Ya but who would volunteer to ride the thing? Sure there are bold test pilots that would ride it Venus with no way back just for the hell of it. But would they still be as eager after learning the level of magnetic force involved would likely cause sterility?
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Original Greek? I had no idea that ancient Hebrews spoke Greek.
I think you'll find that the "Gehenna"/"Large, foul-smelling waste dump" mixup was caused when a missionary did not know the right words to describe hell but he did know the words for to describe the 'native's' large, foul-smelling waste dump that was just outside the 'village'.
But I think you did have a point. This guy is rambling on about how sinful it is to alter the Bible and completely ignores the fact that it's an altered version (translated to English) that he is defending
I would be interested in the catholic church's position on 3D volumetric displays. I'm guessing they forbid them.
We want what we can't have. That's the main reason why us males are so fascinated with lesbians. 7 of 9 is much more unattainable. She's fictional, exists hundreds of years away, is on the other side of the galaxy (no hope of ever getting there in any reasonable time), completely disinterested in relationships and she's Borg, (a virtualy sexless race).
And as for more down to earth attractions. She's got a great body and a uniform that shows it off. Don't for get the geek factor, she's extemely intelligent and prefers gadgets to people (she is a gadget, the ultimate gadget). When you say she is unattractive I presume you are referring to her face. I will admit she is not the classic beauty, perfect 10, Hollywood archetype. But personally, I'm bored with the 'beautiful people'. Jeri Ryan has face that can hold you attention, it's different and interesting.
IF
All file types were allowed. and
There were naming standard with description and verification system to ensure I always got the exact file I was looking for.
I believe the RIAA fears ligitimate and legal paid for sevices much more than illegal free services. As long as people are getting music for free they still have money to buy CDs. But if they were to start paying for online music they would have less money to buy CDs.
/. users seem to be in this debate about this action by barenekedladies being in violation of Napster's UA. This point is debatable. I would like to point out that sharing copyrighted music is a violation of Napster's UA. It is clear and precise and this is not debatable. so get the **** over it.
Media ID on a hard drive would be meaningless. One could keep music on Zip Disks or some other large removable media then make CDs of mp3 files. Not to mention this ID plan would create market for mod chips and software to defeat the ID. Once you have people forking out money specifically to break the law it's a short step to trying to recover your cost through resale or even make a profit. Then the RIAA would really have something to panic over. Worse than people pirating free music would be to have people paying for pirated music. This would mean they have less money to spend on ligitimate music.
Hack the http://www.hacksdmi.org/ website. So that when someone tries to sign up for their challenge they are simply routed to another site or some other such annoy pointless thing to discourage. For instance, Put a frame on the homepage and have a link that put the home page in that frame.
OH NO NO NO NO NOOOO!!!
Artists must beg, plead and degrade themselves just to get $1 per CD (If they are even lucky enough to get that much). Check the price of a new CD and then consider how greedy the artsists are to demand $1. Even that dumbass Lars. Lars is not a dumbass for attack his fans so much as he is because the RIAA was the one to hijack his music first
It's called age discrimination. In many states you are not entitled to minimum wage if your under 18. Further more, if your employer claims you get tips as part of your job some states let him reduce your pay yet again by half. And then your employer can mandate the tips go into a common fund from which he can take %90 for himself and the rest split among other employees. It all adds up to a minor getting as little as $0.35 (before taxes) an hour and their work hours limited as low as 8 hours per week maximum (to protection minors from the virtually- none-existent-in-this-country-sweatshops). It's all part of this plan to reduce gangs, drinking and all those other 'teenager' problems cased by %5 for which the other %95 are punished. Other parts of the plan include curfews which change on different days of the week and apply differently if your driving, a passenger or a pedestrian. Different legal blood-alcohol level standards, set so low %0.0001 that the amount of alcohol occurring naturally in the body will register. And lets not forget complex time, distance and zone restricted driver's licences based entirely on age instead of driving experience. Seemingly of less importance is campaign to protect minors from violent media, never mind if you need to burn the constitution to do it. It all appears to be to keep kids grounded until 18, not even giving them the opportunity to be good or bad until magically overnight they suddenly become contributing members of society after turning 18.
I think I can sum it all up by saying "Politicians blame and punish those who cannot vote in order to dupe those who can"
Two kids hacked into an Intellivision using a modem designed by Mattel themselves. The cute little innocent hackers called Mattel to tell them about it. DOH! Mattel was frantic, and to neutralize the threat they agreed to hire the hackers, after they went to college, which Mattel helped pay for.
Why would they do this?
Well the hackers where minors, there's a certain legal difficulty about that. Not to mention it might make Mattel appear bad if they started suing their target demographic.
The hackers were quite skilled and later proved to be assets to the company even though the Intellivision console was dropped by the time they were out of school.
But the most important reason of all was to keep the knowledge of how they did it from becoming public knowledge.
This situation was not unique. In the banking industry many programmers added backdoors to their work to funnel money to themselves. Most of them were caught. Bank managers were terrified that their customers might find out computers were used to steal money. Back then many customers mistrusted computers to handling their money in the first place. So deals were made for the offending programmers to keep some, all and even more money than they had acquired to keep them quiet.
It's odd when you think about it. Now that this type of information travels a round the world so much faster than it did then, that companies would be so eager to call attention to it by suing. Just look how Napster clones rose to epidemic proportions within hours of the lawsuit. Today they go against all this established wisdom, they attack their target demographic and call press conferences to announce the details.
I have the ATI All-in-Wonder. It's not the best but having all that great stuff in one card is worth it. It's a cheeper option too. It's not a Tivo but offers simular funtionalllity
I also have a Sound Blaster Live with a daughterboard that provides among other things dolby digital i/o. Right now I've settled for A set of 6 Cambridge SoundWorks speakers but plan to upgrade to that neat little Bowse set.
And a nice DVD drive that reads just about everything including VCD and even CDi.
For a kind of remote I use a Gravis Xterminator. I have it programmed so it works good for TV and DVD software. however I ussually keep a crib nearby which is especcially handy when entering numbers. A better option is in the plan. There is software for Plam and PocketPC devices that let you create you own GUI interfaces and use them like universal remotes. It use the IR port on the device. There even also such software for Gameboy. This would work with my computer and every other device in the house with a remote (TVs, VCRs, Laser Disc Player)
I have a cable/IDSN/56k hybrid modem that lets me view 300k movies from places like iFilm and AtomFilms. I doubt I'll be seeing Episode II with it, but all the great classics are fast becomming available for internet download. Just to name a few off the top of my head: Metropolis, Nosforatu and Gold Rush. Try not to read anything into it that those are all silent films, there *is* sound and color available.
At one time I wanted a CD changer but then MP3 came along. I bought a 20gig hard drive instead. It cost me less and is a better way all arround.
Right now I just have a normal 20inch monitor (1600x1200) but it delievers a much better picture than any TV I have, especially with DVD. Once again I have plans to upgrade to a HDTV projector when I can find a deal.
I picked up a nifty set of devices from Radio Shack to beam everything from my computer to any room in the house.
Bottom line is that I have mostly computer based entertainment system (Laser Disc and VRCs seperate) that works for me and, that believe it or not, cost less than buying traditional componets separately. But I will be the first to admit this is not for everyone. Right now everything operates through windoze and that means the blue screen of death pops up along with hardware conflicts and not enough memory errors. The plan is to eventually run it all with Linux. It is a hig maintenence system and often when your in the mode for seeing a DVD it just won't work and you have to settle for an internet film instead, or visaversa. Or other times (like right now) it's in the shop. If your looking for the highest quality and don't want to work on it every day, get the stand alone componets.
Actually there was this magazine article "The Next Star Wars Movies" clear back in 1996 that suggested this title. Some Sci-Fi mag, I'm sorry I can't remeber the name. It also said the first episode would be called "The Clone Wars"
It should be known that no blocking software will be 100% anyway. Anything is bound to offend at least someone and determined individual can find a way to bypass blocking software. Why must you be limited to a single key word producing a block? Why not have two lists (call them major and minor) "breast" would be in the minor list and only be blocked if a keyword from the major list was also on the page. Other keywords in the minor catigory might include "breast", "adult", "nude", "naked", "nudity", "flash", "spread", "lingerie", "panties", "lick", "sex", "excited", "hardcore" that sort of thing. Because these words alone might not indicate Words in the major catigory might include "cunt", "fuck", "cum", "slut", "dildo", and so on. And any keyword system should be a backup to self imposed advisories, such as RSACi. Check RSACi ratings first then fall back on the keywords if the page is not rated.
First presented to the public by shakesphere; here's how it works: Gather a bunch of big words and invent a bunch of new ones. String them together in such a way the barely make sense and hope that reader is just confused enough to think it might be right or atleast interesting. Here's is an example. If one where to respond to a question by saying, "The multivocacality of semanticism essentialized in a dialogue of being instantiates while it interrogates a hermeneutic of self-annihilating discursive spaces which occlude the ontological signifier", it would possibily get a better reponse than if you said, "It depends on what you mean by 'is'"
Swapoo does not let one specify which files can be uploaded from a users computer. Instead *all* ROMs become available not just the legal ones. Plus it only works for new ROMs Nintendo 64 and such. It does not allow BIN files. So it can hardly be defended for preserving old games when all thew old formats are excluded.
Uhm, they are making money off of it. Activision's Action Pack 2 has the Barnstorming ROM and about 15 others and an emulator to play them on your modern computer.
But they do! Yes, I am serious! There's a condition often called 'lazy eye'. Where by one eye cannot focus and/or be controlled as finely as the other. One treatment for this is to cover the 'good eye' with a patch, forcing the 'bad eye' to 'practice'. Now here's the 'videogame treatment' angle; 20 minutes of viewing PONG is worth approximately 8 hours of 'normal' viewing on average. (yes, some videogames have more value in the matter than others) This is scientifically supported but I can also provide personal anecdotal evidence. My niece had a 'lazy eye' and the doctor said the condition was so progressed that it would probably take three years of wearing the eye patch to correct it. But in only 4 months with at least one hour a day of various videogames the doctor pronounced the condition cured. And yes, this 'videogame treatment' was done with the doctors full support.
I think he was refering to the idea that chips can have embedded in them information that is copied to the ROM file along with all the other data. So that a company could (concieveably) find a ROM on a site and track down the exact chip that was copied and, in turn, the owner of the cartridge with that chip is in. Or not.
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Wouldn't large masses of Frozen CO2 slowly flow like water ice glacers do here on earth? Or is that on of those weird things that makes water special?
Ya but who would volunteer to ride the thing? Sure there are bold test pilots that would ride it Venus with no way back just for the hell of it. But would they still be as eager after learning the level of magnetic force involved would likely cause sterility?
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Original Greek? I had no idea that ancient Hebrews spoke Greek. I think you'll find that the "Gehenna"/"Large, foul-smelling waste dump" mixup was caused when a missionary did not know the right words to describe hell but he did know the words for to describe the 'native's' large, foul-smelling waste dump that was just outside the 'village'. But I think you did have a point. This guy is rambling on about how sinful it is to alter the Bible and completely ignores the fact that it's an altered version (translated to English) that he is defending I would be interested in the catholic church's position on 3D volumetric displays. I'm guessing they forbid them.
We want what we can't have. That's the main reason why us males are so fascinated with lesbians. 7 of 9 is much more unattainable. She's fictional, exists hundreds of years away, is on the other side of the galaxy (no hope of ever getting there in any reasonable time), completely disinterested in relationships and she's Borg, (a virtualy sexless race).
And as for more down to earth attractions. She's got a great body and a uniform that shows it off. Don't for get the geek factor, she's extemely intelligent and prefers gadgets to people (she is a gadget, the ultimate gadget). When you say she is unattractive I presume you are referring to her face. I will admit she is not the classic beauty, perfect 10, Hollywood archetype. But personally, I'm bored with the 'beautiful people'. Jeri Ryan has face that can hold you attention, it's different and interesting.
IF
All file types were allowed.
and
There were naming standard with description and verification system to ensure I always got the exact file I was looking for.
I believe the RIAA fears ligitimate and legal paid for sevices much more than illegal free services. As long as people are getting music for free they still have money to buy CDs. But if they were to start paying for online music they would have less money to buy CDs.
Will there actually be 146 million users if all users under 13 are excluded as per ICQ's rules?
/. users seem to be in this debate about this action by barenekedladies being in violation of Napster's UA. This point is debatable.
I would like to point out that sharing copyrighted music is a violation of Napster's UA. It is clear and precise and this is not debatable. so get the **** over it.
Anything is better than a law suit.
Media ID on a hard drive would be meaningless. One could keep music on Zip Disks or some other large removable media then make CDs of mp3 files. Not to mention this ID plan would create market for mod chips and software to defeat the ID. Once you have people forking out money specifically to break the law it's a short step to trying to recover your cost through resale or even make a profit. Then the RIAA would really have something to panic over. Worse than people pirating free music would be to have people paying for pirated music. This would mean they have less money to spend on ligitimate music.
Hack the http://www.hacksdmi.org/ website. So that when someone tries to sign up for their challenge they are simply routed to another site or some other such annoy pointless thing to discourage. For instance, Put a frame on the homepage and have a link that put the home page in that frame.
Question: Are VCRs and CD players common enough in Russia that stealing Videos or CDs are worth the trouble?
Well there is your solution. Ship it to the Russian mafia and pay them to deliver it.
OH NO NO NO NO NOOOO!!!
Artists must beg, plead and degrade themselves just to get $1 per CD (If they are even lucky enough to get that much). Check the price of a new CD and then consider how greedy the artsists are to demand $1. Even that dumbass Lars. Lars is not a dumbass for attack his fans so much as he is because the RIAA was the one to hijack his music first
It's called age discrimination. In many states you are not entitled to minimum wage if your under 18. Further more, if your employer claims you get tips as part of your job some states let him reduce your pay yet again by half. And then your employer can mandate the tips go into a common fund from which he can take %90 for himself and the rest split among other employees. It all adds up to a minor getting as little as $0.35 (before taxes) an hour and their work hours limited as low as 8 hours per week maximum (to protection minors from the virtually- none-existent-in-this-country-sweatshops). It's all part of this plan to reduce gangs, drinking and all those other 'teenager' problems cased by %5 for which the other %95 are punished. Other parts of the plan include curfews which change on different days of the week and apply differently if your driving, a passenger or a pedestrian. Different legal blood-alcohol level standards, set so low %0.0001 that the amount of alcohol occurring naturally in the body will register. And lets not forget complex time, distance and zone restricted driver's licences based entirely on age instead of driving experience. Seemingly of less importance is campaign to protect minors from violent media, never mind if you need to burn the constitution to do it. It all appears to be to keep kids grounded until 18, not even giving them the opportunity to be good or bad until magically overnight they suddenly become contributing members of society after turning 18.
I think I can sum it all up by saying "Politicians blame and punish those who cannot vote in order to dupe those who can"
Two kids hacked into an Intellivision using a modem designed by Mattel themselves. The cute little innocent hackers called Mattel to tell them about it. DOH! Mattel was frantic, and to neutralize the threat they agreed to hire the hackers, after they went to college, which Mattel helped pay for.
Why would they do this?
Well the hackers where minors, there's a certain legal difficulty about that. Not to mention it might make Mattel appear bad if they started suing their target demographic.
The hackers were quite skilled and later proved to be assets to the company even though the Intellivision console was dropped by the time they were out of school.
But the most important reason of all was to keep the knowledge of how they did it from becoming public knowledge.
This situation was not unique. In the banking industry many programmers added backdoors to their work to funnel money to themselves. Most of them were caught. Bank managers were terrified that their customers might find out computers were used to steal money. Back then many customers mistrusted computers to handling their money in the first place. So deals were made for the offending programmers to keep some, all and even more money than they had acquired to keep them quiet.
It's odd when you think about it. Now that this type of information travels a round the world so much faster than it did then, that companies would be so eager to call attention to it by suing. Just look how Napster clones rose to epidemic proportions within hours of the lawsuit. Today they go against all this established wisdom, they attack their target demographic and call press conferences to announce the details.
It's the most logical solution I've seen yet. But I wouldn't want it here in the US. I'll be watching to see how long it takes for this idea to fail.
So quite whining.
I have the ATI All-in-Wonder. It's not the best but having all that great stuff in one card is worth it. It's a cheeper option too. It's not a Tivo but offers simular funtionalllity
I also have a Sound Blaster Live with a daughterboard that provides among other things dolby digital i/o. Right now I've settled for A set of 6 Cambridge SoundWorks speakers but plan to upgrade to that neat little Bowse set.
And a nice DVD drive that reads just about everything including VCD and even CDi.
For a kind of remote I use a Gravis Xterminator. I have it programmed so it works good for TV and DVD software. however I ussually keep a crib nearby which is especcially handy when entering numbers. A better option is in the plan. There is software for Plam and PocketPC devices that let you create you own GUI interfaces and use them like universal remotes. It use the IR port on the device. There even also such software for Gameboy. This would work with my computer and every other device in the house with a remote (TVs, VCRs, Laser Disc Player)
I have a cable/IDSN/56k hybrid modem that lets me view 300k movies from places like iFilm and AtomFilms. I doubt I'll be seeing Episode II with it, but all the great classics are fast becomming available for internet download. Just to name a few off the top of my head: Metropolis, Nosforatu and Gold Rush. Try not to read anything into it that those are all silent films, there *is* sound and color available.
At one time I wanted a CD changer but then MP3 came along. I bought a 20gig hard drive instead. It cost me less and is a better way all arround.
Right now I just have a normal 20inch monitor (1600x1200) but it delievers a much better picture than any TV I have, especially with DVD. Once again I have plans to upgrade to a HDTV projector when I can find a deal. I picked up a nifty set of devices from Radio Shack to beam everything from my computer to any room in the house.
Bottom line is that I have mostly computer based entertainment system (Laser Disc and VRCs seperate) that works for me and, that believe it or not, cost less than buying traditional componets separately. But I will be the first to admit this is not for everyone. Right now everything operates through windoze and that means the blue screen of death pops up along with hardware conflicts and not enough memory errors. The plan is to eventually run it all with Linux. It is a hig maintenence system and often when your in the mode for seeing a DVD it just won't work and you have to settle for an internet film instead, or visaversa. Or other times (like right now) it's in the shop. If your looking for the highest quality and don't want to work on it every day, get the stand alone componets.
Actually there was this magazine article "The Next Star Wars Movies" clear back in 1996 that suggested this title. Some Sci-Fi mag, I'm sorry I can't remeber the name. It also said the first episode would be called "The Clone Wars"
It should be known that no blocking software will be 100% anyway. Anything is bound to offend at least someone and determined individual can find a way to bypass blocking software. Why must you be limited to a single key word producing a block? Why not have two lists (call them major and minor) "breast" would be in the minor list and only be blocked if a keyword from the major list was also on the page. Other keywords in the minor catigory might include "breast", "adult", "nude", "naked", "nudity", "flash", "spread", "lingerie", "panties", "lick", "sex", "excited", "hardcore" that sort of thing. Because these words alone might not indicate Words in the major catigory might include "cunt", "fuck", "cum", "slut", "dildo", and so on. And any keyword system should be a backup to self imposed advisories, such as RSACi. Check RSACi ratings first then fall back on the keywords if the page is not rated.
First presented to the public by shakesphere; here's how it works: Gather a bunch of big words and invent a bunch of new ones. String them together in such a way the barely make sense and hope that reader is just confused enough to think it might be right or atleast interesting. Here's is an example. If one where to respond to a question by saying, "The multivocacality of semanticism essentialized in a dialogue of being instantiates while it interrogates a hermeneutic of self-annihilating discursive spaces which occlude the ontological signifier", it would possibily get a better reponse than if you said, "It depends on what you mean by 'is'"
Swapoo does not let one specify which files can be uploaded from a users computer. Instead *all* ROMs become available not just the legal ones. Plus it only works for new ROMs Nintendo 64 and such. It does not allow BIN files. So it can hardly be defended for preserving old games when all thew old formats are excluded.
Uhm, they are making money off of it. Activision's Action Pack 2 has the Barnstorming ROM and about 15 others and an emulator to play them on your modern computer.
But they do! Yes, I am serious! There's a condition often called 'lazy eye'. Where by one eye cannot focus and/or be controlled as finely as the other. One treatment for this is to cover the 'good eye' with a patch, forcing the 'bad eye' to 'practice'. Now here's the 'videogame treatment' angle; 20 minutes of viewing PONG is worth approximately 8 hours of 'normal' viewing on average. (yes, some videogames have more value in the matter than others) This is scientifically supported but I can also provide personal anecdotal evidence. My niece had a 'lazy eye' and the doctor said the condition was so progressed that it would probably take three years of wearing the eye patch to correct it. But in only 4 months with at least one hour a day of various videogames the doctor pronounced the condition cured. And yes, this 'videogame treatment' was done with the doctors full support.
Videogames to treat ADD/ADHD
Diffamblyopia (lazy eye)
Videogames and Parkinson's Disease
Videogames to treat inflammatory bowel disease and juvenile diabetes
National Institutes of Health and Videogames
Amblyopia (advice from another doctor)
more amblyopia advice
yet another doctor's opinion)
Reduce risk of getting Lyme Disease
Healthy anger management for kids
Avoiding/dealing with Nebulizer side-effects
still more amblyopia advice
Super Nintendo treatment for asthma (Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus)
Super Nintendo treatment for Diabetes (Packy & Marlon)
Super Nintendo anti-smoking (Rex Ronan)
I think he was refering to the idea that chips can have embedded in them information that is copied to the ROM file along with all the other data. So that a company could (concieveably) find a ROM on a site and track down the exact chip that was copied and, in turn, the owner of the cartridge with that chip is in. Or not.