I'd *like* to believe that developers and publishers will stand up to Steve Jobs in the end. I really would. But years of Jobs acting more and more like an thuggish autocrat doesn't seem to have hurt his indie cache in the slightest. Pretentious college students still act like owning an Apple makes than freedom fighters. Most people still associate buying an Apple with sticking it to the man, somehow. And no one seems to care about all the heavy-handed shit that Apple has been doing behind the scenes.
Years after Bill Gates started doing charity work and Jobs started locking down all his new platforms, who is it that's still villainized on/. ? You don't see Steve Jobs as a Borg, do you?
And now that you can buy an iPhone on Verizon, I think it will only get worse (since a lot of people I know only bought Android because they hated AT&T's shitty network).
Actually, I would argue that the worst nutballs are libertarians, not conservatives or liberals. It's just that conservatives seem more inclined than liberal to court the libertarians when it suits their own ends (i.e., when conservatives aren't the ones in power).
Believe what you want. But just know that, to the outsider, you all look pretty much the same (with regards to the wackiness of your particular religious beliefs, anyway).
Sorry, I don't argue with religious fanatics. Jesus (illiterate peasant that he was) ascends to heaven by magic after voluntarily letting the Romans kill him. Mohammad and Joseph Smith get visits from angels with special tablets. Xenu blows a bunch of people up with hydrogen bombs. Moses gets Yahweh to kill a bunch of kids to show that his tribe's god's dick is bigger than the Paraoh's god's dick. Believe whatever you want, buddy.
Beck takes advantage of the fact that you can't prove a negative.
Can you for example, prove to me that Glenn Beck DIDN'T rape and murder a girl in 1990? I hear people talking about it...and I'm not saying he did, mind you. But I hear people talking about it. I'm hesitant to say he DIDN'T do it if someone can't offer me some kind of proof that he didn't. I seems easy enough to me. It sure does seem suspicious that he hasn't released a denial about it, or any proof of his innocence, doesn't it? Just prove to me that Glenn Beck didn't rape and kill that girl in 1990, and I'll be the first to accept it. But until then, we just can't be sure, can we?
I hear from certain corners that maybe he is...and I'm not saying he is, mind you...I don't really know. I'm just telling you what I'm hearing. I'll leave it up to my viewers to decide if he's keeping his urine in jars--though I do hear that he is. I can tell you that I would be very cautious about believing that he *doesn't*--but, again, I don't know for sure. But that's what I'm hearing.
It still amazes me that other Christian groups will laugh at the silliness of Joseph Smith's Moroni story and then turn around with a straight face and talk about a first-century illiterate peasant revolutionary (killed by the Romans, no less) being the "son" of a omniscient, omnipresent being and flying up to heaven.
Seriously, this guy is about one step away from saving his urine in jars and going all David Koresh on a compound somewhere. Anyone who still takes that clown seriously is either already a paranoid schizophrenic or too stupid to be reasoned with anyway. You would have more luck arguing with a religious fanatic.
Postal was the first Uwe Boll movie that seemed consciously funny. It was actually pretty funny.
And Postal 2 was hilarious. I don't care if the game was technically great or not, it was funny as hell. I got way more entertainment out of that and Apocalypse Weekend than I ever got out of any award-winning game. Fuck Master Chief, I'll take The Postal Dude any day.
Say what you want, but Postal 2 was one of the most hilarious games I've ever played. The shootout involving Gary Coleman capped off what had to be the funniest sidequest in videogame history.
Of course, that probably won't stop Scientologists from calling the author a child molester and sending private detectives out to his house to harass him and try to dig up dirt on him. They don't seem to do measured responses very well.
Of course, anyone who believes such attempts to discredit Haggis and Wright probably also believes that Julian Assange is a rapist.
All I can know about him is his background is very thin, he came into Wikileaks late, he sabotaged their software before he left, he has actively participated in the campaign to discredit Assange, and his OpenLeaks site does not actually publish the materials submitted (*supposedly* they're routed directly to news sources, or maybe they're routed directly to the NSA or FBI, who knows?). That does not sound like a guy I would trust with jackshit.
I suspect the *real* strings of this plan will be revealed in the fine print--where license terms will require carriers to police "IP infringement," agree to the Obama's kill switch, and allow the NSA and FBI free reign to monitor individual users.
Besides, this hypothesis requires that you believe in evolution. As a firm believer that cancer was created by God on the 6th day, I can't accept that it will lead anywhere but to hell.
Saying Canada has all the oil we need is kind of like saying that the ocean has all the drinking water we need. Oil sands have to be processed so much that it's unlikely that they'll ever be a substitute for the pure thing.
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I'd *like* to believe that developers and publishers will stand up to Steve Jobs in the end. I really would. But years of Jobs acting more and more like an thuggish autocrat doesn't seem to have hurt his indie cache in the slightest. Pretentious college students still act like owning an Apple makes than freedom fighters. Most people still associate buying an Apple with sticking it to the man, somehow. And no one seems to care about all the heavy-handed shit that Apple has been doing behind the scenes.
Years after Bill Gates started doing charity work and Jobs started locking down all his new platforms, who is it that's still villainized on /. ? You don't see Steve Jobs as a Borg, do you?
And now that you can buy an iPhone on Verizon, I think it will only get worse (since a lot of people I know only bought Android because they hated AT&T's shitty network).
Actually, I consider Al Franken a nutball too. So my nutball designation is hardly reserved exclusively on the right.
Actually, I would argue that the worst nutballs are libertarians, not conservatives or liberals. It's just that conservatives seem more inclined than liberal to court the libertarians when it suits their own ends (i.e., when conservatives aren't the ones in power).
Yeah, I'm pretty sure none of that makes Koresh any less a nutball.
Believe what you want. But just know that, to the outsider, you all look pretty much the same (with regards to the wackiness of your particular religious beliefs, anyway).
You must be an atheistic fanatic then.
How do you know I'm not a deist or agnostic?
He could read from the Book of Isaiah for instance.
So says your religious text.
Sorry, I don't argue with religious fanatics. Jesus (illiterate peasant that he was) ascends to heaven by magic after voluntarily letting the Romans kill him. Mohammad and Joseph Smith get visits from angels with special tablets. Xenu blows a bunch of people up with hydrogen bombs. Moses gets Yahweh to kill a bunch of kids to show that his tribe's god's dick is bigger than the Paraoh's god's dick. Believe whatever you want, buddy.
Beck takes advantage of the fact that you can't prove a negative.
Can you for example, prove to me that Glenn Beck DIDN'T rape and murder a girl in 1990? I hear people talking about it...and I'm not saying he did, mind you. But I hear people talking about it. I'm hesitant to say he DIDN'T do it if someone can't offer me some kind of proof that he didn't. I seems easy enough to me. It sure does seem suspicious that he hasn't released a denial about it, or any proof of his innocence, doesn't it? Just prove to me that Glenn Beck didn't rape and kill that girl in 1990, and I'll be the first to accept it. But until then, we just can't be sure, can we?
I hear from certain corners that maybe he is...and I'm not saying he is, mind you...I don't really know. I'm just telling you what I'm hearing. I'll leave it up to my viewers to decide if he's keeping his urine in jars--though I do hear that he is. I can tell you that I would be very cautious about believing that he *doesn't*--but, again, I don't know for sure. But that's what I'm hearing.
It still amazes me that other Christian groups will laugh at the silliness of Joseph Smith's Moroni story and then turn around with a straight face and talk about a first-century illiterate peasant revolutionary (killed by the Romans, no less) being the "son" of a omniscient, omnipresent being and flying up to heaven.
It's all stupid shit to an outsider.
Seriously, this guy is about one step away from saving his urine in jars and going all David Koresh on a compound somewhere. Anyone who still takes that clown seriously is either already a paranoid schizophrenic or too stupid to be reasoned with anyway. You would have more luck arguing with a religious fanatic.
Russian programmer just fine. You like much. You like much or Yuri break arm.
Postal was the first Uwe Boll movie that seemed consciously funny. It was actually pretty funny.
And Postal 2 was hilarious. I don't care if the game was technically great or not, it was funny as hell. I got way more entertainment out of that and Apocalypse Weekend than I ever got out of any award-winning game. Fuck Master Chief, I'll take The Postal Dude any day.
Say what you want, but Postal 2 was one of the most hilarious games I've ever played. The shootout involving Gary Coleman capped off what had to be the funniest sidequest in videogame history.
It didn't even mention the Fair Game practice, Operation Snow White, Operation Freakout, or the numerous other nasty bits from the history of this organization.
Of course, that probably won't stop Scientologists from calling the author a child molester and sending private detectives out to his house to harass him and try to dig up dirt on him. They don't seem to do measured responses very well.
Of course, anyone who believes such attempts to discredit Haggis and Wright probably also believes that Julian Assange is a rapist.
All I can know about him is his background is very thin, he came into Wikileaks late, he sabotaged their software before he left, he has actively participated in the campaign to discredit Assange, and his OpenLeaks site does not actually publish the materials submitted (*supposedly* they're routed directly to news sources, or maybe they're routed directly to the NSA or FBI, who knows?). That does not sound like a guy I would trust with jackshit.
I suspect it's less about competition and more about Domscheit-Berg being a deep-cover plant.
All I can say is there is no fucking way I would ever submit any secret government documents to OpenLeaks. That site smells way too much like honey.
I suspect the *real* strings of this plan will be revealed in the fine print--where license terms will require carriers to police "IP infringement," agree to the Obama's kill switch, and allow the NSA and FBI free reign to monitor individual users.
Besides, this hypothesis requires that you believe in evolution. As a firm believer that cancer was created by God on the 6th day, I can't accept that it will lead anywhere but to hell.
Well, if they've got nothing to hide, why would they object to the secret police looking at it?
Hogsheads and bushels were good enough for my grandpa, they're good enough for me! If you can't tell me the weight in stone, I got no use for you.
Don't knock it. It got you the best version of The Office, didn't it?
There is next to no consistency with the classification board
Nonsense! Like the MPAA, they consistently get a bunch of 90-year-old women together to decide what naughty bits we shouldn't be allowed to see.
Hush! Do you want to ruin one of the greatest April Fool's Day jokes of all time?!?!?
Saying Canada has all the oil we need is kind of like saying that the ocean has all the drinking water we need. Oil sands have to be processed so much that it's unlikely that they'll ever be a substitute for the pure thing.
Because I've got a shitload I need to get rid of.