Americans need to stand up for their rights. The terrible social state of the country is down a lot to negligence and gullibility.
But it's hard to blame someone. There is very much a bi-partisan split out there, and things like this are, unfortunately, the conservative fault. They need to stop hanging on the government for the sake of being a conservative, and look at issues rationally.
This only happens because half of America is too stupid to find a problem with it. I don't know how this will ever improve. No wake up call seems to be big enough.
Let's get this straight, I hate the way the U.S. thinks it can solve all it's problems with guns, pills and suing the crap out of each other.
But that doesn't mean ADD isn't real. People dislike the idea that there are common ailments that cause us to loose control in that manner. People are used to blaming people. How many people will argue that fat people are fat purely because it's there fault, with no evidence or logical backing to boot?
I myself do have attention problems. Perhaps it is diet, but perhaps it isn't. I think we also have a problem to put down most of our problems to what our eat, or rather it's popular in the media these days. There are so many other factors.
I think the reason we need conditions like ADD is because all our brains work differently and are good at different things and bad at others, and the Blame crowd won't accept this, either through malignity or stupidity, so there needs to be an official piece of paper presented to them before they'll even consider it. And now of course, they're saying that's not enough. What IS enough, honestly? The sooner we learn to accept our limits, the sooner we can work around them. Convincing ourselves we're just lazy just gives us the notion we can change with ease, which only frustrates when we find we can't. Weight loss is a great example of this, overblown worse-case-scenario statistics and media guilt trips are hardly helping.
Previews are the best way to get a hype machine going. If respectable magazine X says that a game is going to be great, people will think it will be great. The payoff on this is enormous.
But are games reviewers really that corruptable? Music magazines hardly even require this anymore, as people are already too far sucked into the "machine" of the music industry to say anything bad about it. I don't think the games industry is in near as bad a state(and isn't as comparable due to the fact that "underground" games are rarely as good) but it could be a sign of it worsening if it is.
I managed to achieve 4 and a 5, and now a 0! Yay! So what deems me a "troll" anyway, how is it any different from any of the other jokes I've cracked that got me between 2 and 5?
Around the time of the PS2, Xbox and Gamecube Developers started getting lazy. Why? Because instead of using all this power to craete incredibly new experiences, they split it half and half between "Shiny visuals" and "Room to be lazy".
Look at the Xbox 360. Sure it has some amazing visuals, but nothing much better than last year's good PCs. While this is often the case with consoles, 3 3.2 Gigahertz cores and the "Latest" ATI chipsets should be providing better performance than this!
Sometimes I prefer older games because I can appreciate the love and care that was put into each model, and I myself "an" modelling for games like Quake 2 was desperately trying to move corners around so they didn't poke out and make the model look silly. But it was great to achieve this.
Now they just make big fully textured roundy meshes with pretty much even polygon distrubution. No more clever techniques. Everything is built off the latest inefficent graphics kits, though I suppose that falls on people like Microsoft as you can't expect most developers to write that kind of stuff.
Developers NEED to learn to be more efficent and conservative with their console's power if they want to bring it out. PC Developers are the worst though, absolutely by far. So many wasted resources. Has anyone played Ultimate Spider-man on PC? Ridiculous. Looks worse than the PS2 version, and at half the framerate, on PCs only a couple of years old.
I am glad that the developers of this title realise this. There are a handful of amazing looking games, mostly because the development teams focuses their efforts on more efficent techniques instead of cheesy effects.
How could it even have been an "Orbiter" if it's only just now about to orbit?
Scientists may be smart, but they suck at naming things.
Planet XYXA12-144 in the Constellation of PRB601? I mean come on. Someone seriously needs to give these guys some weed. If scientists take over the world with the amazing space cannons they find on Mars, "Offspring 3A" will be the most popular name of 2012.
Europe is not as bigotted as America as we learned a lot from World War II. Saying that "Oh everywhere else is like that" is avoiding the issue completely. While you can't blame any specific person, there is very much so an "asshole culture" in America at the moment, which is reflected heavily on the internet with legions of trolls and totalarian ban-happy administrators.
The Europreans are more sexual, actually. America's obsession is violence, not sex. Most people know this. A couple of nuts calling for GTA to be banned don't speak for the majority. And which one do you think is more harmful?
Canada is the same. The video "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead was a very disturbing Video. In Canada and some places in Europe, they censored a violent scene where a man cut himself up with a Chainsaw. In America, they left that disturbing scene in, and instead censored some cartoon mermaid nipples instead.
That, to me, is a wonderful example of the contrast of values between the U.S. and Canada & Europe.
Man, that's a lot of data to be sending back. I just hope those funny little Green Men aren't going to be using up all the space bandwidth looking at porn from Uranus.
It's pretty interesting. It's a long shot enough a Search Engine making that much money, let alone them having enough to hand out to their favourite Web Browser.
If the human race is still evolving, does this mean that in 1000s of years time, we'll have even more squiggly looking brains, hair that grows exactly as long as fast as we want it, glands that produce caffine, and no more republicans?
One of the main problems with the PSP is that compared to the DS, it really isn't that appealing. Graphics aren't something you look for from your handheld. The only serious thing the PSP has over the DS is the analog stick - and I believe that the DS truly needs one. There is the screen, but it's too easy to loose the thumb thingie.
From a consumeristic point of view, the PSP isn't attractive to anyone but the kind of people that stand next to the "beautiful people" on the beach for a few minutes playing Wipeout and GTA, then move onto the next crowd when they loose interest. It's not really a gamers console, despite it having more released for it than the DS. It's a fashion accessory, and dare I say, a gimmick?
This could be very dangerous in the U.S. as most people tend to be "workaholic" to an extent. In europe people generally know that raw hard work isn't the best way to achieve something, so people know to take more sick days off when they need it.
If I were an IT company, and this scare began to prove itself true, I would give extra paid sick leave, it might be the only way to avoid an epidemic.
Intel chips are still far inferior to AMD chips. They cost more to make for a given performance rate, offer poor performance to clock cycle ratio, and were also slow to embrace 64-bit technology, which is useful for server owners.
The "Mhz" speed is an issue, as it is better to deliver more efficent performance at lower clock rates as it consumes less power and causes less heat.
Intel may be stuck in a hole with this one though, as they have strayed down their own path too long from their common ground with AMD. They really need to reimagine their chips and chipsets but it will be difficult at this point.
But what about an animal that could evolve into a human? That's a baby. I personally think that there should be an alternative to abortion - like the fetus being removed and artifically raised(though I personally think that everything natural is the best way, it is better than killing them. I have heard some convincing argumetns for abortion, so I still sit on the fence.
However, there will always be abortions for more "valid" reasons, and dead embryos, so obtaining Stem Cells is not necessarily a problem.
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Americans need to stand up for their rights. The terrible social state of the country is down a lot to negligence and gullibility.
But it's hard to blame someone. There is very much a bi-partisan split out there, and things like this are, unfortunately, the conservative fault. They need to stop hanging on the government for the sake of being a conservative, and look at issues rationally.
This only happens because half of America is too stupid to find a problem with it. I don't know how this will ever improve. No wake up call seems to be big enough.
Math Rock is nothing new. Progressive Rock at it's nerdiest and most pointless.
Let's get this straight, I hate the way the U.S. thinks it can solve all it's problems with guns, pills and suing the crap out of each other. But that doesn't mean ADD isn't real. People dislike the idea that there are common ailments that cause us to loose control in that manner. People are used to blaming people. How many people will argue that fat people are fat purely because it's there fault, with no evidence or logical backing to boot? I myself do have attention problems. Perhaps it is diet, but perhaps it isn't. I think we also have a problem to put down most of our problems to what our eat, or rather it's popular in the media these days. There are so many other factors. I think the reason we need conditions like ADD is because all our brains work differently and are good at different things and bad at others, and the Blame crowd won't accept this, either through malignity or stupidity, so there needs to be an official piece of paper presented to them before they'll even consider it. And now of course, they're saying that's not enough. What IS enough, honestly? The sooner we learn to accept our limits, the sooner we can work around them. Convincing ourselves we're just lazy just gives us the notion we can change with ease, which only frustrates when we find we can't. Weight loss is a great example of this, overblown worse-case-scenario statistics and media guilt trips are hardly helping.
Previews are the best way to get a hype machine going. If respectable magazine X says that a game is going to be great, people will think it will be great. The payoff on this is enormous. But are games reviewers really that corruptable? Music magazines hardly even require this anymore, as people are already too far sucked into the "machine" of the music industry to say anything bad about it. I don't think the games industry is in near as bad a state(and isn't as comparable due to the fact that "underground" games are rarely as good) but it could be a sign of it worsening if it is.
I managed to achieve 4 and a 5, and now a 0! Yay! So what deems me a "troll" anyway, how is it any different from any of the other jokes I've cracked that got me between 2 and 5?
Isn't that equal to 1 Kilowatt? First we have ONE TRILLION BYTES, and now ONE THOUSAND WATTS! One million shames on you, Slashdot.
Around the time of the PS2, Xbox and Gamecube Developers started getting lazy. Why? Because instead of using all this power to craete incredibly new experiences, they split it half and half between "Shiny visuals" and "Room to be lazy". Look at the Xbox 360. Sure it has some amazing visuals, but nothing much better than last year's good PCs. While this is often the case with consoles, 3 3.2 Gigahertz cores and the "Latest" ATI chipsets should be providing better performance than this! Sometimes I prefer older games because I can appreciate the love and care that was put into each model, and I myself "an" modelling for games like Quake 2 was desperately trying to move corners around so they didn't poke out and make the model look silly. But it was great to achieve this. Now they just make big fully textured roundy meshes with pretty much even polygon distrubution. No more clever techniques. Everything is built off the latest inefficent graphics kits, though I suppose that falls on people like Microsoft as you can't expect most developers to write that kind of stuff. Developers NEED to learn to be more efficent and conservative with their console's power if they want to bring it out. PC Developers are the worst though, absolutely by far. So many wasted resources. Has anyone played Ultimate Spider-man on PC? Ridiculous. Looks worse than the PS2 version, and at half the framerate, on PCs only a couple of years old. I am glad that the developers of this title realise this. There are a handful of amazing looking games, mostly because the development teams focuses their efforts on more efficent techniques instead of cheesy effects.
How could it even have been an "Orbiter" if it's only just now about to orbit? Scientists may be smart, but they suck at naming things. Planet XYXA12-144 in the Constellation of PRB601? I mean come on. Someone seriously needs to give these guys some weed. If scientists take over the world with the amazing space cannons they find on Mars, "Offspring 3A" will be the most popular name of 2012.
... nobody can hear you illegally download "Ween" albums.
Europe is not as bigotted as America as we learned a lot from World War II. Saying that "Oh everywhere else is like that" is avoiding the issue completely. While you can't blame any specific person, there is very much so an "asshole culture" in America at the moment, which is reflected heavily on the internet with legions of trolls and totalarian ban-happy administrators. The Europreans are more sexual, actually. America's obsession is violence, not sex. Most people know this. A couple of nuts calling for GTA to be banned don't speak for the majority. And which one do you think is more harmful? Canada is the same. The video "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead was a very disturbing Video. In Canada and some places in Europe, they censored a violent scene where a man cut himself up with a Chainsaw. In America, they left that disturbing scene in, and instead censored some cartoon mermaid nipples instead. That, to me, is a wonderful example of the contrast of values between the U.S. and Canada & Europe.
Man, all we need now is a Google Mars, and we won't have to bother with all this Orbiter crap.
I hope they ban Dig Dug. That game can be so violent. I mean, just look at this! http://www.deviantart.com/view/29947566/
Man, that's a lot of data to be sending back. I just hope those funny little Green Men aren't going to be using up all the space bandwidth looking at porn from Uranus.
It's pretty interesting. It's a long shot enough a Search Engine making that much money, let alone them having enough to hand out to their favourite Web Browser.
It's occurred to me that everytime I use google, it can't help me find the one thing I want online; common sense.
If the human race is still evolving, does this mean that in 1000s of years time, we'll have even more squiggly looking brains, hair that grows exactly as long as fast as we want it, glands that produce caffine, and no more republicans?
"Do we want anything that hot on our planet?" I don't know, it still doesn't touch Johnny Depp.
Concerns over the distros makes sense, but compatibility issues? Compatibility issues are a MICROSOFT thing.
One of the main problems with the PSP is that compared to the DS, it really isn't that appealing. Graphics aren't something you look for from your handheld. The only serious thing the PSP has over the DS is the analog stick - and I believe that the DS truly needs one. There is the screen, but it's too easy to loose the thumb thingie. From a consumeristic point of view, the PSP isn't attractive to anyone but the kind of people that stand next to the "beautiful people" on the beach for a few minutes playing Wipeout and GTA, then move onto the next crowd when they loose interest. It's not really a gamers console, despite it having more released for it than the DS. It's a fashion accessory, and dare I say, a gimmick?
I wonder if Microsoft is richer than all of Europe?
This could be very dangerous in the U.S. as most people tend to be "workaholic" to an extent. In europe people generally know that raw hard work isn't the best way to achieve something, so people know to take more sick days off when they need it. If I were an IT company, and this scare began to prove itself true, I would give extra paid sick leave, it might be the only way to avoid an epidemic.
Why are we trying to find water on other planets when we 80% of our planet is covered in it?
Intel chips are still far inferior to AMD chips. They cost more to make for a given performance rate, offer poor performance to clock cycle ratio, and were also slow to embrace 64-bit technology, which is useful for server owners. The "Mhz" speed is an issue, as it is better to deliver more efficent performance at lower clock rates as it consumes less power and causes less heat. Intel may be stuck in a hole with this one though, as they have strayed down their own path too long from their common ground with AMD. They really need to reimagine their chips and chipsets but it will be difficult at this point.
But what about an animal that could evolve into a human? That's a baby. I personally think that there should be an alternative to abortion - like the fetus being removed and artifically raised(though I personally think that everything natural is the best way, it is better than killing them. I have heard some convincing argumetns for abortion, so I still sit on the fence. However, there will always be abortions for more "valid" reasons, and dead embryos, so obtaining Stem Cells is not necessarily a problem.