Doesn't matter how obvious something is until either a law or a precedent says so. It's better that way. The problem is when aging judges who think televisions are the bees' knees fail to understand what we know to be obvious. See the WoW Glider case, and the ruling that copying a program from your harddrive to your RAM constitutes copyright infringement.
That's what people were telling me about Starcraft 2. Then the game came out, and lo and behold, it was every bit as fun as the original. Better, even. I see no reason to think that D3 won't be just as good.
You enjoyed Diablo 2, even though it was just a modernized Diablo. Same story here, only the modernization will be to an even greater extent. They're taking a formula that works, updating it with improved mechanics, and giving people more of what they want. What's wrong with that?
Yeah, I'm sure those mean old Democrats forced practically ever single Republican pundit, senator, congressman, and governor to back the Death Panels lie. I'm sure the Democrats forced the Republican state governments to push through "Birther Bills." And after 18 months of teabaggers screaming that "Obamacare will gut Medicare", it was those mean old liberals who forced the GOP to vote for a budget to end Medicare once and for all.
Your party is filled with liars and thieves and scum of the worst sort. Stop rationalizing it, and leave them. If you don't, you're either a moron or vermin. No intelligent and decent person can associate with them.
No more than I would mind that same force taking our president captive, locking him up on foreign soil, trying and convicting him.
Is your argument seriously that we should never kill any foreigners because their countrymen might not like it? Or are you one of those comic-book-logic people who thinks that the mere act of a trial is the difference between justice and vengeance? Because that is cargo cult justice - tripe intended to make the hero seem morally superior.
The truth is that the only function of a trial is to ascertain guilt or innocence. The punishment is the part that brings about justice, and when there can be no doubt of guilt, there is no particular need for a trial. We have trials even in cases of "obvious" guilt because sometimes someone who is "obviously" guilty may in fact be innocent. But OBL was at the point where there could never be even a shadow of doubt of guilt.
Fuck off with that false equivalency bullshit. The left wingers you describe are a tiny and insignificant fringe. The insane teabaggers have seized control of the GOP to the point of pushing out moderate candidates, passing "birther" laws at the state level, and setting up their own caucus. There is no comparison.
Not to the teabaggers. Remember, they attacked his wife for promoting children's fitness. They claimed that his speech encouraging elementary schoolers to stay in school was Marxist brainwashing. They claimed that letting old people draft a living will was equivalent to setting up death panels to cull the elderly.
These people have no minds of their own. They believe what they are told, when they are told. And if they're told the opposite next week, they'll believe that too.
Actually, word is that they built a full scale replica and trained in it until they knew the layout like their own home. Retired SEALs have been saying that that's the standard practice for missions like this, whenever there's sufficient time.
Well, there is the zombie mod for CS. You could make the original zombie look like OBL, and have all the spawned zombies look like standard terrorists (maybe even give them suicide belts!)
High ranking officials have lots of meetings. The big boss only has enough to understand the risks (seals killed/held hostage, major backlash from an important "ally", the effective end of his presidency, a major morale boost for Al Qaeda and the Taliban) and rewards and the odds of success before making the call.
That's how pretty much every organization in the world works. You really think CEOs sit in on every design meeting? They, like Obama, have more important things to do than listen to the mucky details that fall outside their realm of expertise.
Hurr, gee, looks legit! After all, as a Kenyan Marxist Muslim dithering white-people-hating tribesman-mentality terrorist-pal, Obama would never order the killing of a terrorist! By the way, have you heard that Bill Clinton killed Vince Foster?
Yes, I'm sure Sony just accidentally forced hackers to break into their system. Just like when you forget to lock your doors, you are forcing someone to rob you.
There are several technologies that have been developed and distributed in the third world by humanitarians. The adjustable eye-glasses, shake-powered water sterilizer, and super-nutritious peanut butter all come to mind. In cases where there is patent protection (the peanut butter, for example) the aid workers simply ignore it.
You know, going with my racism example, a racist would say he's just calling things the way they are too. Saying "not to be condescending" doesn't make someone any less of an arrogant prick, if they then go on to call the majority of people a bunch of screaming mindless toddlers.
You know, saying "not to do x" immediately before doing x doesn't make it any better. You might as well say "Not to be racist, but [insert ethnic group here] should learn their place."
I keep my passwords in a KeePass file in my Dropbox account. I can access them pretty much anywhere, and the only way they're getting stolen is if someone cracks both Dropbox's security and breaks my KeePass password. I assume Dropbox would let people know if they were hacked, so I'd have plenty of time to change my passwords before the KeePass security fails, assuming it ever does.
Given the very large number of passwords I have to keep, this is certainly a better solution than reusing the same few (my old method) or writing them down and carrying them around everywhere.
You're making an argument for returning to the moon, not mining it. Mining the moon for fuel that we may never be able to use would be a fucking colossal waste of money.
We've known for ages that helium-3 is a good potential fusion fuel, and that mining the moon could be a good source of it. But we don't have fusion power plants yet, nor are we particularly close to getting them. So why talking about mining fuel that we're at least twenty years away from being able to use?
A lot of companies no longer provide install discs for the OS. You either need to buy a second copy, or borrow from a friend, (or pirate the discs and use your legit product key). Doing a clean install isn't possible for many people as a result. Really, I suspect that this is one of the reasons people view Macs as "just working". They don't come loaded down with crap.
It's like rent-a-center or payday loans. These companies exploit the poor by taking advantage of their lacking financial planning skills. Some of the blame certainly lies with the people who fall for these scams, but they are scams all the same.
It's no different from people being stupid enough to send money to Nigerian princes. You shouldn't hold the "prince" harmless.
Not everything can be changed. Let's say they have a few corrupt bankers handling their money for them, and a few months from now we decrypt the drives and get names, addresses, phone numbers. We can find those bankers pretty easily at that point. It's non-trivial to replace people like that.
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Doesn't matter how obvious something is until either a law or a precedent says so. It's better that way. The problem is when aging judges who think televisions are the bees' knees fail to understand what we know to be obvious. See the WoW Glider case, and the ruling that copying a program from your harddrive to your RAM constitutes copyright infringement.
That's what people were telling me about Starcraft 2. Then the game came out, and lo and behold, it was every bit as fun as the original. Better, even. I see no reason to think that D3 won't be just as good.
They'd pick the richest hundred or so of the group and destroy them in court, and drop the rest.
Youngin'. I remember back when D2 was about impossibly talented kids playing hockey!
You enjoyed Diablo 2, even though it was just a modernized Diablo. Same story here, only the modernization will be to an even greater extent. They're taking a formula that works, updating it with improved mechanics, and giving people more of what they want. What's wrong with that?
Yeah, I'm sure those mean old Democrats forced practically ever single Republican pundit, senator, congressman, and governor to back the Death Panels lie. I'm sure the Democrats forced the Republican state governments to push through "Birther Bills." And after 18 months of teabaggers screaming that "Obamacare will gut Medicare", it was those mean old liberals who forced the GOP to vote for a budget to end Medicare once and for all.
Your party is filled with liars and thieves and scum of the worst sort. Stop rationalizing it, and leave them. If you don't, you're either a moron or vermin. No intelligent and decent person can associate with them.
No more than I would mind that same force taking our president captive, locking him up on foreign soil, trying and convicting him.
Is your argument seriously that we should never kill any foreigners because their countrymen might not like it? Or are you one of those comic-book-logic people who thinks that the mere act of a trial is the difference between justice and vengeance? Because that is cargo cult justice - tripe intended to make the hero seem morally superior.
The truth is that the only function of a trial is to ascertain guilt or innocence. The punishment is the part that brings about justice, and when there can be no doubt of guilt, there is no particular need for a trial. We have trials even in cases of "obvious" guilt because sometimes someone who is "obviously" guilty may in fact be innocent. But OBL was at the point where there could never be even a shadow of doubt of guilt.
Fuck off with that false equivalency bullshit. The left wingers you describe are a tiny and insignificant fringe. The insane teabaggers have seized control of the GOP to the point of pushing out moderate candidates, passing "birther" laws at the state level, and setting up their own caucus. There is no comparison.
Not to the teabaggers. Remember, they attacked his wife for promoting children's fitness. They claimed that his speech encouraging elementary schoolers to stay in school was Marxist brainwashing. They claimed that letting old people draft a living will was equivalent to setting up death panels to cull the elderly.
These people have no minds of their own. They believe what they are told, when they are told. And if they're told the opposite next week, they'll believe that too.
Actually, word is that they built a full scale replica and trained in it until they knew the layout like their own home. Retired SEALs have been saying that that's the standard practice for missions like this, whenever there's sufficient time.
Well, there is the zombie mod for CS. You could make the original zombie look like OBL, and have all the spawned zombies look like standard terrorists (maybe even give them suicide belts!)
High ranking officials have lots of meetings. The big boss only has enough to understand the risks (seals killed/held hostage, major backlash from an important "ally", the effective end of his presidency, a major morale boost for Al Qaeda and the Taliban) and rewards and the odds of success before making the call.
That's how pretty much every organization in the world works. You really think CEOs sit in on every design meeting? They, like Obama, have more important things to do than listen to the mucky details that fall outside their realm of expertise.
Hurr, gee, looks legit! After all, as a Kenyan Marxist Muslim dithering white-people-hating tribesman-mentality terrorist-pal, Obama would never order the killing of a terrorist! By the way, have you heard that Bill Clinton killed Vince Foster?
Yes, I'm sure Sony just accidentally forced hackers to break into their system. Just like when you forget to lock your doors, you are forcing someone to rob you.
There are several technologies that have been developed and distributed in the third world by humanitarians. The adjustable eye-glasses, shake-powered water sterilizer, and super-nutritious peanut butter all come to mind. In cases where there is patent protection (the peanut butter, for example) the aid workers simply ignore it.
You know, going with my racism example, a racist would say he's just calling things the way they are too. Saying "not to be condescending" doesn't make someone any less of an arrogant prick, if they then go on to call the majority of people a bunch of screaming mindless toddlers.
Not to be elitist or condescending....
You know, saying "not to do x" immediately before doing x doesn't make it any better. You might as well say "Not to be racist, but [insert ethnic group here] should learn their place."
I keep my passwords in a KeePass file in my Dropbox account. I can access them pretty much anywhere, and the only way they're getting stolen is if someone cracks both Dropbox's security and breaks my KeePass password. I assume Dropbox would let people know if they were hacked, so I'd have plenty of time to change my passwords before the KeePass security fails, assuming it ever does.
Given the very large number of passwords I have to keep, this is certainly a better solution than reusing the same few (my old method) or writing them down and carrying them around everywhere.
You're making an argument for returning to the moon, not mining it. Mining the moon for fuel that we may never be able to use would be a fucking colossal waste of money.
We've known for ages that helium-3 is a good potential fusion fuel, and that mining the moon could be a good source of it. But we don't have fusion power plants yet, nor are we particularly close to getting them. So why talking about mining fuel that we're at least twenty years away from being able to use?
Your post is self-contradictory, FYI.
"they want us to do the work for them" ... "It's not like the Government listens to the average person"
Seriously, this knee-jerk anti-government sentiment is getting pretty bad.
It takes thirty hours of training to use the product, and our IT guys are simply too busy putting out fires to get the training.
A lot of companies no longer provide install discs for the OS. You either need to buy a second copy, or borrow from a friend, (or pirate the discs and use your legit product key). Doing a clean install isn't possible for many people as a result. Really, I suspect that this is one of the reasons people view Macs as "just working". They don't come loaded down with crap.
It's like rent-a-center or payday loans. These companies exploit the poor by taking advantage of their lacking financial planning skills. Some of the blame certainly lies with the people who fall for these scams, but they are scams all the same.
It's no different from people being stupid enough to send money to Nigerian princes. You shouldn't hold the "prince" harmless.
Not everything can be changed. Let's say they have a few corrupt bankers handling their money for them, and a few months from now we decrypt the drives and get names, addresses, phone numbers. We can find those bankers pretty easily at that point. It's non-trivial to replace people like that.