I think Journey can be credited with the first video game tie in with their Journey Escape game in 1982. Wiki says it was released for the 2600, however I do recall a coin up version, but as I remember it from a disused machine in a pizza place circa 1986, I imagine it could have been their later release.
Journey Escape was for the 2600, Journey was the arcade. They were different games.
Then, try to install Open Office along with Microsoft Office, although you may have problems opening some old documents, in general Open Office has very good quality.
It's not too rare to have problems opening old MS-Office files with MS-Office!
decisions on a child's health are the domain of his or her parents and doctors, not government.
Gee, and I thought permanent body modifications should be decided by the individual himself and no one else.
When I was stationed in Thailand I had a friend who had jungle rot on his penis, necessitating circumcision.
Imagine if it was on his foot, they would have amputated it! That is, of course, if feet were as vilified as foreskins -- the most bizarre cultural trait of americans. Good thing this is changing.
After it healed he made no complaints about loss of pleasure during sex.
Study: 8% of men report increased pleasure after circumcision... but 48% report decreased pleasure.
That and the research showing that uncircimsized men having unprotected sex are three times more likely to contract AIDS than uncircumcised men would have me INSIST on circumcision were I to have a son.
HIV Rates in Rwanda: circumcised men, 3.8%. Intact men, 2.1%. Quod erat demonstrandum.
Again, keep your nanny state laws off my family.
I'm as libertarian as it gets, and this is one of the few cases in which the government HAS to interfere; it is about citizens having their personal safety and body integrity violated.
About ten years ago, I wrote that someone who saw clearly the void of faith that would devastate the West was Italian director Nanni Moretti, in Palombella Rossa. The film came in '89, significantly the year when the Wall of Berlin fell. The story has as its main character a communist deputy that suddenly loses his memory.
The final scene is emblematic: in a highway, hundreds of youths run to greet the sun. It is inaugurated the new religion, the worship of nature. Not by chance, the privileged interlocutor of the Dalai-Lama -- word that modestly means Ocean of Wisdom -- in Brazil is Fernando Gabeira, former marxist guerilla fighter that switched his faith in History for the ecological militance. Gyatso intuited quickly this western turnabout and now preaches in defense of the environment.
I read in today's El País: "The climate change has mobilized scientists that study it, engineers that seek technological solutions, and economists that measure them. And it also starts to take a spiritual dimension that is converting it, in the opinion of some, into the new religion of the 21st century. A new ecological spirituality. The messianic language and the nearly religious instruments that are utilized break the more rational plans and silence in a public opinion more skeptic before past causes."
As well know the ornitologists who peck me. Their zeal is religious. Before the hypothesis of the extinction of the swamp streamcreeper, they brandish the apocalypse. Without intending to analyze the so called global warming -- since I do not have the instruments to do so -- I distrust it. For it is preached with the same divine wrath of John of Patmos. To bet on the apocalypse is a comfortable bet. For the apocalypse won't come right away. It's always in the future. Therefore, while it won't come, its prophets are not proven wrong.
Late the past year, the newspaper says, Al Gore arrived in Seville to speak of his movement against climate change. In his eagerness to reach his audience, Gore, who is a deeply religious man, uses phrases such as: "Noah was told to save the living species and this today is still our duty." Before preaching to the ambassadors or disciples that belong to his movement, 1700 all over the planet, he asks of them a "spiritual connection".
To biologist Miguel Delibes de Castro, "the structure that Gore organized is almost religious, with disciples that spread the good word, like Jesus Christ." To biologist Miguel Ferrer, "the radical ecological trends have much in common with religious schools. More and more one hears that man is the evil, destructive being and he must be expelled from the last of paradises."
One of Al Gore's 200 ambassadors in Spain is Juan Negrillo. Asked about the connection between his speech and religious feelings, he said: "All religions have their roots in faith, and in that sense the ecologist message and climate defense can be mistaken for as a religious message, because, as we are not able to touch, smell, weigh or see the CO2, it's almost a question of faith in the scientific community."
Who has not heard of Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, that regarded Earth as a living being? Here in Brazil, we had a loon that earned fame as ecologist, José Lutzenberger, that believed deeply in that mystical theory.
"But what we are going to do first: unveil this wonder, or will we continue as a cancer in Gaia's organism, devastating, causing mass extinctions, intoxicating to the point of no return?", Lutzenberger wrote, and continued:
"In the time of that mortal threat that was the oxygen pollution crisis, that nearly extinguished the life forms then existing, Gaia, rather than succumb, knew how to benefit. It transformed a ferocious enemy into a powerful ally, a factor of more life, of more complex life, more perfect, more diversified, more harmonic - a st
Holy crap, seems like you managed to miss the titles of the sections in that site. That's a feat!
* Foreskin sexual function
* Complications of circumcision
* Deaths from circumcision
* Pain of circumcision and pain control
* Psychological aspects of circumcision
* Effects of circumcision on breastfeeding, maternal bonding, and child development
I don't know about your eyesight, but choosing not to see is also a form of blindness.
We have to make excuses for giving a shit about what people do with their genitalia (or the genitalia of their kids). Unless you have an excuse, it's not any of your business.
Let me stretch this just a bit... "So what if I cut a piece of my kids' genitals? So what if I brutalize them? So what if I rape them? So what if I kill them? I can do whatever I want to them, and it's none of your damn business. They're mine! They're my property!
Actually, no, it does not. Even worse: tell men they are protected (although they are not) and they will not bother using condoms. Ergo, circumcision helps spread AIDS.
You know... sitting on a couch, eating Pringles, and playing video games has never caused wars or anything. The world would be a better place if people followed CowboyNeal's fine example.
You couldn't just shoot your way through Marathon -- there were times when you had to stop and really puzzle some things out.
*shudders* Oh boy... you brought back some bad memories of "G4 sunbathing" and "colony ship for sale, cheap". The rest of the game was nice, but those two levels... ew. Even with the strategy guide, they were hell.
I suppose that Halo's writing was not on par because Marathon's plot writer, Greg Kirkpatrick, has long left Bungie; he started a company called Double Aught, that produced "Blood Tides of Lh'owon" (best known as Marathon Infinity), then ran out of money before completing a more ambitious project, Duality. I recall reading somewhere that he went back to working as a teacher.
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Talking about sprites, did you see the teaser video for King of Fighters XII? So. Fuckin'. Beautiful.
Mr. Torvalds, is that you?!
Has anyone else noticed that Steve Ballmer barely ever uses punctuation?
"The new and latest religion"
by Janer Cristaldo
~~~~~
About ten years ago, I wrote that someone who saw clearly the void of faith that would devastate the West was Italian director Nanni Moretti, in Palombella Rossa. The film came in '89, significantly the year when the Wall of Berlin fell. The story has as its main character a communist deputy that suddenly loses his memory.
The final scene is emblematic: in a highway, hundreds of youths run to greet the sun. It is inaugurated the new religion, the worship of nature. Not by chance, the privileged interlocutor of the Dalai-Lama -- word that modestly means Ocean of Wisdom -- in Brazil is Fernando Gabeira, former marxist guerilla fighter that switched his faith in History for the ecological militance. Gyatso intuited quickly this western turnabout and now preaches in defense of the environment.
I read in today's El País: "The climate change has mobilized scientists that study it, engineers that seek technological solutions, and economists that measure them. And it also starts to take a spiritual dimension that is converting it, in the opinion of some, into the new religion of the 21st century. A new ecological spirituality. The messianic language and the nearly religious instruments that are utilized break the more rational plans and silence in a public opinion more skeptic before past causes."
As well know the ornitologists who peck me. Their zeal is religious. Before the hypothesis of the extinction of the swamp streamcreeper, they brandish the apocalypse. Without intending to analyze the so called global warming -- since I do not have the instruments to do so -- I distrust it. For it is preached with the same divine wrath of John of Patmos. To bet on the apocalypse is a comfortable bet. For the apocalypse won't come right away. It's always in the future. Therefore, while it won't come, its prophets are not proven wrong.
Late the past year, the newspaper says, Al Gore arrived in Seville to speak of his movement against climate change. In his eagerness to reach his audience, Gore, who is a deeply religious man, uses phrases such as: "Noah was told to save the living species and this today is still our duty." Before preaching to the ambassadors or disciples that belong to his movement, 1700 all over the planet, he asks of them a "spiritual connection".
To biologist Miguel Delibes de Castro, "the structure that Gore organized is almost religious, with disciples that spread the good word, like Jesus Christ." To biologist Miguel Ferrer, "the radical ecological trends have much in common with religious schools. More and more one hears that man is the evil, destructive being and he must be expelled from the last of paradises."
One of Al Gore's 200 ambassadors in Spain is Juan Negrillo. Asked about the connection between his speech and religious feelings, he said: "All religions have their roots in faith, and in that sense the ecologist message and climate defense can be mistaken for as a religious message, because, as we are not able to touch, smell, weigh or see the CO2, it's almost a question of faith in the scientific community."
Who has not heard of Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, that regarded Earth as a living being? Here in Brazil, we had a loon that earned fame as ecologist, José Lutzenberger, that believed deeply in that mystical theory.
"But what we are going to do first: unveil this wonder, or will we continue as a cancer in Gaia's organism, devastating, causing mass extinctions, intoxicating to the point of no return?", Lutzenberger wrote, and continued:
"In the time of that mortal threat that was the oxygen pollution crisis, that nearly extinguished the life forms then existing, Gaia, rather than succumb, knew how to benefit. It transformed a ferocious enemy into a powerful ally, a factor of more life, of more complex life, more perfect, more diversified, more harmonic - a st
It's not as flashy as Flash. Frankly, I'd count that as a positive trait...
It's because your views in this matter are so outrageous, it's hard to realize if you're really that deranged, or just pretend to be.
Indeed, let's have some sense of proportion. A truly equivalent procedure would be the removal of the clitoral hood.
Which, you see... happens to be a crime in pretty much any western country.
And that brings us back to the original question: why is male genital mutilation allowed?
If it was a tradition to chop off the pinky finger, someone with a complete hand would be seen as a freak...
Actually, no, it does not. Even worse: tell men they are protected (although they are not) and they will not bother using condoms. Ergo, circumcision helps spread AIDS.
Oh fuck, I forgot... no phpBB-style markup allowed here. Damn.
So... why is [i]male[/i] genital mutilation still acceptable in the USA?
Spyglass Mosaic was based on NCSA Mosaic, but actually did not use any of its code.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
You know... sitting on a couch, eating Pringles, and playing video games has never caused wars or anything. The world would be a better place if people followed CowboyNeal's fine example.
The Dreamcatcher3000
I suppose that Halo's writing was not on par because Marathon's plot writer, Greg Kirkpatrick, has long left Bungie; he started a company called Double Aught, that produced "Blood Tides of Lh'owon" (best known as Marathon Infinity), then ran out of money before completing a more ambitious project, Duality. I recall reading somewhere that he went back to working as a teacher.