Fascism: A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Socialism: A social system in which the means of producing and distributing goods are owned collectively and political power is exercised by the whole community.
Which one would you pick to describe Nazi ideology? Just because North Korea is officially named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, does that make it a democracy?
The story that I have always heard is that the record industry was under the impression that the music stores were either too stupid or too poor to ever replace the bins that records were sold out of. They made boxes long enough to sit in the bottom of a record bin and still be visible out of the top. I also heard that the kid who played Mikey in the Life commercials died from eating Pop Rocks and Tab, but that's another story.
Did you create that leisuretown.com thing? It is one of the most sarcastic things I've ever read. If you created it on company time, it's even better. If anyone has 30-45 minutes to waste like I did, go read it. -Barry
A few questions for any aerospace geeks that want to take a shot: How efficient and how safe would a plasma powered engine be inside of the atmosphere? They mentioned that this kind of rocket could be used to life satellites, so it apparently would work surrounded by air. Could this kind of rocket lift off from Florida and fly directly to Mars? Most of the Mars plans that I have read involve a craft built, or at least refueled, at the ISS (and I'm not holding my breath until that thing is fully functional).
Mr. Shoeboy, please tell us that the link in your post is fake. I didn't think there was anything left that could disturb me. "Dolphin males have a prehensile penis. They can wrap it around objects, and carry them as such." Wow. That's way more impressive than picking up a pen with your toes.
It's either lampreys or hagfish that bite a hole in larger fish, squiggle inside their guts and eat the live prey from the inside. That's the kind of gentle creature we really need to give cybernetic enhancements to.
Wall Street has expected this for a long time. I'm no stock guru, but I'd say that the ~35 point drop we saw in the last few months has a lot to do with people basically reacting to what happened today (if that makes sense). If MS wins an appeal, I would expect to see the stock price bounce right back to where it was.
With the mulitple character classes, the quest based episodes, and the addition of skills, I certainly think it earns the 2.0 distinction.
The minute to minute gameplay is virtually identical thought (walk around, click on the bad guys, look for loot).
How many people complained that Doom 2 wasn't different enough from Doom 1?
"It's just the same old Malibu Stacy with a new hat." "But she has a new hat!"
-B
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My roomates and I pay less than $1000/month for a 3 bedroom house 4 blocks away from the Governor's mansion in Indianapolis. We have a huge screened porch that you just couldn't get with an apartment, and we love it. There is a service in town called HomeExchange (which I can't find on the web), where you pay $60 for three months of day by day updates on all the rental homes in the city. It was a thousand times more convenient than searching through the paper and there are some rental agencies that have exclusive arangements with this listing service. If Indianapolis has a service like this, I'm sure tons of other places do too.
I read a great paper a while ago (I have absolutely no source for this and I apologize) about how as our society becomes more technology focused, people's delusions become technology focused. For the last 2000 years when people heard voices in their heads, they assumed it was God (Joan of Arc). Today, people hear voices in their heads and assume that they are coming from network television sattelites and subsequntly beat the snot out of news anchors to find out the frequncy (made famous by the REM song). Just think, 25 years ago men with certain personal "shortcomings" owned V8 big blocks. Today they have 2 ounce cell phones.
Just because someone wrote a paper 13 years ago and people have spent the time since then implementing it in the real world and then going on to improve it, doesn't make it stagnant technology. In 1890, what if people said "Alexander Graham Bell wrote that paper on the telephone 13 years ago, it's stagnant technology"? Here it is, 125 years after those initial papers and a lab still bearing Bell's name is doing cutting edge R&D in the same field. The goal is supposed to be that you learn something from one idea, and use that knowledge to pose questions that the initial person could never dream of (like fiber optics and cell phones). People who claim that anything besides punch card storage is "stagnant" don't have a good enough imagination.
How many times have we seen companies offer a standard version as well as a "gold edition"? If Excite@Home was intentionally slowing the connections to sites belonging to competitors of their clients, then we would raise a stink. A while ago, I know that somebody (Cisco?) was mentioning this in marketing materials so it is quite possible.
Also something you have to look at is the line "Excite@Home lost $1.5 billion on sales of $337 million." Those are some hefty losses, even for a tech company. They have to make money somehow.
I want to write a heartfelt thank you to the person that moderated my above post as "flamebait". You have a great career ahead of you as a Supreme Court judge or NBA referee.
Napster can make rules like that because they have the right to say how their computers are used. The MPAA shouldn't be able to tell me how to use the DVD that I own. Apples and Oranges.
My great uncle worked on the Manhattan project and I asked him about the "igniting the Earth's atmosphere" thing. He told me that it was actually a joke where the older scientists (who were about 30) would stand near the younger guys and talk about how they thought the chain reaction might spread to the atmosphere and blow up the planet. Later on, the younger scientists told reporters about it, not realizing they were being screwed with.
I will absolutely agree with you that Asian Man is an all around better label than Virgin. The point I was going for is that downloading a Johnny Socko mp3 is every bit as illegal as downloading a Metallica or Britney Spears song. That is Johnny Socko/Asian Man's intellectual property and you are using it without permision. If you want the mp3s that the band wants you to have, go to the web site, they're giving away 4 song clips off the new album along with some older stuff and one whole live show. If you want to use Napster to get free music, go ahead (I know I do). Just don't use the justification that it's ok to do it for small bands because they're not available at Wal-Mart.
Kids that age (11-13) enjoy getting things done and seeing things they created. If you can sneak some learning in there, that's a bonus. If little Billy can sit down at the computer and 15 minutes later have a compiled program that does something cool, he'll probably stick with it. If he spends 45 minutes getting compile errors, he'll probably walk right back to the Dreamcast. I think VB would be a great way to start a kid down the road to geekdom.
Johnny Socko is hardly an unsigned band. They have one album available from cdnow.com and their new one is sold on www.johnnysocko.com. They are definatly on the lowest popularity rung of bands traded on Napster, and they're a "regional" midwest band with a real record contract. Lars' figure of one unsigned band may be made up, but I don't think anyone could say with a straight face that legal trading of unsigned bands using Napster for publicity makes up anywhere close to 0.01% of all Napster trades.
Those numbers compare with an overall sales growth of about 20 percent across the music retailing industry.
The retail music industry is growing by 20% and they're bitching about a 4% decline in small towns where people buy music online. These corporations are making more money then they ever have in the past and suing small companies because they "should" be making more. They sound like spoiled children.
Bono probably couldn't give music away cheaper or free if he wanted. The record companies wouldn't stand for it. I seem to remember that the Beastie Boys and/or Tom Petty tried offering free mp3s on their web sites, which were quickly yanked by the labels. Fugazi makes sure that all of their CDs are available for 8 or 9 bucks, but they have been doing that for years outside of the mainstream system, thus removing them from any chance of radio play or mainstream popularity.
I just can't imagine that a lot of reserchers at an "Artificial Intelligance division at a U.S. National Research Lab" would choose the login name "1337d00d".
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Fascism: A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Socialism: A social system in which the means of producing and distributing goods are owned collectively and political power is exercised by the whole community.
Which one would you pick to describe Nazi ideology? Just because North Korea is officially named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, does that make it a democracy?
-B
Nice try, dumbshit. Hitler was a fascist, not a socialist.
-B
The story that I have always heard is that the record industry was under the impression that the music stores were either too stupid or too poor to ever replace the bins that records were sold out of. They made boxes long enough to sit in the bottom of a record bin and still be visible out of the top. I also heard that the kid who played Mikey in the Life commercials died from eating Pop Rocks and Tab, but that's another story.
-B
People open the software box, take out the CD, and just steal that. Old, old, trick.
-B
Did you create that leisuretown.com thing? It is one of the most sarcastic things I've ever read. If you created it on company time, it's even better.
If anyone has 30-45 minutes to waste like I did, go read it.
-Barry
A few questions for any aerospace geeks that want to take a shot: How efficient and how safe would a plasma powered engine be inside of the atmosphere? They mentioned that this kind of rocket could be used to life satellites, so it apparently would work surrounded by air. Could this kind of rocket lift off from Florida and fly directly to Mars? Most of the Mars plans that I have read involve a craft built, or at least refueled, at the ISS (and I'm not holding my breath until that thing is fully functional).
-B
Mr. Shoeboy, please tell us that the link in your post is fake. I didn't think there was anything left that could disturb me. "Dolphin males have a prehensile penis. They can wrap it around objects, and carry them as such." Wow. That's way more impressive than picking up a pen with your toes.
-B
It's either lampreys or hagfish that bite a hole in larger fish, squiggle inside their guts and eat the live prey from the inside. That's the kind of gentle creature we really need to give cybernetic enhancements to.
-B
Wall Street has expected this for a long time. I'm no stock guru, but I'd say that the ~35 point drop we saw in the last few months has a lot to do with people basically reacting to what happened today (if that makes sense). If MS wins an appeal, I would expect to see the stock price bounce right back to where it was.
-B
Contempt of court, jail time, billion dollar fines...little things like that.
-B
With the mulitple character classes, the quest based episodes, and the addition of skills, I certainly think it earns the 2.0 distinction.
The minute to minute gameplay is virtually identical thought (walk around, click on the bad guys, look for loot).
How many people complained that Doom 2 wasn't different enough from Doom 1?
"It's just the same old Malibu Stacy with a new hat."
"But she has a new hat!"
-B
My roomates and I pay less than $1000/month for a 3 bedroom house 4 blocks away from the Governor's mansion in Indianapolis. We have a huge screened porch that you just couldn't get with an apartment, and we love it.
There is a service in town called HomeExchange (which I can't find on the web), where you pay $60 for three months of day by day updates on all the rental homes in the city. It was a thousand times more convenient than searching through the paper and there are some rental agencies that have exclusive arangements with this listing service. If Indianapolis has a service like this, I'm sure tons of other places do too.
-B
I read a great paper a while ago (I have absolutely no source for this and I apologize) about how as our society becomes more technology focused, people's delusions become technology focused. For the last 2000 years when people heard voices in their heads, they assumed it was God (Joan of Arc). Today, people hear voices in their heads and assume that they are coming from network television sattelites and subsequntly beat the snot out of news anchors to find out the frequncy (made famous by the REM song).
Just think, 25 years ago men with certain personal "shortcomings" owned V8 big blocks. Today they have 2 ounce cell phones.
-B
Just because someone wrote a paper 13 years ago and people have spent the time since then implementing it in the real world and then going on to improve it, doesn't make it stagnant technology. In 1890, what if people said "Alexander Graham Bell wrote that paper on the telephone 13 years ago, it's stagnant technology"? Here it is, 125 years after those initial papers and a lab still bearing Bell's name is doing cutting edge R&D in the same field. The goal is supposed to be that you learn something from one idea, and use that knowledge to pose questions that the initial person could never dream of (like fiber optics and cell phones). People who claim that anything besides punch card storage is "stagnant" don't have a good enough imagination.
-B
How many times have we seen companies offer a standard version as well as a "gold edition"? If Excite@Home was intentionally slowing the connections to sites belonging to competitors of their clients, then we would raise a stink. A while ago, I know that somebody (Cisco?) was mentioning this in marketing materials so it is quite possible.
Also something you have to look at is the line "Excite@Home lost $1.5 billion on sales of $337 million." Those are some hefty losses, even for a tech company. They have to make money somehow.
-B
I want to write a heartfelt thank you to the person that moderated my above post as "flamebait". You have a great career ahead of you as a Supreme Court judge or NBA referee.
-B
I love Bastard! There are three tapes available and you should be able to find a couple of them at your local Blockbuster.
-B
Napster can make rules like that because they have the right to say how their computers are used. The MPAA shouldn't be able to tell me how to use the DVD that I own. Apples and Oranges.
-B
My great uncle worked on the Manhattan project and I asked him about the "igniting the Earth's atmosphere" thing. He told me that it was actually a joke where the older scientists (who were about 30) would stand near the younger guys and talk about how they thought the chain reaction might spread to the atmosphere and blow up the planet. Later on, the younger scientists told reporters about it, not realizing they were being screwed with.
-B
I will absolutely agree with you that Asian Man is an all around better label than Virgin. The point I was going for is that downloading a Johnny Socko mp3 is every bit as illegal as downloading a Metallica or Britney Spears song. That is Johnny Socko/Asian Man's intellectual property and you are using it without permision. If you want the mp3s that the band wants you to have, go to the web site, they're giving away 4 song clips off the new album along with some older stuff and one whole live show. If you want to use Napster to get free music, go ahead (I know I do). Just don't use the justification that it's ok to do it for small bands because they're not available at Wal-Mart.
-B
Kids that age (11-13) enjoy getting things done and seeing things they created. If you can sneak some learning in there, that's a bonus. If little Billy can sit down at the computer and 15 minutes later have a compiled program that does something cool, he'll probably stick with it. If he spends 45 minutes getting compile errors, he'll probably walk right back to the Dreamcast. I think VB would be a great way to start a kid down the road to geekdom.
-B
Johnny Socko is hardly an unsigned band. They have one album available from cdnow.com and their new one is sold on www.johnnysocko.com. They are definatly on the lowest popularity rung of bands traded on Napster, and they're a "regional" midwest band with a real record contract.
Lars' figure of one unsigned band may be made up, but I don't think anyone could say with a straight face that legal trading of unsigned bands using Napster for publicity makes up anywhere close to 0.01% of all Napster trades.
-B
This is the paragraph that I like:
Those numbers compare with an overall sales growth of about 20 percent across the music retailing industry.
The retail music industry is growing by 20% and they're bitching about a 4% decline in small towns where people buy music online. These corporations are making more money then they ever have in the past and suing small companies because they "should" be making more. They sound like spoiled children.
-B
Bono probably couldn't give music away cheaper or free if he wanted. The record companies wouldn't stand for it. I seem to remember that the Beastie Boys and/or Tom Petty tried offering free mp3s on their web sites, which were quickly yanked by the labels. Fugazi makes sure that all of their CDs are available for 8 or 9 bucks, but they have been doing that for years outside of the mainstream system, thus removing them from any chance of radio play or mainstream popularity.
-B
I just can't imagine that a lot of reserchers at an "Artificial Intelligance division at a U.S. National Research Lab" would choose the login name "1337d00d".
-B