You need someone taller, more the amazon look, while keeping the beauty and grace. Examples: Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Garner would need to put on twenty pounds before she'd even be in the correct weight class to be considered "amazon". Gad, what it WITH people and their attachement to women who look like clothes hangers?
What, was GM supposed to hold a gun to [x]% of buyers' heads and force people to buy them?
Oh the irony of your statement.
1) "Irony" does not mean the same thing as "inaccuracy".
The EV-1's were never for sale (Only lease) in the first place, which was not at all related to the State of California's requirement.
2) GM began leasing the EV-1 in 1996 two years before the 2% sales mandate was to go into effect. The inadequacy of the EV-1 in this preliminary deployment was instrumental in getting the CARB to postpone the mandate until 2003. The EV-1 and its state-subsidized charging stations are integrally related to the 1990 CARB mandate.
Actually, it was that 3% of the fleet be Zero Emissions,
Incorrect. The initial 1990 mandate by CARB was 2% of cars manufactured for sale must be ZEVs by 1998, to climb to 10% by 2003. These requirements were postponed in 1998 till 2003, and were rescinded completely in 2002 after it became apparent that you cannot mandate an advance in battery technology through force of law.
Keep in mind, the automakers didn't HAVE to comply with the CARB mandate.
Yeah, and GM could switch to making bird feeders instead of cars to avoid the issue entirely. I didn't think it was necessary to spell out for everyone that the mandate wasn't "on pain of death", but "if you want to sell cars here". Apparently I should have spelled it out in small words.
Of course, nobody thinks about the millions of dollars spent in California to equip a electric-car refueling infrastructure (thank you GM, for forcing the ultra-expensive, and ultra-breakage prone magnacharge system on us) that nobody* will be using anymore.
What are you talking about? It wasn't GM forcing the issue it was the State of fucking California, specifically the California Air Resources Board, pushing through legislation mandating that manufacturers sell electric cars. From the very beginning auto manufacturers argued that the battery technology just wasn't there yet to make a decent all-electric vehicle. Not to mention the idiocy of passing a law requiring a certain percentage of sales be ZEV vehicles. What, was GM supposed to hold a gun to [x]% of buyers' heads and force people to buy them? Don't blame GM, blame the jackasses that run the state of California.
Well, the AMD64 (desktop) chips include their own memory controller, which is probably what you're thinking of. I do not know if the Turion does as well, however, if it's a "mobilization" of the desktop chip (or even if it's not), it would make sense.
It does contain the memory controller. There does not exist an AMD64 chip without one. It's an integral part of the design.
Substantial user interface design and testing went into the Tivo remote control, including many battles over which buttons to leave off
I wish they had picked a better place to put the "TV Power" button on the DirecTivo remotes. Putting it right by the "instant replay" button and making it the same size and shape is totally not funny.
You do it because you enjoy it. Hunting is a primal instinct in all carivores, and you are just getting the opiate buzz that your brain is producing to reward you for you behaviour that is favourable to passing on your genes. A lot of the time, humans try to kid themselves that we are superiour to the animals. Not so, we have exactly the same drives and goals as them.
Oh indeed, I most wholeheartedly agree. I just usually don't bother to point out that particular line of reasoning to handwringers because they inevitably go for the "but we can control our instincts" line of reasoning and it turns into an argument over whether it is better to deny our animal heritage or embrace it. Subsequently, I usually skip that and go right for the argument of "as descendents of those who killed the deer's natural predator (wolves), it is our responsibility to take their place and keep their population under control".
It takes a big man to kill a ferocious unsuspecting deer at 50 yards with a high powered rifle. At least admit you do it because you enjoy it, not because it is necessary for your survival or you are doing the world a 'favour' by thinning the herd.
You must have replied to the wrong message, because I can't say I hunt for the enjoyment of it, as I have never hunted. For a lot of people hunting isn't about being a "big man", or even necessarily enjoyable. My brother in law hunted as a teenager to help feed his parents and siblings. Despite what armchair environmentalists like you think, there are people out there who hunt out of necessity. As for your snide "doing the world a favor by thinning the herd" remark, I find your sanctimonious spin amusing. If it weren't for humans killing of the wolves, the deer would be thinned by natural predation. As the descendents of those who killed all the wolves, is it not our responsibility to (at the very least) do the work those wolves used to do? Or were the wolves also evil? Is the natural state of the deer population winter starvation, and all predator activity (be it human or canine) is "unnatural"?
The statements made by Rudolf Hoess and the Bush administration have some relevance to establishing whether the person who made them was a Nazi or not
Substantiate this assertion. Uttering the same words a Nazi once uttered is not proof that one is a Nazi, particularly when the Nazi was lying. In order to make the connection you'd have to 1) show that both the Nazi and the Dubya spokeshole were talking about comparable things, and 2) show that the Dubya man was lying.
"The entire plot centers around a magic box for gods sake."
hmm, I think you missed something. The scientist guy had figured out the math needed to factor large polynomials and thus break pretty much anybody's encryption.
The movie would have been pretty boring if the math had been on a peice of paper, and the plot would have been spoiled because they could have made a photocopy of it. So instead, he supposedly programmed it into a chip.
The movie wasn't about the chip, or the box it was in. The movie was about the math.
But no such math exists. It's typical fuckin' movie magic. It's as believeable as FLUBBER for gods sake. It's magic math in a box-- a magic box!
Though you've been modded down for the flamebait monger you are, and I know I shouldn't feed trolls, I feel compelled to address this idiocy. First, murder is a legal term, roughly defined as "the unlawful taking a human life". Now, since hunting animals is neither unlawful nor taking human life, you're an idiot (actually the correct conclusion is that it's not murder, but I like the idiot one better). Second, even if we ignore the misuse of the word murder and get to the premise of your position, i.e. that killing animals is a bad thing, this leads to other flaws in your position. Are coyotes "bad" for killing rabbits? Are house cats "bad" for killing birds? Humans hunt ungulates like deer and elk to keep their populations down. If we didn't, they'd overpopulate and starve to death in the winter. But I guess sensitive people like you would rather see hundreds of deer die of malnutrition and those that survive suffer the pain of hunger, rather than hunt enough of them to keep there numbers stable.
Well, the article is down so I am not sure what it actually looks like. But it seems to me there is absolutely no reason to make this device look like a dangerous weapon.
The really moronic thing is that the actual "business end" of this thing is contained within that white piece of PVC pipe at the front. The part that looks like a rifle (appears to be a folding stock for Mini-14) is literally bolted on behind it. These guys are clearly working the photo-op angle on this thing. Probably fishing for grants or contracts or whatever it is they think they can do for money by making it look sinister. If they were into pure functionality, a tripod mount like a telescope (with a small spotting scope on the side) would have been a better choice. Plus, you could probably sit on the roof of a building with a telescope all day wothout getting shot at even once.
Most people who hear this quote today assume it was uttered by a senior officer of the Bush administration. Instead, it comes from one of history's greatest mass murderers, Rudolf Hoess, the SS commandant at Auschwitz.
Dubya likes gooseberry pie. Nazis liked gooseberry pie. QED, Dubya is a Nazi.
You need to learn better debate technique, dumbass.
.or is anyone else getting tired of these Libraries of Congress or Volkswagen Beetles measurement jokes?
He's not joking, he's expressing disgust with the media's continuous habit of dumbing down units of measurement to the point where they're meaningless. It's irritating to those who actually know what a square millimeter and a bit are.
The 'mods', or tunes played (and still played to these days with cracking apps) while loading/starting a (cracked) game on the C64, produced some of the best electronic music I've ever heard.
Back in '89 I was part of the dev team for a truly lame game for the C64 called "Beyond The Black Hole" by The Software Toolworks. I recently went looking for it so I could reel in shame at the poor quality of my work. The only version I could find had the title sequence hacked and replaced with a music-and-light show splash screen from the warez group that cracked it. Not only was their music better, but the title screen showed better programming skill than the game itself! Best of all, my name (which was on the original splash screen) has been removed from that awful turd, for which I am forever grateful.
"But all in all, we fucked up a lot of companies with our deeds. I've met guys over the years that use to run Commodore based development firms and we'd get to talking about the good ol' days and they'd say everything was fine and then all of a sudden sales dropped."
Sorry man, your story just reeks of bullshit....
Now that you mention it, the only part of his story that sounds remotely plausible is this part:
"As such, I take an extreme view of electronic theft. As a programmer, I now see my applications stolen -- its karmic. I get in contact with these guys and trace them down and have my lawyer contact them with specific information about what they are doing to me and I leave it at that knowing full well I could have them jailed easily."
The rest sounds like the standard saccharin hyperbole guys like this spin off as "examples", when in fact they're just making shit up to justify their self righteous position. Like another poster noted, it's possible that it was HE who wrote that rental app and now blames "thieves" for his inability to create a marketable product. Yeah, sure guy, the reason that $200 rent calculator failed is because all those landlords pirated it, not because it was hardly more than a simple replacement for a paper ledger and calculator. That's right, you're a genius who's been kept down by dirty pirates. You know, it's for people like you that the following MMPI2 question was written: (true or false)
I would have been more successful if people didn't have it in for me
Nothing is funnier than a dork like that and his delusions of grandeur.
every email I get has a copy forwarded to a google gmail account. I also forward everything to an account on my server as well, but I like the gmail account because I can get at it anywhere.
Gods damn it, you ADD children with your IM and SMS vocabularies need to stop making up your own abbreviations when talking with regular people. Appropriate abbreviations for "million" are "mil" or "M". Saying "mln" is just ignorant.
The app sold for like $200 and was updated every few months for a small fee and if you were in the landlord game, it was actually pretty cheap all in all. This is ALL this guy did....
Turns out, within a few months of us putting out the crack, almost all sales dried up. He went bankrupt because he had only been doing this one thing because it looked like no one else was in the game
You know, I feel for the guy, but I don't think the story he decided to believe (i.e. I went bankrupt from software pirates) stands up to reason. Examine the situation rationally: How big a market could that be? Did sales dry up because of piracy, or because there were only X number of landlords who 1) had a C64, 2) wanted rental management software, and 3) were willing to fork over the princely sum of $200 for it? Even if were were to accept THAT premise, we would then have to accept the notion that these landlords were both socially "networked" to one another well enough, and morally flexible enough for a cracked copy of a program only they would be interested in to spread amongst them to such a degree that the piracy would truly eclipse legitimate sales. Remember, this was the 5.25" floppy days. "Regular" pirates mostly dealt in games because that's what they were willing to devote their meager bandwidth and storage resources to. It's not like today, where you can find warez d00dz trading weird shit like fluid dynamics analysis software because they got a fat pipe and a 200GB hard drive. No, back then you had to manually copy everything onto floppies, and I'd bet you dollars to donuts this loser's $200 rental app wasn't making the rounds on the BBS's or the copy parties.
Frankly, he probably went bankrupt because he wrote just the one program and sold it to all hundred fifty-odd people who wanted it. People overestimate the market for their products all the time. Blaming lack of interest in buying his overpriced app on piracy sounds like an unwillingness to admit he overestimated the size of what was obviously a very, very small niche market.
Griffin: Different mission. I liked BMW a lot more, but Toyota gets me back and forth.
Hall: I'd prefer if you drove a Ford.
Griffin: My latest car is an Oldsmobile.
A bit off topic with this, but this is one of the things that really drives me up the wall when it comes to congressrats. A fellow can't even make a simple analogy without the jackass congressman freaking out because it refers to foreign cars. In this case the pantywaist worm chairman felt it necessary to make sure everyone knew he was in favor of domestic cars, when the original comment wasn't even really about cars. Buncha' corporate bootlickers...
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Jennifer Garner would need to put on twenty pounds before she'd even be in the correct weight class to be considered "amazon". Gad, what it WITH people and their attachement to women who look like clothes hangers?
Oh the irony of your statement.
1) "Irony" does not mean the same thing as "inaccuracy".
The EV-1's were never for sale (Only lease) in the first place, which was not at all related to the State of California's requirement.
2) GM began leasing the EV-1 in 1996 two years before the 2% sales mandate was to go into effect. The inadequacy of the EV-1 in this preliminary deployment was instrumental in getting the CARB to postpone the mandate until 2003. The EV-1 and its state-subsidized charging stations are integrally related to the 1990 CARB mandate.
Incorrect. The initial 1990 mandate by CARB was 2% of cars manufactured for sale must be ZEVs by 1998, to climb to 10% by 2003. These requirements were postponed in 1998 till 2003, and were rescinded completely in 2002 after it became apparent that you cannot mandate an advance in battery technology through force of law.
Keep in mind, the automakers didn't HAVE to comply with the CARB mandate.
Yeah, and GM could switch to making bird feeders instead of cars to avoid the issue entirely. I didn't think it was necessary to spell out for everyone that the mandate wasn't "on pain of death", but "if you want to sell cars here". Apparently I should have spelled it out in small words.
What are you talking about? It wasn't GM forcing the issue it was the State of fucking California, specifically the California Air Resources Board, pushing through legislation mandating that manufacturers sell electric cars. From the very beginning auto manufacturers argued that the battery technology just wasn't there yet to make a decent all-electric vehicle. Not to mention the idiocy of passing a law requiring a certain percentage of sales be ZEV vehicles. What, was GM supposed to hold a gun to [x]% of buyers' heads and force people to buy them? Don't blame GM, blame the jackasses that run the state of California.
It does contain the memory controller. There does not exist an AMD64 chip without one. It's an integral part of the design.
I do the opposite. I miss what someone on TV says and when I go to press the "jump back" button I turn off the TV. Annoying as hell.
I wish they had picked a better place to put the "TV Power" button on the DirecTivo remotes. Putting it right by the "instant replay" button and making it the same size and shape is totally not funny.
GPL is copyright. You can't copyright a process.
Oh indeed, I most wholeheartedly agree. I just usually don't bother to point out that particular line of reasoning to handwringers because they inevitably go for the "but we can control our instincts" line of reasoning and it turns into an argument over whether it is better to deny our animal heritage or embrace it. Subsequently, I usually skip that and go right for the argument of "as descendents of those who killed the deer's natural predator (wolves), it is our responsibility to take their place and keep their population under control".
You must have replied to the wrong message, because I can't say I hunt for the enjoyment of it, as I have never hunted. For a lot of people hunting isn't about being a "big man", or even necessarily enjoyable. My brother in law hunted as a teenager to help feed his parents and siblings. Despite what armchair environmentalists like you think, there are people out there who hunt out of necessity. As for your snide "doing the world a favor by thinning the herd" remark, I find your sanctimonious spin amusing. If it weren't for humans killing of the wolves, the deer would be thinned by natural predation. As the descendents of those who killed all the wolves, is it not our responsibility to (at the very least) do the work those wolves used to do? Or were the wolves also evil? Is the natural state of the deer population winter starvation, and all predator activity (be it human or canine) is "unnatural"?
Substantiate this assertion. Uttering the same words a Nazi once uttered is not proof that one is a Nazi, particularly when the Nazi was lying. In order to make the connection you'd have to 1) show that both the Nazi and the Dubya spokeshole were talking about comparable things, and 2) show that the Dubya man was lying.
So does Pulp Fiction, but that doesn't make it a bad movie.
This is true. Pulp Fiction is a bad movie for other reasons.
hmm, I think you missed something. The scientist guy had figured out the math needed to factor large polynomials and thus break pretty much anybody's encryption. The movie would have been pretty boring if the math had been on a peice of paper, and the plot would have been spoiled because they could have made a photocopy of it. So instead, he supposedly programmed it into a chip. The movie wasn't about the chip, or the box it was in. The movie was about the math.
But no such math exists. It's typical fuckin' movie magic. It's as believeable as FLUBBER for gods sake. It's magic math in a box-- a magic box!
Ten thousand? Try 2 million.
Animals in general have been around a lot longer, so you need to consider that animals clearly can take care of themselves
We're animals too. Us hunting is as natural as a coyote hunting. We do not exist outside of nature. We are part of nature.
Though you've been modded down for the flamebait monger you are, and I know I shouldn't feed trolls, I feel compelled to address this idiocy. First, murder is a legal term, roughly defined as "the unlawful taking a human life". Now, since hunting animals is neither unlawful nor taking human life, you're an idiot (actually the correct conclusion is that it's not murder, but I like the idiot one better). Second, even if we ignore the misuse of the word murder and get to the premise of your position, i.e. that killing animals is a bad thing, this leads to other flaws in your position. Are coyotes "bad" for killing rabbits? Are house cats "bad" for killing birds? Humans hunt ungulates like deer and elk to keep their populations down. If we didn't, they'd overpopulate and starve to death in the winter. But I guess sensitive people like you would rather see hundreds of deer die of malnutrition and those that survive suffer the pain of hunger, rather than hunt enough of them to keep there numbers stable.
Moron.
The really moronic thing is that the actual "business end" of this thing is contained within that white piece of PVC pipe at the front. The part that looks like a rifle (appears to be a folding stock for Mini-14) is literally bolted on behind it. These guys are clearly working the photo-op angle on this thing. Probably fishing for grants or contracts or whatever it is they think they can do for money by making it look sinister. If they were into pure functionality, a tripod mount like a telescope (with a small spotting scope on the side) would have been a better choice. Plus, you could probably sit on the roof of a building with a telescope all day wothout getting shot at even once.
Dubya likes gooseberry pie. Nazis liked gooseberry pie. QED, Dubya is a Nazi.
You need to learn better debate technique, dumbass.
Cripes, what's you people's attachment to this stupid movie? The entire plot centers around a magic box for gods sake.
He's not joking, he's expressing disgust with the media's continuous habit of dumbing down units of measurement to the point where they're meaningless. It's irritating to those who actually know what a square millimeter and a bit are.
Back in '89 I was part of the dev team for a truly lame game for the C64 called "Beyond The Black Hole" by The Software Toolworks. I recently went looking for it so I could reel in shame at the poor quality of my work. The only version I could find had the title sequence hacked and replaced with a music-and-light show splash screen from the warez group that cracked it. Not only was their music better, but the title screen showed better programming skill than the game itself! Best of all, my name (which was on the original splash screen) has been removed from that awful turd, for which I am forever grateful.
Sorry man, your story just reeks of bullshit....
Now that you mention it, the only part of his story that sounds remotely plausible is this part:
"As such, I take an extreme view of electronic theft. As a programmer, I now see my applications stolen -- its karmic. I get in contact with these guys and trace them down and have my lawyer contact them with specific information about what they are doing to me and I leave it at that knowing full well I could have them jailed easily."
The rest sounds like the standard saccharin hyperbole guys like this spin off as "examples", when in fact they're just making shit up to justify their self righteous position. Like another poster noted, it's possible that it was HE who wrote that rental app and now blames "thieves" for his inability to create a marketable product. Yeah, sure guy, the reason that $200 rent calculator failed is because all those landlords pirated it, not because it was hardly more than a simple replacement for a paper ledger and calculator. That's right, you're a genius who's been kept down by dirty pirates. You know, it's for people like you that the following MMPI2 question was written: (true or false)
Nothing is funnier than a dork like that and his delusions of grandeur.
every email I get has a copy forwarded to a google gmail account. I also forward everything to an account on my server as well, but I like the gmail account because I can get at it anywhere.
Gods damn it, you ADD children with your IM and SMS vocabularies need to stop making up your own abbreviations when talking with regular people. Appropriate abbreviations for "million" are "mil" or "M". Saying "mln" is just ignorant.
You know, I feel for the guy, but I don't think the story he decided to believe (i.e. I went bankrupt from software pirates) stands up to reason. Examine the situation rationally: How big a market could that be? Did sales dry up because of piracy, or because there were only X number of landlords who 1) had a C64, 2) wanted rental management software, and 3) were willing to fork over the princely sum of $200 for it? Even if were were to accept THAT premise, we would then have to accept the notion that these landlords were both socially "networked" to one another well enough, and morally flexible enough for a cracked copy of a program only they would be interested in to spread amongst them to such a degree that the piracy would truly eclipse legitimate sales. Remember, this was the 5.25" floppy days. "Regular" pirates mostly dealt in games because that's what they were willing to devote their meager bandwidth and storage resources to. It's not like today, where you can find warez d00dz trading weird shit like fluid dynamics analysis software because they got a fat pipe and a 200GB hard drive. No, back then you had to manually copy everything onto floppies, and I'd bet you dollars to donuts this loser's $200 rental app wasn't making the rounds on the BBS's or the copy parties.
Frankly, he probably went bankrupt because he wrote just the one program and sold it to all hundred fifty-odd people who wanted it. People overestimate the market for their products all the time. Blaming lack of interest in buying his overpriced app on piracy sounds like an unwillingness to admit he overestimated the size of what was obviously a very, very small niche market.
Hall: I'd prefer if you drove a Ford.
Griffin: My latest car is an Oldsmobile.
A bit off topic with this, but this is one of the things that really drives me up the wall when it comes to congressrats. A fellow can't even make a simple analogy without the jackass congressman freaking out because it refers to foreign cars. In this case the pantywaist worm chairman felt it necessary to make sure everyone knew he was in favor of domestic cars, when the original comment wasn't even really about cars. Buncha' corporate bootlickers...