You know, the ATM I use nearly every day is made by Diebold.
It's an awesome little ATM. I'm nowhere near rich or even financially secure, and the ability to be able to withdraw money by an exact dollar amount ($6 for breakfast? I can take out exactly six bucks FUCK YEAH) is very appealing. The machine has been down exactly once in the three years I've been using my bank and there has never been any problems with it (save for the time it ate my card while I took to long counting the money - my fault, not the machine's).
This nice little ATM leads me to believe that the only reason the Diebold election systems were so shitty was because they were deliberately designed that way per request or they didn't use whichever competent people engineered their ATMs.
3)...non-virus/bacteria-related illnessess/conditions like diabetes, scoliosis, glaucoma, etc.?
4)...when there's no spare batteries or power?
When they invent a machine that can outsmart a human in every way (not just be good at one thing, such as chess for instance) and closely replicate human insight and creativity, then doctors (more specifically, diagnosticians) will have something to worry about. By that time we'll probably be exploring new planets and coming into contact with thousands of new viruses and bacteria.
Good for you. I prefer to be able to play games and use programs unavailable in Linux without performance hits (from running through WINE or a VM) so I am not as fortunate to have the same option that you do.
I await the day that Linux is as popular as OSX - nay, as Windows - so that Linux users who make these sorts of comments ("Haha, I don't have to worry about viruses") get a few moments of glory about Linux finally being widely used on desktops and then several years of having to deal with the same shit as 90%ish of the desktop-using world does.
As an aside, my bicycle gets great gas mileage. Never have to worry about filling it up!
To complete the circuit, the next (and most important) step is KYLE STANLEY RULES JIM O'TOOLE IS A COCKSUCKER or else the entire unit will overlord and likely start an electrical fire.
Hurm, what an interesting pair of shows you watch there. One is a show where grown people prance around like ninnies in front of an audience while wearing tights, and the other is Dancing with the Stars.
GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY! Try the veal, tip your waitress!
Have they stated anywhere that they'll be pricing them all at the same?
I imagine the complaints wouldn't be as big if the first game was $50 and the second two were $20 or $30.
But frankly, being Blizzard games, $150 for the lot would be worth it for all the dozens (if not hundreds or thousands) of hours of play you'll get out of it.
Every individual citizen is responsible for all of the stupid shit the government does by virtue of their action or inaction in politics.
If I think America is fucking things up (and they are IMO) then I as a single person have the power to organize and use the mechanisms in place to remove the people making the policies I don't like from office.
The major difficulty is in getting other people like me to work together towards that goal.
If you plug your cable directly into a television that can support that many channels, you can indeed outright remove channels from the lineup. The only way to get to them would be to manually punch in the number or run a scan for all active channels.
Sadly this is becoming less and less of an option nowadays.
According to my Xfire Profile, I've spent twice as much time as this guy but playing way more than any one game.
Even so, I probably have anywhere from an additional 1,000-2,000 hours in Diablo II in the days before Xfire existed. There's very few games I could imagine playing for that long...
I, for one, do not welcome our new cloud computing overlords - especially as a PC gamer.
I don't mind things like Steam, but I like to have my games on my hard drive. Ditto for all my media. The multiple collapses of DRM schemes means any copy but a hard copy is a worthless copy.
The government is supposed to serve the public trust and taxes are their main source of revenue - but I take exception to this attitude that, because someone pays taxes, government funds are somehow their money. It's not your money anymore, you gave it to the government. The fact that some of it once belonged to you (even if only on paper) does not entitle you to a stake in deciding how it is used.
You are completely wrong on this point. You are entitled to decide how it is used. How much worse would government be if they could just do whatever the fuck they wanted with tax money with absolutely no opposition whatsoever? Pessimists and/or cynics will say that that is already the case, but even now there are at least *some* people fighting things they disagree with for whatever reason.
You do have a say in how government resources are used because it is your money. Use the boxes - soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box (in that order).
Wasn't the mayor his boss? I seem to recall that it has been stated many times that Childs would have given the passwords to the mayor and the mayor only just as he has been told to do. Unless new facts in regards to this have come to light then it is my opinion that he was doing his job.
I'm not concerned with OnLive. If every future game from this day forth moved to OnLive (and they won't), I still have tens of thousand of software titles that I can actually control that are out there on the free market. That's enough for ten lifetimes of gameplay.
I've still yet to experience the great games like Civilization, Deus Ex, Serious Sam, etc., and I would gladly spend the rest of my life playing the classics that are unencumbered by retarded DRM. Games from an era when game companies had to earn our sales and not just sell crap with fancy FMVs and 8 digit marketing budgets. Games from an era when game companies listened to their community and gave a flying fuck about their customers.
<DmncAtrny> I will write on a huge cement block "BY ACCEPTING THIS BRICK THROUGH YOUR WINDOW, YOU ACCEPT IT AS IS AND AGREE TO MY DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS WELL AS DISCLAIMERS OF ALL LIABILITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL, THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THIS BRICK INTO YOUR BUILDING."
<DmncAtrny> And then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer
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You know, the ATM I use nearly every day is made by Diebold.
It's an awesome little ATM. I'm nowhere near rich or even financially secure, and the ability to be able to withdraw money by an exact dollar amount ($6 for breakfast? I can take out exactly six bucks FUCK YEAH) is very appealing. The machine has been down exactly once in the three years I've been using my bank and there has never been any problems with it (save for the time it ate my card while I took to long counting the money - my fault, not the machine's).
This nice little ATM leads me to believe that the only reason the Diebold election systems were so shitty was because they were deliberately designed that way per request or they didn't use whichever competent people engineered their ATMs.
I showed your mom some good tube management last night.
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What about...
1) ...the things this device can't detect?
2) ...genetic conditions, like sickle cell?
3) ...non-virus/bacteria-related illnessess/conditions like diabetes, scoliosis, glaucoma, etc.?
4) ...when there's no spare batteries or power?
When they invent a machine that can outsmart a human in every way (not just be good at one thing, such as chess for instance) and closely replicate human insight and creativity, then doctors (more specifically, diagnosticians) will have something to worry about. By that time we'll probably be exploring new planets and coming into contact with thousands of new viruses and bacteria.
I read up on this a bit. The reporter who quoted that number used to work for NASA but he got fired for some reason.
Good for you. I prefer to be able to play games and use programs unavailable in Linux without performance hits (from running through WINE or a VM) so I am not as fortunate to have the same option that you do.
I await the day that Linux is as popular as OSX - nay, as Windows - so that Linux users who make these sorts of comments ("Haha, I don't have to worry about viruses") get a few moments of glory about Linux finally being widely used on desktops and then several years of having to deal with the same shit as 90%ish of the desktop-using world does.
As an aside, my bicycle gets great gas mileage. Never have to worry about filling it up!
You could just filter out the Dragonball Z articles, and then that cuts the total down to around 250,000.
I can see it now...
To complete the circuit, the next (and most important) step is KYLE STANLEY RULES JIM O'TOOLE IS A COCKSUCKER or else the entire unit will overlord and likely start an electrical fire.
Hurm, what an interesting pair of shows you watch there. One is a show where grown people prance around like ninnies in front of an audience while wearing tights, and the other is Dancing with the Stars.
GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY! Try the veal, tip your waitress!
It's not like we discovered more numbers since then.
My good friend Sean Connery would disagree with you, sir.
Same for me, it just crashed and then ran slow as shit.
Have they stated anywhere that they'll be pricing them all at the same?
I imagine the complaints wouldn't be as big if the first game was $50 and the second two were $20 or $30.
But frankly, being Blizzard games, $150 for the lot would be worth it for all the dozens (if not hundreds or thousands) of hours of play you'll get out of it.
Pload'er? I 'ardly know 'er!
Every individual citizen is responsible for all of the stupid shit the government does by virtue of their action or inaction in politics.
If I think America is fucking things up (and they are IMO) then I as a single person have the power to organize and use the mechanisms in place to remove the people making the policies I don't like from office.
The major difficulty is in getting other people like me to work together towards that goal.
If you plug your cable directly into a television that can support that many channels, you can indeed outright remove channels from the lineup. The only way to get to them would be to manually punch in the number or run a scan for all active channels.
Sadly this is becoming less and less of an option nowadays.
I've occasionally been known to throw parabolic pieces of metal at a stick in the ground, so I know where you're coming from.
Yeah, most dramas don't have the same kind of foul language that newscasts have.
It probably would have been nice if I actually linked to my profile in that post. -_-
According to my Xfire Profile, I've spent twice as much time as this guy but playing way more than any one game.
Even so, I probably have anywhere from an additional 1,000-2,000 hours in Diablo II in the days before Xfire existed. There's very few games I could imagine playing for that long...
...wrist strap.
(Why do I always end up with the anticlimactic ending line? ;_; )
I, for one, do not welcome our new cloud computing overlords - especially as a PC gamer.
I don't mind things like Steam, but I like to have my games on my hard drive. Ditto for all my media. The multiple collapses of DRM schemes means any copy but a hard copy is a worthless copy.
The government is supposed to serve the public trust and taxes are their main source of revenue - but I take exception to this attitude that, because someone pays taxes, government funds are somehow their money. It's not your money anymore, you gave it to the government. The fact that some of it once belonged to you (even if only on paper) does not entitle you to a stake in deciding how it is used.
You are completely wrong on this point. You are entitled to decide how it is used. How much worse would government be if they could just do whatever the fuck they wanted with tax money with absolutely no opposition whatsoever? Pessimists and/or cynics will say that that is already the case, but even now there are at least *some* people fighting things they disagree with for whatever reason.
You do have a say in how government resources are used because it is your money. Use the boxes - soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box (in that order).
Wasn't the mayor his boss? I seem to recall that it has been stated many times that Childs would have given the passwords to the mayor and the mayor only just as he has been told to do. Unless new facts in regards to this have come to light then it is my opinion that he was doing his job.
I'm not concerned with OnLive. If every future game from this day forth moved to OnLive (and they won't), I still have tens of thousand of software titles that I can actually control that are out there on the free market. That's enough for ten lifetimes of gameplay.
I've still yet to experience the great games like Civilization, Deus Ex, Serious Sam, etc., and I would gladly spend the rest of my life playing the classics that are unencumbered by retarded DRM. Games from an era when game companies had to earn our sales and not just sell crap with fancy FMVs and 8 digit marketing budgets. Games from an era when game companies listened to their community and gave a flying fuck about their customers.
<DmncAtrny> I will write on a huge cement block "BY ACCEPTING THIS BRICK THROUGH YOUR WINDOW, YOU ACCEPT IT AS IS AND AGREE TO MY DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS WELL AS DISCLAIMERS OF ALL LIABILITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL, THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THIS BRICK INTO YOUR BUILDING."
<DmncAtrny> And then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer
<DmncAtrny> and run like hell
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