Article 25. [...] (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Yes.. because as men we are little more than sperm donors to the entire reproductive process.
Sorry, this makes my blood boil so much I can't think of anything constructive to say.
Checks work differently than credit cards. I was once writing a check for $500 and had over $2k in the bank. They had to call to verify. They didn't call my bank, they called the check company they use for insurance (I think the name was equafax). That company, not my bank, declined accepting my check due to age and 'low check number' =P
Fine.. I pulled out my debit card and made the payment that way. I would of perfered to use a check at the time as that way I'd put it on my ledger and have the dup as a reminder of where the money went. Both forms of payment went to the same account. The manager on duty at the store explained the difference to me: Checks are deducted from the account when the check is cashed, usually a day or two later, while cards are supposedly deducted immeditly.
I havn't flown in a LONG time, so I don't know what the price would be for a long flight like the ones that have this service. I realize compared to the prices of ground service it's horably expensive (vs. a month long contract), but thinking of it as an 'add on' to the ticket, what percentage of the ticket cost is it? If you are dealing with a $300 ticket, then it's only a 10% rider.
Of course, if you are taking one of those $59 flights I see advertised, you'd be thinking the cost is insane.
Read the GPL more carefully. You can make any changes to the source you want. Actually, copyright law allows you to change the source if you want.
It is when you distribute the changed binaries that the GPL states you must also distrubute the new source, if requested, to anyone who has the new binaries.
If I want, I can download netcat and make changes to the source. I have not violated copyright or GPL. I can give the modified binary to 5 of my friends, now I have violated copyright so I must accept the conditions of the GPL (which gives me the right to distribute as long as I follow the other conditions). However, I am only required to give the source to those 5 friends. I am not required to give the source to the world. If one of my friends doesn't ask me for the source and gives the program to someone else who does ask for the source, my friend has violated the GPL, not me. Of course, he can rectify the situation by asking me for the source and then giving it to his friend.
Then the answer is simple. Check the Judge who allowed this. While his car is in the lot for the court, place a GPS tracker on his vehicle (underneath, of course, so you do not enter the vehicle). After you have 2 or 3 weeks of data, put it all on a website or sell it to a reporter and list everywhere the judge has been for the last 2 weeks.
The Judge has no right to expect privacy on where his vehicle has been on the public roadways, corret?
Between Ghost Recon and my own military experience, I find myself 'sizing up' rooms, areas, groupings of people.
Nothing was as awsome as the look on the receptionists face as I explained gun emplacements and proper grenading techniques to wipe out the entire party event that was taking place.
However, the most direct event that happened to me as a cause of video game playing was when I made a Quake map out of my office building. Going to work was never the same again... I pop-peeking out from around corners and kept looking around for healthpacks. Scariest part? After perfecting the map and shaking out the bugs, we played it at the office LAN party get togehter. The next Monday just after 8, for no reason at all other than work just started, 4 of us were where the railgun spawned. Most akward moment at work, ever!
If you buy software, you buy a box with a CD in it. At that point, you are bound ONLY by copyright laws. Copyright allows you to modify that which you purchaced, as long as you do not distribute. You are fully within your right to erase/modify the EULA (use your hex editor of choice) before/during the install. Take a screenshot to prove that which you agreed to, save it, and you now OWN that piece of software in the same sense that you would own a book.
And before anyone brings up the copying to your harddrive issue, you are allowed to copy a book, all you want, for your own personal use. Hell, use it as your (physical) wallpaper for all I care.
I usto be a programer for MUDs. Having designed several areas for different games, I've found out the following:
1. Some games require massive timesinks. People who play these games have an elieteism that they've spent more time on the game than you, and therefore are better. They actually consider the timesink 'hardness' to be an asset. These people played EQ1;) The easiest timesink to add is to require grouping. Nothing is as horid as waiting for the required class to log on so you can do something.
2. It is VERY hard to balance classes. Most games have 4 core classes (Tank, Healer, Magical Damage, Melee Damage) In graphical games, you can add on a 5th core class of crowd control. Since any class beside the core 4/5 is a class that can do more than one job, just less effectively, it becomes difficult to create an encounter that can be acomplished by non-cores without it being a cakewalk to a perfect core party.
3. The only real way to make a 'harder' encounter is to require more people or higher levels. Yes, there may be a 'trick' way of pulling off the 50 person EQ raid with 30, but someone will post that to a messageboard and then everyone is doing the encounter with 30. From a content creator's perspective, I had an encounter that required a full party (10) of high levels that probally required at least 6-7 of them to be core. It got stomped by 6 when they discovered a 'bug' in the encounter (a 'trick' that I did not intend). I congraulated them, and then quickly fixed the bug;) Oh the messages I got when they tried it again....
Have you TRIED running as non-admin in windows? I reciently got a new and larger HD for my main machine and decided that I would finally no longer run as Admin on my windows box.
Well, as if this isn't as annoying as fuck.... First of all, while windows may have runas, it sure as hell doesn't work the same as su. Half the time, it just doesn't work, period. The second massive annoyance is the main reason I keep a windows box: Video Games. It is completely stupid how many video games REFUSE to run without admin rights... I mean I've created a "game player" group, given them full control rights to the directory the game is in as well as the applicable portions of the registry, and the game simply won't load since I'm not a member of the admin group.
Thanks to window's Granular control... I can't give a poweruser the right to change the IP. Under linux this should be easy (I dono... su actually works there so I don't really have to try), under windows it's impossible. Yes, since I use static IP's at home and go to gamedays, this is an issue for me.
Now, I can use linux as a normal user, decide I want the latest version of mozilla, su over and install it, and then come back to my normal user and carry on. Under windows, 4 reboots later, I've still gotta log back in as admin since I found out the shortcut wasn't dropped into 'all users'
Tell me again why people put up with this? If it wasn't for video games, I wouldn't.
Ask to look it over for a few moments, cratch the line you dissagree with, initial it, and make sure you get a copy.
I've been supprised how many marketdroids just look for your signature at the bottom and don't realize they've just accepted (as a company rep) the changes you've made. Yes, this does hold up in court.
Now what really pisses me off is 'verbal' contracts. Back when cellphones were newer, I had one for a while then changed to a lower minute plan. The rep I talked to in the store mentioned _NOTHING_ about a new 2 year commitment for changing plans. I signed no paperwork at the time of the change.
I'm just glad the early termination fee was low enough to land in small-claims. I convinced the judge that it was upon the company to prove that I had agreed. (He started in favor of the company. I asked him what the limit for small claims was, and then asked what if tomorrow he was faced with me saying a rep from the company told me they would refund that much of my charges? The judge and the company quickly moved to the debt owner had the burden of proof;) Since neither of us could prove in either direction, I won by default =D
EULA's: When I get the box home I am bound only by copyright law. I crack open my fave hex editor and remove the EULA text, usually replacing it with the company agrees to pay my court costs, have the CEO of the company give my cat a bath, etc, blah blah, and a few million/billion depending on my mood. Altering the work is perfectly legal under copyright law, as long as I don't distribute. I now agree to MY EULA, and if I'm ever taken to court I've got the screenshot to prove what I agreed too.
I figure having the terms of the sale altered after the fact works in both directions;)
I like firefox, but I always keep going back to Opera for the mouse gestures (almost wish I could get them at an OS level). Simply stunning, allows you to handle windows and pages easilly. Instead of looking for a window close button or a minimize button, I just use my mouse no matter where it is located.
You only need to upgrade when your computer is obsolete. Your computer is only obsolete when it will no longer perform the functions required of it in a manner that is timely to you. On my network at home I have a P-75 with a 2MB video card (S3 986 if I remember correctly) that is performing quite well for me. Therefore, it is not obsolete, and does not need upgrading.
The math looks good at first, but there is one simple thing I think makes the difference.
I'm willing to bet that any member of the BGP is also a company that takes IT much more seriously, and therefore would have a much larger IT budget (in relation to the total company budget). Also, I would venture a guess that the BGP are also much larger companies, otherwise the difference in department sizes would be smaller than the current 2.5:1
The very unfortunate truth is that I can 'one-up' this story. A good friend of my relative's family who lives in WV had his house robbed. Said friend's son had left his skateboard near the stairs to the basement, which the intruder tripped over and fell. When the home owner investigated the noise, he found the burgler in the basement with both legs, and an arm broken, so he called 911 and even requested an ambulance along with the police.
Yes, the criminal went to jail for B&E as well as burgurly (he had already had some home possessions on him), but sued my family's friend from the jail cell for something along the lines of 'unsafe home' and WON. Ended up paying his hospital bills, as well as 'lost wages' due to his inability to work (from jail... riiiiight). Friend is still paying off this debt, and last family reunion he was lamenting about the fact that if he had just let the guy die he would of been in the clear.
So, if you are the guy on the wireless laptop sitting inside the library who just happens to download the 10GB+1th bit, then you are stealing bandwith, eh?
I take it you only use public services in the first week of the month to make sure you arn't that guy.....
Actually, that's perfectly valid. The GPL states that you must give source code to those who got the binaries from you. If I am reading your post correctly, that is what is happening (source is included in the shareware). This is why you can code massive improvements to program X, but keep it in house and not give those improvements to the world.
However.... Anyone who buys X-Chat from this guy can start using Ebay to sell the shareware for $5 less than the guy who's currently selling it;)
I've applied to a good number of IT jobs where I wanted to send in a resume where I listed my only qualification as:
1. I am smart enough to know that it is impossible to have 5 years of experience with an operating system that has only been out for 4 years.
As early as 2002 I saw jobs requesting 5 years of experience with W2K. I even had one recruiter refuse to forward my app to the company since I refused to lie and say I had 36 months of experience with W2K (this was back when it had only been out for lil over 25-26 months).
More reciently, I saw a job app requiring a CCNA, but being 'close' to a CCIE. They wanted someone with 2-3 years experience.... bloody idiots.
There's an actual reason why the "kiddie porn" argument exists. The reason is that the laws surrounding this act were created due to the overhyping of child abuse, and therefore are way out of wack.
I'm trying to come up with a semi-realistic hypothetical..... Let's try this:
Waking up after a party, you find a naked 15 year old on the couch. 1) You take pictures of her and distribute them on the internet, and get cought. 2) You have non-consentual sex with her, and get cought.
Guess which one of the two lands you in jail longer...
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Eh?
Dude.. I write good code. Don't you dare associate the drivel that ATI puts out with me.
Yes, I have one ATI card. It will be the only one.
Article 25.
[...]
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Yes.. because as men we are little more than sperm donors to the entire reproductive process.
Sorry, this makes my blood boil so much I can't think of anything constructive to say.
Based on my own experiences (SEVERAL years ago):
Checks work differently than credit cards. I was once writing a check for $500 and had over $2k in the bank. They had to call to verify. They didn't call my bank, they called the check company they use for insurance (I think the name was equafax). That company, not my bank, declined accepting my check due to age and 'low check number' =P
Fine.. I pulled out my debit card and made the payment that way. I would of perfered to use a check at the time as that way I'd put it on my ledger and have the dup as a reminder of where the money went. Both forms of payment went to the same account. The manager on duty at the store explained the difference to me: Checks are deducted from the account when the check is cashed, usually a day or two later, while cards are supposedly deducted immeditly.
--Demonspawn
Kant speel, dunt kare!
I havn't flown in a LONG time, so I don't know what the price would be for a long flight like the ones that have this service. I realize compared to the prices of ground service it's horably expensive (vs. a month long contract), but thinking of it as an 'add on' to the ticket, what percentage of the ticket cost is it? If you are dealing with a $300 ticket, then it's only a 10% rider.
Of course, if you are taking one of those $59 flights I see advertised, you'd be thinking the cost is insane.
They have to do with eachother in one very important way:
Neither is a valid defence of a person's actions.
Read the GPL more carefully. You can make any changes to the source you want. Actually, copyright law allows you to change the source if you want.
It is when you distribute the changed binaries that the GPL states you must also distrubute the new source, if requested, to anyone who has the new binaries.
If I want, I can download netcat and make changes to the source. I have not violated copyright or GPL. I can give the modified binary to 5 of my friends, now I have violated copyright so I must accept the conditions of the GPL (which gives me the right to distribute as long as I follow the other conditions). However, I am only required to give the source to those 5 friends. I am not required to give the source to the world. If one of my friends doesn't ask me for the source and gives the program to someone else who does ask for the source, my friend has violated the GPL, not me. Of course, he can rectify the situation by asking me for the source and then giving it to his friend.
--Demonspawn
Then the answer is simple. Check the Judge who allowed this. While his car is in the lot for the court, place a GPS tracker on his vehicle (underneath, of course, so you do not enter the vehicle). After you have 2 or 3 weeks of data, put it all on a website or sell it to a reporter and list everywhere the judge has been for the last 2 weeks.
The Judge has no right to expect privacy on where his vehicle has been on the public roadways, corret?
--Demonspawn
Between Ghost Recon and my own military experience, I find myself 'sizing up' rooms, areas, groupings of people.
Nothing was as awsome as the look on the receptionists face as I explained gun emplacements and proper grenading techniques to wipe out the entire party event that was taking place.
However, the most direct event that happened to me as a cause of video game playing was when I made a Quake map out of my office building. Going to work was never the same again... I pop-peeking out from around corners and kept looking around for healthpacks. Scariest part? After perfecting the map and shaking out the bugs, we played it at the office LAN party get togehter. The next Monday just after 8, for no reason at all other than work just started, 4 of us were where the railgun spawned. Most akward moment at work, ever!
--Demonspawn
no No NO!!
Stop being a sheep and LOOK UP THE LAWS!
If you buy software, you buy a box with a CD in it. At that point, you are bound ONLY by copyright laws. Copyright allows you to modify that which you purchaced, as long as you do not distribute. You are fully within your right to erase/modify the EULA (use your hex editor of choice) before/during the install. Take a screenshot to prove that which you agreed to, save it, and you now OWN that piece of software in the same sense that you would own a book.
And before anyone brings up the copying to your harddrive issue, you are allowed to copy a book, all you want, for your own personal use. Hell, use it as your (physical) wallpaper for all I care.
--Demonspawn
I usto be a programer for MUDs. Having designed several areas for different games, I've found out the following:
;) The easiest timesink to add is to require grouping. Nothing is as horid as waiting for the required class to log on so you can do something.
;) Oh the messages I got when they tried it again....
1. Some games require massive timesinks. People who play these games have an elieteism that they've spent more time on the game than you, and therefore are better. They actually consider the timesink 'hardness' to be an asset. These people played EQ1
2. It is VERY hard to balance classes. Most games have 4 core classes (Tank, Healer, Magical Damage, Melee Damage) In graphical games, you can add on a 5th core class of crowd control. Since any class beside the core 4/5 is a class that can do more than one job, just less effectively, it becomes difficult to create an encounter that can be acomplished by non-cores without it being a cakewalk to a perfect core party.
3. The only real way to make a 'harder' encounter is to require more people or higher levels. Yes, there may be a 'trick' way of pulling off the 50 person EQ raid with 30, but someone will post that to a messageboard and then everyone is doing the encounter with 30. From a content creator's perspective, I had an encounter that required a full party (10) of high levels that probally required at least 6-7 of them to be core. It got stomped by 6 when they discovered a 'bug' in the encounter (a 'trick' that I did not intend). I congraulated them, and then quickly fixed the bug
--Demonspawn
Of course, considering that Linux is open source, I could come back with the NEW reply of:
;)
Well if it's that much of a fucking problem to you, feel free to fix it yourself
Otherwise, sit back and wait for someone else to fix it for you.
--Demonspawn
Have you TRIED running as non-admin in windows? I reciently got a new and larger HD for my main machine and decided that I would finally no longer run as Admin on my windows box.
Well, as if this isn't as annoying as fuck.... First of all, while windows may have runas, it sure as hell doesn't work the same as su. Half the time, it just doesn't work, period. The second massive annoyance is the main reason I keep a windows box: Video Games. It is completely stupid how many video games REFUSE to run without admin rights... I mean I've created a "game player" group, given them full control rights to the directory the game is in as well as the applicable portions of the registry, and the game simply won't load since I'm not a member of the admin group.
Thanks to window's Granular control... I can't give a poweruser the right to change the IP. Under linux this should be easy (I dono... su actually works there so I don't really have to try), under windows it's impossible. Yes, since I use static IP's at home and go to gamedays, this is an issue for me.
Now, I can use linux as a normal user, decide I want the latest version of mozilla, su over and install it, and then come back to my normal user and carry on. Under windows, 4 reboots later, I've still gotta log back in as admin since I found out the shortcut wasn't dropped into 'all users'
Tell me again why people put up with this? If it wasn't for video games, I wouldn't.
--Demonspawn
Ask to look it over for a few moments, cratch the line you dissagree with, initial it, and make sure you get a copy.
;) Since neither of us could prove in either direction, I won by default =D
;)
I've been supprised how many marketdroids just look for your signature at the bottom and don't realize they've just accepted (as a company rep) the changes you've made. Yes, this does hold up in court.
Now what really pisses me off is 'verbal' contracts. Back when cellphones were newer, I had one for a while then changed to a lower minute plan. The rep I talked to in the store mentioned _NOTHING_ about a new 2 year commitment for changing plans. I signed no paperwork at the time of the change.
I'm just glad the early termination fee was low enough to land in small-claims. I convinced the judge that it was upon the company to prove that I had agreed. (He started in favor of the company. I asked him what the limit for small claims was, and then asked what if tomorrow he was faced with me saying a rep from the company told me they would refund that much of my charges? The judge and the company quickly moved to the debt owner had the burden of proof
EULA's: When I get the box home I am bound only by copyright law. I crack open my fave hex editor and remove the EULA text, usually replacing it with the company agrees to pay my court costs, have the CEO of the company give my cat a bath, etc, blah blah, and a few million/billion depending on my mood. Altering the work is perfectly legal under copyright law, as long as I don't distribute. I now agree to MY EULA, and if I'm ever taken to court I've got the screenshot to prove what I agreed too.
I figure having the terms of the sale altered after the fact works in both directions
--Demonspawn
"There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficent ammounts of brute-force and ignorance." --Me?
If someone else said this first, correct me and I'll update my funny quotes file.
--Demonspawn
I like firefox, but I always keep going back to Opera for the mouse gestures (almost wish I could get them at an OS level). Simply stunning, allows you to handle windows and pages easilly. Instead of looking for a window close button or a minimize button, I just use my mouse no matter where it is located.
Is there a firefox extension for mouse gestures?
--Demonspawn
Top of my head answer: X listens on 6000
When did X become part of the default OBSD install? (and if it does, it probally only listens to localhost)
--Demonspawn
It is bad form for another crutial reason. Say you heard about security bug ABC in version X of some software that was fixed in version Y.
wget x
wget y
diff x y
Oh! So that's what the bug was and how I avoid it!! (not really that simple, but it gives you a place to start looking.)
--Demonspawn
You only need to upgrade when your computer is obsolete. Your computer is only obsolete when it will no longer perform the functions required of it in a manner that is timely to you. On my network at home I have a P-75 with a 2MB video card (S3 986 if I remember correctly) that is performing quite well for me. Therefore, it is not obsolete, and does not need upgrading.
My gaming computer, on the other hand.....
--Demonspawn
The math looks good at first, but there is one simple thing I think makes the difference.
I'm willing to bet that any member of the BGP is also a company that takes IT much more seriously, and therefore would have a much larger IT budget (in relation to the total company budget). Also, I would venture a guess that the BGP are also much larger companies, otherwise the difference in department sizes would be smaller than the current 2.5:1
--Demonspawn
The very unfortunate truth is that I can 'one-up' this story.
A good friend of my relative's family who lives in WV had his house robbed. Said friend's son had left his skateboard near the stairs to the basement, which the intruder tripped over and fell. When the home owner investigated the noise, he found the burgler in the basement with both legs, and an arm broken, so he called 911 and even requested an ambulance along with the police.
Yes, the criminal went to jail for B&E as well as burgurly (he had already had some home possessions on him), but sued my family's friend from the jail cell for something along the lines of 'unsafe home' and WON. Ended up paying his hospital bills, as well as 'lost wages' due to his inability to work (from jail... riiiiight). Friend is still paying off this debt, and last family reunion he was lamenting about the fact that if he had just let the guy die he would of been in the clear.
--Demonspawn
So, if you are the guy on the wireless laptop sitting inside the library who just happens to download the 10GB+1th bit, then you are stealing bandwith, eh?
I take it you only use public services in the first week of the month to make sure you arn't that guy.....
--Demonspawn
Actually, that's perfectly valid. The GPL states that you must give source code to those who got the binaries from you. If I am reading your post correctly, that is what is happening (source is included in the shareware). This is why you can code massive improvements to program X, but keep it in house and not give those improvements to the world.
;)
However.... Anyone who buys X-Chat from this guy can start using Ebay to sell the shareware for $5 less than the guy who's currently selling it
--Demonspawn
I've applied to a good number of IT jobs where I wanted to send in a resume where I listed my only qualification as:
1. I am smart enough to know that it is impossible to have 5 years of experience with an operating system that has only been out for 4 years.
As early as 2002 I saw jobs requesting 5 years of experience with W2K. I even had one recruiter refuse to forward my app to the company since I refused to lie and say I had 36 months of experience with W2K (this was back when it had only been out for lil over 25-26 months).
More reciently, I saw a job app requiring a CCNA, but being 'close' to a CCIE. They wanted someone with 2-3 years experience.... bloody idiots.
--Demonspawn
"But, you see, I am a sexist bastard. I hold open doors for you, honey."
Yes, those words did pass my lips. I've found that women complain and complain about double standards, until it is one that works in their favor.
--Demonspawn
There's an actual reason why the "kiddie porn" argument exists. The reason is that the laws surrounding this act were created due to the overhyping of child abuse, and therefore are way out of wack.
I'm trying to come up with a semi-realistic hypothetical..... Let's try this:
Waking up after a party, you find a naked 15 year old on the couch.
1) You take pictures of her and distribute them on the internet, and get cought.
2) You have non-consentual sex with her, and get cought.
Guess which one of the two lands you in jail longer...
--Demonspawn