If it means an endless stream of Mini/Party game collections disguised as real games, maybe. Not that there's anything wrong with such games, but I needs me some Oblivion & Mass Effect level gaming as well.
Although I have started looking for a Wii to play Super Paper Mario as I've been in a retro mood lately. And Super Mario Galaxy looks to be shaping as a digital acid trip.
I think some developers are just whining because they may not be able to make a living cranking out WW2 shooters, racing and banal movie tie in games anymore.
I won't be able to watch eight meglomaniacs, who all took their own private jets to the debate, preach to me that I have to live in an unpowered hut and hide there all day to save the planet while they prance about the country in gas guzzling tax tractors.
Our system is such that all politicians are batshit insane. They're just alpha control freaks. They get a psychological buzz from knowing they had an effect on parts of your life they have no Constitutional (or moral) right to do so. They are the ultimate version of the homeowner's association president.
Who needs Hillary's banshee wail? Who needs Obama's arc of the moral universe, which, I think, is a constellation visible from the Southern Hemisphere? Kerry? AGAIN? Haven't you people had enough of that giant douche? Or was he the turd sandwich? I forget. Might as well get Supreme Scientist Gore in there again so the new Futurama episodes can fellate him some more.
In the US case, it was a few individuals acting like idiots and being oppressive against one kid. But it's over now, and the kid has legal recourse if he chooses to go that route because of basic concepts of rights embedded in our system.
In the EU, it's the entire government acting like an idiot, and the oppressed are in jail and pretty much fucked.
As imperfect as it may be, I'll stick with the US system.
You can even write off this event as fallout from the VTech shootings, although arresting the kid was still dumb. A simple meeting with the parents probably would have cleared up all concerns and been done with it. Whoever called the cops was the core idiot here. The cops arrest people. They are not social workers, nor should they be.
...that corporate America continues to suck Microsoft dick is that when the executives get together for their cocaine and whore parties, the executives from companies that have Macs get picked on.
It's simple peer pressure amongst pampered MBA types that that never mentally matured past the sixth grade.
Mod me down, but you can feel it deep in your bowels that I am right.
Also, something needs to be done about gerrymandering.
I've been preaching anti-gerrymandering for years. If there is ONE problem you had point to as truly fundamental, that's it. Here in California we have term limits on state offices, but the way the districts are drawn, you just get another extremist when the previous extremist has to leave.
We had a ballot initiative to change the redistricting process, but people are so stupid that voted against it. From what I gathered after the election, it was one of those initiatives people voted against because they didn't understand it, or they turned off their mind and listened to whatever ideological sewage source they favor.
Also, the Big Government groups and unions ran their typical "this proposition will eat your children and torture your pets" types of ads complete with ominous music. For fuck's sake you;d think society would have evolved an immunity to that crap by now. It's constantly parodied and made fun of, but droves still fall for it like brainless lemmings.
Is it any wonder I'm a total misanthrope?:-) Seriously, I consider any other view on humanity to be hopelessly ignorant.
I find less than 1 in 10 people even know what gerrymandering is. If anyone has a solution to stupid, ignorant voters coupled with evil politicians, I'd like to hear it, cuz I'm out of ideas.
to make sure the public doesn't wake from its slumber and demand a real fix
To be fair, what stake does the general public have in this? One SW company suing another SW company. "Who cares?" is what Joe Average says. Does this affect their pensions? Their IRA? Their 401K? Will patent reform lower gas prices? Reduce the sales tax? End the Iraq war?
That's the sort of stuff *really* matters to the average person on an average day.
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone else think that someone is just scamming someone else, and maybe they oversold the idea a bit?
Slashdot is apparently now accepting terrible editorialization of news stories.
Now?!?!
his witch hunt smells to me of exactly the same bullshit we went through after 9/11, when people looked for anyone and anything to blame,
Tell me about it! Look at poor Bill Buchanan over on 24 being set up to be blamed for the nuke in Valencia. Sheesh!
I think of the NRA as an organization that tends toward paranoia,
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
More use of a tragedy to push misdirected blame and a political agenda. God, I love this country! And *I'll* probably get modded troll.
I'd like to see how the ifanboys turn this thread into a Mac circle jerk...
As opposed to your enlightened and diplomatic commentary.
Let's revert back to HTML 1.0 and be done with it. :)
I'm generally rabidly anti-Luddite, but the web seems so broken sometimes.
Let's start over and make content matter. Please?
But was he the giant douche or the turd sandwich? There's people still pining for Kerry, you know, and would love to get him back in the race.
Cripes, all the guy essentially said was stay healthy and work hard.
Wow. Such heresy in this day and age! (rolls eyes)
Joseph Anthony is nobody.
Yeah, but, in theory, that's not supposed to matter under our system.
is a BAD thing?!
If it means an endless stream of Mini/Party game collections disguised as real games, maybe. Not that there's anything wrong with such games, but I needs me some Oblivion & Mass Effect level gaming as well.
Although I have started looking for a Wii to play Super Paper Mario as I've been in a retro mood lately. And Super Mario Galaxy looks to be shaping as a digital acid trip.
I think some developers are just whining because they may not be able to make a living cranking out WW2 shooters, racing and banal movie tie in games anymore.
I won't be able to watch eight meglomaniacs, who all took their own private jets to the debate, preach to me that I have to live in an unpowered hut and hide there all day to save the planet while they prance about the country in gas guzzling tax tractors.
Our system is such that all politicians are batshit insane. They're just alpha control freaks. They get a psychological buzz from knowing they had an effect on parts of your life they have no Constitutional (or moral) right to do so. They are the ultimate version of the homeowner's association president.
Who needs Hillary's banshee wail? Who needs Obama's arc of the moral universe, which, I think, is a constellation visible from the Southern Hemisphere? Kerry? AGAIN? Haven't you people had enough of that giant douche? Or was he the turd sandwich? I forget. Might as well get Supreme Scientist Gore in there again so the new Futurama episodes can fellate him some more.
In the US case, it was a few individuals acting like idiots and being oppressive against one kid. But it's over now, and the kid has legal recourse if he chooses to go that route because of basic concepts of rights embedded in our system.
In the EU, it's the entire government acting like an idiot, and the oppressed are in jail and pretty much fucked.
As imperfect as it may be, I'll stick with the US system.
You can even write off this event as fallout from the VTech shootings, although arresting the kid was still dumb. A simple meeting with the parents probably would have cleared up all concerns and been done with it. Whoever called the cops was the core idiot here. The cops arrest people. They are not social workers, nor should they be.
Where was I anti-MS? I was anti-corporate executive. Hey, I own an XBox 360. :)
:-P Then again so was the other post.
You got your wish. I was modded down by the haters of truth!
Obscene? How long have you been on the interwebs? My post was PG-13 tops.
didn't we forgive Darth Vader at the end?
Not after we saw what a dick Anakin was in his early years. Getting his limbs burned off in lava was the only good part of the second trilogy.
One of the great measures of a person throughout our history is how they treat their fallen enemies.
A great man once said happiness is "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
Yay! Skipping commercials is no longer theft!
They say dancing on someone's grave is in poor taste.
Then color me plaids with stripes.
Any ladies care to join me for a tango? Watch your step. The soil is still a bit loose.
Clusters of old ZX Spectrums.
A Meccano difference engine.
If all your contacts happen to be famous musicians, yes.
This here is one of those cokehead executives I was talking about in my other post.
Q.E.D.
...that corporate America continues to suck Microsoft dick is that when the executives get together for their cocaine and whore parties, the executives from companies that have Macs get picked on.
It's simple peer pressure amongst pampered MBA types that that never mentally matured past the sixth grade.
Mod me down, but you can feel it deep in your bowels that I am right.
I fear for the future of Slashdot.
Only just now?????
Also, something needs to be done about gerrymandering.
I've been preaching anti-gerrymandering for years. If there is ONE problem you had point to as truly fundamental, that's it. Here in California we have term limits on state offices, but the way the districts are drawn, you just get another extremist when the previous extremist has to leave.
We had a ballot initiative to change the redistricting process, but people are so stupid that voted against it. From what I gathered after the election, it was one of those initiatives people voted against because they didn't understand it, or they turned off their mind and listened to whatever ideological sewage source they favor.
Also, the Big Government groups and unions ran their typical "this proposition will eat your children and torture your pets" types of ads complete with ominous music. For fuck's sake you;d think society would have evolved an immunity to that crap by now. It's constantly parodied and made fun of, but droves still fall for it like brainless lemmings.
Is it any wonder I'm a total misanthrope? :-) Seriously, I consider any other view on humanity to be hopelessly ignorant.
I find less than 1 in 10 people even know what gerrymandering is. If anyone has a solution to stupid, ignorant voters coupled with evil politicians, I'd like to hear it, cuz I'm out of ideas.
No. There's lots of gullible, easily excited people here on Slashdot. You are not alone.
to make sure the public doesn't wake from its slumber and demand a real fix
To be fair, what stake does the general public have in this? One SW company suing another SW company. "Who cares?" is what Joe Average says. Does this affect their pensions? Their IRA? Their 401K? Will patent reform lower gas prices? Reduce the sales tax? End the Iraq war?
That's the sort of stuff *really* matters to the average person on an average day.
Probably. I was really tired when I wrote that. :)
REVOLUTION!!!!!!
First they came for my fats, and I said nothing. Then they came for my carbs, and I said nothing. Then they came for my sugars, and I said nothing.
But NOT MY FUCKING CHOCOLATE!
(insert Star Spangled Banner here)
One nation. One struggle. One destiny.
I had a dream! A chocolatey dream!