I play exactly 0 computer/electronic games, online or otherwise. Sitting down around a table to play a game face to face (i.e. Magic, bridge, monopoly, etc) I find to be far more pleasurable than _ANOTHER_ several hours in front of a screen.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Good luck with this. My online game of choice is <a href="http://projecteuler.net/" target="_blank">http://projecteuler.net/</a> .<br>
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-- CHS<br>
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On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Kid made a windows live account. Movung into online gaming territory.<br>
><br>
> On Aug 7, 2011 7:05 PM, "James Sumners" <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Just create a Windows Live ID[1] and quit being a dick about it. All<br>
>> it is used for is logging into the Xbox Live service. I use a Hotmail<br>
>> account that won't even work if I try to login to Hotmail (they<br>
>> disable Hotmail accounts after a period of inactivity).<br>
>><br>
>> [1] --<br>
>> <a href="https://accountservices.passport.net/ppnetworkhome.srf?vv=1100&mkt=EN-US&lc=1033" target="_blank">https://accountservices.passport.net/ppnetworkhome.srf?vv=1100&mkt=EN-US&lc=1033</a><br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 17:08, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> So I put my foot down about even having an xbox in the house but was<br>
>>> over-ridden by wife and kid with his own funds.<br>
>>><br>
>>> During the network connection setup it was time to create an xbox live<br>
>>> account. It asked for the email of the user.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Then it asked for the password for the email account.<br>
>>><br>
>>> um. hello?!?<br>
>>><br>
>>> So if someone has a hotmail or other microsoft account then they already<br>
>>> have access to their account contents. But my kid doesn't _have_ a<br>
>>> microsoft<br>
>>> account. gmail, yes.<br>
>>><br>
>>> So he can't go forward 'cause there's no way in hell I'm letting him put<br>
>>> in<br>
>>> his gmail password without him having a microsoft account of some kind.<br>
>>><br>
>>> He just got a hard lesson on why Dad doesn't trust that company with any<br>
>>> thing.<br>
>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> --<br>
>>> James P. Kinney III<br>
>>><br>
>>> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to<br>
>>> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they<br>
>>> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.<br>
>>> - 2011 Noam Chomsky<br>
>>><br>
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>><br>
>> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts<br>
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>> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><br>As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
outcome.<br>- <i><i><i><i>2011 Noam Chomsky<br><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i><br>