Nobody under 18 is a citizen. Do you see us voting? Do you see us working jobs?
Let me see. Born in the USA = citizen. As to voting, that is age dependent. Amusingly, my son did vote, due to a quirk in election procedures at our local demo endorsements, as one of our city councilmembers learned about. And I do see kids working jobs - where do you live?
In fact, families can employ kids. Many restaurants I know of have kids who work there. I started working at about 13. Are you a slacker?
I got that Nigerian money laundering email twice a day for a week from the same guy before I cut him an email threatening to take a squad of tanks to his contry and turn it into rubble. To my amazement, he actually replied! He (sarcastically, obviously) invited me to attempt to destroy his country.
Actually, you should report this to the Secret Service - they have a department that investigates international frauds like this. You can find them on the Treasury site for the US govt.
I say this because I used to report such spams to the SEC and they asked me to report them directly to the Secret Service.
I personally have about 10 email addresses, so I get a lot of spam. In fact, one of the easiest ways to tell it is spam is that I get eight copies of it (two are private accounts).
Under my state (Washington) law, as upheld by the US Supreme Court, it's illegal to send me spam with forged headers and misleading subject lines.
In fact, I can charge the spammer money for it.
Usually, I just report it upstream. Sometimes I report it to the Washington State Attorney General, who's a really nice person with very pretty eyes (yes, she's married with teen kids, but just had to say that).
If one had the time, one could sue these people in small claims court.
My point in all this is that I DO get hundreds of spams a day, because my site pages have keywords that many of those pr0n people use - it's for a women's organization - and I suffer from the fact that each spamster thinks it's ok to send out one email. So I get hundreds a day.
When I go on vacation, I usually just nuke the bounced emails that my list filters redirected and start again, but it does take me a lot of time to deal with jerks who send me spam.
Folks, take a look at this. Mr. Shifman hasn't sued anyone for responding to his spam, and I'll wager he never will. He's made baseless threats, referring to non-existent lawyers. That's common among people who feel backed into a corner and don't understand law.
Actually, not only is that common among people without lawyers, it is a common practise amongst lawyers.
Few cases ever involve litigation, or even arbitration. Most of the time, a lawyer sends a threatening letter, stating his view of the legal matter, and scares off the other party.
Were one to go to trial, one would find most of the threatening lawyer letters one gets will result in the defendant winning.
This is also how Microsoft scares off the small companies. It's not that they broke the law - it's that they don't have either the resources in time and money to fight Microsoft, which will gladly use teams of lawyers to bully their way to what they want.
"My first few years of UseNet posts had a copyright declaration in them. I own that copyright, and I did NOT grant google that copyright usage."
You licensed it for use in Usenet and Usenet-like media as soon as you clicked Send. You can terminate that license by going to google.com and submitting a remove request.
No, I signed no such license, clicked on no such agreement, gave away no such copyright.
When I first got on, none of that existed. These were the wild west days, my friend, when Fans Walked Tall And Strode Like Giants. When a geek had dual floppies and would use them on Bad People. When Cattlefarm Galactica was In and Star Wars was New.
We thought about our posts carefully. We edited our lines. We crafted our flames, kept them near to our hearts, forged them in irony and blued their steel in the white hot fires of truth and justice, and let them slay our enemies with their subtle rapier-like wit and craft.
Look, at my brother's 40th birthday party, there were a bunch of guys from various broadband companies and some techies.
We all agreed it isn't this that's the problem, for it never stopped Europe.
Our problem is infrastructure. We have too much of it, so we take much longer to roll out changes.
This is why you won't see HDTV before 2005, because it costs too darn much to roll it out, since we have to upgrade EVERYTHING.
And this is why you don't get cable modems and DSL everywhere - we have too much investment in the current physical plant, so the companies involved come up with excuses why they don't replace it before it's been depreciated.
You posted your messages on an international network of servers that store messages and provide anyone with access to them. It's a little late to consider them secret. Why does it offend you that someone's storing them and providing anyone with access to them?
No, I was talking about copyright. My first few years of UseNet posts had a copyright declaration in them. I own that copyright, and I did NOT grant google that copyright usage.
Republication of my works without my permission is not a permitted usage.
I'm not upset that requestors can delete their own postings.
Back in my early trufan days, I tended to put a copyright declaration on many of my posts, for this very reason.
I did not grant others the rights to my works then. Neither did Bill G.
He's rich, I'm not, but some of my early flames would be very embarassing now if brought back to the light of day. For then we fought the faanish wars, and many a tale was told round the electronic flicker of the green and amber screens about the forces of chaos and their wars with those who sought to control the power of the WorldCon for their own evil aims.
The question is, can MSFT deliver the functionality of the Game Boy Advance?
They can crank out a box that specs out as a GBA competitor. But it won't BE a GBA competitor, because they don't grok kids gaming.
This is why Nintendo does well. They do grok kids gaming. You may hate Pokemon, you may not like Pimkin, but kids love them. The buttons are where they need to be - you don't get tired - the carts work easily.
The people who brought you xBox are giving you a PC solution for Game playing. And that's why it's a distant third in the game title sales. And why it will stay that way. They don't grok gamers. They never have.
And they lose money each box they sell. Nintendo makes money on every box they sell, which means they can sell games cheap. Cause the games are where the bucks are - so kids can buy more games. You may think it's nuts to buy the Pikachu Yellow version of Pokemon, the Red, the Blue, the Crystal, the Silver, the Gold - but it means they make money on each sale at Nintendo.
Microsoft thinks they'll get it all in one (flawed) release. And fix the bugs later. Nintendo thinks they'll make sure it works first, and save the extra things for future releases.
So, in short, MSFT will fail at this one too.
Of course, what do I know, I hold stock in both MSFT and Nintendo, among other companies. MSFT makes money due to dominance, holdings, and cash flow - the game business is not profitable, except with pro forma (fake) accounting methods. Nintendo makes money with this.
Original (false) program
> face.is_terrorist = TRUE;
> police.arrest(face.parent);
> police.beat(face.parent);
> police.eatDonuts();
Actual program in use:
face.is.terrorist = TRUE;
police.arrest(face.parent);
drunk.fan.avoid.arrest(face.parent);
police.shoot(face.parent);
identity.validate(face.parent) != face.is.terrorist;
police.coverup(face.parent);
police.status(murderer.parent);
Not only are you paying a tax to the "music providers" for using a CD-R or CD-R/W or blank tape, they ARE NOT PAYING IT TO:
the musicians listed on MP3.com - where is their cut of the pie?
the indie recorder who got listed on Napster - where is their cut of the pie?
Face it - the money only goes to those musicians stupid enough to have signed a contract with a RIAA music provider. In which they lost their copyright ability to earn the most money from the sale of their music, and in return get less than a penny per song played from many dollars collected on the sale of the CD.
Here in Seattle (not the far-off land of Redmond, where the dark lord lies across the bridge of death, plotting his evil schemes to regain Ring.0) we have a ban on violent video games at the Seattle Center Fun Forest and other city-owned arcades. None of this will be affected by this lawsuit, since we are not impinging on private enterprise, but a city-owned enterprise.
Of course, if the permits for non-city-owned enterprises are changed to reserve violent video games only to the city, there isn't much one could do about it, regardless of this court ruling.
It should be noted that CA state spam law is not just similar to WA state spam law, but that the WA state spam law was also upheld by the state supreme court and an appeal to the US Supreme Court was denied, as it is inherently constitutional.
In this Warcraft, if you select a group of units and tell them to move they will only move at the speed of its slowest member.
Of course, this could be bad, if they ever implement the "wounded walk slower" rule.
Then you'd see people try not to create groups that are too big.
Be nice if they avoided obstacles better - in I and II they meet a narrow corridor and split up in slightly silly ways. It's worse in Starcraft - there I get drones and all trapped trying to go left, right, left, right - all to escape from placing a build.
I always liked that the sheep go "Baa! Ram! Ewe!" myself. A nice touch.
If I were to look for an additional feature, it would be someway of telling someone at the back of a group (like archers) to stay in the back, instead of racing ahead of the slow armored folk who are protecting them. I lose more heroes that way...
And, don't forget, all Form Request Forms must be signed by Orange-clearance-or-up Citizens, and deposition of ink on a form below the ink's clearance first requires an Ink Request Form for the higher clearance, signed by both you and the signer...
I'm sorry, but your ink is an improper color for your security clearance. Please reconsider your color choice of ink. Failure to do so may result in immeadiate dispatch of the Penguin Police to your location.
Of course you have to fill out the Making Lists Form. Of course, first you have to fill out the Form Request Form in order to request the Making Lists Form. Don't even bother to ask how you get a Form Request Form without first filling out a Form Request Form requesting a Form Request Form...
Have a nice day, Citizen. The Computer is your friend!:)
However, please first make sure that you have the proper Clearance to requisition a Form Request Form. Failure to comply with this simple rule may result in your abrupt termination.
Totally agree. The Sims was made for Linux, and we only now need a House Party to make it shine!
If you're not playing with electronic paper dolls, you haven't lived life to the fullest, IMHO.
[note - I have other Linux games - this is just what I think - without Sims there is no future]
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MSFT: The Name goes on before the Security goes in
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WinXP Security Flaw
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· Score: 1
Here at Microsoft we pride ourselves in our attention to detail. Remember - we add more features before 9am than anyone else.
You can be sure with a Microsoft product that the user experience when our software blows up will be incomparable to any other software. In fact, we'll ensure that all our bugs have pleasing error messages.
Microsoft - the Privacy goes out before the Security goes in.
How many porn sites do you have to register to in order to get that much spam?
Good question actually. It's because I do a website for women and girls, for one of the state N.O.W. chapters - and a lot of idiots get jollies trying to sub us to such things, plus for us to show in search engines with girl or women probably increases the spam count from people selling services to such things. Since we also have pages against such things, probably also increases the spam count.
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Nobody under 18 is a citizen. Do you see us voting? Do you see us working jobs?
Let me see. Born in the USA = citizen. As to voting, that is age dependent. Amusingly, my son did vote, due to a quirk in election procedures at our local demo endorsements, as one of our city councilmembers learned about. And I do see kids working jobs - where do you live?
In fact, families can employ kids. Many restaurants I know of have kids who work there. I started working at about 13. Are you a slacker?
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does that mean I cease to exist?
And does that mean my 10 yo son is not a citizen? If so, how did he get a US passport?
"May I see your ID, citizen?"
"I don't have one."
"I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to arrest you now, citizen."
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In many states, your social security number is PRINTED on your driver's license.
By doing this, you are making our SSN our national ID.
Good thing I live in Washington State, where we don't let them do that.
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I got that Nigerian money laundering email twice a day for a week from the same guy before I cut him an email threatening to take a squad of tanks to his contry and turn it into rubble. To my amazement, he actually replied! He (sarcastically, obviously) invited me to attempt to destroy his country.
Actually, you should report this to the Secret Service - they have a department that investigates international frauds like this. You can find them on the Treasury site for the US govt.
I say this because I used to report such spams to the SEC and they asked me to report them directly to the Secret Service.
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I personally have about 10 email addresses, so I get a lot of spam. In fact, one of the easiest ways to tell it is spam is that I get eight copies of it (two are private accounts).
Under my state (Washington) law, as upheld by the US Supreme Court, it's illegal to send me spam with forged headers and misleading subject lines.
In fact, I can charge the spammer money for it.
Usually, I just report it upstream. Sometimes I report it to the Washington State Attorney General, who's a really nice person with very pretty eyes (yes, she's married with teen kids, but just had to say that).
If one had the time, one could sue these people in small claims court.
My point in all this is that I DO get hundreds of spams a day, because my site pages have keywords that many of those pr0n people use - it's for a women's organization - and I suffer from the fact that each spamster thinks it's ok to send out one email. So I get hundreds a day.
When I go on vacation, I usually just nuke the bounced emails that my list filters redirected and start again, but it does take me a lot of time to deal with jerks who send me spam.
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Folks, take a look at this. Mr. Shifman hasn't sued anyone for responding to his spam, and I'll wager he never will. He's made baseless threats, referring to non-existent lawyers. That's common among people who feel backed into a corner and don't understand law.
Actually, not only is that common among people without lawyers, it is a common practise amongst lawyers.
Few cases ever involve litigation, or even arbitration. Most of the time, a lawyer sends a threatening letter, stating his view of the legal matter, and scares off the other party.
Were one to go to trial, one would find most of the threatening lawyer letters one gets will result in the defendant winning.
This is also how Microsoft scares off the small companies. It's not that they broke the law - it's that they don't have either the resources in time and money to fight Microsoft, which will gladly use teams of lawyers to bully their way to what they want.
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"My first few years of UseNet posts had a copyright declaration in them. I own that copyright, and I did NOT grant google that copyright usage."
You licensed it for use in Usenet and Usenet-like media as soon as you clicked Send. You can terminate that license by going to google.com and submitting a remove request.
No, I signed no such license, clicked on no such agreement, gave away no such copyright.
When I first got on, none of that existed. These were the wild west days, my friend, when Fans Walked Tall And Strode Like Giants. When a geek had dual floppies and would use them on Bad People. When Cattlefarm Galactica was In and Star Wars was New.
We thought about our posts carefully. We edited our lines. We crafted our flames, kept them near to our hearts, forged them in irony and blued their steel in the white hot fires of truth and justice, and let them slay our enemies with their subtle rapier-like wit and craft.
For we were Fen. And we were the Elite.
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Look, at my brother's 40th birthday party, there were a bunch of guys from various broadband companies and some techies.
We all agreed it isn't this that's the problem, for it never stopped Europe.
Our problem is infrastructure. We have too much of it, so we take much longer to roll out changes.
This is why you won't see HDTV before 2005, because it costs too darn much to roll it out, since we have to upgrade EVERYTHING.
And this is why you don't get cable modems and DSL everywhere - we have too much investment in the current physical plant, so the companies involved come up with excuses why they don't replace it before it's been depreciated.
The rest is all carp.
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You posted your messages on an international network of servers that store messages and provide anyone with access to them. It's a little late to consider them secret. Why does it offend you that someone's storing them and providing anyone with access to them?
No, I was talking about copyright. My first few years of UseNet posts had a copyright declaration in them. I own that copyright, and I did NOT grant google that copyright usage.
Republication of my works without my permission is not a permitted usage.
-
I'm not upset that requestors can delete their own postings.
Back in my early trufan days, I tended to put a copyright declaration on many of my posts, for this very reason.
I did not grant others the rights to my works then. Neither did Bill G.
He's rich, I'm not, but some of my early flames would be very embarassing now if brought back to the light of day. For then we fought the faanish wars, and many a tale was told round the electronic flicker of the green and amber screens about the forces of chaos and their wars with those who sought to control the power of the WorldCon for their own evil aims.
-
The question is, can MSFT deliver the functionality of the Game Boy Advance?
They can crank out a box that specs out as a GBA competitor. But it won't BE a GBA competitor, because they don't grok kids gaming.
This is why Nintendo does well. They do grok kids gaming. You may hate Pokemon, you may not like Pimkin, but kids love them. The buttons are where they need to be - you don't get tired - the carts work easily.
The people who brought you xBox are giving you a PC solution for Game playing. And that's why it's a distant third in the game title sales. And why it will stay that way. They don't grok gamers. They never have.
And they lose money each box they sell. Nintendo makes money on every box they sell, which means they can sell games cheap. Cause the games are where the bucks are - so kids can buy more games. You may think it's nuts to buy the Pikachu Yellow version of Pokemon, the Red, the Blue, the Crystal, the Silver, the Gold - but it means they make money on each sale at Nintendo.
Microsoft thinks they'll get it all in one (flawed) release. And fix the bugs later. Nintendo thinks they'll make sure it works first, and save the extra things for future releases.
So, in short, MSFT will fail at this one too.
Of course, what do I know, I hold stock in both MSFT and Nintendo, among other companies. MSFT makes money due to dominance, holdings, and cash flow - the game business is not profitable, except with pro forma (fake) accounting methods. Nintendo makes money with this.
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Original (false) program
> face.is_terrorist = TRUE;
> police.arrest(face.parent);
> police.beat(face.parent);
> police.eatDonuts();
Actual program in use:
face.is.terrorist = TRUE;
police.arrest(face.parent);
drunk.fan.avoid.arrest(face.parent);
police.shoot(face.parent);
identity.validate(face.parent) != face.is.terrorist;
police.coverup(face.parent);
police.status(murderer.parent);
As a private (not public) citizen, the use of such face recognition systems inherently means they record my likeness.
In theory, under time-tested requirements for media recording, they cannot use my likeness without my permission.
Yet they are.
I did not grant usage to them, when I walked on the sidewalk. I did not sign a contract granting them usage in a film or TV show.
They stole my copyright!
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Not only are you paying a tax to the "music providers" for using a CD-R or CD-R/W or blank tape, they ARE NOT PAYING IT TO:
the musicians listed on MP3.com - where is their cut of the pie?
the indie recorder who got listed on Napster - where is their cut of the pie?
Face it - the money only goes to those musicians stupid enough to have signed a contract with a RIAA music provider. In which they lost their copyright ability to earn the most money from the sale of their music, and in return get less than a penny per song played from many dollars collected on the sale of the CD.
-
Here in Seattle (not the far-off land of Redmond, where the dark lord lies across the bridge of death, plotting his evil schemes to regain Ring.0) we have a ban on violent video games at the Seattle Center Fun Forest and other city-owned arcades. None of this will be affected by this lawsuit, since we are not impinging on private enterprise, but a city-owned enterprise.
Of course, if the permits for non-city-owned enterprises are changed to reserve violent video games only to the city, there isn't much one could do about it, regardless of this court ruling.
-
It should be noted that CA state spam law is not just similar to WA state spam law, but that the WA state spam law was also upheld by the state supreme court and an appeal to the US Supreme Court was denied, as it is inherently constitutional.
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Sometimes George just lucky, i guess
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Hmm. I looked at the screens and the first thing I thought was - someone's been reading too much Lord of the Rings recently.
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I mean, they added:
magical cloaks
rings
spell books
Oh, yeah.
Now if I could just locate that nice ring I got for my birthday present
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In this Warcraft, if you select a group of units and tell them to move they will only move at the speed of its slowest member.
Of course, this could be bad, if they ever implement the "wounded walk slower" rule.
Then you'd see people try not to create groups that are too big.
Be nice if they avoided obstacles better - in I and II they meet a narrow corridor and split up in slightly silly ways. It's worse in Starcraft - there I get drones and all trapped trying to go left, right, left, right - all to escape from placing a build.
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Hey, if I can buy a Linux edition of The Sims, why not Warcraft III? Just make it WineX compatible and I'll pay for the game ....
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... aspect of WC II.
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Clicking on a character multiple times of course!
I always liked that the sheep go "Baa! Ram! Ewe!" myself. A nice touch.
If I were to look for an additional feature, it would be someway of telling someone at the back of a group (like archers) to stay in the back, instead of racing ahead of the slow armored folk who are protecting them. I lose more heroes that way
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And, don't forget, all Form Request Forms must be signed by Orange-clearance-or-up Citizens, and deposition of ink on a form below the ink's clearance first requires an Ink Request Form for the higher clearance, signed by both you and the signer...
...
I'm sorry, but your ink is an improper color for your security clearance. Please reconsider your color choice of ink. Failure to do so may result in immeadiate dispatch of the Penguin Police to your location.
Have a nice day, citizen
Of course you have to fill out the Making Lists Form. Of course, first you have to fill out the Form Request Form in order to request the Making Lists Form. Don't even bother to ask how you get a Form Request Form without first filling out a Form Request Form requesting a Form Request Form...
:)
Have a nice day, Citizen. The Computer is your friend!
However, please first make sure that you have the proper Clearance to requisition a Form Request Form. Failure to comply with this simple rule may result in your abrupt termination.
Would you like another cookie?
-):
Totally agree. The Sims was made for Linux, and we only now need a House Party to make it shine!
If you're not playing with electronic paper dolls, you haven't lived life to the fullest, IMHO.
[note - I have other Linux games - this is just what I think - without Sims there is no future]
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Here at Microsoft we pride ourselves in our attention to detail. Remember - we add more features before 9am than anyone else.
You can be sure with a Microsoft product that the user experience when our software blows up will be incomparable to any other software. In fact, we'll ensure that all our bugs have pleasing error messages.
Microsoft - the Privacy goes out before the Security goes in.
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How many porn sites do you have to register to in order to get that much spam?
Good question actually. It's because I do a website for women and girls, for one of the state N.O.W. chapters - and a lot of idiots get jollies trying to sub us to such things, plus for us to show in search engines with girl or women probably increases the spam count from people selling services to such things. Since we also have pages against such things, probably also increases the spam count.
And the lists have similar keywords.