We were not talking about terrorism. We were talking about a group that wishes to completely transform the country culturally, religiously and racially.
One of the most fundamental principles that the USA was founded on was a rejection of the "there can be only one" approach to religion. The essence of USA culture is the idea that people of different religions can successfully coexist.
It takes two to tango. If only one party thinks that religions can co-exist, what good will that do? Both parties need to be in agreement. Yes, us tree-hugging Westerners may think that we can all live happily together, but Muslims don't feel the same way.
Oh please, the idea that the UK is a hairs breadth from going Sharia is utter bullshit put out by the right-wing media to scare people.
It's not like it's going to happen any day now, but it's Britain's future. It's the future of many European countries. Societies consists of people, so what do you think is going to happen when the majority of the population consists of people who think Sharia law is a jolly good idea? This is only a matter of time due to immigration and birth rates. There are already many "no-go" zones in Europe that are off limits, or at the very least unfriendly, to white people. Here's just one example from Denmark, and here's another from Britain.
The actual threat in this country comes from the far right whose rhetoric you are mouthing. The BNP, with financial support from certain people in America, managed to basically double their share of the vote each time over the past few elections. The Daily Wail and other such trash papers have got about 60% percentage of the British public believing in key BNP policy points.
The only reason parties like the BNP can gain power is because they're the only ones willing to do anything. People have no alternatives. Of course, if it wasn't for Britain's suicidal policy of "multiculturalism," this problem would not even exist.
Our main threat is not from angry young Muslims who wouldn't know an explosive device from a gas canister.
Yes, it is very fortunate that Muslim terrorists have no yet struck in Britain. But seriously, it's not terrorism that's the real problem. Terrorism is a non-issue compared to some of the other problems that Britain is facing.
The threat is from white youths who attack racial minorities converting that undirected anger into support of a fascist regime.
It's possible that white people attacking racial minorities (well, minorities for now) will become an issue in the future, but the only reason it will happen is because people will be given no choice. Their government has sold them down the river, and aside from voting for parties like the BNP they have no legal means of resistance. The cultural, religious and racial segregation enforced by Muslims inevitable and unavoidably results in violence and instability. Possibly even civil war.
I suspect the muslims are not the only segment of the British population that are trying to change the UK. Picking on one minority will only exacerbate the situation.
I am not aware of any other group with similiar goals. But yes, I guess it's important to blame everyone equally so nobody's feelings are hurt. How this novel approach will let the British deal with the problem posed by Muslims in the country is anyone's guess.
A lot of these "muslims" you object to are British by birth, a lot of them were born British citizens although born in another country (a consequence of empire building).
Yes, but that doesn't mean they are truly British, or loyal to the country. The 2005 bombings in London were conducted by "British" Muslims. One of the perpetrators of the 2007 airport attack was a "British" Muslim, and the other one was an engineer getting a PhD in computational fluid dynamics, which is pretty odd considering that Muslim terrorists are all supposed to be poor and illiterate peasants living in grass huts or something.
It's the same story everywhere in Europe. Muslims don't have the same attachment to nationalism as most other people do. The Ummah is more important to them.
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Considering that someone is using scissors to destroy your clothing without your consent, you'd be well within your rights to defend yourself using physical force (unless Colorado Springs is some fucking hippie place where they don't believe in self-defense).
Miyazaki isn't exactly a pioneer in his field. His animation techniques are actually *more primitive* than the animation going on at Disney animation studios right now.
I have frequently heard that the guys at Disney revere him as a demi-god in the field of animation. I don't know what you mean by primitive though.
Disney is also known for being the first guy to take serious, or famous people and cast them as cartoon stars. Miyazaki does that...by being employed by Disney.
He is not employed by Disney. Disney has merely distributed some of his films in the US, and handled their English dubbing (at least in the case of Howl's Moving Castle). Also, what does it matter that a voice actor is famous? Miyazaki's films have excellent voice acting, and that's all that matters.
I used a laptop that came preinstalled with Vista. UAC was so aggressive that I could not even rename a file I had created without getting no less than two security alerts while I was still writing the new name. Disabling UAC was relatively difficult because I couldn't easily find the setting. Performance was rather poor, and transferring files was ridiculously slow. I also felt that things had been seriously dumbed down at the expense of powerusers like me.
In any case, I hated it so much that I installed XP.
I saw the same thing. Is my computer just not showing it right? Or is it a flaw in the language itself? I mean, I can go to like, every other separate language out there (French, German, Spanish... everything) and actually READ it. I can't understand it, but I can still say it out loud because it uses NORMAL letters. "Mucho gracio, hombre, se come dise..." See? Actual WORDS!
The latin alphabet is no more "normal" than, say, the Korean alphabet.
It's okay to say "that was funny" or just "LOL." You don't have to make shit up about you spilling coffee from your nose or ruining your keyboard or whatever. It's getting a little old by now.
Yes, a 50 Euro game (what, you have an XBox 360 or something?)...
Yes, I currently play on the 360. Games cost 70 euros.
... won't take as long to "finish" as an MMORPG but from what I've seen the amount of content is roughly identical, MMOs just require you to mash the same three monsters over and over again for hours or even days until you can move on to the next area, in other games you are almost always moving forward, leaving old areas behind and thus burning through content faster.
You obviously have not played WoW. There's a shitload of areas on two separate continents (plus the expansion content), and they're all very big and divided into different subsections. Enemy types also vary. Right now my character is level 59 which means I'm supposed to start playing the expansion content, but there's a large number of areas in the original game that I haven't begun to play yet. Some of them I have not even visited. Content also depends on what race and faction you are. Alliance and Horde have completely different areas and their paths do not start to converge until level 20-30. Different races also have different quest areas. But those are just the areas... then you've also got the different classes, PvE, PvP, crafting, instances, raiding...
In terms of content and variety, I cannot think of any singleplayer game that comes even close to WoW.
You don't expect to see or do most of interesting parts of the game. How much lower can they get?
This is completely subjective. I am not interested in raiding. I'm not interested in PvP either.
I completely understand and respect that. However, that's what Warcraft -is-.
It's what WoW is to many people, but WoW can be played in a variety of ways.
Plus, for you to tell me you are the sort who picks up a game plays it for a few days and then is bored... but simultaneously can play WoW month after month after month... how does that work?
In regard to this question of quality vs. quantity, where is the line between "censored" and "moderated"?
You're moderating when you're deleting something for a legitimate reason (spam, rule violation etc.), and you're censoring when you're deleting something for an illegitimate reason (disagreement). You can also tell when someone is not moderating when they're unable and/or unwilling to explain why they deleted something or banned someone.
And in response to concerns that "oversight doesn't scale", the advantage of moderation is not just that the moderators weed out the junk, but that people end up posting less junk in the first place.
They also abuse their position and simply delete posts they disagree with, or ban users they disagree with. It is very, very rare to find a forum where the moderators are not blatantly powertripping. Slashdot doesn't use the same kind of moderating system that forums do, but I'd say nearly all downmoddings on Slashdot are "censorship" resulting from powertripping, rather than moderation.
Moderators abuse their power just because they can. Makes me wonder what else they're willing to do if they know they can get away with it.
For the price of WoW+expansions you could buy buy a new game every couple months.
I end up playing those games for a few days and then possibly never touch them again. There's just no replay value.
Plus, if you are only playing a game like WoW sporadically, its almost impossible to accomplish things, you are perpetually miles behind your friends, you are left out of the social element, its hard to get into a worthwhile guild or group when you do login... so now you are paying $15/month for a much poorer experience than the game has to offer.
You're assuming that everyone is interested in that. I could not care less about guilds or competing with other people. I haven't had problems "accomplishing things."
On top of that, relativism kicks in. The people gettin the most out of the game, playing 60 hours a week, are paying 0.6 cents per hour. And sees FAR more of the game for that price. Me, on the other hand, averaging 10 hours a month, was paying 1.50 per hour for a much reduced experience... I was paying 25x times as much per hour as the hard core player to futz around in crappy neglected parts of the game struggling to find groups to go into crappy instances, while he explored the end game content that was actually interesting. That's a tough pill to swallow.
What's also a tough pill to swallow is paying 70 euros for a 360 game and getting bored after a few days. It's an epic waste of money.
Add to that the growing number of expansion packs that are needed for the entire experience and you could have already bought one or two games that don't require a monthly fee.
Yes, you could have. But how long will you be playing them? It takes me a maximum of one week, but usually just a few days, to play through a game, and I usually don't touch it for a long time afterwards. Paying 70 euros for a few days of entertainment doesn't seem like a sound investment to me. WoW is the kind of game that people play for years on a daily basis, so the monthly fee is extremely cost-effective. Even assuming that you only play a few days a week or something, it's still a better investment. Only multiplayer games without a monthly fee, such as Counter-Strike, can compete with that.
By the way, WoW was originally released in late 2004 and the first expansion came over two years later. It's not like you're constantly buying something.
Are you actually criticizing people for being sensitive to events that are only three generations removed from them?
Finland was attacked by the Soviet Union in the early 20th century, but you don't see me whining about it. Why would I? It happened way before my time, it has no effect on me and the people responsible for it are long gone.
Do we need to discuss that even 40 years out from the civil rights movement, racism is still a factor in our politics?
If white-on-black racism was still a real problem in the Western world, people wouldn't have to constantly make shit up, like this RE5 debacle.
I resent the way slavery is seen as a white invention that has never affected anyone except Africans. Slavery has existed forever, and in every corner of the world. There's still slavery in Africa, but I don't see anyone doing anything about it. I guess it's just too embarrasing to admit its existence since white people are not involved.
Today's "racism," if you can call it that, is driven by two powerful forces of stupidity: black victimhood and white guilt. Of course in this case the developers are Japanese so we've only got black victimhood.
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We were not talking about terrorism. We were talking about a group that wishes to completely transform the country culturally, religiously and racially.
It takes two to tango. If only one party thinks that religions can co-exist, what good will that do? Both parties need to be in agreement. Yes, us tree-hugging Westerners may think that we can all live happily together, but Muslims don't feel the same way.
It's not like it's going to happen any day now, but it's Britain's future. It's the future of many European countries. Societies consists of people, so what do you think is going to happen when the majority of the population consists of people who think Sharia law is a jolly good idea? This is only a matter of time due to immigration and birth rates. There are already many "no-go" zones in Europe that are off limits, or at the very least unfriendly, to white people. Here's just one example from Denmark, and here's another from Britain.
The only reason parties like the BNP can gain power is because they're the only ones willing to do anything. People have no alternatives. Of course, if it wasn't for Britain's suicidal policy of "multiculturalism," this problem would not even exist.
Yes, it is very fortunate that Muslim terrorists have no yet struck in Britain. But seriously, it's not terrorism that's the real problem. Terrorism is a non-issue compared to some of the other problems that Britain is facing.
It's possible that white people attacking racial minorities (well, minorities for now) will become an issue in the future, but the only reason it will happen is because people will be given no choice. Their government has sold them down the river, and aside from voting for parties like the BNP they have no legal means of resistance. The cultural, religious and racial segregation enforced by Muslims inevitable and unavoidably results in violence and instability. Possibly even civil war.
I am not aware of any other group with similiar goals. But yes, I guess it's important to blame everyone equally so nobody's feelings are hurt. How this novel approach will let the British deal with the problem posed by Muslims in the country is anyone's guess.
Yes, but that doesn't mean they are truly British, or loyal to the country. The 2005 bombings in London were conducted by "British" Muslims. One of the perpetrators of the 2007 airport attack was a "British" Muslim, and the other one was an engineer getting a PhD in computational fluid dynamics, which is pretty odd considering that Muslim terrorists are all supposed to be poor and illiterate peasants living in grass huts or something.
It's the same story everywhere in Europe. Muslims don't have the same attachment to nationalism as most other people do. The Ummah is more important to them.
Obligatory message to potential moderators: no, I'm not "trolling," nor am I "flamebaiting." If you disagree with me then present valid counter-arguments. Downmodding me in a fit of leftist-liberal rage is simply going to prove I'm right.
Considering that someone is using scissors to destroy your clothing without your consent, you'd be well within your rights to defend yourself using physical force (unless Colorado Springs is some fucking hippie place where they don't believe in self-defense).
I have frequently heard that the guys at Disney revere him as a demi-god in the field of animation. I don't know what you mean by primitive though.
He is not employed by Disney. Disney has merely distributed some of his films in the US, and handled their English dubbing (at least in the case of Howl's Moving Castle). Also, what does it matter that a voice actor is famous? Miyazaki's films have excellent voice acting, and that's all that matters.
I used a laptop that came preinstalled with Vista. UAC was so aggressive that I could not even rename a file I had created without getting no less than two security alerts while I was still writing the new name. Disabling UAC was relatively difficult because I couldn't easily find the setting. Performance was rather poor, and transferring files was ridiculously slow. I also felt that things had been seriously dumbed down at the expense of powerusers like me.
In any case, I hated it so much that I installed XP.
No, the GP is right. The word cult (as it is commonly understood) has been hijacked by edgy hipster atheists.
I've had great success finding obscure music on Rapidshare.
AFAIK cutscene animations are motion captured. Things like falling down are generated on the fly.
Wikipedia calls it an alphabet.
I've been studying it for a while.
The latin alphabet is no more "normal" than, say, the Korean alphabet.
No, I was not actually trolling. I actually do believe, sincerely, that the "OLOLLOO WTB NEW KEYBOARD" meme is getting really, really old.
It's okay to say "that was funny" or just "LOL." You don't have to make shit up about you spilling coffee from your nose or ruining your keyboard or whatever. It's getting a little old by now.
YouTube has removed many anti-Jihad videos and videos critical of Islam, which means that they have a political agenda. A very fucked up one.
Enemy types vary within each zone, and there are no doubt more unique mobs in WoW than in most singleplayer games.
Yes, I currently play on the 360. Games cost 70 euros.
You obviously have not played WoW. There's a shitload of areas on two separate continents (plus the expansion content), and they're all very big and divided into different subsections. Enemy types also vary. Right now my character is level 59 which means I'm supposed to start playing the expansion content, but there's a large number of areas in the original game that I haven't begun to play yet. Some of them I have not even visited. Content also depends on what race and faction you are. Alliance and Horde have completely different areas and their paths do not start to converge until level 20-30. Different races also have different quest areas. But those are just the areas... then you've also got the different classes, PvE, PvP, crafting, instances, raiding...
In terms of content and variety, I cannot think of any singleplayer game that comes even close to WoW.
This is completely subjective. I am not interested in raiding. I'm not interested in PvP either.
It's what WoW is to many people, but WoW can be played in a variety of ways.
It just does.
I haven't lowered my expectations. I have no interest in joining a guild or structuring my life around raid schedules.
There are no rentals here.
I really don't know if "Europe" rents console games, but there aren't any rentals where I live.
You're moderating when you're deleting something for a legitimate reason (spam, rule violation etc.), and you're censoring when you're deleting something for an illegitimate reason (disagreement). You can also tell when someone is not moderating when they're unable and/or unwilling to explain why they deleted something or banned someone.
They also abuse their position and simply delete posts they disagree with, or ban users they disagree with. It is very, very rare to find a forum where the moderators are not blatantly powertripping. Slashdot doesn't use the same kind of moderating system that forums do, but I'd say nearly all downmoddings on Slashdot are "censorship" resulting from powertripping, rather than moderation.
Moderators abuse their power just because they can. Makes me wonder what else they're willing to do if they know they can get away with it.
I end up playing those games for a few days and then possibly never touch them again. There's just no replay value.
You're assuming that everyone is interested in that. I could not care less about guilds or competing with other people. I haven't had problems "accomplishing things."
What's also a tough pill to swallow is paying 70 euros for a 360 game and getting bored after a few days. It's an epic waste of money.
Yes, you could have. But how long will you be playing them? It takes me a maximum of one week, but usually just a few days, to play through a game, and I usually don't touch it for a long time afterwards. Paying 70 euros for a few days of entertainment doesn't seem like a sound investment to me. WoW is the kind of game that people play for years on a daily basis, so the monthly fee is extremely cost-effective. Even assuming that you only play a few days a week or something, it's still a better investment. Only multiplayer games without a monthly fee, such as Counter-Strike, can compete with that.
By the way, WoW was originally released in late 2004 and the first expansion came over two years later. It's not like you're constantly buying something.
Finland was attacked by the Soviet Union in the early 20th century, but you don't see me whining about it. Why would I? It happened way before my time, it has no effect on me and the people responsible for it are long gone.
If white-on-black racism was still a real problem in the Western world, people wouldn't have to constantly make shit up, like this RE5 debacle.
I resent the way slavery is seen as a white invention that has never affected anyone except Africans. Slavery has existed forever, and in every corner of the world. There's still slavery in Africa, but I don't see anyone doing anything about it. I guess it's just too embarrasing to admit its existence since white people are not involved.
Today's "racism," if you can call it that, is driven by two powerful forces of stupidity: black victimhood and white guilt. Of course in this case the developers are Japanese so we've only got black victimhood.