Wow! To save the price of sending you a second CD that is useless by itself (i.e. you couldn't sell it or anything), they refused to send you one, causing you to tell all of Slashdot how they screw their customers. Great marketing, EA!
That's utterly ridiculous, and at some point the Federal Government is going to have to get involved and put some limits on this kind of obnoxious behavior.
"We the corporations of the United States, in order to ensure more guaranteed profits, establish total control, insure domestic subservience, defend our quarterly earnings, promote the welfare of our shareholders, and secure the blessings of unfettered commerce to ourselves and our wholly-owned subsidiaries, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." (it may not actually SAY that, but it is the current interpretation. Don't expect the US government to slap a muzzle on the RIAA.)
They want everyone to know that Ivy-League-ness does not confer immunity. No matter who you are they will get you. Law students may be better armed against these goons than you or I but they still have no hope against the RIAA's teams of bloodseeking attack lawyers. (Q: Can you get pregnant from anal sex? A: Yes, where do you think corporate lawyers come from?)
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...lots of classes in Women's Studies departments on abortion, for example, start with the assumption that abortion is fully moral and a right.
I can't confirm or deny this from experience, have you actually taken these courses? There are anti-abortion feminists too (just as there are both pro- and anti-pornography feminists). In fact I suspect most feminists who support "abortion on demand" still think it's an undesirable outcome, and would much prefer that unwanted pregnancies were easier to avoid in the first place (e.g. decent sex education in schools).
Most college courses *are* biased by the prof's opinions, that's why a good student reads beyond the syllabus (as much as is possible in their "copious free time" of course). Sadly, many kids in secondary education are still not accustomed to this approach, and are often penalized when they start to dabble in it.
My mousing hand survived Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Counterstrike, a smattering of non-FPS games, and (so far), America's Army. However, when it's released, Half-Life 2 may turn out to be the final nail in my carpal tunnel, cooling or no cooling.
CNN are idiots, that's all the explanation you need for the Turin thing. I've never heard the "Baghdad battery" or the pyramids attributed to Leonardo though. Real "skeptics" know that since at least the neolithic age, people have always been as smart as they are now, capable of inventing all sorts of cool things if they have a need, a little spare time and a few sticks to rub together. There have been thousands if not millions of "Leonardos" in the last 10,000 years.
Yeah, but Niven was basically just taking the two ideal properties of an armour and combining them in a super-material of unexplained mechanism. Nothing wrong with that but I bet it's been the holy grail of armour technology since some guy said "Hmm, maybe if I boil a leather coat for a couple of hours it'll stop arrows and still bend a bit when I move."
Well, you could have a rocket-deployed parachute like those ejection seats that are safe to use even at ground level. Of course, parachute = weight = even less flying time.
... not to mention infinitely safer than the "Quad-rocket-grenade-BFG jump" that I enjoyed a few times. Sadly, neither the Quad nor the Invulnerability required to pull THAT off exist in real life.
... "Most people" are struggling to pay their IMPORTANT bills, like the hydro and the gas and the phone and the mortgage/rent, and can't pay whatever gouging fee it costs to get high-speed internet. "Most people" do not consider seeing the latest "Strongbad E-mail" and playing Unreal Tournament to be essentials of life.
1. yes he looks like a weirdo. 2. yes, this is uber-geeky. 3. we're pretty much all geeky and/or weirdos here. 4. therefore people shouldn't make (too much) fun of this guy BUT 5. the costume isn't all that fantastic. Now, a homemade Predator costume, that'd impress me.
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Wow! To save the price of sending you a second CD that is useless by itself (i.e. you couldn't sell it or anything), they refused to send you one, causing you to tell all of Slashdot how they screw their customers. Great marketing, EA!
When we claim in a a physical product, they claim it is a license and when we claim it is a license, they say it is a physical product.
/devil's advocate
Perhaps the terms of the license specify that it expires when the physical lifetime of the original medium is reached...
Good idea. Too bad we all hate them.
That's utterly ridiculous, and at some point the Federal Government is going to have to get involved and put some limits on this kind of obnoxious behavior.
"We the corporations of the United States, in order to ensure more guaranteed profits, establish total control, insure domestic subservience, defend our quarterly earnings, promote the welfare of our shareholders, and secure the blessings of unfettered commerce to ourselves and our wholly-owned subsidiaries, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
(it may not actually SAY that, but it is the current interpretation. Don't expect the US government to slap a muzzle on the RIAA.)
They want everyone to know that Ivy-League-ness does not confer immunity. No matter who you are they will get you. Law students may be better armed against these goons than you or I but they still have no hope against the RIAA's teams of bloodseeking attack lawyers. (Q: Can you get pregnant from anal sex? A: Yes, where do you think corporate lawyers come from?)
You forgot "Despite the fact that my weapons and armour are in desperate need of repair, I blow the entire reward on ale and whores!"
...lots of classes in Women's Studies departments on abortion, for example, start with the assumption that abortion is fully moral and a right.
I can't confirm or deny this from experience, have you actually taken these courses? There are anti-abortion feminists too (just as there are both pro- and anti-pornography feminists). In fact I suspect most feminists who support "abortion on demand" still think it's an undesirable outcome, and would much prefer that unwanted pregnancies were easier to avoid in the first place (e.g. decent sex education in schools).
Most college courses *are* biased by the prof's opinions, that's why a good student reads beyond the syllabus (as much as is possible in their "copious free time" of course). Sadly, many kids in secondary education are still not accustomed to this approach, and are often penalized when they start to dabble in it.
The entire point of education is to critically think through ideas, not to have a conclusion assigned before you've even started.
You obviously haven't been in a school lately. "Education" is no longer fashionable.
My mousing hand survived Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Counterstrike, a smattering of non-FPS games, and (so far), America's Army. However, when it's released, Half-Life 2 may turn out to be the final nail in my carpal tunnel, cooling or no cooling.
CNN are idiots, that's all the explanation you need for the Turin thing. I've never heard the "Baghdad battery" or the pyramids attributed to Leonardo though. Real "skeptics" know that since at least the neolithic age, people have always been as smart as they are now, capable of inventing all sorts of cool things if they have a need, a little spare time and a few sticks to rub together. There have been thousands if not millions of "Leonardos" in the last 10,000 years.
Like how some people, when they give you a recipe, will change the amounts so yours never turns out as well as theirs does.
The fact that you took the corn starch and water trick and figured out how to use it as a weapon says a lot about humanity, I think.
Yeah, but Niven was basically just taking the two ideal properties of an armour and combining them in a super-material of unexplained mechanism. Nothing wrong with that but I bet it's been the holy grail of armour technology since some guy said "Hmm, maybe if I boil a leather coat for a couple of hours it'll stop arrows and still bend a bit when I move."
Sure, I believe it's called the "Airzooka" and you can buy one at Thinkgeek.com :-)
Well, you could have a rocket-deployed parachute like those ejection seats that are safe to use even at ground level. Of course, parachute = weight = even less flying time.
... not to mention infinitely safer than the "Quad-rocket-grenade-BFG jump" that I enjoyed a few times. Sadly, neither the Quad nor the Invulnerability required to pull THAT off exist in real life.
Yeah, but if your p3n1s was 2" long when you were 2 years old, imagine how big it would be now?
... "Most people" are struggling to pay their IMPORTANT bills, like the hydro and the gas and the phone and the mortgage/rent, and can't pay whatever gouging fee it costs to get high-speed internet. "Most people" do not consider seeing the latest "Strongbad E-mail" and playing Unreal Tournament to be essentials of life.
... "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for any female children I may someday have. That's all I ask.
1. yes he looks like a weirdo.
2. yes, this is uber-geeky.
3. we're pretty much all geeky and/or weirdos here.
4. therefore people shouldn't make (too much) fun of this guy
BUT
5. the costume isn't all that fantastic. Now, a homemade Predator costume, that'd impress me.
The correct version:
The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems slip through your fingers - Princess Leia to Grand Moff Tarkin
I'm still waiting for the time to come when I don't have to watch tampon commercials on my television!
It's called "a football game".
I'm using a kazoo to make "modem noises" on my telephone line, and have trained myself to read Slashdot from the analog data that comes back.
I got a little bored with stuff like "1000 Bulgarian Accordians Play the Beatles",
I dunno, I think I'd *have* to listen to that one, just on principle. I mean, 1000 accordions!
They get Office from a friend or borrow the install CD from work.
/recent OpenOffice.org convert
So where's the bad? Oh, you mean MICROSOFT Office.