So... if gas is at the right price explain how oil companies are making 36 billion in profits alone this year so far and how come the price of gas has tripled over the past 5 years. All your arguments for supply and demand and having a weaker dollar cannot answer for the price going that crazy yet the record breaking profits of the companies. Any other market with any decent ammount of competition cannot sustain that level of profiteering.
And all your talk about alternatives is stupid. No one has a choice. It'll take years to get a choice available to the market.
Well... children are stupid, that's why they're children. They have to go to 12-16 years of schooling to be usefull, unless you own a farm or other accepted child labor.
But it's sorta dumb. You can't stop people by reading their messages. Anyone could easily know that you're reading your messages and purposely send fake ones to divert your attention and resources. Isn't that what's been happening with the US's counter terrorism? It's stupid to depend on technology for security.
You know there comes a time when people are facing jail time or imprisonment for protecting their own privacy and the weapon is a piece of tape that one must say, you know fuck it. I'm willing to fuck with them.
Enough people get that attitude and you'll see how useless their threats are. Civil disobedience FTW.
I'd have to agree with the summary. This is an awesome game. I've been hooked on it for hours since i started on saturday. The launch was a hell of a lot better than any other mmo I've seen. The gameplay rocks. I still want to see how the later levels (and everything past tortage) will play out, but from what i've seen so far it's pretty damn good.
So, if a husband divorces the wife, which causes emotional stress to a young delicate girl that results in her suicide i guess it's ok to jail the husband for murder?
However close they were, they never met in real life. Would this be akin to finding out your lover has been cheating on you? Should you be held liable if the person cheated on ended their life?
Hell, I guess artists and musicians should be held liable if their emo songs cause the death of another person, charge them with murder.
How about putting some responsibility on the person actually committing suicide? A kid is not responsible for her own actions? Then blame it on the parents. They knew she was on the computer unsupervised, they knew she was unstable and didn't give her the attention she needed. Parents are responsible for their children until they turn 18 but more and more all i hear about is how the parents fail at being parents.
The only outcome of convicting this woman would make it's illegal to hide or change your identity online. The internet was made based on being anonymous. Now using female characters in wow could be considered illegal and whatever far fetched reasons they want to try and convict her for. It's not murder, it's not manslaughter or involentary manslaughter. She never met the kid under the guise of her alias. Yes, it was incredibly dumb of her to suggest to kill herself but how many times do you hear kids saying stupid stuff like that? Prove to me she wanted the kid to kill herself and maybe i'll believe the murder charges, otherwise it's taken out of context.
Don't be rediculous. I had real life friends who turned around and stabbed me in the back and did nasty things to me. When i was 14 I was calling up chat boards, going on irc channels and i knew damn well and good without anyone telling me that people whom i didn't know and couldn't talk face to face were strangers or at best pen pals.
What happened here was darwinism at it's best. This child ended her own life. No one else did. Don't play some emotional crap and say it was the fault of that disgusting woman who should of known better. It was not her fault that the kid committed suicide. The kid had to take responsibility and no one else. That's what suicide is.
The orion project was intended for space travel, not lifting capacity. Make the distinction between real space ships and lifting ships. If you have a space ship that never enters atmophere, it can be a hell of a lot better designed for pure space travel instead of lifting/descent into atmosphere.
Anyone have any input? Is there a chance that we've not encountered any other aliens yet because we haven't been part of the milkyway galaxy cluster of stars yet? Maybe that somehow limits travel between systems?
Aren't you just asking for it? I mean, by design there will be a 2 meter vent which will lead to critical systems which, of course be design, will immediately be detonated with any sort of impact?
Lets just cut the crap. We should ask our best neighbor China to install a copy of their Great Firewall in our networks to monitor and police us. I'm sure that's what every american would want, i mean your senators are all for it. We'll one up them and based on the filenames you transfer, you'll have the chance to go to one of the free labor camps.. i mean prisons. So we can finally make american flags in our own country.
So.. explain to me why people hire computer illiterate people again? If your job requires you to use computers, then by gosh, make sure they have some level of competancy?
Easy: Lets take for example placing a basket of candies near your front door (outside your house). You have to imagine in this case that the candies can be duplicated without any cost to you, and have no value to you, but may be valuable to others.
In one scenario you are broadcasting, come take one. This would be defined as offering to distribute.
The other, your simply putting a basket of candies by your house with no sign or advertisement what or who their for. This would be defined as making available.
In both cases at the end of the day you may have less candies than you started with, but in one you were expecting some to be taken and in the other your sorta guessing. It's the intent which matters.
Usually you can't equate value in a digital sense since giving away mp3s or programs is at 0 cost to you and 0 cost to the other person who recieves it. However it has an extreme ammount of value to the copyright holder.
I find these lawsuits rediculous. If a person is found distributing without prior consent, tell them to stop. If they don't or they're making money out of it, then take them to court based on reasonable damages.
Right now it's only extortion with hugely inflated values. No one can stand and fight without losing their house or livelyhood. The RIAA doesn't care about intent or actual damages, they just want to scare people into using an outdated buisness model.
Yeah.... Your eyeballs can't see brakelights 5-6 cars ahead. You're lucky if you're in a car and there's an suv in front of you to see the car ahead of the suv. Maybe you people drive monster trucks in rural areas, but when your driving in ny on some of the worst congested roads, your lucky to have enough of a view to be able to see anything around you except the car directly ahead, and if you give more than 2 car lengths of room someone will take that space in front of you.
One of the main reasons people break is that they can't see ahead, so they don't want to slow down and get caught with the other car ahead of them coming to a stop.
There should be technology that can be easily adapted so that we can detect the relative speeds of the cars ahead of us and give the driver the head's up when there's a stop 4-5 cars ahead so they can adjust accordingly. That should reduce or eliminate the whole dampning effect of people breaking due to the car ahead of them and breaking too much causing traffic waves.
People break when they're going up a hill because of safety reasons (no visibility). If there was no reason to break they would continue at their normal speed.
What i propose is a gps/radio transciever that would generate a position, speed, change of velocity, direction that's updated every.2 seconds on very low powered/high frequencies (absorbed by walls and other cars and highly directional). There's no need to identify which car is what, as long as you can recieve multiple signals and know there's a car there should be a relatively easy way to predict what the driver should do (maintain speed, brake, accelerate) depending on the other signals the car is recieving. This prediction device could eliminate most traffic and improve safety (for traffic/visibility problems/ect).
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So... if gas is at the right price explain how oil companies are making 36 billion in profits alone this year so far and how come the price of gas has tripled over the past 5 years. All your arguments for supply and demand and having a weaker dollar cannot answer for the price going that crazy yet the record breaking profits of the companies. Any other market with any decent ammount of competition cannot sustain that level of profiteering.
And all your talk about alternatives is stupid. No one has a choice. It'll take years to get a choice available to the market.
Well... children are stupid, that's why they're children. They have to go to 12-16 years of schooling to be usefull, unless you own a farm or other accepted child labor.
--Insert funny joke about toilet parts and shitting bricks here--
But it's sorta dumb. You can't stop people by reading their messages. Anyone could easily know that you're reading your messages and purposely send fake ones to divert your attention and resources. Isn't that what's been happening with the US's counter terrorism? It's stupid to depend on technology for security.
You know there comes a time when people are facing jail time or imprisonment for protecting their own privacy and the weapon is a piece of tape that one must say, you know fuck it. I'm willing to fuck with them.
Enough people get that attitude and you'll see how useless their threats are. Civil disobedience FTW.
What's stopping anyone from putting a piece of tape in front of the camera?
You'd better believe i wouldn't let someone spy on me for any reason.
I'd have to agree with the summary. This is an awesome game. I've been hooked on it for hours since i started on saturday. The launch was a hell of a lot better than any other mmo I've seen. The gameplay rocks. I still want to see how the later levels (and everything past tortage) will play out, but from what i've seen so far it's pretty damn good.
So, if a husband divorces the wife, which causes emotional stress to a young delicate girl that results in her suicide i guess it's ok to jail the husband for murder?
However close they were, they never met in real life. Would this be akin to finding out your lover has been cheating on you? Should you be held liable if the person cheated on ended their life?
Hell, I guess artists and musicians should be held liable if their emo songs cause the death of another person, charge them with murder.
How about putting some responsibility on the person actually committing suicide? A kid is not responsible for her own actions? Then blame it on the parents. They knew she was on the computer unsupervised, they knew she was unstable and didn't give her the attention she needed. Parents are responsible for their children until they turn 18 but more and more all i hear about is how the parents fail at being parents.
The only outcome of convicting this woman would make it's illegal to hide or change your identity online. The internet was made based on being anonymous. Now using female characters in wow could be considered illegal and whatever far fetched reasons they want to try and convict her for. It's not murder, it's not manslaughter or involentary manslaughter. She never met the kid under the guise of her alias. Yes, it was incredibly dumb of her to suggest to kill herself but how many times do you hear kids saying stupid stuff like that? Prove to me she wanted the kid to kill herself and maybe i'll believe the murder charges, otherwise it's taken out of context.
Don't be rediculous. I had real life friends who turned around and stabbed me in the back and did nasty things to me. When i was 14 I was calling up chat boards, going on irc channels and i knew damn well and good without anyone telling me that people whom i didn't know and couldn't talk face to face were strangers or at best pen pals.
What happened here was darwinism at it's best. This child ended her own life. No one else did. Don't play some emotional crap and say it was the fault of that disgusting woman who should of known better. It was not her fault that the kid committed suicide. The kid had to take responsibility and no one else. That's what suicide is.
It's right to fight against a corrupt system that you know is wrong. That forces people to change their ways.
Either flood them with border crossing with laptops or don't use them (don't go in and out of the country).
I would recommend that everyone stay away from the US if you value your data and property.
Even better.
Just rip your entire CD Collection to your laptop's harddrive and watch the legalities ensue.
Because from any standpoint it's much easier to sue a governmental body with no oversight with practically unlimited budget than broke college kids.
The orion project was intended for space travel, not lifting capacity. Make the distinction between real space ships and lifting ships. If you have a space ship that never enters atmophere, it can be a hell of a lot better designed for pure space travel instead of lifting/descent into atmosphere.
Because supporting oppressive regimes and the details of how we do it are protected as national security =)
Kinda hard to really get this to work unless it works on yourself first.
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Anyone have any input? Is there a chance that we've not encountered any other aliens yet because we haven't been part of the milkyway galaxy cluster of stars yet? Maybe that somehow limits travel between systems?
Aren't you just asking for it? I mean, by design there will be a 2 meter vent which will lead to critical systems which, of course be design, will immediately be detonated with any sort of impact?
Key word is ask. I can ask them for compensation for a false arrest or false detainment, doesn't mean i'm going to get anything out of it.
Lets just cut the crap. We should ask our best neighbor China to install a copy of their Great Firewall in our networks to monitor and police us. I'm sure that's what every american would want, i mean your senators are all for it. We'll one up them and based on the filenames you transfer, you'll have the chance to go to one of the free labor camps.. i mean prisons. So we can finally make american flags in our own country.
So.. explain to me why people hire computer illiterate people again? If your job requires you to use computers, then by gosh, make sure they have some level of competancy?
You people been reading too many bad sci-fi stories involving shadowrun adventures or some wierd cyberpunk crap.
Though there is this guy called bloodninja who could school you in the art of cyber chatting.
Easy:
Lets take for example placing a basket of candies near your front door (outside your house). You have to imagine in this case that the candies can be duplicated without any cost to you, and have no value to you, but may be valuable to others.
In one scenario you are broadcasting, come take one. This would be defined as offering to distribute.
The other, your simply putting a basket of candies by your house with no sign or advertisement what or who their for. This would be defined as making available.
In both cases at the end of the day you may have less candies than you started with, but in one you were expecting some to be taken and in the other your sorta guessing. It's the intent which matters.
Usually you can't equate value in a digital sense since giving away mp3s or programs is at 0 cost to you and 0 cost to the other person who recieves it. However it has an extreme ammount of value to the copyright holder.
I find these lawsuits rediculous. If a person is found distributing without prior consent, tell them to stop. If they don't or they're making money out of it, then take them to court based on reasonable damages.
Right now it's only extortion with hugely inflated values. No one can stand and fight without losing their house or livelyhood. The RIAA doesn't care about intent or actual damages, they just want to scare people into using an outdated buisness model.
Almost all phones have a web browser, all the new cell phones can play mp3s. There are phones made to encorporate music as their main focus.
What? You actually buy music off itunes? I'd rather buy music from amazon's drm free site. Stupid icrap users get what stupid icrap users deserve.
And don't buy it. It's that simple.
It's not like comcast which is a monopoly in certain areas. There are hundreds of other cell phones to buy. Whoever wrote the summary is an idiot.
Vegita, what does the scouter say?
Yeah....
Your eyeballs can't see brakelights 5-6 cars ahead. You're lucky if you're in a car and there's an suv in front of you to see the car ahead of the suv. Maybe you people drive monster trucks in rural areas, but when your driving in ny on some of the worst congested roads, your lucky to have enough of a view to be able to see anything around you except the car directly ahead, and if you give more than 2 car lengths of room someone will take that space in front of you.
One of the main reasons people break is that they can't see ahead, so they don't want to slow down and get caught with the other car ahead of them coming to a stop.
.2 seconds on very low powered/high frequencies (absorbed by walls and other cars and highly directional). There's no need to identify which car is what, as long as you can recieve multiple signals and know there's a car there should be a relatively easy way to predict what the driver should do (maintain speed, brake, accelerate) depending on the other signals the car is recieving. This prediction device could eliminate most traffic and improve safety (for traffic/visibility problems/ect).
There should be technology that can be easily adapted so that we can detect the relative speeds of the cars ahead of us and give the driver the head's up when there's a stop 4-5 cars ahead so they can adjust accordingly. That should reduce or eliminate the whole dampning effect of people breaking due to the car ahead of them and breaking too much causing traffic waves.
People break when they're going up a hill because of safety reasons (no visibility). If there was no reason to break they would continue at their normal speed.
What i propose is a gps/radio transciever that would generate a position, speed, change of velocity, direction that's updated every