This game represents everything I hate about modern games. Apparently we want better lighting, better animations more life-like graphics. This striving for hyper-realism is driving me nuts.

The computer allows us to make everything, and yet we insist on creating worlds that are essentially no different from the one we live in. Where is the weird, the fantastic, the horrible and the wonderful? Why do we settle, when we can have anything? When do we start creating art?

Why call home? One of the many joys of going abroad is that you get to be alone and experience things on your own.

So they want nukes? Who can blame them? Given the "western leader"'s previous behavior in the region, they would be fools not to get a strong deterrent.

Does the employer benefit and did he ask for it? If yes and yes, then it is work. There is no such thing as a free lunch - it is a healthy capitalist principle and it works both ways.

If you don't like the dumbed down version, the actual article can be found here. It is quite readable.

And it is a crappy summary - as usual. Violence is not even mentioned in the article.

Amen brother. To quote the great Hoare:

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."

It was true then, it is true now and it will remain true in the future.

Respectful is a word being thrown around a lot by believers of some god or another, but it always means the same thing. Do not question, do not criticize. I am sorry, but I am not buying. People can believe whatever they want - I sincerely do not care. But when they ask me, to "respect" their particular brand of nonsense, I am all too happy to utter the words "Fuck off".

Whoever modded this interesting is a fucking moron.

And "some people" would call Madeleine Bunting who is known for her advocacy of religion and her dislike of atheism, well biased. She has gone so far, as to suggest that atheists are unable criticize religion, because - get this - they are atheists! Wow, what a great source for your argument by authority.

Now show one, just one, of the fallacies used by Dawkins.

Didn't think so...

Why is this modded insightful? He clearly does not know what ethical means.

This is said without malice, there are good points in the post, but not about ethics.

Just give me Amarok. It is the only thing I miss from Linux.

That thing is fantastic.