Keep in mind that many people thought it dirty to breast feed in public, and that a woman should do it in private, shamefully. And some still think that way and STILL lobby to make it illegal. We Americans are entirely too focused on nudity being "bad", which I chalk up to too many people who can't separate their religion and their politics.
This is the same reason pot is illegal, prostitution is illegal, gambling is illegal (unless the states is sponsoring it, then it is ok) in most parts of the US. Self righteous politicians and those who support them that want to tell others how to live and think.
Not exactly for everyone. I set Win2k, XP and 7 to be as "Win95-ish" as possible, both on my machines and all the machines at work. This made the transition from 95, to 98, to XP fairly easy as it looks the same to them. The ONLY features I use that aren't from 95 are the transparent backgrounds under the desktop icons and font smoothing. I can't stand all the zooming in and out of windows, and the crappy, fat status bars and rounded windows that XP had, and Aero made even worse. I want a computer to be quick, responsive, simple and run my APPLICATIONS properly. I even disable all sounds except for boot and shutdown. I don't WANT to hear pops and clicks as I'm trying to get work done: I know I just closed that window, I don't need the sound effect to confirm it.
If I want a computer that has rounded windows and jeweled bars and "pretty" zooming in and out, I would buy a fucking Mac. Nothing personal, but I buy a computer to run the apps, NOT to look pretty (and slow) while doing it. Simplicity is beautiful.
should say "as it wasn't marketed to confuse the customer to think that International Business Machines, Inc. was the parent company." Early in the AM.
Technically, trademarks apply to specific product types only, ie: there are many companies that use the same trademarked name for completely different products. I know because I work for one of them. There are several different companies that use the same trademarked names for different products, and there isn't anything the others can do. Oh, they can SUE but technically, as long as you aren't trying to confuse the public on the ownership it is acceptable. In this instance, they ARE trying to confuse the public (in the legal sense), so it is likely infringing.
Nissan Computers and Nissan Motors is one example. Go to www.nissan.com and read about the most fucked up court battle you can imagine on this.
Other examples would be Chunky Soup® vs. Chunky® candy bars, SunMaster® grow lamps vs. SunMaster® tomato seeds vs. SunMaster® tanning beds. All are legally registered trademarks for their particular industries. Technically, you could have IBM® brand breakfast cereal as long as it wasn't marketed to confuse the customer to think that International Business Machines, Inc. wasn't the parent company. Obviously, this wouldn't stop them from trying to sue you, but the way that trademark law is setup, it is considered perfectly legitimate.
Don't worry, we'll get reality television with killer mutants soon enough.
Kind of like the show Big Brother but with with no food? They don't vote you off the show, they just pick one person to cannibalize each week? The Power of Veto has never been more important, and you certainly don't want to be the fattest guy in the house. I might tune in for that.
Even if we're in no immediate danger of running out, we're still living on a planet with finite resources.
But helium isn't burned or consumed or changed into something else, so we still have it when we are done using it. It's not like the helium is going to vanish into thin air.
I personally love how you can buy a DVD player at Best Buy for under $100, and then when you need a HDMI cable to hook it up? Over $100. Why does the cable that just sits there cost more than the DVD player it connects, when the DVD player has moving parts, a laser, and a remote control?
More important is how they did it: the 1s and 0s are transfered to the CPU using a bold font, which makes the music louder, thus the distortion is lower.
Everyone said the same of TF2, which was actually scheduled to be released in 2000, but they instead put out TFC as a stop gap measure, and then TFC version 1.5 a few years later (a worthwhile upgrade). And they had the whole "Brothers in Arms" idea for TF2 and even released publicity info on it, only to back down. So it took about 6 or 7 more years to come up with TF2, the true answer to the Quake mod, Team Fortress, yet most people think it was worth it, as it once again redefined the genre. (Me, I still prefer TFC) And Episode 3 is the last of the episodes, and should serve as the tie-in for HL3/4 (episodes should have been HL3 according to Gabe, so we will see how they number it next). There is plenty of potential for it to be worth the wait, and hopefully it will.
As a comparison to Duke, the last full Duke release, I played it on a 486sx33 with 8mb RAM. The only way it could be "worth the wait" is if came with a beer volcano and a striper factory in the same box. With apologies to the FSM.
Of course, in order to get to step 3. Profit, you have to actually release the game. DNF hasn't proved it will ever happen.
Valve has a history of delayed releases, and making it worth the wait once it is released. I"m still waiting for HL2 Episode 3, which might be the reason for the delay, to package together with Portal 2. If anyone hasn't seem them yet, here are the trailers for Portal 2, which are pretty creepy at times.
Fallout 3 and Bioshock 2. I bought both on Steam, both use Windows Live, so I have to log into both to play them. Love both games, I freaking hate Windows live. It told me I already had an account on Windows Live, and getting it to work the first time was a bitch. Now it just works, but I don't care for MS tracking my gaming. Gabe and Steam I worry a little less with.
I'm pretty sure that simply raising taxes isn't the cure to all that ails us. Keep in mind that everything you eat, wear and touch is delivered in one way or another on transportation of some kind, so literally everything would become more expensive. From experience, I can say that often a very large part of the price of goods is from transportation. When you double that cost, everything now costs 10% to 50% more overnight. That is called inflation, and it cuts demand dramatically, which is likely not the best solution considering we have the highest unemployment since the early 80s, and the most persistent unemployment since the Depression.
The problem is that the US is one giant suburb sprawl, and because our population densities are so much lower between cities, trains will never be viable all over. On the east coast, yes, and maybe even a few in fly over country. But to have trains in most of the rest of the country would take more carbon than driving cars. From building the trains cars that would only be partially full because of the lower density, to the fuel used for those smaller passenger loads, it doesn't make sense in the US for most areas, at least not for daily travel.
Also, you have to condemn land, lay tracks, uproot people and remove farm land and utilities, and in the end, most people here would still rather drive less than use the train. You can't turn America into Europe by simply taxing fuel at the same rate.
I'm guessing you haven't worked commission at a legitimate company. No company worth working at tells you "Earn up to $x per week!" in my experience. If a company has to inflate their pay potential, then they are not legitimate. Most of the commission jobs I have had (and most of my long life has been on commission), they might tell you what others are making, and obviously tell you what percentage you are getting, but they don't advertise "Make as much as $x" because any legitimate company knows that this isn't cricket, and in most cases illegal unless they can demonstrate this. Of course, on the internet, who can police work at home jobs? No one. That doesn't make the companies legitimate, and in fact demonstrates they are not. The vast majority of real commission jobs (ie: you can walk into the actual business) are not advertised that way, primarily because it would likely violate labor laws in the same state.
It happens every day for people who work on a commission.
Bad analogy. Working on commission means your pay is directly influenced by your efforts, and there is no direct comparison for "up to" with internet connections. Same with the second, which is flawed at too many levels to cover in a single paragraph.
We are talking about consumer goods, which should be advertised accurately. A closer analogy is saying "We are hiring people for $8 to $80 an hour", except in this case, no one ever has been hired for $80, and no one ever will, AND the highest they have ever paid an hour was $40. THAT is a bit closer to the analogy you are looking for. Regardless, the cable companies never deliver the promised "max" to any customer, ever, or if they do, it is to less than 1% of the people, and rarely even to them. That is misleading, at the very least.
Again, well duh. Is there really any question that they can't be trusted with granting certs when they are so openly hostile to encryption of any kind?
In tech terms, 22 months is "mature". Windows 7 is half as old and is already well accepted in the community. Then again, after Vista, I would have accepted Windows 98 with newer drivers as a replacement.
Actually, I mean Pseudoephed, hence the capital P, but was too lazy to look it up at the time. And P2P is a chemical that dentists use to clean instruments with, Phenyl-2-propanone (Phenylacetone), which is also a precursor to meth. I don't think you can download that, or even buy it since it is regulated.
You can also cook up meth relatively easy with some lye (red devil or Draino), acid and a triple neck flask, to the tune of $100k in a few days. That assumes you can't get ahold of some P2P or Psudophen, which cuts the time in half. The hard part is setting up the lab where no one smells is, as the process is smelly. Oh, and not blowing yourself up. This is why so much is produced out in the country, not inside city limits, and why meth use is disproportionate in rural areas.
And before you ask, I worked as a defense investigator for a few years. Seen plenty of this crap.
Exactly! Setup the underground railroad, maybe maps to where you escort scientists to safety, etc. Others where you simply take out communications facilities, etc. Use makeshift weapons, maybe even go undercover as a Combine to sabotage a facility, at the risk of getting caught. They are NOT fully exploiting the potential of the universe.
I have a "good" gmail address (my full name@gmail.com) and I constantly get e-mail from other people signing up for things who apparently don't know their own e-mail address.
Glad to know I am not the only one. My yahoo email address, which I have used since the mid 90s when they started offering email (back when 9 characters was the maximum name size....) gets the same thing, legitimate "thanks for signing up" from legit companies, where some idiot didn't know their own email address. Ironically, my email address is a real oddball one, so how they would use it is beyond me.
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Our culture does not look favourably on ANY act of something being expelled from the human body. Deal with it.
Breastfeeding is food. And I don't blame you for posting AC. If I was anti-baby feeding in public, I wouldn't want anyone to know who I was.
Keep in mind that many people thought it dirty to breast feed in public, and that a woman should do it in private, shamefully. And some still think that way and STILL lobby to make it illegal. We Americans are entirely too focused on nudity being "bad", which I chalk up to too many people who can't separate their religion and their politics.
This is the same reason pot is illegal, prostitution is illegal, gambling is illegal (unless the states is sponsoring it, then it is ok) in most parts of the US. Self righteous politicians and those who support them that want to tell others how to live and think.
Not exactly for everyone. I set Win2k, XP and 7 to be as "Win95-ish" as possible, both on my machines and all the machines at work. This made the transition from 95, to 98, to XP fairly easy as it looks the same to them. The ONLY features I use that aren't from 95 are the transparent backgrounds under the desktop icons and font smoothing. I can't stand all the zooming in and out of windows, and the crappy, fat status bars and rounded windows that XP had, and Aero made even worse. I want a computer to be quick, responsive, simple and run my APPLICATIONS properly. I even disable all sounds except for boot and shutdown. I don't WANT to hear pops and clicks as I'm trying to get work done: I know I just closed that window, I don't need the sound effect to confirm it.
If I want a computer that has rounded windows and jeweled bars and "pretty" zooming in and out, I would buy a fucking Mac. Nothing personal, but I buy a computer to run the apps, NOT to look pretty (and slow) while doing it. Simplicity is beautiful.
should say "as it wasn't marketed to confuse the customer to think that International Business Machines, Inc. was the parent company." Early in the AM.
Technically, trademarks apply to specific product types only, ie: there are many companies that use the same trademarked name for completely different products. I know because I work for one of them. There are several different companies that use the same trademarked names for different products, and there isn't anything the others can do. Oh, they can SUE but technically, as long as you aren't trying to confuse the public on the ownership it is acceptable. In this instance, they ARE trying to confuse the public (in the legal sense), so it is likely infringing.
Nissan Computers and Nissan Motors is one example. Go to www.nissan.com and read about the most fucked up court battle you can imagine on this.
Other examples would be Chunky Soup® vs. Chunky® candy bars, SunMaster® grow lamps vs. SunMaster® tomato seeds vs. SunMaster® tanning beds. All are legally registered trademarks for their particular industries. Technically, you could have IBM® brand breakfast cereal as long as it wasn't marketed to confuse the customer to think that International Business Machines, Inc. wasn't the parent company. Obviously, this wouldn't stop them from trying to sue you, but the way that trademark law is setup, it is considered perfectly legitimate.
Yea, I kinda already knew that. It was a joke.
Don't worry, we'll get reality television with killer mutants soon enough.
Kind of like the show Big Brother but with with no food? They don't vote you off the show, they just pick one person to cannibalize each week? The Power of Veto has never been more important, and you certainly don't want to be the fattest guy in the house. I might tune in for that.
Even if we're in no immediate danger of running out, we're still living on a planet with finite resources.
But helium isn't burned or consumed or changed into something else, so we still have it when we are done using it. It's not like the helium is going to vanish into thin air.
I personally love how you can buy a DVD player at Best Buy for under $100, and then when you need a HDMI cable to hook it up? Over $100. Why does the cable that just sits there cost more than the DVD player it connects, when the DVD player has moving parts, a laser, and a remote control?
3. Profit!
The 0s are zeroier, and the 1s more one-ey!
More important is how they did it: the 1s and 0s are transfered to the CPU using a bold font, which makes the music louder, thus the distortion is lower.
Everyone said the same of TF2, which was actually scheduled to be released in 2000, but they instead put out TFC as a stop gap measure, and then TFC version 1.5 a few years later (a worthwhile upgrade). And they had the whole "Brothers in Arms" idea for TF2 and even released publicity info on it, only to back down. So it took about 6 or 7 more years to come up with TF2, the true answer to the Quake mod, Team Fortress, yet most people think it was worth it, as it once again redefined the genre. (Me, I still prefer TFC) And Episode 3 is the last of the episodes, and should serve as the tie-in for HL3/4 (episodes should have been HL3 according to Gabe, so we will see how they number it next). There is plenty of potential for it to be worth the wait, and hopefully it will.
As a comparison to Duke, the last full Duke release, I played it on a 486sx33 with 8mb RAM. The only way it could be "worth the wait" is if came with a beer volcano and a striper factory in the same box. With apologies to the FSM.
Of course, in order to get to step 3. Profit, you have to actually release the game. DNF hasn't proved it will ever happen.
Valve has a history of delayed releases, and making it worth the wait once it is released. I"m still waiting for HL2 Episode 3, which might be the reason for the delay, to package together with Portal 2. If anyone hasn't seem them yet, here are the trailers for Portal 2, which are pretty creepy at times.
Fallout 3 and Bioshock 2. I bought both on Steam, both use Windows Live, so I have to log into both to play them. Love both games, I freaking hate Windows live. It told me I already had an account on Windows Live, and getting it to work the first time was a bitch. Now it just works, but I don't care for MS tracking my gaming. Gabe and Steam I worry a little less with.
I'm pretty sure that simply raising taxes isn't the cure to all that ails us. Keep in mind that everything you eat, wear and touch is delivered in one way or another on transportation of some kind, so literally everything would become more expensive. From experience, I can say that often a very large part of the price of goods is from transportation. When you double that cost, everything now costs 10% to 50% more overnight. That is called inflation, and it cuts demand dramatically, which is likely not the best solution considering we have the highest unemployment since the early 80s, and the most persistent unemployment since the Depression.
The problem is that the US is one giant suburb sprawl, and because our population densities are so much lower between cities, trains will never be viable all over. On the east coast, yes, and maybe even a few in fly over country. But to have trains in most of the rest of the country would take more carbon than driving cars. From building the trains cars that would only be partially full because of the lower density, to the fuel used for those smaller passenger loads, it doesn't make sense in the US for most areas, at least not for daily travel.
Also, you have to condemn land, lay tracks, uproot people and remove farm land and utilities, and in the end, most people here would still rather drive less than use the train. You can't turn America into Europe by simply taxing fuel at the same rate.
I'm guessing you haven't worked commission at a legitimate company. No company worth working at tells you "Earn up to $x per week!" in my experience. If a company has to inflate their pay potential, then they are not legitimate. Most of the commission jobs I have had (and most of my long life has been on commission), they might tell you what others are making, and obviously tell you what percentage you are getting, but they don't advertise "Make as much as $x" because any legitimate company knows that this isn't cricket, and in most cases illegal unless they can demonstrate this. Of course, on the internet, who can police work at home jobs? No one. That doesn't make the companies legitimate, and in fact demonstrates they are not. The vast majority of real commission jobs (ie: you can walk into the actual business) are not advertised that way, primarily because it would likely violate labor laws in the same state.
It happens every day for people who work on a commission.
Bad analogy. Working on commission means your pay is directly influenced by your efforts, and there is no direct comparison for "up to" with internet connections. Same with the second, which is flawed at too many levels to cover in a single paragraph.
We are talking about consumer goods, which should be advertised accurately. A closer analogy is saying "We are hiring people for $8 to $80 an hour", except in this case, no one ever has been hired for $80, and no one ever will, AND the highest they have ever paid an hour was $40. THAT is a bit closer to the analogy you are looking for. Regardless, the cable companies never deliver the promised "max" to any customer, ever, or if they do, it is to less than 1% of the people, and rarely even to them. That is misleading, at the very least.
Again, well duh. Is there really any question that they can't be trusted with granting certs when they are so openly hostile to encryption of any kind?
In tech terms, 22 months is "mature". Windows 7 is half as old and is already well accepted in the community. Then again, after Vista, I would have accepted Windows 98 with newer drivers as a replacement.
Really though, what's the difference? Humiliation is the same no-matter what the source.
One is State sponsored, the other is protected by the 1st Amendment. Other than that, yes, the same.
Actually, I mean Pseudoephed, hence the capital P, but was too lazy to look it up at the time. And P2P is a chemical that dentists use to clean instruments with, Phenyl-2-propanone (Phenylacetone), which is also a precursor to meth. I don't think you can download that, or even buy it since it is regulated.
Comedy?
You can also cook up meth relatively easy with some lye (red devil or Draino), acid and a triple neck flask, to the tune of $100k in a few days. That assumes you can't get ahold of some P2P or Psudophen, which cuts the time in half. The hard part is setting up the lab where no one smells is, as the process is smelly. Oh, and not blowing yourself up. This is why so much is produced out in the country, not inside city limits, and why meth use is disproportionate in rural areas.
And before you ask, I worked as a defense investigator for a few years. Seen plenty of this crap.
Exactly! Setup the underground railroad, maybe maps to where you escort scientists to safety, etc. Others where you simply take out communications facilities, etc. Use makeshift weapons, maybe even go undercover as a Combine to sabotage a facility, at the risk of getting caught. They are NOT fully exploiting the potential of the universe.
But when you have rovers that end up lasting 30x their expected lifetime, you expect more from a bottle of hydrogen.
Besides, this is in outer space. You would think that keeping things cold would be easy. Guess not.
I have a "good" gmail address (my full name@gmail.com) and I constantly get e-mail from other people signing up for things who apparently don't know their own e-mail address.
Glad to know I am not the only one. My yahoo email address, which I have used since the mid 90s when they started offering email (back when 9 characters was the maximum name size....) gets the same thing, legitimate "thanks for signing up" from legit companies, where some idiot didn't know their own email address. Ironically, my email address is a real oddball one, so how they would use it is beyond me.