Nah, 'Malicious' is correct. I own all top of the line stuff, but my 'eye' just isn't into the details, I tend to focus in more on the content- perhaps because I am 3/4 deaf, so I'm just please if there is subtitles.
I have a BR player and some movies, but honestly I would never make the purchase again given my personal experience (and view) on this. However, there are plenty of others who could be classified as 'videophiles' and as such prefer the exacting details.
For those not familiar with the field of abiogenesis, it is a truly remarkable field of study. The search for the first origin of life on our planet, or rather when organic matter achieved 'life' as we understand it.
I find it quite interesting personally, how the primordial sludge brewed into our very first ancestor.
Their reputation for stuff just working has been in the shitter for the past year at least. Almost everything they release has been plagued with bug after bug after bug. iPhone 2.0, Mobile Me, Leopard the list goes on. Hell, I haven't even been able to get the Genius thing to work, all I get is an extremely unhelpful 4010 error....
Maybe Steve's policy of not significantly increasing engineering staff is finally biting Apple in the ass. I know that when I use my Mac nowadays its hard to remember that I'm NOT using a Microsoft product, Apple's stuff is just as buggy.
Wow- so little of this is true that I just have to wonder if you've ever owned a Mac in this century?
I've not had any problems with Leopard on any of my Macs.
I don't like having to attach my identity to all of the devices that would supposedly support this sort of thing.
Apple has already insisted on embedding personal ID into their DRM, and as such that is an invasion of my privacy. I don't care if it is innocuous or not, we are just talking about music and videos-- not classified material or national secrets...
supporting Indy bands (musicians on independent labels) instead of RIAA member bands is the true way to speak with your dollar.
This is interesting indeed. I am one of the dinosaurs who had the misfortune of having to use a typewriter for school papers, and guess what? It had a page up/down lever.
Then the 'word processor', which was nothing more than an electronic typewriter, had page up/down buttons.
I agree! Most of this stuff can be found in half of the teenagers homes in America. I know when I was growing up these things were commonplace to have.
Machete for camping throwing knives -- because they are fun calthrops because your a ninja throwing stars were cool too.
Doesn't mean any of us did anything other than throw them at boards or trees-- wow.
Clearly keeping your urine is a federal offense!! Damn those citizens to hell for that!! And they had an Army helmet (gasp)-- oh my god!! Clearly they were up to some seriously evil shenanigans.
Oh yeah, and all the things listed are perfectly legal to own.
If that list had any of the following items I might take it seriously: - 500 assault rifles - 50 pounds of C4 - 5 tons of fertilizer - 20 boxes of hand grenades
This is actually very true! In my state, having a person do duties that is not in their job description is not permitted (unless the employee pursues that duty).
If a person is on track to be dismissed, having an IT person (for example) scrub toilets would be considered harassment, and that employee would have valid grounds for a lawsuit-- and would win in a court of law. This is basic 'human resources 101' stuff.
I am stationed at a base where they actually do this stuff, and they only have 1 shrink at the moment who just arrived. They were down to none, and had a civilian contractor filing in.
Trust me -- The USAF wants you to think they do what's right, but that is just Grade-A disinformation (or propaganda if you prefer).
In all honesty these people are pushed into dealing with their problems on their own, and the AF just covers their butt.
Ok, I'm just going to throw this one out there for consideration... Olympic chess.
No, not like 'regular' chess. Olympic chess will be judged not by who wins or loses, but on their appearance and attitude.
For instance, if a player just moves his piece he gets one point. However, if he jumps on the table and does pelvic thrusts in the other players face while moving his piece (the chess piece that is) -- that would gain him 10 points for style.....just an idea, but it would be a hell of a lot more interesting that ballroom dancing.
There are a number of textbooks, particularly with respect to history and politics that contain bias and as such become a part of the annals of history although they may be inaccurate.
Since Wikipedia is peer reviewed from many regions and positions on a topic, it has the advantage of being less biased.
I have seen the change over the years for professional journals becoming less about providing unadulterated knowledge, and more about providing information. By this I mean, the information is often contaminated by companies submitting their 'self-funded' studies under the guise of true research.
The journals tend to ignore this problem because these companies generally provide either advertising revenue, or other income to the journal and related professional association that sponsors (publishes) the journal.
Additionally, peer review is becoming a bit of a misnomer with respect to a few journals I am aware of. As such, I would call it 'peer-approval'.
I think that when the winner takes office this time, the keyboards will have all the letters. (For those of you who are too young to remember, the Clinton staff removed all the "W's" from all the White House computer keyboards.) My guess is the only reason all the keyboards will have all the letters intact, is because Bush &Co were using Crayons and finger-paint.
I just hope he'll constantly bring stuff like this up and drill it into people's heads that McCain is a just as evil as Bush, but smarter. I've dropped terds in the toilet that are smarter than Bush. I think the word you may have been looking for was; a) diabolical b) insidious c) conniving d) all of the above
He is entitled to treatment from the Veterans Administration if he was in the U.S. military when he lost it. If he is not being treated, then the best recourse would be to file a complaint with the Veterans Administration and/or to his local Senator (or other political schmuck).
By default, when you outprocess from active duty, all conditions that were treated while on active duty may be considered for continuing treatment and disability payment.
There are also lawyers who help veterans get access to these benefits, who work for the V.A. -- so there is no charge for their services, so I suppose the lawyer would be the first person to contact.
Unfortunately the FCC has 'dynamically' enforced 'obscene' content over over regulated airwaves before. What it amounts to legally is that they determine something falls under their regulations, then they act on it. While I do not believe they typically have ulterior motives, it is true that they are not always correct.
This means that the 'offending' party would need to challenge their decision in court (and win), in order for their applied definition of obscenity to either;
a) be found innacurate because society doesn't feel the item in question was obscene, or
b) it actually was obscene
While I feel obscenity laws have a place in our society, I promote the idea that those laws should be enforced by a jury of AVERAGE citizens -- not some kind of religious ideologists that only rule (ie. judge/jury/executioner) from their perspective.
well gosh, then I suppose the folks at Enron, and the many people involved in other multi-million and billion dollar embezzlement schemes should get at least 5 years too, huh?
But we ALL know that won't happen.
In my eyes, until the rich and politically powerful are held to the same laws that govern us little people -- jail time for something like this is insane.
You DO realize that there are cases where people have been murdered, which did not net as much jail time as we are talking about this?
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Nah, 'Malicious' is correct. I own all top of the line stuff, but my 'eye' just isn't into the details, I tend to focus in more on the content- perhaps because I am 3/4 deaf, so I'm just please if there is subtitles.
I have a BR player and some movies, but honestly I would never make the purchase again given my personal experience (and view) on this. However, there are plenty of others who could be classified as 'videophiles' and as such prefer the exacting details.
To each his own.
For those not familiar with the field of abiogenesis, it is a truly remarkable field of study. The search for the first origin of life on our planet, or rather when organic matter achieved 'life' as we understand it.
I find it quite interesting personally, how the primordial sludge brewed into our very first ancestor.
Excelsior!!
...one of the soldiers gets a tune stuck in his head?
All the rest of the soldiers will hear his mental rendition of "Never gonna give you up" by Rick Astley.
Not a pretty sight. Do we really want to live in a world where you can be MENTALLY Rick-rolled?
I don't think so.
wow - some windows fanboy marked my last post as 'troll' when my post was in response to an ACTUAL troll post :p
gotta love the /.
Their reputation for stuff just working has been in the shitter for the past year at least. Almost everything they release has been plagued with bug after bug after bug. iPhone 2.0, Mobile Me, Leopard the list goes on. Hell, I haven't even been able to get the Genius thing to work, all I get is an extremely unhelpful 4010 error....
Maybe Steve's policy of not significantly increasing engineering staff is finally biting Apple in the ass. I know that when I use my Mac nowadays its hard to remember that I'm NOT using a Microsoft product, Apple's stuff is just as buggy.
Wow- so little of this is true that I just have to wonder if you've ever owned a Mac in this century?
I've not had any problems with Leopard on any of my Macs.
I don't like having to attach my identity to all of the devices that would supposedly support this sort of thing.
Apple has already insisted on embedding personal ID into their DRM, and as such that is an invasion of my privacy. I don't care if it is innocuous or not, we are just talking about music and videos-- not classified material or national secrets...
supporting Indy bands (musicians on independent labels) instead of RIAA member bands is the true way to speak with your dollar.
Being afraid of a 12 kW fission generator is pretty much like being afraid of a firecracker
Tell that to all the frogs and fishes that sadistic kids have blown up with firecrackers.
...At that rate, I won't be able to leave my cable modem on for more than a couple of minutes a month ...
...actually 1.5 seconds, but who's counting, eh?
This is interesting indeed. I am one of the dinosaurs who had the misfortune of having to use a typewriter for school papers, and guess what? It had a page up/down lever.
Then the 'word processor', which was nothing more than an electronic typewriter, had page up/down buttons.
This was all before Microsoft existed.
I agree! Most of this stuff can be found in half of the teenagers homes in America. I know when I was growing up these things were commonplace to have.
Machete for camping
throwing knives -- because they are fun
calthrops because your a ninja
throwing stars were cool too.
Doesn't mean any of us did anything other than throw them at boards or trees-- wow.
Clearly keeping your urine is a federal offense!! Damn those citizens to hell for that!! And they had an Army helmet (gasp)-- oh my god!! Clearly they were up to some seriously evil shenanigans.
Oh yeah, and all the things listed are perfectly legal to own.
If that list had any of the following items I might take it seriously:
- 500 assault rifles
- 50 pounds of C4
- 5 tons of fertilizer
- 20 boxes of hand grenades
This is actually very true! In my state, having a person do duties that is not in their job description is not permitted (unless the employee pursues that duty).
If a person is on track to be dismissed, having an IT person (for example) scrub toilets would be considered harassment, and that employee would have valid grounds for a lawsuit-- and would win in a court of law. This is basic 'human resources 101' stuff.
I am stationed at a base where they actually do this stuff, and they only have 1 shrink at the moment who just arrived. They were down to none, and had a civilian contractor filing in.
Trust me -- The USAF wants you to think they do what's right, but that is just Grade-A disinformation (or propaganda if you prefer).
In all honesty these people are pushed into dealing with their problems on their own, and the AF just covers their butt.
Auto unions also tend to produce employees who are complacent at best. They know they are protected by the union and do crappy work as a whole.
Toyota is smart, because keeping unions out also increases their ability to ensure quality exists.
Compare GM cars with Toyota, and the results should be obvious.
Ok, I'm just going to throw this one out there for consideration... Olympic chess.
No, not like 'regular' chess. Olympic chess will be judged not by who wins or loses, but on their appearance and attitude.
For instance, if a player just moves his piece he gets one point. However, if he jumps on the table and does pelvic thrusts in the other players face while moving his piece (the chess piece that is) -- that would gain him 10 points for style. ....just an idea, but it would be a hell of a lot more interesting that ballroom dancing.
There are a number of textbooks, particularly with respect to history and politics that contain bias and as such become a part of the annals of history although they may be inaccurate.
Since Wikipedia is peer reviewed from many regions and positions on a topic, it has the advantage of being less biased.
This is about 30,000 times less interesting while I am in sleep mode and 10 times less interesting when I'm awake.
I have seen the change over the years for professional journals becoming less about providing unadulterated knowledge, and more about providing information. By this I mean, the information is often contaminated by companies submitting their 'self-funded' studies under the guise of true research.
The journals tend to ignore this problem because these companies generally provide either advertising revenue, or other income to the journal and related professional association that sponsors (publishes) the journal.
Additionally, peer review is becoming a bit of a misnomer with respect to a few journals I am aware of. As such, I would call it 'peer-approval'.
a) diabolical
b) insidious
c) conniving
d) all of the above
He is entitled to treatment from the Veterans Administration if he was in the U.S. military when he lost it. If he is not being treated, then the best recourse would be to file a complaint with the Veterans Administration and/or to his local Senator (or other political schmuck).
By default, when you outprocess from active duty, all conditions that were treated while on active duty may be considered for continuing treatment and disability payment.
There are also lawyers who help veterans get access to these benefits, who work for the V.A. -- so there is no charge for their services, so I suppose the lawyer would be the first person to contact.
I wanted to have Firefox installed and use it instead of Internet Explorer 6 (yes, 6), but it is against regulations to have it installed these days.
Clearly military security is reactive, as opposed to proactive -- sad, but true.
Heck, I hate the fact that you need to install QuickTime player when you only want to install iTunes.
On my Mac I am fine with that, but on my PC I don't want QuickTime because I will never use it.
Unfortunately the FCC has 'dynamically' enforced 'obscene' content over over regulated airwaves before. What it amounts to legally is that they determine something falls under their regulations, then they act on it. While I do not believe they typically have ulterior motives, it is true that they are not always correct.
This means that the 'offending' party would need to challenge their decision in court (and win), in order for their applied definition of obscenity to either;
a) be found innacurate because society doesn't feel the item in question was obscene, or
b) it actually was obscene
While I feel obscenity laws have a place in our society, I promote the idea that those laws should be enforced by a jury of AVERAGE citizens -- not some kind of religious ideologists that only rule (ie. judge/jury/executioner) from their perspective.
well gosh, then I suppose the folks at Enron, and the many people involved in other multi-million and billion dollar embezzlement schemes should get at least 5 years too, huh?
But we ALL know that won't happen.
In my eyes, until the rich and politically powerful are held to the same laws that govern us little people -- jail time for something like this is insane.
You DO realize that there are cases where people have been murdered, which did not net as much jail time as we are talking about this?