You can make reading escapist. That is not my point, however.
There are plenty of things to do that do not require you to be outdoors in the sun in allergy aggravating environs. I could come up with a list of dozens of specific things to do in chicago this weekend that are both free and indoors if I were so inclined.
Are you able to comprehend that what some people call fun, other board certified psychiatrists call unhealthy, escapist, antisocial behaviors? I might like to stick needles in my eyes for fun but that doesn't make it good or right. It just means I'm one messed up little puppy who needs help....and if people post details about their personal life and how much they like to game on a public forum, it _becomes_ both _my_ business and the business of _everyone_ else who reads these posts. If someone doesn't want to discuss their personal life, they don't have to post any details here at all. If they choose to air their dirty laundry of their own accord, you have no right to get uppity when someone else comments on it.
I don't have the right to make you change what you do with your freetime but I sure as hell have the right to speak my mind on the subject. That's something you're going to just have to deal with.
If I might make a suggestion, it would be to not fixate on the financial aspects of what I originally stated as a means of invalidating the underlying point. The fact of the matter is that there are plenty of things to do that don't cost a dime and don't require you to be online.
Yes. I am abrasive. That's one of my faults.
I can still be abrasive and right however. The only problem is when the abrasive person is right. At that point it becomes infurating and the less rational people attack the abrasive persons arguments for the sake of proving him wrong and not necessarily becuase his arguments are illogical.
1) My whole point is that no one should log 30+ hours a week doing anything outside their job -- not even reading. It suggests that you can't handle the real world. I'd love to hear your reasoning behind how my response equates to religeous crack-pottery.
2) I'm not trying to impose a viewpoint that forces you or anyone else to be like me save that I have a life outside of the computer. I do game. Sometimes I binge. Sometimes I abstain. The fact of the matter is that I am not obsessive about or addicted to games. I have not invested signifigant emotional stock in my gaming progress. In these respects, I am one step closer to being a complete, functional, and adaptive human being.
Here's the litmus test: if you have nothing to talk about with anyone who isn't a gamer, you need to jack out and spend a little more time in meatspace. That's all I'm saying.
...that anyone getting that worked up over this has bigger issues than what to do after a rollback of 3 days. It's a game. Games are supposed to be a temporary respite from real life. The problem comes in when people spend multiple hours in a MMORPG...every day! The percent of the world population that plays MMORPG's is relatively small. Great, so you're forming a bond with this itty bitty niche market. What about accumulating experiences that allow you to relate to the world around you? No, I'm not just talking about bars. No, I'm not just talking about ballgames. I'm talking about going out and playing frisbee with friends. I'm talking about driving around until you find a restaurant that you've never been to before. I'm talking about white water rafting. I'm talking about renting a bad movie and heckling it with a bunch of friends. I'm talking about reading a book.
You people that play MMORPG's for multiple hours every day are pretty boring people. You have no life. You exist within fantasy world because that's the only place where you can stroke your ego and pretend that you're powerful. You can't relate to 90% of the other people you interact with on a daily basis because you live in the machine. You have the social skills of most 13 year old boys and that's not a compliment.
Anyone who {can't handle, has no interest in} reality is damaged goods. Please don't procreate. I don't want your spawn in my reality.
And who gets to determine how much an outage is worth? Never forget the great telephone outage back in the 80's (early 90's?) when AT&T got to make up their own dollar value in lost revenue......and our government was ok with this.
"Intel has not lost [the war]...but remember that it often takes huge [financial] losses before a company changes..."
"The war" refrences that continuing struggle of AMD vs. INTEL to produce a faster processor. To lose this war is to lose one's ability to effectively compete. INTEL has not lost the ability to compete, thus they have not lost the war.
If I have to explain this any further, you should consider cancelling your account -- or at least not posting ever again.
1) I see a whole family walking to the departures gate. 2) I go home and scope their house out to see if uncle jack is house sitting or not. 3) If not, I clean em out.
This 3 step process dodges the need to pick a fancy shmancy house in the burbs and stake it out for days or weeks beforehand.
You're saying that scanning passports is useless because it doesn't provide instant gratification. I have bad news for you: if I'm perfectly willing to spends days or weeks staking our your house, i'm *clearly* not in this because I operate on the principle of instant gratification. In fact, I see this as a boon to my profession. It cuts out 50% to 80% of the work I have to do...maybe more.
Heck, if one of these scanners falls off the back of a truck, the 16 year old street urchin down the street can just pull a smash and grab on your place. You'd better hope that Uncle Jack is an insomniac because these gutter punks will just bust your back window and grab the first, most expensive thing they find. I don't think that uncle jack is going to be looked upon too kindly for running down the street in his underwear and waving around...how many was it? 3 guns?
"Can I go on record as saying I have near-zero respect for anyone who believes in creationism in any of the classical ways."
Sure. My inability to prove god exists is not proof positive that he/she/it doesn't exist. It's all faith, my friend. You've just chosen to place your faith in the belief that there is no "higher power."
"Why is it fair? Because the transaction (or lack thereof) is still engaged voluntarily."
What about blacks sitting at the back of the bus? That was a voluntary transaction too. If you are black and you want to ride the bus, you have to sit at the back.
If I can take a real life example, apply your logic to it, and come up with some cockeyed conclusion, that means the logic is skewed.
In other words, you're wrong and you have no concept whatsoever of what "fair" is.
...if you're going to violate trademark and copyright laws, don't impersonate your ISP's administrators in the process thereof.
Still, glad to see this creep offline.
Clinton signed area 51 into existence. The base officially exists and is officially claimed government property so there's nothign strange about bringing charges of stealing federal property against these kids.
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I'm jealous. Will you adopt me?
I take that back. You have the right to get as uppity as you want. I also have the right to completely ignore you because you are dumb.
You can make reading escapist. That is not my point, however.
...and if people post details about their personal life and how much they like to game on a public forum, it _becomes_ both _my_ business and the business of _everyone_ else who reads these posts. If someone doesn't want to discuss their personal life, they don't have to post any details here at all. If they choose to air their dirty laundry of their own accord, you have no right to get uppity when someone else comments on it.
There are plenty of things to do that do not require you to be outdoors in the sun in allergy aggravating environs. I could come up with a list of dozens of specific things to do in chicago this weekend that are both free and indoors if I were so inclined.
Are you able to comprehend that what some people call fun, other board certified psychiatrists call unhealthy, escapist, antisocial behaviors? I might like to stick needles in my eyes for fun but that doesn't make it good or right. It just means I'm one messed up little puppy who needs help.
I don't have the right to make you change what you do with your freetime but I sure as hell have the right to speak my mind on the subject. That's something you're going to just have to deal with.
You've now thoroughly spanked me for making an absolute statement. I suppose I had it coming.
Thank you for taking what I said to it's illogical extreme, by the way.
If I might make a suggestion, it would be to not fixate on the financial aspects of what I originally stated as a means of invalidating the underlying point. The fact of the matter is that there are plenty of things to do that don't cost a dime and don't require you to be online.
Yes. I am abrasive. That's one of my faults.
I can still be abrasive and right however. The only problem is when the abrasive person is right. At that point it becomes infurating and the less rational people attack the abrasive persons arguments for the sake of proving him wrong and not necessarily becuase his arguments are illogical.
Gotta love human nature.
1) My whole point is that no one should log 30+ hours a week doing anything outside their job -- not even reading. It suggests that you can't handle the real world. I'd love to hear your reasoning behind how my response equates to religeous crack-pottery.
2) I'm not trying to impose a viewpoint that forces you or anyone else to be like me save that I have a life outside of the computer. I do game. Sometimes I binge. Sometimes I abstain. The fact of the matter is that I am not obsessive about or addicted to games. I have not invested signifigant emotional stock in my gaming progress. In these respects, I am one step closer to being a complete, functional, and adaptive human being.
Here's the litmus test: if you have nothing to talk about with anyone who isn't a gamer, you need to jack out and spend a little more time in meatspace. That's all I'm saying.
...that anyone getting that worked up over this has bigger issues than what to do after a rollback of 3 days. It's a game. Games are supposed to be a temporary respite from real life. The problem comes in when people spend multiple hours in a MMORPG...every day! The percent of the world population that plays MMORPG's is relatively small. Great, so you're forming a bond with this itty bitty niche market. What about accumulating experiences that allow you to relate to the world around you? No, I'm not just talking about bars. No, I'm not just talking about ballgames. I'm talking about going out and playing frisbee with friends. I'm talking about driving around until you find a restaurant that you've never been to before. I'm talking about white water rafting. I'm talking about renting a bad movie and heckling it with a bunch of friends. I'm talking about reading a book.
You people that play MMORPG's for multiple hours every day are pretty boring people. You have no life. You exist within fantasy world because that's the only place where you can stroke your ego and pretend that you're powerful. You can't relate to 90% of the other people you interact with on a daily basis because you live in the machine. You have the social skills of most 13 year old boys and that's not a compliment.
Anyone who {can't handle, has no interest in} reality is damaged goods. Please don't procreate. I don't want your spawn in my reality.
my asus board came with manufacturer supplied utilities that flashed bios while I was up and running.
- kill the hacker
- let the rapists and murderers go free
- take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling.
And who gets to determine how much an outage is worth? Never forget the great telephone outage back in the 80's (early 90's?) when AT&T got to make up their own dollar value in lost revenue... ...and our government was ok with this.
If you start in on the puritanical American media, I'm gonna start in on Bryan Adams.
You've been warned.
Under normal circumatances. It seems that the pendulum has swung the other way.
..sucks to be "annoying and obnoxious", eh?
Now, annoying and obnoxious gets you blocked.
Only "plain, boring, and unobtrusive" will remain unblocked -- making it the only ad in town.
They never were honorable. That's why we have freedom of the press.
I really don't care who "wins" this round. All I care about is that AMD and INTEL keep slugging it out. That way, in the end, I win.
Way to take a few words out of context!
"Intel has not lost [the war]...but remember that it often takes huge [financial] losses before a company changes..."
"The war" refrences that continuing struggle of AMD vs. INTEL to produce a faster processor. To lose this war is to lose one's ability to effectively compete. INTEL has not lost the ability to compete, thus they have not lost the war.
If I have to explain this any further, you should consider cancelling your account -- or at least not posting ever again.
You don't get it.
1) I see a whole family walking to the departures gate.
2) I go home and scope their house out to see if uncle jack is house sitting or not.
3) If not, I clean em out.
This 3 step process dodges the need to pick a fancy shmancy house in the burbs and stake it out for days or weeks beforehand.
You're saying that scanning passports is useless because it doesn't provide instant gratification. I have bad news for you: if I'm perfectly willing to spends days or weeks staking our your house, i'm *clearly* not in this because I operate on the principle of instant gratification. In fact, I see this as a boon to my profession. It cuts out 50% to 80% of the work I have to do...maybe more.
Heck, if one of these scanners falls off the back of a truck, the 16 year old street urchin down the street can just pull a smash and grab on your place. You'd better hope that Uncle Jack is an insomniac because these gutter punks will just bust your back window and grab the first, most expensive thing they find. I don't think that uncle jack is going to be looked upon too kindly for running down the street in his underwear and waving around...how many was it? 3 guns?
At least that's how I see it...
my fiance works in vernon hills. small world.
"Can I go on record as saying I have near-zero respect for anyone who believes in creationism in any of the classical ways." Sure. My inability to prove god exists is not proof positive that he/she/it doesn't exist. It's all faith, my friend. You've just chosen to place your faith in the belief that there is no "higher power."
do you even know the difference between parody and being flat-out derrogatory(sp?)?
"Why is it fair? Because the transaction (or lack thereof) is still engaged voluntarily." What about blacks sitting at the back of the bus? That was a voluntary transaction too. If you are black and you want to ride the bus, you have to sit at the back. If I can take a real life example, apply your logic to it, and come up with some cockeyed conclusion, that means the logic is skewed. In other words, you're wrong and you have no concept whatsoever of what "fair" is.
...if you're going to violate trademark and copyright laws, don't impersonate your ISP's administrators in the process thereof. Still, glad to see this creep offline.
George Clinton? ;)
Clinton signed area 51 into existence. The base officially exists and is officially claimed government property so there's nothign strange about bringing charges of stealing federal property against these kids.