Indulging in the "Tu Quoque" logical fallacy just distracts attention away from the fact that the U.S. Government is seriously out of the control of its populace, and being the dominant power in the world it is by far the most dangerous threat to the free world that exists. And by free world, I mean an actual free world, not the meaningless slogan that the U.S. Military Industrial Complex/Government chants while waving it's flag around.
America was supposed to be the example for free nations to follow. But instead, apathy, silly bipartisan tribal bullshit and government corruption fueled by corporate greed have degenerated it into a bloated repressive empire, which is on the verge of collapsing under it's own weight. The citizens of the United States can either reform their government, which is in no way serving their interests any more, or just throw away the best political idea of the last 235 years, and leave us all to the mercy of the various totalitarian lunatics that make up the rest of the world powerbase.
Placebos "heal" nothing. They simply induce pyschological and neurological phenomina that reduce or remove the perception of pain. A placebo is not going to send your cancer into remission, or repair your back injury. Using the phrase "self-healing" is deceptive.
Religion doesn't make human progress impossible!" That seemed to me to be GP's point.
If it was the GP's point it was a false dichotomy and a straw man. Making a process impossible is not the same thing as being somewhat of an impediment to it.
Simply namechecking scientists in one camp or the other does little towards determining the extent to which religiosity helps or hinders scientific understanding, as the poster that you're arguing against specifically points out.
If you want overt novelty effects, that's fine - each to their own. As for it not being a soundtrack and needing to be flashy, I would say that isnt necessarily true now and would become less so in the future - a movie doesn't need to be the Wizard of Oz with a rainbow of garish, clashing primary colours at every opportunity to justify it being in shot in colour. The photography on Star Wars would have been undermined tremendously if it was shot in black and white, but on the other hand I don't spend the duration of the film being wowed by how brown chewbacca is, or being irritated by the boring black and white starfields. I think once 3D stops being a gimmick, it would become a similar situation.
I felt that the fact that I wasn't continuously conscious of it being in 3D meant that the effect was being used with a subtle but effective touch that added to the visual impact on a subconscious level, instead of throwing piranha fish directly into your face every 30 seconds.
If you like an early 80's retro-gaming/home computer/analogue synthesiser aesthetic, and watching something genuinely unique, then TRON is a true gem. If you like the original Star Wars / 80's Star Trek movies as well, the Last Starfighter is a film packed with character, that for some mystifying reason gets a giant slating like TRON often does. If you get them on DVD the commentaries / documentaries about the trailblazing CGI techniques will be fascinating to any computer geek.
I've only seen Wargames once in the mid-90's and I can't remember if it's crap or not. It didn't seem so at the time.
Also, the point you were trying to make is not backed up by the article.
If you do some simple math, you find that there have been 105,497 downloaders. At the time that these numbers were released, there has been 79,000 paying customers.
The gaping hold in this logic is the assumption that each paying customer only downloaded it once. It's perfectly feasible that on average, each downloader downloaded it 1.33 times, which would account for the numbers. I know I paid for the bundle (a decent amount, not a penny) and downloaded it 3 times onto various computers I own with different IP addresses.
The author of the article even gets taken to task on this in the comments at the bottom of the article, and admits it's a faulty argument.
Again, none of this has anything to do with my original post.
Unless you can demonstrate that "many, many" of the people who didn't pay for the bundle are also the same people who use the "can't afford/DRM" reasons to pirate games, your argument is empty. You would also need to put at least some kind of magnitude if not concrete figure on the quantity of people involved. "many, many" is a rhetorical flourish, and tells us nothing.
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i thought it said wanking
Indulging in the "Tu Quoque" logical fallacy just distracts attention away from the fact that the U.S. Government is seriously out of the control of its populace, and being the dominant power in the world it is by far the most dangerous threat to the free world that exists. And by free world, I mean an actual free world, not the meaningless slogan that the U.S. Military Industrial Complex/Government chants while waving it's flag around.
America was supposed to be the example for free nations to follow. But instead, apathy, silly bipartisan tribal bullshit and government corruption fueled by corporate greed have degenerated it into a bloated repressive empire, which is on the verge of collapsing under it's own weight. The citizens of the United States can either reform their government, which is in no way serving their interests any more, or just throw away the best political idea of the last 235 years, and leave us all to the mercy of the various totalitarian lunatics that make up the rest of the world powerbase.
It's a spa treatment
Dullam has even been contacted by defense contractors about using their transparent aluminum in the windows.
WTF? Captain, there be whales...!
now that's a contemporary reference...
is that the post 9/11 godwin?
shit! don't they make them any more??!?! better look after my 10 year old workhorse then....
Fuck.
It was never there, Winston.
Whoooosh... What's that up in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it was the GP's point.
reminds me of vyvyan's ford anglia
mean that every PS3 game to date will no longer work. While I wouldn't put it past Sony to try this...
This idea is absurd on it's face. Seriously?
The cult is a shadow of its former self.
Something i'd like to believe. By what metric? Number of members? Income? Is there a way to view hard figures on this?
Placebos "heal" nothing. They simply induce pyschological and neurological phenomina that reduce or remove the perception of pain. A placebo is not going to send your cancer into remission, or repair your back injury. Using the phrase "self-healing" is deceptive.
Religion doesn't make human progress impossible!" That seemed to me to be GP's point.
If it was the GP's point it was a false dichotomy and a straw man. Making a process impossible is not the same thing as being somewhat of an impediment to it.
Simply namechecking scientists in one camp or the other does little towards determining the extent to which religiosity helps or hinders scientific understanding, as the poster that you're arguing against specifically points out.
If you want overt novelty effects, that's fine - each to their own. As for it not being a soundtrack and needing to be flashy, I would say that isnt necessarily true now and would become less so in the future - a movie doesn't need to be the Wizard of Oz with a rainbow of garish, clashing primary colours at every opportunity to justify it being in shot in colour. The photography on Star Wars would have been undermined tremendously if it was shot in black and white, but on the other hand I don't spend the duration of the film being wowed by how brown chewbacca is, or being irritated by the boring black and white starfields. I think once 3D stops being a gimmick, it would become a similar situation.
I felt that the fact that I wasn't continuously conscious of it being in 3D meant that the effect was being used with a subtle but effective touch that added to the visual impact on a subconscious level, instead of throwing piranha fish directly into your face every 30 seconds.
Better get to the doctor, quickly!
If you like an early 80's retro-gaming/home computer/analogue synthesiser aesthetic, and watching something genuinely unique, then TRON is a true gem. If you like the original Star Wars / 80's Star Trek movies as well, the Last Starfighter is a film packed with character, that for some mystifying reason gets a giant slating like TRON often does. If you get them on DVD the commentaries / documentaries about the trailblazing CGI techniques will be fascinating to any computer geek.
I've only seen Wargames once in the mid-90's and I can't remember if it's crap or not. It didn't seem so at the time.
jesus christ...
That's circular reasoning.
You've missed my point. Reread what I said.
Also, the point you were trying to make is not backed up by the article.
If you do some simple math, you find that there have been 105,497 downloaders. At the time that these numbers were released, there has been 79,000 paying customers.
The gaping hold in this logic is the assumption that each paying customer only downloaded it once. It's perfectly feasible that on average, each downloader downloaded it 1.33 times, which would account for the numbers. I know I paid for the bundle (a decent amount, not a penny) and downloaded it 3 times onto various computers I own with different IP addresses.
The author of the article even gets taken to task on this in the comments at the bottom of the article, and admits it's a faulty argument.
Again, none of this has anything to do with my original post.
provided conclusive proof ...
Unless you can demonstrate that "many, many" of the people who didn't pay for the bundle are also the same people who use the "can't afford/DRM" reasons to pirate games, your argument is empty. You would also need to put at least some kind of magnitude if not concrete figure on the quantity of people involved. "many, many" is a rhetorical flourish, and tells us nothing.
why do you feel they are not entitled to play it?