I dunno. It just seems like most of these games are not oriented towards my age group.
I'm not sure what age group you are, but I'm 25 and I like a lot of the games on that list, while my PSP has only been used for Valkyrie Profile. All of my friends have DSs but I'm the only one I know with a PSP. The DS isn't made just for children by any measure.
Why is joke still modded funny? It's been posted 8 billion times, so hasn't anyone who was going to laugh at it laughed already? At least mix it up with a Soviet Russia joke (in Soviet Russia, girl pays YOU!!) or something (1. Ask girls for sex 2. ??? 3. Profit!).
Oh? Who's culture are you referring to? Your condescending tone sounds American, but an American wouldn't be talking about western weaknesses.
I guess you don't talk to many Americans then. Americans have this amazing ability to talk about how Western civilization sucks while coming from a very Western viewpoint.
Unitarian Universalism used to be a Christian denomination (actually two - Unitarian and Universalism) but after centuries of being called heretics we gave up on that. Now, we have all kinds of people in our churches - atheists, Christians, pagans, deists, and others. Basically we just agree on the Principles and Purposes, and beyond that we're free to believe what's in our hearts. Services very from church to church and actually from week to week, but in my church we usually have a sermon on an important topic - poverty, racism, the war, coping with loss, whatever our minister (or anyone else, really) thinks up. We also do a lot of singing in services, we have a hymnal that has a wide variety of songs, from secular humanist to spirituals to general songs about (a non-specific) God (God of love, not god of send you to hell because you don't believe) and a couple of Jesus tunes for Christmas Eve service.
UUA.org has more information about UUism, and they have have a thing to find churches in your area. If you have any more questions you can ask here or email me, I check the address in my profile.:)
Arrainged marriages (your parents desided, or you took the first lady off of a ship) once were common. These marriages lasted until death (not a murder or suicide!), so don't say it doesn't work that way. You're already way ahead if you get to meet your spouse before the wedding day.
We don't do arranged marriages in our culture because we don't want them. If I'm going to stay with a guy the rest of my life I better well know I like him. I understand things used to work that way, but I don't think that message is going to go very far in our current culture.
You can preach all you want, but people will still use condoms incorrectly. People tend to be rather dumb when getting aroused.
I'm not talking about preaching, I'm talking about actually showing people how to use condoms correctly. Most people don't know how, and they don't important things like if you put it inside out and then flip it you're raising the chance of pregnancy or spredding STDs. Putting on condoms right isn't hard, it's just that very few people know how to do it.
The bit about damaging condoms involves one party. The other party, usually the male, is trusting the condom. Condoms even get fished out of the trash. In the USA, this normally means the male must pay child support. Abstinence doesn't get you into such situations.
I don't know what to do about people who are crazy. Really, I think this crap about fishing condoms out of the trash is just an urban legend, because I can't imagine people are realy that crazy.
Shit does indeed happen. Recklessly allowing it to happen is another matter.
Sex when using condoms and birth control isn't reckless. I've been having sex for almost 10 years and I haven't gotten pregnant. Also, the last 2 years have been with my husband Just because you get married doesn't mean you want or can handle kids so I don't see anything more "reckless" about my sex now than the sex I had before I got married.
This "probably not want to stay with the rest of your life" is bullshit. You're trash the moment you consider that. The crude fix is to make divorce be more difficult to get. If you chose unwisely, tough shit. (By age 14, I wouldn't have made a bad choice. By age 18 I would have made an excellent choice.)
Thanks for calling me trash! Anyways, when I was 18 I hadn't met anyone I would have wanted to spend the rest of my life with, and I had a lot of growing to do as an independant person (no, I'm not just talking about sex) before I'd be ready to make a mature commitment.
Just like you say abstinence doesn't work (because people won't abstain), condoms don't work (because people won't use them right). People fumble with them. People try to put them on the wrong way, then flip them around the right way. People snooze while still connected, go limp, let the condom fall off and get lost inside the woman, etc
So teach them how to use them correctly?
People even damage condoms on purpose so that they can get pregnant!
Do you think that if they're damaging condoms that maybe the abstinence message is quite a bit beyond them?
Kids need two parents. Given that birth control fails, getting married first is rather important. It's terrible to start a kid off without a proper family.
Shit happens. My mother had an aneurysm while she was pregnant and I had to be raised by my unmarried aunt. My childhood wasn't terrible. Anyways, if you use both a hormonal birth control and condoms (and know how to use them) then you have almost no risk of pregnancy.
Our bodies are designed to start having sex in early adolescence, but in society it's not good to marry until your mid twenties, and if you marry for the purpose of fucking you'll wind up marrying someone you'll probably not want to stay with the rest of your life because your hormones are overiding your logic. Most Americans have premarital sex at some point so the "don't do it" message is completely pointless (not to mention, some people are gay and can't get married, so abstinence until marriage doesn't work at all for them). If you use condoms consistantly and correctly (something most people don't do, because no one teaches them how to do it right and telling them they're not effect anyways makes them apathetic) then you won't get AIDS. There's been studies done of long-term couples where one is HIV positive and one is HIV negative who use condoms consistantly and correctly (because they have to) and the rate of transmission is virtually non-existant. You're not going to bring back abstinance until marriage, so teach them how to be safe and responsible when they do have sex.
Religions tend to promise their payoff after you die. Before you die, they tend to be a burden (e.g. time spent going to church, tithing, etc.). So it's only natural that the closer you get to death, the better the deal looks.
That would make sense, but I go to a Unitarian Universalist church where we don't promise anything after death (seriously, we focus on community and helping people in this life rather than caring about what people believe, and we have a lot of atheists) and still most of our membership is retirement age. Churches in all across our denomination are trying different things to get younger people, such as services that start at noon and great child care programs to reel in young parents, and still, the average congregation is filled with gray hair. So, it's more than the hope of life after death that brings in older people.
Oh, and I totally agree with you about "childish gods" and "adult gods". When I found out Santa wasn't real, one of my first thoughts was that Mom told me God was real too, but I never meet him either.
As I said, I'm a Christian and I don't believe you or anyone else will burn in hell. I guess I'm not your definition of a Christian.
Then you're a Universalist, who have always been considered heretics by mainstream Christian churches and have pretty much abandoned their Christian roots now. It's not that you're not his definition of Christian, it's that you're not anyone's definition of Christian, except you're own. Which is fine, just remember that when other people talk about Christians they're not talking about you.
"So you can't prove that God exists, but you still doubt that he doesn't? That wouldn't stand up in any decent court of law."
Ok, under what scenerio would a court of law be proving that someone exists or not? If you say a person committed a crime or witnessed a crime, then that person actually has to go to court. Ok, sometimes a deposition of a witness will be read without them being there, but both attorneys usually talk to the witness prior and if there's a doubt that the person even exists then there's no way their testimony would get anywhere near the court. A court goes off of hard facts, and if there's not enough evidence then someone even exists, then they're irrelevant as far as the court's concerned.
Nice way to miss the point, that being a liar affects your credibility, and that of the projects you work on.
Well, if your analogy wasn't totally off the wall, then the point might have been clearer. Lying about having a doctorate in fetishes isn't a big deal, because everyone's going to realize that you're joking, and if someone solicits you for something based on that they're going to realize you're not a hot chick before anything happens. If this was about a blowjob and not administrating the largest encyclopedia on the internet I don't think anyone would care.
You mean after you manually add the gpg key to apt?
Copy and paste one line into a terminal? Oooh, so hard. It even works if you don't do that, it just give you an error message that you can ignore.
why would I contribute it to Ubuntu, they're already plenty aware of EasyUbuntu and would have included it if they wanted to.
That's not the way it works. You have to proactively join Ubuntu if you want your shit put into the distro.
What's not the way what works? The Ubuntu developers don't take good open source programs and add them into Ubuntu unless some random person joins them? EasyUbuntu has its own subforum in the Ubuntu forum and they're implementing Easyubuntu type scripts into Fiesty. What do you want me to do? And why don't you do it, if it's such a big deal. I'm not the one complainng about Ubuntu, you are.
Uh huh. Installing EasyUbuntu is harder than installing NVIDIA drivers using Synapic. Here's a crazy idea.. why don't you contribute this script to Ubuntu? Shocking I know.
WTF? You download it and double click on it. What more do you want them to do? And why would I contribute it to Ubuntu, they're already plenty aware of EasyUbuntu and would have included it if they wanted to.
I hate using bittorrent. Setting up port forwarding, setting up a static ip so the ports stay fowarding, finding a tracker with a good number of seeds, and then it's still slower than direct downloading, and all the uploading freezes my connection so I can't browse the web at normal speeds. Of course it's a lot easier on a website's bandwidth, so I understand if they want to use that for free files, but there's no way in fuck I'd use bittorrent to get a file I paid for.
So it can't be locked to an ESSID or to secure connections? That would be weak. But anyway, I have more of a problem with neighbors associating to my open AP than accidentally picking up others. I see a few others, but all fairly weak signals.
You have to manually set up each connection, it won't automatically find connections to connect to, and if you set up parental controls the kids need to enter a pin to do that. If you don't set up parental controls and just block the wii from the router (though it would probably be easier to set up parental controls, but maybe you don't have a router) the kids probably won't be able to connect to something, since the wii won't scan for networks, but the smart kid will type in "linksys" or "default" and probably find something. Parental controls aren't that hard to set up, and they're a better solution than anything else.
If you want to buy a computer with Linux preloaded, you can go to Groovix, System 76, or Koobox. If you don't want to buy a new computer, I recommend Linux Mint or Freespire. Both of them are more user friendly to Windows converters and come things like flash and mp3 playback already installed.
As for Dell, they've had shitastic Windows support for years, so they'd be much better off just sending people to Canonical's or Red Hat's or whoever's tech support.
Ignore the other poster, some people like to make things harder. Just get EasyUbuntu (just download it and double click to install) and when you run it it will have a number of checkboxes (for Flash, Skype, stuff like that). Check the one that says nvidia drivers. Click apply. You might have to enter your password somewhere in there, but it's pretty straightforward.
And they're real secret weapon is reselling used copies of games as new copies. This has happened to me a couple of times at different EB/Gamestops in my area.... So, buy that used copy off someone for a few dollars, and turn around and sell it to the next person as a new copy.... Check you boxes before you leave! If they don't have the seals on them, Complain right away! =)
I used to work at Gamestop, and actually what they do is so they can display new games without having anti-theft devices is they open the box and put the disc in a drawer and put the empty box on the shelf. Then, when they've sold all the sealed copies, they have to sell the unsealed copy. It's still technically "new", since it hasn't been bought, but it's just as crappy (if not more, since Gamestop doesn't warranty "new" games). Even when the box would get stolen and no matter how scratched the disc got, we'd still have to sell it as new. Yeah, it's pretty crappy.
I'm ok with EB/Gamestop getting things that Best Buy/Walmart/etc doesn't. It makes sense that by going into a dedicated gamestore that you'll find a better selection than going somewhere that isn't. But EB/Gamestop isn't the only gamestore. My friend manages a GameCrazy, and I'm at his store all the time for game tournaments and stuff, but when I want say, the collector's edition of FF12, I can't just buy it from his store. There's also a few locally owned stores in my neighborhood that get left out by these deals. I don't want to see EB/Gamestop become a monopoly, and deals like this just get them closer and closer to that.
For example, assuming the father is anywhere near the age of the stepmother, that means the parents had this kid at a very young age, probably 17 or 18. If that's the case, then this kid was practically doomed from the start.
I know a few people who were born when their parents were 17 or 18, and they aren't murders. Not that having kids young is a good thing, but that wasn't what doomed this kid.
I have a stepmother. I haven't killed anyone. Going through a divorce does hurt kids, but it doesn't make them murders. As far as being kicked out of all the groups he was in, if he was beating up the other kids, including handicapped kids, then what do you expect them to do? Give him ice cream whenever he doesn't knock little Johnny out of the wheelchair? Gee, that's great for Johnny.
Same people are bad. We don't know why, we don't know how to fix them, and we can't blame the parents when we don't know what to do either. Maybe someday we will know, but unfortunetly that day is not today.
The game boy pocket was quite a few years after the original game boy, so I'll pass on that. However, people who got it had no idea there was a GB Color upcoming.
People who got a GB Advance had no idea Nintendo would release a version that not only was rechargeable but had a light in less than two years.
DS, late 2004. People had no idea that they would make a version with better brightness in early 2006.
When they release upgraded systems they make them compatible with the original system, so you're still able to play all the new games with your old silver DS as you could if you bought a pretty black DS lite. If your old silver DS is really that bad, then why did you buy it in the first place? When you got it you knew you'd be able to play new games on it for several years, and you're still able to play new games on it. The same goes for the GB Pocket, GBA SP, GBA Micro, and possibly a new Wii. What's the problem? Are you jealous that people have a spiffier looking DS than you? You got to play it two years before them. I don't understand the issue. As long as Nintendo keeps making games for the consoles I have I don't mind.
gamers who grew up and can't spend 4 hours a day gaming. These people do not have HDTV.
I would think those people are now "working professionals" and DO have HDTVs (like myself).
Well, they're working, but that doesn't mean they have the extra spending money for an HDTV. Anyways, if you don't have the time to spend in front of the TV (like the people I was referring to), why would you spend the money (even if you had it) getting an HDTV?
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I'm not sure what age group you are, but I'm 25 and I like a lot of the games on that list, while my PSP has only been used for Valkyrie Profile. All of my friends have DSs but I'm the only one I know with a PSP. The DS isn't made just for children by any measure.
Why is joke still modded funny? It's been posted 8 billion times, so hasn't anyone who was going to laugh at it laughed already? At least mix it up with a Soviet Russia joke (in Soviet Russia, girl pays YOU!!) or something (1. Ask girls for sex 2. ??? 3. Profit!).
Unitarian Universalism used to be a Christian denomination (actually two - Unitarian and Universalism) but after centuries of being called heretics we gave up on that. Now, we have all kinds of people in our churches - atheists, Christians, pagans, deists, and others. Basically we just agree on the Principles and Purposes, and beyond that we're free to believe what's in our hearts. Services very from church to church and actually from week to week, but in my church we usually have a sermon on an important topic - poverty, racism, the war, coping with loss, whatever our minister (or anyone else, really) thinks up. We also do a lot of singing in services, we have a hymnal that has a wide variety of songs, from secular humanist to spirituals to general songs about (a non-specific) God (God of love, not god of send you to hell because you don't believe) and a couple of Jesus tunes for Christmas Eve service.
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UUA.org has more information about UUism, and they have have a thing to find churches in your area. If you have any more questions you can ask here or email me, I check the address in my profile.
I'm not talking about preaching, I'm talking about actually showing people how to use condoms correctly. Most people don't know how, and they don't important things like if you put it inside out and then flip it you're raising the chance of pregnancy or spredding STDs. Putting on condoms right isn't hard, it's just that very few people know how to do it.
I don't know what to do about people who are crazy. Really, I think this crap about fishing condoms out of the trash is just an urban legend, because I can't imagine people are realy that crazy.
Sex when using condoms and birth control isn't reckless. I've been having sex for almost 10 years and I haven't gotten pregnant. Also, the last 2 years have been with my husband Just because you get married doesn't mean you want or can handle kids so I don't see anything more "reckless" about my sex now than the sex I had before I got married.
Ok, I stand corrected. I'm not an expert in Jesus and early Christianity, so I didn't know that. Thank you for informing me.
So teach them how to use them correctly?
Do you think that if they're damaging condoms that maybe the abstinence message is quite a bit beyond them?
Shit happens. My mother had an aneurysm while she was pregnant and I had to be raised by my unmarried aunt. My childhood wasn't terrible. Anyways, if you use both a hormonal birth control and condoms (and know how to use them) then you have almost no risk of pregnancy.
Our bodies are designed to start having sex in early adolescence, but in society it's not good to marry until your mid twenties, and if you marry for the purpose of fucking you'll wind up marrying someone you'll probably not want to stay with the rest of your life because your hormones are overiding your logic. Most Americans have premarital sex at some point so the "don't do it" message is completely pointless (not to mention, some people are gay and can't get married, so abstinence until marriage doesn't work at all for them). If you use condoms consistantly and correctly (something most people don't do, because no one teaches them how to do it right and telling them they're not effect anyways makes them apathetic) then you won't get AIDS. There's been studies done of long-term couples where one is HIV positive and one is HIV negative who use condoms consistantly and correctly (because they have to) and the rate of transmission is virtually non-existant. You're not going to bring back abstinance until marriage, so teach them how to be safe and responsible when they do have sex.
Oh, and I totally agree with you about "childish gods" and "adult gods". When I found out Santa wasn't real, one of my first thoughts was that Mom told me God was real too, but I never meet him either.
I hate using bittorrent. Setting up port forwarding, setting up a static ip so the ports stay fowarding, finding a tracker with a good number of seeds, and then it's still slower than direct downloading, and all the uploading freezes my connection so I can't browse the web at normal speeds. Of course it's a lot easier on a website's bandwidth, so I understand if they want to use that for free files, but there's no way in fuck I'd use bittorrent to get a file I paid for.
If you want to buy a computer with Linux preloaded, you can go to Groovix, System 76, or Koobox. If you don't want to buy a new computer, I recommend Linux Mint or Freespire. Both of them are more user friendly to Windows converters and come things like flash and mp3 playback already installed.
As for Dell, they've had shitastic Windows support for years, so they'd be much better off just sending people to Canonical's or Red Hat's or whoever's tech support.
Ignore the other poster, some people like to make things harder. Just get EasyUbuntu (just download it and double click to install) and when you run it it will have a number of checkboxes (for Flash, Skype, stuff like that). Check the one that says nvidia drivers. Click apply. You might have to enter your password somewhere in there, but it's pretty straightforward.
I'm ok with EB/Gamestop getting things that Best Buy/Walmart/etc doesn't. It makes sense that by going into a dedicated gamestore that you'll find a better selection than going somewhere that isn't. But EB/Gamestop isn't the only gamestore. My friend manages a GameCrazy, and I'm at his store all the time for game tournaments and stuff, but when I want say, the collector's edition of FF12, I can't just buy it from his store. There's also a few locally owned stores in my neighborhood that get left out by these deals. I don't want to see EB/Gamestop become a monopoly, and deals like this just get them closer and closer to that.
Same people are bad. We don't know why, we don't know how to fix them, and we can't blame the parents when we don't know what to do either. Maybe someday we will know, but unfortunetly that day is not today.