The problem on IRC isn't places like #lesbians, #bichristianteennecrophilicsexwithanimals, or any such places. The problems are in the rooms like #!!!!!!!!!Pr0n-15year-girls-YOUR-AGE!. There are bazillions of channels along this vein, and those are just the ones set -s! When you're a 12-year-old boy, you don't want to stare at models and such that are over twice your own age; you want to know what the girl that sits in front of you in homeroom looks like naked. Pedophiles know that, and won't hesitate to exploit youthful curiousity to obtain new victims. After all, they just happen to have this nice collection of "boys and girls your age"...
And what happens in 2 years, when no one is buying the game anymore but you still have 2 million players? What about 5 years? I guess you could make the money by releasing expansion packs, but I don't think that could cover the whole cost...
Just FYI: Christian Scientists (not to be confused with creation "scientists") are not and have never been against medical research. They merely believe that *they* don't need it once they truly understand Jesus's teachings as interpreted by Mary Baker Eddy.
Like most religions, a few fanatics have given the entire group a bad reputation. The ones who let their children die because they won't take them to the ER are the exception, not the rule. Most have no problem reconciling the real world with their beliefs. They ask a practioner to pray for them and go to the doctor when they're sick.
They used to show channel 1 at my jr. high during homeroom. No one ever watched it. Usually we'd gripe at the teacher to turn the volume down so that we could actually get some work done.
While I can appreciate the geek factor here, I think you'd be nuts to roll your own systems here. It will eat up loads of your time, overall costing your company more than it would to just pay more for each system. And I'm not just talking build time. When (not if) one of the systems go kerput, you'll end up diagnosing it yourself, RMAing the defective component, replacing it yourself, testing, reloading OS (if needed), etc etc. Compare to getting a Dell or something, where you determine software or hardware. If hardware, it's under warranty, you don't have to so much as crack the case open. Saves a lot of time and therefore cash.
Even if they cost a little more, I think you'll find yourself grateful for a warranty to fall back on. Plus, when machines go boom, you aren't instantly blamed. If you roll your own, any system that crashes will be pinned on YOU, and you alone.
I know that's not a situation that I'd like to be in. Would you?
Actually, it's more like a guy that lives down the street coming over, saying that you've already agreed to allow him to search your place, finding your friend with some weed on him, billing you the cost for the weed, plus the penalty fine, then carting your friend away in the back of his pickup.
Hell, if enough people begin to misuse the BSA in this way, maybe Bush will declare war on it.
Then we'll have the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, the War on Terrah, and the War on the BSA. By association, I'm sure we could declare Microsoft and all the other BSA supporters an Axis of E-vill.
Of course, it'd probably have about as much effect as the other War On x concepts do...
If we could harness lightning in the first place, we wouldn't need the balloons at all. Let us know when you've got a way; everyone elses's batteries have exploded.
Speaking of encrypted e-mail, I noticed something odd a while back. When I sent a PGP encrypted e-mail, it frequently took up to an hour for it to get where it was going. Regular messages moved at regular speed. GPG-encrypted messages moved at regular speed. I even tested this by sending three messages from one of my accounts to another, all at the same time. I had the plaintext and GPG one within seconds; the PGP one arrived 45 minutes later. Maybe Mediacom's got a carnivore on it or something, or maybe it's just some kind of weird fluke (it stopped happening about a month ago). This kind of stuff makes me wonder, though, whether someone in a suit is going to knock on my door and start asking me pointed questions about my political stances, just because I enjoy using PGP...
Isn't the whole point of the USA the fact that I shouldn't HAVE to worry about stuff like that?
Any Discworld book. Except maybe The Last Hero... it's short and has a lot of action, that one might make a decent 2-hour movie.
Hyperion and its sequels. There's almost no way one could make a movie out of the first book. A mini-series, maybe. Endymion and Rise of Endymion are more narrative, maybe you could squeeze the plot there down to 6 hours, but without all the background from Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, the Endymion story isn't nearly as powerful or effective.
Awesome visuals, though, like the sunset and storm on the gas giant... and I'd love to see a treeship.
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The problem on IRC isn't places like #lesbians, #bichristianteennecrophilicsexwithanimals, or any such places. The problems are in the rooms like #!!!!!!!!!Pr0n-15year-girls-YOUR-AGE!. There are bazillions of channels along this vein, and those are just the ones set -s! When you're a 12-year-old boy, you don't want to stare at models and such that are over twice your own age; you want to know what the girl that sits in front of you in homeroom looks like naked. Pedophiles know that, and won't hesitate to exploit youthful curiousity to obtain new victims. After all, they just happen to have this nice collection of "boys and girls your age"...
An interesting point. Most of the public restrooms I've been in, though, don't even have the damn things.
Where do you get that? Last I knew the speed of light was very approximately 669,600,000mph.
+1: ZING!
MPAA != government? You sure? Sure seems that way sometimes.
Another +1: ZING!
And what happens in 2 years, when no one is buying the game anymore but you still have 2 million players? What about 5 years? I guess you could make the money by releasing expansion packs, but I don't think that could cover the whole cost...
Just FYI: Christian Scientists (not to be confused with creation "scientists") are not and have never been against medical research. They merely believe that *they* don't need it once they truly understand Jesus's teachings as interpreted by Mary Baker Eddy.
Like most religions, a few fanatics have given the entire group a bad reputation. The ones who let their children die because they won't take them to the ER are the exception, not the rule. Most have no problem reconciling the real world with their beliefs. They ask a practioner to pray for them and go to the doctor when they're sick.
They used to show channel 1 at my jr. high during homeroom. No one ever watched it. Usually we'd gripe at the teacher to turn the volume down so that we could actually get some work done.
I don't think I've EVER seen such a unanimous outcry from the Slashdot crowd. NO NEW LAW!
While I can appreciate the geek factor here, I think you'd be nuts to roll your own systems here. It will eat up loads of your time, overall costing your company more than it would to just pay more for each system. And I'm not just talking build time. When (not if) one of the systems go kerput, you'll end up diagnosing it yourself, RMAing the defective component, replacing it yourself, testing, reloading OS (if needed), etc etc. Compare to getting a Dell or something, where you determine software or hardware. If hardware, it's under warranty, you don't have to so much as crack the case open. Saves a lot of time and therefore cash.
Even if they cost a little more, I think you'll find yourself grateful for a warranty to fall back on. Plus, when machines go boom, you aren't instantly blamed. If you roll your own, any system that crashes will be pinned on YOU, and you alone.
I know that's not a situation that I'd like to be in. Would you?
Actually, it's more like a guy that lives down the street coming over, saying that you've already agreed to allow him to search your place, finding your friend with some weed on him, billing you the cost for the weed, plus the penalty fine, then carting your friend away in the back of his pickup.
Hell, if enough people begin to misuse the BSA in this way, maybe Bush will declare war on it.
Then we'll have the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, the War on Terrah, and the War on the BSA. By association, I'm sure we could declare Microsoft and all the other BSA supporters an Axis of E-vill.
Of course, it'd probably have about as much effect as the other War On x concepts do...
If we could harness lightning in the first place, we wouldn't need the balloons at all. Let us know when you've got a way; everyone elses's batteries have exploded.
Speaking of encrypted e-mail, I noticed something odd a while back. When I sent a PGP encrypted e-mail, it frequently took up to an hour for it to get where it was going. Regular messages moved at regular speed. GPG-encrypted messages moved at regular speed. I even tested this by sending three messages from one of my accounts to another, all at the same time. I had the plaintext and GPG one within seconds; the PGP one arrived 45 minutes later. Maybe Mediacom's got a carnivore on it or something, or maybe it's just some kind of weird fluke (it stopped happening about a month ago). This kind of stuff makes me wonder, though, whether someone in a suit is going to knock on my door and start asking me pointed questions about my political stances, just because I enjoy using PGP...
Isn't the whole point of the USA the fact that I shouldn't HAVE to worry about stuff like that?
Enjoy that while you can. If the SSSCA/CBDwhatever get passed, you can forget about it.
I've written my letters. Have you?
"It was NOT my client's fault! He suffers from a well-known disorder called Chronic Automotive Kleptomania."
The Quantum Weather butterfly.
"Hey, baby! I may be a small, yellow butterfly gently flapping its wings, but a thousand miles away, Freak Gales Cause Road Chaos!"
Works fine here. IE6 & Win2k w/all updates.
Works fine with Mozilla, too, under Windows & Linux.
Without porn ... women would sleep around alot more often.
I'm with you, buddy. Down with porn!!
Any Discworld book. Except maybe The Last Hero... it's short and has a lot of action, that one might make a decent 2-hour movie.
Hyperion and its sequels. There's almost no way one could make a movie out of the first book. A mini-series, maybe. Endymion and Rise of Endymion are more narrative, maybe you could squeeze the plot there down to 6 hours, but without all the background from Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, the Endymion story isn't nearly as powerful or effective.
Awesome visuals, though, like the sunset and storm on the gas giant... and I'd love to see a treeship.
See what I mean? They really do need to make that a valid mod...
"1 - 3 grams of solder should be enough, but it's always best to buy excessive amount just to cover yourself."
Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't covering yourself with solder hurt like hell?
Another +1(ZING). They should really add that as a moderation option.
or implement these solutions ourselves and protect our liberties
For as long as it's legal to do so.