Most of them didn't come from America for starters. And secondly almost every American I've ever spoke to said they hated the place but they were born there and had to live with the cards they were delt.
The press are the one organisation with enough power to fight the Government. In the second world war the allies and the Nazis both saw this. They used the press to boost morale and trash it. If you start making laws which keep everything "naughty" secret, then the government loses the only foe it truely has inside it's own borders.
You must have freedom of press or you never know the dirty things they get up to behind your back.
Think of the press as that friend who saw your wife cheating on you. If he wasn't allowed to tell you, then she can keep cheating on you and screwing you over. If he tells you then you can leave her and get a new better girlfriend. Do you think there should be laws stopping your friend telling you this?
"Of course, we really have to consider that the federal government should only be going after criminal activity when such criminal activity is actually present. Something cannot be a crime when the law which makes it a crime is not constitutional."
I think my sig says it all. If you hide behind a bit of paper the man with a pen will over rule it. I'm suffer if you don't understand that you're claiming "this book says we have this, so we must have this". When it's been repeatedly shown Bush can doodle all over the book and the general public hardly even notice.
The consitution only applies untill someone decides to burn it. The government has all the power (the army), has the pen (can make laws) and it holds you all captive (want to try and get out of America is they ban you from public transport of all kinds, including boats and planes?). You only have the powers they wish to allow you untill they decide you're not allowed them all more.
The days when everyone stuck together because it gave them power is long gone. Now too many people are blind, greedy little shits, who will stab you in the back for the tinyest bit of profit. Most people wouldn't care or try to fight back as long as it doesn't directly effect them (which unless it's money based, it won't).
May I ask you why you're doing the exact same crap they are?
Them : Remember September 11th. Loads of people died.. DIED! You : Remember September 11th. The people who DIED would be ashamed of this.
Maybe you should look at the general public around you. 99% of them couldn't give a shit what's in the consitution or even come close to telling you most of whats in it. Believe it or not these people weren't special, they weren't some super auto patriotic people. Most of them probably hated America and a lot of them were probably going "screw it, I'm moving to China".
You're complaining about someone using the emotional impact (of which there should be next to none left TBH). Then you go and do exactly the same damn thing.
The general public know jackshit about anything. They are the GENERAL public for a reason. The general public generally do as they're told and believe what they are fed, these are NOT the people we want in control of the laws.
Sit the laws where they are fair. Not where Tom, Dick and Harry off the street thinks is right.
As for this journalists crap.. Well yea, lets just make it so mentioning the government in any negative way is not allowed any more. I mean most the world has an owner (or two-three people with guns claiming to be an owner) you can't really set up a new country/state any where and it's not like you can really leave America once you've been put on a watch list now is it?
The game is made by a free program which basicly works like a HTML What-you-see-is-what-you-get editor. You rip some sprites (or make them, most don't make them) and basicly slap them onto the screen and add minor events. Any kid can make them and they're little more than basic Gameboy (original) quality.
So basicly this is a news story about some slag for 4chan or something awful making a crappy little game on free software. If this is news then I demand Slashdot covers a game a bully made of me 5-6 years ago which basicly revolved around everyone going "LOL HE'S FAT!! LOL!!!".
Can we please stop strawman crap like "By infilation the Snes would be 5 billion zillion dollars! PS3 is just keeping the trend!" and instead stop being ignorant and take the entire culture into account here. You could say inflation goes up from the 90s till today but console prices are still in the same area (at least in the UK). This is because if figures go over £300-£400 then human nature kicks in and goes "Wow that's expensive!"
Back in the 80s (which most compare this to), people bought 1 console and maybe 5-6 games. They have Pacman, space invaders, Pong and a handful of more basic simple games. It was something to play after dinner for an hour with th ekids. See who could get the highest score in Pacman before the kids went to bed and the parents watched some TV.
In the current era because of the bullshit brand wars you need to buy 2-3 consoles to get all the games you want. If you don't have a PS2 you can't play Devil may cry, if you don't have a DS you can't play Mario kart. This just didn't happen back in the 80s.
The gaming culture has changed massively, it's like going "Oh the motor car era were you wore goggles and used hand signals to turn is exactly like todays traffic. Just yesterday I lost everything below the elbow because I tried to make a right turn on a main road!"
Maybe it's just me here.. but as someone from the UK I have to say this.
Your boss isn't responsible for your health. It's ridiclous to link health care to work and you shouldn't use it as a yard stick. You're most likely going to need that health care if you can't work. In a small company you're friends with the boss, know him quite well and he would go "okay you're ill, we'll get a temp in and you're back at work in a month". A big company would want to kick your off the gang-plank and give your job to any old monkey.
Not to devoid your point.. But seriously don't lump gypsies in with the rest of them. I'm trying to hard not to say "they are all criminal assholes", but in my exprience they're either 100% straight up (but this is extremely rare) or they're wild uneducated yobs who would take the shirt off your back without a second thought.
My parents run a local steam festival (or at least part of it) last year a group of gypos went in and stole a little boys pet dog and his pet ferrets (the ferrets were at the animal tent, so there for everyone to enjoy). Then they went around and stole loads of bikes and anything else they could carry.. If it wasn't for a drunken mob at the beer tent hitting them all in the face they would of got away with it.
There are good and bad in all, but I'm sad to say in the gypsy case the bad far outways the good. A lot of them are raised to think they are a minority (much like black women) except they have no stable ground of education to get out of that rut (unlike black women in most cases). So they just because thieves, crooks and general nasty people.
Convicted felons I won't go into.. I don't think that's fair because a convicted Felon could be anything from a single mum who had to steal a loaf of bread to feed her kids to a guy who's raped and mugged old ladies.
To stay on topic. My DNA should be mine and mine alone. If I'm a non-violent criminal who did nothing but hack a server or two then any DNA base just isn't going to help you. Plus if we get a nice evil government who enjoys polices and states.. Well having a complete record on me is rather nasty. I mean if we start with DNA why don't they take a sample of my sweat so they can automatically set tracker dogs on me if they ever suspect I've done something?
When will sony get it into their thick heads. WE ARN'T BUYING THE PS2 TO PLAY DVDS, we didn't buy the Xbox to use it as a back up HD. We buy these machines to PLAY GAMES. We can buy better quality DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD players for the same price as a PS3 and still get a Wii.
Sony and Microsoft both need to wake up and see why Nintendo has bent them both over and raped them this E3. Nintendo make games, Sony and MS make hype. Untill Sony and MS start to make games Nintendo will bitch slap them around the room.
Sony only did well with the PS2 because of third party support. If the PS3 is so uber expensive (and ment to be difficult to work with), then they just won't get the support. The Wii on the other hand is a gamecube on crack, the prototype developers kits are add ons for the gamecube, so companies already have exprience with it.
The last thing to have a price tag this huge was the N64 in the UK.. it dropped within 3 months because the sales figures were hellish. The PS3 will do it too.
The IT industry will repeatedly bubble untill it's replaced. In the 80s people started to get really greedy and as we got into the 90s most industries became so refined that they can't really go any where. They'll just keep making the same stuff over and over again with slight improvements here and there.
Where as the IT industry just started to come of age. It started to mature in leaps and bounds, this won't stop untill we hit the peak where any more power is just pointless (photorealism all round). It's more or less like the old steam engines. A lot of people saw "improvements" all the time and went "Wow this has got to keep going! It'll never stop and I'll become super rich!" The same is happening now, and will continue to do so forever.
Greed will make a bubble in every industry that shows any majror improvements, right now IT is the favoured thing. Tomorrow it maybe nano technology, whatever it is the same pattern will repeat. Idiots won't listen, they'll do the same shit they always do and they'll get lucky once or twice and assume they will do it again.
If you do this sort of game you need a way to make the character as well as the light saber, hence you use an add on to the Wiimote. Hence you have a wire between the two which would easily get wrapped around things if you spin around.
Sony haven't started their online services yet. They're known for bullshit, so untill they do we can't assume it will be free or not. All we can assume is that it'll work with a PS3.
How would they do it though? Would it be done as an adventure or instead use the full expanded universe and make it so you can duel with hundreds of different Jedi, all with different fighting styles and tactics. So you could fight everyone from Vader on the Death star to Luke in the middle of a desert while Storm troopers try and kill both of you.
The only problem I see is using any sort of acrobatic style would be hellish. You just couldn't pull off the spins without tying yourself up.
Well it's not like MGS fans are exactly the brightest game players.. they tend to perfer interactive movies.. So how would they do that?:P
Ninja could be VERY intresting.. turning invisible is already in the game and he'd play like a fast melee character to counter Links medium speed melee character. Could be cool.
Why get a character who would play just like Samus? If we're perfectly honest Megaman lost it in the SNES era and is now just a mass produced series of generic clones. They do nothing intresting any more and if you put that in Smash brothers where do we stop? Do we start to include Phoniex Wright or a Tetris block?
There has to be a limit to how a character will fit into the general style and although I'd love to see a Tetris block kicking the crap out of Luigi I just don't see it happening.
And Link and Ganon are any different? Or what about the Fire emblem characters?
Snake will most likely be using a Famas and play like a mix between ganon and fox I bet. Box will obviously be a defensive icon and could be quite intresting all round.
Plus we don't know who else is in Brawl, we could see anything in ifr.
Religion is a fairy tale with zealots behind it to most Slashdotters. Bringing any such thing into a debate on science is like going into a bar full of football fans and going "Did you see the opera last night? Wasn't the dame just fantastic!?". No one there cares, you're talking crap to them and always will be.
Religion has over the years do a lot of harm to science and so everyone wants to keep it the hell away from it. I personally have no problem with religions, they teach some good things (Everyone is equal, act how you want others to act etc), but they also have some bad parts. These bad parts fill up the grey areas or turn people against each other for no reason at all and all of them say "believe because it's true, we just told you it's true so believe it". Which everyone will tell you is extremely dangerous.
Now I personally don't think we know everything and there is as much room for a God as there is for pink fuzzy dice. But untill I see some real evidence I'm not going to listen to crack pot theories like "Don't play with the cancer, it'll take your soul away" (even though I use the same excuse for avoiding having my picture taken). The post wasn't saying "We don't know what 2+2 is yet, so lets not try fucking with 2 okay?" the post is clearly saying "ZOMG YOU COULD LOSE YOUR SOUL!", but we have no evidence for or against a soul. It's just silly basicly.
One thing you have to remember with Slashdot is also a lot of the people here have never had any major problems. Some have been through hell and back, but there are a lot of college kids who have never had any problem beyond a bigger kid hitting them some times. They've never needed God, which is a major thing for religion. I mean when you're down and basicly fucked (lets say with cancer), you'll try anything to live. If that something is praying to fictional beings then you'll still give it a whirl, one day these people will be in need of some hope and they'll turn to religion just like many others have.
Religion is hope for the hopeless. A set of crutchs for the wounded and a basic survival tactic. There's nothing wrong with it, but you have to take it for what it is and not a cult where every rule must be followed to the letter. Never use it as a basis for anything science wise because it has very little science behind it.
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Most of them didn't come from America for starters. And secondly almost every American I've ever spoke to said they hated the place but they were born there and had to live with the cards they were delt.
The press are the one organisation with enough power to fight the Government. In the second world war the allies and the Nazis both saw this. They used the press to boost morale and trash it. If you start making laws which keep everything "naughty" secret, then the government loses the only foe it truely has inside it's own borders.
You must have freedom of press or you never know the dirty things they get up to behind your back.
Think of the press as that friend who saw your wife cheating on you. If he wasn't allowed to tell you, then she can keep cheating on you and screwing you over. If he tells you then you can leave her and get a new better girlfriend. Do you think there should be laws stopping your friend telling you this?
"Of course, we really have to consider that the federal government should only be going after criminal activity when such criminal activity is actually present. Something cannot be a crime when the law which makes it a crime is not constitutional."
I think my sig says it all. If you hide behind a bit of paper the man with a pen will over rule it. I'm suffer if you don't understand that you're claiming "this book says we have this, so we must have this". When it's been repeatedly shown Bush can doodle all over the book and the general public hardly even notice.
The consitution only applies untill someone decides to burn it. The government has all the power (the army), has the pen (can make laws) and it holds you all captive (want to try and get out of America is they ban you from public transport of all kinds, including boats and planes?). You only have the powers they wish to allow you untill they decide you're not allowed them all more.
The days when everyone stuck together because it gave them power is long gone. Now too many people are blind, greedy little shits, who will stab you in the back for the tinyest bit of profit. Most people wouldn't care or try to fight back as long as it doesn't directly effect them (which unless it's money based, it won't).
May I ask you why you're doing the exact same crap they are?
Them : Remember September 11th. Loads of people died.. DIED!
You : Remember September 11th. The people who DIED would be ashamed of this.
Maybe you should look at the general public around you. 99% of them couldn't give a shit what's in the consitution or even come close to telling you most of whats in it. Believe it or not these people weren't special, they weren't some super auto patriotic people. Most of them probably hated America and a lot of them were probably going "screw it, I'm moving to China".
You're complaining about someone using the emotional impact (of which there should be next to none left TBH). Then you go and do exactly the same damn thing.
The general public know jackshit about anything. They are the GENERAL public for a reason. The general public generally do as they're told and believe what they are fed, these are NOT the people we want in control of the laws.
Sit the laws where they are fair. Not where Tom, Dick and Harry off the street thinks is right.
As for this journalists crap.. Well yea, lets just make it so mentioning the government in any negative way is not allowed any more. I mean most the world has an owner (or two-three people with guns claiming to be an owner) you can't really set up a new country/state any where and it's not like you can really leave America once you've been put on a watch list now is it?
The game is made by a free program which basicly works like a HTML What-you-see-is-what-you-get editor. You rip some sprites (or make them, most don't make them) and basicly slap them onto the screen and add minor events. Any kid can make them and they're little more than basic Gameboy (original) quality.
So basicly this is a news story about some slag for 4chan or something awful making a crappy little game on free software. If this is news then I demand Slashdot covers a game a bully made of me 5-6 years ago which basicly revolved around everyone going "LOL HE'S FAT!! LOL!!!".
Can we please stop strawman crap like "By infilation the Snes would be 5 billion zillion dollars! PS3 is just keeping the trend!" and instead stop being ignorant and take the entire culture into account here. You could say inflation goes up from the 90s till today but console prices are still in the same area (at least in the UK). This is because if figures go over £300-£400 then human nature kicks in and goes "Wow that's expensive!"
Back in the 80s (which most compare this to), people bought 1 console and maybe 5-6 games. They have Pacman, space invaders, Pong and a handful of more basic simple games. It was something to play after dinner for an hour with th ekids. See who could get the highest score in Pacman before the kids went to bed and the parents watched some TV.
In the current era because of the bullshit brand wars you need to buy 2-3 consoles to get all the games you want. If you don't have a PS2 you can't play Devil may cry, if you don't have a DS you can't play Mario kart. This just didn't happen back in the 80s.
The gaming culture has changed massively, it's like going "Oh the motor car era were you wore goggles and used hand signals to turn is exactly like todays traffic. Just yesterday I lost everything below the elbow because I tried to make a right turn on a main road!"
Did anyone else read the headline and think "Wow, a media player with a memory leak.. that's got to sting the RAM"?
Maybe it's just me here.. but as someone from the UK I have to say this.
Your boss isn't responsible for your health. It's ridiclous to link health care to work and you shouldn't use it as a yard stick. You're most likely going to need that health care if you can't work. In a small company you're friends with the boss, know him quite well and he would go "okay you're ill, we'll get a temp in and you're back at work in a month". A big company would want to kick your off the gang-plank and give your job to any old monkey.
Not to devoid your point.. But seriously don't lump gypsies in with the rest of them. I'm trying to hard not to say "they are all criminal assholes", but in my exprience they're either 100% straight up (but this is extremely rare) or they're wild uneducated yobs who would take the shirt off your back without a second thought.
My parents run a local steam festival (or at least part of it) last year a group of gypos went in and stole a little boys pet dog and his pet ferrets (the ferrets were at the animal tent, so there for everyone to enjoy). Then they went around and stole loads of bikes and anything else they could carry.. If it wasn't for a drunken mob at the beer tent hitting them all in the face they would of got away with it.
There are good and bad in all, but I'm sad to say in the gypsy case the bad far outways the good. A lot of them are raised to think they are a minority (much like black women) except they have no stable ground of education to get out of that rut (unlike black women in most cases). So they just because thieves, crooks and general nasty people.
Convicted felons I won't go into.. I don't think that's fair because a convicted Felon could be anything from a single mum who had to steal a loaf of bread to feed her kids to a guy who's raped and mugged old ladies.
To stay on topic. My DNA should be mine and mine alone. If I'm a non-violent criminal who did nothing but hack a server or two then any DNA base just isn't going to help you. Plus if we get a nice evil government who enjoys polices and states.. Well having a complete record on me is rather nasty. I mean if we start with DNA why don't they take a sample of my sweat so they can automatically set tracker dogs on me if they ever suspect I've done something?
When will sony get it into their thick heads. WE ARN'T BUYING THE PS2 TO PLAY DVDS, we didn't buy the Xbox to use it as a back up HD. We buy these machines to PLAY GAMES. We can buy better quality DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD players for the same price as a PS3 and still get a Wii.
Sony and Microsoft both need to wake up and see why Nintendo has bent them both over and raped them this E3. Nintendo make games, Sony and MS make hype. Untill Sony and MS start to make games Nintendo will bitch slap them around the room.
Sony only did well with the PS2 because of third party support. If the PS3 is so uber expensive (and ment to be difficult to work with), then they just won't get the support. The Wii on the other hand is a gamecube on crack, the prototype developers kits are add ons for the gamecube, so companies already have exprience with it.
The last thing to have a price tag this huge was the N64 in the UK.. it dropped within 3 months because the sales figures were hellish. The PS3 will do it too.
When you hit the peak it'll be another five years before it all dies..
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I'm waiting to see what happens.. but as a 20 year old geek with a love for IT I'm starting to see my future being rather.. unlucky..
The IT industry will repeatedly bubble untill it's replaced. In the 80s people started to get really greedy and as we got into the 90s most industries became so refined that they can't really go any where. They'll just keep making the same stuff over and over again with slight improvements here and there.
Where as the IT industry just started to come of age. It started to mature in leaps and bounds, this won't stop untill we hit the peak where any more power is just pointless (photorealism all round). It's more or less like the old steam engines. A lot of people saw "improvements" all the time and went "Wow this has got to keep going! It'll never stop and I'll become super rich!" The same is happening now, and will continue to do so forever.
Greed will make a bubble in every industry that shows any majror improvements, right now IT is the favoured thing. Tomorrow it maybe nano technology, whatever it is the same pattern will repeat. Idiots won't listen, they'll do the same shit they always do and they'll get lucky once or twice and assume they will do it again.
Fuck off back to 4chan.
Could someone please explain to me how this is even remotely fucking funny? It's like a shitty knock knock joke without the punch line.. So WTF?
Yea because I wasn't watching it yesterday on youtube. Obviously I'm blind now.
As long as there are wires there will be a way to get tangled in them.
Could we mod you +1 not thinking?
If you do this sort of game you need a way to make the character as well as the light saber, hence you use an add on to the Wiimote. Hence you have a wire between the two which would easily get wrapped around things if you spin around.
Starting to see why my post makes sense yet?
Sony haven't started their online services yet. They're known for bullshit, so untill they do we can't assume it will be free or not. All we can assume is that it'll work with a PS3.
How would they do it though? Would it be done as an adventure or instead use the full expanded universe and make it so you can duel with hundreds of different Jedi, all with different fighting styles and tactics. So you could fight everyone from Vader on the Death star to Luke in the middle of a desert while Storm troopers try and kill both of you.
The only problem I see is using any sort of acrobatic style would be hellish. You just couldn't pull off the spins without tying yourself up.
Well it's not like MGS fans are exactly the brightest game players.. they tend to perfer interactive movies.. So how would they do that? :P
Ninja could be VERY intresting.. turning invisible is already in the game and he'd play like a fast melee character to counter Links medium speed melee character. Could be cool.
You couldn't translate the list of characters could you? My Japanese isn't very good and a lot of the names I just don't reconise.
Why get a character who would play just like Samus? If we're perfectly honest Megaman lost it in the SNES era and is now just a mass produced series of generic clones. They do nothing intresting any more and if you put that in Smash brothers where do we stop? Do we start to include Phoniex Wright or a Tetris block?
There has to be a limit to how a character will fit into the general style and although I'd love to see a Tetris block kicking the crap out of Luigi I just don't see it happening.
And Link and Ganon are any different? Or what about the Fire emblem characters?
Snake will most likely be using a Famas and play like a mix between ganon and fox I bet. Box will obviously be a defensive icon and could be quite intresting all round.
Plus we don't know who else is in Brawl, we could see anything in ifr.
What's the geek version of the bumps? Maybe it's slashdotting his sit.... oh wait, I see a slight problem... How do we slashdot slashdot..?
Religion is a fairy tale with zealots behind it to most Slashdotters. Bringing any such thing into a debate on science is like going into a bar full of football fans and going "Did you see the opera last night? Wasn't the dame just fantastic!?". No one there cares, you're talking crap to them and always will be.
Religion has over the years do a lot of harm to science and so everyone wants to keep it the hell away from it. I personally have no problem with religions, they teach some good things (Everyone is equal, act how you want others to act etc), but they also have some bad parts. These bad parts fill up the grey areas or turn people against each other for no reason at all and all of them say "believe because it's true, we just told you it's true so believe it". Which everyone will tell you is extremely dangerous.
Now I personally don't think we know everything and there is as much room for a God as there is for pink fuzzy dice. But untill I see some real evidence I'm not going to listen to crack pot theories like "Don't play with the cancer, it'll take your soul away" (even though I use the same excuse for avoiding having my picture taken). The post wasn't saying "We don't know what 2+2 is yet, so lets not try fucking with 2 okay?" the post is clearly saying "ZOMG YOU COULD LOSE YOUR SOUL!", but we have no evidence for or against a soul. It's just silly basicly.
One thing you have to remember with Slashdot is also a lot of the people here have never had any major problems. Some have been through hell and back, but there are a lot of college kids who have never had any problem beyond a bigger kid hitting them some times. They've never needed God, which is a major thing for religion. I mean when you're down and basicly fucked (lets say with cancer), you'll try anything to live. If that something is praying to fictional beings then you'll still give it a whirl, one day these people will be in need of some hope and they'll turn to religion just like many others have.
Religion is hope for the hopeless. A set of crutchs for the wounded and a basic survival tactic. There's nothing wrong with it, but you have to take it for what it is and not a cult where every rule must be followed to the letter. Never use it as a basis for anything science wise because it has very little science behind it.