I whole-heartedly agree. Musings on MySpace don't have a strong correlation with how an employee composes himself. I don't want to work for an employer who believes otherwise.
1) Most of the $ from the album purchase is not going to the artist. It's going to the distributor. Technology has advanced to the point where the means of distribution has become dirt cheap. Yet these distributors still demand outrageous cuts of the money. And the artists are stupid enough to still indulge them. Downloading MP3z is an act of civil disobedience and wake up call to the distributors that evolution discarded them a long time ago. They're on life support. Time to pull the plug. Market forces already beheaded them. But like a roach with its head cut off, the RIAA is putting up a frantic display of death throes. The lawsuits are just a perverted way to unnaturally extend their lifespans. Beware the smell of formaldehyde.
2) Copying is not stealing. If I touched your sofa, produced an exact copy, and walked off with the copy, guess what? You still have the original. I did not steal from you. I did not take your property. I am not denying you further enjoyment of your own sofa. Calling music "intellectual property" is an attempt at brain-washing the masses. They want people to create this false mental link between "copying" and "stealing". So they'll erroneously believe copying=stealing, and all the negativity and sense of wrongness they attribute to stealing, they'll also attribute to copying. Fight back. Stop swallowing their BS. Copying != Stealing. Screaming otherwise, no matter how many times, won't make that change.
The Great Gatsby was not a great novel. Gatbsy? Not so great either. No one acts or thinks like any of the characters. Well, maybe the narrator. And for the love of God, why is this book discussed in universities?! What has any 18-22 year old college student ever done where he can relate to Gatsby?
I found the book shallow, devoid of interesting narration, and too pigeon-holed towards a narrow economic class in one particular decade. Timeless it is not.
If the EPA was wrong, the consequences would be way less severe -- OK, so we spent billions on better protecting the planet when the shielding was unnecessary.
If Bush is wrong, millions of people would be forced by rising sea levels to relocate over a few decades -- and the government would have taken zero steps to prepare for it.
More taxation vs. millions upheaved. Think about it.
Even if everything you said here is true, it does NOT justify censoring of scientific conclusions that say otherwise. And it does NOT justify threatening the livelihoods of the dissident scientists.
Throw away all CDs, manuals, and shred handwritten WoW notes
I was half-way sold to even cancelling the credit card my account used to be on. I had to make it as difficult as reasonably possible to become recidivist.
As cheesy as it sounds, the "death ritual" described above was cathartic and a way to say goodbye to my character. A way to realize none of these items truly mattered for a meaningful life. That it doesn't hurt to peel away like this.
Starfighter Jedi Starfighter Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series Bust-A-Move Any head-to-head Tetris Mario Kart Smash Brothers Warcraft III with handicaps Multiplayer Halo 2 with handicaps
The old X-Box controller (aka Hamburger) is the best joystick I've ever used. My only change would be to add small triggers where my middle fingers curl underneath. If these triggers were programmable to duplicate the X,Y,A,B button of my choice, that would be so sweet. I could then use them as Punch and Action/Jump in Halo 2. My right thumb would only have to move to Switch Weapons and Switch Grenade Types.
MDK would cycle its color palette faster than the human eye could perceive the shifts. This made the graphics appear to have more colors than the underlying hardware could handle at one time. Although 3D, it would auto-aim for you along the Y-axis, not too much different than how Doom II would do it. I played with a joystick that allowed me to circle strafe with the greatest of ease, and the AI couldn't cope. The smooth one-mile zoom on the sniper scope was a real marvel to see in action. Ah, such a great game!
MDK2 was a blast as well, with each of the three characters having their own playstyle.
Both the missle and the anti-missle will be like small, remotely piloted jet fighters. Either pilot may choose to arbitarily change their weapon's vector at any time, as much as they want to.
The anti-missle will be armed with smaller, higher-velocity rockets to shoot at the missle to:
1) Make the missle prematurely detonate 2) Destroy the missle's thrusting capability 3) EMF jam the missle
The missle will be armed with smaller, detachable countermeasures such as:
1) Make the anti-missle fire its rockets at decoy targets 2) Fool the anti-missle into following a decoy target all together 3) Destroy the anti-missle's thrusting capability 4) EMF jam the anti-missle
The missle's disadvantage is a lot of its mass has to be devoted to delivering a highly destructive payload to its target.
The anti-missle's disadvantage is it has to actively tail a small moving target.
The costs of waging missle war with an anti-missle defended country will become prohibitively expensive.
The cost of a country to become properly anti-missle defended will become prohibitely expensive.
But really it will be robotic planes vs. robotic planes.
The Intellivision controller was this stupid little disk. Why are you crying over its exclusion, ffs?!
Now Colecovision's Super Action Controllers were wonders to behold!
In the ten years it takes to develop "turbo-sequencing", we will have find that very little of the sequence will now NOT be copyrighted by some corporation. So any possible research "cures for what ail ya" will be slowed down by having to take the time to bribe the copyright owner.
The funniest and cruelest thing you can do to him is show him his own reflection. How would you feel if you woke up one morning and had tons of wrinkles on your face where none were before.
The heart patient papers won't do diddly. You can have papers from the Surgeon General saying you are on cancer treatments and are exposed to radioactive isotopes. They will strip search you, anyway, as they do to patients now when they blip the hidden radiation detectors in NYC.
So the paper-forging terrorists don't get a free ride; real patients get tons of freedom-infringing hassle.
Particularly interesting experiments were conducted by the late
Dr. Kei Mori of Kao University in Tokyo. Dr. Mori raised plants under special light that filtered out IR and UV radiation. His unique process of fiberoptic sunlight collection and transmission, called "Himawari Sunlighting", is now marketed worldwide. At first Mori feared the filtered light would be detrimental. But after extensive experiments he claimed it could promote healing and "because the ultraviolet is blocked, this sunlight does not fade fabrics or damage skin." (Gilmore, Elaine, "Sunflower over Tokyo," Popular Science, May 1988, p. 75.) One long-lived tomato plant was grown in a special nutrient-rich solution to be exhibited at the Japan Expo '85. Under piped sunlight and controlled atmosphere, this tomato tree grew over 30 ft high and yielded more than 13,000 ripe tomatoes during the six months of the Expo! (Hiroshi, Koichibara, "Tomatomation," UNESCO Courier, March 1987.)
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I whole-heartedly agree. Musings on MySpace don't have a strong correlation with how an employee composes himself. I don't want to work for an employer who believes otherwise.
1) Most of the $ from the album purchase is not going to the artist. It's going to the distributor. Technology has advanced to the point where the means of distribution has become dirt cheap. Yet these distributors still demand outrageous cuts of the money. And the artists are stupid enough to still indulge them. Downloading MP3z is an act of civil disobedience and wake up call to the distributors that evolution discarded them a long time ago. They're on life support. Time to pull the plug. Market forces already beheaded them. But like a roach with its head cut off, the RIAA is putting up a frantic display of death throes. The lawsuits are just a perverted way to unnaturally extend their lifespans. Beware the smell of formaldehyde.
2) Copying is not stealing. If I touched your sofa, produced an exact copy, and walked off with the copy, guess what? You still have the original. I did not steal from you. I did not take your property. I am not denying you further enjoyment of your own sofa. Calling music "intellectual property" is an attempt at brain-washing the masses. They want people to create this false mental link between "copying" and "stealing". So they'll erroneously believe copying=stealing, and all the negativity and sense of wrongness they attribute to stealing, they'll also attribute to copying. Fight back. Stop swallowing their BS. Copying != Stealing. Screaming otherwise, no matter how many times, won't make that change.
"from the cousin-marriage dept."
BRILLIANT!
And point out Blizzard is owned by Vivendi. And Vivendi is French.
Kinda wrong to use this tactic, so I won't endorse it. Just putting it out there.
I unsubscribed, myself. I'll vote with my dollars elsewhere.
The Great Gatsby was not a great novel. Gatbsy? Not so great either. No one acts or thinks like any of the characters. Well, maybe the narrator. And for the love of God, why is this book discussed in universities?! What has any 18-22 year old college student ever done where he can relate to Gatsby?
I found the book shallow, devoid of interesting narration, and too pigeon-holed towards a narrow economic class in one particular decade. Timeless it is not.
Just make them all Pebble Bed Modular Reactors and we'll all be safely rockin'
If the EPA was wrong, the consequences would be way less severe -- OK, so we spent billions on better protecting the planet when the shielding was unnecessary.
If Bush is wrong, millions of people would be forced by rising sea levels to relocate over a few decades -- and the government would have taken zero steps to prepare for it.
More taxation vs. millions upheaved. Think about it.
Even if everything you said here is true, it does NOT justify censoring of scientific conclusions that say otherwise. And it does NOT justify threatening the livelihoods of the dissident scientists.
I was half-way sold to even cancelling the credit card my account used to be on. I had to make it as difficult as reasonably possible to become recidivist.
As cheesy as it sounds, the "death ritual" described above was cathartic and a way to say goodbye to my character. A way to realize none of these items truly mattered for a meaningful life. That it doesn't hurt to peel away like this.
Screw Transparent ICs, gimme three dozen of those Purple Pimp gloves!
Starfighter
Jedi Starfighter
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series
Bust-A-Move
Any head-to-head Tetris
Mario Kart
Smash Brothers
Warcraft III with handicaps
Multiplayer Halo 2 with handicaps
The article summary was unreadable. Is there an actual thought captured in there?
The old X-Box controller (aka Hamburger) is the best joystick I've ever used. My only change would be to add small triggers where my middle fingers curl underneath. If these triggers were programmable to duplicate the X,Y,A,B button of my choice, that would be so sweet. I could then use them as Punch and Action/Jump in Halo 2. My right thumb would only have to move to Switch Weapons and Switch Grenade Types.
MDK would cycle its color palette faster than the human eye could perceive the shifts. This made the graphics appear to have more colors than the underlying hardware could handle at one time. Although 3D, it would auto-aim for you along the Y-axis, not too much different than how Doom II would do it. I played with a joystick that allowed me to circle strafe with the greatest of ease, and the AI couldn't cope. The smooth one-mile zoom on the sniper scope was a real marvel to see in action. Ah, such a great game!
MDK2 was a blast as well, with each of the three characters having their own playstyle.
How can we expect young Americans to write better English when their president can barely speak it?
Miraculously, the RIAA piracy-snooping network sounds exactly like the MP3s it detects being pirated.
You have to take this to its logical conclusion.
Both the missle and the anti-missle will be like small, remotely piloted jet fighters. Either pilot may choose to arbitarily change their weapon's vector at any time, as much as they want to.
The anti-missle will be armed with smaller, higher-velocity rockets to shoot at the missle to:
1) Make the missle prematurely detonate
2) Destroy the missle's thrusting capability
3) EMF jam the missle
The missle will be armed with smaller, detachable countermeasures such as:
1) Make the anti-missle fire its rockets at decoy targets
2) Fool the anti-missle into following a decoy target all together
3) Destroy the anti-missle's thrusting capability
4) EMF jam the anti-missle
The missle's disadvantage is a lot of its mass has to be devoted to delivering a highly destructive payload to its target.
The anti-missle's disadvantage is it has to actively tail a small moving target.
The costs of waging missle war with an anti-missle defended country will become prohibitively expensive.
The cost of a country to become properly anti-missle defended will become prohibitely expensive.
But really it will be robotic planes vs. robotic planes.
The Intellivision controller was this stupid little disk. Why are you crying over its exclusion, ffs?! Now Colecovision's Super Action Controllers were wonders to behold!
"from the not-as-cool-as-you-think dept."
Yes, it is as cool as I think, and even more so! Blasphemy!
In the ten years it takes to develop "turbo-sequencing", we will have find that very little of the sequence will now NOT be copyrighted by some corporation. So any possible research "cures for what ail ya" will be slowed down by having to take the time to bribe the copyright owner.
The funniest and cruelest thing you can do to him is show him his own reflection. How would you feel if you woke up one morning and had tons of wrinkles on your face where none were before.
And here I thought the link would lead to a pic of a room of nudists ...
The heart patient papers won't do diddly. You can have papers from the Surgeon General saying you are on cancer treatments and are exposed to radioactive isotopes. They will strip search you, anyway, as they do to patients now when they blip the hidden radiation detectors in NYC.
So the paper-forging terrorists don't get a free ride; real patients get tons of freedom-infringing hassle.
Ah, yes, I should have googled this first.
Particularly interesting experiments were conducted by the late Dr. Kei Mori of Kao University in Tokyo. Dr. Mori raised plants under special light that filtered out IR and UV radiation. His unique process of fiberoptic sunlight collection and transmission, called "Himawari Sunlighting", is now marketed worldwide. At first Mori feared the filtered light would be detrimental. But after extensive experiments he claimed it could promote healing and "because the ultraviolet is blocked, this sunlight does not fade fabrics or damage skin." (Gilmore, Elaine, "Sunflower over Tokyo," Popular Science, May 1988, p. 75.) One long-lived tomato plant was grown in a special nutrient-rich solution to be exhibited at the Japan Expo '85. Under piped sunlight and controlled atmosphere, this tomato tree grew over 30 ft high and yielded more than 13,000 ripe tomatoes during the six months of the Expo! (Hiroshi, Koichibara, "Tomatomation," UNESCO Courier, March 1987.)
Read MoreYes, the Japanese called this "piped sunlight" and was featured on the early 80s TV show "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" hosted by Jack Palance.
It was also used to grow gargantuan tomato plants. Like bigger than twice my house.