that may be true in combat, but when I log on to second life as a female character it is much easier to get other players to talk to you, and even when they know you are a guy- female players tend to treat you as "one of the girls" esp. when you get all dolled up
yeah- I work for a startup and am salaried (fairly well)- all of us work overtime because we are trying to build the company up- if the company were to suddenly have to pay overtime it would be much harder for us to build the company up- and harder to push our IPO and therefore trickling to our options....
I personally think that a panic AI would be good too- that accuracy and frenzy actions as well as just fear by enemies could be adjusted by "close calls".
haven't you heard? everyone knows that radical islam reduces your night vision. it also leads to dehydration, long nails and smoking- hence the ban on liquids, nail clippers and lighters
Try reversing the question, ethical issues aside why pay for something you don't need to? If I saw something for sale at $40 in one store and $20 in another, it doesn't matter if I'd be willing to pay $100 it'd still be stupid to pay $40. it completely ignores the issue though of the movies that are somewhere between "I just wasted 2 hours of my life, I want them back" and "god, I am sooo happy I didn't pay for that"
Let's face it- I will pay reasonably for things I want- but I certainly won't pay for things that I don't. Whether or not I have "illegal" copies of those make no impact as I would not have spent any $ on them in the first place, and when it comes to theater releases- around here where a night at the movies w/my girlfriend costs, all told 40-50 bucks I REALLY have to want to see the movie to go.
in california AT&T has public utility status (as in many counties it is the only line that comes to the door and ISP's must lease AT&T's lines)- if AT&T does file filter it is very possible to file a class action lawsuit to not only have them cease and desist- but to have all assets seized by the state until which time the court case is settled- is there already filtering? the answer is yes from someone that I talked to on the inside, but the big question is: what will happen when the hammer falls? will AT&T stop? will they be shut down?
idiot is very plural- there are a ton of idiots out there
esp. when you read it as such:
"Idiot" was originally created to refer to people who were overly concerned with their own self-interest and ignored the needs of the community. Declining to take part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state)
well not many are using xp as the server, but terminal services are usually active on at servers since IT doesn't want to sit in a server room all day and most big companies use off site storage, that is pretty much the same bag as having the server running xp and having it face out security-wise, in my company all of our critical data and client data is on a closed network which though it is irritating because there is no way to telecommute makes it far more secure since you have to physically be in the building to access any of the data and have to pass a series of security personell and physical locks just to get to a terminal that can even get on the network- though you won't find things like that in most public sector companies, they tend to rely on conventional passwords and firewalls to keep people out and pay bottom dollar for security.
Those who run Linux may take some satisfaction in knowing that the creators of their OS cares about what the users want. But they can't ignore the MS beast; when the day comes that umpteen million XP installations silently download and install BOTNET.EXE and the net is saturated with the traffic from all these zombies the Linux users will suffer too. or a ubuntu or fedora specific virus- it wouldn't affect the windows users (it wouldn't do anything, you may not even see it)but there is so much hubris amongst linux users that there systems are "bulletproof" that some MS lover could easily do this and shred linux users.
it might be a good idea to live in a cave- most companies have internet-facing Windows XP systems up and running a ton of stuff, from the power company to the banks to the government.
trust me it is a great concept, but at home I do audio and multimedia that far exceeds the capabilities of a mac and linux is a joke when it comes to this realm. Windows app support has matured over the years even if the OS hasn't and there is no equivalents do directx on either system, that leaves a lot of purely windows based apps that can't run on their core architecture or have the hardware support that you can get on an xp system (vista sucks for audio as well)
Personally, I like to think of the mind as having a 3d version of a set of pie slices. Slices overlap a bit, but generally exist as discrete elements which may reinforce one another, or not. Athleticism, intelligence, artistic vision, spatial adeptness, empathy, intuition, leadership, various types of fear, various types of stubbornness, the ability to make sideways connections (look for people who pun a lot, and well), the affinity for mathematics, the affinity for geometrics, fairness, honor, the ability to hold a "big picture" which part of that fails to let you understand the concept that religious beliefs are not in any way shape or form a science, since there is no way to test it or be critical of any and all possibilities that in some small fashion conflict it and runs on the core engine of "faith"- the concept that when something does not seem logical or understandable you chalk it up to god?
if a kid really wants to see pR0n, he will get his hands on it- does anyone really think that if a 10 year old sees some depiction of sex that they will be forever scarred (hell, I found my dad's porno stach when I was 10 and it didn't mess me up)? In many other cultures kids are exposed to nudity and are taught about sex and nothing ever comes of it. Besides if I put myself in that place when I was like 10 years old, pR0n was really not in the forefront of my mind, I couldn't appreciate it till at least a couple of years later (and so what if your 14-16 year old kid is looking @ pR0n- it is better than them getting the neighbor girl pregnant or as a # of friends from high school did- go to hookers and get the clap or worse), if there was an internet back then and I ran into a porn site I prolly would have just said eww and not gone back there. I mean granted I wouldn't say "son, let's look at some fisting" or encourage them to have sex when they are too young but it is really just another bible thumping conservative lockdown of people telling you how kids should be raised, what is right, what is wrong and demonizing people for not thinking the same way.
the fact of the matter is that it is actually easier to fool a vote counter than it is to fool a voting machine- for god's sake the data isn't even stored in a particularly stable database- diebold does everything with access whose security someone like me could break in a second flat- the problem is that anonymity needs to be broken to an extent- you need to be issued an accounting ID (and you can have verification by ss# or something like it) at the polls or on your absentee ballot and you need to be able to check the vote either online or by phone after it has been counted and be able to voice a correction if it is wrong. No one in media will go for this because they want their damn "election ratings" and "immediate results". The fact of the matter is that democracy is a slow process if it is to be fair- otherwise there will always be those that can easily subvert the system.
you people are all getting this wrong- criminal suits are deterrents- this is civil, in a civil court you can only sue for ACTUAL provable damages- that is that if you were to shoplift an iphone, the state can fine you whatever for shoplifting itself, but the shopkeeper can only sue for the $500 regardless of what he wants unless for some reason he suffered emotional damage due to the loss of the iphone which I would doubt. The civil codes are VERY strict on this, that you must prove actual loss in order to sue for an amount.
But even in the case about some kido downloading illegal MP3, $10-$20 is a joke. This is not product cost he's paying, it's a penalty. If you don't buy a ticket when you drive the train, if you're caught they don't just charge you few dollars more than the ticket price. They penalize you for working around the system and not paying in the first place. big difference- civil and criminal there are only 2 states (I believe) right now that have any criminal p2p laws on the books, the RIAA is suing in a civil court of law- think of it more like this:
you get in a fender bender and the person that hit you causes you $200 in damages, you take him to court and sue for $3,846,000- when the judge asks, you say it is a deterrent to keep him from hitting you again. Next week you sue the passenger for $3,846,000- the judge asks why you are suing if you already sued the driver and you say that participating in the accident is just as bad as driving - the judge says -"but you already got $ last week" and your answer is: "no, I got $ for the other defendant hitting me, this is a completely different suit- this applies to the passenger"
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absolutely- I also use it if I need a piece of reference material fast for a project- best place for texts and ref material
that may be true in combat, but when I log on to second life as a female character it is much easier to get other players to talk to you, and even when they know you are a guy- female players tend to treat you as "one of the girls" esp. when you get all dolled up
before, or after sex?
yes, off with his member.
gay sex and pedophilia are in no way related
yeah- I work for a startup and am salaried (fairly well)- all of us work overtime because we are trying to build the company up- if the company were to suddenly have to pay overtime it would be much harder for us to build the company up- and harder to push our IPO and therefore trickling to our options....
I personally think that a panic AI would be good too- that accuracy and frenzy actions as well as just fear by enemies could be adjusted by "close calls".
well, what happened to the whole "If we're terrified, then the terrorists win" thing?
haven't you heard? everyone knows that radical islam reduces your night vision. it also leads to dehydration, long nails and smoking- hence the ban on liquids, nail clippers and lighters
Let's face it- I will pay reasonably for things I want- but I certainly won't pay for things that I don't. Whether or not I have "illegal" copies of those make no impact as I would not have spent any $ on them in the first place, and when it comes to theater releases- around here where a night at the movies w/my girlfriend costs, all told 40-50 bucks I REALLY have to want to see the movie to go.
in california AT&T has public utility status (as in many counties it is the only line that comes to the door and ISP's must lease AT&T's lines)- if AT&T does file filter it is very possible to file a class action lawsuit to not only have them cease and desist- but to have all assets seized by the state until which time the court case is settled- is there already filtering? the answer is yes from someone that I talked to on the inside, but the big question is: what will happen when the hammer falls? will AT&T stop? will they be shut down?
idiot is very plural- there are a ton of idiots out there
esp. when you read it as such:
"Idiot" was originally created to refer to people who were overly concerned with their own self-interest and ignored the needs of the community. Declining to take part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state)
until this whole debacle happened and was posted about....I had never heard of the PC world store-
well not many are using xp as the server, but terminal services are usually active on at servers since IT doesn't want to sit in a server room all day and most big companies use off site storage, that is pretty much the same bag as having the server running xp and having it face out security-wise, in my company all of our critical data and client data is on a closed network which though it is irritating because there is no way to telecommute makes it far more secure since you have to physically be in the building to access any of the data and have to pass a series of security personell and physical locks just to get to a terminal that can even get on the network- though you won't find things like that in most public sector companies, they tend to rely on conventional passwords and firewalls to keep people out and pay bottom dollar for security.
it might be a good idea to live in a cave- most companies have internet-facing Windows XP systems up and running a ton of stuff, from the power company to the banks to the government.
yeah- I didn't get the patch either with updates completely off-
trust me it is a great concept, but at home I do audio and multimedia that far exceeds the capabilities of a mac and linux is a joke when it comes to this realm. Windows app support has matured over the years even if the OS hasn't and there is no equivalents do directx on either system, that leaves a lot of purely windows based apps that can't run on their core architecture or have the hardware support that you can get on an xp system (vista sucks for audio as well)
I will stick with stupid
it's a 6lb laptop with a 94lb heat sync for the 30 core processor in it
if a kid really wants to see pR0n, he will get his hands on it- does anyone really think that if a 10 year old sees some depiction of sex that they will be forever scarred (hell, I found my dad's porno stach when I was 10 and it didn't mess me up)? In many other cultures kids are exposed to nudity and are taught about sex and nothing ever comes of it. Besides if I put myself in that place when I was like 10 years old, pR0n was really not in the forefront of my mind, I couldn't appreciate it till at least a couple of years later (and so what if your 14-16 year old kid is looking @ pR0n- it is better than them getting the neighbor girl pregnant or as a # of friends from high school did- go to hookers and get the clap or worse), if there was an internet back then and I ran into a porn site I prolly would have just said eww and not gone back there. I mean granted I wouldn't say "son, let's look at some fisting" or encourage them to have sex when they are too young but it is really just another bible thumping conservative lockdown of people telling you how kids should be raised, what is right, what is wrong and demonizing people for not thinking the same way.
I work in civil litigation.
It is wrong, the DMCA is broken.
the fact of the matter is that it is actually easier to fool a vote counter than it is to fool a voting machine- for god's sake the data isn't even stored in a particularly stable database- diebold does everything with access whose security someone like me could break in a second flat- the problem is that anonymity needs to be broken to an extent- you need to be issued an accounting ID (and you can have verification by ss# or something like it) at the polls or on your absentee ballot and you need to be able to check the vote either online or by phone after it has been counted and be able to voice a correction if it is wrong. No one in media will go for this because they want their damn "election ratings" and "immediate results".
The fact of the matter is that democracy is a slow process if it is to be fair- otherwise there will always be those that can easily subvert the system.
you people are all getting this wrong- criminal suits are deterrents- this is civil, in a civil court you can only sue for ACTUAL provable damages- that is that if you were to shoplift an iphone, the state can fine you whatever for shoplifting itself, but the shopkeeper can only sue for the $500 regardless of what he wants unless for some reason he suffered emotional damage due to the loss of the iphone which I would doubt. The civil codes are VERY strict on this, that you must prove actual loss in order to sue for an amount.
you get in a fender bender and the person that hit you causes you $200 in damages, you take him to court and sue for $3,846,000- when the judge asks, you say it is a deterrent to keep him from hitting you again. Next week you sue the passenger for $3,846,000- the judge asks why you are suing if you already sued the driver and you say that participating in the accident is just as bad as driving - the judge says -"but you already got $ last week" and your answer is: "no, I got $ for the other defendant hitting me, this is a completely different suit- this applies to the passenger"
do you see the logic? neither do I