But evil is evil isn't it? Both should be resisted or eradicated of possible. Indeed, you make my point - The CoS *IS* the more evil of the two, and thus should be stood up to.
It would be most interesting to me if they would actually admit it though... I know I've been given the "hidden" slap, it's only all too obvious. I suspect the motivation for this action was political.
What about slashdot's bad press from deleting the CoS document that was posted? Why are you willing to stand up to MS but not to the CoS which is ostensibly much more evil than MS can ever be? I never understood that decision? Why not also come clean about accounts that you have tampered with? that's the collective you, not the sigular you. If someone has been affected by admin intervention, shouldn't they know that? For instance, though I don't really troll much, have never used a script to post to this site, etc. this account still NEVER gets mod points. The account is old enough, and I do participate regularly enough that I should, at least once get points. This leads me to suspect that my account has been given the secret "don't let this guy moderate" flag in the system. Can you (and will you) please confirm or deny?
I run SC under Win2k. I do not have this problem now. When I exit the game, my system freezes for about 1 to 10 seconds, interval random, but it always unlocks. I am using a 650MHz Athlon with 1/2 gig of ram. What's your config, and have you checked on the status of this bug lately?
Where is something like StarCraft II, or WarCraft III? How about Interplay gets over itself, so we can get Never Winter Nights? I own all The Sims expansions, but Hot Date really doesn't appeal to me - it's not all that new, I'd rather see a new game from Maxis than a 3rd expansion to this particular title. Sigh. I'd REALLY like to see either another expansion to SC, or SC II. StarCraft Broodwar STILL lives in my CD Rom drive (Well, it's a DVD but you get the idea) and isn't coming out of it until there is something better.
DISCLAIMER: I can't play FPS's because I get very very ill when I do. YMMV.
Oh, absolutely, without question - my point was that there is no one (except perhaps ametures) making "a few hundred a day", at least not for female tallent. Not necessarily even GOOD femail tallent.
If you think they're making only a few hundred dollars, you're kidding yourself. Top models, in the 80's (sorry, that's the most recient data I have, I don't hang with those people anymore) were making $1500 a day, in feature films. Even the men in straight movies were making "a few hundred a day". You can bet that the payscale hasn't decreased. You should read RAME (rec.arts.movies.erotica). That's a good place for information about these things.
Basically, yeah. But since this is a Christmas wish list, I'd like to ammend to this, a GOOD job, like the one I had 18 months ago, that pays what I was making then as well.
Hm, that's an interesting choice, as it's the most recient book. Actually, there were parts of ANTRAX that I though kinda draged, but on the whole, I really enjoyed the book - the melding of past and future, of science and magic, the Wronks - overall a really really good book, but it was like chineese food - an hour later, I was hungry for more and not as satisfied as I was by the previous 8 or 9 (10, or 11?) books. I have read all of them, and got ANTRAX the day it came out. I would say that the best books in the Shannara series have been Elfstones, and Elfqueen (the one about Wren, can't remember the whole title offhand).
And why bother with that, when Piers Anthony has written enough Xanth in Space already? With the exception of the Split Infinity series, what has he written that was really not just pulp? Well, let's see, there was the first 3 Xanth books - the rest are shite. There was On a Pale Horse, the rest in that series were shite too. Macroverse wasn't bad. The Tarot series was total crap, as was the second attempt at books in the Split Infinity universe (the first 3 should be required reading, the rest sucked serious ass).
D'Oh!!! How could I have forgotten Zelazny? The complete Cronicle's of Amber are without question 10 of my favorite books of all time. Sadly, he's dead now. Died in 1995. I didn't find out about it until I foolishly asked in a bookstore one day, "So, why hasn't Zelazny written another Amber book?"
One word - Shanara - enough said. Personally, I think what he has produced is every bit as good as LOTR (please don't flame me) and is actually in some ways better - A, there's more of it, and B, it's written in a way that is easier to read. No, I didn't have any trouble with LOTR, but I have known people who have, and most of them have found Brooks very accessable.
What's your opinion on Alan Cox's recient decision to censor security related fixes in his change log announcements on LKML? He cited the DCMA. Also, given that civil liberties are often the first casuality of war, and given that we're "at war" now with Afganistan, when if ever do you think we will see a sucessful court challange that will get this bad law (the DMCA) overturned?
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But evil is evil isn't it? Both should be resisted or eradicated of possible. Indeed, you make my point - The CoS *IS* the more evil of the two, and thus should be stood up to.
Thank you. That was very informative. I do appriciate that you answered my question.
It would be most interesting to me if they would actually admit it though... I know I've been given the "hidden" slap, it's only all too obvious. I suspect the motivation for this action was political.
What about slashdot's bad press from deleting the CoS document that was posted? Why are you willing to stand up to MS but not to the CoS which is ostensibly much more evil than MS can ever be? I never understood that decision? Why not also come clean about accounts that you have tampered with? that's the collective you, not the sigular you. If someone has been affected by admin intervention, shouldn't they know that? For instance, though I don't really troll much, have never used a script to post to this site, etc. this account still NEVER gets mod points. The account is old enough, and I do participate regularly enough that I should, at least once get points. This leads me to suspect that my account has been given the secret "don't let this guy moderate" flag in the system. Can you (and will you) please confirm or deny?
How much memory do you have? I have 1/2 a gig of ram, and mine does exit eventually. Like 1 to 5 seconds, some (rare) times as long as 10 seconds.
I run SC under Win2k. I do not have this problem now. When I exit the game, my system freezes for about 1 to 10 seconds, interval random, but it always unlocks. I am using a 650MHz Athlon with 1/2 gig of ram. What's your config, and have you checked on the status of this bug lately?
You say that like it's a BAD thing...
Where is something like StarCraft II, or WarCraft III? How about Interplay gets over itself, so we can get Never Winter Nights? I own all The Sims expansions, but Hot Date really doesn't appeal to me - it's not all that new, I'd rather see a new game from Maxis than a 3rd expansion to this particular title. Sigh. I'd REALLY like to see either another expansion to SC, or SC II. StarCraft Broodwar STILL lives in my CD Rom drive (Well, it's a DVD but you get the idea) and isn't coming out of it until there is something better.
DISCLAIMER: I can't play FPS's because I get very very ill when I do. YMMV.
Other than that, it could have been a good movie.
Oh, absolutely, without question - my point was that there is no one (except perhaps ametures) making "a few hundred a day", at least not for female tallent. Not necessarily even GOOD femail tallent.
If you think they're making only a few hundred dollars, you're kidding yourself. Top models, in the 80's (sorry, that's the most recient data I have, I don't hang with those people anymore) were making $1500 a day, in feature films. Even the men in straight movies were making "a few hundred a day". You can bet that the payscale hasn't decreased. You should read RAME (rec.arts.movies.erotica). That's a good place for information about these things.
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Basically, yeah. But since this is a Christmas wish list, I'd like to ammend to this, a GOOD job, like the one I had 18 months ago, that pays what I was making then as well.
And to think - I was going to vote for that asshole.
It was 4, and it's out - I have it. I got mine from the Columbia House DVD club.
Alfred Bester, the Psycop on Babylon 5... A much better use of that guys acting tallent than playing Checkov on Star Trek... :-)
Don't forget Steel Beach.
Hm, that's an interesting choice, as it's the most recient book. Actually, there were parts of ANTRAX that I though kinda draged, but on the whole, I really enjoyed the book - the melding of past and future, of science and magic, the Wronks - overall a really really good book, but it was like chineese food - an hour later, I was hungry for more and not as satisfied as I was by the previous 8 or 9 (10, or 11?) books. I have read all of them, and got ANTRAX the day it came out. I would say that the best books in the Shannara series have been Elfstones, and Elfqueen (the one about Wren, can't remember the whole title offhand).
Yes - despite a heart attack while working on B5, Mr. Ellison is alive and well.
And why bother with that, when Piers Anthony has written enough Xanth in Space already? With the exception of the Split Infinity series, what has he written that was really not just pulp? Well, let's see, there was the first 3 Xanth books - the rest are shite. There was On a Pale Horse, the rest in that series were shite too. Macroverse wasn't bad. The Tarot series was total crap, as was the second attempt at books in the Split Infinity universe (the first 3 should be required reading, the rest sucked serious ass).
D'Oh!!! How could I have forgotten Zelazny? The complete Cronicle's of Amber are without question 10 of my favorite books of all time. Sadly, he's dead now. Died in 1995. I didn't find out about it until I foolishly asked in a bookstore one day, "So, why hasn't Zelazny written another Amber book?"
- R. A. Salvatore
Yeah, good choice there. I really loved the stuff he's done lately with the Star Wars franchise. Really good stuff!
One word - Shanara - enough said. Personally, I think what he has produced is every bit as good as LOTR (please don't flame me) and is actually in some ways better - A, there's more of it, and B, it's written in a way that is easier to read. No, I didn't have any trouble with LOTR, but I have known people who have, and most of them have found Brooks very accessable.
And more importantly, does this mean that we will see the cookie monster joining Bert alongside Bin Ladin now?
What's your opinion on Alan Cox's recient decision to censor security related fixes in his change log announcements on LKML? He cited the DCMA. Also, given that civil liberties are often the first casuality of war, and given that we're "at war" now with Afganistan, when if ever do you think we will see a sucessful court challange that will get this bad law (the DMCA) overturned?