The fact that there were Jews, Romans, and Crucifixes says NOTHING about the divine/non-divine status of Jesus nor does it speak to the claim of any supernatural activity--anymore than the fact that there was a real Joseph Smith, a New York state, and caves says anything about whether or not Joseph Smith received a divine revelation from an angel in one of those caves.
6 Mbps is only available in certain areas. It's not available everywhere. I live in an urban area, mind you (not in the boonies), and the fastest DSL that AT&T offers here is 3 Mbps.
Wow, another speculative article from someone one what COULD have been. I wish one of these days NASA would give me more than models, simulations, possibilities, and probes that are SUPPOSED to reveal actual conclusive evidence but which never do.
I have AT&T for my DSL and I can't even get their 6 Mbps DSL connection with a WIRE. And they want me to believe they're going to give me 7 Mbps on my cellphone?
I suspect the "dark hand" will turn out to be a real letdown. Everyone thinks its evil-old-Microsoft or evil-old-Intel, but I suspect it will actually be a bunch of investors no one has ever heard of. If MS or Intel really wanted to back someone, they wouldn't be going out of business in the face of a mere $250k in debt.
I will agree with you only to the extent that I think *ALL* religions are pretty much equally stupid. Believing Joseph Smith recieved a angelic revelation is no stupider than believing Mohommad or Abraham received a similar revelation--and all those pale in comparison to the general belief that a first-century illiterate Hebrew peasant who happened to be crucified by the Romans as an insurgent was somehow the human incarnation of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God.
Tribalism in general is dying, and this is a good thing. The world is shrinking. And every day we're closer to a time when people think of themselves as human (rather than Tutsi, Arab, Jew, etc.) is a better day. There was a time before these tribes where created, and there will be a time after they're long gone.
Yes there are abusers everywhere. But recent revelations have shown a pattern in the Catholic Church that you don't find just anywhere. The fact that so many priests have been busted is bad enough, but the REAL tragedy (and where the Church REALLY failed) was in their clear and deliberate attempt to actively cover up that abuse and protect those who engaged in it. I have nothing against Catholic dogma or the religion itself (it's no more stupid than any other religion, IMHO), but that sort of behavior is shameful no matter how you cut it. At the VERY LEAST they should have shipped those priests off to some monastery in Siberia (far aways from kids), if not kick them out of the priesthood altogether.
There are a lot of churches out there that will basically kick you out of the church if you don't tithe or donation regularly. The distinction between this and "selling slavation" is pretty thin.
Why do I suspect that this "czar" will spend about 10% of his time dealing with security issues and 90% of his time finding ways to help big media companies protect their IP from evil pirates, teenagers, and Youtube?
Sony has for decades now been one of the handful of big media companies that basically controlled the kingdom of all media. During that time, they came to regard that kingdom as their birthright. Then the internet came along, and fewer and fewer peasants were coming around with their tax payments and deference for the king. So now they want to take back their kingdom by force. I think that's a much better analogy than "guardrails on the information superhighway."
The last time they had a MIR toilet seat land in the middle of Seattle (then tried to blame the targeting mistake on "gremlins," no less). They just don't want another fiasco like that.
Excluding movement and camera controls, a modern controller has 19 buttons--8 on the directional pad, 2 triggers, 2 bumpers, 4 buttons, start and select, and a playstation/xbox button (okay, maybe the system would reserve that one). What's more, a MMO designed for the console would including a control scheme geared for the controller. There are MORE than enough controllers on a modern controller for any MMO. And, of course there are numerous other ways of configuring your control scheme for even more effectiveness (like the expression wheel in Fable 2, the response wheel in Mass Effect, etc.). A controller was more than adequate to control Oblivion, after all, and that was nothing more than a MMO without the online part.
You PC snobs need to get over yourselves. God didn't bequeath the keyboard and mouse on the world as his gift to gamers. And the only reason we don't have a MMO on a console right now is because most developers suffer from the same lack of vision as you do. But eventually someone will do it. And when they do it successfully, every developer out there will kick themselves for not doing it first.
With WoW and a ton of also-rans, my prediction is that the next truly *HUGE* MMO (with millions of users) will break the rules in one very important (and henceforth largely unexplored way): it will be designed from the ground up to run on a CONSOLE. It truly amazes me that so many companies are out there right now designing yet-another-WoW-killer for the PC only (that's probably just going to fail epically and bankrupt their company) when they COULD be the first company to put a real modern MMO on a console (to date, only old and weak-ass efforts like Final Fantasy 7 and Phantasy Star Universe have even tried).
Why spend a fortune to compete against the WoW juggernaut and about a million other established MMO's on the PC when you could be the first and only game in town on the console?!? It's absolutely insane that no one has asked this question before.
Wow, I was getting ready to argue with you when I realized that Rushmore was *11 years ago* (time sure flies). Murray used to be known for his ability to pick good roles, but in the last ten years, his career has went completely to crap. A few appearances in Wes Anderson's lesser works (I was a big fan of Anderson in the mid-late 90's, but man, he turned into a pumpkin on January 1 2000) and "Lost in Translation" (which I thought was godawful and VASTLY overrated) is about all he's had. Combine that with crapfests like Charlies Angels and the Garfield movies, and I guess I can understand why he would stoop to this level.
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The fact that there were Jews, Romans, and Crucifixes says NOTHING about the divine/non-divine status of Jesus nor does it speak to the claim of any supernatural activity--anymore than the fact that there was a real Joseph Smith, a New York state, and caves says anything about whether or not Joseph Smith received a divine revelation from an angel in one of those caves.
6 Mbps is only available in certain areas. It's not available everywhere. I live in an urban area, mind you (not in the boonies), and the fastest DSL that AT&T offers here is 3 Mbps.
Wow, another speculative article from someone one what COULD have been. I wish one of these days NASA would give me more than models, simulations, possibilities, and probes that are SUPPOSED to reveal actual conclusive evidence but which never do.
I have AT&T for my DSL and I can't even get their 6 Mbps DSL connection with a WIRE. And they want me to believe they're going to give me 7 Mbps on my cellphone?
Their church was FOUNDED by a Zombie. What do you expect?
Ha, silly fool! Don't you realize that all those film and TV shoots are just covert operations to bring in the ships anyway, behind your back?
I suspect the "dark hand" will turn out to be a real letdown. Everyone thinks its evil-old-Microsoft or evil-old-Intel, but I suspect it will actually be a bunch of investors no one has ever heard of. If MS or Intel really wanted to back someone, they wouldn't be going out of business in the face of a mere $250k in debt.
Sony can copy their technology, but not their sales.
I will agree with you only to the extent that I think *ALL* religions are pretty much equally stupid. Believing Joseph Smith recieved a angelic revelation is no stupider than believing Mohommad or Abraham received a similar revelation--and all those pale in comparison to the general belief that a first-century illiterate Hebrew peasant who happened to be crucified by the Romans as an insurgent was somehow the human incarnation of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God.
To me you ALL sound like a bunch of ass-clowns.
Tribalism in general is dying, and this is a good thing. The world is shrinking. And every day we're closer to a time when people think of themselves as human (rather than Tutsi, Arab, Jew, etc.) is a better day. There was a time before these tribes where created, and there will be a time after they're long gone.
Yes there are abusers everywhere. But recent revelations have shown a pattern in the Catholic Church that you don't find just anywhere. The fact that so many priests have been busted is bad enough, but the REAL tragedy (and where the Church REALLY failed) was in their clear and deliberate attempt to actively cover up that abuse and protect those who engaged in it. I have nothing against Catholic dogma or the religion itself (it's no more stupid than any other religion, IMHO), but that sort of behavior is shameful no matter how you cut it. At the VERY LEAST they should have shipped those priests off to some monastery in Siberia (far aways from kids), if not kick them out of the priesthood altogether.
There are a lot of churches out there that will basically kick you out of the church if you don't tithe or donation regularly. The distinction between this and "selling slavation" is pretty thin.
We used to call ADHD kids "Kids with parents too lazy to control them."
The same way we always have--by sending waves and waves of our men at them. It's the only logical way.
They're a big corporation. The law only applies to the peons.
Screw that, I want one of those big guns for my front yard. Just try and egg my house THIS YEAR kids!
Why do I suspect that this "czar" will spend about 10% of his time dealing with security issues and 90% of his time finding ways to help big media companies protect their IP from evil pirates, teenagers, and Youtube?
Remember that David only defeats Goliath in the movies. In real life, David usually ends up with a slingshot shoved up his ass.
Sony has for decades now been one of the handful of big media companies that basically controlled the kingdom of all media. During that time, they came to regard that kingdom as their birthright. Then the internet came along, and fewer and fewer peasants were coming around with their tax payments and deference for the king. So now they want to take back their kingdom by force. I think that's a much better analogy than "guardrails on the information superhighway."
The last time they had a MIR toilet seat land in the middle of Seattle (then tried to blame the targeting mistake on "gremlins," no less). They just don't want another fiasco like that.
Excluding movement and camera controls, a modern controller has 19 buttons--8 on the directional pad, 2 triggers, 2 bumpers, 4 buttons, start and select, and a playstation/xbox button (okay, maybe the system would reserve that one). What's more, a MMO designed for the console would including a control scheme geared for the controller. There are MORE than enough controllers on a modern controller for any MMO. And, of course there are numerous other ways of configuring your control scheme for even more effectiveness (like the expression wheel in Fable 2, the response wheel in Mass Effect, etc.). A controller was more than adequate to control Oblivion, after all, and that was nothing more than a MMO without the online part.
You PC snobs need to get over yourselves. God didn't bequeath the keyboard and mouse on the world as his gift to gamers. And the only reason we don't have a MMO on a console right now is because most developers suffer from the same lack of vision as you do. But eventually someone will do it. And when they do it successfully, every developer out there will kick themselves for not doing it first.
If you don't give her what she wants, she's threatened to kiss Al on TV again.
With WoW and a ton of also-rans, my prediction is that the next truly *HUGE* MMO (with millions of users) will break the rules in one very important (and henceforth largely unexplored way): it will be designed from the ground up to run on a CONSOLE. It truly amazes me that so many companies are out there right now designing yet-another-WoW-killer for the PC only (that's probably just going to fail epically and bankrupt their company) when they COULD be the first company to put a real modern MMO on a console (to date, only old and weak-ass efforts like Final Fantasy 7 and Phantasy Star Universe have even tried).
Why spend a fortune to compete against the WoW juggernaut and about a million other established MMO's on the PC when you could be the first and only game in town on the console?!? It's absolutely insane that no one has asked this question before.
Wow, I was getting ready to argue with you when I realized that Rushmore was *11 years ago* (time sure flies). Murray used to be known for his ability to pick good roles, but in the last ten years, his career has went completely to crap. A few appearances in Wes Anderson's lesser works (I was a big fan of Anderson in the mid-late 90's, but man, he turned into a pumpkin on January 1 2000) and "Lost in Translation" (which I thought was godawful and VASTLY overrated) is about all he's had. Combine that with crapfests like Charlies Angels and the Garfield movies, and I guess I can understand why he would stoop to this level.