Violence video games do not hinder my empathy at all.
How can it, the video game isn't real, i don't think it's real, and i don't treat it like it's real.
Basic fucking logic.
Now, stupid people, they make me less empathic to their needs. You go about being stupid, doing stupid shit, then when that shit hits the fan, you start crying "why me, life is unfair, wah, wah, wah". Well, that makes me laugh, at you, for being a stupid wanker.
Video games are, video games. Reminds me of the early 90's, when peeps in the various BBS's were getting into Vampires (some rpg, pen & paper rpg) and a lot of them were taking it too far. Pretending it's real, etc. And you know what it told me? There's some fucking stupid people out there, that make stupid choices about shit that ain't real. And they deserve whatever happens to them, because they decided to be stupid.
What really hinders my empathy is when stupid people start blaming other stuff for making stupid people stupid. Stupid comes from within, once you accept that, you can stop being stupid.
Yes, the FCC is sending out routers to ten thousand random people because the FCC wants to spy on, uh, ten thousand random people. The government is out to gitcha! RUN! Fucking moron. The government does tons of terrible shit, like giving all the wealth generated by the middle class to about 400 well connected guys, but guess what? This is not one of those terrible things. When you act like a paranoid schizophrenic, and tell everyone the government is ALWAYS out to screw EVERYONE over, ALL THE TIME, you are doing the work those 400 well connected guys want you to do. They want everyone to mistrust the one thing, the only thing that can possibly stop them: the power of people working together, i.e. government. So thanks for that. You do know that even if you were to fellate them 24/7 for the next fifty years, they won't let you into their little club, right?
you have such a low number, yet you haven't learned to quote whatever message your replying to so we can tell, easily, which post you are referring to?
Sad, and your rant was so well thought out and made so much sense.
tablets are not a fad. They are best extension of a desktop you could ask for. Large screen for viewing stuff, don't need to have bulky storage when it uses SD & wifi. Don't need a keyboard for it, because it's not for doing heavy work.
Need to read reports/mags/ebooks/docs/email? Perfect.
Need to run around the office checking on stuff, but might need to access some info while you are doing it? Perfect.
Watching the big game, but the food gave you the runs? Perfect (you know, streaming the game to the device so you can watch it on the toilet. Don't tell me this hasn't happened to you before, because i'm pretty sure it has).
How do you recommend we install a clean copy of Windows, short of buying your own copy for $189.00? PC manufacturers don't even include a "recovery disk" any more, let alone a copy of the OS you just bought and paid for. Not that I disagree with you at all, but the average consumer isn't going to buy their PC for $500-1200, and then cough up $200 for a clean copy of the OS, and then another couple hundred to find someone to wipe and install it for them.
Ain't that the truth? My dad recently got a new computer, from HP, so you know it barely ran decently out of the box. He was amazed at the difference when I installed a clean copy of Windows (7) on his computer without all the extra bloatware and stupid manufacture settings.
Technically, no. Your pothead buddy claimed that DuPont got hemp banned - a favorite lie of hippies and other assorted idiots. Also, industrial hemp isn't technically banned, even in the US - you can get a permit to grow it (it's just really hard to get one).
They made it illegal to grow it under the guise of going after marijuana. Even though you could set an entire field of industrial hemp on fire and not get high they still managed to get it and marijuana covered under the same law and banned.
That's a bit of a red-herring. Nobody ever suggested you could smoke hemp - the issue was that hemp fields made the ideal hiding spot for pot cultivation. Right now they get hidden in corn-fields and such, but tend to be relatively easy to spot from the air; you could grow millions of dollars worth of marijuana in a hemp field, and nobody would know unless they did a detailed ground-level inspection.
Note that I'm generally in favor of legalizing marijuana - I'm just apposed to lies and distortions.
Not sure what planet your from, but nothing is banned.
It's a controlled substance, hence you can get a license to grow it. Industrial hemp, or medicial marijuana. I repeat for you, a non stoner, who don't know exactly what you are talking about, NOTHING GOT BANNED.
When they got "industrial hemp" and "medical marijuana" changed into a controlled substance, they (being the corporation who just got the chemical formula's from germany, as part of WWI reparitians.), because plastic would NOT compete with the low cost and usuablility of hemp at the time. They purposely made it seem that it was marijuana they were trying to get contolled, when it was actually hemp they wanted out of the picture.
I have nothing to do with those sites or the book. I'm just an american who's tired of the lies and bullshit. And corporation being treated like they are the rich, since they rarely, and i mean, rarely get in trouble for the shit they do.
Oh, and i like to point out, yes, it was Dupont. So those hippies and other idiots who you think lie (probably because they are stoners), aren't. In fact, your the idiot now, but then, we knew that from your post. thanks for letting me share the real story.
T-Mobile is the only provider that I've found in the USA that does not truncate the high bit on text messages. I can send text messages in Chinese and Japanese with my unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile. AT&T and Sprint clip the high bit. I hope AT&T won't screw up T-Mobile's network.
It is 100% a conflict of interest, and the judge should automatically be recused from ALL file-sharing lawsuits as a result.
All rulings made should be immediately and retroactively reversed.
Then the judge herself needs to pay a HEAVY fine for such inexcusable behavior. The kind of fine that will BREAK HER POCKETBOOK and give incentive for other judges to behave.
It is time our judicial system got a dose of accountability.
Can't we, the tax payers, do something about this? Class action lawsuit? Sue the government? Protest in the streets?
I'm tired of hearing of crap like this, but no solution on how to fix it.
Right, that's why you live in a country where the government actually works for the people most of the time, instead of a fascist country like the USA where all the government cares about is keeping their corporate benefactors happy.
Obviously, Canada doesn't have such problems, as we can see from the OP's pictures of Vancouver. I've been there several times and it's a wonderful city, and puts US cities to shame. The downtown area is even very nice, safe, and fun to wander around, unlike US cities where you have to worry about being shot at and everything is dilapidated.
Ya, it's different then the Vancouver BC I used to go to. Where's the hookers, the drug dealers? Where's the street kids? The junkies?
'I don't know what a TV is anymore,' says one company exec
Yes, that is apparent by what you put on it for us to watch.
or
"I don't know what a TV is anymore, " says one company exec, "because i was born into a rich family, cheated/paid my way thru school, and was given this job to pay for my coke habit."
People will PAY EXTRA to cheat depriving themselves of any glory in accomplishment... for the empty bragging rights that come with having something you didn't earn, and which has no inherent real world value.
But they still do it in droves.
Not sure what reality you frequent, but that's popular in any game that has competition and even most that don't. (solitare for example.)
With the money having to take 3 steps to get from you to the charity, 30-90 days is still quick.
90 days was quick in the days of the Pony Express.
In the days of 500ms ping times around the world, 90 days in incredibly slow. I understand that the money is not there until you pay your wireless bill, but that is 45 days or less, so anything over 50 days is very slow.
Not sure where you live, but if I don't pay my bill every month, they cut it off.
Right, so the accusation that they're unduly delaying the donations is a valid one. However, the accusation that they're following their business model, is not. Now you can criticize the business model as a whole on moral grounds if you wish, but arguing that they should waive the charge in this specific case makes no sense.
It's not much of a fucking business model if they can't get the fucking money over to help the peeps that need it, when they need it, like now.
Funny how everything is faster, 'cept getting money to where it needs to go.
I understand your trying to blame the "system" but that's bullshit. It's not the system, ti's the people that run the system. It can be changed, but no one wants to.
You know why? All those donation, that are sitting in mGives bank account for 3 months? It's racking up interest for mGive, while the peeps who should be getting help thru them, are suffering.
This attitude is why the oil companies raised their prices because "oil supply was low" then turn around posting record profits that were the highest ever. And yet, none of you batted an eyelash (I don't drive, but i could NOT understand how no one was bitching about such an obvious ass fucking).
It's not business, it's your attitude and your lack of trying to fix it.
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Violence video games do not hinder my empathy at all.
How can it, the video game isn't real, i don't think it's real, and i don't treat it like it's real.
Basic fucking logic.
Now, stupid people, they make me less empathic to their needs. You go about being stupid, doing stupid shit, then when that shit hits the fan, you start crying "why me, life is unfair, wah, wah, wah". Well, that makes me laugh, at you, for being a stupid wanker.
Video games are, video games. Reminds me of the early 90's, when peeps in the various BBS's were getting into Vampires (some rpg, pen & paper rpg) and a lot of them were taking it too far. Pretending it's real, etc. And you know what it told me? There's some fucking stupid people out there, that make stupid choices about shit that ain't real. And they deserve whatever happens to them, because they decided to be stupid.
What really hinders my empathy is when stupid people start blaming other stuff for making stupid people stupid. Stupid comes from within, once you accept that, you can stop being stupid.
Some people are paranoid when it comes down to being tracked.
Then i guess they should go live in a cave in the wilderness or something. The track cat is out of the bag and has been for the last 5 years or so.
You don't want to be tracked?
Don't get an ID, don't get an cell phones, don't use internet, don't use credit cards.
Do you understand? You are already being tracked and it is NOT going to stop.
Yes, the FCC is sending out routers to ten thousand random people because the FCC wants to spy on, uh, ten thousand random people. The government is out to gitcha! RUN! Fucking moron. The government does tons of terrible shit, like giving all the wealth generated by the middle class to about 400 well connected guys, but guess what? This is not one of those terrible things. When you act like a paranoid schizophrenic, and tell everyone the government is ALWAYS out to screw EVERYONE over, ALL THE TIME, you are doing the work those 400 well connected guys want you to do. They want everyone to mistrust the one thing, the only thing that can possibly stop them: the power of people working together, i.e. government. So thanks for that. You do know that even if you were to fellate them 24/7 for the next fifty years, they won't let you into their little club, right?
you have such a low number, yet you haven't learned to quote whatever message your replying to so we can tell, easily, which post you are referring to?
Sad, and your rant was so well thought out and made so much sense.
Sort of surprised at MS sometimes.
tablets are not a fad. They are best extension of a desktop you could ask for. Large screen for viewing stuff, don't need to have bulky storage when it uses SD & wifi. Don't need a keyboard for it, because it's not for doing heavy work.
Need to read reports/mags/ebooks/docs/email? Perfect.
Need to run around the office checking on stuff, but might need to access some info while you are doing it? Perfect.
Watching the big game, but the food gave you the runs? Perfect (you know, streaming the game to the device so you can watch it on the toilet. Don't tell me this hasn't happened to you before, because i'm pretty sure it has).
Anyways, you get my point.
MS will play catchup, like they always do.
How do you recommend we install a clean copy of Windows, short of buying your own copy for $189.00? PC manufacturers don't even include a "recovery disk" any more, let alone a copy of the OS you just bought and paid for. Not that I disagree with you at all, but the average consumer isn't going to buy their PC for $500-1200, and then cough up $200 for a clean copy of the OS, and then another couple hundred to find someone to wipe and install it for them.
Ain't that the truth? My dad recently got a new computer, from HP, so you know it barely ran decently out of the box. He was amazed at the difference when I installed a clean copy of Windows (7) on his computer without all the extra bloatware and stupid manufacture settings.
Worst idea since Sony's rootkit. They should be prosecuted over crap like this.
If you bought one of their devices with the keylogger on it, then by all means, sue.
If you didn't, then start a class action lawsuit, or call your senator and complain to him.
otherwise, no shit sherlock.
The material they banned was industrial hemp.
Technically, no. Your pothead buddy claimed that DuPont got hemp banned - a favorite lie of hippies and other assorted idiots. Also, industrial hemp isn't technically banned, even in the US - you can get a permit to grow it (it's just really hard to get one).
They made it illegal to grow it under the guise of going after marijuana. Even though you could set an entire field of industrial hemp on fire and not get high they still managed to get it and marijuana covered under the same law and banned.
That's a bit of a red-herring. Nobody ever suggested you could smoke hemp - the issue was that hemp fields made the ideal hiding spot for pot cultivation. Right now they get hidden in corn-fields and such, but tend to be relatively easy to spot from the air; you could grow millions of dollars worth of marijuana in a hemp field, and nobody would know unless they did a detailed ground-level inspection.
Note that I'm generally in favor of legalizing marijuana - I'm just apposed to lies and distortions.
Not sure what planet your from, but nothing is banned.
It's a controlled substance, hence you can get a license to grow it. Industrial hemp, or medicial marijuana. I repeat for you, a non stoner, who don't know exactly what you are talking about, NOTHING GOT BANNED.
When they got "industrial hemp" and "medical marijuana" changed into a controlled substance, they (being the corporation who just got the chemical formula's from germany, as part of WWI reparitians.), because plastic would NOT compete with the low cost and usuablility of hemp at the time. They purposely made it seem that it was marijuana they were trying to get contolled, when it was actually hemp they wanted out of the picture.
You an find all the info, include actual copies of official documents on how this happened here: http://www.jackherer.com/thebook/
Here's online hosting of the book: http://www.onlinepot.org/grow/jackherer.htm
I have nothing to do with those sites or the book. I'm just an american who's tired of the lies and bullshit. And corporation being treated like they are the rich, since they rarely, and i mean, rarely get in trouble for the shit they do.
Oh, and i like to point out, yes, it was Dupont. So those hippies and other idiots who you think lie (probably because they are stoners), aren't. In fact, your the idiot now, but then, we knew that from your post. thanks for letting me share the real story.
T-Mobile is the only provider that I've found in the USA that does not truncate the high bit on text messages. I can send text messages in Chinese and Japanese with my unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile. AT&T and Sprint clip the high bit. I hope AT&T won't screw up T-Mobile's network.
They will.
That kind of shenanigans paid for all that innovation.
And we were far better off for all that innovation.
Are we really?
We got transistors from the alien craft that crashed at Roswell.
Don't they teach you anything in school?
Nope, I went to a public school. Didn't learn a thing.
Yes. With a camera.
And a 6 mile range. And a ceiling of 15,000 feet. And speed up to 60 mph.
And autonomous GPS navigation.
Probably you didn't have a plane like that when you were a kid.
So your saying that it's a remote control airplane with an smartphone attached to it? With bigger engines so it can go farther?
Sweet.
I don't understand the problem. McAffee's web check said their site was okay!!
wastes it's time on unimportant stuff.
Female Body Inspectors, my ass. You are all about a dead dude on this one.
It is 100% a conflict of interest, and the judge should automatically be recused from ALL file-sharing lawsuits as a result.
All rulings made should be immediately and retroactively reversed.
Then the judge herself needs to pay a HEAVY fine for such inexcusable behavior. The kind of fine that will BREAK HER POCKETBOOK and give incentive for other judges to behave.
It is time our judicial system got a dose of accountability.
Can't we, the tax payers, do something about this? Class action lawsuit? Sue the government? Protest in the streets?
I'm tired of hearing of crap like this, but no solution on how to fix it.
It's spring time, and my prediction, like last year, is the Mariners will win the world series. Don't make it so. Never gets on the front of slashdot.
WP7 will beat the iphone. WP7 will sell way less then the iphone, which will make it the winner of the crappiest phone OS ever.
use MS products.
... the easy portability of code between WP7 and Xbox,
How come i get the feeling they have NEVER programmed at all?
Right, that's why you live in a country where the government actually works for the people most of the time, instead of a fascist country like the USA where all the government cares about is keeping their corporate benefactors happy.
Obviously, Canada doesn't have such problems, as we can see from the OP's pictures of Vancouver. I've been there several times and it's a wonderful city, and puts US cities to shame. The downtown area is even very nice, safe, and fun to wander around, unlike US cities where you have to worry about being shot at and everything is dilapidated.
Ya, it's different then the Vancouver BC I used to go to. Where's the hookers, the drug dealers? Where's the street kids? The junkies?
Give me the vancouver I love, dang it!
Why don't we stop this "war on drugs" legalize most of them, and then make up the fucking missing money that way?
After all it's billions of dollars a year business.
Whats that? what sort of message does that send to the kids?
One better then the message that was sent when we bailed out Wall Street, imo.
'I don't know what a TV is anymore,' says one company exec
Yes, that is apparent by what you put on it for us to watch.
or
"I don't know what a TV is anymore, " says one company exec, "because i was born into a rich family, cheated/paid my way thru school, and was given this job to pay for my coke habit."
With our population problem, it's best if peeps didn't have sex on their minds. -- Indian Official
You've obviously never played MMORPG. :)
People will PAY EXTRA to cheat depriving themselves of any glory in accomplishment... for the empty bragging rights that come with having something you didn't earn, and which has no inherent real world value.
But they still do it in droves.
Not sure what reality you frequent, but that's popular in any game that has competition and even most that don't. (solitare for example.)
because i have already downloaded all i want, 'cept for maybe new stuff coming out.
So no, i am not downloading as much music as I was say, 5 years ago, by far.
Of course, recently i did start downloading flac's to replace MP3 copies of stuff I didn't have a CD of.
So yes, i can understand that music file sharing isn't as big as it was, but it ain't going to stop.
90 days was quick in the days of the Pony Express.
In the days of 500ms ping times around the world, 90 days in incredibly slow. I understand that the money is not there until you pay your wireless bill, but that is 45 days or less, so anything over 50 days is very slow.
Not sure where you live, but if I don't pay my bill every month, they cut it off.
30 days, tops.
Right, so the accusation that they're unduly delaying the donations is a valid one. However, the accusation that they're following their business model, is not. Now you can criticize the business model as a whole on moral grounds if you wish, but arguing that they should waive the charge in this specific case makes no sense.
It's not much of a fucking business model if they can't get the fucking money over to help the peeps that need it, when they need it, like now.
Funny how everything is faster, 'cept getting money to where it needs to go.
I understand your trying to blame the "system" but that's bullshit. It's not the system, ti's the people that run the system. It can be changed, but no one wants to.
You know why? All those donation, that are sitting in mGives bank account for 3 months? It's racking up interest for mGive, while the peeps who should be getting help thru them, are suffering.
This attitude is why the oil companies raised their prices because "oil supply was low" then turn around posting record profits that were the highest ever. And yet, none of you batted an eyelash (I don't drive, but i could NOT understand how no one was bitching about such an obvious ass fucking).
It's not business, it's your attitude and your lack of trying to fix it.