Thank God I'm not the only one who thought that. I was beginning to think I was the only one who heard the news that 4chan and wikileaks were in truble and thought of immediately of Scientology and their many attempts to frame their enemies by sending fake threats to politicians, staging crimes, etc. This is RIGHT out of their playbook and comes just months after 4chan declared war on them (and wikileaks is a long-time enemy too). I just hope the Secret Service will take them seriously when they say they are innocent and that the investigative agent is smart enough to consider the possibility than Scientology has their hands in this.
It's sad that 99.9% of the posts on a forum as smart as/. just accept the given story without thinking of the glaringly obvious possibility of a Scientology hit job. I always thought/. users were supposed to be smart and savy.
"Socialism" to most conservatives is anyone who doesn't thump a Bible around and claim they personally speak for an omniscient, omnipotent being. It's anyone who dares question any war that a Republican starts. It's anyone who doesn't want to abolish taxes and leave the poor to the mercy of the streets. It's anyone who thinks that a poor, irresponsible teenager may be better off aborting her baby than raising it to be yet another poor, irresponsible teenager. It's anyone who doesn't see beyond Bush's C-student background and laughable vocabulary to see his true genius. It's anyone who thinks diplomacy is more than just aping bad John Wayne dialogue and blowing shit up. It's anyone who doesn't vote for whatever dunce/ditz of the moment the Republicans put on their ticket.
I was once a huge Ben Stiller fan and even *I* thought that movie was ridiculously overrated. Tom Cruise's part wasn't funny, it was just hammy and overwrought.
I was also once a big Tom Cruise fan. But, nutball religion or not, he hasn't been in a decent movie in the last decade.
Am I the only one who thinks this stinks of a Scientology setup? They've been known pose as their enemies and send fake threats to government officials before. They might not be above hacking Palin's email account and trying to pin it on 4chan and Wikileaks.
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Placebo supplements helped improve my memory! I can remember how gullible I was with crystal clarity!
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I've never heard any accusations that the aeronautical industry was building particularly inefficient planes. Why would they? The only reason the automotive industry did it was because consumers love big cars (perceiving them as safer and wanting to show off). But unlike with SUV's, no one uses the size of the airplane they flew in on to compensate for their small dick (with the exception of Richard Branson, of course). So why WOULDN'T airlines want more efficient aircraft?
Your HR guy is full of shit. Pretty much every state in the southeast is at-will. It's how they sell themselves to companies (along with a lot of anti-union laws). It's no accident that Wal-mart came out of the South.
Putting the CEO's dim-witted nephew Steve in charge of disc duplication seemed like such a good idea. I mean, how could anyone screw something THAT simple up, right?
Actually, the paternalism here seems to be coming from the OSS crowd--who want to decide for the Peruvians what OS is best for them rather than respecting their decision to go with Windows.
I haven't seen design that good since the 1997 West Lake High School Web Design Challenge For Special Students. Maybe they were suing her out of embarrassment.
I can't help but picture a cop yelling "I'VE BEEN SHOT! OFFICER DOWN!" into his radio and the dispatcher on the other end hearing "I'VE...switching optimal frequency...searching for signal...searching for signal...OFFICER......switching optimal frequency...searching for signal...searching for signal..."
The first Fable was okay--not great, not bad, just okay. But Molyneux, as a person, is one of the most arrogant, self-absorbed pricks in the business (and that says a LOT in a business notorious for people like John Romero). He may be the only modern game designer that can over-hype even Will Wright. We're talking a Mick Jagger level of cockiness. Listening to his build-up to Black & white and Fable, you would think that they would change the ways games are made (and cause players to spontaneously orgasm at even the sight of the loading screen). In reality, both where mediocre games with a few moderately interesting elements.
As with Will Wright, Molyneux is ill-served by his own personality. If he would just shut up and make games, his games would get a lot better reception than they do. The fact that he proceeds his games' releases with years of promises that he can't possibly keep, and hype that no game could live up to, pretty much dooms them to be disappointments. Reviewers who might otherwise focus on what the games *DO* deliver on instead focus on how the game let them down and failed to deliver on its hype.
Sony are notorious control freaks and DRM stalwarts. Need I remind anyone of the Rootkit CD fiasco, or the fact that they sold their Blu-ray format largely on the basis of its not one, but *two*, different "uncrackable" DRM layers?
Is there anyone in the world who believes for a SECOND that their "Buy Once, Play Anywhere" will translate to anything other than "Buy Once, Play Anywhere, as long as you let us put our intrusive DRM schemes on your devices and let your devices phone home to get our approval first"?
Anytime you have a hardware manufacturer who is also a media content producer, you're going to get heavy-handed DRM on their devices and media content, all under their strict control. Sony is no more going to let you make copies of their movies willie-nillie than they're going to let you have access to the GPU on the PS3 for your homebrew.
You would think that the fact that McCain himself is more than 6,000 years old would debunk that Creationist nonsense. And until he can prove that he fought a dinosaur, I'm not buying it.
And where exactly where all these "real" psychics on September 10, 2001?
Not a single one even willing to make even an anonymous tip to the FBI? Not a single word to their friends? Not a single anonymous letter to the NY Times?
As a Microsoft supporter, I would strongly agree that Ubuntu shouldn't worry so much about getting more users. In fact, I say make it even more obscure and hard to use than it already is. It's the only way to maintain your exclusive hipness. And you want to stay cool, right?
If psychics are so real, how come none have come forward to debunk James Randi (the way that he has debunked dozens of them)? It would seem a fairly simple task. He has even agreed to meet psychics on "neutral ground," but still no takers.
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And how do you know that the individual who actually did it wasn't a Scientology plant, setting you dumbasses up?
Thank God I'm not the only one who thought that. I was beginning to think I was the only one who heard the news that 4chan and wikileaks were in truble and thought of immediately of Scientology and their many attempts to frame their enemies by sending fake threats to politicians, staging crimes, etc. This is RIGHT out of their playbook and comes just months after 4chan declared war on them (and wikileaks is a long-time enemy too). I just hope the Secret Service will take them seriously when they say they are innocent and that the investigative agent is smart enough to consider the possibility than Scientology has their hands in this.
It's sad that 99.9% of the posts on a forum as smart as /. just accept the given story without thinking of the glaringly obvious possibility of a Scientology hit job. I always thought /. users were supposed to be smart and savy.
"Socialism" to most conservatives is anyone who doesn't thump a Bible around and claim they personally speak for an omniscient, omnipotent being. It's anyone who dares question any war that a Republican starts. It's anyone who doesn't want to abolish taxes and leave the poor to the mercy of the streets. It's anyone who thinks that a poor, irresponsible teenager may be better off aborting her baby than raising it to be yet another poor, irresponsible teenager. It's anyone who doesn't see beyond Bush's C-student background and laughable vocabulary to see his true genius. It's anyone who thinks diplomacy is more than just aping bad John Wayne dialogue and blowing shit up. It's anyone who doesn't vote for whatever dunce/ditz of the moment the Republicans put on their ticket.
I was once a huge Ben Stiller fan and even *I* thought that movie was ridiculously overrated. Tom Cruise's part wasn't funny, it was just hammy and overwrought.
I was also once a big Tom Cruise fan. But, nutball religion or not, he hasn't been in a decent movie in the last decade.
Am I the only one who thinks this stinks of a Scientology setup? They've been known pose as their enemies and send fake threats to government officials before. They might not be above hacking Palin's email account and trying to pin it on 4chan and Wikileaks.
Placebo supplements helped improve my memory! I can remember how gullible I was with crystal clarity!
Feel better now that you've had your daily smugasm, grammar nazi?
I hear that it may be as high as 49%!
I've never heard any accusations that the aeronautical industry was building particularly inefficient planes. Why would they? The only reason the automotive industry did it was because consumers love big cars (perceiving them as safer and wanting to show off). But unlike with SUV's, no one uses the size of the airplane they flew in on to compensate for their small dick (with the exception of Richard Branson, of course). So why WOULDN'T airlines want more efficient aircraft?
Your HR guy is full of shit. Pretty much every state in the southeast is at-will. It's how they sell themselves to companies (along with a lot of anti-union laws). It's no accident that Wal-mart came out of the South.
Glass really messes up the oil rigs' drill bits.
Putting the CEO's dim-witted nephew Steve in charge of disc duplication seemed like such a good idea. I mean, how could anyone screw something THAT simple up, right?
Actually, the paternalism here seems to be coming from the OSS crowd--who want to decide for the Peruvians what OS is best for them rather than respecting their decision to go with Windows.
Balderdash! The only way to stop terrorists who hate your freedom is to give up your freedom. Then the terrorists won't hate you anymore.
I haven't seen design that good since the 1997 West Lake High School Web Design Challenge For Special Students. Maybe they were suing her out of embarrassment.
"if GTA had been cloned after san andreas"
It was. They called it "Saints Row."
Thank you folks, I'll be here all week. Be sure to try out our all-you-can-eat potato bar.
Does this meant we won't be getting GTA 2009, GTA 2010, or GTA 2011?
I can't help but picture a cop yelling "I'VE BEEN SHOT! OFFICER DOWN!" into his radio and the dispatcher on the other end hearing "I'VE...switching optimal frequency...searching for signal...searching for signal...OFFICER......switching optimal frequency...searching for signal...searching for signal..."
The first Fable was okay--not great, not bad, just okay. But Molyneux, as a person, is one of the most arrogant, self-absorbed pricks in the business (and that says a LOT in a business notorious for people like John Romero). He may be the only modern game designer that can over-hype even Will Wright. We're talking a Mick Jagger level of cockiness. Listening to his build-up to Black & white and Fable, you would think that they would change the ways games are made (and cause players to spontaneously orgasm at even the sight of the loading screen). In reality, both where mediocre games with a few moderately interesting elements.
As with Will Wright, Molyneux is ill-served by his own personality. If he would just shut up and make games, his games would get a lot better reception than they do. The fact that he proceeds his games' releases with years of promises that he can't possibly keep, and hype that no game could live up to, pretty much dooms them to be disappointments. Reviewers who might otherwise focus on what the games *DO* deliver on instead focus on how the game let them down and failed to deliver on its hype.
Sony are notorious control freaks and DRM stalwarts. Need I remind anyone of the Rootkit CD fiasco, or the fact that they sold their Blu-ray format largely on the basis of its not one, but *two*, different "uncrackable" DRM layers?
Is there anyone in the world who believes for a SECOND that their "Buy Once, Play Anywhere" will translate to anything other than "Buy Once, Play Anywhere, as long as you let us put our intrusive DRM schemes on your devices and let your devices phone home to get our approval first"?
Anytime you have a hardware manufacturer who is also a media content producer, you're going to get heavy-handed DRM on their devices and media content, all under their strict control. Sony is no more going to let you make copies of their movies willie-nillie than they're going to let you have access to the GPU on the PS3 for your homebrew.
You would think that the fact that McCain himself is more than 6,000 years old would debunk that Creationist nonsense. And until he can prove that he fought a dinosaur, I'm not buying it.
And not the Harry Reid kind of dinosaur, either!
You forgot "Anyone else taking off a day at work for this one?" and "My name is X on X server, anyone else want to raid on November 13th?"
And where exactly where all these "real" psychics on September 10, 2001?
Not a single one even willing to make even an anonymous tip to the FBI? Not a single word to their friends? Not a single anonymous letter to the NY Times?
As a Microsoft supporter, I would strongly agree that Ubuntu shouldn't worry so much about getting more users. In fact, I say make it even more obscure and hard to use than it already is. It's the only way to maintain your exclusive hipness. And you want to stay cool, right?
If psychics are so real, how come none have come forward to debunk James Randi (the way that he has debunked dozens of them)? It would seem a fairly simple task. He has even agreed to meet psychics on "neutral ground," but still no takers.