There are some circuits that have a higher (even 100%) rate of being overturned on review, yes. But they're ignored for that purpose because they have such a low volume only a handful of cases were reviewed. It's too low to get a statistically significant sample from, unlike the larger Circuits.
The Supreme Court has a vendetta against the 9th, in other words. No wonder they overturn them so often.
A "vendetta"? Hardly. Your first statement is somewhat more accurate though you still use loaded phrases like "has it in for". Yes, the Supremes review the 9th more often because they most often overturn them. That's their job. The Supreme Court sets legal trends for every lower court in the country, so if they see one Circuit bucking those trends regularly of course they're going to bring them back in line.
It's not exactly a "vendetta" to do what they're supposed to do.
If you would check (I notice you didn't provide a source) you would see that the 9th leads in overturned cases in both percentage and number. They are just barely the busiest circuit, sure, but the second busiest circuit (5th) with only a 3% smaller caseload is less than one third as likely to be reviewed by the Supreme Court Source.
For a very limited definition of "showing every event". I really would like to see the judo competition. Instead I get to see the last two minutes of the gold/silver match for each weight class, which shares a one hour block with the rest full of sailing. You'll find this with weightlifting too, and I'm sure many other events that haven't aired yet. It's not really "showing" an event to air what is basically a highlight reel buried in the middle of other crap.
A 10 year window? More like 20. DARE has been around since the early 80's. We had it when I was a kid, and I'm 30 this year. We can assume you're not in 4th grade now and are probably at least in your mid-teens, but you could also be as old as me. So, basically you've "dated" yourself to 16-30, probably the biggest Slashdot demographic.
Of course. No IT department of any size is going to allow end users to willy nilly install or not install OS patches and Service Packs as they choose. Anyone who doesn't use a system like SMS is going to distribute the SP, probably in a customized install, to their users through an official internal channel and say "run this".
If they didn't work, then sirens on emergency vehicles wouldn't work either.
Hmm, the pipes on a motorcycle are directed to the rear and emit a fairly low frequency sound.
The sirens on emergency vehicles emit a much higher alternating frequency sound and are directed towards the front. Yeah, good comparison.
I live in an area popular with bikers, along a major road. I assure that I hear a bike for the first time about the time it roars past my house, and then I hear it for along time as it recedes loudly into the distance. I hear this sound constantly during the summer, to the point where it often interrupts conversations or the television. Not to mention bikers travel in packs like dogs, so I get to hear every single one of them roar by with their radios blaring classic rock.
Bikers who repeat this mantra are either ignorant or simply grasping hold of some justification for their rude, idiotic and inexcusable behavior. I especially like it when the guys with no helmets adhere to it, yeah you're big on safety issues moron. I'd like to find someone whose mantra this is and rev a Harley right outside their bedroom window every 5-10 minutes all night long and then see if it's still ok.
You will have a hard time arguing that the loud pipes don't provide that.
I really don't care if somehow we live in Bizarro World and it is true that it contributes to "safety" in some way. I would be a lot safer if I carried an air horn around and sounded it wherever I went, but you can bet no one else would put up with that crap. You don't get to do whatever the hell you want because you think it makes you safer. Your right to make obnoxious levels of noise ends at my ears. A loud car gets a ticket and a legal obligation to get it fixed or the registration suspended, loud Harleys should get the exact same treatment.
I paid $199 for my TiVo four years ago (running sans guide for the last 3), and when I wear it out I'll gladly get another one
Sadly, it won't be a TiVo. You must have one of the very original TiVos. Only the first run of the Series One TiVos can be used without a subscription. The rest of them simply go into "boat anchor mode" and won't do anything beyond play what's already there and maybe buffer live TV.
Who needs a TV tuner? I guess it's making somewhat of a comeback with OTA HD, but other than that I don't see any reason for a tuner. No one buying a big screen plasma is the sort of person who's content to watch the two of three local OTA channels, they'll have a cable or satellite box which plugs into the S-Video or RCA jacks. The same is true of speakers, though perhaps to a lesser extent. It's entirely reasonable to assume that someone buying a high end plasma television already has some sort of surround sound (or even just a basic receiver).
You seem to have entirely ignored the several other examples that will certainly save a consumer a significant amount of money for an identical product.
It uses a MapGuide plugin which isn't available for anything beyond IE. When you're dealing with GIS data, I'm not sure you can really be that choosy about the format. If there's only a reasonable cost to make the data more accessible you have a shot at converting it, but I don't think that's likely.
Nope. I just don't get RSS either. Every time there's a story about it I give another reader another shot, and every time I just end up thinking "how is this different than checking my bookmarks regularly?"
Listen to an actual recording of that transmission. There's dead space appropriate for the word "a" to fit in between "for" and "man", and it was probably just lost to interference.
So here's a good thing for you to know: Bing Crosby never performed a song live during a fifty year career. He was strictly a studio artist; he never toured. He had terrible stage fright, and was unable to perform in front of a live audience.
Where the hell did you get that idea? Bing Crosby began his career in vaudeville! He did become so popular in films that his touring basically stopped by the late 30's. During World War II he performed regularly for the troops and was a USO favorite. His touring tapered off in the 60's but he experienced a surge of popularity in the late 70's and began touring again "with a vengeance". He headlined all over the US and Europe and sold out two seasons of the London Palladium in '76 and '77. His last performance was in Brighton, England on October 10, 1977. He died four days later.
Hardly a man who "never performed live because of stage fright."
WTF?! I was laid off six months ago, and I haven't found work yet, so as you can imagine money is extremely tight. I don't have a laptop, and I certainly can't afford one, but I'd still love to have something that would let me hang out in the bedroom with my wife and play with Python scripts while watching TV. Before you drive over another older laptop, let me know, I may be within driving distance to come take it off your hands and give it a good home. You seem to have a very different idea of "good enough" than I do.
It's published by Microsoft Press. BFD. Read up on the author, then come back and tell us he's not eminently qualified to write a book on the subject. Of course, this is an update, the original from 1993 has already been widely acclaimed for a decade so you're going to have to come up with a more convincing argument than "d00d, M$ iz teh sux0r!"
I don't understand how anyone could claim that I am a Democrat when I have never joined their organization.
Because words are merely ways we organize and identify things. Maybe you're not a member of the Democratic Party but since you stated you agree with their ideals you are, for all intents and purposes, a "democrat" (lowercase).
Oh, and by the way, going with "the lesser of two evils" is always counterproductive and a 100% guaranteed way to ensure you'll never have any other choice besides that. Frankly, people who vote that way deserve what they get, evil, because that's exactly what they voted for. Try voting for someone you actually believe in for a change. I don't have any respect whatsoever for the "anybody but Bush" crowd (and I won't be voting for Bush myself) because they're just spineless simps who find it easier to be vaguely against something rather than specifically for something.
And, most tellingly, the MoveOn PAC held an online Democratic primary and declared they would officially endorse a candidate if they received over 50% of the votes. Note that they stated that even if no one candidate received 50% of the vote they would still "work to defeat Bush".
It really doesn't matter what they decide to call themselves if their actions are to work to support Democrats and oppose to Republicans. Even if it were just the latter you could claim they were an "anybody but Bush" site but they're not even that, they didn't even consider endorsing any third party candidates, just Democrats.
Well... hm, I've never heard of a good SRPG for the XBOX. I've actually not heard of any at all! The same goes for the developed in not-Japan argument:)
Gladius. Cross platform and LucasArts, not Japanese. Despite being modern, still one of the best SRPGs ever.
Hmm, I guess you could say that I like SRPGs that are like the Fire Emblem games, which is not wrong at all as the first game invented the genre.
Fire Emblem is a great game, and I'm looking forward to the new GameCube version. But saying it alone invented and defined the genre? It was certainly one of the first, but a several games were moving in that direction right around that time. 1990 saw the release of other SRPGs like Shining Force and King's Bounty (which became Heroes of Might & Magic). These three diverse systems all contributed a lot towards what an SRPG is today. To take just one of them and say "they should all be like this" is a great disservice towards other industry pioneers.
Really, getting stuck in a rut of "I hate anything that's not exactly like X" only hurts yourself. When you lock yourself out of the possibility of anything new you get exactly what you ask for. Nothing new.
All I can say is that you have some very bizarre criteria for enjoying a game. I'm not even going to address any but your most ludicrous assertion: If a game is released for the XBox it's automatically less enjoyable. That's completely nonsensical. You'll only enjoy games that are released for the PS2 and GameCube? What if it's ported to the XBox later, like GTA3? Does your PS2 version start sucking after that? (Hmm, you know, I guess you have a point. GTA3 did suck on the PS2 once the superior XBox version was released (and I don't even own either one of those consoles))
Based on your idea of "negatives" I can only assume you'd be happy simply seeing the same game made over and over again (probably Final Fantasy). You certainly haven't left much room for variety.
And finally, to answer the question in the subject: Yes, it's always nice to see a new SRPG as it's a fairly niche genre. Even an average game brings new attention to it.
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There are some circuits that have a higher (even 100%) rate of being overturned on review, yes. But they're ignored for that purpose because they have such a low volume only a handful of cases were reviewed. It's too low to get a statistically significant sample from, unlike the larger Circuits.
A "vendetta"? Hardly. Your first statement is somewhat more accurate though you still use loaded phrases like "has it in for". Yes, the Supremes review the 9th more often because they most often overturn them. That's their job. The Supreme Court sets legal trends for every lower court in the country, so if they see one Circuit bucking those trends regularly of course they're going to bring them back in line.
It's not exactly a "vendetta" to do what they're supposed to do.
If you would check (I notice you didn't provide a source) you would see that the 9th leads in overturned cases in both percentage and number. They are just barely the busiest circuit, sure, but the second busiest circuit (5th) with only a 3% smaller caseload is less than one third as likely to be reviewed by the Supreme Court Source.
For a very limited definition of "showing every event". I really would like to see the judo competition. Instead I get to see the last two minutes of the gold/silver match for each weight class, which shares a one hour block with the rest full of sailing. You'll find this with weightlifting too, and I'm sure many other events that haven't aired yet. It's not really "showing" an event to air what is basically a highlight reel buried in the middle of other crap.
Jokes?
It takes me to http://www.http.com/;//slashdot.org with Firefox .9 under Mandrake 9.2.
A 10 year window? More like 20. DARE has been around since the early 80's. We had it when I was a kid, and I'm 30 this year. We can assume you're not in 4th grade now and are probably at least in your mid-teens, but you could also be as old as me. So, basically you've "dated" yourself to 16-30, probably the biggest Slashdot demographic.
Of course. No IT department of any size is going to allow end users to willy nilly install or not install OS patches and Service Packs as they choose. Anyone who doesn't use a system like SMS is going to distribute the SP, probably in a customized install, to their users through an official internal channel and say "run this".
I think you need to read the blurb again. Particularly the part about "employees" and "internal users".
Hmm, the pipes on a motorcycle are directed to the rear and emit a fairly low frequency sound.
The sirens on emergency vehicles emit a much higher alternating frequency sound and are directed towards the front. Yeah, good comparison.
I live in an area popular with bikers, along a major road. I assure that I hear a bike for the first time about the time it roars past my house, and then I hear it for along time as it recedes loudly into the distance. I hear this sound constantly during the summer, to the point where it often interrupts conversations or the television. Not to mention bikers travel in packs like dogs, so I get to hear every single one of them roar by with their radios blaring classic rock.
Bikers who repeat this mantra are either ignorant or simply grasping hold of some justification for their rude, idiotic and inexcusable behavior. I especially like it when the guys with no helmets adhere to it, yeah you're big on safety issues moron. I'd like to find someone whose mantra this is and rev a Harley right outside their bedroom window every 5-10 minutes all night long and then see if it's still ok.
You will have a hard time arguing that the loud pipes don't provide that.
I really don't care if somehow we live in Bizarro World and it is true that it contributes to "safety" in some way. I would be a lot safer if I carried an air horn around and sounded it wherever I went, but you can bet no one else would put up with that crap. You don't get to do whatever the hell you want because you think it makes you safer. Your right to make obnoxious levels of noise ends at my ears. A loud car gets a ticket and a legal obligation to get it fixed or the registration suspended, loud Harleys should get the exact same treatment.
Sadly, it won't be a TiVo. You must have one of the very original TiVos. Only the first run of the Series One TiVos can be used without a subscription. The rest of them simply go into "boat anchor mode" and won't do anything beyond play what's already there and maybe buffer live TV.
You seem to have entirely ignored the several other examples that will certainly save a consumer a significant amount of money for an identical product.
It uses a MapGuide plugin which isn't available for anything beyond IE. When you're dealing with GIS data, I'm not sure you can really be that choosy about the format. If there's only a reasonable cost to make the data more accessible you have a shot at converting it, but I don't think that's likely.
Nope. I just don't get RSS either. Every time there's a story about it I give another reader another shot, and every time I just end up thinking "how is this different than checking my bookmarks regularly?"
Yes but is that per metric May, or English May?
Listen to an actual recording of that transmission. There's dead space appropriate for the word "a" to fit in between "for" and "man", and it was probably just lost to interference.
Where the hell did you get that idea? Bing Crosby began his career in vaudeville! He did become so popular in films that his touring basically stopped by the late 30's. During World War II he performed regularly for the troops and was a USO favorite. His touring tapered off in the 60's but he experienced a surge of popularity in the late 70's and began touring again "with a vengeance". He headlined all over the US and Europe and sold out two seasons of the London Palladium in '76 and '77. His last performance was in Brighton, England on October 10, 1977. He died four days later.
Hardly a man who "never performed live because of stage fright."
Ah well, thanks for looking out for me anyway.
WTF?! I was laid off six months ago, and I haven't found work yet, so as you can imagine money is extremely tight. I don't have a laptop, and I certainly can't afford one, but I'd still love to have something that would let me hang out in the bedroom with my wife and play with Python scripts while watching TV. Before you drive over another older laptop, let me know, I may be within driving distance to come take it off your hands and give it a good home. You seem to have a very different idea of "good enough" than I do.
It's published by Microsoft Press. BFD. Read up on the author, then come back and tell us he's not eminently qualified to write a book on the subject. Of course, this is an update, the original from 1993 has already been widely acclaimed for a decade so you're going to have to come up with a more convincing argument than "d00d, M$ iz teh sux0r!"
Because words are merely ways we organize and identify things. Maybe you're not a member of the Democratic Party but since you stated you agree with their ideals you are, for all intents and purposes, a "democrat" (lowercase).
Oh, and by the way, going with "the lesser of two evils" is always counterproductive and a 100% guaranteed way to ensure you'll never have any other choice besides that. Frankly, people who vote that way deserve what they get, evil, because that's exactly what they voted for. Try voting for someone you actually believe in for a change. I don't have any respect whatsoever for the "anybody but Bush" crowd (and I won't be voting for Bush myself) because they're just spineless simps who find it easier to be vaguely against something rather than specifically for something.
They're responsible for Bush in 30 Seconds an anti-Bush site.
CNN refers to them as an anti-Bush powerhouse.
And, most tellingly, the MoveOn PAC held an online Democratic primary and declared they would officially endorse a candidate if they received over 50% of the votes. Note that they stated that even if no one candidate received 50% of the vote they would still "work to defeat Bush".
It really doesn't matter what they decide to call themselves if their actions are to work to support Democrats and oppose to Republicans. Even if it were just the latter you could claim they were an "anybody but Bush" site but they're not even that, they didn't even consider endorsing any third party candidates, just Democrats.
Gladius. Cross platform and LucasArts, not Japanese. Despite being modern, still one of the best SRPGs ever.
Hmm, I guess you could say that I like SRPGs that are like the Fire Emblem games, which is not wrong at all as the first game invented the genre.
Fire Emblem is a great game, and I'm looking forward to the new GameCube version. But saying it alone invented and defined the genre? It was certainly one of the first, but a several games were moving in that direction right around that time. 1990 saw the release of other SRPGs like Shining Force and King's Bounty (which became Heroes of Might & Magic). These three diverse systems all contributed a lot towards what an SRPG is today. To take just one of them and say "they should all be like this" is a great disservice towards other industry pioneers.
Really, getting stuck in a rut of "I hate anything that's not exactly like X" only hurts yourself. When you lock yourself out of the possibility of anything new you get exactly what you ask for. Nothing new.
Based on your idea of "negatives" I can only assume you'd be happy simply seeing the same game made over and over again (probably Final Fantasy). You certainly haven't left much room for variety.
And finally, to answer the question in the subject: Yes, it's always nice to see a new SRPG as it's a fairly niche genre. Even an average game brings new attention to it.
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