Does the latest version include the Abu Ghraib expansion pack?
You can mod me as flame-bait but this is what new recruits need to know - the consequences of their actions, and indeed the decision to go to war itself, in the eyes of an international audience.
>>>it makes you wonder if this is the first step for Nintendo to become a major player in the online gaming market
No, it makes me wonder just how in the hell they were granted patents on such obvious aspects of online gaming (already in use for some years now BTW) in the first place!
It's a way to justify their existence. I had a boss who did it too - came in every weekend 'just to make sure things are running'.
TIf they were ever away from work for more than a day, it would mean that work could function without them, and thus their entire life would become meaningless. Truly tragic.
Doctors and birth control only cost money in the U$A.
For all those/.'ers reading from Europe, we do get a good belly-laugh at the expense of your 'world's richest nation but worst social conscience' every now and again.
Why does something need to generate revenue in order to justify its creation?
This is the fundamental problem with a completely capitalistic view of the world - try injecting a little socialism and you may find that providing something people want and need *just for the sake of it* brings its own rewards (e.g. healthcare)
Well, interestingly...caffeine is a noncomeptitive antagonist - i.e. it doesn't compete at the same cell-surface binding site for it's adrenergic (i.e. adrenaline and noradrenaline) agonists.
Instead, caffeine (and other methylxanthines such as theophylline) act by blocking cyclic-AMP degeneration by intracellular phosphodiesterases. This was kinda what Pfizer were looking for when they stumbled across viagra (sildenafil) - a cardiac specific phosphodiesterase which they could inhibit to increase the affect of circulatory adrenaline on myocardium.
So...what are the take home messages - caffeine in high doses will act like other adrenergic agonists...and will to some extent mimic such 'evil and hated' drugs as cocaine in its actions (note to government: ban immediately!!! panic now - there's no time for rational thought).
I don't deny caffeine addiction exists - I recently treated a young guy admitted with cardiac chest pain whose only vice was 15 cups of coffee a day for the past 5 years. Like any other addiction process, it will take a long time to overcome and each time you see a coka cola it may prove hard to resist.
But there are no drugs that immediately come to mind that would help the immediate withdrawal process....perhaps you could discuss the situation with your doctor and ask for low dose diazepam for particularly bad situations. Most reasonable GPs would give it to you in the UK - I don;t know about the US however.
But, best wishes with the new year ahead, and just be thankful that the only thing you've likely wrecked so far are your teeth. Just stop now before it gets worse.
I'll be boycotting becasue they killed Farscape, which just shows the sci-fi channel has no taste and no time for real sci-fi, and couldn't give two shits about the opinions of their fans.
In other words, I expected the remake to be a total farce of the original, because the sci-fi channel DOES NOT CARE about sci-fi.
So actually, it turns into a big rip outside the US. Which is a big shame, because I'd like to have put that extra US$800 into a 23" cinema monitor....
in fact, larger hips would increase the energy required for females to walk and would decrese their abilities to climb trees and so-on.
plus, your assertion that bigger brains = bigger faces = increased mating potential is bunk - look at all those animals, quite happy to get on and fuck, without massive faces = squirrels? rabbits? lobsters? how about animals with large faces and small brains - horses? llamas?
larger brains equalling more aesthetically pleasing faces? so are better looking people automatically smarter? Ask most of us/. crowd - big brains doesnt automatically equal good looks.
By pre-paying the fine for illegal use of those CDs, does it thereby allow you to go ahead and use them for their (purported) intended illegal purpose?
What interest would a *service provider* who makes *no phones* want with a circuit board design contained within *just one* of the *many thousands* of phones it re-sells?
And a crappy phone at that. Why not steal from the best rather than a Sendo?
Comparing the US to a nation with a comparable record of offing trouble-makers, like, say, the UK, then we probably don't look so good.
Umm...I really hope you're just trolling and can actually provide some evidence that the UK just 'offs' its trouble makers. We don't.
Unlike a big friendly nation like the US where they execute teenagers. Oh, and weren't the US and Iran the only two countries not to ratify that little UN convention on *not* executing children?
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Does the latest version include the Abu Ghraib expansion pack?
You can mod me as flame-bait but this is what new recruits need to know - the consequences of their actions, and indeed the decision to go to war itself, in the eyes of an international audience.
-Nano.
Question: "Are people really prepared to let insurance companies track their every move to save money on car insurance?"
Answer: Yes. People are stupid and short-sighted.
>>>it makes you wonder if this is the first step for Nintendo to become a major player in the online gaming market
No, it makes me wonder just how in the hell they were granted patents on such obvious aspects of online gaming (already in use for some years now BTW) in the first place!
-Nano.
Summary of kernel changes from v2.6.1 to v2.6.2
[SCTP] ADDIP: Support for processing ASCONF chunks and respond with ASCONF_ACK chunks.
Clear as mud.
Remember, Linux zealotry is still zealotry.
-Nano.
It's a way to justify their existence. I had a boss who did it too - came in every weekend 'just to make sure things are running'.
TIf they were ever away from work for more than a day, it would mean that work could function without them, and thus their entire life would become meaningless. Truly tragic.
-Nano.
Doctors and birth control only cost money in the U$A.
/.'ers reading from Europe, we do get a good belly-laugh at the expense of your 'world's richest nation but worst social conscience' every now and again.
For all those
-Nano.
Is that the one that comes pre-loaded with Duke Nukem : Forever?
-Nano.
Why does something need to generate revenue in order to justify its creation?
This is the fundamental problem with a completely capitalistic view of the world - try injecting a little socialism and you may find that providing something people want and need *just for the sake of it* brings its own rewards (e.g. healthcare)
-Nano.
So I now have to sign up to see BSD source code?
-Nano.
You're one hell of a vindictive bastard, aren't you?
Bet you're REEEAL fun to work with.
-Nano.
As much as you Americans would like to believe, Australia is still a 'foreign' country...
> Cue witty retorts about globalisation and corporate takeovers
-Nano.
Well, interestingly...caffeine is a noncomeptitive antagonist - i.e. it doesn't compete at the same cell-surface binding site for it's adrenergic (i.e. adrenaline and noradrenaline) agonists.
Instead, caffeine (and other methylxanthines such as theophylline) act by blocking cyclic-AMP degeneration by intracellular phosphodiesterases. This was kinda what Pfizer were looking for when they stumbled across viagra (sildenafil) - a cardiac specific phosphodiesterase which they could inhibit to increase the affect of circulatory adrenaline on myocardium.
So...what are the take home messages - caffeine in high doses will act like other adrenergic agonists...and will to some extent mimic such 'evil and hated' drugs as cocaine in its actions (note to government: ban immediately!!! panic now - there's no time for rational thought).
I don't deny caffeine addiction exists - I recently treated a young guy admitted with cardiac chest pain whose only vice was 15 cups of coffee a day for the past 5 years. Like any other addiction process, it will take a long time to overcome and each time you see a coka cola it may prove hard to resist.
But there are no drugs that immediately come to mind that would help the immediate withdrawal process....perhaps you could discuss the situation with your doctor and ask for low dose diazepam for particularly bad situations. Most reasonable GPs would give it to you in the UK - I don;t know about the US however.
But, best wishes with the new year ahead, and just be thankful that the only thing you've likely wrecked so far are your teeth. Just stop now before it gets worse.
Best wishes,
-Nano.
It just proves war-hungry nations get ready for anything.
-Nano.
Is the 'War on Cloning' going to be the US' new 'War on Drugs'?
/sarcasm OFF
Cuz that was hella succesful!
-Nano.
Things cheaper on this side of the Atlantic?
First I've ever heard of it...
Petrol (Gas) - about US$5/gallon
Cigs - About US$7/pack
Average CD - About US$22
Tiny house, no land - US$300,000 even outside cities.
So stop bitching already.
-Nano.
I'll be boycotting becasue they killed Farscape, which just shows the sci-fi channel has no taste and no time for real sci-fi, and couldn't give two shits about the opinions of their fans.
In other words, I expected the remake to be a total farce of the original, because the sci-fi channel DOES NOT CARE about sci-fi.
-Nano.
You spent hours laughing because you saw a man's penis?
Were you abused as a child, or are you just extremely sexually repressed?
-Nano.
>>>She reminded me of Haley Joel Osment from AI in some ways.
And this was meant to be a *good* thing?
-Nano.
Well, they do all get to see breasts of a kind...
-Nano.
I agree...kinda:
US$2,999 in the US
GBP£2,299 in the UK.....which is....US$3,829
So actually, it turns into a big rip outside the US. Which is a big shame, because I'd like to have put that extra US$800 into a 23" cinema monitor....
mmm...sweet...
-Nano.
in fact, larger hips would increase the energy required for females to walk and would decrese their abilities to climb trees and so-on.
/. crowd - big brains doesnt automatically equal good looks.
plus, your assertion that bigger brains = bigger faces = increased mating potential is bunk - look at all those animals, quite happy to get on and fuck, without massive faces = squirrels? rabbits? lobsters? how about animals with large faces and small brains - horses? llamas?
larger brains equalling more aesthetically pleasing faces? so are better looking people automatically smarter? Ask most of us
-Nano.
By pre-paying the fine for illegal use of those CDs, does it thereby allow you to go ahead and use them for their (purported) intended illegal purpose?
-Nano.
Except that there's absolutely no way of telling if SCO has simply made MD5 checksums of the linux kernel and is distributing those.
'Ha, look - see, your kernel is identical to ours! What, you think we made that happen on purpose, well sign this NDA to make sure we didn't'
SCO is still full of shit. They must prove otherwise.
-Nano.
I'm just a little muddled on one tiny point:
What interest would a *service provider* who makes *no phones* want with a circuit board design contained within *just one* of the *many thousands* of phones it re-sells?
And a crappy phone at that. Why not steal from the best rather than a Sendo?
Anyone?
-Nano.
Comparing the US to a nation with a comparable record of offing trouble-makers, like, say, the UK, then we probably don't look so good.
Umm...I really hope you're just trolling and can actually provide some evidence that the UK just 'offs' its trouble makers. We don't.
Unlike a big friendly nation like the US where they execute teenagers. Oh, and weren't the US and Iran the only two countries not to ratify that little UN convention on *not* executing children?
You wonderfully narrow minded, arrogant fool.
-Nano.