Sounds like something Amnisty International/Students for a Free Tibet would do. They were the biggest pain in the butt extreamist group on campus.
They once put a big paper wall up to protest against Isreals right to defend their people. They sponser many programs that are anti straight men. They cry out in support of terrorists. They tore down posters that disagreed with their point of view in the name of civil liberties. Yeah, they're a bunch of extreamist feminest.
Heck, what are they going to do? Use Yahoo? Give me a break. Google.com does not block itself from china. They just made a Google lite to compete with local competitors. Heck, they even report when they censor out something.
And except for the rare hardcore gamer, how many people buy 30 games for a machine in one generation ?
I don't know. I bought more than 50 games for my Nintendo Gamecube. I wouldn't call myself "hardcore". I know that given any game, I'll get whooped easily by just about 50% of people. It's just that instead of DVDs, I buy games. But I see your point.
Here's something else to think about. Sony makes $12 per $60 game. What about the value games? That's what I mostly buy. The game has to be something I've been anticipating for at least a year before I'd buy it for $50. Games like Sonic Heroes or Pikmin 2. And then there are the used gamers. They wouldn't be any help to Sony trying to make up the $400 loss. So yeah, I agree 100%. There is a limit.
And this is what blows me away. Why would an engineer think that one was created by trial and error? I'm not sure what you engineer, but could you imagion engineering something as complex as a cell through trial and error? Forget trillions of years, you'd have to go on forever until you found something like a cell on the perfect planet that could reproduce. Then after that, how do you convince those cells to form tissues? Assuming that everything went well and we now have an organism, how do we explain all of the other similar organisms. Why do most of us have eyes, ears, nostrils, a mouth, etc... Why if it was all trial and error, we'd have all sorts of cool features that other creatures don't have. Perhaps our mouths would be at our feet. Weirdest part of all, we are all programmed with the same programming language (DNA or RNA).
I'm an IT professional. I design and implement code. My code looks similar from one program to another since I'm the same designer. Heck, I even reuse objects or create new objects that use other objects. None of my code is trial and error. There is a reason I use each object in my code.
I don't even see the point of these "christianity is teh suxors111!!!1one!" articles on slashdot. Is Zonk so unsure of himself that he has to make these posts so that all of slashdot could go, "Yeah... um... There's no god." or "Let's combine every idea into one!" I thought this was a site for nerds. I can just imagion judgement day for a slashdotter:
"Uh... You're not real..." And if you think that's an exaggeration, let's look at 2000 years ago: "I'm God! Here I am! You wanted to see me to believe in me? Well take a look. Watch me prove I'm God. Look I raise people from the dead! I walk on water! Yet, you still don't believe in me?"
What did we do? We nail 'em to a couple of sticks.
Good thing this post is near the end. Otherwise you'd get (-1 religion). I know I've gotten many -1 religions.
It surprises me how many computer scientists believe that we are the products of well aimed atoms. I mean, if one stops and thinks about it, the following is true. I go to work five days a week. I turn on Visual Studio 2005. I look at my application I'm writing for my employer. I write more of it. Eventually I have an application my employer can bill the client on.
I'd love to work for the company everybody else seems to work for. They run a program that randomly inserts lines of programming. It then tries to run it. If it works, great. If it kinda works, well then the computer inserts more random code and eventually it's survival of the fittest. Golly, I could sit back and play Nintendo DS all day while my program evolves.
The structure of living organisms is too structured to be natural. I'm made of cells. Different kinds of cells. Each one is made kinda the same, but they have different functions. Heck, each cell is made of different components with specialized functions. These cells make up neat little structures called tissues. Tissues make organs. Organs make organisms. How can any of that be trial and error. How many trials and errors must we go through to make a human.
Ah, but I'm an idiot. If only I was enlightened and had faith could I believe that trial and error made this creature we called human.
Who's been waiting? I liked the application the way it is. With something as important as finacial tracking, there's no way I'd want to test it. I don't need a pretty ui to tell me I'm broke.
C'mon... If anybody is hurting in the game console market, it's not Nintendo. They don't do gimmik prices and loose money on they're game console. They are not even the number 3 game console manufacture like the article says. They are one of the #2 game hardware manufacturers in the world (1 behind Sony) and the #2 game publisher in the world (1 behind EA).
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Anytime someone posts something about Christianity on Slashdot, it is an attempt to reassure themselves of their fuzzy religion. Slashdotters support each other's happy fuzzy religion by saying things like "creationists r teh suxors!!1!" or the occasional idiot who thinks he can please everyone and say, "I believe in both things!" and somehow mash Christianity and other ideas together.
Then you have the one rare guy who says, "Creationism can and I believe did happen." And that statement is obviously against the fuzzy religion, so it's (-1 Flaimbait) for putting doubts into the collective's minds.
So why don't you take your religion off of this tech site since it is irrelevent. The same nonproductive discussion happens every time. The majority of slashdotters, including and especially evolutionists (Just got me -1 non-collective thinking), are indeed closed minded and thus no relevent discussion can take place. If you all want to reassure yourselves on your fuzzy happy religion (Whatever goes) then do it somewhere else.
Golly, I wish I had some mod points to throw around right now. I think this about sums it up. I'm just impressed that government was spelled correctly. I can't even spell it right without right clicking the red squiglies half the time.
Some people prefer buying games as opposed to emulating them(read pirating them... Nobody buys a game for a console they don't own so they can emulate it on a Game Park). They're garantee to work and you aren't screwing anyone. Oh and by the way, those who do pirate games are not special and thus deserve to own games for free since "everyone else" bought them.
I wrote a comment on Dan Shoe's (EGM Editor) 1up Blog how EGM was biased against Nintendo. Shoe claimed, of course, that they were not. I then pointed out the cover of the magazine that showed the PS3 in really big font, the 360 in smaller font, and the Revolution in the smallest font. He said that it was not because they were biased, they just think Nintendo doesn't appeal to its readers. Sounds biased to me.
But 1up does have more unbiased articles on game consoles than EGM.
Actually, you can buy a PS2, XBox, AND a Gamecube for $500. I personally think that if someone wants to play really great games that are 100% compatible with their hardware, they should stick to console based games.
Admittedly, there are advantages to a PC in the area of gaming, but there are not enough advantages to warrent me paying $500 for a PC that plays games.
Okay, I know you guys don't want to believe this and thus I will get flamed, but is it possible that someone is sending emails on Jack Thompson's behalf? Think about it? He is often "writing" these unprofessional emails and letters and then forgetting about it. The top of his letter said John Thompson, not Jack Thompson. Is it possible that someone else is starting these arguments? If so then a lot of this crap makes senes. Thompson is then not the mindless idiot we all think he is. Why would an attorney be so forgetful? It just doesn't make sense unless someone is writing email for him. It doesn't take much to create an email that looks like it comes from somewhere else.
I'll tell you why I couldn't name one off halfway in the middle of your typing
#1 I didn't know you were online typing that message. It's a static forum. #2 Even if I did, I couldn't wrestle away your keyboard. I'm probably several thousands of miles away. #3 I was asleep. #4 I wouldn't have played such a game anyway. But from what I hear, you can have sex with a prostitute in GTA and then murder her. I don't know what you call that. Perhaps that's not sexual assault in your opinion. In any case, a woman is in a desperate profession that she is forced into by poverty. And then she is murdered brutally by a vehical. That's not for kids in my opinion.
So if such a game does not exist as you say, then the law is meaningless and shouldn't affect you. So there should be no complaints, right?
As for the sims. The truth is, people have sexual mental diseases. I agree that it would be rediculous that someone would get off of the undetailed naked bodies of sim children. But think about this. When I was younger, the undetailed breasts of Ryoko (or some other anime character) affected me. Soon, I desired to see more. Eventually I was led (easily) into a path of pornography addiction. It took several years to get rid of such an aweful addiction. And yes, I think pornography is bad. It takes away from intimacy between a husband and his spouse. It takes away from the mysteries and joys of sex.
So being younger once, I know that any sexual scene, abuse or not, is bad for kids. You should be lucky that they are just focusing on sexual assault.
Next, I would like to say that you have to pay to get Lifetime (although I don't know why anyone would) and therefore they have a right to put whatever junk they want in their shows. If I had cable or sattelite, I would block channels that did not meet my expectations in decency. And that would be my right. As for the other movies, they can be blocked by rating as well. I would also like to see legislation that restricts the buying of PG13 movies to kids under 17 without parental approval. A lot of PG13 movies are not sutible for 13 year olds in my opinion.
Finally, the soverignty of the State lies with its people. If the people don't like this law, they will elect different legislators. If they don't then I don't want to hear any whining.
I guess my point is, I'm not dying to get an XBox. I'm going to go out and get a Revolution on release day, but not an XBox. I wouldn't mind having one, however. So in the mean time while I wait until the 360 is $150, I'll leave my signature and others who are like me and understand the consequences of their actions will sign up. Yes, these things do work. Yes, you really can get a 360. I also think that anyone who likes to read slashdot would know that the email address put in there will be harvested. If I wanted to be malicious, I would have put this sig on a 360 fanboy site. If you don't like the idea of signing up for an offer that you are interested in and possibly getting a 360, then ignor the link and move on. Nothing more to it.
I'll give you ten bucks if you promise to send me up to 3 DVDs of my choice in the mail. When I return one of them to the post office, I want another DVD of my choice. I do not feel duped. I feel like I'm saving huge on my entertainment bill. Instead of paying $60/month to watch reruns of Star Trek, I pay $20/month to rent all the DVDs I can in one month. It's a really great deal and I'm quite satisfied with it.
It's quite a neat. As soon as the DVD is scanned in at the post office, I get another DVD sent off. With a 3 DVD limit, one could theoretically watch a DVD every day of the week.
Is it just possible that the Gov. is right? We don't let our kids watch pornography. Most parents can agree that pornography is bad for children. So why should we let them play games that involve sexual assaulting someone? That's worse than pornography.
I was amused at some of the respones. "Oh! I guess that means space invaders is bad. blah blah blah..." Tell me the last time Space Invaders involved murdering innocent people. Tell me the last time America's Army involved raping women. Tell me the last time Link was just killing the monsters because they were too cute and cuddely? GIVE ME A BREAK!!! You guys know full well that there is a difference between those games and Grand Theft Auto or Bully. Your arguments are rediculous. It can be a safe assumption that the 1st ammendment was created to allow people to speak negativly about politics, go to church without fear, and write the truth in the press. I highly doubt that right was there so that people could have sex on their front lawns, make "curtisy calls" while I'm trying to sleep, or remove parents rights to make legislation that protects their kids from total garbage.
I love videogames. I'm not sure why you guys want to ruin the industry by turning it into garbage. The NES was found in many homes. Families played together. Now parents don't even want to touch a PS2 or XBox controller. It's too bad.
Get a life. If you don't like it, then don't click on it. I believe people are intelligent enough to know what they are getting into when they go to that site. Otherwise I would say, "Want a FREE sewing machine!? Click here to remove viruses!" if I wanted to cheat someone.
I'd also like to point out that I said cheap NOT free. A good offer on their site is the Blockbuster plan. I'm happy with the plan even though I may never get a 360 from this program. It cost me $9.99. Thus it is not free and thus I would never say it was free.
I do have a job. I just don't want an XBox 360 bad enough to pay $400. So I'm waiting for it to go down in price. In the mean time, if I happen to get a 360 from this offer, then more power to me. Besides I'd rather get the Nintendo Revolution on its release day. I don't like playing those kiddie PS & MS games. Instead I like to play games for mature adults who don't ogle over unrealistic polygonic breasts and kill cops. So there isn't going to be much to play with on the 360.
Finally, if Christ is Almighty in your life, why do you talk like a two-bit 12 year old? (look at your 3rd paragraph).
At the McDonalds here in my town, we have a couple gamecubes hooked up. It would make sense that they would continue to partner with Nintendo. I can see a lot more McDonalds crowded.
I've seen some comments that claim that this will allow people to download their kiddy porn and crap like that at Micky D's. I don't think this will be the case. I think the DS will have a standard port to play games on. So all they have to enable is that one port.
I'm on the National and MO no call list. I use MythTV to "pre-watch" all of my TV shows so I can skip ads. I use Firefox adblock. I filter my email using PopMail. Junk mail doesn't even get a glance.
The ONLY ads I can't block are the darn ads on the Wal-Mart Radio Network. I work in the cash office at my store and have to listen to that crap 8 hours a day. I think that's more than enough ads in a day. If only there was a way to hack the PA so that I can plug in a stereo and still get PA pages.
This is one of the reasons I love playing my Nintendo DS. If I have five minutes to wait on something, I can pop in a quick game of whatever and play. Even if it is a longer game, if I need to leave the game in a hurry, I just close the shell and it goes to sleep. When I open it up, the game is there waiting for me.
I think you've made my point. Just as you don't want to listen to music like P.O.D., Lifehouse, and Switchfoot; I don't want to listen to Brittney Spears, God Smack, and Eminem. I sure don't like listening to music about enjoying wild orgies, killing your mom, and cheating on your wife. So lyrics are important to me as well as the song structure.
A lot of what I listen to depends on lyrics. If every other sentence is talking about blanking up some blanking blankers, I don't want to listen to it. If it is about praising God, raising a family, or honoring our country, I would more likely listen to it.
I guess that goes to show that the Emmys have no idea about anything that goes on in the gameing industry. Next thing we'll hear is that the PSP gets an award for being the best selling handheld console of all time.
When it comes to impacting the gaming industry, I think the innovative Nintendo should win some awards. They created the analog controller, creating the 3D platformer, raising the gaming industry from the dead in the 80s, creating the best selling game console ever (Gameboy), and creating the basic control design we have today. Sony just copies what works.
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They once put a big paper wall up to protest against Isreals right to defend their people. They sponser many programs that are anti straight men. They cry out in support of terrorists. They tore down posters that disagreed with their point of view in the name of civil liberties. Yeah, they're a bunch of extreamist feminest.
Heck, what are they going to do? Use Yahoo? Give me a break. Google.com does not block itself from china. They just made a Google lite to compete with local competitors. Heck, they even report when they censor out something.
I don't know. I bought more than 50 games for my Nintendo Gamecube. I wouldn't call myself "hardcore". I know that given any game, I'll get whooped easily by just about 50% of people. It's just that instead of DVDs, I buy games. But I see your point.
Here's something else to think about. Sony makes $12 per $60 game. What about the value games? That's what I mostly buy. The game has to be something I've been anticipating for at least a year before I'd buy it for $50. Games like Sonic Heroes or Pikmin 2. And then there are the used gamers. They wouldn't be any help to Sony trying to make up the $400 loss. So yeah, I agree 100%. There is a limit.
And this is what blows me away. Why would an engineer think that one was created by trial and error? I'm not sure what you engineer, but could you imagion engineering something as complex as a cell through trial and error? Forget trillions of years, you'd have to go on forever until you found something like a cell on the perfect planet that could reproduce. Then after that, how do you convince those cells to form tissues? Assuming that everything went well and we now have an organism, how do we explain all of the other similar organisms. Why do most of us have eyes, ears, nostrils, a mouth, etc... Why if it was all trial and error, we'd have all sorts of cool features that other creatures don't have. Perhaps our mouths would be at our feet. Weirdest part of all, we are all programmed with the same programming language (DNA or RNA).
I'm an IT professional. I design and implement code. My code looks similar from one program to another since I'm the same designer. Heck, I even reuse objects or create new objects that use other objects. None of my code is trial and error. There is a reason I use each object in my code.
I don't even see the point of these "christianity is teh suxors111!!!1one!" articles on slashdot. Is Zonk so unsure of himself that he has to make these posts so that all of slashdot could go, "Yeah... um... There's no god." or "Let's combine every idea into one!" I thought this was a site for nerds. I can just imagion judgement day for a slashdotter:
"Uh... You're not real..." And if you think that's an exaggeration, let's look at 2000 years ago: "I'm God! Here I am! You wanted to see me to believe in me? Well take a look. Watch me prove I'm God. Look I raise people from the dead! I walk on water! Yet, you still don't believe in me?"
What did we do? We nail 'em to a couple of sticks.
Good thing this post is near the end. Otherwise you'd get (-1 religion). I know I've gotten many -1 religions. It surprises me how many computer scientists believe that we are the products of well aimed atoms. I mean, if one stops and thinks about it, the following is true. I go to work five days a week. I turn on Visual Studio 2005. I look at my application I'm writing for my employer. I write more of it. Eventually I have an application my employer can bill the client on. I'd love to work for the company everybody else seems to work for. They run a program that randomly inserts lines of programming. It then tries to run it. If it works, great. If it kinda works, well then the computer inserts more random code and eventually it's survival of the fittest. Golly, I could sit back and play Nintendo DS all day while my program evolves. The structure of living organisms is too structured to be natural. I'm made of cells. Different kinds of cells. Each one is made kinda the same, but they have different functions. Heck, each cell is made of different components with specialized functions. These cells make up neat little structures called tissues. Tissues make organs. Organs make organisms. How can any of that be trial and error. How many trials and errors must we go through to make a human. Ah, but I'm an idiot. If only I was enlightened and had faith could I believe that trial and error made this creature we called human.
Who's been waiting? I liked the application the way it is. With something as important as finacial tracking, there's no way I'd want to test it. I don't need a pretty ui to tell me I'm broke.
Yeah, totally. Nintendo is teh suxor!!!1one11!!!
C'mon... If anybody is hurting in the game console market, it's not Nintendo. They don't do gimmik prices and loose money on they're game console. They are not even the number 3 game console manufacture like the article says. They are one of the #2 game hardware manufacturers in the world (1 behind Sony) and the #2 game publisher in the world (1 behind EA).
Anytime someone posts something about Christianity on Slashdot, it is an attempt to reassure themselves of their fuzzy religion. Slashdotters support each other's happy fuzzy religion by saying things like "creationists r teh suxors!!1!" or the occasional idiot who thinks he can please everyone and say, "I believe in both things!" and somehow mash Christianity and other ideas together.
Then you have the one rare guy who says, "Creationism can and I believe did happen." And that statement is obviously against the fuzzy religion, so it's (-1 Flaimbait) for putting doubts into the collective's minds.
So why don't you take your religion off of this tech site since it is irrelevent. The same nonproductive discussion happens every time. The majority of slashdotters, including and especially evolutionists (Just got me -1 non-collective thinking), are indeed closed minded and thus no relevent discussion can take place. If you all want to reassure yourselves on your fuzzy happy religion (Whatever goes) then do it somewhere else.
Golly, I wish I had some mod points to throw around right now. I think this about sums it up. I'm just impressed that government was spelled correctly. I can't even spell it right without right clicking the red squiglies half the time.
Some people prefer buying games as opposed to emulating them(read pirating them... Nobody buys a game for a console they don't own so they can emulate it on a Game Park). They're garantee to work and you aren't screwing anyone. Oh and by the way, those who do pirate games are not special and thus deserve to own games for free since "everyone else" bought them.
I've got 3 letters for you.... E...G...M...
I wrote a comment on Dan Shoe's (EGM Editor) 1up Blog how EGM was biased against Nintendo. Shoe claimed, of course, that they were not. I then pointed out the cover of the magazine that showed the PS3 in really big font, the 360 in smaller font, and the Revolution in the smallest font. He said that it was not because they were biased, they just think Nintendo doesn't appeal to its readers. Sounds biased to me.
But 1up does have more unbiased articles on game consoles than EGM.
Actually, you can buy a PS2, XBox, AND a Gamecube for $500. I personally think that if someone wants to play really great games that are 100% compatible with their hardware, they should stick to console based games.
Admittedly, there are advantages to a PC in the area of gaming, but there are not enough advantages to warrent me paying $500 for a PC that plays games.
Okay, I know you guys don't want to believe this and thus I will get flamed, but is it possible that someone is sending emails on Jack Thompson's behalf? Think about it? He is often "writing" these unprofessional emails and letters and then forgetting about it. The top of his letter said John Thompson, not Jack Thompson. Is it possible that someone else is starting these arguments? If so then a lot of this crap makes senes. Thompson is then not the mindless idiot we all think he is. Why would an attorney be so forgetful? It just doesn't make sense unless someone is writing email for him. It doesn't take much to create an email that looks like it comes from somewhere else.
So why does he call himself "John Thompson" at the top of the parody email, but Jack Thompson at the bottom?
I'll tell you why I couldn't name one off halfway in the middle of your typing
#1 I didn't know you were online typing that message. It's a static forum.
#2 Even if I did, I couldn't wrestle away your keyboard. I'm probably several thousands of miles away.
#3 I was asleep.
#4 I wouldn't have played such a game anyway. But from what I hear, you can have sex with a prostitute in GTA and then murder her. I don't know what you call that. Perhaps that's not sexual assault in your opinion. In any case, a woman is in a desperate profession that she is forced into by poverty. And then she is murdered brutally by a vehical. That's not for kids in my opinion.
So if such a game does not exist as you say, then the law is meaningless and shouldn't affect you. So there should be no complaints, right?
As for the sims. The truth is, people have sexual mental diseases. I agree that it would be rediculous that someone would get off of the undetailed naked bodies of sim children. But think about this. When I was younger, the undetailed breasts of Ryoko (or some other anime character) affected me. Soon, I desired to see more. Eventually I was led (easily) into a path of pornography addiction. It took several years to get rid of such an aweful addiction. And yes, I think pornography is bad. It takes away from intimacy between a husband and his spouse. It takes away from the mysteries and joys of sex.
So being younger once, I know that any sexual scene, abuse or not, is bad for kids. You should be lucky that they are just focusing on sexual assault.
Next, I would like to say that you have to pay to get Lifetime (although I don't know why anyone would) and therefore they have a right to put whatever junk they want in their shows. If I had cable or sattelite, I would block channels that did not meet my expectations in decency. And that would be my right. As for the other movies, they can be blocked by rating as well. I would also like to see legislation that restricts the buying of PG13 movies to kids under 17 without parental approval. A lot of PG13 movies are not sutible for 13 year olds in my opinion.
Finally, the soverignty of the State lies with its people. If the people don't like this law, they will elect different legislators. If they don't then I don't want to hear any whining.
I guess my point is, I'm not dying to get an XBox. I'm going to go out and get a Revolution on release day, but not an XBox. I wouldn't mind having one, however. So in the mean time while I wait until the 360 is $150, I'll leave my signature and others who are like me and understand the consequences of their actions will sign up. Yes, these things do work. Yes, you really can get a 360. I also think that anyone who likes to read slashdot would know that the email address put in there will be harvested. If I wanted to be malicious, I would have put this sig on a 360 fanboy site. If you don't like the idea of signing up for an offer that you are interested in and possibly getting a 360, then ignor the link and move on. Nothing more to it.
It's quite a neat. As soon as the DVD is scanned in at the post office, I get another DVD sent off. With a 3 DVD limit, one could theoretically watch a DVD every day of the week.
I was amused at some of the respones. "Oh! I guess that means space invaders is bad. blah blah blah..." Tell me the last time Space Invaders involved murdering innocent people. Tell me the last time America's Army involved raping women. Tell me the last time Link was just killing the monsters because they were too cute and cuddely? GIVE ME A BREAK!!! You guys know full well that there is a difference between those games and Grand Theft Auto or Bully. Your arguments are rediculous. It can be a safe assumption that the 1st ammendment was created to allow people to speak negativly about politics, go to church without fear, and write the truth in the press. I highly doubt that right was there so that people could have sex on their front lawns, make "curtisy calls" while I'm trying to sleep, or remove parents rights to make legislation that protects their kids from total garbage.
I love videogames. I'm not sure why you guys want to ruin the industry by turning it into garbage. The NES was found in many homes. Families played together. Now parents don't even want to touch a PS2 or XBox controller. It's too bad.
I'd also like to point out that I said cheap NOT free. A good offer on their site is the Blockbuster plan. I'm happy with the plan even though I may never get a 360 from this program. It cost me $9.99. Thus it is not free and thus I would never say it was free.
I do have a job. I just don't want an XBox 360 bad enough to pay $400. So I'm waiting for it to go down in price. In the mean time, if I happen to get a 360 from this offer, then more power to me. Besides I'd rather get the Nintendo Revolution on its release day. I don't like playing those kiddie PS & MS games. Instead I like to play games for mature adults who don't ogle over unrealistic polygonic breasts and kill cops. So there isn't going to be much to play with on the 360.
Finally, if Christ is Almighty in your life, why do you talk like a two-bit 12 year old? (look at your 3rd paragraph).
At the McDonalds here in my town, we have a couple gamecubes hooked up. It would make sense that they would continue to partner with Nintendo. I can see a lot more McDonalds crowded. I've seen some comments that claim that this will allow people to download their kiddy porn and crap like that at Micky D's. I don't think this will be the case. I think the DS will have a standard port to play games on. So all they have to enable is that one port.
I'm on the National and MO no call list. I use MythTV to "pre-watch" all of my TV shows so I can skip ads. I use Firefox adblock. I filter my email using PopMail. Junk mail doesn't even get a glance. The ONLY ads I can't block are the darn ads on the Wal-Mart Radio Network. I work in the cash office at my store and have to listen to that crap 8 hours a day. I think that's more than enough ads in a day. If only there was a way to hack the PA so that I can plug in a stereo and still get PA pages.
This is one of the reasons I love playing my Nintendo DS. If I have five minutes to wait on something, I can pop in a quick game of whatever and play. Even if it is a longer game, if I need to leave the game in a hurry, I just close the shell and it goes to sleep. When I open it up, the game is there waiting for me.
Ah... I'm horrible at understanding when someone's joking. :)
I think you've made my point. Just as you don't want to listen to music like P.O.D., Lifehouse, and Switchfoot; I don't want to listen to Brittney Spears, God Smack, and Eminem. I sure don't like listening to music about enjoying wild orgies, killing your mom, and cheating on your wife. So lyrics are important to me as well as the song structure.
A lot of what I listen to depends on lyrics. If every other sentence is talking about blanking up some blanking blankers, I don't want to listen to it. If it is about praising God, raising a family, or honoring our country, I would more likely listen to it.
I guess that goes to show that the Emmys have no idea about anything that goes on in the gameing industry. Next thing we'll hear is that the PSP gets an award for being the best selling handheld console of all time. When it comes to impacting the gaming industry, I think the innovative Nintendo should win some awards. They created the analog controller, creating the 3D platformer, raising the gaming industry from the dead in the 80s, creating the best selling game console ever (Gameboy), and creating the basic control design we have today. Sony just copies what works.