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Don't feel safer just yet, Mr. parent post. Last night in Crown Heights (Brooklyn), a civil rights attorney (Michael Tarrif Warren) and his wife Evelyn (also a civil rights attorney I believe) witnessed a police officer making an arrest. He stopped to observe the arrest and was told by an officer to, "Get the fuck out of here, this is none of your business." Michael replied, "You don't have to talk to me that way sir, I'm a lawyer." He was told, "I don't give a fuck who you are." and walked away. Michael proceeded to take notes while in his car - at this point the sergeant (one Sgt. Talby of the 77th Precinct, NYPD) punched him several times hard through the open window and arrested both Mr. Warren and his wife.

Thankfully, the news got to the local media quickly, and when they broadcast news of the arrest, 200 folks showed up at the 77th Precinct's door (full disclosure: I was one of them). Sadly, this is hardly an isolated instance. It just happens to be the one that happened yesterday.

I realize that some of the sources I'm linking aren't exactly bastions of objective journalism, but if you'd like the other side of the issue, you have two choices:
1) Read the recommendations of NYPD officers on NYPD Rant, the largest message board for NYPD officers. In response to St. Louis ACLU handing out cameras to monitor police misconduct, many recommend "disappearing" the tapes or refusing to work in the area (see here

2) Next time you see police arresting or ticketing someone, pull out a notepad. Make sure to not interfere in any way with the police action - just take down names, badge numbers, police car numbers, and physical description of the arrestee. See what happens. I tried doing this once or twice in NYC, and was told, like Mr. Warren, that it was none of my business, to get lost.

Frank Herbert wrote a few stories about this. Best one IMHO is The Tactful Saboteur.

An excerpt:

"Before he begins training," McKie said, and his voice took on a solemn, lecturing tone, "the potential saboteur is shown the entire sordid record of history. The do-gooders succeeded once ... long ago. They eliminated virtually all red tape from government. This great machine with its power over human lives slipped into high speed. It moved faster and faster." McKie's voice grew louder. "Laws were conceived and passed in the same hour! Appropriations came and were gone in a fortnight. New bureaus flashed into existence for the most insubstantial reasons."

McKie took a deep breath, realizing he'd put sincere emotional weight behind his words.

"Fascinating," Bolin said. "Efficient government, eh?"

"Efficient?" McKie's voice was filled with outrage. "It was like a great wheel thrown suddenly out of balance! The whole structure of government was in imminent danger of fragmenting before a handful of people, wise with hindsight, used measures of desperation and started what was called the Sabotage Corps."

"Ahhh, yes. I've heard about the Corps' violence."

He's needling me, McKie thought, but found that honest anger helped now. "All right, there was bloodshed and terrible destruction at the beginning," he said. "But the big wheels were slowed. Government developed a controllable speed."

"Sabotage," Bolin sneered. "In lieu of red tape."

The source isn't too hard to find. I used to host it myself. Ask just about anyone over at x-3dfx and you should be able to get it. It's a .rar that's about 30 megs that expands to about 300. It's pretty interesting to go through.

Agreed. There are other excellent documentaries on ants. See this forum thread on my message board.

Agreed. There are other excellent documentaries on ants. See this forum thread on my message board.

Sorry, but the disavowal of differences between races is running up against more and more scientific evidence to the contrary. Human racial groupings may not be as discrete as species, but they have medical relevance.

The reality of race
http://mednews.stanford.edu/releases/2005/january/ racial-data.htm
http://www.policyreview.org/DEC01/satel.html
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0002A35 3-C027-1E1C-8B3B809EC588EEDF

Medical significance of race
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/080501/m et_6870358.html
http://www.marrow.org/NMDP/black_african_american_ patients.html
http://p221.ezboard.com/fbalkanhistoryfrm17.showMe ssage?topicID=2.topic

This is dispicable behaviour from the BBC. I don't think people are realising the issue here. They are undermining the cost of design. To redesign something as popular as the BBC page requires an intricate knowledge of SO many web design and usabilty fundamentals. Simply coaxing a designer with £2k worth of product and a blue peter badge is not my idea of reward. ...

I know this is off topic, but when seeing the parent posts being modded down, I had to try to put their reactions into perspective. They have come out of a belief where you are taught that God is going to destroy the world. Contact with outsiders is strongly discouraged outside of business/preaching to them. And if you leave the religion, contact with all members, friends inside is forbidden. It is extremely strict.

Perhaps this small list of the many, many support and recovery groups out there will give people who are actually interested an idea.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/default.ashx
http://www.jehovahswitnessonline.com/
http://www.network54.com/Forum/128637/
http://www.kent.steinhaug.no/forum/index.php?s=6d1 142efa3cead5e738c1a9774d22f47
http://b26.ezboard.com/bexjehovahswitnessforum
http://www.towerwatch.com/phpBB//
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/CanXJW/ .. and this is really just a start.

Not my intention to start a flame war, but this IS important to put into perspective. There are thousands of people who suffer in silence. I'm an ex-victim myself.

I wonder if the hacker's name is Andrew G. by any chance?

What kind of hacker do you suppose he is? gwerdna is a pretty poor anagram of Andrew G.

If that's not his name, it's fairly random.

He's been using it since the end of 2004 at least. http://p212.ezboard.com/bnendowingsmirai.showUserP ublicProfile?gid=gwerdna

"Better safe than sorry..."

There's also the equally stupid and useless colloquialism, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." Both are equally useless SHORTCUTS TO THINKING.

Then let me spell it out for you. There are a few situations where 'Better safe than sorry' (ad hock?) is legitimate.

1. When handling guns, never point them at your face,
2. When reports of persistent adverse reactions and mental illness occur after drug use,
3. When contemplating the ingestion of unknown mystery substances off the street.

The fact that you're advocating #2 and 3, makes you stupid and reckless.

Way to tow the party line- "I haven't done these things, but I heard they're bad for you, so don't do 'em kidz..." People like you give people a bad name.

Here's a little tip about towing the party line. You've used drugs and had no adverse reactions, so you think they're great. Then it becomes your life mission to tell everyone how much you love drugs. Then you think that someone pointing out dangers of drugs is from the DEA. Real fucking shock.

I guarantee you that as long as he's being honest about his use (and knowing about this world, I can tell from his writing that he is both truthful and well informed) he has performed far more "research" than 99% of the peopled alive today who have studied this subject.

You can do all the research in the world, but if you don't know there are adverse reactions to just about anything, then you're a moron.

If he (you) really had the intention of finding adverse reactions to drugs, and not just spouting his love for LSD, maybe he should get a clue and go where he's most likely to find them. Like through medical school, where he can take his residence in the ER and treat drug-crazed individuals. Then he can become a psychiatrist where he'll learn that drugs actually have side-effects, and that a recurring theme in the psych ward is onset of illnesses after drug use. Even from one exposure.

There are people who've tried marijuana once and developed chronic depersonalization and flashbacks. Did LSD.Loser even mention flashbacks, HPPD, depersonalization, and the various disorders that are listed in the DSM-IV?

Rye mold, (ergot) contains an LSD analog, and there are reported cases where a bakery used moldy bread and made the entire town go bonkers. People were jumping out windows, hanging from clothes lines, and dismembering themselves, and doing all sorts of weird shit. Yeah, and LSD is so safe.

Even ancient cultures recognized hallucinogen pathologies. "If visions controlled the shaman rather than vice versa he was considered a madman."

When I build a multi-TB RAID, I don't neccessarily have to perform a whole research program with control group and interns and so on. Why? Because I have EXPERIENCE. I have done it enough times to know which filesystem is suited to which tasks, with which OS, on which hardware, utilizing which drivers.

That's not how the pharmaceutical or the science world works, pal. we're not talking about identical, replaceable computer systems, we're talking about billions of humans that are all totally different. Every time someone takes a drug, they're performing an experiment that's never been done before.

You're experience, or "what you think people" experience on drugs, doesn't matter and it's not scientific. What matters is how everyone experiences a drug. You don't find out by taking the drug, you perform scientific experiments. And when you're done, you don't simply say that all the people who don't like drugs are crazy.

Even if you're right, crazy people are part of society too. Let's say that 35% of the population have some sort of mental illness. That means that 35% of people shouldn't take LSD. That's a pharmaceuticals' death warr

There is no good substitute for doing a journal search and reading about this stuff directly. Talkorigins has reams of this stuff: it was set up to BE a resource for showing laypeople the actual biology. And here's a decent recent example described pretty well in terms of the way in which reproductive incompatibility occurs in abalone, one of the very simplest and easiest to understand examples (scroll down belwo the reply box):
http://p222.ezboard.com/freligiousdebate60574frm43 .showAddReplyScreenFromWeb?topicID=2.topic&index=1 6

There was a previous discussion about this one on my message board.

I can answer this easily, and go beyond your question.

You have 10 classes in Iron Heroes. One, the arcanist, is special and wierd, because it's a magic user. It is actually statted out seperate from the other classes. The other nine are the meat of Iron Heroes: the fighting classes!

First comes the archer. This class is for all ranged weapons, be they bows, slings, or daggers. They gain a number of abilities that rely on you spending time aiming at your target. While any class can be decent at ranged, archer is required to truly master it.

Second is the armiger. This is the tank class, who specializes in wearing heavy armor and making it look good. He gradually gains the ability to wear the heaviest armor effortlessly, while wearing down his opponents.

Third is the berserker. Screaming as he rushes headlong into battle, the berserker is fueled by fury. He has the standard ability to make himself stronger through anger, but also has many other abilities that are about battle rage and being the biggest, strongest motherfucker around.

Fourth is the executioner. Cool, collected, and deadly, the executioner places his blade precisely and cripples his opponents. This class gains full Sneak Attack and a number of abilities related to crippling the opponent.

Fifth is the harrier. This class is the essence of speed - the lightly armored, supremely mobile fighter who vaults over her enemy's weapons. Their abilities are focused around dodging and movement.

Sixth is the hunter, though this class would perhaps be better named Commander. A capable ranger-analogue by himself, the hunter excels at making sure that his team performs at their best.

Seventh is the man-at-arms. This is the simplest class, but also the most versatile. His only class ability is feats. Lots of them. Also, some of his feats are 'Wildcard'. Rather than selecting this feat once and being stuck with it forever, he can re-select it every day, thus tailoring his abilities to the situation at hand.

Eighth is the thief. This isn't exactly equivalent to the D&D rogue, but it's close. One of the least combat-worthy classes, the thief specializes in skills, skills, sneak attack, and skills. He has the best access to the Social feats of all, and accumulates a number of aliases to help him do his shadow-work without being caught.

Finally, the weapon master. An expert in one weapon, the weapon master learns a number of tricks specifically for his weapon. He is a duelist, most of the time.

That's the basic overview. The review left out a lot of very cool stuff, such as the Mastery Ratings that each class has that determine when you can pick up certain types of feats.

Most importantly, it left out the idea of tokens. Seven of the ten classes utilize tokens to balance their abilities. You build them up by acting out the class archetype in battle. The archer, for example, builds tokens by spending actions aiming. The hunter gains a number of tokens automatically from his study of battlefield tactics, and can earn more by studying the field. You then spend these tokens to use your abilities. This mechanic allows the class abilities to be balanced per encounter, rather than per day like many D&D abilities. As long as you still have HP left in your body, you can continue to fight and use all of your abilities all day, without running into some arbitrary limit and having to rest for the day.

Finally, the best part of Iron Heroes is the community! http://p222.ezboard.com/fokayyourturnfrm36 This is the official Monte Cook Iron Heroes message board, filled with people who love the game and love developing new things for it. Best of all, it is full of errata and clarifications to make playing the game as smooth as possible.

EverQuest Widows Discussion Board

On-Line Gamers Anonymous

Best of luck.

Actually, in the last couple of models, AMD has been making huge strides in reducing the heat dissipation of their models, beating intel pretty often. Wikipedia has an article showing some of the heat dissipation details..: Wikipedia.
But then again, given that the specs of the notebook show it to be a 500 MHz machine, it is true that the Intel chips of that time were more thermally efficient as show by these websites: Intel CPU thermal ratings and some others including many AMD cores. But then again, we have the AMD Geode that consumes max of 4 watts at 500 Mhz. So... it's really something that AMD is just as competent at I presume.

I'm surprised that an intelligent design didn't attack this part of the thread yet.

If they did, I would just refer them to this link: Is God an Accident? and direct them to pay special attention to section V, which is entitled "We've Evolved to be Creationists".

Now that would really cause ballistics.

here. Google turns up many more ("katrina"+"flotilla"+"turned back"). A lot of the reporting is partisan, but can you blame them? There is little doubt that it happened.

by a guy who make a witch turn lesbian in another show with declining ratings.

No, no. When the ratings started to decline, he had one lesbian die, so she was the dead lesbian, and then the other lesbian turned evil, so she was the evil lesbian. This is called the dead and evil lesbian cliche, and I assure you that Joss wasn't the first one to do it. Hell, they even had it on Babylon 5.

They call their technology volumetric, but from the description you get the idea that it's just flat, non-stereographic video captured and projected in a spherical way.

Not that it isn't interesting and immersive, but given the recent interest in stereo by big names such as Spielberg, Cameron and Rodriguez, I was hoping that it would have indeed been at least 360 stereographic, if not holographic, which volumetric IMHO kinda implies.

J

Interesting forum thread. Well, the last post is.
http://p198.ezboard.com/feudaimonia38580metaexperi mentaldiscussionboard.showMessage?topicID=58.topic
I'm not going to post the contents in a futile attempt to stay almost on-topic.

OK, that the bad news.

The worse news is that they're replacing them with the 4Kids ones from Sonic X. Yuck. Looks like I'll be turning on the Japanese voices as soon as I get these games.

Sega fucks things up again. What else is new?

source

I posted this on my ant message board as well in this thread. It has more comments.

Ants have parasites as well according to this thread/discussion : "There is a parasite that cause behavioural change in ants. It's called lancet fluke. The parasitized ants become "ant zombies". They're influenced to cling to grass, until eventually eaten by herbivores. I sometimes find decapitated ant heads clinging to grasses. These may well be such cases."

I posted this on my ant message board as well in this thread. It has more comments.

Ants have parasites as well according to this thread/discussion : "There is a parasite that cause behavioural change in ants. It's called lancet fluke. The parasitized ants become "ant zombies". They're influenced to cling to grass, until eventually eaten by herbivores. I sometimes find decapitated ant heads clinging to grasses. These may well be such cases."

Click here to read.

I have copied the posts to an open forum at http://p207.ezboard.com/fdiscussingreformationfrm2 .showMessage?topicID=889.topic

they would have just not hired "ugly women" (their quote, not mine)

Actually, that's XYZ Computing's quote, not Agetec's quote. I can't find anything about what they're planning on Agetec's site.

In fact, they look like a practically dead company if you look at their press releases on their site. Over the past YEAR they've released ONE press release.

Trying Google News found this article. Not very helpful.

My guess is that they aren't looking for "ugly" women, but in fact old women (based on the "granny panties"). My guess would be that they're going to have women who are at least 50 years old acting as "booth babes".

But yeah, this is just a giant publicity stunt. Quick, name one game that Agetec has published!

Here, look over thier official discussion boards (hosted at ezboard.com - no, seriously, they are, it's linked from their web page). (And, no, you can't actually view the three "private" forums at the bottom.)

There's practically no activity on those forums.

It's a publicity stunt for a practically no-name publisher trying to get some attention. And it's worked. (Of course, what games are they hoping to hype? Clicking on "Coming Soon" comes up with one. "WILD ARMS Alter code: F". Which, according to a Google search, is a remake of an older RPG.)

So, yeah. Some small company that apparently hasn't really done much of anything for the past year is trying to hype up ...... something for E3. Yay.

You want version 5.0 of this motherboard, and then get a honeyx OC bios and update it to that to get IO APIC. After that, it should be pretty rock solid, I run a 1.33ghz at 1.47ghz, which is the equivalent of 1800+ apparently (i hate their system).

I've never had any problems with the board and I'd recommend it to anyone who needed a look-end workstation(by todays standards).

Of course I don't use the onboard video/sound and most of the things I don't use are turned off. It's important to read around and find out if there are any things in your bios that can enhance the performance/stability. Usually it's a tradeoff.

Anyways here's a link to a useful read on the K7S5A

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I've been following the discussion on the neverending PA thread, and congrats on a fantastic sting. I was really moved by the post about a lass who had only two copies of her novel at a book fair because that was all she could afford to buy from her 'publisher' for the event.

There's nothing wrong with POD or self-pub if you know what you're getting into - I self-published three SF novels over the past 4 years and they were picked up by a reputable publisher just last week - but dressing things up to fool hopeful writers is sickening.

Seriously?

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The very first regularly published web comic based on video gaming is the original incarnation of The Polymer-City Chronicles which ran through Game Zero magazine and can be read in the Game Zero comics archive. The strip dates from the week of March 13th, 1995. Prior to that the strip was running in the GZ print magazine. The current PCC site features the story arc since January 2000. For more chronology about PCC, you can read this post in his forum.

While there were some one-off comics that floated around the usenet that had video gaming punchlines, PCC was the first on the web dedicated to that theme.

sometimes when a challenge like this comes along I've got to take it up. Just got a mandelbrot demo working on my ps2 with the 6yo. It was based on the sample demo program that shipped with the demo disk

with yabasic of course. with every ps2 shipped into AUS (and UK and some other euro countries with PAL TV systems) a copy of the yabasic interpreter was bundled along with the demo disk.

The ps2 homebrew programming community is pretty strong with yabasic and ps2linux.

btw the input via the ps2 controller is as bad as my ZX80 bubble keyboard. I don't have a USB keyboard (or a Datel PS2 XPort). Now for pong. It takes slashdot to get the young bloke to input games I played 25yrs ago :)

sometimes when a challenge like this comes along I've got to take it up. Just got a mandelbrot demo working on my ps2 with the 6yo. It was based on the sample demo program that shipped with the demo disk

with yabasic of course. with every ps2 shipped into AUS (and UK and some other euro countries with PAL TV systems) a copy of the yabasic interpreter was bundled along with the demo disk.

The ps2 homebrew programming community is pretty strong with yabasic and ps2linux.

btw the input via the ps2 controller is as bad as my ZX80 bubble keyboard. I don't have a USB keyboard (or a Datel PS2 XPort). Now for pong. It takes slashdot to get the young bloke to input games I played 25yrs ago :)

Intellectuals have always been against totalitarianism.

Just say "Orwell" and the book "1984" comes to mind. Say "Bradbury", and you'll remember "Farenheit 451". The threaten of an all-seeing arm of the law, made not to serve people but to make people servants of the law, has very well been studied. Either for captialism (Farenheit), or communism (1984).

In an era of cybernetics, intellectuals have been forced outside the law. But this is not new. They've already been called witches, communists, anarchists, pirates... hackers - and who knows tomorrow. Always a name-calling for those who threaten the Status quo. And it NEVER fails.

Sure, we all fear embarrassment and prison if somehow a man in black knocks at our door saying we downloaded music. But many times the system doesn't question: "Are we doing the right thing?"

Is it really that the RIAA are protecting the musicians' rights, or is it more that they're protecting their OWN income, leaving musicians in bankruptcy?

I often think of Javert from Les Miserables, when I see the RIAA or MPAA trying to use the Law to enslave the people that the Law was precisely supposed to protect (the citizens).

"It's the Law!!!" Javert says.
But WHOSE law, I ask?

Common people (whom I call "hobbits", always ignorant of their approaching doom, isolated in their comfy houses in the Shire) just get scandalized. "oh! Hacker! Oh! Law breaker! Oh, criminal!".

But they don't step to realize. What happens when a law does more harm than good? What happens when citizens are manipulated by a political puppet of the CIA to invade Iraq? What happens when people give away their freedom of choice, to the ones that were supposed to protect this very freedom?

I'm not an anarchist. I like the Law. I LOVE the law (Without law, another law would reign, and it's the law of the strongest).

But we all have to remember, that when the Law isn't protecting the citizens, it must be abolished. If it's not, then the governments are just making a recipe for disaster.

Remember what happened in the French Revolution. Had the government (i.e. the King) given his rights to a democracy, so much blood wouldn't have been shed in the name of "liberty, equality, fraternity".

So very well the RIAA, MPAA, and George Bush should remember these words that the world seems to have forgotten:

Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

Yes, I read TFA. Been there, got the "Easy Does It" and "Sh!t Creek/up-and-back" t-shirts...

Ninety five percent of all US "Treatment Centers" are really 12-step indoctrination centers, and websearches bring up vast numbers of 12-step glurge sites by anonymous members. Virually everyone you ask will say "I don't know anything about it but AA is where you go if you have a drinking problem." Here are the needles in the haystack for anyone who is considering ot has had any 12-step involvement:

http://www.aadeprogramming.com/
I'll write my book on it someday, but meanwhile read the books online on this site:
http://morerevealed.com/

http://www.orange-papers.org/
http://www.peele.net/

If you're not familiar with 12-step programs, here is the "On-Line Gamers Anonymous" version of "How It Work", taken straight from the first three pages of chapter 5, "How It Works" of AA's "Big Book", "Alcoholics Anonymous"

http://p198.ezboard.com/folgafrm31.showMessage?top icID=4.topic

This is the original AA version (as originally PUBLISHED, not the "original manuscript"):
http://www.recovery.org/aa/bigbook/ww/chapter_5.ht ml

With organizations such as http://www.ncadd.org/ and judges ordering defendants to AA without revealing their own AA memberships, most other "high demand" groups would give up the equivalent of personal body parts to have the same PR and good image as AA. But at least the other cults, er, "high-demand coercive groups" have at least some negative images in the minds of the public.

One more link:
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/
Click on "Religious Group Profiles" for a list of just about every group you've probably heard of.
It even lists multilevel marketing schemes under "Para-Religious Movements."

Excessive drinking or other activity done to excess can create substantial problems in one's life, but 12-step groups are NOT the answer.

Well, it could be worse.

Robert Heinlein said it well: There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years , the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit. - "Life-Line"

Defensive shields

What about this

I guess the original article is gone. But this technology came up on Slashdot a few years ago. Maybe this is it

I think you're confusing two things here...

OLEDs are a replacement for, say, LCD, CRT, Plasma and LED displays.

HDR, on the other hand, is not a replacement for any of those - it is a concept (that of a very high range, with implied (though not specified) fidelity equal to or greater than currently used) that can be used -with- all of the above.

If you can get a CRT to display at stupendously bright levels, it could qualify for a HDR display - assuming it would still keep the same or better fidelity than a 'regular' CRT next to it in the same black-to-white range.

The actual technology used by this HDR display is that of two LCDs.. One for regular display, and another low-resolution one backlit by bright white LEDs.
And OLEDs could be a replacement for that setup, yes - but not for the concept of HDR itself ;)

For more on HDR :
http://www.debevec.org/
http://http://www.trinisica.com/sub_learn_typediss ue.asp?lv=3&mode=1&issue=002

And HDR and fidelity :
http://www.pointzero.nl/sf/reffect_scale/ ( see the chart in section 2 )
http://p067.ezboard.com/fhdrshopfrm1.showMessage?t opicID=232.topic ( beware of pop-up )

See this forum thread. Oh and photographs including a nice looking gal here.

In a lot of web board software, for instance EZBoard, the author is too lazy to do proper HTML verification, so they just strip out all < > and then convert the allowed tags with [brackets] into the same tag with <angles>.

No, there is another. I think...

The Windows 95 versions of X-Wing and Tie Fighter was when they converted the games to the X-Wing vs Tie Fighter game engine (with some extra tweaks) and called it the X-Wing Collector Series (which came with a semi-demo for XvT). By converted, I mean they converted the missions as everything else was the same from the original games. Imagine flying about in the nice 3D engine only to come back to the low resolution interface and cutscenes of old. Of course, the conversion means you can't sit in a Star Destroyer's blind spot behind its engines and just blast away anymore since engine wash was introduced. They later resold it again in the X-Wing Trilogy (obviously with X-Wing Alliance).

FYI, Totally Games made the games for Lucasarts. They also made Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Star Trek Bridge Commander, and the recent Secret Weapons over Normandy just to name a few. Incidently, somewhere on Totally Games' message board, they were discussing that while they would like to have done an expansion for XWA, Lucasarts would not have funded it because they rarely made money and XWA sold 1/3 of the original X-Wing (ARGH! Anyone else besides me who buys games no one buys?).

What about the can opener? They're even more evil than (evil) nail clippers! Couldn't someone use a can opener to force your way into the reinforced cockpit and hijack the plane?

I mean it's not as though there are more effective ways to identify potential terrorists or anything....

Bob Stimpson scammed over 80 people for $400,000 in computers. He is still at large, whereabouts unknown. He tried to file bankruptcy (his 3rd in 7 yrs), but the judge threw his case out because he couldn't show any records of what was done with the money he took from all of his eBay victims. $300,000 from ebay buyers, and another $100,000 from a supplier, within 90 days of filing for bankruptcy -- yet he didn't ship any computers during the 90 days! This was 2 yrs ago.

If you know of a Bob Stimpson in the Pittsburgh area, call the police or the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office.

formerly of Wizards of the Coast (Forgotten Realms), freelance RPG person, one of the designers over there, gave notice... here's some of his news.
http://p082.ezboard.com/fseankreynoldsboardsfrm1.s howMessage?topicID=1817.topic

RIAA forgets to pay royalties

RIAA sues consumers but forgets to pay artists

RIAA members forget to pay pension for artists

RIAA redefines online sales to lower royalties to artists

There is a dispute brewing because the RIAA has arbitrarily defined online music sales as an extension of CD/Album sales, which cuts the royalty rates to the artist significantly.

I find the RIAA's crocodile tears about protecting the artists, er, Amusing.

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United States
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Don't get me wrong, I love DDR. I have 3 copies on the PlayStation (1 and 2) as well as just about every song out there on the PC.

For those of you that like DDR, or maybe just like the idea of a new way to loose weight/get in shape, check out the sites below, they are not simple product advertisments. Tsk tsk redoctane.

www.ddrfreak.com

"DDR Freak was started on March 12, 2000 for the benefit of Northern California DDRers to get together and promote DDR around the SF Bay Area. It began when a small group of DDRers gathered at Milpitas Golfland every friday night to play DDR. As the group became larger, we decided that a website was a good idea, and it was first hosted on a UC Berkeley instructional server. Weeks passed, and DDR Freak started to get more than a few hundred hits a week, then a few thousand... Eventually, ddrfreak.n3.net became ddrfreak.com, and it continued to grow.

DDR Freak has since expanded its reach to DDRers nationwide and continues to serve as a community for DDRers."

www.ddrgame.com

"Welcome to ddrgame.com. We are the leading sellers in dance dance revolution games such as DDR Konamix, DDRmax, DDRmax 2, and the new Xbox DDR Ultramix.We are also the leading experts on dance dance revolution pads such as regular pads, non-slip pad, ignition pad, metal pad, and arcade super metal pad. At our website, you can find great selection and high-quality products, and also the best shopping experience. DDRgame.com is pleased to have you as our customer. We hope you will enjoy the shopping experience here. If you have any questions about our products, please feel free to contact us at the following information. We do welcome school purchase orders."

p090.ezboard.com/bddrjamzglobalbbs

"A heavily trafficked ddr message board with area specific forums and lots of cool goings on."

www.akddr.com

"One the the biggest DDR site in way up North! They have a DDR for PC Game to download as well as many ddr pad reviews."

My wife and I used # 3. Just used a bar of Regular soap and ran it through the food processor using the cheese grater blade. Worked great. Did a few bars and stuck them in ziplocks so we don't have to do them for a while.

Found the recipe HERE

Anyway the stuff works! Clothes are clean and just a few cents a gallon. We did it just for fun but it works good so we are going to keep using it.

Recipe #1

3 Pints Water
1/3 Bar Fels Naptha Soap, Grated
1/2 Cup Washing Soda
1/2 Cup Borax
2 Gallon Bucket
1 Quart Hot Water
Hot Water


Mix Fels Naptha soap in a saucepan with 3 pints of water, and heat on low until dissolved. Stir in Washing Soda and Borax. Stir until thickened, and remove from heat. Add 1 Quart Hot Water to 2 Gallon Bucket. Add soap mixture, and mix well. Fill bucket with hot water, and mix well. Set aside for 24 hours, or until mixture thickens. Use 1/2 cup of mixture per load.


Recipe #2

1 Cup Grated Fels Naptha Soap 1/2 Cup Washing Soda 1/2 Cup Borax 2 Tablespoons Glycerin 2 Cups Water

Mix all three ingredients together. Add glycerin and water. Use 1/2 - 3/4 cup per load. Best when used with cold or warm water.


Recipe #3

Water 1 Bar Fels Naptha Soap, Grated 5 Gallon Bucket 1 Cup Washing Soda 4 1/2 Gallons Hot Water

Place grated soap in a small saucepan and cover with water. Heat on low until dissolved. Fill bucket with hot water, and add soap. Stir to combine. Add 1 cup washing soda and mix well. As it cools it will thicken. May be used immediately. Use 1-2 cups per load.

Powdered Laundry Detergent

1 Cup Grated Fels Naptha Soap 1/2 Cup Washing Soda 1/2 Cup Borax

For light load, use 1 tablespoon. For heavy or heavily soiled load, use 2 tablespoons


The box is open

Not even close. Itunes pays the greedy record industry bastards 50 cents. There is a huge difference. The artists are likely to get 2.5 cents

Rutan is developing the launch/reentry vehicle, Armadillo is developing rocket motor/controls.

My point was that neither craft will do much of anything to revolutionize the industry. The poor performance of their craft and differing design concepts would be very poorly matched.

Come on, now. Government interest in any serious space program (at least here in the US) is dying. What's wrong with private companies banding together to make it a reality?

Absolutely nothing is wrong with private entities joining in. Unfortunately, most private launch entities have gone under due to political, legal, and social entanglements that prevented them from ever reaching space. Basically, the public is standing in the way of the visionaries without even realizing it. However, the time for real progress is quickly approaching. People are actually taking an interest in space again, and *want* to develop it. Everyone's wondering why our modern technology hasn't already given rise to starships. So much so, that rumors upon rumors have been spread about miracle technologies that "should have been included in the Space Shuttle long ago". The reality that we have to hammer in their brains is: Big ass LHOx for launch, nuclear for space.

You might find this discussion of interest. :-)