Of course, there's a little difference between a bunch of nutballs burning books in the desert and Government-sponsored destruction of human beings, but hey, why worry about hyperbole when you can criticize that debbil Bush?
1) ever go to a LAN party where there was a surplus of table space? "Hi guys, check out my new bitchin' computer that's going to take up 3x the space of all of yours!"
2) (subsequent to above): I know, let's design a computer that is easier to tip/kick over!
This reminds me of the 100-sided dice. Neat idea, clever design, but for the 90% of the time when you're not rolling on a mathematically-perfect flat & level surface, IT NEVER STOPPED ROLLING BECAUSE IT WAS NEARLY A SPHERE.
that I saw the best combination of user utility and strength: Have a short physical list of pw-useable characters in your wallet, and letters of the alphabet as a xref.
So when you log onto your work computer you can use "workcomp" as your password, but xref'd it comes out as $1efG3h4.
And if someone finds your list, it doesn't get them anywhere unless they know what systems you're on and then guess the pw's anyway.
What I don't understand is the (visceral) reaction against this.
Currently, I can't think of an MMOG that doesn't 'bless' players that have more time to spend than their peers.
Either 1) these players have wealth enough to waste time playing a game at no risk to their lifestyle (IMO a vanishingly tiny percentage) 2) these players have so little lifestyle to risk, that playing a game all day doesn't significantly impact them.
How is either of these positions fundamentally different from a game allowing people who have money in real life inherently get another advantage? How is a bounty of money intrinsically different than a bounty of time?
As I see it, it's the Category 2 people that are crying because they lose the one thing they had 'up' on people who, in the real world, are financially better off than them. Yeah, so? I have neither excess money, nor excess time, so either group pwns me if I feel the need to 'compete' with them in some manhood-comparing MMOG way.
No matter what it is, it's certainly got no more potential than, say, a 9 week old fetus. Since that's considered to be an entirely morally disposable 'clump of cells', I don't see why we need to worry about some germs on Mars.
They're going to move in, wreck the ecosystem, and drive native species extinct.
If America puts a base there, you mark my words: it will soon be a desolate wasteland where NOTHING grows any longer. Hell, you probably won't even be able to go outside and breathe the air.
Intuit's software is constantly trying to get through Zonealarm to call home, why does it suprise ANYONE that they feel entitled to rape your privacy in another way?
Screw you, Intuit. You could have been the premier taxfiling software and been happy, but instead you chose the path of maximum suck.
Ironically, when asked why they don't want to make "free" TV programs available later for "free" download, they say "Because people won't watch the advertisements! They'll edit them out, or fast-forward over them."
Um, does anyone actually watch advertisements to glean some sort of product knowledge and shopping preference? I mean, sure we all understand that they hope we all lie there with our eyeballs glued to the tube to garner the newest, hottest, coolest thing to buy. But in reality? Doesn't everyone use commercial breaks to talk, pee, eat, whatever else they needed to do during the show?
And now with TIVO...well, I think that light we see in the distance might just be an onrushing train to crush the 'assumptions' built into 'free TV'.
Since the Right(tm) nearly owns all of the AM dial and all of the FM talk dial not associated with Public Radio, this has been an very effective conduit for them. Of course, that shrinks by comparison to the Left-Owned ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NYT, Reuters, BBC, NPR, etc... (shrug).
The President and Ashcroft have been widely heralded as "jackbooted thugs trampling democracy" yet it's in the most leftist city in the country, in the People's Republic of Kalifornia where this becomes legislation. Would you like a touch of environmentally friendly, organically-grown non-refined sugar in your Irony this morning?
Or, going the other direction: It's MN in late Februrary. Yesterday when I was driving around it was 70 degrees F. Tomorrow I walk out the door at 0600 to go to work and it's 0 deg F.
"Sorry, I can't come to work, my car deflated." How well will this thing even WORK at -40 deg F?
What I find deeply disingenuous and frankly manipulative about this whole article is that they build this mocking straw man about Creationists, and lump in with him anyone who's criticized them for politicizing the magazine.
Convenient.
And then throw in the editorializing in the last paragraph? No, they haven't politicized their stance at all, and anyone who'd suggest so must be one of those slope-browed Creationist religious crazies!
Personally, I think that they could have a terrific series of articles DISCUSSING politically charged topics - but instead their recent article on Global Warming was again, a strawman 'misunderstanding' of the debate. The article a while back on SDI was screed against the poolitics and the concept with little said about the scientific plausibility (or lack) of the idea. But then who am I? I'm just one of the slope-browed masses who believe that just because you have a PhD in (something) doesn't equate to being an expert in (everything). SciAm *loves* to make fun of congressmen or politicians that blunder about scientific topics, but they see no hypocrisy in their making similarly-uninformed prognostications about international diplomacy or national policy.
Ironically, they criticize the Bush Administration for 'politicizing science'. Fine, discuss the debate and show the evidence where they've done it (along with fair time for the administration to rebut if they can). But once you take sides, you are NO BETTER.
You dumb bastards, I've been a subscriber to SciAm since SIXTH GRADE (1980). Aside from a year or two in the middle, I've been a subscriber for 25 years, and it kills me to say it but I'm now cancelling my subscription. This really hurts, but it's been a long time on my mind. I admit that I really do hate you guys for driving me to this. But if I want to read this crap, I'll read Mother Jones.
"Scientific" American's sarcastic, self important, snide editorial shows precisely what they think of this reader, anyway. Goodbye, SciAm.
You think it *might* have something to do with the "moral values" party winning the last 2 elections?
She couldn't be maneuvering, could she? This paragon of virtue and moral clarity, taking a public stance only because of its public benefit? Say it ain't so!
... since their patch delivery is Bittorrent-based. (yes, for the pedants I know you can turn it off or get it elsewhere; I'm talking about what is the company's MAIN method of patch delivery)
Until you get to Targets which some are now refusing cards with this notation, declaring "it's not a signature" - read: this takes more work and puts some microscopic but yet unacceptable level of responsibility on us via the drones we have working at the registers.
Maybe not, but the post above said state-sponsored religion. I was stunned to hear that the German government (or maybe it's just Bavaria) collects tax revenues for the church, and everyone has to designate to the state which church they belong to.
But is it so wrong that there is a place where you CAN'T get email, CAN'T be contacted, CAN'T be responsible to work?
As someone who flew to 5 countries in the last 4 weeks, and has spent about 50% of his time traveling since 12/26/04, the only thing that stops it from totally sucking is the fact that I can "power down" while flying and have some quiet time.
My boss hears it's only $30 more for me to be 'connected' all this time, and guess who's going to be held responsible to make sure those 'urgent' emails get a response next time I'm between Iceland and Minneapolis?
I'll balance your "long and negative history" of harassing leftist fringe elements against the achievements of the OSS and subsequently the CIA, NSA, and FBI in thwarting the constant and determined subversion of our government and country by inimical foreign governments (frequently working through their shills on the left for which you so desperately weep).
I'm willing to say that while I think their efforts and intent are generally positive, there ARE some bad elements and bad decisions that need to be reviewed and, if necessary, punished.
Are you willing to make the same step toward intellectual compromise in conceding that although you think they are "evil" that their mission at least is a necessary and good one?
You got that much right. In fact, garbage dumps might become valuable mines of material.
If that happens, can we FINALLY get rid of all the environmentalists that are crying that we covered the land with landfills? W00t! All those past generations left us all these neat caches of raw materials!
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Well, a German *would* know.
Of course, there's a little difference between a bunch of nutballs burning books in the desert and Government-sponsored destruction of human beings, but hey, why worry about hyperbole when you can criticize that debbil Bush?
signed,
George.W.Bush@whitehouse.gov
OK, points for cleverness but utility?
1) ever go to a LAN party where there was a surplus of table space? "Hi guys, check out my new bitchin' computer that's going to take up 3x the space of all of yours!"
2) (subsequent to above): I know, let's design a computer that is easier to tip/kick over!
This reminds me of the 100-sided dice. Neat idea, clever design, but for the 90% of the time when you're not rolling on a mathematically-perfect flat & level surface, IT NEVER STOPPED ROLLING BECAUSE IT WAS NEARLY A SPHERE.
that I saw the best combination of user utility and strength:
Have a short physical list of pw-useable characters in your wallet, and letters of the alphabet as a xref.
So when you log onto your work computer you can use "workcomp" as your password, but xref'd it comes out as $1efG3h4.
And if someone finds your list, it doesn't get them anywhere unless they know what systems you're on and then guess the pw's anyway.
Tell you what, we'll wake you up when you have a shot with them. ....so much cheaper....
I put on my wizard hat!
What I don't understand is the (visceral) reaction against this.
Currently, I can't think of an MMOG that doesn't 'bless' players that have more time to spend than their peers.
Either
1) these players have wealth enough to waste time playing a game at no risk to their lifestyle (IMO a vanishingly tiny percentage)
2) these players have so little lifestyle to risk, that playing a game all day doesn't significantly impact them.
How is either of these positions fundamentally different from a game allowing people who have money in real life inherently get another advantage? How is a bounty of money intrinsically different than a bounty of time?
As I see it, it's the Category 2 people that are crying because they lose the one thing they had 'up' on people who, in the real world, are financially better off than them. Yeah, so? I have neither excess money, nor excess time, so either group pwns me if I feel the need to 'compete' with them in some manhood-comparing MMOG way.
No matter what it is, it's certainly got no more potential than, say, a 9 week old fetus. Since that's considered to be an entirely morally disposable 'clump of cells', I don't see why we need to worry about some germs on Mars.
There you go.
What we really need is an OASIS plug-in for MS Office so that MS Office users can use the OASIS format without any hassles. That would be cool.
That sound you just heard was 10,000 Microsoft lawyers, all getting a boner.
They're going to move in, wreck the ecosystem, and drive native species extinct.
If America puts a base there, you mark my words: it will soon be a desolate wasteland where NOTHING grows any longer. Hell, you probably won't even be able to go outside and breathe the air.
Intuit's software is constantly trying to get through Zonealarm to call home, why does it suprise ANYONE that they feel entitled to rape your privacy in another way?
Screw you, Intuit. You could have been the premier taxfiling software and been happy, but instead you chose the path of maximum suck.
... to transfer ~$350,000 (Rs. 1.5 crores) in their names, a large sum in Indian currency.
I don't know about all you dot.com gajillionaires, but $350,000 is a large sum in my world, too.
If $350,000 ISN'T a significant sum of money, please email me, I'd like to borrow some pocket change.
Ironically, when asked why they don't want to make "free" TV programs available later for "free" download, they say "Because people won't watch the advertisements! They'll edit them out, or fast-forward over them."
Um, does anyone actually watch advertisements to glean some sort of product knowledge and shopping preference? I mean, sure we all understand that they hope we all lie there with our eyeballs glued to the tube to garner the newest, hottest, coolest thing to buy. But in reality? Doesn't everyone use commercial breaks to talk, pee, eat, whatever else they needed to do during the show?
And now with TIVO...well, I think that light we see in the distance might just be an onrushing train to crush the 'assumptions' built into 'free TV'.
Since the Right(tm) nearly owns all of the AM dial and all of the FM talk dial not associated with Public Radio, this has been an very effective conduit for them.
Of course, that shrinks by comparison to the Left-Owned ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NYT, Reuters, BBC, NPR, etc... (shrug).
The President and Ashcroft have been widely heralded as "jackbooted thugs trampling democracy" yet it's in the most leftist city in the country, in the People's Republic of Kalifornia where this becomes legislation. Would you like a touch of environmentally friendly, organically-grown non-refined sugar in your Irony this morning?
Or, going the other direction:
It's MN in late Februrary. Yesterday when I was driving around it was 70 degrees F.
Tomorrow I walk out the door at 0600 to go to work and it's 0 deg F.
"Sorry, I can't come to work, my car deflated."
How well will this thing even WORK at -40 deg F?
What I find deeply disingenuous and frankly manipulative about this whole article is that they build this mocking straw man about Creationists, and lump in with him anyone who's criticized them for politicizing the magazine.
Convenient.
And then throw in the editorializing in the last paragraph? No, they haven't politicized their stance at all, and anyone who'd suggest so must be one of those slope-browed Creationist religious crazies!
Personally, I think that they could have a terrific series of articles DISCUSSING politically charged topics - but instead their recent article on Global Warming was again, a strawman 'misunderstanding' of the debate. The article a while back on SDI was screed against the poolitics and the concept with little said about the scientific plausibility (or lack) of the idea. But then who am I? I'm just one of the slope-browed masses who believe that just because you have a PhD in (something) doesn't equate to being an expert in (everything). SciAm *loves* to make fun of congressmen or politicians that blunder about scientific topics, but they see no hypocrisy in their making similarly-uninformed prognostications about international diplomacy or national policy.
Ironically, they criticize the Bush Administration for 'politicizing science'. Fine, discuss the debate and show the evidence where they've done it (along with fair time for the administration to rebut if they can). But once you take sides, you are NO BETTER.
You dumb bastards, I've been a subscriber to SciAm since SIXTH GRADE (1980). Aside from a year or two in the middle, I've been a subscriber for 25 years, and it kills me to say it but I'm now cancelling my subscription. This really hurts, but it's been a long time on my mind. I admit that I really do hate you guys for driving me to this. But if I want to read this crap, I'll read Mother Jones.
"Scientific" American's sarcastic, self important, snide editorial shows precisely what they think of this reader, anyway. Goodbye, SciAm.
You think it *might* have something to do with the "moral values" party winning the last 2 elections?
She couldn't be maneuvering, could she? This paragon of virtue and moral clarity, taking a public stance only because of its public benefit? Say it ain't so!
... does it have to only be my face they replace?
I mean, maybe with the "scale" and "expand to fit page" options maybe I'd have a better self image.
... since their patch delivery is Bittorrent-based.
(yes, for the pedants I know you can turn it off or get it elsewhere; I'm talking about what is the company's MAIN method of patch delivery)
Until you get to Targets which some are now refusing cards with this notation, declaring "it's not a signature" - read: this takes more work and puts some microscopic but yet unacceptable level of responsibility on us via the drones we have working at the registers.
NB: European countries don't have state religions
Maybe not, but the post above said state-sponsored religion. I was stunned to hear that the German government (or maybe it's just Bavaria) collects tax revenues for the church, and everyone has to designate to the state which church they belong to.
It's an alien land, I tell you.
But is it so wrong that there is a place where you CAN'T get email, CAN'T be contacted, CAN'T be responsible to work?
:(
As someone who flew to 5 countries in the last 4 weeks, and has spent about 50% of his time traveling since 12/26/04, the only thing that stops it from totally sucking is the fact that I can "power down" while flying and have some quiet time.
My boss hears it's only $30 more for me to be 'connected' all this time, and guess who's going to be held responsible to make sure those 'urgent' emails get a response next time I'm between Iceland and Minneapolis?
I don't see this as such a wonderful thing.
This is silly. OK, please note the copyright below:
from AFP website:
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There, did you read it? Well, now you're stuck.
The point being, you can CLAIM anything. Whether or not you are legally entitled to it is an entirely different matter.
Distorting the political landscape? Please.
I'll balance your "long and negative history" of harassing leftist fringe elements against the achievements of the OSS and subsequently the CIA, NSA, and FBI in thwarting the constant and determined subversion of our government and country by inimical foreign governments (frequently working through their shills on the left for which you so desperately weep).
I'm willing to say that while I think their efforts and intent are generally positive, there ARE some bad elements and bad decisions that need to be reviewed and, if necessary, punished.
Are you willing to make the same step toward intellectual compromise in conceding that although you think they are "evil" that their mission at least is a necessary and good one?
You got that much right. In fact, garbage dumps might become valuable mines of material.
If that happens, can we FINALLY get rid of all the environmentalists that are crying that we covered the land with landfills? W00t! All those past generations left us all these neat caches of raw materials!