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Gallowglass writes: "Salon has written a review of the Xbox which damns with extremely faint praise." There was a big hoopla in Times Square last night, but apparently no one pied Bill Gates. So, for all you poor souls who lined up to give money to the borg: does it work? Any blue-screens yet? :) Update: 11/15 15:23 GMT by M : Okay, I'm sorry. That's green screen of death, not blue screen.
Heh! Doh I forgot my password..
--gnr
First post also released already !!
I'll buy an X-Box when you pry cash into my cold, dead hands.
who obviously never got a free XBox from Bill, but did get his dick sucked by Sony.
Once again Micro$oft figures out a way to screw a new group of people. They convinced most of the bands to give them the music for free. The story is here (NYTIMES reg req.). The bands did it for the publicity but guess what, there are no credits and you can replace the music with your own.
This guy brings up a great point. He is not trolling, and he hasn't been rated in order to be rated as overrated... remember, you're supposed to mod UNBIASED.
I mean really, linking the xbox release with one totally negative article, while other sites have given it a much better outlook. Please try to be fair here slashdot.
BWAHAHAHAHA! Asking /. to be fair and balanced when dealing with M$-related things is like asking Rush Limbaugh to stop parroting Republican dogma: i.e., it just won't happen.
The Crabbing Regulations listed here are from the Delaware Tidal Water Recreational Fishing Regulations . Check their site for updates.
Peeler 3 inches
Soft-shell 3 1/2 inches
Hard-shell 5 inches (except mature females)
Crab pots may be used between March 1st through November 30th.
Limit of one bushel per crabber.
Mature females are identified by the rounded apron on their under side. Once this stage of development is achieved, females stop growing. Because a portion of the female population does not reach five inches before achieving maturity, the minimum size requirement has been dropped. Females bearing eggs, commonly known as "sponge crabs," may not be taken and should be returned to the water immediately.
Recreational crabbers may use two pots without a license, however the person claiming to own the pots must tend them. These pots must be marked with all white buoys with the owner's full name and permanent mailing address inscribed either on the buoy or on a waterproof tag attached to the buoy. Recreational crabbers may use a trotline (no length limit) and any number of hand lines or traps. The recreational daily limit is one bushel per person.
1999 Maryland Crabbing Laws
Contact the Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Fisheries Service for changes:
580 Taylor Ave., Annapolis, Md. 21401
Reinstatement of Non-Commercial Crabbing License Effective 1999.
Sport Crab License (January1 - December 31
Required of persons catching crabs for non-commercial purposes in the water of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries using:
1. More than 600 feet but not more than 1,200 feet of trotline;
2. More than 10 but not more than 30 collapsible traps or net rings; or
3. Mo more than 10 eel pots for catching the individual's own bait.
MD DNR Online Licenses You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view, and print this form. Send it to the MD DNR address listed above.
Check out their Crab Facts
Recreational Season, Days and Times:
April 1 - November 30, 1998, Closed Wednesdays, hours: 0530-1700 main bay, 0530-sunset in tidal tributaries, no time limit for hand lines, dip nets, pots at private piers.
Recreational Gear Limits:
From docks & shorelines: No more than 10 traps/rings or combination thereof per person.
From boats: No more than 25 traps/rings or combination thereof per boat (regardles of number of people on the boat).
Not more than 1000 feet of baited trotline per person, if more than one person on a boat not more than 2000 feet of baited trotline per boat.
The use of Crab Pots is RESTRICTED to two pots per private waterfront property/parcel.
A collapsible crab trap or crab net ring which is not attached to a pier, wharf, or boat shall be marked with a buoy bearing the name of the owner.
Virginia Crabbing Laws Online from the Virginia Marine Resources Commission.
Contact the Fisheries Service for changes:
P.O. Box 756 Newport News, Virginia 23607 -
Crabbing Regulations:
Minimum size: Hard--- 5 inches;
Minimum size limits: 5" for male hard crabs (jimmies) and immature female hard crabs, and 3-1/2" for softshell crabs, measured from tip to tip of the longest spikes. No size limits exist for peelers crabs or adult female hard crabs (sooks)
Licensing Information:
Any person desiring to take or catch finfish or shell fish for recreational purposes in the tidal waters of Virginia must first obtain the appropriate commercial gear license for recreational purposes (see exemptions below). Licenses can be purchased from any Virginia Marine Resources Commission licensing agents, except that crab pound/trap licenses can only be obtained from the district marine patrol officer. All licenses are valid for a calendar year and expire December 31 in the year issued.
License tags for vessels using crab pots and trot lines must be fastened at a conspicuous place on the starboard side of the boat or on the boat's mast during crabbing season.
Any license to use fishing or crabbing gear for recreational purposes shall be issued to an individual for his exclusive use and shall not be transferable.
No person shall be issued more than one recreational crab pot license, nor more than one recreational crab trap license.
EXEMPTIONS: The following activities are exempt from the licensing requirements:
Taking by dip net, handline, or two crab pots, as much as one bushel of hard crabs and two dozen peeler crabs in any one day for personal use only.
Annual License Fees:
For up to five recreational crab
For a recreational crab
For an ordinary crab trotline up to 300
Gear Restrictions:
Any law or regulation applying to the setting or fishing of commercial gill nets, fish cast nets, fish dip nets, crab pots, crab pound/traps or crab trotlines shall also apply to these gear when set or fished for recreational purposes.
It is unlawful for any person to use more than five crab pots when that person has been issued a recreational crab pot license.
It is unlawful for any person to use any recreational gill net, fish cast net, or fish dip net to catch and possess any species of fish whose commercial fishery is regulated by an annual harvest quota.
It is unlawful for any person using a recreational gill net, fish cast net, or fish dip net to take and possess more than the recreational bag limit for any species regulated by such a limit. When fishing from any boat, using recreationally licensed gear, the total daily bag limit shall be equal to the number of licensed people on board the boat multiplied by the individual daily bag limit for the regulated species.
It is unlawful for any person using a recreational gill net, fish cast net, or fish dip net to take and possess any fish which is less than the minimum size established for that species. When different size limits for commercial and recreational fishermen are in effect for a species, the size shall apply to such species when taken by recreational gill nets, fish cast nets, or fish dip nets.
Gear Marking Requirements:
In addition to the requirements for marking commercial gill nets, crab pots and crab pound/traps, each licensee shall mark the end flags, poles or buoys of their gear with the letter "R."
Reporting Requirements:
Any person using recreational gear (listed under Annual License Fees) must report annually, on forms provided by VMRC, the weight and species harvested, location of harvest, days fished and amount of gear used.
Size Restrictions:
Minimum size limit for female hard crabs, "Jimmies," and immature female hard crabs is five inches, measured from tip to tip of the longest spikes.
There are no minimum size limits for peelers, soft crab or adult female hard crab, "sook."
Yeah, good thinking, Michael. Yesterday in New York would have been the perfect time to assault Bill Gates with an unknown white substance.
Honestly, while I support the right to protest and yell as much as you want, I'm baffled by how everyone seems to think hitting someone with a pie is cute and harmless, and not an assault on someone's person. I suppose that's because it's limited to leftish causes -- I suspect if anti-abortionists went around throwing pies at feminists the response would be different.
As loathsome as I find Willie Brown (why can't someone that brilliant use his skills to improve government instead of just manipulating it?) I give him credit for being the one recipient to insist that the attack on him be taken seriously. Second place goes to the elderly UK politician who decked the 20-something guy who pied him. (Said guy than had the nerve to whine about it.)
Now if I were Bill Gates, I'd have offered $10,000 to the first person to pie the guy who nailed him, offer to be repeated on each of the next 60 days. What's the point of being a billionaire if you can't do something like that?
Question: I would try oral sex. I'm worried because I have a terrible gag reflex ?
Answer:
The gag reflex you describe is not that uncommon among women. Some women gag at the mere thought of having a man's penis in their mouth.
Some humans do have what's called a short palate, which means that structurally they really do have a difficult time placing objects deep into their mouth.
This may or may not be your problem; a doctor should be able to evaluate this for you. You can learn to become a skilled oral lover with your guy without having to perform such acts, by the way.
Many men enjoy the sheer pleasure of being licked along the shaft or on the highly sensitive coronal ridge (the ridge around the head), of being teased gently with little bites around the head (be very gentle) and even light sucking on the head.
Another hot spot where you may want to use your tongue is on the frenulum, the point where the head meets the shaft on the underside.
The thing is, your statements could almost apply just as well to the PS2 as the XBox. Sure, with the PS2 you have to obtain a seperate solution for ethernet or a HD (which is not totally nessicary as you could consider the memory card enough storage to make things interesting).
However, you also have to consider that MS had said repeatedly they are NOT making a home PC, they are making a pure game console. To help drive that point home they have made the USB ports non-standard.
If you look at it from a point of connectivity, the XBox has ethernet but as far as the larger device market goes nothing else. The PS2 has both standard Firewire and USB ports, and also a SUPPORTED version of Linux (and Java in the works). You can use USB keyboards and mice you have sittig around from computers, or go to lots of stores and have keyboards to choose from as well as being able to hook up digital cameras with included cables.
Which one sounds more like a home PC hub to you? Remember, just because it doesn't have an Intel processor does not mean it can't be a computing device...
One last point - though I have a cable modem and DSL line (not for long though - thanks a lot Sprint!), people are still going to be using modems for a long time. Sony has realized this and is including a modem with thier ethernet/HD extension. MS has only ethernet which is great for some but not all users. I can't remember exactly what Nintendo was planning, but I think they had a combo modem/ethernet solution as well.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Yes, I want a console linux PS-2 connected
to my lan and the TV. Check email during
commercials, check on the that long
compilation and most importantly
computing on a natuzzi leather couch,
ahhhhhhhhh. Where do I sign?