Right, so? Congrats on realizing it's an industry but industries don't create things. People create things. Focussing on some big name means you don't know who does what.
Why bother debunking everything a bunch of sue-happy Nazis want people to believe? Doesn't that get tedious? I don't see anyone going so far to debunk the KKK's 'logic' or anything like that. Isn't it easier to just accept that these people are bunch of mindless tyrannic bastards like the aforementioned groups?
Honestly, it's like telling a schizophrenic person his pencil isn't talking.
Is anyone else annoyed that game developers are now being called the game industry? It's bad enough that they remain nearly anonymous while the company takes most of the credit, but now the innovations and individuals are being blobbed together as part of a mindless industry?
Yeah it's not the most on-topic statement, but I'm sure quite a few people are thinking the same thing.
Good to know the internet and everything we say and see will be controlled people who know their facts, and not just a bunch of mindless fundamentalists who would gladly own us as slaves, isn't it?
So the world government starts via the internet. I feel kinda stupid for not seeing that coming.
I guess our fifteen minutes of freedom went out the window once CEOs took over the internet anyway. No surprise really.
Where's the disdain for science? I don't see it anyw... Oh hahah, you're joking. That's understandable.
But in case you're not joking, it's much funnier if you believe tacking a whole bunch of zeroes onto the end of every imaginable number is responsible for creating computers. Oh and God knows we wouldn't have cars were it not for nut jobs who want everything to be 8,000,000,000 years old. I can actually picture that. "Hey Bob, how do ya suppose well get it to move?" "Use this pipe made five months ago." *sputter* "Gah, almost. Let's make it... five hundred billion months ago." *vroom!* "We did it! And it's all thanks to mindless pseudo-science!" "Let's go to the bar. Millenium-old drinks are on me."
Sorry that numbers not ranging over a trillion years scare you. They probably had pills for that in the mesozoic era.
*Sets down at his 4,000,000 year old computer and chomps a 56,000 year old hot pocket*
Is that all? 600 million? Mph, not bad for a bunch of lightweights. Is it too late to add some more zeroes already? I mean damn, these people must really be new to this; I've used every known dating method on my entire house, and frankly, my chair is older than that.
I used this knowledge once when I discovered that my mirrors actually evolved from the plates in my cupboard. Sounds farfetched, yeah, but hear me out. The National Organization for Plate Evolution (NOPE) was very skeptical of this theory, trying to tell me mirrors are made by 'intelligent life forms' of some sort. Can you believe that? Talk about a bunch of traitors. This nonsense went on until I said "Well uh, um... 300,000,000 years." at which point we threw a party. I'm now recognized as one of the leading authorities in America by NOPE and by the Organization for Really Gigantic Years (ORGY)
Now if you'll excuse me, my 345 billion year old steak isn't going to cook itself you know.
You uh.. realize those are for drawing, right? With the pen and all? I thought that was the biggest giveaway, as most people use pens for drawing. But it's a little unsettling that someone who made a working iPod costume is a little behind on the subject of drawing utensils. Far worse that he bought a tablet PC and evidently used it to make toast.
Heheh, very good point. It's also a nice insight into what sort of people follow the 'moral' "Don't let your kids play unapproved video games or leave their cage." which is now the official umbrella-term used by all murderous rampaging governments, and isn't just for violent zealots anymore.
If the low ghettos of Pakistan is your idea of 'the world' then I guess that's your education system at work. So while your knowledge of the 'outside' is naught, hey at least you've got your smokes.
(for everyone else: This isn't directed at all Canadians, just the individual stupid ones)
Nah, the grass there is pretty brown. It might be nice if your were born there and told to like the place, but I'd rather stick around here where the grass really IS greener and isn't required to sprout in French.
I'm tired of correcting people. Okay fine, living in a country where you can be drafted, abducted, silenced, spied on and imprisoned by the government whenever a politician feels like it is freedom. It was your choice to be born in the US and its your right to have the government's fist up your ass.
Also you get to say FUD! Neat, huh? That makes you more free than an Afghan prisoner.
It's a good thing you keep calling this mindless dogma 'science', because we certainly wouldn't know from looking. The fact that you have a very broad definition of 'evidence' and that you regard a few clueless wannabes as 'scientists' takes no priority over reality.
I'm afraid that if one guy holds a rock and says "Hey, a rock" and some foreign idiot runs up out of nowhere yelling "That's a myth-legend! It's the moon fallen from the sky! People of my country believe in lunar-collapse-ism so you people and your 'observations' are nothing compared to our beliefs!" my choice is the story not made up by the foreign moron and his urge to make people believe his outlandish ideas.
It's no surprise when some troll gets mod points and uses them to whine out loud. But 'Offtopic'? That's when you know it's just a desperate little kid. Fortunately someone will probably spot this in meta-moderating and someone else will lose their points. Too bad, eh?
Okay everyone's already thinking it, but the moral gauge of a murderous liar was never something I found reliable. It might work for Bin Laden and Bush but it was never my sort of standard.
If the fact that humans give birth to humans is supposed to support the movement to keep everyone in the dark ages, then I'm very far from convinced. Also if the scientists around the world had cowered in fear from making nuclear bombs, the other scientists would have blown them all to oblivion by now. Holding tightly to ignorance is what causes more people and civilizations to die than anything else.
Ah, you really can't take it seriously when some random pot-head wants you to shut up if you don't obey the system. The logic itself is a dead giveaway: "Go help the government take over your life and kill more people, then bitch about it. I have permission to whine because I contribute to all this. Anyone got some crack?"
So the dem-reps get another four years. Oh I'm shocked. I guess people are turned on by the prospect of having the world population locked up in terrorist-safe cages.
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Heh, yeah. I read the article like "Oh my. Are they allowed to say that?"
The population may have been wiped out by a volcanic activity 12000 years ago or according to local legend may have lived up until the 1500's
Heh, so a random anthropologist walks up to a village..
"Look! Small people! I think they were wiped out a bazillion trillion years ago by lava. It was very climactic with lots of big explosions and a story that will make me very famous in America." Villager: "Actually it happened in the 1500's when.." "12000 whole years ago. Imagine that!" "The people died because--" "Hey! That was the NYT! They're posting the headline 'Genius Finds Species From Twelve Trillion Years ago' tomorrow! I guess they're off by a few zeroes but hey, we have some wiggle space." "Our elders knew about a people who--" "Actually let's just change it to twelve trillion. That's a fun number, don't you think? I love it! It's... Oh, right. What were you saying, Lowly Misinformed Local Person?" "We have records. They say--" "Hey, I just struck a deal to sell my new book 'Thirty-quadrillian Year Old Species Found in Indonesia'! I'm rich! I am a flowing river of cash! I'm a festering volcano of money! I am--" "Are you even--" "Hey! Get the Hell outta my way, kid, I'm off to show the United States that they were founded by rock formations millions of years ago, and not these stupid 'founding fathers' their mythological legendary myths say. Brady, finish off the interview with this guy."
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So uh, "We may possibly consider letting you own what you paid for, if you're lucky, and as long as CEOs can still have their fist up your ass."
I wonder what would happen if the **AA existed 200 years ago. Candidates would be saying "We may allow you to chop wood, perhaps, as long as you use it for your stove and not something illegal, such as a bonfire. You should be thankful you live in a country that allows you to chop wood at all."
Wow, and I always heard the thought-control psychos were at a minimum in Australia. Guess they're spawning everywhere these days. Maybe we should be doing more to rid society of them.
"Think of the kids! Put them on a leash and never let them out of their cage! Ban games!"
Yeah I hate Nazis too.
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Heh, now here's something funny: The post was modded 30% interesting and 40% insightful, but the troll calling it 'overrated' overrode both of those to bring it down to 2.
Apparently the Slashdot moderation system uses the electoral college.
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Right, so? Congrats on realizing it's an industry but industries don't create things. People create things. Focussing on some big name means you don't know who does what.
Why bother debunking everything a bunch of sue-happy Nazis want people to believe? Doesn't that get tedious? I don't see anyone going so far to debunk the KKK's 'logic' or anything like that. Isn't it easier to just accept that these people are bunch of mindless tyrannic bastards like the aforementioned groups?
Honestly, it's like telling a schizophrenic person his pencil isn't talking.
Is anyone else annoyed that game developers are now being called the game industry? It's bad enough that they remain nearly anonymous while the company takes most of the credit, but now the innovations and individuals are being blobbed together as part of a mindless industry?
Yeah it's not the most on-topic statement, but I'm sure quite a few people are thinking the same thing.
Good to know the internet and everything we say and see will be controlled people who know their facts, and not just a bunch of mindless fundamentalists who would gladly own us as slaves, isn't it?
So the world government starts via the internet. I feel kinda stupid for not seeing that coming.
I guess our fifteen minutes of freedom went out the window once CEOs took over the internet anyway. No surprise really.
Where's the disdain for science? I don't see it anyw... Oh hahah, you're joking. That's understandable.
But in case you're not joking, it's much funnier if you believe tacking a whole bunch of zeroes onto the end of every imaginable number is responsible for creating computers. Oh and God knows we wouldn't have cars were it not for nut jobs who want everything to be 8,000,000,000 years old. I can actually picture that.
"Hey Bob, how do ya suppose well get it to move?"
"Use this pipe made five months ago."
*sputter*
"Gah, almost. Let's make it... five hundred billion months ago."
*vroom!*
"We did it! And it's all thanks to mindless pseudo-science!"
"Let's go to the bar. Millenium-old drinks are on me."
Sorry that numbers not ranging over a trillion years scare you. They probably had pills for that in the mesozoic era.
*Sets down at his 4,000,000 year old computer and chomps a 56,000 year old hot pocket*
Is that all? 600 million? Mph, not bad for a bunch of lightweights. Is it too late to add some more zeroes already? I mean damn, these people must really be new to this; I've used every known dating method on my entire house, and frankly, my chair is older than that.
I used this knowledge once when I discovered that my mirrors actually evolved from the plates in my cupboard. Sounds farfetched, yeah, but hear me out. The National Organization for Plate Evolution (NOPE) was very skeptical of this theory, trying to tell me mirrors are made by 'intelligent life forms' of some sort. Can you believe that? Talk about a bunch of traitors. This nonsense went on until I said "Well uh, um... 300,000,000 years." at which point we threw a party. I'm now recognized as one of the leading authorities in America by NOPE and by the Organization for Really Gigantic Years (ORGY)
Now if you'll excuse me, my 345 billion year old steak isn't going to cook itself you know.
I finally found a good use for a tablet PC
You uh.. realize those are for drawing, right? With the pen and all? I thought that was the biggest giveaway, as most people use pens for drawing. But it's a little unsettling that someone who made a working iPod costume is a little behind on the subject of drawing utensils. Far worse that he bought a tablet PC and evidently used it to make toast.
Heheh, very good point. It's also a nice insight into what sort of people follow the 'moral' "Don't let your kids play unapproved video games or leave their cage." which is now the official umbrella-term used by all murderous rampaging governments, and isn't just for violent zealots anymore.
If the low ghettos of Pakistan is your idea of 'the world' then I guess that's your education system at work. So while your knowledge of the 'outside' is naught, hey at least you've got your smokes.
(for everyone else: This isn't directed at all Canadians, just the individual stupid ones)
Nah, the grass there is pretty brown. It might be nice if your were born there and told to like the place, but I'd rather stick around here where the grass really IS greener and isn't required to sprout in French.
I'm tired of correcting people. Okay fine, living in a country where you can be drafted, abducted, silenced, spied on and imprisoned by the government whenever a politician feels like it is freedom. It was your choice to be born in the US and its your right to have the government's fist up your ass.
Also you get to say FUD! Neat, huh? That makes you more free than an Afghan prisoner.
and we do have nearly-legal weed
Blah blah this explains everything blah blah blah..
It's a good thing you keep calling this mindless dogma 'science', because we certainly wouldn't know from looking. The fact that you have a very broad definition of 'evidence' and that you regard a few clueless wannabes as 'scientists' takes no priority over reality.
I'm afraid that if one guy holds a rock and says "Hey, a rock" and some foreign idiot runs up out of nowhere yelling "That's a myth-legend! It's the moon fallen from the sky! People of my country believe in lunar-collapse-ism so you people and your 'observations' are nothing compared to our beliefs!" my choice is the story not made up by the foreign moron and his urge to make people believe his outlandish ideas.
It's no surprise when some troll gets mod points and uses them to whine out loud. But 'Offtopic'? That's when you know it's just a desperate little kid. Fortunately someone will probably spot this in meta-moderating and someone else will lose their points. Too bad, eh?
Okay everyone's already thinking it, but the moral gauge of a murderous liar was never something I found reliable. It might work for Bin Laden and Bush but it was never my sort of standard.
If the fact that humans give birth to humans is supposed to support the movement to keep everyone in the dark ages, then I'm very far from convinced. Also if the scientists around the world had cowered in fear from making nuclear bombs, the other scientists would have blown them all to oblivion by now. Holding tightly to ignorance is what causes more people and civilizations to die than anything else.
Glad to see people from your country aren't a bunch of mindless flamers. I'm sure your astounding sense of logic will put you out ahead. *cough*
Ah, you really can't take it seriously when some random pot-head wants you to shut up if you don't obey the system. The logic itself is a dead giveaway: "Go help the government take over your life and kill more people, then bitch about it. I have permission to whine because I contribute to all this. Anyone got some crack?"
So I um.. guess you're fine, technically.
So the dem-reps get another four years. Oh I'm shocked. I guess people are turned on by the prospect of having the world population locked up in terrorist-safe cages.
Heh, yeah. I read the article like "Oh my. Are they allowed to say that?"
The population may have been wiped out by a volcanic activity 12000 years ago or according to local legend may have lived up until the 1500's
Heh, so a random anthropologist walks up to a village..
"Look! Small people! I think they were wiped out a bazillion trillion years ago by lava. It was very climactic with lots of big explosions and a story that will make me very famous in America."
Villager: "Actually it happened in the 1500's when.."
"12000 whole years ago. Imagine that!"
"The people died because--"
"Hey! That was the NYT! They're posting the headline 'Genius Finds Species From Twelve Trillion Years ago' tomorrow! I guess they're off by a few zeroes but hey, we have some wiggle space."
"Our elders knew about a people who--"
"Actually let's just change it to twelve trillion. That's a fun number, don't you think? I love it! It's... Oh, right. What were you saying, Lowly Misinformed Local Person?"
"We have records. They say--"
"Hey, I just struck a deal to sell my new book 'Thirty-quadrillian Year Old Species Found in Indonesia'! I'm rich! I am a flowing river of cash! I'm a festering volcano of money! I am--"
"Are you even--"
"Hey! Get the Hell outta my way, kid, I'm off to show the United States that they were founded by rock formations millions of years ago, and not these stupid 'founding fathers' their mythological legendary myths say. Brady, finish off the interview with this guy."
to ensure that a person who lawfully obtains or receives a transmission of a digital work may back up a copy of it for archival purposes
So uh, "We may possibly consider letting you own what you paid for, if you're lucky, and as long as CEOs can still have their fist up your ass."
I wonder what would happen if the **AA existed 200 years ago. Candidates would be saying "We may allow you to chop wood, perhaps, as long as you use it for your stove and not something illegal, such as a bonfire. You should be thankful you live in a country that allows you to chop wood at all."
We can just dump them in the ocean so the non-psychos get to play video games without someone trying to kill them over it.
Wow, and I always heard the thought-control psychos were at a minimum in Australia. Guess they're spawning everywhere these days. Maybe we should be doing more to rid society of them.
"Think of the kids! Put them on a leash and never let them out of their cage! Ban games!"
Yeah I hate Nazis too.
Heh, now here's something funny: The post was modded 30% interesting and 40% insightful, but the troll calling it 'overrated' overrode both of those to bring it down to 2.
Apparently the Slashdot moderation system uses the electoral college.