Paying by phone is of course pretty convenient, but I really prefer methods of payment where I'm not dependant on a battery that I have to charge. I.e. by credit card. And also there are places where you can't get a carrier, although those places have to be looked for these days.
Sine this could be used to "create aliens" by simulating stuff.:-) Question is; will I be credited for crunching the unit that gave the answer to creating flying pigs, and do I want it?:-)
What is your favourite way to put off telemarketers?
* Not answer "anonymous" calls * Hang up * Be rude, swear, yell and then hang up * Put them on hold indefinately * Threaten with lawsuit * Lie and say you already have that product * Ask the to call back on a different number (which you don't answer) * Buy the product * Forward the call to CowboyNeal
If there is anything I'd want less that sales people calling to sell me socks, subscriptions or whatever, it would have to be some schmuck telling me that if I don't believe in *insert favourite god here* I am going to *insert favourite bad place here* and will suffer eternal *insert favourite punishment here*.
Or wanting me to vote for the only party that can actually save civilisation.
Religion and politics are just two of the things I can think of that is not meant for profit (not plain straight, anyway).
That said, I also find it annoying when ideal organisations (Red cross, Amnesty International to mention a couple) call me to sell lottery tickets, T-shirts or whatever. All these are good causes, but the argument "It's only ten bucks" don't work, simply because $10 multiplied by the number of phone calls adds up to a significant amount none the less.
In Norway, any copies of any music downloaded for personal use are legal, so as long as I don't share or sell anything I download, I can download as much MP3 songs and DivX movies I want.
So, as I don't have any P2P software running at the moment, the number is zero.:-D
Lots (well, some are, anyway) of files that come with programs I buy are claimed to be small, say about 1000 bytes, but they actually take up a lot more space than that on my disk, since the allocation units are larger than 1000 bytes. Who is going to pay for this??!
Just how far should this be pulled? I wonder if I will ever again be able to drive any make of car with a radio, CD player, handsfree for my cell phone and a small refridgerator hooked to the lighter output in the back. Or will one make claim the right to such "plug ins"? Sheesh. . .
The locality-issue is important in all this. Like here in Norway it's perfectly legal to download music or movies *for personal use*. As soon as I start to sell copies, or share my downloads with kazaa or similar programs, then I break the law.
Another this is this; Because something is illegal, should it be illegal to get information about it? Take drugs, for example. What if I wanted to find out something about the effects of, say, heroine? Would google or anyone else be able to know that I actually wanted some totally legitimate information about the subject, rather than a list of pushers? Would google know that when I searched for "kiddie porn" and "Thailand", I was looking for a place to report my neighbour that I suspected foul play at his holiday? Would google know that when I searched for "How to make a bomb", I just want to see if that stuff under my sons bed can be used to make a bomb and should be taken away before an accident happens? Would google know that I wanted to find out how to totally uninstall kazaa, not to download it?
Bottom line: It is not illegal to search for information about things that are illegal. I think Internet is too good a place to find out about things to be cencored. And I regret to say that I think the americans lead the way there by suing anybody for nothing. (I guess I'll get sued for saying this. ..) I understand people/companies that would do this to avoid getting sued, but I think it is the wrong way to go.
Since it is "floating in thin air", it has to be "lighter than air", wouldn't it? This would be the same principle that makes any boat "lighter than water" even though it might weigh thousands of tons.
And of course a condensed cloud would be prety heavy. You could compress any/.'er down to the size of a pinhead, and he/she(/I) would be pretty heavy compared to any other pinhead.
. . . about this robot, and since he is single, he said that this would be the perfect product for any single guy. Until he found out that it is powered on only 30 wats. Then he found out that it probably don't suck that well.:-)
Who cares? If I want decent sound, there are real sound systems to get, designed specifically to make "nice sounds". My sound cards only serves the purpose of presenting "nifty error messages", spit out some background noise (mp3s) while checking my SETI@home stats, check out some "free music downloaded from the net" to decide wether to get the CD or not, but most of the time it's just a place to keep that jack plug in the end of that cable from lying on the floor.
I'd love to go to the swimmingpool in my local park very early one summer morning, and freeze the pool. Imagine the look on the people's faces when they show up in their swimsuits and find me ice skating on the pool:-D
>...what kind of in-game effect urination will produce?:D
Frankly, I think you should worry more about the "real life" effect such an action would produce. It wouldn't be good if you got used to opening doors or something by urinating. At least not when you after 3 weeks of straight playing have to make an erand somewhere in town.:)
I for one don't think passing laws will solve the problem. First of all there would be different laws in different countries, and even in different states for you people living in larger countries. How would people know what country others live in? Not that I think spammers deserve to get off the hook because of that, but what if I send an e-mail to someone I think I know, and it gets to someone else with a similar name? Would I get sued for that? I guess I could, but probably wouldn't.
Another point is that it would be difficult to win such cases, and I think the courts should spend time convicting real criminals, like violent people and such.
In Norway, we have recently gotten a few new laws that serve no purpose other than undermining peoples faith in the legal system. Like what use is a law against talking in handheld phones while driving, if there is nobody to catch the "criminals" that still do?
And how would you feel if the person that beat your cousin almost to death and scarred him for life gets off the hook due to lask of resources in the police, while they just yesterday fined you $150 for talking in the phone while driving?
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Or "botroach".
:-)
Damn, that sounds like a cartoon! "Cockbot and Botroach". Heh, heheheh he-heh. . .
I mean, even the Devil reads the bible.
Paying by phone is of course pretty convenient, but I really prefer methods of payment where I'm not dependant on a battery that I have to charge. I.e. by credit card. And also there are places where you can't get a carrier, although those places have to be looked for these days.
Did you happen to read this thread? :-)
Sine this could be used to "create aliens" by simulating stuff. :-) Question is; will I be credited for crunching the unit that gave the answer to creating flying pigs, and do I want it? :-)
What is your favourite way to put off telemarketers?
* Not answer "anonymous" calls
* Hang up
* Be rude, swear, yell and then hang up
* Put them on hold indefinately
* Threaten with lawsuit
* Lie and say you already have that product
* Ask the to call back on a different number (which you don't answer)
* Buy the product
* Forward the call to CowboyNeal
If there is anything I'd want less that sales people calling to sell me socks, subscriptions or whatever, it would have to be some schmuck telling me that if I don't believe in *insert favourite god here* I am going to *insert favourite bad place here* and will suffer eternal *insert favourite punishment here*.
Or wanting me to vote for the only party that can actually save civilisation.
Religion and politics are just two of the things I can think of that is not meant for profit (not plain straight, anyway).
That said, I also find it annoying when ideal organisations (Red cross, Amnesty International to mention a couple) call me to sell lottery tickets, T-shirts or whatever. All these are good causes, but the argument "It's only ten bucks" don't work, simply because $10 multiplied by the number of phone calls adds up to a significant amount none the less.
In Norway, any copies of any music downloaded for personal use are legal, so as long as I don't share or sell anything I download, I can download as much MP3 songs and DivX movies I want.
:-D
So, as I don't have any P2P software running at the moment, the number is zero.
Hell, I'd even concider joining the pool to make sure you got paid for punching those guys!
Lots (well, some are, anyway) of files that come with programs I buy are claimed to be small, say about 1000 bytes, but they actually take up a lot more space than that on my disk, since the allocation units are larger than 1000 bytes. Who is going to pay for this??!
After all, they tend to start using new technology pretty fast.
Just how far should this be pulled? I wonder if I will ever again be able to drive any make of car with a radio, CD player, handsfree for my cell phone and a small refridgerator hooked to the lighter output in the back. Or will one make claim the right to such "plug ins"? Sheesh. . .
And why would they want to suck all that stuff down to Australia?? ;-D
The locality-issue is important in all this. Like here in Norway it's perfectly legal to download music or movies *for personal use*. As soon as I start to sell copies, or share my downloads with kazaa or similar programs, then I break the law.
.) I understand people/companies that would do this to avoid getting sued, but I think it is the wrong way to go.
Another this is this; Because something is illegal, should it be illegal to get information about it? Take drugs, for example. What if I wanted to find out something about the effects of, say, heroine? Would google or anyone else be able to know that I actually wanted some totally legitimate information about the subject, rather than a list of pushers? Would google know that when I searched for "kiddie porn" and "Thailand", I was looking for a place to report my neighbour that I suspected foul play at his holiday? Would google know that when I searched for "How to make a bomb", I just want to see if that stuff under my sons bed can be used to make a bomb and should be taken away before an accident happens? Would google know that I wanted to find out how to totally uninstall kazaa, not to download it?
Bottom line: It is not illegal to search for information about things that are illegal. I think Internet is too good a place to find out about things to be cencored. And I regret to say that I think the americans lead the way there by suing anybody for nothing. (I guess I'll get sued for saying this. .
I couldn't resist. To hell with karma. . .
Since it is "floating in thin air", it has to be "lighter than air", wouldn't it? This would be the same principle that makes any boat "lighter than water" even though it might weigh thousands of tons.
/.'er down to the size of a pinhead, and he/she(/I) would be pretty heavy compared to any other pinhead.
And of course a condensed cloud would be prety heavy. You could compress any
. . . about this robot, and since he is single, he said that this would be the perfect product for any single guy. Until he found out that it is powered on only 30 wats. Then he found out that it probably don't suck that well. :-)
Who cares? If I want decent sound, there are real sound systems to get, designed specifically to make "nice sounds". My sound cards only serves the purpose of presenting "nifty error messages", spit out some background noise (mp3s) while checking my SETI@home stats, check out some "free music downloaded from the net" to decide wether to get the CD or not, but most of the time it's just a place to keep that jack plug in the end of that cable from lying on the floor.
I'd love to go to the swimmingpool in my local park very early one summer morning, and freeze the pool. Imagine the look on the people's faces when they show up in their swimsuits and find me ice skating on the pool :-D
Nah. . . It would probably be a Troll anyway. . .
>...what kind of in-game effect urination will produce? :D
:)
Frankly, I think you should worry more about the "real life" effect such an action would produce. It wouldn't be good if you got used to opening doors or something by urinating. At least not when you after 3 weeks of straight playing have to make an erand somewhere in town.
I bet they could find a way to make a pretty cool amusement ride out of it.
ThinkGeek has the perfect solution for this. Just get this T-shirt [ThinkGeek.com] and your vacation will go smoothly. :-)
:-)
Oh, I remember the good ol' days when all I needed was a boot disk with PC-Tools and Norton utilities/Disc doctor.
I for one don't think passing laws will solve the problem. First of all there would be different laws in different countries, and even in different states for you people living in larger countries. How would people know what country others live in? Not that I think spammers deserve to get off the hook because of that, but what if I send an e-mail to someone I think I know, and it gets to someone else with a similar name? Would I get sued for that? I guess I could, but probably wouldn't.
Another point is that it would be difficult to win such cases, and I think the courts should spend time convicting real criminals, like violent people and such.
In Norway, we have recently gotten a few new laws that serve no purpose other than undermining peoples faith in the legal system. Like what use is a law against talking in handheld phones while driving, if there is nobody to catch the "criminals" that still do?
And how would you feel if the person that beat your cousin almost to death and scarred him for life gets off the hook due to lask of resources in the police, while they just yesterday fined you $150 for talking in the phone while driving?
. . . Someone thinks of putting a spud gun on that one and rant around the neighbourhood. . .