>> >> Tasteless? Oh probably. But then again, so is Grand Theft Auto IV. >> >> It's a game. Get over it. >> > > Hey Gene, > > I know you've been around long enough that if you spent 30 seconds pondering > your answer, you could probably come up with a little bit better one? > > Flip it around ... can you imagine some sort of "bombing" mission reenacting > some event from not too many years ago, that would probably anger and upset > most americans, especially if it was organized as a "for fun" event, and > maybe even worse if it drew the participation primarly from some particular > group of people. > > There are a lot of tasteless things we could point to that exist, but that > doesn't necessarily mean we need to endorse them, participate in them, or > use them as an excuse to justify further tasteless, or offensive, or > potentially hurtful things. > Well like I replied to Willie, I wouldn't much care for Twin Towers II in FlightGear, but I'm not about to run in circles and scream & shout about it.
To me, it's a distributed computing effort with the goal of turning a mole hill into a mountain. > So a simulated mission to fly anywhere to drop a simulated atomic bomb. Has > anyone checked the age of the people who are excited about doing this? It's > probably going to average out at about 14.5 and that's including Gene. > Heh. The only problem is, FlightGear isn't capable of even remotely simulating that. There's a lot more important things in this world to get spun up about besides a bunch of tweener jerks that have a hardon for pretending to bomb cities. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
