Indeed, I can't tell you how many times I've closed Chrome because I was just clicking the minimize button over and over and that fat-ass [X] button is large enough to overlap over half of where the minimize button should be in Windows classic mode.
Subject doesn't make much sense, right? After all, it isn't my story (nevermind the fact that I doubt a story could be trademarked). But it sounds like that's exactly what this company is doing, claiming trademark over the actions of other people.
Because it makes you look good without having to do a damned thing. I cannot speak for the AC, but there have been many a time in my youth where I apologized simply because my mother said to "just say you're sorry". There was absolutely no remorse behind my words, they were totally empty.
That's not to say that all apologies are like that, I have given genuine apologies as well. But an apology is cheap and meaningless unless it also conveys that you were wrong in what you did and that you won't do it again.
There once was a time when the DSM called homosexuality a "mental illness". So it may very well have been normal to inject homosexuals with "hormonal treatments", even against a person's will (after all, the person is "mentally ill" and cannot make well-informed decisions, or some bullshit).
When bathed in such a light, you are clearly trying to "help" the mentally ill person become a productive member of society. But no matter how you look at waterboarding, it's torture plain and simple. Some people may call it justifiable, but I don't think anyone is saying it isn't torture.
Then call it what it is, an admission of past wrong doings and a promise to not do it again. Calling it an apology when the individuals who were wronged (and all of their living relatives from that time) are dead is just stupid.
Maybe it's my upbringing, but to me, an apology is just a bunch of empty words which in no way admits that you were wrong in what you did (being told to "just say you're sorry" tends to do that).
Libraries business model? Please explain. I don't know how libraries function where you come from, but where I live they're "free" (ie, paid for via my taxes). Are you referring to something other than the local public library?
Right, because as we all know, going above that magic number posted on the side of the road instantly makes you a dangerous driver. Which is exactly why the Autobahn is such a dangerous road to be on.
FFXI seems to allow cross-platform (PC, 360, PS2) play just fine. Granted, that's an MMO where the console/pc talks to a centralized server of SE's instead of one on Microsoft's/Sony's/??? network, which something like madden probably wouldn't need. Though there's no reason EA couldn't have done something similar.
I'll admit that it can be, but not in this case. While the US is 4th when it comes to raw counts, it's only ~2% of the country in 1st (China). Out of the worldwide total of 2390, the US is only contributing ~1.5%.
As far as the per million, here's how all 25 nations from that Amnesty International PDF fit together, ordered by highest to lowest.
Nation - Population - Execution Count - Per Million
And something I should have added in my first post, since the only murder rate posted was for the US (and not even a number, just a "we've got more murders than y'all, nyah nyah"), such a correlation can't be made anyway.
Sinbios did, but apparently you didn't. The Evil Couch said that the US had only 37 executions in 2008, for 0.12 executions per million residents. Of the other countries listed, that was the lowest per million and the second lowest overall count.
Of course, 37 seems a bit low... I'd have thought that Texas alone would be more than 37.
It's a clever idea, but what is making sure they take the drugs?
Who is making sure of that with the current setup?
Yes, not the pronoun but a person with the unlikely name of Who is making sure of that with the current setup.
But in all seriousness, I imagine the person currently dispensing the drugs is performing this role, making sure the person takes the drugs before moving on to the next person. Unless it's so bad they just have the drugs spread out on a table and they tell the people to just take what they need.
As long as the only places you do work is at the office/home, that may be viable (though having a desktop at both would be better as it cannot present to your boss that you could work wherever and whenever (vacation, weekend, etc)), but if you do work on the road, you're now going to be carrying around two laptops (plus accessories for both).
Troll? Seriously? Ignorant maybe, but hardly troll. It was a genuine question, and I thank everyone who took the time to correct me rather than just down-mod me.
This is the same lame defense that the telecoms used.
Except that it isn't.
Google received a very open and very legal request from the courts, and Google complied with the request. The telecoms were asked under the table to comply with an illegal request, and they complied.
Please note that I am not saying anything about whether Google should or should not have complied with the request, but the two situations are completely different, as the telecoms broke the law while Google did not.
I can't say I ever expected it to be a science fiction film. I mean, it's based on the fantasy TV show of the same name that's on Nick, right? At least, it always seemed to be a fantasy show to me.
The ISP just took the RIAA/MPAA bribe and is giving them nothing of any value in return.
Ignoring how many people will ditch TPB after the buy out, I wouldn't say that it gives them nothing in return, but what it would do I think depends on exactly what the new TPB deal will be.
If the money that TPB collects goes direct to artists (thereby bypassing the RIAA/MPAA), then blocking TPB is still a good thing as TPB is removed from the list of options for a consumer/artist to avoid giving the RIAA/MPAA money.
But if the money would go to the RIAA/MPAA to distribute, then the RIAA/MPAA just bribed the ISP to do worse than give them nothing, they just bribed the ISP to restrict access to a site that would give them money.
the point of all of this is that this is an excellent and quite scary example of increasingly improved DRM systems being deployed. It's taken just shy of 4 years to crack open the 360 to just this point
Not being in the scene I could be widely misinformed on this, but I believe that all this did was close off a software exploit available to anyone with an unmodified 360. It did nothing to any hardware modchips.
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Indeed, I can't tell you how many times I've closed Chrome because I was just clicking the minimize button over and over and that fat-ass [X] button is large enough to overlap over half of where the minimize button should be in Windows classic mode.
Just because you recognize that an ISP does that, does not mean that you work for them (or even support it).
how do you prove you DIDN'T attempt to commit a crime
Theoretically, you shouldn't have to, it should be up to the state to prove that you did actually commit a crime.
Theoretically.
Subject doesn't make much sense, right? After all, it isn't my story (nevermind the fact that I doubt a story could be trademarked). But it sounds like that's exactly what this company is doing, claiming trademark over the actions of other people.
IANAL, but that seems fishy.
Because it makes you look good without having to do a damned thing. I cannot speak for the AC, but there have been many a time in my youth where I apologized simply because my mother said to "just say you're sorry". There was absolutely no remorse behind my words, they were totally empty.
That's not to say that all apologies are like that, I have given genuine apologies as well. But an apology is cheap and meaningless unless it also conveys that you were wrong in what you did and that you won't do it again.
There once was a time when the DSM called homosexuality a "mental illness". So it may very well have been normal to inject homosexuals with "hormonal treatments", even against a person's will (after all, the person is "mentally ill" and cannot make well-informed decisions, or some bullshit).
When bathed in such a light, you are clearly trying to "help" the mentally ill person become a productive member of society. But no matter how you look at waterboarding, it's torture plain and simple. Some people may call it justifiable, but I don't think anyone is saying it isn't torture.
Then call it what it is, an admission of past wrong doings and a promise to not do it again. Calling it an apology when the individuals who were wronged (and all of their living relatives from that time) are dead is just stupid.
Maybe it's my upbringing, but to me, an apology is just a bunch of empty words which in no way admits that you were wrong in what you did (being told to "just say you're sorry" tends to do that).
Just out of curiosity, what did she think were the 51st and 52nd states?
Libraries business model? Please explain. I don't know how libraries function where you come from, but where I live they're "free" (ie, paid for via my taxes). Are you referring to something other than the local public library?
Right, because as we all know, going above that magic number posted on the side of the road instantly makes you a dangerous driver. Which is exactly why the Autobahn is such a dangerous road to be on.
Oh wait...
FFXI seems to allow cross-platform (PC, 360, PS2) play just fine. Granted, that's an MMO where the console/pc talks to a centralized server of SE's instead of one on Microsoft's/Sony's/??? network, which something like madden probably wouldn't need. Though there's no reason EA couldn't have done something similar.
It's blatant cherry-picking.
I'll admit that it can be, but not in this case. While the US is 4th when it comes to raw counts, it's only ~2% of the country in 1st (China). Out of the worldwide total of 2390, the US is only contributing ~1.5%.
As far as the per million, here's how all 25 nations from that Amnesty International PDF fit together, ordered by highest to lowest.
Nation - Population - Execution Count - Per Million
1) Saint Kitts and Nevis - 39,817 - 1 - 25.11
2) Iran - 65,875,224 - 346 - 5.25
3) Saudi Arabia - 27,601,038 - 102 - 3.70
4) Bahrain - 718,306 - 1 - 1.39
5) Libya - 6,173,579 - 8 - 1.30
6) China - 1,330,044,544 - 1718 - 1.29
7) Iraq - 28,221,180 - 34 - 1.20
8) North Korea - 23,479,088 - 15 - 0.64
9) Yemen - 23,013,376 - 13 - 0.56
10) Botswana - 1,842,323 - 1 - 0.54
11) Afghanistan - 32,738,376 - 17 - 0.52
12) Belarus - 9,685,768 - 4 - 0.41
13) Mongolia - 2,996,081 - 1 - 0.33
14) Vietnam - 86,116,560 - 19 - 0.22
15) United Arab Emirates - 4,621,399 - 1 - 0.22
16) Singapore - 4,608,167 - 1 - 0.22
17) Pakistan - 172,800,048 - 36 - 0.21
18) USA - 304,059,724 - 37 - 0.12
19) Japan - 127,288,416 - 15 - 0.12
20) Syria - 19,747,586 - 1 - 0.05
21) Indonesia - 237,512,352 - 10 - 0.04
22) Malaysia - 25,274,132 - 1 - 0.04
23) Bangladesh - 153,546,896 - 5 - 0.03
24) Egypt - 81,713,520 - 2 - 0.02
25) Sudan - 40,218,456 - 1 - 0.02
And something I should have added in my first post, since the only murder rate posted was for the US (and not even a number, just a "we've got more murders than y'all, nyah nyah"), such a correlation can't be made anyway.
Sinbios did, but apparently you didn't. The Evil Couch said that the US had only 37 executions in 2008, for 0.12 executions per million residents. Of the other countries listed, that was the lowest per million and the second lowest overall count.
Of course, 37 seems a bit low... I'd have thought that Texas alone would be more than 37.
It's a clever idea, but what is making sure they take the drugs?
Who is making sure of that with the current setup?
Yes, not the pronoun but a person with the unlikely name of Who is making sure of that with the current setup.
But in all seriousness, I imagine the person currently dispensing the drugs is performing this role, making sure the person takes the drugs before moving on to the next person. Unless it's so bad they just have the drugs spread out on a table and they tell the people to just take what they need.
As long as the only places you do work is at the office/home, that may be viable (though having a desktop at both would be better as it cannot present to your boss that you could work wherever and whenever (vacation, weekend, etc)), but if you do work on the road, you're now going to be carrying around two laptops (plus accessories for both).
Troll? Seriously? Ignorant maybe, but hardly troll. It was a genuine question, and I thank everyone who took the time to correct me rather than just down-mod me.
This is the same lame defense that the telecoms used.
Except that it isn't.
Google received a very open and very legal request from the courts, and Google complied with the request. The telecoms were asked under the table to comply with an illegal request, and they complied.
Please note that I am not saying anything about whether Google should or should not have complied with the request, but the two situations are completely different, as the telecoms broke the law while Google did not.
I can't say I ever expected it to be a science fiction film. I mean, it's based on the fantasy TV show of the same name that's on Nick, right? At least, it always seemed to be a fantasy show to me.
Disclaimer: I've never watched Avatar.
It may not be explosive, but you're still playing with fire.
(only fire-related Darwin Award I could find in my brief search)
Just out of curiosity, the mp3 players that had wireless back in 2001, what did they use the wireless for?
Disclaimer: I did not jump on the iPod bandwagon until the 60GB 4th (I think) gen iPod photos were released
The ISP just took the RIAA/MPAA bribe and is giving them nothing of any value in return.
Ignoring how many people will ditch TPB after the buy out, I wouldn't say that it gives them nothing in return, but what it would do I think depends on exactly what the new TPB deal will be.
If the money that TPB collects goes direct to artists (thereby bypassing the RIAA/MPAA), then blocking TPB is still a good thing as TPB is removed from the list of options for a consumer/artist to avoid giving the RIAA/MPAA money.
But if the money would go to the RIAA/MPAA to distribute, then the RIAA/MPAA just bribed the ISP to do worse than give them nothing, they just bribed the ISP to restrict access to a site that would give them money.
Kinda makes you wonder, if they know it annoys people, it could be one of the opponents to that person running that van.
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Exactly, people forget that UFO doesn't necessarily mean of alien origin, only that the Flying Object is as of yet Unidentified.
Judging by all the Hitler Miis, not really...
the point of all of this is that this is an excellent and quite scary example of increasingly improved DRM systems being deployed. It's taken just shy of 4 years to crack open the 360 to just this point
Not being in the scene I could be widely misinformed on this, but I believe that all this did was close off a software exploit available to anyone with an unmodified 360. It did nothing to any hardware modchips.