Well yeah, but I can still see why someone would make the argument. What I can't see is why Israel isn't within its rights to defend itself againts an attack by a country's elected government. Palestine can't be a real country without some real responsibilities.
I cheered for Israel when they went to get their kidnapped soldiers back, but I also feel Palestine should have their own territory, and be treated under the same rules of conduct as every other country.
Well, if we treat them like any other country, then we must admit that Israel reserves the right to declare war againts Palestine (whenever they launch a rocket attack or suicide bomber, or kidnap someone) and attack and/or occupy it. I can see why someone might want to argue that Hezbollah was just a rogue terrorist organization and not a representation of Lebanon's government, but Hamas is the legitimate government of Palestine that was elected by the people.
Yeah, the Palestinians, like all Muslims, are famous for their honesty and factual accuracy. They never fabricate Israeli "atrocities" and spread disinformation. That famous instance where a father and his son were behind cover and shot by IDF forces was staged (see for yourself). Their entire existence is nothing but a lie, and their only purpose in life is to exterminate Israel (giving up Gaza didn't help the Israelis very much). It's kind of sad, actually.
As a rule of thumb, you should not trust anything a Muslim says. This observation is based on not only experience, but the fact that taqiyya is a way of life for them, and they harbor a childish victim mindset where absolutely everything that's wrong in the universe is always the infidel's fault. They're hopeless.
I now predict that some leftist will start drooling with rage, mod me -1 Troll, break his keyboard and then cry himself to sleep. It's certainly easier than actually presenting arguments.
Perhaps if they want people to stop stealing their software, they should stop calling software-stealers such a cool nickname. Arrrr!
Someone at Something Awful said that software piracy would decrease if it was called software faggotry. Makes sense!
On a more serious note, I personally know one instance where the copy protection turned againts the user (me). System Shock 2 stopped working after Service Pack 2, and the only way I could make it work was to unwrap the copy protection software from the.exe. As a rather nice side-effect, the game's loading time went from 30 seconds to instantaneous because it didn't check the disc anymore.
I never claimed that you can suddenly become the best CS:S player ever by playing every now and then, nor did I claim that I'm the best CS:S player, nor did I claim that every hardcore gamer is equally good at CS:S.
Video gaming is just too easy. I know because I've played since I was six years old or something. There isn't enough effort involved, so I can't take video gaming as seriously as real sports.
Anyone can play football too, but that doesn't make them the best at it.
I'm going to make a wild guess that the difference between an enthusiastic but amateur football player and a professional football player is far greater than the difference between a hardcore gamer and a professional gamer. Gaming is too easy.
And don't you think playing a game or for that matter anything for 12 hours straight is a rather rigorous training in it self? So they get to drink soda while they play/train so what? They are still practicing and if you don't pratice you will get rusty.
I don't consider it training when I do a six hour WoW or CS:S session. It's fun, it's easy, it's effortless. That's quite unlike the mere 60-90 minutes I spend in boxing, Judo or at the gym.
They've played Starcraft for a while now, but they'll stop playing eventually. They used to play Quake, but now they're playing something else, and soon they'll abandon that and play yet another new game. Compare this to chess or any of the physical sports that have been practised for centuries or millennia. Gaming is quite unlike any sport (that I can think of) because the "sport" keeps changing. It's like using tennis rackets but changing the rules and the playing area every few years. If you're competing with consoles, then even the controller keeps changing. Everything is completely transient. Can you think of a sport or similiar activity that is similiar to video gaming in this way? What about hardware and software settings - does everyone use the same gear and settings in tournaments? It's really amazing what kind of a difference your mouse can make.
Anyway, it's cool that people are competing in computer and video gaming, but I just can't take it seriously as a professional "sport" for some reason. I don't think there's really even any effort in video gaming. Anyone can do it. Those guys just sit on their asses twelve hours a day, play a video game and drink Coca-Cola. Kind of like every other hardcore gamer on the planet, but the only difference is that for some reason they're just a little better than others... with the current game, anyway. There just isn't any real effort involved. Think about how much effort someone needs to put into a sport like boxing. All the training, conditioning, repetition, injuries... if we compare video gaming with something like chess, I don't think it still qualifies. Chess is an ancient and well-established game, and being the best isn't quite as simple as being the best Counter-Strike player. It requires more effort, more intelligence, more talent, more training.
Settlers. I loved this game, played it as a young teen. I played the first one to death. So did my younger sister, and occasionally I'd tell her the level password so she could try and beat it. That was fun. I remember enjoying the little swordfights.
I used to play Settlers a lot on my Amiga. I could never get into the sequels, they just didn't feel right.
Anyhow, the post lists World of Warcraft, and I think it's a pretty good "comfort game," though I'm currently not subscribing (waiting for Burning Crusade). Sometimes it's relaxing to just grind your professions and kill mobs while listening to music. I would not list online FPS games as comfort games because more often than not they drive me crazy and make me feel bad (why the hell do I play them?). I keep getting killed and failing, and it makes me feel like a loser who can't get anything right.
Playing Quake with bots was something that I did years ago. I also used a mod compilation which had cool weapons like nukes, freeze guns and discs that bounced off walls and decapitated people. Decapitating people is always fun.
Good God, just let Amiga rest in peace. It was great while it lasted, but it's time to go to sleep now. Younger people probably don't know what Amiga is (so the name is useless for marketing purposes), and the people who remember are probably just sad, sceptical or annoyed. That's my guess, anyway.
You should be able to say what you want, and let other people draw their own conclusions about what you're saying. That said, schools should focus a lot more on developing critical thinking skills, so people won't be so easily influenced by bullshit.
I think directly inciting people to commit violence should be outlawed, but almost everything else should be allowed.
I think it's amusing that anti-Islamic speech is hate speech, but writing an essay about the stupidity of Communism, Nazism, Christianity, Capitalism or Feminism is perfectly acceptable. You can even write about how stupid America is, and how stupid its citizens are, but I bet you couldn't do the same about Africa. "Stupid White Men" is an acceptable book title, but "Stupid Black People" or "Stupid Niggers" is not acceptable. And so on.
The law should be consistent and equal to all. Either ban "hate speech" for everyone, or don't ban it at all.
Of course, many people get -1 Troll because the person doing the moderating is a fanatic with an agenda, so maybe Slashdot's moderation system isn't really all that accurate.
Inciting violence is bad, but it's even worse when one group is allowed to do so and another one isn't, and all discussion about the subject has been banned under the guise of protecting people from hate speech (there's also the fact that anyone who does talk about it will immediately receive death threats and rioting from the group that's allowed to practise hate speech). I think this kind of situation will eventually explode into violence.
Eeerk, I didn't realise we had laws like that in the UK... I need to step up my "move to sweden" plan.
You know what the funny thing is? All those Muslims who were inciting terror, violence and treason in the streets didn't get any prison sentences. They were standing in a public place in plain sight, saying things like "behead those who insult Islam" and "Europe is the cancer Islam is the answer." The guy in TFA was posting anonymous comments on the Internet. This is an obvious instance of "reverse" apartheid where Muslims have more rights than everyone else. It's a growing trend in many countries.
As for Sweden, the government actually shut down a site that published the Mohammed cartoons. They're as totalitarian as everyone else, and their society is on the brink of self-destruction. I suggest picking a different country to move to.
Oblivion is overrated. I think what really killed it for me was the small size of the game world. I mean, yeah, I guess it's technically pretty big, but it feels very small because you can autotravel to every location and the storyline takes place in those very same locations. So when I finally started doing the main quest, it felt so stupid because I was just visiting the same old areas all over again. There's no sense of adventure or travel, no change of scenery.
There is some cool stuff in Oblivion, and sometimes it was fun to just roam around and do stuff, but I was really disappointed in the story.
How about actually presenting arguments and counter-arguments instead of simply modding me Troll, you anonymous fucking dipshit coward. Of course, since you modded me Troll for opposing terrorism, you must be a leftist and/or multiculturalist, so you're incapable of rational arguing anyway. Carry on.
I don't know what that means, but Youtube is even worse: they're supporting Islamic fundamentalism. Anti-Jihad videos get deleted, while Jihadist videos stay. Hmm!
Makes sense, I suppose. Microsoft is dominating the desktop, so why would they want to move everyone into the online world? You'd think that they'd want to keep the status quo and keep making money.
But, whatever. I just don't want my software running over the net. I think it's a retarded waste of bandwidth, too.
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Future generations will come to know the coming struggle as The Great Edit Wars.
Or something.
Well yeah, but I can still see why someone would make the argument. What I can't see is why Israel isn't within its rights to defend itself againts an attack by a country's elected government. Palestine can't be a real country without some real responsibilities.
Well, if we treat them like any other country, then we must admit that Israel reserves the right to declare war againts Palestine (whenever they launch a rocket attack or suicide bomber, or kidnap someone) and attack and/or occupy it. I can see why someone might want to argue that Hezbollah was just a rogue terrorist organization and not a representation of Lebanon's government, but Hamas is the legitimate government of Palestine that was elected by the people.
Yeah, the Palestinians, like all Muslims, are famous for their honesty and factual accuracy. They never fabricate Israeli "atrocities" and spread disinformation. That famous instance where a father and his son were behind cover and shot by IDF forces was staged (see for yourself). Their entire existence is nothing but a lie, and their only purpose in life is to exterminate Israel (giving up Gaza didn't help the Israelis very much). It's kind of sad, actually.
As a rule of thumb, you should not trust anything a Muslim says. This observation is based on not only experience, but the fact that taqiyya is a way of life for them, and they harbor a childish victim mindset where absolutely everything that's wrong in the universe is always the infidel's fault. They're hopeless.
I now predict that some leftist will start drooling with rage, mod me -1 Troll, break his keyboard and then cry himself to sleep. It's certainly easier than actually presenting arguments.
Someone at Something Awful said that software piracy would decrease if it was called software faggotry. Makes sense!
On a more serious note, I personally know one instance where the copy protection turned againts the user (me). System Shock 2 stopped working after Service Pack 2, and the only way I could make it work was to unwrap the copy protection software from the
I never claimed that you can suddenly become the best CS:S player ever by playing every now and then, nor did I claim that I'm the best CS:S player, nor did I claim that every hardcore gamer is equally good at CS:S.
Video gaming is just too easy. I know because I've played since I was six years old or something. There isn't enough effort involved, so I can't take video gaming as seriously as real sports.
I'm going to make a wild guess that the difference between an enthusiastic but amateur football player and a professional football player is far greater than the difference between a hardcore gamer and a professional gamer. Gaming is too easy.
I don't consider it training when I do a six hour WoW or CS:S session. It's fun, it's easy, it's effortless. That's quite unlike the mere 60-90 minutes I spend in boxing, Judo or at the gym.
I know rules have changed in many sports, but it's nothing compared to how quickly video games are swapped for new ones. That's the whole point.
They've played Starcraft for a while now, but they'll stop playing eventually. They used to play Quake, but now they're playing something else, and soon they'll abandon that and play yet another new game. Compare this to chess or any of the physical sports that have been practised for centuries or millennia. Gaming is quite unlike any sport (that I can think of) because the "sport" keeps changing. It's like using tennis rackets but changing the rules and the playing area every few years. If you're competing with consoles, then even the controller keeps changing. Everything is completely transient. Can you think of a sport or similiar activity that is similiar to video gaming in this way? What about hardware and software settings - does everyone use the same gear and settings in tournaments? It's really amazing what kind of a difference your mouse can make.
Anyway, it's cool that people are competing in computer and video gaming, but I just can't take it seriously as a professional "sport" for some reason. I don't think there's really even any effort in video gaming. Anyone can do it. Those guys just sit on their asses twelve hours a day, play a video game and drink Coca-Cola. Kind of like every other hardcore gamer on the planet, but the only difference is that for some reason they're just a little better than others... with the current game, anyway. There just isn't any real effort involved. Think about how much effort someone needs to put into a sport like boxing. All the training, conditioning, repetition, injuries... if we compare video gaming with something like chess, I don't think it still qualifies. Chess is an ancient and well-established game, and being the best isn't quite as simple as being the best Counter-Strike player. It requires more effort, more intelligence, more talent, more training.
I used to play Settlers a lot on my Amiga. I could never get into the sequels, they just didn't feel right.
Anyhow, the post lists World of Warcraft, and I think it's a pretty good "comfort game," though I'm currently not subscribing (waiting for Burning Crusade). Sometimes it's relaxing to just grind your professions and kill mobs while listening to music. I would not list online FPS games as comfort games because more often than not they drive me crazy and make me feel bad (why the hell do I play them?). I keep getting killed and failing, and it makes me feel like a loser who can't get anything right.
Playing Quake with bots was something that I did years ago. I also used a mod compilation which had cool weapons like nukes, freeze guns and discs that bounced off walls and decapitated people. Decapitating people is always fun.
Good God, just let Amiga rest in peace. It was great while it lasted, but it's time to go to sleep now. Younger people probably don't know what Amiga is (so the name is useless for marketing purposes), and the people who remember are probably just sad, sceptical or annoyed. That's my guess, anyway.
You should be able to say what you want, and let other people draw their own conclusions about what you're saying. That said, schools should focus a lot more on developing critical thinking skills, so people won't be so easily influenced by bullshit.
I think directly inciting people to commit violence should be outlawed, but almost everything else should be allowed.
I think it's amusing that anti-Islamic speech is hate speech, but writing an essay about the stupidity of Communism, Nazism, Christianity, Capitalism or Feminism is perfectly acceptable. You can even write about how stupid America is, and how stupid its citizens are, but I bet you couldn't do the same about Africa. "Stupid White Men" is an acceptable book title, but "Stupid Black People" or "Stupid Niggers" is not acceptable. And so on.
The law should be consistent and equal to all. Either ban "hate speech" for everyone, or don't ban it at all.
Of course, many people get -1 Troll because the person doing the moderating is a fanatic with an agenda, so maybe Slashdot's moderation system isn't really all that accurate.
Inciting violence is bad, but it's even worse when one group is allowed to do so and another one isn't, and all discussion about the subject has been banned under the guise of protecting people from hate speech (there's also the fact that anyone who does talk about it will immediately receive death threats and rioting from the group that's allowed to practise hate speech). I think this kind of situation will eventually explode into violence.
You know what the funny thing is? All those Muslims who were inciting terror, violence and treason in the streets didn't get any prison sentences. They were standing in a public place in plain sight, saying things like "behead those who insult Islam" and "Europe is the cancer Islam is the answer." The guy in TFA was posting anonymous comments on the Internet. This is an obvious instance of "reverse" apartheid where Muslims have more rights than everyone else. It's a growing trend in many countries.
As for Sweden, the government actually shut down a site that published the Mohammed cartoons. They're as totalitarian as everyone else, and their society is on the brink of self-destruction. I suggest picking a different country to move to.
Oblivion is overrated. I think what really killed it for me was the small size of the game world. I mean, yeah, I guess it's technically pretty big, but it feels very small because you can autotravel to every location and the storyline takes place in those very same locations. So when I finally started doing the main quest, it felt so stupid because I was just visiting the same old areas all over again. There's no sense of adventure or travel, no change of scenery.
There is some cool stuff in Oblivion, and sometimes it was fun to just roam around and do stuff, but I was really disappointed in the story.
You're not the droid we're looking for.
O RLY, sir? How am I being an asshole? Do explain.
Yeah, modding me a troll clearly shows what a rational and well-reasoned basis there is for your ideology. You win at Internet, sir.
How about actually presenting arguments and counter-arguments instead of simply modding me Troll, you anonymous fucking dipshit coward. Of course, since you modded me Troll for opposing terrorism, you must be a leftist and/or multiculturalist, so you're incapable of rational arguing anyway. Carry on.
I don't know what that means, but Youtube is even worse: they're supporting Islamic fundamentalism. Anti-Jihad videos get deleted, while Jihadist videos stay. Hmm!
You're making this too complicated! The only acronyms you need on the Internet are:
1. STFU
2. WTF
3. LOL
Makes sense, I suppose. Microsoft is dominating the desktop, so why would they want to move everyone into the online world? You'd think that they'd want to keep the status quo and keep making money.
But, whatever. I just don't want my software running over the net. I think it's a retarded waste of bandwidth, too.
Yeah, ok, but why couldn't they just use actual academic performance instead of asking the students and then trying to justify it? What's the point?