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Isn't "sane terrorist" an oxymoron?
How so? Like it or not, terrorism is a great way to control a populace. After all, fear is a pretty effective way of manipulating people... just look at how well it's worked for the US government?
If their only concern is "staying in office" instead of "doing the job you were entrusted to do" they display a marked lack of principles
If they get voted out of office, it's a clear indication that they're not "doing the job [they] were entrusted to do", correct? Put another way, if they were "doing their job", they'd get re-elected. Right?
So, if getting voted out indicates they're not doing their job, and if they'll get voted out regardless of the decision they make (as I stated in my previous post, to which you agreed), then what *you're* saying is that it's impossible for them to do their job. AND you're getting pissed at them for it!
Do you realize how totally fucking stupid that is?
GPP: Charity may give you a warm fuzzy feeling, but it's nothing but consumption.
You can keep the homeless from starving to death or freezing, which is all well and good and vital charity, but that's not the sort of thing the GPP was objecting to.
You may be right, but it sure doesn't read that way.
I'm convinced the main reason I'm no longer poor is that my mother refused to accept any government handouts, ever.
Are you sure about that? My single mother, who raised three kids by herself (and all of us now have post-secondary degrees) made use of government hand-outs occasionally, as well as assistance from charities and family friends. But, guess, what? I never knew until much later. Why? Because she was too proud and, frankly, ashamed, to tell me.
Poverty is about attitude, opportunity, abilities, and choices. None of those are fixed by handing money to poor people - in fact, quite the opposite.
Wow, how wrong you are. If you have no food in your stomache or a roof over your head, how can you possibly keep a positive attitude? Without decent clothes, how do you get a job interview? Without money, how do you pay for an education?
The fact is, while there are people who try to game the system, I suspect there is a silent majority of people out there who don't. To believe that *every* poor person is just a leech fastened to the social safety net is, frankly, naive and narrow-minded.
Wait, wait... so you'd rather they tried to strike the bill down (which would fail), only to lose their jobs later and *strengthen* the GOP majority? Smart. Real smart.
That's actually an add-on which was designed for the GBA, a machine which is most definitely too weak to decode MP3s in real-time. This device just happens to work on a DS, as well, and so they market it for both platformns, though it only uses the DS in GBA mode. Thus, this is *hardly* proof that the DS can't decode MP3s on it's own. In fact, I see no reason why the 66 Mhz ARM9 in the DS couldn't decode MP3s in realtime, with the ARM7 feeding the results to the DS's sound code.
Well, see, this is to protect those fine folks in the administration from those damned activist judges who insist on legislating from the bench! Or something like that...
I can present any number of hypotheses that could alternately explain how the earth came to be, some using the existing evidence and others that do not. Why are you unwilling to consider those?
Very well. I propose a theory that the universe is populated by an infinite number of invisible pink elephants, and it is these elephants which created the earth some 6,000 years ago. Now I *demand* you consider my idea! Moreover, I *demand* it be taught in schools! After all, we must provide an equal, balanced view.
Bah, getting a workable card is trivial. The Linksys WMP54G revision 4 card is easily available (it's the most recent revision, with the smaller formfactor), and works like a charm. Heck, if you're really cheap, buy the card, flash your DS with the now-available firmware upgrade, and then return the card.:)
It isn't even a mod, in the usual sense. Just get a piece of bare wire and stick it in a hole in the battery compartment of the DS for the duration of the flash to short the pads... that's it. After that, your DS will happily boot code from the GBA slot. I've done it myself using the WifiMe method, and it worked like a charm. And the beauty is all you need is a supported WiFi card (a recent Linksys will do the job).
So all you really need to do is have the system read from the memory stick instead of the UMD
And you'll do that how? By hacking up the game code... which is exactly what I said. And it's not nearly as trivial as it sounds, especially if there are no equivalent BIOS calls for reading from the MS.
No, you can't. Unless, that is, you're willing to downgrade to the Japanese 1.00 version of the BIOS. Otherwise, the PSP will only load encrypted code from the MS.
You could, in fact, get all three of those games on one 2GB memory stick.
Uhh, yeah, except those games were *designed* to play off a UMD. IOW, they contain a bunch of code designed to read and cache data from the drive, etc, etc. So, unless you can butcher the game to remove that code, *and* replace it with code that loads the equivalent data from the memory stick, you're still screwed.
You must remember, though, that one of the reasons to go with a proprietary format is to curb piracy. Using something like CF means piracy is incredibly easy, as media readers and writers are universally available. The only solution is encryption, but that can be got around with a mod-chip. A proprietary media format solves that problem, as writers are simply non-existant, meaning large-scale piracy is virtually impossible.
Indeed. TBH, the main reason I ended up picking up the DS was: price, battery life, and most of all, hackability... unless you're running old firmware, there's no way to load code onto the PSP as it stands. The DS, however, is imminently hackable thanks to some recent developments. And best of all? I can hack it using the same flash cart I was using for GBA development, meaning I don't have to buy any new equipment...
Someone will have to design, build and maintain those robots.
"The battles of the future will not be fought on a battleground or at sea, they will be fought in space. Or at the top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forward today, your duty is clear, to build and maintain those robots. Thank you." -- The Military School Principal in The Simpsons
Or possibly someone's been reading "Life-Line" by Robert Heinlein, published in 1939 and still in print in various collections, including at least one published this year. IOW, among the most famous and seminal short stories in the genre, one any serious reader of SF is pretty likely to know about.
Wow, why am I suddenly reminded of Comic-Book guy...
Yes, God forbid anybody should be a Racist. Everybody knows that Racists are all evil and bad. Except we can't say they're evil and bad, because nothing is really good or evil, you know? That's Racist thinking, and we reject that. Because Racists are bad.
Also, anybody who disapproves of Blacks is really just scared of them. Don't dignify their positions by saying that they disagree or that they don't approve. Instead, accuse 'em of having a phobia. That way was can totally ignore their point of view without having to feel bad about doing it.
To Him, people appear as static worms in space, spanning about 2m in height, 0.5m in width, 0.25m in depth, and about 2.4 billion seconds in the dimension of time.
There has not been a single observed naturally occuring mutation that had a positive life-giving effect. If the entire theory is based on these mutations that have a positive effect, how come we have never observed any?
That's funny... all those antibiotic resistant bacteria and herbicide resistant weed strains really seem to suggest otherwise.
Not to mention that God turned out to be the liar ("but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die.")
Actually, all God said in that passage was "you will surely die". Of course, the consequence of eating from that tree was more complicated than that: their expulsion from Eden and the switch to a mortal existence. But, of course, this also means they would age and, like you and I, "surely die". So, no, God didn't lie. He just didn't explain the full picture.
What's rather intriguing about the Eden tale, IMHO, is that both God and the Serpent told the truth. Thus, the bible seems to imply that truth (and thus knowledge) can be more dangerous than a lie.
Presumably God created universe and saw all consequences of creation, but that does not imply that he created the universe so that those consequences would happen.
He had to've. That's what being omniscient *means*. It's not like God can pick and choose what he knows. He just *knows* everything. Therefore, God had to know every choice you have and will ever make, and he had to construct the universe with the intent of producing that outcome (otherwise he would have made different choices).
The only other alternative is that God doesn't give a wit what decisions you make in your life, and thus constructed the universe with a particular goal in mind, and you as a simple artifact. Either way, you have no free will, and in the latter case, you aren't even on God's radar, something which comes in pretty strong conflict with Christian values, as far as I know.
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Isn't "sane terrorist" an oxymoron?
How so? Like it or not, terrorism is a great way to control a populace. After all, fear is a pretty effective way of manipulating people... just look at how well it's worked for the US government?
Holy... shit...
If their only concern is "staying in office" instead of "doing the job you were entrusted to do" they display a marked lack of principles
If they get voted out of office, it's a clear indication that they're not "doing the job [they] were entrusted to do", correct? Put another way, if they were "doing their job", they'd get re-elected. Right?
So, if getting voted out indicates they're not doing their job, and if they'll get voted out regardless of the decision they make (as I stated in my previous post, to which you agreed), then what *you're* saying is that it's impossible for them to do their job. AND you're getting pissed at them for it!
Do you realize how totally fucking stupid that is?
So, let me just get this straight:
Vote to support bill = cowardice and lack of principles -> vote out of office.
Vote to strike down bill = unwilling to "support the troops" -> vote out of office.
Talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't...
GPP: Charity may give you a warm fuzzy feeling, but it's nothing but consumption.
You can keep the homeless from starving to death or freezing, which is all well and good and vital charity, but that's not the sort of thing the GPP was objecting to.
You may be right, but it sure doesn't read that way.
I'm convinced the main reason I'm no longer poor is that my mother refused to accept any government handouts, ever.
Are you sure about that? My single mother, who raised three kids by herself (and all of us now have post-secondary degrees) made use of government hand-outs occasionally, as well as assistance from charities and family friends. But, guess, what? I never knew until much later. Why? Because she was too proud and, frankly, ashamed, to tell me.
Poverty is about attitude, opportunity, abilities, and choices. None of those are fixed by handing money to poor people - in fact, quite the opposite.
Wow, how wrong you are. If you have no food in your stomache or a roof over your head, how can you possibly keep a positive attitude? Without decent clothes, how do you get a job interview? Without money, how do you pay for an education?
The fact is, while there are people who try to game the system, I suspect there is a silent majority of people out there who don't. To believe that *every* poor person is just a leech fastened to the social safety net is, frankly, naive and narrow-minded.
Charity may give you a warm fuzzy feeling, but it's nothing but consumption.
Somehow, I think it's safe to assume you are not, nor have you ever been, poor.
Wait, wait... so you'd rather they tried to strike the bill down (which would fail), only to lose their jobs later and *strengthen* the GOP majority? Smart. Real smart.
That's actually an add-on which was designed for the GBA, a machine which is most definitely too weak to decode MP3s in real-time. This device just happens to work on a DS, as well, and so they market it for both platformns, though it only uses the DS in GBA mode. Thus, this is *hardly* proof that the DS can't decode MP3s on it's own. In fact, I see no reason why the 66 Mhz ARM9 in the DS couldn't decode MP3s in realtime, with the ARM7 feeding the results to the DS's sound code.
Well, see, this is to protect those fine folks in the administration from those damned activist judges who insist on legislating from the bench! Or something like that...
I can present any number of hypotheses that could alternately explain how the earth came to be, some using the existing evidence and others that do not. Why are you unwilling to consider those?
Very well. I propose a theory that the universe is populated by an infinite number of invisible pink elephants, and it is these elephants which created the earth some 6,000 years ago. Now I *demand* you consider my idea! Moreover, I *demand* it be taught in schools! After all, we must provide an equal, balanced view.
Wow, awesome post. You're definitely going on my friends list.
Bah, getting a workable card is trivial. The Linksys WMP54G revision 4 card is easily available (it's the most recent revision, with the smaller formfactor), and works like a charm. Heck, if you're really cheap, buy the card, flash your DS with the now-available firmware upgrade, and then return the card. :)
It isn't even a mod, in the usual sense. Just get a piece of bare wire and stick it in a hole in the battery compartment of the DS for the duration of the flash to short the pads... that's it. After that, your DS will happily boot code from the GBA slot. I've done it myself using the WifiMe method, and it worked like a charm. And the beauty is all you need is a supported WiFi card (a recent Linksys will do the job).
So all you really need to do is have the system read from the memory stick instead of the UMD
And you'll do that how? By hacking up the game code... which is exactly what I said. And it's not nearly as trivial as it sounds, especially if there are no equivalent BIOS calls for reading from the MS.
No, you can't. Unless, that is, you're willing to downgrade to the Japanese 1.00 version of the BIOS. Otherwise, the PSP will only load encrypted code from the MS.
You could, in fact, get all three of those games on one 2GB memory stick.
Uhh, yeah, except those games were *designed* to play off a UMD. IOW, they contain a bunch of code designed to read and cache data from the drive, etc, etc. So, unless you can butcher the game to remove that code, *and* replace it with code that loads the equivalent data from the memory stick, you're still screwed.
You must remember, though, that one of the reasons to go with a proprietary format is to curb piracy. Using something like CF means piracy is incredibly easy, as media readers and writers are universally available. The only solution is encryption, but that can be got around with a mod-chip. A proprietary media format solves that problem, as writers are simply non-existant, meaning large-scale piracy is virtually impossible.
Indeed. TBH, the main reason I ended up picking up the DS was: price, battery life, and most of all, hackability... unless you're running old firmware, there's no way to load code onto the PSP as it stands. The DS, however, is imminently hackable thanks to some recent developments. And best of all? I can hack it using the same flash cart I was using for GBA development, meaning I don't have to buy any new equipment...
Someone will have to design, build and maintain those robots.
"The battles of the future will not be fought on a battleground or at sea, they will be fought in space. Or at the top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forward today, your duty is clear, to build and maintain those robots. Thank you." -- The Military School Principal in The Simpsons
Or possibly someone's been reading "Life-Line" by Robert Heinlein, published in 1939 and still in print in various collections, including at least one published this year. IOW, among the most famous and seminal short stories in the genre, one any serious reader of SF is pretty likely to know about.
Wow, why am I suddenly reminded of Comic-Book guy...
That *really* depends on who you ask. Which is why I'm tempted to declare the GP a troll.
Yes, God forbid anybody should be a Racist. Everybody knows that Racists are all evil and bad. Except we can't say they're evil and bad, because nothing is really good or evil, you know? That's Racist thinking, and we reject that. Because Racists are bad.
Also, anybody who disapproves of Blacks is really just scared of them. Don't dignify their positions by saying that they disagree or that they don't approve. Instead, accuse 'em of having a phobia. That way was can totally ignore their point of view without having to feel bad about doing it.
To Him, people appear as static worms in space, spanning about 2m in height, 0.5m in width, 0.25m in depth, and about 2.4 billion seconds in the dimension of time.
:)
Somebody's been watching Donnie Darko...
There has not been a single observed naturally occuring mutation that had a positive life-giving effect. If the entire theory is based on these mutations that have a positive effect, how come we have never observed any?
That's funny... all those antibiotic resistant bacteria and herbicide resistant weed strains really seem to suggest otherwise.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Christian.
Not to mention that God turned out to be the liar ("but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die.")
Actually, all God said in that passage was "you will surely die". Of course, the consequence of eating from that tree was more complicated than that: their expulsion from Eden and the switch to a mortal existence. But, of course, this also means they would age and, like you and I, "surely die". So, no, God didn't lie. He just didn't explain the full picture.
What's rather intriguing about the Eden tale, IMHO, is that both God and the Serpent told the truth. Thus, the bible seems to imply that truth (and thus knowledge) can be more dangerous than a lie.
Presumably God created universe and saw all consequences of creation, but that does not imply that he created the universe so that those consequences would happen.
He had to've. That's what being omniscient *means*. It's not like God can pick and choose what he knows. He just *knows* everything. Therefore, God had to know every choice you have and will ever make, and he had to construct the universe with the intent of producing that outcome (otherwise he would have made different choices).
The only other alternative is that God doesn't give a wit what decisions you make in your life, and thus constructed the universe with a particular goal in mind, and you as a simple artifact. Either way, you have no free will, and in the latter case, you aren't even on God's radar, something which comes in pretty strong conflict with Christian values, as far as I know.