Indeed, that's pretty much what this guy was doing. Instead of having everyone pay individually for the games, he was preloading them onto a console and selling the console and a collection of games for whatever he was charging. I'm not surprised his profits were in excess of $390K (and I'd go back to doing it after I got out of the klink, too).
While you could count me in, don't count everyone else in. It most likely won't happen as many people will roll over to be ass raped by the razor-blade dildo that the government continues to proffer.
I didn't see it when it was originally released, but I did watch it, fairly often along with movies like Logan's Run, V (not the soccer movie), and other period sci-fi movies as a child. Freakin' awesome.
and you can keep your damn pennies to yourselves. I keep seeing those maple leaf emblazoned coins all the way down here in Tennessee. Don't know why, but I do. Damn Canadian coins. Next thing you know your nickel and dimes will try immigrating here too and causing all kinds of confusion.:p
That said, D&D 4E is very much still the quick hack'n'slash ruleset. Of course, it doesn't have to be, but it certainly doesn't have the attention to character personality advantages/disadvantages and all the non-combat skills that GURPS does. But then not much else does, and that's why we all love GURPS, isn't it.;-)
I'm not in the habit of feeding trolls, but here goes.
The French Resistance, while valiant, did little to actually bring an end to the war. It only really helped foreign GIs return to their appropriate armies.
And of course there is the French Revolution. The only war that France won, which isn't saying much since it was a war against itself.
Excessively so. What about the taxes paid for those services to be available? If they'd stop spending tax money on hookers and liquor, this country wouldn't be in a shit hole right now.
Exactly. It doesn't address the fact that the Doctor's home PC is the weak link, not the connection or the authentication schemes at the other end. Keep those heart monitors off any network that is — even through several layers of authentication and encryption — facing the Internet.
And beware anyone who tells you that they have a foolproof setup. They aren't aware that the universe has already created a better fool in his/her customer.
I can live with that, if not entirely agree with it. You need to read A Man Out of Time (not the originally published work, but the one his widow had republished, with nearly a 1,000 words that had been left out from the original publication).
How do you think that more and more hospitals are able to monitor your vitals from their nurses' station rather than having to walk into each room and check the machines themselves? Some hospitals (especially in their OB department) even have it set up so the doctors can log in (usually via a VPN and citrix) to monitor their patients from home, and only actually come to the hospital when necessary. That I have a problem with. If it was networked with the nurses station which was completely stand-alone, then that's fine, but to allow remote VPN access, even with CITRIX, encryption (it would have to be heavily encrypted, IMO, to make it even worth considering) and whatever other precautions you take, I would not be happy. Chances are the doc isn't a computer geek and doesn't know the first bit about securing his home PC.
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I'd hate to be the one that drops the 2800 mile mirror, though.
it's economics!
you insensitive clod, that was my line!
Indeed, that's pretty much what this guy was doing. Instead of having everyone pay individually for the games, he was preloading them onto a console and selling the console and a collection of games for whatever he was charging. I'm not surprised his profits were in excess of $390K (and I'd go back to doing it after I got out of the klink, too).
While you could count me in, don't count everyone else in. It most likely won't happen as many people will roll over to be ass raped by the razor-blade dildo that the government continues to proffer.
so sex is a viral meme?
That's cold, perhaps you should have considered using the CCD CopyWrite, instead?
Are you talking about the Chronicles of Amber?
I didn't see it when it was originally released, but I did watch it, fairly often along with movies like Logan's Run, V (not the soccer movie), and other period sci-fi movies as a child. Freakin' awesome.
and you can keep your damn pennies to yourselves. I keep seeing those maple leaf emblazoned coins all the way down here in Tennessee. Don't know why, but I do. Damn Canadian coins. Next thing you know your nickel and dimes will try immigrating here too and causing all kinds of confusion. :p
You mean like what is already being discussed?
or you get the government to foist this on us like they are digital broadcasts.
And of course I need to check my links before posting. Damnit bobby.
/.ing they might get).
I play Rifts, not what-ever-the-fuck that website I accidentally linked to is (although I'm sure they'll enjoy the
WTF are you talking about? I play Rifts.
Don't paranoid nerds already do that? :p
I'm not in the habit of feeding trolls, but here goes.
The French Resistance, while valiant, did little to actually bring an end to the war. It only really helped foreign GIs return to their appropriate armies.
And of course there is the French Revolution. The only war that France won, which isn't saying much since it was a war against itself.
Forget Neal Stephenson, George Orwell had it down in 1984 (the novel, not the year).
You forgot fish bait.
I'm fairly certain the duergar and drow won't stand for that for too long.
Excessively so. What about the taxes paid for those services to be available? If they'd stop spending tax money on hookers and liquor, this country wouldn't be in a shit hole right now.
Exactly. It doesn't address the fact that the Doctor's home PC is the weak link, not the connection or the authentication schemes at the other end. Keep those heart monitors off any network that is — even through several layers of authentication and encryption — facing the Internet.
And beware anyone who tells you that they have a foolproof setup. They aren't aware that the universe has already created a better fool in his/her customer.
I can live with that, if not entirely agree with it. You need to read A Man Out of Time (not the originally published work, but the one his widow had republished, with nearly a 1,000 words that had been left out from the original publication).
isn't libertarian war-monger a contradiction in terms?