In the last month I've filled 80 CDs full of TV shows. It took some effort, but I got every episode of every season of Farscape, Family Guy and Andromeda. I'm well on my way to polishing off Titus. And so forth.
I used well over 60 gigs of bandwidth last month. It would have been a lot higher if I wasn't archiving the files I was downloading, and even higher if I allowed more than one upload connection on Kazaa(lite).
This is atypical for me, but I regularly burn through 10-15 GB a month when I'm *not* downloading any files.
Luckily, shaw.ca hasn't instituted any bandwidth caps. Yet. If they do, I'm willing to pay a little extra -- but a 6 GB cap is ridiculous, and even $1/gig is likewise laughable.
So if need be, I'll pay that litle extra to share a T1 with some or all of the 40 other units in my building that have broadband.
When a manufacturer drops the MSRP, that entails a drop in the wholesale price.
In the software trade, resellers get a credit back from the manufacturer for what they have on hand -- or sometimes even what they've sold in the last month or so.
I don't see how it would be any different with console manufacturers. I guarantee that Electronics Boutique is sending inventory numbers to Sony and Microsoft and waiting for their sales reps to stop by to verify them.
No, it doesn't win the Occam's Razor test, because you have to account for what caused God to come into being.
Pick a non-observable phenomenon, like abiogenesis or the creation of the universe. Either it happened spontaneously (i.e., "the universe had no creator") or it was created (i.e., "the universe was created by a creator that had no creator.").
Occam's Razor suggests that you not multiply entities unnecessarily. Hence, the introduction of a supreme creative being into any equation fails Occam's Razor.
I've heard stories about Evans that'd probably even make *your* skin crawl. Last year, Envision was trying to buy PureEdge, a reasonably successful XML-based software company here in my hometown. They were doing this only three months before Envision went belly-up...and while Envision was being sued for steling trade secrets on the pretext of due diligence while looking to buy a company.
Yet, they'd convinced the owners and staff for considrable time that they were a great company with a future. When I tried pointing out Envision's problems and Evans' background to friends of mine at PureEdge, I was viewed as someone with an axe to grind against *both* companies (when all I wanted to do was to sound the klaxons -- last thing I want is to see my friends out of work).
The guy has both fraud and securities fraud convictions on his record. He's bad news. I don't blame you, even a little bit, for taking what you could.
Definitely a better choice -- The Amber Spyglass is on the 24-book long list for the 2001 Booker Prize, the most important literary prize in the British Commonwealth (and equivalent to, say, the Pulitzer).
Harry Potter couldn't make that list if V.S. Naipaul wrote one of the books.
The guy who was being prosecuted for "hate crimes" against Scientology fled to Canada and successfully argued that he should be able to stay. Jumping bail from a foreign jurisdiction isn't illegal in Canada if the charge he's fleeing isn't illegal here.
Suppose, for example, that an Italian is charged with blasphemy in Iraq. He gets bail (somehow) and flees to Canada. Blasphemy against Allah isn't illegal here. So while he's a bail jumper, he can enter the country illegally and then claim refugee status.
This is exactly analogous to the situation under discussion.
I've got a spare couch and a cable modem. If he can get to Victoria BC, he's welcome to stay here until he can get a plane ticket back home.
What he's done isn't illegal under Canadian law (which means that I won't be guilty of harbouring a fugitive), so the worst that can happen is that he'll get deported back to Russia for entering Canada under false pretenses -- he won't be sent back to the US.
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The thing of it is, he (foolishly) never actually sold any of that stock, which as of right now is worth almost bupkiss.
I don't own any stock in anything nort have any equity, and I think even I might be worth more than ESR. --
And I predict that you're like most Americans, who would say "charge him in the US". I, as a Canadian, would say "better to close the border and prepare for war than send him to the US."
I'm convinced now, more than ever, that there's a double standard. --
He was on Kenyan soil when he did it. If I (as a Canadian) am on Canadian soil and I fire a gun at a man on the American side fo the border and kill him, am I under the jurisdiction of Canadian law or US law?
As far as I can tell, he didn't actually commit the crime while on the Embassy grounds. --
I'm troubled by the double standard I've been seeing lately.
It's "bad" for a foreign government to dictate what US citizens may publish -- but it's "OK" to sentence a foreign national to life in prison for a crime committed in another country (vis: the Saudi recently sentenced in New York for the bombing in Kenya).
It seems to me that many Americans want it both ways; they don't want any foreign laws to be imposed on US citizens, but they want the full force of US law imposed on foreign nationals -- even in other countries.
Heck, the Supreme Court even ruled that it was legal to kidnap foreign nationals to try them in the US.
And how about that Norweigan kid that was such a cause celebre last year -- questioned by Norweigan police last year for activities that weren't illegal in his own country but were illegal in the US.
The Lynx coudln't display as many colours at once as the GBA can, and the GBA has better resolution.
I have a Lynx, and I love it, especially because (unlike the GBA) I can "flip" the screen so I can play left-handed, with my right hand on the pad and my left hand on the buttons.
Which reminds me -- who decided that the default position for movement controllers was that they be used in the left hand? When I first started playing video games in the early 80s, everyone used the joystick with their right hand. --
Because your rhetorical newsgroup charter does not prevent me from posting to the newsgroup, it does not bind me against posting there and keeping ownership of my post.
It's not a contract unless I sign it and/or otherwise agree to it.
Curt Schilling is, in the best sense of the word, a total gamer-geek. After the demise of Avalon Hill (and before Hasbro bought out much of their intellectual property) Schilling got the license and started producing material for AH's popular (and incredibly complicated) WWII skirmish boardgame, Advanced Squad Leader, under his own company, Multi-Man Publishing.
If not for Schilling, ASL (perhaps the most popular modular historical skirmish game) would have gone the way of so many games before it. I have a lot of respect for the guy. --
THC and Camelot are both listed. How'd you miss them? THC is on the list in four different places!
You may have been looking at the 250 list; most Victoria BBSs existed under the 604 area code. --
The list also covers BBSs in Canada, so it's not merely a US list.
Interestingly, the largest concentration of BBS systems in North America in the early 1990s was in British Columbia (area code 250) with more than 2,000 systems listed.
They even have mine (Fear the Sky), although they got the dates wrong -- I ran it between 1990 and 1992, not just in 1991. It ran on a 386sx with a 40 MB hard drive and by 1992 I had one of those spanking new USR Dual Standard HST 14.4K modems (which cost me $1200 Canadian).
The list isn't nearly complete, though; I can think of at least 30 BBSs that ran in Victoria in the early 90s that aren't listed. --
The journalist in question is one of the best-connected game writers in the traditional/role-playing game industry and (if you read the article) he worked for the company in question at at the time.
I don't think he's made a mistake; I think he's blown the lid off something that very few people knew about.
Unlike the person who wrote the parent comment we're replying to, I had heard bits and bites of gossip about the "free love" zone at WotC. At one time, I had sold more than 2% of WotC's entire production of Magic cards and was business-friendly with a number of people in the company.
I'm not terribly surprised by Tynes' story, but I can understand how some people might be. --
This is one of the few reasons why I kinda like working in the (Canadian) public service; I get four weeks of vacation a year to start. There are people who've been working here for 25 years and get three months of vacation a year.
The pay is really, really shitty compared to the private sector, though. I could easily make four times my current take-home if I was willing to move to the US and work. --
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Um, the thing is, when you look at the number of RPG players (or even solely the number of D&D players) and count the number of violent crimes perpetrated by them, you find that these game players are, in fact, only 10% as likely to commit a violent crime as the general population.
On the other hand, football players are more likely to commit violent crimes, as much as ten times as likely as the general population.
Hence, football players are one hundred times as dangerous to society as D&D players.
I wish I had a link to the appropriate stats. I know they're out there; I hope someone finds and posts the link.
And, Nathaniel, every single one of your cited sources is spurious at best and a full-on lie at worst. --
The title of this article is a little misleading; in fact, the pact involves the US, Canada, Japan, South Africa, and the Council of Europe (which is a 41-country body which makes loose policy on every topic except for defense.
The Council of Europe is, therefore, more far-reaching than the EU as it includes all of those countries that didn't join the EU (like Norway). Even Moldavia and Liechtenstein are on the Council.
So, essentially, this is even worse that you might have thought. There is pretty much no "western data haven" to work from. --
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But FOLLOWING the Constitution is more important than 1 life, or 3000 lives, or 100,000,000 lives. Yes, I really mean that.
Any man who would agree with this is a fool, and any man who woul put this into practice is a monster.
Multiplayer games are not there for your own personal ammusement.
It seems to me that they are there precisely for each individual player's personal amusement.
In the last month I've filled 80 CDs full of TV shows. It took some effort, but I got every episode of every season of Farscape, Family Guy and Andromeda. I'm well on my way to polishing off Titus. And so forth.
I used well over 60 gigs of bandwidth last month. It would have been a lot higher if I wasn't archiving the files I was downloading, and even higher if I allowed more than one upload connection on Kazaa(lite).
This is atypical for me, but I regularly burn through 10-15 GB a month when I'm *not* downloading any files.
Luckily, shaw.ca hasn't instituted any bandwidth caps. Yet. If they do, I'm willing to pay a little extra -- but a 6 GB cap is ridiculous, and even $1/gig is likewise laughable.
So if need be, I'll pay that litle extra to share a T1 with some or all of the 40 other units in my building that have broadband.
When a manufacturer drops the MSRP, that entails a drop in the wholesale price.
In the software trade, resellers get a credit back from the manufacturer for what they have on hand -- or sometimes even what they've sold in the last month or so.
I don't see how it would be any different with console manufacturers. I guarantee that Electronics Boutique is sending inventory numbers to Sony and Microsoft and waiting for their sales reps to stop by to verify them.
B&N doesn't own any part of abebooks.com. They're entirely in private hands, and operate out of Victoria, BC, Canada.
No, it doesn't win the Occam's Razor test, because you have to account for what caused God to come into being.
Pick a non-observable phenomenon, like abiogenesis or the creation of the universe. Either it happened spontaneously (i.e., "the universe had no creator") or it was created (i.e., "the universe was created by a creator that had no creator.").
Occam's Razor suggests that you not multiply entities unnecessarily. Hence, the introduction of a supreme creative being into any equation fails Occam's Razor.
I've heard stories about Evans that'd probably even make *your* skin crawl. Last year, Envision was trying to buy PureEdge, a reasonably successful XML-based software company here in my hometown. They were doing this only three months before Envision went belly-up...and while Envision was being sued for steling trade secrets on the pretext of due diligence while looking to buy a company.
Yet, they'd convinced the owners and staff for considrable time that they were a great company with a future. When I tried pointing out Envision's problems and Evans' background to friends of mine at PureEdge, I was viewed as someone with an axe to grind against *both* companies (when all I wanted to do was to sound the klaxons -- last thing I want is to see my friends out of work).
The guy has both fraud and securities fraud convictions on his record. He's bad news. I don't blame you, even a little bit, for taking what you could.
Harry Potter couldn't make that list if V.S. Naipaul wrote one of the books.
The guy who was being prosecuted for "hate crimes" against Scientology fled to Canada and successfully argued that he should be able to stay. Jumping bail from a foreign jurisdiction isn't illegal in Canada if the charge he's fleeing isn't illegal here. Suppose, for example, that an Italian is charged with blasphemy in Iraq. He gets bail (somehow) and flees to Canada. Blasphemy against Allah isn't illegal here. So while he's a bail jumper, he can enter the country illegally and then claim refugee status. This is exactly analogous to the situation under discussion.
I've got a spare couch and a cable modem. If he can get to Victoria BC, he's welcome to stay here until he can get a plane ticket back home. What he's done isn't illegal under Canadian law (which means that I won't be guilty of harbouring a fugitive), so the worst that can happen is that he'll get deported back to Russia for entering Canada under false pretenses -- he won't be sent back to the US.
I don't own any stock in anything nort have any equity, and I think even I might be worth more than ESR.
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I'm convinced now, more than ever, that there's a double standard.
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As far as I can tell, he didn't actually commit the crime while on the Embassy grounds.
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It's "bad" for a foreign government to dictate what US citizens may publish -- but it's "OK" to sentence a foreign national to life in prison for a crime committed in another country (vis: the Saudi recently sentenced in New York for the bombing in Kenya).
It seems to me that many Americans want it both ways; they don't want any foreign laws to be imposed on US citizens, but they want the full force of US law imposed on foreign nationals -- even in other countries.
Heck, the Supreme Court even ruled that it was legal to kidnap foreign nationals to try them in the US.
And how about that Norweigan kid that was such a cause celebre last year -- questioned by Norweigan police last year for activities that weren't illegal in his own country but were illegal in the US.
The US cannot have it both ways.
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I have a Lynx, and I love it, especially because (unlike the GBA) I can "flip" the screen so I can play left-handed, with my right hand on the pad and my left hand on the buttons.
Which reminds me -- who decided that the default position for movement controllers was that they be used in the left hand? When I first started playing video games in the early 80s, everyone used the joystick with their right hand.
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It's not a contract unless I sign it and/or otherwise agree to it.
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If not for Schilling, ASL (perhaps the most popular modular historical skirmish game) would have gone the way of so many games before it. I have a lot of respect for the guy.
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Yeah, I meant to say "604". My bad.
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THC and Camelot are both listed. How'd you miss them? THC is on the list in four different places! You may have been looking at the 250 list; most Victoria BBSs existed under the 604 area code.
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The list also covers BBSs in Canada, so it's not merely a US list. Interestingly, the largest concentration of BBS systems in North America in the early 1990s was in British Columbia (area code 250) with more than 2,000 systems listed. They even have mine (Fear the Sky), although they got the dates wrong -- I ran it between 1990 and 1992, not just in 1991. It ran on a 386sx with a 40 MB hard drive and by 1992 I had one of those spanking new USR Dual Standard HST 14.4K modems (which cost me $1200 Canadian). The list isn't nearly complete, though; I can think of at least 30 BBSs that ran in Victoria in the early 90s that aren't listed.
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I don't think he's made a mistake; I think he's blown the lid off something that very few people knew about.
Unlike the person who wrote the parent comment we're replying to, I had heard bits and bites of gossip about the "free love" zone at WotC. At one time, I had sold more than 2% of WotC's entire production of Magic cards and was business-friendly with a number of people in the company.
I'm not terribly surprised by Tynes' story, but I can understand how some people might be.
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Or, live in Canada, and get all three.
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The pay is really, really shitty compared to the private sector, though. I could easily make four times my current take-home if I was willing to move to the US and work.
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On the other hand, football players are more likely to commit violent crimes, as much as ten times as likely as the general population.
Hence, football players are one hundred times as dangerous to society as D&D players.
I wish I had a link to the appropriate stats. I know they're out there; I hope someone finds and posts the link.
And, Nathaniel, every single one of your cited sources is spurious at best and a full-on lie at worst.
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The Council of Europe is, therefore, more far-reaching than the EU as it includes all of those countries that didn't join the EU (like Norway). Even Moldavia and Liechtenstein are on the Council.
So, essentially, this is even worse that you might have thought. There is pretty much no "western data haven" to work from.
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