No, it isn't as old as some of the others, but in all seriousness:
Jedi Academy with Forcemod III was an incredible experience. Whereas in most action-based multiplayer games classes amount to what kind of gun you can shoot, you had genuinely varying types of gameplay for every class--Jedi versus droid versus bounty hunter! It was fun. It worked. There's never been anything else like it.
There are limits on how fast wealth can be grown that are affected by circumstances, like living in a shanty town in Kenya, but the principles still apply.
Nonetheless, there are people who get rich (at least relative to their peers--how else would you measure "rich"?) all the time, and *most of them didn't start that way*. As it turns out, keeping and growing wealth requires much the same skills as acquiring it in the first place, so children of wealth rarely maintain that wealth unless they also inherited what made their parents able to acquire it. That's why most rich people *aren't* children of wealth as you suggest.
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I think it's important to note that what the US has now is really an in between, itself.
The "grand capitalist health care system" that the US supposedly has doesn't exist. Varying levels of the sort of "reform" that we're seeing now have brought the US from its previous "could use some tweaking" system to its current state.
Regardless of "academic qualification" (Most people with the paper don't have the ethical or logical capability to be truly considered qualified), the Texas school board was responding to its own concerns about the insertion of bias into textbooks.
Textbooks are already biased. How many people are around that are willing to stand against bias in ALL directions? I'm sick of bickering between defining "unbiased" as "suiting my own personal bias".
I enabled tethering on my iPhone. To enable MMS on AT&T, I'd have to update, which would break tethering. I don't see the trade being worth it by any means, especially since this sucker is my primary internet connection.
I never knew any one who had a PS1 modded to play pirated games/backups. Broadband was still a dream for most in those days. However...
I received a preview release of a game once while running a review site, and the developer assumed I could play it from their CD-R. Sadly, I didn't get to.
He's talking about reinterpreting the document at whim.
The US Constitution was ratified through the proper channels to rectify this. It wasn't just a matter of some one saying "it's a living document, so we'll just interpret it to mean whatever we want it to say".
As much merit as I think your characterizations have, I think the Israel thing is far more nuanced.
For instance, when discussing a strong defensive front and reactions when it is questioned, the factor of every single one of your neighbors having gone to war with you for your mere existence in the past generation and the fact that people continue to hate and bomb you because of becoming over-defensive after being attacked might have something to do with it.
I dunno. Maybe it's just me, but I think it might have a little relevance.
A few years ago, forums were full of "How do I convert from h264 to DivX?"
Progress isn't instant. MKV is better, and the knowledgeable people are pushing it. It will likely catch on from sheer stubbornness... which will be good.
Do you really believe that the only form of capitalism is laissez-faire capitalism?
I could very well say that government doesn't work because it always leads to totalitarian regimes. You could respond that government isn't only totalitarian and can have checks and balances... but the same thing can be said of capitalism.
You talk about all of those aspects as though they are unique to the US. In case it's somehow not blindingly obvious, they're NOT.
Japan already takes the measures mentioned in the article. The outrage was minimal. Other countries have just the amount of blind patriotism and jingoism that let atrocities breeze by. No one seems to notice!
Keep focusing on the US, though. I know it's more gratifying to the ego to criticize entire groups of individuals as a whole, especially when they're presently king of the molehill. It sure beats introspection and humility!
If many newer commercial vehicles are limited at between 66 and 80mph, I'd say that's just as wrong... and I'd want to know which ones, so I don't do business witht heir manufacturers.
A limiter set at 115mph is so far above the speed limit that it's a ridiculous comparison.
80, though, is just barely above the speed limit in many places. If you can't imagine an entirely realistic situation where the appropriate response to an emergency situation is accelerating by at least a few miles per hour, I would question your judgement as a driver. (Here's one for you: Merging onto a shoulderless highway with traffic behind you.)
Regardless, even if this had a net result of lives saved, you are sacrificing a few of the responsible and able to make up for irresponsible and unable by force. Such options should be left up to the individual.
While every fact you list as supporting evidence is true, your conclusion is simply irrelevant for most providers.
Regardless of the actual potential cost of bandwidth, companies are still leasing lines form other companies to make interconnections. Unless we're discussing backbone providers (who still have to make deals with other providers for interconnection), they're having to buy their bandwidth. That's expensive, no matter the hardware cost per bit.
I did the write-in option: "Aiee penguin on the SCSI-bus."
That's the only time I've thrown back my head and laughed when debugging a crash. I can understand how "lp0 on fire" won out for historical significance, though.
I would agree with you if he only made his own movies.
The problem is that there are people--people who make decisions on movie production--who don't realize how terrible his work is and keep giving him licenses to work with. This not only keeps more talented people out of work, but sullies the reputations of any one who might one day produce a work in the same genre that could be licensed in the future.
Patent trolls wait for some one to implement an obvious idea and strike. This is some one choosing to distribute a particular piece of software in violation of the license.
You won't find it at BestBuy, but take a look at the HanLin eReader.
The current model is about the same as the Kindle, minus the wireless, nice button interface, and DRM, and plus some real format support (PDF, various images, even doc files to some extent).
The new model due out in the early part of the new year will make ebooks are really worth looking at. 825x1200 resolution on a ten inch screen with PDF support makes me very interested.
Domain farming causes me no small amount of anger in principle, but it recently bit me, as well. Due to problems with my registrar (joker.com--which after years of service without complaint I now would recommend NO ONE use), a domain I managed for some one else was snagged by a domain farmer.
This was upsetting enough by itself, but what really caused me to become enraged is that the same company that bought it and sold it back to me [i]IS A LICENSED REGISTRAR[/i]. Granted, they do it under a couple of different names, but it's quite clearly all the same operation, or at least willing co-operation. The fact that this sort of thing is allowed to go on shows that either ICANN allows it or is completely inept in regulating it. The only question is whether they are incompetent or swayed by money at some point in the process.
- 3G. OK, OK, every one and their grandmother wants it. I'm not so worried about speed as I am international use. Good luck using GSM in Japan, Korea, etc. - Multi-language input! Not just English, Spanish, and French like is on most any Nokia phone. I want to be able to type using auto-complete in English, Japanese, Hebrew, Korean, etc. Most any phone is capable of this nowdays. The iPhone is especially so. Licensing costs will vary, but let me pay for an add-on. - A note taking application to take good use of that software keyboard.
Those of us from "out in the country" have a different perspective.
Most nights, it's easier to see in the absence of artificial light, because our eyes adapt to the more complete light coverage provided by the moon and stars. City and suburb folks have problems with darkness because of the incomplete coverage of the artificial lights causes ordinary darkness to appear pitch black, and creates shadows causing even more darkness.
Driving at night, I generally prefer to be out in the middle of nowhere, because I can see better with my headlights being the only light source.
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No, it isn't as old as some of the others, but in all seriousness:
Jedi Academy with Forcemod III was an incredible experience. Whereas in most action-based multiplayer games classes amount to what kind of gun you can shoot, you had genuinely varying types of gameplay for every class--Jedi versus droid versus bounty hunter! It was fun. It worked. There's never been anything else like it.
There are limits on how fast wealth can be grown that are affected by circumstances, like living in a shanty town in Kenya, but the principles still apply.
Nonetheless, there are people who get rich (at least relative to their peers--how else would you measure "rich"?) all the time, and *most of them didn't start that way*. As it turns out, keeping and growing wealth requires much the same skills as acquiring it in the first place, so children of wealth rarely maintain that wealth unless they also inherited what made their parents able to acquire it. That's why most rich people *aren't* children of wealth as you suggest.
I think it's important to note that what the US has now is really an in between, itself.
The "grand capitalist health care system" that the US supposedly has doesn't exist. Varying levels of the sort of "reform" that we're seeing now have brought the US from its previous "could use some tweaking" system to its current state.
Regardless of "academic qualification" (Most people with the paper don't have the ethical or logical capability to be truly considered qualified), the Texas school board was responding to its own concerns about the insertion of bias into textbooks.
Textbooks are already biased. How many people are around that are willing to stand against bias in ALL directions? I'm sick of bickering between defining "unbiased" as "suiting my own personal bias".
I enabled tethering on my iPhone. To enable MMS on AT&T, I'd have to update, which would break tethering. I don't see the trade being worth it by any means, especially since this sucker is my primary internet connection.
Perhaps it is time to jailbreak.
I never knew any one who had a PS1 modded to play pirated games/backups. Broadband was still a dream for most in those days. However...
I received a preview release of a game once while running a review site, and the developer assumed I could play it from their CD-R. Sadly, I didn't get to.
He's talking about reinterpreting the document at whim.
The US Constitution was ratified through the proper channels to rectify this. It wasn't just a matter of some one saying "it's a living document, so we'll just interpret it to mean whatever we want it to say".
As much merit as I think your characterizations have, I think the Israel thing is far more nuanced.
For instance, when discussing a strong defensive front and reactions when it is questioned, the factor of every single one of your neighbors having gone to war with you for your mere existence in the past generation and the fact that people continue to hate and bomb you because of becoming over-defensive after being attacked might have something to do with it.
I dunno. Maybe it's just me, but I think it might have a little relevance.
I've yet to approach anything near Alltel's claims of 3 megabits down in places, but it does exist (I have friends who use it).
They have no usage caps yet. Hopefully the Verizon merger won't change that.
A few years ago, forums were full of "How do I convert from h264 to DivX?"
Progress isn't instant. MKV is better, and the knowledgeable people are pushing it. It will likely catch on from sheer stubbornness... which will be good.
Do you really believe that the only form of capitalism is laissez-faire capitalism?
I could very well say that government doesn't work because it always leads to totalitarian regimes. You could respond that government isn't only totalitarian and can have checks and balances... but the same thing can be said of capitalism.
You talk about all of those aspects as though they are unique to the US. In case it's somehow not blindingly obvious, they're NOT.
Japan already takes the measures mentioned in the article. The outrage was minimal.
Other countries have just the amount of blind patriotism and jingoism that let atrocities breeze by. No one seems to notice!
Keep focusing on the US, though. I know it's more gratifying to the ego to criticize entire groups of individuals as a whole, especially when they're presently king of the molehill. It sure beats introspection and humility!
If many newer commercial vehicles are limited at between 66 and 80mph, I'd say that's just as wrong... and I'd want to know which ones, so I don't do business witht heir manufacturers.
A limiter set at 115mph is so far above the speed limit that it's a ridiculous comparison.
80, though, is just barely above the speed limit in many places. If you can't imagine an entirely realistic situation where the appropriate response to an emergency situation is accelerating by at least a few miles per hour, I would question your judgement as a driver. (Here's one for you: Merging onto a shoulderless highway with traffic behind you.)
Regardless, even if this had a net result of lives saved, you are sacrificing a few of the responsible and able to make up for irresponsible and unable by force. Such options should be left up to the individual.
This is sure to make every one feel better... until some poor kid gets creamed because he couldn't get out of the way.
While every fact you list as supporting evidence is true, your conclusion is simply irrelevant for most providers.
Regardless of the actual potential cost of bandwidth, companies are still leasing lines form other companies to make interconnections. Unless we're discussing backbone providers (who still have to make deals with other providers for interconnection), they're having to buy their bandwidth. That's expensive, no matter the hardware cost per bit.
I did the write-in option:
"Aiee penguin on the SCSI-bus."
That's the only time I've thrown back my head and laughed when debugging a crash. I can understand how "lp0 on fire" won out for historical significance, though.
I would agree with you if he only made his own movies.
The problem is that there are people--people who make decisions on movie production--who don't realize how terrible his work is and keep giving him licenses to work with. This not only keeps more talented people out of work, but sullies the reputations of any one who might one day produce a work in the same genre that could be licensed in the future.
At my office, we just finally got rid of several computers that were cluttering up my floor. The hard drives were destroyed.
We blowtorched holes through them. Also see: Drills.
A friend of mine favors the shotgun method.
Patent trolls wait for some one to implement an obvious idea and strike. This is some one choosing to distribute a particular piece of software in violation of the license.
How are those similar?
You won't find it at BestBuy, but take a look at the HanLin eReader.
The current model is about the same as the Kindle, minus the wireless, nice button interface, and DRM, and plus some real format support (PDF, various images, even doc files to some extent).
The new model due out in the early part of the new year will make ebooks are really worth looking at. 825x1200 resolution on a ten inch screen with PDF support makes me very interested.
Domain farming causes me no small amount of anger in principle, but it recently bit me, as well. Due to problems with my registrar (joker.com--which after years of service without complaint I now would recommend NO ONE use), a domain I managed for some one else was snagged by a domain farmer.
This was upsetting enough by itself, but what really caused me to become enraged is that the same company that bought it and sold it back to me [i]IS A LICENSED REGISTRAR[/i]. Granted, they do it under a couple of different names, but it's quite clearly all the same operation, or at least willing co-operation. The fact that this sort of thing is allowed to go on shows that either ICANN allows it or is completely inept in regulating it. The only question is whether they are incompetent or swayed by money at some point in the process.
- 3G. OK, OK, every one and their grandmother wants it. I'm not so worried about speed as I am international use. Good luck using GSM in Japan, Korea, etc.
- Multi-language input! Not just English, Spanish, and French like is on most any Nokia phone. I want to be able to type using auto-complete in English, Japanese, Hebrew, Korean, etc. Most any phone is capable of this nowdays. The iPhone is especially so. Licensing costs will vary, but let me pay for an add-on.
- A note taking application to take good use of that software keyboard.
Those of us from "out in the country" have a different perspective.
Most nights, it's easier to see in the absence of artificial light, because our eyes adapt to the more complete light coverage provided by the moon and stars. City and suburb folks have problems with darkness because of the incomplete coverage of the artificial lights causes ordinary darkness to appear pitch black, and creates shadows causing even more darkness.
Driving at night, I generally prefer to be out in the middle of nowhere, because I can see better with my headlights being the only light source.
With 41 comments, I expected at least ONE Incredible Hulk reference.
You're all very bad nerds.
Well, relatively speaking, of course...