Just like Florida was the state where all the voting controversy happened, and it was just a coincidence that Bush's brother was the governor there?
Yeah, that was sneaky, the way that those Bush boys:
- Created a damned near tie in Florida.
- Had the DNC hire that Texas telemarketing firm to call senior citizens on the day of the election to try to convince poor old fools that they had mistakenly voted for Buchannan.
Very sneaky of Bush. He must be a lot smarter than he's given credit for.
I'm usually pretty quick to cry "vapor", but these blue-laser DVDs are already a proven concept to lots of companies in their consortium, and they have a standard for it. Unlike other vaporish storage technologies that are always too good to be true, promoted by a small unknown company, rely upon nebulous revolutions in technology, etc. -- blue ray DVDs and their ilk are on the way.
It's a done deal, now we're just waiting to see who wins the race to get them out first.
Then it needs to just be part of the game. Quake is a virtual reality of a very high-tech world; it's only natural that the soldiers of that world have cybernetic enhancements and smart weapons.
Then, you're competing with other players with your clever movement skills. When someone comes up with a movement cyborg that executes dodge combinations and such, then what? Make it a part of the game! After all, it's only natural that the soldiers of that world have cybernetic enhancements and smart movement.
The problem is that you keep painting yourself into a corner, cutting off piece after piece of the game until you're left with nothing... nothing interesting in an action game, at least. Congratulations, a whole genre that was once a lot of fun for people has now become an exercise in watching the computers play one another.
In the US, contact the Better Busines Bureau. Make sure that the carrier knows that you're planning to do so.
Raise a big stink. I signed up for Sprint a couple of years back, because they claimed that they had my city covered. I had to pay an upfront fee for the phone and contract. After having the phone for a week, I decided that the coverage sucked, but when I went to return it, they wanted to keep like $100 worth of my signup fees, and charge me for my week's usage. I told them to go fuck off, and I raised holy hell with about 6 or 7 people over several days, and threatened to file a complaint with the BBB before they decided to relent and give me my god damned money back.
Screw Sprint. They lied to me about their coverage, and wasted my time having to dick around with them. My time is valuable, and if I waste a couple of hours of it having to resolve their false advertising, I'm certainly not going to pay them a bonus.
All it will take is for one of the carriers (possibly a new one) to support it. They'll advertise that the phone number you get from them will be the last one you'll ever need, since they support phone number portability. They'll build up a huge number of customers based on this tactic, and other carriers will want to be able to lure those customers away. They'll only be able to do so by also supporting number portability.
Also, what are the penalties that the FCC will enforce? Maybe they'll start taking away spectrum from carriers that don't support it? That would hurt... a lot. Seems like something within the FCC's ability.
A good rule, but even games like EverQuest that "mostly" don't trust the client are susceptible to macro programs that automate movements. Games like Quake are susceptible to aimbots.
Both of these hacks simulate player input that you must have from the client machine.
So now, you're placing the burden on *me*, an innocent citizen, to jump through hoops to avoid having unwanted people use my property, my phone, my email box, etc. as they wish?
Screw that. The onus should be on the solicitors, since they didn't pay for any of the things that I mentioned above... I DID.
Like it or not you are a member of a free society.
That's bullshit. Nothing about being in a free society has to mean that sellers automatically get to use their target market's resources (phones, walkways, email boxes, etc.).
It's like saying, "If you don't want your car to be stolen, don't leave it where someone can jimmy the lock and hot wire it. It's a free country, leave your car locked up in a vault."
What's the efficiency of your run of the mill inductive transfer? I'd imagine that you lose a lot of power generating the field that isn't transferred to the target device.
By associating a fee with the sending of spam, you're legitimizing the practice, much as junk postal mail is "legitimate".
Don't even begin to open that door, you fools. We must make it illegal to send spam, then from there, make it illegal to send unsolicited postal mail, solicit on your doorstep, and make unsolicited commercial/charity/political telephone calls.
It's my phone, my email inbox, my mailbox, and my doorstep. Fuck off if you think you have a right to use it at will to sell your crap.
Actually, in the first version of that reply, I had used "mad man", but I knew that someone would employ the tactic of implying that I was referring to GWB. I guess that "dictator" still left me open, and I should have used "Saddam" instead.
Anyway... what in the hell is the left going to do if GWB gets elected in 2004? They're so sure that he never won in the first place, so how will they feel about an American populace that tells them that they were wrong all this time?
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I'd like to see you assert that 9/11 would still have happened had the US government not been practicing foreign intervention by force over the past century or so.
I'd like to see you assert that the world would have been better off if the United States hadn't intervened with Hitler. I'd like to see you even begin to assert that the world would be better if the US hadn't protected Europe from the very predatory Soviet Union.
Common sense tells us that foreign intervention breeds resentment and hatred. Common sense tells us that terrorism -- evil as it may be -- is a direct response to evil.
Yes, intervention breeds resentment and hatred. No, intervention isn't necessarily evil, so the second part of your argument is quite invalid.
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What a pussified statement to make.
Yeah, it would be easy to be liked in the world because your country never took unpopular ethical stands on anything. It'd be easy to do nothing while fundamentally flawed political systems (communism and dictatorships) wreaked havoc on other human beings around the world.
Everyone would just fucking love you... right up to the point where the whole world went to shit because nobody cared enough to take decisive action.
Sometimes, you just have to face the fact that even when you do "the right thing", people are going to hate you for it. It doesn't mean that what you did was wrong.
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It's not about expectations that he'd do any better. It's about making sure that blame is placed squarely at the feet of the most guilty party. From what I've seen, Iraqi civilian death toll numbers are circulated first by people who are opposed to this war. They don't like Saddam to take any blame for them, so they leave his part in all of this out.
Fine, let's remember the civilian costs to all this, but don't forget about the dictator who keeps making those civilian costs inevitable. Leaving out either part is somewhat intellectually dishonest.
And shame on you for trying to make others sit on their hands while thousands of people are slaughtered every year by a real asshole of a dictator and his boys.
You can chant your "no bloood for oil" slogans all you want, but a lot of us really believe that the world will be a far better place without Saddam in it.
You really have to wonder at the types of people who feel the need to install this software onto their computers so they can prove to their little church friends that they're not perverts.
Don't forget about the political calls. While I applaud the first half of the effort to eliminate these calls, I wish that politicians had the nuts to go the whole way and remove themselves and charities as exceptions.
The right way IMO to do this is to have a close box for closing up the tab strip itself in the same place Phoenix and Mozilla have it, but to also have close boxes on the tabs themselves (the way Galeon does it).
No!!!!!
This may have some intuitive value the first time you have to figure it out, but I value being able to click that same "x" any number of times to close the tabs with which I'm finished. Hunting for each tab's close box would defeat some of the utility of tabs.
This is the kind of judicial pronouncement that I like to see. Logical, libertarian, etc.
My one hesitation is that I think that parents should have a "reasonable" way to prevent their children from seeing unapproved sites. That way really needs to be addressed in the free market through private companies that compile lists of various types of taboo sites, and sell that list to concerned parents.
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Just like Florida was the state where all the voting controversy happened, and it was just a coincidence that Bush's brother was the governor there?
Yeah, that was sneaky, the way that those Bush boys:
- Created a damned near tie in Florida.
- Had the DNC hire that Texas telemarketing firm to call senior citizens on the day of the election to try to convince poor old fools that they had mistakenly voted for Buchannan.
Very sneaky of Bush. He must be a lot smarter than he's given credit for.
Mod this parent up! It makes a very important statement. While you're modding it up, see if you can move it to the Flash article.
Heh, sometimes it's worth it to surf at zero.
I'm usually pretty quick to cry "vapor", but these blue-laser DVDs are already a proven concept to lots of companies in their consortium, and they have a standard for it. Unlike other vaporish storage technologies that are always too good to be true, promoted by a small unknown company, rely upon nebulous revolutions in technology, etc. -- blue ray DVDs and their ilk are on the way.
It's a done deal, now we're just waiting to see who wins the race to get them out first.
Rot13.com, dude.
Then it needs to just be part of the game. Quake is a virtual reality of a very high-tech world; it's only natural that the soldiers of that world have cybernetic enhancements and smart weapons.
Then, you're competing with other players with your clever movement skills. When someone comes up with a movement cyborg that executes dodge combinations and such, then what? Make it a part of the game! After all, it's only natural that the soldiers of that world have cybernetic enhancements and smart movement.
The problem is that you keep painting yourself into a corner, cutting off piece after piece of the game until you're left with nothing... nothing interesting in an action game, at least. Congratulations, a whole genre that was once a lot of fun for people has now become an exercise in watching the computers play one another.
In the US, contact the Better Busines Bureau. Make sure that the carrier knows that you're planning to do so.
Raise a big stink. I signed up for Sprint a couple of years back, because they claimed that they had my city covered. I had to pay an upfront fee for the phone and contract. After having the phone for a week, I decided that the coverage sucked, but when I went to return it, they wanted to keep like $100 worth of my signup fees, and charge me for my week's usage. I told them to go fuck off, and I raised holy hell with about 6 or 7 people over several days, and threatened to file a complaint with the BBB before they decided to relent and give me my god damned money back.
Screw Sprint. They lied to me about their coverage, and wasted my time having to dick around with them. My time is valuable, and if I waste a couple of hours of it having to resolve their false advertising, I'm certainly not going to pay them a bonus.
All it will take is for one of the carriers (possibly a new one) to support it. They'll advertise that the phone number you get from them will be the last one you'll ever need, since they support phone number portability. They'll build up a huge number of customers based on this tactic, and other carriers will want to be able to lure those customers away. They'll only be able to do so by also supporting number portability.
Also, what are the penalties that the FCC will enforce? Maybe they'll start taking away spectrum from carriers that don't support it? That would hurt... a lot. Seems like something within the FCC's ability.
A good rule, but even games like EverQuest that "mostly" don't trust the client are susceptible to macro programs that automate movements. Games like Quake are susceptible to aimbots.
Both of these hacks simulate player input that you must have from the client machine.
'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.'
Are you serious about this? Are the Germans really turning into such huge pussies?
Jesus Christ, it's a video game. What a crock of shit.
So now, you're placing the burden on *me*, an innocent citizen, to jump through hoops to avoid having unwanted people use my property, my phone, my email box, etc. as they wish?
Screw that. The onus should be on the solicitors, since they didn't pay for any of the things that I mentioned above... I DID.
Like it or not you are a member of a free society.
That's bullshit. Nothing about being in a free society has to mean that sellers automatically get to use their target market's resources (phones, walkways, email boxes, etc.).
It's like saying, "If you don't want your car to be stolen, don't leave it where someone can jimmy the lock and hot wire it. It's a free country, leave your car locked up in a vault."
What's the efficiency of your run of the mill inductive transfer? I'd imagine that you lose a lot of power generating the field that isn't transferred to the target device.
Kind of speaks against their "green" argument.
By associating a fee with the sending of spam, you're legitimizing the practice, much as junk postal mail is "legitimate".
Don't even begin to open that door, you fools. We must make it illegal to send spam, then from there, make it illegal to send unsolicited postal mail, solicit on your doorstep, and make unsolicited commercial/charity/political telephone calls.
It's my phone, my email inbox, my mailbox, and my doorstep. Fuck off if you think you have a right to use it at will to sell your crap.
Actually, in the first version of that reply, I had used "mad man", but I knew that someone would employ the tactic of implying that I was referring to GWB. I guess that "dictator" still left me open, and I should have used "Saddam" instead.
Anyway... what in the hell is the left going to do if GWB gets elected in 2004? They're so sure that he never won in the first place, so how will they feel about an American populace that tells them that they were wrong all this time?
I'd like to see you assert that 9/11 would still have happened had the US government not been practicing foreign intervention by force over the past century or so.
I'd like to see you assert that the world would have been better off if the United States hadn't intervened with Hitler. I'd like to see you even begin to assert that the world would be better if the US hadn't protected Europe from the very predatory Soviet Union.
Common sense tells us that foreign intervention breeds resentment and hatred. Common sense tells us that terrorism -- evil as it may be -- is a direct response to evil.
Yes, intervention breeds resentment and hatred. No, intervention isn't necessarily evil, so the second part of your argument is quite invalid.
What a pussified statement to make.
Yeah, it would be easy to be liked in the world because your country never took unpopular ethical stands on anything. It'd be easy to do nothing while fundamentally flawed political systems (communism and dictatorships) wreaked havoc on other human beings around the world.
Everyone would just fucking love you... right up to the point where the whole world went to shit because nobody cared enough to take decisive action.
Sometimes, you just have to face the fact that even when you do "the right thing", people are going to hate you for it. It doesn't mean that what you did was wrong.
It's not about expectations that he'd do any better. It's about making sure that blame is placed squarely at the feet of the most guilty party. From what I've seen, Iraqi civilian death toll numbers are circulated first by people who are opposed to this war. They don't like Saddam to take any blame for them, so they leave his part in all of this out.
Fine, let's remember the civilian costs to all this, but don't forget about the dictator who keeps making those civilian costs inevitable. Leaving out either part is somewhat intellectually dishonest.
And shame on you for trying to make others sit on their hands while thousands of people are slaughtered every year by a real asshole of a dictator and his boys.
You can chant your "no bloood for oil" slogans all you want, but a lot of us really believe that the world will be a far better place without Saddam in it.
Why learn two markup formats when you can learn one? I find DTDs to be an unnecessary bit of mental parsing, when XSL is so much more straightforward.
... says the condescending ass wasting time looking for group approval by posting on /.
Since so little actually happens in a baseball game, the compression ratio should be pretty nice, meaning low bandwidth requirements.... cool. :)
You really have to wonder at the types of people who feel the need to install this software onto their computers so they can prove to their little church friends that they're not perverts.
Too funny.
Don't forget about the political calls. While I applaud the first half of the effort to eliminate these calls, I wish that politicians had the nuts to go the whole way and remove themselves and charities as exceptions.
So, when was the last time that one of Popular Science's neato whizzbang just-around-the-corner items became a reality?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
The right way IMO to do this is to have a close box for closing up the tab strip itself in the same place Phoenix and Mozilla have it, but to also have close boxes on the tabs themselves (the way Galeon does it).
No!!!!!
This may have some intuitive value the first time you have to figure it out, but I value being able to click that same "x" any number of times to close the tabs with which I'm finished. Hunting for each tab's close box would defeat some of the utility of tabs.
This is the kind of judicial pronouncement that I like to see. Logical, libertarian, etc.
My one hesitation is that I think that parents should have a "reasonable" way to prevent their children from seeing unapproved sites. That way really needs to be addressed in the free market through private companies that compile lists of various types of taboo sites, and sell that list to concerned parents.