And they requested it repeatedly. The paperwork didn't go through for 2 days. And the National Guard Commander didn't want the army in there until they were satisfied that they couldn't handle it.
Like I said. A clusterfuck of leadership. Absolute disaster.
>>First of all, while there were indeed a lot of sick and elderly trapped in New Orleans, the vast majority were perfectly healthy. These people had absolutely no excuse for being there. Their presence cost many of them their lives, and interfered with relief efforts.
Except, while healthy, they had no way out of the city. You clamly ignored the point I rasied about, you know, poor people not being able to afford to just pack up and leave their entire lives on the drop of a hat.
The fact of the matter is there should have been an evacuation plan, and wasn't. There should have been leadership immediately after the floods started, there wasn't. And at least 10,000 people died because of it.
I can only hope that heads will roll for this, and that in the future, we'll be much more prepared.
Why is this marked funny? Ok, so it is funny. But in all seriousness, that'e EXACTLY what is going to happen. When people want a Blu-Ray DVD player that they can control rather than the Blu-Ray "admins", they'll just..
1. Hack it the way they want, including completely disableing the internet protection. 2. Buy one from a company that doesn't HAVE the dial home stuff. You honestly think there aren't going to be a million asian knockoffs that work just as well but without the built in assholeness?
Wouldn't it be trivial to packet sniff the DVD player's "All's good, go play the DVD!" packets, then set up an emulator on a LAN and outsmart the player?
Or if you REALLY wanted to nip this asinine practice in the bud, DDOS the idiots' servers, so suddenly all these people wanting to play their new Blue Ray DVD players get a "Timeout error. Authentication cannot be accessed. Please try again later." error. Enough times of THAT happening and the public will be out for blood -- the company's blood.
Your a fucking idiot. The people left behind didn't have money to rent a hotel, cars to drive themselves away, or the good health to just walk. Remember, New Orleans is one of the poorest towns in the poorest state in the United States of America. There are a LOT of fucking poor people, and there was NO evac plan, other than "drive yourselves out of the area." No busses, no choppers, nothing but "you're on your own."
Think it's so easy to evac on a tip of a hat? Ok. Put yourself in their shoes, the poor and elderly left behind -- first, get rid of your car keys and wallet. These people don't have cars to drive or spare cash to rent a motel, they're POOR. Second, twist your ankle. A good chunk of the people left behind were elderly and ill, so having a bum leg will be a pretty good stand in. Now, grab your entire family, as much of your property that you want to keep -- should be funny seeing you walking with a bum leg and your PC case strapped to your bag. Remember, it's a hurricane, anything you leave behind is gone. Now go walk for 48 hours straight, see how far you get.
Ok, done? Good. Now take a look around. Ask yourself "Did I just walk far enough to get the hell out of the way of a hurricane?" I'd wager you couldn't even make 50 miles. And remember, this was only a Category 1 hurricane until it hit the warm "global-warming doesn't exist!!!" gulf waters, where it balooned, rapidly.
As for the looting -- oh good, they stole a bunch of ruined TVs. You racist moron. You know why there's so many "black looters" down there? Because the media calls "white looting" "finding food". Oh, and the 60% black population might have something to do with it, too. Ya think?
They went 5 days without any federal relief, all so Bush could set up Photo Ops. Think it's easy to go 5 days without food or water? After day two you have to think to yourself "Ok, so the 7/11 has bottled water and bread, and it's already torn to shit because of the wind, fuck this, I'm going to grab some."
It's so fucking easy to sit back behind your computer monitor in some comfortable computer room on a cushy computer chair and blame the victims of this disaster and subsiquent leadership clusterfuck. But in reality these people were in desperate need of help from their city, state, and federal government and that help didn't arrive until it was 7 days too late.
Was there any legitimate excuse for DS not having FULL wi-fi capability at launch? I don't even mean being able to hack it and use a web browser like PSP, I mean playing online games with people all over world using free wi-fi at Starbucks.
So uh, Nintendo's going to require we get an adapter? That's going to really kill sales. I mean honestly, I can't believe they'd be that stupid.
Oh, wait, they weren't. We're just waiting on some good online games for the DS.
Nintendo dropped no ball. PSP is just grasping at straws to explain why their handheld's sales are so dismal.
So when will they go after people like me who come in to watch a movie, and neither buy nor sneak any food or drink whatsoever? (I also pay off my credit card bills each month, and supposedly the credit card companies call folks like me "deadbeats".)
Funny story with that. My friend used to get craploads of credit cards in the mail. Almost every time I'd see him he'd have a new one on the desk, unopened, unactivated, unused.
Then he paid off his existing credit cards, cleaned up his credit, and generally became the sort of person NOT to waste money on 30% interest.
The credit cards in the mail have basically stopped.
They don't want people who actually pay their bills -- they want people who just barely can afford to pay the interest on their cards -- so they can keep you in perpetual debt to them.
BYOS. Bring your own soda. Chances are there is a nearby gas-station or perhaps your own fridge that is stocked to the gills with 20oz Mt. Dew. One of these babies will only run you $1.25 where I live, and will save you about $4.
That's an interesting idea, except that the local theaters here have large signs saying that "outside food and drink is prohibited by law". I don't believe the law bit is actually true, but if they catch you trying to sneak a soda in they'll wait until after you've paid for the ticket THEN throw you out. They make money with the outrageous ticket prices but they really make bank by selling you $.50 worth of soda for $2.50 and $.10 worth of popcorn for $5.
Well, maybe something in between. A little text blurb at the top saying "Warning: You are using Internet Explorer 7. IE7 is not standards compliant and is considered insecure by most computer experts. We suggest upgrading to a modern browser as soon as possible. For more information, click this link: http://www.stopie.com/" if your server detects IE. Doesn't have to be invasive, just enough to make people notice it.
The problem with SciFi picking up serieses is that they tend to like to kill off the original casts and replace them with their own actors -- which, while good, are usually missing a bit of the magic that the original cast had.
What I really want to know is, when will my nude patch for Tomb Raider, or my hentai character packs for Doom 3 bump THOSE games up to AO? Eh?
The ESRB should be required to rate games pro-actively based upon what people COULD do with them, not with what the designers actually provide.
I mean after all, the ESRB is obviously psychic, they should be able to tell the future and rate accordingly. That's the only way I can see this blowhard asshole's complaints being valid.
Yes, that's the most logcal answer. In fact, I'd say it's the most probable answer.
But it *could* be something else, which is why they won't say for certain yet. That's just the way it works -- you don't say something IS something until it's been scientifically proven.
Which, as I understand it, gives certain "Intelligent Design" "scientists" in Kansas all sorts of confusion...
Seriously. You're just as intitled to the $200 for your 2 drives as anyone else, why not just get help from someone in the US to get your cash or, if you're more ethical than that, send the serials to someone who isn't?:)
There's a huge difference in intentionally going on Kazaa, Freenet, WinNY/Share, whatever and looking for Lolita pornography, and accidently downloading maliciously mislabeled stuff. The difference is intent -- and as long as you can show that there's a reasonable way to have accidently downloaded it, you're good as far as defences go.
Something similar nailed one of my good friends. Set up kazaa to download some Japanese cartoons, some jerkoff renamed something sick and illegal as the (clean and decidedly not sick) cartoon my friend was aiming for, he left it running in the background, left for work, came back to find that his roommate had broken into his computer and discovered the files that had downloaded while he was at work.
It's kinda like Goatse.cxing someone. Yeah, you can do it, in a variety of different ways, but, no one should assume that you're "that kind" of pervert if you have that in your browser history.
I donno, I think a few silly billboards could be fun. Imagine if Thinkgeek / Penny-Arcade / Slashdot / etc put up pseudo-parody billboards on a secluded corner. Could be fun if it's the right company and done with tounge firmly in cheek.
No. As far as I know (read this from a link from the Wiki Article on Terraforming which I can't find right now), unfortunately Mars doens't have enough gravity to hold the gasses in the atmosphere needed for our type of life to survive. They would just escape into deep space. In order to pad the planet to acceptable gravity you'd need to almost double the size of the planet.
According to that article, Mars is much better Paraterraformed, used as a jumping off point for other planets, or used as raw materials for other terraforming projects.
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Actually, most people will just download the Ultimate Edition + DEViANCE crack and be done with it. It's called "smart piracy".
The link in the news article has a torrent link on the page. 710 megs, XVID codec.
Lynx, of course.
Or Firefox with everything but basic HTML 4.0 strict disabled. Every plugin disabled, downloading downloading, etc.
And they requested it repeatedly. The paperwork didn't go through for 2 days. And the National Guard Commander didn't want the army in there until they were satisfied that they couldn't handle it.
Like I said. A clusterfuck of leadership. Absolute disaster.
>>First of all, while there were indeed a lot of sick and elderly trapped in New Orleans, the vast majority were perfectly healthy. These people had absolutely no excuse for being there. Their presence cost many of them their lives, and interfered with relief efforts.
Except, while healthy, they had no way out of the city. You clamly ignored the point I rasied about, you know, poor people not being able to afford to just pack up and leave their entire lives on the drop of a hat.
The fact of the matter is there should have been an evacuation plan, and wasn't. There should have been leadership immediately after the floods started, there wasn't. And at least 10,000 people died because of it.
I can only hope that heads will roll for this, and that in the future, we'll be much more prepared.
Why is this marked funny? Ok, so it is funny. But in all seriousness, that'e EXACTLY what is going to happen. When people want a Blu-Ray DVD player that they can control rather than the Blu-Ray "admins", they'll just..
1. Hack it the way they want, including completely disableing the internet protection.
2. Buy one from a company that doesn't HAVE the dial home stuff. You honestly think there aren't going to be a million asian knockoffs that work just as well but without the built in assholeness?
Wouldn't it be trivial to packet sniff the DVD player's "All's good, go play the DVD!" packets, then set up an emulator on a LAN and outsmart the player?
Or if you REALLY wanted to nip this asinine practice in the bud, DDOS the idiots' servers, so suddenly all these people wanting to play their new Blue Ray DVD players get a "Timeout error. Authentication cannot be accessed. Please try again later." error. Enough times of THAT happening and the public will be out for blood -- the company's blood.
Your a fucking idiot. The people left behind didn't have money to rent a hotel, cars to drive themselves away, or the good health to just walk. Remember, New Orleans is one of the poorest towns in the poorest state in the United States of America. There are a LOT of fucking poor people, and there was NO evac plan, other than "drive yourselves out of the area." No busses, no choppers, nothing but "you're on your own."
Think it's so easy to evac on a tip of a hat? Ok. Put yourself in their shoes, the poor and elderly left behind -- first, get rid of your car keys and wallet. These people don't have cars to drive or spare cash to rent a motel, they're POOR. Second, twist your ankle. A good chunk of the people left behind were elderly and ill, so having a bum leg will be a pretty good stand in. Now, grab your entire family, as much of your property that you want to keep -- should be funny seeing you walking with a bum leg and your PC case strapped to your bag. Remember, it's a hurricane, anything you leave behind is gone. Now go walk for 48 hours straight, see how far you get.
Ok, done? Good. Now take a look around. Ask yourself "Did I just walk far enough to get the hell out of the way of a hurricane?" I'd wager you couldn't even make 50 miles. And remember, this was only a Category 1 hurricane until it hit the warm "global-warming doesn't exist!!!" gulf waters, where it balooned, rapidly.
As for the looting -- oh good, they stole a bunch of ruined TVs. You racist moron. You know why there's so many "black looters" down there? Because the media calls "white looting" "finding food". Oh, and the 60% black population might have something to do with it, too. Ya think?
They went 5 days without any federal relief, all so Bush could set up Photo Ops. Think it's easy to go 5 days without food or water? After day two you have to think to yourself "Ok, so the 7/11 has bottled water and bread, and it's already torn to shit because of the wind, fuck this, I'm going to grab some."
It's so fucking easy to sit back behind your computer monitor in some comfortable computer room on a cushy computer chair and blame the victims of this disaster and subsiquent leadership clusterfuck. But in reality these people were in desperate need of help from their city, state, and federal government and that help didn't arrive until it was 7 days too late.
So uh, Nintendo's going to require we get an adapter? That's going to really kill sales. I mean honestly, I can't believe they'd be that stupid.
Oh, wait, they weren't. We're just waiting on some good online games for the DS.
Nintendo dropped no ball. PSP is just grasping at straws to explain why their handheld's sales are so dismal.
Funny story with that. My friend used to get craploads of credit cards in the mail. Almost every time I'd see him he'd have a new one on the desk, unopened, unactivated, unused.
Then he paid off his existing credit cards, cleaned up his credit, and generally became the sort of person NOT to waste money on 30% interest.
The credit cards in the mail have basically stopped.
They don't want people who actually pay their bills -- they want people who just barely can afford to pay the interest on their cards -- so they can keep you in perpetual debt to them.
That's an interesting idea, except that the local theaters here have large signs saying that "outside food and drink is prohibited by law". I don't believe the law bit is actually true, but if they catch you trying to sneak a soda in they'll wait until after you've paid for the ticket THEN throw you out. They make money with the outrageous ticket prices but they really make bank by selling you $.50 worth of soda for $2.50 and $.10 worth of popcorn for $5.
Well, maybe something in between. A little text blurb at the top saying "Warning: You are using Internet Explorer 7. IE7 is not standards compliant and is considered insecure by most computer experts. We suggest upgrading to a modern browser as soon as possible. For more information, click this link: http://www.stopie.com/" if your server detects IE. Doesn't have to be invasive, just enough to make people notice it.
? Holy crap, best not to let Faux News know, they'll aim to get Air America nailed for Sedition.
The NES, like every Nintendo console, was online in it's own way. NES had a download service in Japan, who's name I forget right now. Starband?
There was a special version of Dragon Quest 1 you could get from it.
The problem with SciFi picking up serieses is that they tend to like to kill off the original casts and replace them with their own actors -- which, while good, are usually missing a bit of the magic that the original cast had.
What I really want to know is, when will my nude patch for Tomb Raider, or my hentai character packs for Doom 3 bump THOSE games up to AO? Eh?
The ESRB should be required to rate games pro-actively based upon what people COULD do with them, not with what the designers actually provide.
I mean after all, the ESRB is obviously psychic, they should be able to tell the future and rate accordingly. That's the only way I can see this blowhard asshole's complaints being valid.
Yes, that's the most logcal answer. In fact, I'd say it's the most probable answer.
But it *could* be something else, which is why they won't say for certain yet. That's just the way it works -- you don't say something IS something until it's been scientifically proven.
Which, as I understand it, gives certain "Intelligent Design" "scientists" in Kansas all sorts of confusion...
How about "Open Source"?
Send me the serials? ;)
:)
Seriously. You're just as intitled to the $200 for your 2 drives as anyone else, why not just get help from someone in the US to get your cash or, if you're more ethical than that, send the serials to someone who isn't?
I think it was more of a strong hint that Netflix would not be opposed to a partnership with Amazon.com, actually.
Well, yes.
There's a huge difference in intentionally going on Kazaa, Freenet, WinNY/Share, whatever and looking for Lolita pornography, and accidently downloading maliciously mislabeled stuff. The difference is intent -- and as long as you can show that there's a reasonable way to have accidently downloaded it, you're good as far as defences go.
When has logic ever stopped the USGov from doing / requiring something stupid -- especially when it's not THEM doing the stupid shit?
It doesn't matter how expensive this stuff will be for ISPs. That will only get lip service as far as consideration goes.
The ISPs should be happy they aren't required to print out extensive DNS access / IP access / Caller ID / pop3+smtp logs and keep THOSE on file.
Something similar nailed one of my good friends. Set up kazaa to download some Japanese cartoons, some jerkoff renamed something sick and illegal as the (clean and decidedly not sick) cartoon my friend was aiming for, he left it running in the background, left for work, came back to find that his roommate had broken into his computer and discovered the files that had downloaded while he was at work.
It's kinda like Goatse.cxing someone. Yeah, you can do it, in a variety of different ways, but, no one should assume that you're "that kind" of pervert if you have that in your browser history.
So correct me if I'm wrong...
But does this mean that future Mac x86s are just going to be PCs with a special "Mac Flag" that OSX will be looking for?
Does that mean that "OSX for MAc x86" would run if you cracked the installer so it doesn't look for that flag?
Or alternately, that you could recompile various Mac Apps and whatnot for XWindows?
Something to think about...
I donno, I think a few silly billboards could be fun. Imagine if Thinkgeek / Penny-Arcade / Slashdot / etc put up pseudo-parody billboards on a secluded corner. Could be fun if it's the right company and done with tounge firmly in cheek.
No. As far as I know (read this from a link from the Wiki Article on Terraforming which I can't find right now), unfortunately Mars doens't have enough gravity to hold the gasses in the atmosphere needed for our type of life to survive. They would just escape into deep space. In order to pad the planet to acceptable gravity you'd need to almost double the size of the planet.
According to that article, Mars is much better Paraterraformed, used as a jumping off point for other planets, or used as raw materials for other terraforming projects.