If it's adventure games we're talking about, it's about damn time somebody realized that there's an entire segment of gamers that have been left with nothing to do since Lucas Arts switched to Star Wars only.
If we're talking about interactive movies --- no thanks. I don't have the patience to sit through half the cutscenes on FPS Xbox titles nowadays, so if we're talking about a choose your own adventure style Lord of the Rings title, Tom Bombadil or no Tom Bombadil, forget it.
I think it's safe to say that humankind is a temporary feature.
Perhaps if you're a creationist, you might believe that, but in comparison to the age of the arctic ice, most informed sane people would find that 'humankind' has been a little more than temporary.
I can understand the utility of the rhetoric, but we've survived ice ages, droughts, famines, plagues and wars and I think that a little more water (lets say a few dozen feet) and heat (lets say 5-10 degrees) over the next few thousand years isn't going to do us in, as much as you'd like to believe it.
By the way, I'm a scientist, and I'm not that shocked.
Who the hell modded this insightful?
>I don't want a news report on, say, holocaust deniers to have to present a balanced report of the opposing view.
You're saying you prefer your holocaust denials to go un-opposed?
Sure, that's one way of looking at it I guess.
[Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law%5D
It doesn't really matter though, since religious repression is religious opression no matter how crazy the religion is.
Freedom of religous *beliefs* and freedom of religious *practise* are two distinct things. Just because someone is motivated by religion, doesn't mean that a government isn't allowed to regulate them. (Think taliban, Jonestown, Branch Davidians.)
I really don't see what's so insightful about your comment.
Firstly, let me just say that anyone from Ontario knows that Lakehead isn't a real university anyway...
But, why not ban alcohol? It poses more real direct risk than WiFi. (see this report) This smells like a cost-cutting measure wrapped in a big politically correct environmental/health and safety wrapper.
I could swear I've seen those features somewhere before... damn, can't remember where. But it was a while ago... maybe like a year ago or something. Maybe it was two years. Hmmm. Damn, well anyway --- I can't wait to try out these revolutionary new features.
Ask yourself these questions: Where did polar bears come from in the first place? Why do they exist?
[If your answer to this happens to be out of the ark, two by two... then please please jump off a cliff.]
Nature is about change. We can't control nature.
If you feel differently, then talk to people in New Orleans or Indonesia.
When we talk about "preserving" the earth, we are really talking about preserving it *the way we like it* or *the way we think it should be*. It is a selfish endeavor, and we should admit that. We are animals, and our lifestyle impacts the earth just as the lifestyle of any other living thing on the planet does (albeit in our own special way). Changing our behavior might be a good idea if we'd like to save ourselves, but the "save the planet" concept is laughable. The planet is doing just fine. I'd like the dinosaurs back, and the wooly mammoths --- but it ain't gonna f'n happen, so get used to it chump. And maybe if you live near the coast, buy yourself a boat and keep it gassed up.
Here's an idea: let's stop putting our garbage into the ground. Studies have shown that it just sits there happily for years; we should be incinerating it. What's that you say? The CO2 emissions will destroy the world? Oh, ok... put it back in the hole --- let those mf'ers in the future worry about it.
If everyone goes along with this, we're gonna have a whole generation of sterile young men because they cooked their nuts with their laptops when they were kids... and don't get me started on the EM radition from the WiFi.
We've been able to record TV shows using TV Tuner cards for at least 10 years now. Now that we've got high speed wifi in public places, can't we just rebroadcast our pre-recorded TV shows to ourselves for free? Why does this need to be resold to us as a service? Oh yeah, with new HDTV, now are tuner cards are broken and we can't record shows without permission anymore... I forgot. Things sure are getting easier and more fun. Where do I want to go today, Bill? How about 1999?
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I see a big revenue opportunity here for the people of Earth.
Once these aliens have found out how to decrypt our signal, we'll sue them for violating the DMCA.
We'll all be millionaires!
If it's adventure games we're talking about, it's about damn time somebody realized that there's an entire segment of gamers that have been left with nothing to do since Lucas Arts switched to Star Wars only.
If we're talking about interactive movies --- no thanks. I don't have the patience to sit through half the cutscenes on FPS Xbox titles nowadays, so if we're talking about a choose your own adventure style Lord of the Rings title, Tom Bombadil or no Tom Bombadil, forget it.
Perhaps if you're a creationist, you might believe that, but in comparison to the age of the arctic ice, most informed sane people would find that 'humankind' has been a little more than temporary.
Our lineage is at least 3.3 million years old http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/ 2006/920/1, older --- in my uninformed opinion --- than most of the arctic sea ice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age.
I can understand the utility of the rhetoric, but we've survived ice ages, droughts, famines, plagues and wars and I think that a little more water (lets say a few dozen feet) and heat (lets say 5-10 degrees) over the next few thousand years isn't going to do us in, as much as you'd like to believe it.
By the way, I'm a scientist, and I'm not that shocked.
Is this the guy that designed the hockey puck mouse? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Apple_iMac_USB_ mouse.png
I guess it didn't make it into the portfolio.
Same $#it, different brand.
Your reasoning would make phone companies and ISPs equally culpable. I agree with you, but I'm just not sure you thought it through.
Used to be made by a company called Creative Micro Designs (the makers of JiffyDOS).
My army of Korean-made human clones developed this technology years ago, but nobody responded to the ad that I placed in Maxim about it.
"shut your mouth" ...I'm talking 'bout proteins.
"and we can dig it!"
Who the hell modded this insightful? >I don't want a news report on, say, holocaust deniers to have to present a balanced report of the opposing view. You're saying you prefer your holocaust denials to go un-opposed? Sure, that's one way of looking at it I guess. [Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law%5D
It doesn't really matter though, since religious repression is religious opression no matter how crazy the religion is. Freedom of religous *beliefs* and freedom of religious *practise* are two distinct things. Just because someone is motivated by religion, doesn't mean that a government isn't allowed to regulate them. (Think taliban, Jonestown, Branch Davidians.) I really don't see what's so insightful about your comment.
Firstly, let me just say that anyone from Ontario knows that Lakehead isn't a real university anyway...
But, why not ban alcohol? It poses more real direct risk than WiFi. (see this report) This smells like a cost-cutting measure wrapped in a big politically correct environmental/health and safety wrapper.
But under the Steve membership, the dialing keypad on Skype will have only one stylish button.
I could swear I've seen those features somewhere before ... damn, can't remember where. But it was a while ago... maybe like a year ago or something. Maybe it was two years. Hmmm. Damn, well anyway --- I can't wait to try out these revolutionary new features.
Ask yourself these questions: Where did polar bears come from in the first place? Why do they exist? ... then please please jump off a cliff.]
... put it back in the hole --- let those mf'ers in the future worry about it.
[If your answer to this happens to be out of the ark, two by two
Nature is about change. We can't control nature.
If you feel differently, then talk to people in New Orleans or Indonesia.
When we talk about "preserving" the earth, we are really talking about preserving it *the way we like it* or *the way we think it should be*. It is a selfish endeavor, and we should admit that. We are animals, and our lifestyle impacts the earth just as the lifestyle of any other living thing on the planet does (albeit in our own special way). Changing our behavior might be a good idea if we'd like to save ourselves, but the "save the planet" concept is laughable. The planet is doing just fine. I'd like the dinosaurs back, and the wooly mammoths --- but it ain't gonna f'n happen, so get used to it chump. And maybe if you live near the coast, buy yourself a boat and keep it gassed up.
Here's an idea: let's stop putting our garbage into the ground. Studies have shown that it just sits there happily for years; we should be incinerating it. What's that you say? The CO2 emissions will destroy the world? Oh, ok
I've got only one thing to say about that: 8==D O:
see this free access paper.
What about modem wars at 300 baud on the C=64?
If everyone goes along with this, we're gonna have a whole generation of sterile young men because they cooked their nuts with their laptops when they were kids ... and don't get me started on the EM radition from the WiFi.
I saw this on an episode of Johnny Quest once.
Watch the documentary "The Corporation". There's no expiry date on greed. F Mickey! F Ringo!
The St. Louis PD already has something like this, albeit on a proprietary system.
We've been able to record TV shows using TV Tuner cards for at least 10 years now. Now that we've got high speed wifi in public places, can't we just rebroadcast our pre-recorded TV shows to ourselves for free? Why does this need to be resold to us as a service? Oh yeah, with new HDTV, now are tuner cards are broken and we can't record shows without permission anymore ... I forgot. Things sure are getting easier and more fun. Where do I want to go today, Bill? How about 1999?