I'm sorry, but "World of Starcraft" just doesn't have the same ring to it as "World of Warcraft." "Sector of Starcraft?" "Suburb of Starcraft?" See, that's why this game will never happen, no good name for it.
Who cares if there are more female than male workers? What possible bearing does this have on the situation? (I'm trying to figure out exactly why this was mentioned, because it's clearly intended to imply something, though I'm not quite sure what.)
In my discussion with a Chinese plant manager, he says he hires women because they "don't give him trouble."
China honestly scares me. I don't know how worker-friendly they ever were under old Communism, but in the cities China now looks more like corporate fascism.
I no longer buy into the idea that market ties and exposure will bring about political liberalization.
You know what it is, don't you boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong, boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; that beautiful girl. Come to me, my child...
[the girl jumps to her death]
That is strength, boy! That is power! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste. Contemplate this on the tree of woe. Crucify him!
Perhaps, but we aren't talking about military missions
NSA is a DoD organization, so we still are talking about military missions. The key issue of contention is not really the type of activities that went on, but that the NSA did performed them inside the US on American citizens in contradiction to their own charter and the framework set up by the FISA after the Church committee, which itself derived from the revelations of previous domestic intelligence like COINTELPRO.
I agree with you in spirit, but bribery of a public official IS a crime, so the accused must be given the same innocent until proven guilty privilege as in any other crime. Between that constitutional principle and free speech, I lean toward that "legal" definition.
In an ideal situation, the member's constituents would know about the various conflicts of interest and vote the bums out accordingly. Most financial records are available, but the pathways from the donor to the recipient are so convoluted and intentionally obfuscated to, as you said make it very difficult to prove.
The simple solution is to remove companies' privileges to give money to candidates, but even this is hairy. Let's agree that milk producers can band together and spend money to promote their financial interest (Got Milk?). It is also in their financial interest to promote candidates who would (for example) vote to limit regulation on thier industry. A very careful line has to be drawn to allow the greatest amount of speech to the producers without promoting the creation of those stealth organizations which tend to play attack ads close to election time - which is a de facto campaign contribution.
The other option is to allow for free or dramatically reduced media ad rates during election time. There is already a mechanism for public financing of some elections, but there are many strings attached. Both presidential candidates chose not to accept public financing because they could raise more money privately. By reducing the buy costs - a major cost of campaigns - we could mitigate the need to raise the ridiculous amounts of money that are now spent on these races.
The American revolutionaries at the time of the War for Independence were severely outgunned, outmanned, outequipped and out-trained compared to their contemporary British counterparts.
The worry about the NSA isn't about intelligence, or even data mining. These agencies entire existence is to perform these intelligence gathering activities. What they're not allowed to do is to do it on American citizens outside the framework created by FISA. The investigating agency has free rein outside of the country and close to free rein inside the country. All they have to do is get the box checked the the court.
The program activities this current administration is doing really aren't so bad (and I certainly did not vote for the president, either time). What IS bad is the deliberate avoidance of oversight - both congressional and judicial.
Note that these calling patterns cannot be used to associate that person with a committed or planned crime in the normal data mining scenario.
Data mining is unreasonable search.
You've got an interesting point. Did you notice Gen Hayden's fixation on the term "reasonable" wrt to the 4th Amendment before and during his nomination? For reference the 4th amendment says
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The types of records the NSA admits to mining have already been decided to be public records. The act of you punching in a number and sending it to the phone company in the act of making a call is a public act and does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy attached to it (well I disagree, but thats what the SCOTUS said).
That's my devil's advocate analysis of the administration's position. Of course using these records, the NSA can then trivially turn to a private contractor say, Choicepoint* and get further records which may or may not have that same privacy expectation attached to it.
The biggest guiding principle of this administration is expression and expansion of executive power. Cheney has explicitly opined that the power of the president has been in decline since Nixon and he would like to change that trend. To this end, the administration seeks very much to avoid congressional and judicial oversight. Focusing on the reasonable in the 4th amendment makes sure they don't have to address the "but upon probable cause" part.
* -- for bonus points, these are the same guys who cleared the Florida voter rolls of felons
It's alot like the debate surrounding our system of legalized bribery (except we call it lobbying).
The devil is always in the details. I have the right to support the candidate of my choosing with financial support. Likewise, I have the right to petition my representatives, or pay someone to do that on my behalf. It's only bribery then if someone can show a quid pro quo. It should be easier to show when an industry does it. A corporation ideally has no political orientation, but it does have a financial interest in the outcome of elections as they relate to regulation. But sadly, it isn't.
You can think of force feedback as a layman's term. The fancy-pants word is "Haptics" and encompasses both kinesthetic feedback, where an opposing force is directly applied to a input surface as in a FF-joystick, as well as vibrotactile feedback as in the Dual Shock where the vibration feeds-back information through the input device.
In either case, the input device provides additional information through the sense of touch than the user would have without it.
Don't think for a second that Sony didn't do this because of the continuing litigation regarding the Dual Shock vibration. They're losing their case, but to include vibration feedback would incur more litigation, but to ship without some controller gimmick would make for a marketing loss.
And, thanks to low prices at places like Walmart, more Americans than ever are able to own a house, and stock that house
say what? The Wal-mart effect of killing manufacturing in this country forces people in the lower paid service economy. For those who have not been displaced, the marginal decrease in the cost of goods might allow for a home purchase among some small number of people who otherwise might not have, but compared to those people who have been displaced out of middle class manufacturing, there is a net decrease.
This is all an order of magnitude (or more) less than the effect of the incredibly low interest rates and tax incentive on home ownership.
Forty years ago, Nixon invented the policy of engagement to balance the dangerous Soviet Union against an equal dangerous but hungry Communist China.
Ten years ago, with the Soviet menace defeated, Bill Clinton invented the complete sell out. Slave made goods have flowed into out country, jobs and money have flowed out. Parallel to this was born the myth of the "information economy" where the US would own ideas and the rest of the world would do our bidding because of it. Of course, for this ownership to be complete, it must apply to our own citizens. To enslave others, we must first prove our dedication to ruling by enslaving ourselves.
You can draw a straight line to today, with the DMCA, Patriot act and rampant domestic spying from a tremendously expanded federal government. As the rich and powerful gateher in Redmond, ask yourself where the rhetoric of freedom has gone and why your boss is dining with a Communist. What in the hell are we doing?
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That is why the original conflict in the Phillipines was such a mess, and MacArthur's reputation is forever diminished in my mind by the hardship he caused American soldiers.
Don't discount the enemy. The original war plan (Plan Orange), called for the Phillipne garrison to hold out for up to six months until relieved by a naval movement with fresh troops and supplies. The problem in this bit of planning was the Japanese sinking the Pacific fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor. MacArthur and the US Army in the Phillipines did as well (and better) than could have been expected of them given the situation.
Once again, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri proves to be the best game ever made:
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Virtual $ isn't a crappy electronics doo-dad, it's just a number in a computer.
Dollars, and any other fiat money are too. Just cause it's printed and you can carry some in your wallet doesn't give it any intrinsic value - only the one that we agree to give it.
Would you want to buy a $4.00 coffee if it was sold under the, say, Maxwell House brand name?
Funny thing is most large brand coffees like Maxwell House, were actually very good coffees before the gourmet cofee market sprung up. Now that a premium grade of coffee can bring greater margins, Kraft would be stupid to mix it into Maxwell House. Thus Maxwell House has gotten worse because of gourmet coffee.
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How about leech of Blizzard's own marketshare?
In my discussion with a Chinese plant manager, he says he hires women because they "don't give him trouble."
China honestly scares me. I don't know how worker-friendly they ever were under old Communism, but in the cities China now looks more like corporate fascism.
I no longer buy into the idea that market ties and exposure will bring about political liberalization.
I'm still playing the game I bought last January: World of Warcraft.
I think the sales of new titles has a lot to due to WoW.
Console RPG, yes. There's no clear winner in PC RPGs with contenders like Planescape:Torment, Fallout, and Ultima IV.
I realized I had a problem when I found myself moving the TV so I could play WoW and watch C-SPAN at the same time.
or as in Conan:
You know what it is, don't you boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong, boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; that beautiful girl. Come to me, my child...
[the girl jumps to her death]
That is strength, boy! That is power! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste. Contemplate this on the tree of woe. Crucify him!
Perhaps, but we aren't talking about military missions
NSA is a DoD organization, so we still are talking about military missions. The key issue of contention is not really the type of activities that went on, but that the NSA did performed them inside the US on American citizens in contradiction to their own charter and the framework set up by the FISA after the Church committee, which itself derived from the revelations of previous domestic intelligence like COINTELPRO.
I agree with you in spirit, but bribery of a public official IS a crime, so the accused must be given the same innocent until proven guilty privilege as in any other crime. Between that constitutional principle and free speech, I lean toward that "legal" definition.
In an ideal situation, the member's constituents would know about the various conflicts of interest and vote the bums out accordingly. Most financial records are available, but the pathways from the donor to the recipient are so convoluted and intentionally obfuscated to, as you said make it very difficult to prove.
The simple solution is to remove companies' privileges to give money to candidates, but even this is hairy. Let's agree that milk producers can band together and spend money to promote their financial interest (Got Milk?). It is also in their financial interest to promote candidates who would (for example) vote to limit regulation on thier industry. A very careful line has to be drawn to allow the greatest amount of speech to the producers without promoting the creation of those stealth organizations which tend to play attack ads close to election time - which is a de facto campaign contribution.
The other option is to allow for free or dramatically reduced media ad rates during election time. There is already a mechanism for public financing of some elections, but there are many strings attached. Both presidential candidates chose not to accept public financing because they could raise more money privately. By reducing the buy costs - a major cost of campaigns - we could mitigate the need to raise the ridiculous amounts of money that are now spent on these races.
The American revolutionaries at the time of the War for Independence were severely outgunned, outmanned, outequipped and out-trained compared to their contemporary British counterparts.
Guess which side one?
The French.
The worry about the NSA isn't about intelligence, or even data mining. These agencies entire existence is to perform these intelligence gathering activities. What they're not allowed to do is to do it on American citizens outside the framework created by FISA. The investigating agency has free rein outside of the country and close to free rein inside the country. All they have to do is get the box checked the the court.
The program activities this current administration is doing really aren't so bad (and I certainly did not vote for the president, either time). What IS bad is the deliberate avoidance of oversight - both congressional and judicial.
Note that these calling patterns cannot be used to associate that person with a committed or planned crime in the normal data mining scenario.
Data mining is unreasonable search.
You've got an interesting point. Did you notice Gen Hayden's fixation on the term "reasonable" wrt to the 4th Amendment before and during his nomination? For reference the 4th amendment says
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The types of records the NSA admits to mining have already been decided to be public records. The act of you punching in a number and sending it to the phone company in the act of making a call is a public act and does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy attached to it (well I disagree, but thats what the SCOTUS said).
That's my devil's advocate analysis of the administration's position. Of course using these records, the NSA can then trivially turn to a private contractor say, Choicepoint* and get further records which may or may not have that same privacy expectation attached to it.
The biggest guiding principle of this administration is expression and expansion of executive power. Cheney has explicitly opined that the power of the president has been in decline since Nixon and he would like to change that trend. To this end, the administration seeks very much to avoid congressional and judicial oversight. Focusing on the reasonable in the 4th amendment makes sure they don't have to address the "but upon probable cause" part.
* -- for bonus points, these are the same guys who cleared the Florida voter rolls of felons
It's alot like the debate surrounding our system of legalized bribery (except we call it lobbying).
The devil is always in the details. I have the right to support the candidate of my choosing with financial support. Likewise, I have the right to petition my representatives, or pay someone to do that on my behalf. It's only bribery then if someone can show a quid pro quo. It should be easier to show when an industry does it. A corporation ideally has no political orientation, but it does have a financial interest in the outcome of elections as they relate to regulation. But sadly, it isn't.
Amazing! Just think of the possibilities!
Torture --> Aggressive Professional Interrogation
POW --> Enemy Combatant
Domestic Spying --> Terrorist Surveillance
What others can YOU find kids?
Ha Ha Ha. They're your dashboard hacks motherfucker!
You can think of force feedback as a layman's term. The fancy-pants word is "Haptics" and encompasses both kinesthetic feedback, where an opposing force is directly applied to a input surface as in a FF-joystick, as well as vibrotactile feedback as in the Dual Shock where the vibration feeds-back information through the input device.
In either case, the input device provides additional information through the sense of touch than the user would have without it.
Don't think for a second that Sony didn't do this because of the continuing litigation regarding the Dual Shock vibration. They're losing their case, but to include vibration feedback would incur more litigation, but to ship without some controller gimmick would make for a marketing loss.
And, thanks to low prices at places like Walmart, more Americans than ever are able to own a house, and stock that house
say what? The Wal-mart effect of killing manufacturing in this country forces people in the lower paid service economy. For those who have not been displaced, the marginal decrease in the cost of goods might allow for a home purchase among some small number of people who otherwise might not have, but compared to those people who have been displaced out of middle class manufacturing, there is a net decrease.
This is all an order of magnitude (or more) less than the effect of the incredibly low interest rates and tax incentive on home ownership.
Forty years ago, Nixon invented the policy of engagement to balance the dangerous Soviet Union against an equal dangerous but hungry Communist China.
Ten years ago, with the Soviet menace defeated, Bill Clinton invented the complete sell out. Slave made goods have flowed into out country, jobs and money have flowed out. Parallel to this was born the myth of the "information economy" where the US would own ideas and the rest of the world would do our bidding because of it. Of course, for this ownership to be complete, it must apply to our own citizens. To enslave others, we must first prove our dedication to ruling by enslaving ourselves.
You can draw a straight line to today, with the DMCA, Patriot act and rampant domestic spying from a tremendously expanded federal government. As the rich and powerful gateher in Redmond, ask yourself where the rhetoric of freedom has gone and why your boss is dining with a Communist. What in the hell are we doing?
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Genius, on so many levels.
That is why the original conflict in the Phillipines was such a mess, and MacArthur's reputation is forever diminished in my mind by the hardship he caused American soldiers.
Don't discount the enemy. The original war plan (Plan Orange), called for the Phillipne garrison to hold out for up to six months until relieved by a naval movement with fresh troops and supplies. The problem in this bit of planning was the Japanese sinking the Pacific fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor. MacArthur and the US Army in the Phillipines did as well (and better) than could have been expected of them given the situation.
Once again, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri proves to be the best game ever made:
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
--Pravin Lal
I 3 April Fool's Day.
/. Even the ads are funny.
It's like Christmas on
A "Try AOL" ad??
now THAT is funny.
A world without pr0n?
What else am I supposed to do on the long flight from Ogrimmar and Gadgetzan?
Virtual $ isn't a crappy electronics doo-dad, it's just a number in a computer.
Dollars, and any other fiat money are too. Just cause it's printed and you can carry some in your wallet doesn't give it any intrinsic value - only the one that we agree to give it.
Would you want to buy a $4.00 coffee if it was sold under the, say, Maxwell House brand name?
Funny thing is most large brand coffees like Maxwell House, were actually very good coffees before the gourmet cofee market sprung up. Now that a premium grade of coffee can bring greater margins, Kraft would be stupid to mix it into Maxwell House. Thus Maxwell House has gotten worse because of gourmet coffee.