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| Atari fucking sucks | |
| by Lord High | 10/18/2003 11:53:00 PM |
That was the extend of my vocabulary for about three hours today as I was forced to uninstall and reinstall Neverwinter Nights and the expansion pack Shadows of Undrentide. And why did I have to do this?
I'll tell you why. Because I was stupid enough to download a patch file and expect it to actually improve my game experience instead of, oh what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, totally FUCKING EVERYTHING UP!!!
It's not Bioware's fault. It's Atari's fault. Der Fuhrer Atari. Forcing Bioware to put this fucking SecuRom shit on their games now to prevent people using cracks. But you know what? If you have a problem, that's about all you can do. Use a crack. Well do that or do what I did: spend three fucking hours sitting in front of your fucking computer fucking uninstalling and reinstalling the fucking thing, which for some fucking reason crashes the first couple fucking times you try to install it. Now that I can blame Bioware for. So fuck Bioware too. But to a lesser extent than Atari.
Anyway, I will not be buying Hordes of the Underdark, the third expansion. Because it will have SecuRom in it right out of the box. And I do not want to have to buy a new drive or download illegal crack programs just to make a game work after I buy it.
In fact, I shall never again purchase any product with the Atari logo on it. Nice to see that the mongoloid who greenlighted the ET game still has work though. Hey, come to think of it, didn't Atari make Enter the Matrix? That piece of shit 50 dollar DVD with a shitty menu disguised as a "game"?
I still look forward to Bioware's non-Atari projects however. It is sad that such an otherwise good company had to be dragged down by Atari's raping of Nolan Bushnell's corpse.
10.10.2003
| Rise of the Machines | |
| by Lord High | 10/10/2003 11:03:00 PM |
The Air Force is testing robot drones for border patrol.
The Terminator was just elected Governor (Governator?) of California.
Coincidence? :)
9.24.2003
| Are We In Another Cold War? | |
| by Lord High | 9/24/2003 11:57:00 PM |
Guantannamo Spy Probe Expanded (from CNN)
A U.S. Navy airman accused of spying on us. A U.S. military chaplain accused of spying on us.
Both of the men already caught for spying were spying for Syria, which is listed as a "State of Concern", which is a politically correct way of saying "Rogue State".
And there may be others as well. In fact, it is looking very much like there is an active conspiracy of infiltration, and not just a few fringe loners.
But Syria itself is not the enemy. Well, not the whole enemy.
In the original Cold War, our enemy was a system of government. Communism. It seems almost quaint today to think of the "Red Menace", but one need only look at China or Cuba to see why defending oneself from communism is important. Would you want to live in China or Cuba?
But communism is pretty much on its last dying gasp. Cuba is a backwater nation that doesn't really have much of an impact on the world: in part due to the embargo, of course, and in part due to its brutal and inefficient communist regime. And China is beginning to make strides toward a more capitalist society.
When the Berlin Wall fell and Russia embraced glasnost, many people came to the conclusion that the Cold War was dead. And they were right. However, the conclusion that the end of the Cold War meant we could become complacent was not correct. Just as World War I was not "the War to End All Wars", the Cold War as well seems to have a successor. Instead of communism, we now find ourselves facing Islamic fundamentalism.
The sooner we face that fact, the better prepared we will be for this conflict.
There is hope though. We won CW I, we can win CW II as well. But we have to drop the politically correct pretense that we are not in a cultural conflict. We are. We have been since 9/11. And I hope this probe of Guantanamo Bay is the wake up call.
| Kazaa Makers Sue RIAA | |
| by Lord High | 9/24/2003 10:57:00 PM |
Apparently the RIAA, which is trying to stamp out unauthorized digital intellectual property, did its big name grab using unauthorized digital intellectual property.
| Machines Talking To Machines | |
| by Lord High | 9/24/2003 10:56:00 PM |
Machines will soon be able to talk to each other without human intervention. Which is why Armhold Musclehugger must be made Governator of California to protect us from these time travelling menaces!
Well, I was kidding about the second sentence (I am rooting for Arnold, but not on the time travelling cyborg platform), but I'm not kidding about the revolutionary new technology called Web Services (which is not an Internet technology, although it could be applied to the Sky, er, I mean Internet).
Basically put, it will be a universal language computers will use to describe the world in objective digital terms. This sort of program infrastructure could allow computers to understand and interact with the physical world in very useful ways, such as machinery which knows when a part fails and alerts maintenance itself, or various aspects of a supply chain updating the others on the exact status of manufacturing or shipping.
| Is That a Cobra In Your Pants Or Are You Just Happy To Be In Australia? | |
| by Lord High | 9/24/2003 10:24:00 PM |
A Swedish man was arrested for smuggling cobras into Australia, which is the gayest country ever.
I am so glad I'm not one of those cobras :)
In a related story, Oklahoma District Judge Lee West has said that there is no man-dating in Australia.
| The National "Hey, I Said Not To Call Me, Goddammit!" List | |
| by Lord High | 9/24/2003 10:00:00 PM |
Oklahoma District Court judge Lee West has decided to try to block the Do Not Call list, just days before the Oct. 1 start date. The judge said that the FTC did not have a clear congressional mandate.
Now, I don't know what passes for legal education in Oklahoma, but one would think that even the dimmest legal bulb would see the passage of a law called, oh, let's say, the "Do Not Call Implementation Act" as such a mandate.
Oklahoma may be OK, but their District Court is far from it.
But I'll tell you who is OK: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La. he is already pushing to get the list back on track.
8.26.2003
| Are We Too Tolerant of Religion? | |
| by Lord High | 8/26/2003 09:28:00 PM |
It's been a while since I was inspired to write here, and, this is a bit of a departure for me. Normally I'd write a humorous article and you'd get a chuckle. Well, I'm sorry, but that won't happen now. I saw something today on Drudge that disturbed me greatly. And I feel that this is a very serious issue and failing within our society that must be addressed.
An 8 year old autistic boy is dead. Killed by his own church in what they call an exorcism. In the ritual, the boy was covered in sheets, and several church members sat on him, including a church elder who say on his chest. This was done repeatedly, because apparently they believed they could cure his autism by "driving the demons out" and this was how they went about it.
Ray Hemphill, the aforementioned church elder has this to say: "Terrance's death is a great tragedy. However, it was not a malicious act on the part of the church. If you believe in God and his word you have the right to believe he can help you, through prayer."
So that's your definition of prayer? Suffocating an innocent child to death?! The scary part is, there's a chance that these people will not be punished, because they did this in a "prayer session."
Now, I'm not one to say that people can't believe in God, but if you commit an act like this, the law should not shield you from the consequences just because it's your religious belief. These people killed that kid. This is even worse than those cases where some Christian Scientist's kid dies of a treatable disease because the parents ddon't believe in doctors. This kid was not in any danger of dying. Until he was taken to that church. This isn't neglect, it's homicide.
And just so we're clear, the Christian Scientist example I mentioned earlier, that should also be prosecuted. Religion should never be a shield against responsibility for one's actions. If these people are acquitted, then it will be a colossal failure of justice.
We tolerate too much on the basis of "not persecuting religions". It is not persecution to punish people for crimes they commit. Look at the Catholic Church. A handful of people go to prison. And none of the higher-ups who knew about this and conspired to keep it secret were sent away. Now, if instead of a church, a daycare chain or amusement park company had done this, there would have been a LOT more arrests, including many directors and executives, and the place would probably be shut down or at the very least have federal investigators so far up its ass that it would think it was an alter boy.
But, since it's a church, it gets a slap on the wrist. I say, enough is enough. If people commit vile despicable acts, let us hold them accountable, and not allow them to hide behind their gods.
8.24.2003
| End of (Word) Plays | |
| by Lord High | 8/24/2003 10:17:00 PM |
This decision may have some collateral damage in the late night talk show circuit and might terminate a large portion of several upcoming Conan O'Brien monologues.
This decision has also caused much distress to several junior news directors, who are feeling so rundown that watching Batman and Robin could actually cheer them up.
