Listening to the music of course! At least when starving the suffering goes away... death comes in a matter of days... the music pecks away at you far slower!
And taxes on fuel go to cleaning up the air? And taxes on bullets go to pay the medical bills of gun shot victims? Don't forget property taxes... because they need to recoup the cost of... your house that they... er... you or someone else built!
While it is a nice thought to say "Taxes on A go to support B" and have A & B be directly related (ie car taxes paying for roads)... in practical application, it just comes down to a system of piles. Money collected from different kind of taxes go on to different sort of piles (generally a small number) and from the same pile related programs and costs take their money.
On the contrary, it makes perfect sense... for the government at least.
By taxing progress you ride on the back into the future and profits... just so long as you do not over tax it.
Ex: Here in the US, the government taxes the purchase of your car, registration of it, licensing of you as a driver, sales tax on the insurance you pay as well as general fuel taxes... because of all of these taxes... should we go back to riding horses? Of course not! The benefits outweigh the taxes... at least in this case.
Stupid, and a cheep way to get some money for the government!
Perhaps... but that's how government works.
Governments require lots of money for things such as police, defense and their special programs and taxing little things left and right is a great way to get money.
While I may not like Bush, I suggest you read the Geneva Conventions, to quote Article 4 relative to the treatment of prisoners of war (which I am guessing you are talking about), doing so will show you that they do not apply to 'terrorists':
Article 4
A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c) That of carrying arms openly;
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
4. Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
5. Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
When my 5 year old stereo Altec Lansingings died, I decided it was time to use the digital coax audio out on my motherboard (god bless the nForce2), having a friend love his Z-680's I decided they'd be the way to go... sadly no one I could find in the area sold them in the store... so online was my only option. After I bought mine, several friends expressed an interest in buying their own set but were holding off until they could afford em... some how I think my experience is going to keep them from doing so.
Doh for both of us! Mine gets worse as my horribly expensive Logitech Z-680's that I bought new only a month ago have developed a problem... the subwoofer no longer puts off center channel audio, and I'll be damned
I spent 15 dollars at the post office yesterday to mail a 350 dollar part (the video card), I am not about to pay 75 dollars to mail a 51 lb, 250 dollar part (the entire speaker set)... so now Logitech and NewEgg are going to decide if they want to have me as a customer in future as I am not going to pay huge amounts of money to have a defective part replaced that is under warranty.
Or you are like me and keep many windows and applications running at once... take my word for it, my home machine cries when I use it and even the gig of ram on it isn't always enough... while at work though I'm forced to live under a 256 meg ceiling... grrr.
I just mailed my Geforce FX 5900 back to the seller to have it repaired or replaced yesterday... here's hoping it gets back soon because I am not about to play D3 on my GF3 which is limping my system along now!
I live in a town of 6200 (Madison, SD) and highly doubt such a service would be available anywhere near me... let alone in the state.
Now the choice... the peace and quiet of small town life... or an uber fast internet connection... I think I'll stick with the small town life, stray bullets and not too bright criminals
You make it sound as if AMD one day went to Microsoft and said "Hey, we've got this really cool feature we are adding to our chips, it'll make your operating system much more secure."
NX is not a 'security fix' it is an added feature, a feature not unlike MMX or SSE. An ability that sits on the chip waiting to be used and is generally only used if it is called (ie software support).
This is nothing new! It amazes me that you think it's so radical to hardware and software supporting the same feature.
BTW: NX support now exists for linux and has for some time. By your logic... does it's presence mean that AMD is fixing linux?
Since when is it FUD to look at the potential downsides of a given issue or technology?
If one only looks at the benefits with out being aware of potential costs or flaws, one sets themselves up for ultimate failure due to ignorance and blindness.
Lets not forget the part about how the terrorists will win if we let their actions change how we live our lives... based on that... I've been saying they won long ago.
No, but obeying the Disability Discrimation law DOES trump not obeying the law.
So you are saying that it's ok to break the law when someone else has?
I guess the next/. story we'll be hearing about is a software pirate being beaten to death by the programmers who wrote the app he stole.
Another flaw of your argument is of who is doing the law breaking. Just because Odeon was breaking the law does not mean that Somerville has the right to break the law. Of course... I've heard similar logic with regards to Microsoft on/. before "The courts have ruled that they are an illegal monopoly, so stealing their software is ok!"
Looks like Duke was announced to be moving to the Unreal engine back in June of 98... so 6 years since the engine switch. Lets not forget the quote from the release "As for machine specifications, Duke Nukem Forever is a 1999 game and we think that timeframe matches very well with what we have planned for the game."
Also... aren't we all waiting for the Duke Nukem movie as well?
True... but part of the issue with many is the length of time Duke has been 'in development' I haven't been able to find an exact date, but Duke was announced in or before 99 and was originally being built on the Quake 2 engine, they gave up on that engine and moved to the Unreal engine. In that time, the Unreal engine has gone through several impressive revisions and we have seen plenty of shipped games using the Quake 2 and Quake 3 engine.
That's why I'm glad I graduated back in December... I planned ahead for this... although I was worried about HL2 coming out back in the fall of 03 and keeping me from graduating.
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Listening to the music of course! At least when starving the suffering goes away... death comes in a matter of days... the music pecks away at you far slower!
You mean like suing the tobacco companies? What about making gun being found liable for some crimes? Shame they've already happened!
And taxes on fuel go to cleaning up the air? And taxes on bullets go to pay the medical bills of gun shot victims? Don't forget property taxes... because they need to recoup the cost of... your house that they... er... you or someone else built!
While it is a nice thought to say "Taxes on A go to support B" and have A & B be directly related (ie car taxes paying for roads)... in practical application, it just comes down to a system of piles. Money collected from different kind of taxes go on to different sort of piles (generally a small number) and from the same pile related programs and costs take their money.
On the contrary, it makes perfect sense... for the government at least.
By taxing progress you ride on the back into the future and profits... just so long as you do not over tax it.
Ex: Here in the US, the government taxes the purchase of your car, registration of it, licensing of you as a driver, sales tax on the insurance you pay as well as general fuel taxes... because of all of these taxes... should we go back to riding horses? Of course not! The benefits outweigh the taxes... at least in this case.
Stupid, and a cheep way to get some money for the government!
Perhaps... but that's how government works.
Governments require lots of money for things such as police, defense and their special programs and taxing little things left and right is a great way to get money.
geneva conventions "invalid"
While I may not like Bush, I suggest you read the Geneva Conventions, to quote Article 4 relative to the treatment of prisoners of war (which I am guessing you are talking about), doing so will show you that they do not apply to 'terrorists':
Article 4
A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c) That of carrying arms openly;
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
4. Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
5. Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
When my 5 year old stereo Altec Lansingings died, I decided it was time to use the digital coax audio out on my motherboard (god bless the nForce2), having a friend love his Z-680's I decided they'd be the way to go... sadly no one I could find in the area sold them in the store... so online was my only option. After I bought mine, several friends expressed an interest in buying their own set but were holding off until they could afford em... some how I think my experience is going to keep them from doing so.
Doh for both of us! Mine gets worse as my horribly expensive Logitech Z-680's that I bought new only a month ago have developed a problem... the subwoofer no longer puts off center channel audio, and I'll be damned
I spent 15 dollars at the post office yesterday to mail a 350 dollar part (the video card), I am not about to pay 75 dollars to mail a 51 lb, 250 dollar part (the entire speaker set)... so now Logitech and NewEgg are going to decide if they want to have me as a customer in future as I am not going to pay huge amounts of money to have a defective part replaced that is under warranty.
Or you are like me and keep many windows and applications running at once... take my word for it, my home machine cries when I use it and even the gig of ram on it isn't always enough... while at work though I'm forced to live under a 256 meg ceiling... grrr.
I just mailed my Geforce FX 5900 back to the seller to have it repaired or replaced yesterday... here's hoping it gets back soon because I am not about to play D3 on my GF3 which is limping my system along now!
Scratch that! The google cache shows that link is simply an ascii version of goats.cx or whatever that horrid page was.
I was quite interested to see what you linked to there but I keep seeing "error 400: Bad Request" /.ed perhaps?
Wouldn't that be the stuttering version of FTP?
I live in a town of 6200 (Madison, SD) and highly doubt such a service would be available anywhere near me... let alone in the state.
Now the choice... the peace and quiet of small town life... or an uber fast internet connection... I think I'll stick with the small town life, stray bullets and not too bright criminals
You make it sound as if AMD one day went to Microsoft and said "Hey, we've got this really cool feature we are adding to our chips, it'll make your operating system much more secure."
NX is not a 'security fix' it is an added feature, a feature not unlike MMX or SSE. An ability that sits on the chip waiting to be used and is generally only used if it is called (ie software support).
This is nothing new! It amazes me that you think it's so radical to hardware and software supporting the same feature.
BTW: NX support now exists for linux and has for some time. By your logic... does it's presence mean that AMD is fixing linux?
I would love to order Papa Johns online... however I don't think they are going to drive the 60 miles from their nearest store to my house.
Since when is it FUD to look at the potential downsides of a given issue or technology?
If one only looks at the benefits with out being aware of potential costs or flaws, one sets themselves up for ultimate failure due to ignorance and blindness.
Interesting that the tin foil brigade hasn't appeared yet to claim that the entire landing was faked.
Lets not forget the part about how the terrorists will win if we let their actions change how we live our lives... based on that... I've been saying they won long ago.
No, but obeying the Disability Discrimation law DOES trump not obeying the law.
/. story we'll be hearing about is a software pirate being beaten to death by the programmers who wrote the app he stole.
/. before "The courts have ruled that they are an illegal monopoly, so stealing their software is ok!"
So you are saying that it's ok to break the law when someone else has?
I guess the next
Another flaw of your argument is of who is doing the law breaking. Just because Odeon was breaking the law does not mean that Somerville has the right to break the law. Of course... I've heard similar logic with regards to Microsoft on
Wouldn't a better analogy be:
Burning a picture of the White House is like burning down the White House.
Yea... the picture may be stolen... but that's another issue.
Looks like Duke was announced to be moving to the Unreal engine back in June of 98... so 6 years since the engine switch. Lets not forget the quote from the release "As for machine specifications, Duke Nukem Forever is a 1999 game and we think that timeframe matches very well with what we have planned for the game."
Also... aren't we all waiting for the Duke Nukem movie as well?
True... but part of the issue with many is the length of time Duke has been 'in development' I haven't been able to find an exact date, but Duke was announced in or before 99 and was originally being built on the Quake 2 engine, they gave up on that engine and moved to the Unreal engine. In that time, the Unreal engine has gone through several impressive revisions and we have seen plenty of shipped games using the Quake 2 and Quake 3 engine.
id released a game or two between Doom 2 and Doom 3.
See: Quake(1|2|3)
That's why I'm glad I graduated back in December... I planned ahead for this... although I was worried about HL2 coming out back in the fall of 03 and keeping me from graduating.