At best the accused's status as law enforcement will count for nothing, at worst it will encourage them to prosecute more strongly, so as to send the message that law enforcement is expected to obey the law.
I say at best they will be encouraged to prosecute more strongly.
It's kind of odd huh? Russia at one time held it's "authorities" above everyone and the law. What they said was law - and we are taught about how many Stalin killed for those who opposed his rule and laws. Now they are ones who (seem to) realize that if the people in charge aren't kept in check the people will suffer more than if crime ran rampant.
Being that they are all the same (besides gfx) why should we argue?
What makes me not play any FPS games later than UT is that they are simply too complicated and the gameplay is still yet the same.
When I say complicated I mean the number of keys bound to items, movements, actions and weapons.
Simply, I would vote "Doom" but there was no jump. Once that was added to Quake along with GL support and TCP/IP play there isn't much to add except more buttons to mash and even more gfx 'coolness'.
Now, I'm not saying the rest suck. I'm just saying they are all basically Quake. Better gfx doesn't make a game "better" (unless you are stuck in that console world of "mine looks better than yours")
I really hope that Doom III will add something really new. A lot of games have added a few things, sword fighting in Jedi Outcast and etc, but nothing radically different.
I know of many accounts of pirates/hackers who placed HUGE magnets in their doorways so when the Feds came to take their PC away all the data was lost (or enough data that is)
Now I can download mp3s and pr0n.. hack all day and 0wn the pentagon but when they confiscate my PC then "oops, no more evidence!"
Up until then it had been a government, educational-insitiution, and suppliers-to-them sort of thing, and commercial speech was largely banned....and no regular Joe Sixpack users access considering most of us don't fit into the above.
I was lucky to get a university (SLIP) account because we had a high-school home page, at this time no one else was really out there.
Thank you Al Gore for Slashdot, and the many other good things we now have.
now that I think about it maybe the RIAA should sue Al...
A robot has taught itself the principles of flying -- learning in just three hours what evolution took millions of years to achieve
I guess that the "Special Creation" theories no longer fly (ah-thankyou).
Seriously... it took _humans_ a pretty long time to figure out flight, heck, even gravity (and for some reason we want AI to be like us?).
While I'm amazed at anything that learns, which isn't carbon based, I wouldn't start comparing this to actual life. When robots actually take over, smelt metals for more robots and develop interstellar travel you'll get a wow from me.
(BTW if this sort of thing scares you remember that the commies want to purify your precious bodily fluids!)
You're a cop. You have a sting operation comming up and could bring down a major drug dealer.
First day, you simply kick in the door and confiscate the drugs... why not, they might flush them!
It's somewhat silly. When we played "Cops & Robbers" as kids we had rules. The Cops usually won - but they were still somewhat impared. Why? Because that is what seperates the cops from the robbers! Cops are supposed to obey the law, and when they step outside that they aren't cops anymore.
Funny thing is you act as if you know so much about the business world yet you've never heard of business ethics.
If you don't believe, for example, that getting together with your competitiors to try and stop pollution is right because it will cost your shareholders cash... you're simply evil.
"Shareholder" isn't in the Constitution, they have no extra "rights". A company isn't held up to the same standards as regular ol' Joe's... but that is wrong.
It's funny, we live in a society where as a company evil could be done; yet we blame the people at the top. It is based in part on the people at the top, but your attitude makes things worse. You act as if they are simply doing what "they must"
A company/corporation isn't a living thing which must fight to live... it could die and go away without us caring.
Read this quote:
The real evil in our world has different names: religious and political misuse of ower, suppresion of the weak through exploitative economic systems, desruction of the evironment, genetic manipulation, the racial and cultural uprooting of millions by expulsion and flight, hatred of one's neighbor, and fixation on material things.
When a corporation becomes a force which we must fight and not a tool for all of humanity then there is something wrong. When most of the world has no interest, and our country is just a sample of those numbers, in what happens on the Dow or Nasdaq - the term "shareholder" means nothing.
If you value ticker-tape, P/E ratio's and Q3 reports more than humanity then you suffer from a most painful illness.
Let's talk about how they paid off (it's legal) every store around so they wouldn't carry DC games and killed the system so their PS2 would go off without a hitch...
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I've not worked in two years and spend lots of time on irc. (of course)
I'll take a salary of about $10,000 to start.
I always thought that people used those because they were lazy.
Get your sandwich boards and banners ready!
.net people's physical locations we can show up and protest!
Now that we know the
Why protest? Because we don't like anything Microsoft!
No... really... a better idea would be to show up and hand out slackware and debian CD's.
I think the ultimate would be a FPS which isn't always a 'shooter' game.
I mean, killing people is cool and all but entering a village and hanging with people, maybe making friends, teams, enemies would be cool too.
Quake is GPL'd so basically anyone could do it, and it would run on every machine made after the Pentium I.
Next time you get flamed on Slashdot, you invite that sucka' to take it out front and dual!
At best the accused's status as law enforcement will count for nothing, at worst it will encourage them to prosecute more strongly, so as to send the message that law enforcement is expected to obey the law.
I say at best they will be encouraged to prosecute more strongly.
It's kind of odd huh? Russia at one time held it's "authorities" above everyone and the law. What they said was law - and we are taught about how many Stalin killed for those who opposed his rule and laws. Now they are ones who (seem to) realize that if the people in charge aren't kept in check the people will suffer more than if crime ran rampant.
Being that they are all the same (besides gfx) why should we argue?
What makes me not play any FPS games later than UT is that they are simply too complicated and the gameplay is still yet the same.
When I say complicated I mean the number of keys bound to items, movements, actions and weapons.
Simply, I would vote "Doom" but there was no jump. Once that was added to Quake along with GL support and TCP/IP play there isn't much to add except more buttons to mash and even more gfx 'coolness'.
Now, I'm not saying the rest suck. I'm just saying they are all basically Quake. Better gfx doesn't make a game "better" (unless you are stuck in that console world of "mine looks better than yours")
I really hope that Doom III will add something really new. A lot of games have added a few things, sword fighting in Jedi Outcast and etc, but nothing radically different.
Money vs Technology huh?
Hey... I'm offended by your use of the word 'lamer'.
ImaLamer, yet I never used AOL once! (ok, I use TimeWarner's RoadRunner)
But to the point, you shouldn't flame people when you don't capitalize all of your sentences and are too lazy to actually get an account here.
Stale? I know 10 years from now I could pick it up and 0wn!
It really can't get old if there are new maps and players... no campers... etc... just like every other game.
it was a joke!
I guess that the "Special Creation" theories no longer fly (ah-thankyou).
Heck that's close enough that I could drive up and hand them the data almost as quickly.
I'm glad though that it's close, hopefully our local 'bones (TimeWarner, UUNet, etc) can get on this when done.
I know of many accounts of pirates/hackers who placed HUGE magnets in their doorways so when the Feds came to take their PC away all the data was lost (or enough data that is)
Now I can download mp3s and pr0n.. hack all day and 0wn the pentagon but when they confiscate my PC then "oops, no more evidence!"
You know... I stuck a pencil in my ear and that song is still stuck in my head.
AND IT'S LOUDER THAN THE RINGING...
IN THE END IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER
I think it would be much cooler to have this "LAN Hall" filled with out-dated, thrown out, tired, PC's.
Quake (I) is still the best multi-FPS, and the source code is out there to improve on it... heck, mods would be okay.
A Pentium I with a 3DFX Voodoo is really all you need.
Maybe a big screen for the leaders... hidden from the players of course.
I still love playing CTF, and Team Fortress.
Up until then it had been a government, educational-insitiution, and suppliers-to-them sort of thing, and commercial speech was largely banned. ...and no regular Joe Sixpack users access considering most of us don't fit into the above.
I was lucky to get a university (SLIP) account because we had a high-school home page, at this time no one else was really out there.
Thank you Al Gore for Slashdot, and the many other good things we now have.
now that I think about it maybe the RIAA should sue Al...
A robot has taught itself the principles of flying -- learning in just three hours what evolution took millions of years to achieve
I guess that the "Special Creation" theories no longer fly (ah-thankyou).
Seriously... it took _humans_ a pretty long time to figure out flight, heck, even gravity (and for some reason we want AI to be like us?).
While I'm amazed at anything that learns, which isn't carbon based, I wouldn't start comparing this to actual life. When robots actually take over, smelt metals for more robots and develop interstellar travel you'll get a wow from me.
(BTW if this sort of thing scares you remember that the commies want to purify your precious bodily fluids!)
Controlled stop?
Now we say:
The US reserves the right to refuse privacy protections, due process, and the rule of law for all citizens of the world.
--BTW: This case's first problem is no due process, the FBI skipped the warrant--
It goes like this:
;-)
You're a cop. You have a sting operation comming up and could bring down a major drug dealer.
First day, you simply kick in the door and confiscate the drugs... why not, they might flush them!
It's somewhat silly. When we played "Cops & Robbers" as kids we had rules. The Cops usually won - but they were still somewhat impared. Why? Because that is what seperates the cops from the robbers! Cops are supposed to obey the law, and when they step outside that they aren't cops anymore.
And don't give me that terrorism shit either
There are sometimes things on CSPAN which could be "put" on Gnutella (et. al.) like the Traficant speeches and etc...
I wish there was some sort of effort out there to actually "pirate" things which are in the public domain.
PBS could start sending out Divx files; considering we already paid for the programming, let us host it.
There are plenty of projects to use this device.
I've got an old book (i'm now hunting for now) which has C examples of not only ways to use it but also simple 3D worlds to navigate with it.
Very cool, can work with a bunch of games too... best part is once you are writing software for it you can adjust the response (to a point...)
If you don't believe, for example, that getting together with your competitiors to try and stop pollution is right because it will cost your shareholders cash... you're simply evil.
"Shareholder" isn't in the Constitution, they have no extra "rights". A company isn't held up to the same standards as regular ol' Joe's... but that is wrong.
It's funny, we live in a society where as a company evil could be done; yet we blame the people at the top. It is based in part on the people at the top, but your attitude makes things worse. You act as if they are simply doing what "they must"
A company/corporation isn't a living thing which must fight to live... it could die and go away without us caring.
Read this quote:
When a corporation becomes a force which we must fight and not a tool for all of humanity then there is something wrong. When most of the world has no interest, and our country is just a sample of those numbers, in what happens on the Dow or Nasdaq - the term "shareholder" means nothing.
If you value ticker-tape, P/E ratio's and Q3 reports more than humanity then you suffer from a most painful illness.
Read this
Interesting that Sony paid all the outlets to use shelf space on PSX so PS2 could come out clean...
Let's talk about how they paid off (it's legal) every store around so they wouldn't carry DC games and killed the system so their PS2 would go off without a hitch...
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