And then it forces me to download the game again if I choose to uninstall it from my HD.
Actually, if you right click on the games in your library on Steam and choose "Backup Game Files..." you can back the files up to another location. Alternately, if you manually copy over GCF files to the Steam\steamapps folder and restart Steam it'll add it to the installed programs in your library.
Instead of going through all this rigamarole with the freeze distilling and whatnot, wouldn't it be easier just to add more alcohol, like in fortified wines?
The only difference between fundamentalist Christians and Muslims is opportunity. Christians only don't do those things because they don't have the power, while the Muslims in the Middle East do. I have no doubts that if Christian fundamentalists ran the west things would be very much the same as the Middle East, with the minor difference of s/Muhammad/Jesus.
That aside, I love how so many "multicultural" people get all up in arms over everything Christians do, but when Muslims or some other group of non-westerners does something they're so ready to excuse it with "tolerance" for their differences from us. Either you're tolerant of both or tolerant of neither; anything else is a massive contradiction.
Most of the tea party people I know hate Bush only slightly less than Obama...
They say that now, but where were they between 2001 and 2009? Something tells me it wasn't protesting what they "hate" about Bush. I haven't spoken to many, but the few I've talked to cheer on everything he did in the name of "protecting freedom" from "terrorists". Yeah, they "hate Bush" my big fat ass. I love how they only speak out against the government when a Democrat is in the White House.
The reason doesn't have to be resources. Maybe they religiously or philosophically object to the existence of intelligent life that isn't them, so they decide to spend the effort to wipe us out.
For the Ivy League guy, we need a more classical predictive model: "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." The algorithms will come eventually.
So in that case the code would read something like:
Did any country yet starve because they were too busy playing to go to the supermarket, or go open the supermarket for that reason? No? Then why should we assume that any aliens would?
That's a good point. Thinking about it, the chances are that any members of a species too busy with video games and porn to remember to upkeep their civilization would probably be too busy to take care of their offspring, and thus would weed themselves out of the gene pool. And there would always be ones, especially in the early years of porn and video games, who would be more interested in taking care of themselves and their civilization. After enough time, presumably, only those not overly susceptible to distracting stimuli would remain, the rest having been to busy playing with their joysticks to successfully reproduce.
Just curious, why does the Tea Party movement catch so much flak?
Why do they take so much flak? Because the Tea Party movement seems to have sprung almost directly from the "OMG WE MIGHT HAVE A TERRORIST NIGGER FOR PRESIDENT SOON I'M SO SCARED" gatherings, Obama's-head-on-Hitler's-body signs and all, that were in vogue among conservatives in the few months before the electing.
Because, alongside such admirable goals as smaller government, they also spew such mindless crap as "death panels" and "Global Warming isn't happening and is a Communist plot".
Because, despite claiming to stand for freedom, these were the same people who, for the last 8 years, practically begged the government to take away more of our freedoms to "fight terrorists", and campaigned in the interests of restoring an America they see as "a Christian nation".
They're a group of ignorant, insane hypocrites. That's why they take so much flak.
I'd imagine the "sexual assault" part might come from the fact that, since teens can't legally consent to sex, any sex they have is technically statutory rape. This also leads to the peculiar, and might I say insane, state where a person can be both an offender and victim of a sexual crime in a single action.
From the sound of it the magnetic field didn't render people immoral monsters, but impaired judgement, making the subjects judge the actions of others based on the results of those actions, rather than their intended results. In other words, "murder" and "involuntary manslaughter" would be considered equal offenses, while "attempted murder" would be on par with "taking a walk in the park on Sunday".
They did a good job in the original Call of Duty when they (mostly) replaced invisible walls with mine fields. It still kept the player in the bounded area, but the limitation fit the setting, so it didn't feel out of place.
I think even the most coldhearted persons must admit that your genetic makeup is something you cannot influence...
Coldhearted persons discriminate all the time based on something as arbitrary as the color of a person's skin, a trait encoded in your genetic makeup with you cannot influence. And that's not even when they stand to make money off of it, either.
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Any species doesn't care about, and refuses to fight against, extinction deserves to die out and be replaced by one that does.
If they can't read your profile maybe they list you as "antisocial", or put you in some other sort of "deviant" category.
Maybe "failure" means "being 25 or older, single, and still living with your parents".
So the Romans wrote the New Testament?
Actually, if you right click on the games in your library on Steam and choose "Backup Game Files..." you can back the files up to another location. Alternately, if you manually copy over GCF files to the Steam\steamapps folder and restart Steam it'll add it to the installed programs in your library.
Why, is he dead again?
Anonymous Coward? You'll never pass the background check!
Instead of going through all this rigamarole with the freeze distilling and whatnot, wouldn't it be easier just to add more alcohol, like in fortified wines?
The only difference between fundamentalist Christians and Muslims is opportunity. Christians only don't do those things because they don't have the power, while the Muslims in the Middle East do. I have no doubts that if Christian fundamentalists ran the west things would be very much the same as the Middle East, with the minor difference of s/Muhammad/Jesus.
That aside, I love how so many "multicultural" people get all up in arms over everything Christians do, but when Muslims or some other group of non-westerners does something they're so ready to excuse it with "tolerance" for their differences from us. Either you're tolerant of both or tolerant of neither; anything else is a massive contradiction.
They say that now, but where were they between 2001 and 2009? Something tells me it wasn't protesting what they "hate" about Bush. I haven't spoken to many, but the few I've talked to cheer on everything he did in the name of "protecting freedom" from "terrorists". Yeah, they "hate Bush" my big fat ass. I love how they only speak out against the government when a Democrat is in the White House.
Financially bankrupting someone for pointing out security flaws might dissuade others from doing so in the future, for fear of the same consequences.
The crazy part is that someone actually believes that. (Sorry about the Godwin, btw.)
I've had trouble calling Israel our ally since I first heard about the USS Liberty incident.
Because a world where that happens is a world I'm sure we'd all fucking love to live in.
The reason doesn't have to be resources. Maybe they religiously or philosophically object to the existence of intelligent life that isn't them, so they decide to spend the effort to wipe us out.
Even worse, you don't get out of providing tech support for your family members, even when you die! Bwahahahaha!
Sure, I'll go remind them. Lemme just set my time machine to 1918 and I'll be off!
So in that case the code would read something like:
That's a good point. Thinking about it, the chances are that any members of a species too busy with video games and porn to remember to upkeep their civilization would probably be too busy to take care of their offspring, and thus would weed themselves out of the gene pool. And there would always be ones, especially in the early years of porn and video games, who would be more interested in taking care of themselves and their civilization. After enough time, presumably, only those not overly susceptible to distracting stimuli would remain, the rest having been to busy playing with their joysticks to successfully reproduce.
Why do they take so much flak? Because the Tea Party movement seems to have sprung almost directly from the "OMG WE MIGHT HAVE A TERRORIST NIGGER FOR PRESIDENT SOON I'M SO SCARED" gatherings, Obama's-head-on-Hitler's-body signs and all, that were in vogue among conservatives in the few months before the electing.
Because, alongside such admirable goals as smaller government, they also spew such mindless crap as "death panels" and "Global Warming isn't happening and is a Communist plot".
Because, despite claiming to stand for freedom, these were the same people who, for the last 8 years, practically begged the government to take away more of our freedoms to "fight terrorists", and campaigned in the interests of restoring an America they see as "a Christian nation".
They're a group of ignorant, insane hypocrites. That's why they take so much flak.
I'd imagine the "sexual assault" part might come from the fact that, since teens can't legally consent to sex, any sex they have is technically statutory rape. This also leads to the peculiar, and might I say insane, state where a person can be both an offender and victim of a sexual crime in a single action.
From the sound of it the magnetic field didn't render people immoral monsters, but impaired judgement, making the subjects judge the actions of others based on the results of those actions, rather than their intended results. In other words, "murder" and "involuntary manslaughter" would be considered equal offenses, while "attempted murder" would be on par with "taking a walk in the park on Sunday".
They did a good job in the original Call of Duty when they (mostly) replaced invisible walls with mine fields. It still kept the player in the bounded area, but the limitation fit the setting, so it didn't feel out of place.
Coldhearted persons discriminate all the time based on something as arbitrary as the color of a person's skin, a trait encoded in your genetic makeup with you cannot influence. And that's not even when they stand to make money off of it, either.
In liquid form that's approximately 200,000 olympic swimming pools, or, equivalently, 1 Sydharb.