There's the classic "Cask of Amontillado" "Novell server drywalled up in room for years, keeps on ticking". Teh slashdots talked about it back in 2001, but there are plenty of "lost BSD boxen" stories out there, too.
...they are simply choosing not to offend the people who have expressed their concerns.
"Expressed their concerns" - god I hate that weasel-worded phrase. Did you mean "repeatedly gone to media outlets and loudly voiced their whiny-assed complaints"? Complaints they had no standing (in the legal sense) to make, as they're not, nor were they EVER going to be EA customers. Did you mean "pressured public officials whose opinion changes like a wind-sock in a hurricane"? Did you mean "terrified the company's spineless lawyers"?
And as for "simply choosing not to offend", that's bullshit. EA is "bowing to pressure", plain and simple.
No. We are supposed to dehumanize the Taliban and make sure nobody thinks from their perspective, so we can continue to kill them with no twinge of guilt.
Oh. For. Fuck's. Sake.
It's exactly that kind of whiny soccer-mom vaginababble that got it removed in the first place. Maybe we should do away with all that uber-violent 'shooting' in FPSs too. We should have more multiplayer games where teams perform laudable tasks, like walking to cure breast cancer, or "battling injustice" - with words of course, none of those nasty phallic guns.
No worries, most days I am stupid; but finding non sequiturs in New Scientist articles is like shooting fish in a barrel. If you want to have fun with stupid, though, check out the "citation needed" on the section "The axes of the ellipse have lengths (square root of 1 plus/minus sin (2 theta)...)" of the Elliptical polarization article. Seems like every time I go to Wikipedia I find some forehead-slap inducing visit from some idiot sprinkling "citation needed"s around like it was pixie dust.
I've always wondered about these ridiculously precise values of pi - doesn't that imply a measurement (of circumference or diameter) smaller than the Planck length? What's the point of 2 trillion decimals of precision?
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That's nothing. I once heard of a Win2K server that hadn't been rebooted in over 2 weeks.
There's the classic "Cask of Amontillado" "Novell server drywalled up in room for years, keeps on ticking". Teh slashdots talked about it back in 2001, but there are plenty of "lost BSD boxen" stories out there, too.
Damn. I should have gone with amicus luciferi as I first intended.
If the enemy of my enemy is Microsoft, maybe I was too harsh in the first place.
So is the EFF filing an amicus curiae or an amicus diabolus brief?
Made it up on the fly, just now. I suspect I'll be using it again, too.
"Expressed their concerns" - god I hate that weasel-worded phrase. Did you mean "repeatedly gone to media outlets and loudly voiced their whiny-assed complaints"? Complaints they had no standing (in the legal sense) to make, as they're not, nor were they EVER going to be EA customers. Did you mean "pressured public officials whose opinion changes like a wind-sock in a hurricane"? Did you mean "terrified the company's spineless lawyers"?
And as for "simply choosing not to offend", that's bullshit. EA is "bowing to pressure", plain and simple.
That's hilarious. Funniest post all week.
Oh. For. Fuck's. Sake.
It's exactly that kind of whiny soccer-mom vaginababble that got it removed in the first place. Maybe we should do away with all that uber-violent 'shooting' in FPSs too. We should have more multiplayer games where teams perform laudable tasks, like walking to cure breast cancer, or "battling injustice" - with words of course, none of those nasty phallic guns.
No worries, most days I am stupid; but finding non sequiturs in New Scientist articles is like shooting fish in a barrel. If you want to have fun with stupid, though, check out the "citation needed" on the section "The axes of the ellipse have lengths (square root of 1 plus/minus sin (2 theta)...)" of the Elliptical polarization article. Seems like every time I go to Wikipedia I find some forehead-slap inducing visit from some idiot sprinkling "citation needed"s around like it was pixie dust.
Perhaps the title "Science writing at its finest" was one of them "clue" thingies...
Hee hee. Props for originality.
was really helpful - I'd always wondered what "circular polarization" meant.
Yeah. I hear the building is really hard to get into.
I think, therefore I ... mmmmm pancakes
They're Asians! They're lactose intolerant! GTFO with the cheese jokes!
Never mind that shit, where are the TMA-1 jokes?
Dude, that's almost always an AND, not an XOR.
You fool! You'll cause an ice age!
Wow. Someone's sarcasm/humor detector is broken.
Republicans - gotta love 'em.
What do you expect from a bunch of island savages?
I've always wondered about these ridiculously precise values of pi - doesn't that imply a measurement (of circumference or diameter) smaller than the Planck length? What's the point of 2 trillion decimals of precision?
*facepalm* So that's 9 in decimal, right?
Sorry, I should have close-captioned my post for the humor-impaired.