A few years ago, shortly after 9/11, my friend and his wife and child were stopped at airport security for a having a baby bottle with formula. His wife was ordered to drink from the bottle to prove it was formula. She refused because she said the bottle needs to be somewhat sterile and even her germs were bad for the kid. She was forced to leave the bottle behind or they would miss their flight. To make a long story short, they took the long flight without the tit milk. Ultimately, they sued the airline and won. Point is..they must have suspected liquids to be a danger even before this most recent threat. Now they are confiscating peoples hair gel. Do the bad guys have to get this far before they make new rules? 5 years and no technology to prove booby milk is real. c4 candy bars are next.
Personally I think the consumers are getting ripped a new one if they buy these overly expensive consoles.
I am primarily a pc gamer but I do not mind laying down some hard earned cash for a console. What I have seen thus far is not really that impressive for the price. Except for wii. I'm drawn to the new ideas and the fact that it just looks plain ol' fun.
Most companies will play out a format until its dead. Nintendo always seems to try something new and innovative (perhaps out of necessity).
Originally when the cube came out, I was put off by the fact that nintendo had gotten a reputation for being a little too family oriented...too many cute n' cuddly games so to speak. Also, their hardware was inferior, their mini disc media didn't hold as much data..etc..etc..etc. I've heard it all.
Surprisingly tho,while the ps2 and xbox were collecting dust I was thoroughly enjoying the GC including the DK bongo games(which made your game room a hit with the kids) and felt I would have gotten my moneys worth if I had paid full price. Games not available on the cube I played on my PC. Now the cube is a dust collector as well but at least it accomplished its task. I had more fun with the games on that little jerky console than I ever did with the others and I didn't have to feel guilty afterward.
It already seems that there are a lot of/.ers that wouldn't pay for it anyway but I just wanted you to remember, all consoles eventually collect dust. If you were smart you'd put your $600 into your ING this way, if your a die-hard SONY loyalist, you'll be able to afford their next console. (that is... if this console doesn't do them in).
I would be heart broken if the speculated price of wii was way off. I wouldn't buy it but I could just play it at a friend's house. After all I already have 3 dust collectors
I haven't read any posts that bash nintendo and this is not a call to arms to defend it. Just relating a story of my new found loyalty to a company I had forsaken for so long.
I understand your confusion. Why was the definition of semantics included? I wanted to point out that semantics included in its definition the individual meanings of words, as opposed to the more important intent of their author. I was merely trying to find the right word for our entire "semantic" discussion.
paperdiesel makes my point with his shorter, less confusing post.
Couldn't help but look this one up.
"Strictly speaking there's no redundancy, as the word could in theory be applied to anything bent into a curved shape. But from the very earliest recorded references, it seems to have been used exclusively in reference to that characteristic position of the arms, so the phrase arms akimbo has for many years been a fossil idiom, with the redundant arms given respectability by convention." semantics
1. (linguistics) The science of the meaning of words. Semantics is part of linguistics.
2. The study of the relationship between words and their meanings. 3. The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the supposedly more important intent of their author.
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The game was Return Fire. It's since been abandoned but you can get it here:c /arcade_action/games_q_re/return_fire.html
http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/p
use WINE or win95 to get it going.
A few years ago, shortly after 9/11, my friend and his wife and child were stopped at airport security for a having a baby bottle with formula. His wife was ordered to drink from the bottle to prove it was formula. She refused because she said the bottle needs to be somewhat sterile and even her germs were bad for the kid. She was forced to leave the bottle behind or they would miss their flight. To make a long story short, they took the long flight without the tit milk. Ultimately, they sued the airline and won. Point is..they must have suspected liquids to be a danger even before this most recent threat. Now they are confiscating peoples hair gel. Do the bad guys have to get this far before they make new rules? 5 years and no technology to prove booby milk is real. c4 candy bars are next.
looks more like fungus to me.
Personally I think the consumers are getting ripped a new one if they buy these overly expensive consoles.
/.ers that wouldn't pay for it anyway but I just wanted you to remember, all consoles eventually collect dust. If you were smart you'd put your $600 into your ING this way, if your a die-hard SONY loyalist, you'll be able to afford their next console. (that is... if this console doesn't do them in).
I am primarily a pc gamer but I do not mind laying down some hard earned cash for a console. What I have seen thus far is not really that impressive for the price. Except for wii. I'm drawn to the new ideas and the fact that it just looks plain ol' fun. Most companies will play out a format until its dead. Nintendo always seems to try something new and innovative (perhaps out of necessity).
Originally when the cube came out, I was put off by the fact that nintendo had gotten a reputation for being a little too family oriented...too many cute n' cuddly games so to speak. Also, their hardware was inferior, their mini disc media didn't hold as much data..etc..etc..etc. I've heard it all.
Surprisingly tho,while the ps2 and xbox were collecting dust I was thoroughly enjoying the GC including the DK bongo games(which made your game room a hit with the kids) and felt I would have gotten my moneys worth if I had paid full price. Games not available on the cube I played on my PC. Now the cube is a dust collector as well but at least it accomplished its task. I had more fun with the games on that little jerky console than I ever did with the others and I didn't have to feel guilty afterward.
It already seems that there are a lot of
I would be heart broken if the speculated price of wii was way off. I wouldn't buy it but I could just play it at a friend's house. After all I already have 3 dust collectors
I haven't read any posts that bash nintendo and this is not a call to arms to defend it. Just relating a story of my new found loyalty to a company I had forsaken for so long.
I understand your confusion. Why was the definition of semantics included? I wanted to point out that semantics included in its definition the individual meanings of words, as opposed to the more important intent of their author. I was merely trying to find the right word for our entire "semantic" discussion.
paperdiesel makes my point with his shorter, less confusing post.
Couldn't help but look this one up.
"Strictly speaking there's no redundancy, as the word could in theory be applied to anything bent into a curved shape. But from the very earliest recorded references, it seems to have been used exclusively in reference to that characteristic position of the arms, so the phrase arms akimbo has for many years been a fossil idiom, with the redundant arms given respectability by convention."
semantics
1. (linguistics) The science of the meaning of words. Semantics is part of linguistics.
2. The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
3. The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the supposedly more important intent of their author.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-aki1.htm http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/akimbo
all the workers of the companies, who probably do not wash their hands after peeing
You know when I wash my hands after peeing? When I piss on them!
You should really wash your hands before you pee.
http://www.knoppix.org/
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