I'd say as an initial level, 1-1 in SMB is really well done. It's nice and simple, ramps you up regarding the challenges you'll face in the game, and yet is still fun. Honestly, it shows what's missing in today's video games -- a game you can pick up, spend 30-40 seconds to learn the controls, and just have fun. Too few games are sorely lacking that these days.
The commercials were trying to associate then governor Bush with the attacks by implying he was racist for not supporting increased hate crime legislation.
Though commenting on your sig, I'd say that the current administration is more an indictment on liberal fiscal policies than conservative. Bush's policies certainly aren't a platform of states' rights and fiscal responsibility.
Yeah, you're not dealing with gravity, so moving things around is easier, but still, you need to get that mass moving, and that does take expenditure of energy. Even without gravity, mechanical advantage is damn useful.
Congratulations, you are a victim of state-mandated monopolies. Government regulation got you into this mess; the city signed a contract giving Cox exclusive rights to your town. It is illegal for another provider to string up lines and offer cable service. Don't like it, petition your city council, tell them to a) make such contracts illegal and allow any company that wants to provide cable service.
I don't know about that. Seems the BSD folks were providing real nice free software before the GNU boys started to play. Without the FSF, we probably wouldn't have Linux as we know it, but Open Source would be just fine.
I think the big issue here is that RMS would do the movement a favor by stepping into the shadows. Instead of giving the interviews, etc, let someone else be the mouth piece of the Free Software movement. When you need to spend time defending your spokesman, I think that's a sign you need to get a new spokesman who is more articulate and socially graceful. A leader whose views are correct is no good if they scare away their followers.
Probably because Debian's zealotry makes a lot of commercial vendors nervous. Besides, RHEL is also very stable with primarily backports for security. The difference is the fact that if RHEL breaks, there's a support contract in place to help make things right again.
Guac's kind of an acquired taste, so most places will honor your request when you say to leave it off. Though the question of your fondness leads into the next one, are you getting Mexican food from chain places, or are you going to the (slightly more risky) small hole in the wall places? Quality is a bit more sporadic in the non-chain places, but conversely, you will get places that are really damn good. The chains are pretty much universally mediocre as far as quality goes.
However, I can't help too much with the Tim Hortons thing other than to say try some of the local storefront doughnut shops. Again, sporadic quality, but there are some pretty good ones out there.
Doing some poking, though, I found this document, which seems to be a pretty decent list of good places in the SF area in general, including a food section. If I misjudged and you live somewhere other than SFO area, find whatever the free alt tabloid in the area is and try googling for the paper name "best of". All these papers have something similar; reader voted reviews of various categories. Should help you find pretty good places.
Basically, carnitas fries are french fries with refried beans, carnitas, guacamole, sourcream, etc on them. Think of them as nachos, but far tastier. It's hit and miss as to where to find them. They're much more common down in San Diego, but in the LA area, the Alberto's chain seems to have them. Northern California, you're on your own. Groceries, you're best off looking for a Trader Joe's. Small stores, not the myriad of choices as you'd find in a larger supermarket, but damn good stuff; their philosophy is to pick one brand and do it damn well. Fast food, again, is a matter of preference, and taking some calculated risk. I've found some really good small fast food places down here in Orange County, but again, you sound like you're in Northern California, and it might as well be Canada as far as food advice. Were you right around the corner, I could tell you some good inexpensive places, but I have to disclaim this with YMMV.
It really depends on where you live in the US regarding the feeling of proximity. My thoughts here are going to be pretty southern California specific, because that is where I have the greatest experience, so YMMV. And especially within the LA area, 5-10 miles makes a huge difference regarding culture and accessibility. North Orange county is perhaps one of the best kept secrets for walking distance accessibility. There are a lot of neighborhoods that are built really close to shopping centers, so you can get most major goods by walking -- within two blocks of me, there's everything but a grocery store, and that's about a 5 minute bus ride in near any direction, or I can just have all my food delivered, save the hassle of even going out. I'm also on a pretty major transit corridor, so getting around without a car is pretty viable; I am within a few minutes of an all night bus line that'll get me to sporting venues, amusement parks, and the train station, and from there, pretty much anywhere else. I personally love my current apartment for that very reason; I don't need to go out to have a good time, things are already right here.
I will cede the point regarding Las Vegas, though. It's like a lot of desert towns, in order to get to anywhere else, you have to go through a whole lot of nada. A lot of this is by design, though. As it's a lot harder to manage resources in the desert, it's only natural for people to live closer together to better pool their resources. Cities like Phoenix and Albuquerque are very similar in that aspect. However, that relative isolation offers a lot of opportunities for outdoors activies. If you enjoy hiking, etc, it is damn convenient to have nature on your doorstep. It's a trade off, really. Figuring what you like to do, and where you like to go.
Absolutely. Great weather year round, good people, good activity, and if you don't like the culture of a place, move 5-10 miles and it's completely different. Plus some of the most scenic spots on the planet. Watching a sunrise in owens valley is quite possibly one of the best ways to begin a lazy morning.
Move to California instead. We have a more reasonable social safety net -- if you can't afford it, they'll help you, but otherwise you need to take care of yourself, better weather, lower taxes, prettier women and men, and we have carnitas fries, which is far superior to poutine in every way. Plus, you're a short drive from Nevada if you want to get your vice on.
Course, this is honestly little more than a money grab. Were the government really concerned about people getting IP-based television service for free, they'd just password protect the IP stream. Course, that would be too easy and fair, and we can't have that now, can we?
Look above. It got real quiet press from other sources about six months ago. Tiny blurbs and throwaway news reports, designed to put a nice cheerful face on things. You ask me, someone's trying to slip this through the backdoor, using the fact that it's such a ridiculously blatant assault on civil liberties to keep people from truly criticizing it. People just disregard it, thinking it's a joke.
Not really. A lot of spam these days comes from zombied/trojaned machines, which are already well covered by other blocklists, like CBL. Were spamhaus to go away, chances are spam levels would remain about the same for people not using the tools. Spammers just don't care if they're blocked or not, all things considered.
That was the original intent of SMTP. However, due to the fact that spammers will use these relays to block the true destination of a message, SMTP nowadays is pretty much point to point; relay servers are exceedingly rare. So no, gmail is not in any significant way, affected by spamhaus.
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I'd say as an initial level, 1-1 in SMB is really well done. It's nice and simple, ramps you up regarding the challenges you'll face in the game, and yet is still fun. Honestly, it shows what's missing in today's video games -- a game you can pick up, spend 30-40 seconds to learn the controls, and just have fun. Too few games are sorely lacking that these days.
Though commenting on your sig, I'd say that the current administration is more an indictment on liberal fiscal policies than conservative. Bush's policies certainly aren't a platform of states' rights and fiscal responsibility.
Yeah, you're not dealing with gravity, so moving things around is easier, but still, you need to get that mass moving, and that does take expenditure of energy. Even without gravity, mechanical advantage is damn useful.
Congratulations, you are a victim of state-mandated monopolies. Government regulation got you into this mess; the city signed a contract giving Cox exclusive rights to your town. It is illegal for another provider to string up lines and offer cable service. Don't like it, petition your city council, tell them to a) make such contracts illegal and allow any company that wants to provide cable service.
Apple has a lossless codec in addition to AAC. It's playable in itunes and the ipod.
Even FSF says BSD is Free Software. It's not Copylefted, but it's definitely Free.
I don't know about that. Seems the BSD folks were providing real nice free software before the GNU boys started to play. Without the FSF, we probably wouldn't have Linux as we know it, but Open Source would be just fine.
I think the big issue here is that RMS would do the movement a favor by stepping into the shadows. Instead of giving the interviews, etc, let someone else be the mouth piece of the Free Software movement. When you need to spend time defending your spokesman, I think that's a sign you need to get a new spokesman who is more articulate and socially graceful. A leader whose views are correct is no good if they scare away their followers.
Probably because Debian's zealotry makes a lot of commercial vendors nervous. Besides, RHEL is also very stable with primarily backports for security. The difference is the fact that if RHEL breaks, there's a support contract in place to help make things right again.
Dude, mariachi rocks. Plus, they have even less fashion sense than I do, so they'd make whatever I was wearing look real good.
Guac's kind of an acquired taste, so most places will honor your request when you say to leave it off. Though the question of your fondness leads into the next one, are you getting Mexican food from chain places, or are you going to the (slightly more risky) small hole in the wall places? Quality is a bit more sporadic in the non-chain places, but conversely, you will get places that are really damn good. The chains are pretty much universally mediocre as far as quality goes.
However, I can't help too much with the Tim Hortons thing other than to say try some of the local storefront doughnut shops. Again, sporadic quality, but there are some pretty good ones out there.
Doing some poking, though, I found this document, which seems to be a pretty decent list of good places in the SF area in general, including a food section. If I misjudged and you live somewhere other than SFO area, find whatever the free alt tabloid in the area is and try googling for the paper name "best of". All these papers have something similar; reader voted reviews of various categories. Should help you find pretty good places.
Basically, carnitas fries are french fries with refried beans, carnitas, guacamole, sourcream, etc on them. Think of them as nachos, but far tastier. It's hit and miss as to where to find them. They're much more common down in San Diego, but in the LA area, the Alberto's chain seems to have them. Northern California, you're on your own. Groceries, you're best off looking for a Trader Joe's. Small stores, not the myriad of choices as you'd find in a larger supermarket, but damn good stuff; their philosophy is to pick one brand and do it damn well. Fast food, again, is a matter of preference, and taking some calculated risk. I've found some really good small fast food places down here in Orange County, but again, you sound like you're in Northern California, and it might as well be Canada as far as food advice. Were you right around the corner, I could tell you some good inexpensive places, but I have to disclaim this with YMMV.
It really depends on where you live in the US regarding the feeling of proximity. My thoughts here are going to be pretty southern California specific, because that is where I have the greatest experience, so YMMV. And especially within the LA area, 5-10 miles makes a huge difference regarding culture and accessibility. North Orange county is perhaps one of the best kept secrets for walking distance accessibility. There are a lot of neighborhoods that are built really close to shopping centers, so you can get most major goods by walking -- within two blocks of me, there's everything but a grocery store, and that's about a 5 minute bus ride in near any direction, or I can just have all my food delivered, save the hassle of even going out. I'm also on a pretty major transit corridor, so getting around without a car is pretty viable; I am within a few minutes of an all night bus line that'll get me to sporting venues, amusement parks, and the train station, and from there, pretty much anywhere else. I personally love my current apartment for that very reason; I don't need to go out to have a good time, things are already right here.
I will cede the point regarding Las Vegas, though. It's like a lot of desert towns, in order to get to anywhere else, you have to go through a whole lot of nada. A lot of this is by design, though. As it's a lot harder to manage resources in the desert, it's only natural for people to live closer together to better pool their resources. Cities like Phoenix and Albuquerque are very similar in that aspect. However, that relative isolation offers a lot of opportunities for outdoors activies. If you enjoy hiking, etc, it is damn convenient to have nature on your doorstep. It's a trade off, really. Figuring what you like to do, and where you like to go.
Absolutely. Great weather year round, good people, good activity, and if you don't like the culture of a place, move 5-10 miles and it's completely different. Plus some of the most scenic spots on the planet. Watching a sunrise in owens valley is quite possibly one of the best ways to begin a lazy morning.
Move to California instead. We have a more reasonable social safety net -- if you can't afford it, they'll help you, but otherwise you need to take care of yourself, better weather, lower taxes, prettier women and men, and we have carnitas fries, which is far superior to poutine in every way. Plus, you're a short drive from Nevada if you want to get your vice on.
I'd rather just wait until Question 7 passes in Nevada. Get my hookers, blackjack, and weed in one fell swoop. Plus a lot prettier terrain.
But think of all the lovely internet tubes he'd bring with his pork barrel spending. Won't someone please think of the tubes!?
Nope. Interoperability is explicitly allowed. Much to the chagrin of some copyright nazis.
So, much like other wonderful socialist programs, there's no opt out, there's just mother government telling what's good for you. Silly Europeans.
Course, this is honestly little more than a money grab. Were the government really concerned about people getting IP-based television service for free, they'd just password protect the IP stream. Course, that would be too easy and fair, and we can't have that now, can we?
Look above. It got real quiet press from other sources about six months ago. Tiny blurbs and throwaway news reports, designed to put a nice cheerful face on things. You ask me, someone's trying to slip this through the backdoor, using the fact that it's such a ridiculously blatant assault on civil liberties to keep people from truly criticizing it. People just disregard it, thinking it's a joke.
here ya go. 15 seconds of googling.
Not really. A lot of spam these days comes from zombied/trojaned machines, which are already well covered by other blocklists, like CBL. Were spamhaus to go away, chances are spam levels would remain about the same for people not using the tools. Spammers just don't care if they're blocked or not, all things considered.
That was the original intent of SMTP. However, due to the fact that spammers will use these relays to block the true destination of a message, SMTP nowadays is pretty much point to point; relay servers are exceedingly rare. So no, gmail is not in any significant way, affected by spamhaus.
Could you let me know next time you're presented with another unworkable idea you want to turn down? I'd kinda like to become rich and famous.