More power to them. If they can make a living off what they enjoy, and through it give enjoyment to a lot of other people, I'd say they're doing better than most of us. What's the point in demanding people entertain us for free, out of their spare time and the goodness of their hearts? (Plus webcomics like that tend to have really erratic update schedules.)
What the - my car battery is dead for the third time this week?? Man, I gotta change my MiFi password again. I guess "cowboynealzcar" just won't do it.
Not bad actually. Your eventual choices are:
a) go mad and get eaten
b) run away and spend the rest of your life haunted by what your saw
Pretty Lovecraftian. But I will never look at Hulu the same way again.
There is an amazing lack of information about MeeGo.
Not surprising, really. They take the brains of anyone who finds out too much about them and put them in cases for transport to other worlds for study while the ones on earth use the bodies to blend in with humanity. If you're going looking for info, I'd invest in some big, mean dogs. They don't like dogs.
As a female MMORPG player, I agree. When I play as one of my female characters, I usually end up saying "dude, i'm a guy" just to get the guys to shut up. I'm playing the game because I want to quest, kill monsters and collect loot in a somewhat socialized setting, not indulge the fantasies of every basement-dwelling perv and creepy old guy in the party. Sheesh, guys.
Please continue reading to your kids as long as you can. You will likely never know how much of an impact it will have on their lives to have had parents who loved them and cared enough to put the time into a family activity like reading. My dad was a workaholic and the only family activity he ever did with us was read. Giving your kids a love of literature is one of the best gifts you can give them - that, and your time.
The doctor spends hours applying the vast quantities of knowledge he's gained through school. In the end, GOD gets the thanks??? The doctor gets a nod, and the researchers get ZERO recognition. How the fuck does that work?
The same way God is blamed every time a natural disaster or other huge and horrible thing happens.
Take some dogs with you when you drill, and if they start going nuts about any large, plant-like objects you find, leave them alone! Also listen for strange piping sounds in the wind.
The one in Africa is clearly worse at the moment according to the metric of killings we can do anything about.
I quite agree.
The fact that she didn't point out that it WAS happening as she spoke was disturbing. Focusing on a past event is fine and all but if the goal is to stop it I think it would be nice to at least MENTION that it is going on.
My point was that the lady probably simply wasn't aware of the situation in Africa, as the Western media isn't as big on telling their audience about ethnic genocides as they are in covering the latest Hollywood scandal. Considering she went through an ethnic slaughter and would be more concerned about the issue, I think she ought to be given the benefit of the doubt and that her not commenting on current events was more likely due to lack of information rather than deliberate omission. Sorry if I read too much into your previous post!
So... talking about the horrors of the Holocaust is racist if you don't give equal time to every other ethnic slaughter? The lady was talking about what she knew firsthand.
While you were aware of the current wars in Africa, most of the rest of the students in your class probably weren't and this lady's talk was eyeopening for them. How many African students at the time of WWII knew what was happening in the concentration camps? Most African wars don't make it to Western media; that's no reason to assume the lady didn't care about people in Africa or wouldn't have mentioned the wars if she knew about them. Why are you attacking someone (who had actually lived through) an ethnic slaughter and was trying to raise awareness of it?
I asked her why she hadn't even mentioned the millions of people currently dieing in Africa in similar or worse conditions than her own people.
Millions of Jews died in the Holocaust. Millions of Africans died and are dying in wars and genocides. How can you say one atrocity is worse than the other, as though it negated the "lesser" atrocity? This lady, after surviving an ethnic slaughter, was going around speaking about her experiences (which can't have been easy) to try to raise awareness and warn people living in a comfortable Western society about the dangers of racism. That took a lot of courage and compassion for others.
If you actually knew your neighbor was building a bomb to blow up a bus / train station / whatever (assuming you knew there was a good possibility it was credible, not just the six-year-old next door saying "I wish I could blow up my school!") and you did nothing about it, then yes, I would say you're guilty by association.
I hate the 5th Doctor episode where he spends a big chunk of time doing nothing but playing cricket. Rather than waste time with that nonsense, they should have simply consolidated the 2-part story downto 1 part.
Now now, don't disparage the first man who's lived long enough to actually understand the game.
I submit that religion illustrates perfectly our ability to make irrational decisions in the absence of evidence, and cling to obviously false explanations in spite of real facts subsequently brought to light.
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And the RIAA blames us for piracy! Aliens are clearly the only people who'd want some of the stuff they complain is being downloaded.
Skynet was too busy playing online poker with V'ger.
More power to them. If they can make a living off what they enjoy, and through it give enjoyment to a lot of other people, I'd say they're doing better than most of us. What's the point in demanding people entertain us for free, out of their spare time and the goodness of their hearts? (Plus webcomics like that tend to have really erratic update schedules.)
What the - my car battery is dead for the third time this week?? Man, I gotta change my MiFi password again. I guess "cowboynealzcar" just won't do it.
No, you'd need a Beowulf cluster of lemons for that kind of power.
Not bad actually. Your eventual choices are:
a) go mad and get eaten
b) run away and spend the rest of your life haunted by what your saw
Pretty Lovecraftian. But I will never look at Hulu the same way again.
There is an amazing lack of information about MeeGo.
Not surprising, really. They take the brains of anyone who finds out too much about them and put them in cases for transport to other worlds for study while the ones on earth use the bodies to blend in with humanity. If you're going looking for info, I'd invest in some big, mean dogs. They don't like dogs.
Ditto for Commander Keen! That game was so wacky and yet so much fun - I have a fondness for 2D side-scrollers to this day.
As a female MMORPG player, I agree. When I play as one of my female characters, I usually end up saying "dude, i'm a guy" just to get the guys to shut up. I'm playing the game because I want to quest, kill monsters and collect loot in a somewhat socialized setting, not indulge the fantasies of every basement-dwelling perv and creepy old guy in the party. Sheesh, guys.
Verily, I must don my helm of +2 int first.
Please continue reading to your kids as long as you can. You will likely never know how much of an impact it will have on their lives to have had parents who loved them and cared enough to put the time into a family activity like reading. My dad was a workaholic and the only family activity he ever did with us was read. Giving your kids a love of literature is one of the best gifts you can give them - that, and your time.
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Man. That's really dirty, I hope they get the book thrown at them good and hard.
Don't most laptops these days have a little light that indicates when the webcam is active? Did none of the students notice that?
Whoosh!
The doctor spends hours applying the vast quantities of knowledge he's gained through school. In the end, GOD gets the thanks??? The doctor gets a nod, and the researchers get ZERO recognition. How the fuck does that work?
The same way God is blamed every time a natural disaster or other huge and horrible thing happens.
Take some dogs with you when you drill, and if they start going nuts about any large, plant-like objects you find, leave them alone!
Also listen for strange piping sounds in the wind.
The one in Africa is clearly worse at the moment according to the metric of killings we can do anything about.
I quite agree.
The fact that she didn't point out that it WAS happening as she spoke was disturbing. Focusing on a past event is fine and all but if the goal is to stop it I think it would be nice to at least MENTION that it is going on.
My point was that the lady probably simply wasn't aware of the situation in Africa, as the Western media isn't as big on telling their audience about ethnic genocides as they are in covering the latest Hollywood scandal. Considering she went through an ethnic slaughter and would be more concerned about the issue, I think she ought to be given the benefit of the doubt and that her not commenting on current events was more likely due to lack of information rather than deliberate omission.
Sorry if I read too much into your previous post!
Now that's taking concert pyrotechnics to a new level!
While you were aware of the current wars in Africa, most of the rest of the students in your class probably weren't and this lady's talk was eyeopening for them. How many African students at the time of WWII knew what was happening in the concentration camps? Most African wars don't make it to Western media; that's no reason to assume the lady didn't care about people in Africa or wouldn't have mentioned the wars if she knew about them. Why are you attacking someone (who had actually lived through) an ethnic slaughter and was trying to raise awareness of it?
I asked her why she hadn't even mentioned the millions of people currently dieing in Africa in similar or worse conditions than her own people.
Millions of Jews died in the Holocaust. Millions of Africans died and are dying in wars and genocides. How can you say one atrocity is worse than the other, as though it negated the "lesser" atrocity? This lady, after surviving an ethnic slaughter, was going around speaking about her experiences (which can't have been easy) to try to raise awareness and warn people living in a comfortable Western society about the dangers of racism. That took a lot of courage and compassion for others.
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If you actually knew your neighbor was building a bomb to blow up a bus / train station / whatever (assuming you knew there was a good possibility it was credible, not just the six-year-old next door saying "I wish I could blow up my school!") and you did nothing about it, then yes, I would say you're guilty by association.
I hate the 5th Doctor episode where he spends a big chunk of time doing nothing but playing cricket. Rather than waste time with that nonsense, they should have simply consolidated the 2-part story downto 1 part.
Now now, don't disparage the first man who's lived long enough to actually understand the game.
I submit that religion illustrates perfectly our ability to make irrational decisions in the absence of evidence, and cling to obviously false explanations in spite of real facts subsequently brought to light.
So does Clippy.
Nobody back then was subjected to the Spice Girls. Luxury...