LOL!!! This is so freaking idiotic. It's a game. A game played by kids. Kids talk trash. If you can't deal with it them cancel you account and uninstall the game. Simple isn't it? We live in an unfair world. It's an ugly fact. So you're gay. How does that come into play in the game? People show quit sharing TMI and just have fun. There is a time and place for everything. During a video game is not the time nor the place for discussing your sexual pref. I don't care what it is. I played WoW for a bit. Yeah the kids in there like to taunt each other. Many I found very irritating. I didn't go off and create a Players Against Other Players Talking Trash (PAOPTT) guild. LOL I just went about my business and played the game. Getting so worked up over this mess is just plain GAY! LOL
Humans are the cause of global worming? VERY doubtful.
Myth: Humans Are Causing Global Warming. Scientists do not agree that humans discernibly influence global climate because the evidence supporting that theory is weak. The scientific experts most directly concerned with climate conditions reject the theory by a wide margin.
A Gallup poll found that only 17 percent of the members of the Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Society think that the warming of the 20th century has been a result of greenhouse gas emissions - principally CO2 from burning fossil fuels. [See Figure II.]
Only 13 percent of the scientists responding to a survey conducted by the environmental organization Greenpeace believe catastrophic climate change will result from continuing current patterns of energy use.
More than 100 noted scientists, including the former president of the National Academy of Sciences, signed a letter declaring that costly actions to reduce greenhouse gases are not justified by the best available evidence.
While atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by 28 percent over the past 150 years, human-generated carbon dioxide could have played only a small part in any warming, since most of the warming occurred prior to 1940 - before most human-caused carbon dioxide emissions.
"So to avoid messy lawsuits, Microsoft needs only to design and market a secure operating system. They don't technically get more money, as they don't have an add-on product to sell-- but the anti-virus vendors basically go out of business and the cost of owning a PC goes down, which helps Microsoft keep the price of its software afloat."
LOL that's all they need to do huh? "design a secure OS." You obviously don't know a whole lot about why Windows has the issues it has. It's not simply crappy code. It's a victim of it's own success. Windows is the most attractive dragon in the land and hackers, crackers, virus coders are the Dragon Slayers fighting for bragging rights or just looking to piss it off. No matter how secure your OS is if it's the OS used by 99% of system in the market guess where the hackers and so on are gonna put their energies? no matter how secure youe Os is someone will find a chink in your armor and share the info and soon you will be in the same situation Windows is in now.
So Microsoft can trademark Update, Crap, reboot, crash, and countless other words because they bring to mind Miscrosoft and/or it's cash cow Windows? This is total BS. I want to trademark the term "I" not to be mistaken for the letter "I." They may appear similar but they are not. Trust me.... I(TM) can already hear the cash pouring in....
LOL!!! You do know this film was aimed at the teens right? It wasn't meant to be some high brow Oscar contender. Films aimed at kids don't usually have the strongest of scripts. These films are just meant to be fun which is what it was.:-)
LOL..... You do know the only thing that has kept the Mac OS safe is it's lack of market share. This will be changing soon with people doing the whole dual boot thing. Apple will have to start releasing patches/updates to the OS that fix one problem but cause another much like Microsoft has to do today. Enjoy it while it lasts.
My problem with ALL of these games is that they expect you to pay FULL FREAKING PRICE for a game you can't play solo unless you pay the monthly fee. WTF is that? Why not give the thing away since again it's no good to you w/o the monthly fee. I downloaded a pirate copy of WoW and used a test account to play for about 2 weeks. I would have been pretty pissed if I actually bought the game for $40 only to find it's just another online RPG that's really only worth a few days of playing. I suspect DDO is no different. I for one will pass on this game. Why not make a nice single player game with online play for a monthly fee? At least the customer wouldn't feel as cheated if they didn't like the game. Oh wait because there are fools out there willing to shell out over $40 for a game you can't play w/o the monthly maintenance fee. There's a sucker born every minute seems to be what these game companies are banking on.
Cut the crap. So you were bullied as a kid. Boo hoo... It's part of life. Bullies have been around since prob the dawn of human existance. Games don't create them. So you must also think the classic Warner Brothers cartoons made kids want to drop anvils on the heads of people. Get real. Boys have always played violent make believe games. It's in our nature. We are naturally more agressive. The problems with the kids don't start on the computer nore do they start with to console. It's the parents plain and simple. Raise your kids right and they won't turn into a problem for society to deal with PLUS you won't have to blame idiotic things like games and cartoons for your failure as a parent.
Our evolution will soon be out of the hands of nature and firmly within our own hands. We are already taking the first steps. We are decodong the human genome. We've already mapped it. All we need to learn now is how to read it. Once we have the blurints to human life we will be able to alter it as we see fit.
"I don't mean to be a flamebaiter, but the people having lots of babies are not the "intelligent" people. Normally, people from "less intelligent" families, who are more intelligent than their peers, are seen to be "breaking the cycle". They seem to go on to have many less children than their less intelligent brethren. I'm just saying what I think appears to be the case here; I don't have any hard data to back it up."
You are speaking as if we actually know how to measure intelligence. What is intelligence? How much money you have and what education you have access to do not define your intelligence. It only shows you have had access to loads of information. Ignorance does not equal lack of intelligence. The people in the poorer nations don't have the luxury of studying things that do not help them and their families survive. Here in the US we are very lucky. Most people seem to forget that. Most of us will never know what it is to truly struggle. You can not base intelligence on social situation. Your capacity for learning has nothing to do with where you live or how much money you make. It has everything to do with your genetics. What your parents passed on to you and what harmful eviornmental factors you may have been exposed to. So again don't mistake ignorance for lack of intelligence.
This stems from our lack of real issues. The media will make shit up. Ignore the facts. They cherry pick. If you check with the Dept of Justice you will find the hard facts that contradict any facts presented as proof violent crimes are higher then ever. LOL These people know the general public is freaking lazy. Too lazy to really varify and check the accuracy of the info they are being asked to accept as true. One of my college assignments way back way to come up with a convincing presentation using exsting information. The only limitation was had was that our presentation had to be false using existing bodies of evidence. Oh it was a fun. Was a great way to illustrate to us that stats don't mean anything. What's important to the reader is the spin.
"I think the real problem will come when it starts being genuinely possible to forget whether you are in a game or in reality. I.e. x years down the line when VR headsets are actually good quality and mainstream, and the graphics are photoreal (which isn't really too far off)."
There will be no difference. It's a game no matter what. It's kinda hard to forget you got yourself all rigged up to play one hell of an expensive game. LOL What do you think games are? Escapeism. Fantasy. Freedom to do what you know you can not do in real life. When was the last time you saw an acid drooling cyberdemon charging you? No matter how real the games may look or feel you have to have a mental problem to not know you are playing a freaking game. I mean come on you purchased it fired up the latest and greates xGen gameing rig and all.
Amen brother!!! The "good old days" had it's offernings of violent entertainment. Look at the cartoons. Tom and Jerry, Popeye, and others. Then you had the all time fav The Three Stooges. PLUS boys have always played violent pretend (analogue?) games in real life like War, Cops n' Robbers, and many others. Video games are no different. Why is it people love to blame the entertainment industry for the results of poor parenting?
I love how you do an about face. Here is where you are being truly honest. And for you information I have a child plus another on the way. I respect your personal feelings on wanting to keep your children away from violent content and nonphysical fun but please don't lie about it's effects on people. You will find that your children will still have access to those games via friends. You can't shelter them from the society we live in. All you can do is give them a solid moral base they can use to make healthy choices in life. My wife has similar feelings on these things as you. I let her state her opinions on them before letting her know I grew up on violent entertainment people are blaming for society's ills.
LOL this is all you have to say? Please explain to me why I'm not the violent person you feel violent entertainment (games, Vid, etc.) creates? Unless you really have nothing to back your claims up with. I gave you an great illustration of sevral cases me and my siblings) that says violent entertainment does not lead to a violent person.
"You will learn about responsibility when you have children. I don't need a study to tell me that violent videogames are bad for chidren."
LOL What a steaming pile that is. I grew up playing all the top violent games. My parents allowed us (my bro and sisters) to watch anything we liked except for porn obiously.:-) I have watched anime since before I could talk. And for those of you unaware what anime is, it's Japanese animation. It's prob the most violent type of animation out there. Not a single one of us were turned into violent children or violent adults. Why? Well our parents made damn sure we knew right from wrong. I can count on one hand the number of fights I have had in my life. the same goes for my siblings. Violent games aren't bad for children. Bad parents are bad for children and society. Don't fool yourself.
There is no such thing as "proper security." I get so tired of hearing people who hate MS trash it's OS only based on their irrational hatred of the company. None of the stuff we deal with as Windows users has nothing to do with weak code. It's more like we are paying the price for using the most used OS on the planet. The price is having to deal with the OS creator's constant updates to battle hackers and crackers. This stupid idea people seem to have that the OS should be bullet proof is crazy. There will never be a "secure" OS in the way people wish they could have it. Where will always be people to find flaws in code to exploit.
Sorry but I fail to see how this is MySpace's problem. It's just the cybersapce equiv of any mall/playground/park. When a child get's approached by a perv in any of those locations do we plame the owners for any harm that comes to the child? Nope. Why? Because it's crazy to expect anyone to be aware of the activities of evryone on the property. It's even crazier when you think of the number of users on myspace comapred to the number of people in parks and/or malls at any given time. When will people stop pushing the respocibility of the parent off on to others? The owners of MySpace should place some kind of password validation to help protect themselves from the lawsuits of parents not willing to accept their parental resp. It's not very hard to make sure your kids aren't browsing to places you don't want them to in your own home. What they do outside of the home is beyond your control. This is nothing new. AOL has long been known as a pedophile haven for many many many years. I remember when damn near all the pedophiles busted were using AOL to chat with their intended target. MySPace is just today's scapegoat. I'm gonna be a father soon and am as worried as anyone else about how to protect my kids from unsavory people. But I do not expect others to do my job for me.
I am loving it. The smug attitudes of many OSX evangelists is about to go away. If/When this OSX becomes popular guess who the virus creators are gonna target along with Windows? LOL OSX has been protected by it's lack of market share. Sounds like this new "hybrid" version of the OS may change that. Apple users will have to deal with the same weekly security releases the users of Windows have for a while now.
Hehehe I suspect you are speaking from exp here Mr. Anonymous....
His intent was illegal. Criminal intent? Ever hear of it? It's been made pretty popular by many of the popular crime shows. Criminal Intent is one of the three general classes of mens rea or "guilty mind" in criminal law. Look up "mens rea" if you really want to know what you are trying to talk about.
Yeah even now I can do a google search on a handle I used way back in the 80's and early 90's (my highschool and college years) and find ALL of online postings I ever made. Hehehehe It was interesting to see how much my views have changed and how much I am still the same.:-)
Ummm there sure is more money in the game industry than in web. The game industry pulls in more money than the film industry. MUCH more money. A good game will cost as much to make as your average film. I believe it's one of the biggest money making industries. Think about it. The web hasn't moved very much. I'm still waiting for true 3D capabilities on the web.:-)
Entrapment would be if the feds offered to sell HIM the illegal goods. If he offeres it to the officer then he's breaking the law of his own free will no coersion involved. I knew my bad boy days would come in handy!!!:-)
"Don't be evil motto..."
Huh? Why is it that people fear any new technology they don't fully understand? People are so negative when speaking about any new biotech(genetic) breakthrough. Remember all the BS people talked about (and still do) about cloning? Come on people should do some research into something before panicing.
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LOL!!! This is so freaking idiotic. It's a game. A game played by kids. Kids talk trash. If you can't deal with it them cancel you account and uninstall the game. Simple isn't it? We live in an unfair world. It's an ugly fact. So you're gay. How does that come into play in the game? People show quit sharing TMI and just have fun. There is a time and place for everything. During a video game is not the time nor the place for discussing your sexual pref. I don't care what it is. I played WoW for a bit. Yeah the kids in there like to taunt each other. Many I found very irritating. I didn't go off and create a Players Against Other Players Talking Trash (PAOPTT) guild. LOL I just went about my business and played the game. Getting so worked up over this mess is just plain GAY! LOL
Humans are the cause of global worming? VERY doubtful. Myth: Humans Are Causing Global Warming. Scientists do not agree that humans discernibly influence global climate because the evidence supporting that theory is weak. The scientific experts most directly concerned with climate conditions reject the theory by a wide margin. A Gallup poll found that only 17 percent of the members of the Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Society think that the warming of the 20th century has been a result of greenhouse gas emissions - principally CO2 from burning fossil fuels. [See Figure II.] Only 13 percent of the scientists responding to a survey conducted by the environmental organization Greenpeace believe catastrophic climate change will result from continuing current patterns of energy use. More than 100 noted scientists, including the former president of the National Academy of Sciences, signed a letter declaring that costly actions to reduce greenhouse gases are not justified by the best available evidence. While atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by 28 percent over the past 150 years, human-generated carbon dioxide could have played only a small part in any warming, since most of the warming occurred prior to 1940 - before most human-caused carbon dioxide emissions.
"So to avoid messy lawsuits, Microsoft needs only to design and market a secure operating system. They don't technically get more money, as they don't have an add-on product to sell-- but the anti-virus vendors basically go out of business and the cost of owning a PC goes down, which helps Microsoft keep the price of its software afloat." LOL that's all they need to do huh? "design a secure OS." You obviously don't know a whole lot about why Windows has the issues it has. It's not simply crappy code. It's a victim of it's own success. Windows is the most attractive dragon in the land and hackers, crackers, virus coders are the Dragon Slayers fighting for bragging rights or just looking to piss it off. No matter how secure your OS is if it's the OS used by 99% of system in the market guess where the hackers and so on are gonna put their energies? no matter how secure youe Os is someone will find a chink in your armor and share the info and soon you will be in the same situation Windows is in now.
So Microsoft can trademark Update, Crap, reboot, crash, and countless other words because they bring to mind Miscrosoft and/or it's cash cow Windows? This is total BS. I want to trademark the term "I" not to be mistaken for the letter "I." They may appear similar but they are not. Trust me.... I(TM) can already hear the cash pouring in....
LOL!!! You do know this film was aimed at the teens right? It wasn't meant to be some high brow Oscar contender. Films aimed at kids don't usually have the strongest of scripts. These films are just meant to be fun which is what it was. :-)
LOL..... You do know the only thing that has kept the Mac OS safe is it's lack of market share. This will be changing soon with people doing the whole dual boot thing. Apple will have to start releasing patches/updates to the OS that fix one problem but cause another much like Microsoft has to do today. Enjoy it while it lasts.
My problem with ALL of these games is that they expect you to pay FULL FREAKING PRICE for a game you can't play solo unless you pay the monthly fee. WTF is that? Why not give the thing away since again it's no good to you w/o the monthly fee. I downloaded a pirate copy of WoW and used a test account to play for about 2 weeks. I would have been pretty pissed if I actually bought the game for $40 only to find it's just another online RPG that's really only worth a few days of playing. I suspect DDO is no different. I for one will pass on this game. Why not make a nice single player game with online play for a monthly fee? At least the customer wouldn't feel as cheated if they didn't like the game. Oh wait because there are fools out there willing to shell out over $40 for a game you can't play w/o the monthly maintenance fee. There's a sucker born every minute seems to be what these game companies are banking on.
Cut the crap. So you were bullied as a kid. Boo hoo... It's part of life. Bullies have been around since prob the dawn of human existance. Games don't create them. So you must also think the classic Warner Brothers cartoons made kids want to drop anvils on the heads of people. Get real. Boys have always played violent make believe games. It's in our nature. We are naturally more agressive. The problems with the kids don't start on the computer nore do they start with to console. It's the parents plain and simple. Raise your kids right and they won't turn into a problem for society to deal with PLUS you won't have to blame idiotic things like games and cartoons for your failure as a parent.
Our evolution will soon be out of the hands of nature and firmly within our own hands. We are already taking the first steps. We are decodong the human genome. We've already mapped it. All we need to learn now is how to read it. Once we have the blurints to human life we will be able to alter it as we see fit.
"I don't mean to be a flamebaiter, but the people having lots of babies are not the "intelligent" people. Normally, people from "less intelligent" families, who are more intelligent than their peers, are seen to be "breaking the cycle". They seem to go on to have many less children than their less intelligent brethren. I'm just saying what I think appears to be the case here; I don't have any hard data to back it up." You are speaking as if we actually know how to measure intelligence. What is intelligence? How much money you have and what education you have access to do not define your intelligence. It only shows you have had access to loads of information. Ignorance does not equal lack of intelligence. The people in the poorer nations don't have the luxury of studying things that do not help them and their families survive. Here in the US we are very lucky. Most people seem to forget that. Most of us will never know what it is to truly struggle. You can not base intelligence on social situation. Your capacity for learning has nothing to do with where you live or how much money you make. It has everything to do with your genetics. What your parents passed on to you and what harmful eviornmental factors you may have been exposed to. So again don't mistake ignorance for lack of intelligence.
This stems from our lack of real issues. The media will make shit up. Ignore the facts. They cherry pick. If you check with the Dept of Justice you will find the hard facts that contradict any facts presented as proof violent crimes are higher then ever. LOL These people know the general public is freaking lazy. Too lazy to really varify and check the accuracy of the info they are being asked to accept as true. One of my college assignments way back way to come up with a convincing presentation using exsting information. The only limitation was had was that our presentation had to be false using existing bodies of evidence. Oh it was a fun. Was a great way to illustrate to us that stats don't mean anything. What's important to the reader is the spin.
"I think the real problem will come when it starts being genuinely possible to forget whether you are in a game or in reality. I.e. x years down the line when VR headsets are actually good quality and mainstream, and the graphics are photoreal (which isn't really too far off)." There will be no difference. It's a game no matter what. It's kinda hard to forget you got yourself all rigged up to play one hell of an expensive game. LOL What do you think games are? Escapeism. Fantasy. Freedom to do what you know you can not do in real life. When was the last time you saw an acid drooling cyberdemon charging you? No matter how real the games may look or feel you have to have a mental problem to not know you are playing a freaking game. I mean come on you purchased it fired up the latest and greates xGen gameing rig and all.
Amen brother!!! The "good old days" had it's offernings of violent entertainment. Look at the cartoons. Tom and Jerry, Popeye, and others. Then you had the all time fav The Three Stooges. PLUS boys have always played violent pretend (analogue?) games in real life like War, Cops n' Robbers, and many others. Video games are no different. Why is it people love to blame the entertainment industry for the results of poor parenting?
I love how you do an about face. Here is where you are being truly honest. And for you information I have a child plus another on the way. I respect your personal feelings on wanting to keep your children away from violent content and nonphysical fun but please don't lie about it's effects on people. You will find that your children will still have access to those games via friends. You can't shelter them from the society we live in. All you can do is give them a solid moral base they can use to make healthy choices in life. My wife has similar feelings on these things as you. I let her state her opinions on them before letting her know I grew up on violent entertainment people are blaming for society's ills.
LOL this is all you have to say? Please explain to me why I'm not the violent person you feel violent entertainment (games, Vid, etc.) creates? Unless you really have nothing to back your claims up with. I gave you an great illustration of sevral cases me and my siblings) that says violent entertainment does not lead to a violent person.
"You will learn about responsibility when you have children. I don't need a study to tell me that violent videogames are bad for chidren." LOL What a steaming pile that is. I grew up playing all the top violent games. My parents allowed us (my bro and sisters) to watch anything we liked except for porn obiously. :-) I have watched anime since before I could talk. And for those of you unaware what anime is, it's Japanese animation. It's prob the most violent type of animation out there. Not a single one of us were turned into violent children or violent adults. Why? Well our parents made damn sure we knew right from wrong. I can count on one hand the number of fights I have had in my life. the same goes for my siblings. Violent games aren't bad for children. Bad parents are bad for children and society. Don't fool yourself.
There is no such thing as "proper security." I get so tired of hearing people who hate MS trash it's OS only based on their irrational hatred of the company. None of the stuff we deal with as Windows users has nothing to do with weak code. It's more like we are paying the price for using the most used OS on the planet. The price is having to deal with the OS creator's constant updates to battle hackers and crackers. This stupid idea people seem to have that the OS should be bullet proof is crazy. There will never be a "secure" OS in the way people wish they could have it. Where will always be people to find flaws in code to exploit.
Sorry but I fail to see how this is MySpace's problem. It's just the cybersapce equiv of any mall/playground/park. When a child get's approached by a perv in any of those locations do we plame the owners for any harm that comes to the child? Nope. Why? Because it's crazy to expect anyone to be aware of the activities of evryone on the property. It's even crazier when you think of the number of users on myspace comapred to the number of people in parks and/or malls at any given time. When will people stop pushing the respocibility of the parent off on to others? The owners of MySpace should place some kind of password validation to help protect themselves from the lawsuits of parents not willing to accept their parental resp. It's not very hard to make sure your kids aren't browsing to places you don't want them to in your own home. What they do outside of the home is beyond your control. This is nothing new. AOL has long been known as a pedophile haven for many many many years. I remember when damn near all the pedophiles busted were using AOL to chat with their intended target. MySPace is just today's scapegoat. I'm gonna be a father soon and am as worried as anyone else about how to protect my kids from unsavory people. But I do not expect others to do my job for me.
I am loving it. The smug attitudes of many OSX evangelists is about to go away. If/When this OSX becomes popular guess who the virus creators are gonna target along with Windows? LOL OSX has been protected by it's lack of market share. Sounds like this new "hybrid" version of the OS may change that. Apple users will have to deal with the same weekly security releases the users of Windows have for a while now.
Hehehe I suspect you are speaking from exp here Mr. Anonymous.... His intent was illegal. Criminal intent? Ever hear of it? It's been made pretty popular by many of the popular crime shows. Criminal Intent is one of the three general classes of mens rea or "guilty mind" in criminal law. Look up "mens rea" if you really want to know what you are trying to talk about.
Thank you! I was wating for someone to challenge his crazy and obviously uninformed claims.
Yeah even now I can do a google search on a handle I used way back in the 80's and early 90's (my highschool and college years) and find ALL of online postings I ever made. Hehehehe It was interesting to see how much my views have changed and how much I am still the same. :-)
Ummm there sure is more money in the game industry than in web. The game industry pulls in more money than the film industry. MUCH more money. A good game will cost as much to make as your average film. I believe it's one of the biggest money making industries. Think about it. The web hasn't moved very much. I'm still waiting for true 3D capabilities on the web. :-)
Entrapment would be if the feds offered to sell HIM the illegal goods. If he offeres it to the officer then he's breaking the law of his own free will no coersion involved. I knew my bad boy days would come in handy!!! :-)
"Don't be evil motto..." Huh? Why is it that people fear any new technology they don't fully understand? People are so negative when speaking about any new biotech(genetic) breakthrough. Remember all the BS people talked about (and still do) about cloning? Come on people should do some research into something before panicing.