Well, except the high level resignations in many intelligence agencys around the world where the guys came out saying "Look, the president is making this stuff up. We do NOT think they have MWD's but we are under orders to say otherwise".
Certainly the high level ASIO defectee in australia who resigned because he was sick of the US asking him to make shit up to justify the war.
There was *MASSIVE* corruption at the high end to get this to fly, and surprise surprise, it turns out he didnt have mwd's or nukes, and it turns out al-quaida had been waging a terror campaign against sadam husain, and it turns out intel experts warned the whole thing would just end up with iran gaining control over large sections of iraq and well...
the govt *knew* this shit, and now its all documented, but at the time, the cvilian neo-conservative crooks just ordered the military experts to shut the fuck up.
Its funny you mention "nazis". If one really must do the whole "limits on free speech", there ARE infact some things that might be worthy to go after (like the "redwatch" neonazi sites that lead to scores of people being assaulted and stabbed etc), or paedophile sites or whatever.
But going after a kid with a fairly comical, and hey, even christian , message is just wrong.
I remember encountering lesiure suit larry as a kid. Thing about that game was, unless you already knew what the concepts where, you'd just hit a dead end. the genius of that game (the original one) was it was "obscene", it required the player to be "obscene" to win.
Of course in my opinion theres not alot obscene about sex.
Other than the complete baloney of SCO's claim, part of the stunning failure of SCO has been in part due to the sheer genius of the GPL mk II.
Something Just dawned on me regarding GPL mk III. Lets say it got into the kernel.... And microsoft are busy distributing SuSe Linux.... Wouldn't that mean that by implication Microsoft disclaim the right to sue over Patents hypothetically violated by linux? Or hell, is that already covered in version II?
The implication of III "fixing" that would be that yet again whilst everyone is throwing rocks at our communitys favorite beardo, said beardo has yet again got it right.
I do actually worry a bit about this. Whilst the new regions opening up in Kali should shake things up abit, the introduction of gate guns and a few other things will mean either more blobbage, or makeing it alot harder to take out enemy systems (Ie the usual procedure of lock down your enemys system and start smashing up all the Player owned stations.)
If CCP really want to spice things up, they need to fix POS wars.
Eves a spectacularly good game, but its a bit evil on new players due to its design choice of requiring players to play for a long period of time (A dreadnaught capital ship can take at least a year to fly well, although granted a player can be in an interceptor harrasing the hell out of older players in a month) rather than grinding hard over short periods of time. This could be easily sorted by the GM's encouraging some of the 0.0 alliances to start actively recruiting new players. The early days of the goonfleet with 200 players screaming around in newbie frigates smashing the hell out of high skillpoint battleship fleets and takeing on 10/10 complexes and stuff are a good example of how to include new players into the high-end content.
All that said yes, the south of eden is becomeing explosive. 2 simultaneous megawars (BOB vs ASCN, and LV/V vs RA/etc). *THATS* how you make an awesome game. Forget NPC hunting. Make players fight each other.
I dunno. I recently checked out Ubuntu for the first time, away from my normal debian, and wow. Its pretty damn easy. USB keys "just work". Camera autodetected. The printer setup was a breeze. All the basics right there. Granted theres still a few new concepts for the windows newbie (Wheres the C: drive and A: drive?! they might ask), but its still something I could set up for my mother and with a days tuition expect her to drive her internets around happily.
However, I can guarantee the plagarism rate is higher than 1% in academic journals. Pretty much any *honest* academic will tell you its rife, particularly amongst stressed out PhD candidates
Yarr polly me parroty matey. Tis bad enough with both your heads squarkin' and bitin', but the confounded glowin in the dark can never let a nuclear pirate get a good night sleep to dream of plutonium treasure on the high seas!
ARGH. Another website that bypasses my popup blocker.
No seriously dude, linking to that site does NOT help the case here. That website has sealed it for me. There is no frigging way I'd install software from a site that seems to be all about innane popups and installing bogoware.
I'm sorry, but I genuinely believe adware peddlers are crimnals. I really do. I've had to fix so many destroyed computers, seen careers ruined from data loss, and huge sums of money thrown away to these sorts of assholes, I can never sympathise.
A little mysterious option hidden somewhere on page 5 of a installer doesnt cut it. Most people dont understand what this all means, but they understand there computer has become unusable. People who prey on the technologically illiterate are assholes of the highest order.
The entire problem with these systems is they represent a gross distrust of alot of innocent students. If 25% or thereabouts cheat, it means 75% do not. And that 75% are entirely entitled to be pissed off at there essays being kept in some stupid anti-student database.
I would of never dreamed of doing this shit to my students back in my university days.
Respect is a 2 way street. If you want to get it from your students, you got to respect them first, otherwise you simply dont deserve it.
AS a non american I find it completely batshit crazy that so many americans think its somehow ok that the rest of the world has to follow international law, but american behavior abroad (Note world court does NOT rule on how america behaves in its own territory!), should be outside the law.
Come on guys. THINK for one second. Isnt it just an insy winsy bit obvious why so much of the world finds this really repugnant.
America has *NO RIGHT* to talk about international law, right up to invading countrys over supposedly breaking it while publically announcing that it refuses to be subject to it itself.
The thing is, I really actually want to believe most americans can see this, its a well educated and aware populace.
Although reading that article, I worry a populace that seriously needs to rekindle its passion for suffrage.
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well "evil" if you wish then, but theres no denying they did quality research.
Ah yeah. I forgot about that whole thing with conservative economic thinktanks being the centers for excelence in climate research.........
Well, except the high level resignations in many intelligence agencys around the world where the guys came out saying "Look, the president is making this stuff up. We do NOT think they have MWD's but we are under orders to say otherwise".
Certainly the high level ASIO defectee in australia who resigned because he was sick of the US asking him to make shit up to justify the war.
There was *MASSIVE* corruption at the high end to get this to fly, and surprise surprise, it turns out he didnt have mwd's or nukes, and it turns out al-quaida had been waging a terror campaign against sadam husain, and it turns out intel experts warned the whole thing would just end up with iran gaining control over large sections of iraq and well...
the govt *knew* this shit, and now its all documented, but at the time, the cvilian neo-conservative crooks just ordered the military experts to shut the fuck up.
Its funny you mention "nazis". If one really must do the whole "limits on free speech", there ARE infact some things that might be worthy to go after (like the "redwatch" neonazi sites that lead to scores of people being assaulted and stabbed etc), or paedophile sites or whatever.
But going after a kid with a fairly comical, and hey, even christian , message is just wrong.
Um, I understand the cultural reference, but thats not apropriate dude.
costaring Natalie Portman I presume.
I remember encountering lesiure suit larry as a kid. Thing about that game was, unless you already knew what the concepts where, you'd just hit a dead end. the genius of that game (the original one) was it was "obscene", it required the player to be "obscene" to win.
Of course in my opinion theres not alot obscene about sex.
Well, thats assuming the good bard(s) who translated the King James didnt translate "cornhole" to "knew".
Ching chang ching chong cheng chang ching tsing ching tang ching tsing ching chong, fuckface.
Who needs a thousand monkeys when you have racist twats like this.
I never was good at this whole "yelling at people on the internet" thing anyway.
Wow, your not only a maoist twat with (according to your website), but your a racist one too.
Hows the 1950's working out for you anyway?
Other than the complete baloney of SCO's claim, part of the stunning failure of SCO has been in part due to the sheer genius of the GPL mk II.
Something Just dawned on me regarding GPL mk III. Lets say it got into the kernel.... And microsoft are busy distributing SuSe Linux.... Wouldn't that mean that by implication Microsoft disclaim the right to sue over Patents hypothetically violated by linux? Or hell, is that already covered in version II?
The implication of III "fixing" that would be that yet again whilst everyone is throwing rocks at our communitys favorite beardo, said beardo has yet again got it right.
viva liberation!
I do actually worry a bit about this. Whilst the new regions opening up in Kali should shake things up abit, the introduction of gate guns and a few other things will mean either more blobbage, or makeing it alot harder to take out enemy systems (Ie the usual procedure of lock down your enemys system and start smashing up all the Player owned stations.)
If CCP really want to spice things up, they need to fix POS wars.
Eves a spectacularly good game, but its a bit evil on new players due to its design choice of requiring players to play for a long period of time (A dreadnaught capital ship can take at least a year to fly well, although granted a player can be in an interceptor harrasing the hell out of older players in a month) rather than grinding hard over short periods of time. This could be easily sorted by the GM's encouraging some of the 0.0 alliances to start actively recruiting new players. The early days of the goonfleet with 200 players screaming around in newbie frigates smashing the hell out of high skillpoint battleship fleets and takeing on 10/10 complexes and stuff are a good example of how to include new players into the high-end content.
All that said yes, the south of eden is becomeing explosive. 2 simultaneous megawars (BOB vs ASCN, and LV/V vs RA/etc). *THATS* how you make an awesome game. Forget NPC hunting. Make players fight each other.
I dunno. I recently checked out Ubuntu for the first time, away from my normal debian, and wow. Its pretty damn easy. USB keys "just work". Camera autodetected. The printer setup was a breeze. All the basics right there. Granted theres still a few new concepts for the windows newbie (Wheres the C: drive and A: drive?! they might ask), but its still something I could set up for my mother and with a days tuition expect her to drive her internets around happily.
RTFA (Read the fucking article!)
However, I can guarantee the plagarism rate is higher than 1% in academic journals. Pretty much any *honest* academic will tell you its rife, particularly amongst stressed out PhD candidates
I always felt portugese to be the easiest, kind of like a spanish thats easier. But others disagree.
Meh.
Yarr polly me parroty matey. Tis bad enough with both your heads squarkin' and bitin', but the confounded glowin in the dark can never let a nuclear pirate get a good night sleep to dream of plutonium treasure on the high seas!
Which article? Theres alot of them out there, and they all appear to be saying the same thing.
Also, whats with all these people defending it with similar bad spelling? Wierd.
ARGH. Another website that bypasses my popup blocker.
No seriously dude, linking to that site does NOT help the case here. That website has sealed it for me. There is no frigging way I'd install software from a site that seems to be all about innane popups and installing bogoware.
Oh hey. Spyware apologists.
Man. Seriously. Whats become of this place....
I'm sorry, but I genuinely believe adware peddlers are crimnals. I really do. I've had to fix so many destroyed computers, seen careers ruined from data loss, and huge sums of money thrown away to these sorts of assholes, I can never sympathise.
A little mysterious option hidden somewhere on page 5 of a installer doesnt cut it. Most people dont understand what this all means, but they understand there computer has become unusable. People who prey on the technologically illiterate are assholes of the highest order.
I tutored com sci, and yes, I have mild dislexia.
And for what its worth, spelling trolls got old in the early 90's back when usenet was still kind of fun.
Great strawman dude! Combined with a metaphor its far more clever than ad-hominen.
:)
No. The correct analogy is comparing is strip searching the entire population of the country regularly to avoid that 1% stealing.
And I dont lock my house. I don't really nead to
Wow. what an opinionated by line.
The entire problem with these systems is they represent a gross distrust of alot of innocent students. If 25% or thereabouts cheat, it means 75% do not. And that 75% are entirely entitled to be pissed off at there essays being kept in some stupid anti-student database.
I would of never dreamed of doing this shit to my students back in my university days.
Respect is a 2 way street. If you want to get it from your students, you got to respect them first, otherwise you simply dont deserve it.
AS a non american I find it completely batshit crazy that so many americans think its somehow ok that the rest of the world has to follow international law, but american behavior abroad (Note world court does NOT rule on how america behaves in its own territory!), should be outside the law.
Come on guys. THINK for one second. Isnt it just an insy winsy bit obvious why so much of the world finds this really repugnant.
America has *NO RIGHT* to talk about international law, right up to invading countrys over supposedly breaking it while publically announcing that it refuses to be subject to it itself.
The thing is, I really actually want to believe most americans can see this, its a well educated and aware populace.
Although reading that article, I worry a populace that seriously needs to rekindle its passion for suffrage.
Yeah he 'stole' it... I mean, this map right here just proves that Bush had no support!
t e2004/countymap.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vo
Way to read the article dude!
The whole point of the article was the count was wrong, and the scale of fraud was such that such a map as that is utterly meaningless.
Keep in mind also that that nice flat distribution there says NOTHING about population density.