Proabably because the rest of the world thinks the UN has a better idea of justice than the US does...
The rest of the world, huh? A large part of the world is continually in conflict with the US. They attack with trade disputes, rude waiters and well built cars. They are fundamentally rational, civilised people that we get along with just fine. I still would not willingly place myself under their courts. The "rest of the world" is scary. It's made up of people who spend all their time at protests waving silly posters. It's made up of people who have been called terrorists for so long that they think the word "terrorist" is just what you call someone you don't like. It's made up of people who think my wife deserves to die because she doesn't wear a veil. Those people control governments, and votes in the UN.
I won't submit to their idea of anything. The government knows that they'll have serious problems with the military if they allow this. We've already got bullshit SOFAs to deal with. Voluntary subjection to an international court will be too much of a sellout.
Certain types of.50 caliber weapons are also against the Geneva Convention when targeted at personnel, but OK when used against materiel.
Not only against equipment, but at concentrations of troops as well- to disperse them. I believe a.50 round or two will do a splendid job of dispersing a guy. And the guy behind him. On that note, remember; napalm is a defoliant. You were trying to remove the brush to get a clearer shot.
The bottom line for this laser is not tactical or strategic, but grammatical and economic. It's a new weapon, yay. It doesn't change anything, it just makes fires more efficient and effective. To a revolutionary degree, yes, but that's about it. What will need change is the term we use. The Air Force will need to come up with a phrase that is somehow more final than "air supremacy." We already have that term and achieve that state, so we'll need to come up with something different to call what we will have. The other big change is economic. Yes, buy Ray-Ban stock. More importantly, the third world can shift all their capital away from military aircraft production. Maybe spend it on literacy or flood control.
The only time I've had Win2K decide to BSOD on me (Hey, I verbed a noun!) was with bad hardware...
Win2k doesn't bluescreen simply because it did away with that notification. It skips the bluescreen and reboots right away rather than bother to tell you. Treating stability as a PR problem instead of a stability problem? Yep.
Don't know about you, but to me graphics enhance the gaming experience.
There has to be a damn good gaming experience for graphics to enhance, otherwise you might as well be staring at prime time network TV; glitzy eye candy that doesn't have any substance to it. Civ2 is still around because it's damn good. Freeciv is still new because it's what the active coders want.
I can still play chess on a board. Animation and sound don't enhance it much. To me, at least.
Fortunately, AT&T doesn't reassign IP's too often.
My ISP does it every 3 months, but it won't take effect until I reboot.
I don't agree with what they're doing (personally I think they should send me a cable modem that has a built in firewall so I can stop the kazaa traffic myself), but I understand it.
Open good; proprietary bad. Take an old box, slap an extra nic into it and POW! there's your firewall. Run the line out to a hub and every computer in the house has a fat pipe. You can block or monitor anything you like, not just what they want you to be able to block. As an added bonus, you know it's secure. Try saying that about a black box that AT&T sends you. The IP changing won't kick in until you reboot, so if you get a good UPS it's damn near static.
The point is that the vast majority of the population will never get in to have an opthalmologist evaluate their color vision, but now anyone can perform their own screening with a little pocket change.
Since one of the causes of R/G anomolies is undiagnosed Multiple Sclerosis, this is A Good Thing.
MS is a bad thing; I'm against it. But who the hell needs a doctor (or silly coins) to tell them that they're color blind? Coined money is a public service, but that's ridiculous. Ease in differentiating coins should have been higher on the Europeans' To Do List than testing for MS.
As an aside, this is one of the many things in the news that make me so glad that my ancestors packed up and left Europe a long time ago. Then I read US and local news and wish there were somewhere I could pack up and leave for.
Um... Those were atropine injectors. ATP injectors would be handy to help you run very quickly out of the contaminated area, but ineffective in helping your body break down any nerve agents.
like the police normally patrol the streets, reminders go out when they think people need to be extra cautious.
So AT&T is at the "John Ashcroft's Yellow (Elevated Threat) Alert Level?" Go about your jobs normally, but be extra vigilant.
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If he had used a watercooling system as a way to heat the water for the coffee, then I'd be really impressed. As it stands, it's cuter than most box mods, but it doesn't break any ground.
Nautilus had a preferences menu, with three items: [...] Yet this approach failed (everybody thought it was a bad idea) and they removed that feature.
I thought the bad idea with Nautilus was that it was a file manager. With $13 million in vc. I'm up to my ears in file managers that want to be browsers and vice- versa and someone liked the idea of a startup to produce a file manager? There's your bad idea. I don't care how good a file manager you can make, it's just silly.
The full DVD with the movie, games, deleted scenes, a 360 view of Hogwarts, etc. etc. is only $2 more expensive than the soundtrack for the same movie.
That's the full DVD including the soundtrack. So, buying the soundtrack on its own, without the movie or special features only knocks $2 off the price. As an added bonus it comes in a cheaper, more breakable case.
Something that people have to realize is that movies come out in movie theaters first and make big $$$. Then they come out on DVD and it is just a bonus for the studios.
So? I'm a consumer, and I don't recognize the inherent right of any company with a flawed business model to deserve a profit. I If I can buy a DVD for less than the soundtrack, I've got issues. The DVD has the music on it- I could legally get on LimeWire and download backups of the music I just bought without neeeding a soundtrack.
CDs are overpriced, plain and simple. Yes, artists are underpaid. They deserve a larger piece of a smaller price. The labels and the RIAA are the problem, and I'm not going to subsidize their abuse of the consumers- or our radio choices.
I kinda doubt Sony would go that low, even if I do think its a great idea.
It's low if it's a competitor. That's a shitty business tactic... which Sony likes to pull on its customers. It's a great idea if it's a consumer. A geek. Someone in the computer world who wants to give a push to the only way the community has to slap MS in the face. There's only one Sony, and there're lots of people out there who want to see this happen. I think it's a geek.
Buy the developer's license to write Xbox games, then write a damn Xbox game that is a cut down linux distro. Write another "game" that'll work on a mod chip to get the other 100K.
yup, you can be sure that games released for the xbox in the future will not run on modded boxen.
If you mod the xbox to run Linux, you're doing it because MS loses money on the hardware. Buying the games that let them make their money back isn't really on your List of Things To Do Today.
This sounds like a federal program; if MS subsidizes the purchase of your new (Linu)Xbox, then you'll subsidize their silly business plan?
Beamish just ain't Murphy's. The bar my LUG meets at just switched. I've never seen Samuel Smith's. Samuel Adams, however, has a wonderful Cream Stout. Where does Smith's sell?
pyite- I don't care if it's Irish or not. Barley and hops recognize no borders.
I fully agree, and it's the content providers' own fault. It's their spam. They sell the lists, making us unwilling to really register. That's what it all comes down to: selling my privacy. Be it my demographics or my email, it's mine, damn it.
It is kind of sad- nice animation, but Guinness sells itself.
It's also kind of sad- nice old joke, but there are so damn many good breweries around here it's like Christmas every time I go to the grocery store. Even if the other half of what they carry is just cans of rice.
If you don't want to play, then look for that news article somewhere else.
If you'd read Slashdot's policy above, you'd see that we largely are. Me, I generally infer the content from/.ers' posts about it (for NYT). I don't like the idea of marketing research, especially in the news world. If an advertiser can't figure out on his own where his ads need to be, then he doesn't deserve to live. A large news site is a large news site is a large news site. "We're the NYT. We get this many page views. If you're selling Geritol, why don't you put your ad on this page about the latest research on heart attacks." It doesn't matter how many of their readers are 32 year old eskimo women, they're putting out news. It's a lot easier to target ads on cnn.com than on CNN, and I don't have to register to watch CNN, much less read the NYT.
My view is that content providers should provide content, not demographics.
Too many people are still spoiled by the free for all days of the Internet...
It's not that we want free (but nobody's going to pay just to read an occasional NYT story), but that we resent having to allow a third party to sell us just to be able to read the news.
This proposed design has wingspan of over 88 (88.1?) meters. so if airbus 380 does not fit into some of today's airports, this will be having lots of troubles
I think that the folks at Boeing have already thought of it. Ford made sure that the excursion would fit in a lane and under bridges. So what if there are some parking spaces you can't fit into? The largest aircraft don't have to land at every airport, you know- smaller planes still get a hell of a lot of use. These big ones could cut down on a lot of congestion in the actual flights, though. We might see more on time performance if it takes fewer planes to service the heavy routes. I think it's a great idea.
Boiling this down to its essences, there is neither contradiction nor illogic.
Capmaign Finance Reform: Preventing companies from buying elections infringes on their free speech rights.
P2P DOS: Preventing millions of individuals from sharing information is perfectly reasonable.
You're not seeing any problems here? Copyright infringers are by definition in the wrong...
No. Copyright infringers are by definition breaking the law. While there's nothing noble about getting some Backstreet Boys for free or giving Moby a big drop in sales, the current state of copyright law is ludicrous. Violating a law that is so blatantly bought and paid for counter to the people's interest and the clause in the constitution allowing copyrights is being a good citizen. I see neither contradiction nor illogic there.
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The rest of the world, huh? A large part of the world is continually in conflict with the US. They attack with trade disputes, rude waiters and well built cars. They are fundamentally rational, civilised people that we get along with just fine. I still would not willingly place myself under their courts. The "rest of the world" is scary. It's made up of people who spend all their time at protests waving silly posters. It's made up of people who have been called terrorists for so long that they think the word "terrorist" is just what you call someone you don't like. It's made up of people who think my wife deserves to die because she doesn't wear a veil. Those people control governments, and votes in the UN.
I won't submit to their idea of anything. The government knows that they'll have serious problems with the military if they allow this. We've already got bullshit SOFAs to deal with. Voluntary subjection to an international court will be too much of a sellout.
Not only against equipment, but at concentrations of troops as well- to disperse them. I believe a .50 round or two will do a splendid job of dispersing a guy. And the guy behind him. On that note, remember; napalm is a defoliant. You were trying to remove the brush to get a clearer shot.
The bottom line for this laser is not tactical or strategic, but grammatical and economic. It's a new weapon, yay. It doesn't change anything, it just makes fires more efficient and effective. To a revolutionary degree, yes, but that's about it. What will need change is the term we use. The Air Force will need to come up with a phrase that is somehow more final than "air supremacy." We already have that term and achieve that state, so we'll need to come up with something different to call what we will have. The other big change is economic. Yes, buy Ray-Ban stock. More importantly, the third world can shift all their capital away from military aircraft production. Maybe spend it on literacy or flood control.
They found a lot of them. They just didn't hire any of them.
Win2k doesn't bluescreen simply because it did away with that notification. It skips the bluescreen and reboots right away rather than bother to tell you. Treating stability as a PR problem instead of a stability problem? Yep.
There has to be a damn good gaming experience for graphics to enhance, otherwise you might as well be staring at prime time network TV; glitzy eye candy that doesn't have any substance to it. Civ2 is still around because it's damn good. Freeciv is still new because it's what the active coders want.
I can still play chess on a board. Animation and sound don't enhance it much. To me, at least.
My ISP does it every 3 months, but it won't take effect until I reboot.
I don't agree with what they're doing (personally I think they should send me a cable modem that has a built in firewall so I can stop the kazaa traffic myself), but I understand it.
Open good; proprietary bad. Take an old box, slap an extra nic into it and POW! there's your firewall. Run the line out to a hub and every computer in the house has a fat pipe. You can block or monitor anything you like, not just what they want you to be able to block. As an added bonus, you know it's secure. Try saying that about a black box that AT&T sends you. The IP changing won't kick in until you reboot, so if you get a good UPS it's damn near static.
MS is a bad thing; I'm against it. But who the hell needs a doctor (or silly coins) to tell them that they're color blind? Coined money is a public service, but that's ridiculous. Ease in differentiating coins should have been higher on the Europeans' To Do List than testing for MS.
As an aside, this is one of the many things in the news that make me so glad that my ancestors packed up and left Europe a long time ago. Then I read US and local news and wish there were somewhere I could pack up and leave for.
So AT&T is at the "John Ashcroft's Yellow (Elevated Threat) Alert Level?" Go about your jobs normally, but be extra vigilant.
I thought the bad idea with Nautilus was that it was a file manager. With $13 million in vc. I'm up to my ears in file managers that want to be browsers and vice- versa and someone liked the idea of a startup to produce a file manager? There's your bad idea. I don't care how good a file manager you can make, it's just silly.
That's the full DVD including the soundtrack. So, buying the soundtrack on its own, without the movie or special features only knocks $2 off the price. As an added bonus it comes in a cheaper, more breakable case.
So? I'm a consumer, and I don't recognize the inherent right of any company with a flawed business model to deserve a profit. I If I can buy a DVD for less than the soundtrack, I've got issues. The DVD has the music on it- I could legally get on LimeWire and download backups of the music I just bought without neeeding a soundtrack.
CDs are overpriced, plain and simple. Yes, artists are underpaid. They deserve a larger piece of a smaller price. The labels and the RIAA are the problem, and I'm not going to subsidize their abuse of the consumers- or our radio choices.
That's almost a {0r73r #17710n $, isn't it?
It's low if it's a competitor. That's a shitty business tactic... which Sony likes to pull on its customers. It's a great idea if it's a consumer. A geek. Someone in the computer world who wants to give a push to the only way the community has to slap MS in the face. There's only one Sony, and there're lots of people out there who want to see this happen. I think it's a geek.
If you mod the xbox to run Linux, you're doing it because MS loses money on the hardware. Buying the games that let them make their money back isn't really on your List of Things To Do Today.
This sounds like a federal program; if MS subsidizes the purchase of your new (Linu)Xbox, then you'll subsidize their silly business plan?
And as great as Guinness is, I prefer Murphy's.
It's also kind of sad- nice old joke, but there are so damn many good breweries around here it's like Christmas every time I go to the grocery store. Even if the other half of what they carry is just cans of rice.
If you'd read Slashdot's policy above, you'd see that we largely are. Me, I generally infer the content from /.ers' posts about it (for NYT). I don't like the idea of marketing research, especially in the news world. If an advertiser can't figure out on his own where his ads need to be, then he doesn't deserve to live. A large news site is a large news site is a large news site. "We're the NYT. We get this many page views. If you're selling Geritol, why don't you put your ad on this page about the latest research on heart attacks." It doesn't matter how many of their readers are 32 year old eskimo women, they're putting out news. It's a lot easier to target ads on cnn.com than on CNN, and I don't have to register to watch CNN, much less read the NYT.
My view is that content providers should provide content, not demographics.
Too many people are still spoiled by the free for all days of the Internet...
It's not that we want free (but nobody's going to pay just to read an occasional NYT story), but that we resent having to allow a third party to sell us just to be able to read the news.
I think that the folks at Boeing have already thought of it. Ford made sure that the excursion would fit in a lane and under bridges. So what if there are some parking spaces you can't fit into? The largest aircraft don't have to land at every airport, you know- smaller planes still get a hell of a lot of use. These big ones could cut down on a lot of congestion in the actual flights, though. We might see more on time performance if it takes fewer planes to service the heavy routes. I think it's a great idea.
Capmaign Finance Reform: Preventing companies from buying elections infringes on their free speech rights.
P2P DOS: Preventing millions of individuals from sharing information is perfectly reasonable.
You're not seeing any problems here? Copyright infringers are by definition in the wrong...
No. Copyright infringers are by definition breaking the law. While there's nothing noble about getting some Backstreet Boys for free or giving Moby a big drop in sales, the current state of copyright law is ludicrous. Violating a law that is so blatantly bought and paid for counter to the people's interest and the clause in the constitution allowing copyrights is being a good citizen. I see neither contradiction nor illogic there.