> It seems that people forget that there's a pretty definite line between a group of protesters and a maddened mob. You need the group to be very inflamed and you need a catalyst before you get a riot.
The reason people are conflating peaceful protest and riot is because the police and the media do the same thing.
A permitted march expressing displeasure with government policies that turns into a cookout in a public park is identified by police as "protestors refusing to disband at the expiration of permit" and barbecuers get tear-gassed. The media calls it a riot, because that's what they're told by the police. Nobody was on hand to witness, because the march was over, so no more news, right?
> Finally, all the fright that such weapons as the ray-gun will be used by the government against peaceful protesters are rather badly placed IMHO. If a government at some point decides to shut people up by violence in the open, what methods are used won't do much of a difference.
Where have you been living for the past 40 years? Despite the uproar from Kent State, things haven't gotten better since then. Four dead in Ohio in the 60s, four-hundred wrongfully imprisioned in New York last year (held without bond for a week, then charges dropped before any court arraignments; I told my friend who was there that he should sue the state of New York for wrongful imprisonment, but he said "fuck it, I'm out now" which is probably what most of the people there did).
That's a great idea; I would totally shop at a place that had that policy.
If it looked likely that I would make a return visit, I would probably even create a user account.
Just to clarify, I never create user accounts on sites that REQUIRE an account to complete the transaction. I have to give you my credit card account number right after I give you a username, password, email address, phone number and my mother's maiden name in case I forget my password? Umm, no thanks. Sounds like you have everything you need for identity theft set up already. "Yes, this is cthulhubob calling to check my account balance. Verification? Well, my mother's maiden name is xxxxxxx. Thank you, now I would like to transfer some funds..."
> At the target end, you'd do just as the article suggests and slow the bullets locally and let the client report to the server if damage was taken. Brilliant! Good thinking there guys!
Not sure whether the parent meant this sarcastically nor not, but to clarify: it SHOULD be sarcastic!
Clients are not to be trusted in online situations, ever, no matter what the program. In web apps, you can't believe that the input has not been mangled by a malicious user, and in online games you can't trust that the client will tell you when he's been shot.
Trusting the client with reporting this info ensures that within 24 hours of the game coming out there will be a patch available for download that makes you unable to be damaged.
I can explain the difference between the two installs pretty easily. It really has nothing to do with the operating systems, just with how the person who wrote Electric Sheep packaged it for the different systems.
The Windows install was probably statically linked, while the Linux install was definitely dynamically linked. (another possibility for the Windows install is that it was dynamically linked and the author included copies of the.dll files necessary for it to run with the binary, but we can treat that possibility the same way for this explanation)
I'm not going to say which is better, just explain the differences.:)
The statically linked binary has copies of all the libraries it needs to run already compiled into it. The effects of this are: 1) The package is self-contained and requires nothing else to run. 2) The package takes up more disk space than a dynamically linked version. 3) The package takes up more memory than a dynamically linked version. 4) The libraries the package depends on can not be upgraded separately from the package itself.
The dynamically linked version does not include the dependencies, requiring you to install them separately if you don't already have them. The effects of this are: 1) Potentially requiring the end user to download and install several libraries to make the program work. 2) Disk and memory usage are (potentially) decreased (if there are multiple programs that use the same library, the operating system will only load one copy of it into memory for both applications). 3) The libraries can be upgraded separately from the program. So if there's a bugfix or speed improvement in the mpeg playing dependency of Electric Sheep, that can be upgraded without the developer of Electric Sheep having to compile a new version to put on his site using the new mpeg player code. Also other programs that use the same code to play mpeg files will be upgraded at the same time when you upgrade that dependency.
Most Unix/Linux users and developers prefer distributing and installing packages that are dynamically linked, so that they have quick access to bugfixes and use less system resources. If (for instance) there were a bug in a dependency of Electric Sheep that somehow allowed an attacker to get control of your computer, even if you upgraded that specific library, a statically linked version of Electric Sheep would still be vulnerable.
Most Windows users and developers prefer distributing and installing packages that are statically linked, so that the users don't have the potential annoyance of downloading multiple packages just to be able to run Half Life 2. (assuming they don't already have those packages installed for another game)
It's not different from distro to distro either, telinit has been a standard utility in Linux distros since Yggdrasil. It was a Sun OS convention originally, I believe.
I think it says to use telinit in Nvidia's documentation (I haven't read it in years, but I do read README files for things I'm not familiar with, although I had an ATI card when they first started supporting Linux, so maybe the very first TNT2 driver they distributed said to reboot).
Actually, the reboots aren't necessary. Only in Windows.:)
The command to switch into runlevel 3 is:/sbin/telinit 3
Then to switch back to runlevel 5:/sbin/telinit 5
No editing of/etc/inittab is necessary, no reboots. You do have to edit/etc/X11/xorg.conf, but removing those reboots from the equation saves you a lot of wasted time.
There are small woodland animals in Morrowind? The closest thing I ever saw was a guar. And when they explode it means big meaty chunks raining from the sky.:P
Sadly, video game specialty stores (at least in the Richmond, VA area) seem to be treating the DS as a second-class citizen.
You can pick up a DS from EB Games or Gamestop anywhere, but they only carry three games for it (not counting GBA games); Mario 64 DS, Robots, and occasionally you see The Urbz.
It's a shame, because for me and my roommates most of the time video games are impulse buys (and there's an EB Games within walking distance.) Guess I'll be mail-ordering mos of my new DS games. Or making the 40 minute drive to Walmart. Nah. Mail order.
Weird, my dictionary says "laissez-faire." Google define confirms it (checked in case my antiquated New American Heritage was behind the times):
Definitions of laissez-faire on the Web:
* The doctrine or system of government non-interference in the economy except as necessary to maintain economic freedom. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were great believers in laissez-faire economics.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/glossary/page/0,13866, 1052826,00.html
* The term "laissez-faire" is used to describe an economic system where the government intervene as little as possible and leave the private sector to organise most economic activity through markets. Classical economists were great advocates of a laissez-faire system with minimal government intervention. They believed free markets were the best organisers of economic activity.
www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/economy/library/glossary/g lossarygl.htm
* A policy of (governmental) non-intervention. In the field of economics, laissez-faire policies such as free trade were persuasively advocated by Adam Smith in his book Wealth of Nations (1776).
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/g lossary.htm
* the theory that government should have as little influence as possible in the nation's economy.
www.ots.treas.gov/glossary/gloss-l.html
etc. etc. etc.
No definitions were found for laisses-faire.
By the way, laisses-faire would be the informal second person form in French, as in "I am not restricting your free trade, my friend." The proper formal second person or second person plural form in French is actually "laissez-faire." So it's the right spelling in both languages.:)
> I don't see any sort of "badge of honor" mentality 'round here, more of a laze faire treatment of the English language;
I was tired of reading comments and just scrolling toward the bottom of the page before closing the tab, but this leaped out of the screen at me and I had to post. I've seen this and similar mistakes very often recently, and I'm not sure what the problem is here; it's not Hooked on Phonics, because the spelling here has very little relation to the way in which the word is pronounced. Maybe it's people who have read the phrase but never heard it pronounced, who then forgot how it was spelled before committing it to a comment themselves.
Did anybody else intentionally take a long time getting through Chapter 3?
I thought being on the other side of the counter in the shop was the greatest thing since sliced bread when I first played it, especially being like "no, I'm sorry, you heard the price wrong. It's actually 100 GP more expensive" just because you didn't like the look of somebody... or wanted to make sure the Sword of Malice stayed in the shop until you earned enough to buy it yourself.:P
What's the status on some of the Torneco no Daibouken games as far as translation goes? Anybody working on them?
My ex-girlfriends since it came out, and my current girlfriend. Also most of their friends like it. I think it's fun, but I wouldn't buy it, or play it by myself... maybe white 20-something males aren't actually the target audience.
> Man, I don't even care but has anyone PROVEN the "twin paradox"? I mean PROVEN with PHYSICAL example. Not to my knowledge.
Yes, as a matter of fact, it has. Early space experiments involved synchronized clocks, with one taken on board to see if the clocks were asynchronous upon return. This was done specifically to test whether acceleration affected the rate of time passage. The answer is yes.
Yes, they aided an existing coup plot. Does that invalidate the point?
The great-grandparent or so stated that the U.S. had never done anything to a democracy. Aiding a military coup against a democratically elected leader counts in my book.
Also, it's a non-sequiter whether the elected governments were liberal, communist, socialist, or whatnot. They were democratically elected. That would make actions against them actions taken against democracies.
He didn't say Iran was a democracy under the Shah. That's obviously false. He said the U.S. *installed* the Shah, engineering the coup against the democratically elected Prime Minister, which is true.
The U.S. (mainly through the arm of the CIA) has a long history of interfering with democratic elections and overthrowing elected leaders in other countries.
A brief timeline:
1953
Iran - CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil. The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo.
1954
Guatemala -- CIA overthrows the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.
1957-1973
Laos -- The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos' democratic elections. The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an "Armee Clandestine" of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the CIA's army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S. starts bombing, dropping more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become refugees, many living in caves.
1959
Haiti -- The U.S. military helps "Papa Doc" Duvalier become dictator of Haiti. He creates his own private police force, the "Tonton Macoutes," who terrorize the population with machetes. They will kill over 100,000 during the Duvalier family reign. The U.S. does not protest their dismal human rights record.
1961
Ecuador -- The CIA-backed military forces the democratically elected President Jose Velasco to resign. Vice President Carlos Arosemana replaces him; the CIA fills the now vacant vice presidency with its own man.
Congo (Zaire) -- The CIA assassinates the democratically elected Patrice Lumumba. However, public support for Lumumba's politics runs so high that the CIA cannot clearly install his opponents in power. Four years of political turmoil follow.
1963
Dominican Republic -- The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Juan Bosch in a military coup. The CIA installs a repressive, right-wing junta.
Ecuador -- A CIA-backed military coup overthrows President Arosemana, whose independent (not socialist) policies have become unacceptable to Washington. A military junta assumes command, cancels the 1964 elections, and begins abusing human rights.
1964
Brazil -- A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the democratically elected government of Joao Goulart. The junta that replaces it will, in the next two decades, become one of the most bloodthirsty in history. General Castelo Branco will create Latin America's first death squads, or bands of secret police who hunt down "communists" for torture, interrogation and murder. Often these "communists" are no more than Branco's political opponents. Later it is revealed that the CIA trains the death squads.
1965
Indonesia -- The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Sukarno with a military coup. The CIA has been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General Suharto, will massacre between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being "communist." The CIA supplies the names of countless suspects.
Dominican Republic -- A popular rebellion breaks out, promising to reinstall Juan Bosch as the country's elected leader. The revolution is crushed when U.S. Marines land to uphold the military regime by force. The CIA directs ev
I saw that when I was 8 or so. I went around for weeks afterward, terrorizing my little brother by holding my hand in a claw shape near his chest while chanting "molaram, molaram, molaram-sularam!"
Yeah, it's pretty much the same thing - actually, being diabetic, I'd have to say that when my blood sugar is out of whack I'm much more likely to make mistakes doing whatever I'm doing than I would be after two or three beers (haven't tested driving immediately after three beers, but riding bicycles is pretty similar).
But yeah, being drunk is a lot like being really tired. You can concentrate on one thing ok if you really need to, but multitasking is out of the question, and driving is all about multitasking. I can't think of a way to simulate that at all.
Ah, spoken like somebody who's never been drunk or high. To be that young again.
What you see isn't affected very much by alcohol or marijuana, only how you percieve it (except for in extremely drunk people who get a little "tunnel vision", but you'd need head-tracking software and a virtual car interior to duplicate that).
It's pretty hard to make a program that would realistically show the effects of paying more attention to your spedometer than to the road, for instance (a common problem, since you don't want to get pulled for speeding while drunk, do you?)
I've been working on Linux appliances for over 6 years now, without exception, it seems like someone ends up writing some kind of "health script" that is kicked off by cron every minute or a few or is a daemon in it's own right that watches for things to crash or not be running and then it restarts them. I've seen it in a production set-top box based on Linux where we essentially wrote our own init and had it treat some processes special and 5 different software appliances. Fact of life is software crashes from time to time.
You do realize that you can just use init to do this, right?
For instance, I have a client with a dialup server and several USB modems for his clients to connect to. mgetty is only good for one connection, it doesn't reset itself. So I added these lines to/etc/inittab:
S0:345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyUSB0
S1:345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyUSB1
S2:345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyUSB2
etc.
Just because you (not you personally, but whoever is duplicating init's functionality in other programs) don't know how to use the existing tools, it's not an excuse to write your own, non-peer-reviewed code with potential security problems.
> The devs would add new monsters and npcs every month or two. It revolutionized the way players actually played the game. Reports would come in, via the game, about a new mob attacking one of the towns, and then you could go there and actually find/see it.
Actually, City of Heroes does the same thing, as you can see from reading their "newspaper." (linked from the main page of the site, you can get to back issues by changing the URL to newspaper20.html instead of newspaper21.html, etc. - they really need to put in an interface for that)
Actually, City of Heroes does have endgame raids available, the most popular of which is a fearsome monster named Hamidon (Hamidon is non-instanced, so any level 47+ players on the server can join a Hamidon raid).
Also, Issue 5 (the next content update after the one currently being beta-tested) is supposed to add more endgame content, if I recall correctly, so it should be very interesting (my main is only level 21 right now, I'm just taking my time though).
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> It seems that people forget that there's a pretty definite line between a group of protesters and a maddened mob. You need the group to be very inflamed and you need a catalyst before you get a riot.
The reason people are conflating peaceful protest and riot is because the police and the media do the same thing.
A permitted march expressing displeasure with government policies that turns into a cookout in a public park is identified by police as "protestors refusing to disband at the expiration of permit" and barbecuers get tear-gassed. The media calls it a riot, because that's what they're told by the police. Nobody was on hand to witness, because the march was over, so no more news, right?
> Finally, all the fright that such weapons as the ray-gun will be used by the government against peaceful protesters are rather badly placed IMHO. If a government at some point decides to shut people up by violence in the open, what methods are used won't do much of a difference.
Where have you been living for the past 40 years? Despite the uproar from Kent State, things haven't gotten better since then. Four dead in Ohio in the 60s, four-hundred wrongfully imprisioned in New York last year (held without bond for a week, then charges dropped before any court arraignments; I told my friend who was there that he should sue the state of New York for wrongful imprisonment, but he said "fuck it, I'm out now" which is probably what most of the people there did).
That's a great idea; I would totally shop at a place that had that policy.
If it looked likely that I would make a return visit, I would probably even create a user account.
Just to clarify, I never create user accounts on sites that REQUIRE an account to complete the transaction. I have to give you my credit card account number right after I give you a username, password, email address, phone number and my mother's maiden name in case I forget my password? Umm, no thanks. Sounds like you have everything you need for identity theft set up already. "Yes, this is cthulhubob calling to check my account balance. Verification? Well, my mother's maiden name is xxxxxxx. Thank you, now I would like to transfer some funds..."
> At the target end, you'd do just as the article suggests and slow the bullets locally and let the client report to the server if damage was taken. Brilliant! Good thinking there guys!
Not sure whether the parent meant this sarcastically nor not, but to clarify: it SHOULD be sarcastic!
Clients are not to be trusted in online situations, ever, no matter what the program. In web apps, you can't believe that the input has not been mangled by a malicious user, and in online games you can't trust that the client will tell you when he's been shot.
Trusting the client with reporting this info ensures that within 24 hours of the game coming out there will be a patch available for download that makes you unable to be damaged.
I can explain the difference between the two installs pretty easily. It really has nothing to do with the operating systems, just with how the person who wrote Electric Sheep packaged it for the different systems.
.dll files necessary for it to run with the binary, but we can treat that possibility the same way for this explanation)
:)
:P
The Windows install was probably statically linked, while the Linux install was definitely dynamically linked. (another possibility for the Windows install is that it was dynamically linked and the author included copies of the
I'm not going to say which is better, just explain the differences.
The statically linked binary has copies of all the libraries it needs to run already compiled into it. The effects of this are:
1) The package is self-contained and requires nothing else to run.
2) The package takes up more disk space than a dynamically linked version.
3) The package takes up more memory than a dynamically linked version.
4) The libraries the package depends on can not be upgraded separately from the package itself.
The dynamically linked version does not include the dependencies, requiring you to install them separately if you don't already have them. The effects of this are:
1) Potentially requiring the end user to download and install several libraries to make the program work.
2) Disk and memory usage are (potentially) decreased (if there are multiple programs that use the same library, the operating system will only load one copy of it into memory for both applications).
3) The libraries can be upgraded separately from the program. So if there's a bugfix or speed improvement in the mpeg playing dependency of Electric Sheep, that can be upgraded without the developer of Electric Sheep having to compile a new version to put on his site using the new mpeg player code. Also other programs that use the same code to play mpeg files will be upgraded at the same time when you upgrade that dependency.
Most Unix/Linux users and developers prefer distributing and installing packages that are dynamically linked, so that they have quick access to bugfixes and use less system resources. If (for instance) there were a bug in a dependency of Electric Sheep that somehow allowed an attacker to get control of your computer, even if you upgraded that specific library, a statically linked version of Electric Sheep would still be vulnerable.
Most Windows users and developers prefer distributing and installing packages that are statically linked, so that the users don't have the potential annoyance of downloading multiple packages just to be able to run Half Life 2. (assuming they don't already have those packages installed for another game)
Hope this has been educational
It's not different from distro to distro either, telinit has been a standard utility in Linux distros since Yggdrasil. It was a Sun OS convention originally, I believe.
I think it says to use telinit in Nvidia's documentation (I haven't read it in years, but I do read README files for things I'm not familiar with, although I had an ATI card when they first started supporting Linux, so maybe the very first TNT2 driver they distributed said to reboot).
Actually, the reboots aren't necessary. Only in Windows. :)
/sbin/telinit 3
/sbin/telinit 5
/etc/inittab is necessary, no reboots. You do have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but removing those reboots from the equation saves you a lot of wasted time.
The command to switch into runlevel 3 is:
Then to switch back to runlevel 5:
No editing of
There are small woodland animals in Morrowind? The closest thing I ever saw was a guar. And when they explode it means big meaty chunks raining from the sky. :P
Sadly, video game specialty stores (at least in the Richmond, VA area) seem to be treating the DS as a second-class citizen.
You can pick up a DS from EB Games or Gamestop anywhere, but they only carry three games for it (not counting GBA games); Mario 64 DS, Robots, and occasionally you see The Urbz.
It's a shame, because for me and my roommates most of the time video games are impulse buys (and there's an EB Games within walking distance.) Guess I'll be mail-ordering mos of my new DS games. Or making the 40 minute drive to Walmart. Nah. Mail order.
To nitpick myself, "laisses-faire" would be better translated as "Leave [it] alone, my friend." Literally: To make [you] leave [object] (informal)
Weird, my dictionary says "laissez-faire." Google define confirms it (checked in case my antiquated New American Heritage was behind the times):
, 1052826,00.html
g lossarygl.htm
g lossary.htm
:)
Definitions of laissez-faire on the Web:
* The doctrine or system of government non-interference in the economy except as necessary to maintain economic freedom. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were great believers in laissez-faire economics.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/glossary/page/0,13866
* The term "laissez-faire" is used to describe an economic system where the government intervene as little as possible and leave the private sector to organise most economic activity through markets. Classical economists were great advocates of a laissez-faire system with minimal government intervention. They believed free markets were the best organisers of economic activity.
www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/economy/library/glossary/
* A policy of (governmental) non-intervention. In the field of economics, laissez-faire policies such as free trade were persuasively advocated by Adam Smith in his book Wealth of Nations (1776).
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/
* the theory that government should have as little influence as possible in the nation's economy.
www.ots.treas.gov/glossary/gloss-l.html
etc. etc. etc.
No definitions were found for laisses-faire.
By the way, laisses-faire would be the informal second person form in French, as in "I am not restricting your free trade, my friend." The proper formal second person or second person plural form in French is actually "laissez-faire." So it's the right spelling in both languages.
> I don't see any sort of "badge of honor" mentality 'round here, more of a laze faire treatment of the English language;
I was tired of reading comments and just scrolling toward the bottom of the page before closing the tab, but this leaped out of the screen at me and I had to post. I've seen this and similar mistakes very often recently, and I'm not sure what the problem is here; it's not Hooked on Phonics, because the spelling here has very little relation to the way in which the word is pronounced. Maybe it's people who have read the phrase but never heard it pronounced, who then forgot how it was spelled before committing it to a comment themselves.
Laissez-faire. Please.
Did anybody else intentionally take a long time getting through Chapter 3?
:P
I thought being on the other side of the counter in the shop was the greatest thing since sliced bread when I first played it, especially being like "no, I'm sorry, you heard the price wrong. It's actually 100 GP more expensive" just because you didn't like the look of somebody... or wanted to make sure the Sword of Malice stayed in the shop until you earned enough to buy it yourself.
What's the status on some of the Torneco no Daibouken games as far as translation goes? Anybody working on them?
I can tell you who I know that plays it.
Girls.
All of them.
My ex-girlfriends since it came out, and my current girlfriend. Also most of their friends like it. I think it's fun, but I wouldn't buy it, or play it by myself... maybe white 20-something males aren't actually the target audience.
> Man, I don't even care but has anyone PROVEN the "twin paradox"? I mean PROVEN with PHYSICAL example. Not to my knowledge.
Yes, as a matter of fact, it has. Early space experiments involved synchronized clocks, with one taken on board to see if the clocks were asynchronous upon return. This was done specifically to test whether acceleration affected the rate of time passage. The answer is yes.
Yes, they aided an existing coup plot. Does that invalidate the point?
The great-grandparent or so stated that the U.S. had never done anything to a democracy. Aiding a military coup against a democratically elected leader counts in my book.
Also, it's a non-sequiter whether the elected governments were liberal, communist, socialist, or whatnot. They were democratically elected. That would make actions against them actions taken against democracies.
He didn't say Iran was a democracy under the Shah. That's obviously false. He said the U.S. *installed* the Shah, engineering the coup against the democratically elected Prime Minister, which is true.
The U.S. (mainly through the arm of the CIA) has a long history of interfering with democratic elections and overthrowing elected leaders in other countries.
A brief timeline:
1953
Iran - CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil. The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo.
1954
Guatemala -- CIA overthrows the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.
1957-1973
Laos -- The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos' democratic elections. The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an "Armee Clandestine" of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the CIA's army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S. starts bombing, dropping more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become refugees, many living in caves.
1959
Haiti -- The U.S. military helps "Papa Doc" Duvalier become dictator of Haiti. He creates his own private police force, the "Tonton Macoutes," who terrorize the population with machetes. They will kill over 100,000 during the Duvalier family reign. The U.S. does not protest their dismal human rights record.
1961
Ecuador -- The CIA-backed military forces the democratically elected President Jose Velasco to resign. Vice President Carlos Arosemana replaces him; the CIA fills the now vacant vice presidency with its own man.
Congo (Zaire) -- The CIA assassinates the democratically elected Patrice Lumumba. However, public support for Lumumba's politics runs so high that the CIA cannot clearly install his opponents in power. Four years of political turmoil follow.
1963
Dominican Republic -- The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Juan Bosch in a military coup. The CIA installs a repressive, right-wing junta.
Ecuador -- A CIA-backed military coup overthrows President Arosemana, whose independent (not socialist) policies have become unacceptable to Washington. A military junta assumes command, cancels the 1964 elections, and begins abusing human rights.
1964
Brazil -- A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the democratically elected government of Joao Goulart. The junta that replaces it will, in the next two decades, become one of the most bloodthirsty in history. General Castelo Branco will create Latin America's first death squads, or bands of secret police who hunt down "communists" for torture, interrogation and murder. Often these "communists" are no more than Branco's political opponents. Later it is revealed that the CIA trains the death squads.
1965
Indonesia -- The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Sukarno with a military coup. The CIA has been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General Suharto, will massacre between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being "communist." The CIA supplies the names of countless suspects.
Dominican Republic -- A popular rebellion breaks out, promising to reinstall Juan Bosch as the country's elected leader. The revolution is crushed when U.S. Marines land to uphold the military regime by force. The CIA directs ev
I saw that when I was 8 or so. I went around for weeks afterward, terrorizing my little brother by holding my hand in a claw shape near his chest while chanting "molaram, molaram, molaram-sularam!"
He's a KillerDeathRobot, as opposed to KillerPusherRobots, KillerShoverRobots, KillerBumperRobots, KillerForceRobots, you know!
Together they protect us from the Terrible Secret of Space. (They also form Voltron. KillerDeathRobot will form the head!)
Yeah, it's pretty much the same thing - actually, being diabetic, I'd have to say that when my blood sugar is out of whack I'm much more likely to make mistakes doing whatever I'm doing than I would be after two or three beers (haven't tested driving immediately after three beers, but riding bicycles is pretty similar).
But yeah, being drunk is a lot like being really tired. You can concentrate on one thing ok if you really need to, but multitasking is out of the question, and driving is all about multitasking. I can't think of a way to simulate that at all.
Ah, spoken like somebody who's never been drunk or high. To be that young again.
What you see isn't affected very much by alcohol or marijuana, only how you percieve it (except for in extremely drunk people who get a little "tunnel vision", but you'd need head-tracking software and a virtual car interior to duplicate that).
It's pretty hard to make a program that would realistically show the effects of paying more attention to your spedometer than to the road, for instance (a common problem, since you don't want to get pulled for speeding while drunk, do you?)
I've been working on Linux appliances for over 6 years now, without exception, it seems like someone ends up writing some kind of "health script" that is kicked off by cron every minute or a few or is a daemon in it's own right that watches for things to crash or not be running and then it restarts them. I've seen it in a production set-top box based on Linux where we essentially wrote our own init and had it treat some processes special and 5 different software appliances. Fact of life is software crashes from time to time.
You do realize that you can just use init to do this, right?
/etc/inittab:
For instance, I have a client with a dialup server and several USB modems for his clients to connect to. mgetty is only good for one connection, it doesn't reset itself. So I added these lines to
S0:345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyUSB0
S1:345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyUSB1
S2:345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyUSB2
etc.
Just because you (not you personally, but whoever is duplicating init's functionality in other programs) don't know how to use the existing tools, it's not an excuse to write your own, non-peer-reviewed code with potential security problems.
I wish there were a (+1 Famous Troll / Informative) mod.
(Yes, I had mod points, but this post is too awesome not to reply to. LONG LIVE OOG!)
Heavy metal?
You forgot CAKE!
> The devs would add new monsters and npcs every month or two. It revolutionized the way players actually played the game. Reports would come in, via the game, about a new mob attacking one of the towns, and then you could go there and actually find/see it.
Actually, City of Heroes does the same thing, as you can see from reading their "newspaper." (linked from the main page of the site, you can get to back issues by changing the URL to newspaper20.html instead of newspaper21.html, etc. - they really need to put in an interface for that)
Actually, City of Heroes does have endgame raids available, the most popular of which is a fearsome monster named Hamidon (Hamidon is non-instanced, so any level 47+ players on the server can join a Hamidon raid).
Also, Issue 5 (the next content update after the one currently being beta-tested) is supposed to add more endgame content, if I recall correctly, so it should be very interesting (my main is only level 21 right now, I'm just taking my time though).