The problem is that if you try to boycott every game publisher or developer that does stupid things like this, you'll shortly end up boycotting almost every company.
My children go to normal state schools and we know how well they are doing. And I'm fairly certain that when my eldest takes GCSEs she will get a grade for them.
Accomplishing shit is easier when have an advantage.
Welcome to the real world. We hope you'll stay a while. I'm sorry to break it to you but the sooner you accept the fact that "fair" is an indulgent figment of your (and many other's) imagination(s) the better off you'll be. How fair is it that you have the means to complain about it online whereas hundreds of millions of other's are having trouble feeding themselves today? I'm not trying to diminish their plight but using this as an excuse to take away from other's accomplishments because they do have means is a rather pointless exercise as there are much more productive ways to bring attention to the needy. I'd suggest joining peace corp if you really want to help.
It is precisely because life isn't fair that mankind invented things like laws and taxes to even things up a bit.
Wanting to become rich doesn't qualify you as a "visionary". And this twat risked other people's money, not his own. (Which is admittedly the definition of capitalism).
I'm guessing it's one more subtle jab to the fact that he [Curt Schilling] is vehemently opposed to government financial bailouts and stimulus funds, yet didn't bother to eschew a tax-payer backed state loan,
Well then it sounds like he more than proved the point.
I don't see anything wrong with telling people something doesn't work and then taking advantage of them when they do not believe you. Otherwise how will people learn?
Yes, of course he did it as a selfless act of political theatre. Of course he did.
Which is why I don't blame Curt. Liberals love to jump on people like Schilling for being opposed subsidies and then taking advantage of the ones that exist.
They need to find some little green men to get people interested. Surely it can't be beyond the wit of the people who faked the moon landings to mock up a few dummy ET corpses for them to "find" on Mars?
MP3s, at a sufficiently high bitrate, are indistiguishable from CDs.
Gold plated sh*t is still sh*t, news at ten.
(CDs are not an example of good quality audio)
There's no snob like a music snob.
Perhaps if you are a concert pianist you can tell the difference between a CD recording of a Mozart piano concerto and the same thing on high quality digital tape (or whatever counts as good quality audio). For most of us, they will sound exactly the same.
>>>Are you saying you think your parents should have kept to their problem-free lives and never procreated?
In the case of MY parents..... yes they never should have been married.
Get some counselling. Seriously. You shouldn't let your parents' problems ruin your own life. And declining the idea of any serious relationship sounds pretty fucked up to me.
I'll be getting back to having a hobby once I've paid off the mortgage and our son is in school... as long as my wife doesn't pop out another one.
I bet you're American. Most of us in the rest of the world have plenty of time for hobbies, and don't consider a mortgage some sort of sin to be expiated as soon as possible.
I'd mod this up if I had points left.
Very well said, and good advice about living with someone/waiting on kids. I'm very happily married and have been for 16 years. But then, my wife and I enjoy just hanging out with each other. Try this: take a 1 week vacation with your prospective spouse and just stay home and hang out together. If you can't do that without going insane or driving each other nuts, forget marriage - it'll never work.
You make it sound as though most peple still get married having done little more than sit in a room with their spouse and parents for a few hours.
Surely in the West there can't be many people who don't either live together or at least spend a considerable amount of time at each others' places before getting married?
The 50% divorce rate has coincided with the doubling of the human lifespan
That might be vaguely interesting if it wasn't simply untrue. The human lifespan has not doubled in thousands of years. The Biblical three score years and ten might now be four score, but that's about it.
It has often been pointed out on slashdot that the reason the average human lifespan appears to have improved is mainly because of the huge reduction in child mortality, together with generally better medicine and living conditions which mean fewer people die young from diseases. But people in the past who survived childhood and didn't die of malnutrition or some now easily treatable disease still lived to 70 odd.
Sometimes the very best thing you can do for your kids is get divorced. Kids will understand and accept people not getting along and not being able to live together anymore. They DON'T understand when you effectively LIE by pretending to get along while in fact hating each other. Kids will see right through that lie, and may even believe it's their fault (since in a kid's simpler world, if you don't like a situation, you get out of it, you don't "suck it up").
It's different if it's a matter of hate/violence, but for most people it's a combination of boredom, laziness and fantasy notions of being perfectly happy all the time that cause divorces, and in those situatins I think the parents should set aside their own self interest and stay together for the sake of the kids.
I'm sorry, but children do NOT understand and accept gracefully that their parents have split up. It's better than one of the parents murdering the other, but that's about it.
I know people who have continued to live together for their children, whilst in effect living separate lives. It's not ideal, but it's better than divorcing.
What? My fellow coworkers/engineers? They ALL tell me tales about the "stupid thing" their husbands or wives did last weekend or last month. They claim to be happily married, but certainly don't sound it.
No offence, but do you have autism or something that stops you understanding how normal people bvehave? I tell people about the stupid/funny things my kids do too, that doesn't mean I don't love them.
That is primarily because people don't actually grow up any more, they just become older and fatter adolescents, keeping all the sense of entitlement and inability to struggle through hard work that characterises the under 16 year old.
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Game sales are seriously down in 2012 compared to previous years
Luckily everyone can still use BitTorrent - otherwise the supply of new games might dry up entirely!
The problem is that if you try to boycott every game publisher or developer that does stupid things like this, you'll shortly end up boycotting almost every company.
Never mind, there's always Tux Racer.
Windows doesn't have a root user by default
On Windows you have an administrator account. No it is not named "root" but does that really make any difference?
In England, in some schools
Yeah yeah, got that from the Daily Fail did you?
My children go to normal state schools and we know how well they are doing. And I'm fairly certain that when my eldest takes GCSEs she will get a grade for them.
Accomplishing shit is easier when have an advantage.
Welcome to the real world. We hope you'll stay a while. I'm sorry to break it to you but the sooner you accept the fact that "fair" is an indulgent figment of your (and many other's) imagination(s) the better off you'll be. How fair is it that you have the means to complain about it online whereas hundreds of millions of other's are having trouble feeding themselves today? I'm not trying to diminish their plight but using this as an excuse to take away from other's accomplishments because they do have means is a rather pointless exercise as there are much more productive ways to bring attention to the needy. I'd suggest joining peace corp if you really want to help.
It is precisely because life isn't fair that mankind invented things like laws and taxes to even things up a bit.
Wanting to become rich doesn't qualify you as a "visionary". And this twat risked other people's money, not his own. (Which is admittedly the definition of capitalism).
I'm guessing it's one more subtle jab to the fact that he [Curt Schilling] is vehemently opposed to government financial bailouts and stimulus funds, yet didn't bother to eschew a tax-payer backed state loan,
Well then it sounds like he more than proved the point.
I don't see anything wrong with telling people something doesn't work and then taking advantage of them when they do not believe you. Otherwise how will people learn?
Yes, of course he did it as a selfless act of political theatre. Of course he did.
Which is why I don't blame Curt. Liberals love to jump on people like Schilling for being opposed subsidies and then taking advantage of the ones that exist.
Most people consider hypocrisy unacceptable.
To be fair, he blew all his own money in the company too. $30M+. Dude's broke. He'll be living off his salary as an ESPN analyst.
I've never understood people like this. Why not invest 30M and keep back 10M just in case?
Or do you have to be so blindly optimistic to be an entrepreneur that you can't begin to believe you'll fail?
The only real game in the Winter Olympics is curling.
-- BMO
Curling is for people who find bowls too sublte and complicated.
They need to find some little green men to get people interested. Surely it can't be beyond the wit of the people who faked the moon landings to mock up a few dummy ET corpses for them to "find" on Mars?
My stock broker is advising me to invest heavily in canned foods and shotguns.
Stockbrokers are not immune to mental illness.
MP3s, at a sufficiently high bitrate, are indistiguishable from CDs.
Gold plated sh*t is still sh*t, news at ten.
(CDs are not an example of good quality audio)
There's no snob like a music snob.
Perhaps if you are a concert pianist you can tell the difference between a CD recording of a Mozart piano concerto and the same thing on high quality digital tape (or whatever counts as good quality audio). For most of us, they will sound exactly the same.
>>>Are you saying you think your parents should have kept to their problem-free lives and never procreated?
In the case of MY parents..... yes they never should have been married.
Get some counselling. Seriously. You shouldn't let your parents' problems ruin your own life. And declining the idea of any serious relationship sounds pretty fucked up to me.
I'll be getting back to having a hobby once I've paid off the mortgage and our son is in school... as long as my wife doesn't pop out another one.
I bet you're American. Most of us in the rest of the world have plenty of time for hobbies, and don't consider a mortgage some sort of sin to be expiated as soon as possible.
I really hope that was a joke, but have a horrible feeling it wasn't.
I suggest living with someone for a year, then if you get married don't have kids for about 7 years.
By which time she's infertile.
I think you should go on a basic human biology course.
I'd mod this up if I had points left. Very well said, and good advice about living with someone/waiting on kids. I'm very happily married and have been for 16 years. But then, my wife and I enjoy just hanging out with each other. Try this: take a 1 week vacation with your prospective spouse and just stay home and hang out together. If you can't do that without going insane or driving each other nuts, forget marriage - it'll never work.
You make it sound as though most peple still get married having done little more than sit in a room with their spouse and parents for a few hours.
Surely in the West there can't be many people who don't either live together or at least spend a considerable amount of time at each others' places before getting married?
I get my wife flowers every week
I told my wife ages ago that people only do that when they're feeling guilty, and as I'm not having any affairs, I don't need to buy flowers.
On my release from hospital, I changed my mind.
I agree here, despite your later apology. Some who only sees unhappily married couples is not looking very hard.
And sadly it means their parents were most likely unhappy and/or divorced. Your most intimate knowledge of marriage comes from your parents'.
Yet there are some of us who might have grander aspirations than breeding and feeding.
Having a partner and children is not a barrier to doing anything else, you snobbish twat.
The 50% divorce rate has coincided with the doubling of the human lifespan
That might be vaguely interesting if it wasn't simply untrue. The human lifespan has not doubled in thousands of years. The Biblical three score years and ten might now be four score, but that's about it.
It has often been pointed out on slashdot that the reason the average human lifespan appears to have improved is mainly because of the huge reduction in child mortality, together with generally better medicine and living conditions which mean fewer people die young from diseases. But people in the past who survived childhood and didn't die of malnutrition or some now easily treatable disease still lived to 70 odd.
Sometimes the very best thing you can do for your kids is get divorced. Kids will understand and accept people not getting along and not being able to live together anymore. They DON'T understand when you effectively LIE by pretending to get along while in fact hating each other. Kids will see right through that lie, and may even believe it's their fault (since in a kid's simpler world, if you don't like a situation, you get out of it, you don't "suck it up").
It's different if it's a matter of hate/violence, but for most people it's a combination of boredom, laziness and fantasy notions of being perfectly happy all the time that cause divorces, and in those situatins I think the parents should set aside their own self interest and stay together for the sake of the kids.
I'm sorry, but children do NOT understand and accept gracefully that their parents have split up. It's better than one of the parents murdering the other, but that's about it.
I know people who have continued to live together for their children, whilst in effect living separate lives. It's not ideal, but it's better than divorcing.
What? My fellow coworkers/engineers? They ALL tell me tales about the "stupid thing" their husbands or wives did last weekend or last month. They claim to be happily married, but certainly don't sound it.
No offence, but do you have autism or something that stops you understanding how normal people bvehave? I tell people about the stupid/funny things my kids do too, that doesn't mean I don't love them.
The 50% divorce rate is kind of on his side here.
That is primarily because people don't actually grow up any more, they just become older and fatter adolescents, keeping all the sense of entitlement and inability to struggle through hard work that characterises the under 16 year old.