FYI Theft is criminal, not civil, how serious depends on the dollar amount. Most thefts under $1000 are misdemeanors, over that is felony theft and these crimes are certainly under the pervue of your local and state police (unless its interstate, in which cases the FBI has jurisdiction).
Many crimes also constitute individual civil torts. If someone comes onto your land and steals your irrigation system, that's larceny or burglary, but it's also conversion, and you can be sued for it. If you know who took it and have supporting evidence you can just a file a lawsuit against the person.
That's the stupidist thing I ever heard to sue someone over. It can't possibly be illegal to put up fake cameras - they do this all over the world...Only in Texas could you possibly be held liable when some other person is the one committing a crime. Geez.
I think you're missing the point; first of all, civilly liable is not the same thing as criminally liable, so it's not "illegal." And you're only going to be civilly liable in circumstances where there's some sort of duty existing between the person who put up the fake cameras and the one who's injured. If I own an apartment building in a high-crime area, and tell you those cameras are real and monitored, and then you, a tenant, get mugged in front of them, you might be able to sue me. If I have a camera out on the street and you, a pedestrian I don't know, gets mugged in front of one, you're not going to be able to sue successfully.
Oil deposits in US federal reserves forbidden for drilling could supply the entire world demand for close to 500 years.
Alright, you probably should give us a cite if you're going to make an unbelievable claim like that.
A barrel of oil holds 42 gallons, or 5.61 cubic feet. The daily worldwide usage of oil is 82,234,918 bbl/day.
Therefore the world uses about 461,337,889 cubic feet of oil per day, or 168,388,329,842 per year. A 500 year supply of this, assuming no increase in demand, would be 84,194,164,921,350 cubic feet, or 571 cubic miles of pure oil existing only in those lands where drilling is prohibited. Even going by overoptimistic projections there is not anywhere near that much oil in US federal lands.
If it did, our oil men invested heavily in the dictators of the middle east would lose their shirts. We are protecting really nice men like the king of Saudi Arabia and the other Pirates along the Arabian Coast who finance Al Quada to murder us. These are the real issues.
The same oilmen who prop up the middle eastern dictators are the same men who would profit from increased domestic production.
They can be jailed, but they can be replaced. The corporation stays.
If you jail the people who did wrong, and recover any money they got through their wrongdoing, why does it matter that the corporation stays? You're basically holding a grudge against a piece of paper filed with your state's Department of State.
It's not really the load -- it's throwing off our internal metrics so we don't know what readers are actually interested in. We like numbers, and messing with our stats annoys us.
Eh, 6% doesn't sound too bad, and from what I understand the AVG bot hits will be coming from people doing searches; therefore now you're getting a good metric of what people are searching for on google, might help you get new users.
You insensitive clod! (this is supposed to be a joke, if it hadn't happen to be true. Corporations have almost the same rights as people, yet they can't be jailed if they infringe upon the law.
Their employees, directors, and agents sure as hell can be jailed. Honestly while I'm a borderline socialist with a deep distrust of corporations, there are a wide range of criminal remedies against a corporation. Just look at Arthur Andersen.
I fail to see how having that information is relevant to their case.
Relevance isn't that big an issue during discovery; you can ask for just about anything, and while you can argue irrelevance, judges generally aren't impressed by that argument.
The PC version had it's own quirks (like if you dropped your entire party off at the inn the game was likely to completely bug up), and every once in a while your game would corrupt as you entered a dungeon. The interface issue I can understand; I've found that I can replay old games (did Wasteland a few weeks ago) that I actually played as a kid, but I have trouble playing old games that I never played back in the day.
I've heard of it, and while I can certainly respect them for doing it I kind of want to safeguard my memories of the tile-based RPG. There's something kind of warm and cozy about tile-based RPGs that you just can't get with isolinear or 3d...
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For a long time I thought that Ultima V was the best Ultima ever made. Then I met someone else who shared that opinion and then knew that I may not be crazy.
I went through those two stages too. Ultima V really was the perfect CRPG; every aspect was just perfectly done.
KotOR 2, on the other hand, isn't quite as good. If you can get past the bugs, the missing planet, and the fact that the ending kind of falls flat, it's still oodles of fun though. Just another victim of being rushed out the door.
If they had actually finished the damn game (which honestly wouldn't have taken THAT much more work) it probably would have been even better than KotOR 1.
Just so you all know, the greatest RPGs of all time are:
1. Ultima 5
2. Wasteland
3. Planescape: Torment
That is all. It's sad that the two best computer game genres, CRPGs and adventure games, mostly vanished under a horde of FPSes and wretched japanese console RPGs.
How is this a good thing? Or is it my lack of knowledge of American politics? In Australia, if a member of a party distanced themselves by saying this, they would not last too long in that party. If you don't have the support of your party there'll be big problems from day one in being able to form a government, let alone being able to run that government effectively.
The US doesn't have a parliamentary system (fortunately in my mind); the executive branch is run exclusively by the president. If his party hates him the legislature may just not vote for anything he supports (and override any veto), but that would require each individual senator and congressperson to fall in line. And THAT would be pretty unlikely, considering the parties' themselves don't have especially strong mechanisms to strongarm their members. That's why party members can (and do) occasionally switch parties, while maintaining their elected position (and winning subsequent elections even without their original party's support).
The tea company he worked for developed their own hardware and software -- in 1951! Quoting New Scientist: 'In today's terms it would be like hearing that Pizza Hut had developed a new generation of microprocessor, or McDonald's had invented the Internet.'"
Uhhh...actually we didn't really need a redefinition in "today's terms." I mean, it's still like hearing a tea company developed their own hardware and software.
Because when the government's stand on women's rights, or Israel's right to exist, the freedom of religion as well as the freedom from religion, and the promotion of economic prosperity makes me a target
And what happens when it's the government's propping up of despots who brutalize their own people, or supplying biological weapons to those despots (then 20 years later invading that country for possessing biological weapons)?
There are some things a free man shouldn't back down from under the threat of violence, even when that violence becomes a reality. When he does, he no longer is free.
Okaaay...are you actually asserting that you, personally, are showing any amount of personal courage by taking this viewpoint?
I thought you were European, so I apologize about that. Honestly Americans waste way too much energy, I agree, and we have to change that, I just get sick of the constant America-bashing on this website that is often very hypocritical. The thing the Europeans do do right is accept an economic hit in order to protect the environment more, and I think that this is the main reason why they've been a little more successful than us in restricting environmental damage.
Yes, but who decides what's "high priority" going from the consumer to the cloud?
Whoever owns the router/switch/frame/NAP/whatever I'd guess.
What makes your 6mbit line so special that your traffic gets precedence over mine? We're paying the same amount, shouldn't we get the same service, no matter WHAT we're transferring?
Not if your contract with your ISP allows them to prioritize traffic. What does it say about the issue?
The power the MPAA greasers have over government is amazing. Here an Australian who never made a cent from and had never stepped foot in the US was arrested by the Australian Police and extradited to the US where he now sits in prison. Australia is famous for not looking after their citizens, but extraditing someone for something like this is insane. His name is Hew Griffiths.
So how would you have the law handle it instead? Just curious.
Having studied various martial arts for the past 30 years, I can tell you with certainty that I can engage in action the instant I decide what I am going to do when responding to a threat situation.
Have you actually been involved in a threat situation so you know how you'd react? Training isn't the same as real life.
Now we get to hear from a bunch of people who normally bitch about the government taking away individual freedoms try to justify their hypocrisy while they argue for gun control
Hmmm, as someone who is pro-reasonable gun control I'm happy about the ruling. Even Scalia admitted that "It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose." In other words, the Supreme Court in essence upheld just about every other gun control law that the pro-gun crowd has been complaining about for years. The only thing they struck down was a complete handgun ban--and they only did that by 1 vote. And you know, at this point in time there's a good chance that the next justice of the SC will be appointed by a democrat.
Secondly, the chart you show is for deaths as a result of air pollution, not air pollution itself. While obviously more polluted air is more likely to cause deaths, there is a close connection between such things as temperature and sunlight, and ground-level ozone is a serious killer that's going to be less common in darker climes.
Water: #30th worst United States: 1.14 tons/cubic km
A word of advice, this is exactly why Europe has been sliding into irrelevancy. Why bother facing global problems when you can just blame the United States and all those lazy, stereotypical Americans. Your own map shows the worst level of air pollutions is in poorer regions of the world; are you going to blame their SUVs and McMansions too? Ever been to an American city? Ever seen a New York apartment? You think everyone over here lives in the suburbs and has an SUV?
Can you please, please, please, get Alpha Centauri working! We have alternatives to Microsoft Office. But Alpha Centauri, the best game in the Civ stable evah, is unclonable. I think I speak for most people here, as well as most people on this planet, and, indeed, most intelligent beings in our Universe, both biological, silicon, and sub-ethereal, when I say this is probably the single most important issue affecting humanity, and life itself.
Agreed. I tried for several months to use linux as a gaming box, before finally giving up. Alpha Centauri was the first game I loaded up after installing Windows.
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FYI Theft is criminal, not civil, how serious depends on the dollar amount. Most thefts under $1000 are misdemeanors, over that is felony theft and these crimes are certainly under the pervue of your local and state police (unless its interstate, in which cases the FBI has jurisdiction).
Many crimes also constitute individual civil torts. If someone comes onto your land and steals your irrigation system, that's larceny or burglary, but it's also conversion, and you can be sued for it. If you know who took it and have supporting evidence you can just a file a lawsuit against the person.
That's the stupidist thing I ever heard to sue someone over. It can't possibly be illegal to put up fake cameras - they do this all over the world...Only in Texas could you possibly be held liable when some other person is the one committing a crime. Geez.
I think you're missing the point; first of all, civilly liable is not the same thing as criminally liable, so it's not "illegal." And you're only going to be civilly liable in circumstances where there's some sort of duty existing between the person who put up the fake cameras and the one who's injured. If I own an apartment building in a high-crime area, and tell you those cameras are real and monitored, and then you, a tenant, get mugged in front of them, you might be able to sue me. If I have a camera out on the street and you, a pedestrian I don't know, gets mugged in front of one, you're not going to be able to sue successfully.
Oil deposits in US federal reserves forbidden for drilling could supply the entire world demand for close to 500 years.
Alright, you probably should give us a cite if you're going to make an unbelievable claim like that.
A barrel of oil holds 42 gallons, or 5.61 cubic feet. The daily worldwide usage of oil is 82,234,918 bbl/day.
Therefore the world uses about 461,337,889 cubic feet of oil per day, or 168,388,329,842 per year. A 500 year supply of this, assuming no increase in demand, would be 84,194,164,921,350 cubic feet, or 571 cubic miles of pure oil existing only in those lands where drilling is prohibited. Even going by overoptimistic projections there is not anywhere near that much oil in US federal lands.
If it did, our oil men invested heavily in the dictators of the middle east would lose their shirts. We are protecting really nice men like the king of Saudi Arabia and the other Pirates along the Arabian Coast who finance Al Quada to murder us. These are the real issues.
The same oilmen who prop up the middle eastern dictators are the same men who would profit from increased domestic production.
They can be jailed, but they can be replaced. The corporation stays.
If you jail the people who did wrong, and recover any money they got through their wrongdoing, why does it matter that the corporation stays? You're basically holding a grudge against a piece of paper filed with your state's Department of State.
It's not really the load -- it's throwing off our internal metrics so we don't know what readers are actually interested in. We like numbers, and messing with our stats annoys us.
Eh, 6% doesn't sound too bad, and from what I understand the AVG bot hits will be coming from people doing searches; therefore now you're getting a good metric of what people are searching for on google, might help you get new users.
(on Slashdot, we're seeing them as like 6% of our page traffic now).
Not so fun when it happens to you, eh?
You insensitive clod! (this is supposed to be a joke, if it hadn't happen to be true. Corporations have almost the same rights as people, yet they can't be jailed if they infringe upon the law.
Their employees, directors, and agents sure as hell can be jailed. Honestly while I'm a borderline socialist with a deep distrust of corporations, there are a wide range of criminal remedies against a corporation. Just look at Arthur Andersen.
I fail to see how having that information is relevant to their case.
Relevance isn't that big an issue during discovery; you can ask for just about anything, and while you can argue irrelevance, judges generally aren't impressed by that argument.
I wonder if New York Country Lawyer would file something on my behalf to exclude my data from inclusion.
If you'd be willing to pay him at his standard hourly rate, I'm sure he would.
The PC version had it's own quirks (like if you dropped your entire party off at the inn the game was likely to completely bug up), and every once in a while your game would corrupt as you entered a dungeon. The interface issue I can understand; I've found that I can replay old games (did Wasteland a few weeks ago) that I actually played as a kid, but I have trouble playing old games that I never played back in the day.
I've heard of it, and while I can certainly respect them for doing it I kind of want to safeguard my memories of the tile-based RPG. There's something kind of warm and cozy about tile-based RPGs that you just can't get with isolinear or 3d...
For a long time I thought that Ultima V was the best Ultima ever made. Then I met someone else who shared that opinion and then knew that I may not be crazy.
I went through those two stages too. Ultima V really was the perfect CRPG; every aspect was just perfectly done.
KotOR 2, on the other hand, isn't quite as good. If you can get past the bugs, the missing planet, and the fact that the ending kind of falls flat, it's still oodles of fun though. Just another victim of being rushed out the door.
If they had actually finished the damn game (which honestly wouldn't have taken THAT much more work) it probably would have been even better than KotOR 1.
Just so you all know, the greatest RPGs of all time are:
1. Ultima 5
2. Wasteland
3. Planescape: Torment
That is all. It's sad that the two best computer game genres, CRPGs and adventure games, mostly vanished under a horde of FPSes and wretched japanese console RPGs.
At what point are they satisfied?
Honestly? When you can only rent their music. Their dream is to have a pay-per-listen system set up.
How is this a good thing? Or is it my lack of knowledge of American politics? In Australia, if a member of a party distanced themselves by saying this, they would not last too long in that party. If you don't have the support of your party there'll be big problems from day one in being able to form a government, let alone being able to run that government effectively.
The US doesn't have a parliamentary system (fortunately in my mind); the executive branch is run exclusively by the president. If his party hates him the legislature may just not vote for anything he supports (and override any veto), but that would require each individual senator and congressperson to fall in line. And THAT would be pretty unlikely, considering the parties' themselves don't have especially strong mechanisms to strongarm their members. That's why party members can (and do) occasionally switch parties, while maintaining their elected position (and winning subsequent elections even without their original party's support).
The tea company he worked for developed their own hardware and software -- in 1951! Quoting New Scientist: 'In today's terms it would be like hearing that Pizza Hut had developed a new generation of microprocessor, or McDonald's had invented the Internet.'"
Uhhh...actually we didn't really need a redefinition in "today's terms." I mean, it's still like hearing a tea company developed their own hardware and software.
Because when the government's stand on women's rights, or Israel's right to exist, the freedom of religion as well as the freedom from religion, and the promotion of economic prosperity makes me a target
And what happens when it's the government's propping up of despots who brutalize their own people, or supplying biological weapons to those despots (then 20 years later invading that country for possessing biological weapons)?
There are some things a free man shouldn't back down from under the threat of violence, even when that violence becomes a reality. When he does, he no longer is free.
Okaaay...are you actually asserting that you, personally, are showing any amount of personal courage by taking this viewpoint?
I thought you were European, so I apologize about that. Honestly Americans waste way too much energy, I agree, and we have to change that, I just get sick of the constant America-bashing on this website that is often very hypocritical. The thing the Europeans do do right is accept an economic hit in order to protect the environment more, and I think that this is the main reason why they've been a little more successful than us in restricting environmental damage.
Yes, but who decides what's "high priority" going from the consumer to the cloud?
Whoever owns the router/switch/frame/NAP/whatever I'd guess.
What makes your 6mbit line so special that your traffic gets precedence over mine? We're paying the same amount, shouldn't we get the same service, no matter WHAT we're transferring?
Not if your contract with your ISP allows them to prioritize traffic. What does it say about the issue?
The power the MPAA greasers have over government is amazing. Here an Australian who never made a cent from and had never stepped foot in the US was arrested by the Australian Police and extradited to the US where he now sits in prison. Australia is famous for not looking after their citizens, but extraditing someone for something like this is insane. His name is Hew Griffiths.
So how would you have the law handle it instead? Just curious.
Having studied various martial arts for the past 30 years, I can tell you with certainty that I can engage in action the instant I decide what I am going to do when responding to a threat situation.
Have you actually been involved in a threat situation so you know how you'd react? Training isn't the same as real life.
Now we get to hear from a bunch of people who normally bitch about the government taking away individual freedoms try to justify their hypocrisy while they argue for gun control
Hmmm, as someone who is pro-reasonable gun control I'm happy about the ruling. Even Scalia admitted that "It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose." In other words, the Supreme Court in essence upheld just about every other gun control law that the pro-gun crowd has been complaining about for years. The only thing they struck down was a complete handgun ban--and they only did that by 1 vote. And you know, at this point in time there's a good chance that the next justice of the SC will be appointed by a democrat.
Western Europe is about the best in the world.
You're shifting the goalposts. First "Europe" was the best in the world. Your own chart shows that Eastern Europe is much worse than the US. According to this, "[a] study published in The Lancet in 2000 concluded that air pollution in France, Austria, and Switzerland is responsible for more than 40,000 deaths annually in those three countries. In the United States, traffic fatalities total just over 40,000 per year, while air pollution claims 70,000 lives annually." Considering the United States has more than ten times
Secondly, the chart you show is for deaths as a result of air pollution, not air pollution itself. While obviously more polluted air is more likely to cause deaths, there is a close connection between such things as temperature and sunlight, and ground-level ozone is a serious killer that's going to be less common in darker climes.
Water: #30th worst United States: 1.14 tons/cubic km
Better than Western Europe I see.
A word of advice, this is exactly why Europe has been sliding into irrelevancy. Why bother facing global problems when you can just blame the United States and all those lazy, stereotypical Americans. Your own map shows the worst level of air pollutions is in poorer regions of the world; are you going to blame their SUVs and McMansions too? Ever been to an American city? Ever seen a New York apartment? You think everyone over here lives in the suburbs and has an SUV?
Can you please, please, please, get Alpha Centauri working! We have alternatives to Microsoft Office. But Alpha Centauri, the best game in the Civ stable evah, is unclonable. I think I speak for most people here, as well as most people on this planet, and, indeed, most intelligent beings in our Universe, both biological, silicon, and sub-ethereal, when I say this is probably the single most important issue affecting humanity, and life itself.
Agreed. I tried for several months to use linux as a gaming box, before finally giving up. Alpha Centauri was the first game I loaded up after installing Windows.