No, not first-degree murder. That implies some form of forethough and planning. It would most likely be second degree, because you saw the guy, panicked about going to jail, and killed him to escape. So it's only, what, 20 to life instead of 25 to life?
uhh, they left their source code on almost completely unprotected computer systems connected to the internet. All they needed to get at the source code was a password. So yes, that is pretty stupid.
Interesting, I think you're referring to Dick Clark right? He was also Clinton's advisor, so where's the dislike for the Clinton administration?
Because there are definite, concrete examples of Clinton attacking Al Qaeda training camps in order to execute OBL. Also, under his administration they armed unmanned aerial vehicles so that very important targets could be killed instantly. Oh, and he didn't invade a country that had nothing to do with terrorism...
And as for invading Iraq, you've been misinformed my friend. Training camps, money, influence. An example, when a dog attacks a person and mauls them, don't we punish the dog AND the owner?
really? Care to add any links? Because, considering that Bush himself dropped that line because there was no supporting evidence and went all out on the "weapons of mass destruction" charge (which we still haven't found any evidence for), I'd be surprised if you could dig anything up (at least that comes from any reputable news site). It's pretty much a proven fact that Saddam Hussein's secular government was completely at odds with the Islamic extremists that ran Al Qaeda. Osama Bin Laden has wanted Hussein out of power ever since the Iran-Iraq war, so I think you're the one who's been misinformed.
The problem is that the ACLU selectively defends the constitution. They don't defend the rights of gun owners for one.
There are a lot of intelligent people (me included, although not necessarily intelligent) who don't believe the right to bear arms necessarily implies we have full right to own firearms. The provision only guarantees the right to bear arms insofar as to establish a militia for the defense of a free state. There are plenty of safe, controlled solutions to gun use that would guarantee a citizens right to bear arms in a militia that don't require the virtually unrestricted profileration of firearms that we currently have in the US. It's not clearly as cut-and-dry as "the constitution says right to bear arms, so let me have my guns goddamnit!"
Just be glad that Slick Willy wasn't in office. He would have done jack squat about the Two Towers except make soothing noises.
Republican denial at it's worst, folks.
Because all Bill Clinton did in office was get blowjobs, he never directly attacked Al Qaeda bases in an attempt to kill Osama Bin Laden (which, at the time, was of course ridiculed by the Republicans as an effort to divert attention away from the blowjob). This is of course in direct contrast to George W, who was immediately focused on terrorism pre-9/11 and didn't completely ignore the people in his administration who claimed terrorism was a major threat.
For someone who apparently "worked" in the gaming industry, you sure do make a lot of sweeping generalizations that are pretty much inaccurate and stupid (such as implying that Americans like violent games because they focus on blood and guts, rather than gun-based combat). Furthermore, your title of "Their brain has a bullshit filter" pretty much makes your credibility fly out the window. If that was the case, how come they pick up hentai games and horse racing sims so readily?
Maybe Japanese people are less obsessed with blowing things up pointlessly and hence prefer better quality entertainment with a solid story and more things to do.
I would be careful here. I think it's pretty clearly stated in the article, and been said many times in this thread, that "more things to do = bad" in Japanese gaming culture. They like games with single storylines and definite direction. Example: As a western gamer, my favorite RPGs of the past two years have been Morrowind and Knights of the Old Republic. Those games both offer a HUGE variety of things to do. Yet both are decidedly "non-Japanese" because they have very open, branching storylines. Games that are played like storybooks are much more popular in Japan than here.
And to counter your point about "blowing things up pointlessly," I could say the same thing about you training your characters up to level 99 so you could beat Ruby Weapon (or whatever), whereas at least when I'm playing Halo I'm sitting in a room with my friends enjoying healthy competition. It goes both ways, don't assume that one side is inherently "better" than the other.
Do you think that Nintendo can remain a viable competitor in the west with that ideology? In the same breath you blast Microsoft and Sony for not creating something "culturally sensitive" to Japanese needs, you go on and admit that you are not changing your design strategy which is falling behind in the west (particularly the states)? Or are you going to adapt more to the Western marketplace for those consumers who are in the west and introduce more "set-top-box" functionality into your systems for us western consumers who demand it?
I'm not trolling, I'm looking for a sincere answer here. I'm one of the many who grew up on Nintendo, but have long since left (since the SNES) because Nintendo seems to be unconscious of our gaming needs.
... The Legend of Zelda. As I recall, that game was made in Japan, by a Japanese developer, even based on many elements from his real life.
Also, as I recall, the game was wildly popular in both regions. Granted, it was a Japanese game ported to the US market. But, aren't most of the best games in the US?
Yeah, but what about the games that have made a huge impact on the US game market but haven't left a trace in Japan? What about Doom? Half-life? Those two games are easily two of the top 5 games of all time, yet they barely sold at all in Japan.
And also, what about sandbox-type games? They talk about the "relative" success of GTA3 in Japan, but when you compare the sales, there is a HUGE gulf in overall sales between Europe / America and Japan. Furthermore, other "sandbox"-type games have broken the bank here in the US but sold comparatively poorly in Japan. Games like the Sims and the Civilization series are pretty much only hot sellers in the west.
Furthermore, am I the only one who notices the gulf getting wider? I mean, modern western games just appeal to me significantly more than the overly-anime inspired games from Japan. I haven't enjoyed a FF since the SNES, I don't like Resident Evil or the Onimusha series, and I think Nintendo games just aren't appealing anymore. Instead, games like GTA3, Halo, and Madden are the bread and butter of most college-aged males video game experiences here in the west. I think it's an important distinction to make.
Yeah, even moderate-size schools get discrimanted against. I wonder how Dartmouth managed to get as high as it did? Our school is virtually the same size, and you can take your laptop virtually anywhere on campus and get a signal (including inside the big old stone buildings) but it isn't on the list. Makes me curious as to how they collected their data.
So you'd be happy for the government to install a closed circuit television camera in your house to ensure that you're not building bombs or refining heroin
Once again, you ignore the fact that driving is an inherently public act. This whole argument about "you let them put a black box in your car, next thing you know it'll be a camera in your house" is getting tired, and it's incredibly inane and ignores how different driving is from private matters.
While I don't think you're wrong, the problem comes into play when some things are distributed as RPMs and some are distributed as source, and some as some other package. Nothing seems to get along (at least in my system), so my X server craps out and everything complains about not finding various dependencies (which I KNOW are on my system, I just don't know where) when I try to install. It's a huge pain.
There's a problem with that though. I just installed and am running Fedora Core 1 (because it's supposedly stable), and just last night I downloaded the ATi drivers for my video card. However, when I tried to install them, it wouldn't let me, because it couldn't find the source headers to my kernel. This confused me, because I know for a fact I had to build my Nvidia Nforce on-board driver using kernel installs. Turns out up2date on my machine, when I ran it and updated my kernel, didn't do the right thing with the kernel sources, because while I now have the up-to-date kernel on my system, my kernel headers don't match. Consequently, I can't build my ATi drivers and therefore can't use 3d acceleration on my linux boot-up (I dual-boot). This is a tremendous pain in the arse, and I'm honestly going to have to reformat just to fix this (because when I tried to install the source as a seperate package, it complained about not having an up-to-date glibc, which is another thing I know my machine donwloaded from up2date, so I wonder what else is wrong). This sort of thing REALLY turns people off from using linux, so I think a standardized installer would work wonders for the linux community.
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No, not first-degree murder. That implies some form of forethough and planning. It would most likely be second degree, because you saw the guy, panicked about going to jail, and killed him to escape. So it's only, what, 20 to life instead of 25 to life?
uhh, they left their source code on almost completely unprotected computer systems connected to the internet. All they needed to get at the source code was a password. So yes, that is pretty stupid.
uhhh, it's Lessig. Do you really need any more explanation?
Interesting, I think you're referring to Dick Clark right? He was also Clinton's advisor, so where's the dislike for the Clinton administration?
Because there are definite, concrete examples of Clinton attacking Al Qaeda training camps in order to execute OBL. Also, under his administration they armed unmanned aerial vehicles so that very important targets could be killed instantly. Oh, and he didn't invade a country that had nothing to do with terrorism ...
And as for invading Iraq, you've been misinformed my friend. Training camps, money, influence. An example, when a dog attacks a person and mauls them, don't we punish the dog AND the owner?
really? Care to add any links? Because, considering that Bush himself dropped that line because there was no supporting evidence and went all out on the "weapons of mass destruction" charge (which we still haven't found any evidence for), I'd be surprised if you could dig anything up (at least that comes from any reputable news site). It's pretty much a proven fact that Saddam Hussein's secular government was completely at odds with the Islamic extremists that ran Al Qaeda. Osama Bin Laden has wanted Hussein out of power ever since the Iran-Iraq war, so I think you're the one who's been misinformed.
There are a lot of intelligent people (me included, although not necessarily intelligent) who don't believe the right to bear arms necessarily implies we have full right to own firearms. The provision only guarantees the right to bear arms insofar as to establish a militia for the defense of a free state. There are plenty of safe, controlled solutions to gun use that would guarantee a citizens right to bear arms in a militia that don't require the virtually unrestricted profileration of firearms that we currently have in the US. It's not clearly as cut-and-dry as "the constitution says right to bear arms, so let me have my guns goddamnit!"
Republican denial at it's worst, folks.
Because all Bill Clinton did in office was get blowjobs, he never directly attacked Al Qaeda bases in an attempt to kill Osama Bin Laden (which, at the time, was of course ridiculed by the Republicans as an effort to divert attention away from the blowjob). This is of course in direct contrast to George W, who was immediately focused on terrorism pre-9/11 and didn't completely ignore the people in his administration who claimed terrorism was a major threat.
Hopefully the sarcasm tags are implied.
A lot of people (me included) think it is possibly the most overrated game of all time.
For someone who apparently "worked" in the gaming industry, you sure do make a lot of sweeping generalizations that are pretty much inaccurate and stupid (such as implying that Americans like violent games because they focus on blood and guts, rather than gun-based combat). Furthermore, your title of "Their brain has a bullshit filter" pretty much makes your credibility fly out the window. If that was the case, how come they pick up hentai games and horse racing sims so readily?
I would be careful here. I think it's pretty clearly stated in the article, and been said many times in this thread, that "more things to do = bad" in Japanese gaming culture. They like games with single storylines and definite direction. Example: As a western gamer, my favorite RPGs of the past two years have been Morrowind and Knights of the Old Republic. Those games both offer a HUGE variety of things to do. Yet both are decidedly "non-Japanese" because they have very open, branching storylines. Games that are played like storybooks are much more popular in Japan than here.
And to counter your point about "blowing things up pointlessly," I could say the same thing about you training your characters up to level 99 so you could beat Ruby Weapon (or whatever), whereas at least when I'm playing Halo I'm sitting in a room with my friends enjoying healthy competition. It goes both ways, don't assume that one side is inherently "better" than the other.
I'm not trolling, I'm looking for a sincere answer here. I'm one of the many who grew up on Nintendo, but have long since left (since the SNES) because Nintendo seems to be unconscious of our gaming needs.
Yeah, but what about the games that have made a huge impact on the US game market but haven't left a trace in Japan? What about Doom? Half-life? Those two games are easily two of the top 5 games of all time, yet they barely sold at all in Japan.
And also, what about sandbox-type games? They talk about the "relative" success of GTA3 in Japan, but when you compare the sales, there is a HUGE gulf in overall sales between Europe / America and Japan. Furthermore, other "sandbox"-type games have broken the bank here in the US but sold comparatively poorly in Japan. Games like the Sims and the Civilization series are pretty much only hot sellers in the west.
Furthermore, am I the only one who notices the gulf getting wider? I mean, modern western games just appeal to me significantly more than the overly-anime inspired games from Japan. I haven't enjoyed a FF since the SNES, I don't like Resident Evil or the Onimusha series, and I think Nintendo games just aren't appealing anymore. Instead, games like GTA3, Halo, and Madden are the bread and butter of most college-aged males video game experiences here in the west. I think it's an important distinction to make.
Yeah, even moderate-size schools get discrimanted against. I wonder how Dartmouth managed to get as high as it did? Our school is virtually the same size, and you can take your laptop virtually anywhere on campus and get a signal (including inside the big old stone buildings) but it isn't on the list. Makes me curious as to how they collected their data.
So you'd be happy for the government to install a closed circuit television camera in your house to ensure that you're not building bombs or refining heroin Once again, you ignore the fact that driving is an inherently public act. This whole argument about "you let them put a black box in your car, next thing you know it'll be a camera in your house" is getting tired, and it's incredibly inane and ignores how different driving is from private matters.
While I don't think you're wrong, the problem comes into play when some things are distributed as RPMs and some are distributed as source, and some as some other package. Nothing seems to get along (at least in my system), so my X server craps out and everything complains about not finding various dependencies (which I KNOW are on my system, I just don't know where) when I try to install. It's a huge pain.
There's a problem with that though. I just installed and am running Fedora Core 1 (because it's supposedly stable), and just last night I downloaded the ATi drivers for my video card. However, when I tried to install them, it wouldn't let me, because it couldn't find the source headers to my kernel. This confused me, because I know for a fact I had to build my Nvidia Nforce on-board driver using kernel installs. Turns out up2date on my machine, when I ran it and updated my kernel, didn't do the right thing with the kernel sources, because while I now have the up-to-date kernel on my system, my kernel headers don't match. Consequently, I can't build my ATi drivers and therefore can't use 3d acceleration on my linux boot-up (I dual-boot). This is a tremendous pain in the arse, and I'm honestly going to have to reformat just to fix this (because when I tried to install the source as a seperate package, it complained about not having an up-to-date glibc, which is another thing I know my machine donwloaded from up2date, so I wonder what else is wrong). This sort of thing REALLY turns people off from using linux, so I think a standardized installer would work wonders for the linux community.