Isnt this just the same idea as micro-payments with an ITMS interface tacked on? Speaking of which, has anyone heard or seen of micro payments in the last 3 years? There was a ton of hoopla, but the concept seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
While the OT is largely disregarded by modern christians, the NT still makes several declerations regarding homosexuality. Mathew 18, 19, Acts 10 and Romans 1 all make it pretty clear that the christian god hates homosexuality.
Of course its debatable weather or not these are all condemations of homosexuality or are in some case anti-pederasty. It doesnt matter. As there are numerous declerations in the NT condeming homosexuality, Any homosexual that considers themself a christian is seriously confused.
Of course its my perspective that pretty much all christians are pretty friggin confused to begin with, so who cares. As long as they profess a belief in something which has zero affirmative evidence they will all seem crazy to me.
You really are a ludite. The music I download off of ITMS (yes, whole CDs at a time) and the music I rip from CD (or often phonograph) is far more flexible to play then physical media. Its all wired via optical cables into my 7.1 system in the livingroom, and my "old" 5.1 system in my office.
Time for download? Like this is any more then the cumber system of ebay and waiting for the package to show up.
W/r/t packaging, WHY DO YOU CARE? You also have hideously vulnerable media in the form of CDs that die eventually.
You are the same guy who bitched about CD audio when it came out arent you?
I would say that 2million people dead and a whole country malnourished as a result of the absurd policies of a totaliterian regime count as genocide.
With regards to majority support for the war, yes the democrats did support it. Based on the intel that was manufactured and contorted by the CIA and State Department at the direction of the Bush administration. Even if the democrats could see through the BS, Bush had the country wopped up into such a state (Saddam supports terrorism, WMDs, Etc) that no one could decent without loosing all sorts of political support.
W/r/t war for Oil, you miss the point. Bush fought a war for oil, but not on behalf of the consumer. The war drove up oil prices, leading to higher profits for his friends in oil. Oil is now dominated by the U.S. oil industry who is of course great friends of Bush. They have more oil, and higher prices. So yeah, it was a war for oil, paid with American blood, on behalf of the oil industry, to everyone elses detriment.
Just felt like adding a quick defense of NYC. There is little to no racism in the housing market here. Redlining has been gone for twenty years, and while descrimination certainly occurs on a socio-economic basis, a wealth african american family will find purchasing a condo just as easy as a wealthy white family.
Of course if your poor in NYC (Earn less then 100k) you can forget about purchasing property anywhere on the island.
Maybe I live in some weird bubble, but the amount of moeny I am willing to spend on buying movies or music is $0. End of story. I like netflix, but I am buying a service from netflix not a material product. If I go to a movie theatre, I am not paying for the media, from my perspective I am paying for the experience of watching something on a really really big screen.
My point is that I attach no value to the actual media; and I think the reason for that is that so much of what is produce is utter crap; it has no value.
In fact given the problems in our society that are directly associated with an irresponsible media (witness last tuesday) I dont feel bad if I cause the companies behind these products to loose money. In fact, given their behavior I think it is an imperative that as concerned citizens we cause these bastards to loose as much money as possible. They call it stealing, I call it civil disobedience.
I find good mp3s, its just that on Shareza I would say a significant percentage of mp3s are bad. Granted when you go outside of mainstream, you have less intentionally misnamed tracks; of course outside of the mainstream you also get more mistakenly misnamed tracks.
Doesnt mean mp3 is dying. There are so many bad mp3 files (due to bad nameing, RIAA subversion, etc) and just so much lousy music that most of the mp3s on P2P are not worth saveing.
Also think about how many times you say "I want song x", and then your search on p2p turns up 40 different versions, thirty of which are covers by some irish tenor?
They probably are missing its increased utility, in swapping amongst friends. Whenever I am at a friends house, I rip all of their cds to mp3s, and most of the people I know do the same. This kind of use with the increasing prevelance of iPods and other players is definitely on the rise.
(B)In some cases not only is that ok, its actually good.
Im not going to throw out names here, but I do believe that if a company is causing me direct harm through illegal actions, or through actions that are known to subvert the integrity of those articles that enshrine my freedom, then stealing from them is a VALID FORM OF SELF DEFENSE.
Ok, maybe not rockstar. But msft? TW? Sony? RIAAs/MPAAs/That software group, they are evil. They need to be destroyed. Theft isnt wrong, its self defense. Anything that takes money out of their pockets, forces them to spend money, or misdirects their energies is a Good Thing. This is a war of information, and the digital resistance is allowed to steal.
http://www.kcna.co.jp is quite possibly the best website on the web. Quite seriously, I read them every day. Its like right in our very own world there is a real live Bond villain who has taken over half a country and is now running the news. I read their diatribes, then think of the Dear Leaders awesome haircut; and I think that just maybe, the world is kinda cool for a second.
Oh I was totally with the town on the beach issue too. Especially because if provided such great entertainment when the Daily Show Genine Gurafalo storm the beach with a bunch of homeless people from nyc. TV at its best.
But that doesnt mean its unreasonable for the town government to try to keep the database private. As many people have already noted, photos as good or better through commercial satelites are easily available. This implies to me that the town is protecting the data not because of the photos, but because it has a great deal of other information (property assesments, planned zoning).
Greenwich isnt your normal town. The residents are extraordinarily powerful and extremely intent on maintaining their privacy. If the town doesnt at least try to protect data, the release of which would piss off many residents, then the officials will definitely be held responsible in november.
This is the same town that went to the supreme court to defend the beaches against non-resident use.
The whole point of the second world war was to remove possible competition from Anglo-Saxon hegemony over the British Empire.
This theory nicely fits into marxist dogma, but really doesnt hold water. You could argue that the Germans started WWII in order to replace British-U.S. hegemony with their own, but to say that the Allies fought the war to remove competition is utterly absurd. Germany wasnt attacking British or French colonies, they were attacking Britain and France, trying to conquer them. The point of the war from the Allies perspective was purely self defense. The only other alternative was submission.
That it was purely a matter of self defense is further vindicated by France and Englands repeated efferts at appeasement in order to avoid wat.
No, waiting until 1942 to attack was certainly construed as diabolique by the paranoid Russians, however it took that long to build up the necesary resources. In 1940 the U.S. military was about half a million strong, how the hell is that supposed to turn into a second front overnight? That it only took two years is a testament to how quickly the Americans moved and how much they were trying to honor their committments to the russians.
You are so right about the light and giving away one's position during combat...
Wow! Wouldnt it be cool if in the future some way were invented so that soldiers could see in the dark? Kind of far fetch I know, but it would be really neat..
actually the ghost was refering quite specificly to the human brain cells that kept and used in their cyborg bodies. The movie centered around a debate as to weather this meant they
(A) Carried cells with them because of these legacy cells
(B)Had lost their souls/spirit by becoming cyborg
(C)Never actually had souls/spirits to begin with and were never more then just concious.
When put in conflict with a purely artificial intelligence that had desires/evolutionary impulses, an intrigueing philosophical discussion ensued.
Yes, there was a very deep plot well though out plot in this film; something most anime films probably arent very accustomed to.
Wolf was published by ID but put together by an independent developer (who had previously worked at ID) who licensed the engine and the Wolf Copyright.
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Isnt this just the same idea as micro-payments with an ITMS interface tacked on? Speaking of which, has anyone heard or seen of micro payments in the last 3 years? There was a ton of hoopla, but the concept seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
While the OT is largely disregarded by modern christians, the NT still makes several declerations regarding homosexuality. Mathew 18, 19, Acts 10 and Romans 1 all make it pretty clear that the christian god hates homosexuality.
Of course its debatable weather or not these are all condemations of homosexuality or are in some case anti-pederasty. It doesnt matter. As there are numerous declerations in the NT condeming homosexuality, Any homosexual that considers themself a christian is seriously confused.
Of course its my perspective that pretty much all christians are pretty friggin confused to begin with, so who cares. As long as they profess a belief in something which has zero affirmative evidence they will all seem crazy to me.
You really are a ludite. The music I download off of ITMS (yes, whole CDs at a time) and the music I rip from CD (or often phonograph) is far more flexible to play then physical media. Its all wired via optical cables into my 7.1 system in the livingroom, and my "old" 5.1 system in my office.
Time for download? Like this is any more then the cumber system of ebay and waiting for the package to show up.
W/r/t packaging, WHY DO YOU CARE?
You also have hideously vulnerable media in the form of CDs that die eventually.
You are the same guy who bitched about CD audio when it came out arent you?
I would say that 2million people dead and a whole country malnourished as a result of the absurd policies of a totaliterian regime count as genocide.
With regards to majority support for the war, yes the democrats did support it. Based on the intel that was manufactured and contorted by the CIA and State Department at the direction of the Bush administration. Even if the democrats could see through the BS, Bush had the country wopped up into such a state (Saddam supports terrorism, WMDs, Etc) that no one could decent without loosing all sorts of political support.
W/r/t war for Oil, you miss the point. Bush fought a war for oil, but not on behalf of the consumer. The war drove up oil prices, leading to higher profits for his friends in oil. Oil is now dominated by the U.S. oil industry who is of course great friends of Bush. They have more oil, and higher prices. So yeah, it was a war for oil, paid with American blood, on behalf of the oil industry, to everyone elses detriment.
How would you describe the taste of Bill Gate's man juice?
Just felt like adding a quick defense of NYC. There is little to no racism in the housing market here. Redlining has been gone for twenty years, and while descrimination certainly occurs on a socio-economic basis, a wealth african american family will find purchasing a condo just as easy as a wealthy white family.
Of course if your poor in NYC (Earn less then 100k) you can forget about purchasing property anywhere on the island.
Maybe I live in some weird bubble, but the amount of moeny I am willing to spend on buying movies or music is $0. End of story. I like netflix, but I am buying a service from netflix not a material product. If I go to a movie theatre, I am not paying for the media, from my perspective I am paying for the experience of watching something on a really really big screen.
My point is that I attach no value to the actual media; and I think the reason for that is that so much of what is produce is utter crap; it has no value.
In fact given the problems in our society that are directly associated with an irresponsible media (witness last tuesday) I dont feel bad if I cause the companies behind these products to loose money. In fact, given their behavior I think it is an imperative that as concerned citizens we cause these bastards to loose as much money as possible. They call it stealing, I call it civil disobedience.
Actually that was a joke. maybe a bad one. I searching for a song Elliot smith song yesterday and got some irish folk song. it sucked.
I find good mp3s, its just that on Shareza I would say a significant percentage of mp3s are bad. Granted when you go outside of mainstream, you have less intentionally misnamed tracks; of course outside of the mainstream you also get more mistakenly misnamed tracks.
Doesnt mean mp3 is dying. There are so many bad mp3 files (due to bad nameing, RIAA subversion, etc) and just so much lousy music that most of the mp3s on P2P are not worth saveing.
Also think about how many times you say "I want song x", and then your search on p2p turns up 40 different versions, thirty of which are covers by some irish tenor?
They probably are missing its increased utility, in swapping amongst friends. Whenever I am at a friends house, I rip all of their cds to mp3s, and most of the people I know do the same. This kind of use with the increasing prevelance of iPods and other players is definitely on the rise.
Ironicly I write software for one of the bad guys. But I am true to principle in that I havent bought a CD since 1999.
Can we stop and consider for a moment that maybe
(A)It is in fact stealing
(B)In some cases not only is that ok, its actually good.
Im not going to throw out names here, but I do believe that if a company is causing me direct harm through illegal actions, or through actions that are known to subvert the integrity of those articles that enshrine my freedom, then stealing from them is a VALID FORM OF SELF DEFENSE.
Ok, maybe not rockstar. But msft? TW? Sony? RIAAs/MPAAs/That software group, they are evil. They need to be destroyed. Theft isnt wrong, its self defense. Anything that takes money out of their pockets, forces them to spend money, or misdirects their energies is a Good Thing. This is a war of information, and the digital resistance is allowed to steal.
On that note, I cant find it on Shareza yet. Maybe supernova.
http://www.kcna.co.jp is quite possibly the best website on the web. Quite seriously, I read them every day. Its like right in our very own world there is a real live Bond villain who has taken over half a country and is now running the news. I read their diatribes, then think of the Dear Leaders awesome haircut; and I think that just maybe, the world is kinda cool for a second.
Oh I was totally with the town on the beach issue too. Especially because if provided such great entertainment when the Daily Show Genine Gurafalo storm the beach with a bunch of homeless people from nyc. TV at its best.
But that doesnt mean its unreasonable for the town government to try to keep the database private. As many people have already noted, photos as good or better through commercial satelites are easily available. This implies to me that the town is protecting the data not because of the photos, but because it has a great deal of other information (property assesments, planned zoning).
Greenwich isnt your normal town. The residents are extraordinarily powerful and extremely intent on maintaining their privacy. If the town doesnt at least try to protect data, the release of which would piss off many residents, then the officials will definitely be held responsible in november.
This is the same town that went to the supreme court to defend the beaches against non-resident use.
The whole point of the second world war was to remove possible competition from Anglo-Saxon hegemony over the British Empire.
This theory nicely fits into marxist dogma, but really doesnt hold water. You could argue that the Germans started WWII in order to replace British-U.S. hegemony with their own, but to say that the Allies fought the war to remove competition is utterly absurd. Germany wasnt attacking British or French colonies, they were attacking Britain and France, trying to conquer them. The point of the war from the Allies perspective was purely self defense. The only other alternative was submission.
That it was purely a matter of self defense is further vindicated by France and Englands repeated efferts at appeasement in order to avoid wat.
No, waiting until 1942 to attack was certainly construed as diabolique by the paranoid Russians, however it took that long to build up the necesary resources. In 1940 the U.S. military was about half a million strong, how the hell is that supposed to turn into a second front overnight? That it only took two years is a testament to how quickly the Americans moved and how much they were trying to honor their committments to the russians.
No.
You are so right about the light and giving away one's position during combat...
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Wow! Wouldnt it be cool if in the future some way were invented so that soldiers could see in the dark? Kind of far fetch I know, but it would be really neat.
actually the ghost was refering quite specificly to the human brain cells that kept and used in their cyborg bodies. The movie centered around a debate as to weather this meant they
(A) Carried cells with them because of these legacy cells
(B)Had lost their souls/spirit by becoming cyborg
(C)Never actually had souls/spirits to begin with and were never more then just concious.
When put in conflict with a purely artificial intelligence that had desires/evolutionary impulses, an intrigueing philosophical discussion ensued.
Yes, there was a very deep plot well though out plot in this film; something most anime films probably arent very accustomed to.
Wolf was published by ID but put together by an independent developer (who had previously worked at ID) who licensed the engine and the Wolf Copyright.
Because stealing a BMW just wasnt worth it before.
Yeah, and no one ever bitched about the comments 4 or 5years ago.
I remember a time on slashdot when no one complained about the quality of comments. Then I woke up.
Your cpus are $23(x2) high.
A good case can be had for $90, so take off another $110.
Not all opteron boards require registered ecc memory, take off another $80.
Your system is $233 high. The comparison should be $1307 versus $1999.
This is clearly not the cheapest system as you have ecc registered ram and one can run the opterones with plain old dims. $40 for 256mb, not 120.
$200 for a case? You can get a perfectly good case for this system for $90.
You are using retail CPU's, OEM can be had for $307.
You price is $210 high. The correct comparison is $1330 versus $1999. Thats a huge difference.