There is no combination of words which could cause me to commit suicide, I'd simply never do it. And anyone who is that suicidal, should probably stay off the internet.
It wasn't a magic spell. It was a particularly cruel game where this neighbor spent months to make the girl fall in love with someone online. That "person" then was extraordinarily mean to her. She was thirteen, a time when many are having trouble with new feelings and emotions. Suicide over real breakups that are far less cruel are not unknown. Might most girls be able to weather it, perhaps. But that doesn't mean it wasn't a very wrong thing to do.
. I've always thought of the internet as a cache for my brain
I've always thought the opposite, that my brain is like a cache, and the internet like RAM or a HDD. My brain stores stuff that is immediately useful, a subset of the internet. The internet ( or books, other people, etc.) lets me swap out old stuff for new stuff.
3) Copyright holders cannot restrict how any one copy of their work is used by buyers, except to make them respect the artificial scarcity of copyright law.
I'm not sure I believe in this. The ability to create derivative works is not just to protect the value of the intellectual property. It is also to protect the integrity. Think about how horrible it would be if you could take classic films (like Star Wars), and add tons of CG effects, and resell them.
Russian mother would NEVER abandon her children. When Reiser claimed she had done this, I knew he killed her. Since 99% or more of you have never had relationships with women in this part of the world, I can only tell you that they simply do NOT under any circumstances abandon their children.
I for one am glad that the standard of proof has moved from "innocent until proven guilty" to "innocence doesn't jive with my 100% accurate stereotypes." Well, I suppose back to that. It used to be you could tell the guilt of a person just by looking at them.
Also, having her husband convicted of murder, and her children sent to live with her mother is sticking it to him in a nasty way.
I thought he was guilty when he started attempting to explain why he had hosed off the car, personally.
True, the Nazis actively funded the V2 rocket project and even used slave labor in the process, but it doesn't mean we should have shot all the scientists and burned all the research papers.
While true of rocket technology, we did discard the results of their horrific experiments on human beings.
Eh, what this law really wants to prevent, albeit in an assinine way, is adults making children fall in love with phoney people online, and then breaking their hearts to cause them to commit suicide. Which, is a shitty thing that happened in Missouri (or Mississippi, one of the "useless" states at any rate), and to which this law is a reaction.
Other than the blood in the house, car and sleeping bag? (And of course, no endometrial cells, indicating menstration.) It has long been held that a body is not necessary to convict someone of murder, and short of that, what other evidence would you require.
The delectable dietary staple has nothing to do with the French, and very little to do with "freedom." In fact, they come from Belgian.
That's somewhat true. Pre-WWI, they were called German fries. We rechristened them French Fried in honor of our allies. No doubt, they were too polite (and desperate for our help) to object to denegrating their cullinary reputation.
And then 100 years later we think they will be insulted. Kinda sad.
Europe is #2 at $11.4 B USD and US only pulled in $10.7 B USD. So companies aren't ignoring their largest market; they're giving the leftovers to the third largest market. Deal.
Well, if they ignore their largest market ( don't sell much to it), then they're also going to know that largest market down in the rankings. I mean, they're selling sll to it...
All bush did was speed up the process, the whole thing has to break.
And all murderes do is speed up the process, the people have to die. And all bombs do is speed up the process, the objects were going to collapse into disorder eventually thanks to entropy. And that's without challenging the basic assumptions that you made...
Treasury/Fed make federal reserve dollars and give it out as treasuries at interest.
The Treasury can certainly issue T-bills as treasuries with an interest, but this is not federal reserve dollars. Dollar bills aren't printed and added willy-nilly to the economy, currency is used to replace currency and exchanged for transfers of credit.
The federal reserve ss basically the country's bank. Banks are required to deposit X% of their deposits in the federal reserve (i.e., they cannot loan it out.) The federal reserve then pays Y% interest on that money (this is what the chairman of the Fed does, raises/lowers that rate, the "prime" rate.) Banks are then free to loan out the rest of the money. This causes the "money supply" to be higher, that is, there is more money, but offsetting personal debt. This is generally seen as a good thing. It adds liquidity to large assets (e.g. houses, cars) by increasing someone's access to money in the short term by allowing them to repay it over time. Other people then can save their money by loaning it out to the person making a purchase. Banks sit in between and run the logistics, as well as combining the various loans so that the risk of defaulting is spread out accross all the depositors. The FDIC then spreads this risk (up to a point) among the entire nation, so that you never have to worry about a bank collapsing and you note getting back your money (up to a point.).
. Now the [treasury has] paid the interest for however many years, so much of that money they received has to be handed back. Where are they going to get the principle from? Creating more debt of course, which then also has to be paid back, and so on...
This could be true, but it doesn't have to be. It could be that the loan was taken in a way to pay off an unexpected expensive over many years, much like a house. WWI/WWII definately saw the debt explode under this rationale. Another would be, like a business, that money could be used to invest in future productivity and thus more revenue later. This approach is most starkly seen with Reaganomics, but is also seen with education, job training and other projects (In fact, this exact rational was used in the ninties to expand some job placement/unemployment services). Revolving debt, as you describe, does not have to be a spiral to infinity. If the interest plus Z was gathered as revenue, then then the next round of financing sees the principle decline by Z. Further, given inflation, the real value of the principle will decline when Z is zero, or even for some negative values. Lastly, revolving debt has other benefits (Alexander Hamilton called the national debt the "national blessing".) It provides citizens a safe way to save their money. It maintains a good credit rating for when it is needed. It serves to smooth out lean and fat years.
Since I wouldn't live in California if you paid me a million bucks a minute (sorry to my friends on the west coast!)
For a million bucks a minute, I'd live pretty much anywhere (assuming I'm not freezing coatless/in a volcano/drowning/etc.) That's $60 million an hour, or $1.44 billion a day, or almost a CEO bonus. Long and the short of it is, after a month there, I would be close to being able to buy all of Yahoo! for myself, just to rub it in MS's face.
That's not D&D, you're *supposed* to have a limited number of zots for blasting.
One of the nifty rules added in 3.5 was that you could take a feat to get an infinte number of "zots", but only until you used up higher level spell slots. So, in other words, you can have a lot of power for a short time or a short amount of power for a long time. In reality, this made fighting minions more fun, because you didn't have to stop and rest before you hit the boss.
Al Gore never said that and Quayle spelt potato according to an archaic, but accepted, variant. I have no clue why this stupid lie makes me angry, except it cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Sneak it in the back door via treaties that trump sovereign laws.
At least in the US, the superiority of treaties is written into the Constitution. That's why the Senate has to approve them. (I don't know how the US withdraws from treaties however.)
. The problem with alignment (with bad role players anyway) is that it reinforces trite stereotypes. This just gives you fewer trite stereotypes to choose from.
The problem with alignment was it started moving towards this a while ago with LG - G - CG - LN - N - CN - LE- NE - CE becoming a single spectrum. It made it difficult to play a saintly Robin Hood type because for some reason respect for the law (which became confounding with one owns organizational qualities), became compounded with goodness.
While it certainly could be used as a crutch by poor roleplayers, that's not a bad thing. Everyone needs time to learn to roleplay, and the CG/LE removed variants provided nice dilemmas. And, if not that crutch, bad roleplayers will fall into character/race archeotypes anyway.
Personally, I would rather have seen the alignments expand so that you could be Goodish/Evilish/Lawfulish/Chaoticish. Not enough to get affected by spells/effects that target people with that alignment, but enough to give people a clue as to how you lean.
The post I was replying to suggested that the availability of guns led to a violent culture.
I apologize for distorting your position. However, the per capita murder rate is 1/5 as high in Britian as it is in the US, so something is different.
WTF? I was showing that outlawing guns does not remove them from the hands of criminals.
They are still in some criminals' hands. They will always be in some criminals' hands. My point was that outlawing guns took something that doesn't seem uncommon in the US (people selling automatic weapons to criminals) and turned it into something noteworthy in Britian.
Let's agree to disagree here. I'll keep my guns, you don't buy any. Then if a day comes that the populace must take up arms, I'll be sure not to help you defend yourself. M'kay?
I like guns. I like shooting them. I would have some in the house if I had a safe place to keep them (okay, probably only one gun. I'm on a budget.) I just don't really think I'll be able to take on whomever the populace is taking up arms with a Smith and Wesson revolver, or even a shotgun.
I don't care if it's the actual 'Word of G-d' himself. I will not be told by the author, publisher, or the marketer, where, when, how or for how long, I can read the books that I purchase.
And no one thinks you should. Just like no one thinks you should with movies or songs. I think movies can be bought for $150 Million of the best ones, songs for less than that, but still substaintal. Personally, I lean towards just paying a smaller fee for more limited rights, but hey, that's me.
Or did you mean, pay for X, but get X++?
E-Books are cheaper than paper books and are worth less. Seems reasonable.
Why don't they use an actual VIDEO format for videos? Those swf-based players are hit and miss, and usually miss.
Most swf-players play an FLV (either streaming or not). FLV uses H.264 or H.263 (in the recent incarnations). These are the latest and greates codecs. And Flash is less evil than quicktime or realplayer, the other common ways to stream video online.
They actually said what they've been doing in the video: hookers, cocaine and getting level 70 WoW characters. Exactly what I would expect of Duke's R&D staff....
Hmmm... sounds like Hollywood, but with WoW and I might have a chance of getting in. Time to mail my resume.
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It wasn't a magic spell. It was a particularly cruel game where this neighbor spent months to make the girl fall in love with someone online. That "person" then was extraordinarily mean to her. She was thirteen, a time when many are having trouble with new feelings and emotions. Suicide over real breakups that are far less cruel are not unknown. Might most girls be able to weather it, perhaps. But that doesn't mean it wasn't a very wrong thing to do.
Nah, these really exist and can completely reproduce. Just most /.'ers will find it easier to aquire a 3D printer.
I wasn't thinking of Clearplay, I was thinking of the other ones. Never knew clearplay existed. Pretty nifty idea, actually.
I've always thought the opposite, that my brain is like a cache, and the internet like RAM or a HDD. My brain stores stuff that is immediately useful, a subset of the internet. The internet ( or books, other people, etc.) lets me swap out old stuff for new stuff.
There was that editing firm in Utah that took all the sex/violence/profanity out. And they got shut down good.
It's unlike almost anything else.
* Not in a underage polygamous way. Just in general, not for you. They'll choose to whom you eventually give them. Just say no to incest.
I'm not sure I believe in this. The ability to create derivative works is not just to protect the value of the intellectual property. It is also to protect the integrity. Think about how horrible it would be if you could take classic films (like Star Wars), and add tons of CG effects, and resell them.
I for one am glad that the standard of proof has moved from "innocent until proven guilty" to "innocence doesn't jive with my 100% accurate stereotypes." Well, I suppose back to that. It used to be you could tell the guilt of a person just by looking at them.
Also, having her husband convicted of murder, and her children sent to live with her mother is sticking it to him in a nasty way.
I thought he was guilty when he started attempting to explain why he had hosed off the car, personally.
While true of rocket technology, we did discard the results of their horrific experiments on human beings.
Eh, what this law really wants to prevent, albeit in an assinine way, is adults making children fall in love with phoney people online, and then breaking their hearts to cause them to commit suicide. Which, is a shitty thing that happened in Missouri (or Mississippi, one of the "useless" states at any rate), and to which this law is a reaction.
Other than the blood in the house, car and sleeping bag? (And of course, no endometrial cells, indicating menstration.) It has long been held that a body is not necessary to convict someone of murder, and short of that, what other evidence would you require.
That's somewhat true. Pre-WWI, they were called German fries. We rechristened them French Fried in honor of our allies. No doubt, they were too polite (and desperate for our help) to object to denegrating their cullinary reputation.
And then 100 years later we think they will be insulted. Kinda sad.
Well, if they ignore their largest market ( don't sell much to it), then they're also going to know that largest market down in the rankings. I mean, they're selling sll to it...
And all murderes do is speed up the process, the people have to die. And all bombs do is speed up the process, the objects were going to collapse into disorder eventually thanks to entropy. And that's without challenging the basic assumptions that you made...
The Treasury can certainly issue T-bills as treasuries with an interest, but this is not federal reserve dollars. Dollar bills aren't printed and added willy-nilly to the economy, currency is used to replace currency and exchanged for transfers of credit.
The federal reserve ss basically the country's bank. Banks are required to deposit X% of their deposits in the federal reserve (i.e., they cannot loan it out.) The federal reserve then pays Y% interest on that money (this is what the chairman of the Fed does, raises/lowers that rate, the "prime" rate.) Banks are then free to loan out the rest of the money. This causes the "money supply" to be higher, that is, there is more money, but offsetting personal debt. This is generally seen as a good thing. It adds liquidity to large assets (e.g. houses, cars) by increasing someone's access to money in the short term by allowing them to repay it over time. Other people then can save their money by loaning it out to the person making a purchase. Banks sit in between and run the logistics, as well as combining the various loans so that the risk of defaulting is spread out accross all the depositors. The FDIC then spreads this risk (up to a point) among the entire nation, so that you never have to worry about a bank collapsing and you note getting back your money (up to a point.).
This could be true, but it doesn't have to be. It could be that the loan was taken in a way to pay off an unexpected expensive over many years, much like a house. WWI/WWII definately saw the debt explode under this rationale. Another would be, like a business, that money could be used to invest in future productivity and thus more revenue later. This approach is most starkly seen with Reaganomics, but is also seen with education, job training and other projects (In fact, this exact rational was used in the ninties to expand some job placement/unemployment services). Revolving debt, as you describe, does not have to be a spiral to infinity. If the interest plus Z was gathered as revenue, then then the next round of financing sees the principle decline by Z. Further, given inflation, the real value of the principle will decline when Z is zero, or even for some negative values. Lastly, revolving debt has other benefits (Alexander Hamilton called the national debt the "national blessing".) It provides citizens a safe way to save their money. It maintains a good credit rating for when it is needed. It serves to smooth out lean and fat years.
For a million bucks a minute, I'd live pretty much anywhere (assuming I'm not freezing coatless/in a volcano/drowning/etc.) That's $60 million an hour, or $1.44 billion a day, or almost a CEO bonus. Long and the short of it is, after a month there, I would be close to being able to buy all of Yahoo! for myself, just to rub it in MS's face.
One of the nifty rules added in 3.5 was that you could take a feat to get an infinte number of "zots", but only until you used up higher level spell slots. So, in other words, you can have a lot of power for a short time or a short amount of power for a long time. In reality, this made fighting minions more fun, because you didn't have to stop and rest before you hit the boss.
I learned that in high school. Of course, I don't know whether Lowell wasn't mentioned by name or I forgot it, but I heard the story.
Al Gore never said that and Quayle spelt potato according to an archaic, but accepted, variant. I have no clue why this stupid lie makes me angry, except it cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars.
At least in the US, the superiority of treaties is written into the Constitution. That's why the Senate has to approve them. (I don't know how the US withdraws from treaties however.)
The problem with alignment was it started moving towards this a while ago with LG - G - CG - LN - N - CN - LE- NE - CE becoming a single spectrum. It made it difficult to play a saintly Robin Hood type because for some reason respect for the law (which became confounding with one owns organizational qualities), became compounded with goodness.
While it certainly could be used as a crutch by poor roleplayers, that's not a bad thing. Everyone needs time to learn to roleplay, and the CG/LE removed variants provided nice dilemmas. And, if not that crutch, bad roleplayers will fall into character/race archeotypes anyway.
Personally, I would rather have seen the alignments expand so that you could be Goodish/Evilish/Lawfulish/Chaoticish. Not enough to get affected by spells/effects that target people with that alignment, but enough to give people a clue as to how you lean.
I apologize for distorting your position. However, the per capita murder rate is 1/5 as high in Britian as it is in the US, so something is different.
They are still in some criminals' hands. They will always be in some criminals' hands. My point was that outlawing guns took something that doesn't seem uncommon in the US (people selling automatic weapons to criminals) and turned it into something noteworthy in Britian.
I like guns. I like shooting them. I would have some in the house if I had a safe place to keep them (okay, probably only one gun. I'm on a budget.) I just don't really think I'll be able to take on whomever the populace is taking up arms with a Smith and Wesson revolver, or even a shotgun.
And no one thinks you should. Just like no one thinks you should with movies or songs. I think movies can be bought for $150 Million of the best ones, songs for less than that, but still substaintal. Personally, I lean towards just paying a smaller fee for more limited rights, but hey, that's me.
Or did you mean, pay for X, but get X++?
E-Books are cheaper than paper books and are worth less. Seems reasonable.
When I read the headline, I thought it would be about $10,000 gaming kiosks in Pizza Huts. That, while advertising, would at least be interesting.
I also challenge the $10,000 valuation. The parts look like thy might run $5,000 (I don't know about the sofa) if you price shopped.
Most swf-players play an FLV (either streaming or not). FLV uses H.264 or H.263 (in the recent incarnations). These are the latest and greates codecs. And Flash is less evil than quicktime or realplayer, the other common ways to stream video online.
Hmmm... sounds like Hollywood, but with WoW and I might have a chance of getting in. Time to mail my resume.