Kid LAWFULLY resists cops? Being annoying is one thing. Physically resisting being handled by cops is only going to get your ass kicked. The cops were doing their JOBS, up until the tasering happened.
Also, the kid was not giving a lengthy and preachy background on his question. He was there to give his own speech, and had hijacked the question mic to do it. He was very sensibly and calmly asked to leave and he refused, and then put up a fight while screaming and whining. What happened after that is not the result of some Nazi police state. HE was at fault for acting like some kind of vigilante martyr and escalating the situation into the ass-whooping that he wound up with.
The tasering of course will allow for him to sue, and probably win a nice chunk of change. All for being an asshole hopped up on drugs.
That's what I'm saying. The police overreacted by tasering him. Personally I think TWO of them should have been able to remove him from the premesis without needing the rest of them to budge. I guess this was a big guy who was physically resisting calm attempts to move him along, but police should be trained to deal with situations like that without needing the whole squad.
The fact that he said "Don't tase me, bro!" and THEN got tased to me is evidence of drugs. He did not need tasing if he was calm and cooperative. If he was still putting up a fight with 6 cops on him, dude was high on something.
Did anyone actually watch the video? This moron was hopped up on drugs, if you ask me. I think the cops had the exact same read on him. He was belligerent and refused to cooperate when he was asked, REPEATEDLY, to leave. He seemed to think that because he was at a mic to ask a question of Kerry, that gave him carte blanche to spew random garbage for as long as he wanted. He was wrong. When he was asked to step aside, he started making a scene. When security tried to move him aside, he acted like he was being arrested and made a GREATER scene. HE escalated the scene, not the police.
I do think the use of the taser was unnecessary. He had probably six cops on him by the time that happened. If he was actively resisting their attempts to be put in cuffs, why does it take more than six cops to force him to comply? Tasering only made him scream like a little bitch and get other students to feel sorry for him. Not the smartest move.
No. There's nothing "iPod-resistant" about WMAs. It's not uncommon for me to find a (or be sent from a friend) a WMA song.. the only problem is that they can't be played natively. You just convert the files to MP3 and you're good to go. It's an inconvenience that the service provider has DELIBERATELY inserted into the process to make their service more difficult and less user-friendly.
I bet the truth is, a few of the gamers left the scene, the others immediately started fighting over his computer (which was likely still logged in) to see who could get his items and gold sent to their toons first.
Oh holy crap. I totally understand and agree. I remember the first game that scared me was played on my Commodore 64, and it was Alien. It wasn't even a very well-implemented game, but it was fairly consistent with the movie.. you were on the Nostromo, you had to get as many things accomplished as you could with the remaining crew, before the Alien got to them and killed them.
The graphics were pisspoor, but I remember the sound effects and I remember the increase in heartrate when I knew the alien was close by. After a while, I stopped playing that game. It freaked me out too much.
I have been considering checking out one of these "horror" type games just to check them out. Maybe Eternal Darkness?
> Or the Tech/Specialist is a true hardcore gamer, and is like me... If it moves, and it is in the general attack area. Then I kill it. So far my old record for friendly fire kills in UT2k3 was 10 for 10. I hated my team.
> But if you're running games, why are you using a laptop. I can understand using a laptop for a couple simple games, but if you're really hardcore into games, then why wouldn't you get a full sized computer
For some of us, our laptop is our primary computer. When I am home, it is plugged into a keyboard, stack of HDs, full-size display, scanner, Ethernet network and so on. These days there's little reason to invest in a computer that I can't take with me should I need to.
Anything referred to as "an inconvenient truth" automatically sets my BS meter going. This list of "truths" is pure PR bullcrap.
1. Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment "free music" rhetoric. This is the same industry who argues that listening to the radio is free, but makes millions if not billions of dollars on radio advertising. They run commercials in my market talking about how radio is and should continue to be free, and to please patronize the businesses being advertised, because YOU WOULDN'T WANT US TO START CHARGING YOU NOW, WOULD YOU??
2. AllOfMP3.com, the well-known Russian web site, has not been licensed by a single IFPI member, has been disowned by right holder groups worldwide and is facing criminal proceedings in Russia. Er... so? What's that got to do with the price of eggs?
3. Organized criminal gangs and even terrorist groups use the sale of counterfeit CDs to raise revenue and launder money. This one's really pathetic. Playing the terrorism card? That's just the bullshit cherry on the bullshit sundae. The point's been made already but it bears repeating: what does the sale of bootleg CDs have to do with file sharing on the internet? Furthermore, SOME TERRORISTS have used BANKS to launder their money. Guess we should all get rid of our savings and checking accounts, cause *gasp* we might be supporting terrorism!!! This kind of argument has no credibility because the whole "ohnoes terrorism!" argument has been overused so much that it no longer has any weight.. not even when it should be considered seriously.
4. Illegal file-sharers don't care whether the copyright-infringing work they distribute is from a major or independent label. Loaded language much? This list is replete with very badly biased language. Let me rephrase it: 4. People who share music digitally don't care what labels the songs they trade are. And all that is is a boo-hoo for the record industry. No, we don't particularly care about labels. We care about music. DEAL WITH IT.
5. Reduced revenues for record companies mean less money available to take a risk on "underground" artists and more inclination to invest in "bankers" like American Idol stars. HAHAHA! Ohh, so THAT'S what they did with all the obscene profits they made from the illegal overpricing of CDs all those years. They invested them in REAL TALENT! OMG where do I sign up to let them gouge me some more?
6. ISPs often advertise music as a benefit of signing up to their service, but facilitate the illegal swapping on copyright infringing music on a grand scale. Again, spin city supreme. ISP often advertise music as a benefit, and then let their users use them as they see fit. I fail to see how this is an argument against me wanting to share digital music with my friends and family. Try again.
7. The anti-copyright movement does not create jobs, exports, tax revenues and economic growth-it largely consists of people pontificating on a commercial world about which they know little. Very few political movements create jobs, exports, tax revenues or economic growth. They exist to fight to enact change in laws or government. "Pontificating". "about which they know little". This is an ad hominem attack on people they disagree with, nothing more.
8. Piracy is not caused by poverty. Professor Zhang of Nanjing University found the Chinese citizens who bought pirate products were mainly middle- or higher-income earners. Err, real piracy is caused by criminals who attack ships at sea, pillage, rape and murder victims (or sell them on the slave market), and this is a product of pure criminal greed and amorality. What, you meant file sharing? Oh, well yes, this is correct. People do not share music because they can't AFFORD it. They do it because it is FAIR USE and, if they're doing it on p
Yeah you can fap all you want, until the little green light suddenly, mysteriously, comes on. The look in your eyes--going from wtf to OHSHIT--will be priceless, just before the end of the little YouTube video.
It's not about embarrasing images of myself. It's the simple fact that there's a camera in my face. That causes me just a teensy amount of discomfort, which was easily allayed by a small fold of black paper and a piece of tape, without my having to write a whole tirade about it.
Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing they're FLASHING and they're BEEPING... I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE!!! THEY'RE BLINKING AND BEEPING AND FLASHING!! WHY DOESN'T SOMEBODY PULL THE PLUG!!!
I'm less concerned with all the LEDs they're putting in stuff than I am about all the fucking cameras they're putting in stuff. Personally, I like the little lights.. they're cool. But I've got a nice little black square taped over the camera that's built into my new MacBook Pro.
This is a troll HOW exactly? The NY Times ARE boneheads. It seems an amusing and interesting article--one I'm inclined to agree with, if the summary is accurate--but ANYthing that comes out of the NY Times should be suspect on its face, for no other reason but that the Times saw it "fit to print".
Even if you don't agree with this, it's a legitimate opinion, not some off-topic whacko BS someone's spewing for no reason. So regardless whether you think it's right or wrong, it's not a troll. Someone with mod points, please fix moderation on this.
Factcheck.org has their biases too though. I was a regular reader of their bulletins for years until I started seeing patterns in the kinds of things they choose to "debunk" and how they go about it. You just can't take anything you read for granted. Moral: When anyone claims to be objective or "non-partisan".. it's a safe bet they're lying. If not to you directly, then to themselves for thinking it's true.
True enough. But in the scene in The Matrix which TFA presumably refers to (gal kicking a guy across a room), Trinity has left the ground and doesn't begin her kick until she is suspended in mid-air. Therefore she should have been propelled backward as she kicked him. Frankly though, wearing that tight black leather as she was, I wasn't paying much attention to her physics at the time I was watching that scene.
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Kid LAWFULLY resists cops? Being annoying is one thing. Physically resisting being handled by cops is only going to get your ass kicked. The cops were doing their JOBS, up until the tasering happened.
Also, the kid was not giving a lengthy and preachy background on his question. He was there to give his own speech, and had hijacked the question mic to do it. He was very sensibly and calmly asked to leave and he refused, and then put up a fight while screaming and whining. What happened after that is not the result of some Nazi police state. HE was at fault for acting like some kind of vigilante martyr and escalating the situation into the ass-whooping that he wound up with.
The tasering of course will allow for him to sue, and probably win a nice chunk of change. All for being an asshole hopped up on drugs.
That's what I'm saying. The police overreacted by tasering him. Personally I think TWO of them should have been able to remove him from the premesis without needing the rest of them to budge. I guess this was a big guy who was physically resisting calm attempts to move him along, but police should be trained to deal with situations like that without needing the whole squad.
The fact that he said "Don't tase me, bro!" and THEN got tased to me is evidence of drugs. He did not need tasing if he was calm and cooperative. If he was still putting up a fight with 6 cops on him, dude was high on something.
Did anyone actually watch the video? This moron was hopped up on drugs, if you ask me. I think the cops had the exact same read on him. He was belligerent and refused to cooperate when he was asked, REPEATEDLY, to leave. He seemed to think that because he was at a mic to ask a question of Kerry, that gave him carte blanche to spew random garbage for as long as he wanted. He was wrong. When he was asked to step aside, he started making a scene. When security tried to move him aside, he acted like he was being arrested and made a GREATER scene. HE escalated the scene, not the police.
I do think the use of the taser was unnecessary. He had probably six cops on him by the time that happened. If he was actively resisting their attempts to be put in cuffs, why does it take more than six cops to force him to comply? Tasering only made him scream like a little bitch and get other students to feel sorry for him. Not the smartest move.
No. There's nothing "iPod-resistant" about WMAs. It's not uncommon for me to find a (or be sent from a friend) a WMA song .. the only problem is that they can't be played natively. You just convert the files to MP3 and you're good to go. It's an inconvenience that the service provider has DELIBERATELY inserted into the process to make their service more difficult and less user-friendly.
I bet the truth is, a few of the gamers left the scene, the others immediately started fighting over his computer (which was likely still logged in) to see who could get his items and gold sent to their toons first.
> Do you think when he died he dropped any loot ?
LOL .. love it.
Guess we'll just have to ban online gaming. How many more have to die??
Oh holy crap. I totally understand and agree. I remember the first game that scared me was played on my Commodore 64, and it was Alien. It wasn't even a very well-implemented game, but it was fairly consistent with the movie .. you were on the Nostromo, you had to get as many things accomplished as you could with the remaining crew, before the Alien got to them and killed them.
The graphics were pisspoor, but I remember the sound effects and I remember the increase in heartrate when I knew the alien was close by. After a while, I stopped playing that game. It freaked me out too much.
I have been considering checking out one of these "horror" type games just to check them out. Maybe Eternal Darkness?
> Or the Tech/Specialist is a true hardcore gamer, and is like me... If it moves, and it is in the general attack area. Then I kill it. So far my old record for friendly fire kills in UT2k3 was 10 for 10. I hated my team.
I'm sure they loved you to death.
See "pretexting".
Point taken. Perhaps I should have said "for me, there is little reason ... etc."
> But if you're running games, why are you using a laptop. I can understand using a laptop for a couple simple games, but if you're really hardcore into games, then why wouldn't you get a full sized computer
For some of us, our laptop is our primary computer. When I am home, it is plugged into a keyboard, stack of HDs, full-size display, scanner, Ethernet network and so on. These days there's little reason to invest in a computer that I can't take with me should I need to.
Anything referred to as "an inconvenient truth" automatically sets my BS meter going. This list of "truths" is pure PR bullcrap.
1. Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment "free music" rhetoric. This is the same industry who argues that listening to the radio is free, but makes millions if not billions of dollars on radio advertising. They run commercials in my market talking about how radio is and should continue to be free, and to please patronize the businesses being advertised, because YOU WOULDN'T WANT US TO START CHARGING YOU NOW, WOULD YOU??
2. AllOfMP3.com, the well-known Russian web site, has not been licensed by a single IFPI member, has been disowned by right holder groups worldwide and is facing criminal proceedings in Russia. Er ... so? What's that got to do with the price of eggs?
3. Organized criminal gangs and even terrorist groups use the sale of counterfeit CDs to raise revenue and launder money. This one's really pathetic. Playing the terrorism card? That's just the bullshit cherry on the bullshit sundae. The point's been made already but it bears repeating: what does the sale of bootleg CDs have to do with file sharing on the internet? Furthermore, SOME TERRORISTS have used BANKS to launder their money. Guess we should all get rid of our savings and checking accounts, cause *gasp* we might be supporting terrorism!!! This kind of argument has no credibility because the whole "ohnoes terrorism!" argument has been overused so much that it no longer has any weight .. not even when it should be considered seriously.
4. Illegal file-sharers don't care whether the copyright-infringing work they distribute is from a major or independent label. Loaded language much? This list is replete with very badly biased language. Let me rephrase it: 4. People who share music digitally don't care what labels the songs they trade are. And all that is is a boo-hoo for the record industry. No, we don't particularly care about labels. We care about music. DEAL WITH IT.
5. Reduced revenues for record companies mean less money available to take a risk on "underground" artists and more inclination to invest in "bankers" like American Idol stars. HAHAHA! Ohh, so THAT'S what they did with all the obscene profits they made from the illegal overpricing of CDs all those years. They invested them in REAL TALENT! OMG where do I sign up to let them gouge me some more?
6. ISPs often advertise music as a benefit of signing up to their service, but facilitate the illegal swapping on copyright infringing music on a grand scale. Again, spin city supreme. ISP often advertise music as a benefit, and then let their users use them as they see fit. I fail to see how this is an argument against me wanting to share digital music with my friends and family. Try again.
7. The anti-copyright movement does not create jobs, exports, tax revenues and economic growth-it largely consists of people pontificating on a commercial world about which they know little. Very few political movements create jobs, exports, tax revenues or economic growth. They exist to fight to enact change in laws or government. "Pontificating". "about which they know little". This is an ad hominem attack on people they disagree with, nothing more.
8. Piracy is not caused by poverty. Professor Zhang of Nanjing University found the Chinese citizens who bought pirate products were mainly middle- or higher-income earners. Err, real piracy is caused by criminals who attack ships at sea, pillage, rape and murder victims (or sell them on the slave market), and this is a product of pure criminal greed and amorality. What, you meant file sharing? Oh, well yes, this is correct. People do not share music because they can't AFFORD it. They do it because it is FAIR USE and, if they're doing it on p
Yeah you can fap all you want, until the little green light suddenly, mysteriously, comes on. The look in your eyes--going from wtf to OHSHIT--will be priceless, just before the end of the little YouTube video.
It's not about embarrasing images of myself. It's the simple fact that there's a camera in my face. That causes me just a teensy amount of discomfort, which was easily allayed by a small fold of black paper and a piece of tape, without my having to write a whole tirade about it.
Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing they're FLASHING and they're BEEPING... I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE!!! THEY'RE BLINKING AND BEEPING AND FLASHING!! WHY DOESN'T SOMEBODY PULL THE PLUG!!!
I'm less concerned with all the LEDs they're putting in stuff than I am about all the fucking cameras they're putting in stuff. Personally, I like the little lights .. they're cool. But I've got a nice little black square taped over the camera that's built into my new MacBook Pro.
Then he should be able to say, "No, I can't meet you then. I have class. I can meet you between the hours of (blahblah) on (blahblah) days."
Why the hell is this even news. This is about scheduling a fucking meeting.
> I suppose that someday, I might actually want to listen to Yngwie Malmsteen.
Ridiculous name aside, he's actually not a bad guitarist.
This is NOT A TROLL god damnit.
wtf is with you mods today?
I know I'll get modded 'troll' too but that's just all the more evidence that I'm right about bonehead mods.
This is a troll HOW exactly? The NY Times ARE boneheads. It seems an amusing and interesting article--one I'm inclined to agree with, if the summary is accurate--but ANYthing that comes out of the NY Times should be suspect on its face, for no other reason but that the Times saw it "fit to print".
Even if you don't agree with this, it's a legitimate opinion, not some off-topic whacko BS someone's spewing for no reason. So regardless whether you think it's right or wrong, it's not a troll. Someone with mod points, please fix moderation on this.
Factcheck.org has their biases too though. I was a regular reader of their bulletins for years until I started seeing patterns in the kinds of things they choose to "debunk" and how they go about it. You just can't take anything you read for granted. Moral: When anyone claims to be objective or "non-partisan" .. it's a safe bet they're lying. If not to you directly, then to themselves for thinking it's true.
Unfortunately, one cannot be told what Zork is. You have to see it for yourself.
True enough. But in the scene in The Matrix which TFA presumably refers to (gal kicking a guy across a room), Trinity has left the ground and doesn't begin her kick until she is suspended in mid-air. Therefore she should have been propelled backward as she kicked him. Frankly though, wearing that tight black leather as she was, I wasn't paying much attention to her physics at the time I was watching that scene.
I'll take one.
Agreed. Pick a good server (or servers) run by a decent community and stay there, especially if they are good at enforcing their rules.