Not to be rude, but yeah right. Like anyone at the DOJ is going to touch this with a 10 foot poll right now. Not only do we have a president in power right now who could give a rats ass how badly Big Business fucks over the little man, but the DOJ knows full well that if they try and concentrate on anything besides terrorism for the next 12 months, they'll have Big Business pundits all over them on CNN and such, asking why they're messing with this kind of stuff, when "American lives are at risk".
If 90% of these new TLD's are simply going to refer back to the.com of the business that snaps them up, like I suspect (dell.info->dell.com), and if those.com's aren't really changed in any way (no reason they should)...
Is this the worlds biggest DNS server? Meta DNS? Seriously, though, how many companies who snatch up an.info or whatever are going to bother to create a new web site specifically for that domain?
Lt. Mandrake: Damn, myself and the 4 female crew members I took over to examine that alien ship somehow managed to become infected with a clothes eating virus!
Hottie Doctor: It's worse than that, sir; my readings indicate that this virus may trigger dangerous amounts of sexual hormone production in the body!
Lt. Mandrake: I see....recommendations Hottie Vulcan Science Chick?
Hottie Vulcan Science Chick: Sir, these scented oils, candles, and sensously-shaped plastic devices might help. Allow me to demonstrate on Ensign Youngbuck here.
Ensign Youngbuck: Whoa! They didn't teach us anything like this at the academy!
Sorry you were so incredibly inconvenienced by clicking on this Read More link. You'll also have to forgive CmdrTaco for posting a story on his own damn website that interests him.
Hate to break the news, but apparently the pilot hinges on the introduction of some time-travelling aliens who are trying to change history for some unknown purpose. In other words, you can see those time-travelling episodes coming up from about 10 parsex away.
I read somewhere the other day that Lucas has said their won't be any original trilogy DVD's until at least 2005, after Episode 3 is done. And your right, they'll probably be those "improved" versions at that, with even more stuff thrown in if this Ep1 DVD is any indication.
It's too bad Lucas has apparently decided his original work is crap, and has become obsessed with what his big machines up there on the ranch can do. A boxed set of the original trilogy, in it's original form, would probably be one of the best selling DVD sets of all time.
Dammit George, I don't care if you originally wanted yet another big-headed alien in the cantina, or you can see the strings on the Tie Fighters in Frame 2045-78. Give me Digitally remastered, Dolby 5.1/DTS Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi, and you'll be the Geek Hero you once were.
If this were simply an arbitrary decision by Clear Channel to not play these songs anymore, then it would be OK, but clearly that's not the case. This is a reactionary move to save their stations and themselves nasty-grams from upset people who happened to hear "Learn to Fly" on the radio at the wrong moment.
Which is of course why this list is utterly ridiculous. As if these were the only songs that could be upset people about the attack. People hear what they want to hear from music, you can't protect them from it.
Still, it's not something to get upset over. There's no way songs like Imagine and Stairway to Heaven can now be banned forever from all Clear Channel stations. It's just a temporary CYA.
Damn, what a game. I can remember sitting in the college computer lab for hours on end (proctor job), rewriting the various variables in Gorilla. IIRC, you could adjust the gravity, make it so bananna's that would fly off the top of the screen with the slightest amount of force, or barely clear a mountain even with thrown with enough force to launch a shuttle.
Hot damn we thought we were l33t too. Too bad I didn't spend more of that time finding out what that weird little operating system called Linux someone installed in the math lab was all about. Oh well.
It's news because the creator of this web site is a big anime fan, and he felt like posting a story about it. Also because it shows a possible (regrettable) reaction to this tragedy, that may end up spreading to other forms of media, either through the pressure of the public or government regulation.
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Won't you be suprised when you meet your maker, and it turns out that not only does God hate terrorists for killing in his name, but he also hates racial biggots who advocate the killing of innocents simply because of where they happen to live?
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I've heard the Air Marshall idea propsed a lot, but personally I think it's unworkable. Reasons?
- It's incredibly dangerous to have any firearm on a plane, no matter who it belongs to. I don't care if you hire Chuck Norris, if a terrorist organization puts 5 of it's men on a plane, chances are they're getting that gun, or something else bad is going to happen. You don't want bullets flying around an airplane. And if you don't give the air marshall a gun, he's just another passenger, who perhaps knows a few self-defense techniques. Hardly the kind of protection you want against a terrorist with a weapon.
- It will cost a bundle. I know that sounds very callous right now, but think about how much money it would take to keep an air marshall on every flight within the United States at any one time. You would need literally thousands of air marshalls, perhaps even tens of thousands. To say nothing about the support structures (computer tracking systems, training, background checks, etc) needed to keep such an operation up and running logistically. And of course that doesn't count international flights, which would only add to those logistics. The costs would be tremendous, and would either drive the cost of flying sky high (no pun intended), or require a massive tax increase if the government were expected to foot the bill.
- People wouldn't like it. It might be well recieved at first, but once shock of this event wear's off, it will be seen by most as just another flying inconvenience. Most people wouldn't like the idea of firearms on board their flight. Also, an air marshall would presumably have the authority or even responsibility to search anyone getting on the plane, which is sure to be ill-recieved.
You don't write down "Over throw evil government" on a To-Do list along with "Pick up bread and milk". It's not an easy thing to do. It takes weapons, manpower, money, luck, and time. Particularly when your government is a hard line one.
Ordinary people in Afghanistan are struggling just to survive every day. They might be shot if their wife doesn't hide her face in the right way. Their entire homes might be burned to the ground, while their government sits back and does nothing about it.
These people did not ask for an oppressive, evil government, it was thrust upon them. It's wrong to punish them for not having the resources to do something about it.
Word of warning: I have that MS Optical trackball, and it really puts a strain on my right hand when FPS gaming. Maybe my hands just to small for it, but I find myself really stretching my fingers for some reason.
Short term? We'll probably see some motions in this direction. Long term? Well, that's up to us, isn't it. The government will only take away as many rights as we allow it to. Now more than ever, the community needs to organize to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
When someone dies in a car crash despite having their seat belt on, car companies don't throw up their hands and say, "Well, clearly these seatbelt things are useless, someone still died! Take them all out".
Airport security and metal detectors in buildings do serve a purpose, to deter criminal activity, and hopefully catch people in the act. No security system in the world can be made to handle every concievable possibility or threat. That does not mean, however, that we should just abandon all security and leave ourselves open to attacks from every minor or not-as-serious threat.
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Not to be rude, but yeah right. Like anyone at the DOJ is going to touch this with a 10 foot poll right now. Not only do we have a president in power right now who could give a rats ass how badly Big Business fucks over the little man, but the DOJ knows full well that if they try and concentrate on anything besides terrorism for the next 12 months, they'll have Big Business pundits all over them on CNN and such, asking why they're messing with this kind of stuff, when "American lives are at risk".
It's wrong, but it's a fact of life right now.
If 90% of these new TLD's are simply going to refer back to the .com of the business that snaps them up, like I suspect (dell.info->dell.com), and if those .com's aren't really changed in any way (no reason they should)...
.info or whatever are going to bother to create a new web site specifically for that domain?
Is this the worlds biggest DNS server? Meta DNS? Seriously, though, how many companies who snatch up an
Heh. I can just see Episode 340, Season 14:
Lt. Mandrake: Damn, myself and the 4 female crew members I took over to examine that alien ship somehow managed to become infected with a clothes eating virus!
Hottie Doctor: It's worse than that, sir; my readings indicate that this virus may trigger dangerous amounts of sexual hormone production in the body!
Lt. Mandrake: I see....recommendations Hottie Vulcan Science Chick?
Hottie Vulcan Science Chick: Sir, these scented oils, candles, and sensously-shaped plastic devices might help. Allow me to demonstrate on Ensign Youngbuck here.
Ensign Youngbuck: Whoa! They didn't teach us anything like this at the academy!
*Cue the Beastie Boys - Sabrosa*
Sorry you were so incredibly inconvenienced by clicking on this Read More link. You'll also have to forgive CmdrTaco for posting a story on his own damn website that interests him.
Hate to break the news, but apparently the pilot hinges on the introduction of some time-travelling aliens who are trying to change history for some unknown purpose. In other words, you can see those time-travelling episodes coming up from about 10 parsex away.
4 overweight geeks just had heart attacks thinking about that hypothetical snack food.
Those cuts haven't yet taken place, though, and are planned over a significant amount of time (a year or so I hear).
So will the Apocolypse. But oh man, those graphics will be sweet!
This entire thread is proof of why Geeks and English Majors are considered natural enemies in the wild.
You have no chance at freedom of speech, make your time.
Well said. Someone with mod points take care of this guy, I'm fresh out.
I read somewhere the other day that Lucas has said their won't be any original trilogy DVD's until at least 2005, after Episode 3 is done. And your right, they'll probably be those "improved" versions at that, with even more stuff thrown in if this Ep1 DVD is any indication.
It's too bad Lucas has apparently decided his original work is crap, and has become obsessed with what his big machines up there on the ranch can do. A boxed set of the original trilogy, in it's original form, would probably be one of the best selling DVD sets of all time.
Dammit George, I don't care if you originally wanted yet another big-headed alien in the cantina, or you can see the strings on the Tie Fighters in Frame 2045-78. Give me Digitally remastered, Dolby 5.1/DTS Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi, and you'll be the Geek Hero you once were.
If this were simply an arbitrary decision by Clear Channel to not play these songs anymore, then it would be OK, but clearly that's not the case. This is a reactionary move to save their stations and themselves nasty-grams from upset people who happened to hear "Learn to Fly" on the radio at the wrong moment.
Which is of course why this list is utterly ridiculous. As if these were the only songs that could be upset people about the attack. People hear what they want to hear from music, you can't protect them from it.
Still, it's not something to get upset over. There's no way songs like Imagine and Stairway to Heaven can now be banned forever from all Clear Channel stations. It's just a temporary CYA.
Damn, what a game. I can remember sitting in the college computer lab for hours on end (proctor job), rewriting the various variables in Gorilla. IIRC, you could adjust the gravity, make it so bananna's that would fly off the top of the screen with the slightest amount of force, or barely clear a mountain even with thrown with enough force to launch a shuttle.
Hot damn we thought we were l33t too. Too bad I didn't spend more of that time finding out what that weird little operating system called Linux someone installed in the math lab was all about. Oh well.
It's news because the creator of this web site is a big anime fan, and he felt like posting a story about it. Also because it shows a possible (regrettable) reaction to this tragedy, that may end up spreading to other forms of media, either through the pressure of the public or government regulation.
Won't you be suprised when you meet your maker, and it turns out that not only does God hate terrorists for killing in his name, but he also hates racial biggots who advocate the killing of innocents simply because of where they happen to live?
D00d, WTF 1z th3 f0rmul4 f0r turn1ng my s0cks 1nt0 St0n3z 0f J0rdanz? T3ll m3 pl34s3, i n33d t0 k1ck s0m30n3s azz w1th l33t f1r3 sk1llz!
I've heard the Air Marshall idea propsed a lot, but personally I think it's unworkable. Reasons?
- It's incredibly dangerous to have any firearm on a plane, no matter who it belongs to. I don't care if you hire Chuck Norris, if a terrorist organization puts 5 of it's men on a plane, chances are they're getting that gun, or something else bad is going to happen. You don't want bullets flying around an airplane. And if you don't give the air marshall a gun, he's just another passenger, who perhaps knows a few self-defense techniques. Hardly the kind of protection you want against a terrorist with a weapon.
- It will cost a bundle. I know that sounds very callous right now, but think about how much money it would take to keep an air marshall on every flight within the United States at any one time. You would need literally thousands of air marshalls, perhaps even tens of thousands. To say nothing about the support structures (computer tracking systems, training, background checks, etc) needed to keep such an operation up and running logistically. And of course that doesn't count international flights, which would only add to those logistics. The costs would be tremendous, and would either drive the cost of flying sky high (no pun intended), or require a massive tax increase if the government were expected to foot the bill.
- People wouldn't like it. It might be well recieved at first, but once shock of this event wear's off, it will be seen by most as just another flying inconvenience. Most people wouldn't like the idea of firearms on board their flight. Also, an air marshall would presumably have the authority or even responsibility to search anyone getting on the plane, which is sure to be ill-recieved.
Your right, there are no perfect solutions here.
You don't write down "Over throw evil government" on a To-Do list along with "Pick up bread and milk". It's not an easy thing to do. It takes weapons, manpower, money, luck, and time. Particularly when your government is a hard line one.
Ordinary people in Afghanistan are struggling just to survive every day. They might be shot if their wife doesn't hide her face in the right way. Their entire homes might be burned to the ground, while their government sits back and does nothing about it.
These people did not ask for an oppressive, evil government, it was thrust upon them. It's wrong to punish them for not having the resources to do something about it.
Word of warning: I have that MS Optical trackball, and it really puts a strain on my right hand when FPS gaming. Maybe my hands just to small for it, but I find myself really stretching my fingers for some reason.
Short term? We'll probably see some motions in this direction. Long term? Well, that's up to us, isn't it. The government will only take away as many rights as we allow it to. Now more than ever, the community needs to organize to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
When someone dies in a car crash despite having their seat belt on, car companies don't throw up their hands and say, "Well, clearly these seatbelt things are useless, someone still died! Take them all out".
Airport security and metal detectors in buildings do serve a purpose, to deter criminal activity, and hopefully catch people in the act. No security system in the world can be made to handle every concievable possibility or threat. That does not mean, however, that we should just abandon all security and leave ourselves open to attacks from every minor or not-as-serious threat.
Probably because there isn't a larger, more obvious monument to "evil capitalistic America".
Oh well, better luck in 2004, guys.
2004? What the hell are you talking about? The next election is in 1984. I hear Reagan is going to promise no new taxes, and...
Oh, wait, your right, it is 2001. Sorry, with everything going on over here, I got a little confused.
Tell me how anything in the middle matters.
Maybe your right...