honestly haven't read the article. I'm basing my arguments from what our local news has been saying over the last few days.
regardless, this tax is unnecessary and stupid.
As an Oregon resident, this is clearly just another tax that our illustrious governor is going to use to double-dip. Our state is already highly financially mismanaged by our state government, and now they are proposing "solutions" like this.
Yesterday, I contacted our governor about this, and gave him the following points about why this is completely unacceptable: - If the tax is based on mileage, then what incentive to I have to choose a hybrid over a hummer? (our state is FULL of greenies, and promotes hybrid vehicles all over) - Under no circumstances will I accept a government tracking device in my vehicle. - While its proposed as a replacement to the gas tax, I'm not stupid enough to believe that gas tax will go away if this is implemented. This will just be ADDED in. - We will no longer tax the out-of-staters (both people traveling from CA to WA & vice versa, as well as all of the people who choose to live in Vancouver and work in Portland)
This is unacceptable. I told the governor I will leave the state I've lived in since I was very young, and not look back, if he pursues this bull**** additional tax. Until they can figure out how to manage the money they do get, I see no reason they should get any more. The new I-5 interstate bridge in Portland is projected to cost several times what the longer/larger replacement to the bridge that collapsed in the midwest 2 years ago, and we just opened a $400,000 outdoor toilet in downtown Portland. And now they want MORE of my money? Governor Sleepy Ted, you can kiss my ass.
I had an internship as a graduate student that paid me a salary almost 10k/yr higher than what I am making at my current job. Of course, I graduated with my Masters earlier this year, and finding ANY job is a pain. Unfortunately I could not get a job with the company I interned with (Intel) as they are not doing much hiring in my area.
Check your math.
75 billion dollars / 350 million people = about $215 per person
assuming households, lets assume that there are about 100 million in the country:
75 billion dollars / 100 million households = $750
Hardly "$100k per household".
Stop drinking the KoolAid. dumbass.
I guess my explanation got muddled. That is what I meant, due to COPPA, its likely that a parent will need to be the one to sign up for the email account, as I couldn't imagine many companies wanting to deal with the consequences of porn-spam showing up in a kids email account.
I really think you might have a hard time finding a "kid oriented" email account, at least that you wont have to monitor as well. I don't know the age of your children, but keep in mind that COPPA regulations don't allow people under 13 to do a lot of things online.
Fallout 1 & 2 weren't made by the same developer. Fallout 3 is being developed by Bethesda Softworks-- which develops the Elder Scrolls series (which include Morrowind and Oblivion).
true, that is a good point. I used facebook when it required a university level school email address in order to even get an account. In that case, it was YOUR email address, and was very identifying.
As for my post, it was in regards to the parent of it asking what was used for a login- and that would be "your"/"an" email address.
... till everyone figures out Activision has no actual new ideas, and has to continually rip off the much more innovative Rock Band, by Harmonix (who created Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2, and Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s), as well as these band-specific games, which I have no doubt will turn out to be crap.
I loved the Harmonix GH games, buy GH3 was abysmally bad. I wont buy another. I'll stick with Rock Band from here on out.
When my mom was pregnant with me, my dad was a 20 year old kid working at a Chuck E Cheese. My mom got to play all the video games she wanted. She spent hours and hours playing Ms Pac-Mac. Her theory of why I like video games so much is because I was playing them before I was born.
I'm wondering how long it will take some genius at Microsoft to come up with the idea that they can start getting monthly fees from Vista users by just shutting them off every month if they don't pay up...
reminds me of the "controversy" over Superman Returns.
Truth, Justice, and... all that stuff.
On one hand, they're screwing over the canon, the history of the character/story. On the other hand, they have a worldwide market to appeal to, and the rest of the world hates us. (mostly because they want to BE us... jealous, but whatever)
I've been reading stories about the DMCA, DRM, and stuff like this restriction of fair use on slashdot for a few years now. The more I read about it, the more I start getting the feeling that when my generation (teens-twenties) comes into power in the next 15-20 years, that we're so fed up with this shit that we'll abolish patents and copyright altogether, if it hasn't been done already by then. At the very least, restrict it to a very short time limit. 6 months, maybe a year.
I can see the point in copyrights and patents, but these companies have gotten so power hungry and greedy that they've really started abusing the system. I have started thinking that maybe they don't deserve the system's help. Companies like Coca-Cola have managed to make it well over a century without needing a patent or copyright on their main money-making formula. I believe that any intelligent businessman will be able to make money on any product whether or not they have a copyright/patent or not. The copyright system has become a crutch for extremely outdated business models that have been rendered obsolete.
Most of the games on the list come prior to the SNES/Genesis era. Sure, they made alot of very difficult games back then, but where are the recent games? I think there were only 2 or 3 games from the previous 2 generations (Monkey Ball and Blast Corps). Where are games like Unlimited Saga, which was purposely designed to be the hardest RPG ever made?
Couldn't God use ten such languages? Sure, but why bother developing, implementing, and using ten languages when one is obviously sufficient to do the job (ie create life)?
Scientists and philosophers recognized the failing of your argument a few centuries ago. Thats absolutely incredible. Scientists and Philosophers managed to discredit my interesting thought about DNA centuries before DNA was even discovered? Amazing...
Please explain how homo sapiens came to share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees, 80% with dogs, 50% with daffodils, etc.
(These figures are off, but you get the idea.) What if DNA is sort of like... God's programming language (or whatever Higher Power "created" the world). Run with the idea for a minute, when you start a new project, how much of your code do you re-use? (or, a better question, how much would you re-use if you could re-use as much as possible)? The answer would probably not be 100%, otherwise all you would have is an identical program to the original, or an extension to the original. But it would hopefully be a significantly high number, at least on similar projects.
Seriously, does it matter what a politician believes about a scientific theory? While I've personally yet to see the smoking gun case for the Theory of Evolution, what the politicians believe on a rather unimportant issue like evolution is a moot point. I'm much more concerned about how they understand important things like: technology and the internet, willingness to support important programs like NASA and DARPA, etc. When it comes down to it, what does a politicians belief on the theory of evolution affect? The only thing I can think of is what they believe should be taught to high schoolers. and lets face it, there is a hell of a lot more problems with the public school system than whether or not they are taught that we're all monkeys with oversized brains, or some sort of "intelligence" created us, or are taught nothing at all about where we come from (since, lets face it, no one knows for absolute sure)
(Note: for me, the smoking gun case would be something like the fossilized remains of a fish with legs, or something along those lines. Near as I have seen, they have yet to find any of the necessary missing links that will show that one species can literally turn into another over time. Personally, I believe in micro-evolution, aka adaptation, but macro-evolution, the changing of one species into another, is still up for serious critical debate, and I've yet to see any sort of proof)
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honestly haven't read the article. I'm basing my arguments from what our local news has been saying over the last few days. regardless, this tax is unnecessary and stupid.
Also, how will they discern between travel on public roads, versus travel on private roads?
As an Oregon resident, this is clearly just another tax that our illustrious governor is going to use to double-dip. Our state is already highly financially mismanaged by our state government, and now they are proposing "solutions" like this.
Yesterday, I contacted our governor about this, and gave him the following points about why this is completely unacceptable:
- If the tax is based on mileage, then what incentive to I have to choose a hybrid over a hummer? (our state is FULL of greenies, and promotes hybrid vehicles all over)
- Under no circumstances will I accept a government tracking device in my vehicle.
- While its proposed as a replacement to the gas tax, I'm not stupid enough to believe that gas tax will go away if this is implemented. This will just be ADDED in.
- We will no longer tax the out-of-staters (both people traveling from CA to WA & vice versa, as well as all of the people who choose to live in Vancouver and work in Portland)
This is unacceptable. I told the governor I will leave the state I've lived in since I was very young, and not look back, if he pursues this bull**** additional tax. Until they can figure out how to manage the money they do get, I see no reason they should get any more. The new I-5 interstate bridge in Portland is projected to cost several times what the longer/larger replacement to the bridge that collapsed in the midwest 2 years ago, and we just opened a $400,000 outdoor toilet in downtown Portland. And now they want MORE of my money? Governor Sleepy Ted, you can kiss my ass.
I had an internship as a graduate student that paid me a salary almost 10k/yr higher than what I am making at my current job. Of course, I graduated with my Masters earlier this year, and finding ANY job is a pain. Unfortunately I could not get a job with the company I interned with (Intel) as they are not doing much hiring in my area.
Check your math. 75 billion dollars / 350 million people = about $215 per person assuming households, lets assume that there are about 100 million in the country: 75 billion dollars / 100 million households = $750 Hardly "$100k per household". Stop drinking the KoolAid. dumbass.
I guess my explanation got muddled. That is what I meant, due to COPPA, its likely that a parent will need to be the one to sign up for the email account, as I couldn't imagine many companies wanting to deal with the consequences of porn-spam showing up in a kids email account.
I really think you might have a hard time finding a "kid oriented" email account, at least that you wont have to monitor as well. I don't know the age of your children, but keep in mind that COPPA regulations don't allow people under 13 to do a lot of things online.
Fallout 1 & 2 weren't made by the same developer. Fallout 3 is being developed by Bethesda Softworks-- which develops the Elder Scrolls series (which include Morrowind and Oblivion).
true, that is a good point. I used facebook when it required a university level school email address in order to even get an account. In that case, it was YOUR email address, and was very identifying.
As for my post, it was in regards to the parent of it asking what was used for a login- and that would be "your"/"an" email address.
facebook does use your email address as the login
... till everyone figures out Activision has no actual new ideas, and has to continually rip off the much more innovative Rock Band, by Harmonix (who created Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2, and Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s), as well as these band-specific games, which I have no doubt will turn out to be crap.
I loved the Harmonix GH games, buy GH3 was abysmally bad. I wont buy another. I'll stick with Rock Band from here on out.
BastardThieves(){
for( i=0, i lessthan infinity, i++ ){
generate random IP address
assign name "John Doe #i"
serve court order
}
}
When my mom was pregnant with me, my dad was a 20 year old kid working at a Chuck E Cheese. My mom got to play all the video games she wanted. She spent hours and hours playing Ms Pac-Mac. Her theory of why I like video games so much is because I was playing them before I was born.
Will my tinfoil hat protect me?
Racial and Gender equality... the new vast right-wing conspiracy!
I'm wondering how long it will take some genius at Microsoft to come up with the idea that they can start getting monthly fees from Vista users by just shutting them off every month if they don't pay up...
reminds me of the "controversy" over Superman Returns.
Truth, Justice, and... all that stuff.
On one hand, they're screwing over the canon, the history of the character/story. On the other hand, they have a worldwide market to appeal to, and the rest of the world hates us. (mostly because they want to BE us... jealous, but whatever)
I've been reading stories about the DMCA, DRM, and stuff like this restriction of fair use on slashdot for a few years now. The more I read about it, the more I start getting the feeling that when my generation (teens-twenties) comes into power in the next 15-20 years, that we're so fed up with this shit that we'll abolish patents and copyright altogether, if it hasn't been done already by then. At the very least, restrict it to a very short time limit. 6 months, maybe a year.
I can see the point in copyrights and patents, but these companies have gotten so power hungry and greedy that they've really started abusing the system. I have started thinking that maybe they don't deserve the system's help. Companies like Coca-Cola have managed to make it well over a century without needing a patent or copyright on their main money-making formula. I believe that any intelligent businessman will be able to make money on any product whether or not they have a copyright/patent or not. The copyright system has become a crutch for extremely outdated business models that have been rendered obsolete.
the group was re-created by the original creator: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5876916094
There is a F**k Islam! group on facebook? Thats like exactly what I've been thinking! Hold on while I go join that one...
Most of the games on the list come prior to the SNES/Genesis era. Sure, they made alot of very difficult games back then, but where are the recent games? I think there were only 2 or 3 games from the previous 2 generations (Monkey Ball and Blast Corps). Where are games like Unlimited Saga, which was purposely designed to be the hardest RPG ever made?
You already look like a moron when you're high, so just do your business in your pants. So you wont get caught.
What if DNA is sort of like... God's programming language (or whatever Higher Power "created" the world). Run with the idea for a minute, when you start a new project, how much of your code do you re-use? (or, a better question, how much would you re-use if you could re-use as much as possible)? The answer would probably not be 100%, otherwise all you would have is an identical program to the original, or an extension to the original. But it would hopefully be a significantly high number, at least on similar projects.
just an interesting thought...
Seriously, does it matter what a politician believes about a scientific theory? While I've personally yet to see the smoking gun case for the Theory of Evolution, what the politicians believe on a rather unimportant issue like evolution is a moot point. I'm much more concerned about how they understand important things like: technology and the internet, willingness to support important programs like NASA and DARPA, etc. When it comes down to it, what does a politicians belief on the theory of evolution affect? The only thing I can think of is what they believe should be taught to high schoolers. and lets face it, there is a hell of a lot more problems with the public school system than whether or not they are taught that we're all monkeys with oversized brains, or some sort of "intelligence" created us, or are taught nothing at all about where we come from (since, lets face it, no one knows for absolute sure)
(Note: for me, the smoking gun case would be something like the fossilized remains of a fish with legs, or something along those lines. Near as I have seen, they have yet to find any of the necessary missing links that will show that one species can literally turn into another over time. Personally, I believe in micro-evolution, aka adaptation, but macro-evolution, the changing of one species into another, is still up for serious critical debate, and I've yet to see any sort of proof)