Oh, trust me, there are some pretty dumb ones. Many of them are pretty smart, but some of them are really really stupid... The military has just done a good job in making complicated things idiot proof. And yes, I am in the military.
The Eyetoy can be hours and hours of fun. The Fun is multiplyed by the number of shots you take while using it at a party. Members of the opposite sex and mutual nudity on top of the previously mentioned shots increase the fun exponentially.
All I know is that my friend decided I looked like someone called Howard the Duck and called me "Howard" untill I moved away with my job. I'm assuming this was a bad thing, but I'd prefer a confirmation. Don't worry, I'm not gonna mail bomb him or anything, I'm sure I've called him much worse to his face and we'd still have each other's back in a fight.
If you train your skills for a while and join a good corp in 0.0, you can make ISK quick ratting with other people. Once you can afford a BS, you can make ISK quick. I've made over 100 Mil in a day ratting in 0.0 with no faction or officer spawns. Regardless, even a one day old player can be a decent tackler in a good PVP corp. Brand new miners are staples of many Empire mining corps. It takes very little ISK and skills to fly a hauler. While I'd take PVP over those any day of the week, I know many people who are quite content in those roles.
There aren't direct skill bonuses for playing 23/7 on EVE, but unless you spend your time very inneffectively, you'll have loads of ISK to use on Implants to speed your training, faction ships, faction mods, and even T2 and capital ships once you do have the skills for them. I'll admit, I'm mainly into PVP and you don't make much ISK doing that, the occasional ship fully faction moded, but you will have a ton of fun. But if you spend most of your time mining, ratting, or mission running like most people do, you'll have a nice little nest egg pretty quick.
I'm sitting there, watching EVE TV and chatting with my friends in game when all the sudden, someone posts "EVE TV just got put on Slashdot." I have friends in both LV and IAC and they are both in the running for 1st! All I want to do is watch the tournament! Why would someone go and try to ruin my day by crashing their servers?
Hey, that's not griefing. I'm always nice, polite, and usually will sell people their faction mods back after podding them. I'll let people go if they pay a ransom as well. I always stick to my word. What more could you ask for? If you don't like dieing, stick to highsec. Suicide alts, macrominers, and ore thieves are the ones you should be complaining about. Trying to give pirates a bad name, sheesh.
No, you won't be alone, but then again, your corner probably won't be too crowded either. What the game publishers have to think of is "Is it worth it for the game to support this platform?" If it won't bring in enough additional sales to justify supporting it, they won't. And lets face it, any hardcore gamer right now pretty much has to use a version of Windows for most of the better games out there. Sad, but true.
I don't know anything about DisneyQuest and don't remember hearing about it. Probably why it failed. Dave & Busters is awesome though and we must not forget Chuck E Cheese.
Well, there is a certain amount of trust involved of course. We can't know about every classified mission or program, but we have to trust our elected officials to act in our best interest. If you don't think they are, elect someone else. However, if things start going overboard, it will leak out. The media, word of mouth, whatever. If it was major, it would become an election issue. Censorship is needed to a point. We have it already. Really, I think we have more to worry about with the media and special interests spining information to their favour. If everything you have access to says it's true, how will you know otherwise? I'd like to see legislation on misleading news reports, advertising, statements in interviews and things along those lines.
More so not a popular view on Slashdot. This place has as many liberals as a deomocratic convention. If the government wants to censor child pornogrophy, terrorist websites, and related things, it's fine with me. As long as there are controls to make sure they don't take it too far, I'll support it.
It does, there are only a few seconds between pressing standby and the person's own Xbox stoping play, but if they end the standby just before it stops them they can do it over and over agin in sucession leting the other players reconnect inbetween, 3 seconds becomes 6, which becomes 9, which becomes 12... Lag will happen so they have to allow for it. This ends up giving the standbyer 3 seconds of play for every 1 everyone else gets. That means they can run 3 times as fast, fire 3 times as many times. You get the picture?
I knew people would be going off the wall about this sort of tracking. Imprison them all, what a great idea. If we tried to put 12 million additional people in prison, our prison system would completely collapse. That's where the problem lies. It's so hard to come up with a punishment that the illegals will actually care about that we can enforce. Short of killing them all when caught or something equally drastic, there's no way. We simply don't have the resources. If we can't keep them out by force, the only option may be to implement a system like this and crack down on employers who ignore it. While many reputable employers would likely go with this idea, there would still be those who deal under the table and ignore the laws in order to get cheap labor. 10 years mandatory for any manager who hires an illegal worker along with large-scale sting operations may be the only choice. Otherwise our country will be flooded with poor illegal immigrants, good paying jobs will be nearly impossible to find, and our county will be little better to live in than Mexico.
In my opinion, it all depends. If what they release is really covering up unlawful actions by the government, then good for them. I'm divided on the wiretapping issue and belive this is essentially the same thing. It's a key tool in stopping terrorism, yet could be used for the wrong things later down the road. One thing I've seen increasing lately is the media releasing classified information that they somehow get their hands on to the public and there has been little to no peanalty for this so far. On that issue, some authors and editors should be getting jailtime as they undermine operations and put people's lives at risk.
Sorry this reply is a bit late, but I was on vacation. You're right. Government is a nesicary evil that the US puts up with. The founders tried to give it as little power as possible while still being able to operate.
Governments have a tendency to give itself more power to better serve and protect the people. There are those that say there is an evil pourpose behind these actions, and in some cases, there may be, but these accusations are usually baseless. In History, the government has passed unusual laws to deal with unusual problems. The Mafia was near untouchable because of the way they worked untill laws were passed that allowed them to be prosicuted. Those same laws were later used by Clinton to monitor Anti-abortionists. Not even close to the original intenion of the law. On the same note, Laws passed to help combat Al Quaeda are now being used to moniter radical leftist organizations who may very well pose a threat, but not nearly as much of a threat as Al Queada was and still is. In both cases, laws are used for things they weren't meant for. Americans have shown in the past that our liberty is more importand to us than protecting against robbers, rapeists, andf murderers. They are only a minor threat to us for the most part.
What about Terrorism? Terrorism is far more of a threat to the United States than crime has ever been. We have to ask ourselves at this time, which is more importand, a possible threat to our liberty or the more assured threat of continued terrorist attacks in the United States.
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Oh, trust me, there are some pretty dumb ones. Many of them are pretty smart, but some of them are really really stupid... The military has just done a good job in making complicated things idiot proof. And yes, I am in the military.
Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 would probably be a good bet.
SHE has a Triforce Tattoo? Is she currently married and what would it take to meet this person?
The Eyetoy can be hours and hours of fun. The Fun is multiplyed by the number of shots you take while using it at a party. Members of the opposite sex and mutual nudity on top of the previously mentioned shots increase the fun exponentially.
All I know is that my friend decided I looked like someone called Howard the Duck and called me "Howard" untill I moved away with my job. I'm assuming this was a bad thing, but I'd prefer a confirmation. Don't worry, I'm not gonna mail bomb him or anything, I'm sure I've called him much worse to his face and we'd still have each other's back in a fight.
If you train your skills for a while and join a good corp in 0.0, you can make ISK quick ratting with other people. Once you can afford a BS, you can make ISK quick. I've made over 100 Mil in a day ratting in 0.0 with no faction or officer spawns. Regardless, even a one day old player can be a decent tackler in a good PVP corp. Brand new miners are staples of many Empire mining corps. It takes very little ISK and skills to fly a hauler. While I'd take PVP over those any day of the week, I know many people who are quite content in those roles.
There aren't direct skill bonuses for playing 23/7 on EVE, but unless you spend your time very inneffectively, you'll have loads of ISK to use on Implants to speed your training, faction ships, faction mods, and even T2 and capital ships once you do have the skills for them. I'll admit, I'm mainly into PVP and you don't make much ISK doing that, the occasional ship fully faction moded, but you will have a ton of fun. But if you spend most of your time mining, ratting, or mission running like most people do, you'll have a nice little nest egg pretty quick.
I'm sitting there, watching EVE TV and chatting with my friends in game when all the sudden, someone posts "EVE TV just got put on Slashdot." I have friends in both LV and IAC and they are both in the running for 1st! All I want to do is watch the tournament! Why would someone go and try to ruin my day by crashing their servers?
Ooh, that is soo good. Where did I put those mod points? Probably sitting right next to my marbles...
What? Who are you? I don't have an older brother as far as I know....
Not if the person you kill happens to be a Geddon with all faction equip. I killed one of those last month, Made 800 Mil in about 10 minutes. :)
Hey, that's not griefing. I'm always nice, polite, and usually will sell people their faction mods back after podding them. I'll let people go if they pay a ransom as well. I always stick to my word. What more could you ask for? If you don't like dieing, stick to highsec. Suicide alts, macrominers, and ore thieves are the ones you should be complaining about. Trying to give pirates a bad name, sheesh.
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To the people who doubted me, I win.
No, you won't be alone, but then again, your corner probably won't be too crowded either. What the game publishers have to think of is "Is it worth it for the game to support this platform?" If it won't bring in enough additional sales to justify supporting it, they won't. And lets face it, any hardcore gamer right now pretty much has to use a version of Windows for most of the better games out there. Sad, but true.
Neverwinter Nights was one of the best games ever. I rest my case.
It may just be me, but buying NWN 2 seems to hlep the whole making mods for it thing. What with the editor coming with the game and all you know.
I don't know anything about DisneyQuest and don't remember hearing about it. Probably why it failed. Dave & Busters is awesome though and we must not forget Chuck E Cheese.
Slashdot was slashdoted. Oh the irony.
I'm not in the Army, but Hurrah! anyway :)
Well, there is a certain amount of trust involved of course. We can't know about every classified mission or program, but we have to trust our elected officials to act in our best interest. If you don't think they are, elect someone else. However, if things start going overboard, it will leak out. The media, word of mouth, whatever. If it was major, it would become an election issue. Censorship is needed to a point. We have it already. Really, I think we have more to worry about with the media and special interests spining information to their favour. If everything you have access to says it's true, how will you know otherwise? I'd like to see legislation on misleading news reports, advertising, statements in interviews and things along those lines.
More so not a popular view on Slashdot. This place has as many liberals as a deomocratic convention. If the government wants to censor child pornogrophy, terrorist websites, and related things, it's fine with me. As long as there are controls to make sure they don't take it too far, I'll support it.
It does, there are only a few seconds between pressing standby and the person's own Xbox stoping play, but if they end the standby just before it stops them they can do it over and over agin in sucession leting the other players reconnect inbetween, 3 seconds becomes 6, which becomes 9, which becomes 12... Lag will happen so they have to allow for it. This ends up giving the standbyer 3 seconds of play for every 1 everyone else gets. That means they can run 3 times as fast, fire 3 times as many times. You get the picture?
I knew people would be going off the wall about this sort of tracking. Imprison them all, what a great idea. If we tried to put 12 million additional people in prison, our prison system would completely collapse. That's where the problem lies. It's so hard to come up with a punishment that the illegals will actually care about that we can enforce. Short of killing them all when caught or something equally drastic, there's no way. We simply don't have the resources. If we can't keep them out by force, the only option may be to implement a system like this and crack down on employers who ignore it. While many reputable employers would likely go with this idea, there would still be those who deal under the table and ignore the laws in order to get cheap labor. 10 years mandatory for any manager who hires an illegal worker along with large-scale sting operations may be the only choice. Otherwise our country will be flooded with poor illegal immigrants, good paying jobs will be nearly impossible to find, and our county will be little better to live in than Mexico.
In my opinion, it all depends. If what they release is really covering up unlawful actions by the government, then good for them. I'm divided on the wiretapping issue and belive this is essentially the same thing. It's a key tool in stopping terrorism, yet could be used for the wrong things later down the road. One thing I've seen increasing lately is the media releasing classified information that they somehow get their hands on to the public and there has been little to no peanalty for this so far. On that issue, some authors and editors should be getting jailtime as they undermine operations and put people's lives at risk.
Sorry this reply is a bit late, but I was on vacation. You're right. Government is a nesicary evil that the US puts up with. The founders tried to give it as little power as possible while still being able to operate. Governments have a tendency to give itself more power to better serve and protect the people. There are those that say there is an evil pourpose behind these actions, and in some cases, there may be, but these accusations are usually baseless. In History, the government has passed unusual laws to deal with unusual problems. The Mafia was near untouchable because of the way they worked untill laws were passed that allowed them to be prosicuted. Those same laws were later used by Clinton to monitor Anti-abortionists. Not even close to the original intenion of the law. On the same note, Laws passed to help combat Al Quaeda are now being used to moniter radical leftist organizations who may very well pose a threat, but not nearly as much of a threat as Al Queada was and still is. In both cases, laws are used for things they weren't meant for. Americans have shown in the past that our liberty is more importand to us than protecting against robbers, rapeists, andf murderers. They are only a minor threat to us for the most part. What about Terrorism? Terrorism is far more of a threat to the United States than crime has ever been. We have to ask ourselves at this time, which is more importand, a possible threat to our liberty or the more assured threat of continued terrorist attacks in the United States.