SCI's first GameStorm title, America's Army, originally debuted on July 4, 2002, becoming one of the most popular games online, according to SCI. The Army has recorded more than 1.6 million registered user accounts with more than 1 million players completing basic training. Gamers have played more than 130 million missions and the average number of completed missions per day is 450,000,
about the same number of times Cmdr Taco has gay sex per day.
It's pathetic when the U.S. Government can take a hard line on terrorism in traditional forms, but is cowed by a multinational corporation that has been demonstrated to be involved in monopolistic forms of terrorism. The DOJ is basically giving up because they're tired of trying to fight Microsoft. What sort of precedent does this set for the Standard Oils of the new millenium?
This government has bowed to corporate interests at every turn. I'd be happy to see a list of cases where individual freedom was held in higher esteem than corporate interests. This is yet another side effect of the US's desire to remain an economic superpower. It has changed from a Representative Democracy to a colossal beauracratic corporation. Perhaps we should call it The United States of America Inc.?
Remember folks, a government that tramples the rights of the citizen is a tyrannical government. There is no leeway for arguement in that.
You raise a good point in your post. One which I'd like to address.
Human beings as a species have been the top of the local food and evolutionary chains for as long as the collective conciousness can remember. It has become something that is taken for granted. This being said, it is a well know phenomenon that humans hate the unknown.
Sentient robots and aliens represent this unknown. They are another species that we could communicate with, people we could have conversations with, same as the next door neighbor. As a race, we are afraid of how we will measure up to them.
It is my opinion that humans (in groups at least) feel a driving urge to be superior to everything around them. That's great for evolution and survival in the early stages of species maturation, but as we become "civilized" these urges tend to promote warfare and strife.
We are afraid of races that may feel the same way, and might be able to subjugate us. We want to be the top of the heap, and they best non-violent way to do that is to be the race everyone wants to be like. It's the classic Football Hero/Head Cheerleader (popular people) in high school story all over again.
I see, so you are 1E3T because you wasted the effort to manually spam Slashdot. Wonderful, glad I got that cleared up. Do us all a favor and go do something truly constructive. I'm sure the only stupidity you're showing Rob and the rest is your own. Please air your childishness elsewhere. Danke.
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I call troll, sneaky bastard.
It's pathetic when the U.S. Government can take a hard line on terrorism in traditional forms, but is cowed by a multinational corporation that has been demonstrated to be involved in monopolistic forms of terrorism. The DOJ is basically giving up because they're tired of trying to fight Microsoft. What sort of precedent does this set for the Standard Oils of the new millenium?
This government has bowed to corporate interests at every turn. I'd be happy to see a list of cases where individual freedom was held in higher esteem than corporate interests. This is yet another side effect of the US's desire to remain an economic superpower. It has changed from a Representative Democracy to a colossal beauracratic corporation. Perhaps we should call it The United States of America Inc.?
Remember folks, a government that tramples the rights of the citizen is a tyrannical government. There is no leeway for arguement in that.
Apologies for the multiple post. A moment's confusion plus the distraction of my phone ringing off the hook has caused my error. =) Sorry.
Human beings as a species have been the top of the local food and evolutionary chains for as long as the collective conciousness can remember. It has become something that is taken for granted. This being said, it is a well know phenomenon that humans hate the unknown.
Sentient robots and aliens represent this unknown. They are another species that we could communicate with, people we could have conversations with, same as the next door neighbor. As a race, we are afraid of how we will measure up to them.
It is my opinion that humans (in groups at least) feel a driving urge to be superior to everything around them. That's great for evolution and survival in the early stages of species maturation, but as we become "civilized" these urges tend to promote warfare and strife.
We are afraid of races that may feel the same way, and might be able to subjugate us. We want to be the top of the heap, and they best non-violent way to do that is to be the race everyone wants to be like. It's the classic Football Hero/Head Cheerleader (popular people) in high school story all over again.
Now I'm done, and I have work to do too. =)
I see, so you are 1E3T because you wasted the effort to manually spam Slashdot. Wonderful, glad I got that cleared up. Do us all a favor and go do something truly constructive. I'm sure the only stupidity you're showing Rob and the rest is your own. Please air your childishness elsewhere. Danke.