Sure. Right after you post under your registered/. ID. (Also maybe you could clarify what I'm supposed to "put up"? I'm not trying to prove anything. I'm just stating what I've heard from the marine's FB friends and about Bilderberg meeting in Virginia.)
(1) I wanted to comment that those who said the marine "deserved to be jailed" were wrong. The cops handed-in a blank piece of paper!!! Basically the cops arrested him without causes and this shit should not be happening in America. Thankfully we had a judge who still serves the Virginia Constitution (shall not be deprived of freedom w/o due process) and released the man ASAP.
(2) The "version" of this Bilderberg theory I hear is that Bush is dumb as dirt. He was just a puppet that was used by Cheney and other connected men to manipulate things behind the scenes. (This same theory also claims Obama is a puppet.) Here's a photo that is frequently used. It's Bush's head but overlaid with an Obama mask..... meaning nothing has really changed except the frontman:
>>>He's mentally ill, and really does need help (even if you can't force it).
I friended him on facebook, and then start chatting with his friends. They say he's a quiet person and the kindest person they know.
>>>The guy seriously believes that George W. Bush is living in a secret castle in Colorado where he rapes
Provide citation or retract the libel.
>>>He also believes that Bush not only planned 9-11, but serves a world shadow government
Well this part is true. He does believe that there's a group called the "Bilderberg Group" that acts, not as a world government, but also to set policy. And since this group just held a meeting in northern Virginia, the guy is not crazy. It's a fact that they exist. (But I doubt they are a world government..... just the leaders getting together to set international policy. Like a conference.)
I wonder if this same logic applies to browser performance? As they become more graphical and video-oriented will the GPU power matter more than the CPU?
Maybe I didn't need a new computer..... maybe I just needed to keep the Pentium4 and upgrade the graphics card to something fast. Then I could play HD youtube.
That works both ways you know. Around 2003-4 the Republicans became aware that the mortgage lending market was "too hot" and they needed to act to slowdown the exuberance. But that time it was the Democrats who filibustered and stopped mortgage/banking laws from being rewritten & made tougher. The Democrats wanted mortgages to be easy to get, even for people too poor to pay them back.
"increased spending" being the key. It shouldn't be going up at all, especially from a man who said, "Adding 2 trillion to the debt is unpatriotic." Spending should have been frozen at 2008 levels (0% increase) until the budget deficit had fallen to zero.
As for filibustering, isn't it funny that the Democrats used the same tactic during the Clinton and Bush years? Why is it acceptable for the Dems to use the filibuster but evil for the Reps to use it? Hmmm.
BTW I'm libertarian. That means I'm on either party's side because I think the both suck. The Dems try to control my money ("we know better than you how to spend it") while the Reps try to control my sex life ("obey the bible or be damed"). It would be nice if we had a party like the one Jefferson founded in 1796 that didn't interfere at all, except to protect us from thieves and killers.
But liberals are supposed to be better than that. They are supposed to be tolerant of alternate lifestyles, alternate marriages, alternate viewpoints, et cetera. Instead they show themselves to not be tolerant at all w/ comments about hoping the Republican delegates die.
Sorta, sorta, and no. Moon Patrol/Defender did side-scrolling but it was only the 10-pixel high mountains (or city) that moved across the bottom. Everything else is static. These games don't move the whole freakin' screen sideways like SMB on the NintendoES or Sonic on the SegaMS.
And Pitfall was a screen flipper. Not a scroller. When Pitfall Harry ran off the screen it just "flipped" from screen 1 to 2.
No it wasn't bipartisanship. The Democrats are a single party but not a single mind. Obamacare could have swept through without a single republidick vote, but the "blue dog" Democrats were opposed to it. In order to winover their votes Obama had to promise to use a signing statement to block abortion funding. That's the only reason it passed with a slim 50.5% majority.
For noncontroversial issues the Democrat majority didn't have any problem ramming-through TARP in two weeks. Or the Stimulus Bill in four weeks. Or the DTV Transition in just a few days (they pushed it back from February to June). Like my own Maryland legislature the Republicans could have stayed home from 2009 to 10, and it would have made no difference in what was passed.
BTW this hurricane will also disrupt RonPaulfest.
And I hope Obama wins not because I like him but because I want 4 more years of his policies. When he starts a war with Iran and Libya it will destroy the perception that he is a "peace prize" winner. I want Obama to leave in 2016 with the same bad reputation as Bush had in 2008. He may be democrat but he is nowhere near as good as our last democrat president Clinton.
>>>I, as a big corporation can take your song and distribute it from my big high traffic website for free and sell a million dollars worth of advertising.
Funny you mention that. The record corporations were sued by Canadian artists because the megacorps were using the songs on compilation/greatest hits CDs and not paying the royalties due.
They owed billions but settled out of court for millions (mere pennies per song). Why is it that corporations can steal *directly* from their employees and only be punished a few pennies per act, but a citizen with essentially no money gets punished 675K/30 == $22 000 per act.
Our system is bass-backwards and your defense of it makes little sense. This young man is the one who should be punished for mere pennies/song while the billionaire corporations get whacked with the 675,000 fine (per employee-artist ripped off).
The average musician only earns $16,000 a year (as of 2009). Let's say this average musician is like my friend who performs 10 songs per Saturday night for a year. $16k/520songs == $32 per song. Divided by 10-20 listeners at the club is $1.60 to $3.20 per person.
So by downloading my friends' music instead of going to the club and paying for it, I should have to pay $3.20 times the thirty songs == $100 to my friend. THAT is a reasonable fine, and it is based upon the average musician salary. You could even add $900 "punative damage" on top of it. That's still a more-realistic value than 675,000.
Many studies have shown that downloaders are often loyal fans. Yes they download but they also buy a lot of stuff. As author Charles Stross (meaning he has more gravita on this matter then you) observed it makes no sense to punish people who are your customers. He says he's gained many fans from people who downloaded book one, and then bought books two thru six in the series. He made five sales where otherwise he would have had none.
And besides the punishment is ridiculous. When I steal a baker's loaf of pumperknickel bread, I've deprived him of his property. I've caused real harm. But if I *copy* the loaf then he's lost nothing. He still has his loaf of bread which he can eat himself or sell to himself.
Now you may argue that the baker "lost a sale" but I argue that's nonsense. I never would have paid for that bread anyway, especially since I don't like pumperknickel. So the potential for a sale never existed.
ANYWAY this punishment is nuts. It's a life sentence (how long it takes to payoff the fine). The punishment exceeds the damage caused. It is equivalent to if I touched your nose, you prosecute me for assault, and I get a 50 year sentence. Nuts.
>>>1. Invent Super Mario Bros for Atari 2600 >>>2. Time travel to 1982
I'm working on my time machine in my basement. So far all I've managed to do is set the viewer to the "dead past" of 1995 and "peep" on the teen daughter next door. (Too bad she weighs 200 pounds in the present... else I wouldn't need the time gizmo.)
I thought Junior Pac-man had 32K in order to hold the double-sized mazes, 6 different levels, and ghost AI (they actually chased you rather than wander aimlessly). But I might be wrong on that.
Jr. Pacman was released 1984, then yanked off the market by Idiot Jack Tramel when he said, "We're not a gaming company anymore." Then it was rereleased in 1986 when Tramel realized he had made a mistake and that games were a cashcow that could fund his computer development.
There was also an Atari Baseball game that was done in 3D (fake perspective 3-d not polygons).
"I find your lack of faith disturbing." Imagine instead that this article was about a port of Final Fantasy 7 to the Super Nintendo and the response it would get.
Atari sold 30 million consoles. I figure one-quarter of those kids-now-adults still remember the console fondly and will enjoy reading this news. Probably 1 million of us will be curious enough to download and play it. About 1000 will buy the actual cartridge (That's how many bought the arcade-realistic version of PacMan). Those of us who are the Atari generation care just as much as those of you in the SNES generation.
No Atari game has ever been an exact-clone of the game it's copying due to system limitations. That was the case for all the pre-1984 systems. Colecovision came close, but was never exactly the same as the arcade (for example Donkey Kong only had 3 levels, not all 4) (and looked different).
This country does "give a fuck" about the health of its citizens. That's why it doesn't want the government to takeover and turn the local hospital into the mindfuck that is the MVA.
Or Amtrak (40 years consistently losing money). Or Social Security (giving you a measly 500 a month so you can buy dogfood). Or the post office (also losing money). Most intelligent Americans look at how Congres has F'd up all the other programs they touched, and don't want them Fing up the hospital too.
100,000 patients per year denied care is not "the exception". It's an ongoing problem which (as I said) caused both the Canadian and UK Parliaments to start investigations to try to find a solution. If Nationwide or Aetna or Kaiser HMO provided such lousy results (~5% failure rate), they would be front page news. But when the government does it, somehow you think it's "okay". Most. Illogical.
Comedian Tom Green actually traveled FROM Canada to get his cancer surgery. He was still a Canadian citizen, but when they told him the wait time was 9 months, and there was a 10% chance he might be dead by that point, he went to the U.S. In typical factory-style efficiency the U.S. performed the surgery in mere days. Hence showing why an open market with multiple choices (yes I'm pro-choice) is better than a monopoly/single payer market.
BTW why does everyone always assume government is the only answer? Here's what I propose: - People too poor to afford health insurance, say below $25,000, can get Medicare benefits regardless of their age. Just as they are eligible for food stamps or housing assistance.
- Everyone else (that's us) can just buy it directly the same way we buy the other necessities of life (food, water, shelter) directly. I pay a mere $120 a month for my insurance. That's cheaper than some CATV services.
- I pay for doctor visits, pills, etc and the insurance company pays when the total cost exceeds $20,000.
Please subtract Canada and the UK. After reading the various horror stories of patients unable to find a doctor, or being left to die in waiting rooms, or denied basic preventative measures like PAP smears (and then dying when they get cervical cancer that could have been prevented), I wouldn't go anywhere near Canadian and British health. And YES I know you've had nothing but great service in your CA or UK care.
Likewise many Toyota owners drive their cars 200,000 miles with nary a problem. Nevertheless 12.5 million cars were recalled as part of a class-action lawsuit to have their engines repaired or replaced, because Toyota had a high rate of engine failures. Likewise Canada and the UK have unusually high rates of bad healthcare stories. (High enough that both their Parliaments opened investigations to try and fix the problem.)
The latest story I heard is that the UK is cutting doctor salaries (in order to balance the government budget) and it's leading to many doctors quitting, and that is making the waiting the lines even longer. (Imagine the line at the Motor Vehicle Bureau but with tons of sick people.)
The Atari is not bitmapped in the same way as more-modern consoles. It can display any of 128 colors (by adjusting the chroma and luma values) and do it pixel-by-pixel. The only limitation is how fast the software executes.
I'd like to see someone clone Super Mario Bros for the C64. The closest we had was Great Giana Sisters (which was then forced off the market by Nintendo lawsuit).
Also: What's so impressive about SMB on the Sega Saturn? That's a 32 bit CPU and ought to be able to handle an 8 bit game easily.
There's a Rumor that paypal will do that, but I've not heard verified stories. Nevertheless it's still better to dispute the damage good in order: (1) Ask seller for refund. (2) Contact paypal if seller refuses. (3) Contact credit card if paypal cannot recover money from seller's empty account.
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>>>Yawn. Put up or shut up.
Sure. Right after you post under your registered /. ID. (Also maybe you could clarify what I'm supposed to "put up"? I'm not trying to prove anything. I'm just stating what I've heard from the marine's FB friends and about Bilderberg meeting in Virginia.)
(1) I wanted to comment that those who said the marine "deserved to be jailed" were wrong. The cops handed-in a blank piece of paper!!! Basically the cops arrested him without causes and this shit should not be happening in America. Thankfully we had a judge who still serves the Virginia Constitution (shall not be deprived of freedom w/o due process) and released the man ASAP.
(2) The "version" of this Bilderberg theory I hear is that Bush is dumb as dirt. He was just a puppet that was used by Cheney and other connected men to manipulate things behind the scenes. (This same theory also claims Obama is a puppet.) Here's a photo that is frequently used. It's Bush's head but overlaid with an Obama mask..... meaning nothing has really changed except the frontman:
http://www.dokumentarci.com.hr/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/The_Obama_Deception_by_virtuadc.jpg
>>>He's mentally ill, and really does need help (even if you can't force it).
I friended him on facebook, and then start chatting with his friends. They say he's a quiet person and the kindest person they know.
>>>The guy seriously believes that George W. Bush is living in a secret castle in Colorado where he rapes
Provide citation or retract the libel.
>>>He also believes that Bush not only planned 9-11, but serves a world shadow government
Well this part is true. He does believe that there's a group called the "Bilderberg Group" that acts, not as a world government, but also to set policy. And since this group just held a meeting in northern Virginia, the guy is not crazy. It's a fact that they exist. (But I doubt they are a world government..... just the leaders getting together to set international policy. Like a conference.)
They said frame rate *latencies* increased with the FX..... not that the frame rates went down.
I wonder if this same logic applies to browser performance? As they become more graphical and video-oriented will the GPU power matter more than the CPU?
Maybe I didn't need a new computer..... maybe I just needed to keep the Pentium4 and upgrade the graphics card to something fast. Then I could play HD youtube.
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That works both ways you know. Around 2003-4 the Republicans became aware that the mortgage lending market was "too hot" and they needed to act to slowdown the exuberance. But that time it was the Democrats who filibustered and stopped mortgage/banking laws from being rewritten & made tougher. The Democrats wanted mortgages to be easy to get, even for people too poor to pay them back.
"increased spending" being the key. It shouldn't be going up at all, especially from a man who said, "Adding 2 trillion to the debt is unpatriotic." Spending should have been frozen at 2008 levels (0% increase) until the budget deficit had fallen to zero.
As for filibustering, isn't it funny that the Democrats used the same tactic during the Clinton and Bush years? Why is it acceptable for the Dems to use the filibuster but evil for the Reps to use it? Hmmm.
BTW I'm libertarian. That means I'm on either party's side because I think the both suck. The Dems try to control my money ("we know better than you how to spend it") while the Reps try to control my sex life ("obey the bible or be damed"). It would be nice if we had a party like the one Jefferson founded in 1796 that didn't interfere at all, except to protect us from thieves and killers.
But liberals are supposed to be better than that. They are supposed to be tolerant of alternate lifestyles, alternate marriages, alternate viewpoints, et cetera. Instead they show themselves to not be tolerant at all w/ comments about hoping the Republican delegates die.
>>>Moon Patrol or Defender? Or Pitfall?
Sorta, sorta, and no. Moon Patrol/Defender did side-scrolling but it was only the 10-pixel high mountains (or city) that moved across the bottom. Everything else is static. These games don't move the whole freakin' screen sideways like SMB on the NintendoES or Sonic on the SegaMS.
And Pitfall was a screen flipper. Not a scroller. When Pitfall Harry ran off the screen it just "flipped" from screen 1 to 2.
No it wasn't bipartisanship. The Democrats are a single party but not a single mind. Obamacare could have swept through without a single republidick vote, but the "blue dog" Democrats were opposed to it. In order to winover their votes Obama had to promise to use a signing statement to block abortion funding. That's the only reason it passed with a slim 50.5% majority.
For noncontroversial issues the Democrat majority didn't have any problem ramming-through TARP in two weeks. Or the Stimulus Bill in four weeks. Or the DTV Transition in just a few days (they pushed it back from February to June). Like my own Maryland legislature the Republicans could have stayed home from 2009 to 10, and it would have made no difference in what was passed.
BTW this hurricane will also disrupt RonPaulfest.
And I hope Obama wins not because I like him but because I want 4 more years of his policies. When he starts a war with Iran and Libya it will destroy the perception that he is a "peace prize" winner. I want Obama to leave in 2016 with the same bad reputation as Bush had in 2008. He may be democrat but he is nowhere near as good as our last democrat president Clinton.
>>>I, as a big corporation can take your song and distribute it from my big high traffic website for free and sell a million dollars worth of advertising.
Funny you mention that. The record corporations were sued by Canadian artists because the megacorps were using the songs on compilation/greatest hits CDs and not paying the royalties due.
They owed billions but settled out of court for millions (mere pennies per song). Why is it that corporations can steal *directly* from their employees and only be punished a few pennies per act, but a citizen with essentially no money gets punished 675K/30 == $22 000 per act.
Our system is bass-backwards and your defense of it makes little sense. This young man is the one who should be punished for mere pennies/song while the billionaire corporations get whacked with the 675,000 fine (per employee-artist ripped off).
The average musician only earns $16,000 a year (as of 2009). Let's say this average musician is like my friend who performs 10 songs per Saturday night for a year. $16k/520songs == $32 per song. Divided by 10-20 listeners at the club is $1.60 to $3.20 per person.
So by downloading my friends' music instead of going to the club and paying for it, I should have to pay $3.20 times the thirty songs == $100 to my friend. THAT is a reasonable fine, and it is based upon the average musician salary. You could even add $900 "punative damage" on top of it. That's still a more-realistic value than 675,000.
Hello Superman.
Many studies have shown that downloaders are often loyal fans. Yes they download but they also buy a lot of stuff. As author Charles Stross (meaning he has more gravita on this matter then you) observed it makes no sense to punish people who are your customers. He says he's gained many fans from people who downloaded book one, and then bought books two thru six in the series. He made five sales where otherwise he would have had none.
And besides the punishment is ridiculous. When I steal a baker's loaf of pumperknickel bread, I've deprived him of his property. I've caused real harm. But if I *copy* the loaf then he's lost nothing. He still has his loaf of bread which he can eat himself or sell to himself.
Now you may argue that the baker "lost a sale" but I argue that's nonsense. I never would have paid for that bread anyway, especially since I don't like pumperknickel. So the potential for a sale never existed.
ANYWAY this punishment is nuts. It's a life sentence (how long it takes to payoff the fine). The punishment exceeds the damage caused. It is equivalent to if I touched your nose, you prosecute me for assault, and I get a 50 year sentence. Nuts.
>>>1. Invent Super Mario Bros for Atari 2600
>>>2. Time travel to 1982
I'm working on my time machine in my basement. So far all I've managed to do is set the viewer to the "dead past" of 1995 and "peep" on the teen daughter next door. (Too bad she weighs 200 pounds in the present... else I wouldn't need the time gizmo.)
I thought Junior Pac-man had 32K in order to hold the double-sized mazes, 6 different levels, and ghost AI (they actually chased you rather than wander aimlessly). But I might be wrong on that.
Jr. Pacman was released 1984, then yanked off the market by Idiot Jack Tramel when he said, "We're not a gaming company anymore." Then it was rereleased in 1986 when Tramel realized he had made a mistake and that games were a cashcow that could fund his computer development.
There was also an Atari Baseball game that was done in 3D (fake perspective 3-d not polygons).
"I find your lack of faith disturbing." Imagine instead that this article was about a port of Final Fantasy 7 to the Super Nintendo and the response it would get.
Atari sold 30 million consoles. I figure one-quarter of those kids-now-adults still remember the console fondly and will enjoy reading this news. Probably 1 million of us will be curious enough to download and play it. About 1000 will buy the actual cartridge (That's how many bought the arcade-realistic version of PacMan). Those of us who are the Atari generation care just as much as those of you in the SNES generation.
No Atari game has ever been an exact-clone of the game it's copying due to system limitations. That was the case for all the pre-1984 systems. Colecovision came close, but was never exactly the same as the arcade (for example Donkey Kong only had 3 levels, not all 4) (and looked different).
This country does "give a fuck" about the health of its citizens. That's why it doesn't want the government to takeover and turn the local hospital into the mindfuck that is the MVA.
Or Amtrak (40 years consistently losing money). Or Social Security (giving you a measly 500 a month so you can buy dogfood). Or the post office (also losing money). Most intelligent Americans look at how Congres has F'd up all the other programs they touched, and don't want them Fing up the hospital too.
100,000 patients per year denied care is not "the exception". It's an ongoing problem which (as I said) caused both the Canadian and UK Parliaments to start investigations to try to find a solution. If Nationwide or Aetna or Kaiser HMO provided such lousy results (~5% failure rate), they would be front page news. But when the government does it, somehow you think it's "okay". Most. Illogical.
Comedian Tom Green actually traveled FROM Canada to get his cancer surgery. He was still a Canadian citizen, but when they told him the wait time was 9 months, and there was a 10% chance he might be dead by that point, he went to the U.S. In typical factory-style efficiency the U.S. performed the surgery in mere days. Hence showing why an open market with multiple choices (yes I'm pro-choice) is better than a monopoly/single payer market.
BTW why does everyone always assume government is the only answer? Here's what I propose: - People too poor to afford health insurance, say below $25,000, can get Medicare benefits regardless of their age. Just as they are eligible for food stamps or housing assistance.
- Everyone else (that's us) can just buy it directly the same way we buy the other necessities of life (food, water, shelter) directly. I pay a mere $120 a month for my insurance. That's cheaper than some CATV services.
- I pay for doctor visits, pills, etc and the insurance company pays when the total cost exceeds $20,000.
Please subtract Canada and the UK. After reading the various horror stories of patients unable to find a doctor, or being left to die in waiting rooms, or denied basic preventative measures like PAP smears (and then dying when they get cervical cancer that could have been prevented), I wouldn't go anywhere near Canadian and British health. And YES I know you've had nothing but great service in your CA or UK care.
Likewise many Toyota owners drive their cars 200,000 miles with nary a problem. Nevertheless 12.5 million cars were recalled as part of a class-action lawsuit to have their engines repaired or replaced, because Toyota had a high rate of engine failures. Likewise Canada and the UK have unusually high rates of bad healthcare stories. (High enough that both their Parliaments opened investigations to try and fix the problem.)
The latest story I heard is that the UK is cutting doctor salaries (in order to balance the government budget) and it's leading to many doctors quitting, and that is making the waiting the lines even longer. (Imagine the line at the Motor Vehicle Bureau but with tons of sick people.)
A side-scrolling game on a console that only has 128 bytes of RAM is impressive.
The Atari is not bitmapped in the same way as more-modern consoles. It can display any of 128 colors (by adjusting the chroma and luma values) and do it pixel-by-pixel. The only limitation is how fast the software executes.
I'd like to see someone clone Super Mario Bros for the C64. The closest we had was Great Giana Sisters (which was then forced off the market by Nintendo lawsuit).
Also: What's so impressive about SMB on the Sega Saturn? That's a 32 bit CPU and ought to be able to handle an 8 bit game easily.
There's a Rumor that paypal will do that, but I've not heard verified stories. Nevertheless it's still better to dispute the damage good in order: (1) Ask seller for refund. (2) Contact paypal if seller refuses. (3) Contact credit card if paypal cannot recover money from seller's empty account.