This is no sick twisted people, just normal people, like you and me, with a lot of hate for the american society.
Normal people like me certainly don't hijack airliners and use them for suicide missions. I can't speak for you, but I'm starting to think you aren't as normal as you believe.
A better solution americans could implement is make sure they don't get to be so hated in the rest of the world.
Unfortunately this will never happen. When you are the only superpower left in the world, the little guys are going to blame you for everything.
The americans should try to really find the center of the problem that yesterday became evident yesterday.
The center of that problem is nations that house, train and promote terroism. Afghanistan is going to shortly learn that, as well as any nation that sides with them.
If I had woken up 1/2 hour earlier today I might have been at the Pentagon Bus Depot (other side of the building) when the plane crashed. That scares the hell out of me. I see that helipad every day when the bus is pulling up the the Metro stop at the Pentagon.
Another interesting thing for everyone. Apparently U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson's wife called him from her cell phone on the plane that crashed into the pentagon. Apparently the hijackers used knife-like weapons. Here is the link.
The Myst family of games is completely non-violent and requires problem solving skills. I think they could be along the lines of what your looking for.
Thank god I live in a city (Washington D.C.) where I work across the street from a bar/restaurant that doesn't have a no-smoking section. http://shellysbackroom.tripod.com/
When I get off work I can go smoke a pack (or big fat cigars) & drink to my hearts content without having to worry about the P.C. shocktroops. God Bless America. -
Just electrify the counter surface with a nice conducting mesh. Cheap and Easy. No robotics necessary. Keep the juice fairly low or you might kill the cats:) -
how many people do you think would send in $1 if King announced that the next novel in the Dark Tower series would be published next week if only people would send in $1 to indicate reader interest?
I would send in (at least) 100 $1 bills separately. The dark tower series is brilliant. I rank it up there with the Foundation Series (Isaac Asimov) and the Gap Series (Stephen R. Donaldson) which are my two favorite series. -
Umm... X does not waste Video RAM, it wastes System RAM. Having 64MB of Vid RAM doesn't make X run any faster, but a chipset specific X server will.
PPro obsolete!?! My primary home system is a PPro and it still runs plenty fast for me (192MB of RAM doesn't hurt:). I just may have to build a new system when the new All-in-Wonder comes out. -
Aha... Vanisher! I realized I was wrong quickly after posting that message. The onslaught of messages explaining why it couldn't be Nightcrawler quickly rolled in (No 'BAMF', no cloud of stank). At the time I saw the movie I couldn't think of anyone else it could have been. I was never much into comic books. I used to read X-Men and Wolverine on occasion. I've been trying to figure out who that kid was supposed to be since then. I didn't buy the possiblity of it being Quicksilver or Cannonball. Thanks for clearing that up.
> Oh yeah, and Wolverine was too tall, not stocky enough.
Yeah I thought the same thing when I first saw him in the movie. I quickly forgave them for casting him, because I think he did a good job. There may have been others out there that would have fit the part visually, but I thought he really nailed Logan's attitude and mannerisms.
> hope that clarified, and didn't seem like TOO much of a flame.
I just found out that IMDB has a credit for Cannonball. I don't know if this is correct or is supposed to be that kid. If it was supposed to be that kid then it makes no sense, because his powers are different.
There is always the possibility that it is Nightcrawler, but since he is young he is just discovering his powers and the physical mutation has yet to occur (remember the mutations don't start untill age 13 or so). I've never been a big comic book reader, so I don't know if this fits in with his history. When I saw the movie the kids teleportation made me think of Nightcrawler, and I still can't think of any other character it could have been. I can't wait for the sequel:) -
You missed Nightcrawler (as a kid) playing basketball.
I agree with you, though. I think people are unfairly bashing this movie. The comic book fans weren't going to like it no matter what. I think it is the same phenomena we saw with SWE1:PM. People go in the theater with such high expectations that they can never be happy. People went into the theater to see SWE1:PM seriously expecing a movie to change their lives. -
It's all about support. When a production company shells out serious $$$ for a piece of software they expect it to work. The fact of the matter is that the software should work on just about any distro as long as the required deps are there. The software maker is just protecting their ass by only supporting the distro they designed the software to work with. -
Payne, right? That was the first dorm w/ ethernet. And you must have been transmitting to either Pritchard or O'Shag. I was so jealous of those bastards in Payne. Those Rolm Phones in all the other dorms sucked! What kind of transcievers were you using? You may have been getting interference from the WUVT radio tower on top of Lee. I lived in Lee and any amp would pick up the signal from the station, it was very annoying when you wanted to listen to anything besides WUVT. -
If I'm assuming correctly you are going to use this connectivity mainly to upload MP3's to the computer in the car. I don't see any reason not to use CAT5 to do so. It will be the cheapest & easiest way to go. Any wireless solution is going to cost real $$.
Just one piece of advice: You probably don't want to run CAT5 through the grill. The heat in the engine compartment will probably destroy the cable pretty quickly. Hey, it's hot enough to cook food in there. -
If they use sound, stills or video from anything copyrighted, then they must.
>why can't they use clips under the Copyright's Fair Use Doctrine?
The Fair Use Doctrine is basically intended to prevent copyrights from interfering with education. A fan website would be very unlikely to successsfully claim (and defend) a valid purpose of use to fall within the Fair Use Doctrine.
>If sluggo simply took a picture of his TV while it was showing Iron Chef, then why does this constitute infringement? He's merely displaying what his TV displayed.
Because what his TV is displaying is copyrighted, that is no different than using a video capture device.
I personally don't like what Fuji TV has done, but it is completely within their rights (and the law) to go after people who infringe on their copyrighted material. The reason all of the sites backed down is because they realize that they have no legal footing to fight Fuji TV. At the same time if Fuji TV keeps this up they are just going to alienate the fans of the show and hurt themselves. -
Is it any worse to forge a return address for Spam than to send junk snail-mail with a fake (or absent) return address?
I hate Spam just like everyone else, but I don't think the real issue here is the forging of the return address. I think it is the cost this jerk incurred upon an innocent company by slamming their server. -
You're joking right? Legitimate MP3s are rarely ever distributed on Napster. People can just put them on web pages without having to worry about getting in trouble. Why would I use napster to get copies of Phish shows when I can just go to Phishing Pole and dowload away. Loads of indie bands (and signed bands for that matter) have MP3s available for download on their webpage, not to mention the legitimate webpages out there that distribute MP3s. Getting rid of Napster is not going to help the RIAA keep indie bands down. -
This is obviously a direct attack on Napster itself. 60,000 pages containing 300,000+ userids that Napster is required to deal with. Napster has claimed that they will deactivate any user accounts which are commiting copyright infringement. Metallica's lawyers are putting Napster to the test, and probably hoping that other bands will do the same. Imagine if 500+ bands submitted huge lists of users who are illegally trading MP3s. I think they are hoping that it will cost Napster so much money that they will abandon the whole thing. -
I would feel very bad if I bought RHAT for $150...
Point well taken. Maybe this guy bought into the Linux buzz on the stock market. Fortunately for myself I bought RHAT at $14 and sold at $80. I didn't think they would go much higher than that. I was kicking myself when it rose above $200. I can't complain though. I feel sorry for the idiots who bought RHAT at $200+. hee hee -
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Amen brother.
Normal people like me certainly don't hijack airliners and use them for suicide missions. I can't speak for you, but I'm starting to think you aren't as normal as you believe.
Unfortunately this will never happen. When you are the only superpower left in the world, the little guys are going to blame you for everything.
The center of that problem is nations that house, train and promote terroism. Afghanistan is going to shortly learn that, as well as any nation that sides with them.
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#1 - Fuck you.
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Oh wait... I just have the one.
If I had woken up 1/2 hour earlier today I might have been at the Pentagon Bus Depot (other side of the building) when the plane crashed. That scares the hell out of me. I see that helipad every day when the bus is pulling up the the Metro stop at the Pentagon.
Another interesting thing for everyone. Apparently U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson's wife called him from her cell phone on the plane that crashed into the pentagon. Apparently the hijackers used knife-like weapons. Here is the link.
Who says they are bombing civilians?
The Myst family of games is completely non-violent and requires problem solving skills. I think they could be along the lines of what your looking for.
Thank god I live in a city (Washington D.C.) where I work across the street from a bar/restaurant that doesn't have a no-smoking section.
http://shellysbackroom.tripod.com/
When I get off work I can go smoke a pack (or big fat cigars) & drink to my hearts content without having to worry about the P.C. shocktroops. God Bless America.
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Just electrify the counter surface with a nice conducting mesh. Cheap and Easy. No robotics necessary. Keep the juice fairly low or you might kill the cats :)
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Granted... my point was just that lots of Video RAM isn't going to make the bloatedness of X disapear.
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Umm... X does not waste Video RAM, it wastes System RAM. Having 64MB of Vid RAM doesn't make X run any faster, but a chipset specific X server will.
:). I just may have to build a new system when the new All-in-Wonder comes out.
PPro obsolete!?! My primary home system is a PPro and it still runs plenty fast for me (192MB of RAM doesn't hurt
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Aha... Vanisher!
I realized I was wrong quickly after posting that message. The onslaught of messages explaining why it couldn't be Nightcrawler quickly rolled in (No 'BAMF', no cloud of stank). At the time I saw the movie I couldn't think of anyone else it could have been. I was never much into comic books. I used to read X-Men and Wolverine on occasion. I've been trying to figure out who that kid was supposed to be since then. I didn't buy the possiblity of it being Quicksilver or Cannonball. Thanks for clearing that up.
> Oh yeah, and Wolverine was too tall, not stocky enough.
Yeah I thought the same thing when I first saw him in the movie. I quickly forgave them for casting him, because I think he did a good job. There may have been others out there that would have fit the part visually, but I thought he really nailed Logan's attitude and mannerisms.
> hope that clarified, and didn't seem like TOO much of a flame.
Didn't seem like a flame at all.
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Someone is furiously coding away at it right now, no doubt. :)
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Tsk, tsk... you didn't read the article. The windmill is only for charging the batteries when the car is parked. The damn thing is about 15' tall.
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I just found out that IMDB has a credit for Cannonball. I don't know if this is correct or is supposed to be that kid. If it was supposed to be that kid then it makes no sense, because his powers are different.
:)
There is always the possibility that it is Nightcrawler, but since he is young he is just discovering his powers and the physical mutation has yet to occur (remember the mutations don't start untill age 13 or so). I've never been a big comic book reader, so I don't know if this fits in with his history. When I saw the movie the kids teleportation made me think of Nightcrawler, and I still can't think of any other character it could have been. I can't wait for the sequel
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You missed Nightcrawler (as a kid) playing basketball.
I agree with you, though. I think people are unfairly bashing this movie. The comic book fans weren't going to like it no matter what. I think it is the same phenomena we saw with SWE1:PM. People go in the theater with such high expectations that they can never be happy. People went into the theater to see SWE1:PM seriously expecing a movie to change their lives.
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It's all about support. When a production company shells out serious $$$ for a piece of software they expect it to work. The fact of the matter is that the software should work on just about any distro as long as the required deps are there. The software maker is just protecting their ass by only supporting the distro they designed the software to work with.
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Payne, right? That was the first dorm w/ ethernet. And you must have been transmitting to either Pritchard or O'Shag. I was so jealous of those bastards in Payne. Those Rolm Phones in all the other dorms sucked! What kind of transcievers were you using? You may have been getting interference from the WUVT radio tower on top of Lee. I lived in Lee and any amp would pick up the signal from the station, it was very annoying when you wanted to listen to anything besides WUVT.
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If I'm assuming correctly you are going to use this connectivity mainly to upload MP3's to the computer in the car. I don't see any reason not to use CAT5 to do so. It will be the cheapest & easiest way to go. Any wireless solution is going to cost real $$.
Just one piece of advice: You probably don't want to run CAT5 through the grill. The heat in the engine compartment will probably destroy the cable pretty quickly. Hey, it's hot enough to cook food in there.
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>Do news sites always "ask permission"?
If they use sound, stills or video from anything copyrighted, then they must.
>why can't they use clips under the Copyright's Fair Use Doctrine?
The Fair Use Doctrine is basically intended to prevent copyrights from interfering with education. A fan website would be very unlikely to successsfully claim (and defend) a valid purpose of use to fall within the Fair Use Doctrine.
>If sluggo simply took a picture of his TV while it was showing Iron Chef, then why does this constitute infringement? He's merely displaying what his TV displayed.
Because what his TV is displaying is copyrighted, that is no different than using a video capture device.
I personally don't like what Fuji TV has done, but it is completely within their rights (and the law) to go after people who infringe on their copyrighted material. The reason all of the sites backed down is because they realize that they have no legal footing to fight Fuji TV. At the same time if Fuji TV keeps this up they are just going to alienate the fans of the show and hurt themselves.
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Is it any worse to forge a return address for Spam than to send junk snail-mail with a fake (or absent) return address?
I hate Spam just like everyone else, but I don't think the real issue here is the forging of the return address. I think it is the cost this jerk incurred upon an innocent company by slamming their server.
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I've seen that. It is one of most twisted and sick movies you will ever see. I highly recommend it :)
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You're joking right? Legitimate MP3s are rarely ever distributed on Napster. People can just put them on web pages without having to worry about getting in trouble. Why would I use napster to get copies of Phish shows when I can just go to Phishing Pole and dowload away. Loads of indie bands (and signed bands for that matter) have MP3s available for download on their webpage, not to mention the legitimate webpages out there that distribute MP3s. Getting rid of Napster is not going to help the RIAA keep indie bands down.
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This is obviously a direct attack on Napster itself. 60,000 pages containing 300,000+ userids that Napster is required to deal with. Napster has claimed that they will deactivate any user accounts which are commiting copyright infringement. Metallica's lawyers are putting Napster to the test, and probably hoping that other bands will do the same. Imagine if 500+ bands submitted huge lists of users who are illegally trading MP3s. I think they are hoping that it will cost Napster so much money that they will abandon the whole thing.
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