Let's all live in flat houses that all look alike, and we can each keep a little bit of nuclear waste in our backyards so that it's take FOREVER for the terrorists to build a bomb.
They aren't worried about terrorists stealing the shipments. They're worried about the terrorists driving up alongside one of the trucks in a car loaded with explosives. Voila! Instant dirty bomb.
Wind power is growing like mad now. Texas just put up a HUGE wind farm, and now generates more wind power than any other state. They plan to keep adding more too. In the end, we'll probably end up getting our power from a variety of sources, just like today. It will likely be quite a while before we end up with some magic bullet energy production technology, if ever.
If you design the website using the proper standards no dual maintenance would be needed. What you design would work on all browsers.
Uh uh. If you design it using proper standards, it will break on nearly every browser except Gecko-based browsers. You still have to use some bizarre CSS or HTML hacks to make it work on all browsers.
Bah.. I just don't like aspartame, regardless of whether it will control my mind or give me tumors. It just doesn't taste right and it gives me a headache and slight nausea.
You can almost always buy a universal remote for about 10 bucks and it'll work just as well. I had one for my old VCR b/c the remote got lost during a move.
Many things don't work quite right when some of their components are missing. Nor should they be expected to. REC will start the VCR recording, and you can probably hit it repeatedly to set it to record for a specific length of time on the channel that the VCR is currently tuned to, but you most likely need the remote to program it to do anything more than that.
Or you could look at it from another viewpoint, that of the record industry. See, the record industry has been bitching and moaning about this big problem that they created due to their own greed. It's called payola. They have to pay so that the music they sell gets exposure to listeners around the country and around the world. They have been doing this forever. First they were paying radio stations to play their songs. Then when that was outlawed, they started paying some middleman to pay radio stations to play their songs. Now they're complaining that it's just too expensive and that the government should put a stop to it, boo hoo hoo. Oh yeah, and in the meantime, they are going to shut down napster and kazaa and anyone else that gets their music out to listeners around the world. Can't have that happening, can we.
Now you might say that people who download songs will just listen to them on their computer and never pay for the CD, but I don't think there's any evidence that that happens on a wide enough scale to really have that much of an impact, and there is a decent amount of evidence that seems to say that Napster and others have had a positive impact on CD sales. I think that what the record industry should really do is work on their public relations problem. Get rid of Rosen and put an artist or several artists in her spot. They don't even have to be Britney-class superstars, and in fact, they shouldn't be. They should represent the vast majority of artists that make something around minimum wage or a little better. Kind of like the artistic middle class. They could help to persuade people that artists really need their support in order to continue to make the music that the fans love. That could probably make a huge impact on people. But if they really want to make it work, then they should knock off all the damn price-fixing crap and lower the price of CDs. They should probably stick an MSRP price on each CD too, so that stores couldn't just double the price without facing some serious questions. I think that the statement to fans would be that the record industry wants to do good by them and help them find the music they like and help artists to make a good living. Oh, and they would save all those millions that they've been flushing down the payola toilet too. Now most of us can't imagine this happening in a million years, but if anyone has the muscle to get a message out to fans, it's the record industry.
You have to be able to collect an entire set within a set amount of time in order to be elligible to trade them in for a real set. First of all, that's really hard to do. Second, it's really expensive. Third, it's even harder to do when you have a time limit in which to do it in. Finally, the trade-ins are still at Wizards' discretion, so they left themselves an out in case they decide they don't really want to give you real merchandise since they already have your money.
Magic online is nothing like that. It's a completely faithful reproduction of the game rules and does an excellent job of enforcing them. That said, there's no way in hell I would pay full price for virtual cards which I do not own unless I somehow manage to spend enough money within a set period of time in order to collect a full set, which I can then redeem for real cards at Wizards of the Coast's discretion. Screw that.
Now I see that I have been right all along!! I'm not really pirating MS software, I'm helping MS to maintain their dominant user-base! What's good for me is good for Microsoft!!
If a Suit is filed against that, then I respond by saying, the government isn't forcing you to use cash.
Doesn't matter. The government prints the money. Printing "In God We Trust" on the currency of the nation seems like an even more blatant violation of the establishment clause than the POA case.
The issue at hand is the act that added the phrase in the first place. That act was unconstitional, and therefore the removal of the phrase is the only proper solution. You can't just say, "oh, well it's there now, and you can't take it out because that would be anti-religious." It was pro-religious when the phrase was put in. That was the mistake that is being corrected here. The government is not supposed to take any sort of stand whatsoever on religious issues, so clearly, adding the phrase was unconstitutional.
I wonder if anyone explains these things to the little kids that have to recite the pledge everyday. I know they never explained it to me. It was just words that I mostly just mouthed so I wouldn't get singled out or punished.
It's fine if the kids understand it and want to say it. It's the fact that they are compelled to say it by agents of the state that causes problems. You shouldn't be able to force patriotism on people, especially kids. It's ridiculous to make them say something like this when they can't even comprehend the meaning and don't have enough experience or information to decide for themselves whether they even believe what they're saying. What's the point then? To get them to believe it without question?
I agree with most of the social thinking of libertarians, but I'm pretty well convinced that if they ever get any kind of control, we'll all be well and truly fucked. It's not that I don't think that a lot of it is worth a shot, it's just that in reading the writings of libertarian candidates, I don't trust them to make the transition in such a way that it doesn't create serious havoc and hardship.
I've been of the firmest conviction that the Accounting professional exists solely for the purpose of sustaining its existence.
Kinda like lawyers. They get to make the laws, and then they get paid to fight about them because the rest of us have no freaking idea how to interpret all these laws.
Yeah... it was pretty funny how the tv news shows whipped out the old mushroom cloud pictures to run along with the dirty bomb story. Yeah, they have a clue.
I live in San Antonio, TX. I can't stand to listen to any station in town anymore (with the exception of NPR). As far as music stations go, we have 99.5 KISS which is the same nu-metal rock crap that is played coast-to-coast. We have the obligatory hip-hop station, the "classic-rock" station that used to be pretty good, but now is just the same stuff over and over. Then we have about half a dozen or so country and tejano stations. Oh and a couple of classical stations. I can't listen to the radio in the car anymore because I'm afraid my brain will jump out of my head and I'll have an accident. About the only thing I can think of to do is to download a bunch of MP3s and get myself an MP3 CD player for the car.
It's not like we're going to end up having a choice here. If Microsoft tries to do this and people start jumping ship to Linux or Mac (assuming Apple doesn't follow suit), then Microsoft and the *AAs will go to Washington and demand legislation to mandate DRM in every OS (and Fritz is already chomping at the bit to get something like this passed). And you can bet that they'll get open source outlawed in the process. After all, what's the use of having DRM if someone can have access to the source and just remove it?
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Slashdot doesn't pretend to be unbiased. IMO, that's better than most of the rest of the journalistic world, which does pretend.
How the hell did this get on the front page? Where is the story? So somebody doesn't like the fact that they give out awards for the games that look most promising. Who cares? I don't like the way lots of awards are done. If you don't like it, then don't read about it. It makes no difference to you. If someone is stupid enough to buy a game just because it won a Best of E3 award, then that's their problem.
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Let's all live in flat houses that all look alike, and we can each keep a little bit of nuclear waste in our backyards so that it's take FOREVER for the terrorists to build a bomb.
They aren't worried about terrorists stealing the shipments. They're worried about the terrorists driving up alongside one of the trucks in a car loaded with explosives. Voila! Instant dirty bomb.
Wind power is growing like mad now. Texas just put up a HUGE wind farm, and now generates more wind power than any other state. They plan to keep adding more too. In the end, we'll probably end up getting our power from a variety of sources, just like today. It will likely be quite a while before we end up with some magic bullet energy production technology, if ever.
If you design the website using the proper standards no dual maintenance would be needed. What you design would work on all browsers.
Uh uh. If you design it using proper standards, it will break on nearly every browser except Gecko-based browsers. You still have to use some bizarre CSS or HTML hacks to make it work on all browsers.
Gotta love the Natalie Portman / Kirsten Dunst query graph.
Bah.. I just don't like aspartame, regardless of whether it will control my mind or give me tumors. It just doesn't taste right and it gives me a headache and slight nausea.
You can almost always buy a universal remote for about 10 bucks and it'll work just as well. I had one for my old VCR b/c the remote got lost during a move.
Many things don't work quite right when some of their components are missing. Nor should they be expected to. REC will start the VCR recording, and you can probably hit it repeatedly to set it to record for a specific length of time on the channel that the VCR is currently tuned to, but you most likely need the remote to program it to do anything more than that.
Or you could look at it from another viewpoint, that of the record industry. See, the record industry has been bitching and moaning about this big problem that they created due to their own greed. It's called payola. They have to pay so that the music they sell gets exposure to listeners around the country and around the world. They have been doing this forever. First they were paying radio stations to play their songs. Then when that was outlawed, they started paying some middleman to pay radio stations to play their songs. Now they're complaining that it's just too expensive and that the government should put a stop to it, boo hoo hoo. Oh yeah, and in the meantime, they are going to shut down napster and kazaa and anyone else that gets their music out to listeners around the world. Can't have that happening, can we.
Now you might say that people who download songs will just listen to them on their computer and never pay for the CD, but I don't think there's any evidence that that happens on a wide enough scale to really have that much of an impact, and there is a decent amount of evidence that seems to say that Napster and others have had a positive impact on CD sales. I think that what the record industry should really do is work on their public relations problem. Get rid of Rosen and put an artist or several artists in her spot. They don't even have to be Britney-class superstars, and in fact, they shouldn't be. They should represent the vast majority of artists that make something around minimum wage or a little better. Kind of like the artistic middle class. They could help to persuade people that artists really need their support in order to continue to make the music that the fans love. That could probably make a huge impact on people. But if they really want to make it work, then they should knock off all the damn price-fixing crap and lower the price of CDs. They should probably stick an MSRP price on each CD too, so that stores couldn't just double the price without facing some serious questions. I think that the statement to fans would be that the record industry wants to do good by them and help them find the music they like and help artists to make a good living. Oh, and they would save all those millions that they've been flushing down the payola toilet too. Now most of us can't imagine this happening in a million years, but if anyone has the muscle to get a message out to fans, it's the record industry.
You have to be able to collect an entire set within a set amount of time in order to be elligible to trade them in for a real set. First of all, that's really hard to do. Second, it's really expensive. Third, it's even harder to do when you have a time limit in which to do it in. Finally, the trade-ins are still at Wizards' discretion, so they left themselves an out in case they decide they don't really want to give you real merchandise since they already have your money.
Magic online is nothing like that. It's a completely faithful reproduction of the game rules and does an excellent job of enforcing them. That said, there's no way in hell I would pay full price for virtual cards which I do not own unless I somehow manage to spend enough money within a set period of time in order to collect a full set, which I can then redeem for real cards at Wizards of the Coast's discretion. Screw that.
Now I see that I have been right all along!! I'm not really pirating MS software, I'm helping MS to maintain their dominant user-base! What's good for me is good for Microsoft!!
If a Suit is filed against that, then I respond by saying, the government isn't forcing you to use cash.
Doesn't matter. The government prints the money. Printing "In God We Trust" on the currency of the nation seems like an even more blatant violation of the establishment clause than the POA case.
The issue at hand is the act that added the phrase in the first place. That act was unconstitional, and therefore the removal of the phrase is the only proper solution. You can't just say, "oh, well it's there now, and you can't take it out because that would be anti-religious." It was pro-religious when the phrase was put in. That was the mistake that is being corrected here. The government is not supposed to take any sort of stand whatsoever on religious issues, so clearly, adding the phrase was unconstitutional.
I'll take a few dozen virgins :)
Err... females... christ on a cracker, I forgot where I'm posting!
I wonder if anyone explains these things to the little kids that have to recite the pledge everyday. I know they never explained it to me. It was just words that I mostly just mouthed so I wouldn't get singled out or punished.
It's fine if the kids understand it and want to say it. It's the fact that they are compelled to say it by agents of the state that causes problems. You shouldn't be able to force patriotism on people, especially kids. It's ridiculous to make them say something like this when they can't even comprehend the meaning and don't have enough experience or information to decide for themselves whether they even believe what they're saying. What's the point then? To get them to believe it without question?
I agree with most of the social thinking of libertarians, but I'm pretty well convinced that if they ever get any kind of control, we'll all be well and truly fucked. It's not that I don't think that a lot of it is worth a shot, it's just that in reading the writings of libertarian candidates, I don't trust them to make the transition in such a way that it doesn't create serious havoc and hardship.
The ScummVM guys could really use an editor! That email was chock full of typos and spelling errors! It was painful to read!
I've been of the firmest conviction that the Accounting professional exists solely for the purpose of sustaining its existence.
Kinda like lawyers. They get to make the laws, and then they get paid to fight about them because the rest of us have no freaking idea how to interpret all these laws.
Yeah... it was pretty funny how the tv news shows whipped out the old mushroom cloud pictures to run along with the dirty bomb story. Yeah, they have a clue.
I live in San Antonio, TX. I can't stand to listen to any station in town anymore (with the exception of NPR). As far as music stations go, we have 99.5 KISS which is the same nu-metal rock crap that is played coast-to-coast. We have the obligatory hip-hop station, the "classic-rock" station that used to be pretty good, but now is just the same stuff over and over. Then we have about half a dozen or so country and tejano stations. Oh and a couple of classical stations. I can't listen to the radio in the car anymore because I'm afraid my brain will jump out of my head and I'll have an accident. About the only thing I can think of to do is to download a bunch of MP3s and get myself an MP3 CD player for the car.
It's not like we're going to end up having a choice here. If Microsoft tries to do this and people start jumping ship to Linux or Mac (assuming Apple doesn't follow suit), then Microsoft and the *AAs will go to Washington and demand legislation to mandate DRM in every OS (and Fritz is already chomping at the bit to get something like this passed). And you can bet that they'll get open source outlawed in the process. After all, what's the use of having DRM if someone can have access to the source and just remove it?
Slashdot doesn't pretend to be unbiased. IMO, that's better than most of the rest of the journalistic world, which does pretend.
That was the lawyer's comment. Have to read the back-and-forth messages to get the context.
How the hell did this get on the front page? Where is the story? So somebody doesn't like the fact that they give out awards for the games that look most promising. Who cares? I don't like the way lots of awards are done. If you don't like it, then don't read about it. It makes no difference to you. If someone is stupid enough to buy a game just because it won a Best of E3 award, then that's their problem.