Yah i agree, everytime this has been forced on people it has been (forgive my pun) heavenly.. um like germany in the 30's, communist russia, China right now, etc... good point.
A bit offtopic but I think we should make our currency out of rat asses, if not for any other reason than to make this wittcism some quantify-able measure... i'm sure there is some guy reading slashdot out there with a trash bag full of rat asses who would read this entirely different...
Sorry to nitpick but I wanted to clarify something you said and a lot of Christains might not understand.
You said: "As a christian, my interpretation is that Jesus basically told us, forget about the old testament, it's obsolete now, and here's what's important..."
So Jesus was actually saying in his teachings that he fulfilled the Old Testament and he was the New Testament and gave his rules for this New Testament (hence the passage "my burden is easy and my yoke is light", and it is quite easier considering the numerous laws in the OT).
If you look at the OT and NT and how they are set up as agreements (like a legal contract) this makes sense, basically the OT was an agreement for the forgiving of sins of the jewish people but it was just a placeholder and temporary forgiveness until Jesus came and fufilled the requirements of the OT and established the New Testament (or new agreement).
So you got the basic message just thought i'd clarify a bit, FYI:)
I think the best solution for the dogs who would otherwise be euthanised is what they are currently doing with prisoner rehab.
They take dogs who would be slated for death, and have them trained by inmates at a local prison to become helping dogs, (like bomb sniffers, blind assistants, etc..) everybody wins, the dogs get a home, the inmates get some "therapy".
I think people who are buying a family pet should buy from a reputable breeder, it costs more in the outset, but you avoid health bills in the long run and you get to acclimate the dog to your household at a very young age (which helps them become more docile and accepting of humans).
I still believe you will have less problems health wise with a good breeder who knows what he/she is doing rather than someone doing it solely for the profit.
Of course in my opinion (although not very popular) the best thing to do with strains who have genetic defects is to let them die, it seems more natural to me (like natural seelection in the wild) than to perpetuate the species with these defects because it seems more "humane".
"Selective breeding of dogs is the cause of these genetic defects, not the solution to them!"
I don't know if I can agree with this, I think history will show that when you clean the genetic pool and keep one line of genetics strong and pure you will soon have a "master race" of dog superior in intellect and health to all other "mongrels".
Just like the might German Shepard!! um, oh, ok nvm..
"have been improperly bred so that they develop a wide variety of health problems"
That is due to lazyness or incompetence on the part of the breeder not the KC, the KC makes sure that proper breeding techniques are followed (as well as medical screenings of all dogs who are registered for breeding), as well as tracking bloodlines (papers) to help reduce the genetic dispositions for disorder.
"find a housepet that won't freak out and mame our children. "
This is a good point but also there are the health implications to consider, unless a animal (dog/cat in this instance) is bred correctly, it can lead to genetic defects and other health problems.
AKC breeds have to meet a certain standard to get papaers and before they are sold (depnding on the breed) they have to be medically screened for certian genetic traits... for example, our family bought a Golden labrador, they have a genetic disposition towards hip problems, our dog was screened and everything looked ok (the breeder has also been breeding for a number of years, had award winning dogs, and knew his job), so far so good, great dog, everyone is happy...
A friend of mine also got a labrador, but it wasn't from a reputable breeder and it turns out the dog has a bad hip, now the family loves their dog but they have to watch it suffer in pain and have had numerous medical bills to try and help the dog (it is only 4 years old at this point).
So getting mad at people who buy dogs from breeders is just being ill-informed...
Doom and Quake totally started and defined FPS games, doom was somewhere around 30 and quake isn;t even listed? Quake was one of the best selling games of all times, and Defined FPS games with 360 degres of movement and aiming... wtf?
As a lot of other people have pointed out, a lot of good games weren't even mentioned but a lot of shitty ones were.. TA where are you?!?!
TA defined RTS gaming and to this day still has all of the best elements that make a great RTS...
"That's actually one of the GOOD things about having a military which is drawn primarily from the general population. It doesn't go over too well when a tyrant wanna-be tells them to mow down their friends & family."
That's why the have the "national guard" so that you have a wide distrubution of soldiers from acorss the country, so when you have to act upon an uprising in one specific area, the chance that a soldier would actually be facing friends or family is very slim indeed...
Makes me think currently of the WTO protestors and historically Kent State...
I think we could return most of the control back to the people by either taking away the right of corporations to be treated as people, or make corporations fully responsible and treated as people (since that is how they are seen in the eyes of the law).
So if a corporation is responsible for killing a person, lock it up for manslaughter (no business dealings for the term of their imprisionment).
Since the second alternative would basically kill all corporations, I say the only viable alternative is to return the corporation status to that of pre-person status.
but now people can see what her "cover" work place was during the time she was covert, and this same place of work is the cover for many other operatives who ARE now in danger...
the SS look good but my biggest concern is that there be more than 2 baddies at a time or it will be a borefest like doom3.. and none of that "clear a room, oops you forgot the one guy who was behind a wall and now he pops out as you walk past" BS...
ok this helps clarify the analogy a bit, but still seems a little backwards to me as in one (the bus) the less you wait the better, and in the other (bug fixes) the longer you wait the better.
But I understand the correlation you are trying to make is that in both cases you have to give as much time as possible for the solution to be made (bus to stop, bug to be fixed).
"The same holds true for talking about problems in ANY WAY, SHAPE, or FORM when it comes to computer software or computer hardware. You can't just jump out there and start screaming there is a problem because the bus can't stop that fast to prevent disaster."
That is not a very good analogy...
You're basically saying that if the bus doesn't have enough time to stop, then don't say anything and let it crash.
Unless you're advocating keeping known problems a secret and cleaning up the mess afterwards as well as fixing the problem...
I would say for the people on the bus, they would rather have someone on the side of the road waving their hands and screaming franticly, even if there are going to crash.
if you are asking if I believe what eh bible says, then yes, if you are asking if I believe that this world will pass away and be replaced by a new one... then i would say, i think the bible does say something to that effect...
"Since the advent of the video game they've seen this apprehension dissipate..."
Yah you're completely right, before when a giant pink eating machine on 2 feet would charge me, I would hesitate before firing up my chainsaw and going to work... now it's just second nature...
Just the other day when I was walking through my ancient castle, a death knight popped out of a dark corner, I flipped out my rocket launcher and blew him into pieces... previously I would have stopped, considered the death knight's feelings and the reprecussions of blowing his head off (blood is hard to get out of my jumpsuit, and makes the red key that much harder to find), but now i just fire away...
All of the studies and statistics I have seen have shown either no direct correlation between video game use and teen violence, or that overall teen violence has steadily declined since the introduction of PC and Console gaming.
This is just another attempt to turn the focus away from things that really matter (growing poverty rate, federal defecit, War in Iraq, etc, etc) and turn the attention to something that can be easily pounced on and "controlled" by new laws and regulations driven by fears of the general unknowing public...
Why don't Americans demand more from their politicians?
Seeing as how they sold 34 million copies BEFORE the Hot Coffee was even known about, how could this have been done for "profit"?!?
If they had leaked it, maybe, if they had leaked it or it had been known as soon as it hit game store shelves, ok, but 6+ months after release and someone hacked/exploited the code to get it to work!?!?
"Also, they (and their cohorts) have promised to stop payola numerous times in the past only to find another way to pass the money under the table."
In criminal law this would be seen as a pattern of escalation and would incurr harsher penalties, unfortunately although corporations are seen as people int he eyes of the law, their punishment is hardly meted out in the same way...
I think they should hold corporations as accountable as people, so say a corporation commits a crime like illegally dumping toxins that cause people to die (PG&E for example) then the corporation should have to spend some time in "jail" where they are not allowed to do any business for the term of their "imprisonment".
The windows installer has this option also (so you don't have to do it in command line mode prior to installtion).
but be warned I have had problems installing Windows XP on a drive using NTFS and the quick format option, sometimes it can't properly read the drive after formatting.. i'm not sure if it had to do with a prior partition/formatting on the hard drive or if it also happened on a brand new drive.. but I have seen it happen... using the full format option inthe installer was the only solution.
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Yah i agree, everytime this has been forced on people it has been (forgive my pun) heavenly.. um like germany in the 30's, communist russia, China right now, etc... good point.
"I don't give a rats ass what you believe in"
A bit offtopic but I think we should make our currency out of rat asses, if not for any other reason than to make this wittcism some quantify-able measure... i'm sure there is some guy reading slashdot out there with a trash bag full of rat asses who would read this entirely different...
Sorry to nitpick but I wanted to clarify something you said and a lot of Christains might not understand.
:)
You said:
"As a christian, my interpretation is that Jesus basically told us, forget about the old testament, it's obsolete now, and here's what's important..."
So Jesus was actually saying in his teachings that he fulfilled the Old Testament and he was the New Testament and gave his rules for this New Testament (hence the passage "my burden is easy and my yoke is light", and it is quite easier considering the numerous laws in the OT).
If you look at the OT and NT and how they are set up as agreements (like a legal contract) this makes sense, basically the OT was an agreement for the forgiving of sins of the jewish people but it was just a placeholder and temporary forgiveness until Jesus came and fufilled the requirements of the OT and established the New Testament (or new agreement).
So you got the basic message just thought i'd clarify a bit, FYI
I think the best solution for the dogs who would otherwise be euthanised is what they are currently doing with prisoner rehab.
They take dogs who would be slated for death, and have them trained by inmates at a local prison to become helping dogs, (like bomb sniffers, blind assistants, etc..) everybody wins, the dogs get a home, the inmates get some "therapy".
I think people who are buying a family pet should buy from a reputable breeder, it costs more in the outset, but you avoid health bills in the long run and you get to acclimate the dog to your household at a very young age (which helps them become more docile and accepting of humans).
I still believe you will have less problems health wise with a good breeder who knows what he/she is doing rather than someone doing it solely for the profit.
Of course in my opinion (although not very popular) the best thing to do with strains who have genetic defects is to let them die, it seems more natural to me (like natural seelection in the wild) than to perpetuate the species with these defects because it seems more "humane".
"Selective breeding of dogs is the cause of these genetic defects, not the solution to them!"
I don't know if I can agree with this, I think history will show that when you clean the genetic pool and keep one line of genetics strong and pure you will soon have a "master race" of dog superior in intellect and health to all other "mongrels".
Just like the might German Shepard!! um, oh, ok nvm..
"have been improperly bred so that they develop a wide variety of health problems"
That is due to lazyness or incompetence on the part of the breeder not the KC, the KC makes sure that proper breeding techniques are followed (as well as medical screenings of all dogs who are registered for breeding), as well as tracking bloodlines (papers) to help reduce the genetic dispositions for disorder.
"find a housepet that won't freak out and mame our children. "
This is a good point but also there are the health implications to consider, unless a animal (dog/cat in this instance) is bred correctly, it can lead to genetic defects and other health problems.
AKC breeds have to meet a certain standard to get papaers and before they are sold (depnding on the breed) they have to be medically screened for certian genetic traits... for example, our family bought a Golden labrador, they have a genetic disposition towards hip problems, our dog was screened and everything looked ok (the breeder has also been breeding for a number of years, had award winning dogs, and knew his job), so far so good, great dog, everyone is happy...
A friend of mine also got a labrador, but it wasn't from a reputable breeder and it turns out the dog has a bad hip, now the family loves their dog but they have to watch it suffer in pain and have had numerous medical bills to try and help the dog (it is only 4 years old at this point).
So getting mad at people who buy dogs from breeders is just being ill-informed...
Doom and Quake totally started and defined FPS games, doom was somewhere around 30 and quake isn;t even listed? Quake was one of the best selling games of all times, and Defined FPS games with 360 degres of movement and aiming... wtf?
As a lot of other people have pointed out, a lot of good games weren't even mentioned but a lot of shitty ones were.. TA where are you?!?!
TA defined RTS gaming and to this day still has all of the best elements that make a great RTS...
"That's actually one of the GOOD things about having a military which is drawn primarily from the general population. It doesn't go over too well when a tyrant wanna-be tells them to mow down their friends & family."
That's why the have the "national guard" so that you have a wide distrubution of soldiers from acorss the country, so when you have to act upon an uprising in one specific area, the chance that a soldier would actually be facing friends or family is very slim indeed...
Makes me think currently of the WTO protestors and historically Kent State...
I think we could return most of the control back to the people by either taking away the right of corporations to be treated as people, or make corporations fully responsible and treated as people (since that is how they are seen in the eyes of the law).
So if a corporation is responsible for killing a person, lock it up for manslaughter (no business dealings for the term of their imprisionment).
Since the second alternative would basically kill all corporations, I say the only viable alternative is to return the corporation status to that of pre-person status.
I saw a lot of posts about motion sickness on the forums when HL2 came out, and changing the FOV seemed to help a lot for people...
I think it's default is 75 which can play games with your vision since humans can see I think in excess of 120...
but now people can see what her "cover" work place was during the time she was covert, and this same place of work is the cover for many other operatives who ARE now in danger...
Good point, I hope they string this guy up for treason, right next to Karl Rove, I mean the guy shredded a document!!!!.
the SS look good but my biggest concern is that there be more than 2 baddies at a time or it will be a borefest like doom3.. and none of that "clear a room, oops you forgot the one guy who was behind a wall and now he pops out as you walk past" BS...
ok this helps clarify the analogy a bit, but still seems a little backwards to me as in one (the bus) the less you wait the better, and in the other (bug fixes) the longer you wait the better.
:)
But I understand the correlation you are trying to make is that in both cases you have to give as much time as possible for the solution to be made (bus to stop, bug to be fixed).
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"The same holds true for talking about problems in ANY WAY, SHAPE, or FORM when it comes to computer software or computer hardware. You can't just jump out there and start screaming there is a problem because the bus can't stop that fast to prevent disaster."
That is not a very good analogy...
You're basically saying that if the bus doesn't have enough time to stop, then don't say anything and let it crash.
Unless you're advocating keeping known problems a secret and cleaning up the mess afterwards as well as fixing the problem...
I would say for the people on the bus, they would rather have someone on the side of the road waving their hands and screaming franticly, even if there are going to crash.
"Hmm... world domination with femme-bots. Now that's an idea."
Only if they had fricken laser beams attached to their heads!!
Throw me a bone here people... sheesh!!
if you are asking if I believe what eh bible says, then yes, if you are asking if I believe that this world will pass away and be replaced by a new one... then i would say, i think the bible does say something to that effect...
"Since the advent of the video game they've seen this apprehension dissipate..."
Yah you're completely right, before when a giant pink eating machine on 2 feet would charge me, I would hesitate before firing up my chainsaw and going to work... now it's just second nature...
Just the other day when I was walking through my ancient castle, a death knight popped out of a dark corner, I flipped out my rocket launcher and blew him into pieces... previously I would have stopped, considered the death knight's feelings and the reprecussions of blowing his head off (blood is hard to get out of my jumpsuit, and makes the red key that much harder to find), but now i just fire away...
All of the studies and statistics I have seen have shown either no direct correlation between video game use and teen violence, or that overall teen violence has steadily declined since the introduction of PC and Console gaming.
This is just another attempt to turn the focus away from things that really matter (growing poverty rate, federal defecit, War in Iraq, etc, etc) and turn the attention to something that can be easily pounced on and "controlled" by new laws and regulations driven by fears of the general unknowing public...
Why don't Americans demand more from their politicians?
Seeing as how they sold 34 million copies BEFORE the Hot Coffee was even known about, how could this have been done for "profit"?!?
If they had leaked it, maybe, if they had leaked it or it had been known as soon as it hit game store shelves, ok, but 6+ months after release and someone hacked/exploited the code to get it to work!?!?
How is this some evil plan of Rockstar's?
"Also, they (and their cohorts) have promised to stop payola numerous times in the past only to find another way to pass the money under the table."
In criminal law this would be seen as a pattern of escalation and would incurr harsher penalties, unfortunately although corporations are seen as people int he eyes of the law, their punishment is hardly meted out in the same way...
I think they should hold corporations as accountable as people, so say a corporation commits a crime like illegally dumping toxins that cause people to die (PG&E for example) then the corporation should have to spend some time in "jail" where they are not allowed to do any business for the term of their "imprisonment".
"His name was Robert Paulson!"
hmm, I see it more as "the sword is not an answer to the problem..."
As the disciples should be looking towards their reward in heaven, not trying to make a heaven on earth...death is not the end afterall..
The windows installer has this option also (so you don't have to do it in command line mode prior to installtion).
but be warned I have had problems installing Windows XP on a drive using NTFS and the quick format option, sometimes it can't properly read the drive after formatting.. i'm not sure if it had to do with a prior partition/formatting on the hard drive or if it also happened on a brand new drive.. but I have seen it happen... using the full format option inthe installer was the only solution.
FWIW