Ferrari is owned by Fiat. Do you prefer a Grand Panda or a Civic?
If you had ever driven or been in a Ferrari, you would know that the build quality on a new Japanese produced Honda is better in terms of the details and finish. If Honda wanted to make Ferrari cost cars, then it would and probably would do it better. Oh, and you can put a Japanese custom ricer against a Ferrari that cost 2 or 3 times more on a quarter mile or track and the Ferrari will eat dust.
Some other names that spring to mind but will never receive a French prize for certain reasons: Sid Meier Richard Garriott Joe Romero Ian Bell & Derek Smart (jokey jokey)
This isn't a 0-60 car. Car in that you could drive it around safely or legally. You could build a 0-60 in 4 seconds car by stripping out everything from a reasonably small car with a good engine but that is hardly a breakthrough.
The good news is that we will be "forced" to rediscover local agriculture and commerce. No more "made in China" stickers on our locally made goods, and craftspeople will regain the stature they once had. Just remember that suburban "starter mansions" will be the slums of the future -- to expensive to heat, too far from shops, farmland and gathering places to be worth inhabiting. My advice? Learn blacksmithing in your spare time.
The good news is that we won't have to listen to you spouting such rubbish because we won't have slashdot or the internet.
His results do not take into account the fact that a rise in oil price means a future rise in production. Oil fields cannot be quickly brought online. High prices in 2004 and 2005 mean increased production in 2010, not December 2005.
RTFA and look the pictures before you give your 'solution'. Its clear from the second set of pictures that what they believed was the lander and its chute, are instead landscape features.
[i]But if they want to force the issue, I'm thinking that we should "remind" our foreign allies that a country with our military might cannot and will not be forced.[/i]
Can and will do anything the fcuk it likes because only might is right?
You're living in the dark ages if you think electronics threaten aircraft safety. Planes are packed with electronics using passengers. Laptops, mp3 players, even cell phones - they often work on planes (depends on the phone/network/airline). Nothing illegal or untruthful about his remarks.
It is opensource which matters here. A lot of quality projects without any funding will not be able to use the name linux anywmore this way since they just do not have $5000, or do not want to pay that.
Are you a Microsoft troll?
Its $5000 for $1,000,000 REVENUE for products that use the Linux trademark. Its not a fee to develop open source software running on Linux. You pay if you make money on a product sold under a name containing "LINUX".
Think about it. English is the best representative language but they could have used Turkish, Polish or Spanish, any language with a large enough web-presence.
For heaven's sake - can't you tell what in the sentence ""Just as important, officials and private experts say, the small rocket for astronauts would be at least 10 times as safe as the shuttle, whose odds of disaster are estimated at roughly 1 in 100."
They might in legal in the sense that no statutory laws are being broken but they're illegal in the sense that the license (a contract) is being broken - if it forbids it.
Some would argue though that the license cannot prohibit sale of the account. Those are untested waters.
Don't make the generalization that if the cd is transferred its legal.
Most MOMs will terminate you if they find out you're selling or buying accounts or at least declare that they will. Good luck in court trying to get your Paladin back then.
Civil + criminal liability if Starwave wants to get nasty...
BUT They throw it away will be a good defence to stave off the liability - but it won't get copyright transferred to the non-profit. Starwave could get an injunction stopping usage even if it couldn't get them punished straight off (but violating the injunction would result in punishment)
This franchise must be the most godforsaken around.
Its become a laughing stock for non-Trekkies.
Its become an embarrassment for sci-fi fans.
It has been killed off by the weight of its own past, with its mixture paradoxes, incongruities and plain old shit.
There isn't even a way to do a Battlestar Galactica remake on it as there is simply too much legacy which cannot be ignored without massive suicide (or murder) by the Trekkies (see the "I love Kirk" comments above or the godawful time travel "I love Picardy & Kirk" ideas above).
Stargate 1, Farscape, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Lexx and Babylon 5 - all brought epic scope, interesting characters and a fresh approach to sci-fi.
Star Trek needs to be taken off its self-support, its a cancer on sci-fi.
(I ACKNOWLEDGE ITS PREVIOUS IMPORTANCE, WITHOUT THE ORIGINAL SERIES AND TNG, THE SERIES I HAVE MENTIONED WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CREATED)
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Awful comparison.
Ferrari is owned by Fiat. Do you prefer a Grand Panda or a Civic?
If you had ever driven or been in a Ferrari, you would know that the build quality on a new Japanese produced Honda is better in terms of the details and finish. If Honda wanted to make Ferrari cost cars, then it would and probably would do it better. Oh, and you can put a Japanese custom ricer against a Ferrari that cost 2 or 3 times more on a quarter mile or track and the Ferrari will eat dust.
Some other names that spring to mind but will never receive a French prize for certain reasons:
Sid Meier
Richard Garriott
Joe Romero
Ian Bell
&
Derek Smart (jokey jokey)
This isn't a 0-60 car. Car in that you could drive it around safely or legally. You could build a 0-60 in 4 seconds car by stripping out everything from a reasonably small car with a good engine but that is hardly a breakthrough.
The good news is that we will be "forced" to rediscover local agriculture and commerce. No more "made in China" stickers on our locally made goods, and craftspeople will regain the stature they once had. Just remember that suburban "starter mansions" will be the slums of the future -- to expensive to heat, too far from shops, farmland and gathering places to be worth inhabiting. My advice? Learn blacksmithing in your spare time.
The good news is that we won't have to listen to you spouting such rubbish because we won't have slashdot or the internet.
His results do not take into account the fact that a rise in oil price means a future rise in production. Oil fields cannot be quickly brought online. High prices in 2004 and 2005 mean increased production in 2010, not December 2005.
Can't make hydrogen without oil?
Yep, solar, nuclear, wind, tidal, coal, gas, geothermal, biofuel energy sources... don't exist.
Meadows was debunked and highly criticized for his results.
Garbage in = garbage out.
How can you even refer to a study carried out thirty years ago?
There might be a future oil crisis but as far as other resources are concerned, there are plenty.
And who is Kupfernigk?
Thats the nastiest Germanization I've seen since Bismarck(i) started his kulturkampfe.
Call the police if its bothering you.
If it isn't, then frag you, I'll install any subwoofer I like. What I do at home is my business - if it ain't bothering anyone else.
RTFA and look the pictures before you give your 'solution'. Its clear from the second set of pictures that what they believed was the lander and its chute, are instead landscape features.
Fuck this and fuck the mod system.
A damn redneck advocates military violence in the place of dialogue on a might is right basis and I get branded a troll?
The mod should go back to reading his Tom Clancy Netforce books.
[i]But if they want to force the issue, I'm thinking that we should "remind" our foreign allies that a country with our military might cannot and will not be forced.[/i]
Can and will do anything the fcuk it likes because only might is right?
A redneck on Slashdot?
Why can't you use it on a plane?
You're living in the dark ages if you think electronics threaten aircraft safety. Planes are packed with electronics using passengers. Laptops, mp3 players, even cell phones - they often work on planes (depends on the phone/network/airline). Nothing illegal or untruthful about his remarks.
It is opensource which matters here. A lot of quality projects without any funding will not be able to use the name linux anywmore this way since they just do not have $5000, or do not want to pay that.
Are you a Microsoft troll?
Its $5000 for $1,000,000 REVENUE for products that use the Linux trademark. Its not a fee to develop open source software running on Linux. You pay if you make money on a product sold under a name containing "LINUX".
And google doesn't index non-English sites?
Think about it. English is the best representative language but they could have used Turkish, Polish or Spanish, any language with a large enough web-presence.
Note to moderators, this isn't insightful.
For heaven's sake - can't you tell what in the sentence ""Just as important, officials and private experts say, the small rocket for astronauts would be at least 10 times as safe as the shuttle, whose odds of disaster are estimated at roughly 1 in 100."
...
whose refers to the shuttle
ODDS OF 1:100 for the shuttle.
They are legal sales.
They might in legal in the sense that no statutory laws are being broken but they're illegal in the sense that the license (a contract) is being broken - if it forbids it.
Some would argue though that the license cannot prohibit sale of the account. Those are untested waters.
Don't make the generalization that if the cd is transferred its legal.
Most MOMs will terminate you if they find out you're selling or buying accounts or at least declare that they will. Good luck in court trying to get your Paladin back then.
Margaret Thatcher?
Um...
More like Tony Blair.
Then again, you probably can't tell one from the other.
[HINT] One disappeared a decade ago, the other will soon.
Still covered by copyright...
Civil + criminal liability if Starwave wants to get nasty...
BUT They throw it away will be a good defence to stave off the liability - but it won't get copyright transferred to the non-profit. Starwave could get an injunction stopping usage even if it couldn't get them punished straight off (but violating the injunction would result in punishment)
I'll continue to wonder because I'm getting an internal "Page Not Found" message after some weird Microsoft DB messages...
Seems ironic.
You just have just shown your own level of IQ.
Next please...
This franchise must be the most godforsaken around.
Its become a laughing stock for non-Trekkies.
Its become an embarrassment for sci-fi fans.
It has been killed off by the weight of its own past, with its mixture paradoxes, incongruities and plain old shit.
There isn't even a way to do a Battlestar Galactica remake on it as there is simply too much legacy which cannot be ignored without massive suicide (or murder) by the Trekkies (see the "I love Kirk" comments above or the godawful time travel "I love Picardy & Kirk" ideas above).
Stargate 1, Farscape, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Lexx and Babylon 5 - all brought epic scope, interesting characters and a fresh approach to sci-fi.
Star Trek needs to be taken off its self-support, its a cancer on sci-fi.
(I ACKNOWLEDGE ITS PREVIOUS IMPORTANCE, WITHOUT THE ORIGINAL SERIES AND TNG, THE SERIES I HAVE MENTIONED WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CREATED)
WATCH OUT!
There is a thumbnail!
WTF are you talking about the WTO?
WTO doesn't deal with what companies do with their connected companies.
WTO deals with trade barriers and subsidies set up by countries...
MS can spend its money on MSN how it likes (well unless it breaks antimonopoly law which is not what the WTO deals with).
And another thing - if you dress like a slob, you *are* a slob.