a) What would make being "the real thing" so fantastic?
It's like in the spaghetti westerns where they'd fire their revolvers 38 times without reloading. At the very least, if you're going to portray a character that you've made up, you should make a nominal effort.
b) What generation hasn't had some sort of silly set of idols? What generation hasn't looked for "style over substance"?
In hip hop, at one time (and still in a few places) the ability to "rock the mic" was more important than the ability to sell records.
Eminem? Although at first glance he is a whitey doing "black" music, He certainly has is own sound, also influenced by classic anglo poetic meter (and few black gentlemen bleach their hair).
Most video game companies still don't engage in this kind of behavior. I'm really big on sports games;
To be honest, so are drug dealers and "thugs". The newest edition of "Madden" always graced the shelves of every crack dealer that I knew when I was younger. Before Madden, it was Joe Montana Football for the Genesis. Before that it was Tecmo Bowl for the NES.
NFL street doesn't appeal to me, but then again neither does any Football game. NBA Street is fantastic, the soundtrack is top notch and the gameplay is fun. It's a 3 on 3 playground game, I get to do all of the things that I wanted to do when I played such games IRL.
Perhaps when NWA or Ice-T was around this would have been interesting but come on now folks, the hip hop scene is dead and has been replaced by the thug-life affected persona that now simply looks and appears absurd. Nowhatimsayin?
I think you meant to end this paragraph with "Yah'mean?"
Moreover, it enfuriates me to no end when I'm out and I see a preppy thug trying to act tough. Some metrosexual who spent 2 hours ironing perfect creases in his sweatpants and 76ers jersey thinks he's a tough guy.
Every wannabe gangsta and his mother wants to talk about his Glock. It has even gotten to the point where idiots like "Brotha Lynch Hung" say things like "Take ya glock off safety", but, as anyone who has ever held a Glock pistol will tell you, there is no external safety on a Glock this gangsta thug has just exposed himself as a poseur.
The other thing that drives me crazy is when I'm out and there's some white dude who you just know was listening to Korn 5 years ago who thinks he's cool now because he's blasting Eminem in his Rice Burner.
The crossover of hip hip into the mainstream has only fostered te persuit of style over substance.
I'd offer him a couple hundred dollars above his normal fee if he will sign an agreement giving all copyright ownership to the bride and groom. If he refuses, he doesn't get my business.
There is no way in the world I'd allow some third party to "own" the rights to my wedding images.
Why do athletes, that contribute NOTHING to society, get paid the most?
Because there are millions of morons whom are called "fans" who will spent outrageous sums of money to make the team owners obscenely rich. If the team owner is making hundreds of millions of dollars without so much as running 1 yard or making one basket/goal then why shouldn't the people doing the "work"(and I use the term loosely) get rich too?
Knowing Republicans as I do I can tell you are trying to spread that quote to make it sound like she's for confiscating Bibles and firearms to those too stupid to look it up.
You kind of picked a loser of an example, let me provide you with a couple more quotes from Hillary.
?I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry, such as Chuck is proposing.?
Why? The only useful purpose that a registration database serves is to aid with confiscation.
If you own a gun... make sure it?s locked up and stored without the ammunition. In fact, make it stored where the ammunition is stored separately. We?ve made some progress in the last several years with the Brady Bill and some of the bans on assault weapons, but we have a lot of work to do.
And what work is that?
I don't see my sig as a news outlet, I included the Hillary quote so that people would google for it and get the whole story.
It is indicative of the liberal world view that she possesses. SHE knows better what to do with our money than we do. If you're rich or poor, you know better where your money needs to be spent than anyone else.
The US has other factors that contribute to it being a more violent country than most others that are as financially affluent. We have a much more diverse population than any other nation on the planet. We have a greater discrepancy between the wealthy and the poor than any other nation on the planet.
If we could magically remove every firearm from the country tonight, tomorrow the homicide rate would remain virtually unchanged, we'd just have higher numbers of murders with knives, swords, bows & arrows, baseball bats and lead pipes.
Any graphical tool should be like Webmin, which leaves the structure as it is.
PRECISELY!!!! That is a gripe that I have with "administrative tools". If it can't parse and then write configuration files with the correct structure, then if there is a bug it becomed nigh impossible to track down and fix a problem with said file.
then I tried Gentoo. It makes Slackware look like Mandrake.
I think that Slackware is a great distro for learning about Linux. I also think it's a great distro for creating a server that will operated in a relatively secure environment (read:intranet), however I think that there are better solutions for internet accessable servers, because of the lack of a serious package manager and quick/easy security updates.
Kano mentions that he was carrying to protect his computer equipment while en-route to the LAN. Can we assume that he was walking then?
No, it was a 45 minute or so drive though a rural area to get there. We didn't have a parking garage to enter, we had to carry our equipment across the street.
I mean, how is someone going to steal the equipment from a moving car?
Can you tell me where to buy tires that can never go flat? Or where to buy a car that never malfunctions?
So he gets there and multiple people are carrying weapons, and even brandishing them at each other? I can just picture it now, a bunch of young angry teenagers trying to be cool by carrying weapons.
At the time I was about 22, and the youngest one there. Since I was carrying legally, I would need to be at least 21. But, I can't assume that you know anything about the law related to firearms, or you would have already known that. Since before I was born, the law has mandated that you be 21 years of age to legally purchase a handgun. This was established by the Gun Control Act of 1968. After a few high profile assassinations, congress moved to place some restrictions of who can purchase a firearm and through what channels.
It's kind of odd how people who have an aversion to firearms also seem to have an aversion to any and all knowledge related to the field.
You sure it was the first? The Rage IIC was a pretty powerful graphics decelerator too,
I bought my first S3 Virge chipset video card in early 1997, at it was in the RMA pile at Computer City, so I'd estimate it to be about a year old at the time I bought it.
I got it for $0.25 on the dollar. So what was then a $100 video card was all mine for $25. I think I might still have it lying around here somewhere.
I think that this case is a prime example of when it needs to be used. Sure this guy may have broken the letter of the law, but not the spirit of the law. The law exists to protect the innocent from predators and keep order. This reverse scam kept a predator too busy to exploit the innocent and thereby saved some other innocent person from falling victim.
If I were on a jury hearing this man's case, chances are SLIM in the extreme that I would seriously consider voting to convict.
There is a time honored piece of Wisdom, those that do not learn from history are bound to repeat the mistakes of the past, and there is one word all Americans should learn from Columbine.
I have one word for you Padukah. That's where a school shooting was stopped by an armed citizen.
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a) What would make being "the real thing" so fantastic?
It's like in the spaghetti westerns where they'd fire their revolvers 38 times without reloading. At the very least, if you're going to portray a character that you've made up, you should make a nominal effort.
b) What generation hasn't had some sort of silly set of idols? What generation hasn't looked for "style over substance"?
In hip hop, at one time (and still in a few places) the ability to "rock the mic" was more important than the ability to sell records.
LK
Eminem? Although at first glance he is a whitey doing "black" music, He certainly has is own sound, also influenced by classic anglo poetic meter (and few black gentlemen bleach their hair).
To look at older hip hop, you will find surprising similarities between Eminem's style and 's style. In 8 Mile they pay a homage to Rakim by pointing out that he was the first successful rapper to use complex rhyme schemes. To this day, no other rapper has been able to match him in the complexity of his or her rhymes. Rakim is an upright muslim, no excessive bling bling, no big booty bitches in his videos and possibly as a result of that no mainstream appeal.
LK
You misspelled Negro.
Maybe he doesn't speak spanish.
LK
Now they'll have this hard core hate that the Hip-Hop preaches like there is no tomorrow.
Bill O'Reilly, is that you? I didn't know you frequented my beloved Slashdot.
LK
Hey, you sound like an angry white man who likes his guns and borders on racism.
I'm black, you idiot.
Let people be what they want
It's a free country, people can be what they want. I am also free to make fun of them as I see fit.
LK
Most video game companies still don't engage in this kind of behavior. I'm really big on sports games;
To be honest, so are drug dealers and "thugs". The newest edition of "Madden" always graced the shelves of every crack dealer that I knew when I was younger. Before Madden, it was Joe Montana Football for the Genesis. Before that it was Tecmo Bowl for the NES.
NFL street doesn't appeal to me, but then again neither does any Football game. NBA Street is fantastic, the soundtrack is top notch and the gameplay is fun. It's a 3 on 3 playground game, I get to do all of the things that I wanted to do when I played such games IRL.
LK
Oh no you didn't!
Now, It's on!
Like Donkey Kong, beeeeeyatch!
Perhaps when NWA or Ice-T was around this would have been interesting but come on now folks, the hip hop scene is dead and has been replaced by the thug-life affected persona that now simply looks and appears absurd. Nowhatimsayin?
I think you meant to end this paragraph with "Yah'mean?"
Moreover, it enfuriates me to no end when I'm out and I see a preppy thug trying to act tough. Some metrosexual who spent 2 hours ironing perfect creases in his sweatpants and 76ers jersey thinks he's a tough guy.
Every wannabe gangsta and his mother wants to talk about his Glock. It has even gotten to the point where idiots like "Brotha Lynch Hung" say things like "Take ya glock off safety", but, as anyone who has ever held a Glock pistol will tell you, there is no external safety on a Glock this gangsta thug has just exposed himself as a poseur.
The other thing that drives me crazy is when I'm out and there's some white dude who you just know was listening to Korn 5 years ago who thinks he's cool now because he's blasting Eminem in his Rice Burner.
The crossover of hip hip into the mainstream has only fostered te persuit of style over substance.
LK
If this place will machine receivers for firearms?
Seems to me that this would be a quick was to fab some high quality home made firearms.
LK
It's only fair that he be compensated for his loss of revenue.
If he's being paid for his time and materials, he doesn't have the right to expect any additional revenue.
LK
I'd offer him a couple hundred dollars above his normal fee if he will sign an agreement giving all copyright ownership to the bride and groom. If he refuses, he doesn't get my business.
There is no way in the world I'd allow some third party to "own" the rights to my wedding images.
LK
Why do athletes, that contribute NOTHING to society, get paid the most?
Because there are millions of morons whom are called "fans" who will spent outrageous sums of money to make the team owners obscenely rich. If the team owner is making hundreds of millions of dollars without so much as running 1 yard or making one basket/goal then why shouldn't the people doing the "work"(and I use the term loosely) get rich too?
LK
Knowing Republicans as I do I can tell you are trying to spread that quote to make it sound like she's for confiscating Bibles and firearms to those too stupid to look it up.
You kind of picked a loser of an example, let me provide you with a couple more quotes from Hillary.
?I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry, such as Chuck is proposing.?
Why? The only useful purpose that a registration database serves is to aid with confiscation.
If you own a gun... make sure it?s locked up and stored without the ammunition. In fact, make it stored where the ammunition is stored separately. We?ve made some progress in the last several years with the Brady Bill and some of the bans on assault weapons, but we have a lot of work to do.
And what work is that?
I don't see my sig as a news outlet, I included the Hillary quote so that people would google for it and get the whole story.
It is indicative of the liberal world view that she possesses. SHE knows better what to do with our money than we do. If you're rich or poor, you know better where your money needs to be spent than anyone else.
LK
The US has other factors that contribute to it being a more violent country than most others that are as financially affluent. We have a much more diverse population than any other nation on the planet. We have a greater discrepancy between the wealthy and the poor than any other nation on the planet.
If we could magically remove every firearm from the country tonight, tomorrow the homicide rate would remain virtually unchanged, we'd just have higher numbers of murders with knives, swords, bows & arrows, baseball bats and lead pipes.
LK
IANAL, but extortion, abuse of process and malicious prosecution all come to mind.
LK
Any graphical tool should be like Webmin, which leaves the structure as it is.
PRECISELY!!!! That is a gripe that I have with "administrative tools". If it can't parse and then write configuration files with the correct structure, then if there is a bug it becomed nigh impossible to track down and fix a problem with said file.
LK
Besides, why do you need a package manager on a server.
Repeat after me... "Security Updates"
LK
then I tried Gentoo. It makes Slackware look like Mandrake.
I think that Slackware is a great distro for learning about Linux. I also think it's a great distro for creating a server that will operated in a relatively secure environment (read:intranet), however I think that there are better solutions for internet accessable servers, because of the lack of a serious package manager and quick/easy security updates.
LK
Kano mentions that he was carrying to protect his computer equipment while en-route to the LAN. Can we assume that he was walking then?
No, it was a 45 minute or so drive though a rural area to get there. We didn't have a parking garage to enter, we had to carry our equipment across the street.
I mean, how is someone going to steal the equipment from a moving car?
Can you tell me where to buy tires that can never go flat? Or where to buy a car that never malfunctions?
So he gets there and multiple people are carrying weapons, and even brandishing them at each other? I can just picture it now, a bunch of young angry teenagers trying to be cool by carrying weapons.
At the time I was about 22, and the youngest one there. Since I was carrying legally, I would need to be at least 21. But, I can't assume that you know anything about the law related to firearms, or you would have already known that. Since before I was born, the law has mandated that you be 21 years of age to legally purchase a handgun. This was established by the Gun Control Act of 1968. After a few high profile assassinations, congress moved to place some restrictions of who can purchase a firearm and through what channels.
It's kind of odd how people who have an aversion to firearms also seem to have an aversion to any and all knowledge related to the field.
LK
You sure it was the first? The Rage IIC was a pretty powerful graphics decelerator too,
I bought my first S3 Virge chipset video card in early 1997, at it was in the RMA pile at Computer City, so I'd estimate it to be about a year old at the time I bought it.
I got it for $0.25 on the dollar. So what was then a $100 video card was all mine for $25. I think I might still have it lying around here somewhere.
LK
As someone who used a S3 ViRGE for much more time than anyone should have to, this is a certainly a surprise to me....
Ah, the world's first 3D De cellerator, I remember it well.
LK
About 6 or 7 years ago I founded my own.
"The Church of Pornography of Latter Day Saints"
I haven't decided on whether to call members "Hormons", "Whormons" or something else.
LK
Have you ever heard of "Jury Nullification"?
I think that this case is a prime example of when it needs to be used. Sure this guy may have broken the letter of the law, but not the spirit of the law. The law exists to protect the innocent from predators and keep order. This reverse scam kept a predator too busy to exploit the innocent and thereby saved some other innocent person from falling victim.
If I were on a jury hearing this man's case, chances are SLIM in the extreme that I would seriously consider voting to convict.
LK
There is a time honored piece of Wisdom, those that do not learn from history are bound to repeat the mistakes of the past, and there is one word all Americans should learn from Columbine.
I have one word for you Padukah. That's where a school shooting was stopped by an armed citizen.
LK
Don't the people in Iraq run around with guns too, just like America?
Just the remnants of Saddam's military. Saddam denied access to firearms to the populace. You see how safe that made them.
LK