1) Save the return envelope.
2) Fold up a blank piece of paper with a nice wad of chewing gum/peanut butter/diaper contents/etc
3) Mail your "application"
4) ???
5) Profit
That's not called profit. That's called good karma.
This is completely different. It rearranges search results in a pretty manner and it takes so long that you have to wait for the page to load. Completely different!
It's not that a law like this couldn't be enforced. It could be. On every online forum? No. On a case by case basis, say, when someone posts something a large corporation doesn't like? Oh, yes. Yes, it could be. "Well, Mr. Forum Admin, we see there's a request for the identity of this member of your online community -- you don't have their identity? What? Well, I guess you'll have to remove the comment now, and you'll be lucky if we don't shut you down for not following the law and collecting identities as you're supposed to."
There are thousands of people on each server. There's always going to be someone better. If you're one of those guys that spends 8-12 hours a day on WoW and tries to get the highest-ranking character on the server... then... well, some of us more moderate players may not see the actual harm caused here. Aren't many of the best pieces of equipment "Bind on Pick-up" anyway? It's not like players can go out and buy those.
But if the problems of the world emerge from the apathy, stupidity, ignorance, greed, and hate of billions of people, including ourselves... well, that's a little more difficult to tackle and a little more depressing to think about.
It's only the apathy, stupidity, ignorance, greed, and hate of like tens of millions of people that we need to worry about in this case. Geeze. Try not to exaggerate, ok?
This experiment measured reactions in people's brains as they viewed Super Bowl ads. What it didn't measure, however, was to what extent, if any, the ads changed people's recognition or feeling about the brands they were supposed to be selling.
An ad could have left a big impact on a person, but done a very poor job of establishing/reinforcing its brand. It would have been more interesting to see an experiment trying to measure if the ads actually did what they were supposed to do.
How many people were killed or injured by muslim fanatics in just the last few months? How many by christian fanataics?
How many people were killed or injured by Christian fanatics in the last few months? If we count George W. Bush as a Christian fanatic I don't think this is so one-sided as you seem to think.
(Please mod me off-topic rather than troll. Thanks.)
I'd still say there's a difference of degree; if you published that WWJD joke in a big newspaper or national TV station in the US, there might be some people writing in with criticism, or whatever, but would there be violent riots?
If the Middle East dominated the world they way the West does, and if Saudi Arabia had troops in Canada that were installing a new government, and if Muslim nations in the Middle East had a history of supporting a country neighboring the U.S. that we were constantly fighting with, then, yes, I certainly could imagine there being some sort of large protests in the streets if we found out that the Muslim nations were stepping up their offensive rhetoric against things which we in the U.S. consider holy.
...it's bewildering how the submitter could have misinterpreted the article so badly, and mystifying how the editor failed completely to catch the misinterpretation.
...but I find it rather hypocritical when many slashbots trash corporations for creating genetically modified foods yet they see absolutely no problem creating genetically modified people. Either genetic modification is OK or it isn't, do we really need decisions made on the basis of how much you hate someone?
If you genetically modify, say, corn and plant it in a field, if your modifications have some unforeseen consequences, you could have already cross-pollenated a huge area before you could do anything about it.
If you genetically modify a person, the short term consequences are that you screwed up one person. It would be 20 years before you have to start worrying about the tainting of the entire gene pool.
Agnosticism originally meant the view that it's impossible to know if a god or gods exist or not.
"Strong" Atheism is having the belief that there are no gods.
"Weak" Atheism is just not having a belief that any gods exist. (Which, yes, corresponds to the way the term "agnosticism" is more commonly used today.)
Faltering economy, an illegal and unjust war, destroying our reputation abroad, trampling liberty, and out and out gross negligence in leading the world's only superpower. You have a lot to answer for, Mr. O'Dell!
Ah, truth be told, I haven't played any tabletop RPGs in a good long while, but Palladium ranks among the worst RPG companies out there.
Way back in the early 90's they told all the gaming magazines that they couldn't publish any info for Palladium games. There were some mags at the time that had standard fare such as adventures for different game systems. Kevin Siembieda at Palladium just couldn't stand the notion that someone else might put out a scenario meant to be used for one of his games. (As far as I know no other companies had problems like this at that time...) I recall one editorial saying that they weren't even going to review Palladium products so that they could make sure to stay clear of Palldium's laywers.
Also around that time, before Magic: The Gathering came out, Wizards of the Coast were a tiny little company. They put out a very well written book called _The Primal Order_. It detailed how to use gods in an RPG. In an appendix, it had conversion rules for using The Primal Order with a large number of different game systems, including (you guessed it) Palladium. Guess who the only game company to call in their lawyers was? (Hint: it was Palladium.)
I won't go on, but from everything I understand, Kevin Siembieda is something of a lawyer-happy jackass.
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College student recommends RIAA representative Cobain's himself.
On the PC, this mod costs a wallet-shattering $1.99. That seems excessive. You could buy half an Oblivion key ring with that much money!
1) Save the return envelope.
2) Fold up a blank piece of paper with a nice wad of chewing gum/peanut butter/diaper contents/etc
3) Mail your "application"
4) ???
5) Profit
That's not called profit. That's called good karma.
This is completely different. It rearranges search results in a pretty manner and it takes so long that you have to wait for the page to load. Completely different!
It's not that a law like this couldn't be enforced. It could be. On every online forum? No. On a case by case basis, say, when someone posts something a large corporation doesn't like? Oh, yes. Yes, it could be. "Well, Mr. Forum Admin, we see there's a request for the identity of this member of your online community -- you don't have their identity? What? Well, I guess you'll have to remove the comment now, and you'll be lucky if we don't shut you down for not following the law and collecting identities as you're supposed to."
There are thousands of people on each server. There's always going to be someone better. If you're one of those guys that spends 8-12 hours a day on WoW and tries to get the highest-ranking character on the server... then... well, some of us more moderate players may not see the actual harm caused here. Aren't many of the best pieces of equipment "Bind on Pick-up" anyway? It's not like players can go out and buy those.
But if the problems of the world emerge from the apathy, stupidity, ignorance, greed, and hate of billions of people, including ourselves... well, that's a little more difficult to tackle and a little more depressing to think about.
It's only the apathy, stupidity, ignorance, greed, and hate of like tens of millions of people that we need to worry about in this case. Geeze. Try not to exaggerate, ok?
This experiment measured reactions in people's brains as they viewed Super Bowl ads. What it didn't measure, however, was to what extent, if any, the ads changed people's recognition or feeling about the brands they were supposed to be selling.
An ad could have left a big impact on a person, but done a very poor job of establishing/reinforcing its brand. It would have been more interesting to see an experiment trying to measure if the ads actually did what they were supposed to do.
How many people were killed or injured by muslim fanatics in just the last few months? How many by christian fanataics?
How many people were killed or injured by Christian fanatics in the last few months? If we count George W. Bush as a Christian fanatic I don't think this is so one-sided as you seem to think.
(Please mod me off-topic rather than troll. Thanks.)
I'd still say there's a difference of degree; if you published that WWJD joke in a big newspaper or national TV station in the US, there might be some people writing in with criticism, or whatever, but would there be violent riots?
If the Middle East dominated the world they way the West does, and if Saudi Arabia had troops in Canada that were installing a new government, and if Muslim nations in the Middle East had a history of supporting a country neighboring the U.S. that we were constantly fighting with, then, yes, I certainly could imagine there being some sort of large protests in the streets if we found out that the Muslim nations were stepping up their offensive rhetoric against things which we in the U.S. consider holy.
Members of Congress suggesting Google is acting unethically? My whole world has turned upside down!
...it's bewildering how the submitter could have misinterpreted the article so badly, and mystifying how the editor failed completely to catch the misinterpretation.
You must be new here.
The grays are taking over our nation's datacenters. Dispatch a unit of MIBs to Cincinnati, and step on it!
Forget about it being fun, if they get to gold they're going to exceed everyone's expectations at this point.
If you genetically modify, say, corn and plant it in a field, if your modifications have some unforeseen consequences, you could have already cross-pollenated a huge area before you could do anything about it.
If you genetically modify a person, the short term consequences are that you screwed up one person. It would be 20 years before you have to start worrying about the tainting of the entire gene pool.
Google has many fingers in many pies right now...
I'm not familiar with that euphemism, but I think I see what you're getting at.
They're returning the money? That's too bad. Sounds like they nearly had enough to get Shepherd Book to do a direct-to-internet 10 second PSA.
Buggy software running on expensive hardware? I can't wait!!
Waking up drunk like being asleep?
Don't worry. Installing the curtains is still pretty risky.
Agnosticism originally meant the view that it's impossible to know if a god or gods exist or not.
"Strong" Atheism is having the belief that there are no gods.
"Weak" Atheism is just not having a belief that any gods exist. (Which, yes, corresponds to the way the term "agnosticism" is more commonly used today.)
Pro-Microsoft Day is February 30.
Faltering economy, an illegal and unjust war, destroying our reputation abroad, trampling liberty, and out and out gross negligence in leading the world's only superpower. You have a lot to answer for, Mr. O'Dell!
whereas Slashdot features more in-depth and technical discussions
OMGWTFLOL!!!!!!!!
Ah, truth be told, I haven't played any tabletop RPGs in a good long while, but Palladium ranks among the worst RPG companies out there.
Way back in the early 90's they told all the gaming magazines that they couldn't publish any info for Palladium games. There were some mags at the time that had standard fare such as adventures for different game systems. Kevin Siembieda at Palladium just couldn't stand the notion that someone else might put out a scenario meant to be used for one of his games. (As far as I know no other companies had problems like this at that time...) I recall one editorial saying that they weren't even going to review Palladium products so that they could make sure to stay clear of Palldium's laywers.
Also around that time, before Magic: The Gathering came out, Wizards of the Coast were a tiny little company. They put out a very well written book called _The Primal Order_. It detailed how to use gods in an RPG. In an appendix, it had conversion rules for using The Primal Order with a large number of different game systems, including (you guessed it) Palladium. Guess who the only game company to call in their lawyers was? (Hint: it was Palladium.)
I won't go on, but from everything I understand, Kevin Siembieda is something of a lawyer-happy jackass.