I spent about 10 minutes googling stuff such as "hotmail failed delivery" and adding or subtracting words... Most of the hits I got were unrelated, "dude, i didn't get emails!? wtf?"
I got this hit, which is remotely interesting... Basically the guy states that starting in April hotmail has had issues getting mail in from certain mail servers... I got the link from Wikipedia...
Regardless, the fact that there isn't a big uproar is usually a pretty good indication that there isn't anything insidious going on here. Either the guy who made the article is full of shit, or, more likely, he just has some part of his test that was glitchy. Although, in his comments he said that he made sure that a bunch of common reasons were all properly accounted for... I wonder if he got his spam properly.
Oh, and calling someone whose arguments you can't sensibly rebut a troll and then slinking away, tail-'tween-legs, only confirms that you've completely lost this argument. Regardless of what moderators label my posts, my intent has never been to provoke anyone. The fact that one can't express a genuine opinion on race without being censored, insulted or otherwise derided only indicates the narrow corridor of permissible thought here - and diminishes the impact of anyone who might happen to disagree with me, as their opinion will clearly be the socially-acceptable one.
That doesn't make it truth, though.
I don't particularly think that I agree that the parent "troll" is completely correct... however, his arguments are somewhat thought provoking, and I am still awaiting someone to give a valid response as oppossed to throwing around the racist card, common guys, we are better than that here, aren't we?
Plus, black people can't beat you up over the internet. That, was a joke.
I choose not to fund incompetant and unethical companies.
You still buy gasoline?
If this game rocks cocks, you will buy it, and if you don't, others will. If you like this kind of game, and it is good, and you don't play it, what justice are you dealing out? If you play games for the companies that publish them, then you need to get a new hobby.
Ok, I read it, you aren't wrong about everything. You put together a lot of correct information that I assume you learned in a health class, and falsly applied it because of an oversimplified model of the issue.
It's unfortunate that you are such a prick. Seriously, just read about excercise and diet, you will realize that you are just wrong.
If you want to lose weight, number 1, excercise. Number 2, diet.
And your mcdonalds thing is pretty weird, being that I never eat fast food. If you want proof that you are wrong. I started working out, Now I am leaner and stronger and have more lean body mass. I have eaten more than I did before working out, though I am eating better carbs (higher GI), and healthier fats (fish and such).
Point remains. You are wrong. Thanks though, I think I will keep on going to the gym and fucking my hot girlfriend, you can keep writing bitter expansive online documents that are inaccurate.
Oh, just so you know, I didn't read your response.
I think that I have seen many people build relationships in clubs where you can't hear a god damn thing. Just because you can't do it, doesn't mean it can't be done.
This is one of the most mind-numingly inaccurate things I have heard on slashdot today... And I have been reading for like 25 minutes.
First off, most people can increase the amount of food they eat, in terms of calories and lose weight. They do so by eating good carbs and low fat proteins, but also consuming the right fats.
Second, excersise is the number one way to lose weight. Your body adapts to what it is asked to do on a daily basis. If you frequently run long distances your body will do what it can to lose heavy weight (often muscle). People who do lot's of sprinting types of exercises shed fat and gain lean muscle (look at sprinters). And look at basketball players, many of them have terrible eating habits but have lean muscular bodies due to the nature of their sport which includes a lot of sprinting and jumping.
You are clinging to an overly scientific, though even at that misinterpreted, and increasingly antiquated dogma of health. One that ignores lifestyle in favor of meaningless calorie counting.
If you are really interested in applied physical training techniques that have been tested outside of a lab on a regular basis with thousands of eager participants check out t-nation.com, and for this topic search "fat-loss" in the article section. The forum is good too, but you can easily get fooled by false information there, the writers there are really good and knowledgeable. I know the site is a little too EXTREME! and shit, borderline annoyingly so. But the info there can't be matched.
Being a parent is challanging enough even without having companies like - in this case - Take Two making it even harder by raising car theft to the "cool" level.
If you have ever played GTA you will realize very quickly that it is more of a parody than anything. It is funny, and everything is very exagerated and incredibly goofy. Cars got stolen before GTA and I am pretty convinced that the amount of cars stolen due to GTA games is probably less than 5, EVER. Stop sensationalizing things that don't matter, it doesn't help.
To judge someone elses head as being sick is pretty arrogant, you don't know what the goal and key to life is, and it is actually very normal and natural to harbor violent feelings. It is part of our ancestory, and has been present since complex life formed, you aren't going to change that with a post to slashdot.
Most people, including myself, do not like things like manhunt because it disturbs us, but it mostly does so because of the emotions it evokes as we make a mental picture of something terrible happening. The disturbing part isn't the pixels on screen, it is what is going on in YOUR HEAD.
Anyone who claims to know everything about what is good and bad is clearly full of shit.
I am tired of people that use over the top examples to justify an over-reaction to a game. If you could rape a child in a game, it probably wouldn't be very fun, but I don't think it should be a crime. It isn't anything, it's a fucking computer program, THAT IS ALL. There is nothing wrong with it, and the vast majority of the people that would check out this kind of thing would probably be laughing at how insanely rediculous it was.
First step is to get a sense of humor and stop worrying about everything. A child rape game isn't going to make someone a child rapist, while it probably would be pretty popular with the child rapists, it definately wouldn't make them more likely to rape children, hell, it would probably make them LESS likely to rape children.
If your concern is the fact that there are people out there that think very terrible things, stop being naive and realize it is all around you and you will never stop it. Live your life, and stop fearing everything. Do you know the chances of child rape in this country? It is practically zero! I agree that one child rape is too many, but that's just my opinion and in the grand scheme of things in a universe of infinate planets that is 13 billion years old, some little brat getting pounded in the butt isn't going to make a big difference.
If your daughter is worth a damn, she will not kill people based on a video game. If every school shooting was caused by video games, which they obviously were not, it would still be so rare that it is not worth restricting millions of other people to prevent.
The worst thing that can happen in the world isn't random acts of violence, we created it through our society and it isn't going away, ever.
The truth is that your daughter will probably never be affected by a game like Manhunt 2. It's great that you want to protect your daughter but you can only do so much, it is still a free country, regardless of the added danger that it adds. If you want to rally behind a cause, there are about a zillion that are more dangerous than videogames, videogames just happen to be a popular target because of the ease of exposure.
We don't all have kids, we don't all want kids, and we all don't want to give up our passtimes for the 0.000000001% decrease in danger for your kids.
When you see so much violence, and are intimately familiar with the violence and its effects on those involved, you are less likelly to seek it out just for fun. People wanting to see depictions of torture and death is precisely what he says, a cultural effect, that I also consider somewhat disturbing.
What the hell did the parent post have to do with the iPhone? How did you manage to throw an iPhone advertisement in there? That, my friend, was viral ninja moves from space-Licensed by Nintendo.
I want the MMO called "Hello kitty and the exostential attack of the turpentine soaked nipple monsters from hair-walled and blistered ruins located on a planet in 4D"...
Sorry, I suppose I was refering to the fact that you said that the Wii was for exercise, while it could have some exercise related benefits, it's hardly something that should be the basis of your conditioning... That's what DDR is for:O
Then again, the Wii is to give me exercise - doing the 15 challenges in Wii Sports followed by the daily fitness test is 45 minutes of arm-waving exercise I wouldn't normally get. Add in the control systems around Madden and Zelda and after a week of Wii ownership I have a sore arm:)
Um.... you must be one out of shape dude... Please consider doing some pushups and pullups too, they are far better for you.
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I spent about 10 minutes googling stuff such as "hotmail failed delivery" and adding or subtracting words... Most of the hits I got were unrelated, "dude, i didn't get emails!? wtf?"
... Basically the guy states that starting in April hotmail has had issues getting mail in from certain mail servers... I got the link from Wikipedia...
I got this hit, which is remotely interesting
Regardless, the fact that there isn't a big uproar is usually a pretty good indication that there isn't anything insidious going on here. Either the guy who made the article is full of shit, or, more likely, he just has some part of his test that was glitchy. Although, in his comments he said that he made sure that a bunch of common reasons were all properly accounted for... I wonder if he got his spam properly.
Oh, and calling someone whose arguments you can't sensibly rebut a troll and then slinking away, tail-'tween-legs, only confirms that you've completely lost this argument. Regardless of what moderators label my posts, my intent has never been to provoke anyone. The fact that one can't express a genuine opinion on race without being censored, insulted or otherwise derided only indicates the narrow corridor of permissible thought here - and diminishes the impact of anyone who might happen to disagree with me, as their opinion will clearly be the socially-acceptable one.
That doesn't make it truth, though.
I don't particularly think that I agree that the parent "troll" is completely correct... however, his arguments are somewhat thought provoking, and I am still awaiting someone to give a valid response as oppossed to throwing around the racist card, common guys, we are better than that here, aren't we?
Plus, black people can't beat you up over the internet. That, was a joke.
What could possibly go wrong?
I choose not to fund incompetant and unethical companies.
You still buy gasoline?
If this game rocks cocks, you will buy it, and if you don't, others will. If you like this kind of game, and it is good, and you don't play it, what justice are you dealing out? If you play games for the companies that publish them, then you need to get a new hobby.
Ok, I read it, you aren't wrong about everything. You put together a lot of correct information that I assume you learned in a health class, and falsly applied it because of an oversimplified model of the issue.
Still wrong though.
It's unfortunate that you are such a prick. Seriously, just read about excercise and diet, you will realize that you are just wrong.
If you want to lose weight, number 1, excercise. Number 2, diet.
And your mcdonalds thing is pretty weird, being that I never eat fast food. If you want proof that you are wrong. I started working out, Now I am leaner and stronger and have more lean body mass. I have eaten more than I did before working out, though I am eating better carbs (higher GI), and healthier fats (fish and such).
Point remains. You are wrong. Thanks though, I think I will keep on going to the gym and fucking my hot girlfriend, you can keep writing bitter expansive online documents that are inaccurate.
Oh, just so you know, I didn't read your response.
Whoosh!
I think that I have seen many people build relationships in clubs where you can't hear a god damn thing. Just because you can't do it, doesn't mean it can't be done.
This is one of the most mind-numingly inaccurate things I have heard on slashdot today... And I have been reading for like 25 minutes.
First off, most people can increase the amount of food they eat, in terms of calories and lose weight. They do so by eating good carbs and low fat proteins, but also consuming the right fats.
Second, excersise is the number one way to lose weight. Your body adapts to what it is asked to do on a daily basis. If you frequently run long distances your body will do what it can to lose heavy weight (often muscle). People who do lot's of sprinting types of exercises shed fat and gain lean muscle (look at sprinters). And look at basketball players, many of them have terrible eating habits but have lean muscular bodies due to the nature of their sport which includes a lot of sprinting and jumping.
You are clinging to an overly scientific, though even at that misinterpreted, and increasingly antiquated dogma of health. One that ignores lifestyle in favor of meaningless calorie counting.
If you are really interested in applied physical training techniques that have been tested outside of a lab on a regular basis with thousands of eager participants check out t-nation.com, and for this topic search "fat-loss" in the article section. The forum is good too, but you can easily get fooled by false information there, the writers there are really good and knowledgeable. I know the site is a little too EXTREME! and shit, borderline annoyingly so. But the info there can't be matched.
Just don't be a meathead.
Could you please link that... I mean.... God damn
Being a parent is challanging enough even without having companies like - in this case - Take Two making it even harder by raising car theft to the "cool" level.
If you have ever played GTA you will realize very quickly that it is more of a parody than anything. It is funny, and everything is very exagerated and incredibly goofy. Cars got stolen before GTA and I am pretty convinced that the amount of cars stolen due to GTA games is probably less than 5, EVER. Stop sensationalizing things that don't matter, it doesn't help.
It's not as if it's very difficult... you don't have to "give a crap" you just have to do the job you are getting paid minimum wage to do.
To judge someone elses head as being sick is pretty arrogant, you don't know what the goal and key to life is, and it is actually very normal and natural to harbor violent feelings. It is part of our ancestory, and has been present since complex life formed, you aren't going to change that with a post to slashdot.
Most people, including myself, do not like things like manhunt because it disturbs us, but it mostly does so because of the emotions it evokes as we make a mental picture of something terrible happening. The disturbing part isn't the pixels on screen, it is what is going on in YOUR HEAD.
Anyone who claims to know everything about what is good and bad is clearly full of shit.
I am tired of people that use over the top examples to justify an over-reaction to a game. If you could rape a child in a game, it probably wouldn't be very fun, but I don't think it should be a crime. It isn't anything, it's a fucking computer program, THAT IS ALL. There is nothing wrong with it, and the vast majority of the people that would check out this kind of thing would probably be laughing at how insanely rediculous it was.
First step is to get a sense of humor and stop worrying about everything. A child rape game isn't going to make someone a child rapist, while it probably would be pretty popular with the child rapists, it definately wouldn't make them more likely to rape children, hell, it would probably make them LESS likely to rape children.
If your concern is the fact that there are people out there that think very terrible things, stop being naive and realize it is all around you and you will never stop it. Live your life, and stop fearing everything. Do you know the chances of child rape in this country? It is practically zero! I agree that one child rape is too many, but that's just my opinion and in the grand scheme of things in a universe of infinate planets that is 13 billion years old, some little brat getting pounded in the butt isn't going to make a big difference.
DISCLAIMER: I do not support child rape
If your daughter is worth a damn, she will not kill people based on a video game. If every school shooting was caused by video games, which they obviously were not, it would still be so rare that it is not worth restricting millions of other people to prevent.
The worst thing that can happen in the world isn't random acts of violence, we created it through our society and it isn't going away, ever.
The truth is that your daughter will probably never be affected by a game like Manhunt 2. It's great that you want to protect your daughter but you can only do so much, it is still a free country, regardless of the added danger that it adds. If you want to rally behind a cause, there are about a zillion that are more dangerous than videogames, videogames just happen to be a popular target because of the ease of exposure.
We don't all have kids, we don't all want kids, and we all don't want to give up our passtimes for the 0.000000001% decrease in danger for your kids.
ick.. my sarcasm detector was just broken as fucking hell.
When you see so much violence, and are intimately familiar with the violence and its effects on those involved, you are less likelly to seek it out just for fun. People wanting to see depictions of torture and death is precisely what he says, a cultural effect, that I also consider somewhat disturbing.
What the hell did the parent post have to do with the iPhone? How did you manage to throw an iPhone advertisement in there? That, my friend, was viral ninja moves from space-Licensed by Nintendo.
I want the MMO called "Hello kitty and the exostential attack of the turpentine soaked nipple monsters from hair-walled and blistered ruins located on a planet in 4D"...
then... the circle is complete
I literally study the game world... And I have never heard of it... Ever.
Sorry, I suppose I was refering to the fact that you said that the Wii was for exercise, while it could have some exercise related benefits, it's hardly something that should be the basis of your conditioning... That's what DDR is for :O
I'm sorry that you can't simply click a button that says "Play Starcraft Skillfully", but that's what separates the men from the boys.
And I think that you may be on the wrong side of that line
Then again, the Wii is to give me exercise - doing the 15 challenges in Wii Sports followed by the daily fitness test is 45 minutes of arm-waving exercise I wouldn't normally get. Add in the control systems around Madden and Zelda and after a week of Wii ownership I have a sore arm :)
Um.... you must be one out of shape dude... Please consider doing some pushups and pullups too, they are far better for you.
I can help you...
Age of Conan will be out in the fall
Please mod up, before 1,000 nerds are killed in the coming week.