99% of what Hollywood turns out is crap that isn't worth paying for, anyway. No bit loss. I've never seen anyone complain so much when their pile of manure is stolen.
Open Watcom and Euphoria. Any Forth is fun to noodle around in, too. But the first two are about the easiest, fastest, and most portable (sorry, Visual-whatever people, but chaining myself to Microsoft is not an option.)
If the survey question were asked on the internet, many citizens who bother to answer would agree with government control, since their answer would be observed by the government. I'd like to see the results of this survey taken under guarantee of anonymity.
I don't have much of an opinion of free flash games, having played only one or two very long ago. Just to get free games or info on them in general, I strongly recommend Home of the Underdogs www.the-underdogs.info as the best out-of-trademark and free games listing and download site on the internet. It may not be as well maintained as ever due to its keeper's busy schedule but it is chock-a-block with more enterainment than a sane player could exploit in a lifetime. Run through it and pick your favorites out of there.
Obviously those stiff backed ex-cultural revolution dweebs are getting off demanding to peep at women's privates over a video connection. Just how good (or miserable) can a MMO be if it was developed and run in Communist China, for cripe sake. I mean, how much time can you spend using a joystick to slog through a rice paddy behind a musk ox. Puhleeze.
Am I supposed to be surprised that the Google whores place profit and propaganda ahead of truth and information? Am I really supposed to be surprised? Use Scroogle.org for your searches if you have any brains.
Does this jackass do anything about keeping real unlicensed firearms out of the hands of unsupervised adolescents and children? Why doesn't he start his own game company and make nonviolent games that are so good they drive all the other game companies out of business? Aren't chess and backgammon about war and conquest? Does he have anything against games that have actual bone-breaking violence in them such as football, lacrosse, and automobile racing? Do you know how many professional jockeys were crippled or killed last year? Something that happens on a computer screen pales in comparison to that real human misery. How many people have to call this man an insufferable hypocrite before he dries up and blows away?
a little piece of black plastic electrical tape over any unwanted lights should solve the problem, and is also later removable, as opposed to painting over the lights. This would seem to be a rather silly subject for a post anywhere, but even Garry Trudeau made light (sorry, no pun inteded) of this phenomenon a couple of weeks ago in the Sunday Doonesbury strip.
More Star Wars wouldn't be bad, nothing to get spasmodic about. But that Friedman guy's comment about Rush being low class? The opinion of a no-class jerk, more like. What can we expect from anyone who would work for the Ozzie Nazi Rupert Murdock? Fox News, the televised tabloid. Trash through and through.
I say BOYCOTT THE ENTIRE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY! Don't steal their putrid crap, don't give them any excuse to indemnify you. But don't buy it, either. Don't go to movies, don't rent movies, don't buy DVDs, don't buy CDs, don't download music for 99cents a pop, don't do any of it. Attack them legally by not giving them any more money. Show them who's boss. Us. The people. Remember, if you go see a movie or buy a song, you are financing these scum sucking litigants. Power to the people.
Why don't we just solve a world of problems and outlaw Christianity? Did wonders for the Roman Empire. Who knows? The downfall of the American Empire may lead to a 10,000 year dark age, or possibly even the extinction of the human species, giving the rats, roaches and raccoons the chance to start their own civilizations. They can't do much worse than we have.
Why not just set up a unilateral system, under which every email costs a fraction of a cent? Micropayment postage for all email. This would not affect residential users, would provide commercial users a way to defer costs of internet service (and be tax deductible), and totally sock it to the spammers. If a spammer got a bill for $100,000 a month, they would quit in no time. I would have no problem paying a micropayment for each email I send out. Write your political representatives recommending micropayment email postage legislation if necessary.
New versions of Tempest and Battlezone that run properly in XP. Now, THAT was GAMING. And how about a spinner controller for USB that does what it's supposed to do? What's so difficult about a rheostat or digital ticker, folks? You used to do it for ball mice all the time. Get with it.
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I might remind you, copyright was invented before digital duplication. Not everyone owned a printing press or a sound record press. Copyright was easier to enforce because illegal duplication was not a cottage industry. Now, anything that can be digitized can be distributed to a billion users in seconds. It is a new paradigm. Copyright must not be eliminated. I would kill anyone who declares that I have no right to the work of my own mind and hands. That's collectivism. Copyright must be updated and expanded to include the new technology. Individual rights must be protected. Any by that I do NOT mean corporate rights. People who work for corporations have rights, but corporations are not people and the delusion that they have rights is another problem that must be addressed, and bloody soon.
If bittorrent site operators are to be punished for providing a service that can be abused, then all the executives, directors, chairmen and presidents of the firearms companies should be prosecuted for the murders committed with all their firearms out in public. No? How about prosecuting all the ISPs for making pedophaelia more accessible? No? Kill the messenger, instead? OK. Well, again, this is a case of our corrupt politicians protecting their corporate masters and showing us we are just consumer cash cows whose only purpose is to feed the rich. You can't have it both ways. Prosecute everyone whose service can be corrupted, or prosecute no one.
Looks like it's about time for the Second American Revolution. They seem to forget the American populace is more numerously armed than the military. I mean it. Arguments over. There's no reasoning with these antediluvian swine. They must be overthrown, and their corporate masters with them. Drive them into the sea. Nothing less will work.
I can imagine them getting Carrie Fisher back to play a skinny, bhang-smoking Leia, sitting by her pool overlooking Naboo. "Pool-boy! Moisture! AAAaaaaa-aaahh.....!" And Luke trying to look all Jedi while resisting the urge to sulk or stare wistfully into the sunset. Would Chewie be buying Grecian Formula 16 by the 55-gallon drum? I think we have the workings of a SNL sketch here.
I don't use Google any more, I use Scroogle. I avoid being tracked as far as I can (I don't even use the preferred shopper card at my local supermarket, and I use cash whenever feasible.) I trust Wikipedia for information as far as I trust graffiti on the local wall. Encyclopaedia Britannica and the OED will always be my first choices for reference.
Never seen it, but for about three minutes the other night and as always, K.R. was totally unimpressive. But the whole concept has suddenly become chillingly prophetic. (I've had serious forgetfullness my entire life, even before I became a cyberphilliac at 18. For instance it took me three minutes to remember the word "prophetic" above, even though I could flash on just about every scene in my life in which I'd used the word. I've always been labeled an absent minded professor.) It may not just be facts that are forgotten, but the ability to know or conclude that may be threatened. A great story in Analog many years ago (again, can't remember the title or author) featured a youngster who saved the tide of war, because he had rediscovered from scratch the art of mathematic, which had so long been handed over to the computers and hand calculators that humans could no longer even add two and two in their heads, nor imagine it to be possible. Electronic countermeasures didn't work on human brains, thus giving the advantage to those who knew their multiplication tables. There, two nice cautionary tales on this subject. But, does anyone ever even read this crap? Or will these words sit on the server or float through ftpspace until all the power goes down and the cockroaches are all that is left to read it?
The question is, should your credit card number exist anywhere except impressed on your credit card? Vital statistics are one thing, but the ability to pick your pocket at the speed of light over long distances must be curtailed. We need legislation that requires all merchants everywhere to thoroughly erase credit card data the moment any and every transaction is finished. My name, address, and phone number are publicly available (unless I choose otherwise); the contents of my wallet are not. And as a side note, what's this with Radio Shack clerks asking my name and address when I pay for something in cash? I always say "No" but how many people just give up the data? Caveat emptor.
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99% of what Hollywood turns out is crap that isn't worth paying for, anyway. No bit loss. I've never seen anyone complain so much when their pile of manure is stolen.
Open Watcom and Euphoria. Any Forth is fun to noodle around in, too. But the first two are about the easiest, fastest, and most portable (sorry, Visual-whatever people, but chaining myself to Microsoft is not an option.)
If the survey question were asked on the internet, many citizens who bother to answer would agree with government control, since their answer would be observed by the government. I'd like to see the results of this survey taken under guarantee of anonymity.
"ethic-less"? The word is "unethical." This is how language evolves and dies.
I don't have much of an opinion of free flash games, having played only one or two very long ago. Just to get free games or info on them in general, I strongly recommend Home of the Underdogs www.the-underdogs.info as the best out-of-trademark and free games listing and download site on the internet. It may not be as well maintained as ever due to its keeper's busy schedule but it is chock-a-block with more enterainment than a sane player could exploit in a lifetime. Run through it and pick your favorites out of there.
Obviously those stiff backed ex-cultural revolution dweebs are getting off demanding to peep at women's privates over a video connection. Just how good (or miserable) can a MMO be if it was developed and run in Communist China, for cripe sake. I mean, how much time can you spend using a joystick to slog through a rice paddy behind a musk ox. Puhleeze.
Am I supposed to be surprised that the Google whores place profit and propaganda ahead of truth and information? Am I really supposed to be surprised? Use Scroogle.org for your searches if you have any brains.
Does this jackass do anything about keeping real unlicensed firearms out of the hands of unsupervised adolescents and children? Why doesn't he start his own game company and make nonviolent games that are so good they drive all the other game companies out of business? Aren't chess and backgammon about war and conquest? Does he have anything against games that have actual bone-breaking violence in them such as football, lacrosse, and automobile racing? Do you know how many professional jockeys were crippled or killed last year? Something that happens on a computer screen pales in comparison to that real human misery. How many people have to call this man an insufferable hypocrite before he dries up and blows away?
a little piece of black plastic electrical tape over any unwanted lights should solve the problem, and is also later removable, as opposed to painting over the lights. This would seem to be a rather silly subject for a post anywhere, but even Garry Trudeau made light (sorry, no pun inteded) of this phenomenon a couple of weeks ago in the Sunday Doonesbury strip.
More Star Wars wouldn't be bad, nothing to get spasmodic about. But that Friedman guy's comment about Rush being low class? The opinion of a no-class jerk, more like. What can we expect from anyone who would work for the Ozzie Nazi Rupert Murdock? Fox News, the televised tabloid. Trash through and through.
I say BOYCOTT THE ENTIRE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY! Don't steal their putrid crap, don't give them any excuse to indemnify you. But don't buy it, either. Don't go to movies, don't rent movies, don't buy DVDs, don't buy CDs, don't download music for 99cents a pop, don't do any of it. Attack them legally by not giving them any more money. Show them who's boss. Us. The people. Remember, if you go see a movie or buy a song, you are financing these scum sucking litigants. Power to the people.
Why don't we just solve a world of problems and outlaw Christianity? Did wonders for the Roman Empire. Who knows? The downfall of the American Empire may lead to a 10,000 year dark age, or possibly even the extinction of the human species, giving the rats, roaches and raccoons the chance to start their own civilizations. They can't do much worse than we have.
In military radio lingo, it would be "squelch the jerk."
Anything that limits creativity is evil and should be destroyed.
Why not just set up a unilateral system, under which every email costs a fraction of a cent? Micropayment postage for all email. This would not affect residential users, would provide commercial users a way to defer costs of internet service (and be tax deductible), and totally sock it to the spammers. If a spammer got a bill for $100,000 a month, they would quit in no time. I would have no problem paying a micropayment for each email I send out. Write your political representatives recommending micropayment email postage legislation if necessary.
New versions of Tempest and Battlezone that run properly in XP. Now, THAT was GAMING. And how about a spinner controller for USB that does what it's supposed to do? What's so difficult about a rheostat or digital ticker, folks? You used to do it for ball mice all the time. Get with it.
I might remind you, copyright was invented before digital duplication. Not everyone owned a printing press or a sound record press. Copyright was easier to enforce because illegal duplication was not a cottage industry. Now, anything that can be digitized can be distributed to a billion users in seconds. It is a new paradigm. Copyright must not be eliminated. I would kill anyone who declares that I have no right to the work of my own mind and hands. That's collectivism. Copyright must be updated and expanded to include the new technology. Individual rights must be protected. Any by that I do NOT mean corporate rights. People who work for corporations have rights, but corporations are not people and the delusion that they have rights is another problem that must be addressed, and bloody soon.
If bittorrent site operators are to be punished for providing a service that can be abused, then all the executives, directors, chairmen and presidents of the firearms companies should be prosecuted for the murders committed with all their firearms out in public. No? How about prosecuting all the ISPs for making pedophaelia more accessible? No? Kill the messenger, instead? OK. Well, again, this is a case of our corrupt politicians protecting their corporate masters and showing us we are just consumer cash cows whose only purpose is to feed the rich. You can't have it both ways. Prosecute everyone whose service can be corrupted, or prosecute no one.
Looks like it's about time for the Second American Revolution. They seem to forget the American populace is more numerously armed than the military. I mean it. Arguments over. There's no reasoning with these antediluvian swine. They must be overthrown, and their corporate masters with them. Drive them into the sea. Nothing less will work.
It's nice of the general media to reveal the names of exactly who is having their pockets lined by the music industry.
I can imagine them getting Carrie Fisher back to play a skinny, bhang-smoking Leia, sitting by her pool overlooking Naboo. "Pool-boy! Moisture! AAAaaaaa-aaahh.....!" And Luke trying to look all Jedi while resisting the urge to sulk or stare wistfully into the sunset. Would Chewie be buying Grecian Formula 16 by the 55-gallon drum? I think we have the workings of a SNL sketch here.
I don't use Google any more, I use Scroogle. I avoid being tracked as far as I can (I don't even use the preferred shopper card at my local supermarket, and I use cash whenever feasible.) I trust Wikipedia for information as far as I trust graffiti on the local wall. Encyclopaedia Britannica and the OED will always be my first choices for reference.
Never seen it, but for about three minutes the other night and as always, K.R. was totally unimpressive. But the whole concept has suddenly become chillingly prophetic. (I've had serious forgetfullness my entire life, even before I became a cyberphilliac at 18. For instance it took me three minutes to remember the word "prophetic" above, even though I could flash on just about every scene in my life in which I'd used the word. I've always been labeled an absent minded professor.) It may not just be facts that are forgotten, but the ability to know or conclude that may be threatened. A great story in Analog many years ago (again, can't remember the title or author) featured a youngster who saved the tide of war, because he had rediscovered from scratch the art of mathematic, which had so long been handed over to the computers and hand calculators that humans could no longer even add two and two in their heads, nor imagine it to be possible. Electronic countermeasures didn't work on human brains, thus giving the advantage to those who knew their multiplication tables. There, two nice cautionary tales on this subject. But, does anyone ever even read this crap? Or will these words sit on the server or float through ftpspace until all the power goes down and the cockroaches are all that is left to read it?
The question is, should your credit card number exist anywhere except impressed on your credit card? Vital statistics are one thing, but the ability to pick your pocket at the speed of light over long distances must be curtailed. We need legislation that requires all merchants everywhere to thoroughly erase credit card data the moment any and every transaction is finished. My name, address, and phone number are publicly available (unless I choose otherwise); the contents of my wallet are not. And as a side note, what's this with Radio Shack clerks asking my name and address when I pay for something in cash? I always say "No" but how many people just give up the data? Caveat emptor.
I don't.