A more honest article would discuss how Bezos isn't allowing the town to profit off of his purchases aside from the property deals themselves. From the article they wanted to approach him about building a museum about his project to attract some tourism, they wanted to know how many jobs his enterprise would generate.
The main point I picked up is that he is insulated with lawyers to keep from being harassed by people in a depressed region desperate to make a buck off of him.
Exactly what I've been doing for years. Libertarian, communist, green, whatever. As long as it isn't the two candidates bashing each other in everything I read, watch, and hear.
Dear MK Developers,
I recently purchased your violence simulator which you refer to as a game called Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. While observing the features of the game I tested out your Kreate a Kharacter option which lets you customize a character to your preferences given a wide variety of choices. Apparently I can design a character in a suit and name him Jack Thompson, which makes this game in clear violation of allowing games to design men in suits and name them after people. You are ordered to Cease and Desist production of this game immediately until my name and all variations of spellings are disallowed during designing characters in suits. This includes "Jerk Thompson" AND "Jackoff Thompson".
Lovingly,
Jack Thompson, the original man fighting lost causes
But if you wish to actually address the point of the article: the politicians are passing laws which affect an industry they don't understand in the slightest. While/. posters may like to pretend their opinions matter at the end of the day they aren't responsible for knowing about politics.
HOST: I'm curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?
BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see -- I've forgot the name of the program -- but you get the satellite, and you can -- like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.
Choose Your Own Adventure is making a comeback? This time I am TOTALLY going to remember to follow the crewman down the hall of the spaceship because that room is going to blow up in a minutes if I stick around.
What was more impressive was how all the real authors of the Star Wars novels had to spend quite a bit of time undoing every relationship and character that Anderson created.
I predict that when this this tv becomes a household staple in 20 years that the Battleship Mauve-Ray discs will totally beat out the QD-DVD (quantum density) discs in terms of movie quality and that all you QD fanbois can cry more noobs.
I think he just stated his point poorly. It isn't that he wants to test them on US citizens, it is that-
If we're developing weapons to use on civilians that are supposed to be non-lethal BUT we're afraid to use them on our own citizens THEN we're not really sure that they're non-lethal and shouldn't be used.
If we are secure enough in their safety that we would be willing to use them at home then they are ready to be used overseas.
He isn't advocating rounding up citizens to shoot guns at. He's focusing on safety.
I wonder if that has changed since the first announcement. I have a friend who worked for In-Three, the company that was doing the conversions, and at the time they grew to about 150-200 employees. From what I heard before he left there was a massive downsizing and they were less than 30 a couple months ago.
While MS and Sony were trying to steal the show with overpowered machines, Nintendo managed to undercut the competition by a few hundred dollars, came out with an innovative new technology that has caught everyone's attention, and managed to come up with one of the best release line-ups in years.
Yep, they'll be hurting.
Food for thought as I walk home with a brand new Wii and 5 or 6 games that are sure to be smash-hits. All for cheaper than buying a game-less PS3.
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There is a book series by Dale Brown (not Dan Brown) involving modified B-52s rigged to carry UAVs. Always neat to see fiction meet reality.
Had I mod points, I would mod. I laughed.
When I'm competing with Quaker Oats to farm Tempest Keep in Outlands, that's when I'll worry about corporations invading my games.
And how many of those are websites instructing people to go onto Google's website and search for censorship?
Well I thought it was funny.
A more honest article would discuss how Bezos isn't allowing the town to profit off of his purchases aside from the property deals themselves. From the article they wanted to approach him about building a museum about his project to attract some tourism, they wanted to know how many jobs his enterprise would generate.
The main point I picked up is that he is insulated with lawyers to keep from being harassed by people in a depressed region desperate to make a buck off of him.
Exactly what I've been doing for years. Libertarian, communist, green, whatever. As long as it isn't the two candidates bashing each other in everything I read, watch, and hear.
Can we get them to go after the RIAA for not making their music accessible to the deaf?
Dear MK Developers,
I recently purchased your violence simulator which you refer to as a game called Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. While observing the features of the game I tested out your Kreate a Kharacter option which lets you customize a character to your preferences given a wide variety of choices. Apparently I can design a character in a suit and name him Jack Thompson, which makes this game in clear violation of allowing games to design men in suits and name them after people. You are ordered to Cease and Desist production of this game immediately until my name and all variations of spellings are disallowed during designing characters in suits. This includes "Jerk Thompson" AND "Jackoff Thompson".
Lovingly,
Jack Thompson, the original man fighting lost causes
But if you wish to actually address the point of the article: the politicians are passing laws which affect an industry they don't understand in the slightest. While /. posters may like to pretend their opinions matter at the end of the day they aren't responsible for knowing about politics.
And therein lies the difference.
HOST: I'm curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?
BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see -- I've forgot the name of the program -- but you get the satellite, and you can -- like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.
There was a Robotman comic where Monty invented the Mach16 razor. No luck finding a copy of the strip though.
Sony can't reach their over-inflated estimates? Inconceivable!
Choose Your Own Adventure is making a comeback? This time I am TOTALLY going to remember to follow the crewman down the hall of the spaceship because that room is going to blow up in a minutes if I stick around.
No no no.
You buy Perfect Dark because you loved Goldeneye.
What was more impressive was how all the real authors of the Star Wars novels had to spend quite a bit of time undoing every relationship and character that Anderson created.
And now... the Hutts have a Death Star!!!!!
And Luke is in love with a ghost!
I predict that when this this tv becomes a household staple in 20 years that the Battleship Mauve-Ray discs will totally beat out the QD-DVD (quantum density) discs in terms of movie quality and that all you QD fanbois can cry more noobs.
I think he just stated his point poorly. It isn't that he wants to test them on US citizens, it is that- If we're developing weapons to use on civilians that are supposed to be non-lethal BUT we're afraid to use them on our own citizens THEN we're not really sure that they're non-lethal and shouldn't be used. If we are secure enough in their safety that we would be willing to use them at home then they are ready to be used overseas. He isn't advocating rounding up citizens to shoot guns at. He's focusing on safety.
I wonder if that has changed since the first announcement. I have a friend who worked for In-Three, the company that was doing the conversions, and at the time they grew to about 150-200 employees. From what I heard before he left there was a massive downsizing and they were less than 30 a couple months ago.
How many games are on multiple dvds now? Starting to fill dvds is an excuse people throw around but I haven't seen any sign of a real problem.
Just how fast of a video card do we all need to play Warcraft anyway?
No, that was the day he meant. Automated trading in 1929 was atrocious as the computers were notoriously poor at predicting market patterns.
With global positioning, a mapping tool, and wi-fi all on the PSP we can get an accurate real-time map of every landfill in the United States.
While MS and Sony were trying to steal the show with overpowered machines, Nintendo managed to undercut the competition by a few hundred dollars, came out with an innovative new technology that has caught everyone's attention, and managed to come up with one of the best release line-ups in years. Yep, they'll be hurting. Food for thought as I walk home with a brand new Wii and 5 or 6 games that are sure to be smash-hits. All for cheaper than buying a game-less PS3.