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Comment Re:Either this is false or they are idiots (Score 1) 202

by rsergeant on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:42AM (#50945619) Attached to: Belgian Home Affairs Minister: Terrorists Communicate Via PlayStation 4

Oh, he is an idiot, without any doubt... In fact his whole party is full of idiots except their Great Leader (capitalization is intentional)... They are an extreme right wing neo-liberal party that has as only goal to make the rich richer and the rest of the country poor (and in doing so constantly attack minorities, labour unions and everybody that has a different opinion). Unfortunately it says more about us (Dutch speaking Belgians) because they got +30% votes (well around 20% counting the whole of Belgium) during the last election.

Game Industry Optimistic About Surviving Economic Crisis 52

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 27, 2008 @03:08AM from the food-is-boring-buy-a-console dept.

CNet is running a story about how the gaming industry is looking at the recent economic troubles. Despite their status as luxury items, games and game systems have seen strong sales numbers in recent months, and that trend is expected to continue into the holiday season. Most companies are optimistic, despite the fact that many of their stock values have been hit hard and that analysts' views are divided on whether game-related purchases will be one of the first things cut from consumers' budgets. "'I do think that the video game industry is going to do reasonably well in this time of recession because video games are a pretty damned efficient use of time,' said Bridges. 'That said, the...industry has some other problems that it has been ignoring for awhile and that are creeping up on it.' Essentially, Bridges explained, he thinks that the dominance of giant publishers like EA and their general reliance on physical, in-the-box, units, can't hold up. Instead, he said, new tools, ubiquitous broadband and hungry independent developers are going to all combine to eat away at the continued supremacy of the $60 big-name title. And that could spell big trouble for the industry."

Rocketman Crosses Colorado Gorge 71

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 27, 2008 @02:05AM from the up-up-and-away dept.

nandemoari writes "Remember the 1991 film, 'The Rocketeer,' where a young pilot uses a jetpack prototype to become a masked vigilante and win the heart of Jennifer Connelly? That scenario isn't as far-fetched as it once was, given that an American stuntman recently used a jetpack to soar over Colorado's Royal Gorge. The stuntman in question is one Eric Scott, who recently appeared on CBS' Early Show and a variety of local cable channels after making his daring leap. Scott has been testing jetpack devices for 16 years, and was confident that he wouldn't plummet to his untimely death when he straddled the Gorge above the Arkansas River earlier this week. Despite an enormous gulf between the two sides — 1,500 feet across and 1,000 feet down — Scott made the trip safely."

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