Well, anything that helps create more blogs is a good thing. There are still literally dozens of housewives out there *NOT* letting us know that Jeremy pooped in his potty for the first time today.
If you stretched all this water out into a football field length river that was a football field length deep, that river would be about 30 million football fields long.
I work in an office that does the web design and web apps for a large company. We're under the larger PR department, along with the publications office.
Agreed. How can iPhone owners complain about being treated like slaves when they themselves VOLUNTEERED to be enslaved by buying one in the first place? It's not like it's any secret that Steve Jobs is a tyrant, or that Apple controls everything device they sell with an iron fist. You want freedom, you want to be different? Fine, go buy an Android. If you're buying an iPhone, you'll do what Steve tells you you can do.
Doing it your kid is a lot different than doing it alone. As I said in an earlier post, if I had kids I would certainly have a Wii (I would probably watch Sesame Street with them too). But, as an adult without kids, I'm not going to choose kids' games over more adult-oriented fare.
Don't worry, the AMA would never allow it (not in the U.S. anyway). Their main function is to protect the livelihood of their members (aka physicians). Anything that threatens their monopoly is immediately labeled a health hazard and banned in the U.S.
Are you kidding? The Orange Box was one of the best values in console history. Half-Life 2 and several expansions, TF2, *and* Portal--all for $60. I bought that thing when it came out and I'm *still* playing it today.
It's good that a real man doesn't give a shit. Because, if he runs around acting like a little kid, his fellow men are going to label him a bizarre retard at best, a possible pedophile at worst.
Most adults mature, and come to like different (and usually more sophisticated) things than children. I don't still read the same books I did in 2nd grade, for example. I don't still play hide-and-go-seek. People who say it doesn't matter should ask themselves what they would think if they took their kids to the playground and saw a 40-year-old man running around swinging on the swing-set and asking the kids to play "duck duck goose" with him. Would you consider that "young at heart" too, or just pathetic?
No, I don't still like the same kinds of games I played as a kid. I also don't read The Hardy Boys anymore or watch Sesame Street.
I've done much more emasculating things for women than that. I still have flashbacks of all the shitty Julia Roberts movies my last gf made me watch. I swear, if I ever meet Hugh Grant, I'm going to strangle that motherfucker with his own ascot.
The same reason I feel silly making fart jokes, watching Saturday morning kid's cartoons, and playing with matchbox cars (do they even have those anymore), etc. Because I'm a grown up. There are games that are targeted at kids and games that are targeted at adults. And Nintendo have strongly favored (not exclusively, but strongly) the former. They're great for social party games too, I suppose, but I don't have many parties either.
As a historian once told me, a statement of pure facts would render everything meaningless. It would reduce history to mere chronicle. It's all "what" and no "why." Nothing can have an effect, things just follow one another in a rote manner with no real connection of cause.
They may not make the most muscular systems, but they know how to do family fun (and milk franchises until they scream). I would definitely have a Wii if I had kids. But I would feel a little silly as a grown man playing a Mario or Kirby game.
Back in 1990, Rod Shealy used this exact same tactic in a Lt. Governor race in SC. He recruited a homeless black guy with a criminal conviction in an attempt to take out the Democratic frontrunner, so his sister (a Republican) could win. It was a crass attempt to play on the racial prejudices of SC (both for blacks in the Democratic Party and against blacks among the general populace) to get his sister elected. He almost succeeded to. And he is still working in SC Republican politics (most recently in the Bauer gubernatorial campaign).
All of you who are saying this is a preposterous idea have obviously never been involved in SC politics. This isn't even a particularly nasty tactic by SC standards.
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Actually, I've met many tools who control people. Here is a picture of one of them.
Wow, I googled it and was surprised to discover it was actually still around. I though Corel had disappeared years ago.
My first word processor software...brings back so many memories.
Well, anything that helps create more blogs is a good thing. There are still literally dozens of housewives out there *NOT* letting us know that Jeremy pooped in his potty for the first time today.
I bet they'll like Michael Bay movies too.
If you stretched all this water out into a football field length river that was a football field length deep, that river would be about 30 million football fields long.
I work in an office that does the web design and web apps for a large company. We're under the larger PR department, along with the publications office.
Agreed. How can iPhone owners complain about being treated like slaves when they themselves VOLUNTEERED to be enslaved by buying one in the first place? It's not like it's any secret that Steve Jobs is a tyrant, or that Apple controls everything device they sell with an iron fist. You want freedom, you want to be different? Fine, go buy an Android. If you're buying an iPhone, you'll do what Steve tells you you can do.
Doing it your kid is a lot different than doing it alone. As I said in an earlier post, if I had kids I would certainly have a Wii (I would probably watch Sesame Street with them too). But, as an adult without kids, I'm not going to choose kids' games over more adult-oriented fare.
Man, Iceland is so lucky.
Don't worry, the AMA would never allow it (not in the U.S. anyway). Their main function is to protect the livelihood of their members (aka physicians). Anything that threatens their monopoly is immediately labeled a health hazard and banned in the U.S.
Yeah because doctors never get sued and don't have to carry malpractice insurance, right?
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His cellphone said it wasn't cancer.
In Greece, almost no one paid taxes. And just look at what a prosperous utopia that country has turned into.
Are you kidding? The Orange Box was one of the best values in console history. Half-Life 2 and several expansions, TF2, *and* Portal--all for $60. I bought that thing when it came out and I'm *still* playing it today.
It's good that a real man doesn't give a shit. Because, if he runs around acting like a little kid, his fellow men are going to label him a bizarre retard at best, a possible pedophile at worst.
Most adults mature, and come to like different (and usually more sophisticated) things than children. I don't still read the same books I did in 2nd grade, for example. I don't still play hide-and-go-seek. People who say it doesn't matter should ask themselves what they would think if they took their kids to the playground and saw a 40-year-old man running around swinging on the swing-set and asking the kids to play "duck duck goose" with him. Would you consider that "young at heart" too, or just pathetic?
No, I don't still like the same kinds of games I played as a kid. I also don't read The Hardy Boys anymore or watch Sesame Street.
I've done much more emasculating things for women than that. I still have flashbacks of all the shitty Julia Roberts movies my last gf made me watch. I swear, if I ever meet Hugh Grant, I'm going to strangle that motherfucker with his own ascot.
Don't be daft. Obviously George W. Bush is a human being, not Satan or some evil presence that has haunted man since the dawn of time.
Dick Cheney, however...
The same reason I feel silly making fart jokes, watching Saturday morning kid's cartoons, and playing with matchbox cars (do they even have those anymore), etc. Because I'm a grown up. There are games that are targeted at kids and games that are targeted at adults. And Nintendo have strongly favored (not exclusively, but strongly) the former. They're great for social party games too, I suppose, but I don't have many parties either.
As a historian once told me, a statement of pure facts would render everything meaningless. It would reduce history to mere chronicle. It's all "what" and no "why." Nothing can have an effect, things just follow one another in a rote manner with no real connection of cause.
They may not make the most muscular systems, but they know how to do family fun (and milk franchises until they scream). I would definitely have a Wii if I had kids. But I would feel a little silly as a grown man playing a Mario or Kirby game.
Why was this modded troll? Once again "Troll" and "Flamebait" are not synonyms for "Person I disagree with."
Tell me, if Steve told you to jump off a bridge, would you ask which one?
Back in 1990, Rod Shealy used this exact same tactic in a Lt. Governor race in SC. He recruited a homeless black guy with a criminal conviction in an attempt to take out the Democratic frontrunner, so his sister (a Republican) could win. It was a crass attempt to play on the racial prejudices of SC (both for blacks in the Democratic Party and against blacks among the general populace) to get his sister elected. He almost succeeded to. And he is still working in SC Republican politics (most recently in the Bauer gubernatorial campaign).
All of you who are saying this is a preposterous idea have obviously never been involved in SC politics. This isn't even a particularly nasty tactic by SC standards.
Make all the snide remarks you like, it won't change the fact that his name commands respect. And he has made a LOT of smart decisions in the field.