If you want beaches, there's dozens of better places in the US to go, including pretty much the entire state of Florida (which isn't exactly a great state either, but it's better than VB).
If you think Playboy is porn, you really need to get out of the basement. Playboy is to porn what Disneyworld is to authenticity.
I'm curious to hear what your definition of porn is. And with that where you live so I can get an idea of whether your standards are close to your communities standards. As there is no definitive statement as to what constitutes porn that could be applied globally.
Are you insulting the musical quality of J.D. White-Shoe and the Amici Curiae?
Hell yeah I am. Not only does their music sound like it was all written as references to previous "hit" songs, have you even been to one of their concerts? The ticket prices are horrendous and you don't know the final cost until the show is over - even when they are taking a break to grab some refreshments, you are still paying them at $400/hour.
Imagine if all their lawyers were making music instead of DRMing.and DMCAing people.
Look there is already enough crappy music in the world and you want lawyers to make more???? Geez.. get real and think of the children, who will end up listening to that "music". I'd rather have Natalie Portman dropping hot grits in my nether parts than hearing a bunch of legal types sing about how much better it could have been if we'd have gone back to Soviet Russia.
You may be surprised, but in certain cases going to your local travel agent can get you a lower price.
So can booking from the "right" country. I am off to Canadia for two weeks for work. Flights proposed by company from Canadian end $US350. **Same** flights booked by me from US end $US200. I have seen that sort of price discrepancy many times before on both US domestic and other foreign cariers. With that sort of raping ^h^h^h^h^h personal service I am always amazed that airlines are still in business.
And yet you not only read but post in an article about games?
I'm sorry I missed the commandment that decrees that you can only read and comment on articles in which you have a first person experience. At this point I should also add a "whoosh" as well.
No, I don't think he was suggesting that YouTube could take down the government. I think he was suggesting that blocking Italians from YouTube could cause complaints that could force a review of the policies.
Which is tantamount to Google effectively triggering a no-confidence vote by the populace. Sure it would only be a minor hiccup in a very stable democracy, but in the case of Italy such an action could result in the government crashing down. Governments have been taken down for less, but typically it has been an internal source that has triggered the action. Given the persuasiveness of the Internet it could be possible for a company the size of Google to isolate a country. Yes I know that there are other search engines but if the top one at the time did something it would cause a major impact.
See, this is where I think Google should call Berlusconi's bluff.....
So what you are saying is that Google now has the power to bring down a democratically elected government? That is scary. (and yes I said that with tongue firmly planted in cheek with respect to Italy)
Will there also be a website where you can get Daily WTF updates? This could be interesting. Add some crappy user commenting software are you are all set for a fun time.
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Why, then, not enlighten us with this information?
Send me teh codz?
Actually it doesn't even work in the standard Safari. It looks like you have to also down load the nightly build from webkit.org and then run "defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitWebGLEnabled -bool YES"
Safari is a supported browser on Snow Leopard *after* you open Terminal and run a command line to set a flag in the (normally not seen) configuration file. Totally obvious - NOT. I had to go do a search to find out how to do this, and I have no idea why the default is "off" and what impact it may make to my system if I turn it "on".
Some stores seem to think that the customers are downright stupid. I have seen this before personally (but not recently): Last Black Friday a friend reported that the sale price on some stuff had gone *up* during the sale.
in fact, that I'vereceived some... interesting offers for your services.
$120 per hour for labour, $60 per hour for travel time > 1 hour from home base. All expenses at cost, and own use car mileage paid at full government rebate amounts. All time (labour and travel) over 40 hours per week to be booked at time and a half. Over 60 hours a week at double time. All flights over 3 hours to be booked at business class or better, and where available gate lounge fees to be paid.
Perhaps I didn't read close enough, but I didn't see anyone complying.
The FBI and NSA can ask for the moon, doesn't mean they are going to get it.
From reading your link perhaps you should have a case of Indiaphobia or United Arab Eremitesphobia.
There are other countries in this world with the pull to have back doors included, its not a u.s.a. specific issue.
Oh I agree this is not an American phenomenom, and it was really funny when people were getting all up in arms over the phone equipment supplied to Iran. And the case in Greece with the phone system was also a very very sophsicated backdoor hack that probably was (some) government related. But as to companies complying. Do you really think that part of a companies advertising campaign is "We support all government requested back doors!"
Seriously, going from this to "OMG government conspiracy," based on NO additional evidence means you are presupposing.
And you have totally fallen for it. The gubmint is one step ahead of you already by using psychology to defeat your common sense. They selected the account/passsword to masquerade as an HP support account, knowing that if it was found out that people like you (or should I say gubmint shills????????) would try and convince the rest of us that it was all an innocent mistake!
Uhhh....your Ameriphobia is showing. When all you do all day is think about how America is bad, then it's not surprising when you invent scenarios in which you are correct
Sir, I am an American living in a foreign land. If I were to criticize a Chinese website for having a Chinese worldview, it would be the height of asshattery. In my case, it would be racist as well.
So what's your point? That people have to conform to your beliefs and/or local situation?
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. An offhand lame attempt at humor added by a Slashdot editor does not mean that OMG AMERICAN IMPERIALISM WHARRGARBL.
Slashdot makes no secret of the fact that it's an American website with accompanying worldview. You don't like it, go elsewhere.
So lame humour by editors is fine, but lame humour by foreigners is not? Is that how it goes?
Having those packets of crackers seems to be (IMO) an American thing. So why should the Chinese have had them? Unless of course you think that/. is the centre of the universe and nothing exists outside US culture.
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If you want beaches, there's dozens of better places in the US to go, including pretty much the entire state of Florida (which isn't exactly a great state either, but it's better than VB).
You missed the obvious .. the Outer Banks
Stationed there for 3.5 years
As per Grishnakh .. VB sucks as a town and/or beach in general. If you were there for 3.5 years and didn't get to the outer banks then shame on you.
I dunno, I think Virginia Beach is a pretty nice place.
Have you actually been there? The place sucks donkey balls.
You think with a name like iPad they would serve up Playgirl
/rimshot
If you think Playboy is porn, you really need to get out of the basement. Playboy is to porn what Disneyworld is to authenticity.
I'm curious to hear what your definition of porn is. And with that where you live so I can get an idea of whether your standards are close to your communities standards. As there is no definitive statement as to what constitutes porn that could be applied globally.
Are you insulting the musical quality of J.D. White-Shoe and the Amici Curiae?
Hell yeah I am. Not only does their music sound like it was all written as references to previous "hit" songs, have you even been to one of their concerts? The ticket prices are horrendous and you don't know the final cost until the show is over - even when they are taking a break to grab some refreshments, you are still paying them at $400/hour.
People are still paying for music?!?!?
As long as artists aren't playing for free then there will be people will be paying for music.
Imagine if all their lawyers were making music instead of DRMing.and DMCAing people.
Look there is already enough crappy music in the world and you want lawyers to make more???? Geez .. get real and think of the children, who will end up listening to that "music". I'd rather have Natalie Portman dropping hot grits in my nether parts than hearing a bunch of legal types sing about how much better it could have been if we'd have gone back to Soviet Russia.
I've never understood why someone would spend hours online finding a site when a travel agent can do it all for you for almost nothing.
Probably because travel agents don't like to work from my home office at 3am.
You may be surprised, but in certain cases going to your local travel agent can get you a lower price.
So can booking from the "right" country. I am off to Canadia for two weeks for work. Flights proposed by company from Canadian end $US350. **Same** flights booked by me from US end $US200. I have seen that sort of price discrepancy many times before on both US domestic and other foreign cariers. With that sort of raping ^h^h^h^h^h personal service I am always amazed that airlines are still in business.
And yet you not only read but post in an article about games?
I'm sorry I missed the commandment that decrees that you can only read and comment on articles in which you have a first person experience. At this point I should also add a "whoosh" as well.
I haven't purchased an Ubisoft game since they announced this last February.
Me neither. But then again I don't play or buy games.
No, I don't think he was suggesting that YouTube could take down the government. I think he was suggesting that blocking Italians from YouTube could cause complaints that could force a review of the policies.
Which is tantamount to Google effectively triggering a no-confidence vote by the populace. Sure it would only be a minor hiccup in a very stable democracy, but in the case of Italy such an action could result in the government crashing down. Governments have been taken down for less, but typically it has been an internal source that has triggered the action. Given the persuasiveness of the Internet it could be possible for a company the size of Google to isolate a country. Yes I know that there are other search engines but if the top one at the time did something it would cause a major impact.
See, this is where I think Google should call Berlusconi's bluff. ....
So what you are saying is that Google now has the power to bring down a democratically elected government? That is scary. (and yes I said that with tongue firmly planted in cheek with respect to Italy)
Will there also be a website where you can get Daily WTF updates? This could be interesting. Add some crappy user commenting software are you are all set for a fun time.
Why, then, not enlighten us with this information?
Send me teh codz?
Actually it doesn't even work in the standard Safari. It looks like you have to also down load the nightly build from webkit.org and then run "defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitWebGLEnabled -bool YES"
So I should apologize to Apple in *this* case
Safari is a supported browser on Snow Leopard *after* you open Terminal and run a command line to set a flag in the (normally not seen) configuration file. Totally obvious - NOT. I had to go do a search to find out how to do this, and I have no idea why the default is "off" and what impact it may make to my system if I turn it "on".
Some stores seem to think that the customers are downright stupid. I have seen this before personally (but not recently): Last Black Friday a friend reported that the sale price on some stuff had gone *up* during the sale.
in fact, that I'vereceived some ... interesting offers for your services.
$120 per hour for labour, $60 per hour for travel time > 1 hour from home base. All expenses at cost, and own use car mileage paid at full government rebate amounts. All time (labour and travel) over 40 hours per week to be booked at time and a half. Over 60 hours a week at double time. All flights over 3 hours to be booked at business class or better, and where available gate lounge fees to be paid.
So can we do business?
Perhaps I didn't read close enough, but I didn't see anyone complying.
The FBI and NSA can ask for the moon, doesn't mean they are going to get it.
From reading your link perhaps you should have a case of Indiaphobia or United Arab Eremitesphobia.
There are other countries in this world with the pull to have back doors included, its not a u.s.a. specific issue.
Oh I agree this is not an American phenomenom, and it was really funny when people were getting all up in arms over the phone equipment supplied to Iran. And the case in Greece with the phone system was also a very very sophsicated backdoor hack that probably was (some) government related. But as to companies complying. Do you really think that part of a companies advertising campaign is "We support all government requested back doors!"
Seriously, going from this to "OMG government conspiracy," based on NO additional evidence means you are presupposing.
And you have totally fallen for it. The gubmint is one step ahead of you already by using psychology to defeat your common sense. They selected the account/passsword to masquerade as an HP support account, knowing that if it was found out that people like you (or should I say gubmint shills????????) would try and convince the rest of us that it was all an innocent mistake!
Try and refute *that* Mr G-Man!
Uhhh....your Ameriphobia is showing. When all you do all day is think about how America is bad, then it's not surprising when you invent scenarios in which you are correct
U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet
FBI drive for encryption backdoors is déjà vu for security experts
Yeah .. you're right .. its Ameriphobia when US companies are complying the gubmint
Sir, I am an American living in a foreign land. If I were to criticize a Chinese website for having a Chinese worldview, it would be the height of asshattery. In my case, it would be racist as well.
So what's your point? That people have to conform to your beliefs and/or local situation?
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. An offhand lame attempt at humor added by a Slashdot editor does not mean that OMG AMERICAN IMPERIALISM WHARRGARBL.
Slashdot makes no secret of the fact that it's an American website with accompanying worldview. You don't like it, go elsewhere.
So lame humour by editors is fine, but lame humour by foreigners is not? Is that how it goes?
Having those packets of crackers seems to be (IMO) an American thing. So why should the Chinese have had them? Unless of course you think that /. is the centre of the universe and nothing exists outside US culture.