Well in order to play with ALL of the weapons that are included in BF2 ( one weapon for each class is "locked") you have to earn enough "Rank" to unlock them.. you can only play on ranked servers to earn "rank" points, and you can only host a ranked server if you pay EA or one of their "authorized server providers" 8 dollars per slot.
With BF1942, anyone could host a server or mod of 1942, now you can host a free server but who wants to play on a server where their play doesn't count towards their "rank" and thus won't allow them to unlock their weapons?
Also you have to create an "online account" where you give them your email address, this information can be given out to any one they want for any purpose (it states this in their EULA)...
"But in Luke 22:35-38, he also tells his disciples to get swords, even if they had to sell their mantle(cloak or outer robe) to get one.
So self-defense is considered necessary, at times."
It might be because he knew they would come for him with swords and staves and wanted to help protect his disciples... just having the swords would diffuse the situation a bit and make the armed guards think before attacking, rather than coming up across Jesus and 11 people defenseless and using swords to take Jesus...
Luke 22 [49] When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword? [50] And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. [51] And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him. [52] Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
In one of the other books (mark or matthew) he says "Those who live by the sword die by the sword" basically warning his disciples not to use them...
Being a christian myself, I believe in the right to life, but that doesn't mean that i have the right to tell other people how to behave and act...
If you are a christian you might think that you have an obligation to tell people how abortion is wrong.. . and you are right but that's where your obligation ends... you HAVE to let people make up their own minds...
God doesn't want people who are forced to obey him, he wants you to make a choice, that's why there is no "proof" that he exists.
If you want to follow a "God" who forces his subjects to obey him, maybe you should talk to Anton Le Vey (um wait i think he's dead now).
Anyhow just some stuff to think about, not a direct criticism of the parent.
The companies' objective is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders, not to please their customers...
Do you think EA looked at Battlefield 2 and said to themselves "Man, this game is good but how can we make sure that whoever buys it has the best playing experience possible?"
I bet you it was more along the lines of "wow look how many people play on BF1942 servers that people provide for free, I wonder how we could capitalize on that...."
Fry: "Well sure, but not in our games! Only on tv and radio...and in magazines...and movies. And at ball games, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in games! No sirree."
"One possibility is that trying him will endanger operatives."
Then they shouldn't have arrested him, they should have waited until their "operatives" were done with their work and arrested whoever was invloved and then try them.
not to mention the fact that you are spouting "possibilities"...
We don't arrest people for what they might do in this country.. we arrest them for what they have done...
But i guess as long as fox news tell you differently you have no problem with people having their rights stripped away.
Just wait until it is you, by then everyone else will have been locked up already and then no one will be left to fight for you.
But we have rights in this country to protect against this very type of abuse, right to a speedy trial, remember that one?
It helps guarantee that the government can't just put people in jail because they "might" be a threat or because they don't like what they believe in.
You have already convicted this guy in your mind by saying what his motive was in coming back to this country, when there is no way you could possibly know what he is thinking.. but yet you trust people who say "the government wouldn't hold him if he didn't do something wrong?!?"
If he has done something wrong charge him, if you aren't going to charge him, let him go, i'm sorry if this isn't the way you would like things handled but it is the way our government has been setup to work and it has worked just fine for the past 200 years, or are you saying we should throw away our rights at the first sign of trouble?
That's what the patriot act is doing... think f all the people who died for our rights which you so freely are willing to piddle away.. or is it just because it isn't you whose rights are being trampled on?
"GWB spoke of balancing the budget (like all republicans do), but his actions were like reagan's rather than his fathers (did not balance, but at least started the process)."
The budget was already balanced, in fact we had a surplus which was paying off our national debt... pre-GWB that is...
It is just this anonymity that guarantees that we can do these things...
If the government can arbitrarily find out whatever someone is doing, then they can control what you are allowed to think, read or do...
There is nothing wrong with reading about bomb making or Islam, so why should the government be allowed to know if i do so?
I recently bought "The anarchist's cookbook" at Amazon, did i build bombs and traps and kill people? No, but if I had read this in a library it would definitely look suspicious enough to haul me in for questioning right?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but we are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.. if that is so then why would i be considered guilty just be reading a book?
Anonymity helps to ensure the burden of proof of guilt by the government...
not to mention that the control towers noted the suspect planes (they had their transponders turned off which is required for all aircraft) reported it and nothing was done by the military who were training for just this type of attack that day (9/11).
"Could have" is not a good enough reason to endorse an act like this, we had the resources to stop what happened on 9/11 but we didn't.
That day, there were a lot of military training missions going on near new york, yet no one responded to 3 planes who had turned off their transponders...
IT would be nice to know what happened in the flight control rooms around new york but unfortunately during the events of 9/11 all of that evidence was destroyed...
Kinda makes you wonder if the reason the president didn't react when he heard about the first plane crash is because he knew there would be a second and was waiting for that?
"Q3Arena was a ripoff and its a shame such potential was utterly wasted on a crappy version of Unreal Trounament"
Yah it was a rip off of a game that came out AFTER Quake3 yah ok that makes sense...
Not to mention the fact that previously Unreal was a single player game and UT was a clone of the game model of Multiplayer first, and second player as a bot match/no story...
Who ripped off who?
Alos I might note that today there is still a strong Q3 community while UT has revived their community by releasing new versions of their game...
What story?!?! Seriously.. the only story development was to tell you stuff about the original HL (expanded onthe characters from HL1) there was basically NO STORY for HL2, at no point do you know why these things are happening around you, why it got this way, or what you are actually doing to resolve anything...
All you are told about the current HL2 universe is that you need to get to the the next point and everything wil be explained... you get to the next point and OH NOESS!!! there is a nother crisis and no time to talk...
HL2 had NO STORY!!!
OF course this is so people will buy the next expansion/version, which is pretty cheap IMO...
Well the same religous view says you only marry once, until death... you know.. the "Vows" you make?
Then if one of you died and then you remarried to someone who followed the same path (no sex before marriage) then it would still be safe....
You know you gotta wonder where all of this sexual disease first came from... i mean if we started out as only having sex after marriage or similar, beginnings.. where did the disease come in?
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If you do try BF1942 also try the free mod called "Desert Combat", it is the template for a lot of what came to be BF2.
Well in order to play with ALL of the weapons that are included in BF2 ( one weapon for each class is "locked") you have to earn enough "Rank" to unlock them.. you can only play on ranked servers to earn "rank" points, and you can only host a ranked server if you pay EA or one of their "authorized server providers" 8 dollars per slot.
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With BF1942, anyone could host a server or mod of 1942, now you can host a free server but who wants to play on a server where their play doesn't count towards their "rank" and thus won't allow them to unlock their weapons?
Also you have to create an "online account" where you give them your email address, this information can be given out to any one they want for any purpose (it states this in their EULA)...
Check out the planet battlefield forums and you'll see what i'm talking about:
http://www.forumplanet.com/planetbattlefield/foru
"But in Luke 22:35-38, he also tells his disciples to get swords, even if they had to sell their mantle(cloak or outer robe) to get one.
So self-defense is considered necessary, at times."
It might be because he knew they would come for him with swords and staves and wanted to help protect his disciples... just having the swords would diffuse the situation a bit and make the armed guards think before attacking, rather than coming up across Jesus and 11 people defenseless and using swords to take Jesus...
Luke 22
[49] When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?
[50] And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
[51] And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
[52] Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
In one of the other books (mark or matthew) he says "Those who live by the sword die by the sword" basically warning his disciples not to use them...
Being a christian myself, I believe in the right to life, but that doesn't mean that i have the right to tell other people how to behave and act...
If you are a christian you might think that you have an obligation to tell people how abortion is wrong.. . and you are right but that's where your obligation ends... you HAVE to let people make up their own minds...
God doesn't want people who are forced to obey him, he wants you to make a choice, that's why there is no "proof" that he exists.
If you want to follow a "God" who forces his subjects to obey him, maybe you should talk to Anton Le Vey (um wait i think he's dead now).
Anyhow just some stuff to think about, not a direct criticism of the parent.
The companies' objective is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders, not to please their customers.. .
Do you think EA looked at Battlefield 2 and said to themselves "Man, this game is good but how can we make sure that whoever buys it has the best playing experience possible?"
I bet you it was more along the lines of "wow look how many people play on BF1942 servers that people provide for free, I wonder how we could capitalize on that...."
yah you're right it was dreams.. but i felt it would ruin the joke to put a disclaimer.. plus this way we know who the true fans are ;) (like you)
Trust me, they will be.. I just meta-moderated their Troll moderation ;)
Probably because what he is stating aren't "facts" but more like right wing talking points that have a whiff of truth but are mainly spin?
Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?"
Fry: "Well sure, but not in our games! Only on tv and radio...and in magazines...and movies. And at ball games, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in games! No sirree."
Chalk one up for marketing progress!!!
It probably is number 2, but I don't want to make it easier for it to become number 1, which the patriot act helps it become...
Then why do they want the power to know what I am reading?
If they don't care then why do they Need this power?
"If that's the case, what is the process for determining who is an "enemy combatant?"
Ok, so I would ask you, why would you feel the need to comment when you admit YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT."
Wow nice way to avoid the question, you should apply at Fox News as one of their "policy experts", you would fit in great.
Finally!!! I was wondering when this thread would be over... huzzah!!
"One possibility is that trying him will endanger operatives."
Then they shouldn't have arrested him, they should have waited until their "operatives" were done with their work and arrested whoever was invloved and then try them.
not to mention the fact that you are spouting "possibilities"...
We don't arrest people for what they might do in this country.. we arrest them for what they have done...
But i guess as long as fox news tell you differently you have no problem with people having their rights stripped away.
Just wait until it is you, by then everyone else will have been locked up already and then no one will be left to fight for you.
But we have rights in this country to protect against this very type of abuse, right to a speedy trial, remember that one?
It helps guarantee that the government can't just put people in jail because they "might" be a threat or because they don't like what they believe in.
You have already convicted this guy in your mind by saying what his motive was in coming back to this country, when there is no way you could possibly know what he is thinking.. but yet you trust people who say "the government wouldn't hold him if he didn't do something wrong?!?"
If he has done something wrong charge him, if you aren't going to charge him, let him go, i'm sorry if this isn't the way you would like things handled but it is the way our government has been setup to work and it has worked just fine for the past 200 years, or are you saying we should throw away our rights at the first sign of trouble?
That's what the patriot act is doing... think f all the people who died for our rights which you so freely are willing to piddle away.. or is it just because it isn't you whose rights are being trampled on?
"GWB spoke of balancing the budget (like all republicans do), but his actions were like reagan's rather than his fathers (did not balance, but at least started the process)."
The budget was already balanced, in fact we had a surplus which was paying off our national debt... pre-GWB that is...
It is just this anonymity that guarantees that we can do these things...
If the government can arbitrarily find out whatever someone is doing, then they can control what you are allowed to think, read or do...
There is nothing wrong with reading about bomb making or Islam, so why should the government be allowed to know if i do so?
I recently bought "The anarchist's cookbook" at Amazon, did i build bombs and traps and kill people? No, but if I had read this in a library it would definitely look suspicious enough to haul me in for questioning right?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but we are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.. if that is so then why would i be considered guilty just be reading a book?
Anonymity helps to ensure the burden of proof of guilt by the government...
not to mention that the control towers noted the suspect planes (they had their transponders turned off which is required for all aircraft) reported it and nothing was done by the military who were training for just this type of attack that day (9/11).
"could have prevented 9/11 in the first place."
"Could have" is not a good enough reason to endorse an act like this, we had the resources to stop what happened on 9/11 but we didn't.
That day, there were a lot of military training missions going on near new york, yet no one responded to 3 planes who had turned off their transponders...
IT would be nice to know what happened in the flight control rooms around new york but unfortunately during the events of 9/11 all of that evidence was destroyed...
Kinda makes you wonder if the reason the president didn't react when he heard about the first plane crash is because he knew there would be a second and was waiting for that?
"Q3Arena was a ripoff and its a shame such potential was utterly wasted on a crappy version of Unreal Trounament"
Yah it was a rip off of a game that came out AFTER Quake3 yah ok that makes sense...
Not to mention the fact that previously Unreal was a single player game and UT was a clone of the game model of Multiplayer first, and second player as a bot match/no story...
Who ripped off who?
Alos I might note that today there is still a strong Q3 community while UT has revived their community by releasing new versions of their game...
" it shows you the story rather than telling you"
What story?!?! Seriously.. the only story development was to tell you stuff about the original HL (expanded onthe characters from HL1) there was basically NO STORY for HL2, at no point do you know why these things are happening around you, why it got this way, or what you are actually doing to resolve anything...
All you are told about the current HL2 universe is that you need to get to the the next point and everything wil be explained... you get to the next point and OH NOESS!!! there is a nother crisis and no time to talk...
HL2 had NO STORY!!!
OF course this is so people will buy the next expansion/version, which is pretty cheap IMO...
yah but not with hl2, there is no way to get the patches other than letting steam download them via teh internets..
I agree with you, I was just curious how you felt :)
"Compare with heroin, crack, meth. converting all our addicts to this would be a boon to society."
So would you be in favor of legalizing all drugs?
Same outcome...
Well the same religous view says you only marry once, until death... you know.. the "Vows" you make?
Then if one of you died and then you remarried to someone who followed the same path (no sex before marriage) then it would still be safe....
You know you gotta wonder where all of this sexual disease first came from... i mean if we started out as only having sex after marriage or similar, beginnings.. where did the disease come in?