More than likely as a kid in the system he knows far more than you do about how much the world can suck and already knows pretty much everything there is to know about sex, drugs, and perverts. Theres nothing you can say that he probably hasn't heard already.
Set him up with a really low-end computer and firefox in his room and stick a badass machine out in the family room. If he wants to have a private convo he can do it in his room, otherwise 90% of his time will be spent outside with you.
Just tell him that if he is going to go searching for porn, and he will, then to at least go to websites you know are reasonably safe (peachy18, etc). Tell him that it's normal and healthy for a young man his age, but FFS go somewhere that wont download 4 fuckajillion trojans and try to at least be subtle about it.
I dont use anything interesting, just a cheap blue single-alarm sports watch from kmart. So far it's been driven over by a truck twice and still works fine. 1$, disposable, and near indestructible.
Well... lets just put it this way, we all call it "Full Sail and three sheets to the wind" for a reason. Not a weekend goes by where you don't hear bottles smashed and drunken fools falling into the lakes.
If these guys are "pursuing a lucrative and legitimate career" then crack whores must be CEO's in training.
"but it also would be prohibitive costwise for crazy nuts like myself who are willing to plug in 24 hours worth of gametime every two or three days."
Do you mean that it would be a good thing? because with this system you would actually get the whole 30 odd days you payed for.
Is that nobody has thought of simply making it so that you still pay $12 a month to play the game, but that actually buys you 30 days of play time which are slowly ticked off your account as you use them. That way the company makes just as much money off of the super-players but also gets tons of extra business from the once-a-week players that otherwise wouldn't bother.
Why do politicians always delude themselves into thinking that gamers are some sort of masonic society hell-bent on fighting them to the bitter end. I'm all for rockstar and take-two being bitchslapped for dicking around with the ESRB but the problem is they will never get support from the gaming community if peaple like jack thompson are allowed to continue their mad rantings.
The other thing i don't get is why the ESRB didn't just make M rated games 18+ and allow everything from hardcore to armored core to be filed under it, and prevent the whole issue in the first place.
having that 1 year difference is really not going to do anything but confuse peaple even more. And it's not as if i can't easily see far more explicit material in an R rated movie...
Actually afaik every store that sells M rated games does not sell them to anyone under 17, i live in florida and even down here i get carded every time i try to buy something.
What i don't get is why don't they just change it so that M rated games can't be bought by anyone under 18, and that way even with a hot coffee mod that actually has genitilia showing it's still not breaking any laws.
After all, most states the legal age for pornography is 18 right? And if someone buys that for their kids then it would be like taking them to see texas chainsaw massacre, you can't blame the retailer at all.
1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev.1:9). The problem is my neighbours. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in (Exodus 21:7). In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev.15:19-24). The problem is, how do tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. (Lev. 25:44) states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians.Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. (Exodus 35:2) clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
7. (Lev. 21:20) states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by (Lev.19:27). How should they die?
9. I know from (Lev.11:6-8) that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates (Lev. 19:19) by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? (Lev.24:10-16) Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
NGE is a very deep, very philosophical anime. By the time CN is done butchering it, we'll prolly be watching a version where the LCL is shampoo and in the end gendo takes shinji to disney world for his birthday.
"It's peaple like you who think too much of themselves and look down on others just because they may have a little less money that never deserve to hold a sword because of how badly you treat others!"
I believe the original was something along the lines of "You arrogant jerk, you don't deserve a sword". Add all the really racist stuff they do to anime and you've got a recipe for shit on cable.
I mean come on man, EVERYBODY knows krillin is a buddhist. Wtf were they thinking having him recite the lords prayer so often?
What's next, they start diagnosing us by measuring our heads? It's bad enough with raving nutjobs like "Kids don't have a first amendment" Thompson... but now doctors?
Because you don't have to look at either the generic or the name brand. But a popup is like someone running around screaming and throwing things at you.
If you pay close enough attention, it becomes quite obvious that while a lot of it is bad english, there is a fair amount of consistency underneath all the shit. In short, minus the shit, theres a new language forming.
Lets not forget Funimation syndrome. I remember after i saw a season or two of DBZ fansubs i was lost, the plotline of the american versions was so wildly different that the only explanation was that they MUST have been on drugs when they translated it.
And why, exactly, do they need to photoshop out references to japanese culture wherever possible? It makes no sense to paste a fork over someones chopsticks, i mean the nudity is okay, the swearing i can understand, but chopsticks and plotlines? And what's with the overzealous gore censors. The first season or two of DBZ on toonami had absolutely no blood in it and within an hour or two you could watch the powerpuff girls rip off someones arm and beat them to death with it.
Another interesting double standard for you: any american anime will invariably have at least 1 super-preachy message per episode. Supposedly this is to teach kids morality, but in many PPG episodes the bad guys decide to go without a fight and surrender peacefully, then the girls beat them so badly that they wind up with dozens of broken bones and usually bleeding from several open breaks.
The simple fact of the matter is that america is a fucked up christian fundamentalist country which puts money above all else and hates foreign cultures. This is why anime is treated so badly, and fansubs are the only way to watch them. Because, simply put, the "official" releases are nothing short of a completely different show.
Who wants to bet that all songs gotten from this service would be "rigged" in some way. Whether it's getting spied on somehow or being DNA tested by your mp3 player whenever you try to play it.
I wonder what the program does when you download/install/run it though. Methinks the EULA is going to have some clause hidden in it somewhere that sais you let them check you out for other songs.
I remember running that parentscan thing they put out, flagged all my Overclocked mp3's and a few voice recording's i'd made the other day as pirated music.
This entire article simply reeks of halo fanboyism. Now no offense to the real halo fans, but if your going to go on a rant about cheaters you need to have more than about 3 actual cheats listed.
Tampering with things outside of the gameworld to give you or anyone else an advantage is cheating. Getting a friend in spec to spy for you is essentially a wallhack and that's cheating. Zooming across the map.2 seconds to sword someone is an obvious exploit of the sword's dash function and therefore cheating. Jumping on someone's head to get to a high place isn't cheating at all. Combining this with trickjumps isn't cheating at all. Using this to get outside the map isn't cheating either. It's being a llama for exploiting Developer Error.
What i can't believe is that they spent several pages on this and completely failed to do anything but present what in the end seems like a popup wearing philosophy. They should have at least mentioned OGC or xqz2, even in passing.
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More than likely as a kid in the system he knows far more than you do about how much the world can suck and already knows pretty much everything there is to know about sex, drugs, and perverts. Theres nothing you can say that he probably hasn't heard already.
Set him up with a really low-end computer and firefox in his room and stick a badass machine out in the family room. If he wants to have a private convo he can do it in his room, otherwise 90% of his time will be spent outside with you.
Just tell him that if he is going to go searching for porn, and he will, then to at least go to websites you know are reasonably safe (peachy18, etc). Tell him that it's normal and healthy for a young man his age, but FFS go somewhere that wont download 4 fuckajillion trojans and try to at least be subtle about it.
Steam, Gunz, and most MMOs use p2p networks to distribute their massive updates.
Personally i drink Nestea
It was dropped while carrying heavy boxes with it in my hand, and i keep it on my belt loop becuase having it on my wrist bugs the shit out of me.
I dont use anything interesting, just a cheap blue single-alarm sports watch from kmart. So far it's been driven over by a truck twice and still works fine. 1$, disposable, and near indestructible.
Well... lets just put it this way, we all call it "Full Sail and three sheets to the wind" for a reason. Not a weekend goes by where you don't hear bottles smashed and drunken fools falling into the lakes. If these guys are "pursuing a lucrative and legitimate career" then crack whores must be CEO's in training.
"but it also would be prohibitive costwise for crazy nuts like myself who are willing to plug in 24 hours worth of gametime every two or three days." Do you mean that it would be a good thing? because with this system you would actually get the whole 30 odd days you payed for.
Is that nobody has thought of simply making it so that you still pay $12 a month to play the game, but that actually buys you 30 days of play time which are slowly ticked off your account as you use them. That way the company makes just as much money off of the super-players but also gets tons of extra business from the once-a-week players that otherwise wouldn't bother.
so does the cache your web browser makes every single time you view a page.
Peaple go to the library and dig through hundreds of old newspapers and records, whats the big deal with using wayback for websites?
Why do politicians always delude themselves into thinking that gamers are some sort of masonic society hell-bent on fighting them to the bitter end. I'm all for rockstar and take-two being bitchslapped for dicking around with the ESRB but the problem is they will never get support from the gaming community if peaple like jack thompson are allowed to continue their mad rantings. The other thing i don't get is why the ESRB didn't just make M rated games 18+ and allow everything from hardcore to armored core to be filed under it, and prevent the whole issue in the first place. having that 1 year difference is really not going to do anything but confuse peaple even more. And it's not as if i can't easily see far more explicit material in an R rated movie...
Actually afaik every store that sells M rated games does not sell them to anyone under 17, i live in florida and even down here i get carded every time i try to buy something. What i don't get is why don't they just change it so that M rated games can't be bought by anyone under 18, and that way even with a hot coffee mod that actually has genitilia showing it's still not breaking any laws. After all, most states the legal age for pornography is 18 right? And if someone buys that for their kids then it would be like taking them to see texas chainsaw massacre, you can't blame the retailer at all.
First one, i generally tab the "End Quote" out into the middle but i forgot that doesn't work on /. so when i hit enter to go down a line...
1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev.1:9). The problem is my neighbours. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in (Exodus 21:7). In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev.15:19-24). The problem is, how do tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. (Lev. 25:44) states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians.Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. (Exodus 35:2) clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
7. (Lev. 21:20) states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by (Lev.19:27). How should they die?
9. I know from (Lev.11:6-8) that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates (Lev. 19:19) by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? (Lev.24:10-16) Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
End Quote.
Anyone interested in reading more about schoolboard insanity can find (far too) many stories like this one at zerointelligence.net
I'm going to be showing this to my grandkids on snopes...
NGE is a very deep, very philosophical anime. By the time CN is done butchering it, we'll prolly be watching a version where the LCL is shampoo and in the end gendo takes shinji to disney world for his birthday. "It's peaple like you who think too much of themselves and look down on others just because they may have a little less money that never deserve to hold a sword because of how badly you treat others!" I believe the original was something along the lines of "You arrogant jerk, you don't deserve a sword". Add all the really racist stuff they do to anime and you've got a recipe for shit on cable. I mean come on man, EVERYBODY knows krillin is a buddhist. Wtf were they thinking having him recite the lords prayer so often?
*snip snip* Judaism anyone?
What's next, they start diagnosing us by measuring our heads? It's bad enough with raving nutjobs like "Kids don't have a first amendment" Thompson... but now doctors?
Because you don't have to look at either the generic or the name brand. But a popup is like someone running around screaming and throwing things at you.
If you pay close enough attention, it becomes quite obvious that while a lot of it is bad english, there is a fair amount of consistency underneath all the shit. In short, minus the shit, theres a new language forming.
Lets not forget Funimation syndrome. I remember after i saw a season or two of DBZ fansubs i was lost, the plotline of the american versions was so wildly different that the only explanation was that they MUST have been on drugs when they translated it.
And why, exactly, do they need to photoshop out references to japanese culture wherever possible? It makes no sense to paste a fork over someones chopsticks, i mean the nudity is okay, the swearing i can understand, but chopsticks and plotlines? And what's with the overzealous gore censors. The first season or two of DBZ on toonami had absolutely no blood in it and within an hour or two you could watch the powerpuff girls rip off someones arm and beat them to death with it.
Another interesting double standard for you: any american anime will invariably have at least 1 super-preachy message per episode. Supposedly this is to teach kids morality, but in many PPG episodes the bad guys decide to go without a fight and surrender peacefully, then the girls beat them so badly that they wind up with dozens of broken bones and usually bleeding from several open breaks.
The simple fact of the matter is that america is a fucked up christian fundamentalist country which puts money above all else and hates foreign cultures. This is why anime is treated so badly, and fansubs are the only way to watch them. Because, simply put, the "official" releases are nothing short of a completely different show.
Who wants to bet that all songs gotten from this service would be "rigged" in some way. Whether it's getting spied on somehow or being DNA tested by your mp3 player whenever you try to play it. I wonder what the program does when you download/install/run it though. Methinks the EULA is going to have some clause hidden in it somewhere that sais you let them check you out for other songs. I remember running that parentscan thing they put out, flagged all my Overclocked mp3's and a few voice recording's i'd made the other day as pirated music.
This entire article simply reeks of halo fanboyism. Now no offense to the real halo fans, but if your going to go on a rant about cheaters you need to have more than about 3 actual cheats listed. Tampering with things outside of the gameworld to give you or anyone else an advantage is cheating. Getting a friend in spec to spy for you is essentially a wallhack and that's cheating. Zooming across the map .2 seconds to sword someone is an obvious exploit of the sword's dash function and therefore cheating. Jumping on someone's head to get to a high place isn't cheating at all. Combining this with trickjumps isn't cheating at all. Using this to get outside the map isn't cheating either. It's being a llama for exploiting Developer Error.
What i can't believe is that they spent several pages on this and completely failed to do anything but present what in the end seems like a popup wearing philosophy. They should have at least mentioned OGC or xqz2, even in passing.
http://www.peacefire.org/ has a couple ways to get around chinese blocking too.