If those of us in the US could play, I'd take the jail time to go to space if the IRS came a-knocking. I probably couldn't afford the taxes, so jail time vs going into space....
In a heart beat I'd go to space....
but wait...what if I spend a year outside the US and then collect the prize? Kind of like working outside the US and getting paid at the end even though the contract was written up months earlier when I was in the US....that sounds like a way to get around the IRS taxes for this while keeping my family together.
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If you put the condensers where moist air usually flows out to sea or over a lake it will just suck up moisture from the body of water, resulting in no reduced rainfall over land. Places with high humidity might see no difference in rainfall, since it'd be hard to extract water faster than water gets added naturally.
Exactly. I was thinking Houston would love these. I'd love a dry heat in August instead of what we get normally. All new houses must carry these to reduce humidity!
Getting rid of $1 and $5 bills is madness! Think of how it would affect the adult entertainment industry! You can't stuff a $1 coin in a G-string.
Very true, though I think I remember watching a music video on Uncut BET by some rapper who slide a credit card down the backside of some girl. Maybe it was a special credit card as the guy did have a mansion in the video.
I remember when a friend of mine couldn't get this on *cough* USENET *cough* because posters kept telling everyone to go watch it in the theater. Obviously this was when it still was in the theater...
anyway he had never even seen Firefly, so he had to grab all those....and then he went and saw the movie in the theater!
I think the Firefly dvds (plus movie) are the only dvds he owns.
So I am a bit surprised that this is the first to be released unofficially this way.
Talk about timing....I was about to start trying my Mac because my pc is cutting it. I worked off and on all weekend to get my.tivo files to work through my mediaplayer.
I do not care how, but I need to get rid of that DRM. I've tried graphedit and xumxer (msp?), but I'm still not getting sound when I play them through my mediaplayer. Admittedly supposedly graphedit is supposed to prompt for the media access key and I am not getting that prompt. The graphedit created video file is playing fine on my pc.
For some (hopefully most) people, this is ideal. They'll work when they find themselves to be most productive, which in turn, makes the company more productive. However, you'll always get a few individuals who take advantage of such a policy, and in some environments, they spoil it for the rest of us.
The problem is lawsuits.
Take a small company with no HR. If someone is taking advantage of this policy, you fire them. In a large company with an HR, you have the 3 talks before that spoiler is gone....
I hate ducks....always go duck hunting and when you get a new eagle...watch it the first couple of months to make sure it isn't a duck. Typically you can get someone fired in the first two months of their employement without HR stepping in...
Do it....get rid of the bad wood before it is a problem.
You are attempting to replace an item that is heavily entrenched in consumers' mindshare and financial investment with something that offers no real benefit to the consumer? And we are surprised this failed, why?
exactly...offer up a free blu-ray version and it might have gained some traction.
China has enough numbers that if they wanted to direct the industry they could...however they are not thinking far enough ahead with this to set the standard.
Are you thinking of the tank (as in service station gasoline tanks) integrity project. A friend wrote that in Access 97. Exceptionally professional job and he was just a maintenance mechanic.
nah, I support Chevron's legal dept and have for the last 7 years as a contractor. Admittedly the law function ends up touching all the other OPCOs...so it might be that DB.
I was just trying to make a point that too much old data never is migrated to newer formats and my users just expect to be able to access it.
When Chevron makes the switch to Vista, I'm just waiting for my users to call and want Access 97 installed, so they can get to that critical 1999 database!
Hunters People that work in slaughter houses
(I think Ozzy worked in one so maybe this isn't as satirical as I think);) - kidding Ranchers Soldiers Police
Personally anything can make people more violent...it just depends on their breaking point.
I find it silly that people are surprised by this study though...it makes sense that our brains would be hardwired to process some signals as entertainment...take cats: They love the fluttery feathers. Scans of their brains have shown that they notice fluttery vertical movement. Hence I installed cat tv...a bird feeder to entertain my cats when I am not home.
People can't have it both ways.. women want to breast feed in public. Women like to wear practically nothing at the beach. Sears likes to send underwear ads in the sunday newspaper. Then video games are immoral for showing the same thing in an often ANIMATED way.
In Texas women can go topless except for one county, (my old one) Brazoria. In Texas basically women can go topless until someone complains. The police come and ask for the women to put something on....that is it. As of 2004 in Brazoria county, it is illegal to be topless.
There is an exemption for women breast feeding though....so Brazoria is trying to have it both ways....
As cool as this is, I'd like to see a certified 'e'mail system that courts accepted. Maybe something from USPS.
I'd like the target person to get an email saying he has an email to retrieve, go to the usps site to retrieve the message, have the option to save the message or delete, and have the sender get an email saying the message has been read.
I am surprised I didn't see any Snowblind engine games above....
Here are some of my favorites (not in any order), many of which are based on the Snowblind engine. * Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance I and II * Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II * Champions of Norrath: Call to Arms * Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms * Fallout * Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes * Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers * Justice League: Heroes. * Marvel Super Heroes Ultimate Alliance * Xmen Legends I & II
If it were up to the RIAA, they would determine exactly which format I would purchase and keep my music on, and that I would have to buy the same music over and over again everytime the next best thing came out.
No, it is worse. They don't want you to buy the same music over and over again. They want you to buy the popular thing over and over again.
If I could buy anything I want in any format I want, then I wouldn't be as concerned.
My example is Salome's Last Dance. At first I didn't have it in VHS, but I could rent it for a $300 deposit. Then ebay came along and I could buy a VHS copy for $30. Then it was released on DVD and I could buy it again for $30. Now if I want it on ebay on DVD, I have to pay $350. There is no option to buy it in Blu-ray, yet....but I can expect the ebay price a year later to be in the $300s.
I wish I had mod points...instead I will just say well said.
Though I think you'll find that Texas is bringing Origin to the rest of the world....this has been in the works for 12 years. As an example, we already have our President preaching origin!
He thinks big and wants to take it to Mars next.....right after Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc...
MURDER someone in cold blood, sometimes get out in 5 months (many assholes)? Molest 40+ kids in Virginia causing irreparable mental anguish, get nothing but home arrest and possibly six months' probation (some fucking pervert in Vermont)? There is no justice in this world.
Since my mom is a convicted murder (cheating boyfriend who gave her an STD) got 26 years and my father, who was convicted of sexual assault of a 3 year old with no physical evidence, got 30 years, I have a different view point.
There is no justice. There is only law. People will get out of jail early if they plead the right way and in Texas if they didn't they are going to sever their full sentence. With prosecutions rates in the upper 90% across the country, either plead or fight with everything you have. My father didn't fight much and just expected the court/jury to see he was innocent. The only evidence there was was the girl. My dad couldn't bring up that she lived with a convicted sexual predator because her brother was a minor. A Plea would have meant the end of his career. He was a lawyer. My dad won't be getting out even though we did appeal. Not enough errors in the case. All we have left is a habeas corpus and what good is that? What politician is going to release a convicted child molester even if he did think he was innocent?
"If approved, it will be a crime, punishable with up to 4 years of jail time, to disseminate virus or trojans, unauthorizedly access data banks or networks and send e-mail, join chat, write a blog or download content anonymously."
When all Usenet posts are legit I'll believe it.
In other words, the only people this will affect are those who do take precautions to adequately hide themselves, those ignorant of the law, and those where the government just wants to tack on 4 more years!
I know plenty of people who believe both. In fact, I think there's actually LESS of a rivalry between religion and science than people suggest.
Keep saying it and Kansas will still be just as backwater.....Texas is only slightly better. (I live in Texas)
"John Paul insisted faith and science could coexist. In 1996, in a message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, he said that Darwin's theories were sound as long as they took into account that creation was the work of God and that Darwin's theory of evolution was "more than a hypothesis.'"
Too bad the south isn't more Catholic and too bad American Catholics view the Pope a bit differently. Toss in the fact that to be a 'good' Christian you need to think like everyone else (except on those fundamental core religious differences the church tells you exist)
I can remember in High School (1990) some kids having a problem with different religions and seriously considered the US to be a Christian Nation....They had a hard time seeing that being Christian is in the eye of the beholder and I doubt they'd like the founding father's deism or the Treaty of Tripoli which says we are not a Christian Nation.
Admittedly District 22 is currently getting a lot of coverage in Texas. That is Tom Delay's old District.
In the past I really haven't even seen many tv spots. If it wasn't for The Daily Show I would have missed all the presidential ads.
I remember during the 2004 election, the democrats wrote off the entire state of Texas. Why spend money or waste time when you know you don't have a chance?
I didn't agree and thus Tom Delay got into office again.
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If those of us in the US could play, I'd take the jail time to go to space if the IRS came a-knocking. I probably couldn't afford the taxes, so jail time vs going into space....
In a heart beat I'd go to space....
but wait...what if I spend a year outside the US and then collect the prize? Kind of like working outside the US and getting paid at the end even though the contract was written up months earlier when I was in the US....that sounds like a way to get around the IRS taxes for this while keeping my family together.
If you put the condensers where moist air usually flows out to sea or over a lake it will just suck up moisture from the body of water, resulting in no reduced rainfall over land. Places with high humidity might see no difference in rainfall, since it'd be hard to extract water faster than water gets added naturally.
Exactly. I was thinking Houston would love these. I'd love a dry heat in August instead of what we get normally. All new houses must carry these to reduce humidity!
Getting rid of $1 and $5 bills is madness! Think of how it would affect the adult entertainment industry! You can't stuff a $1 coin in a G-string.
Very true, though I think I remember watching a music video on Uncut BET by some rapper who slide a credit card down the backside of some girl. Maybe it was a special credit card as the guy did have a mansion in the video.
I remember when a friend of mine couldn't get this on *cough* USENET *cough* because posters kept telling everyone to go watch it in the theater. Obviously this was when it still was in the theater...
anyway he had never even seen Firefly, so he had to grab all those....and then he went and saw the movie in the theater!
I think the Firefly dvds (plus movie) are the only dvds he owns.
So I am a bit surprised that this is the first to be released unofficially this way.
2) people should be responsible for anything that shows up on their computers
Responsible to the point that they're staring down a life sentence in prison??
who needs to go to prison to have a life ruined?
Good thing Anya died in the last episode of Buffy. I don't think she could have handled knowing about giant bunnies.
that works...but that project appears to be abandoned.
Talk about timing....I was about to start trying my Mac because my pc is cutting it. I worked off and on all weekend to get my .tivo files to work through my mediaplayer.
I do not care how, but I need to get rid of that DRM. I've tried graphedit and xumxer (msp?), but I'm still not getting sound when I play them through my mediaplayer. Admittedly supposedly graphedit is supposed to prompt for the media access key and I am not getting that prompt. The graphedit created video file is playing fine on my pc.
help.
Coming late to the discussion but felt like I had to say something....
guns are not the problem....fear of your neighbor is.
For some (hopefully most) people, this is ideal. They'll work when they find themselves to be most productive, which in turn, makes the company more productive. However, you'll always get a few individuals who take advantage of such a policy, and in some environments, they spoil it for the rest of us.
The problem is lawsuits.
Take a small company with no HR. If someone is taking advantage of this policy, you fire them. In a large company with an HR, you have the 3 talks before that spoiler is gone....
I hate ducks....always go duck hunting and when you get a new eagle...watch it the first couple of months to make sure it isn't a duck. Typically you can get someone fired in the first two months of their employement without HR stepping in...
Do it....get rid of the bad wood before it is a problem.
You are attempting to replace an item that is heavily entrenched in consumers' mindshare and financial investment with something that offers no real benefit to the consumer? And we are surprised this failed, why?
exactly...offer up a free blu-ray version and it might have gained some traction.
China has enough numbers that if they wanted to direct the industry they could...however they are not thinking far enough ahead with this to set the standard.
Are you thinking of the tank (as in service station gasoline tanks) integrity project. A friend wrote that in Access 97. Exceptionally professional job and he was just a maintenance mechanic.
nah, I support Chevron's legal dept and have for the last 7 years as a contractor. Admittedly the law function ends up touching all the other OPCOs...so it might be that DB.
I was just trying to make a point that too much old data never is migrated to newer formats and my users just expect to be able to access it.
When Chevron makes the switch to Vista, I'm just waiting for my users to call and want Access 97 installed, so they can get to that critical 1999 database!
If video games make people violent....what about
;) - kidding
Hunters
People that work in slaughter houses
(I think Ozzy worked in one so maybe this isn't as satirical as I think)
Ranchers
Soldiers
Police
Personally anything can make people more violent...it just depends on their breaking point.
I find it silly that people are surprised by this study though...it makes sense that our brains would be hardwired to process some signals as entertainment...take cats: They love the fluttery feathers. Scans of their brains have shown that they notice fluttery vertical movement. Hence I installed cat tv...a bird feeder to entertain my cats when I am not home.
People can't have it both ways.. women want to breast feed in public. Women like to wear practically nothing at the beach. Sears likes to send underwear ads in the sunday newspaper. Then video games are immoral for showing the same thing in an often ANIMATED way.
In Texas women can go topless except for one county, (my old one) Brazoria. In Texas basically women can go topless until someone complains. The police come and ask for the women to put something on....that is it. As of 2004 in Brazoria county, it is illegal to be topless.
There is an exemption for women breast feeding though....so Brazoria is trying to have it both ways....
It has been said before but when the public wants to censor give them graphic violence and sex in a biblical wrapper and they won't censor...
It sounds like the judge is taking the track that any historically accurate game is ok...
Of course it doesn't always work...take Oscar Wilde's Salome...banned in the UK and produced in France.
As cool as this is, I'd like to see a certified 'e'mail system that courts accepted. Maybe something from USPS.
I'd like the target person to get an email saying he has an email to retrieve, go to the usps site to retrieve the message, have the option to save the message or delete, and have the sender get an email saying the message has been read.
The key is something the courts would accept.
I am surprised I didn't see any Snowblind engine games above....
Here are some of my favorites (not in any order), many of which are based on the Snowblind engine.
* Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance I and II
* Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
* Champions of Norrath: Call to Arms
* Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms
* Fallout
* Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes
* Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers
* Justice League: Heroes.
* Marvel Super Heroes Ultimate Alliance
* Xmen Legends I & II
I'm surprised the psp didn't make the list.
UMD? why?
what games does it have?
I use it mostly to watch tv shows and listen to music....
I don't think Sony had that market in mind.
If it were up to the RIAA, they would determine exactly which format I would purchase and keep my music on, and that I would have to buy the same music over and over again everytime the next best thing came out.
No, it is worse. They don't want you to buy the same music over and over again. They want you to buy the popular thing over and over again.
If I could buy anything I want in any format I want, then I wouldn't be as concerned.
My example is Salome's Last Dance. At first I didn't have it in VHS, but I could rent it for a $300 deposit. Then ebay came along and I could buy a VHS copy for $30. Then it was released on DVD and I could buy it again for $30. Now if I want it on ebay on DVD, I have to pay $350. There is no option to buy it in Blu-ray, yet....but I can expect the ebay price a year later to be in the $300s.
I wish I had mod points...instead I will just say well said.
Though I think you'll find that Texas is bringing Origin to the rest of the world....this has been in the works for 12 years. As an example, we already have our President preaching origin!
He thinks big and wants to take it to Mars next.....right after Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc...
I was agreeing with you until this point
MURDER someone in cold blood, sometimes get out in 5 months (many assholes)?
Molest 40+ kids in Virginia causing irreparable mental anguish, get nothing but home arrest and possibly six months' probation (some fucking pervert in Vermont)?
There is no justice in this world.
Since my mom is a convicted murder (cheating boyfriend who gave her an STD) got 26 years and my father, who was convicted of sexual assault of a 3 year old with no physical evidence, got 30 years, I have a different view point.
There is no justice. There is only law. People will get out of jail early if they plead the right way and in Texas if they didn't they are going to sever their full sentence. With prosecutions rates in the upper 90% across the country, either plead or fight with everything you have. My father didn't fight much and just expected the court/jury to see he was innocent. The only evidence there was was the girl. My dad couldn't bring up that she lived with a convicted sexual predator because her brother was a minor. A Plea would have meant the end of his career. He was a lawyer. My dad won't be getting out even though we did appeal. Not enough errors in the case. All we have left is a habeas corpus and what good is that? What politician is going to release a convicted child molester even if he did think he was innocent?
You never have justice in this world, only law.
"If approved, it will be a crime, punishable with up to 4 years of jail time, to disseminate virus or trojans, unauthorizedly access data banks or networks and send e-mail, join chat, write a blog or download content anonymously."
When all Usenet posts are legit I'll believe it.
In other words, the only people this will affect are those who do take precautions to adequately hide themselves, those ignorant of the law, and those where the government just wants to tack on 4 more years!
I know plenty of people who believe both. In fact, I think there's actually LESS of a rivalry between religion and science than people suggest.
Keep saying it and Kansas will still be just as backwater.....Texas is only slightly better. (I live in Texas)
"John Paul insisted faith and science could coexist. In 1996, in a message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, he said that Darwin's theories were sound as long as they took into account that creation was the work of God and that Darwin's theory of evolution was "more than a hypothesis.'"
Too bad the south isn't more Catholic and too bad American Catholics view the Pope a bit differently. Toss in the fact that to be a 'good' Christian you need to think like everyone else (except on those fundamental core religious differences the church tells you exist)
I can remember in High School (1990) some kids having a problem with different religions and seriously considered the US to be a Christian Nation....They had a hard time seeing that being Christian is in the eye of the beholder and I doubt they'd like the founding father's deism or the Treaty of Tripoli which says we are not a Christian Nation.
Admittedly District 22 is currently getting a lot of coverage in Texas. That is Tom Delay's old District.
In the past I really haven't even seen many tv spots. If it wasn't for The Daily Show I would have missed all the presidential ads.
I remember during the 2004 election, the democrats wrote off the entire state of Texas. Why spend money or waste time when you know you don't have a chance?
I didn't agree and thus Tom Delay got into office again.