That link is to a "doujin soft", an amateur-produced game. Similar to doujinshi (fan comics), doujin soft are games made which either feature original characters or characters "borrowed" from mainstream game/anime/manga culture. Sometimes these doujin soft can be very good, for example, the Melty Blood doujin soft games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melty_Blood) are almost modern professional quality fighting games involving the characters from TYPE-MOON's Tsukihime visual novel game (which later became an anime and a manga).
If you were to actually make that game, the Muslim extremists would call for your head on a platter. Some well-financed Muslim might issue a fatwa calling for your execution, like they did with Salman Rushdie. Cat Stevens would probably support your execution. You'd have to live your life in hiding.
This issue is ridiculous. The government has always had the authority to monitor international communications without a warrant. Bush didn't make up that power. It just happened that in the past those communications were generally broadcast radio transmisisons and not internet or telephone communications. The power hasn't changed, only the technology. Also, the communications in question are phone calls originating overseas by known Al Qaeda members. If the NSA wasn't monitoring those conversations, it would be gross negligance and they would be ignoring their duty to the country. I would probably agree that there should be oversight on this program to make sure there are no abuses, however I would strongly disagree that it should be stopped.
EFF is on the wrong side here. It is like they are turning into the ACLU.
I played X-2 for about 10-12 hours before moving on to something else. I'm a guy though, so maybe it's just because I liked to watch Yuna and Rikku and whatshername in their sexy costumes. Actually, I think that's it. Hmm... actually, that's why I played Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate as well, cute girls in sexy costumes, fighting.
If you hang around a barber shop long enough...
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...eventually you will get a haircut.
Similarly, if you hang around a bunch of fat people, eventually you will get fat. You'll go out to eat with them and eat the same kinds of things. You'll not exercise the same way that they don't exercise. You'll gain weight too. That might count as "contagious", but it doesn't mean it's caused by a virus.
Except that all news agencies that are advertising supported need to sell in order to stay in business. In order to sell, they make up sensational stories. Then people get upset at them, but nothing ever changes. It's just the way it is. Get used to it and read everything with a grain of salt.
Of course, with public news sources, they are either corrupt government propaganda machines or they don't need to work hard for their jobs, so they are lazy and publish incorrect information.
(Yes, there are probably good journalists. However, whenever I read about something that I understand pretty well (e.g., technology reporting), there are always glaring technical errors. I can only assume the same errors exist in every type of reporting.)
He no doubt has seen the influx of Indian immigrants. He has no doubt noticed the trend in Computer Science departments at universities accross the nation (hint: most of the kids in those majors are asian or Indian). You'll get a job based on Affirmative Action. Larger companies sometimes try to hire people in minority groups to "balance out" their staff. So you'll be the "token white guy" alongside the asians and Indians in the IT department. Your chances would only be better if you had been a white female.
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
(Note, as far as I know, MLK Jr. was not in favor of Affirmative Action).
My point is that it's one thing when an angry mob does something illegal in anger and it's another when the government does it as a matter of national policy. It would have been a bit different if the New York state police or the U.S. Army burned down your grandfather's store as part of a national campaign against ownership of businesses of anyone descended from Germans.
The other point is that freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution go out the window in times of war. It was that way during the Civil War, it was that way during WWII, it was that way during the War on Drugs, and it is aparrantly going that way during this War on Terror. I'm not saying it's good or bad, just that is the way it is. And of course giving up a little unnecessary liberty for some essential security isn't something that Benjamin Franklin would have opposed, I think.
And then of course, there's actual freedom, which FDR took away from 100,000 Japanese-descended American immigrants when he put them into internment camps for the duration of WWII. Of course, when he did that he was protecting the rest of us from the fear that the Japanese gardener down the street wasn't plotting to take over California.
Hopefully it won't be like the Ender's Game sequels. Does Card even have any experience writing screenplays? Why not give it to someone who can do something good with it? Oh damn, that's right, Kubrick's dead.
Men and women are just interested in different things. It's not discrimination. It's not a hostile work environment. It's just the way it is. It's the way men and women were created by God or evolution or whatever.
Regardless of whether he said it or not, it is absolutely true. The Constitution IS just a piece of paper which happens to say that the government will guarantee various rights of the people and respect certain limits on itself, et cetera. Now, the government is supposed to follow the things that are written in the Constitution. If they don't, then that is the real problem. Assuming for a second that the story is true, he didn't say that he wasn't going to uphold and protect that "piece of paper". So he hasn't really violated his Oath of Office. Also, if he didn't actually do anything to undermine the Constitution, then who cares if he got a little angry?
Obviously, I still think Bush is a decent guy doing his best as best as he knows how. So obviously, I will give him the benefit of the doubt. I probably wouldn't have done as much for Clinton, since I didn't really like him.
Okay, so maybe Thompson is serious. So he prints something that is 100% unverifiable and claims that it is true. No one will ever prove that it is true (i.e., none of the "three people interviewed" will ever admit on record to having heard it), so no one can ever prove that it is false. He is very proud of the small number of retractions that he has been forced to print. However, things like this will never be disproven. It is in short, a worthless article.
It is absolutely not real. It was from an editorial piece written by Doug Thompson. He was just making up a story describing what he thought a conversation with Bush would be like. Note in the article that Scalia says that the Constitution can mean "whatever we say it means". That is another ridiculous statement.
Basically, if you go around repeating this quote as real (as many on the "blogosphere" have done), it makes you look like an idiot.
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That link is to a "doujin soft", an amateur-produced game. Similar to doujinshi (fan comics), doujin soft are games made which either feature original characters or characters "borrowed" from mainstream game/anime/manga culture. Sometimes these doujin soft can be very good, for example, the Melty Blood doujin soft games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melty_Blood) are almost modern professional quality fighting games involving the characters from TYPE-MOON's Tsukihime visual novel game (which later became an anime and a manga).
If you were to actually make that game, the Muslim extremists would call for your head on a platter. Some well-financed Muslim might issue a fatwa calling for your execution, like they did with Salman Rushdie. Cat Stevens would probably support your execution. You'd have to live your life in hiding.
This loophole will be closed with the transition to online distribution.
This issue is ridiculous. The government has always had the authority to monitor international communications without a warrant. Bush didn't make up that power. It just happened that in the past those communications were generally broadcast radio transmisisons and not internet or telephone communications. The power hasn't changed, only the technology. Also, the communications in question are phone calls originating overseas by known Al Qaeda members. If the NSA wasn't monitoring those conversations, it would be gross negligance and they would be ignoring their duty to the country. I would probably agree that there should be oversight on this program to make sure there are no abuses, however I would strongly disagree that it should be stopped.
EFF is on the wrong side here. It is like they are turning into the ACLU.
I played X-2 for about 10-12 hours before moving on to something else. I'm a guy though, so maybe it's just because I liked to watch Yuna and Rikku and whatshername in their sexy costumes. Actually, I think that's it. Hmm... actually, that's why I played Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate as well, cute girls in sexy costumes, fighting.
...eventually you will get a haircut.
Similarly, if you hang around a bunch of fat people, eventually you will get fat. You'll go out to eat with them and eat the same kinds of things. You'll not exercise the same way that they don't exercise. You'll gain weight too. That might count as "contagious", but it doesn't mean it's caused by a virus.
Because $640K should be enough for everyone.
Except that all news agencies that are advertising supported need to sell in order to stay in business. In order to sell, they make up sensational stories. Then people get upset at them, but nothing ever changes. It's just the way it is. Get used to it and read everything with a grain of salt.
Of course, with public news sources, they are either corrupt government propaganda machines or they don't need to work hard for their jobs, so they are lazy and publish incorrect information.
(Yes, there are probably good journalists. However, whenever I read about something that I understand pretty well (e.g., technology reporting), there are always glaring technical errors. I can only assume the same errors exist in every type of reporting.)
He no doubt has seen the influx of Indian immigrants. He has no doubt noticed the trend in Computer Science departments at universities accross the nation (hint: most of the kids in those majors are asian or Indian). You'll get a job based on Affirmative Action. Larger companies sometimes try to hire people in minority groups to "balance out" their staff. So you'll be the "token white guy" alongside the asians and Indians in the IT department. Your chances would only be better if you had been a white female.
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
(Note, as far as I know, MLK Jr. was not in favor of Affirmative Action).
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Dual Xeon w/ dual core w/ hyperthreading.
It might be racist to screen out chinese players but let me tell you that it DOES save you from being ninja looted randomly.
It is racist. Ninja is Japanese, not Chinese. Learn the difference or you will be called an ignorant bigot.
iPod nano versus CD case filled with CD-R's...
Reminds me of, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with 9-track tapes".
What about the iPod nano? You don't consider that an iPod?
I guess people used to learn proper grammar and writing in order to distract them from their pains when they didn't have enough to eat.
My point is that it's one thing when an angry mob does something illegal in anger and it's another when the government does it as a matter of national policy. It would have been a bit different if the New York state police or the U.S. Army burned down your grandfather's store as part of a national campaign against ownership of businesses of anyone descended from Germans.
The other point is that freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution go out the window in times of war. It was that way during the Civil War, it was that way during WWII, it was that way during the War on Drugs, and it is aparrantly going that way during this War on Terror. I'm not saying it's good or bad, just that is the way it is. And of course giving up a little unnecessary liberty for some essential security isn't something that Benjamin Franklin would have opposed, I think.
And then of course, there's actual freedom, which FDR took away from 100,000 Japanese-descended American immigrants when he put them into internment camps for the duration of WWII. Of course, when he did that he was protecting the rest of us from the fear that the Japanese gardener down the street wasn't plotting to take over California.
an entirely new script written by Card himself.
Hopefully it won't be like the Ender's Game sequels. Does Card even have any experience writing screenplays? Why not give it to someone who can do something good with it? Oh damn, that's right, Kubrick's dead.
Not to mention that maybe 90% of the XBMC users are using it to play pirated movies/videos/tv/porn.
If it doesn't violate the DMCA, it isn't a good hack.
Too bad I didn't get the "+1 Informative, -1 Flamebait" mod.
Men and women are just interested in different things. It's not discrimination. It's not a hostile work environment. It's just the way it is. It's the way men and women were created by God or evolution or whatever.
Regardless of whether he said it or not, it is absolutely true. The Constitution IS just a piece of paper which happens to say that the government will guarantee various rights of the people and respect certain limits on itself, et cetera. Now, the government is supposed to follow the things that are written in the Constitution. If they don't, then that is the real problem. Assuming for a second that the story is true, he didn't say that he wasn't going to uphold and protect that "piece of paper". So he hasn't really violated his Oath of Office. Also, if he didn't actually do anything to undermine the Constitution, then who cares if he got a little angry?
Obviously, I still think Bush is a decent guy doing his best as best as he knows how. So obviously, I will give him the benefit of the doubt. I probably wouldn't have done as much for Clinton, since I didn't really like him.
Okay, so maybe Thompson is serious. So he prints something that is 100% unverifiable and claims that it is true. No one will ever prove that it is true (i.e., none of the "three people interviewed" will ever admit on record to having heard it), so no one can ever prove that it is false. He is very proud of the small number of retractions that he has been forced to print. However, things like this will never be disproven. It is in short, a worthless article.
It is absolutely not real. It was from an editorial piece written by Doug Thompson. He was just making up a story describing what he thought a conversation with Bush would be like. Note in the article that Scalia says that the Constitution can mean "whatever we say it means". That is another ridiculous statement.
Basically, if you go around repeating this quote as real (as many on the "blogosphere" have done), it makes you look like an idiot.