We have all them things in the UK and the police deal with them fine. Special branchs work on them, but they're still the police and don't need fancy loop hole organisations to do it. If anything they're superior to the FBI because they're directly connected to the average copper working on the street, who notice and see far more than guys working in buildings hidden away from everything.
Lets say I was going to buy 1 EA game this year and so were 3 of my friends. If I convince them all night to thats 4 sales lost... now when you consider a big hit like EA sports games they sell thousands or millions. Nothing short of losing a good 1000+ sales will even remotely register with them. I don't have the power to stop that and I doubt most of Slashdot does. So "vote with your wallet" works about as well as "vote for the guy you want". One or two people mean nothing in this day and age, you really can't do much and a small scale boycott won't effect them at all.
I think it's more along the lines of why people dueled when they could just shoot each other in the back. It's a weapon for a gentleman where skill keeps you alive not raw power.
Most gay guys know what it's like to be hated for no reason at all and be abused. They're sick and tired of it, so go out of their way not to be that way. In much the same way geeks are elitest but anti bullying, they're so used to it they'll go out of their way to avoid it.
If I didn't use all my mod points yesterday I would of modded you up.
People seem to have lost the fact that swear words only mean what you make them mean. To me "fuck" is just another word to add a bit more strength to a sentence, where as "gay" is an insult 12 year olds scream at each other while trying to deny they eye each other's cocks in the gym showers.
Okay guys just a bit of personal annoyance here.. it's on topic but I'll still get modded down.
Can we stop to refering as gay people as "gays", they're PEOPLE not "gayians", I wouldn't refer to you as a Hetro or a Straight, so don't start calling people by their sexuality. Other than what they get up to in their heads, beds and hotel rooms they're exactly the same as everyone else, so can we please stop using that damn label?
So blizzard get the lawyers to write something which more or less says "we're not gonna say anything that may upset anyone, so we're just going to push it under the carpet and try to hide from everything which may upset people". This is as bad as them going "racist people? HA! I'll bury my head and let them do it all they want, but then I'll ruin their house when they try and meet together".
Blizzard take a damn stance, either get rid of all guilds (not going to happen) or let people make a guild for anything from Hello kitty fans to the village people's friday night orgy club. Most people can look after themselvs and if they can't a simple block button to shut them up will do nicely.
So every 6 months you get another demo length bit of a game? Spiffy.. and by the time you get to part 4 the games two years out of date and looks vile. People stop buying each episodes, game fails, story ends up as a cliff hanger due to resources drying up.
This has "dumbass" idea written all over it. Take the two years and recent a decent game and I'll buy it, advice my friends to buy it and try and support it as best I can. Make a couple of demos and space them out over a year and I'll have forgotten by the end of episode two because I'll have found something else I wish to play/support.
I think it'll personally be some where in the middle. Doing damage but not enough to destroy the entire world. As I've said in other posts "theres more reasons than just warming the planet you need to think about", if you remember in the 90s we had mass issues with smog and dirty air in cities, surely hasn't improved any and cleaning up vechiles would do it a lot of good.
Of course theres also global dimming and the gases maybe cooling the planet to some extent as well. It's a very complex topic and even if the current models are not perfect, I suspect there is some truth in them. If I'm wrong I will say so, but I'd be willing to put money against it.
Theres evidence for and against, it just depends on how much you value it. But global warming is the general mish mash of several problems with have.
Fossil fuels are limited in the long term, smog and general urban build up is becoming a problem and basicly we need to fix all these problems and one of the easiest ways is to just be cleaner. I mean would you let your dog live in it's own filth? Why should we do it?
It may or may not be warming up, but again at the same time, the red light may just be on because iit's set to, or it maybe a car is about to cross. Do you risk an accident or play it safe? That's the situation we're in.
You have a good point, but then when you look at fossil fuel use and what the air is like around cities, global warming isn't the only reason to "clean up".
I live in the countryside, if I go into a city I find it difficult to breathe because of the fumes. Just think what that permantly does to people's bodies. Let alone smaller animals like birds and such.
"Theres lots of studies and they all say different things, so we're going to listen to the one which makes us the most profit".
I'm not sure if I feel sorry for these people or myself. These people will be dead in 30-40 years so not see the worse of it, I on the other hand have another 50-60 if I keep myself in a good condition. If the current models are correct I should exprience quite extreme weather by the time I get old enough for a brisk cold to be quite risky for my heatlh..
Profit comes before damage if you're not going to live to see the damage it's self.
check out the type of people involved though. They are probably young kids with too much free time or young kids who dont want to solve anything. Gamefaqs isn't a good place to base it on any more than slashdot is a way to judge 20 year old geeks
Why insult pokemon? I was under the impressioon reading was good for you, so playing through a RPG can't do you much harm now can it? Catching pokemon may not sound complex but you need patience to get some extreely rare ones, which isn't a bad thing to have either.
The characters also have a sense of justice and try to stop assholes, clearly something these people are missing.
If more people played RPGs we just might be better off in the long run.
This I find curious.. because I'm 19 (almost 20) as well, but when I look at 20-25 year olds it seems they're just as stupid (drinking, no sense of money) as the 14 year olds.. yet around the 20s area the generation does in general seem to have quite a few intelligent people.. so WTF happened to the generations around us?
I'm 20 in a few days and I feel like I'm 50 with the generation of retards we have around here. My brothers 25 in a few days and I see a complete idiot (no sense of money, totally based his life around drinking, sport and idiotic women), yet we have the same parents and were brought up more or less the same way.
Some times giving your kid room to breath will give them the peace and quiet they need to learn (as in my case), but other times it'll make a complete idiot (See : my brother). So I'm really not sure you can say "they let their kids do whatever they want" and blame it all on the parents.
If like me as a kid they wanted to play RPGs they'll learn to read much faster, will get a sense of justice (in a very corny way, but it does indeed apply outwards in many ways). Where as if you teach kids they can become third rate celebrities, put a group of ten retards on TV (Big brother) for several months to "show it's true" and generally turn TV into a place to show tits then you'll breed some idiots.
If you want to see what really made the country go downhill so quickly I'd suggest you check the TV listings from the 90s and today. In the 90s every night would have a mystery drama on ITV (Morse, A touch of frost etc.) which encouraged thinking and then commonly you'd have a few quiz shows thrown in, which obviously never hurt with knowledge. Now our quiz shows are "pick a box, any box OOHH you lost money how sad!" and our dramas are about pathetic sluts (looking like super models), whining how "all men suck" and then trying to get a cock in every hole they have.
You've never heard of "job seekers allowance" and "income support" have you? These people are never going to mature or get anything except 6 kids per whore they know. Anything they want they'll just steal and anything they don't want they'll break. Even the dumbest animals arn't THAT stupid,but there ya go.
Most of these people probably expect they'll become some sort of celebrity and be "super cool!". Most punks were sheep wanting to look cool, lead by a pack of kids who honestly just got really sick of the bullshit that goes around. Hell look at slashdot, we're a punk movement in one of it's purest ways. We're anti bullshit, hate the assholes "with power" (yet abusing it constantly) and we don't give a damn about the popular trends because we all do our own thing.
That's exactly what kicked punk off. But as with any trend ten million lackies latch onto it and drag it down.
Chink in the armour - An asian in the armour, so clearly your defences are now screwed Chink in the armour - A slight defect/damage to the armour.
Define in Google says
* offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent * tinkle: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" * a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall (more here but unneeded).
I guess when people can't do a simple check on a word they must run around screaming racist/sexist/whatever, just to make sure we don't miss their ignorance.
Arn't they the paid whores who seem more whore than gamer? People seem to forget girls playing games is an awesome marketing tool and give anyone enough money (so they can play games 24 hours a day) and they'll become good enough to get some where in tournaments.
Maybe they could toe the line very closely and repeatedly attempt to slip things past the Chinese government. It might be risky but "do no evil" isn't far off "try to undermine evil"
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We have all them things in the UK and the police deal with them fine. Special branchs work on them, but they're still the police and don't need fancy loop hole organisations to do it. If anything they're superior to the FBI because they're directly connected to the average copper working on the street, who notice and see far more than guys working in buildings hidden away from everything.
Sorry but this is NOT even remotely insightful.
Lets say I was going to buy 1 EA game this year and so were 3 of my friends. If I convince them all night to thats 4 sales lost... now when you consider a big hit like EA sports games they sell thousands or millions. Nothing short of losing a good 1000+ sales will even remotely register with them. I don't have the power to stop that and I doubt most of Slashdot does. So "vote with your wallet" works about as well as "vote for the guy you want". One or two people mean nothing in this day and age, you really can't do much and a small scale boycott won't effect them at all.
could of ran out of fuel and had them removed so he couldn't escape the scrappers
I think it's more along the lines of why people dueled when they could just shoot each other in the back. It's a weapon for a gentleman where skill keeps you alive not raw power.
Is that why everyone uses the rocket launcher then?
Most gay guys know what it's like to be hated for no reason at all and be abused. They're sick and tired of it, so go out of their way not to be that way. In much the same way geeks are elitest but anti bullying, they're so used to it they'll go out of their way to avoid it.
Did you decide to find your wife attractive? No you didn't, you were born liking women just as everyone is born with their sexuality.
If I didn't use all my mod points yesterday I would of modded you up.
People seem to have lost the fact that swear words only mean what you make them mean. To me "fuck" is just another word to add a bit more strength to a sentence, where as "gay" is an insult 12 year olds scream at each other while trying to deny they eye each other's cocks in the gym showers.
Okay guys just a bit of personal annoyance here.. it's on topic but I'll still get modded down.
Can we stop to refering as gay people as "gays", they're PEOPLE not "gayians", I wouldn't refer to you as a Hetro or a Straight, so don't start calling people by their sexuality. Other than what they get up to in their heads, beds and hotel rooms they're exactly the same as everyone else, so can we please stop using that damn label?
So blizzard get the lawyers to write something which more or less says "we're not gonna say anything that may upset anyone, so we're just going to push it under the carpet and try to hide from everything which may upset people". This is as bad as them going "racist people? HA! I'll bury my head and let them do it all they want, but then I'll ruin their house when they try and meet together".
Blizzard take a damn stance, either get rid of all guilds (not going to happen) or let people make a guild for anything from Hello kitty fans to the village people's friday night orgy club. Most people can look after themselvs and if they can't a simple block button to shut them up will do nicely.
So every 6 months you get another demo length bit of a game? Spiffy.. and by the time you get to part 4 the games two years out of date and looks vile. People stop buying each episodes, game fails, story ends up as a cliff hanger due to resources drying up.
This has "dumbass" idea written all over it. Take the two years and recent a decent game and I'll buy it, advice my friends to buy it and try and support it as best I can. Make a couple of demos and space them out over a year and I'll have forgotten by the end of episode two because I'll have found something else I wish to play/support.
I think it'll personally be some where in the middle. Doing damage but not enough to destroy the entire world. As I've said in other posts "theres more reasons than just warming the planet you need to think about", if you remember in the 90s we had mass issues with smog and dirty air in cities, surely hasn't improved any and cleaning up vechiles would do it a lot of good.
Of course theres also global dimming and the gases maybe cooling the planet to some extent as well. It's a very complex topic and even if the current models are not perfect, I suspect there is some truth in them. If I'm wrong I will say so, but I'd be willing to put money against it.
Theres evidence for and against, it just depends on how much you value it. But global warming is the general mish mash of several problems with have.
Fossil fuels are limited in the long term, smog and general urban build up is becoming a problem and basicly we need to fix all these problems and one of the easiest ways is to just be cleaner. I mean would you let your dog live in it's own filth? Why should we do it?
It may or may not be warming up, but again at the same time, the red light may just be on because iit's set to, or it maybe a car is about to cross. Do you risk an accident or play it safe? That's the situation we're in.
You have a good point, but then when you look at fossil fuel use and what the air is like around cities, global warming isn't the only reason to "clean up".
I live in the countryside, if I go into a city I find it difficult to breathe because of the fumes. Just think what that permantly does to people's bodies. Let alone smaller animals like birds and such.
"Theres lots of studies and they all say different things, so we're going to listen to the one which makes us the most profit".
I'm not sure if I feel sorry for these people or myself. These people will be dead in 30-40 years so not see the worse of it, I on the other hand have another 50-60 if I keep myself in a good condition. If the current models are correct I should exprience quite extreme weather by the time I get old enough for a brisk cold to be quite risky for my heatlh..
Profit comes before damage if you're not going to live to see the damage it's self.
Who even gets out of bed for $20 these days? I'd want at least $50
check out the type of people involved though. They are probably young kids with too much free time or young kids who dont want to solve anything. Gamefaqs isn't a good place to base it on any more than slashdot is a way to judge 20 year old geeks
I was born 86, am short and have fucked up feet.. so I fail 3 out of 4..
Any chance of an article link?
Why insult pokemon? I was under the impressioon reading was good for you, so playing through a RPG can't do you much harm now can it? Catching pokemon may not sound complex but you need patience to get some extreely rare ones, which isn't a bad thing to have either.
The characters also have a sense of justice and try to stop assholes, clearly something these people are missing.
If more people played RPGs we just might be better off in the long run.
This I find curious.. because I'm 19 (almost 20) as well, but when I look at 20-25 year olds it seems they're just as stupid (drinking, no sense of money) as the 14 year olds.. yet around the 20s area the generation does in general seem to have quite a few intelligent people.. so WTF happened to the generations around us?
I'm 20 in a few days and I feel like I'm 50 with the generation of retards we have around here. My brothers 25 in a few days and I see a complete idiot (no sense of money, totally based his life around drinking, sport and idiotic women), yet we have the same parents and were brought up more or less the same way.
Some times giving your kid room to breath will give them the peace and quiet they need to learn (as in my case), but other times it'll make a complete idiot (See : my brother). So I'm really not sure you can say "they let their kids do whatever they want" and blame it all on the parents.
If like me as a kid they wanted to play RPGs they'll learn to read much faster, will get a sense of justice (in a very corny way, but it does indeed apply outwards in many ways). Where as if you teach kids they can become third rate celebrities, put a group of ten retards on TV (Big brother) for several months to "show it's true" and generally turn TV into a place to show tits then you'll breed some idiots.
If you want to see what really made the country go downhill so quickly I'd suggest you check the TV listings from the 90s and today. In the 90s every night would have a mystery drama on ITV (Morse, A touch of frost etc.) which encouraged thinking and then commonly you'd have a few quiz shows thrown in, which obviously never hurt with knowledge. Now our quiz shows are "pick a box, any box OOHH you lost money how sad!" and our dramas are about pathetic sluts (looking like super models), whining how "all men suck" and then trying to get a cock in every hole they have.
You've never heard of "job seekers allowance" and "income support" have you? These people are never going to mature or get anything except 6 kids per whore they know. Anything they want they'll just steal and anything they don't want they'll break. Even the dumbest animals arn't THAT stupid,but there ya go.
Most of these people probably expect they'll become some sort of celebrity and be "super cool!". Most punks were sheep wanting to look cool, lead by a pack of kids who honestly just got really sick of the bullshit that goes around. Hell look at slashdot, we're a punk movement in one of it's purest ways. We're anti bullshit, hate the assholes "with power" (yet abusing it constantly) and we don't give a damn about the popular trends because we all do our own thing.
That's exactly what kicked punk off. But as with any trend ten million lackies latch onto it and drag it down.
I guess it depends how you read it.
Chink in the armour - An asian in the armour, so clearly your defences are now screwed
Chink in the armour - A slight defect/damage to the armour.
Define in Google says
* offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent
* tinkle: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells"
* a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
(more here but unneeded).
I guess when people can't do a simple check on a word they must run around screaming racist/sexist/whatever, just to make sure we don't miss their ignorance.
Arn't they the paid whores who seem more whore than gamer? People seem to forget girls playing games is an awesome marketing tool and give anyone enough money (so they can play games 24 hours a day) and they'll become good enough to get some where in tournaments.
Maybe they could toe the line very closely and repeatedly attempt to slip things past the Chinese government. It might be risky but "do no evil" isn't far off "try to undermine evil"