Recent content by QuantumT

I'm just going to throw out what in my opinion is the original game for being more fun while cheating, Contra. Oh ^^vvAB, without you I never would have even gotten close to the end.

I'm going to attempt to clarify what Entitled was getting at. He brought up people borrowing games, he was giving a very distinct group of people who are "piggybacking" on the people who buy the game (ie they get to play the game but aren't paying for it). When you respond with That is...

To say that stealing $1 and stealing $10000 aren't different levels of wrong just seems to be blatantly incorrect. To clarify why, lets make an analogy using violence instead of money. "Flicking someone on the ear is just as morally wrong as shooting them in the head." Making these two...

I'm with pretty much everyone else on this one. As dirty as it makes me feel, I have to side with EA. I'm glad that they're likely going to sue Zynga out of existence.

*sigh* I'm talking about women's soccer. While I forgot to explicitly say as much, it's should have been pretty clear since South Africa is only competing in women's soccer. Furthermore, Japan's men's soccer team won their group. Anyhow , the reported motivation for this was for beneficial...

Do you think that he wouldn't if he could still advance? The only reason they try as hard as they do is because they have to Actually they started to put in some level of effort after they were admonished for their play, it was just decided that they still weren't really trying to win...

They are no different. Do you really think that the swimmers would put in the level of effort they do currently if it wasn't necessary? Basically the only thing you've proved is that the rules for swimming suck slightly less. Both the swimmers and the badminton players were putting in the...

This here is exactly my point. Why are we punishing them for trying to do something that the rules implicitly recommend? I'll repeat though that this won't even discourage the practice of throwing matches, it will merely discourage the throwing of matches in an obvious way. Swimmers only...

Eight badminton players were disqualified yesterday after attempting to lose their matches in order to obtain a more advantageous seed position in the elimination rounds. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/01/sport/olympics-badminton-scandal/index.html Oh really? How about all those soccer...

Out of curiosity, in Portugal do they use your first name to separate you into groups as opposed to your last name? In the US, assuming your name was John Doe, you would be put into the A-D group as opposed to the E-H group, because last name is almost always the one used to do something like...

FWIW, the contempt motion has been withdrawn, so it's somewhat of a moot point now: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120723/NEWS01/307230081/Contempt-motion-withdrawn-sexual-assault-victim-Savannah-Dietrich-who-tweeted-attackers-names%22

And someone having god awful rap start in class and someone merely glancing at their silent phone are clearly equivalent.

I know it's silly and confrontational, but what you could have done here was just shove the phone back in your pocket and claim innocence. If she asks you to show her, you just politely refuse. If she decides to mark you off for it in any way, you then have something you can take to the school...

I agree with his point that generally engineers are more useful than anthropologists, but what's great about the system is that gets taken into account already when people are allowed to choose their careers by themselves. There's no need for the state to step in and do anything, because supply...

The one I always find myself making is typing "it's" to indicate that "it" has possession of the object, as opposed to "its" which is the grammatically correct word to use. It's not that I don't understand when to use each one, it's just that I unconsciously add " 's" to show possession, since...