Doesn't seem that different from The Sims where unmarried couples are able to "Play In Bed" together. Even homosexual sex is permissable in the game. This functionality is available to the player without any patches whatsoever (unless you consider "Livin Large" to be a patch, which it kind of is). This game is rated T for Teen.
+1 Interesting.. interesting..... unbelievable. Who's interested in yet another diatribe about how terrible America is? You're not saying anything that hasn't been said fifty bazillion times already.
If you don't like "this country" as you put it, why don't you just GO? There are PLENTY of other places in this world you could live. I'm so sick of all the people who just spew invective about this country like it's the worst freakin country on the planet, for years and years, and never leave. It's like going to a McDonalds every day and carping about how bad the food is, and continuing to come back, every day. IF you have half a brain, you will figure out what it takes to leave, and then LEAVE.
Now watch, this will be the post that gets modded "flamebait".
> Actually, some of the best parts of Firefly are where one-liners would have been used in most shows, but weren't. For example, Mal's "huh.." after the discovery of River.
Mal has the best line in the entire series: "I'll be in my bunk."
I made the mistake of watching that particular episode in flight to Miami in coach. I'm afraid my travelling companion was rather embarrassed by the fact that I'd suddenly (I was listening to audio with headphones) started laughing and could not stop myself.
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I'm surprised that Anna Kournikova isn't on the list. Wasn't she like the most downloaded girl in Web history or something a few years ago? Of course, maybe she still is..
> One niggling little point: plants, animals, and inanimate object's aren't a "who".:-)
One niggling point to answer your niggling point: Many people do refer to their pets, and even pet plants, as "he" or "she" rather than "it".. I have had several pets in my time who were definitely "who"s rather than "what"s. I used to live with a landscaper who would speak to her plants as she tended to them. Further, many people anthropomorphize certain objects, like cars or iPods, using gender-specific pronounds rather than using "it". I hear this all the time, like calling a car "she" and "baby" and so forth.
Pedantic and not a serious counterargument, just being nitpicky.
> Spelling Nazi.:-P
Guilty as charged! And by the way, there's no apostrophe in the plural form of "objects".:p
> Marriage isn't a right? The hell you say! The minute you try to tell me who I can and can't marry is the minute I tell you go play hide-and-go-fuck-yourself.
Oooh, I was agreeing with a lot of your post up until that line, then you lost me.
You cannot marry a member of your immediate family.
You cannot marry an inanimate object.
You cannot marry anyone if you are already married.
You cannot marry someone of insuficcient age.
You cannot marry someone in order to become naturalized.
You cannot marry an animal or plant.
And, no Virginia, in many states you cannot marry a member of your gender.
Sorry, but there are legal restrictions already on marriage, so you cannot say you have the "right" to marry whomever you want. Er, well, you can say that, and you can even piss and moan about it as you have done, but you'd be wrong.
And for what it's worth, there are no apostrophes in "whose" and "yours".
There's plenty of evidence to support the contention that Newsweek is liberal. The whole bogusness about the Koran getting flushed down the toilet is just the latest, easiest-to-remember-immediately example. My pointing out a source--editorial, of course, but the statement "Newsweek is liberal" is subjective anyway so of course it's going to be editorial--with specific examples of why Newsweek is liberal seems informative to me.
A 10-year-old kid watches GI Joe and thinks that those rifles fire laser beams and that joining the army means fighting the evil forces of Cobra Command.
Give me a break. 10-year-olds have no concept of what war is, or even what the army is there to do. To most adults, Army = National Defense = Duty, Honor, Service. These men and women are called to serve and quite possibly die in defense of this country as well as idiot morons who think their only purpose is to sow gratuitous violence on cute little cuddly kittens and innocent civilians.
"Top Gun" doesn't even glorify war.. it glorifies being a pilot for the Navy, and even shows how dangerous and scary such a career choice can be. I wanted to be a fighter pilot too when I was a kid, not cause I wanted to kill people but because I wanted to fly those awesome F14s. And speaking of glorifying war, have you actually seen "Star Wars"? Are you saying that commercials for the US armed forces are more persuasive to 10-year-old kids than "Star Wars" in the "war is cool, war is fun" department?
How many people in the combined armed forces have actually taken another human life? What percentage do you think it is? I don't know but of all the tens of thousands of servicemen & women, I bet it's a very very small percentage.
Yeah I got modded "troll" too for pointing out something that was actually informative. Funny how "Troll" to some people means "person whom I disagree with". Just another day at Slashdot..
Being a soldier means as much about loving war as being a firefighter does about loving fire. I've never EVER seen a US Army (or Marines, Air Force, etc.) commercial that glorifies war. The fact that you equate images of our military with images promoting war just illustrates your own liberal bias.
I can't say I disagree, but I take issue with the gay marriage issue as an example. Here in the state of Missouri, we voted on whether or not to enact a "gay marriage" ban, and we voted overwhelmingly to enact it. This is a conservative principle: states rights to vote on issues rather than have the Supreme Court dictact the Law of the Land (as in Roe v. Wade). I could further defend this but I don't want to get too far offtopic.
I do agree that big government/big spending = liberal, and the current Republican party leadership is dishonoring its contract with the voters who put them in power by continuing to favor govetnment-expansionist policies. In fact a lot of conservatives I know, myself included to a degree, are getting fed up with the spaghetti backbones of our elected representatives in Washington and are getting ready to vote them out of office if their behavior doesn't shape up.
The sad truth is there are lots of people who just don't care about the ratings or content of these video games. I just had lunch with a good friend whose sister is buying GTA for her kids. My friend was like, do you even KNOW what's in these game? And she (reportedly) says, 'well, I know it's about racing and stuff.'
The makers of this game are pandering to a huge market of people who either are old enough to appreciate the game, or just are too stupid to know better. Just like 90% of what comes out of Hollywood, and 90% of what's on television, in magazines, on the radio, etc.
If you don't like something, don't buy it! If enough people stopped buying games like GTA, they wouldn't get made anymore because they wouldn't be commercially viable.
Which brings us back to the sad truth: too many people in this country (culture) just don't care.
> When does "playing pretend" go to far? When Mom says so, not when Uncle Sam says so. It's called individual liberty, and individual responsibility. It's called Enlightement liberalism.
My credentials to criticize religion are in good order, my friend, having been raised Catholic and spending time in a seminary studying the testaments, Latin, and attending church each and every day except Saturday. That being said, I realize there are many arguments and counter-arguments to be made about my little theory, and while I appreciate your response as I would any intelligent counterpoint, you lost whatever points you'd earned with the ad hominem (read as: flamebait) which was totally unnecessary and reflects more on you than it does me.
First and foremost: this is purely an issue governed by religion, I think we can all agree about that. Religion has driven the whole "sex is evil" mindset for centuries upon centuries.
Next, and this is crucial: religion is about power. Control of the people. Note that sex within marriage (read as: within the confines of a relationship sactioned by aforementioned religion, and I'm not just picking on Christianity here) is not sinful so long as the purpose of sex is procreation (the expansion of the religion's population). Only sex outside of marriage is evil, because this results in babies who might grow up free, outside the indoctrination rituals and practices of the religion.
Violence is only sinful if it is, again, without the sanction of the religion. If you are committing acts of violence in the name of the church (or whatever god the church is about), you're lionzed.
Thus we have today's typical religious culture: don't have sex unless you're approved to do so by your church.
> I wouldn't even worry about it. Once, when I went on a roadtrip, my friend brought his laptop and a copy of MS Streets and Trips, as well as a serial port GPS. The GPS was completely dependant on the laptop for power, it didn't function without the laptop (no display or anything). It drained the laptop's power very quickly (we only got about 45 minutes out of it, and then we got lost).
Cell phones don't seem to have this problem with power consumption.
That is a good question, but I think the more appropriate answer is "yes, but..."
They often do little intros in front of each episode with "Previously on Battlestar Galactica" and have montages of relevant content from past episodes. But this is *not* enough to go into the show brand new with no context whatsoever. There is a lot of really gritty plot that's been building up all this time. The sexual anxiety (it's way beyond tension now) between Helo and Boomer, and why Helo's still on Caprica. The explanation behind the two Boomer characters. The complicated relationship between Starbuck, Apollo and Adama. What Six is, and why Baltar holds all the cards he does, even all those no one else realizes he does. The backstory of Richard Hatch's character. You might be able to eek out some of all this by watching the episodes of the new season, but there will be a lot of nuances of dialog and character that will go right over your head.
My recommendation: go down to your movie store and either buy or rent the original 2-hour pilor of the series and watch that tonight instead. In my area, Sci Fi reruns BSG on Monday nights.. see if they rerun it where you are. You need to at LEAST see the pilot before sitting down in front of this show if you really want to appreciate everything that's written to it. Then when season 1 comes out on DVD, it will most likely be rentable so I'd start getting caught up on season 1. The more of season 1 you know, I'm betting the more season 2 will make sense.
Schools were actually limiting bandwidth in order to slow down illegal downloading?? This is like reducing the number of lanes on a road because some people use their cars to transport stolen goods. It's just stupid and impinges on the legal users of that bandwidth at the school.
Dell and Napster are just preying on ignorance.. the people who are too ignorant to read the terms of service before signing on to Napster's music "keepaway" scheme. Hopefully most college students will find a way to crack Napster's DRM and be allowed to keep and use the music they buy.
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Doesn't seem that different from The Sims where unmarried couples are able to "Play In Bed" together. Even homosexual sex is permissable in the game. This functionality is available to the player without any patches whatsoever (unless you consider "Livin Large" to be a patch, which it kind of is). This game is rated T for Teen.
Might help if you spelled Steve's name right. Or is "Steeve" some obscure joke that I'm not cool enough to know about?
+1 Interesting .. interesting ..... unbelievable. Who's interested in yet another diatribe about how terrible America is? You're not saying anything that hasn't been said fifty bazillion times already.
If you don't like "this country" as you put it, why don't you just GO? There are PLENTY of other places in this world you could live. I'm so sick of all the people who just spew invective about this country like it's the worst freakin country on the planet, for years and years, and never leave. It's like going to a McDonalds every day and carping about how bad the food is, and continuing to come back, every day. IF you have half a brain, you will figure out what it takes to leave, and then LEAVE.
Now watch, this will be the post that gets modded "flamebait".
The poster above is right .. it was Jayne, not Mal.
> If I had a companion travelling with me, I can think of things I'd rather be doing than watching Firefly!
In a crowded airplane? Hmm .. that's awfully kinky for Slashdot.
> Actually, some of the best parts of Firefly are where one-liners would have been used in most shows, but weren't. For example, Mal's "huh.." after the discovery of River.
Mal has the best line in the entire series: "I'll be in my bunk."
I made the mistake of watching that particular episode in flight to Miami in coach. I'm afraid my travelling companion was rather embarrassed by the fact that I'd suddenly (I was listening to audio with headphones) started laughing and could not stop myself.
I'm surprised that Anna Kournikova isn't on the list. Wasn't she like the most downloaded girl in Web history or something a few years ago? Of course, maybe she still is ..
You mean this game? Yeah it is kind of fun, but then again it is time-consuming.
> One niggling little point: plants, animals, and inanimate object's aren't a "who". :-)
One niggling point to answer your niggling point: Many people do refer to their pets, and even pet plants, as "he" or "she" rather than "it" .. I have had several pets in my time who were definitely "who"s rather than "what"s. I used to live with a landscaper who would speak to her plants as she tended to them. Further, many people anthropomorphize certain objects, like cars or iPods, using gender-specific pronounds rather than using "it". I hear this all the time, like calling a car "she" and "baby" and so forth.
Pedantic and not a serious counterargument, just being nitpicky.
> Spelling Nazi. :-P
Guilty as charged! And by the way, there's no apostrophe in the plural form of "objects". :p
> Marriage isn't a right? The hell you say! The minute you try to tell me who I can and can't marry is the minute I tell you go play hide-and-go-fuck-yourself.
Oooh, I was agreeing with a lot of your post up until that line, then you lost me.
You cannot marry a member of your immediate family.
You cannot marry an inanimate object.
You cannot marry anyone if you are already married.
You cannot marry someone of insuficcient age.
You cannot marry someone in order to become naturalized.
You cannot marry an animal or plant.
And, no Virginia, in many states you cannot marry a member of your gender.
Sorry, but there are legal restrictions already on marriage, so you cannot say you have the "right" to marry whomever you want. Er, well, you can say that, and you can even piss and moan about it as you have done, but you'd be wrong.
And for what it's worth, there are no apostrophes in "whose" and "yours".
There's plenty of evidence to support the contention that Newsweek is liberal. The whole bogusness about the Koran getting flushed down the toilet is just the latest, easiest-to-remember-immediately example. My pointing out a source--editorial, of course, but the statement "Newsweek is liberal" is subjective anyway so of course it's going to be editorial--with specific examples of why Newsweek is liberal seems informative to me.
The sig came to me in a dream. No kidding.
Or maybe they look for people who are more comfortable dealing with fire than what would be considered normal (or healthy, in some cases).
A 10-year-old kid watches GI Joe and thinks that those rifles fire laser beams and that joining the army means fighting the evil forces of Cobra Command.
Give me a break. 10-year-olds have no concept of what war is, or even what the army is there to do. To most adults, Army = National Defense = Duty, Honor, Service. These men and women are called to serve and quite possibly die in defense of this country as well as idiot morons who think their only purpose is to sow gratuitous violence on cute little cuddly kittens and innocent civilians.
"Top Gun" doesn't even glorify war .. it glorifies being a pilot for the Navy, and even shows how dangerous and scary such a career choice can be. I wanted to be a fighter pilot too when I was a kid, not cause I wanted to kill people but because I wanted to fly those awesome F14s. And speaking of glorifying war, have you actually seen "Star Wars"? Are you saying that commercials for the US armed forces are more persuasive to 10-year-old kids than "Star Wars" in the "war is cool, war is fun" department?
How many people in the combined armed forces have actually taken another human life? What percentage do you think it is? I don't know but of all the tens of thousands of servicemen & women, I bet it's a very very small percentage.
Yeah I got modded "troll" too for pointing out something that was actually informative. Funny how "Troll" to some people means "person whom I disagree with". Just another day at Slashdot ..
> Newsweek (it's mainstream, not liberal)
Uh, sorry to burst your bubble but Newsweek is liberal.
Showoff. ;)
Being a soldier means as much about loving war as being a firefighter does about loving fire. I've never EVER seen a US Army (or Marines, Air Force, etc.) commercial that glorifies war. The fact that you equate images of our military with images promoting war just illustrates your own liberal bias.
I can't say I disagree, but I take issue with the gay marriage issue as an example. Here in the state of Missouri, we voted on whether or not to enact a "gay marriage" ban, and we voted overwhelmingly to enact it. This is a conservative principle: states rights to vote on issues rather than have the Supreme Court dictact the Law of the Land (as in Roe v. Wade). I could further defend this but I don't want to get too far offtopic.
I do agree that big government/big spending = liberal, and the current Republican party leadership is dishonoring its contract with the voters who put them in power by continuing to favor govetnment-expansionist policies. In fact a lot of conservatives I know, myself included to a degree, are getting fed up with the spaghetti backbones of our elected representatives in Washington and are getting ready to vote them out of office if their behavior doesn't shape up.
YES! Thank you Captain Obvious!
The sad truth is there are lots of people who just don't care about the ratings or content of these video games. I just had lunch with a good friend whose sister is buying GTA for her kids. My friend was like, do you even KNOW what's in these game? And she (reportedly) says, 'well, I know it's about racing and stuff.'
The makers of this game are pandering to a huge market of people who either are old enough to appreciate the game, or just are too stupid to know better. Just like 90% of what comes out of Hollywood, and 90% of what's on television, in magazines, on the radio, etc.
If you don't like something, don't buy it! If enough people stopped buying games like GTA, they wouldn't get made anymore because they wouldn't be commercially viable.
Which brings us back to the sad truth: too many people in this country (culture) just don't care.
> When does "playing pretend" go to far? When Mom says so, not when Uncle Sam says so. It's called individual liberty, and individual responsibility. It's called Enlightement liberalism.
I don't know, sounds like conservatism to me.
Gosh, you sound a little defensive.
My credentials to criticize religion are in good order, my friend, having been raised Catholic and spending time in a seminary studying the testaments, Latin, and attending church each and every day except Saturday. That being said, I realize there are many arguments and counter-arguments to be made about my little theory, and while I appreciate your response as I would any intelligent counterpoint, you lost whatever points you'd earned with the ad hominem (read as: flamebait) which was totally unnecessary and reflects more on you than it does me.
Ok I'll take a crack at this one.
First and foremost: this is purely an issue governed by religion, I think we can all agree about that. Religion has driven the whole "sex is evil" mindset for centuries upon centuries.
Next, and this is crucial: religion is about power. Control of the people. Note that sex within marriage (read as: within the confines of a relationship sactioned by aforementioned religion, and I'm not just picking on Christianity here) is not sinful so long as the purpose of sex is procreation (the expansion of the religion's population). Only sex outside of marriage is evil, because this results in babies who might grow up free, outside the indoctrination rituals and practices of the religion.
Violence is only sinful if it is, again, without the sanction of the religion. If you are committing acts of violence in the name of the church (or whatever god the church is about), you're lionzed.
Thus we have today's typical religious culture: don't have sex unless you're approved to do so by your church.
> I wouldn't even worry about it. Once, when I went on a roadtrip, my friend brought his laptop and a copy of MS Streets and Trips, as well as a serial port GPS. The GPS was completely dependant on the laptop for power, it didn't function without the laptop (no display or anything). It drained the laptop's power very quickly (we only got about 45 minutes out of it, and then we got lost).
Cell phones don't seem to have this problem with power consumption.
That is a good question, but I think the more appropriate answer is "yes, but..."
They often do little intros in front of each episode with "Previously on Battlestar Galactica" and have montages of relevant content from past episodes. But this is *not* enough to go into the show brand new with no context whatsoever. There is a lot of really gritty plot that's been building up all this time. The sexual anxiety (it's way beyond tension now) between Helo and Boomer, and why Helo's still on Caprica. The explanation behind the two Boomer characters. The complicated relationship between Starbuck, Apollo and Adama. What Six is, and why Baltar holds all the cards he does, even all those no one else realizes he does. The backstory of Richard Hatch's character. You might be able to eek out some of all this by watching the episodes of the new season, but there will be a lot of nuances of dialog and character that will go right over your head.
My recommendation: go down to your movie store and either buy or rent the original 2-hour pilor of the series and watch that tonight instead. In my area, Sci Fi reruns BSG on Monday nights .. see if they rerun it where you are. You need to at LEAST see the pilot before sitting down in front of this show if you really want to appreciate everything that's written to it. Then when season 1 comes out on DVD, it will most likely be rentable so I'd start getting caught up on season 1. The more of season 1 you know, I'm betting the more season 2 will make sense.
Would that be a horrorshow horror show?
Amen to that!
Schools were actually limiting bandwidth in order to slow down illegal downloading?? This is like reducing the number of lanes on a road because some people use their cars to transport stolen goods. It's just stupid and impinges on the legal users of that bandwidth at the school.
Dell and Napster are just preying on ignorance .. the people who are too ignorant to read the terms of service before signing on to Napster's music "keepaway" scheme. Hopefully most college students will find a way to crack Napster's DRM and be allowed to keep and use the music they buy.