Bullshit, they always did believe they were justifid. Furthermore, these people have no morals -- look up "innocence project" to see how many men prosecutors knew were innocent but still prosecuted and executed.
As opposed to Aaron Swartz, who was guilty as hell and everyone knows it.
his guilt doesn't justify their tactics. If someone steals an apple and the cops shoot him while chasing him down, you can't look at that and say well he was guilty*. Swartz guilt of lack thereof doesn't justify what happened to him.
* just realized i stole that storyline from Aladdin
Let it go. If (and only if) she asks for your help,...
Assuming said relationship progresses to (optionally marriage and) children, there's no way to dodge the subject. It's one thing to let this woman live with her own beliefs and another to pass it on to another generation.
really? honestly speaking I'm still not seeing this as a big deal. By that time you should be able to come to a compromise. After all you've been with this girl for a hypothetically 6-7 years minimum (1 year now, almost a year for the baby, maybe 5 years before you sit down to talk about dinosaurs). I would think that in 6-7 years (likely more in reality) that you'd find time to agree that you're going to explain both of your positions and let the child decide. I think most kids don't learn about dinosaurs from their parents anyway.
was Call of Duty banned there? I thought I recalled hearing about a mission where you assassinated Fidel Castro which I thought was rather ballsy considering Castro was alive at the time and not at war with the country. That'd be like the NAACP making a game where you assassinate former President Bush.
Of course a democracy doesn't guarantee anything -see Merica.
FTFY
crikes look at how many "democracies" America has established against the will of the people that have turned ugly that's a far worse track record than Cuba. I mean Vietnam for crying out loud. Ho Chi Minh looked to the US for help breaking free of it's colonial status (like US/England) and then when they wanted to establish a govt of their own choosing.. war.
EA: "Hey look.. we care we fired our CEO"
Consumer: "Sweet, this means they care"
but then next game they do this and everyone just buys in all over again.
It's like the Xbox 360 a console that caused endless headaches for nearly every consumer that bought one for years, cost microsoft billions of dollars and yet how many of the people who 'swore they wouldn't do it on the third xbox" will be there buying it not only in the first month but on that first day. Quite frankly if we really want to 'vote with our wallets' noone should be buying this next xbox offering until at least two weeks have past and ideally a month or two.
Colleges don't allow covering walls with very much. Else, the RAs get cranky about firecode.
but... but.. in every movie the first thing our protagonist does at school in his/her two person dorm room is put up a poster.. usually something that his/her bookish (and usually Asian) roommate hates.
so that international license thing was a new law? THAT's why there was such a fuss.. well I'm pretty sure for the record they recently took care of that.
Three Strikes has it's flaws I'm sure this will have similar and analogous problems without the conviction of violence offenders to support it's continued existence
and people wanting to boycott a game that arguably he had peripherally worked on. I think Card's Ender series has gone on too long but that doesn't change my opinion that I would be willing to read the fiction he writes.. it's hardly that objectionable (Anton aside). His views aren't effusive throughout his writing. Not historically and I doubt in this instance.
The home video market for adult video had a major influence on VHS succeeding
good lord the porn industry will never let that die. This is like that kid who won a 3rd grade national level spelling bee and just won't shut up about it in his 40s
I use twitter like ICQ. it's a way to converse with my community asynchronously. That's my active purpose with twitter. I talk to fellow CAGs. Passively yeah I get urgent news from twitter and general news from "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me"
As for the video service, it's probably going to fail pretty hard. People can get used to posting within a word limit, but most idiots with a cell phone take a good 10 seconds just to get the camera pointed at what they're trying to film. Just look at youtube for examples, 6 seconds is far too short... they'll need at least 30 seconds to a full minute to make it work.
I support a short limit for EXACTLY that reason. Twitter taught people to be brief. While you CAN tweet a long thought in 5 rapid fire tweets it's not worth the effort usually. So you just shorten and let it go. YouTube is an example of why we need to give limits. I mean people post 15 minute clips of something that took less than 7 to say. I still think YouTube should institute a policy of making people watch their own videos before posting them. Even if it's just for the lowest ranked videos or something. or maybe people below a certain activity marker.. or whatever.
30 seconds would be 12 seconds of fumbling...:sigh: well who knows maybe 6 IS too short. Especially since that's probably from the start. What you should get is maybe 20 seconds total of record time and then posting 6 but that would just confused the target audience so... nah.
Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?
Um, no. A comparable situation would be if McDonald's advertised that that their McNuggets Lunch-a-rama had 12 nuggets, but when you buy one you only got 7. Their explanation being that the server has to eat some, too. At least McDonald's has the decency to admit that their Quarter Pounder is *pre-cooked weight. MS could do the same by saying pre-OS storage. However, if the Quarter Pounder was delivered at less than 2 oz, I think there would be an uproar.
Except that McDonald's does exactly what the article is talking about. Your Quarter Pounder is a quater of a pound before they cook it. You are not getting a quarter pound of meat on the bun. Some of the mass is lost during cooking. Now granted, I think this case is much more extreme than the case of a hamburger.
Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?
Um, no. A comparable situation would be if McDonald's advertised that that their McNuggets Lunch-a-rama had 12 nuggets, but when you buy one you only got 7. Their explanation being that the server has to eat some, too. At least McDonald's has the decency to admit that their Quarter Pounder is *pre-cooked weight. MS could do the same by saying pre-OS storage. However, if the Quarter Pounder was delivered at less than 2 oz, I think there would be an uproar.
Except that McDonald's does exactly what the article is talking about. Your Quarter Pounder is a quater of a pound before they cook it. You are not getting a quarter pound of meat on the bun. Some of the mass is lost during cooking. Now granted, I think this case is much more extreme than the case of a hamburger.
to generate the same rage.. you'd have to order a quarter pounder and then when it's cooked you have a burger the size of a nugget. The point being some shrinkage we expect but this is unexpectedly small
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As opposed to Aaron Swartz, who was guilty as hell and everyone knows it.
his guilt doesn't justify their tactics. If someone steals an apple and the cops shoot him while chasing him down, you can't look at that and say well he was guilty*. Swartz guilt of lack thereof doesn't justify what happened to him.
* just realized i stole that storyline from Aladdin
A friend of mine believes that going to church makes you rich and happy.
I have a friend who doesn't think prayer works. Well whadyaknow. I guess this here world takes just all kinda of folks don't it.
Let it go. If (and only if) she asks for your help, ...
Assuming said relationship progresses to (optionally marriage and) children, there's no way to dodge the subject. It's one thing to let this woman live with her own beliefs and another to pass it on to another generation.
really? honestly speaking I'm still not seeing this as a big deal. By that time you should be able to come to a compromise. After all you've been with this girl for a hypothetically 6-7 years minimum (1 year now, almost a year for the baby, maybe 5 years before you sit down to talk about dinosaurs). I would think that in 6-7 years (likely more in reality) that you'd find time to agree that you're going to explain both of your positions and let the child decide. I think most kids don't learn about dinosaurs from their parents anyway.
was Call of Duty banned there? I thought I recalled hearing about a mission where you assassinated Fidel Castro which I thought was rather ballsy considering Castro was alive at the time and not at war with the country. That'd be like the NAACP making a game where you assassinate former President Bush.
Shame. The summary doesn't even mention what game engine was used. And you call this news for nerds?
um.. can I get a +5 over here?
Of course a democracy doesn't guarantee anything -see Merica.
FTFY
crikes look at how many "democracies" America has established against the will of the people that have turned ugly that's a far worse track record than Cuba. I mean Vietnam for crying out loud. Ho Chi Minh looked to the US for help breaking free of it's colonial status (like US/England) and then when they wanted to establish a govt of their own choosing .. war.
EA: "Hey look.. we care we fired our CEO" Consumer: "Sweet, this means they care" but then next game they do this and everyone just buys in all over again. It's like the Xbox 360 a console that caused endless headaches for nearly every consumer that bought one for years, cost microsoft billions of dollars and yet how many of the people who 'swore they wouldn't do it on the third xbox" will be there buying it not only in the first month but on that first day. Quite frankly if we really want to 'vote with our wallets' noone should be buying this next xbox offering until at least two weeks have past and ideally a month or two.
Colleges don't allow covering walls with very much. Else, the RAs get cranky about firecode.
but ... but.. in every movie the first thing our protagonist does at school in his/her two person dorm room is put up a poster .. usually something that his/her bookish (and usually Asian) roommate hates.
so that international license thing was a new law? THAT's why there was such a fuss.. well I'm pretty sure for the record they recently took care of that.
Three Strikes has it's flaws I'm sure this will have similar and analogous problems without the conviction of violence offenders to support it's continued existence
and people wanting to boycott a game that arguably he had peripherally worked on. I think Card's Ender series has gone on too long but that doesn't change my opinion that I would be willing to read the fiction he writes.. it's hardly that objectionable (Anton aside). His views aren't effusive throughout his writing. Not historically and I doubt in this instance.
My friend's dad kept his betamax for years. It stripped macrovision protection from VHS tapes so he used it to copy rentals.
you know scotch tape was also capable of stripping protection from VHS tapes j/k I looked up macrovision protection. (TIL...)
The home video market for adult video had a major influence on VHS succeeding
good lord the porn industry will never let that die. This is like that kid who won a 3rd grade national level spelling bee and just won't shut up about it in his 40s
I can't find the article, but it seems to me that Linus was just in slashdot news not too long ago for ripping some other developer a new one.
I presume the article you refer to is this one Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug
but what if you're the bad guy? strength doesn't make you right.
yo I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.. I didn't make the second cut though.
last time i read an article like this the guy was faking it
dude.. i'm in a computer lab.. i can't be laughing this hard when people are watching.
"Washed my brain with Gain so I could think more clearer" - UB 2 Pretty lol.. rappers no one else has heard of
no no man.. little girls are real :roll:
i disagree. it's maybe not the best medium for discussion but if you've mastered brevity it can and does work.
I use twitter like ICQ. it's a way to converse with my community asynchronously. That's my active purpose with twitter. I talk to fellow CAGs. Passively yeah I get urgent news from twitter and general news from "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me"
As for the video service, it's probably going to fail pretty hard. People can get used to posting within a word limit, but most idiots with a cell phone take a good 10 seconds just to get the camera pointed at what they're trying to film. Just look at youtube for examples, 6 seconds is far too short... they'll need at least 30 seconds to a full minute to make it work.
I support a short limit for EXACTLY that reason. Twitter taught people to be brief. While you CAN tweet a long thought in 5 rapid fire tweets it's not worth the effort usually. So you just shorten and let it go. YouTube is an example of why we need to give limits. I mean people post 15 minute clips of something that took less than 7 to say. I still think YouTube should institute a policy of making people watch their own videos before posting them. Even if it's just for the lowest ranked videos or something. or maybe people below a certain activity marker.. or whatever. 30 seconds would be 12 seconds of fumbling... :sigh: well who knows maybe 6 IS too short. Especially since that's probably from the start. What you should get is maybe 20 seconds total of record time and then posting 6 but that would just confused the target audience so... nah.
Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?
Um, no. A comparable situation would be if McDonald's advertised that that their McNuggets Lunch-a-rama had 12 nuggets, but when you buy one you only got 7. Their explanation being that the server has to eat some, too. At least McDonald's has the decency to admit that their Quarter Pounder is *pre-cooked weight. MS could do the same by saying pre-OS storage. However, if the Quarter Pounder was delivered at less than 2 oz, I think there would be an uproar.
Except that McDonald's does exactly what the article is talking about. Your Quarter Pounder is a quater of a pound before they cook it. You are not getting a quarter pound of meat on the bun. Some of the mass is lost during cooking. Now granted, I think this case is much more extreme than the case of a hamburger.
Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?
Um, no. A comparable situation would be if McDonald's advertised that that their McNuggets Lunch-a-rama had 12 nuggets, but when you buy one you only got 7. Their explanation being that the server has to eat some, too. At least McDonald's has the decency to admit that their Quarter Pounder is *pre-cooked weight. MS could do the same by saying pre-OS storage. However, if the Quarter Pounder was delivered at less than 2 oz, I think there would be an uproar.
Except that McDonald's does exactly what the article is talking about. Your Quarter Pounder is a quater of a pound before they cook it. You are not getting a quarter pound of meat on the bun. Some of the mass is lost during cooking. Now granted, I think this case is much more extreme than the case of a hamburger.
to generate the same rage.. you'd have to order a quarter pounder and then when it's cooked you have a burger the size of a nugget. The point being some shrinkage we expect but this is unexpectedly small
MY SUB IS NOT 12 INCHES LONG!!
That's what she said