Does a person's upbringing have a significant effect on the way they treat digital people?
Hell no! It depends on how entertaining a game designer has programmed a digital person's reactions. If I do something to a digital person and the programmed result is something that makes me laugh, of course I'm going to repeat that action.
I feel what a person likes to do in the digital world has little or no correlation to what they do in the real world. I play GTA and like to drive as fast as I can, but I still drive like an old grandmother in real life.
If what you do in the digital world has a big effect on what you do in the real world then all the people who spend hours cooped up with their computers chatting online should eventually become outgoing social butterflies, but I doubt that ever happens.
Have you ever thought of the type of people that would be drawn to work as a contractor in a lawless country?
I'm sure there are some good samaritins that are in Iraq working as contractors who are doing it for the warm fuzzy feeling they get. But there are probably others who are attracted to the 'Wild West' atmosphere there.
I lived in Cambodia for a few years and there were still a few people hanging around from the more lawless days there. They were typically men in there 40's with a family back home that wouldn't speak to them and they came to Cambodia for some 'excitement'.
I bet you in a few years they will see that the AIDS rate in Iraq went through the roof after all these contractors with their big bucks and a death wish started to sample the wares of the local prostitutes. I've talk to a few of the guys in Cambodia that would have unprotected sex with prostitues on a daily basis. They could care less if they got AIDS and died.
Involvement with Iraq also gives these guys instant respect and honor. It's a last ditch effort to do something with their lives.
The tragic death of innocent Contractors? It's not tragic and they aren't innocent.
I often try a search in Yahoo after I have given Google a shot and don't find what I want right away. It's definitely a good back up.
Remember when we were young and carefree and Infoseek was cool?
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Hell, growing up my dad had an adapter to play cassettes in our car's 8-track player. I kid you not.
Does a person's upbringing have a significant effect on the way they treat digital people?
Hell no! It depends on how entertaining a game designer has programmed a digital person's reactions. If I do something to a digital person and the programmed result is something that makes me laugh, of course I'm going to repeat that action.
I feel what a person likes to do in the digital world has little or no correlation to what they do in the real world. I play GTA and like to drive as fast as I can, but I still drive like an old grandmother in real life.
If what you do in the digital world has a big effect on what you do in the real world then all the people who spend hours cooped up with their computers chatting online should eventually become outgoing social butterflies, but I doubt that ever happens.
Have you ever thought of the type of people that would be drawn to work as a contractor in a lawless country?
I'm sure there are some good samaritins that are in Iraq working as contractors who are doing it for the warm fuzzy feeling they get. But there are probably others who are attracted to the 'Wild West' atmosphere there.
I lived in Cambodia for a few years and there were still a few people hanging around from the more lawless days there. They were typically men in there 40's with a family back home that wouldn't speak to them and they came to Cambodia for some 'excitement'.
I bet you in a few years they will see that the AIDS rate in Iraq went through the roof after all these contractors with their big bucks and a death wish started to sample the wares of the local prostitutes. I've talk to a few of the guys in Cambodia that would have unprotected sex with prostitues on a daily basis. They could care less if they got AIDS and died.
Involvement with Iraq also gives these guys instant respect and honor. It's a last ditch effort to do something with their lives.
The tragic death of innocent Contractors? It's not tragic and they aren't innocent.
Buy one of those computers and pipe in the audio from a blaxsploitation movie.
The Jive alone would cause it to go into meltdown.
I often try a search in Yahoo after I have given Google a shot and don't find what I want right away. It's definitely a good back up. Remember when we were young and carefree and Infoseek was cool?