Not a real law type law, but a "Godwin's Law" for Child Pornography. If the feds are looking to snoop around in my data for no reason besides the possibility of kiddie porn, they're lying to me. They're doing it because they think they can.
If they were really concerned with the welfare of the children they'd do things like remove the statute of limitations on sexual abuse of children so that we can lock up criminals we know committed the crime they're sniffing my packets for.
He will however get a nice letter from the ESA Foundation saying that a 10k donation has been made in his name by Tycho and Gabe. Which, one can only assume, he'll construe as a hate crime.
I think of my floppy drive as a set of jumper cables. I keep it near my machine, but not in the engine. On the rare occasion where I need it, something has gone so wrong that I already have the side panel off and have probably reseated my ram for good measure. So attaching the floppy at that point isn't too big a deal.
But for the most part it just sits in the box of recovery disks and old video cards.
I like Umberto Eco. I like Foucalt's Pendulum so much I have the Knight's Templar seal tattooed on my arm. But I don't think it's fair to say that comic authors can't write as complex and enaging fiction as traditional novelists.
Take From Hell. It delves into everything from the various secret societies and royal entanglements of 19th Century England to a study in western mysticism and man's perception of time. That it's accompanied by pictures doesn't diminish it's weight. That it was turned into a slasher movie with terrible British accents is unfortunate.
Certainly most comic writers aren't as good as Alan Moore, but most novelists aren't as good as Umberto Eco.
As for Dark Knight Returns, I'm a big Batman puss and get all weepy at the end where he says "This will be a good life."
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They'll only give out a refund if you're a member of their PA Supreme service.
Not a real law type law, but a "Godwin's Law" for Child Pornography. If the feds are looking to snoop around in my data for no reason besides the possibility of kiddie porn, they're lying to me. They're doing it because they think they can.
If they were really concerned with the welfare of the children they'd do things like remove the statute of limitations on sexual abuse of children so that we can lock up criminals we know committed the crime they're sniffing my packets for.
Why can't people simply say that it will be sold "for $10", without adding a completely meaningless appendage?
Same reason you say *completely* meaningless instead of just "meaningless". People like to embellish.
You just know it's going to spend all its time fighting to have the Catiline-bot ousted from power.
apple and nintendo have all sorts of stuff in common:
niche, vocal audiences
a lock on the the hardware that runs their software
a stranglehold on the market for their respective portable devices
and Miyamoto will fire you in the elevator as soon as look at you
It's better than Hot KarlGate, which we have going on as well.
...to close the barn door
Boilerplate is older than that.
This is slashdot, call somebody a fascist or a pirate, roll around in it a while.
But for the most part it just sits in the box of recovery disks and old video cards.
1. war is bad
2. the common man is good
3. we'd like another stadium tour now, please
Making them play all the way through Stretch Panic might do it too.
It was all breasts, all the time.
MTV needs to climb out of their teeny-bop ghetto, dust themselves off and get back to the business of new wave.
Take From Hell. It delves into everything from the various secret societies and royal entanglements of 19th Century England to a study in western mysticism and man's perception of time. That it's accompanied by pictures doesn't diminish it's weight. That it was turned into a slasher movie with terrible British accents is unfortunate.
Certainly most comic writers aren't as good as Alan Moore, but most novelists aren't as good as Umberto Eco.
As for Dark Knight Returns, I'm a big Batman puss and get all weepy at the end where he says "This will be a good life."