At some point, some pointy-haired boss type will realize that, if prostitution is legal, that means they can add sexual services to whatever job description they want.
After that sucking corporate cock won't just be a metaphor for hating your shitty job, it'll be the literal truth.
The article makes the interesting point that our founding forefathers considered secret balloting cowardly. Clearly they did not anticipate violence as a tactic to tamper with elections.
Then why would the founding fathers consider secret balloting cowardly? Clearly, they must have anticipated violence, and just felt that not standing up to it and casting your vote written in your own blood if necessary was cowardly. If they hadn't considered the possibility of violence, then they wouldn't have been able to arrive at any sort of conclusion that secret balloting was cowardly.
Really, the songs ought to just be add-on modules that you can install and play whatever you like. Games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero should be thought of as platforms.
I'm 33 years old, I love video games, I like the Beatles, I play Rock Band/Guitar Hero, and there's several million people who are just like me. I think they'll be fine on sales.
If they want to do a Jazz Band or a String Quartet game, I'll start worrying more about sales. Those would be pretty cool games, but probably won't have a mass market appeal in quite the same way as a game based on pop does.
If we contaminate Mars before we can ascertain what is there, we may never be able to determine whether any microbial life that may be there originated there, or came from us. We've barely begun to explore, and while we haven't found life yet on the surface, there's plenty of places where it could yet be found.
A monument to humanity's stupidity, is more like it. Let's wait and see first if Mars has its own life, and maybe we can study it and learn from it, before we fuck it up and exploit it for all it's worth.
Excuse me, but Stephen fucking Hawking can use a computer and not move any part of his fucking body, and McCain, who is wealthy enough not only to buy a copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking ($145 retail)
He did, but he found it so annoying to have to back up and delete "my friends" so many times that he just went back to using a human secretary for dictation.
Ahh but what if they had anticipated the fix, pre-emptively beat them, and then feigned ignorance for a few days to make the companies think that they had outsmarted the hackers.
And yes, in this case, absence of evidence *IS* evidence of absence.
Bullshit.
We've been looking for ET for less than a century. Primarily our method of search to date has been to examine radiowaves for signals we'd recognize as being definitively of intelligent origin.
There could be many pre-radio civilizations out there that we can't even hope to detect. There can be animal and plant life that will never give rise to anything we'd recognize as a civilization, and detecting those will be next to impossible, short of physically visiting.
It's like blinking at an ocean and then making a declaration that there's no fish because in the 10th of a second you were looking, none were jumping above the surface.
The truth is still out there. We've barely begun to search for it.
If you don't have the clout of a Google-sized organization to buy higher-rated chips from Intel, I wonder if you can basically achieve the same thing by underclocking. An underclocked chip will run cooler, but I don't know if it'll run more stably at higher temps, although I think it would.
Does anyone have any experience with doing this?
I think it'd be interesting to see whether the cost savings in power and cooling is offset by the cost of the performance losses.
Microsoft isn't evil. It simply spends a lot of it's time exploring the boundaries of the law around the world. And when you explore boarders, half the time you're on one side and the rest on the other side.
All in an effort to help the children (new corporations).
So they will know "You can go this far without getting into trouble. You can go this much further, and pay a small fine after doing it for 10 years. You can go twice as far, but then the fine will be 10 times higher, but you will only have to pay it 50 years later." And so on...
Well, I'd buy this line of BS, except that MS always tries to push the boundary beyond where it is, to a place that's more favorable for MS's plans of world domination.
They're not just interested in finding out where the legal boundaries are, they are interested in redefining them, to eradicate all obstacles preventing or potentially preventing MS from doing whatever the hell MS wants.
"Provide online" is a form of repackaging for re-sale, unless they are making titles available online for free. That's the model with the Wii Virtual Console.
That works, as long as old hardware continues to be common. Over time, hardware will age and become more and more difficult to find in good repair.
With portable systems, the other problem is choosing which you carry with you. If I want a quick/convenient game, most likely I'm not going to haul a GBA and a DS around with me, I'm going to choose whichever one I think I'll enjoy more.
At home, I can just pull out whichever I have, sure, but part of the point of handheld systems is portability.
Nintendo already dropped Game Boy (Color and original) compatibility with the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Micro. That they would drop the slot altogether isn't all that surprising.
Nope, it's not surprising at all. Just, I'm gonna miss the GBA slot.
Losing the GBA slot is unfortunate, there were a lot of really good GBA titles that are still fun to play now.
In all likelihood Nintendo realizes this, and will re-package the old GBA titles on DS media form factor, and re-sell us the same games again, like they have with the Virtual Console on the Wii.
This makes total financial sense, but it's too bad. I can't think of any way as a consumer to act in a way that would give the incentive to Nintendo to retain backward compatibility so that I don't have to re-buy games I've already played. If we all don't re-buy, Nintendo would just not re-package to re-sell, rather than retain backward compatibility.
It seems like console makers have some incentive to provide backward compatibility during the intro period when they are transitioning from the old platform to the new, but once the new platform is entrenched they drop backward compatibility to cut costs/up profits.
This shows how easy it would be to swing the election should one hack the voting in a few districts. The analysis can be used to show the regions to focus on.
This shows the importance of maintaining an open and audit able process if the system is to be protected from manipulation.
It also shows the importance of every vote and in protecting the rights of all to be able to cast their vote.
Great, now that you've pointed out how valuable this information is in terms of identifying vulnerabilities in the system, the Dept. of Homeland Security (D'OHS) will take an interest in suppressing the information, lest it be used by terrorists to affect the outcome of the election.
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Shit, I got modded funny? I had no idea. I'm dead serious about that!
I'm anti-prostitution, and I'll tell you why:
At some point, some pointy-haired boss type will realize that, if prostitution is legal, that means they can add sexual services to whatever job description they want.
After that sucking corporate cock won't just be a metaphor for hating your shitty job, it'll be the literal truth.
Then why would the founding fathers consider secret balloting cowardly? Clearly, they must have anticipated violence, and just felt that not standing up to it and casting your vote written in your own blood if necessary was cowardly. If they hadn't considered the possibility of violence, then they wouldn't have been able to arrive at any sort of conclusion that secret balloting was cowardly.
Really, the songs ought to just be add-on modules that you can install and play whatever you like. Games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero should be thought of as platforms.
I'm 33 years old, I love video games, I like the Beatles, I play Rock Band/Guitar Hero, and there's several million people who are just like me. I think they'll be fine on sales.
If they want to do a Jazz Band or a String Quartet game, I'll start worrying more about sales. Those would be pretty cool games, but probably won't have a mass market appeal in quite the same way as a game based on pop does.
If we contaminate Mars before we can ascertain what is there, we may never be able to determine whether any microbial life that may be there originated there, or came from us. We've barely begun to explore, and while we haven't found life yet on the surface, there's plenty of places where it could yet be found.
A monument to humanity's stupidity, is more like it. Let's wait and see first if Mars has its own life, and maybe we can study it and learn from it, before we fuck it up and exploit it for all it's worth.
Judging by that zune-colored cloud, I'd say it's about to start raining diarrhea.
which they didn't choose, because then people would think everyone was saying "Windows Blew", which it does.
Excuse me, but Stephen fucking Hawking can use a computer and not move any part of his fucking body, and McCain, who is wealthy enough not only to buy a copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking ($145 retail)
He did, but he found it so annoying to have to back up and delete "my friends" so many times that he just went back to using a human secretary for dictation.
Ahh but what if they had anticipated the fix, pre-emptively beat them, and then feigned ignorance for a few days to make the companies think that they had outsmarted the hackers.
Clearly, they would have a dizzying intellect.
I see you own a computer. Surely you could have sent your money to Africa instead?
They probably filter out all the Nigerian spam, so no.
Hmm, how about... "Where persistent opinions correct correct opinions?"
I should be safe now, right?
My data backup scheme is to steganographically embed my entire filesystem into nude pictures of Sarah Palin, and then upload them to usenet.
And yes, in this case, absence of evidence *IS* evidence of absence.
Bullshit.
We've been looking for ET for less than a century. Primarily our method of search to date has been to examine radiowaves for signals we'd recognize as being definitively of intelligent origin.
There could be many pre-radio civilizations out there that we can't even hope to detect. There can be animal and plant life that will never give rise to anything we'd recognize as a civilization, and detecting those will be next to impossible, short of physically visiting.
It's like blinking at an ocean and then making a declaration that there's no fish because in the 10th of a second you were looking, none were jumping above the surface.
The truth is still out there. We've barely begun to search for it.
If you don't have the clout of a Google-sized organization to buy higher-rated chips from Intel, I wonder if you can basically achieve the same thing by underclocking. An underclocked chip will run cooler, but I don't know if it'll run more stably at higher temps, although I think it would.
Does anyone have any experience with doing this?
I think it'd be interesting to see whether the cost savings in power and cooling is offset by the cost of the performance losses.
It's not just political ads, though. It's political segments on talk shows, excerpted for purposes of quotation.
Microsoft isn't evil. It simply spends a lot of it's time exploring the boundaries of the law around the world. And when you explore boarders, half the time you're on one side and the rest on the other side.
All in an effort to help the children (new corporations).
So they will know "You can go this far without getting into trouble. You can go this much further, and pay a small fine after doing it for 10 years. You can go twice as far, but then the fine will be 10 times higher, but you will only have to pay it 50 years later." And so on...
Well, I'd buy this line of BS, except that MS always tries to push the boundary beyond where it is, to a place that's more favorable for MS's plans of world domination.
They're not just interested in finding out where the legal boundaries are, they are interested in redefining them, to eradicate all obstacles preventing or potentially preventing MS from doing whatever the hell MS wants.
"Provide online" is a form of repackaging for re-sale, unless they are making titles available online for free. That's the model with the Wii Virtual Console.
That works, as long as old hardware continues to be common. Over time, hardware will age and become more and more difficult to find in good repair.
With portable systems, the other problem is choosing which you carry with you. If I want a quick/convenient game, most likely I'm not going to haul a GBA and a DS around with me, I'm going to choose whichever one I think I'll enjoy more.
At home, I can just pull out whichever I have, sure, but part of the point of handheld systems is portability.
Nintendo already dropped Game Boy (Color and original) compatibility with the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Micro. That they would drop the slot altogether isn't all that surprising.
Nope, it's not surprising at all. Just, I'm gonna miss the GBA slot.
Losing the GBA slot is unfortunate, there were a lot of really good GBA titles that are still fun to play now.
In all likelihood Nintendo realizes this, and will re-package the old GBA titles on DS media form factor, and re-sell us the same games again, like they have with the Virtual Console on the Wii.
This makes total financial sense, but it's too bad. I can't think of any way as a consumer to act in a way that would give the incentive to Nintendo to retain backward compatibility so that I don't have to re-buy games I've already played. If we all don't re-buy, Nintendo would just not re-package to re-sell, rather than retain backward compatibility.
It seems like console makers have some incentive to provide backward compatibility during the intro period when they are transitioning from the old platform to the new, but once the new platform is entrenched they drop backward compatibility to cut costs/up profits.
Guess I'll keep my GBA SP2+ around, then.
This shows how easy it would be to swing the election should one hack the voting in a few districts. The analysis can be used to show the regions to focus on.
This shows the importance of maintaining an open and audit able process if the system is to be protected from manipulation.
It also shows the importance of every vote and in protecting the rights of all to be able to cast their vote.
Great, now that you've pointed out how valuable this information is in terms of identifying vulnerabilities in the system, the Dept. of Homeland Security (D'OHS) will take an interest in suppressing the information, lest it be used by terrorists to affect the outcome of the election.
I propose that this new unit be named the Gates-Seinfeld.
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