... and the cookies will come in handy as this is now Day 2 of the 2012 Presidential Campaign.
Cookies are used internally for statistics, and this is no different. They want to know how often people come back and such to be able to tap them for donations before too long.
So replace the DMV with SSA. You walk in, click a number on a keypad (0 if you have an appointment, 1 if you do not). Get a number and wait. Then there's two separate number systems. The appointment people get a number like Z483, while the walk-ins get a regular number like 46. I haven't yet how they come up with those yet. Then they call out, 41, 42, Z478, Z479, 43, 44, 45, Z480, Z481, Z482, Z483, and finally you at 46. So you don't necessarily know how far in line you are (unless you cheat and take one of each number, I suppose). Then, while you wait, you cannot use anything electronic (Nintendo DS, cell phone, Ipod, etc). So you're left just staring at the other people, listening in when they are at the counter reciting their social security number, etc.
So, in conclusion, I don't want my doctor visit to become like the Social Security Administration.
This is about how it is with the Everquest emulation servers. They take a single version of the game, as it was in about 2005, and then on the server end start adding content to the servers. All this, and most of them are free to play on.
No! Every CEO knows the pirates will be forced to purchase every game they play on their system, and that means billions of more dollars. There's no other way to think about it...
Oh yeah, I keep forgetting these games today aren't games to many people, but DPS calculators with a fancy GUI. But, back in my day they was more of a community of people enjoying themselves, which required relationships with other folks. I see where my mistake is, and I sincerely apologize.
And to those people who consider the destination server in a transfer their "home," you are an intruder in their world. They've worked with their server's group of people for so many years, and here comes some new guy who's at the max level and "taking" their spot in the uber guild of choice. The forums for these games are full of this sort of stuff. So, it is a game-changing feature for those who consider their play style the one-true-way-to-play.
Those were taps on calls with a probable terrorist on one end So, by Taco's use of the word "our," wouldn't this mean that he considers himself one of the terrorist class of people?
Yeah, next they'll get hired at Radio Shack and access their records to find the 22k ohm resistors Obama bought when he was 12! These monsters must be stopped at all costs!!!
Let's see, a private business has policies about who access their business records. There is a breach of the policies and they deal with it as they see fit. Where does the law and prosecution fit into the equation? Are you saying that private business records are subject to government oversight? Then the government needs to know what's in the records to ensure they are used properly. Are your personal records then subject to government oversight as well? Are you spending your money on what the government feels is correct? You will go to jail if they catch you buying trans-fats!
And playing the "what if" game is completely pointless. If it were law enforcement personell, then they would be subject to their employer's policies (ie the city/state/federal government) and dealt with as established under their rules.
It isn't even about their curiosity, but strictly a breach of the employer's code of conduct. Somewhere in the pile of paperwork employees sign with then are hired is a clause that you'll be fired for not following the rules. Plain and simple. They broke a company rule, they were punished by the company. Law, politics, etc plays no part in this event.
Tonight at 10 on Slashdot: Joe the Plumber "borrows" a pipe saw from his employer for a home project, and is fired. Will Cheney be executed for "borrowing" the military to give Haliburton work in Iraq?
and yet, I played the same game all the way through to the end again to get ready for the remakes of DQ4-6 coming to the DS. I loved it all. You have to keep it in its context though. It was a huge world to explore back then, making Zelda seem very small. I found it amazing how much I was able to remember from playing it 18+ years ago (Goldman, score!).
It is more a matter of different target audiences. Back in the NES days, Megaman was a top-of-the-line action game. Games borrowed a lot from the arcade games of the time, short levels, playable in little bursts, instead of hundreds of hours epic sagas. Then again, back then, wasting $20 on Deadly Towers didn't hurt as bad as blowing $60 on the latest life simulator today.
It would be interesting to see what you young punks who started playing video games around the Playstation days (CDs were the death of the old-time games) think of something like Megaman 9. Do you throw it aside after failing the same level twenty times, or do you keep chugging along?
I tried playing Crysis once at 1919x1199, and it sent my dog into convulsions! That is just sick. You cannot settle for anything less, for sake of the dogs!!
I installed the game, and clicked the icon. The screen went full screen and black, then it kicks out with a GPF error. I try again. I reboot and retry, still could not play the game.
After some more uninstalling, rebooting, etc, I finally got it to start up. So I go to create the EA account to use all the wonderful online content they've touted for the last few years. What happens there? "An unknown error has occurred, please try again." Try again as much as I want, and it does not want to create me an account.
So then I dig through years of email and find I did have a general EA account created some time ago. Groovy (or so I think). I try to log on with it at EA's web site. Oh, there's a message that you have to use an email address instead of the old system's username/password. There's a handy link to convert my old account to this new system. Ok. I click through a few screens, agree to the terms of service, etc. "The EA account (email address) and password you entered appears to be invalid."
Try as I might, I guess they really, really don't want me to play this game...
Perhaps is something related to all the media "pressuring" women to lose weight. I never understood the mentality myself, but the TV shows say it's these magazines fault, so whatever.
Perhaps this is the same sort of mind game going on with men. If we get baraged with enough ads for these products, the more it might sink in and create some doubt about ourselves.
I recently saw a documentary where they tested some of these penis enlargement systems (creams, suction device, etc). Given that the average male erect penis is 5.5 inches, the three test subjects they used all thought of themselves as having small penises. The funny thing (to me) was that they measured beforehand, and they were 5, 6, and 6.5 inches. Even though they were right around the average size (and larger), they nonetheless felt very bad about their own image and wanted to be longer.
In the end, one of them (the suction device I think) wound up increasing that guy's penis slightly, while the other two did nothing.
Work is being done on the levies by the Army Corps of Engineers. One representative yesterday was on the news saying they should have the levies ready for a serious hurricane by about 2011.
Oh, and he mentioned something about getting out of the city, but I don't believe him. I'll just wait this one out...
Their page says they will cover things if their service is late. Did you take that up with them? Looking at the service (and several raves people give it here), I'd be curious how well they handle problems like that.
[i]Suggesting that an egg gains full legal rights at the instant of conception is equally absurd.[/i] Why? When the RNA from the egg and sperm combine to form DNA, there is no other direction the "clump" can go. It is not going to be a liver cell, a pancrease, nor a giraffe. Conception is the only definable, scientific moment for determining what a life is. Being viewable by the naked eye is rather barbaric. It's no different than believing the sun revolves around the Earth because that what we see from down here. As technology advances, our perspective changes.
When you blur the definition, you require further blurring to justify various other side effects. If an abortion goes awry and the fetus is delivered breathing, what happens? Do you try to save it? Is the doctor committing assault?
Nevermind that your use of "assuming we throw away any other argument, mine wins" technique is so passe.
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... and the cookies will come in handy as this is now Day 2 of the 2012 Presidential Campaign.
Cookies are used internally for statistics, and this is no different. They want to know how often people come back and such to be able to tap them for donations before too long.
So replace the DMV with SSA. You walk in, click a number on a keypad (0 if you have an appointment, 1 if you do not). Get a number and wait. Then there's two separate number systems. The appointment people get a number like Z483, while the walk-ins get a regular number like 46. I haven't yet how they come up with those yet. Then they call out, 41, 42, Z478, Z479, 43, 44, 45, Z480, Z481, Z482, Z483, and finally you at 46. So you don't necessarily know how far in line you are (unless you cheat and take one of each number, I suppose). Then, while you wait, you cannot use anything electronic (Nintendo DS, cell phone, Ipod, etc). So you're left just staring at the other people, listening in when they are at the counter reciting their social security number, etc.
So, in conclusion, I don't want my doctor visit to become like the Social Security Administration.
Where can I get one of these five digit things you speak of? OMG, I am so behind the times!
This is about how it is with the Everquest emulation servers. They take a single version of the game, as it was in about 2005, and then on the server end start adding content to the servers. All this, and most of them are free to play on.
It was more sarcastic than ironic... that is, unless I'm not using the word the way I think it means, or something.
No! Every CEO knows the pirates will be forced to purchase every game they play on their system, and that means billions of more dollars. There's no other way to think about it...
Oh yeah, I keep forgetting these games today aren't games to many people, but DPS calculators with a fancy GUI. But, back in my day they was more of a community of people enjoying themselves, which required relationships with other folks. I see where my mistake is, and I sincerely apologize.
And to those people who consider the destination server in a transfer their "home," you are an intruder in their world. They've worked with their server's group of people for so many years, and here comes some new guy who's at the max level and "taking" their spot in the uber guild of choice. The forums for these games are full of this sort of stuff. So, it is a game-changing feature for those who consider their play style the one-true-way-to-play.
... for hope for change for the future for our children.
Or, it's because Bush uses an Ipod.
Um, where have you been? Michael Moore said so, therefore it must be true!
Don't forget he's got a seal on his podium that's quite close to the presidential seal (bald eagle with arrows, feathers).
Those were taps on calls with a probable terrorist on one end
So, by Taco's use of the word "our," wouldn't this mean that he considers himself one of the terrorist class of people?
Yeah, next they'll get hired at Radio Shack and access their records to find the 22k ohm resistors Obama bought when he was 12! These monsters must be stopped at all costs!!!
Let's see, a private business has policies about who access their business records. There is a breach of the policies and they deal with it as they see fit. Where does the law and prosecution fit into the equation? Are you saying that private business records are subject to government oversight? Then the government needs to know what's in the records to ensure they are used properly. Are your personal records then subject to government oversight as well? Are you spending your money on what the government feels is correct? You will go to jail if they catch you buying trans-fats!
And playing the "what if" game is completely pointless. If it were law enforcement personell, then they would be subject to their employer's policies (ie the city/state/federal government) and dealt with as established under their rules.
It isn't even about their curiosity, but strictly a breach of the employer's code of conduct. Somewhere in the pile of paperwork employees sign with then are hired is a clause that you'll be fired for not following the rules. Plain and simple. They broke a company rule, they were punished by the company. Law, politics, etc plays no part in this event.
Tonight at 10 on Slashdot: Joe the Plumber "borrows" a pipe saw from his employer for a home project, and is fired. Will Cheney be executed for "borrowing" the military to give Haliburton work in Iraq?
Anyway, it's nothing new here.
and yet, I played the same game all the way through to the end again to get ready for the remakes of DQ4-6 coming to the DS. I loved it all. You have to keep it in its context though. It was a huge world to explore back then, making Zelda seem very small. I found it amazing how much I was able to remember from playing it 18+ years ago (Goldman, score!).
It is more a matter of different target audiences. Back in the NES days, Megaman was a top-of-the-line action game. Games borrowed a lot from the arcade games of the time, short levels, playable in little bursts, instead of hundreds of hours epic sagas. Then again, back then, wasting $20 on Deadly Towers didn't hurt as bad as blowing $60 on the latest life simulator today.
It would be interesting to see what you young punks who started playing video games around the Playstation days (CDs were the death of the old-time games) think of something like Megaman 9. Do you throw it aside after failing the same level twenty times, or do you keep chugging along?
I tried playing Crysis once at 1919x1199, and it sent my dog into convulsions! That is just sick. You cannot settle for anything less, for sake of the dogs!!
And on the next page, the headline reads "Kennedy Faces Charge in Fatal Crash." Hehe, funny how things work out.
I installed the game, and clicked the icon. The screen went full screen and black, then it kicks out with a GPF error. I try again. I reboot and retry, still could not play the game.
After some more uninstalling, rebooting, etc, I finally got it to start up. So I go to create the EA account to use all the wonderful online content they've touted for the last few years. What happens there? "An unknown error has occurred, please try again." Try again as much as I want, and it does not want to create me an account.
So then I dig through years of email and find I did have a general EA account created some time ago. Groovy (or so I think). I try to log on with it at EA's web site. Oh, there's a message that you have to use an email address instead of the old system's username/password. There's a handy link to convert my old account to this new system. Ok. I click through a few screens, agree to the terms of service, etc. "The EA account (email address) and password you entered appears to be invalid."
Try as I might, I guess they really, really don't want me to play this game...
Perhaps is something related to all the media "pressuring" women to lose weight. I never understood the mentality myself, but the TV shows say it's these magazines fault, so whatever.
Perhaps this is the same sort of mind game going on with men. If we get baraged with enough ads for these products, the more it might sink in and create some doubt about ourselves.
I recently saw a documentary where they tested some of these penis enlargement systems (creams, suction device, etc). Given that the average male erect penis is 5.5 inches, the three test subjects they used all thought of themselves as having small penises. The funny thing (to me) was that they measured beforehand, and they were 5, 6, and 6.5 inches. Even though they were right around the average size (and larger), they nonetheless felt very bad about their own image and wanted to be longer.
In the end, one of them (the suction device I think) wound up increasing that guy's penis slightly, while the other two did nothing.
Work is being done on the levies by the Army Corps of Engineers. One representative yesterday was on the news saying they should have the levies ready for a serious hurricane by about 2011.
Oh, and he mentioned something about getting out of the city, but I don't believe him. I'll just wait this one out...
Their page says they will cover things if their service is late. Did you take that up with them? Looking at the service (and several raves people give it here), I'd be curious how well they handle problems like that.
if (DNAHash(clumpocells) == DNA_HUMAN)
printf("Hello Human\n");
There, it can be done.
[i]Suggesting that an egg gains full legal rights at the instant of conception is equally absurd.[/i]
Why? When the RNA from the egg and sperm combine to form DNA, there is no other direction the "clump" can go. It is not going to be a liver cell, a pancrease, nor a giraffe. Conception is the only definable, scientific moment for determining what a life is. Being viewable by the naked eye is rather barbaric. It's no different than believing the sun revolves around the Earth because that what we see from down here. As technology advances, our perspective changes.
When you blur the definition, you require further blurring to justify various other side effects. If an abortion goes awry and the fetus is delivered breathing, what happens? Do you try to save it? Is the doctor committing assault?
Nevermind that your use of "assuming we throw away any other argument, mine wins" technique is so passe.