Your troll-fu isn't strong enough, young padawan. All it takes is a simple appeal and it would eventually make it's way to the supreme court, where the law would be overturned as unconstitutional, thus having it a) repealed or b) making it more specific (like people who order pinapple on their pizza - really guys??? maybe there SHOULD be a law against THAT).
Most states list pot possession under * (pick a number that's not unreasonable for a single day/week's personal, casual use) weight as simple possession (misdemeanor). Depending on the state they might simply destroy it and give you a ticket without taking you to jail. Possession over that * amount is trafficking (felony), or possession of any amount of other drugs (also a felony) - (which makes sense, since most other drugs besides pot have gone through at least one type of chemical processing or another to reach their final form, and that's why the FDA restricts their use/production/possession). I don't fully understand why shroom possession is a felony now (I think with life imprisonment?) but that might be one of the more nonsensical laws. US Drug policy, while nowhere near perfect, is a lot more relaxed than it was even two years ago.
Seconding this. ATI, nVidia? do you hear me? I don't need/want a fsking 800w power supply to play video games on my computer. And I sure as hell am not going to upgrade my power supply along with my video card.
Well there are misdemeanors, like public intoxication, petty theft, evading arrest etc, and then there are felonies like murder, rape, arson, selling state secrets, etc. Two very different classes of crimes and the second class (felonies) demonstrate you don't desire to work within the system and actively work against the greater good - in essence denouncing their citizenship. Technically they're still american citizens, but they lose their ability to sway public offices with their vote.
As I understand it, rights can only be taken away by laws passed in either state or federal congress. The right that can be taken away after you've been convicted of a felony is the right to vote (and I think, but not sure) the right to run for public office. Even then there's a specific law about that. Even felons have the right to a jury by their peers, the right to a fair and impartial trial, the right to remain silent, etc. Committing a crime does not remove your rights, if anything it gives you more ability to exercise them.
This contrasts with the "right" to drive. You apply for, and then are given a drivers license on the condition that you follow the rules, pay your traffic tickets, etc. If not, your license can be revoked, but technically you don't have a "right" to drive, and it's not spelled out as such in any law.
Mark Cuban made his money selling broadcast.com to yahoo (basically a venture capitalist billionare) years ago. Since then he's failed at every venture he's invested in, including the dallas mavericks. Even broadcast.com wasn't a very good company, yahoo had bought it at the time for essentially the domain name. I would seriously advise ignoring anything Mark Cuban says or does, he may be a billionare, but he's an "accidental billionare" from the dot-com era. A few years ago he was going to try and make movies and release them on dvd at the same time as in theaters... didn't work out. Every scheme he comes up with has failed. I don't know how else to say that he's only noteworthy in that yahoo really screwed the pooch buying broadcast.com.
I think this is more of a case of "hey, we have extra space left over, we can sell that as premium video game advertising space!". Joe developer might not get much per disc to put a demo on a straight to video disc, but how much is EA, Valve, or Bethseda willing to pay to put Metal Gear Solid 5 demo, Grand Turismo 7 demo etc on something as big as Transformers 3 Blu Ray disc? The production studio/director probably sign away marketing rights on their DVD/Blu Ray already, so this is money straight in the distributor's pocket, pure and simple. On crappy B movies, distributors might make more money selling game demo ad space for games like Army Men 5: Melting in Iraq or Big Game Hunter 9: Return of Bigfoot or whatever crapware, than they actually do selling the movie on the disc.
Once the technology exists to play PS3 demo games on a blu-ray disc, this is like printing free money for Sony.
Most everyone I know flies through DFW, unless they're flying Southwest. I haven't checked the numbers but I would guess DFW does roughly double the air traffic/passengers that Bush does. Very sad to see DFW isn't on that list.
And even if they get it BUILT, there's a good chance someone will find some minor flaw in the inspections process/construction, or demand retesting of the concrete samples, or claim that the samples were faked, or the testing company was bribed, or wasn't licensed by the state/epa whatever. There are only eleventy-bajillion ways to stop the plant after it's been built.
As soon as environmentalists even get wind of a company considering a feasibility study in a particular state to build nuclear, they spring into action, distributing pamphlets, giving speeches, writing editorials, buying airtime, bribing politicians, generally spreading FUD as far and wide as possible. If that doesn't work, they pinch and scrape until they find something fuzzy that only lives in that area, or is downstream/wind/* and may be in some way impacted by the construction of anything large, or particularly low level radiation in the event of any sort of contamination. 36 months is just how long it takes to build it; it takes another 10 years of bribing politicians and fighting the EPA to get one built.
Try cooking your own food! Boxed food is for fat lardos. Try cooking elaborate, difficult to make meals! Try growing a garden, and incorporate your home-grown food into your meals. Fresh, raw food is extremely filling, and if you don't have any food you can simply pop in the microwave whenever the feeling strikes you, you'll find you'll only eat if you have the time, energy and incination to cook that meal. In my fridge is only steaks, bell peppers, onions, and butter. The only stuff in my pantry is rice, pasta and some spices, a variety of sauces, plus the flavor of the week (now playing: Anaheim peppers) or some new style of dish I'm working with. More importantly my freezer is empty. Actually it's full of ice (that way the fridge cycles less often), but all the quick, easy food is kept in the freezer. You're going to get fat if you have quick, easy foot on hand at all times.
You have to know the server's unique identifier, type it into the console, choose "best available dedicated", and then the group will follow you to that specific server. Which is what we were doing the other night, since one of our group of 4 only gets a good ping when it's a west coast server. If you simply select "best available" and hit go, it might pick somewhere in Kansas, which is going to ping badly for us in Texas, Florida, and the guy who only pings well to west coast servers. But it's the best averaging ping server valve could find for us. Valve has introduced group servers, where you can associate a server with a group via your group's id number (you have to be a group admin to see it), but that seems to be buggy, or doesn't update very quickly. This is very annoying if you've paid for a private server (or you're hosting your own somewhere) and are trying to run anything other than dead stock L4D. You can technically connect directly to the IP, but that bypasses the lobby system completely.
It's worth pointing out that the RAGE demo at QUAKECON was done on a 360 controller. That should be a pretty strong sign that this is a console port design decision, that will ultimately affect the PC port. Let's take a look at console games with PC ports that use the "no dedicated server" model!
The downside to no dedicated servers is that you lose the community aspect, community organization becomes MUCH harder, and the game doesn't live on as long. See also: Left 4 Dead. Great concept, but almost impossible to get dedicated servers running for it. Or you can look at the recently released-for-PC game Borderlands - what a clusterfuck; the community eventually figured out what ports to unblock on their firewall, but even now people are having problems getting people to connect to their game/server. Incredibly frustrating, and I'm not really sure game/community mechanics have progressed far enough to allow the community/communities to grow up around the game that you want to push further away from dedicated servers. The one console game that I saw with a decent community setup was SOCOM 3 for the PS2; it had clans and messageboards, a messaging system and a somewhat steam-like buddy system/join buddy's game function.
Case in point: Rage is a console game, with console server matching system. The fact that it's coming out for the PC means that it's simply going to be a piss-poor PC port of a console game, and last time I checked, PC-ports of console games were fucking terrible (see also: Borderlands).
I'm seeing about 23 KB/s sustained when I tether my blackberry to my laptop over EDGE - what kind of shitty DSL are you using? My cable connection tops out at around 1500 KB/s
I know the government bailed out Chrysler at least once in my lifetime, and I think 2 or three times previous to that.The "k-car" was what allowed them to survive the fallout from the gov bailout in the early 80s. Ford and GM have been bailed out before as well, back in the 70s. They're at least as bad as the airlines; the main difference being that they employ more people overall than the airline industry.
Yeah but geostationary orbit is closer to 26,199 miles. If you drop stuff off there, it's already floating in geosync orbit. If you climb up to 60k anything you unload there is going to drift away from earth at a pretty steady rate. Now there might be an argument for deploying another cable on the far side of the tethering rock to help "climb" to a higher altitude to launch an interplanetary mission, but there's no reason you cant drop your cargo off at any point along the cable, including geosync orbit.
Attach it to multiple cables? Eventually the cables' period would sync up, but I think with the length of the cable, the climber would reach the top long before that happened. If you have multiple climbers on the cables, well then the effective length of each cable would be a lot smaller. Either way the period is going to be awful long, and probably easy to calculate when it will affect the climber. It would probably be easiest to just detach the climber from the cable briefly and let it freefall while any major cable turbulence occurs near the climber.
It takes something like 9 days (on a good week) for a container ship to cross the pacific to California, plus another 2-3 days to reach it's final destination (if you're lucky with customs). Like the ocean, a cable could hold more than one "ship". I would imagine once this is commercially viable, you'd have three cable; one up, one down, and an emergency backup, with two to three climbers on each cable.
To answer your question though, these would be traveling to geosynchronous orbit (26,199 miles) and traveling at 5m/s (11.18 mph). So that's actually 97 days one way. Or 48.8 days if you double the speed to 10m/s (I believe gravity has a measurable lesser effect the further you go from earth).
Every major revision, apple locks out some of their older hardware. First it was 10.2 with the "beige" G3s, then you needed a G4 to install 10.4, then you needed a 1ghz G4 to install 10.5, etc etc ad nauseum. In this case they're simply locking out a particular processor they haven't offered before.
They don't. It's modern-day McCarthyism, it's just that no one senator has stepped up to bat and get his name attached to this whole racket. At 1600 per day, either their criteria are completely wrong, or many of the government's policies are so out of whack with public opinion (although maybe admittedly a minority)that even discussing them gets you labeled as a "terrorist".
BEGIN RANT: I mean really, that number should be closer to 2 or 3 per day, with most of them being false positives. Most people are too busy finding a job, waxing their BMW (or something else...) drinking griping about the stock market to pick up "radical islamic tendencies". Let alone act on them. My guess would be that the CIA pays civilians to collect domestic intel, and they have a quota of "suspicious persons" to report each month (say, 10), and you have 160 people on the CIA payroll with this quota... well there's your number.
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Your troll-fu isn't strong enough, young padawan. All it takes is a simple appeal and it would eventually make it's way to the supreme court, where the law would be overturned as unconstitutional, thus having it a) repealed or b) making it more specific (like people who order pinapple on their pizza - really guys??? maybe there SHOULD be a law against THAT).
So psm321, put that on your pizza and bake it.
Most states list pot possession under * (pick a number that's not unreasonable for a single day/week's personal, casual use) weight as simple possession (misdemeanor). Depending on the state they might simply destroy it and give you a ticket without taking you to jail. Possession over that * amount is trafficking (felony), or possession of any amount of other drugs (also a felony) - (which makes sense, since most other drugs besides pot have gone through at least one type of chemical processing or another to reach their final form, and that's why the FDA restricts their use/production/possession). I don't fully understand why shroom possession is a felony now (I think with life imprisonment?) but that might be one of the more nonsensical laws. US Drug policy, while nowhere near perfect, is a lot more relaxed than it was even two years ago.
Seconding this. ATI, nVidia? do you hear me? I don't need/want a fsking 800w power supply to play video games on my computer. And I sure as hell am not going to upgrade my power supply along with my video card.
Well there are misdemeanors, like public intoxication, petty theft, evading arrest etc, and then there are felonies like murder, rape, arson, selling state secrets, etc. Two very different classes of crimes and the second class (felonies) demonstrate you don't desire to work within the system and actively work against the greater good - in essence denouncing their citizenship. Technically they're still american citizens, but they lose their ability to sway public offices with their vote.
As I understand it, rights can only be taken away by laws passed in either state or federal congress. The right that can be taken away after you've been convicted of a felony is the right to vote (and I think, but not sure) the right to run for public office. Even then there's a specific law about that. Even felons have the right to a jury by their peers, the right to a fair and impartial trial, the right to remain silent, etc. Committing a crime does not remove your rights, if anything it gives you more ability to exercise them.
This contrasts with the "right" to drive. You apply for, and then are given a drivers license on the condition that you follow the rules, pay your traffic tickets, etc. If not, your license can be revoked, but technically you don't have a "right" to drive, and it's not spelled out as such in any law.
Mark Cuban made his money selling broadcast.com to yahoo (basically a venture capitalist billionare) years ago. Since then he's failed at every venture he's invested in, including the dallas mavericks. Even broadcast.com wasn't a very good company, yahoo had bought it at the time for essentially the domain name. I would seriously advise ignoring anything Mark Cuban says or does, he may be a billionare, but he's an "accidental billionare" from the dot-com era. A few years ago he was going to try and make movies and release them on dvd at the same time as in theaters... didn't work out. Every scheme he comes up with has failed. I don't know how else to say that he's only noteworthy in that yahoo really screwed the pooch buying broadcast.com.
I think this is more of a case of "hey, we have extra space left over, we can sell that as premium video game advertising space!". Joe developer might not get much per disc to put a demo on a straight to video disc, but how much is EA, Valve, or Bethseda willing to pay to put Metal Gear Solid 5 demo, Grand Turismo 7 demo etc on something as big as Transformers 3 Blu Ray disc? The production studio/director probably sign away marketing rights on their DVD/Blu Ray already, so this is money straight in the distributor's pocket, pure and simple. On crappy B movies, distributors might make more money selling game demo ad space for games like Army Men 5: Melting in Iraq or Big Game Hunter 9: Return of Bigfoot or whatever crapware, than they actually do selling the movie on the disc.
Once the technology exists to play PS3 demo games on a blu-ray disc, this is like printing free money for Sony.
Most everyone I know flies through DFW, unless they're flying Southwest. I haven't checked the numbers but I would guess DFW does roughly double the air traffic/passengers that Bush does. Very sad to see DFW isn't on that list.
Have you considered becoming a spokesperson for wind energy? Seriously.
And even if they get it BUILT, there's a good chance someone will find some minor flaw in the inspections process/construction, or demand retesting of the concrete samples, or claim that the samples were faked, or the testing company was bribed, or wasn't licensed by the state/epa whatever. There are only eleventy-bajillion ways to stop the plant after it's been built.
As soon as environmentalists even get wind of a company considering a feasibility study in a particular state to build nuclear, they spring into action, distributing pamphlets, giving speeches, writing editorials, buying airtime, bribing politicians, generally spreading FUD as far and wide as possible. If that doesn't work, they pinch and scrape until they find something fuzzy that only lives in that area, or is downstream/wind/* and may be in some way impacted by the construction of anything large, or particularly low level radiation in the event of any sort of contamination. 36 months is just how long it takes to build it; it takes another 10 years of bribing politicians and fighting the EPA to get one built.
Try cooking your own food! Boxed food is for fat lardos. Try cooking elaborate, difficult to make meals! Try growing a garden, and incorporate your home-grown food into your meals. Fresh, raw food is extremely filling, and if you don't have any food you can simply pop in the microwave whenever the feeling strikes you, you'll find you'll only eat if you have the time, energy and incination to cook that meal. In my fridge is only steaks, bell peppers, onions, and butter. The only stuff in my pantry is rice, pasta and some spices, a variety of sauces, plus the flavor of the week (now playing: Anaheim peppers) or some new style of dish I'm working with. More importantly my freezer is empty. Actually it's full of ice (that way the fridge cycles less often), but all the quick, easy food is kept in the freezer. You're going to get fat if you have quick, easy foot on hand at all times.
You can drop 3.5-7 lbs in a month (not 3) just by switching to diet soda, depending on how much soda you drink.
You have to know the server's unique identifier, type it into the console, choose "best available dedicated", and then the group will follow you to that specific server. Which is what we were doing the other night, since one of our group of 4 only gets a good ping when it's a west coast server. If you simply select "best available" and hit go, it might pick somewhere in Kansas, which is going to ping badly for us in Texas, Florida, and the guy who only pings well to west coast servers. But it's the best averaging ping server valve could find for us. Valve has introduced group servers, where you can associate a server with a group via your group's id number (you have to be a group admin to see it), but that seems to be buggy, or doesn't update very quickly. This is very annoying if you've paid for a private server (or you're hosting your own somewhere) and are trying to run anything other than dead stock L4D. You can technically connect directly to the IP, but that bypasses the lobby system completely.
It's worth pointing out that the RAGE demo at QUAKECON was done on a 360 controller. That should be a pretty strong sign that this is a console port design decision, that will ultimately affect the PC port. Let's take a look at console games with PC ports that use the "no dedicated server" model!
The downside to no dedicated servers is that you lose the community aspect, community organization becomes MUCH harder, and the game doesn't live on as long. See also: Left 4 Dead. Great concept, but almost impossible to get dedicated servers running for it. Or you can look at the recently released-for-PC game Borderlands - what a clusterfuck; the community eventually figured out what ports to unblock on their firewall, but even now people are having problems getting people to connect to their game/server. Incredibly frustrating, and I'm not really sure game/community mechanics have progressed far enough to allow the community/communities to grow up around the game that you want to push further away from dedicated servers. The one console game that I saw with a decent community setup was SOCOM 3 for the PS2; it had clans and messageboards, a messaging system and a somewhat steam-like buddy system/join buddy's game function.
Case in point: Rage is a console game, with console server matching system. The fact that it's coming out for the PC means that it's simply going to be a piss-poor PC port of a console game, and last time I checked, PC-ports of console games were fucking terrible (see also: Borderlands).
I'm seeing about 23 KB/s sustained when I tether my blackberry to my laptop over EDGE - what kind of shitty DSL are you using? My cable connection tops out at around 1500 KB/s
I know the government bailed out Chrysler at least once in my lifetime, and I think 2 or three times previous to that.The "k-car" was what allowed them to survive the fallout from the gov bailout in the early 80s. Ford and GM have been bailed out before as well, back in the 70s. They're at least as bad as the airlines; the main difference being that they employ more people overall than the airline industry.
Yeah but geostationary orbit is closer to 26,199 miles. If you drop stuff off there, it's already floating in geosync orbit. If you climb up to 60k anything you unload there is going to drift away from earth at a pretty steady rate. Now there might be an argument for deploying another cable on the far side of the tethering rock to help "climb" to a higher altitude to launch an interplanetary mission, but there's no reason you cant drop your cargo off at any point along the cable, including geosync orbit.
Attach it to multiple cables? Eventually the cables' period would sync up, but I think with the length of the cable, the climber would reach the top long before that happened. If you have multiple climbers on the cables, well then the effective length of each cable would be a lot smaller. Either way the period is going to be awful long, and probably easy to calculate when it will affect the climber. It would probably be easiest to just detach the climber from the cable briefly and let it freefall while any major cable turbulence occurs near the climber.
Demanding a youtube link. Thanks in advance.
It takes something like 9 days (on a good week) for a container ship to cross the pacific to California, plus another 2-3 days to reach it's final destination (if you're lucky with customs). Like the ocean, a cable could hold more than one "ship". I would imagine once this is commercially viable, you'd have three cable; one up, one down, and an emergency backup, with two to three climbers on each cable.
To answer your question though, these would be traveling to geosynchronous orbit (26,199 miles) and traveling at 5m/s (11.18 mph). So that's actually 97 days one way. Or 48.8 days if you double the speed to 10m/s (I believe gravity has a measurable lesser effect the further you go from earth).
Every major revision, apple locks out some of their older hardware. First it was 10.2 with the "beige" G3s, then you needed a G4 to install 10.4, then you needed a 1ghz G4 to install 10.5, etc etc ad nauseum. In this case they're simply locking out a particular processor they haven't offered before.
They don't. It's modern-day McCarthyism, it's just that no one senator has stepped up to bat and get his name attached to this whole racket. At 1600 per day, either their criteria are completely wrong, or many of the government's policies are so out of whack with public opinion (although maybe admittedly a minority)that even discussing them gets you labeled as a "terrorist".
BEGIN RANT: I mean really, that number should be closer to 2 or 3 per day, with most of them being false positives. Most people are too busy finding a job, waxing their BMW (or something else...) drinking griping about the stock market to pick up "radical islamic tendencies". Let alone act on them. My guess would be that the CIA pays civilians to collect domestic intel, and they have a quota of "suspicious persons" to report each month (say, 10), and you have 160 people on the CIA payroll with this quota... well there's your number.
Your IP has been logged by the EPA! Get our while you still ca-- ERROR CARRIER LOST
Ten posts and nobody has referenced the fight club billboard:
http://www.ihatebillboards.com/wp/img//2008/08/fight_club-0-500x281.jpg
(that's a lie, by the way; don't try it)