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Harry Potter: They let everyone know Snape is the Half Bllod Prince and kills Dumbledore
They create a page for Cheese sandwiches
They let us know that the US Forces are liberating Iraq and not occupying it in the Baath Party Page.
You obviously have never been robbed or assaulted before. Even if you are not physically hurt it is a tremendously horrible experience on many levels.
Also, preventing crime from happening means less money spent on the court and prison system.
Just because data mining can be taken too far doesn't mean they shouldn't use it. Is there anything a cop can do that can't be taken too far? There already is a lot of oversight within police departments. There is no reason to assume this wouldn't also have the same oversight. As long as it is lawful and within the confines of the constitution there should be no problem.
An example of good oversight of police methods can be found in Minnesota. The city of Minneapolis had red light cameras installed at many intersections. A few months later they were deemed unconstitutional by the state of MN. The system does work well, even in cases where technology comes into play.
I kind of hope you are right. This could act as a deterrent for some not to do something stupid. Of course there are those who have no shame *cough* Bob Allen (R-FL) *cough*, but those are the people we are supposed to laugh at.
The only bad thing about these laws is that they typically go against the constitution. The biggest problem is that there is no MPAA equivalent in the gaming industry. There isn't a need for the government to regulate the movie industry.
If the ESRB had the same power there wouldn't be any need for the government to regulate the video game industry. The problem is how can you do this effectively, especially now that online digital distribution of games is becoming so popular. The next generation of consoles and games might be predominantly sold online. One only needs to have access to a credit card or buy a game card at the store to purchase games online.
You may not think that there needs to be regulation. The problem is that younger kids may not be able to differentiate reality from the virtual world. This may not lead directly to violence, but there could easily be other psychological problems associate with it.
There is obviously no perfect way of regulating any medium when it comes to children being able to handle the material. It all comes down to good parents, knowing that their child can tell right from wrong and reality from fiction. Unfortunately in our society there are many parents who don't do it, or can't for some reason. That is why there does need to be some sort of regulation (not necessarily from our government) that is fair and flexible.
They'll change the title to WOW: An Inconvenient Truth, where global warming threatens Northrend. The cause will be from the declining numbers of pirates.
1 billion computers running Windows does NOT mean 1 billion people using Windows. I personally use 3 Windows computers on an almost daily basis (work, laptop, desktop). Think of how many computer labs there are just in the United States. There has to be a few 100 million people with access to multiple computers each day. Not to mention the many initiatives to give underprivelaged people around the world cheap laptops.
I feel the exact opposite as you do. Kreacher came to like Harry for numerous reasons. Harry promised and delivered to finish the job that Regulus had instructed him to do. We also learn that Voldemort had left Kreacher to die in the cave and only escaped because Voldemort had been too arrogant to realize Kreacher could escape. Would you show allegiance to the one who left you for dead, or the one who swore to finish the job of your favorite master? I wouldn't have believed it either before reading the book.
I'm sure many people speculated that Percy would come around and stop being a "prat," but I agree with you that the way Rowling did it was in a very awkward moment. He should have come around sometime in the sixth book or early in the seventh.
Rowling never left Dumbledore off the hook. You get complete opposite views of Dumbledore early on and at the end you find out that both are pretty much true. It could have been Albus, Grindelwald or Aberforth who accidently killed their sister. Dumbledore was shown to be very negligent of his sister. He had not always been the tolerant person everyone thought he was. Dumbledore gave Grindewald the idea of "for the greater good." Grindelwald is the wizarding equivalent of Hitler and Nazy Germany, who also put people into concentration camps. That isn't really letting him off the hook. Rowling shows that anyone can change if they want to.
Claiming that deaths being senseless is not really a bad thing. In what war have you been in where deaths made any sense?
Yes, the ending was sappy, but that is to be expected. I would have liked it if she left it out entirely and let the reader come up with their own future if they wish.
Almost every story Asimov wrote about robotics intentionally showed the fallacy of the three laws. How does that make him wrong? Not only that, but how does it relate to Stephen Hawking and his belief in the future survival of humanity? Yes, humans will have to leave the solar system in order to survive. Everyone should know that, but what the hell does it have to do with the 3 laws of robotics?
Don't worry, they just passed the torch to a new superhero, Stephen Colbert.
"On March 12, 2007, the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, Joe Quesada, awarded Stephen Colbert the recently deceased superhero Captain America's shield. The letter to Stephen accompanying the shield stated that "the Star-Spangled Avenger has bequeathed... his indestructible shield to the only man he believed to have the red, white and blue balls to carry the mantle." Stephen promised to use the shield "only to fight for justice... and to impress girls." It was, in fact, one of only two full-sized prop shields which had previously been kept in the Marvel offices."
You and the parent make great points. One thing the article didn't mention was the monumental flop of the Apple III. Apple spent a few years only advertising for the Apple III when every review of it blasted it and no one would buy it. Woz said that Apple probably lost 300 million dollars on the Apple III. That is 300 million dollars in early 1980's dollars, today it would be near a billion! According to Woz the reason the Apple III was such a bad product was because it was built by a committee of people in marketing. How could an article miss such a monumental flop as the Apple III?
Have you ever read or watched anything about the JFK assassination other than the movie JFK?
If you have watched or read any recent documentary you will know that the "magic bullet theory" isn't magical at all. You would also know that JFK being shot from anywhere besides the book depository is basically an impossibility.
This revelation is interesting only because there is a possibility of a second gunmen. Most of the places where people claim a second gunmen to be have been heavily debunked in recent documentaries. I would speculate that the bullets are from the same gun (and are actually two bullets). Just because the methodology of the test isn't correct doesn't mean that the results of the test were completely false.
There is no need for a second gunmen to prove that there was a conspiracy or that Lee acted alone, it is just the easiest way to do so. Lee had such a weird life and there are plenty of holes in his life, especially after he joined the Marines.
I really don't see any other tests coming up with anything other than the fragments are from two bullets that came from Lee's gun. It would be much more correct to say that "Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis MIGHT Be Wrong." And it is still a very big MIGHT.
If you focus on a few seconds of one of many commercials then yes, you may think they have a lousy marketing campaign. Marketing to families is what are driving the sales. If you were a mother or father, would you spend $250+ on a console that you can enjoy too, or $600+? Showing families having fun together while playing the Wii sure was a bad idea!
The mean age of the study was 77. I don't imagine many people at that age use mp3 players very often. You would think that they'd use other devices, but the iPod has such a large market share over anything else. Now that they know the iPod can cause problems for pacemakers, the next step would be to test similar devices. Why waste your time with 50 devices when you aren't sure if there will be a problem with one? The iPod is clearly the logical choice to start a study.
You would think that after doing a study on iPods only and finding such surprising results that they would start studying other devices.
Your rant doesn't fit into the argument of this article in the slightest. If the NGA tries to restrict satellite imagery again like it did in Afghanistan it will effect everyone, not just Americans. There most likely won't even be a complete blackout in an area. They might restrict the most current photographs that would show American troops, but showing a picture taken in 2000 or another arbitrary date that doesn't show sensitive information wouldn't need to be blocked. It would be dumb to think that the NGA would publish photos of American troop movements or let others do so.
In this country we have a system of checks and balances, so no one of the three branches rule our country. Certainly none of these service organizations do either. Their budgets are way too small and most have direct congressional oversight. Our system is far from perfect, but it works well. This is not the place to bash America, or any other country.
The cost isn't as big of a factor as you think. They aren't using the standard DDR machine you'd find at an arcade. From the article they were basically using pads that you can buy from a retail store for $20 with added protection. Personally I've had two pads go bad on me since 2002. One was because of incorrect storage (someone didn't fold it correctly) and the other was from normal wear and tear. Keep in mind that it is very easy to protect a standard $20 pad. It takes nothing more than a slab of thin plywood with plastic taped to the board. That simple modification will increase the longevity by a large factor and also makes it very hard to store it incorrectly.
Personally I've had DDR since it came out for the PS2 and have used it a lot, especially during the winter months. These DDR programs are great for school age children. It encourages exercise in a group environment where their confidence can go nowhere but up, no matter how unathletic the person is. The middle school in my hometown was the first school in MN to start a DDR program and participation has been near capacity during its whole run.
You must remember that PC games are increasingly becoming available by download. The last few games I've purchased I've downloaded (Steam Silver package and Battlefied 2142). With the emergence of Steam, EA Downloader and a direct download for WoW:TBC very little space is needed in stores for those titles. I assume that the majority of PC Gamers have a high speed connection and access to a CC or debit card. Large game developers like Valve, EA and Blizzard can save lots of costs selling directly to people than through retailers. This is a main reason why shelf space in a retail store isn't as big of an indicator of success as it used to be.
From this article and another article it appears that the media and officials are saying two different things. At the beginning of the article I linked it says that he downloaded designs for control rooms, reactors, etc, but later in the article a statement from public officials says that only training software was taken. There is a HUGE difference between designs and training software. The beginning paragraph is extremely misleading and overstating the problem. I don't see how getting a hold of training software will get Iran any further along in developing a nuclear reactor.
This is from the article I linked. "The investigation has not led us to believe this information was taken for the purpose of being used by a foreign government or terrorists to attack us," said Deborah McCarley, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Phoenix. "This does not appear to be terrorist-related." AZCentral is more concerned with reactions from politicians think about something they know no more about than any of us.
Why is AZCentral interviewing politicians about this case and not people involved in the investigation? AZC doesn't even mention that Palo Verde has already changed their system to not let anyone gain access to any files after they are no longer employed by them. This story really isn't a big deal. If he was able to steal classified information on designs of a nuclear reactor, that'd be one thing, but this is just another case of the media trying to make it a bigger deal than it really is.
How could they require the last four digits of a credit card number to recover lost steam accounts when you don't need a CC to use steam? You can activate a new steam account without purchasing something through steam. One only needs a valid CD-Key and e-mail address. I have always been under the impression that Steam wasn't keeping peoples CC numbers. I thought they received a receipt of the purchase from the CC company.
On a related note, I had to have a steam accounts password reset because someone I let use it changed the password and I couldn't get ahold of them. I only had to give them the e-mail address and the password was reset. I don't know how Valve could find someones lost account. It would leave a lot of people who never used a CC out to dry (it is hard to believe that people lose all the info of their steam account in the first place).
I think that either the hacker is lying about the credit card information or this is some sort of hoax.
Without wires, the price of copper will drop. What are all of those copper thieves going to do for money now? Maybe now I'll be able to legally melt all of my pennies again.
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The first 3 edits listed are as follows:
Harry Potter: They let everyone know Snape is the Half Bllod Prince and kills Dumbledore
They create a page for Cheese sandwiches
They let us know that the US Forces are liberating Iraq and not occupying it in the Baath Party Page.
You obviously have never been robbed or assaulted before. Even if you are not physically hurt it is a tremendously horrible experience on many levels.
Also, preventing crime from happening means less money spent on the court and prison system.
Just because data mining can be taken too far doesn't mean they shouldn't use it. Is there anything a cop can do that can't be taken too far? There already is a lot of oversight within police departments. There is no reason to assume this wouldn't also have the same oversight. As long as it is lawful and within the confines of the constitution there should be no problem.
An example of good oversight of police methods can be found in Minnesota. The city of Minneapolis had red light cameras installed at many intersections. A few months later they were deemed unconstitutional by the state of MN. The system does work well, even in cases where technology comes into play.
I kind of hope you are right. This could act as a deterrent for some not to do something stupid. Of course there are those who have no shame *cough* Bob Allen (R-FL) *cough*, but those are the people we are supposed to laugh at.
The only bad thing about these laws is that they typically go against the constitution. The biggest problem is that there is no MPAA equivalent in the gaming industry. There isn't a need for the government to regulate the movie industry.
If the ESRB had the same power there wouldn't be any need for the government to regulate the video game industry. The problem is how can you do this effectively, especially now that online digital distribution of games is becoming so popular. The next generation of consoles and games might be predominantly sold online. One only needs to have access to a credit card or buy a game card at the store to purchase games online.
You may not think that there needs to be regulation. The problem is that younger kids may not be able to differentiate reality from the virtual world. This may not lead directly to violence, but there could easily be other psychological problems associate with it.
There is obviously no perfect way of regulating any medium when it comes to children being able to handle the material. It all comes down to good parents, knowing that their child can tell right from wrong and reality from fiction. Unfortunately in our society there are many parents who don't do it, or can't for some reason. That is why there does need to be some sort of regulation (not necessarily from our government) that is fair and flexible.
I believe Stan Lee wrote a Thesis on the topic.
They'll change the title to WOW: An Inconvenient Truth, where global warming threatens Northrend. The cause will be from the declining numbers of pirates.
1 billion computers running Windows does NOT mean 1 billion people using Windows. I personally use 3 Windows computers on an almost daily basis (work, laptop, desktop). Think of how many computer labs there are just in the United States. There has to be a few 100 million people with access to multiple computers each day. Not to mention the many initiatives to give underprivelaged people around the world cheap laptops.
I feel the exact opposite as you do. Kreacher came to like Harry for numerous reasons. Harry promised and delivered to finish the job that Regulus had instructed him to do. We also learn that Voldemort had left Kreacher to die in the cave and only escaped because Voldemort had been too arrogant to realize Kreacher could escape. Would you show allegiance to the one who left you for dead, or the one who swore to finish the job of your favorite master? I wouldn't have believed it either before reading the book. I'm sure many people speculated that Percy would come around and stop being a "prat," but I agree with you that the way Rowling did it was in a very awkward moment. He should have come around sometime in the sixth book or early in the seventh. Rowling never left Dumbledore off the hook. You get complete opposite views of Dumbledore early on and at the end you find out that both are pretty much true. It could have been Albus, Grindelwald or Aberforth who accidently killed their sister. Dumbledore was shown to be very negligent of his sister. He had not always been the tolerant person everyone thought he was. Dumbledore gave Grindewald the idea of "for the greater good." Grindelwald is the wizarding equivalent of Hitler and Nazy Germany, who also put people into concentration camps. That isn't really letting him off the hook. Rowling shows that anyone can change if they want to. Claiming that deaths being senseless is not really a bad thing. In what war have you been in where deaths made any sense? Yes, the ending was sappy, but that is to be expected. I would have liked it if she left it out entirely and let the reader come up with their own future if they wish.
It is time you grow up and become a Game Man.
Almost every story Asimov wrote about robotics intentionally showed the fallacy of the three laws. How does that make him wrong? Not only that, but how does it relate to Stephen Hawking and his belief in the future survival of humanity? Yes, humans will have to leave the solar system in order to survive. Everyone should know that, but what the hell does it have to do with the 3 laws of robotics?
This is July 4th, not April 20th. The appropriate way to celebrate involves blowing up a piece of the Earth, not smoking it.
Don't worry, they just passed the torch to a new superhero, Stephen Colbert.
"On March 12, 2007, the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, Joe Quesada, awarded Stephen Colbert the recently deceased superhero Captain America's shield. The letter to Stephen accompanying the shield stated that "the Star-Spangled Avenger has bequeathed... his indestructible shield to the only man he believed to have the red, white and blue balls to carry the mantle." Stephen promised to use the shield "only to fight for justice... and to impress girls." It was, in fact, one of only two full-sized prop shields which had previously been kept in the Marvel offices."
You and the parent make great points. One thing the article didn't mention was the monumental flop of the Apple III. Apple spent a few years only advertising for the Apple III when every review of it blasted it and no one would buy it. Woz said that Apple probably lost 300 million dollars on the Apple III. That is 300 million dollars in early 1980's dollars, today it would be near a billion! According to Woz the reason the Apple III was such a bad product was because it was built by a committee of people in marketing. How could an article miss such a monumental flop as the Apple III?
There is a large market for products that make bad parents think that they are doing a good job at parenting.
If you have watched or read any recent documentary you will know that the "magic bullet theory" isn't magical at all. You would also know that JFK being shot from anywhere besides the book depository is basically an impossibility.
This revelation is interesting only because there is a possibility of a second gunmen. Most of the places where people claim a second gunmen to be have been heavily debunked in recent documentaries. I would speculate that the bullets are from the same gun (and are actually two bullets). Just because the methodology of the test isn't correct doesn't mean that the results of the test were completely false.
There is no need for a second gunmen to prove that there was a conspiracy or that Lee acted alone, it is just the easiest way to do so. Lee had such a weird life and there are plenty of holes in his life, especially after he joined the Marines.
I really don't see any other tests coming up with anything other than the fragments are from two bullets that came from Lee's gun. It would be much more correct to say that "Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis MIGHT Be Wrong." And it is still a very big MIGHT.
If you focus on a few seconds of one of many commercials then yes, you may think they have a lousy marketing campaign. Marketing to families is what are driving the sales. If you were a mother or father, would you spend $250+ on a console that you can enjoy too, or $600+? Showing families having fun together while playing the Wii sure was a bad idea!
You would think that after doing a study on iPods only and finding such surprising results that they would start studying other devices.
In this country we have a system of checks and balances, so no one of the three branches rule our country. Certainly none of these service organizations do either. Their budgets are way too small and most have direct congressional oversight. Our system is far from perfect, but it works well. This is not the place to bash America, or any other country.
I completely agree. Congress needs to work on more attainable issues, like bringing peace to the Middle East.
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The cost isn't as big of a factor as you think. They aren't using the standard DDR machine you'd find at an arcade. From the article they were basically using pads that you can buy from a retail store for $20 with added protection. Personally I've had two pads go bad on me since 2002. One was because of incorrect storage (someone didn't fold it correctly) and the other was from normal wear and tear. Keep in mind that it is very easy to protect a standard $20 pad. It takes nothing more than a slab of thin plywood with plastic taped to the board. That simple modification will increase the longevity by a large factor and also makes it very hard to store it incorrectly. Personally I've had DDR since it came out for the PS2 and have used it a lot, especially during the winter months. These DDR programs are great for school age children. It encourages exercise in a group environment where their confidence can go nowhere but up, no matter how unathletic the person is. The middle school in my hometown was the first school in MN to start a DDR program and participation has been near capacity during its whole run.
You must remember that PC games are increasingly becoming available by download. The last few games I've purchased I've downloaded (Steam Silver package and Battlefied 2142). With the emergence of Steam, EA Downloader and a direct download for WoW:TBC very little space is needed in stores for those titles. I assume that the majority of PC Gamers have a high speed connection and access to a CC or debit card. Large game developers like Valve, EA and Blizzard can save lots of costs selling directly to people than through retailers. This is a main reason why shelf space in a retail store isn't as big of an indicator of success as it used to be.
This is from the article I linked. "The investigation has not led us to believe this information was taken for the purpose of being used by a foreign government or terrorists to attack us," said Deborah McCarley, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Phoenix. "This does not appear to be terrorist-related." AZCentral is more concerned with reactions from politicians think about something they know no more about than any of us.
Why is AZCentral interviewing politicians about this case and not people involved in the investigation? AZC doesn't even mention that Palo Verde has already changed their system to not let anyone gain access to any files after they are no longer employed by them. This story really isn't a big deal. If he was able to steal classified information on designs of a nuclear reactor, that'd be one thing, but this is just another case of the media trying to make it a bigger deal than it really is.
How could they require the last four digits of a credit card number to recover lost steam accounts when you don't need a CC to use steam? You can activate a new steam account without purchasing something through steam. One only needs a valid CD-Key and e-mail address. I have always been under the impression that Steam wasn't keeping peoples CC numbers. I thought they received a receipt of the purchase from the CC company. On a related note, I had to have a steam accounts password reset because someone I let use it changed the password and I couldn't get ahold of them. I only had to give them the e-mail address and the password was reset. I don't know how Valve could find someones lost account. It would leave a lot of people who never used a CC out to dry (it is hard to believe that people lose all the info of their steam account in the first place). I think that either the hacker is lying about the credit card information or this is some sort of hoax.
Without wires, the price of copper will drop. What are all of those copper thieves going to do for money now? Maybe now I'll be able to legally melt all of my pennies again.