Re:We both know there is more to D & D than that..
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Yeah, my spelling blows.. I caught it about 10 milliseconds after hitting submit (ok.. about 4 hours after..)
Re:We both know there is more to D & D than that..
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Yeah, like no one has ever killed in the name of Christ (or Budda or Yaweh or any other God of choice). The Crusaids... that was just a christian field trip, right?
My point exactly. While their charter says they are only to work in the US there's enough loopholes where they can pretty much work where ever the US gvm't wants to send them.
Please tell me that not all geeks are blind to common sense
Common sense is a highly subjective thing. Interesting if someone believes in what you believe in they've become knowledgable enough about history and society to draw their own conclusions, but if they do not hold your beliefs they're blindly follow propaganda.
No, a gun has been specifically designed to lauch a projectile out of barrel. I can shoot at a target, I can shoot at a tree, I can shoot into midair, I can shoot at a person. I have no intent to kill if I'm at a shooting range.
Using that line of reasoning we should also ban archery equipment. What other use does a bow and arrow have then to simply kill?
And a pen-knife can kill someone and a sharp #2 pencil can kill someone. Lots of things can kill people. The problem here making "possession" illegal, not an action illegal. A loaded gun doesn't kill unless someone pulls a trigger. A pen knife (and sharp #2 pencil) doesn't kill unless someone stabs someone else. Exploits do no damage unless some one uses them. The action should be the crime, not simply the possession.
Hey, when you get moderator points you can knock him down some pegs... I can't speak for anyone else who's moderated, but I don't bump folks up / knock 'em down because of who they are, I go simply by the post (and this one would have taken a hit).
And Bruce doesn't get "included" because he's Bruce, simply because he hits the "submit" key, just like you.
Why oh why did my moderation rights have to expire yesterday!
IANAL but my understanding is MP3 will probably still have to pay (laws--I don't think-- are retroactive... of course, the Sonny "Watch how I ski" Bono act is completely retroactive, which is just one of its problems).
Don't believe me? Here's a partial list of "smutty books" that have been banned at one time or another
Ulysses
Candide
Fanny Hill
Moll Flanders
Lysistrata
Canterbury Tales
Decameron
The Arabian Nights
Leaves of Grass
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography Confessions
The Rights of Man
The Age of Reason
The Provincial Letters
It's easy to hold up a copy of Hustler and say "this is all we're trying to protect our children from." History shows that its just the top of a very slippery slope.
Funny thing is popular perception of a member of congress (except for those representing thier own district) is that they're a bunch of scoundrels. Someone should use Istook's logic and pass a law outlawing Congressmen.
Who the hell is going to the library to look at porn?
No one, it's a smokescreen. These folks don't want ANYONE looking at porn (or reading books they don't like or listening to music they don't like or reading.... you get the picture) ANYWHERE. This is just a first step for them. There was a pretty crappy investigation into the porn industury on MSNBC (NBC's news dept is a joke) and the same people are trying to pass a federal obscenity law defining "penetration" as obscene, thus illegal. You know... because watching someone else have sex is harmful.
Good old Robert X. in an Infoworld Article a couple of weeks ago wrote about how URL were mysteriously being snatched up just after being looked up for availability on NSI's site. I've often wondered if NSI, when they switched their policy to not putting expired domain names back into the general pool but instead auction them off, would abuse such a position. ("What, you wanted MyNewCompany.com??? Yes, it was available half an hour ago, but it has been 'reserved.' Should you really really really want this domain name, and the other registrar 'ahem' doesn't pay, we'll be happy to let you participate in an auction for it... bidding starts at $10,000")
Anyone else heard of such nonsense from or favorite registrar?
Re:Some of us worked our way through art school...
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It's not the amount that counts, its the principle of the thing. $0.33 is $0.33 too much. If I like something, I'll pay for it.
I remember something similar back when the Atari Jaguar was up and coming (although it never really got anywhere). Some company sent out a press release about how they were using Jags to power an industrial looming machine, or some other weirdness. Don't think it ever saw the light of day, but was interesting nevertheless.
It's just a good idea to flush out the system now and again...
Agreed... I don't think my Win box could make it that long, even if left alone. After about four days up, running mostly just IE and Outlook (with a little Quicken and Winamp here and there) it will bog down like a champ. Time to recycle the power!
Nathan
You actually can (at least with Verizon, for a few $$ a month I'm sure). A friend of mine's line will not accept calls from blocked numbers. A nice recorded message pops up saying "Sorry, the subscriber of this line will not accept...." Pretty neat.
I have a hard time taking this guy too seriously. I'm sure he's bright and all, and may even have some interesting things to say, but he pretty much turned me off in the early 90s when he was going on about how the net would (could?)bring about this "utopian" age. Never trust anyone that says something new is either
a) the greatest thing on earth, or conversely
b) the greatest blight on the earth It usually means they're either very, very naive or they're selling something.
The Bad: * They lost my startup package (modem, filters, etc). Actually, more of a UPS problem, but still a pain in the ass.
* Their tech support is pretty hit or miss. I had a problem with a motherboard on one of my machines (sorta worked under 95 / fubar under 98) that they had no clue about. Some tech folks were pretty damn good about following up and genuinely trying to help, but I got a few that could be classified as clueless. Also delt with one asshole manager.
* PPPoE. I hate it.
The Good:
* DSL Service has been pretty good. Outages have been pretty few and far between. Nothing really long term (more than 2 hours) at all (that I have noticed)
* The price seems to be dropping ($39 in VA, $35 in NJ).
As much as the few hiccups have really pissed me off, overall it has been pretty damn good. I know there are some BA horror stories so YMMV.
When the FBI has carnivore attached to every ISP and the RIAA / MPAA / DC / AnyOtherNameForADMCALovin'Company / UCTIA backed spyware companies are collecting all of that data on you I'm sure they'll have LOTS of reliable statistics about your website (and shopping patterns, and bank accounts, and how much porn you download off of newsgroups)... and you'll be able to get it... for a price of course (unless you do something the Gvm't doesn't like, then you'll get it free under the rules of discovery. Too bad you'll be in jail soon after)
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Yeah, my spelling blows.. I caught it about 10 milliseconds after hitting submit (ok.. about 4 hours after..)
Nathan
Jefferson: "But Al, you only gave us 9."
Al Bundy: "..... These are my 9 commandments."
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Tell me why I shouldn't own a gun.
Common sense is a highly subjective thing. Interesting if someone believes in what you believe in they've become knowledgable enough about history and society to draw their own conclusions, but if they do not hold your beliefs they're blindly follow propaganda.
Nathan
Using that line of reasoning we should also ban archery equipment. What other use does a bow and arrow have then to simply kill?
Nathan
And a pen-knife can kill someone and a sharp #2 pencil can kill someone. Lots of things can kill people. The problem here making "possession" illegal, not an action illegal. A loaded gun doesn't kill unless someone pulls a trigger. A pen knife (and sharp #2 pencil) doesn't kill unless someone stabs someone else. Exploits do no damage unless some one uses them. The action should be the crime, not simply the possession.
Nathan
Actually, it was "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't Run" but true enough
And Bruce doesn't get "included" because he's Bruce, simply because he hits the "submit" key, just like you.
Why oh why did my moderation rights have to expire yesterday!
Nathan
Nathan
"One small step for man... one giant for mankind"
To make *owning* a sniffing tool illegal makes about as much sense as outlawing the ownership of lockpicking tools.
Nathan
Don't believe me? Here's a partial list of "smutty books" that have been banned at one time or another
It's easy to hold up a copy of Hustler and say "this is all we're trying to protect our children from." History shows that its just the top of a very slippery slope.
Nathan
Nathan
No one, it's a smokescreen. These folks don't want ANYONE looking at porn (or reading books they don't like or listening to music they don't like or reading.... you get the picture) ANYWHERE. This is just a first step for them. There was a pretty crappy investigation into the porn industury on MSNBC (NBC's news dept is a joke) and the same people are trying to pass a federal obscenity law defining "penetration" as obscene, thus illegal. You know... because watching someone else have sex is harmful.
Thank God I have these people to think for me.
Nathan
Anyone else heard of such nonsense from or favorite registrar?
It's not the amount that counts, its the principle of the thing. $0.33 is $0.33 too much. If I like something, I'll pay for it.
Nathan
Agreed... I don't think my Win box could make it that long, even if left alone. After about four days up, running mostly just IE and Outlook (with a little Quicken and Winamp here and there) it will bog down like a champ. Time to recycle the power! Nathan
You actually can (at least with Verizon, for a few $$ a month I'm sure). A friend of mine's line will not accept calls from blocked numbers. A nice recorded message pops up saying "Sorry, the subscriber of this line will not accept...." Pretty neat.
a) the greatest thing on earth, or conversely
b) the greatest blight on the earth
It usually means they're either very, very naive or they're selling something.
Natham
The Bad:
* They lost my startup package (modem, filters, etc). Actually, more of a UPS problem, but still a pain in the ass.
* Their tech support is pretty hit or miss. I had a problem with a motherboard on one of my machines (sorta worked under 95 / fubar under 98) that they had no clue about. Some tech folks were pretty damn good about following up and genuinely trying to help, but I got a few that could be classified as clueless. Also delt with one asshole manager.
* PPPoE. I hate it.
The Good:
* DSL Service has been pretty good. Outages have been pretty few and far between. Nothing really long term (more than 2 hours) at all (that I have noticed)
* The price seems to be dropping ($39 in VA, $35 in NJ).
As much as the few hiccups have really pissed me off, overall it has been pretty damn good. I know there are some BA horror stories so YMMV.
Nathan
Nathan "They're watching me, I swear" Cento....
(Yeah yeah yeah... I sould learn to use PREVIEW)