ahh, but doom is not for minors
the onyl way these kids could get it is through piracy (unless moms of the world aren't deteered by the glorious doom cover art)
it's similar to a phenomenon i've noticed in British Columbia where a lot of high school kids find it easier to get pot then alcohol because alochol is legal but controled. a kid has to jump through a lot less hoops to get a free copy of Doom then pay for it. at least that was my experience with the origional when i was but a wee minor.
US contributes 'quite a lot of aid.' But you are right. There is nothing openly arrogant about anything done in Europe. After all, they are willing to criticise Israel on everything it does but are 'sensitive' enough to turn a blind eye to every other injustice that goes on in the world. The Spanish ellections where influenced by terrorist attacks. France is becoming a scary place to be if you are visibly religious (with both anti religous policy and hate crimes at an all time high). All in all, Europe is looking to become a 'United States of Europe' and I am not convinced that they will flex their power as a superpower any more responsibly then the US did.
It's almost as if this world we live in has countries that do thigns that are both good and bad. America is a big place. it does a lot of questionable things. it does a lot of bad things. and it does a lot of good things. same can be said of europe. I'm sick of everyone trying to pretend the world is a dicotomy and proclaiming everything evil or good. This isn't starwars. There is no 'good side'
And europe, like the US, has both some of the best music. And, like the US, Europe has some of the trashiest, cookie cutter music one can imagine.
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actualyl, sci fi writers would write about the danger of teh sewer flooding and a world where everyone drowned. they would advocate getting out. (well most). you see, they write about a hypothetical situation regarding their present situation, not the ones that aren't explored. now, had there been people trhying to get out the sewere, half would write about the benevolent beings outside the swere who would give everyone cake and space ships. the other half would say that the people out htere would kick you back and flood the sewers.
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ahh but whoever controls the spice, controls life...
i really don't see how that ending is all that diffrent. so the main character cares. but no one else understands his caring. the main character is simply a plot on the graph of society, having him deviate from the norm isn't a nessecity. the girlfriend already did this. had he died, the girlfriend would have felt sympathy. but it was her who died and, the main character is an example of the rest of society. why should he care that she died but no one else is able to understand this emotion. surely the girlfriend isn't the only fatality that's ever occured.
barrage of comments i don't have to.
also, you really don't give credit to the late teens critical analysis that this book is focused towards. i think, like yourself, the audience would be disgusted by the main characters inhumanity and, indoing so, the authors point is reached.
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The author's conclusion is that life is cheap and humans are sheep.
and is the author wrong. I'm sorry if you don't like the message, and it upsets you, but a world where instant communication replaces one on one human interaction, and everyone locks them away remotely does limit a persons empathy for another. a person, in life, has the capacity to distance themselvse from a person, be they alive or deceased. in a time where all social connections are merely superficial, it is concievable that society could manifest an inherint autism. the loss of another is about as harrowing as the season finale if a favorite show. i suppose what you dislike is that there are no 'firefighters' or 'thought police' imposing this reality. that people, collectivly, without some kind of overseer, arrived at this state. well? why couldn't they. and, the main character might not struggle against society, but the girlfriend does. the struggle is hers, seen through the eyes of a disenchanted person who is just like everyone else. This is sci fi. It's simply hyperbole. it's an extreme extrapolation of where our society is headed. and, as with many distopias, it's not somethign we want. i think this is exactly what youth should be reading. afterall, the conclusion is never that 'life is cheap' but that 'life is becoming cheaper and, we should hold onto our humanity lest we fall into the trap depicted in the tale.' too use an example, not yet cited, in 'a clockwork orange,' anthony burguesse explores freedom of choice and what constitutes morality. he does so by having a disinfected main character who, at the end of the tale, repents nothing. is it dangerous for the youth to read a tale where the main character learns nothing?
and no i didn't RTFB, but thanks to your
Microsoft has a huge marketing department so they can please the people they are trying to sell to. Linux developers are their own market. By following Linux developers you are, more often then not, finding out what developers, like myself, want and need. By following Microsoft, you are finding what glitzy feature convinces someone that, maybe it's time to retire Office 97. The fact is, I have found few people, if any, who truly want a 3D desktop enviroment. I know others think diffrently, but i found XPs default taskbar seemed childish and condiscending.
frankly, i don't care if the casual consumer uses linux or not (though a larger market share would have some benefits). the people who develop for linux generally want and need the same things as my self and i'm happy.
That being said, faster file searching is definatly a useful tool. But if the registry in Windows is any indication of what the file system is going to look like in order for anything to get found, i don't want it.
On a random side note, App Rocket is a nifty program launcher for windows that finds files very fast.
Living in Vancouver, BC, microsoft code names humour me quite a bit. Last weekend i was drinking in whistler, sitting at the longhorn salloon with a nice view of blackcomb thinking of all the big skii lodges owned by MS execs.
Nope. A good business man will say 'don't spend 10k to save 5.' A good geek says 'spend an extra 40 hours ot achieve no noticable diffrence, but slightly sexier/ellegant code.' It's the problem with geeks. Many of us enjoy optomising, even when there isn't a need.
Who buys a computer with linux on it and doesn't know what linux is. I would jsut assume that most people who buy a PC without XP on would know whaqt they are doing to a certain degree (either they are going to install their own burnt copy of XP or another OS). I mean... how many people do you know who 'accidently' bought a linux box. I don't know anyone who did it deliberatly.
However, everyoen i know who uses linux started with a windows box (or no OS) and, either dual boots or goes all linux. Given the lack of people distributing linux, i'd assume that this is the route for most linux users
Barnes and Nobles are, in fact, realyl just a starbucks wrapper. they add to the atmosphere starbucks is trying to provide. at least that is the best estimation i can come up with..
a study that says rapists look at porn is pretty dumb and about as valuable as a study that says rapists eat bread. so what? it's a false cause and effect.
But i think the role is diffrent. Rape is generally never about sex (however stabbings are, go figure). The rapist who is looking at porn, persumably, hates women and is thinking violent thoughts towards her, while the average guy is just thinking about consentual awesomness.
Besides, there aer so many studies that say so many things, the room for sweeping bias is amazing...
As for videogames, i agree that they provide a catahrtic release, and are theraputic. While, not encouraging people to be violent, i do believe that there is the unfortunate side effect of disensitisation (after a while certain stimulus fails to shock). Of course, teh same coudl eb said of the evening news.
In english, or is generally used to specify one or the other, but not both. So, they where really saying 'a xor !a'. Granted, this still evaluates to true. And it still dodging around the issue. I do enjoy how project looking glass (cool but fairly useless) was used as an example of the trend of Sun to go open source. I guess, as people speculated, Sun decided to dig through their stuff, find something 'sorta cool' and throw it to the public saying 'see, we're trying.
NO, it's a simple business model. It's really sort of a... not a pyramid, more of a triangle, not so much a scheme... but a plan
Yes, it's a triangle plan. See, all you have to do is open two starbucks, adn get all your employees to open two starbucks. I'll show you some sexy graphs with you holding a lot of money. EVERYONE WINS AND WE ALL RETIRE BY 25
Actually, the extended edition, as strange as it sounds, probably won't feel as drawn out. Why? Well my biggest complaint with the movie is the last half an hour was all this tiresome conclusion and rap up. But, inbetween the crowning at rivendell, and frodos final departure, there is the return to hobbiton, an action packed event. This was filmed and is to be included on the extended edition. So, infact, you won't have to sit through two long scenes of people hugging and crying, back to back
umm... this guy can't get fan size right (let alone check for dust in his origional fan). i really don't think that installing a water cooling system is really the task he should be assigned.
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words per minute? you insensitive americans. i believe the SI measumerunt is l/s (letters per second).
"farva, what's that resteraunt you like with all the goofy stuff on the walls?"
"shenanigans. you guys are talking about shennanigans right?"
ahh, but doom is not for minors
the onyl way these kids could get it is through piracy (unless moms of the world aren't deteered by the glorious doom cover art)
it's similar to a phenomenon i've noticed in British Columbia where a lot of high school kids find it easier to get pot then alcohol because alochol is legal but controled. a kid has to jump through a lot less hoops to get a free copy of Doom then pay for it. at least that was my experience with the origional when i was but a wee minor.
US contributes 'quite a lot of aid.' But you are right. There is nothing openly arrogant about anything done in Europe. After all, they are willing to criticise Israel on everything it does but are 'sensitive' enough to turn a blind eye to every other injustice that goes on in the world. The Spanish ellections where influenced by terrorist attacks. France is becoming a scary place to be if you are visibly religious (with both anti religous policy and hate crimes at an all time high). All in all, Europe is looking to become a 'United States of Europe' and I am not convinced that they will flex their power as a superpower any more responsibly then the US did.
It's almost as if this world we live in has countries that do thigns that are both good and bad. America is a big place. it does a lot of questionable things. it does a lot of bad things. and it does a lot of good things. same can be said of europe. I'm sick of everyone trying to pretend the world is a dicotomy and proclaiming everything evil or good. This isn't starwars. There is no 'good side'
And europe, like the US, has both some of the best music. And, like the US, Europe has some of the trashiest, cookie cutter music one can imagine.
actualyl, sci fi writers would write about the danger of teh sewer flooding and a world where everyone drowned. they would advocate getting out. (well most). you see, they write about a hypothetical situation regarding their present situation, not the ones that aren't explored. now, had there been people trhying to get out the sewere, half would write about the benevolent beings outside the swere who would give everyone cake and space ships. the other half would say that the people out htere would kick you back and flood the sewers.
ahh but whoever controls the spice, controls life...
i really don't see how that ending is all that diffrent. so the main character cares. but no one else understands his caring. the main character is simply a plot on the graph of society, having him deviate from the norm isn't a nessecity. the girlfriend already did this. had he died, the girlfriend would have felt sympathy. but it was her who died and, the main character is an example of the rest of society. why should he care that she died but no one else is able to understand this emotion. surely the girlfriend isn't the only fatality that's ever occured.
barrage of comments i don't have to.
also, you really don't give credit to the late teens critical analysis that this book is focused towards. i think, like yourself, the audience would be disgusted by the main characters inhumanity and, indoing so, the authors point is reached.
The author's conclusion is that life is cheap and humans are sheep.
and is the author wrong. I'm sorry if you don't like the message, and it upsets you, but a world where instant communication replaces one on one human interaction, and everyone locks them away remotely does limit a persons empathy for another. a person, in life, has the capacity to distance themselvse from a person, be they alive or deceased. in a time where all social connections are merely superficial, it is concievable that society could manifest an inherint autism. the loss of another is about as harrowing as the season finale if a favorite show. i suppose what you dislike is that there are no 'firefighters' or 'thought police' imposing this reality. that people, collectivly, without some kind of overseer, arrived at this state. well? why couldn't they. and, the main character might not struggle against society, but the girlfriend does. the struggle is hers, seen through the eyes of a disenchanted person who is just like everyone else. This is sci fi. It's simply hyperbole. it's an extreme extrapolation of where our society is headed. and, as with many distopias, it's not somethign we want. i think this is exactly what youth should be reading. afterall, the conclusion is never that 'life is cheap' but that 'life is becoming cheaper and, we should hold onto our humanity lest we fall into the trap depicted in the tale.' too use an example, not yet cited, in 'a clockwork orange,' anthony burguesse explores freedom of choice and what constitutes morality. he does so by having a disinfected main character who, at the end of the tale, repents nothing. is it dangerous for the youth to read a tale where the main character learns nothing?
and no i didn't RTFB, but thanks to your
Frankly, if the work it's self is more then one word, i'm not sure even a concise review would convince me to read it
Microsoft has a huge marketing department so they can please the people they are trying to sell to. Linux developers are their own market. By following Linux developers you are, more often then not, finding out what developers, like myself, want and need. By following Microsoft, you are finding what glitzy feature convinces someone that, maybe it's time to retire Office 97. The fact is, I have found few people, if any, who truly want a 3D desktop enviroment. I know others think diffrently, but i found XPs default taskbar seemed childish and condiscending.
frankly, i don't care if the casual consumer uses linux or not (though a larger market share would have some benefits). the people who develop for linux generally want and need the same things as my self and i'm happy.
That being said, faster file searching is definatly a useful tool. But if the registry in Windows is any indication of what the file system is going to look like in order for anything to get found, i don't want it.
On a random side note, App Rocket is a nifty program launcher for windows that finds files very fast.
Living in Vancouver, BC, microsoft code names humour me quite a bit. Last weekend i was drinking in whistler, sitting at the longhorn salloon with a nice view of blackcomb thinking of all the big skii lodges owned by MS execs.
But surely you are worried about having to pay out SCO for each kernel you use...
Nope. A good business man will say 'don't spend 10k to save 5.' A good geek says 'spend an extra 40 hours ot achieve no noticable diffrence, but slightly sexier/ellegant code.' It's the problem with geeks. Many of us enjoy optomising, even when there isn't a need.
Who buys a computer with linux on it and doesn't know what linux is. I would jsut assume that most people who buy a PC without XP on would know whaqt they are doing to a certain degree (either they are going to install their own burnt copy of XP or another OS). I mean... how many people do you know who 'accidently' bought a linux box. I don't know anyone who did it deliberatly.
However, everyoen i know who uses linux started with a windows box (or no OS) and, either dual boots or goes all linux. Given the lack of people distributing linux, i'd assume that this is the route for most linux users
Just one step closer to CocaWarner McMicroSonySoft
Barnes and Nobles are, in fact, realyl just a starbucks wrapper. they add to the atmosphere starbucks is trying to provide. at least that is the best estimation i can come up with..
a study that says rapists look at porn is pretty dumb and about as valuable as a study that says rapists eat bread. so what? it's a false cause and effect.
But i think the role is diffrent. Rape is generally never about sex (however stabbings are, go figure). The rapist who is looking at porn, persumably, hates women and is thinking violent thoughts towards her, while the average guy is just thinking about consentual awesomness.
Besides, there aer so many studies that say so many things, the room for sweeping bias is amazing...
As for videogames, i agree that they provide a catahrtic release, and are theraputic. While, not encouraging people to be violent, i do believe that there is the unfortunate side effect of disensitisation (after a while certain stimulus fails to shock). Of course, teh same coudl eb said of the evening news.
so, to end outsourcing, we just have to boost the economy of the rest of teh world SO HIGH they all out source to us
i like it
In english, or is generally used to specify one or the other, but not both. So, they where really saying 'a xor !a'. Granted, this still evaluates to true.
And it still dodging around the issue. I do enjoy how project looking glass (cool but fairly useless) was used as an example of the trend of Sun to go open source. I guess, as people speculated, Sun decided to dig through their stuff, find something 'sorta cool' and throw it to the public saying 'see, we're trying.
Wait, if RFID chips are being put in money, and they are patented...
can intermec claim they deserve royalties on money?!?
"We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks. We saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other."
NO, it's a simple business model. It's really sort of a ... not a pyramid, more of a triangle, not so much a scheme... but a plan
Yes, it's a triangle plan. See, all you have to do is open two starbucks, adn get all your employees to open two starbucks. I'll show you some sexy graphs with you holding a lot of money. EVERYONE WINS AND WE ALL RETIRE BY 25
Actually, the extended edition, as strange as it sounds, probably won't feel as drawn out. Why? Well my biggest complaint with the movie is the last half an hour was all this tiresome conclusion and rap up. But, inbetween the crowning at rivendell, and frodos final departure, there is the return to hobbiton, an action packed event. This was filmed and is to be included on the extended edition. So, infact, you won't have to sit through two long scenes of people hugging and crying, back to back
umm... this guy can't get fan size right (let alone check for dust in his origional fan). i really don't think that installing a water cooling system is really the task he should be assigned.