I was involved in scouting in Canada as a kid from about 8 till my mid to late teens when real life started to creep into my world.
When I was in scouting we had a few openly atheist families as well as Muslim and Jewish kids, we also had a gay scout leader in the leadership team. My father ran the cub pack, and had the philosophy that so long as you did not push your agenda on others in the group then you could stay, but if you tried then you had to go. That included a christian parent that tried to push his agenda (him and his kid got booted and my father wrote an apology to the affected kid and his family).
One year we held a "Christmas" party, my Dad told the Muslim parents they were celebrating the birth of one of the prophets before Mohammad, the Jewish parents they were celebrating the birth of a famous Jew (Lets not forget Jesus was Jewish) and the new age parents that they were going to celebrate the season and as always the natural world. That to me is Scouting, finding common ground, learning to have respect for the natural world and getting to do cool stuff that urban kinds wouldn't normally get to do.
I'm deeply saddened by the turn scouting has taken. See scouting is mostly funded by the group that sponsors the individual scout troop. Currently about 75% of the groups are sponsored by Mormons out of the LDS (latter day saints) who tend to, how shall we say... have a dim view of gays and people who don't believe in god.
It was my hope that when my wife and I have children we could enroll them in scouting but because of all the changes I don't think I can in good conscience. And that is a real shame.
a friend of mine who works with JPL, was talking with me and said that it was possible, but would take far more money then the well planet would be willing to spend, but apparently the science is there.
now as for speed up and slow down, well I'll admit I didn't factor that in, the point is that its still going to take several lifetimes worth of time for this to matter.
Not really, if it was someone in the shipping company they needed to maintain the exact same weight feel of the package. if someone could mass produce these fakes it might be worth doing.
Actually rumor has it on a lot of black hat bords that a planned DDos attack is planned the first few weeks of release, just to screw over this system and cause problems for everyone, after all if the system becomes unusable then it will make ubisoft think twice about it.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: [Professor Farnsworth is showing Cubert, his clone, some of his inventions] And this is my Universal Translator. Unfortunately, so far it only translates into an incomprehensible dead language.
Cubert J. Farnsworth: [into the translator's microphone] Hello.
Universal Translator: Bonjour!
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Crazy gibberish!
How about the ability to teach someone something almost instantly. For example, imagine bing able to give someone a university degrees worth of knowledge and then have them spend the time in school to see how they apply it. Or eventually being able to have yourself cloned and then when your near death be downloaded into your new body. No more pesky death to worry about.
1. leave a camera in my car
2. let cobs enter my car
3. go to police and demand they arrest the person that broke into my car
4. sue police
5. Profit!!!
wash rinse repeat until rich or this stops.
if Russia will still take money for the first flight to mars. I mean if I got 1 dollar from everyone who told me they wanted me to leave this world, I could most likely be able to afford a seat on a Russian mars mission.
Hello Blizzard,
This is in regard to the companies latest trend to require a connection to the internet even for face to face play. My friends and I as a sort of tradition always go and buy all of our copies of the latest blizzard release on release day, go back to one persons house and play though them via LAN, however I understand this will no longer be possible, how then do you recommend all 6 of us play your games using only a light high speed internet connection at the same house?
There is, and I think over all its a good system, I don't mind paying an extra $2 for a spindle of 50 dvd's if it means I can copy whatever the hell I want on them. As a bonus we still own our software, not lease it and DRM is technically illegal here as it violates our privacy act. EULA's don't work here because you have to agree to them after you buy them. We have fair copyright law here, so I guess that makes us the Tortuga of the internet in their eyes.
Start e-mailing links to copyrighted material and get the government's internet shutdown, and if they don't shut themselves off then start suing and having them charged with corruption until they force them to repeal their bill.
Dell is calling someone else unethical?! this is the company that has been known to sell "on-site" warranties then tell people that if they don't go into the depot with their device then the customer is voiding the warranty?!
Personally I like the tiger crooks a lot better then those dell crooks
Is it sad that in society we are left to decide which crooks we like slightly better?
I owe my university degree to caffeine, if it wasn't for Jolt cola (and its various delicious flavors), I couldn't have done 3 years of courses in 1 year. After that I was working for a company that had me doing 72 hours on, 12 hours off. After a few years of that I worked for a company that had me on the night shift for 6 months at a time. My friends used to say that If I stopped drinking Jolt they would have to close up the local plant. Two years ago I went to a regular day shift and haven't felt the 'need for legal speed' in a while. Drugs are good so long as you don't abuse them, I used it when I needed it. If you dont need it, dont do it.
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I was involved in scouting in Canada as a kid from about 8 till my mid to late teens when real life started to creep into my world. When I was in scouting we had a few openly atheist families as well as Muslim and Jewish kids, we also had a gay scout leader in the leadership team. My father ran the cub pack, and had the philosophy that so long as you did not push your agenda on others in the group then you could stay, but if you tried then you had to go. That included a christian parent that tried to push his agenda (him and his kid got booted and my father wrote an apology to the affected kid and his family). One year we held a "Christmas" party, my Dad told the Muslim parents they were celebrating the birth of one of the prophets before Mohammad, the Jewish parents they were celebrating the birth of a famous Jew (Lets not forget Jesus was Jewish) and the new age parents that they were going to celebrate the season and as always the natural world. That to me is Scouting, finding common ground, learning to have respect for the natural world and getting to do cool stuff that urban kinds wouldn't normally get to do. I'm deeply saddened by the turn scouting has taken. See scouting is mostly funded by the group that sponsors the individual scout troop. Currently about 75% of the groups are sponsored by Mormons out of the LDS (latter day saints) who tend to, how shall we say... have a dim view of gays and people who don't believe in god. It was my hope that when my wife and I have children we could enroll them in scouting but because of all the changes I don't think I can in good conscience. And that is a real shame.
a friend of mine who works with JPL, was talking with me and said that it was possible, but would take far more money then the well planet would be willing to spend, but apparently the science is there. now as for speed up and slow down, well I'll admit I didn't factor that in, the point is that its still going to take several lifetimes worth of time for this to matter.
I believe at currently achievable theoretical speeds we might be able to make it there with like a robotic probe in 100 years or less!
Not really, if it was someone in the shipping company they needed to maintain the exact same weight feel of the package. if someone could mass produce these fakes it might be worth doing.
Actually rumor has it on a lot of black hat bords that a planned DDos attack is planned the first few weeks of release, just to screw over this system and cause problems for everyone, after all if the system becomes unusable then it will make ubisoft think twice about it.
When she read the article her first words were "Where do we get one of those?" O.o
Einstein had a theory about changing mass...are they saying they might have licked the problem of relatively?!
...It's the new camo paint!
DRM violates the privacy act in Canada and the privacy act in Canada trumps. Canada can't sign it under current laws.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: [Professor Farnsworth is showing Cubert, his clone, some of his inventions] And this is my Universal Translator. Unfortunately, so far it only translates into an incomprehensible dead language. Cubert J. Farnsworth: [into the translator's microphone] Hello. Universal Translator: Bonjour! Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Crazy gibberish!
How about the ability to teach someone something almost instantly. For example, imagine bing able to give someone a university degrees worth of knowledge and then have them spend the time in school to see how they apply it. Or eventually being able to have yourself cloned and then when your near death be downloaded into your new body. No more pesky death to worry about.
The US border guards are just going to swipe the laptop and smart phones at customs anyway.
may I as well, but I do want the eye beams that can blast through a mountain.
1. leave a camera in my car 2. let cobs enter my car 3. go to police and demand they arrest the person that broke into my car 4. sue police 5. Profit!!! wash rinse repeat until rich or this stops.
I sense a Jerry Bruckheimer movie staring Angelina Jolie. its gone in 60 seconds meets hackers.
if Russia will still take money for the first flight to mars. I mean if I got 1 dollar from everyone who told me they wanted me to leave this world, I could most likely be able to afford a seat on a Russian mars mission.
Hello Blizzard, This is in regard to the companies latest trend to require a connection to the internet even for face to face play. My friends and I as a sort of tradition always go and buy all of our copies of the latest blizzard release on release day, go back to one persons house and play though them via LAN, however I understand this will no longer be possible, how then do you recommend all 6 of us play your games using only a light high speed internet connection at the same house?
I'm thinking the ancient drones from stargate is the goal.
There is, and I think over all its a good system, I don't mind paying an extra $2 for a spindle of 50 dvd's if it means I can copy whatever the hell I want on them. As a bonus we still own our software, not lease it and DRM is technically illegal here as it violates our privacy act. EULA's don't work here because you have to agree to them after you buy them. We have fair copyright law here, so I guess that makes us the Tortuga of the internet in their eyes.
this show has more lives then zombie Jesus.
with all the nonsense that the french government does its nice to know that sometimes they do something good. WTG France, you got something right.
Start e-mailing links to copyrighted material and get the government's internet shutdown, and if they don't shut themselves off then start suing and having them charged with corruption until they force them to repeal their bill.
I was worried there would be a mead shortage...and a decline in pagan moon shine is a bad thing...
Dell is calling someone else unethical?! this is the company that has been known to sell "on-site" warranties then tell people that if they don't go into the depot with their device then the customer is voiding the warranty?! Personally I like the tiger crooks a lot better then those dell crooks Is it sad that in society we are left to decide which crooks we like slightly better?
I owe my university degree to caffeine, if it wasn't for Jolt cola (and its various delicious flavors), I couldn't have done 3 years of courses in 1 year. After that I was working for a company that had me doing 72 hours on, 12 hours off. After a few years of that I worked for a company that had me on the night shift for 6 months at a time. My friends used to say that If I stopped drinking Jolt they would have to close up the local plant. Two years ago I went to a regular day shift and haven't felt the 'need for legal speed' in a while. Drugs are good so long as you don't abuse them, I used it when I needed it. If you dont need it, dont do it.