The correct statement would be "The war on terrorism DID NOT prevent this."
In any war there are victories and losses. There are attacks launched by both sides. To say that this attack was triggered by the war on terrorism is really one of those "no shit, sherlock" moments. The war is not over and both sides will continue to attack. Do you think the terrorist attacks will stop if we stop fighting back. They will only stop when their agenda is met or they are beat to a pulp so much that they can't function anymore. Remember, the WTC and Pentagon were attacked before we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. There are some generally accepted ideas about what Bin Laden and Al Qaeda want, but I don't see many people suggesting that we should acquiesce.
An interesting question to ask is: How many terrorist attacks have been stopped or discouraged by the war on terrorism? You have to remember that this is not just a war fought by soldiers on a battlefield. There is a massive effort to locate and destroy the terrorists ability to function (money, communications, etc.) That being said, the retaliatory invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq have certainly made terrorists less likely to attack. If you get kicked in the balls every time you pinch the guy sitting next to you, you tend to stop pinching so often.
I asked them this exact question at CES in Vegas. First off, it IS a touch-sensitive scroll wheel. Second, they said they had someone else design it and got around the patents somehow (this was their salesperson speaking, not their patent attorney). Anyone from Sonos care to weigh in.
That's interesting, the first thing that popped into my head was that DUI is a serious offense, and this is an absurd decision by the judges. IANAL by any definition, but I don't think they should have to reveal source code to prove to the public that it works. What you need is independent testing that shows the effectiveness of the device. A breathalizer is supposed to give a measurement of blood alcohol content. You don't need to see the source code to figure out if the machine is working.
This is a ridiculous reason to let offenders get away with it. What a waste of the state's time and money.
I use 2000 also, but I never used any of the online banking options. Last year when the letter came informing me that they were discontinuing support, I was annoyed, but It didn't reall affect me.
What I want to know is if anyone has noticed any major feature or usability enhancements from Quicken 2000 to 2005. Someone I work with just bought 2005, and it looks exactly the same. After I bought 2000, every year I would see the new version come out and wonder what revolution in the finance world required a new version every year.
I agree that this is just a lame ploy to bilk more money out of customers that will be too lazy to take action and switch to something else.
'upholding the public sense of morality is not even a legitimate state interest.'
If you RTFA, that is a misquote and out of context. The word "even" does not appear in the original quote, and the meaning is quite different if you read it in context.
Correct Version:
"public morality is not a legitimate state interest sufficient to justify infringing on adult, private, consentual, sexual conduct, even if that conduct is deemed offensive to the general public's sense of morality."
Notice that this restricts the scope to sexual conduct.
By the way, you don't have to live your life according to anyone else's beliefs. However, I suggest you don't murder anyone, because the majority of us frown upon that, and we will punish you if we catch you. I admit this is an extreme example, but when we get down to some of the issues that 99 percent of the population don't feel the same way about, we run into the issue of me applying my morality to you.
A paper trail does not have to mean a paper reciept. A valid paper trail is a hard copy of the vote that is placed in a ballot box. These can be used for a recount AND audit (or in this case, to do demographic research on electronic voting machine users).
When I first started using Firefox, this was my number one complaint. However, I have come like the new way much better. After a few key strokes, I simply tab through the available options to go exactly to the page I want. The old way required typing far more if you wanted to go beyond the root of www.xyzcorp.com to www.xyzcorp.com/sub1/sub2/expage.php for example.
Remember, change is difficult, but not always bad:)
"you are stuck with the download manager"
I agree that the download manager is annoying, and in my opinion unnecessary. Also, Firefox used to give a much more accurate indication of your current download rate. It now seems that they use the same method as IE which takes an average over the entire download instead of smaller samples. This usually leads to a false indication at the beginning of a very high rate download that slowly approaches the actual value.
That's why I ALWAYS try the demo first. Any game worth buying provides a demo. I get a lot of mileage out of playing demos. If I am not bored by the time I make it to the end of the demo (if I even make it to the end), then I consider buying it.
I haven't wasted money on "hyped-up junk" for some time.
...so when a mother discovered her nine-year-old playing online poker...
It sounds like she was supervising. I don't know if you have any kids, but it is impossible (and counter-productive to their development) to monitor their every move. I would guess that the parent probably relies on some sort of content filtering software to help (note I didn't say guarantee) her kids from being exposed to the nastier parts of the internet, and I'm guessing that ACME Parental Controls doesn't have the neopets site on its blacklist...yet.
At least she was paying attention enough to catch it, and (since it is a behavior she obviously disagrees with) take corrective action. You don't have to see and control everything your kid does to be a good parent. The occasional skinned knee teaches a lesson better than a parent ever could. Of course, we could probably start a whole new topic about over/under-parenting pros and cons:)
It is free speech, and somebody is free-speech squatting on georgewbush.net and georgewbush.org. The official site for re-election of President Bush is www.georgewbush.com.
However, these sites were not registered directly by the opposing candidate.
What about the guys squatting on georgewbush.net and.org? www.georgewbush.com is the officially endorsed site of President Bush, but dubya's team wasn't smart enough to pick up the.net and.org versions.
I just figured I would show that this tactic is non-partisan:)
If that were the complete definition of marriage, then it would be acceptable for any two people who love each other to be married (that would include parent/child, siblings, etc.). Fortunately, there are other requirements for marriage.
"Anyway, if non-vanilla sex between consenting adults was wrong, they wouldn't enjoy it so much."
By this argument, it is OK for a person to do anything as long as they enjoy doing it. I bet there are a lot of serial killers, rapists, etc. that would love to see you make laws.
I might be missing something but how does the ability to program a VCR make anybody more/less intelligent than others?
EXACTLY
I could teach a monkey to program a VCR. That's the level of intelligence it requires. Just because a person is not as excited about VCR Programming as you, doesn't make them stupid. I am sick of technophiles thinking they are incredibly intelligent because they can use a computer. Again, I could teach a monkey to use a computer. It is a simple sequence of actions.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a tecnophile myself, but I don't have a superiority complex.
If Valve would just give a simple update on the release time-frame, they could avoid sending their POTENTIAL customers into fits again. They left the door wide open for a hoax like this by starting the pre-loading without any direction as to when people will be able to play. Now I am going to have a new(well it was new a year ago) graphics card AND a gigabyte of data wasting away on my PC.
I guesss I'll be putting my $50USD into DOOM3. I'll see you in the dark!
Forget 5.8GHz. The CPU MHz race does not translate directly to the wireless world. There are great digital cordless phones for 900MHz that will save you money.
After TPM came out, and I was still suffering from "Jar Jar Shock," one of my friends enlightened me with the idea that Star Wars is a children's movie. That is why I remember the OT being great, but I am so disappointed by the Prequels.
I let my 2-year-old son watch all 5 recently, and he loves them. Now instead of asking to watch Monsters, Inc. or Toy Story, he wants Star Wars.
"Let's hope AutoZone countersues the living daylights out of SCO."
I am guessing that SCO is targeting "non-tech" companies (AutoZone, Daimler-Chrysler) with the hope that they will be LESS likely to countersue, and MORE likely to settle out of court to avoid the hassle of litigation over something that does not affect their core business model. SCO may be willing to accept a very meager settlement with a non-disclosure clause. That way, they can publicly claim victory. They don't need to get a lot of money out of these first few suits. If they can set a precedent, they can leverage it in future litigation.
The parent posts are referring to the number of Nobel laureates(which is 20). However, some of the later posts do just say "scientists." This is a great example of how the original facts get distorted through passing them along.
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The correct statement would be "The war on terrorism DID NOT prevent this."
In any war there are victories and losses. There are attacks launched by both sides. To say that this attack was triggered by the war on terrorism is really one of those "no shit, sherlock" moments. The war is not over and both sides will continue to attack. Do you think the terrorist attacks will stop if we stop fighting back. They will only stop when their agenda is met or they are beat to a pulp so much that they can't function anymore. Remember, the WTC and Pentagon were attacked before we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. There are some generally accepted ideas about what Bin Laden and Al Qaeda want, but I don't see many people suggesting that we should acquiesce.
An interesting question to ask is: How many terrorist attacks have been stopped or discouraged by the war on terrorism? You have to remember that this is not just a war fought by soldiers on a battlefield. There is a massive effort to locate and destroy the terrorists ability to function (money, communications, etc.) That being said, the retaliatory invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq have certainly made terrorists less likely to attack. If you get kicked in the balls every time you pinch the guy sitting next to you, you tend to stop pinching so often.
I asked them this exact question at CES in Vegas. First off, it IS a touch-sensitive scroll wheel. Second, they said they had someone else design it and got around the patents somehow (this was their salesperson speaking, not their patent attorney). Anyone from Sonos care to weigh in.
That's interesting, the first thing that popped into my head was that DUI is a serious offense, and this is an absurd decision by the judges. IANAL by any definition, but I don't think they should have to reveal source code to prove to the public that it works. What you need is independent testing that shows the effectiveness of the device. A breathalizer is supposed to give a measurement of blood alcohol content. You don't need to see the source code to figure out if the machine is working.
This is a ridiculous reason to let offenders get away with it. What a waste of the state's time and money.
I use 2000 also, but I never used any of the online banking options. Last year when the letter came informing me that they were discontinuing support, I was annoyed, but It didn't reall affect me.
What I want to know is if anyone has noticed any major feature or usability enhancements from Quicken 2000 to 2005. Someone I work with just bought 2005, and it looks exactly the same. After I bought 2000, every year I would see the new version come out and wonder what revolution in the finance world required a new version every year.
I agree that this is just a lame ploy to bilk more money out of customers that will be too lazy to take action and switch to something else.
Here are a few companies already producing silicon:
Chipcon
Freescale
Atmel
CompXs
Just FYI
'upholding the public sense of morality is not even a legitimate state interest.'
If you RTFA, that is a misquote and out of context. The word "even" does not appear in the original quote, and the meaning is quite different if you read it in context.
Correct Version:
"public morality is not a legitimate state interest sufficient to justify infringing on adult, private, consentual, sexual conduct, even if that conduct is deemed offensive to the general public's sense of morality."
Notice that this restricts the scope to sexual conduct.
By the way, you don't have to live your life according to anyone else's beliefs. However, I suggest you don't murder anyone, because the majority of us frown upon that, and we will punish you if we catch you. I admit this is an extreme example, but when we get down to some of the issues that 99 percent of the population don't feel the same way about, we run into the issue of me applying my morality to you.
A paper trail does not have to mean a paper reciept. A valid paper trail is a hard copy of the vote that is placed in a ballot box. These can be used for a recount AND audit (or in this case, to do demographic research on electronic voting machine users).
Boy is my face red :)
It is so nice of you to compare apples to oranges for us. As far as I can tell, $400 for a 19" LCD monitor is a very reasonable price.
When I first started using Firefox, this was my number one complaint. However, I have come like the new way much better. After a few key strokes, I simply tab through the available options to go exactly to the page I want. The old way required typing far more if you wanted to go beyond the root of www.xyzcorp.com to www.xyzcorp.com/sub1/sub2/expage.php for example.
Remember, change is difficult, but not always bad :)
"you are stuck with the download manager"
I agree that the download manager is annoying, and in my opinion unnecessary. Also, Firefox used to give a much more accurate indication of your current download rate. It now seems that they use the same method as IE which takes an average over the entire download instead of smaller samples. This usually leads to a false indication at the beginning of a very high rate download that slowly approaches the actual value.
Or you can wait 6 months and get it for free.
That's why I ALWAYS try the demo first. Any game worth buying provides a demo. I get a lot of mileage out of playing demos. If I am not bored by the time I make it to the end of the demo (if I even make it to the end), then I consider buying it.
I haven't wasted money on "hyped-up junk" for some time.
...so when a mother discovered her nine-year-old playing online poker...
:)
It sounds like she was supervising. I don't know if you have any kids, but it is impossible (and counter-productive to their development) to monitor their every move. I would guess that the parent probably relies on some sort of content filtering software to help (note I didn't say guarantee) her kids from being exposed to the nastier parts of the internet, and I'm guessing that ACME Parental Controls doesn't have the neopets site on its blacklist...yet.
At least she was paying attention enough to catch it, and (since it is a behavior she obviously disagrees with) take corrective action. You don't have to see and control everything your kid does to be a good parent. The occasional skinned knee teaches a lesson better than a parent ever could. Of course, we could probably start a whole new topic about over/under-parenting pros and cons
It is free speech, and somebody is free-speech squatting on georgewbush.net and georgewbush.org. The official site for re-election of President Bush is www.georgewbush.com.
However, these sites were not registered directly by the opposing candidate.
What about the guys squatting on georgewbush.net and .org? www.georgewbush.com is the officially endorsed site of President Bush, but dubya's team wasn't smart enough to pick up the .net and .org versions.
:)
I just figured I would show that this tactic is non-partisan
"just the union of two people in love"
If that were the complete definition of marriage, then it would be acceptable for any two people who love each other to be married (that would include parent/child, siblings, etc.). Fortunately, there are other requirements for marriage.
"Anyway, if non-vanilla sex between consenting adults was wrong, they wouldn't enjoy it so much."
By this argument, it is OK for a person to do anything as long as they enjoy doing it. I bet there are a lot of serial killers, rapists, etc. that would love to see you make laws.
EXACTLY
I could teach a monkey to program a VCR. That's the level of intelligence it requires. Just because a person is not as excited about VCR Programming as you, doesn't make them stupid. I am sick of technophiles thinking they are incredibly intelligent because they can use a computer. Again, I could teach a monkey to use a computer. It is a simple sequence of actions.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a tecnophile myself, but I don't have a superiority complex.
If Valve would just give a simple update on the release time-frame, they could avoid sending their POTENTIAL customers into fits again. They left the door wide open for a hoax like this by starting the pre-loading without any direction as to when people will be able to play. Now I am going to have a new(well it was new a year ago) graphics card AND a gigabyte of data wasting away on my PC.
I guesss I'll be putting my $50USD into DOOM3. I'll see you in the dark!
You are buying the wrong phones then. There is nothing magical about the frequency that makes 2.4 and 5GHz phones better.
:)
Get yourself a nice DSSS 900MHz phone and you'll get every bit of the audio *quality that the more expensive 2.4 and 5GHz phones have.
*Telephone signals can hardly be referred to as quality audio
Forget 5.8GHz. The CPU MHz race does not translate directly to the wireless world. There are great digital cordless phones for 900MHz that will save you money.
I agree. The headline should read:
IBM tells SCO to Put Up or Shut Up for the 23rd time (this time we really mean it, but if you don't we'll wait a few months and demand it again)
After TPM came out, and I was still suffering from "Jar Jar Shock," one of my friends enlightened me with the idea that Star Wars is a children's movie. That is why I remember the OT being great, but I am so disappointed by the Prequels.
I let my 2-year-old son watch all 5 recently, and he loves them. Now instead of asking to watch Monsters, Inc. or Toy Story, he wants Star Wars.
"Let's hope AutoZone countersues the living daylights out of SCO."
I am guessing that SCO is targeting "non-tech" companies (AutoZone, Daimler-Chrysler) with the hope that they will be LESS likely to countersue, and MORE likely to settle out of court to avoid the hassle of litigation over something that does not affect their core business model. SCO may be willing to accept a very meager settlement with a non-disclosure clause. That way, they can publicly claim victory. They don't need to get a lot of money out of these first few suits. If they can set a precedent, they can leverage it in future litigation.
Oh, yeah...IANAL
The parent posts are referring to the number of Nobel laureates(which is 20). However, some of the later posts do just say "scientists." This is a great example of how the original facts get distorted through passing them along.
He didn't even specify Quake3. I agree with you 100%. Q3Arena runs great on my Athlon 900 with a THREE-YEAR-OLD NVidia graphics card(Geforce2GTS).
:)
As for the original Quake, I design light switches with enough computing power to run it