I feel the same way about things, it always bothered me that my friends who get squicked out at movie violence (which dosnt bother me, but does tend to bore me if it's too gratuitous) can watch a reality tv show and laugh at someones humiliation or pain.
Just buy a damn mouse already if you want the extra buttons, I'm currently writing this from a mac with a 4 button scroll wheel mouse *gasp!!* and it works just peachy.
I find it interesting that those who have had encounters with shady cops will willingly accept that there are good cops and bad cops out there, but those who have managed to avoid meeting a bad cop refuse to even accept the posibility of their existance.
Strange.
Erm, Mina, short for Willamina. Also known as Mina Murry, from Bram Stokers Dracula.
If you've read the comics, you'll note that Mina _allways_ wears a scarf tightly about the neck. Concealing bitemarks perhaps?
Athough I agree with you on the other crap. They even bastardized Ripley. In the first movie she kicked ass pure and simple. In the second movie they gave her a little girl to protect to give her a reason for being bad ass (mothering instinct, awww how girlie!). In the third movie she was nuts, and in the fourth movie she was no longer human, but a monster. Hard for chicks to sympathize with a female character on such a downward spiral. >.
I don't care if microsoft compiles a user data information base about my hotmail usage. The only mail that comes to my hotmail account is pron spam anyway. That means they know my name, and the fact that I use the hotmail account on the web, and _nothing else_. They can only get the information you give 'em folks.
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If people out there are letting their 5 year old daughters surf the web unattended, they are criminally negligent, and more dangerous to their children than people who advocate the banning of wildly non-specific protection programs.
...Johnny and Sue-Ann, because today they put spit balls in my hair durring Biology, and that seems like pretty antisocial behavior to me.
And I would like to report Garrett, because on the bus this morning he called me a stupid fat girl, among other things, and he seemed really angry, and it frightened me. I think he could become violent.
And I would like to report Mr. Larson, because after english class today, when I told him about how I could not turn in my homework because it was stolen from me at lunch by some kids I did not know and thrown in a mud puddle, he called me a liar and told me I better shape up if I wanted to get anywhere in this life.
And most of all, I would like to report myself, because if this keeps up much longer, I just might decide to fight back...
If I was paralized or missing a limb, I would sign up for experementation like this in an instant, and so would lots of other people out there.
Unfortunatly, scientists like to make sure things like this have some sort of a basis in reality before they start cutting open the heads of humans (or injecting weird drugs, or any other type of medical experimentation out there).
I'm a vegan, and I won't use cosmetics or soaps that were tested on animals. I won't wear leather from animals if there is anything else to wear, but if I'm dying, and the medicine they give me was perfected on chimps, I'll say a little prayer in my heart for all the animals who died to allow me to live, but I wont refuse that medicine.
Moderation for the sake of morals is good, exclusion of something that could save a life or allow a child to walk again is acceptance of ignorance and refusal to believe that life can be better.
Isn't the law supposed to be 'Innocent untill proven guilty', not 'Guilty untill you produce some proof that it wasn't you?' The burden of proof is on the prosecution.
From the article:
"The defense claimed that the "entire case [was] speculation" and pointed out that Parisi had even failed to mention any of these details in a report he had filed with the Philadelphia police the day the video was shot.
This, combined with his inability to capture McGuckin on videotape, strengthened the defense's allegation that McGuckin was not actually observed doing anything illegal."
They did defend themselves, there was no proof of any illegal action, only the word of one man that the defendant had talked on a phone and pointed. Seems mighty shaky to me.
Okay, vote pro-life. In another 10 years, when global populations hit the 10 or 15 billion mark Better hope you're upper middle class or upper class...
Taking a life is a horrible decision, I don't think I could ever have an abortion. But I also would not put myself in a position where I needed to have one.
However, if I was raped, I would get down on my knees and thank God for every one of those pro-choice government workers out there who gave me the ability to take control of my body back from that rapist.
I'm not pro-abortion, but I am pro-choice. Freedom is the ability to chose for your self...last time I looked this was supposed to be a free country.
The thing that really scares record labels, publishers, everyone in that industry, is the possible direction in which Napster points us. How many companies who print books are terrified that as the internet becomes more prominent their business will dwindle. For example, why drive down to the bookstore and shell out 8 dollars for a thin paperback book, when you could download the same book online for 2 or 3 dollars and load it onto a palm pilot for travel reading. Or keep it on your computer and have instant access to an on the fly dictionary/thesaurus, and the internet as a whole so you can cross reference or look up anything you don't know about. Reading history? Look up exact birth dates of prominent figures in history. Reading a sci-fi? Look up the validity of a scientific theory mentioned in the book, all on the computer, all available at the click of a mouse. So much more convenient than the old days of digging through encyclopedias that might be years out of date by the time you get them.
The one's who are the most afraid in this situation, and who stand to loose the most in the long run are the companies who make the physical product. The book printers. The newspapers, the record companies. Why cart a heavy case of CD's with you everywhere when in another 5 years you can have a small pocket sized Mp3 player that holds 100 gigs of music and can be updated on the fly via a cellular modem? All music payments automatically deducted from your bank account. I know I would carry one.
It's not about the musicians and their music or if they are loosing money. They make miniscule profits off of each CD anyway. It's not about the music being free, that will get sorted out eventually. No, it's about the publishers and their profits, and everything they stand to loose as media becomes fully electronic.
I don't think that something being grossly overpriced gives me the right to steel it, I just think it explains the popularity of napster.
And besides, no matter how much good a boycott of the music industry would do, it would never happen. There are too many sheep out there who don't even look at the high prices and consider what actualy went into the process, they just want to get the latest hit teeny bopper song.
Just because someone moderated them down to a spam troll dosent mean they didn't have something valid to say.
An opinion is an opinion, I felt the need to argue with someone's because I have a differing point of view. You however felt the need to slam on me for attempting to discuss something I happen to find interesting. Somehow I think you slide into the 'shithead' catagory a little better than danheskett and I.
No, but Ford could sue Chevy if Chevy build a truck to the exact same dimensions, so that someone looking at the two side by side with all logos trimmed off could not tell the difference between. Now I personaly cannot tell the difference between any two trucks, being a vehicle-oblivious person that i am, but I know several 8 to 10 year olds who can see a truck pass by at 60 miles per hour and name the year, make and modle without thinking about it.
>Steal from others is now the Open Source Way. >Then justify your actions on Slashdot with dubious rationales like "they don't get it".
It's 'Open source', which means they are freely giving it away. It cant be stolen...
>Lets just take the music from musicians and not pay them anything. >Lets just take from others and pay them nothing.
Maybe things like napster would not be so popular if music was not so grossly overpriced. I'm sorry, but I don't believe someone who can play a tune and write a song should live like a millionaire while it costs me 20 dollars to pay for a piece of plastic that should cost 5 or 10. 20 dollars earned at a job I had to spend years in college to get. I agree that musicions should get money for what they do, but this is absurd.
>Those arguing for its continuation are arguing for continued lawbreaking and illegal activities.
Opensource is not lawbreaking, and it's not Illegal. It's completly voluntary. It has allowed many breakthroughs. Information shared is information bettered through the input of those it is shared with.
-Hikahi
'If I have a penny, and you have a penny, and we exchange pennys, you still have one and I still have one. But if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, now you have two ideas and I have two ideas...' -Unknown
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You can chose to play first person real time, or use the turn based system.
I have no idea about a demo though
I'd mod you up if I had the points 3
It says the eclipse starts at 8:43 Est, lasts an hour, but the first hints of red don't appear till 10 Est? Something screwy there.
I feel the same way about things, it always bothered me that my friends who get squicked out at movie violence (which dosnt bother me, but does tend to bore me if it's too gratuitous) can watch a reality tv show and laugh at someones humiliation or pain.
Just buy a damn mouse already if you want the extra buttons, I'm currently writing this from a mac with a 4 button scroll wheel mouse *gasp!!* and it works just peachy.
I find it interesting that those who have had encounters with shady cops will willingly accept that there are good cops and bad cops out there, but those who have managed to avoid meeting a bad cop refuse to even accept the posibility of their existance. Strange.
Ow, i just hurt something laughing.
Erm, Mina, short for Willamina. Also known as Mina Murry, from Bram Stokers Dracula.
If you've read the comics, you'll note that Mina _allways_ wears a scarf tightly about the neck. Concealing bitemarks perhaps?
Athough I agree with you on the other crap. They even bastardized Ripley. In the first movie she kicked ass pure and simple. In the second movie they gave her a little girl to protect to give her a reason for being bad ass (mothering instinct, awww how girlie!). In the third movie she was nuts, and in the fourth movie she was no longer human, but a monster. Hard for chicks to sympathize with a female character on such a downward spiral. >.
Eowyn rocks. Even if she was movieized.
I don't care if microsoft compiles a user data information base about my hotmail usage. The only mail that comes to my hotmail account is pron spam anyway. That means they know my name, and the fact that I use the hotmail account on the web, and _nothing else_. They can only get the information you give 'em folks.
If people out there are letting their 5 year old daughters surf the web unattended, they are criminally negligent, and more dangerous to their children than people who advocate the banning of wildly non-specific protection programs.
I'd rather pay napster than funnel my hard earned cash into the music industry through the record companies.
...Johnny and Sue-Ann, because today they put spit balls in my hair durring Biology, and that seems like pretty antisocial behavior to me.
And I would like to report Garrett, because on the bus this morning he called me a stupid fat girl, among other things, and he seemed really angry, and it frightened me. I think he could become violent.
And I would like to report Mr. Larson, because after english class today, when I told him about how I could not turn in my homework because it was stolen from me at lunch by some kids I did not know and thrown in a mud puddle, he called me a liar and told me I better shape up if I wanted to get anywhere in this life.
And most of all, I would like to report myself, because if this keeps up much longer, I just might decide to fight back...
If I was paralized or missing a limb, I would sign up for experementation like this in an instant, and so would lots of other people out there.
Unfortunatly, scientists like to make sure things like this have some sort of a basis in reality before they start cutting open the heads of humans (or injecting weird drugs, or any other type of medical experimentation out there).
I'm a vegan, and I won't use cosmetics or soaps that were tested on animals. I won't wear leather from animals if there is anything else to wear, but if I'm dying, and the medicine they give me was perfected on chimps, I'll say a little prayer in my heart for all the animals who died to allow me to live, but I wont refuse that medicine.
Moderation for the sake of morals is good, exclusion of something that could save a life or allow a child to walk again is acceptance of ignorance and refusal to believe that life can be better.
I don't choose to believe that.
Isn't the law supposed to be 'Innocent untill proven guilty', not 'Guilty untill you produce some proof that it wasn't you?' The burden of proof is on the prosecution.
From the article:
"The defense claimed that the "entire case [was] speculation" and pointed out that Parisi had even failed to mention any of these details in a report he had filed with the Philadelphia police the day the video was shot.
This, combined with his inability to capture McGuckin on videotape, strengthened the defense's allegation that McGuckin was not actually observed doing anything illegal."
They did defend themselves, there was no proof of any illegal action, only the word of one man that the defendant had talked on a phone and pointed. Seems mighty shaky to me.
Okay, vote pro-life. In another 10 years, when global populations hit the 10 or 15 billion mark Better hope you're upper middle class or upper class...
Taking a life is a horrible decision, I don't think I could ever have an abortion. But I also would not put myself in a position where I needed to have one.
However, if I was raped, I would get down on my knees and thank God for every one of those pro-choice government workers out there who gave me the ability to take control of my body back from that rapist.
I'm not pro-abortion, but I am pro-choice. Freedom is the ability to chose for your self...last time I looked this was supposed to be a free country.
The thing that really scares record labels, publishers, everyone in that industry, is the possible direction in which Napster points us. How many companies who print books are terrified that as the internet becomes more prominent their business will dwindle. For example, why drive down to the bookstore and shell out 8 dollars for a thin paperback book, when you could download the same book online for 2 or 3 dollars and load it onto a palm pilot for travel reading. Or keep it on your computer and have instant access to an on the fly dictionary/thesaurus, and the internet as a whole so you can cross reference or look up anything you don't know about. Reading history? Look up exact birth dates of prominent figures in history. Reading a sci-fi? Look up the validity of a scientific theory mentioned in the book, all on the computer, all available at the click of a mouse. So much more convenient than the old days of digging through encyclopedias that might be years out of date by the time you get them.
The one's who are the most afraid in this situation, and who stand to loose the most in the long run are the companies who make the physical product. The book printers. The newspapers, the record companies. Why cart a heavy case of CD's with you everywhere when in another 5 years you can have a small pocket sized Mp3 player that holds 100 gigs of music and can be updated on the fly via a cellular modem? All music payments automatically deducted from your bank account. I know I would carry one.
It's not about the musicians and their music or if they are loosing money. They make miniscule profits off of each CD anyway. It's not about the music being free, that will get sorted out eventually. No, it's about the publishers and their profits, and everything they stand to loose as media becomes fully electronic.
I don't think that something being grossly overpriced gives me the right to steel it, I just think it explains the popularity of napster.
And besides, no matter how much good a boycott of the music industry would do, it would never happen. There are too many sheep out there who don't even look at the high prices and consider what actualy went into the process, they just want to get the latest hit teeny bopper song.
It's sad really.
And what does that make you?
Just because someone moderated them down to a spam troll dosent mean they didn't have something valid to say.
An opinion is an opinion, I felt the need to argue with someone's because I have a differing point of view. You however felt the need to slam on me for attempting to discuss something I happen to find interesting. Somehow I think you slide into the 'shithead' catagory a little better than danheskett and I.
Someone Mentioned the Micro Server by Gateway:
g ory.shtml
http://www.gatewayatwork.com/prod/sb_apsrv_Cate
Unless Gateway is selling a black&white version of the Qube, perhaps Cobalt is sueing the wrong person.
Go here for a comparison of all three Cubes:
http://homepage.mac.com/hikahi/PhotoAlbum.html
Seems mighty suspicious to me. Anyone know if Gateway and Cobolt have some sort of an agreement together?
No, but Ford could sue Chevy if Chevy build a truck to the exact same dimensions, so that someone looking at the two side by side with all logos trimmed off could not tell the difference between. Now I personaly cannot tell the difference between any two trucks, being a vehicle-oblivious person that i am, but I know several 8 to 10 year olds who can see a truck pass by at 60 miles per hour and name the year, make and modle without thinking about it.
Good point!
>Steal from others is now the Open Source Way.
>Then justify your actions on Slashdot with dubious rationales like "they don't get it".
It's 'Open source', which means they are freely giving it away. It cant be stolen...
>Lets just take the music from musicians and not pay them anything.
>Lets just take from others and pay them nothing.
Maybe things like napster would not be so popular if music was not so grossly overpriced. I'm sorry, but I don't believe someone who can play a tune and write a song should live like a millionaire while it costs me 20 dollars to pay for a piece of plastic that should cost 5 or 10. 20 dollars earned at a job I had to spend years in college to get. I agree that musicions should get money for what they do, but this is absurd.
>Those arguing for its continuation are arguing for continued lawbreaking and illegal activities.
Opensource is not lawbreaking, and it's not Illegal. It's completly voluntary. It has allowed many breakthroughs. Information shared is information bettered through the input of those it is shared with.
-Hikahi
'If I have a penny, and you have a penny, and we exchange pennys, you still have one and I still have one.
But if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, now you have two ideas and I have two ideas...'
-Unknown