Toolbox: I have had tools stolen from me during moves from major moving companies, and not realized it until way after the claim period....
Loose change jar/stamps/jewelry: I also had a roll of stamps lifted once, so I would never entrust anything that has obvious value and is easily liquidated/hawked.
Toilet cleaner, spay paint, paint thinner, etc: Moving company specifically forbade these items. And in this day and age, any spillage that occurrs in transit is likely to prompt a phone call to your friendly FBI office.
If the induustry fails to come up with the standard, then the Gov't will do it for them, specifically, the NTIF will draft the standard, and everyone will have to abide by that.
I assume that the reason that they want the industry to take a crack at it first is because RIAA et al has a better idea of just how restrictive they want this crap to be, and can do a much better job than gov't can at taking away your freedom to own media.
Zenith manufactured 720k 1" floppy disk drives for their notebook computers in the early '90s, with a promise to increase capacity to 1.44MB shortly. I saw one of these. They were cute, but the disks were just too small to be useful at anything other than getting lost quickly.
Look at the reverse. One of the (many) reasons that LaserDisc never took off was that the discs were too large and cumbersome. Once they reduced the size of the video media to CD size (AKA DVD), the format was adopted by casual home users.
5 1/4" seems to be the right size for removable media. Even the 3" mini-cd's were never popular, and I have yet to see a 3" DVD or DVD-ROM (even though they are part of the standard). I believe that this is also due to size.
I see a lot of people here saying that it's your money, so it's your perogative if you do well in college or not by paying attention in class or whatever.
But it's not. There are two other factors here:
1) Many times it's your PARENTS that are paying, not you. If you start to fail out, mom & dad may yank your ass back home, depriving the college of the remainder or your tuition.
2) As more students fail out or graduate with lousy GPAs, the more the college's ranking drops, and less students are likely to want to attend your college in the future, because low ranking == bad teaching in an applicant's mindset. Therefore, the college has to charge less and less for tuition, and accept poorer and poorer ranking HS students.
So it's in a college's best interest to make sure that you pay attention in class, and to do their level best to make sure you don't drop out.
Once we become complacent with this, it can/will be abused.
First we screen for terrorists. Who probably won't be in the databank anyway. Then we screen out all the felons. Including pot smokers, petty lacrinists, all parolee's regardless of crime committed, and other serious threats to national security. Then it's anyone with an arrest record, regardless of whether they have been convicted or not. Next, it's time to screen for anyone who filed for bankrupcy, because they might not be able to pay for their ticket. Finally, they'd better screen out laid off employees, and anyone who's ever complained about the airline, because God knows we don't want to risk allowing any disgruntled people on board.
Have I covered all of the risky people yet? No? Well, better institute racial profiling then, 'cause we don't wan't no shifty-eyed a-rabs that ain't like us goodly, God-fearin' Christians, right?
In short, the path to Big Brother is a slippery slope.
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Winning wars is a dirty business. This includes the Cold War. Influencing Afganastan & other middle eastern countries was one part in a many multi-faceted face of that war. Yes, the Soviet union collapsed ulimately in large part because Communisim is fundamentally flawed, but I believe that it collapsed a lot sooner than anyone expected them to because of our dirty efforts in fighting the Cold War. Yes, there are consequences that we need to face -- WW I and II may seem much "cleaner" because all of the consequences there were paid for up front -- millions of soldiers & civillians dead while the war progressed.
The Cold War was our first truly unconventional war, and it called for unconventional tactics, and has unconventional consequences.
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This I think is the crux of of the matter. You haven't
We have. We replaced fascist governmentsts in Germany, Italy & Japan with rational ones after WWII. We need to do the same now with all of the irrational Islamic states.
You supported the Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan...when it looked as though they could be a thorn in the side of the Soviet Union.
Yes, and it ultimately helped to achieve the goal of the time: Russia & the former Soviet states now have a rational, fledgeling democracies in place. It is a shame that many of the people that we turned to to fight the scourge of Communisim are now biting the hand that fed them. They ulitmately proved to be irrational also. It is now time to replace them.
Bioware's next game, Neverwinter Nights, will use OpenGL for cross platform compatability. (They will ship for Windoze, Mac, Linux, and BeOS, and all on the same CD to boot!) If the game is a success (and averyone expects it to be), then maybe this might turn a few heads in the gaming industry, and a more serious look at cross-platform gaming (and thus using OpenGL) might happen.....
Embrace: Microsoft's "shared source initiative", embracing the open source movement
Extend: Microsoft prohibits the usage of software licenced under the GPL and other "open source" style licences, "extending" the definition of "open source"
Exterminate: When enough developers have dropped GPL and other "viral" licences in favor of MS's "shared source", MS will discontinue said initiative, and go back to a totally closed source model.
Bioware will release BG2:TOB and NWN. They did not lose the licensing rights to those. Their publisher, Black Isle Studios, lost the publishing rights to future D&D software titles to Mattel, I believe.
So, for all future D&D software, Bioware will have to re-noegotiate the licensing rights with Mattel rather than Black Isle, which they will likely do, if NWN is the big hit the everyone expects it to be.
I would like to turn in the fellow who shares a locker with me. His name is Winston, and he hogs the locker space we share and I have no room to store my GameBoy in it. Recently, I caught him dozing off in class, and in his sleep, I heard him mumble, "Down with Big Brother! Down with Big Brother!". No doubt, this makes his loyalties to our HS highly questionable.
Thank you for your help in removing this troubled classmate from my school.
This "did they go to jail for the SPAM or the SCAM?" argument is sadly moot, because in my experience, ALL UCEs are scams.
Whether its fake university diplomas, credit cards for losers with no chance of ever getting a real one, or D/Ling pr0n from Elbonia on the sly, I have NEVER encountered a UCE that offered something legit. The only legitamite spam I ever get is "opt in" stuff, like promos from Amazon.com
So I say all UCE spammers should rot in jail, because they're all con artists.
The Hellmouth is a portal for demons & other nastys. It also happens to reside smack in the center of the Sunnydale High School library.
Another reason for referring to the columbine incedent as the Hellmouth: 2 episodes of Buffy were censored for a short period of time due to the post-Columbine hysteria/witch hunt.
A lot of good the DMCA will do you after your "sex diary" has been cracked & published. You will still be humilliated, and if it contains anyting implicating you in an illegal/obscene act, the gov't will come after YOU too.
All the things you listed seem pretty fair ways to cut down on gun crime.
Let me know when they want to prevent a law-abiding citizen from owning a standard handgun with regular bullets. Then I might be worried.
And with that kind of thinking:
When they repealed the 5th amendment, I had nothing to say, because I wasn't a criminal.
When they repealed the 4th amendment, I had nothing to say, because I had nothing to hide.
When they repealed the 3rd amendment, I had nothing to say, because I didn't own a home.
When they repealed the 2nd amendment, I had nothing to say, because I didn't own a gun.
When they repealed the 1st amendment, I couldn't say anything at all.
I don't know about anyone else, but I thought that the Itanium was supposed to be the next great leap forward. Does this make the Pentuim 4 a "stopgap" chip until there is mainstream IA-64 acceptance, sort of like how Windows Me is a stopgap OS until there is "mainstream" NT/2000 acceptance?
Personally, I was expecting my next PC purchase to be an Itanium. Was/is anyone holding off for Itanium??
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Toolbox: I have had tools stolen from me during moves from major moving companies, and not realized it until way after the claim period....
Loose change jar/stamps/jewelry: I also had a roll of stamps lifted once, so I would never entrust anything that has obvious value and is easily liquidated/hawked.
Toilet cleaner, spay paint, paint thinner, etc: Moving company specifically forbade these items. And in this day and age, any spillage that occurrs in transit is likely to prompt a phone call to your friendly FBI office.
Here, for example, are a bunch of interpreters for the InfoCom games (Zork, etc.) Check out the Emacs one! :)
I assume that the reason that they want the industry to take a crack at it first is because RIAA et al has a better idea of just how restrictive they want this crap to be, and can do a much better job than gov't can at taking away your freedom to own media.
Look at the reverse. One of the (many) reasons that LaserDisc never took off was that the discs were too large and cumbersome. Once they reduced the size of the video media to CD size (AKA DVD), the format was adopted by casual home users.
5 1/4" seems to be the right size for removable media. Even the 3" mini-cd's were never popular, and I have yet to see a 3" DVD or DVD-ROM (even though they are part of the standard). I believe that this is also due to size.
But it's not. There are two other factors here:
1) Many times it's your PARENTS that are paying, not you. If you start to fail out, mom & dad may yank your ass back home, depriving the college of the remainder or your tuition.
2) As more students fail out or graduate with lousy GPAs, the more the college's ranking drops, and less students are likely to want to attend your college in the future, because low ranking == bad teaching in an applicant's mindset. Therefore, the college has to charge less and less for tuition, and accept poorer and poorer ranking HS students.
So it's in a college's best interest to make sure that you pay attention in class, and to do their level best to make sure you don't drop out.
First we screen for terrorists. Who probably won't be in the databank anyway. Then we screen out all the felons. Including pot smokers, petty lacrinists, all parolee's regardless of crime committed, and other serious threats to national security. Then it's anyone with an arrest record, regardless of whether they have been convicted or not. Next, it's time to screen for anyone who filed for bankrupcy, because they might not be able to pay for their ticket. Finally, they'd better screen out laid off employees, and anyone who's ever complained about the airline, because God knows we don't want to risk allowing any disgruntled people on board.
Have I covered all of the risky people yet? No? Well, better institute racial profiling then, 'cause we don't wan't no shifty-eyed a-rabs that ain't like us goodly, God-fearin' Christians, right?
In short, the path to Big Brother is a slippery slope.
The Cold War was our first truly unconventional war, and it called for unconventional tactics, and has unconventional consequences.
We have. We replaced fascist governmentsts in Germany, Italy & Japan with rational ones after WWII. We need to do the same now with all of the irrational Islamic states.
You supported the Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan...when it looked as though they could be a thorn in the side of the Soviet Union.
Yes, and it ultimately helped to achieve the goal of the time: Russia & the former Soviet states now have a rational, fledgeling democracies in place. It is a shame that many of the people that we turned to to fight the scourge of Communisim are now biting the hand that fed them. They ulitmately proved to be irrational also. It is now time to replace them.
Bioware's next game, Neverwinter Nights, will use OpenGL for cross platform compatability. (They will ship for Windoze, Mac, Linux, and BeOS, and all on the same CD to boot!) If the game is a success (and averyone expects it to be), then maybe this might turn a few heads in the gaming industry, and a more serious look at cross-platform gaming (and thus using OpenGL) might happen.....
Embrace: Microsoft's "shared source initiative", embracing the open source movement
Extend: Microsoft prohibits the usage of software licenced under the GPL and other "open source" style licences, "extending" the definition of "open source"
Exterminate: When enough developers have dropped GPL and other "viral" licences in favor of MS's "shared source", MS will discontinue said initiative, and go back to a totally closed source model.
qed.
So, for all future D&D software, Bioware will have to re-noegotiate the licensing rights with Mattel rather than Black Isle, which they will likely do, if NWN is the big hit the everyone expects it to be.
I would like to turn in the fellow who shares a locker with me. His name is Winston, and he hogs the locker space we share and I have no room to store my GameBoy in it. Recently, I caught him dozing off in class, and in his sleep, I heard him mumble, "Down with Big Brother! Down with Big Brother!". No doubt, this makes his loyalties to our HS highly questionable.
Thank you for your help in removing this troubled classmate from my school.
Whether its fake university diplomas, credit cards for losers with no chance of ever getting a real one, or D/Ling pr0n from Elbonia on the sly, I have NEVER encountered a UCE that offered something legit. The only legitamite spam I ever get is "opt in" stuff, like promos from Amazon.com
So I say all UCE spammers should rot in jail, because they're all con artists.
Another reason for referring to the columbine incedent as the Hellmouth: 2 episodes of Buffy were censored for a short period of time due to the post-Columbine hysteria/witch hunt.
A lot of good the DMCA will do you after your "sex diary" has been cracked & published. You will still be humilliated, and if it contains anyting implicating you in an illegal/obscene act, the gov't will come after YOU too.
All the things you listed seem pretty fair ways to cut down on gun crime. Let me know when they want to prevent a law-abiding citizen from owning a standard handgun with regular bullets. Then I might be worried.
And with that kind of thinking:
When they repealed the 5th amendment, I had nothing to say, because I wasn't a criminal.
When they repealed the 4th amendment, I had nothing to say, because I had nothing to hide.
When they repealed the 3rd amendment, I had nothing to say, because I didn't own a home.
When they repealed the 2nd amendment, I had nothing to say, because I didn't own a gun.
When they repealed the 1st amendment, I couldn't say anything at all.
I don't know about anyone else, but I thought that the Itanium was supposed to be the next great leap forward. Does this make the Pentuim 4 a "stopgap" chip until there is mainstream IA-64 acceptance, sort of like how Windows Me is a stopgap OS until there is "mainstream" NT/2000 acceptance?
Personally, I was expecting my next PC purchase to be an Itanium. Was/is anyone holding off for Itanium??