Do you let your friends have your car whenever they ask? Do you give them ten bucks whenever they ask? Can they use minutes on your cell phone at will?
Car - I'd be happy to drive them wherever, and lend it under the right circumstances. Ten bucks - Of course. Phone - Of course. And the computer I'll lend to them as well. If I'm concerned about any data on there, I'll switch em to a guest account.
How on Earth is fingerprinting me going to tell you if I am who I say I am? You have nothing to compare it to, because nobody knows what my fingerprints look like.
I like the idea of rating various elements that would normally go into a rating, but separately. For example, separate ratings for sex, nudity, violence, and drug use. Provide facts for each category: do not rate it for an age group, but state what it has. For example, the nudity category might have "brief glimpses of a boob or two," "no nudity," or "this is porn." Violence could be "what your big brother did to you growing up," "gratuitous mowing down of Charleys with a machine gun," or "this is a movie about the pope."
That is pretty close to what it is like in Australia. For example, my copy of New Super Mario Bros says it is rated PG, and contains gambling references. A movie might say it contains frequent coarse language, nudity and sex scenes.
Australia has such a problem, in that there is no "R" equivalent for games. This doesn't mean all the other ratings given out to games are meaningless or pointless.
However, thanks to the lack of an R18+ rating, games sometimes do get released as MA15+ that probably should be R rated.
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Or rounding 666.67 MHz up to 667 looked nicer.
They wisely decided against using the FPU to calculate it.
Perhaps they should also add original swastika and can explain they used it in terms of original meaning.
Why doesn't the Secret Service do that?
The truth is the government exists to do whatever the people consent to them doing.
I have a totalitarian government you insensitive clod!
And these are the people the RIAA don't go after.
No, a carebear is someone who willingly goes on a server where everyone is free to kill you at any time and then complains about it.
So that relates to battlegrounds on PvE servers how exactly?
Victoria Police bought some. You sure do need something like that to traverse the streets of Melbourne.
Do you let your friends have your car whenever they ask? Do you give them ten bucks whenever they ask? Can they use minutes on your cell phone at will?
Car - I'd be happy to drive them wherever, and lend it under the right circumstances.
Ten bucks - Of course.
Phone - Of course.
And the computer I'll lend to them as well. If I'm concerned about any data on there, I'll switch em to a guest account.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Howard and Peter Garrett all in the same story. It's a sad world we live in.
Forcing someone to attend won't magically make him interested or engaged in the subject.
In fact, it probably has a detrimental effect on the students who actually want to be there.
They record attendance even though it isn't mandatory? Sure, you get a nice graph at the end, but how much time have you wasted?
But empty space on the bookshelf looks bad.
How on Earth is fingerprinting me going to tell you if I am who I say I am? You have nothing to compare it to, because nobody knows what my fingerprints look like.
If they were worrying about that (doubt it - it'd just mean more page hits for them), then they shouldn't bring OSX and Linux into it at all.
anyone who has used WinMo can tell you it basically sucks.
Nonsense! Windows Mobile has achieved a very advanced level of suck.
Aye aye, cap'n.
Some things are made in Taiwan...
I dunno. Gallipoli ended excellently, it was everything else that didn't go well.
Of course not. He has never, and will never, be in a fridge. NEVER EVER!
You were a Telstra customer and expected to get something for free?
Ewww. Just ewww.
That doesn't mean it's not intellectually dishonest to only count the price the end-user pays if a larger fraction is paid out of their taxes.
You mean like the billions the US payed to telcos to make and improve the networks?
I like the idea of rating various elements that would normally go into a rating, but separately. For example, separate ratings for sex, nudity, violence, and drug use. Provide facts for each category: do not rate it for an age group, but state what it has. For example, the nudity category might have "brief glimpses of a boob or two," "no nudity," or "this is porn." Violence could be "what your big brother did to you growing up," "gratuitous mowing down of Charleys with a machine gun," or "this is a movie about the pope."
That is pretty close to what it is like in Australia. For example, my copy of New Super Mario Bros says it is rated PG, and contains gambling references. A movie might say it contains frequent coarse language, nudity and sex scenes.
Australia has such a problem, in that there is no "R" equivalent for games. This doesn't mean all the other ratings given out to games are meaningless or pointless.
However, thanks to the lack of an R18+ rating, games sometimes do get released as MA15+ that probably should be R rated.
Therefore, the demonstrated inaccuracy of your previous statement gives us all reason to adjust our faith in this proffered probability accordingly.
Nah. What are the chances of him being wrong twice in a row?
Yes I did the same. Of course, without the drug references nobody would have found it the least bit interesting.