalists. You know environmentalists don't you? They're the ones who already have a cottage in the forest but don't want you moving there too.
Just fuck off. Left wing fringe fucktards in Canada are the vocal minority screaming because we elected a conservative government. They will yell that they didn't get a majority of the popular vote, but that is what happens in a multiparty system. They didn't scream blue murder like they are now when the Liberals were in power with a majority. They are sore losers and want the country run their way or they will scream out the Godwin's Law chants. People were tired of molly coddling criminals and ignoring victims, sending soldiers as 'peace keepers' into war zones but not equipping them for war, etc. The government tried to prosecute a store owner for chasing down a repeat criminal who stole from him a few hours earlier and who returned to do it again. They said he can't detain someone who stole from him even if he saw him, because too much time (a couple hours) had passed since he stole the last time. This "right wing government" is changing the law to allow people to better protect their own property. Something the left wing fucktards have traditionally fought against. GRRRRRRRRRR! yeah go ahead a mark this off topic... it is worth it to rant against assholes like this, even if it is a troll.
I'm waiting to see the Marlborough Man in a Darth Vader suit riding a horse with one of those WWI horse gas masks. Something like this.
Oh God, I forgot about Anakin. I think that was the human ability to block extreme pain and horror from entering our conscious mind. Thank you for making relive those fucking horrible memories. I disagree that Anakin is more annoying. But I will concede that they are equally repugnant. And yes, they ruined the movie because the horrible writing and production included those characters and their actions and dialogue. The necessary suspension of disbelief in a galactic civilization was impossible because of the whole production. Those races that Anakin was were just retarded and made only for marketing toys. As was jar jar and the stupid soldier robots. Let's face it, the whole movie just sucked shit. Like I said elsewhere: CGI ruined special effects movies. The only movies I can think of that CGI was any good was maybe the Lord of The Rings trilogy with Gollum... but that was *just* passable. The ghost army sucked in my opinion, as did the oliphants and much of the CGI that was used in the foreground. The background CGI was fine (and until it is flawless that is where it should stay, filling in background elements). But I enjoyed those movies much, much more than Lucas's lastest shit. (But I wish they hadn't made the brave and stalwart Frodo into a whiny pussy only able to finish things because of Sam... but that is another story.)