Problem is you can pay for anything in eve with real money anyway. The difference is that you buy it from game farming companies in China who typically blitz games with 'bot's, employ child labour exploitation or even slavery and are often money laundering fronts for much much worse organisations. If you can buy pretty much anything illegitimately then what's wrong with at least getting it from a clean source and help fund further in-game development?
FWIW, silly policy rejecting apps that duplicate iOS function, but it is in the rules. I am not surprised the app was rejected.
Oh they rejected it because they were already developing the same thing? So a student programmer works on something apple are allegedly already working on, but this student actually finishes it a full year before the combined might of Apple. Yeah that seems likely.
If you put up a blog post saying "I'm fed up with communism, let's move to something else! Oh yeah, and the Politburo should just up and die!", men in a black Volga will visit you sooner than you can say "Who's that knocking on the door so late at night?".
And that is exactly why you should fight the removal of every little freedom, unless of course you want to finally end up like that. Playing the ''its much worse elsewhere so its OK for them to screw us over a little bit more each day'' card wont fly unless you are fine with the idea that people in the West are already arrested and jailed for the transfer of information.
While I'm not a big fan of app censorship generally, I don't see the objection to having Apple, Google etc block apps which have no purpose other than letting people drink-drive.
This is what is so terribly sad about/.
Anyone else find it ironic that people like the above poster who voice any opinion for a limited form of censorship are themselves, censored away in/.
We can drop a pallet of goods anywhere on the planet within 24 hours...
Yes but feeding starving people leads to..... even more starving people. No I'm not saying don't feed them, but as civilisations become more advanced their population growth appears to taper off naturally and actually begins in some cases to decline. Perhaps we need to help advance these other civilisations.
Can I ask where you get your figures from? I was under the (possibly very mistaken) impression that the explosion created when matter combined with anti-matter was likely a myth and that really they just cancel each other out.
I believe in the EFF. I wish they never defended wikileaks. What they did was illegal. You can't post classified and / or stolen information. Pretty simple.
As your privacy is gradually stripped away, how many times have you heard the words "If you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear."
Wrong. It's only an act of war if liberals will stop whining over civilian casualties.
Somehow you manage to make liberal sound like an insult with your "Yehaw, lets high five each other and blow shit up because explosions are fucking cool and screw the collateral casualties"
attitude.
Your attitude only further perpetuates this somewhat unfair perception of the typical American. Maybe it bothers me more than it should because a girl from my school, Linda Norgrove was killed by Navy Seals who were apparently attempting to rescue her with grenades (they later lied and claimed it was a suicide bomber) and they even managed to shoot her corpse in the leg. This attitude of yours just makes the sad attempt of a rescue seem so very..... American.
Latin for "law that let's us put whoever the fuck we want in jail"
The focus in the article is on the implied evil of Thailand's legal system and glosses over the fact that this guy is clearly a victim of the USA's corrupt medical care system forcing him to fly to a second world country he would likely be arrested in purely to afford medical treatment.
Hackers breaking into NASA, the Army, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Northrup, Raytheon, and Boeing can never be sure they will get anything at all, or that what they do get will be marketable.
Yes but because the average US citizen is brainwashed into hating China or anything that remotely resists MacDonalds and Starbucks means that despite the fact that every major nation in the world (including the US) very likely has a cyber 'defence' department of the military, the said brainwashing means that suddenly every cyber attack, twitchy printer and malware infected porn is the direct result of Chinese cyber warfare.
From what little I've seen and heard, his biggest problem is his temper
If you've ever seen any videos of the guy such as this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc you will realise that his biggest problem is probably his cocaine habit, of which anger management issues are a likely side effect.
The last time this movie was in "pre-production" it was being directed by some guy whose only experience was directing Britney Spear videos. I won't believe this one until I have a ticket in my hand.
Your observations were pretty off the mark, enough that I had to respond.
The music video director you are surely referring to is Chris Cunningham who personally I believe is one of the few people who could actually pull this film off. His work is typically very imaginative but in a dark and edgy way, though he does come from directing music videos and has no feature length directing experience (though he never did any Britney Spears). He pulled out apparently because he did not have final cut approval.
Gibson himself apparently said (and I definately agree)"Chris is my own 100 per cent personal choice...My only choice. The only person I've met who I thought might have a hope in hell of doing it right."
I just worry that the director of Cube and Splice will do the storyline of the book justice, but not understand the feel of the book.
And if you think every other government doesn't do exactly the same thing, then you're a fucking retard.
True, but consider that Bush quite freely admits that God told him to invade Iraq and that it was a holy crusade. Shame God couldn't also tell him there were no WMD there. The fact that a Country with frequently elects religious fundamentalist presidents who genuinely believe invisible men are telling them to invade other nations, also has enough nuclear weapons to extinguish all life on the planet. Yes this deserves some serious scrutiny and a man willing to risk his freedom and his life exposing the dirty things their military and global corporations get up to does actually deserve some kind of recommendation.
president obama (most of your presidents) brags about all the kills he has ordered.
True but at least their current president doesn't tell them that God told him to do it like the last one did. If you kill one person and say God told you to do it you spend your life in loony jail, it seems if you kill hundreds of thousands and claim God told you to do it, you get re-elected for a second term.
Well, that might still prop up his ego, and make himself feel important, even if it was humiliating and painful. Nope, better to let him simply be forgotten, let him wonder in the silent dark if anybody still cares about him
Agreed. This stops him being martyred and becoming a holy symbol of Jihad, it also stops him going to his heaven and his 73.216 Abba fans, or virgins as some people like to call them.
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Problem is you can pay for anything in eve with real money anyway. The difference is that you buy it from game farming companies in China who typically blitz games with 'bot's, employ child labour exploitation or even slavery and are often money laundering fronts for much much worse organisations. If you can buy pretty much anything illegitimately then what's wrong with at least getting it from a clean source and help fund further in-game development?
Had a look at a topographical map of Norway lately? Now, compare it to one of the UK.
Hydro power doesn't work everywhere in the world.
-jcr
Not to mention the fact that the UK has 15.25 times the population of Norway.
Damn and I thought Skynet was bad, or even the Matrix but tax collecting robots?
They are probably more concept than substance. A bundle of gobshyte to scare people into declaring their earnings from auction sites and freelancing.
I think you need some big citation on a claim like that you pile of shit
http://www.springerlink.com/content/70u88404420n2444/
... and is willing to say any thing, with or without justification. That's what partisanship is, it's a mental disease, a behavioral disorder.
Or a religion.
FWIW, silly policy rejecting apps that duplicate iOS function, but it is in the rules. I am not surprised the app was rejected.
Oh they rejected it because they were already developing the same thing? So a student programmer works on something apple are allegedly already working on, but this student actually finishes it a full year before the combined might of Apple. Yeah that seems likely.
would you like to take your chances with poisoned Tylenol you ordered from a Korean online pharmacy?
No, but I would fight to retain the right to make that choice for myself.
If you put up a blog post saying "I'm fed up with communism, let's move to something else! Oh yeah, and the Politburo should just up and die!", men in a black Volga will visit you sooner than you can say "Who's that knocking on the door so late at night?".
And that is exactly why you should fight the removal of every little freedom, unless of course you want to finally end up like that. Playing the ''its much worse elsewhere so its OK for them to screw us over a little bit more each day'' card wont fly unless you are fine with the idea that people in the West are already arrested and jailed for the transfer of information.
While I'm not a big fan of app censorship generally, I don't see the objection to having Apple, Google etc block apps which have no purpose other than letting people drink-drive.
This is what is so terribly sad about /.
Anyone else find it ironic that people like the above poster who voice any opinion for a limited form of censorship are themselves, censored away in /.
We can drop a pallet of goods anywhere on the planet within 24 hours...
Yes but feeding starving people leads to..... even more starving people. No I'm not saying don't feed them, but as civilisations become more advanced their population growth appears to taper off naturally and actually begins in some cases to decline. Perhaps we need to help advance these other civilisations.
Can I ask where you get your figures from? I was under the (possibly very mistaken) impression that the explosion created when matter combined with anti-matter was likely a myth and that really they just cancel each other out.
I believe in the EFF. I wish they never defended wikileaks. What they did was illegal. You can't post classified and / or stolen information. Pretty simple.
As your privacy is gradually stripped away, how many times have you heard the words "If you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear."
...But coffee is also in the 'may possibly cause cancer' that mobile phones have recently been added to
Yes but coffee has been around an awful lot longer in order to gauge long term effects.
Wrong. It's only an act of war if liberals will stop whining over civilian casualties.
Somehow you manage to make liberal sound like an insult with your "Yehaw, lets high five each other and blow shit up because explosions are fucking cool and screw the collateral casualties"
attitude. Your attitude only further perpetuates this somewhat unfair perception of the typical American. Maybe it bothers me more than it should because a girl from my school, Linda Norgrove was killed by Navy Seals who were apparently attempting to rescue her with grenades (they later lied and claimed it was a suicide bomber) and they even managed to shoot her corpse in the leg.
This attitude of yours just makes the sad attempt of a rescue seem so very..... American.
Oh do climb down from there before you hurt yourself. Brainwashed?. By McDonalds and Starbucks. Really?. Is that the best you can spew?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotism
Latin for "law that let's us put whoever the fuck we want in jail"
The focus in the article is on the implied evil of Thailand's legal system and glosses over the fact that this guy is clearly a victim of the USA's corrupt medical care system forcing him to fly to a second world country he would likely be arrested in purely to afford medical treatment.
Hackers breaking into NASA, the Army, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Northrup, Raytheon, and Boeing can never be sure they will get anything at all, or that what they do get will be marketable.
Yes but because the average US citizen is brainwashed into hating China or anything that remotely resists MacDonalds and Starbucks means that despite the fact that every major nation in the world (including the US) very likely has a cyber 'defence' department of the military, the said brainwashing means that suddenly every cyber attack, twitchy printer and malware infected porn is the direct result of Chinese cyber warfare.
From what little I've seen and heard, his biggest problem is his temper
If you've ever seen any videos of the guy such as this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc you will realise that his biggest problem is probably his cocaine habit, of which anger management issues are a likely side effect.
Maybe now he will sue /. as well, or is it me who will now be sued?
The last time this movie was in "pre-production" it was being directed by some guy whose only experience was directing Britney Spear videos. I won't believe this one until I have a ticket in my hand.
Your observations were pretty off the mark, enough that I had to respond.
The music video director you are surely referring to is Chris Cunningham who personally I believe is one of the few people who could actually pull this film off. His work is typically very imaginative but in a dark and edgy way, though he does come from directing music videos and has no feature length directing experience (though he never did any Britney Spears). He pulled out apparently because he did not have final cut approval.
Gibson himself apparently said (and I definately agree)"Chris is my own 100 per cent personal choice...My only choice. The only person I've met who I thought might have a hope in hell of doing it right."
I just worry that the director of Cube and Splice will do the storyline of the book justice, but not understand the feel of the book.
Riiiiight, because slashdot is sooooo pro-American government.
It's painfully frequent I see moderation for -1 unpatriotic.
And if you think every other government doesn't do exactly the same thing, then you're a fucking retard.
True, but consider that Bush quite freely admits that God told him to invade Iraq and that it was a holy crusade. Shame God couldn't also tell him there were no WMD there. The fact that a Country with frequently elects religious fundamentalist presidents who genuinely believe invisible men are telling them to invade other nations, also has enough nuclear weapons to extinguish all life on the planet. Yes this deserves some serious scrutiny and a man willing to risk his freedom and his life exposing the dirty things their military and global corporations get up to does actually deserve some kind of recommendation.
Now read through this staggeringly long list of military engagements and consider how many of them were necessary :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#2000.E2.80.932009
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-god-told-me-to-invade-iraq-509925.html
The presidential ones could also be about NY, California or DC.
Or from a different source altogether. I bet hackers are already desperate to break into this system and issue world wide zombie apocalypse warnings!
president obama (most of your presidents) brags about all the kills he has ordered.
True but at least their current president doesn't tell them that God told him to do it like the last one did. If you kill one person and say God told you to do it you spend your life in loony jail, it seems if you kill hundreds of thousands and claim God told you to do it, you get re-elected for a second term.
Well, that might still prop up his ego, and make himself feel important, even if it was humiliating and painful. Nope, better to let him simply be forgotten, let him wonder in the silent dark if anybody still cares about him
Agreed. This stops him being martyred and becoming a holy symbol of Jihad, it also stops him going to his heaven and his 73.216 Abba fans, or virgins as some people like to call them.