But i think, just like IRAQ, the true motives behind this direction is based on two things that have nothing to do with science.
1) To challenge china as we did with Russia during the cold war I think this is perhaps a strategy to try and take down china, seeing how china is now entering the space race.
2) I have a feeling that a lot of the money will find its way to the many of military technology companies that bush and pals have their hands in.
First off, if you work at Mcdonalds you get free food. Now if they're handing out free burgers to their workers, surely that $5 hour their friend clocked them in for, isnt a big hit.
Hell a meal alone at mcdonalds is $5. How many of those do they sell a day?:) I'm guessing thousands hehe
Wow, you're an ass... Seriously. People's jobs are being exported to cheaper work forces in other countries. Companies post record profits, yet they cant employee American Citizens. NOW they're going to be monitoring and tracking minimum wage earners like criminals? (which they've always been treated as in this country)
No... What you do with your domain is your own buisness.
You can not regulate what people do with their domain. Thats just stupid. What would the people at cloneyourbone.com beforced to do on their webpage? clone their penises, or clone their femurs?
IF i link michaeljackson.com to porn, it is NOT fraud. Thats silly.
Its free speech, perhaps my name is michaeljackson ? Perhaps i've created a cartoon character named michaeljackson that is my porno mascot... or perhaps theres no association to michaeljackson at all...
I dont have to link it to porn. It could be blank... It doesnt matter. If you register it, you own it.
Thats the way it should be.. Fair is Fair. If Michael Jackson cared enough about his carear, he would have registered it first...
YES its all about money. DUH. Thats the point. This is captialism, where the stock market is run by crooks, and fud, bullshit quarterly reports are the norm...
If you own land, you own land.
No one should be allowed to take that away from you.
If i registered michael_jackson_loves_kids.com Should michael jackson have the right to take that from you?
is it any different than owning michael_jackson.com?
Frankly, its free speech, and its first come first serve. No one has a right to own their own name as a web domain. Mainly because there are more than one michael jackson in this world so celebrities dont get the right over the average nobodies who have the same name.
So really ANYONE should beable to register ANYONES name. First come first serve...
If i register www.killyourself.com and you wanted it... TOO BAD.
Same thing with michaeljackson.com or in this case... tolkien
obviously you're implying that we already have cameras everywhere:) Yes we have plenty... and its too much as is.
Does it deter crime? yeah. It also deters me from picking my nose in public
I could careless if people jerk off to thoughts of children as long as they arent stupid enough to physically assault a child. Thats so obviously wrong.
The whole thing about child abuse/molestation is that its a crime that can impact a young person. A child can easily be taken advantage of, and needs to be protected from people who would do so.
Jerking off to some fantasy about being back in highschool and banging that highschool chick with the big tits... is far from child abuse/molestation because it has NO physical assault or impact on anothers life that is unjust.
In the case of the game... commiting a virtual crime... is the same thing.... Its a game of fantasy. If you step out of that world and go and car jack someone or beat up a bunch of hatians in real life... thats a crime. But its not the games fault in the least bit.
The UK is a cluster fuck. We dont want to become anything like them do we?
They have over 150,000 cameras in London monitoring every citizens actions.
Yeah.. lets not become England
"whinning hippie"?
Jeez.. These are not whinning hippies. These are HATIANS... a group of them.
Hippies generally stood civil rights, most of them did drugs, listened to music bitching about government. These are hardly the people you seem to be talking about.
Perhaps ex hippies turned hippacrits, but not hippies:)
Being a hippie was trendy, but for some it was a political stance against the governments abuse of power and the inequality of human rights.
I tend to think the hippies get a bad rep. For one they were the only generation of people to really stand up in this country since the revolutionary war and civil war.
But no one ever blaims those guys...:)
Hippies get the blaim.. hmm
These Hatians dont stand for civil rights, they stand for single sided selfish rights because it effects them. They dont speek for the hatians that bought GTA and love it. They dont speek for the rest of the 20million GTA players...
They speek for themselves. They have every right to say GTA is terrible and you shouldnt buy it. But they have no right to ban it, get it removed from store shelves etc.
They have every right to harrass people who walk out of their local EB with a GTA, as long as that person has every right to kick them in the mouth.
Everyone knows that Liberals are the true conservatives and the conservatives are the real radicals.
A political party run by fairy tale worshiping lobbiests backed by bully tactics and FUD are todays so called "conservatives"
They have no respect for rights... They spend our country into oblivion, they'll dig to the center of the planet to find oil if it means staying in power and wealthy.
(of course even now conservatives are starting to say "wait a minute" to our current governments spending habbits and the current effects of NAFTA etc.)
Just want to add that i have nothing against hatians , blacks, gays, or whatever any of you happen to be.
If the feds do ban GTA... America is a failed experiment.
The BILL OF RIGHTS folks... jeez i cant stand how easily people neglect them and try to widdle down the rights of humans EVERY DAY...
Its just said. I'm what you call a liberally pissed off person who stands for civil rights above all else.
I dont care if a small group of hatians are offended. The game GTA games (VC and GTA3) sold over 20million copies.
20 million people voted folks...
The game is a classic. Many offensive films are classics... how about "Fuck the police" by NWA?
If the FEDS ban this game, i will laugh and simply give up on this country because these fucking babies dont deserve it.
Yes it's sad that they were offended. I do sympathize.. but really its not my problem, its not your problem. Its their problem. Its not RockStar Games problem. 20million bought the GTA games (atleast, and i've seen the figures from video buisness magazine) surely atleast 50% of that 20mil are black...
Most people dont care. Most black people worship songs about getting rich, shooting each other and partying... Most of blacks love GTA.. As do i. Its a classic, just like "Fuck the police" and Full Metal Jacket.
A small group of hatians being offended... does not warrant pissing on the bill of rights.
All comedy is offensive, ALL SPEECH IS OFFENSIVE... LIFE IS OFFENSIVE... Just look at it, listen and take your pick.. anything can be deemed offensive. Trying to ban a game is offensive... EVEN MORE OFFENSIVE...
I dont care if the game says flat out "KILL ALL FUCKING NIGGERS"
It doesnt matter. Its free speech. FREE SPEECH IS FREE SPEECH.
"ALL fucking niggers must hang" A line from Full Metal Jacket... A film considered a classic. GTA is a game that is considered a classic....
I dont care what HATIANS think. Honestly. This is a free speech issue and the fact that a group of them are offended... means NOTHING.
Look i have Psoriasis. Do i protest and want to rip down the bill of rights and the freedoms of this country everytime i hear a joke about it on tv?
No.
Do i hate having a disease in a world where life is cruel enough? SURE...
But thats life. Things are offensive. Someone's going to look at me and say something... and i have every right to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Its AMERICA... We have the right to do, and say what we want, live how we want... etc. Sure there are limits... But offending people is not the limit my friends.
I'm offended by our governments over abuse of power, the rich upper class folks who live like kings while others cant afford healthcare...
Those things offend me.. But they exist. Should we outlaw government? Wealth....
Should we outlaw Jesus.. he offends me...
What do we outlaw?
BOO FUCKING HOO.. HATIANS... WELCOME TO THE WORLD where EVERYONE gets SHIT ON... YOUR TURN TO SIT IN THE TOILET.
Sorry if i offended any hatians... Then again i'm not really that sorry. Its MY point that we're all going to be offended.
Generally we'll all play nice and try not to hurt each other.. But when the shit hits the fan.. You're stepping over the next guy to get ahead in this world.... So you're all just as guilty. Its the nature of life.
LIFE IS OFFENSIVE. Dont like it? Take the easy way out.
These guys need to go...
ALL of them.
This country really needs to take back control of itself.
Watch some Cspan folks, watch these guys debate in the house, watch the senate, watch all of the other covered events... watch these guys like a hawk. They're all slick, they all play each other for fools.
Enough cnn, fox news, msnbc(does anyone watch it anyways?) and hell even the bbc is looking more like cnn these days.
They have this game called politics down to a science called bullshit. You linux users know this as FUD:)
... But it was grandpa i fucked in the ass.
OOPS
Still waiting for you Santa... Bring an Elf or two you fat meaty breasted reindeer kid toucher.
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I can respect that point of view. Just remember that driver problems tend to be common no matter who makes the product. The question is how frequent they update them, and how fast they fix the problems.
Also you mentioned 2D performance. Its a good point. I'm glad you pointed out that not every computer needs to be a 3d graphics workstation:) Some just need good old fast 2d performance. Thats valid and if S3 provides that, in a solid performing product... More power to them.
But compared to Nvidia and ATI... S3 has a mountain to climb.
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Seriously... who really misses S3?:)
I'm sure this product will be of the highest standards;)
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But i think, just like IRAQ, the true motives behind this direction is based on two things that have nothing to do with science. 1) To challenge china as we did with Russia during the cold war I think this is perhaps a strategy to try and take down china, seeing how china is now entering the space race. 2) I have a feeling that a lot of the money will find its way to the many of military technology companies that bush and pals have their hands in.
Perhaps, but the last place we consumers want disgruntled workers is at Mcdonalds :)
First off, if you work at Mcdonalds you get free food. Now if they're handing out free burgers to their workers, surely that $5 hour their friend clocked them in for, isnt a big hit. Hell a meal alone at mcdonalds is $5. How many of those do they sell a day? :) I'm guessing thousands hehe
Wow, you're an ass... Seriously. People's jobs are being exported to cheaper work forces in other countries. Companies post record profits, yet they cant employee American Citizens. NOW they're going to be monitoring and tracking minimum wage earners like criminals? (which they've always been treated as in this country)
Now if they could only keep their employee's palm prints off my Big Mac
yeah... i agree.... who wants that $5 extra hour, that your friend clocked you in for.
Workers need to be treated with dignity. Workers are really taking a beating in this country right now. Time for another revolutionary war.
No... What you do with your domain is your own buisness. You can not regulate what people do with their domain. Thats just stupid. What would the people at cloneyourbone.com beforced to do on their webpage? clone their penises, or clone their femurs?
I want to add, that its SLEEZY to do yes... But it is not WRONG. Tasteless and ILLEGAL are not the same thing.
IF i link michaeljackson.com to porn, it is NOT fraud. Thats silly. Its free speech, perhaps my name is michaeljackson ? Perhaps i've created a cartoon character named michaeljackson that is my porno mascot... or perhaps theres no association to michaeljackson at all... I dont have to link it to porn. It could be blank... It doesnt matter. If you register it, you own it. Thats the way it should be.. Fair is Fair. If Michael Jackson cared enough about his carear, he would have registered it first... YES its all about money. DUH. Thats the point. This is captialism, where the stock market is run by crooks, and fud, bullshit quarterly reports are the norm... If you own land, you own land.
No one should be allowed to take that away from you. If i registered michael_jackson_loves_kids.com Should michael jackson have the right to take that from you? is it any different than owning michael_jackson.com? Frankly, its free speech, and its first come first serve. No one has a right to own their own name as a web domain. Mainly because there are more than one michael jackson in this world so celebrities dont get the right over the average nobodies who have the same name. So really ANYONE should beable to register ANYONES name. First come first serve... If i register www.killyourself.com and you wanted it... TOO BAD. Same thing with michaeljackson.com or in this case... tolkien
obviously you're implying that we already have cameras everywhere :) Yes we have plenty... and its too much as is.
Does it deter crime? yeah. It also deters me from picking my nose in public
I should clarify, while i think its sick to beat off to children... i could careless if you do it, as long as you keep it all inside your sick head.
I could careless if people jerk off to thoughts of children as long as they arent stupid enough to physically assault a child. Thats so obviously wrong. The whole thing about child abuse/molestation is that its a crime that can impact a young person. A child can easily be taken advantage of, and needs to be protected from people who would do so. Jerking off to some fantasy about being back in highschool and banging that highschool chick with the big tits... is far from child abuse/molestation because it has NO physical assault or impact on anothers life that is unjust. In the case of the game... commiting a virtual crime... is the same thing.... Its a game of fantasy. If you step out of that world and go and car jack someone or beat up a bunch of hatians in real life... thats a crime. But its not the games fault in the least bit.
The UK is a cluster fuck. We dont want to become anything like them do we? They have over 150,000 cameras in London monitoring every citizens actions. Yeah.. lets not become England
"whinning hippie"? Jeez.. These are not whinning hippies. These are HATIANS... a group of them. Hippies generally stood civil rights, most of them did drugs, listened to music bitching about government. These are hardly the people you seem to be talking about. Perhaps ex hippies turned hippacrits, but not hippies :)
Being a hippie was trendy, but for some it was a political stance against the governments abuse of power and the inequality of human rights.
I tend to think the hippies get a bad rep. For one they were the only generation of people to really stand up in this country since the revolutionary war and civil war.
But no one ever blaims those guys... :)
Hippies get the blaim.. hmm
These Hatians dont stand for civil rights, they stand for single sided selfish rights because it effects them. They dont speek for the hatians that bought GTA and love it. They dont speek for the rest of the 20million GTA players...
They speek for themselves. They have every right to say GTA is terrible and you shouldnt buy it. But they have no right to ban it, get it removed from store shelves etc.
They have every right to harrass people who walk out of their local EB with a GTA, as long as that person has every right to kick them in the mouth.
Did these guys float over on that soap box or borrow one from our bill of rights. Which they seem very opposed.
Everyone knows that Liberals are the true conservatives and the conservatives are the real radicals. A political party run by fairy tale worshiping lobbiests backed by bully tactics and FUD are todays so called "conservatives" They have no respect for rights... They spend our country into oblivion, they'll dig to the center of the planet to find oil if it means staying in power and wealthy. (of course even now conservatives are starting to say "wait a minute" to our current governments spending habbits and the current effects of NAFTA etc.)
Well the answer to that is simple.. "give a basket of kittens to martians!" Wear your fucking helmet folks. This ones gonna be bumpy.
Just want to add that i have nothing against hatians , blacks, gays, or whatever any of you happen to be. If the feds do ban GTA... America is a failed experiment. The BILL OF RIGHTS folks... jeez i cant stand how easily people neglect them and try to widdle down the rights of humans EVERY DAY... Its just said. I'm what you call a liberally pissed off person who stands for civil rights above all else. I dont care if a small group of hatians are offended. The game GTA games (VC and GTA3) sold over 20million copies. 20 million people voted folks... The game is a classic. Many offensive films are classics... how about "Fuck the police" by NWA? If the FEDS ban this game, i will laugh and simply give up on this country because these fucking babies dont deserve it. Yes it's sad that they were offended. I do sympathize.. but really its not my problem, its not your problem. Its their problem. Its not RockStar Games problem. 20million bought the GTA games (atleast, and i've seen the figures from video buisness magazine) surely atleast 50% of that 20mil are black... Most people dont care. Most black people worship songs about getting rich, shooting each other and partying... Most of blacks love GTA.. As do i. Its a classic, just like "Fuck the police" and Full Metal Jacket. A small group of hatians being offended... does not warrant pissing on the bill of rights. All comedy is offensive, ALL SPEECH IS OFFENSIVE... LIFE IS OFFENSIVE... Just look at it, listen and take your pick.. anything can be deemed offensive. Trying to ban a game is offensive... EVEN MORE OFFENSIVE...
I dont care if the game says flat out "KILL ALL FUCKING NIGGERS" It doesnt matter. Its free speech. FREE SPEECH IS FREE SPEECH. "ALL fucking niggers must hang" A line from Full Metal Jacket... A film considered a classic. GTA is a game that is considered a classic.... I dont care what HATIANS think. Honestly. This is a free speech issue and the fact that a group of them are offended... means NOTHING. Look i have Psoriasis. Do i protest and want to rip down the bill of rights and the freedoms of this country everytime i hear a joke about it on tv? No. Do i hate having a disease in a world where life is cruel enough? SURE... But thats life. Things are offensive. Someone's going to look at me and say something... and i have every right to tell them to go fuck themselves. Its AMERICA... We have the right to do, and say what we want, live how we want... etc. Sure there are limits... But offending people is not the limit my friends. I'm offended by our governments over abuse of power, the rich upper class folks who live like kings while others cant afford healthcare... Those things offend me.. But they exist. Should we outlaw government? Wealth.... Should we outlaw Jesus.. he offends me... What do we outlaw? BOO FUCKING HOO.. HATIANS... WELCOME TO THE WORLD where EVERYONE gets SHIT ON... YOUR TURN TO SIT IN THE TOILET. Sorry if i offended any hatians... Then again i'm not really that sorry. Its MY point that we're all going to be offended. Generally we'll all play nice and try not to hurt each other.. But when the shit hits the fan.. You're stepping over the next guy to get ahead in this world.... So you're all just as guilty. Its the nature of life. LIFE IS OFFENSIVE. Dont like it? Take the easy way out.
These guys need to go... ALL of them. This country really needs to take back control of itself. Watch some Cspan folks, watch these guys debate in the house, watch the senate, watch all of the other covered events... watch these guys like a hawk. They're all slick, they all play each other for fools. Enough cnn, fox news, msnbc(does anyone watch it anyways?) and hell even the bbc is looking more like cnn these days. They have this game called politics down to a science called bullshit. You linux users know this as FUD :)
... But it was grandpa i fucked in the ass. OOPS Still waiting for you Santa... Bring an Elf or two you fat meaty breasted reindeer kid toucher.
I can respect that point of view. Just remember that driver problems tend to be common no matter who makes the product. The question is how frequent they update them, and how fast they fix the problems. Also you mentioned 2D performance. Its a good point. I'm glad you pointed out that not every computer needs to be a 3d graphics workstation :) Some just need good old fast 2d performance. Thats valid and if S3 provides that, in a solid performing product... More power to them.
But compared to Nvidia and ATI... S3 has a mountain to climb.
Seriously... who really misses S3? :)
I'm sure this product will be of the highest standards ;)