Posts by Wizard

  • Jack Thompson, WTH?

    ***OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE AHEAD*** <img src=´http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2005/20051014l.jpg ´> Copyright 2005 Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade><A href=´http://www.penny-arcade.com/index.php´ Target=_Blank>And all of it is true</a> This next mail elicited a second call, which we have detailed in the strip. Gabe´s own voice rose triumphantly throughout this phase, I thought perhaps he was just getting into the rhetorical spirit of the thing, but the reality is that Jack screamed at him the entire time. The point he submitted went without answer: if a company made his reprehensible game, he would literally have to sue himself and talk about what a bastard he was on national television. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2>

  • It´s Back !!!!!!

    &quot;Reply with quote&quot;... It has never been there! <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> get over it dude <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

  • Jack Thompson, WTH?

    <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade><A href=´http://videogames.yahoo.com/newsarticle?eid=384830&amp;page=0´ Target=_Blank>Sims 2 content &quot;worse than Hot Coffee&quot;</a> [UPDATE Miami attorney Jack Thompson claims cheat codes make EA´s life sim a pedophile´s paradise by showing genitalia; calls for ban on T-rated game. [... He cites a cheat code that can remove the blur that covers the nether regions. &quot;The nudity placed there by the publisher/maker, Electronic Arts, is accessed by the use of a simple code that removes what is called ´the blur´ which obscures the genital areas. In other words, the game was released to the public by the manufacturer knowing that the full frontal nudity was resident on the game and would be accessed by use of a simple code widely provided on the Internet.&quot; It´s not just the adults that are liberated from their wardrobes. Sims kids can also be nudified, &quot;much to the delight, one can be sure, of pedophiles around the globe who can rehearse, in virtual reality, for their abuse.&quot; Were this to be true, Thompson would have his smoking gun, and EA would be forced to recall all copies of The Sims 2. However, it´s what´s under the blur that Thompson´s after. And what happens when the blur is lifted? A simple mannequin-esque smooth body, according to EA. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> I stopped taking Thompson seriously they day I was born. How about this on Thompson? <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade><A href=´http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)´ Target=_Blank>Loss To Janet Reno</a> In 1988 Thompson was the unsuccessful GOP challenger to Janet Reno for the Office of Dade County State Attorney. Following this, as the &quot;Man in Miami&quot; for NewsMax.com, he made a series of bizarre allegations regarding Reno, met with incredulity in the press, claiming that she was a closet lesbian suffering from various mental disorders as side effects of Parkinson´s medication, and that she was being blackmailed by the Mafia. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2>

  • The video iPod! (plus we can date Siena Miller!)

    They are red and I´m a stud. Period! Now get back on topic, talk about the viPod <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edit: I´m copyrighting that name! viPod ©. There we go. Copyright © 2005 Vincent &quot;Wizard&quot; Hoogeboom - All Rights Reserved Edited by - Wizard on 10/13/2005 4:20:16 PM

  • The *GASP* VIRUS thread!

    I once had a trojan that sent emails with viruses around (that was the time when I thought Ididn´t need a AV-program). My ISP blocked my internet acces so I called them to ask what I should do. They responded with: Scan/clean your computer, then sent us an email. And I was like: How can I email you, when I don´t have a freakin´ acces to the net?! I also told them that I *had* to use the internet to stay in touch with clients from work and that each day that I would be unable to connect I lost quite some money. They believed and gave me back my access, which I used to update my previously bought Kasperky which now scans my pc everyday <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Indy : I always did the &quot;Prnt-Scrn Desktop, use that as a background and move the icons out of the way&quot; trick <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Wizard on 10/12/2005 3:33:23 PM

  • vote for us

    I voted but damn, that code is pretty difficult to read. **Edit: pretty difficult, not pretty!*** Edited by - Wizard on 10/11/2005 3:53:02 PM

  • Who controls the internet?

    And thus censoring it? Deleting/removing sites that are critical about certain actions? Raiding people´s houses when they´re not there to confiscate their hardware (Secret Service)? Sticking to the old conservative way of live? And it´s not China I´m talking about...

  • Who controls the internet?

    It scares me that America (and in particular the Bush administration) has so much control over the internet. But unfortunately, I can´t discuss that here <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> But I have these links! <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- The United States refuses to relinquish its role as the Internet´s principal traffic policeman, rejecting calls in a United Nations meeting for a U.N. body to take over, a top U.S. official said. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> <A href=´http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/09/30/internet.control.ap/index.html´ Target=_Blank>Quote taken from this article.</a> <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>&quot;We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet,&quot; said Ambassador David Gross, the U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy at the State Department. &quot;Some countries want that. We think that´s unacceptable.&quot; <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> <A href=´http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/09/30/eu.us.internet.ap/index.html´ Target=_Blank>Taken from this article</a> When are you Americans going to realise that the world is not all about you?! One positive thing though, they didn´t even mention the war on terrorism! ***Edit: big grammar screw-up corrected, added the quotes <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>*** Edited by - Wizard on 10/11/2005 7:21:50 AM

  • Michu Kaku: Hyperspace

    Quote from Wiki: <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>.....Some of the main assertions of this hypothesis are that time is cubic, that there are four simultaneous 24 hour days in one rotation of the Earth and that Gene Ray is wiser than all gods and scientists... <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> Especially that last bit of the sentence makes me wonder is he knows *whisper* John Byrne */whisper*?