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Local Jobs [by Anonymous]

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:02:16 -0200

Local News:: Local Jobs
The 2010 Census is Hiring Locally from Ventura County up to Monterey County! Call 1-866-861-2010 for more information on Pre-Employment testing in your area or visit 2010censusjobs.gov.

Re: RIP:"at the movies ..." [by RyanMorris]

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:41:01 -0200

Whatever...:: RIP:"at the movies ..."
...like so many movies.

Re: Evelyn Taft has moved to San Fransisco [by RyanMorris]

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:39:14 -0200

Not Necessarily The News:: Evelyn Taft has moved to San Fransisco
Movin' on up!

Re: Prop 8 - Just Say Yes [by Johnny]

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:16:58 -0200

The Issues:: Prop 8 - Just Say No
Who's Steve?? Anyhow PROP 8 isn't racist. Just dont want it taught to my kids in school as being "normal". Keep it to themselves other than that. Everything should be fine. So YES on 8

Help Modify Now [by Esther]

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:46:13 -0200

Not Necessarily The News:: Help Modify Now
I noticed a recent story about Help Modify Now on KCOY 12 and Fox 11. Contrary to what the story indicated, Help Modify Now are a bunch of crooks. They stole my money and I lost my house.

Economy - WTF? [by roadkill]

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:47:49 -0200

National & World News:: Economy - WTF?
When is this ride going to end? My retirement accounts are worth less now than they were 10 years ago, and it still takes well over $50 to fill that tank on my Toyota. Off shore is starting to look REALLY attractive. Am I alone here?

The Benefits of Video Games [by Anonymous]

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:33:48 -0200

Local News:: The Benefits of Video Games
I am just so happy that we are doing that study on the benefits of video gaming. Finally, a story that doesn't involve kids learning to be violent from games and killing each other. But really, what's reported in this study is telling everyone else what us gamers have known all along. It really doesn't matter the genre, games require skill, be it from properly dropping the puzzle pieces into place in Tetris, memorization of clues to solve the mystery of Hotel Dusk: Room 215, even Pac-Man required quick wits, timing and if you got real good, memorization of the ghosts patterns. Studys have even shown that surgeons who play games before surgery not only do better, but finish faster (which works well for the surgery games like Trauma Center).
There are other benefits of gaming as well. Those based on history can actually provide facts on what happened in certain points of time.
World War Two games have you recreate famous war battles; and the Call of Duty series includes missions where you uncover actual facts about war time tactics we used to win. There are also the hand eye coordination of games, something that is put to the test with a rousing session of Guitar Hero. SimCity introduces young players to finances, city planning and politics. Games like the recently released Spore or Blast Works encourage people to use their imagination. Even Pokemon can provide kids with tactical thinking skills as they decide which creature to use to best defeat an enemy.
Then there is the social aspect of gaming. Amany fraternity parties had at least one TV going with Guitar Hero 2 being played out by a large group of people. The Wii has succesfully brought the family into the hobby with games like Wii Sports.
I know not all games are as beneficial as others, mostly fighting games and the Halo series, but more games are than are not.
I guess what I'm saying is that I know a lot about video games, they're more beneficial than harmful, and hopefully everyone will someday realize that stories reported about how such and such school shooter was influenced to to kill by playing games is just bogus.

Re: Governor Rejects Budget [by roadkill]

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:10:10 -0200

Local News:: Governor Rejects Budget
Yeah, it sounds like da govenator skipped his bowl of All-Bran this morning.

Re: My Memories of September 11th [by roadkill]

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:34:58 -0200

Local News:: My Memories of September 11th
I was away on a business trip and had to rent a car and drive a day and a half to get home.

Anne Hathaway's Ex Goes To Jail [by kristenoato]

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:09:26 -0200

National & World News:: Anne Hathaway's Ex Goes To Jail
He just looks slimey. I read somewhere that he got in trouble for pretending to be the financial advisor to the Vatican? Who says that and gets away with it for so long? I'm just trying to figure out if she knew about it the whole time!