The problem is that it gets the attention of men for obvious reasons (to most, at least). With attire like that a woman is encouraging men to hit on them and think of them only in terms of sex, sex, and more sex. Though some guys will think like that all the time when confronted with a pretty girl, it's a lot harder for us guys to have a platonic relationship with a girl who barely wears underpants all the time.
Of course, if you want to be valued only for your body...
Brainwashing? Jeez, do you think that all people are completely guillable clods or something? Are college students still intelectually babies? Do you think that a Catholic school in which over 40% of its population is non-Christian will be able to attach wires to everyone's heads there and "convert" them? Do you seriously think that they're guillable enough to ignore any conversation they might have had with their parents or friends on the subject of ID and evolution and all of a sudden turn around and believe that the Earth was created in seven days? College students aren't stupid, not all Christians (or even Fundamentalists) are out to skin your hide (Seriously, how many of us do you actually know?), and if a student wants to be converted he will be.
It's not even like the student is unaware of the situation. Information is fully available to a prospective non-Christian student about how much of the population is like him, chapels he will have to attend (if any) and what Bible-studying courses he will have to take. Even if they're dumb as a rock they can see that the college is Christian, and may... I dunno... force you to take a Bible class? DUH.
A community of people meet everyday in the town square. However, they cannot communitate with one another because they are deaf and don't know sign language. They wander admist each other looking at everyone else in the town. After doing that they go home. It is a rule that if you have a special mark on your forehead you must commit suicide.
A certain number of marks are on a few of the townspeople (obviously no more than 1 per person). After three days everyone with marks is dead. Assuming that they are all perfect logicians, how many people had marks on their forehead?
When I need to work from somewhere other than my normal computer I usually just use webmail to send an email to myself containing the text work I typed. Formatting, if any, comes later when I get back home.
Not exactly the same situation as yours but using webmail for that purpose is not completely whacked.
You are the only one in the Wall Mart checkout line not talking on a cell phone to pass the time while waiting for your turn to pay.
When you walk down the street with your friends you're talking only to them instead of multitasking - talking or text messaging with someone else on your mobile phone while talking to them at the same time.
You don't use IM to let all of your friends know where you are at all times.
You haven't downloaded hundreds of ringtones because you think spending 99 cents per ringtone is a ripoff.
You don't download songs every night to load on your iPod.
Well, I'm a seventeen year old geezer then!
And people are surprised when I tell them I'm a senior.
Princess Mononoke doesn't strike me as very kid friendly. I mean, the main character has a wiggly cursed arm and shoots off the limbs of people!
I wouldn't let my 6 year old watch it (if I had one). I don't know about the other ones though.
If you read the article you'll notice that the reporter mentioned this.... while he was playing a souped-up version of Metroid Prime 2. At first it was tiring because he was moving his arm all over the place, but once he sat back and relaxed it all came easy. We do have wrists, you know.
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1) I grant that. I haven't played it and the screenshots I saw didn't look violent (beyond rolling up houses/cars), so you know better than me. However, I hardly think it's as nasty as GTA, FPSes, or even RPGs.
2) They're using video games to give them a publicity boost for their own agenda. There's a difference between that and actually installing propaganda within all video games.
FPS: And how many of those games actually are different from one another? It seems to me that most sort-of unique FPSes come from mods (i.e. CS) rather then the gaming companies. An vacation from FPSes might actually be good for the gamer as far as selection goes, though I believe Metroid Prime 2 type FPSes would probably be able to hold on. I mean, you're fighting freakin evil aliens and there's just about no gore whatsoever. Even when you die in multiplayer all you get is a cool TV-off effect.
Sports: There is no way companies are going to let politicians get in the way of Madden '06 and other liscensed games. More over, except perhaps for hockey, in none of those games is it the objective to hurt things. Fouls are (ideally) accidents, not players trying to knock each other out. Sports stay, especially if Mario has something to say about it.
RPGs: If LOTR had been killing humans all the time instead of orcs, it would have been rated R for sure. As it is, the things killed were evil orcs. That lowers the rating, as long as the RPG isn't too bloody and you are not collecting severed heads or something. Mario-esque RPGs would still manage to stay.
1) I grant that. I haven't played it and the screenshots I saw didn't look violent (beyond rolling up houses/cars), so you know better than me. However, I hardly think it's as nasty as GTA, FPSes, or even RPGs.
2) They're using video games to give them a publicity boost for their own agenda. There's a difference between that and actually installing propaganda within all video games.
FPS:
And how many of those games actually are different from one another? It seems to me that most sort-of unique FPSes come from mods (i.e. CS) rather then the gaming companies. An vacation from FPSes might actually be good for the gamer as far as selection goes, though I believe Metroid Prime 2 type FPSes would probably be able to hold on. I mean, you're fighting freakin evil aliens and there's just about no gore whatsoever. Even when you die in multiplayer all you get is a cool TV-off effect.
Sports:
There is no way companies are going to let politicians get in the way of Madden '06 and other liscensed games. More over, except perhaps for hockey, in none of those games is it the objective to hurt things. Fouls are (ideally) accidents, not players trying to knock each other out. Sports stay, especially if Mario has something to say about it.
RPGs:
If LOTR had been killing humans all the time instead of orcs, it would have been rated R for sure. As it is, the things killed were evil orcs. That lowers the rating, as long as the RPG isn't too bloody and you are not collecting severed heads or something. Mario-esque RPGs would still manage to stay.
Video games are targetted because those in power didn't grow up with them. Since none of them have ever experianced video games they are more likely to think video games are bad and are more suseptable to people like Jack Thompson. In a couple years video games will be as OK as everything else, there will be something else that's corrupting American youth, and if the laws got strict they'll be slack again.
Even if the worst happens and all we are left with in video games is Mario and the like... Is that really the end of the world? No one could say that Katamari Damacy is violent or makes kids want to roll around in trash, but it's a fun game. As long as fun games like that are made the industry is doing it's job.
At least they're only targetting violence, not trying to make all video games propaganda tools.
The secluded, maddening, fantasy world of a homeschooler. Nearly everything I do is "homework". But I used the homework example because it's a common thing. Let me be clearer: Learning new things is hard work.
That covers just about everything, doesn't it? Oh well, it's still true.
Hydrogen hasn't been used in ballons since the Hindenberg went down in flames. Helium, though slightly more inefficient (per mole of gas, anyways), is a very nonreactive element, being one of the noble gases. That was the biggest step I think we've ever taken to make airships safer. Then again, an expert might correct me.
Another thing to note is that birds and such have a WHOLE lot more maneuverability than airplanes. The acrobatic feets they perform regularly have not been matched by any powered aircraft, whether piloted by humans or robots. Granted, airplanes can carry heavier loads and go faster, but, strangely enough, we're comparing apples to oranges here from an aviation standpoint.
Research, is, of course, being done in detail on how birds fly in order to make little acrobatic spy/attack robots. Frankly, I'd rather simply fly like a bird myself then go shooting people "in one", but that's the way research goes...
I wish people would stop blaming throwing hot oil on Christians. It's not that I have sympathy for the intolerance or stupidity some display. It's just that people seem to assume that the Christians the media shows represent all of them, as if terrorists made up the entirety of Islam.
Moreover, I have hold the belief myself that we can not continue this way. And I'm one of those "deluded" people who believes that man was made in God's image.
Next time argue with our freakin beliefs when it actually relates to the story, not when a great tragidy like this occurs. We should be helping those in need and preparing for the worst, not pointing fingers at each other.
I don't completely agree with this, at least about the harmlessness of timewasters like fishing and gaming. Sometimes those timewasters get in the way of the real work (i.e. playing WoW instead of doing homework) and that is bad, and parents need to make sure their children are on the right track.
Moreover, at least if you're tinkering with your car you learn more about the car and can possibly fix problems that you'd usually have a mechanic do. A teenager could use his free time to explore his different intrests, such as drawing, music, 3d modelling, or programming in order to see which he'd like best to have a career in. Granted, you aren't going to save a million bucks doing this, but at least you're doing something that has a real impact that gaming (perhaps fishing too) doesn't have.
Sorry, but black culture IS different. Lots of white kids listen to rap and play basketball. If playing basketball and listening to rap were all that black culture was, you'd be right. But what about speech, morals, and philosophy? You yourself say that a white man will be silent and try to get near a woman, while a black will openly seduce her. If that isn't a difference in culture, then what the heck is? Is openly talking to a woman smarter or something? Of course not! In most cases, a white man hitting on a white woman leads to a white slap in the face, and no success. A black man would get the same treatment, because either way the white woman feels it insulting. Why? Because of a difference in culture.
Your intelligence theory is very conveniant for you. You say blacks are smarter because they, surprise surprise, do better then whites, as a whole, in fields where blacks dominate. Well, I have news for you: Whites, surprise surprise, do better than blacks as a whole in fields where whites dominate. Perhaps blacks are just better at some things than whites are, and whites are better at some things than blacks?
Though I will give you one thing: whites are less open then blacks. However, the idea that whites really "repress" their sexuality at all is stupid. Just because whites are less open about it doesn't mean they don't do it or talk about it (Haven't you ever *been* on the internet and seen giggling adolescents make some "funny" ASCII art?).
Finally, it is also conveniant for your argument that you can ignore half of my points. Next time don't simply say "I didn't say what you said I said" and expect that to prove that what you actually said was right. It doesn't.
Batteries are not trivial by any means. They are the sources of energy for all portable devices. Damaged, they can be very dangerous. Defective, and they could release too much energy and damage the device, or simply not provide enough power for for it to operate.
Batteries are probably just as complicated as whatever it is they're powering.
So if everyone who scored in the top 1% of those tests think that the tests were of no significance, would that prove them stupid, because in that there was an actually a trend found in the high scorers in the tests?
Sorry, I'm not very smart. Better stop thinking about it before my head explodes...
Tell me that black culture isn't different, and then maybe I'll believe you about the "smarter" bit. When you stick a man in a foreign situation, of course he isn't going to fare as well then if he had been in that situation all his life. Bill Gates is not going to become a politician. Bush, even if his reputational slate were clean, wouldn't stand a chance in an election in some other country. Frankly, I myself would be very bad at killing lions or surviving on a deserted island.
But does this mean that we are all stupid, because we cannot deal with situations that we are not prepared for? A man would could would certainly be an intelligent man indeed, but I don't know any such man. White men are foreign to black culture, so how is that any different? If they were, say, a scholar of modern black culture or had just as much experiance in it (that is, living their entire lives in it), I have no doubt that, apart from factors stemming from their appearance, they could be just as versitile stratagists as blacks.
You make it also sound like black culture is better than white. Granted, I have no experiance of black culture, but I have news for you: Nothing is even close to perfect. Therefore, I shy away from such assertions.
Also, since when is sexuality REPRESSED in white culture? You're confusing "white" with "Christian", Turn on your TV set to soaps, MTV, and comedy shows. Watch some of the many "R" rated movies out there. Go to college. You'll see, frankly, that white does not equal Christian.
Finally, if a white man is excluded from black society because he can't follow such complicated jokes, what is that but the enforcement of conformity? How is that different from what any other race or social class does? Learn quickly that conformity is a universal issue, just as selfishness, anger, hate, lies, and thievery are.
It's all apple's fault and their stupid snazzy mini. You'd better grab some friends and pickforks and go tell them to make something more noisy and smelly.
I use the Mail program on my Mac to bounce back any spam I get. Of course, I get barely any to begin with (I very, very rarely give out my address), but it does keep it down to about 1 message a week, and it makes sure that the spammers don't know I exist.
Though since the mail daemon would be able to act immediately if the mail server went down, I suppose that could avoid any sort of script that tried looking at the difference between when the spam was sent and the returning message sent. Not that I even know such a script exists, or am any expert on the matter.
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The problem is that it gets the attention of men for obvious reasons (to most, at least). With attire like that a woman is encouraging men to hit on them and think of them only in terms of sex, sex, and more sex. Though some guys will think like that all the time when confronted with a pretty girl, it's a lot harder for us guys to have a platonic relationship with a girl who barely wears underpants all the time. Of course, if you want to be valued only for your body...
Sorry, I forgot that were were talking about catholic high schools, not colleges. Still, much of what I said still applies.
Brainwashing? Jeez, do you think that all people are completely guillable clods or something? Are college students still intelectually babies? Do you think that a Catholic school in which over 40% of its population is non-Christian will be able to attach wires to everyone's heads there and "convert" them? Do you seriously think that they're guillable enough to ignore any conversation they might have had with their parents or friends on the subject of ID and evolution and all of a sudden turn around and believe that the Earth was created in seven days? College students aren't stupid, not all Christians (or even Fundamentalists) are out to skin your hide (Seriously, how many of us do you actually know?), and if a student wants to be converted he will be. It's not even like the student is unaware of the situation. Information is fully available to a prospective non-Christian student about how much of the population is like him, chapels he will have to attend (if any) and what Bible-studying courses he will have to take. Even if they're dumb as a rock they can see that the college is Christian, and may... I dunno... force you to take a Bible class? DUH.
...And the retailers can pay for it easily with all the money they make from nine-year-old used games that sell for $40!
A community of people meet everyday in the town square. However, they cannot communitate with one another because they are deaf and don't know sign language. They wander admist each other looking at everyone else in the town. After doing that they go home. It is a rule that if you have a special mark on your forehead you must commit suicide. A certain number of marks are on a few of the townspeople (obviously no more than 1 per person). After three days everyone with marks is dead. Assuming that they are all perfect logicians, how many people had marks on their forehead?
When I need to work from somewhere other than my normal computer I usually just use webmail to send an email to myself containing the text work I typed. Formatting, if any, comes later when I get back home.
Not exactly the same situation as yours but using webmail for that purpose is not completely whacked.
You are the only one in the Wall Mart checkout line not talking on a cell phone to pass the time while waiting for your turn to pay. When you walk down the street with your friends you're talking only to them instead of multitasking - talking or text messaging with someone else on your mobile phone while talking to them at the same time. You don't use IM to let all of your friends know where you are at all times. You haven't downloaded hundreds of ringtones because you think spending 99 cents per ringtone is a ripoff. You don't download songs every night to load on your iPod.
Well, I'm a seventeen year old geezer then!
And people are surprised when I tell them I'm a senior.
Princess Mononoke doesn't strike me as very kid friendly. I mean, the main character has a wiggly cursed arm and shoots off the limbs of people! I wouldn't let my 6 year old watch it (if I had one). I don't know about the other ones though.
If you read the article you'll notice that the reporter mentioned this.... while he was playing a souped-up version of Metroid Prime 2. At first it was tiring because he was moving his arm all over the place, but once he sat back and relaxed it all came easy. We do have wrists, you know.
D'oh, stupid automatic HTML formatting. Sorry 'bout that.
1) I grant that. I haven't played it and the screenshots I saw didn't look violent (beyond rolling up houses/cars), so you know better than me. However, I hardly think it's as nasty as GTA, FPSes, or even RPGs.
2) They're using video games to give them a publicity boost for their own agenda. There's a difference between that and actually installing propaganda within all video games.
FPS: And how many of those games actually are different from one another? It seems to me that most sort-of unique FPSes come from mods (i.e. CS) rather then the gaming companies. An vacation from FPSes might actually be good for the gamer as far as selection goes, though I believe Metroid Prime 2 type FPSes would probably be able to hold on. I mean, you're fighting freakin evil aliens and there's just about no gore whatsoever. Even when you die in multiplayer all you get is a cool TV-off effect.
Sports: There is no way companies are going to let politicians get in the way of Madden '06 and other liscensed games. More over, except perhaps for hockey, in none of those games is it the objective to hurt things. Fouls are (ideally) accidents, not players trying to knock each other out. Sports stay, especially if Mario has something to say about it.
RPGs: If LOTR had been killing humans all the time instead of orcs, it would have been rated R for sure. As it is, the things killed were evil orcs. That lowers the rating, as long as the RPG isn't too bloody and you are not collecting severed heads or something. Mario-esque RPGs would still manage to stay.
1) I grant that. I haven't played it and the screenshots I saw didn't look violent (beyond rolling up houses/cars), so you know better than me. However, I hardly think it's as nasty as GTA, FPSes, or even RPGs. 2) They're using video games to give them a publicity boost for their own agenda. There's a difference between that and actually installing propaganda within all video games. FPS: And how many of those games actually are different from one another? It seems to me that most sort-of unique FPSes come from mods (i.e. CS) rather then the gaming companies. An vacation from FPSes might actually be good for the gamer as far as selection goes, though I believe Metroid Prime 2 type FPSes would probably be able to hold on. I mean, you're fighting freakin evil aliens and there's just about no gore whatsoever. Even when you die in multiplayer all you get is a cool TV-off effect. Sports: There is no way companies are going to let politicians get in the way of Madden '06 and other liscensed games. More over, except perhaps for hockey, in none of those games is it the objective to hurt things. Fouls are (ideally) accidents, not players trying to knock each other out. Sports stay, especially if Mario has something to say about it. RPGs: If LOTR had been killing humans all the time instead of orcs, it would have been rated R for sure. As it is, the things killed were evil orcs. That lowers the rating, as long as the RPG isn't too bloody and you are not collecting severed heads or something. Mario-esque RPGs would still manage to stay.
Video games are targetted because those in power didn't grow up with them. Since none of them have ever experianced video games they are more likely to think video games are bad and are more suseptable to people like Jack Thompson. In a couple years video games will be as OK as everything else, there will be something else that's corrupting American youth, and if the laws got strict they'll be slack again. Even if the worst happens and all we are left with in video games is Mario and the like... Is that really the end of the world? No one could say that Katamari Damacy is violent or makes kids want to roll around in trash, but it's a fun game. As long as fun games like that are made the industry is doing it's job. At least they're only targetting violence, not trying to make all video games propaganda tools.
The secluded, maddening, fantasy world of a homeschooler. Nearly everything I do is "homework". But I used the homework example because it's a common thing. Let me be clearer: Learning new things is hard work.
That covers just about everything, doesn't it? Oh well, it's still true.
Hydrogen hasn't been used in ballons since the Hindenberg went down in flames. Helium, though slightly more inefficient (per mole of gas, anyways), is a very nonreactive element, being one of the noble gases. That was the biggest step I think we've ever taken to make airships safer. Then again, an expert might correct me.
Another thing to note is that birds and such have a WHOLE lot more maneuverability than airplanes. The acrobatic feets they perform regularly have not been matched by any powered aircraft, whether piloted by humans or robots. Granted, airplanes can carry heavier loads and go faster, but, strangely enough, we're comparing apples to oranges here from an aviation standpoint.
Research, is, of course, being done in detail on how birds fly in order to make little acrobatic spy/attack robots. Frankly, I'd rather simply fly like a bird myself then go shooting people "in one", but that's the way research goes...
I wish people would stop blaming throwing hot oil on Christians. It's not that I have sympathy for the intolerance or stupidity some display. It's just that people seem to assume that the Christians the media shows represent all of them, as if terrorists made up the entirety of Islam. Moreover, I have hold the belief myself that we can not continue this way. And I'm one of those "deluded" people who believes that man was made in God's image. Next time argue with our freakin beliefs when it actually relates to the story, not when a great tragidy like this occurs. We should be helping those in need and preparing for the worst, not pointing fingers at each other.
If you simply disconnect the player from the internet I bet it doesn't work.
Seems you could try spoofing the server though and then you can hack away.
I don't completely agree with this, at least about the harmlessness of timewasters like fishing and gaming. Sometimes those timewasters get in the way of the real work (i.e. playing WoW instead of doing homework) and that is bad, and parents need to make sure their children are on the right track.
Moreover, at least if you're tinkering with your car you learn more about the car and can possibly fix problems that you'd usually have a mechanic do. A teenager could use his free time to explore his different intrests, such as drawing, music, 3d modelling, or programming in order to see which he'd like best to have a career in. Granted, you aren't going to save a million bucks doing this, but at least you're doing something that has a real impact that gaming (perhaps fishing too) doesn't have.
Now if only I could take my own advice...
Sorry, but black culture IS different. Lots of white kids listen to rap and play basketball. If playing basketball and listening to rap were all that black culture was, you'd be right. But what about speech, morals, and philosophy? You yourself say that a white man will be silent and try to get near a woman, while a black will openly seduce her. If that isn't a difference in culture, then what the heck is? Is openly talking to a woman smarter or something? Of course not! In most cases, a white man hitting on a white woman leads to a white slap in the face, and no success. A black man would get the same treatment, because either way the white woman feels it insulting. Why? Because of a difference in culture.
Your intelligence theory is very conveniant for you. You say blacks are smarter because they, surprise surprise, do better then whites, as a whole, in fields where blacks dominate. Well, I have news for you: Whites, surprise surprise, do better than blacks as a whole in fields where whites dominate. Perhaps blacks are just better at some things than whites are, and whites are better at some things than blacks?
Though I will give you one thing: whites are less open then blacks. However, the idea that whites really "repress" their sexuality at all is stupid. Just because whites are less open about it doesn't mean they don't do it or talk about it (Haven't you ever *been* on the internet and seen giggling adolescents make some "funny" ASCII art?).
Finally, it is also conveniant for your argument that you can ignore half of my points. Next time don't simply say "I didn't say what you said I said" and expect that to prove that what you actually said was right. It doesn't.
Batteries are not trivial by any means. They are the sources of energy for all portable devices. Damaged, they can be very dangerous. Defective, and they could release too much energy and damage the device, or simply not provide enough power for for it to operate.
Batteries are probably just as complicated as whatever it is they're powering.
So if everyone who scored in the top 1% of those tests think that the tests were of no significance, would that prove them stupid, because in that there was an actually a trend found in the high scorers in the tests?
Sorry, I'm not very smart. Better stop thinking about it before my head explodes...
Don't you think you should tell the men that too and see what happens? Without a control group, the study wouldn't be useful in the slightest.
Tell me that black culture isn't different, and then maybe I'll believe you about the "smarter" bit. When you stick a man in a foreign situation, of course he isn't going to fare as well then if he had been in that situation all his life. Bill Gates is not going to become a politician. Bush, even if his reputational slate were clean, wouldn't stand a chance in an election in some other country. Frankly, I myself would be very bad at killing lions or surviving on a deserted island.
But does this mean that we are all stupid, because we cannot deal with situations that we are not prepared for? A man would could would certainly be an intelligent man indeed, but I don't know any such man. White men are foreign to black culture, so how is that any different? If they were, say, a scholar of modern black culture or had just as much experiance in it (that is, living their entire lives in it), I have no doubt that, apart from factors stemming from their appearance, they could be just as versitile stratagists as blacks.
You make it also sound like black culture is better than white. Granted, I have no experiance of black culture, but I have news for you: Nothing is even close to perfect. Therefore, I shy away from such assertions.
Also, since when is sexuality REPRESSED in white culture? You're confusing "white" with "Christian", Turn on your TV set to soaps, MTV, and comedy shows. Watch some of the many "R" rated movies out there. Go to college. You'll see, frankly, that white does not equal Christian.
Finally, if a white man is excluded from black society because he can't follow such complicated jokes, what is that but the enforcement of conformity? How is that different from what any other race or social class does? Learn quickly that conformity is a universal issue, just as selfishness, anger, hate, lies, and thievery are.
It's all apple's fault and their stupid snazzy mini. You'd better grab some friends and pickforks and go tell them to make something more noisy and smelly.
I use the Mail program on my Mac to bounce back any spam I get. Of course, I get barely any to begin with (I very, very rarely give out my address), but it does keep it down to about 1 message a week, and it makes sure that the spammers don't know I exist.
Though since the mail daemon would be able to act immediately if the mail server went down, I suppose that could avoid any sort of script that tried looking at the difference between when the spam was sent and the returning message sent. Not that I even know such a script exists, or am any expert on the matter.