meh, i wouldn't write it off, i'm sure someone you know will buy one so you can give it a fair crack before you commit

the idea that it's not a solvable problem is ridiculous, that article even says they're not sure if the guys complaining are using the dk1 or 2. ultimately we don't get sick from viewing 3d shit in real life, it's just a question of how realistic it has to be to get rid of the motion sickness and if how cheaply that level of realism is achievable

There's actually a lot of things I found interesting about Nazis that is never mentioned in high school or college history books. For example, part of their ideology was...strangely...staunchly in favor of animal rights. Also, Jew genocide wasn't one of their initial goals; at first they were either putting Jews into forced labor camps (to build the German economy, but it wasn't only Jews that ended up there) or just simply deporting them out of Europe. That is, until Hitler came up with his final solution, then instead of pushing them out of Europe they suddenly started bringing them in en masse to send them to the death camps.

Another interesting thing is that a lot of gays don't seem to understand where the pink triangle came from. It was actually a marking that gay males were required to wear (like how Jews were required to wear a double yellow triangle; lesbians were to wear black triangles) and initially gay men were sent to camps where it was believed that they could be converted to being straight, and they were forced to have sex with women, among other things, but initially being executed wasn't one of those things.

Also interestingly, pink was considered to be a very masculine color prior to that era, and switched around that time. Related? Maybe...Maybe not.

Oh, and the 1942 era stealth bomber...

It could be the games themselves that are causing it rather than the platform.

I remember HL2 would cause me to get motion sick, but only on the level where you drove the fan boat through the acid canals and nowhere else.

The only other game to cause me to get motion sick was wolfenstein 3d if it was run on a modern computer. Older computers (that ran at a slower frame rate) didn't cause it for some reason.

Probably not, but I can name at least one president it doesn't describe: JImmy Carter. He was so damn emotional that he was basically worthless.

You forgot GMO, vaccines cause autism, and electromagnetic allergies.

On what precedent do you base that?

I recall NASA predicting complete loss of arctic sea ice by 2013, and the navy predicting the same in 2016.

The first didn't happen, not even close, and the second doesn't seem likely to happen.

It's like listening to the news about the doomsday clock; it just gets old after a while, and I don't give a damn what supposed bright minds are behind it.

You forgot to convert it to MIDI first, which any good hacker can do.

This, absolutely this. In order to force someone to turn over information, I have to have a valid subpoena issued by a court with jurisdiction. The fact that they just punted this to "you figure it out" means Google is given arbitrary discretion on how they can fulfil this, and the recourse to disagreeing is to take them to court and sue them again.

If you're going to give someone a right enforced by the government, then you should provide the necessary process to issue a "strike-records decree"...

BTW, Google still tells employees not to talk about this stuff in public, because Google has to so carefully watch its steps. (Disclaimer, I used to be a Google employee this year)

The problem is also the consent decree that says "anything that Google says, it has to actually be doing"... which can end up really nitpicky if lawyers want to be... and "my various governments" are all looking to catch Google for something, anything... so, they are being a bit nitpicky...

I think you're confusing a personal gain with a selfish gain. At the end of the day, everybody does what they do because it ultimately suits themselves, but that doesn't mean they are being selfish.

That said, a psychopath often also has a bond people who they consider "their own." Something that often (but not always) includes is family. In the case of a company, often they'll consider that to be their family, and put that ahead of others interests, including their own personal interests. For example, it can also be said that a very effective Army general's victory is his own goal. Erwin Rommel didn't really care for the Nazi movement, rather he was an effective general because he was given a job and he did that job at the expense of all else, including his own personal benefit.

Another thing psychopaths are known for is to have universal empathy for some things at the expense of all others. For example that might be babies or animals, which is often the motivation behind people who bomb abortion clinics (surprise, not all of them are religious) or groups like ALF who threaten physical violence against medical researchers who work with animals. Some also have universal empathy for things or concepts, like ELF who threaten physical violence against lumberjacks.

People like these often don't care if they end up in jail or in the electric chair, just so long as they believe they served a purpose that suits them.

Well maybe Kirk was a bit dispassionate. He cared a lot about Bones and Spock, but he only pretended to give a shit about the red shirts.

That's not far removed from Tony Soprano who loved his family, but at the end of the day only pretended to care for his mafiosos, and would turn on them if they weren't driving him a profit.

That's actually a fairly accurate description of our current president, and the people who voted for him twice.

I'm not an anti-vax person myself, but I do suspect that at least one of the vaccines I received in the Army caused my current chronic kidney disease, which is caused by a misformed IgA antibody. I suspect that because I have a familial history of Ceceliacs disease, which is suspected by some to be related to IgA Nephropathy, and the timeline of when I developed IgAn coincides perfectly with the progression of the disease and the time that I received those inoculations. That, and this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

Problem is this is hard to prove, and I doubt anybody would do any further serious research into it. Why won't they? Because the anti-vax movement has made anybody who does easily lose credibility, because the anti-vax movement repeatedly and often makes very stupid claims (autism? are you fucking kidding me?) that cause everybody else to come down hard on anybody who speaks honestly about any potential down sides of it.

There may very well be good reasons to not vaccinate in some cases, but those reasons will be hard to find when idiots keep crying wolf for no reason other than they happen to be Jenny McCarthy fans.

Still though, and I do myself admit, I still accept that it's better to have practically zero cases of polio in exchange for a few cases of IgA Nephropathy, even though I happened to get the shitty end of the stick (dialisys, which is where I'll probably end up very soon, is a lot better than an iron lung.) That said, even if it is proven that vaccination is the cause of my condition, I'll still support it anyways.

I'm not sure what point people who push that statistic are trying to get across. Being a psychopath doesn't inherently make you a bad person, it turns out that it's just a description of how your brain is physically wired.

In many respects, having your brain wired that way is quite useful. For example, any profession that requires a high sense of objectivity would be much better performed by somebody who can turn off emotion like a switch and only turn it on when it suits them, which is a common trait in psychopaths.

These kinds of people make great scientists, judges, journalists, lawyers, etc.

Wondered where all the used ones ended up.