The internet is rife with news stories about crazed people tracking down and trying to murder other people on the net over inconsequential arguments. The first time someone winds up knifed or shot over Warcraft because Blizzard published their real name on the net for the world to see, the lawsuit will be epic.
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Foxconn Enlists External Company to Manage Shenzhen Dorms
@stryder100: The military providing for any spiritual needs of the soldiers doesn't disturb me in the least. Mandatory attendance would disturb me greatly, but just having the thing around for those who want to use it, not at all.
I got perfect scores on both tests, while still achieving faster reactions than the averages for multitasking. Neither test took into account that being distracted in the real world comes from being confronted with multiple things that you care about. It's much easier to filter out blue shapes than it is to ignore…
@Nihilexistentialist: Well, let's say that your mom bought a car to drive you to school in, and she bought it because of a sweet stereo included in the car, which the car's maker advertised as a reason to buy the car.
Gates worked on the shitty later episodes of the Police Quest games. The Police Quests that most people played, 1-3, were made with a different cop named Jim Walls.
Oh, and for the gun control argument, don't point to Canada. Canada's short on handguns but LOADED on rifles. A child playing with his rifle would not be any less common in Canada than in the US; if anything it might be more likely.
A .22 rifle isn't an uncommon or even particularly risky thing to have around an 11-year-old. I had a .22 at that age, used for target shooting under adult supervision. I was also not inclined to try to use the thing as a toy, which is kind of the important difference. The kid was careless, but it was the place of…
The scientology-protestor Anonymous are not the same animal as the /b-tard Anonymous anymore. There's some overlap, but the protestors are in it more from a sincere conviction of doing the right thing than for the lulz at this point.
Does anyone know for sure that this guy had ill intentions? The sparse details in the article didn't touch on the girl's motivations for ditching her home; for all we know she wasn't running to have illegal sexings with a WoW nerd, she was running from an abusive home situation. People are quick to assume the most…