"[a member may not] Create a Gamertag or use text in other profile fields that may offend other members. This includes comments that look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate any of the following: profane words/phrases, sexually explicit language, sexual innuendo, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal drugs/controlled substances, or illegal activities."
(Emphasis mine). So the only gamertag that would be appropriate would be an unpronounceable string of consonants with no numbers, as such numbers could be mathematically related to 666, 420, 911, or some other number that a person would find offensive? Please, Microsoft, for the good of mankind, can we just let people be offended?
Quick! We need to move there and say on our X-Box profiles that we're lesbian! Then we wait for X-Box to ban us, at which point we can say, "but we're not gay--we're Lesbian!"
DISCLAIMER: This could lead to some awkwardness when encountering lesbians.
I'm in the US, but I've always wanted to serve on a jury (I never will, seeing as a I have a record, but it's a nice thought). It would give me the opportunity to attempt to do what juries need to do far more often than they do--nullify. Seriously, the war on drugs would be over right now if more juries simply nullified cases (similar verdicts happened frequently during alcohol prohibition) and showed the government that We the People do not want to convict people for victimless crimes.
Hell, I'd probably try to get almost any charge nullified simply on the basis that the punishment is disproportionate to the crime. The U.S. has some of the harshest sentencing guidelines in the civilized world, and look at what its gotten us. No remarkable drop in crime rates, and the highest incarcerated population in the world.
While in a private company you may be obligated to do what your supervisor tells you, even if it is incredibly stupid, this is a somewhat different situation, being a public government. The true facts of the case aside, it would be nice if more public employees felt some sort of responsibility to the people that pay their salaries.
I'm sure that, similar to Vista, they will have one, prohibitively-priced version that actually has all the features and functionality that they claim. Then there will be several other versions which are insecure, substandard, and buggy. Honestly, whatever happened to creating quality products and charging a fair price for them?
Thank you! The 0.08 BAC limit is nothing but an arbitrary value designed to give people peace of mind. The one thing that would reduce the number of traffic fatalities in the United States is making it harder to get a driver's license, like it is in other countries. As it is (where I live, at least), the test only measure's one's ability to drive a few blocks and perform some inane maneuvers. For example, backing around a corner and parallel parking; it does nothing to address how one will react when faced with an imminent accident.
Moreover, the aggressive criminalization of driving while intoxicated completely ignores the fact that there are many other factors which contribute to fatal accidents on a level similar to intoxication. For example speeding. Yet, for whatever reason, a person who is caught speeding or running a red light receives only a hefty ticket (in most cases), while a person whose blood alcohol measures above some arbitrary number will have to spend thousands of dollars on treatment and attorneys fees to avoid going to jail. And I thought I lived in a country where people weren't preemptively punished for what they might do...
Well, it won't affect me. Whenever I take a picture of a woman showering through her window, I always use a high quality digital camera with a telephoto lens.
this is significant is because Google's PAC was the fourth largest contributor to the Obama campaign. So, if anything else, it just shows that Obama is beholden to corporate interests just like every other president before him. No surprise there.
On another note, I have my browser configured to delete all cookies when it is closed. This really ought to be the default on all browsers, as the only thing cookies have any use for (to you) is keeping track of your transactions when you're logged into a website. If they get deleted, all you have to do is log in again.
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From the blog entry you linked to:
"[a member may not] Create a Gamertag or use text in other profile fields that may offend other members. This includes comments that look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate any of the following: profane words/phrases, sexually explicit language, sexual innuendo, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal drugs/controlled substances, or illegal activities."
(Emphasis mine). So the only gamertag that would be appropriate would be an unpronounceable string of consonants with no numbers, as such numbers could be mathematically related to 666, 420, 911, or some other number that a person would find offensive? Please, Microsoft, for the good of mankind, can we just let people be offended?
Quick! We need to move there and say on our X-Box profiles that we're lesbian! Then we wait for X-Box to ban us, at which point we can say, "but we're not gay--we're Lesbian!"
DISCLAIMER: This could lead to some awkwardness when encountering lesbians.
I'm in the US, but I've always wanted to serve on a jury (I never will, seeing as a I have a record, but it's a nice thought). It would give me the opportunity to attempt to do what juries need to do far more often than they do--nullify. Seriously, the war on drugs would be over right now if more juries simply nullified cases (similar verdicts happened frequently during alcohol prohibition) and showed the government that We the People do not want to convict people for victimless crimes. Hell, I'd probably try to get almost any charge nullified simply on the basis that the punishment is disproportionate to the crime. The U.S. has some of the harshest sentencing guidelines in the civilized world, and look at what its gotten us. No remarkable drop in crime rates, and the highest incarcerated population in the world.
While in a private company you may be obligated to do what your supervisor tells you, even if it is incredibly stupid, this is a somewhat different situation, being a public government. The true facts of the case aside, it would be nice if more public employees felt some sort of responsibility to the people that pay their salaries.
Windows Hitler: Basic version, crummy UI, poor functionality.
Windows Stalin: Better user interface, more network control.
Windows Mao: Excellent for multi-user. Allows administrator to set UAC on various online and offline resources.
I'm sure that, similar to Vista, they will have one, prohibitively-priced version that actually has all the features and functionality that they claim. Then there will be several other versions which are insecure, substandard, and buggy. Honestly, whatever happened to creating quality products and charging a fair price for them?
Thank you! The 0.08 BAC limit is nothing but an arbitrary value designed to give people peace of mind. The one thing that would reduce the number of traffic fatalities in the United States is making it harder to get a driver's license, like it is in other countries. As it is (where I live, at least), the test only measure's one's ability to drive a few blocks and perform some inane maneuvers. For example, backing around a corner and parallel parking; it does nothing to address how one will react when faced with an imminent accident. Moreover, the aggressive criminalization of driving while intoxicated completely ignores the fact that there are many other factors which contribute to fatal accidents on a level similar to intoxication. For example speeding. Yet, for whatever reason, a person who is caught speeding or running a red light receives only a hefty ticket (in most cases), while a person whose blood alcohol measures above some arbitrary number will have to spend thousands of dollars on treatment and attorneys fees to avoid going to jail. And I thought I lived in a country where people weren't preemptively punished for what they might do...
Well, it won't affect me. Whenever I take a picture of a woman showering through her window, I always use a high quality digital camera with a telephoto lens.
this is significant is because Google's PAC was the fourth largest contributor to the Obama campaign. So, if anything else, it just shows that Obama is beholden to corporate interests just like every other president before him. No surprise there. On another note, I have my browser configured to delete all cookies when it is closed. This really ought to be the default on all browsers, as the only thing cookies have any use for (to you) is keeping track of your transactions when you're logged into a website. If they get deleted, all you have to do is log in again.