How many brazilians do you know?
I'm not characterizing all Brazilians the way you are to Americans, so it's irrelevant how many Brazilians I know. You're changing the subject, as you're clearly uncomfortable with your own racism. And that's a healthy discomfort... it can lead to true change, and eventual escape from your racism, if you transform your shame into understanding and tolerance.
You have a long road ahead of you, and I wish you well.
You're equating the enforcement of an single-language rule on a game server to the Holocaust? How stupid are you?
I hereby invoke Godwin's Law upon you. And with any luck, Darwin's Law will impose itself upon you, too.
You just negatively characterized an entire people. And don't tell me you were making an objective, non-normative statement - you weren't. So, yes, you're a racist. Either embrace your racism (bad) or change it (good).
I'm Korean-American. I doubt I'd be welcome at a Klan rally. And your arguing style - tar your opponent with invective and name-calling rather than address his ideas - is much more the Klan's style than mine. How's that feel?
You clearly don't know many, if any, Americans. We're human beings just like anyone else, and we certainly see social netwrking and having friends as a "big thing." Nice to see how easy it is for a racist like you to dehumanize another people.
It has nothing to do with cheating. It has to do with trying to maintain a community and a shared experience, rather than letting language automatically balkanize the game. The game is better when everyone understands each other.
If the admin wants everyone to speak the same language then the server should not be up for the world to use and see.
Umm... yeah, he runs the server and probably pays for the bandwidth, but who the hell does he think he is, laying down and enforcing rules of conduct?
Game server != world. If the admin wants people to speak one language, he's perfectly within his rights to do so... and there are some obvious practical reasons for that policy. What's so hard to understad about that?
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The English-speaking peoples of the world need to understand that outside the internet (and soon to be inside) they are a minority in the world.
Cool! When can we start demanding our affirmative action and set-aside contracts?
Brazilian internet users averaged an estimated 13 hours and 51 minutes in May, eight minutes more than for Americans.
Nice. A completely irrelevant little fact quoted at the end of the submission... equally irrelevant is this fact, actually found earlier in the article:
The United States has at least 153 million Internet users, compared with Brazil's 20 million.
But somehow, timothy decided that wasn't as significant, when in fact neither are. Typical.
There is a difference: the technical aspect of developing games for Sony consoles is a pain in the ass. Sony has practically gone out of its way to irritate and obstruct developers, as anyone who has actually worked on a Playstation game will tell you. This alone gives Microsoft a huge advantage, and quite frankly, partially explains why XBox games are typically better than their Playstation counterparts.
Which is why I love them. Retailers and manufacturers expect up to 60% of the rebates offered to never be filed, so they calculate the cost of their promotion at about 40% of face value. So I go after the heavily-rebated items and carefully track my rebates, setting up to-do alarms to remind me to check on a rebate. And there's a pretty good cottage industry of services set up to answer inquiries about pending rebates, so I make use of that, too. I see the whole thing as a tax on people too lazy to file their rebates on time - a tax that goes primarily right into my pocket.
Here are some nation-by-nation fraud statistics, generated by ClearCommerce and mirrored on a county law enforcement website. I can't vouch for their methodology, but it seems to back up the perception that the article's author is complaining about (and is a little easier on the US than the article chooses to be - score a point against reflexive America bashing).
http://www.ocalasmostwanted.com/online_fraud_stats.htm
Thank you for that uproarious moment of coffe-spitting hilarity. Do a litle research on the Three Gorges Dam, or on Shanghai air quality, or on Chinese mining practices, or pretty much any Chinese environmental practice. Then get back to us.
It's kind of arbitrary speculation to claim that the Bush "Mission to Mars" initiative is "just to give the impression of superiority over the Chinese." The US doesn't define itself relative to China, and only recently quit defining itself relative to Russia.
Now, this may be more arbitrary speculation, but I think Bush's Mars initiative has more to do with Reaganesque feel-good-about-America vaporware. Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing started on one of Karl Rove's cocktail napkins, which is probably as far as it will ever get.
You have to wonder exactly what Microsoft's IP department was thinking when they decided to file this patent. Are they really going to go after open source projects with "taskbar grouping?" The negative PR cost alone would seriously outweigh any damages they'd get, not to mention the absurdity of trying to sue an OSS project.
More likely, they're filing it so that no one else can file it and then sue Microsoft (e.g. Sun). Which is why patent laws should be changed to allow anything patentable to be "officially" placed in the public domain.
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How many brazilians do you know?
I'm not characterizing all Brazilians the way you are to Americans, so it's irrelevant how many Brazilians I know. You're changing the subject, as you're clearly uncomfortable with your own racism. And that's a healthy discomfort... it can lead to true change, and eventual escape from your racism, if you transform your shame into understanding and tolerance. You have a long road ahead of you, and I wish you well.
You're equating the enforcement of an single-language rule on a game server to the Holocaust? How stupid are you? I hereby invoke Godwin's Law upon you. And with any luck, Darwin's Law will impose itself upon you, too.
You just negatively characterized an entire people. And don't tell me you were making an objective, non-normative statement - you weren't. So, yes, you're a racist. Either embrace your racism (bad) or change it (good).
I'm Korean-American. I doubt I'd be welcome at a Klan rally. And your arguing style - tar your opponent with invective and name-calling rather than address his ideas - is much more the Klan's style than mine. How's that feel?
You clearly don't know many, if any, Americans. We're human beings just like anyone else, and we certainly see social netwrking and having friends as a "big thing." Nice to see how easy it is for a racist like you to dehumanize another people.
It has nothing to do with cheating. It has to do with trying to maintain a community and a shared experience, rather than letting language automatically balkanize the game. The game is better when everyone understands each other.
If the admin wants everyone to speak the same language then the server should not be up for the world to use and see.
Umm... yeah, he runs the server and probably pays for the bandwidth, but who the hell does he think he is, laying down and enforcing rules of conduct?
Diversity is the opposite of excellence.
Fuck off, troll. Just because you got turned down for a student visa doesn't mean you have to hate the US.
Game server != world. If the admin wants people to speak one language, he's perfectly within his rights to do so... and there are some obvious practical reasons for that policy. What's so hard to understad about that?
The English-speaking peoples of the world need to understand that outside the internet (and soon to be inside) they are a minority in the world.
Cool! When can we start demanding our affirmative action and set-aside contracts?
Brazilian internet users averaged an estimated 13 hours and 51 minutes in May, eight minutes more than for Americans.
Nice. A completely irrelevant little fact quoted at the end of the submission... equally irrelevant is this fact, actually found earlier in the article:
The United States has at least 153 million Internet users, compared with Brazil's 20 million.
But somehow, timothy decided that wasn't as significant, when in fact neither are. Typical.
See, this is why I need mod points. Now.
There is a difference: the technical aspect of developing games for Sony consoles is a pain in the ass. Sony has practically gone out of its way to irritate and obstruct developers, as anyone who has actually worked on a Playstation game will tell you. This alone gives Microsoft a huge advantage, and quite frankly, partially explains why XBox games are typically better than their Playstation counterparts.
There you go, no thanks needed. And by the way you have been reported to Homeland Security.
Fortunately, pedophilia and rape fantasies are practically unheard of in Japan.
Why any hardware company would be foolish enough to implement such a thing, until absolutely forced to, is unclear to me.
Don't worry, I assure you they haven't developed a DRM layer. Or anything else, for that matter.
Which is why I love them. Retailers and manufacturers expect up to 60% of the rebates offered to never be filed, so they calculate the cost of their promotion at about 40% of face value. So I go after the heavily-rebated items and carefully track my rebates, setting up to-do alarms to remind me to check on a rebate. And there's a pretty good cottage industry of services set up to answer inquiries about pending rebates, so I make use of that, too. I see the whole thing as a tax on people too lazy to file their rebates on time - a tax that goes primarily right into my pocket.
Here are some nation-by-nation fraud statistics, generated by ClearCommerce and mirrored on a county law enforcement website. I can't vouch for their methodology, but it seems to back up the perception that the article's author is complaining about (and is a little easier on the US than the article chooses to be - score a point against reflexive America bashing). http://www.ocalasmostwanted.com/online_fraud_stats .htm
China actually does care about the environment.
Thank you for that uproarious moment of coffe-spitting hilarity. Do a litle research on the Three Gorges Dam, or on Shanghai air quality, or on Chinese mining practices, or pretty much any Chinese environmental practice. Then get back to us.
Being a scientist himself, he surely knows what's good for his country
Yeah, like CalTech physics Ph.D. John Poindexter, who obviously knows what's best for America, e.g. Iran-Contra, Total Information Awareness...
It's kind of arbitrary speculation to claim that the Bush "Mission to Mars" initiative is "just to give the impression of superiority over the Chinese." The US doesn't define itself relative to China, and only recently quit defining itself relative to Russia. Now, this may be more arbitrary speculation, but I think Bush's Mars initiative has more to do with Reaganesque feel-good-about-America vaporware. Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing started on one of Karl Rove's cocktail napkins, which is probably as far as it will ever get.
You have to wonder exactly what Microsoft's IP department was thinking when they decided to file this patent. Are they really going to go after open source projects with "taskbar grouping?" The negative PR cost alone would seriously outweigh any damages they'd get, not to mention the absurdity of trying to sue an OSS project. More likely, they're filing it so that no one else can file it and then sue Microsoft (e.g. Sun). Which is why patent laws should be changed to allow anything patentable to be "officially" placed in the public domain.
... it terminates at the Las Vegas Hilton, better known to Slashdotters as the home of the Star Trek Experience. Don't forget to visit Quark's Bar, where you can order - shudder - "The Wrap Of Khan."
patriotism, which is a form of racism, Huh? If you are patriotic to a multiethnic country, how can that be racist?
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