I live in Springfield, where Alderman Gail Simpson (and likely her brother-in-law Homer) lives. The damaged house in the picture in the link is probably about the same worth, but it's in a more expensive neighborhood; th eghetto is a short walk from my home. It's a two bedroom house with full basement and separate garage. It would probably go for five million dollars if it was on the outskirts of LA or NYC.
Do you think the owners of EA deserve any similar vitriol? Seeing as how they make hundreds of millions of dollars doing even less actual work proportionally than this guy.
They gambled an won. If they had gambled and lost and then whined about it they woud have deserved the same scorn I heaped on that second rate TV actor who whined about getting paid what he contracted for.
But they didn't whine. My beef isn't about how much he made, it's about his crying and whining about it like a spoiled five year old.
If I whine about how little I get paid you can heap scorn on me. But as of yet I haven't (although I'll bitch about how little someone else, who makes far less than me, gets paid).
The people who work at McDonald's (and every other US worker making minimum wage for corporations with profits in the billions of dollars) time is measured in pennies.
Minimum wages were first introduced in Australia and New Zealand half a century before the US, and "minimum wage laws are now in force in more than 90% of all countries."
Unlike the US, other countries measure their minimum wages in dollars or their equivalent.
No company would do a media event like this that would shed bad publicity on their product- except Microsoft, LOL.
How about Sony and their rootkit? What about SCO and their Linux licenses? What about the RIAA and their lawsuits against computer-illiterate grandmothers, twelve year olds, and dead people?
You really don't need the non-breakable space, but if you would have you got it backwards. The apersand goes before nbsp and the semicolon follows. If there are any spaces it won't work.
Will what melt, the CPU, the server, the building, or the polar ice caps?
I've had two CPUs die from heat death when their cooling fans became clogged with dust, cat hair and pot smoke. The latest box's motherboard has a thermometer hooked up so if it reaches a certain temperature the power will shut off.
It's gotten flakey lately when booting to Windows (although it boots to Linux flawlessly. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing to say about the respective OSes). The default is Windows, and it would reboot continually until Windows finally "caught" (unless I told LILO to go to Mandriva).
The other day I turned it on and went out for a beer; it's been the center of my living room stereo, with a few thousand MP3s ripped from my CDs, tapes, and LPs. When I got back it was shut completely off.
My house has no carpeting, so I'd loaned my vaccuum sweeper to a friend. I'll get the sweeper back before I open it up, but I'm wondering if the power suply fan is what gave out this time and fried the power supply, or the CPU fan gave out and fried the CPU, or if the temperature sensor had something to do with it.
When the CPU fans died in earlier incarnations, the lights would blink momentarily before going dark. They don't even do that now. I'm not making any bets, but if I were a betting man I'd bet the power supply is dead. In a quarter century of building and repeiring PCs I've never had a power supply die. Have any of you lost the power supply in a PC?
Thank you for being civil, so many slashdotters have a knee jerk hatred for anyone who dares to disbelieve that the universe and sentience itself is a coincidence.
The religion practiced by Jack Thompson, Pat Robertson, George Bush and other neocons bears incredibly little resemblance to what the man who started that particular religion taught. I waih those people would quit calling themselves "Christians."
Never trust a "Christain" preacher who wears a five thousand dollar suit.
T original FA was slashdotted; I finally saw a link to the Ars story.
You're assuming an awful lot. Not everyone blindly buys into the democrat vs. republican nonsense
Your "insightful" moderation was well deserved. Most folks DON'T buy into the DvR nonsense. I'm obviously not typical (we nerds as a group aren't anyway and I'm probably even wierder than most of my fellow nerds) but my Presidential voting record in the 20th century was pretty much split between Ds and Rs.
This century sees me splitting my votes between the Gs and the Ls, as the Ds and Rs have both been purchased outright by the foreign corporate interests (e.g., the American arm of BP, Sony, etc. "contributing" to both major party candidates).
Although the game has made more than $600 million in sales for Rockstar Games, Hollick earns nothing beyond the original $100K he was paid.
A hundred thousand fucking dollars for reading out loud? How long did he have to read to earn that hundred thousand dollars? Poor little baby. I work all goddamned year long for half that much. That's twice what my house is worth!
I've never seen a hundred thousand dollars!
How much did the programmers get? I'll bet they didn't get a hundred grand each!
The asshole signed a contract and he was paid what he was offered. If he thinks a hundred grand isn't enough, then he shouldn't do any more video games.
I'm sick of the God damned money worshiping greed today. Hollick can kiss my ass.
Indeed. Some here at slashdot would call you a homophobe for saying "God save the queen", others are insulted at the very mention of God. Others would quote the cowboy on the train in Unforgiven who says "I recon we don't need no queens".
If you're going to make an argument against Greenpeace, at least make it competent, OK?
If you're going to make an argument for Greenpeace, at least make it coherent and well thought out, OK?
Are you telling us that people only ever went to the arcades when they got in there car?
In the US, hardly anyone goes anywhere without getting in their car.
And even so, that people who go to arcades have the same game player habits as people who have a console?
I fail to see how the question is germaine.
Also, are you saying that the chemicals used in the consoles when disposed of incorrectly are less harmful than the average equivalent of extra car pollution generated by going to the arcade?
No, I'm asking the same question, only turning it around. And "when disposed of incorrectly" is a pretty loiaded question. How about making the manufacturers dispose of the chemicals properly, or better yet, developing chemicals that don't harm the environment when disposed of, like was done when we replaced Freon with today's AC coolants?
What about if it was just the consoles and games were all downloaded?
Then my daughter, who manages a GameStop store, would be unemployed. What if pigs could fly? What if earth's atmosphere was NO2?
You see, I just don't get why so many people here immediately go into some self-defensive mode whenever the subject of environmentalism and Greenpeace comes up
I fail to see why anyone would blindly defend every single action of any organization at all. The "us vs them" mentality that causes this blind knee-jerk defense is insane. I support Greenpeace's aims; I'm most likely going to vote Green Party next Presidential election. I was around before the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were passed, back when you didn't drive through Sauget with your windows down no matter how hot it was outside. I saw the difference in the hue of the vegetation in the East Saint Louis area (badly polluted). I see the danger of global warming.
But many times Greenpeace is hurting their own cause. You do as well by blindly attacking anyone you percieve as being "against us".
I always suspected that "Thompson" was the Russian word for "Golf" ("...you thought Golf was inwented in Scotland? No, it was a Russian inwention!" -Ensign Checkov) but the Ars story had me giggling.
Thompson has included gay pornography in his court filings, causing the Judge presiding over the case to note that "Mr. Thompson made available for unlimited public viewing, on the court's docketing system, these graphic images." In this most recent case, Thompson created a picture book in reaction to "the court's inability to comprehend" what he was saying. The book contained pictures of swastikas, a copied dollar bill, monkeys, and, in a surreal touch, a handprint with the word "slap" written under it. That's leaving out the cartoon squirrels. Earlier this year, Thompson asked why another gaming writer doesn't "just molest children directly rather than through Rockstar. It would be more personal that way."
Before the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, Jack Thompson wrote Ars Technica a letter that compared the game to polio.
Who is Jack Thompson? A man who knows no restraint to further a cause that has religious roots
Hmm, Wikipedia says "Thompson then expanded his comments in the same interview by saying, 'Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed.... That's a core essence of the religion.... Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels - not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition".
That's the only occurance in the wikipedia article where the word "religion" is used. Could you expound on this thought further? What are these "religious roots" you speak of, and which religion?
So I'd like to thank GamePolitics, Scuttlemonkey, and especially the Florida judge for brightening up this bad bad Wednesday!
Oh yea, and I want to thank Jack Thompson too, since if he wasn't such a stupid, obnoxious, self-serving buffoon this story would have never made it to slashdot!
My life is SO filled with coincidences. Last night at Felber's one of the ladies there called me a "fuckmonkey" (in regards to my bringing Amy there half an hour before taking Tami there), I just got back fro Top Cat's, where today's drink special is the "Drunk Monkey", and now the Jack Thompson story brought to us by Scuttlemonkey!
I'm not saying technology ALONE will solve environmental problems. Clearly politics plays a far more important role. If it wasn't for the Clean Air Act, you still wouldn't be able to drive through Sauget with your windows down.
Why? Because it is an issue of consumption
That I disagree with. It isn't consumption but disposal, especially disposal of waste gasses (such as the emmissions from your automobile and power plant). To nature, an alumanum can in a landfill is just another rock. It's the waste gasses (including CO and CO2) from the power necessary to change the bauxite into aluminum. If your beer can's aluminum is manufactured in a solar powered smelter and forged in a solar powered factory, there is no environmental consequence of its use.
The use of solar, wind, and other emmission-free energy sources is a direct result of technology. In the nineteenth century there was no solar power, and all wind power was incredibly primitive and inefficient.
Recycling waste fluids is also dependant on technology.
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For two years, Davis has been daring hackers to steal his ID.
Child's play. I bet you dumbsassses aren't good enough to shuttle $5,000,000 into my bank account, losers! I dare you! I double dog dare you!
I live in Springfield, where Alderman Gail Simpson (and likely her brother-in-law Homer) lives. The damaged house in the picture in the link is probably about the same worth, but it's in a more expensive neighborhood; th eghetto is a short walk from my home. It's a two bedroom house with full basement and separate garage. It would probably go for five million dollars if it was on the outskirts of LA or NYC.
Do you think the owners of EA deserve any similar vitriol? Seeing as how they make hundreds of millions of dollars doing even less actual work proportionally than this guy.
They gambled an won. If they had gambled and lost and then whined about it they woud have deserved the same scorn I heaped on that second rate TV actor who whined about getting paid what he contracted for.
But they didn't whine. My beef isn't about how much he made, it's about his crying and whining about it like a spoiled five year old.
If I whine about how little I get paid you can heap scorn on me. But as of yet I haven't (although I'll bitch about how little someone else, who makes far less than me, gets paid).
And as for Apples various OS products? Well they have only a tiny market share.
Wrong. From Tuesday's slashdot main page, 66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs. These are the computers any self-respecting botnet operator would drool over.
So don't YOU be naive.
This idea that Linux is immune from viruses is just stupid
Name one Linux virus in the wild today.
The people who work at McDonald's (and every other US worker making minimum wage for corporations with profits in the billions of dollars) time is measured in pennies.
The US federal Minimum Wage is five hundred eighty five pennies per hour. They raised it last year. I'm sure glad I don't have to live on that!
I found this graph interesting. Comparing it to Canada's various minimum wages is an embarrisment and my legislators should be ashamed of themselves.
Minimum wages were first introduced in Australia and New Zealand half a century before the US, and "minimum wage laws are now in force in more than 90% of all countries."
Unlike the US, other countries measure their minimum wages in dollars or their equivalent.
No company would do a media event like this that would shed bad publicity on their product- except Microsoft, LOL.
How about Sony and their rootkit? What about SCO and their Linux licenses? What about the RIAA and their lawsuits against computer-illiterate grandmothers, twelve year olds, and dead people?
What about Fox and American Idol?
What? www.microsoft.com/gettofacts/? Oh. I need more coffee, I'm getting lysdexic. DAM.
But that could be interpreted as "Linux runs blazingly fast compared to Microsoft" which I don't think even Microsoft is dumb enough to do. Otoh...
You really don't need the non-breakable space, but if you would have you got it backwards. The apersand goes before nbsp and the semicolon follows. If there are any spaces it won't work.
Will what melt, the CPU, the server, the building, or the polar ice caps?
Shit, my ice cream cone just melted...
I've had two CPUs die from heat death when their cooling fans became clogged with dust, cat hair and pot smoke. The latest box's motherboard has a thermometer hooked up so if it reaches a certain temperature the power will shut off.
It's gotten flakey lately when booting to Windows (although it boots to Linux flawlessly. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing to say about the respective OSes). The default is Windows, and it would reboot continually until Windows finally "caught" (unless I told LILO to go to Mandriva).
The other day I turned it on and went out for a beer; it's been the center of my living room stereo, with a few thousand MP3s ripped from my CDs, tapes, and LPs. When I got back it was shut completely off.
My house has no carpeting, so I'd loaned my vaccuum sweeper to a friend. I'll get the sweeper back before I open it up, but I'm wondering if the power suply fan is what gave out this time and fried the power supply, or the CPU fan gave out and fried the CPU, or if the temperature sensor had something to do with it.
When the CPU fans died in earlier incarnations, the lights would blink momentarily before going dark. They don't even do that now. I'm not making any bets, but if I were a betting man I'd bet the power supply is dead. In a quarter century of building and repeiring PCs I've never had a power supply die. Have any of you lost the power supply in a PC?
Thank you for being civil, so many slashdotters have a knee jerk hatred for anyone who dares to disbelieve that the universe and sentience itself is a coincidence.
The religion practiced by Jack Thompson, Pat Robertson, George Bush and other neocons bears incredibly little resemblance to what the man who started that particular religion taught. I waih those people would quit calling themselves "Christians."
Never trust a "Christain" preacher who wears a five thousand dollar suit.
T original FA was slashdotted; I finally saw a link to the Ars story.
Perhaps you're right, I've never seen any of the Catholic rituals so I have no idea what they do.
That's pretty damned hard to do when it's slashdotted. And, what "inflammatory accusations"?
You're assuming an awful lot. Not everyone blindly buys into the democrat vs. republican nonsense
Your "insightful" moderation was well deserved. Most folks DON'T buy into the DvR nonsense. I'm obviously not typical (we nerds as a group aren't anyway and I'm probably even wierder than most of my fellow nerds) but my Presidential voting record in the 20th century was pretty much split between Ds and Rs.
This century sees me splitting my votes between the Gs and the Ls, as the Ds and Rs have both been purchased outright by the foreign corporate interests (e.g., the American arm of BP, Sony, etc. "contributing" to both major party candidates).
Although the game has made more than $600 million in sales for Rockstar Games, Hollick earns nothing beyond the original $100K he was paid.
A hundred thousand fucking dollars for reading out loud? How long did he have to read to earn that hundred thousand dollars? Poor little baby. I work all goddamned year long for half that much. That's twice what my house is worth!
I've never seen a hundred thousand dollars!
How much did the programmers get? I'll bet they didn't get a hundred grand each!
The asshole signed a contract and he was paid what he was offered. If he thinks a hundred grand isn't enough, then he shouldn't do any more video games.
I'm sick of the God damned money worshiping greed today. Hollick can kiss my ass.
Hey, guys, I trimmed my goatee this morning!
Indeed. Some here at slashdot would call you a homophobe for saying "God save the queen", others are insulted at the very mention of God. Others would quote the cowboy on the train in Unforgiven who says "I recon we don't need no queens".
If you're going to make an argument against Greenpeace, at least make it competent, OK?
If you're going to make an argument for Greenpeace, at least make it coherent and well thought out, OK?
Are you telling us that people only ever went to the arcades when they got in there car?
In the US, hardly anyone goes anywhere without getting in their car.
And even so, that people who go to arcades have the same game player habits as people who have a console?
I fail to see how the question is germaine.
Also, are you saying that the chemicals used in the consoles when disposed of incorrectly are less harmful than the average equivalent of extra car pollution generated by going to the arcade?
No, I'm asking the same question, only turning it around. And "when disposed of incorrectly" is a pretty loiaded question. How about making the manufacturers dispose of the chemicals properly, or better yet, developing chemicals that don't harm the environment when disposed of, like was done when we replaced Freon with today's AC coolants?
What about if it was just the consoles and games were all downloaded?
Then my daughter, who manages a GameStop store, would be unemployed. What if pigs could fly? What if earth's atmosphere was NO2?
You see, I just don't get why so many people here immediately go into some self-defensive mode whenever the subject of environmentalism and Greenpeace comes up
I fail to see why anyone would blindly defend every single action of any organization at all. The "us vs them" mentality that causes this blind knee-jerk defense is insane. I support Greenpeace's aims; I'm most likely going to vote Green Party next Presidential election. I was around before the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were passed, back when you didn't drive through Sauget with your windows down no matter how hot it was outside. I saw the difference in the hue of the vegetation in the East Saint Louis area (badly polluted). I see the danger of global warming.
But many times Greenpeace is hurting their own cause. You do as well by blindly attacking anyone you percieve as being "against us".
Wikipedia says he's a Republican. Both the Republican and Democrat arms of the Corporate Party are against free speech.
Who is Jack Thompson?
... That's a core essence of the religion. ... Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels - not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition".
A man who knows no restraint to further a cause that has religious roots
Hmm, Wikipedia says "Thompson then expanded his comments in the same interview by saying, 'Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed.
That's the only occurance in the wikipedia article where the word "religion" is used. Could you expound on this thought further? What are these "religious roots" you speak of, and which religion?
Or do you just hate religion in general?
He alleges that video games "MAKE" people commit crimes.
Hey, maybe I ought to thank Mr. Thompson. If I ever get busted for smoking pot, gambling, or soliciting a prostitute I'll just blame GTA!
Did you know that Mr. Thompson's middle name is "Golf"?
So I'd like to thank GamePolitics, Scuttlemonkey, and especially the Florida judge for brightening up this bad bad Wednesday!
Oh yea, and I want to thank Jack Thompson too, since if he wasn't such a stupid, obnoxious, self-serving buffoon this story would have never made it to slashdot!
My life is SO filled with coincidences. Last night at Felber's one of the ladies there called me a "fuckmonkey" (in regards to my bringing Amy there half an hour before taking Tami there), I just got back fro Top Cat's, where today's drink special is the "Drunk Monkey", and now the Jack Thompson story brought to us by Scuttlemonkey!
Weird. But not as weird as Jack Thompson.
I'm not saying technology ALONE will solve environmental problems. Clearly politics plays a far more important role. If it wasn't for the Clean Air Act, you still wouldn't be able to drive through Sauget with your windows down.
Why? Because it is an issue of consumption
That I disagree with. It isn't consumption but disposal, especially disposal of waste gasses (such as the emmissions from your automobile and power plant). To nature, an alumanum can in a landfill is just another rock. It's the waste gasses (including CO and CO2) from the power necessary to change the bauxite into aluminum. If your beer can's aluminum is manufactured in a solar powered smelter and forged in a solar powered factory, there is no environmental consequence of its use.
The use of solar, wind, and other emmission-free energy sources is a direct result of technology. In the nineteenth century there was no solar power, and all wind power was incredibly primitive and inefficient.
Recycling waste fluids is also dependant on technology.
You guess correctly. And yes, I would want to see what OS they were using out of curiosity.
I am a mad pizza-eating hermit nerd with no girlfriend, you insensitive clod! Haven't you seen my journals?