Suing people isn't going to stop them from being dicks. In fact, it's likely to encourage people to be dicks. Once you start throwing around threats, we're not playing by the honor system anymore, and people will feel less obligated to actually act honorably.
If it's not a fine, then it's not subject to the constitutions prohibition on excessive fines. I think I'd rather it be a fine. Perhaps this settlement isn't a fine, but the judgment you'd get if you took it to court would definitely be a fine.
Wikileaks accepts donations by mail. If you're paranoid, and you should be, buy a postal money order with cash and drop it in a mailbox. No return address!
I was plagued with choppy audio under W7 until I disabled my Realtek sound chip and got a Turtle Beach PCI card. Actually, IIRC, CoD4 refused to run at all with Realtek. Never had a problem with it under Linux though. Of course, YMMV.
If you need the features provided by an advanced filesystem, you'll know. If you're not hitting your head on the limits of EXT4/LVM/RAID, then you don't really need ZFS or Btrfs.
Exactly. Even if there were a safety exemption to the 4th amendment, this would not qualify. Air travel is the safest form of travel, even counting deaths due to terrorism.
You could strafe in doom, and Duke 3d even had mouse look. You should be able to customize the controls to something usable, but the enhanced source ports are the best way to play them these days.
What are you talking about? Customs agents can open your mail and copy all the papers and effects too. When crossing the border they can open your wallet and copy every scrap of paper they find. The problem isn't that the law considers computing devices different from papers, it's that the courts have fabricated a border exemption to the 4th amendment.
Just because it's against the law doesn't make it wrong. A just punishment will fit the crime. Neither smoking pot nor flying hurts anyone. Getting your balls cupped by a gov't employee is humiliating yes, but does not not compare to incarceration.
BTW, administrative polices don't supercede the law. An act from Congress prohibiting this would stop it quickly, so you do have the same amount of recourse you ever have.
Look to see more bullshit agencies created by executive order, to illegally search - i mean safety screen - you in other venues as well. After all, a Phish concert certainly is a decent terrorist target, right?
It's already happening. Recently a Grateful Dead cover band had their property seized because they failed to provide enough security. I've been there several times and it was, without a doubt, the safest concert environment I have ever been to. There were no friskings because there was no need for it.
No it didn't. Fear mongers have been chipping away at our freedoms since day 1. Getting groped at the airport isn't any more outrageous than getting jailed for smoking pot for instance.
Normal people have 1-2 hours a day of free time. If you can't find 1-2 hours a day to do something you like, then you need to rearrange your life. If you have 1-2 hours a day of free time and video games don't make the cut, that's your choice. And what would be the point of cutting out tons of gameplay for someone who doesn't actually like video games? If you really want to play games where they've cut out all the combat and difficulty, just watch TV. There's no difference between that and a game that's just one long cut scene with no grinding which is what you seem to want.
I personally stopped playing Dark Cloud 2 because simply put, I realized it simply had too much stuff and it was starting to feel like work, start up the game, grind some weapon XP, repeat. Not to mention, the spheda, the collection (and leveling up) of monster transformations, the customization of Steve, the fishing, the fish racing, the medals, collecting the additional NPCs...do I even have to mention the 100 level bonus dungeon that they put in there, on top of the HUGE main game.
You know, you didn't have to do all that stuff. Focus on the main quest, and only do the side quests you enjoy.
It's not that there's not enough time. Collecting shit for the sake of collecting shit is the worst thing to happen to video games ever as far as I can tell. Give me all the time in the world, and I would never collect all the bananas in Donkey Kong, never collect all the Skulltulas in Zelda, or all the hidden packages in GTA. It's just _not fun_. It's not even close to pretending to be a simulation of something that used to be fun. It's tedious, it's frustrating, it's *work*. No thank you.
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Why would they crash it? Much better to sit and eavesdrop quietly.
Maybe he should go to Bovine University.
If you can't appreciate a simple roasted turkey with stuffing and a side of potatos, I feel sorry for you.
The reason you don't see helper cats is that cats are too smart to be exploited like that. Cats have helper humans.
Looks like 400-500 people die on the road over the thanksgiving holiday each year. It will be interesting to see if this number increases in 2010.
This will just get you an enhanced pat down, which you could opt for in the first place.
Suing people isn't going to stop them from being dicks. In fact, it's likely to encourage people to be dicks. Once you start throwing around threats, we're not playing by the honor system anymore, and people will feel less obligated to actually act honorably.
If it's not a fine, then it's not subject to the constitutions prohibition on excessive fines. I think I'd rather it be a fine. Perhaps this settlement isn't a fine, but the judgment you'd get if you took it to court would definitely be a fine.
And the US government would be best described as Lawful-Evil. Pick your sides.
Wikileaks accepts donations by mail. If you're paranoid, and you should be, buy a postal money order with cash and drop it in a mailbox. No return address!
I was plagued with choppy audio under W7 until I disabled my Realtek sound chip and got a Turtle Beach PCI card. Actually, IIRC, CoD4 refused to run at all with Realtek. Never had a problem with it under Linux though. Of course, YMMV.
Yeah! Preach it brother! Speak truth to power!
BTRFS can probably never be shipped with any other major OS other than linux
It's not BTRFS's fault that other operating systems use licenses with more restrictions than Linux.
If you need the features provided by an advanced filesystem, you'll know. If you're not hitting your head on the limits of EXT4/LVM/RAID, then you don't really need ZFS or Btrfs.
Exactly. Even if there were a safety exemption to the 4th amendment, this would not qualify. Air travel is the safest form of travel, even counting deaths due to terrorism.
You could strafe in doom, and Duke 3d even had mouse look. You should be able to customize the controls to something usable, but the enhanced source ports are the best way to play them these days.
A source port with added features is exactly what you want from a "remake". If you're going to change anything substantial, make it a whole new game.
Can we stop reposting that? That was just a crazy old lady with a blog.
What are you talking about? Customs agents can open your mail and copy all the papers and effects too. When crossing the border they can open your wallet and copy every scrap of paper they find. The problem isn't that the law considers computing devices different from papers, it's that the courts have fabricated a border exemption to the 4th amendment.
Just because it's against the law doesn't make it wrong. A just punishment will fit the crime. Neither smoking pot nor flying hurts anyone. Getting your balls cupped by a gov't employee is humiliating yes, but does not not compare to incarceration.
BTW, administrative polices don't supercede the law. An act from Congress prohibiting this would stop it quickly, so you do have the same amount of recourse you ever have.
Look to see more bullshit agencies created by executive order, to illegally search - i mean safety screen - you in other venues as well. After all, a Phish concert certainly is a decent terrorist target, right?
It's already happening. Recently a Grateful Dead cover band had their property seized because they failed to provide enough security. I've been there several times and it was, without a doubt, the safest concert environment I have ever been to. There were no friskings because there was no need for it.
It all started on 9/11
No it didn't. Fear mongers have been chipping away at our freedoms since day 1. Getting groped at the airport isn't any more outrageous than getting jailed for smoking pot for instance.
Normal people have 1-2 hours a day of free time. If you can't find 1-2 hours a day to do something you like, then you need to rearrange your life. If you have 1-2 hours a day of free time and video games don't make the cut, that's your choice. And what would be the point of cutting out tons of gameplay for someone who doesn't actually like video games? If you really want to play games where they've cut out all the combat and difficulty, just watch TV. There's no difference between that and a game that's just one long cut scene with no grinding which is what you seem to want.
I personally stopped playing Dark Cloud 2 because simply put, I realized it simply had too much stuff and it was starting to feel like work, start up the game, grind some weapon XP, repeat. Not to mention, the spheda, the collection (and leveling up) of monster transformations, the customization of Steve, the fishing, the fish racing, the medals, collecting the additional NPCs...do I even have to mention the 100 level bonus dungeon that they put in there, on top of the HUGE main game.
You know, you didn't have to do all that stuff. Focus on the main quest, and only do the side quests you enjoy.
It's not that there's not enough time. Collecting shit for the sake of collecting shit is the worst thing to happen to video games ever as far as I can tell. Give me all the time in the world, and I would never collect all the bananas in Donkey Kong, never collect all the Skulltulas in Zelda, or all the hidden packages in GTA. It's just _not fun_. It's not even close to pretending to be a simulation of something that used to be fun. It's tedious, it's frustrating, it's *work*. No thank you.