It also refers to the theft of traditional knowledge from those cultures.
Do people not know what 'theft' means anymore? Have the media companies been confusing the term so much by making duplication equal to theft that we're left with such a ridiculous statement as the above?
They're STEALING KNOWLEDGE? This is just a bizarre concept.
I've called 911 several times to report criminal activity in the neighborhood, and half the time the 911 operator puts me on hold for 5 minutes or more without even talking to me first. I use this time to boggle at the thought of needing them in a fire, robbery, or other life-threatening emergency.
This is in Dekalb County, GA. In case you were wondering.
It's a great idea, but dont buy it. It doesnt work for shit.
I've been to the doctor's office twice with the TV blaring idiocy and I couldnt get the thing to turn off either TV. It worked on my home TV only when holding it directly at the TV, arm extended, from teh front, from two feet away.
Ooh, I thought of a good response. When a cashier asks for your phone number, act al offended and say "Excuse me, but are you hitting on me?!" Then refuse to believe their response till they drop it.
It's that sweet, saccharin voice, cooing like it loves you while trying to stuff unwanted information down your throat. It's a vocal euphemism. I cant stand it. I hold the phone away from my head when that crap starts up.
Exactly right. The consumers could completely control the market if they would just stop buying from companies whose practices they dont support.
Unfortunately, very few people do. And so we all suffer the fools who buy products from spammers, buy right after seeing an ad, buckle under to salesmen who push and push, and generally fall for the kind of marketing practices we all hate.
You can also create second characters that you can play separately when you want to play and the other one is not around. When you're together, play the characters that you made for that purpose.:)
I was excited when I read the title of this story and thought it was about a school taking a stand against bullying. Sadly, it's about a school taking a stand against a game about bullying.
Just sit slanty in your chair, one hand on the mouse and rest your head on the other, facing the screen. Put some indecipherable code on the screen and drift of into blissful sleep.
That is, if when people approach, they do so from behind.
A few years ago, I used to go out to every movie that looked like a cool idea. But after being disappointed so many times, I stopped trusting that a movie that sounded good and looked good WOULD IN FACT be good. So in the last year and a half I stopped getting excited about new movies, withholding judgement till I read the reviews, which were 80% negative.
We've been burned too many times by movies that looked great but ended up sucking.
And the other big reason is the endless annoying horrible loud commercials before the movies. Come on now. Hollywood wants to portray movie-going as being a worthwhile experience, that nothing is like seeing it on the big screen. Well stop shoving ads in our faces. We've already paid for the movie. And paid too much at that!
The worst computer disaster in all my years of computer use was thanks to Symantec. Apparently I had installed a slightly older version of Norton on my Mac. I think this was when they changed OS 9 to the extended file system. Norton had no problem running on an OS version that it wasnt built for. I ran the check on the system, and it found what it thought were errors, which it promptly "fixed". What it actually did was scramble almost all the data on my hard drive. My computer was inoperable. I got on the mac forums along with droves of other people freaking out about the loss of all their data, and it took several weeks for Symantec to come up with a fix that undid the damage it did to all those Macs.
Obviously, that was the last time ever used their products.
Everyone posting on this thread needs to ask themselves one question. If the situation were reversed, if the Democrats won among tons of voting irregularities, would you change your story? If exit polls showed a clear Republican win but the numbers instead gave the victory to a Democrat, would that make you more or less suspicious?
If so, you're just being partisan. Dont bother posting. Double-standards are so thick in America right now, and it just reveals hypocrisy and self-interest.
Consider that the chairman of Diebold is a key fundraiser for Bush and publically promised to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush". Diebold is known to have a deep conservative culture. If this isnt an obvious conflict of interest, then I'm not sure what is. In this light, the number of voting machine irregularities and ease of hacking the machines raise a lot of questions.
Exactly, and Blizzard is being paid by the hour for your effort. Well, monthly, but the analogy stands. The goal is for everything to take a long time to keep your suscription going.
From TFA: For the people living there, a simple light bulb would mean an extension of both their productivity and their leisure times.
Ahh, so they can be more productive. Spreading American values across the world! "You see, with light, you can work longer than ever before. If you're lucky, you might be able to work hard enough to afford the light bulbs!"
The Cane Toads documentary linked above is one the most amazingly awesome documentaries out there. I HIGHLY recommend you watch it if you havent. Get some friends, beer or other mind-altering fun, and have at it. You wont regret it.
We're given as much time as possible to express our outrage and draw into it all sorts of other issues. Since we must wait for a response, it appears that the insult (if it even was intended as one) lingers, and the other person remains standing there, confident and in-your-face as you craft your response. And then these feelings have time to simmer and stew and grow, and you get defensive while you await the coutnerattack.
Since email is so impersonal, one feels as if they're attacking an idea, and wont pull any punches. But if there were a person there, it's easier to realize that you're interacting with a person with feelings.
Look at the rise of the use of "absolutely" in the last few years. I've watched as most people I know have exchanged "yes" with "absolutely". People are really polarized these days. And there are many reasons for that - political, religious, and so on - but I wonder if the growth of email/internet communication has contributed to this as well. Where the soothing presence of a person, and the emotional contact of voices, facial expression, body language and physical contact are lacking, you are left with black and white text messages and absolute ideas.
I've had so many fights via email that never ever would have happened if I'd been communicating in person.
I think there's some unspoken resentment as well. You can spend all day communicating but you're really only interacting with a computer. It's lonely in a way, unfulfilling. And how easy is it to turn that angst into a fight via the very medium that at once brings us together and separates us.
The only reason I'd want all things in one box is if I was slimming down my possessions and living the lean, green life in a little house somewhere.
But that's not my goal. Like many folks, I already have a DVD player/home theater system for movies. I also have a PS2 and two computers that can play movies but I never use them for that. The DVD player can play CDs as well, so i got rid of my expired stereo system. I can also play CDs on my PS2, computers, iPod, and cars. MP3s? DVD player, iPod, cars, computers, TiVo, etc.
My point is that many people already have these things and throwing them into the PS3 is just going to jack the price. Honestly, $400 is a lot to pay for a game system packed with features when I already have 5-6 machines that can do the same already.
And there's this point. I prefer to move about during the day. Take a Saturday with no plans. I dont want to play games, watch TV, listen to music, order movies, and so on all while sitting in the same place. It's nice to move from place to place and get some variety. Rest your eyes, change the scene.
Personally, I decided not to get the Xbox 360. The majority of games I like come out for PS2 and Xbox, and after the first spike of good Xbox games, it dropped quickly off. Seeing this, each new game I bought for the PS2.
Now some of the best games coming out for Xbox 360 (Oblivion, for example) are also coming out for the PC, so I'm just going to get the PC version. I realize MS doesnt want to hurt its PC gaming market by making too many games exclusive to Xbox and not PC, but that's probably hurting Xbox sales.
PS3 and PC for me. And I'm very intrigued by the Nintendo Revolution.
Yeah, just brilliant. Remove big chunks of his brain and destroy his ability to retain new memories. Let's hear it for neuroscience! This reminds me of the days when a lobotomy was believed to cure bad behavior. Much in the same way that killing someone outright would stop their bad behavior.
For the record, since people are asking about this, the pass-then-roll on items is so that if nobody needs it, an enchanted can disenchant the item for a shard that's worth twice as much as the item would be to a vendor. Then whoever wins the roll gets the shard.
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It also refers to the theft of traditional knowledge from those cultures.
Do people not know what 'theft' means anymore? Have the media companies been confusing the term so much by making duplication equal to theft that we're left with such a ridiculous statement as the above?
They're STEALING KNOWLEDGE? This is just a bizarre concept.
I've called 911 several times to report criminal activity in the neighborhood, and half the time the 911 operator puts me on hold for 5 minutes or more without even talking to me first. I use this time to boggle at the thought of needing them in a fire, robbery, or other life-threatening emergency.
This is in Dekalb County, GA. In case you were wondering.
It's a great idea, but dont buy it. It doesnt work for shit.
I've been to the doctor's office twice with the TV blaring idiocy and I couldnt get the thing to turn off either TV. It worked on my home TV only when holding it directly at the TV, arm extended, from teh front, from two feet away.
Garbage. I threw mine away.
Ooh, I thought of a good response. When a cashier asks for your phone number, act al offended and say "Excuse me, but are you hitting on me?!" Then refuse to believe their response till they drop it.
Good god I hate it so much.
It's that sweet, saccharin voice, cooing like it loves you while trying to stuff unwanted information down your throat. It's a vocal euphemism. I cant stand it. I hold the phone away from my head when that crap starts up.
Exactly right. The consumers could completely control the market if they would just stop buying from companies whose practices they dont support.
Unfortunately, very few people do. And so we all suffer the fools who buy products from spammers, buy right after seeing an ad, buckle under to salesmen who push and push, and generally fall for the kind of marketing practices we all hate.
Hell, just turn off the monitors or unplug them. :)
You'll at least have a few moments of peace.
You can also create second characters that you can play separately when you want to play and the other one is not around. When you're together, play the characters that you made for that purpose. :)
True, just like how we have super-human reflexes on the moon.
In other words..
John Glenn != Chuck Norris
I was excited when I read the title of this story and thought it was about a school taking a stand against bullying. Sadly, it's about a school taking a stand against a game about bullying.
I'd be more impressed by the former.
You arent trying hard enough!
Just sit slanty in your chair, one hand on the mouse and rest your head on the other, facing the screen. Put some indecipherable code on the screen and drift of into blissful sleep.
That is, if when people approach, they do so from behind.
You know, I think you're dead on there.
A few years ago, I used to go out to every movie that looked like a cool idea. But after being disappointed so many times, I stopped trusting that a movie that sounded good and looked good WOULD IN FACT be good. So in the last year and a half I stopped getting excited about new movies, withholding judgement till I read the reviews, which were 80% negative.
We've been burned too many times by movies that looked great but ended up sucking.
And the other big reason is the endless annoying horrible loud commercials before the movies. Come on now. Hollywood wants to portray movie-going as being a worthwhile experience, that nothing is like seeing it on the big screen. Well stop shoving ads in our faces. We've already paid for the movie. And paid too much at that!
The worst computer disaster in all my years of computer use was thanks to Symantec. Apparently I had installed a slightly older version of Norton on my Mac. I think this was when they changed OS 9 to the extended file system. Norton had no problem running on an OS version that it wasnt built for. I ran the check on the system, and it found what it thought were errors, which it promptly "fixed". What it actually did was scramble almost all the data on my hard drive. My computer was inoperable. I got on the mac forums along with droves of other people freaking out about the loss of all their data, and it took several weeks for Symantec to come up with a fix that undid the damage it did to all those Macs.
Obviously, that was the last time ever used their products.
Everyone posting on this thread needs to ask themselves one question. If the situation were reversed, if the Democrats won among tons of voting irregularities, would you change your story? If exit polls showed a clear Republican win but the numbers instead gave the victory to a Democrat, would that make you more or less suspicious?
If so, you're just being partisan. Dont bother posting. Double-standards are so thick in America right now, and it just reveals hypocrisy and self-interest.
Consider that the chairman of Diebold is a key fundraiser for Bush and publically promised to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush". Diebold is known to have a deep conservative culture. If this isnt an obvious conflict of interest, then I'm not sure what is. In this light, the number of voting machine irregularities and ease of hacking the machines raise a lot of questions.
The Zentradi are coming.
I think it is. It's called being paid by the hour
Exactly, and Blizzard is being paid by the hour for your effort. Well, monthly, but the analogy stands. The goal is for everything to take a long time to keep your suscription going.
From TFA: For the people living there, a simple light bulb would mean an extension of both their productivity and their leisure times.
Ahh, so they can be more productive. Spreading American values across the world! "You see, with light, you can work longer than ever before. If you're lucky, you might be able to work hard enough to afford the light bulbs!"
The Cane Toads documentary linked above is one the most amazingly awesome documentaries out there. I HIGHLY recommend you watch it if you havent. Get some friends, beer or other mind-altering fun, and have at it. You wont regret it.
Very true, well said.
We're given as much time as possible to express our outrage and draw into it all sorts of other issues. Since we must wait for a response, it appears that the insult (if it even was intended as one) lingers, and the other person remains standing there, confident and in-your-face as you craft your response. And then these feelings have time to simmer and stew and grow, and you get defensive while you await the coutnerattack.
Since email is so impersonal, one feels as if they're attacking an idea, and wont pull any punches. But if there were a person there, it's easier to realize that you're interacting with a person with feelings.
Look at the rise of the use of "absolutely" in the last few years. I've watched as most people I know have exchanged "yes" with "absolutely". People are really polarized these days. And there are many reasons for that - political, religious, and so on - but I wonder if the growth of email/internet communication has contributed to this as well. Where the soothing presence of a person, and the emotional contact of voices, facial expression, body language and physical contact are lacking, you are left with black and white text messages and absolute ideas.
I've had so many fights via email that never ever would have happened if I'd been communicating in person.
I think there's some unspoken resentment as well. You can spend all day communicating but you're really only interacting with a computer. It's lonely in a way, unfulfilling. And how easy is it to turn that angst into a fight via the very medium that at once brings us together and separates us.
The only reason I'd want all things in one box is if I was slimming down my possessions and living the lean, green life in a little house somewhere.
But that's not my goal. Like many folks, I already have a DVD player/home theater system for movies. I also have a PS2 and two computers that can play movies but I never use them for that. The DVD player can play CDs as well, so i got rid of my expired stereo system. I can also play CDs on my PS2, computers, iPod, and cars. MP3s? DVD player, iPod, cars, computers, TiVo, etc.
My point is that many people already have these things and throwing them into the PS3 is just going to jack the price. Honestly, $400 is a lot to pay for a game system packed with features when I already have 5-6 machines that can do the same already.
And there's this point. I prefer to move about during the day. Take a Saturday with no plans. I dont want to play games, watch TV, listen to music, order movies, and so on all while sitting in the same place. It's nice to move from place to place and get some variety. Rest your eyes, change the scene.
Personally, I decided not to get the Xbox 360. The majority of games I like come out for PS2 and Xbox, and after the first spike of good Xbox games, it dropped quickly off. Seeing this, each new game I bought for the PS2.
Now some of the best games coming out for Xbox 360 (Oblivion, for example) are also coming out for the PC, so I'm just going to get the PC version. I realize MS doesnt want to hurt its PC gaming market by making too many games exclusive to Xbox and not PC, but that's probably hurting Xbox sales.
PS3 and PC for me. And I'm very intrigued by the Nintendo Revolution.
The telling question is this: why would he avoid getting the FISA permits, even after the fact? There are only two answers to this:
1) He knows he wouldnt get approval because he's using the wiretapping to spy on democrats and people who dont agree with him.
or
2) He thinks he's above the law of the land and doesnt need to follow the constitution.
Both of these are unacceptable.
Yeah, just brilliant. Remove big chunks of his brain and destroy his ability to retain new memories. Let's hear it for neuroscience! This reminds me of the days when a lobotomy was believed to cure bad behavior. Much in the same way that killing someone outright would stop their bad behavior.
For the record, since people are asking about this, the pass-then-roll on items is so that if nobody needs it, an enchanted can disenchant the item for a shard that's worth twice as much as the item would be to a vendor. Then whoever wins the roll gets the shard.