I just want to attack your beloved "illegal alien" label.
Alien...really? Through some twisted thought process, you demand to call fellow humans "aliens"?
That pretty much corners you in the stupid asshole room. I don't really know what an actual alien looks like, but I'm pretty sure my neighbors Sandra and Pedro are the same species as me, and I do not feel compelled to misappropriate words so that I feel better than them. The fact that you use "immigrant" when they are legally here is very telling. What a sweet change of heart!
I understand that it's a legal term, but that doesn't mean much as those terms change, fortunately. The term is a device used to "other" and dehumanize a population....oh jeez, I dunno, you think maybe it encourages alienation?
So keep your "illegal", but do yourself a favor and stop pretending there are aliens living among us, making delicious tamales and mole while they scheme to conquer our planet!
There has always been resentment by natives against newcomers, coming into our turf, using our resources and affecting the way we do things. So what? Still bitching about it? How about you step over the part-of-the-problem line and offer some solutions? Or is all you got "get off my lawn, get out of my school/town/state/country" and don't really give a fuck about anything else?
That's like saying the movement of animals affect the wind. Let me guess, birds were once so populous that the beating of their wings....what bullshit. Sounds kewl tho...you know, the kind of cool that's so stupid it's interesting?
no matter how good people pretend the movie is, I won't be giving them a fucking dime.
Thanks though, for your subsidy. Somebody has to give their money away for total bullshit, might as well be you with all the extra cash and nothing better to spend it on.
when they start pushing the smurfs, live action, I wish I could punch you people in the mouth, one by one.
I waited for Spore to come out for years but when it dropped the news were rife with terrible DRM issues so I avoided it. Not even gonna torrent it, even tho folks already cracked the hell out of it.
The way i see it, if they don't want me to play their games, I'm not going to argue with them. There are endless other things for me to spend my time and money on, those motherfuckers just look at me funny and I'm gone. I'm not going to risk my computer on some bullshit.
Same goes for movies...is it just me or is it easier and more rewarding than ever to just walk away from what used to be compelling purchases?
Just imagine all the benefits! Technology is good!
But I can't shake the feeling that this is just like eugenics and human cloning: Amazing and powerful technology that is in the wrong hands being developed for the wrong reasons and there's nothing we can do to stop them from destroying us all.
"The people that want to rape and molest your daughter statistically are yourself or one of your brothers(-in-law)"
Great idea for a list. Let's rank, in order of probability, likely suspects in a given child's life.
Police will tell you that immediate suspect #1 in a woman's murder is husband/boyfriend or ex. I guess that's based on stats, though I've never actually seen them.
Whatever, the poster is a nutcase and is over-reacting. Get the kid a off-the-shelf cell phone device from the local cell company that offers kid-tracking GPS service. That way the kid can get a decent electronic safety net and the father can avoid the obsessive neurosis, maybe even focus a little more on quality time and less spooky surveillance psycho.
Last, this smacks of "uh I have this friend, and he wants to know how to..." bullshit. What does this dude really have in mind, and why do i suspect it has more to do with a ongoing custody battle than the kids safety? Why not go with a commercial product/service that hits your credit card each month? What other reason than because dude wants to be able to hide his tracks and not have this "system" show up in court records? My predator alarm is ringing pretty loud on this one. Sounds like a good list of requirements for a high-tech kidnapper/stalker. What next, dude wants web cams in his daughter's bedroom...and bathroom...just to make sure she's "safe" ???? But he wants to keep the whole system off the grid, with remote shut-off, no doubt!!!!
What a good parent ought to do in this situation is become more physically involved in their kids life. Be at the school enough to know the drivers and teachers and the kids friends and their parents. Not just the asshole who freaks out when he experiences "bad customer service" at the school and is never heard from again. The schools will be as good as we make them, showing up only when you don't like something is hardly a positive contribution. That's just being selfish.
In other news, when can we mercilessly mow down hundreds of zombies with as much gore as possible in a video game?
All this so-called "next-gen" is total bullshit as they still can't handle the power of all those pixels and sprites...shitty draw distance, disappearing bodies, grumble grumble...I want a game where i can kill so many motherfuckers they stack up like the corpse wall in 300!
Here is a service that is supposed to take what you like and suggest new and complimentary music in return.
Does the new ad system play new, relevant, non-repeating, targeted ads?
I will reject pandora until they make a ad system the serves up stuff that I might be actually interested in and maybe even buy at some point. For example, don't EVER show me a mcdonald's ad, for any reason, at any time. I promise that it's a waste of their advertising money. I would love to see the new G2 commercial though, and movie previews are worth sitting through the first time.
Hulu's ad system is horrible, and I won't use it as a result. I'd rather watch network tv commercials than the SAME mind-numbing ad 20 times in a row. Pandora will lose me, too, unless they spend some time making the ads as relevant as the product itself. (also the 6-time fast forward limit is retarded)
It cannot possibly be that hard to pull off. Shit, just ask me!
"But unemployed morons on welfare have plenty of time to spend with their dozen children while they're not out looking for a job... or at the bar."
Where does this strange notion come from?
Oh, I guess if you are from a privileged class, you are taught that poor people are poor because they are stupid or lazy. Are you taught that there might be another explanation?
And what's this about too much free time being bad?
What's wrong with being able to spend all day idling around, looking for something interesting to get into?
Dontcha think that if humans were given more time to themselves, we might find something innovative to do?
What kind of fucking idiot assumes that humans are inherently lazy? There is a world of evidence and history to prove otherwise. What proves that you are correct, other than some malformed idea somebody gave you?
Humans create and build and invent no matter what stands in our way. Money is an afterthought, a bonus, something tangible to indicate the prestige and glory of our peers. Which is really what we are after. Never anything else.
Those are indeed minor policy points. Funny how those three things will be resolved as a natural result of us tackling bigger and more difficult problems, as an afterthought.
And none of that excludes you from being a conservative, communist, or apolitical religious zealot, etc... Just wealthy enough to be in a place to be able to afford nice things and not be too harried and stressed.
"I'd gladly shell out another $300 for an android device sans phone."
Like somebody already said, there are and have been very suitable alternatives for people like you. Who are looking for a tiny little handheld computer.
You may find this odd, but you are a insignificant minority. The rest of us want a phone, need a phone, and will never be satisfied until the tiny little handheld computer also handles all our communications, especially voice. (preferably, over IP)
On a side note, I can't wait until something like Android becomes a ubiquitous embedded platform on any hardware they can think of to stuff it in...yes, with phone! Vehicles, appliances, furniture, it calls us, we call it...flying cars not far behind!
As for the rest of us, if it doesn't do phone, and do it well, we don't want it. Thankfully, we got phones aplenty...now we just need one that is a decent tiny little computer...and the iphone aint it, not even close.
Side note: google may be a predator, but its OUR predator. Big difference.
I have a side note of my own: what the hell did Microsoft ever do for anybody? (last i checked, anything that's gone right is in spite of the corporate leadership)
All you who keep comparing the two, does it make difference that google has shown again and again to be a good corporate citizen, in great contrast to damn near all of their peers? What if a corporation's default attitude was what is good for our species, not what's good for a small number of their shareholders in a given fiscal quarter?
Sure google may be very good at the corporate game...maybe one of the best...and this might lead you to assume that they are just as evil, as they compete with evil, in the same evil game.
I know, I know, no such thing as a good international corporation. But what if there were? What would it look like? How would it act? How would it be different? Are you able to recognize the difference?
Compare google to that, then compare MS. Due Friday.
Because law enforcement need to keep themselves to very high standards if they want to be credible.
There's lots of ways an unscrupulous cop can catch criminals, if he believe that the ends justify the means.
Just off the top, when government agents pretend to be red cross workers so that they can sneak in and kill the captors and rescue the hostages, did they do anything wrong?
Well, they did save those hostages. But what about the next group of hostages? What about defiling the red cross, so that when actual red cross try to come in to do humanitarian work, they get gunned down as if they were agents?
What if you are a Washington employer looking for talent but word gets out that you are just another FBI front?
If we did not have entrenched monopolies acting like a telecom industry, there would have been some fall-out from them allowing agents to illegally and unethically capture all data through their pipes.
Just another example of lousy priorities by our esteemed law enforcement officials, all while they viciously protect their budgets no matter if they have to confiscate your property for whatever reason they can come up with to break even.
We do not have enough protection from these local para-military forces and their deeply ingrained conflicts of interest. What if crime actually goes down?!? Will they lay off police or will they figure out a new class of people to persecute to make up for the budget shortfall?
People shit on the school system, saying things like "throwing money at the problem doesn't help" but nobody ever holds the police to performance standards. Look, the worse cops perform, the more money we offer them.
There is zero accountability, laughable oversight, coupled by constant examples of incompetence and corruption at all levels...it's a sacred cow that nobody dares to consider touching...until they are the ones with their door kicked in and their dog shot down in front of them.
Just a note to readers that when somebody like Sanity says they choose not to be a customer of EA anymore, often enough they are very serious.
Now that GenX is all grown up and GenY have some buying power, now more than ever, potential customers will actually take their money and walk away.
Now that we have made gaming the massive industry that it is, we will absolutely be very picky about spending our time and money. We have no sacred cows, we don't give a fuck about your legacy, and there's plenty of other ways to blow our paper.
Be afraid of us, EA, we can destroy you overnight. We still might, and all the paid press can't help you. Don't change anything and find out.
Clearly, Apple's stranglehold cannot last, especially with google phones popping off.
So it will be the tango....remember when google led the free email account dance, and everyone else rushed in afterwards? Eventually everyone settled into a new groove, one that was very consumer-friendly. So, too, will go the cellphone lockdowns.
Apple will match google's open platform or be forgotten. And they will follow. I do not give Apple any credit for following, though, as so will everyone else.
What I'm curious about is if there was some sort of gentleman's agreement between the google boys and Jobs to give Apple a head start to grab some market share before google took all of it. Surely there is preferential treatment at some level.
People still buy software that's in a box that's on a shelf?
Not for long. Software is going wireless, or at least that's the future of people's expectations. Like the App Store.
And of course the Linux community should be ready the take the lead here, as that's the beauty of it. Don't we hop online to shop repositories? We been doing that
And most folks just want technology to work for them. There is zero loyalty. There is incredible inertia. First to convince people to trust their product wins. (extra points for maintaining it!)
Whatever, I can't wait to see how it all shakes out! Seriously...this sucks, more action, please...
Picasa makes iphoto look like MS product. In fact, after using Picasa a lot, iphoto is pretty damn pathetic.
Sure, run it on WINE...that's stupid advice for your average Mac user.
Is the apparent war that's opening between apple and google to blame for no osx port? In that case, I hope google kills the iphone, too. Good riddance to bad IP.
Actually, if a PC laptop had the magsafe tech option, I would gladly trade my macbook pro if it meant that I get picasa back.
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I just want to attack your beloved "illegal alien" label.
Alien...really? Through some twisted thought process, you demand to call fellow humans "aliens"?
That pretty much corners you in the stupid asshole room. I don't really know what an actual alien looks like, but I'm pretty sure my neighbors Sandra and Pedro are the same species as me, and I do not feel compelled to misappropriate words so that I feel better than them. The fact that you use "immigrant" when they are legally here is very telling. What a sweet change of heart!
I understand that it's a legal term, but that doesn't mean much as those terms change, fortunately. The term is a device used to "other" and dehumanize a population....oh jeez, I dunno, you think maybe it encourages alienation?
So keep your "illegal", but do yourself a favor and stop pretending there are aliens living among us, making delicious tamales and mole while they scheme to conquer our planet!
There has always been resentment by natives against newcomers, coming into our turf, using our resources and affecting the way we do things. So what? Still bitching about it? How about you step over the part-of-the-problem line and offer some solutions? Or is all you got "get off my lawn, get out of my school/town/state/country" and don't really give a fuck about anything else?
That's like saying the movement of animals affect the wind. Let me guess, birds were once so populous that the beating of their wings....what bullshit. Sounds kewl tho...you know, the kind of cool that's so stupid it's interesting?
no matter how good people pretend the movie is, I won't be giving them a fucking dime.
Thanks though, for your subsidy. Somebody has to give their money away for total bullshit, might as well be you with all the extra cash and nothing better to spend it on.
when they start pushing the smurfs, live action, I wish I could punch you people in the mouth, one by one.
Maybe you should request a refund, that might make you feel better?
I waited for Spore to come out for years but when it dropped the news were rife with terrible DRM issues so I avoided it. Not even gonna torrent it, even tho folks already cracked the hell out of it.
The way i see it, if they don't want me to play their games, I'm not going to argue with them. There are endless other things for me to spend my time and money on, those motherfuckers just look at me funny and I'm gone. I'm not going to risk my computer on some bullshit.
Same goes for movies...is it just me or is it easier and more rewarding than ever to just walk away from what used to be compelling purchases?
Maybe I'm wrong about the judicial system...apparently there's a lone judge out there who isn't an idiot or a stooge!
Who knew?
I know, I know!
Just imagine all the benefits! Technology is good!
But I can't shake the feeling that this is just like eugenics and human cloning: Amazing and powerful technology that is in the wrong hands being developed for the wrong reasons and there's nothing we can do to stop them from destroying us all.
But it's super cool, right?
"The people that want to rape and molest your daughter statistically are yourself or one of your brothers(-in-law)"
Great idea for a list. Let's rank, in order of probability, likely suspects in a given child's life.
Police will tell you that immediate suspect #1 in a woman's murder is husband/boyfriend or ex. I guess that's based on stats, though I've never actually seen them.
Whatever, the poster is a nutcase and is over-reacting. Get the kid a off-the-shelf cell phone device from the local cell company that offers kid-tracking GPS service. That way the kid can get a decent electronic safety net and the father can avoid the obsessive neurosis, maybe even focus a little more on quality time and less spooky surveillance psycho.
Last, this smacks of "uh I have this friend, and he wants to know how to ..." bullshit. What does this dude really have in mind, and why do i suspect it has more to do with a ongoing custody battle than the kids safety? Why not go with a commercial product/service that hits your credit card each month? What other reason than because dude wants to be able to hide his tracks and not have this "system" show up in court records? My predator alarm is ringing pretty loud on this one. Sounds like a good list of requirements for a high-tech kidnapper/stalker. What next, dude wants web cams in his daughter's bedroom...and bathroom...just to make sure she's "safe" ???? But he wants to keep the whole system off the grid, with remote shut-off, no doubt!!!!
What a good parent ought to do in this situation is become more physically involved in their kids life. Be at the school enough to know the drivers and teachers and the kids friends and their parents. Not just the asshole who freaks out when he experiences "bad customer service" at the school and is never heard from again. The schools will be as good as we make them, showing up only when you don't like something is hardly a positive contribution. That's just being selfish.
Read the summary twice to make sure....wtf is going to pay $31 for a fucking cd?!?
Ooooh, right, the summary is bullshit. The service itself looks to be fantastic, tho.
...when the framerate gets choppy as a result.
In other news, when can we mercilessly mow down hundreds of zombies with as much gore as possible in a video game?
All this so-called "next-gen" is total bullshit as they still can't handle the power of all those pixels and sprites...shitty draw distance, disappearing bodies, grumble grumble...I want a game where i can kill so many motherfuckers they stack up like the corpse wall in 300!
I'm going to say that cheating federal elections would be a good argument for treason, as the tag suggests.
Yes, treason.
Forget about 'the death penalty' and its elusive deterrent effect.
I promise that if we start publicly shooting motherfuckers, nobody is going to mess with these machines.
Or we'll get them all in a few rounds, and the rest will understand.
Here is a service that is supposed to take what you like and suggest new and complimentary music in return.
Does the new ad system play new, relevant, non-repeating, targeted ads?
I will reject pandora until they make a ad system the serves up stuff that I might be actually interested in and maybe even buy at some point. For example, don't EVER show me a mcdonald's ad, for any reason, at any time. I promise that it's a waste of their advertising money. I would love to see the new G2 commercial though, and movie previews are worth sitting through the first time.
Hulu's ad system is horrible, and I won't use it as a result. I'd rather watch network tv commercials than the SAME mind-numbing ad 20 times in a row. Pandora will lose me, too, unless they spend some time making the ads as relevant as the product itself. (also the 6-time fast forward limit is retarded)
It cannot possibly be that hard to pull off. Shit, just ask me!
"But unemployed morons on welfare have plenty of time to spend with their dozen children while they're not out looking for a job... or at the bar."
Where does this strange notion come from?
Oh, I guess if you are from a privileged class, you are taught that poor people are poor because they are stupid or lazy. Are you taught that there might be another explanation?
And what's this about too much free time being bad?
What's wrong with being able to spend all day idling around, looking for something interesting to get into?
Dontcha think that if humans were given more time to themselves, we might find something innovative to do?
What kind of fucking idiot assumes that humans are inherently lazy? There is a world of evidence and history to prove otherwise. What proves that you are correct, other than some malformed idea somebody gave you?
Humans create and build and invent no matter what stands in our way. Money is an afterthought, a bonus, something tangible to indicate the prestige and glory of our peers. Which is really what we are after. Never anything else.
Dunno. I rant and never look back.
Those are indeed minor policy points. Funny how those three things will be resolved as a natural result of us tackling bigger and more difficult problems, as an afterthought.
And none of that excludes you from being a conservative, communist, or apolitical religious zealot, etc... Just wealthy enough to be in a place to be able to afford nice things and not be too harried and stressed.
Not a bad to-do list tho...
"I'd gladly shell out another $300 for an android device sans phone."
Like somebody already said, there are and have been very suitable alternatives for people like you. Who are looking for a tiny little handheld computer.
You may find this odd, but you are a insignificant minority. The rest of us want a phone, need a phone, and will never be satisfied until the tiny little handheld computer also handles all our communications, especially voice. (preferably, over IP)
On a side note, I can't wait until something like Android becomes a ubiquitous embedded platform on any hardware they can think of to stuff it in...yes, with phone! Vehicles, appliances, furniture, it calls us, we call it...flying cars not far behind!
As for the rest of us, if it doesn't do phone, and do it well, we don't want it. Thankfully, we got phones aplenty...now we just need one that is a decent tiny little computer...and the iphone aint it, not even close.
Side note: google may be a predator, but its OUR predator. Big difference.
I have a side note of my own: what the hell did Microsoft ever do for anybody? (last i checked, anything that's gone right is in spite of the corporate leadership)
All you who keep comparing the two, does it make difference that google has shown again and again to be a good corporate citizen, in great contrast to damn near all of their peers? What if a corporation's default attitude was what is good for our species, not what's good for a small number of their shareholders in a given fiscal quarter?
Sure google may be very good at the corporate game...maybe one of the best...and this might lead you to assume that they are just as evil, as they compete with evil, in the same evil game.
I know, I know, no such thing as a good international corporation. But what if there were? What would it look like? How would it act? How would it be different? Are you able to recognize the difference?
Compare google to that, then compare MS. Due Friday.
Seems to me that the problem is your self-labeling.
If you let the rest of us properly label you then there is no confusion.
Just this stuff about you not being comfortable with the label that mostly suits you.
And if it does not suit you, then do not identify with it.
In other words, this seems to be a personal problem for you. Not us.
Because law enforcement need to keep themselves to very high standards if they want to be credible.
There's lots of ways an unscrupulous cop can catch criminals, if he believe that the ends justify the means.
Just off the top, when government agents pretend to be red cross workers so that they can sneak in and kill the captors and rescue the hostages, did they do anything wrong?
Well, they did save those hostages. But what about the next group of hostages? What about defiling the red cross, so that when actual red cross try to come in to do humanitarian work, they get gunned down as if they were agents?
What if you are a Washington employer looking for talent but word gets out that you are just another FBI front?
If we did not have entrenched monopolies acting like a telecom industry, there would have been some fall-out from them allowing agents to illegally and unethically capture all data through their pipes.
Just another example of lousy priorities by our esteemed law enforcement officials, all while they viciously protect their budgets no matter if they have to confiscate your property for whatever reason they can come up with to break even.
We do not have enough protection from these local para-military forces and their deeply ingrained conflicts of interest. What if crime actually goes down?!? Will they lay off police or will they figure out a new class of people to persecute to make up for the budget shortfall?
People shit on the school system, saying things like "throwing money at the problem doesn't help" but nobody ever holds the police to performance standards. Look, the worse cops perform, the more money we offer them.
There is zero accountability, laughable oversight, coupled by constant examples of incompetence and corruption at all levels...it's a sacred cow that nobody dares to consider touching...until they are the ones with their door kicked in and their dog shot down in front of them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003299_pf.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/978249/posts
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/04/police_shoot_dog_during_backya.html
And I been there. And they ain't that smart, neither.
Tell them aussies to think up their own goldarn name, if they think they so smart.
Brain Town or Science City, and yes, you have to pick one.
Just a note to readers that when somebody like Sanity says they choose not to be a customer of EA anymore, often enough they are very serious.
Now that GenX is all grown up and GenY have some buying power, now more than ever, potential customers will actually take their money and walk away.
Now that we have made gaming the massive industry that it is, we will absolutely be very picky about spending our time and money. We have no sacred cows, we don't give a fuck about your legacy, and there's plenty of other ways to blow our paper.
Be afraid of us, EA, we can destroy you overnight. We still might, and all the paid press can't help you. Don't change anything and find out.
Clearly, Apple's stranglehold cannot last, especially with google phones popping off.
So it will be the tango....remember when google led the free email account dance, and everyone else rushed in afterwards? Eventually everyone settled into a new groove, one that was very consumer-friendly. So, too, will go the cellphone lockdowns.
Apple will match google's open platform or be forgotten. And they will follow. I do not give Apple any credit for following, though, as so will everyone else.
What I'm curious about is if there was some sort of gentleman's agreement between the google boys and Jobs to give Apple a head start to grab some market share before google took all of it. Surely there is preferential treatment at some level.
The OJ jury knew exactly what they were doing. They were not incompetent.
People still buy software that's in a box that's on a shelf?
Not for long. Software is going wireless, or at least that's the future of people's expectations. Like the App Store.
And of course the Linux community should be ready the take the lead here, as that's the beauty of it. Don't we hop online to shop repositories? We been doing that
And most folks just want technology to work for them. There is zero loyalty. There is incredible inertia. First to convince people to trust their product wins. (extra points for maintaining it!)
Whatever, I can't wait to see how it all shakes out! Seriously...this sucks, more action, please...
The same way rich people become rich?
Picasa makes iphoto look like MS product. In fact, after using Picasa a lot, iphoto is pretty damn pathetic.
Sure, run it on WINE...that's stupid advice for your average Mac user.
Is the apparent war that's opening between apple and google to blame for no osx port? In that case, I hope google kills the iphone, too. Good riddance to bad IP.
Actually, if a PC laptop had the magsafe tech option, I would gladly trade my macbook pro if it meant that I get picasa back.