It's not a special case. Rhodesia has gone from being the breadbasket of Africa under Ian Smith to being being the biggest economic failure in human history. Under Apartheid South Africa had the most advanced medical science in the world. Now they have the most AIDS cases in the world.
South and southeast Asia, as well as central and South America are all doing perfectly fine on their own even after being under colonial rule for so long. The Arab parts of Africa are for the most part doing just fine. The rest of Africa is pretty much a gigantic cesspit. Frankly, I don't care if I get called a racist, but I only see one variable that separates the non-Arab parts of Africa and the rest of the former colonial world.
Back in the day, there were only so many things that the hardware could do. The lack of 3D environments meant that there were no camera angles to fuck up. Graphical limitations meant that the developers had to focus on the gameplay itself rather than trying to hide a shitty game behind pretty graphics and cutscenes. Memory limitations meant that level design had to be well thought out and the developers had to keep things simple and to the point.
However, perhaps the biggest change between now and then is that back then games were actually hard to beat. There was no sense of entitlement in games. Levels had time limits, you had limited lives, continues were almost unheard of, and if save points even existed they were few and far between. You didn't spend twenty hours playing through a game once because it was just a collection of cutscenes strung together with painfully easy gameplay. You spent weeks playing levels over and over until you actually master the game. Keep missing that jump in the fourth level of world eight? Well, by the time you can master it you can finish the other seven worlds in your sleep. These days it's pretty much impossible to not finish a game unless you just get bored and stop playing.
Which is why I suggest using another mafia tactic against them and simply assassinating both their executives and their lawyers. They can't use these organized crime tactics if they're dead.
These cunts sue people and extort fees out of businesses for singing Happy Birthday. They're racketeers of the worst kind and they've paid off the lawmakers and judges. The only possible solution to this problem is by killing them and everyone that works with them. There is no other way out.
And the best part is that in 360 million more years all the dinosaurs that Global Warming(TM) brings back will be ready for our gas tanks. Oil crisis averted!
I think there's only one more box left for dealing with *IAA types that are abusing the law for racketeering.
Would it really be so bad if someone started using mafia tactics on them since they're so fond of them? I think that wiring bombs to *IAA executives' cars and those of their slimy attorneys would be a good start. It's pretty clear that going through legal channels isn't working.
Me too. All these fancy e-book readers will be completely worthless in the event of zombie apocalypse/nuclear war/Ron Paul not getting elected in 2012.
Frankly, I prefer to have my books in a "works every time and can't be altered without my permission" format.
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It's not a special case. Rhodesia has gone from being the breadbasket of Africa under Ian Smith to being being the biggest economic failure in human history. Under Apartheid South Africa had the most advanced medical science in the world. Now they have the most AIDS cases in the world.
South and southeast Asia, as well as central and South America are all doing perfectly fine on their own even after being under colonial rule for so long. The Arab parts of Africa are for the most part doing just fine. The rest of Africa is pretty much a gigantic cesspit. Frankly, I don't care if I get called a racist, but I only see one variable that separates the non-Arab parts of Africa and the rest of the former colonial world.
If people are paying for it, the price is in no way too high.
Not if we use enough chemo the first time.
The revolution has the benefit of eliminating the cancerous elements in the previous system that would be resistant to change.
But will it actually run on any of them?
This is why I find the term "homeless" to be overly negative. I prefer to use the term "urban camper."
...I like where this is going.
Emotions or not, I'm still eating cows.
Wow, that's not what I was expecting when I clicked on a URL that had "fox" in it in a reply to a comment about the Secret of Nimh.
This is how The Secret of Nimh began, isn't it?
Back in the day, there were only so many things that the hardware could do. The lack of 3D environments meant that there were no camera angles to fuck up. Graphical limitations meant that the developers had to focus on the gameplay itself rather than trying to hide a shitty game behind pretty graphics and cutscenes. Memory limitations meant that level design had to be well thought out and the developers had to keep things simple and to the point.
However, perhaps the biggest change between now and then is that back then games were actually hard to beat. There was no sense of entitlement in games. Levels had time limits, you had limited lives, continues were almost unheard of, and if save points even existed they were few and far between. You didn't spend twenty hours playing through a game once because it was just a collection of cutscenes strung together with painfully easy gameplay. You spent weeks playing levels over and over until you actually master the game. Keep missing that jump in the fourth level of world eight? Well, by the time you can master it you can finish the other seven worlds in your sleep. These days it's pretty much impossible to not finish a game unless you just get bored and stop playing.
You've obviously never played Battletoads.
Frank Castle would be a better option in my opinion.
That sounds like something a quitter would say.
Which is why I suggest using another mafia tactic against them and simply assassinating both their executives and their lawyers. They can't use these organized crime tactics if they're dead.
I don't see how that will make them stop using the government to further a racketeering scheme.
These cunts sue people and extort fees out of businesses for singing Happy Birthday. They're racketeers of the worst kind and they've paid off the lawmakers and judges. The only possible solution to this problem is by killing them and everyone that works with them. There is no other way out.
There's a legal term for this. It's called racketeering.
And the best part is that in 360 million more years all the dinosaurs that Global Warming(TM) brings back will be ready for our gas tanks. Oil crisis averted!
I think there's only one more box left for dealing with *IAA types that are abusing the law for racketeering.
Would it really be so bad if someone started using mafia tactics on them since they're so fond of them? I think that wiring bombs to *IAA executives' cars and those of their slimy attorneys would be a good start. It's pretty clear that going through legal channels isn't working.
Me too. All these fancy e-book readers will be completely worthless in the event of zombie apocalypse/nuclear war/Ron Paul not getting elected in 2012.
Frankly, I prefer to have my books in a "works every time and can't be altered without my permission" format.
Fuck them. Maybe after the ant kingdom suffers a zombie apocalypse the little fuckers will stay out of my kitchen.
Now that's change I can believe in!
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To avoid redundancy.