Thats a terrible analogy! You are saying that because the highway system is crowded, that a government run internet service would be overcrowded too?
Thats just silly. The highway system is a physical thing, and you can't really expand it at a certain point past paving the entire country. They probably want to, they really just can't.
On the other hand, you CAN keep adding to a huge bundle of fiber. It is not physically that thick (or expensive to a government), and with a big enough pipe you could ensure that there is enough cable laid so 10 billion people could connect simultaneously, or some other astronomical number.
Your analogy is like saying that the post office will turn me away at christmas time because it is too "overloaded" with packages.
I'm from North Dakota, but last time I was in Madison I noticed an over-abundance of bees. Is this normal for your city? I felt like a swarm was constantly after me.
they increase the economic prospects of the net by simply being connected.
For example if ones family is completely rural and none are connected to the phone network, where is the incentive for you as a city-dweller to pay for the network if you can't use it to call Mom, Dad, and Grandma?
Its similar to the Instant Messenger situation. We'd all love to exist on some completely free, encrypted open-soure IM network, but when all of your friends are on AIM and MSN, you stick around even though AIM or MSN is an inferior solution.
and this is still profitable for Fat Tony because he knows that the odds of you winning are 1000-1
Mobster B could theoretically offer you $850, giving even more value for the gambler.
If the government didn't control it so damn much, there would probably be Wal-marts of gambling who would offer your $975 on your 1000-1 shot. What do they care, they still make $25 and they'd make up the difference in volume!:-)
I know this is a joke, but this is very similar to what the mafia does.
If there is a pick 3 game (1 in 1000 shot) in your state which pays says $500 on a $1 ticket, the local mob is probably offering $700 dollars on the very same ticket.
Now they are both terrible bets, but at least the mob is offering you better odds than the government.
Of course the gov't will cry bloody murder, because it wants to keep its lottery monopoly.
Spoken like someone who doesn't gamble on sports. Or poker I suppose.
Remember to call your congressperson and tell them to vote against the internet gambling ban. Or at least urge them to make an exception for us sportsgamblers.:-)
yes, because South Koreans are the first and best impartial group to ask when you want to know whether North Korea is being good and evil.
Why that would be like asking the United States if there were WMD in Iraq.
Do you think Eritrea and Ethiopia joined the "coaltion of the willing" because they believed the US and felt a moral obligation to stop Saddam, or do you think maybe they just both wanted the US on their side in a border dispute, and couldn't give a shit whether the US was telling the truth about Iraq.
The point of all of this is when there is a dispute, its best to hear the account of imparital bystander than that of the people involved in the dispute.
I have to agree. I learned on DOS on a 286(I'm 15) and I'm a hell of a lot more dangerous than my friends who had the latest Intel chip(a 486 with win3.1) at the time.
The 486 was only the latest intel chip for 3 years: 1991-1993. If you are 15 now in 2003, this means you were 3 to 5 years old at the time.
There is a difference between learning how to USE a computer and learning how to "hack".
I have an Ipaq, and while its not the greatest purchase I ever made, I can assure you that even WinCE machines open up instantly, at least all the PIM apps.
If I want to load acrobat on it, thats another story.
And while I don't use it for classroom notes, the fact that the entire screen is writable is great for taking down phone numbers, as I can just scribble it to the screen and store the raw drawing as a.jpg for a while, and then transfer it to the phonebook app later when I'm not standing in front of the chick.
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stupid EZ-board codes ate my brain.
[quote]How come I've never heard of it, then?
Maybe because it runs on Windows?
I don't know anyone from IRC that uses Windows.
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I'd say 90% of people on IRC are running windows, and I'm probably way underestimating.
Thats a terrible analogy! You are saying that because the highway system is crowded, that a government run internet service would be overcrowded too?
Thats just silly. The highway system is a physical thing, and you can't really expand it at a certain point past paving the entire country. They probably want to, they really just can't.
On the other hand, you CAN keep adding to a huge bundle of fiber. It is not physically that thick (or expensive to a government), and with a big enough pipe you could ensure that there is enough cable laid so 10 billion people could connect simultaneously, or some other astronomical number.
Your analogy is like saying that the post office will turn me away at christmas time because it is too "overloaded" with packages.
I'm from North Dakota, but last time I was in Madison I noticed an over-abundance of bees. Is this normal for your city? I felt like a swarm was constantly after me.
But like Mr. T before him, I am honestly starting to believe that he can't come out of that character.
I've never seen him appear in public for 2 minutes without doing 50 millions impressions and zany things.
I understand that he is an entertainer, but someone asks him a serious question and he just bounces around like a crazy man.
Side Note: You can already see Dana Carvey devolving into this. By the time he's 50 like Robin Williams, look for him to be just as kooky.
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they increase the economic prospects of the net by simply being connected.
For example if ones family is completely rural and none are connected to the phone network, where is the incentive for you as a city-dweller to pay for the network if you can't use it to call Mom, Dad, and Grandma?
Its similar to the Instant Messenger situation. We'd all love to exist on some completely free, encrypted open-soure IM network, but when all of your friends are on AIM and MSN, you stick around even though AIM or MSN is an inferior solution.
Lets see, you called him (rightly so) a "wanker" and a "cunt". I'll assume you are from Austrailia.
and this is still profitable for Fat Tony because he knows that the odds of you winning are 1000-1
:-)
Mobster B could theoretically offer you $850, giving even more value for the gambler.
If the government didn't control it so damn much, there would probably be Wal-marts of gambling who would offer your $975 on your 1000-1 shot. What do they care, they still make $25 and they'd make up the difference in volume!
No.. if you want to deal with the mafia, you give the same $1 that you WOULD have given to 7-11 to Fat Tony the mobster.
Fat Tony pays you $700 if you win
7-11 would have paid you $500.
Either way, you risk $1.
The mob isn't really doing anything more illegal than undercutting the official lottery.
I'd rather you tax the Casino and not step on the freedoms of those who would like to gamble.
I know this is a joke, but this is very similar to what the mafia does.
If there is a pick 3 game (1 in 1000 shot) in your state which pays says $500 on a $1 ticket, the local mob is probably offering $700 dollars on the very same ticket.
Now they are both terrible bets, but at least the mob is offering you better odds than the government.
Of course the gov't will cry bloody murder, because it wants to keep its lottery monopoly.
Spoken like someone who doesn't gamble on sports. Or poker I suppose.
:-)
Remember to call your congressperson and tell them to vote against the internet gambling ban. Or at least urge them to make an exception for us sportsgamblers.
mod parent up.
Its not as if the machine has some algorithm which reduces the odds on the next spin if the previous spin was a jackpot.
You can hit the jackpot 10 times in a row, with the same odds on each spin.
um, if your Jupiter is only the size of a basketball, you'll soon find that your entire model will fit comfortably within the state of Michigan.
there is no hypen in arguably and arguable.
Windows XP DOES come with built in support for zip files, and generic device drivers.
As far as software, I'm with you there, man. Calculator and Notepad, while useful, don't really make up much of an application suite.
yes, because South Koreans are the first and best impartial group to ask when you want to know whether North Korea is being good and evil.
Why that would be like asking the United States if there were WMD in Iraq.
Do you think Eritrea and Ethiopia joined the "coaltion of the willing" because they believed the US and felt a moral obligation to stop Saddam, or do you think maybe they just both wanted the US on their side in a border dispute, and couldn't give a shit whether the US was telling the truth about Iraq.
The point of all of this is when there is a dispute, its best to hear the account of imparital bystander than that of the people involved in the dispute.
I have to agree. I learned on DOS on a 286(I'm 15) and I'm a hell of a lot more dangerous than my friends who had the latest Intel chip(a 486 with win3.1) at the time.
The 486 was only the latest intel chip for 3 years: 1991-1993. If you are 15 now in 2003, this means you were 3 to 5 years old at the time.
There is a difference between learning how to USE a computer and learning how to "hack".
I have an Ipaq, and while its not the greatest purchase I ever made, I can assure you that even WinCE machines open up instantly, at least all the PIM apps.
.jpg for a while, and then transfer it to the phonebook app later when I'm not standing in front of the chick.
If I want to load acrobat on it, thats another story.
And while I don't use it for classroom notes, the fact that the entire screen is writable is great for taking down phone numbers, as I can just scribble it to the screen and store the raw drawing as a
I'm rather sure that pen+paper is read/writeable no matter whether you use a pen, pencil or crayon.
no, there are typically 3 girls per class, 2 like the one you mentioned, and the hot one, who is the topic of this thread.
search for torrent -warez -porn then. Yeesh.
and the only way to configure it is to hack the source and recompile
...because god knows an "options" dialog would be too "luserish".
virtual chicken, well.. it tastes like chicken, you know?