Hmm, boxing isn't fake. Neither is rugby or (american) football. Okay, there's a lot of padding in football, but usually there's at least one injury per game. Why aren't these banned?
It seems more likely to me that this is just a hormonal urge. Children are obviously not ready to procreate, hence we, as well evolved animals, keep them away from anything that we perceive as sexual.
Okay, first of all, the death penalty vs. life in prison has nothing to do with human freedom. Either way, you will never be free again. You may consider the death penalty despicable, but don't try to make it a freedom issue.
As for homosexuality, yeah, it's pretty pathetic that somewhere around 25 states still have laws on the books against homosexuality. But, these laws are not enforced. Likewise, I'm sure England still has bizarre laws about rights of the nobility and crap like that that no one pays any attention to, but are still *technically* on the lawbooks.
Regarding our schools go, yeah, no shit, they suck. OTOH, the metal detector issue relates to an issue (guns) that the UK dealt with by a simple outright ban. Who's more free there? I remember in London seeing signs declaring that even carrying a knife is illegal! A knife is a frickin' tool, with many legitimate uses! Feh, ridiculous.
I remember when you could mail order these Darth Vader helmet replicas. They sold for $2,000 each, as I recall. Not signed by George Lucas though, unless I'm mistaken.
It wasn't a self destruct button, it was a small thermal exhaust port, just below the main port (how else were they going to cool the reactor?). The port was even ray shielded, meaning that it could only be targeted with photon torpedos Besides which, the shaft leading to the reactor was only two meters wide, so narrow as to be considered impossibe to hit, even with a computer.
Anyway, the Death Star didn't really need to be tough, it was supposed to engage capital ships at long range. The Empire didn't consider small, one man fighters to be any threat, or they'd have had a tighter defense mechanism.
I read Red Mars, and kinda liked it. Slow paced and unlikely, sure, but all in all good. But I couldn't get more than 10 pages into Green Mars before the nutty feminist communist society made me chuck the books out.
Light speed. Literally, a laser is a point and click weapon. Whereas a rifle bullet will travel at Mach 2 or so, giving someone a chance to duck, if they anticipate the shot, a laser can hit anything you can see.
Another excellent reason, of course, is lack of recoil. Both of these factors will increase accuracy by an unbelievable degree.
...they might just do a license swap. Tivo will let SONICblue use their patent A, and SONICblue will let Tivo use patent B, and company C has to charge $20 extra for their boxes.
This kind of thing is very common in the tech world.
Dude, if they lowered the price to $50 for the console and $10 for the games, they're probably not even covering the manufacturing costs. Dreamcast is dead and buried, sorry.
Basically, if you don't agree to the license, you're bound by standard first sale doctrine. Hence, you can resell the components (which might allow you to unbundle the source from the executable, if they were on different cds), make backups, anything you could legally do with, say, music cds.
Aside from unbundling source code (which again, would probably only be legal if they were on different cds), the GPL does not restrict anything that first sale allows. In contrast, the GPL allows many things that first sale does not, for example unlimited redistribution, unlimited copying, redistribution of modified versions (so long as source code is made available), and so forth.
So, Microsoft could, for example, buy a Red Hat boxed set, and then resell it. They might be able to buy it, and sell the binary cds by themselves. They could not, however, buy a boxed set, hack the source, and incorporate elements into Windows XP II, or Windows YP , or whatever they plan to call the next one, without running afoul of copyright law.
Especially if, instead of an overhead map, it gave the kids clues. Maybe have a "parent" mode with the map, and a "kid" mode with just the clues, so if the kids start getting frustrated, the parents can point them in the right direction.
That probably wouldn't do good things for the kids' problem solving ability, but it would likely be popular nevertheless.
Did anyone else see the episode where they tour the Enterprise? LaVar showed you how they do the transporter special effects, which (despite being absurdly simple) was a tremendous revelation for me at the age of 6.
These days we have wars with less than a dozen American casualties, and each of these is widely reported in the media. One of the things this simulator tries to do is force people to make command decisions where they have to balance how it will look in the press against completing their objectives.
Yes folks, this is the new mode of warfare: spin control.
AAAH! lik-sang.com doesn't exist! Where can I get the broadband adaptor? Are you just someone horribly teasing those of us who want to make a dreamcast firewall?
Hence automation. It should be relatively simple to designate a minimum distance between vehicles and have the onboard computer do the flying for you. None of that messy stuff like pedestrians, or buildings, or having to stay in your lane that would require complicated AI.
I've always liked this joke about commercial aircraft. As you no doubt know, jets used to have 3 pilots, but as automation increased, they reduced it down to two. Now, for the proposed Boeing 787, they're going to reduce it further, to just on pilot and a dog.
You know what the dog's for?
To bite the pilot's hand if he tries to touch anything.
Ba-dum-bum. Thank you folks, I'll be here all week.
Yeah, but 0.9.4 wouldn't load some important pages (like my brokerage firm) which had worked under 0.9.3. So, 0.9.6 restored functionality, but backslid a tad in stability (still better than 0.9.3 though).
Of course, debian *still* won't install correctly on my computer, whereas Progeny worked quite nicely. I'd say a significant number of Progeny's features never made it into the debian mainstream.
Some keenspot comics use PNGs. In particular, I remember Superosity and Ubersoft both announcing when they switched. Both mentioned a space saving of about 30% on images after the switch.
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It seems more likely to me that this is just a hormonal urge. Children are obviously not ready to procreate, hence we, as well evolved animals, keep them away from anything that we perceive as sexual.
As for homosexuality, yeah, it's pretty pathetic that somewhere around 25 states still have laws on the books against homosexuality. But, these laws are not enforced. Likewise, I'm sure England still has bizarre laws about rights of the nobility and crap like that that no one pays any attention to, but are still *technically* on the lawbooks.
Regarding our schools go, yeah, no shit, they suck. OTOH, the metal detector issue relates to an issue (guns) that the UK dealt with by a simple outright ban. Who's more free there? I remember in London seeing signs declaring that even carrying a knife is illegal! A knife is a frickin' tool, with many legitimate uses! Feh, ridiculous.
I remember when you could mail order these Darth Vader helmet replicas. They sold for $2,000 each, as I recall. Not signed by George Lucas though, unless I'm mistaken.
Anyway, the Death Star didn't really need to be tough, it was supposed to engage capital ships at long range. The Empire didn't consider small, one man fighters to be any threat, or they'd have had a tighter defense mechanism.
I read Red Mars, and kinda liked it. Slow paced and unlikely, sure, but all in all good. But I couldn't get more than 10 pages into Green Mars before the nutty feminist communist society made me chuck the books out.
What if the "missile" was a remote laser drone?
It was an automated system that aimed for the eyes, but got cancelled due to bad press.
Another excellent reason, of course, is lack of recoil. Both of these factors will increase accuracy by an unbelievable degree.
This kind of thing is very common in the tech world.
That one's more scary, because in reality, Afganistan was at war with Russia, and we were Afganistan's allies.
As for me, I won't use Debian because the adsl package is fucked beyond belief.
Origins of life on earth, after all. Either that, or humans, the only intelligent life on Earth.
What most people seem to be ignoring here is that all these "virtual idols" need human voices. Pac man, however, was eternally silent.
Hence "mutation." A gene that gets introduced that was not present in the parents' genome.
Dude, if they lowered the price to $50 for the console and $10 for the games, they're probably not even covering the manufacturing costs. Dreamcast is dead and buried, sorry.
Aside from unbundling source code (which again, would probably only be legal if they were on different cds), the GPL does not restrict anything that first sale allows. In contrast, the GPL allows many things that first sale does not, for example unlimited redistribution, unlimited copying, redistribution of modified versions (so long as source code is made available), and so forth.
So, Microsoft could, for example, buy a Red Hat boxed set, and then resell it. They might be able to buy it, and sell the binary cds by themselves. They could not, however, buy a boxed set, hack the source, and incorporate elements into Windows XP II, or Windows YP , or whatever they plan to call the next one, without running afoul of copyright law.
That probably wouldn't do good things for the kids' problem solving ability, but it would likely be popular nevertheless.
Did anyone else see the episode where they tour the Enterprise? LaVar showed you how they do the transporter special effects, which (despite being absurdly simple) was a tremendous revelation for me at the age of 6.
Yes folks, this is the new mode of warfare: spin control.
They're sold out of broadband adaptors right now, but they claim that more are on the way.
AAAH! lik-sang.com doesn't exist! Where can I get the broadband adaptor? Are you just someone horribly teasing those of us who want to make a dreamcast firewall?
I've always liked this joke about commercial aircraft. As you no doubt know, jets used to have 3 pilots, but as automation increased, they reduced it down to two. Now, for the proposed Boeing 787, they're going to reduce it further, to just on pilot and a dog.
You know what the dog's for?
To bite the pilot's hand if he tries to touch anything.
Ba-dum-bum. Thank you folks, I'll be here all week.
Yeah, but 0.9.4 wouldn't load some important pages (like my brokerage firm) which had worked under 0.9.3. So, 0.9.6 restored functionality, but backslid a tad in stability (still better than 0.9.3 though).
Of course, debian *still* won't install correctly on my computer, whereas Progeny worked quite nicely. I'd say a significant number of Progeny's features never made it into the debian mainstream.
Some keenspot comics use PNGs. In particular, I remember Superosity and Ubersoft both announcing when they switched. Both mentioned a space saving of about 30% on images after the switch.