They definitely strengthen your arms and wrists. At first I couldn't do one for more than a minute. Then eventually I could do one for 8 hours straight on a road trip from Pittsburgh to Virginia Beach to meet my girlfriend back in the day.
I've been concerned Microsoft already has back doors into computers already with the whole warrant-less wiretapping in the US. Maybe AUS will force MS and Apple into compliance and force backdoors onto computers. Then as governments are known to do lately, just adopt a law that is 'working' in another nation. They don't try this stuff as much in the US first anymore because we had massive public backlash against SOPA/PIPA. Maybe its time for the people AUS to stand up now. I always think it is a beautiful thing when the people stand up against bad laws and stop them.
My friend and I invented a card game called Area 52. It is played like war, but if you have a lower card than your opponent, you can throw one additional card to win. And if you win, they can throw one additional card to win all 4 cards. Now if a war happens, you put two cards down. Then you play rock-paper-scissor for the cards. If there is a tie, each side puts down another 2 cards. If you are forced to play cards and have none, you lose. Or if you end up running out of cards, you lose.
The game actually has strategies, unlike war(thinking what cards come next, and getting a proper composition of high cards in your deck, or getting a lot of low cards so your aces are hidden). It has the problem that it lasts about as long as war, but the Roshambo gets really in depth. I considered making a Flash game about this.
Match.com I had a mixed experience. I actually met one cool girl off it, and we're AIM friends now, but I don't want to pursue it past friends. But there are countless of scammers on match.com and many free sites that aren't pof.com. I had a person have the audacity to give me the long scam. I was on guard vs her though because she lit up to me way to fast, all calling me pet names early. Then finally after days she said she needed money wired to her in the U.K. to get home to the US. I told her,"That's not going to happen, we haven't even met yet." And that was the end of a long scam.
Also many of those mail order brides and stuff, they just want to get in the US and divorce you later. I know someone who fell for it in my family. Philippines women looking for a ticket to the states should just be avoided like any other scammer. This should be pretty obvious to most of you.
I emailed ChristianMingle.com telling them that they're basically running an unethical dating website. The way it should work is if a paying subscriber messages someone, the recipient(Who may or may not have a subscription) should be able to message back as much as they want. I use POF.com now because ChristianMingle.com never has anyone reply. I know I'd get people replying to me too if they paid because they send the,"I can't reply in text, here have a free flirt back."
At the very least there should be a 1$ option,"Allow this person to respond to me if they don't have a subscription."
It isn't that I'm cheap that I use POF.com. It is that 95%(or more) of people can't reply on paid sites. It is beyond me how the paid places feel they're running an honest business when it is all deception to make it seem like there are more people to reply to you than there really are.
You could totally see the Secretary of the Treasury going down to the vending machine having done an all nighter to buy a candy bar. He ends up depositing six trillion dollar coins and all he gets is a Hundred Grand in return.
I fondly remember a simple c64 program I wrote that is the equivalent of giving your computer acid.
Bear with me, this pseudo code is rough since its been over 20 years.
10 i=0;
20 randomize timer
30 a=Random 1 to maximum first poke value.
40 b=Random 1 to maximum second poke value.
50 Poke a,b
60 Print i
70 Goto 10
Screen would split in sections sometimes, letters would melt, sounds would come out of the speakers, sometimes stuff printed.
Even if you supplied the random seed, you got different effects because some of the pokes hit the timer, etc.
There's no way you could do something like this on a modern computer because it'd most definitely write over some system files. Maybe in an emulation window if you're brave.
Just allow people to downvote them in addition to upvoting them. Then even controversial proposals will not show up with a ton of upvotes and 0 downvotes.
Makes a lot of sense when you put it that way. We should consider ourselves lucky Zynga didn't hire assassins to abduct and hold our real pets for ransom. Zynga and EA are just scummy to the core. I don't put anything past them.
Competent programming teams will look at MS word on your resume and go,"If this guy thinks Office is something special, he must not know a lot."
Corporate HR on the other hand might have struggled to learn MS Office as it is one of the few applications they ever used. They think putting MS Office on a resume is a badge of honor. So if you don't put MS Word on your resume in some corporate places, they think you're not cut out for the job."What this guy doesn't know Office? He must not know much."
This has bugged me for many years as I have a hard time getting interviews. If someone is a programmer, it should be assumed they know how to use most every piece of software they come into contact with. Yet, a lot of HR departments don't get it. It is hard to tell who is competent and who isn't, so the question you ask is,"Do I put the Microsoft Office on my resume?" I've come to the conclusion,"I don't want to be hired by an incompetent organization, so I'll just leave the Microsoft Office off my resume."
Some places are even worse. If you're in the back seat sleeping, they can get you for drunk driving. I've heard if you need to sleep, what you need to do is put your keys on top your back tire.
We were just talking about how people can get drunk driving fines if they're riding a horse, or driving a garden tractor too. For a while I thought it was a fool proof way to get home if you're drunk to take a horse because it can find its way home. But alas people told me it doesn't work. I wonder what happens if the horse gets drunk though, and the rider is sober. Could you get a ticket then?
As a gamer who's been around since the 2600 too, I agree this is one of the best games ever made. The war moments you have in it are just priceless. You can shoot down air with a tank if you have a lucky shot. You can strap c4 to a quad runner, and hit boost on the quad then jump off, so it goes flying into a tank and kills the tank. You can jump out of a plane, but die on impact. Yet if you have jet packs, you can jump out of a plane, but boost so you don't die. Then you're fighting behind enemy territory trying to sneak your way out to safety. There's fun to be had as a vehicle, as a plane, or as infantry. There's so much this game has to offer. I laugh at anyone who trashes this game because they obviously haven't been playing video games long enough to see a real development of games, and this one is at a peak of what we have so far. Sure there isn't much past shoot em up and base capture, but its still really fun just doing that.
Finally freemium games are the way of the future: Try the game for free, if you like it, give the developer a couple bucks for what you think the game is worth. This game is not pay2win. You can get anything in the game with a bit of leveling.
This game is really fun. It is what I imagined games would eventually be when first playing Quake multiplayer back at university: Planes/Vehicles/infantry conquering bases.
It is the biggest fray of people to play against in any FPS.
It is free to play and everything that has power can be gotten without paying a dime.
I paid 20$ because I like freemium models and want to see them succeed.
My favorite thing to do is drive a tank around and kill hapless infantry from afar. My favorite tank is the Vanguard from New Conglomerate because it hits hard and has good armor. The Magrider in Vanu is more maneuverable, but it doesn't hit as hard. I go by superior aim hitting every hit and winning one on one battles with tanks with my vanguard.
The game is really fun, but there's no ultimate point to capturing bases other than certs. Some people think the devs have a big plan to make a bigger point to conquering things, but even if they don't the game is really fun. AND ITS FREE! So if you have a computer that can run modern games(within 4 years old), go to planetside2.com and install it to try it.
The company was a security firm for phishing. They said they sent phishing emails to clients to see if the employees fell for it.
I said,"That's a great way to find business. Spam the world with phishing emails, and people who fall for it, you tell them they need your product.". He laughed and said,"That's like if we did mechanic work and went out and wrecked into people's cars and told them.we could fix it". I think it is different. I think it is more like finding people susceptible to an illness and offering inoculations.
Too bad you can't vote with your money when there is a monopoly/oligopoly. I remember Comcast suing the government for competing in certain areas. Why isn't UPS and Fedex suing the Post Office?
Alternative title: Cox acting like a bunch of dicks.
I am not so sure hyperdemocracy would fail. It would have unexpected problems. To combat the problem at hand: They just need a way for other people to downvote things on petitions. Sure a Death star gets 25k upvotes, but how many downvotes would it get? I'm sure many more.
My theory is for a hyperdemocracy with a representative government like we have. The representative government doesn't even have to listen to the hyperdemocracy crowd and go their own way, but they still need to get elected... If a website went hyperdemocracy now and got big, it would influence things by educating voters and giving information to the elected officials on what the people want, not necessarily what the people who pay their campaign contributions want.
I think hackers have more to fear from the mafia underground than legal authorities. If you get caught by the federalies, they'll put you in prison for a few years, and you can rethink your criminal ways. However... if you start looking for profit with your data breeches, and you start looking into money mule networks then the mafia and seedy underground isn't very far away. What if that breech at the door isn't the feds, but some mafiaa goons who tell you to keep doing what you're doing, but they'll protect you for the cool price of all your profits. People who look to get into a life of crime may find it.
It is only a matter of time before a crime syndicate forms over all these careless hackers. They could recruit spammers, and hackers could be used to find more hackers...
People need to look to the end game: When only a few men in the world control all the world's production through automation, and no one else has jobs... What then?
If we can figure out how to solve that, we can figure out what we should be doing during the transition period approaching it(aka now).
Slashdot Mirror
Step1: Eject Disk
Step2: Insert Beef Patty
Step3: Wait for red ring of perfection.
Leave North Korea if you can. It is very, very strange.
FTFY
I'm sure it'd be easy to get a couple million signatures on something controversial. Why not enable negative signatures?
They definitely strengthen your arms and wrists. At first I couldn't do one for more than a minute. Then eventually I could do one for 8 hours straight on a road trip from Pittsburgh to Virginia Beach to meet my girlfriend back in the day.
I've been concerned Microsoft already has back doors into computers already with the whole warrant-less wiretapping in the US. Maybe AUS will force MS and Apple into compliance and force backdoors onto computers. Then as governments are known to do lately, just adopt a law that is 'working' in another nation. They don't try this stuff as much in the US first anymore because we had massive public backlash against SOPA/PIPA. Maybe its time for the people AUS to stand up now. I always think it is a beautiful thing when the people stand up against bad laws and stop them.
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My friend and I invented a card game called Area 52. It is played like war, but if you have a lower card than your opponent, you can throw one additional card to win. And if you win, they can throw one additional card to win all 4 cards. Now if a war happens, you put two cards down. Then you play rock-paper-scissor for the cards. If there is a tie, each side puts down another 2 cards. If you are forced to play cards and have none, you lose. Or if you end up running out of cards, you lose.
The game actually has strategies, unlike war(thinking what cards come next, and getting a proper composition of high cards in your deck, or getting a lot of low cards so your aces are hidden). It has the problem that it lasts about as long as war, but the Roshambo gets really in depth. I considered making a Flash game about this.
Match.com I had a mixed experience. I actually met one cool girl off it, and we're AIM friends now, but I don't want to pursue it past friends. But there are countless of scammers on match.com and many free sites that aren't pof.com. I had a person have the audacity to give me the long scam. I was on guard vs her though because she lit up to me way to fast, all calling me pet names early. Then finally after days she said she needed money wired to her in the U.K. to get home to the US. I told her,"That's not going to happen, we haven't even met yet." And that was the end of a long scam.
Also many of those mail order brides and stuff, they just want to get in the US and divorce you later. I know someone who fell for it in my family. Philippines women looking for a ticket to the states should just be avoided like any other scammer. This should be pretty obvious to most of you.
I emailed ChristianMingle.com telling them that they're basically running an unethical dating website. The way it should work is if a paying subscriber messages someone, the recipient(Who may or may not have a subscription) should be able to message back as much as they want. I use POF.com now because ChristianMingle.com never has anyone reply. I know I'd get people replying to me too if they paid because they send the,"I can't reply in text, here have a free flirt back."
At the very least there should be a 1$ option,"Allow this person to respond to me if they don't have a subscription."
It isn't that I'm cheap that I use POF.com. It is that 95%(or more) of people can't reply on paid sites. It is beyond me how the paid places feel they're running an honest business when it is all deception to make it seem like there are more people to reply to you than there really are.
You could totally see the Secretary of the Treasury going down to the vending machine having done an all nighter to buy a candy bar. He ends up depositing six trillion dollar coins and all he gets is a Hundred Grand in return.
65 i=i+1
I fondly remember a simple c64 program I wrote that is the equivalent of giving your computer acid.
Bear with me, this pseudo code is rough since its been over 20 years.
10 i=0;
20 randomize timer
30 a=Random 1 to maximum first poke value.
40 b=Random 1 to maximum second poke value.
50 Poke a,b
60 Print i
70 Goto 10
Screen would split in sections sometimes, letters would melt, sounds would come out of the speakers, sometimes stuff printed.
Even if you supplied the random seed, you got different effects because some of the pokes hit the timer, etc.
There's no way you could do something like this on a modern computer because it'd most definitely write over some system files. Maybe in an emulation window if you're brave.
Just allow people to downvote them in addition to upvoting them. Then even controversial proposals will not show up with a ton of upvotes and 0 downvotes.
Makes a lot of sense when you put it that way. We should consider ourselves lucky Zynga didn't hire assassins to abduct and hold our real pets for ransom. Zynga and EA are just scummy to the core. I don't put anything past them.
Competent programming teams will look at MS word on your resume and go,"If this guy thinks Office is something special, he must not know a lot."
Corporate HR on the other hand might have struggled to learn MS Office as it is one of the few applications they ever used. They think putting MS Office on a resume is a badge of honor. So if you don't put MS Word on your resume in some corporate places, they think you're not cut out for the job."What this guy doesn't know Office? He must not know much."
This has bugged me for many years as I have a hard time getting interviews. If someone is a programmer, it should be assumed they know how to use most every piece of software they come into contact with. Yet, a lot of HR departments don't get it. It is hard to tell who is competent and who isn't, so the question you ask is,"Do I put the Microsoft Office on my resume?" I've come to the conclusion,"I don't want to be hired by an incompetent organization, so I'll just leave the Microsoft Office off my resume."
Some places are even worse. If you're in the back seat sleeping, they can get you for drunk driving. I've heard if you need to sleep, what you need to do is put your keys on top your back tire.
We were just talking about how people can get drunk driving fines if they're riding a horse, or driving a garden tractor too. For a while I thought it was a fool proof way to get home if you're drunk to take a horse because it can find its way home. But alas people told me it doesn't work. I wonder what happens if the horse gets drunk though, and the rider is sober. Could you get a ticket then?
As a gamer who's been around since the 2600 too, I agree this is one of the best games ever made. The war moments you have in it are just priceless. You can shoot down air with a tank if you have a lucky shot. You can strap c4 to a quad runner, and hit boost on the quad then jump off, so it goes flying into a tank and kills the tank. You can jump out of a plane, but die on impact. Yet if you have jet packs, you can jump out of a plane, but boost so you don't die. Then you're fighting behind enemy territory trying to sneak your way out to safety. There's fun to be had as a vehicle, as a plane, or as infantry. There's so much this game has to offer. I laugh at anyone who trashes this game because they obviously haven't been playing video games long enough to see a real development of games, and this one is at a peak of what we have so far. Sure there isn't much past shoot em up and base capture, but its still really fun just doing that.
Finally freemium games are the way of the future: Try the game for free, if you like it, give the developer a couple bucks for what you think the game is worth. This game is not pay2win. You can get anything in the game with a bit of leveling.
This game is really fun. It is what I imagined games would eventually be when first playing Quake multiplayer back at university: Planes/Vehicles/infantry conquering bases.
It is the biggest fray of people to play against in any FPS.
It is free to play and everything that has power can be gotten without paying a dime.
I paid 20$ because I like freemium models and want to see them succeed.
My favorite thing to do is drive a tank around and kill hapless infantry from afar. My favorite tank is the Vanguard from New Conglomerate because it hits hard and has good armor. The Magrider in Vanu is more maneuverable, but it doesn't hit as hard. I go by superior aim hitting every hit and winning one on one battles with tanks with my vanguard.
The game is really fun, but there's no ultimate point to capturing bases other than certs. Some people think the devs have a big plan to make a bigger point to conquering things, but even if they don't the game is really fun. AND ITS FREE! So if you have a computer that can run modern games(within 4 years old), go to planetside2.com and install it to try it.
The company was a security firm for phishing. They said they sent phishing emails to clients to see if the employees fell for it.
I said,"That's a great way to find business. Spam the world with phishing emails, and people who fall for it, you tell them they need your product.". He laughed and said,"That's like if we did mechanic work and went out and wrecked into people's cars and told them.we could fix it". I think it is different. I think it is more like finding people susceptible to an illness and offering inoculations.
Too bad you can't vote with your money when there is a monopoly/oligopoly. I remember Comcast suing the government for competing in certain areas. Why isn't UPS and Fedex suing the Post Office?
Alternative title: Cox acting like a bunch of dicks.
I am not so sure hyperdemocracy would fail. It would have unexpected problems. To combat the problem at hand: They just need a way for other people to downvote things on petitions. Sure a Death star gets 25k upvotes, but how many downvotes would it get? I'm sure many more.
My theory is for a hyperdemocracy with a representative government like we have. The representative government doesn't even have to listen to the hyperdemocracy crowd and go their own way, but they still need to get elected... If a website went hyperdemocracy now and got big, it would influence things by educating voters and giving information to the elected officials on what the people want, not necessarily what the people who pay their campaign contributions want.
I think hackers have more to fear from the mafia underground than legal authorities. If you get caught by the federalies, they'll put you in prison for a few years, and you can rethink your criminal ways. However... if you start looking for profit with your data breeches, and you start looking into money mule networks then the mafia and seedy underground isn't very far away. What if that breech at the door isn't the feds, but some mafiaa goons who tell you to keep doing what you're doing, but they'll protect you for the cool price of all your profits. People who look to get into a life of crime may find it.
It is only a matter of time before a crime syndicate forms over all these careless hackers. They could recruit spammers, and hackers could be used to find more hackers...
People need to look to the end game: When only a few men in the world control all the world's production through automation, and no one else has jobs... What then?
If we can figure out how to solve that, we can figure out what we should be doing during the transition period approaching it(aka now).
I had a laptop in the 90s that liked to kill pixels all the time.