3,942 Forum Posts by "D2Kvirus"
At 11/30/08 04:36 PM, His-Penis-is-on-Fire wrote: It's because straight people and whites haven't been discriminated against.
A decade ago BBC2 ran a late-night strand for The Black Community that featured plenty of racist comments about whites. Did they get yanked off the air? Of course not.
They dump you in the ground and skip to getting wasted at the wake, don't they?
Now, Satanic cremations are what makes me curious: does everyone say "lucky bastard" when you're headed into the flames (preferably to the sound of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
The one that gets me is the Black Police Association, for two reasons:
1.) Can anyone envision a White Police Association?
2.) They also consider Indian & Pakistani officers to be black enough to fall under their umbrella (as opposed to forming an Asian Police Association, which I presume would mean having to synchronise calendars so their meeting dates don't clash or something).
Yes, we're all aware that the police have a long history of targetting the black community in their investigations, and that black officers are looked down upon...so much so that they make positions like Senior Inspector. When you have one senior black officer saying there is no glass ceiling in the police force, then doing a 180 five years laterdespite there being more ethnic senior officers than any point in British history, it gets retarded.
See also: the Campaign for Ethnic Equality, who complain about there not enough black and/or Asian characters in EastEnders - which has one family each or Neighbours (a show set in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia!!!), but seem to be quiet when shows like Brookside or Hollyoaks have a much higher percentage than the national or regional averages.
The thing with all -isms is they're one-way. You need to watch Loose Women too see the blatance and hypocrisy of this.
At 11/28/08 07:42 PM, aninjaman wrote:
Well of course people want their politicians to be better then they are.
No wonder people are so depressed. Imagine the poor bastards that had John Precott as their MP for all these years!
Obama's surrounding himself with people who know what they're doing - does he want to feel left out for the next four years or something?
Besides, if his VP is a guy best known for plagiarising Neil Kinnock's speeches, there's only two ways the rest of his cabinet could go: the same level, or better by the default of Dan Quayle being busy that weekend.
At 11/29/08 09:07 AM, Der-Lowe wrote: OH YES THERE'S A SOCIALISM THREAD NOW, THAT'S WHAT WE WERE MISSING :D
Well, that and a free PS3 for everyone who...well, happens to be me.
More proof that Americans have no manners, as this is what happens when people from any other country would happily form an orderly queue...
Checks for odds of people missing the fact this is called "humour"
At 11/7/08 02:19 PM, Leap wrote:At 11/5/08 10:28 AM, D2Kvirus wrote: I can't wait for The Daily Mail's take on this: whilst video games are encouraging our youth to rape, murder and maim...The Dark Knight is influencing Orwellian measures from our Home Secretary who's done nothing but fuck up since she got the job.That's pretty much what Neo Labour have done since they came to power really isn't it?
Ah, but Jacqui Smith has stood out for her habitual fuckuppery, which serves as a good reason no woman has ever been Home Secretary before.
Well, that and Labor (yes, that's intentional) have thus far had a disabled Home Secratary, a woman Home Secretary...so when do we get an ethnic one?
I can't wait for The Daily Mail's take on this: whilst video games are encouraging our youth to rape, murder and maim...The Dark Knight is influencing Orwellian measures from our Home Secretary who's done nothing but fuck up since she got the job.
My vote is for The Green Candidate, Whoever That Is.
Interesting letter from the Student Loans Company yesterday - apparently it's easier to pay off your student loan now. Very tactful for them to send that out in the middle of a global financial meltdown and in the face of an impending recession.
In other news, have a gummi lighthouse:
Let me get this straight...OJ Simpson can get away with murder, but faces life imprisonment for armed robbery?
At 10/7/08 07:36 PM, C-Doodlez-Man wrote: look, as far as i know, UK doesnt have a congress right? (could be terribly wrong, i have no idea; if there is something in the form of congress) If this is true then your government works much better than the US's. but even if uk does have something in the form of congress, it's not as shitty as our congress.
The closest we have is the House of Lords, who are maligned but don't kow-tow to whoever's in charge.
He's officially gone mad - when he got in as PM he spoke of moving away from spin and towards politics, so what does he do in his latest reshuffle? Brings Peter Mandleson back into the fold, a man who is
a.) A spin doctor and
b.) A perfect encapsulation of Blairism.
On top of that, John Hutton and Geoff Hoon both got back into the Cabinet, both Blairites and, in Hoon's case, the face of dragging Britain into Iraq based on lies, damn lies and sexed-up dossiers. Heck, he couldn't point out getting shot of Ruth Kelly was a good thing as she's been useless in every department she's ever headed (or would he then be open to questions of why he made her Transport Secretary when he took over?)
He's given up on being re-elected, so that means we're looking down the barrels of having David Cameron as our next PM. So we're fucked, then...
At 9/20/08 02:02 AM, hollerhollerholler7 wrote: Other the fact that he will become the first black man, what is going to happen?
The paper which ran with this as the headline will have topped "Dewey Beats Truman" for getting it well and truly wrong, so at least one newspaper will be fired, as well as a few jouurnalists to boot.
At 9/14/08 07:38 PM, Der-Lowe wrote:At 9/14/08 02:28 PM, D2Kvirus wrote: Quick poll: Who owns Spore, who wanted their money back after having it DRM their ass, who was put off because of the DRM, and who didn't care in the first place?I got it and I don't know whatcha talking 'bout.
I HAS TEH GALACTIC EMPIREZ MUAHAHAHAHA.
As I posted on Myspace the other day:
You may or may not know, but EA have gone ever so slightly fascistic with their anti-piracy measures which, ironically, haven't worked in the slightest as the game has already been cracked. But the issue isn't about cracking down on pirates, but how it punishes regular gamers and accuses them of being criminals.
First up, here's a review off Amazon that sums up a lot of feeling toward EA:
"After hearing rave reviews from some of my non hardcore-gamer friends, I decided to head out and buy a copy of spore, before I knew about the DRM issues (thanks EA for deliberately keeping everyone in the dark about this).
One of the first things that raised my suspicions about this game was the fact that it took a looong time to install 6GB on what is an extremely fast computer. The second problem arose (after playing the game for a while) when my antivirus noticed a dll behaving extremely suspiciously, and deleted it from my system folder. Following the deletion of this file, firefox ceased to function. After reading about the horrific DRM shipped with this game, it all makes sense now.
This is all because EA would rather treat me as a criminal than a consumer, and therefore feel the need to install ridiculously draconian malware alongside their games, just to ensure the revenue stream doesn't dry up. Note that this isn't an exercise in defeating piracy (a cracked version was available on the internet PRIOR TO RELEASE), it's an exercise in screwing the paying customer for all they're worth. You only get three install tokens, one token per machine. "That's not so bad" you may say, but the tokens are non-recoverable. I'll re-iterate that, 'cos it's extremely important: THE TOKENS ARE NON-RECOVERABLE. That means that if you uninstall the game *poof* you're down to 2 installations, even if you reinstall on the same system.
However, this doesn't tell the whole story, as there are several ways of losing a token:
* Upgrade your system and it's a different system, as far as the DRM is concerned. Add a stick of RAM or a new graphics card and *poof*, token gone.
*Even something as trivial as upgrading your drivers or installing an update... *poof*, token gone.
*Different user accounts counts as a seperate machine, if you share a computer with more than two other people and all want to play spore, then you're out of luck unless you purchase another copy of Spore!
Looking at all these ways of losing a token, it's easy to envisage a scenario where you install the game (*poof* 2 tokens left), but find it running slowly, so you put in an extra stick of RAM (*poof* 1 token left). Graphical glitches lead you to update your video drivers (*poof*, no more tokens left). You now have to stick with this system forever, never upgrading it or updating drivers, never reinstalling the OS every year or so (which is just good housekeeping tbh). All it takes is one system crash and you're left with an extremely expensive coaster, unless the (generally useless) EA customer support decide to magnanimously give you an extra token, following a (no doubt costly) phone call where they interrogate you after presuming you're a filthy pirating b*stard."
Way to treat your customers, eh?
But there's more, when the realities of the anti-pirating software that comes with the disc as standard, as covered here:
"...the SecuROM DRM used in Spore 'examines' softwares installed on everyone's computer, and if it finds a LEGAL software that MAY be used to crack protected games, it will cause these softwares to malfunction to 'protect' the game, and the owner of the computer has no way but to reformat the system and avoid installing this game next time to get these softwares working again....
isn't this too much?
who gave EA the right to intervene?
believe it or not, not everyone uses computers ONLY for games and/or cracking protected games. These softwares, which will not work with SecuROM, are legal softwares used in many people's job. Who gave EA the power to inspect their own customer's computers and configure it the way they want? Computers are people's persnnal properties, and so are the legal softwares installed in it. And to think the purpose of this DRM was to PROTECT the game from spreading illegally, when it already spread BEFORE the official release.... (i call this an epic fail)
think of it this way. You buy a new Honda car. While you are sleeping, it destroys ANY OTHER CAR in your garage so you use the Honda car from now on. Outrageous isn't it. Well, this is what is happening. EA has no right to control people's computers.
and finally, Windows DRM, like other people mentioned before me, is not restrictive. Once you activate windows, you can do whatever with your computer, so windows don't mind if you install third-party programs in your computer. Spore's DRM will stop you if any of program MIGHT be used for hacking the game, even though the game's already hacked..."
So, the game may be one of the most inventive media of the decade, yet it's been fucked up by paranoid capitalism that has seen EA hit in the pocket by people refusing to buy the game, or demanding their money back at the unfair (and, until two weeks ago, unannounced) anti-pirating device that is, in actuality, seen merely as a challenge to pirates and as a massive annoyance to people who just want to play the f'n game.
Quick poll: Who owns Spore, who wanted their money back after having it DRM their ass, who was put off because of the DRM, and who didn't care in the first place?
At 9/7/08 02:24 PM, D2Kvirus wrote:
Bus, car, and what was left of the pedestrian not in shot.
Wait, that blue tent is where the pedestrian happened to be standing.
The moral of the story: if you're such a moron that you park your car in a place you're told you cannot, which also happens to on a blind corner of a very busy bus lane, what'll happens is as follows:
1.) Bus tries to swerve to avoid the car.
2.) Bus tries to swerve, only to collide with the car, a pedestrian and an oncoming tram at the same time.
3.) Bus and tram are sent 100m down a street, trashing shopfronts and furnishings, as well as another illegally parked car en route, as the street is for trams only.
So, it's official: being an idiot can kill, whilst running up pretty large sum of money when it comes to damaged property and repairs.
WOO HOO, Croydon's in the news again: this morning we found out what happens if a bus collides with an illegally parked car, which then ploughs into a tram, the impact of which in turn sends the bus and car 100m down a street, with the car shooting in the general direction of a pedestrian.
From this (or taking a peek around the corner), we can deduce the leader board looks like this:
1.) Tram
2.) Bus
3.) Ilegally-parked car
4.) Pedestrian
Bus, car, and what was left of the pedestrian not in shot.
The thing that got me is how, in the British press, they're actually reporting quotes and articles attributible to...wait for it...The National Enquirer. Seriously, shouldn't journalists be trained to spot where it ceases to be a source due to the reputation of said source being up there with Michael Jackson in the childcare community?
I'm also am,azed Palin didn't use her spotlight to say "You're not voting for me, so back off" before going all hockey mom on them. Or is it that there's no dirt on McCain (which is suspicious - everyone has spots on their record), so they have to defer muckraking to his #2? If so, that's a combination of desperation and viciousness - you're so bent out of shape trying to unearth dirt on one guy, can't, so you focus more effort by trying to do so with their associates.
At 9/5/08 07:42 AM, SadisticMonkey wrote: The world won't fucking end, alright.
We'll all have left existence by Thursday morning, so does it really matter?
Two reasons:
1.) He's not Bush.
2.) He's not a walking Hallmark card.
It's the reason that Gordon Brown had good approval ratings when he took over as out PM - he wasn't Tony Blair, nor was he Blair's Tory Mini-Me. He had to really fuck things up to start sliding.
How to get behind in advertising...
Ever think that Obama wouldn't have gotten half the attention he's had if the Democratic nomination was an open & shut case? He's bound to get more press inches than McCain, because he was selected quickly and quietly, which are two wourds you can't use about Obama.
.Alongside "meaningful" and "insightful"...
At 8/29/08 08:00 AM, SadisticMonkey wrote: anyone else think he meant game boy?
Yes. And that it somehow makes more sense that people'd be kicked out of public events for gaming than anything else.
At 8/26/08 01:05 AM, Carhenge wrote: Remember, kids; The more gold medals you have, the bigger your penis!
Way to start British in-squabbling, considering the GBR Gold haul breaks down pretty evenly between English, Scottish and Welsh (Chris Hoy, with three, means Scotland leads individually). And that's before getting into the usual North-South arguments thereafter.
At 8/25/08 01:26 PM, Proteas wrote:At 8/25/08 01:06 PM, D2Kvirus wrote: To flip that one on its head, the teacher is armed in case a student snaps and goes on a killing spree. So, if a teacher snaps and goes on a killing spree, who'll be the one to protect the students?When was the last time we heard of a teacher going on a rampage and shooting up a school, though? Isn't it usually the case of teachers molesting and sleeping with students instead of shooting them you hear more often about?
Thomas Hamilton was a Scout leader before the Dunblane massacre - not a teacher as such, but a person in a similar position of trust with children.
There's also a case in India where a teacher beat a student to death (link), albeit that was out of school hours. But, trust the Chinese to top that by killing a student in school hours (link).
There's also something else that stands out: once the first shot has been fired, the student body will generally flee toward the exits - if the shooter sees a teacher running toward them, they're going to aim for them and, as they have their gun in hand, may well get a shot away before the teacher even draws their weapon, especially if they are running into the rush of people trying to escape.
it's also a dangerous precitent to say that a teacher needs to protect students from each other, as that could cause a lot of mistrust toward and within the student body.We entrust teachers with children for 8 hours a day in school, why is it such a stretch of the imagination to then say that they are charged with ensuring their safety and well being as well? And WHAT would be your alternative solution to this issue besides standing around doing nothing?
Teachers are not trained to ensure the safety and wellbeing of their students - and I have the feeling that they'd want (actually, they should expect) a pay increase for this responsibility, and not get it - and that's a whole new can of worms.
WHat do I suggest? Easy, start with not selling firearms to those of High School age. Failing that, have better monitoring in place in regards to ownership of firearms - if a person has ownership of a firearm at High School age, send them to the nearest Military Academy or whatever. That way they are out of the student body, and therefore cannot cause harm to the student body, as they will be in a tightly-monitored environment.
(As long as they don't go Charles Whitman after they graduate...)
At 8/25/08 12:42 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: When they start adding in more relevant games to the olympics, start getting rid of the bullshit ones (honestly, synchronized diving, handball, a trampoline team what the fuck) get rid of the corruption to the scores, the rules, the referre's then I'll start giving a shit.
The thing that bugs me about calling Phelps the Greatest Olympian of All Time (TM) is that it's actually a case of there being far too many events - there were a total of 302 events in 28 sports. Comparing Phelps to Mark Spitz, the previous GOAT, got that record at Munich where there were 195 events in 23 events. And do you think there were so many events in the 1896 Games?
Swimming is ludicrous - Butterfly, Freestyle, Individual Medley, Freestyle Relay, Medley Relay - and that's before the different distances. Frankly, it's no wonder Spitz or Phelps won so many medals, as they can compete in half a dozen or so events every four years, which is not available to a lot of other events. Heck, Chris Hoy won four Golds over two games in the various cycling events (three in Beijing), whilst Steve Redgrave won five in five Games, as there is only one four-man rowing event.
Yes, ditch the pointless events - synchronised diving, all the equestrian ones (and baseball is out after 2012 as there's only four teams in it anyway), but I'd prefer objectivity first - Bolt is great as he broke three World Records, which puts you on a higher plane than most.
At 8/25/08 12:00 PM, Earfetish wrote:At 8/25/08 11:46 AM, D2Kvirus wrote: Unless they take out the principal first, whilst he's unarmed. And this is before all the variables come into consideration, i.e. misplacing a shot or misidentifying a target, which are both possible in this kind of situation.Even when taking all those into consideration, do you not think the situation is instantly preferable when there's a 'goodie' with a gun, instead of hundreds of unarmed 'goodies' and one overly-armed 'baddy'?
To flip that one on its head, the teacher is armed in case a student snaps and goes on a killing spree. So, if a teacher snaps and goes on a killing spree, who'll be the one to protect the students?
The logic is that the students pose a danger, and the teacher does not - considering the Head of History at my school lost his job for breaking a student's jaw, would you feel safe in the knowledge that he could be in charge of a firearm? it's also a dangerous precitent to say that a teacher needs to protect students from each other, as that could cause a lot of mistrust toward and within the student body.
At 8/25/08 11:37 AM, Earfetish wrote: o btw I think school shootings seem a bit of an overblown problem but teachers packing heat (esp under lock and key) is the best remedy. No one will shoot a bullet in school if they'll get iced by the principal.
Unless they take out the principal first, whilst he's unarmed. And this is before all the variables come into consideration, i.e. misplacing a shot or misidentifying a target, which are both possible in this kind of situation.
At 8/21/08 05:06 PM, olbornianhighpriest wrote: You guys have probably heard the conspiracies like Area 51 has a UFO in it, or that the Jews are in control of all thhe worlds economy, but have you heard of this crazy conspiracy?
Some people think the earth is actually hollow and he north pole and south pole are actually holes to the center.
Bloody Richard Shaver...
Of course, why aren't more people saying that Paris Hilton is an al-Qu'eda operative who was placed in America to stir up anti-American feeling, as a demonstration that you can have no talent or purpose, yet you never have to work a day in your life to be rich beyond the dreams of many, yet you whore yourself around to make yet more money.
Well, think about it for a minute...
