..until cloning becomes common. The first thing people will do when they get their 'Mr Clone-it' kit from Wal-Mart home is to look around for a piece of DNA to play with... Mark my words, we'll end up with 600,000 identical Australian polevaulters.
If your brother develops color film, I doubt it's cost effective unless he a) does a LOT of it or b) was given the equipment. However, B&W is cheap and easy (I paid about $60 for the tank, reel and chemicals to develop my own, and another $50 for the gear to do contact sheets), but color is a whole different ballgame.
...the anti-Napster clip during the MTV awards a few days ago? While I do think copying music is bad (mmmkay) what they showed was Lars and some others stealing actual physical items from someone and basically stating that it was ok according to Napster. Granted, I suppose the average MTV weenie wouldn't be capable of grasping anything more involved than ``uhh, they're, like, totally stealing this stuff'' I think it was in poor taste and misrepresenting the actual issue...
Even though your cash withdrawals are recorded, how you spend that cash isn't. Thus, it's more or less anonymous; I doubt big brother is going to correlate a $30 ATM withdrawal with the $5.99 of it you spend on a six pack of Corona at the grocery store.
if you are the kind of user who just installs the default and leaves it, you probably shouldn't be using any sort of unix (or unix-like) system
Wow, whatever happened to ``Linux is ready for the desktop,'' ``Linux is user friendly,'' ``Anyone can use Linux, down with the Microsoft empire''? Now it's, ``if you're a regular user you shouldn't be using this.''
Someone's got to have a really inefficient distribution system if they can't make money off a $18 CD.
Notice that what the quoted text said was ``below cost'' -- in other words, the retailers were selling the CDs for less than they paid for them... Why? To get people to flock to the stores; most people will not go in and just buy the one CD they're selling for $7.99, they'll pick up a few other ones while they're in there, and that's where the profit comes from.
Bookstores have been doing this for quite a while; often the markup is around 45% or so on hardcovers, so when you see the new bestseller for 50% off, chances are they're not making, but losing, money on it...
The Time Line for the Definion of the Meter states that the meter was ``originally intended to be one ten-millionth part of the quadrant of the earth.'' However, the current definition of a meter is ``the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.''
If you apply the same reasoning to other software (because that's what the ROM contains, really), you could argue that it'd be ok to have sites where you can readily download, oh, say Windows 2000. Ain't gonna happen. If you make a copy of your ROMs for your own personal amusement, I doubt Sega would come after you... make them available on the web and, hell yes, they will take your a$$ to court. It's their software, and they have the right to do whatever they want with the copyright -- regardless of whether a/. weenie says they ``should'' GPL it.
The examples you mentioned with people playing female characters in order to get extra goodies from guys, and the player begging for money left and right aren't really good examples of cheating, IMHO. It's just taking advantage of gullible/ignorant/clueless/nice players.
I doubt these kids are going to wise up, if you consider today's school system, where it appears that the students have some supposedly inalienable rights to certain grades and passing tests. But hey, they're all being geared to become non-achieving little government serfs; easier to deal with a population that's content with a little help and money here and there, and will never question Big Brother.
The last time the "genetics" freaks got out of control, they built concentration camps in Germany.
Godwin's Law prov.
[Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.
The whole point of restricting certain packets would be to disallow spoofed addresses; for instance, if a packet is coming in from the outside with the source address being from an internal computer, you know something fishy is going on... likewise, certain ranges are dedicated for private networks and should not exist ``in the wild'' -- those can be filtered out as well. It could also be used to restrict outbound packets, so that only ones within a certain (the ISP's) range of IP addresses are allowed; this would prevent people using the ISP from sending spoofed packets...
I take it passwords on accounts are a bad thing, too? This is just a security measure and doesn't infringe on anyone's rights, unless you believe that the script kiddies have some sort of fundamental right to launch DDOS attacks.
Nothing wrong with a little paranoia, but your statement is just plain illogical.
The most innovative casting, IMO, would be to bring the FBI's next-most-wacky Special Agent in...Dale Cooper from "Twin Peaks". Think about it. Kyle MacLachlan has plenty of experience with delivering strange dialog - even backwards. "Twin Peaks" has a devoted group of viewers with experience in keeping track of a convoluted plot lasting a season or more. There is already a lot of overlap between the two audiences.
Also, don't forget that David Duchovny worked with him in that series; he played the transsexual FBI agent Denise (formerly Dennis).:-)
Kyle MacLachlan did a wonderful job in ``Twin Peaks,'' but I'm not sure I can ever forgive him for ``Showgirls.''
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He looked at me and said, "I need about tree fiddy."
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Dammit, you need more reason? ;-)
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Ohwell.
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Wow, whatever happened to ``Linux is ready for the desktop,'' ``Linux is user friendly,'' ``Anyone can use Linux, down with the Microsoft empire''? Now it's, ``if you're a regular user you shouldn't be using this.''
Geez.
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You just described the bulk of all the /. AC postings.
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You'd think these guys could afford a proof reader :-)
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Hey, I thought he looked more like Frank Zappa.
"Keep those hands of fate at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock on the steering wheel!"
It was bad, real bad, but I still don't think it topped ``Pod People.''
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Notice that what the quoted text said was ``below cost'' -- in other words, the retailers were selling the CDs for less than they paid for them... Why? To get people to flock to the stores; most people will not go in and just buy the one CD they're selling for $7.99, they'll pick up a few other ones while they're in there, and that's where the profit comes from.
Bookstores have been doing this for quite a while; often the markup is around 45% or so on hardcovers, so when you see the new bestseller for 50% off, chances are they're not making, but losing, money on it...
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Godwin's Law prov.
[Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.
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Nothing wrong with a little paranoia, but your statement is just plain illogical.
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Also, don't forget that David Duchovny worked with him in that series; he played the transsexual FBI agent Denise (formerly Dennis). :-)
Kyle MacLachlan did a wonderful job in ``Twin Peaks,'' but I'm not sure I can ever forgive him for ``Showgirls.''
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Couldn't be much more from the heart
Dodge Different, Dodge Different
Forever trusting who we are
Now on sale, at Rooms to Go!
And nothing else matters
Yeah, I can see this. :-)
So, you may notice people who have been around for a while, or simply used older typewriters when they started out, will write like this...
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