Then you get into a reversion battle. Then BOTH you and the "volunteer" will be temporarily-banned, and I suspect said volunteer will be outed as a government employee and banned forever, whereas you'll be allowed back on.
Another tactic is to simply tag everything "Citation needed" to see if they can come-up with sources to validate their incorrect history. Give them a month, and if they can't, then erase the info as "uncited material removed". They might try to revert but you can remove it again with the same reason given - "Material without citation is invalid for wikipedia. Uncited sentences removed"
But I doubt you'll need the original software. 16 years from now you should still be able to download the Codec Packs needed to view the videos on your ARM computerphone.
This is what happens when you marry for superficial reasons like, "She has a big rack" or "He buys me things." People ignore the practical stuff like - Can you sit in a room for hours, just watching boring TV, and tolerate one another's annoying quirks? If you can then you can build a marriage that will last forever (or at least 'til death).
I would burn the video files to Bluray (primary disc) and also DVD and CD (backups). I suspect these formats will still be around 16 years from now - or at least some kind of disc player with that backwards-compatibility. I also suspect the lower density discs like CD will survive longer. I've experienced this with my own machines where the 3 1/5" floppies died, but the low-density 5 1/4" disks still worked.
And yes text files and photos should be printed to paper. If the discs self-erase (the dye fades), then at least she'll still have the letters and photos to look at. .
It doesn't seem to bother you when you do it in front of me, and I surreptitiously snap a photo with my cellphone. If you don't want these images leaking, stop picking your nose or grabbing your crotch in front of everybody.
I disagree. Most cops don't solve anything. They show-up after the fact and clean-up the bloody mess, because no single man can cover 1000 different locations, nor can he can work 24 hours a day, or locate a criminal he's never got to see. At least with video cameras you cover a wide area and can rewind the footage to identify the asshole.
>>>Yes and no. I see a difference between an officer of the law - who should be able to be held accountable for his or her actions - and a recording device, which allows any number of people to monitor the behaviors of countless numbers of pedestrians >>>
By that logic radar to record speeding cars is not allowable. It's just a stupid gadget.
>>an officer observing something would likely not cause as big of an uproar as leaked video footage.
You mean like when a cop used his cellphone to take pictures of a young teen woman whose head was popped-open like a grape after her car slammed into a tollbooth, and then leaked those images to the press? That officer did not act responsibly, so your presumption that banning CCTV cameras would automatically stop these types of leakages is without merit.
And you know, you're not supposed to be having sex in your front yard anyway. You have no reason to expect privacy there, either from video devices, or cops with cellphone cameras. Stay inside.;-)
Cops do *exactly* that all the time - setting-up nonexistent businesses in order to catch criminals. They do it with prostitution rings to catch johns, fake child pron chats to catch sex offenders, pretend drug deals to catch users, and so on. This judgment means one of two things:
- Lawyers can not entrap people, but cops can, even if their actions are in violation of the law. -or- - Cops are forbidden from setting-up a fake ISP to "sting" spammers. Won't that make enforcement of CANSPAM more difficult?
There's always been a government presence, even in the 1800s when it was "Bill the Copper" patrolling the streets. Upgrading that police presence from organic to electronic doesn't really change anything.
To me that's like saying, "I'd hate to have an officer standing on the corner and policing my neighborhood." The purpose of having eyes on patrol is to stop the criminals, or at least apprehend them later so they don't harm any future victims. It doesn't matter if those eyes are organic or electronic. The law gets enforced in both cases, and our human rights protected from those who want to cause us harm.
The only place where you can really expect privacy is inside your home. That's always been true.
>>>Why exactly did you keep your Mac up to date and not update your PCs?
Why? Because the PCs kept working and did not need updating from Win98 (my laptop) or XP (my desktop). Those OSes are still supported by the programmers, whereas the MAC became unusable with the original 10.1 software. For example I can't even find a workable browser unless I upgrade to 10.4 minimum, so that's why I spent the cash.
Oh well.
I'm going to toss the Mac on ebay. I've been using them since the awesome Commodore Amiga went belly-up, because Macs were the second-best alternative, and because Windows 3 and 95 were crapola, but now there's no real difference. Windows has copied nearly all the same functionality, such that it often feels just like a Mac. (shrug) It's the same reason why I buy a Honda instead of an Acura. To save money.
>>>You could go back and install the old Mac OS X on that computer any time you wanted, and it would have all the features and functionality it did when you purchased it. >>>
No because the original 10.1 that came with my Mac would NOT run the latest software which requires 10.4 or higher. And yes I could use older programs like Firefox 1 or Safari 1 or Internet Exploder for Mac, but they don't operate properly with today's web. They just display garbage.
>>>As if the OS has an expiration date.
Actually, as I just explained above, they do. Apple and other manufacturers don't support anything older than four years. Contrast that with Wintel machines which can still get support even for 11-year-old OSes (like Win98), and therefore you don't need to upgrade unless you want to.
Sex with little girls is no fun. There's no boobs to grab onto. You should at least wait until they pass puberty, grow some breasts, and become fertile. THEN they're fun.
>>>girls wielding ridiculous powers for no reason and handling it (in terms of acting) horribly. It's bad writing.
Please name an example of a fictional teenage or college-aged woman being handed power and handling it well. Please note that if you list something where the woman dresses goth, I'm not likely to enjoy it. I'm not into depressing stories that make me want to slit my wrist after watching them.
BTW it's not "for no reason".
If you bothered to watch Buffy you'd see that ~5000 years ago some shamans (magic-wielding men) "cursed" a woman with superstrength. The first vampire slayer. When she dies the power moves to the next woman. Seems as logical as anything else you'd find in the fantasy/vampire genre, and I honestly don't see what's objectionable about that genesis story.
That's funny because I had the exact-opposite reaction.
I thought Firefly's last two stories (including the movie) were the best because they gave us a wider view of the universe & the government that controls it, while the previous episodes were kinda dull. Like Star Trek TNG's first season. Not outright bad, just not interesting enough to hold my attention.
That's true but Cameron's women are wearing boots, whereas Whedon's foot fetish is for unclothed feet (ooo nudity!). I can just imagine the stage direction: [Camera zooms-in on Dawn's feet.] [They glisten with wetness.] [Blood falls on them and runs between the cleavage.] [The toes wiggle.]
All of his shows have these types of scenes. I didn't notice at first but then I started to suspect this is more than just an accident.
Yes Angel was an excellent show. I didn't much care for season 4, but what show doesn't have at least one bad season? (think TNG year 2, DS9 year 1, B5 year 1) - Anyway I thought Angel season 1 was good, and seasons 2/3/5 were great.
>>>Then his shows get canceled and the fucker throws a tantrum a 7 year old would envy, killing off all the likable characters and pile driving what little story there was face first into the fucking ground. >>>
Is this a reference to ANGEL? Because I don't recall any of that stuff happening on Buffy or Firefly. And even on Angel it's hardly accurate to say he killed-off the likable characters. Yes we lost Cordelia (the actress quit) but that's not Whedon's fault, and all the other likeble characters survived until the end of the show.
You've been modded "insightful" but I think "wildly inaccurate" would be better.
Apple has a long history of not changing the main number.
During the whole of the 1990s there were only two "main" OSes - System 7.x and then 8.x. That's it. Even when they made a major upgrade to completely abandon the old 68040 CPUs to be 100% PowerPC-compliant, they only incremented the number from 8.1 to 8.5. They like to keep that base number constant.
The only time you'll see the main number change is if there is a total rewrite of the code (like when it jumped from 8.x to 9.0).
>>>you've never tried to do anything outside of the tiny box
I have a G4 PowerMac which apparently won't run 10.6. Can Linux be run on this machine? Are there any stores/dealers/whatever that would do the install for me?
- Money spent since 1999 on my Win98 laptop - nothing. - Money spent since 2002 on Windows XP - nothing. - Money spent since 2002 on OS X 10.x - about $400. (Else my G4 Mac would stop functioning properly.) Clearly Apple is like Lexus or Acura or Chrysler - a luxury brand for those who can afford the expensive, ongoing maintenance costs.
No it's not a troll. It's free speech. An opinion.
You don't have to like it, but you should at least respect it. I'm not changing my opinion just because you lashout with teeny-bopper insults like "idiot" or "troll" or "asshole" (like you did with my previous posts). My opinion is my opinion. MACS are luxury brands with pricetags and maintenance fees to match.
The piratebay guys keep pulling these idiotic stunts, like not showing-up to their own trial, and pretty soon they will lose. If they would at least TRY to put-up a rational defense instead of acting like teenagers, maybe they can win their cause.
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Then you get into a reversion battle. Then BOTH you and the "volunteer" will be temporarily-banned, and I suspect said volunteer will be outed as a government employee and banned forever, whereas you'll be allowed back on.
Another tactic is to simply tag everything "Citation needed" to see if they can come-up with sources to validate their incorrect history. Give them a month, and if they can't, then erase the info as "uncited material removed". They might try to revert but you can remove it again with the same reason given - "Material without citation is invalid for wikipedia. Uncited sentences removed"
+1 insightful
But I doubt you'll need the original software. 16 years from now you should still be able to download the Codec Packs needed to view the videos on your ARM computerphone.
This is what happens when you marry for superficial reasons like, "She has a big rack" or "He buys me things." People ignore the practical stuff like - Can you sit in a room for hours, just watching boring TV, and tolerate one another's annoying quirks? If you can then you can build a marriage that will last forever (or at least 'til death).
I would burn the video files to Bluray (primary disc) and also DVD and CD (backups). I suspect these formats will still be around 16 years from now - or at least some kind of disc player with that backwards-compatibility. I also suspect the lower density discs like CD will survive longer. I've experienced this with my own machines where the 3 1/5" floppies died, but the low-density 5 1/4" disks still worked.
And yes text files and photos should be printed to paper. If the discs self-erase (the dye fades), then at least she'll still have the letters and photos to look at. .
So?
It doesn't seem to bother you when you do it in front of me, and I surreptitiously snap a photo with my cellphone. If you don't want these images leaking, stop picking your nose or grabbing your crotch in front of everybody.
Or just be like Michael J, and don't care.
I disagree. Most cops don't solve anything. They show-up after the fact and clean-up the bloody mess, because no single man can cover 1000 different locations, nor can he can work 24 hours a day, or locate a criminal he's never got to see. At least with video cameras you cover a wide area and can rewind the footage to identify the asshole.
>>>Yes and no. I see a difference between an officer of the law - who should be able to be held accountable for his or her actions - and a recording device, which allows any number of people to monitor the behaviors of countless numbers of pedestrians
>>>
By that logic radar to record speeding cars is not allowable. It's just a stupid gadget.
>>an officer observing something would likely not cause as big of an uproar as leaked video footage.
You mean like when a cop used his cellphone to take pictures of a young teen woman whose head was popped-open like a grape after her car slammed into a tollbooth, and then leaked those images to the press? That officer did not act responsibly, so your presumption that banning CCTV cameras would automatically stop these types of leakages is without merit.
And you know, you're not supposed to be having sex in your front yard anyway. You have no reason to expect privacy there, either from video devices, or cops with cellphone cameras. Stay inside. ;-)
This makes no sense.
Cops do *exactly* that all the time - setting-up nonexistent businesses in order to catch criminals. They do it with prostitution rings to catch johns, fake child pron chats to catch sex offenders, pretend drug deals to catch users, and so on. This judgment means one of two things:
- Lawyers can not entrap people, but cops can, even if their actions are in violation of the law.
-or-
- Cops are forbidden from setting-up a fake ISP to "sting" spammers. Won't that make enforcement of CANSPAM more difficult?
There's always been a government presence, even in the 1800s when it was "Bill the Copper" patrolling the streets. Upgrading that police presence from organic to electronic doesn't really change anything.
To me that's like saying, "I'd hate to have an officer standing on the corner and policing my neighborhood." The purpose of having eyes on patrol is to stop the criminals, or at least apprehend them later so they don't harm any future victims. It doesn't matter if those eyes are organic or electronic. The law gets enforced in both cases, and our human rights protected from those who want to cause us harm.
The only place where you can really expect privacy is inside your home. That's always been true.
The current ones suffer from being blurry, so ID can not be made. If they upgraded to HD quality, then they could see the criminals' faces.
>>>Why exactly did you keep your Mac up to date and not update your PCs?
Why? Because the PCs kept working and did not need updating from Win98 (my laptop) or XP (my desktop). Those OSes are still supported by the programmers, whereas the MAC became unusable with the original 10.1 software. For example I can't even find a workable browser unless I upgrade to 10.4 minimum, so that's why I spent the cash.
Oh well.
I'm going to toss the Mac on ebay. I've been using them since the awesome Commodore Amiga went belly-up, because Macs were the second-best alternative, and because Windows 3 and 95 were crapola, but now there's no real difference. Windows has copied nearly all the same functionality, such that it often feels just like a Mac. (shrug) It's the same reason why I buy a Honda instead of an Acura. To save money.
>>>Liar.
A little strong there.
Are you a teeny-bopper?
>>>You could go back and install the old Mac OS X on that computer any time you wanted, and it would have all the features and functionality it did when you purchased it.
>>>
No because the original 10.1 that came with my Mac would NOT run the latest software which requires 10.4 or higher. And yes I could use older programs like Firefox 1 or Safari 1 or Internet Exploder for Mac, but they don't operate properly with today's web. They just display garbage.
>>>As if the OS has an expiration date.
Actually, as I just explained above, they do. Apple and other manufacturers don't support anything older than four years. Contrast that with Wintel machines which can still get support even for 11-year-old OSes (like Win98), and therefore you don't need to upgrade unless you want to.
At least we still have isohunt.com
>>>Don't forget that Apple was basically stagnant in the 90s. They spent most of it working on Copland.
Okay so what are they working on now that the 2000s have passed "stagnantly" with only OS 9 and OS 10?
Sex with little girls is no fun. There's no boobs to grab onto. You should at least wait until they pass puberty, grow some breasts, and become fertile. THEN they're fun.
(ducks a burning stake)
>>>girls wielding ridiculous powers for no reason and handling it (in terms of acting) horribly. It's bad writing.
Please name an example of a fictional teenage or college-aged woman being handed power and handling it well. Please note that if you list something where the woman dresses goth, I'm not likely to enjoy it. I'm not into depressing stories that make me want to slit my wrist after watching them.
BTW it's not "for no reason".
If you bothered to watch Buffy you'd see that ~5000 years ago some shamans (magic-wielding men) "cursed" a woman with superstrength. The first vampire slayer. When she dies the power moves to the next woman. Seems as logical as anything else you'd find in the fantasy/vampire genre, and I honestly don't see what's objectionable about that genesis story.
That's funny because I had the exact-opposite reaction.
I thought Firefly's last two stories (including the movie) were the best because they gave us a wider view of the universe & the government that controls it, while the previous episodes were kinda dull. Like Star Trek TNG's first season. Not outright bad, just not interesting enough to hold my attention.
That's true but Cameron's women are wearing boots, whereas Whedon's foot fetish is for unclothed feet (ooo nudity!). I can just imagine the stage direction: [Camera zooms-in on Dawn's feet.] [They glisten with wetness.] [Blood falls on them and runs between the cleavage.] [The toes wiggle.]
All of his shows have these types of scenes. I didn't notice at first but then I started to suspect this is more than just an accident.
Yes Angel was an excellent show. I didn't much care for season 4, but what show doesn't have at least one bad season? (think TNG year 2, DS9 year 1, B5 year 1) - Anyway I thought Angel season 1 was good, and seasons 2/3/5 were great.
>>>Then his shows get canceled and the fucker throws a tantrum a 7 year old would envy, killing off all the likable characters and pile driving what little story there was face first into the fucking ground.
>>>
Is this a reference to ANGEL? Because I don't recall any of that stuff happening on Buffy or Firefly. And even on Angel it's hardly accurate to say he killed-off the likable characters. Yes we lost Cordelia (the actress quit) but that's not Whedon's fault, and all the other likeble characters survived until the end of the show.
You've been modded "insightful" but I think "wildly inaccurate" would be better.
Apple has a long history of not changing the main number.
During the whole of the 1990s there were only two "main" OSes - System 7.x and then 8.x. That's it. Even when they made a major upgrade to completely abandon the old 68040 CPUs to be 100% PowerPC-compliant, they only incremented the number from 8.1 to 8.5. They like to keep that base number constant.
The only time you'll see the main number change is if there is a total rewrite of the code (like when it jumped from 8.x to 9.0).
>>>you've never tried to do anything outside of the tiny box
I have a G4 PowerMac which apparently won't run 10.6. Can Linux be run on this machine? Are there any stores/dealers/whatever that would do the install for me?
More money sucked out of my wallet by Apple:
- Money spent since 1999 on my Win98 laptop - nothing.
- Money spent since 2002 on Windows XP - nothing.
- Money spent since 2002 on OS X 10.x - about $400. (Else my G4 Mac would stop functioning properly.) Clearly Apple is like Lexus or Acura or Chrysler - a luxury brand for those who can afford the expensive, ongoing maintenance costs.
No it's not a troll.
It's free speech.
An opinion.
You don't have to like it, but you should at least respect it. I'm not changing my opinion just because you lashout with teeny-bopper insults like "idiot" or "troll" or "asshole" (like you did with my previous posts). My opinion is my opinion. MACS are luxury brands with pricetags and maintenance fees to match.
How efficient of them.
The piratebay guys keep pulling these idiotic stunts, like not showing-up to their own trial, and pretty soon they will lose. If they would at least TRY to put-up a rational defense instead of acting like teenagers, maybe they can win their cause.