do you think the founding fathers meant ALL types of arms?
Remember before 2000 when export cryptography software was highly restricted? I believe it was something along the lines of being classified as munitions. So why don't people talk about public cryptography as a means to retain privacy in respect to the second amendment especially in this day of illegal government snooping as "being necessary to the security of a free State"?
I remember being SO excited for the BB premiere and being totally disappointed at how lame it felt to actually watch it. It was all WWE-style hyperactive and the announcers were just annoying as hell and wouldn't shut up with their inane drivel. I remember one bot had a cheesy head thing mounted on it and they went NUTS when it got knocked off, even though it was just a superficial piece and in no way connected to function of the actual robot.
Sounds like they're taking the right approach this time!
The attacker in the most recent episode of a domestic mass shooting purchased his weapons 100% legally, as did a man who shot his estranged wife 6 blocks away from where I type this. He likely would have killed himself too had not someone I know personally wrested the gun away from him.
Look at all the ordinary people who fell in with the pro-war sentiment prior the iraq occupation, and how their attitude that violence is a legitimate solution to a falsely perceived threat has affected this country and the world since then.
I like guns, but I don't like shooting people unless it's paintball or video games. I wouldn't say "gun culture" is a problem, rather "violence culture".
I don't mind the inbound people as much as their attitudes in the non-summer seasons. I live in Oregon *because* I love the weather and environment year-round. Sucks every time I hear some whiner complain about how much they hate "days like this" if it's not 65 and sunny.
No pilot loves crashing a plane. Whatever had gone terribly wrong at the end of Steve's last flight, I can guarantee you he was not loving it. I'd bet that the first emotion that he felt was anger at whatever caused the initial deviation from normal flight, followed by shock and apprehension in the final seconds once he realized he was in serious trouble.
That all sounds very absolutist and projected. How can you speculate on a person's last moments without being a close personal friend?
From what I've read of Howard Hughes' thoughts on the xf-11 crash, he seemed to be very pragmatic and controlled during that whole episode. He had every chance to bail and yet he tried his hardest to land the plane in a safe, open area. You might say he did this out of his love for his aircraft. Anger, shock, apprehension... these things are all unhelpful in a dire situation that takes such focus to manage, and to me it sounds uncharacteristic of Fossett.
I'm not sure *exactly* what HH thought of his crash, but I do know he was very angry at any suggestion that he had lost control of the aircraft.
every time I install firefox (which is surprisingly often), I go through a fair amount of hassle to track down the addons I want and install them. It's not impossible, but would be very nice to have streamlined. I'd probably discover more interesting addons that way too!
So it's a Saturday, I'm cool with replying to the trolls today.
The credit is due to Get Smart, not "60's television shows", thus the entire point of my posts. In giving credit to that show, it's a good platform to promote what will likely be a good movie, giving homage on top of giving credit!
Am I getting trolled for fun or are these people genuinely faulty with reading comprehension?
An AC telling me to shut up, calling me a douche, and obviously failing to interpret correct usage of the English language => Classic!:D
Oh noes! I'm getting trolled with a straw man attack! I'll bite...
The TV show Get Smart was created on the mid-60's, and sprung from the minds and talents of Buck Henery and Mel Brooks Buck Henry (not Henery) and Mel Brooks created the show. Your statement implies that it "was created" by others with their ideas and concepts. Creating a show takes a lot more work than just coming up with brilliant ideas.
THe fact that you watched Get Smart in the '80s and '90s doesn't change the fact that this was a '60s television show! Huh, I guess that explains why max never drove a Miata. I mentioned the period of time I saw the show to clarify that I was not of the generation who enjoyed it during the original release. If you are implying that I stated it ran during that time, you are clearly incorrect.
tivo the show and study the credits This being said to a guy whose girlfriend complains (lovingly) that I insist on watching the credits after movies. Also, I don't have a tivo, a television, or any sort of broadcast video reception.
though remember, it may be in tricky roman numerals and represented by letters not digits That may be tricky for you, but I happen to excel in maths and numerical comprehension (and have an eerie talent for estimating quantities based on visual observation). You go ahead and remember that, and I'll remember how much fun I have reading roman numeral copyright dates with ease.
The summary of this story saying that the cone of silence was a staple of 60's television shows is not at all correct. It was a regular gag in a singular show, and I sure as hell don't recall ever seeing a CoS in flipper, the andy griffith show, or gilligan's island.
Go back under the bridge where you collect tolls and practice your awesome roman numeral skilz.
Okay, I enjoyed way too many episodes of Get Smart as a kid (in the late 80's early 90's) to not comment on the Cone of Silence. Invented by Professor Cone, this was a recurring gag in the show where Max (played by Don Adams, the voice of inspector gadget) and the Chief would engage in communicating sensitive information to each other only a few feet away in the same room. It would always malfunction, or the couldn't hear each other, or passersby could hear them (and relay the communication for them).
So no, it's not just "60's television shows", though some commenters may have the occasional exceptions (M.I.?). Give credit where it's due! And watch for the movie of Get Smart starring Steve Carell coming out this year.
It's too bad that MPC has a security issue and is abandoned. I rather liked it. I haven't used vlc on windows in a long time for precisely the reasons you've cited. Though I haven't checked it out yet, I'm holding my breath for the mozilla player (democracy?) to be good.
"Almost no one I knew heard about it," she [Tracy Weber] says, pointing out that only 30 to 50 people attended the April 2006 public hearing, depending on which report you read. Weber didn't find out about the swap until she saw the new street signs on her block, this past January, when it was "over and done with." Residents got a note on March 23, 2007 about the change (there was also a letter sent in December 2006, but Weber says she and several other neighbors didn't get it).
It's no wonder residents were blindsided by the change: Saltzman circumvented city code to ram the idea through.
The city code has an entire section dedicated to renaming streets. There are two ways to do it: a long, involved citizen-initiated process, or a quick city council vote that can only be used in limited circumstances.
The citizen-initiated process involves filing an application with the city, gathering 2,500 signatures (or signatures from 75 percent of the street's property owners), assembling a biography of the honoree, paying a fee to notify neighbors, running the idea past a panel of historians, going before the city's planning commission, and--finally--swaying the city council.
Additionally, there are criteria for who a street can be renamed after. It must be a real, "prominent" person who has made a "significant, positive contribution to the United States of America and/or the local community." The person has to have been deceased for at least five years.
The other way to change a street name is via a city council vote. But according to city code, the council is only allowed to change a street name to "to correct errors in street names, or to eliminate confusion." In fact, the city code is very clear that the council cannot take it upon themselves to rename a street to honor a person: "Renaming of a street by the city under provisions of this paragraph shall not be undertaken to rename a street after a person."
This renaming initiative is actually not a bad idea. However, the subject of renaming streets in portland is a very sore one. Just this year, our wonderfully recognizable Portland Blvd. was changed to Rosa Parks Way by the city council who recklessly bypassed our carefully written renaming guidelines by simply voting to not follow these rules in a city council meeting. The sign changes were partial, the prior notice was virtually nonexistent, and it has created a lot of confusion and malcontent. Why they chose to rename portland blvd and not some other less worthy named street like "killingsworth" remains a mystery.
If that wasn't bad enough, our mayor has been wasting so much time and energy on a failed initiative to get historic interstate avenue rename "cesar chavez ave", creating much hostility and discussions of racism while in the meantime cyclists are being KILLED due to dangerous conditions that have cars turning right into bikes who have their own lane. This, after the mayor tried to stifle funding for safer bike planning (which doesn't even need that much money, certainly less than the SOFTBALL organizations receive).
Great list of game music! I thoroughly enjoyed castlevania: sotn and had my own copy once, thinking this was nothing special as it was a "greatest hits" title. I lost it and when I went to find a new one, I was surprised to see it priced so high as a "collector's item". Fortunately, you can buy it for ps3 and psp as a download for $10.
It's very fun in a rpg-warcraft kind of way, and after you clear the castle, you play the second half of the game in the same castle completely turned upside down, which required all the abilities you had gained. I forget exactly how they explained that, I think it's underground or something...
Another thing that made it cool is you start out with your character fully geared with the most awesome items in the game. But then you get them all knocked off or taken away somehow and are left to start fresh.
Very fun game, and worth checking out if you can. Oh, and the music was indeed beautiful. The cd had actual red book audio (I think?), which made it easy to get the music out to more ears.
Slashdot's future is engadget's, boingboing's, digg's, npr's, etc's past. We all know the only real value in getting a slashdot story ahead of everyone is a better chance to first post!
Slashdot subscriptions offer real value in other ways though.
So how does that explain why playing quake 3 arena makes me comfortable and sociable while watching an episode of full house makes me want to invade iraq?
I didn't rtfa, but I would think their explanation would have something to do with empathizing with the (real people) characters on a sort of might-makes-right thing.
That sounds sensible, but I have a hard time seeing this to be a genuine problem that is alleviated with the new adjustment. Why not just throttle downloads to silver members? So maybe they don't have to wait a whole week, and can download it slowly overnight when bandwidth usage is not peaked.
At any rate, the reason given by major nelson was clear, and this was not it.
Oh, is THAT how boolean logic works?!?! No wonder I've always lost bits on my binary relations! Gosh! The sarcasm is just dripping today! I'm gonna wear out my NOT key!
See the "XOR" connecting the two operands? That means that one is true, but not the other. Reading lessons on slashdot. What ARE they teaching the victims of computer science these days?
assures us it's not meant to 'annoy' users of the service, but to provide additional value to Gold subscribers
I was reading the major nelson site about this yesterday after reading tycho's post at PA about it.
It annoys me that value is being considered as a zero sum game. To enhance the value of gold memberships, they do so not by adding value to it, but detracting value from the free version.
And isn't the point of demos to produce interest in sales of new games, thereby increasing MS's licensing revenue? How exactly does this help increase their bottom line? I wouldn't expect anyone to upgrade for this reason alone, especially as it's done in poor taste.
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Remember before 2000 when export cryptography software was highly restricted? I believe it was something along the lines of being classified as munitions. So why don't people talk about public cryptography as a means to retain privacy in respect to the second amendment especially in this day of illegal government snooping as "being necessary to the security of a free State"?
I remember being SO excited for the BB premiere and being totally disappointed at how lame it felt to actually watch it. It was all WWE-style hyperactive and the announcers were just annoying as hell and wouldn't shut up with their inane drivel. I remember one bot had a cheesy head thing mounted on it and they went NUTS when it got knocked off, even though it was just a superficial piece and in no way connected to function of the actual robot.
Sounds like they're taking the right approach this time!
Microsoft: Bringing new meaning to "Gnu's not unix"
Didya hear that there's this operating system that gives you the best of windows and linux? It's called linux!
The attacker in the most recent episode of a domestic mass shooting purchased his weapons 100% legally, as did a man who shot his estranged wife 6 blocks away from where I type this. He likely would have killed himself too had not someone I know personally wrested the gun away from him.
Look at all the ordinary people who fell in with the pro-war sentiment prior the iraq occupation, and how their attitude that violence is a legitimate solution to a falsely perceived threat has affected this country and the world since then.
I like guns, but I don't like shooting people unless it's paintball or video games. I wouldn't say "gun culture" is a problem, rather "violence culture".
I don't mind the inbound people as much as their attitudes in the non-summer seasons. I live in Oregon *because* I love the weather and environment year-round. Sucks every time I hear some whiner complain about how much they hate "days like this" if it's not 65 and sunny.
That all sounds very absolutist and projected. How can you speculate on a person's last moments without being a close personal friend?
From what I've read of Howard Hughes' thoughts on the xf-11 crash, he seemed to be very pragmatic and controlled during that whole episode. He had every chance to bail and yet he tried his hardest to land the plane in a safe, open area. You might say he did this out of his love for his aircraft. Anger, shock, apprehension... these things are all unhelpful in a dire situation that takes such focus to manage, and to me it sounds uncharacteristic of Fossett.
I'm not sure *exactly* what HH thought of his crash, but I do know he was very angry at any suggestion that he had lost control of the aircraft.
every time I install firefox (which is surprisingly often), I go through a fair amount of hassle to track down the addons I want and install them. It's not impossible, but would be very nice to have streamlined. I'd probably discover more interesting addons that way too!
I had no idea you could do that - thanks!
So it's a Saturday, I'm cool with replying to the trolls today.
:D
The credit is due to Get Smart, not "60's television shows", thus the entire point of my posts. In giving credit to that show, it's a good platform to promote what will likely be a good movie, giving homage on top of giving credit!
Am I getting trolled for fun or are these people genuinely faulty with reading comprehension?
An AC telling me to shut up, calling me a douche, and obviously failing to interpret correct usage of the English language => Classic!
Oh noes! I'm getting trolled with a straw man attack! I'll bite...
The TV show Get Smart was created on the mid-60's, and sprung from the minds and talents of Buck Henery and Mel Brooks
Buck Henry (not Henery) and Mel Brooks created the show. Your statement implies that it "was created" by others with their ideas and concepts. Creating a show takes a lot more work than just coming up with brilliant ideas.
THe fact that you watched Get Smart in the '80s and '90s doesn't change the fact that this was a '60s television show!
Huh, I guess that explains why max never drove a Miata. I mentioned the period of time I saw the show to clarify that I was not of the generation who enjoyed it during the original release. If you are implying that I stated it ran during that time, you are clearly incorrect.
tivo the show and study the credits
This being said to a guy whose girlfriend complains (lovingly) that I insist on watching the credits after movies. Also, I don't have a tivo, a television, or any sort of broadcast video reception.
though remember, it may be in tricky roman numerals and represented by letters not digits
That may be tricky for you, but I happen to excel in maths and numerical comprehension (and have an eerie talent for estimating quantities based on visual observation). You go ahead and remember that, and I'll remember how much fun I have reading roman numeral copyright dates with ease.
The summary of this story saying that the cone of silence was a staple of 60's television shows is not at all correct. It was a regular gag in a singular show, and I sure as hell don't recall ever seeing a CoS in flipper, the andy griffith show, or gilligan's island.
Go back under the bridge where you collect tolls and practice your awesome roman numeral skilz.
Okay, I enjoyed way too many episodes of Get Smart as a kid (in the late 80's early 90's) to not comment on the Cone of Silence. Invented by Professor Cone, this was a recurring gag in the show where Max (played by Don Adams, the voice of inspector gadget) and the Chief would engage in communicating sensitive information to each other only a few feet away in the same room. It would always malfunction, or the couldn't hear each other, or passersby could hear them (and relay the communication for them).
So no, it's not just "60's television shows", though some commenters may have the occasional exceptions (M.I.?). Give credit where it's due! And watch for the movie of Get Smart starring Steve Carell coming out this year.
I've enjoyed reading your posts in this story.
It's too bad that MPC has a security issue and is abandoned. I rather liked it. I haven't used vlc on windows in a long time for precisely the reasons you've cited. Though I haven't checked it out yet, I'm holding my breath for the mozilla player (democracy?) to be good.
Wow, I wrangle a good bit of data for my personal use, but you're obviously in a league well above mine.
So how does MAID compare to RAID?
To quote Tracy Weber, "They honored the mother of civil rights by taking away our rights."
As for portland blvd. being a weirdly named street, I firmly stand behind the bumper sticker that reads "Keep Portland Weird".
I don't know what you mean about it being a secondary street or not commercially viable. You can directly exit I5 onto it.
I'm including a rather long excerpt from this mercury article:
"Almost no one I knew heard about it," she [Tracy Weber] says, pointing out that only 30 to 50 people attended the April 2006 public hearing, depending on which report you read. Weber didn't find out about the swap until she saw the new street signs on her block, this past January, when it was "over and done with." Residents got a note on March 23, 2007 about the change (there was also a letter sent in December 2006, but Weber says she and several other neighbors didn't get it).
It's no wonder residents were blindsided by the change: Saltzman circumvented city code to ram the idea through.
The city code has an entire section dedicated to renaming streets. There are two ways to do it: a long, involved citizen-initiated process, or a quick city council vote that can only be used in limited circumstances.
The citizen-initiated process involves filing an application with the city, gathering 2,500 signatures (or signatures from 75 percent of the street's property owners), assembling a biography of the honoree, paying a fee to notify neighbors, running the idea past a panel of historians, going before the city's planning commission, and--finally--swaying the city council.
Additionally, there are criteria for who a street can be renamed after. It must be a real, "prominent" person who has made a "significant, positive contribution to the United States of America and/or the local community." The person has to have been deceased for at least five years.
The other way to change a street name is via a city council vote. But according to city code, the council is only allowed to change a street name to "to correct errors in street names, or to eliminate confusion." In fact, the city code is very clear that the council cannot take it upon themselves to rename a street to honor a person: "Renaming of a street by the city under provisions of this paragraph shall not be undertaken to rename a street after a person."
About 80% of the people we explain this two have no idea who Douglas Adams is, which I think Adams would have appreciated.
Well said!
This renaming initiative is actually not a bad idea. However, the subject of renaming streets in portland is a very sore one. Just this year, our wonderfully recognizable Portland Blvd. was changed to Rosa Parks Way by the city council who recklessly bypassed our carefully written renaming guidelines by simply voting to not follow these rules in a city council meeting. The sign changes were partial, the prior notice was virtually nonexistent, and it has created a lot of confusion and malcontent. Why they chose to rename portland blvd and not some other less worthy named street like "killingsworth" remains a mystery.
If that wasn't bad enough, our mayor has been wasting so much time and energy on a failed initiative to get historic interstate avenue rename "cesar chavez ave", creating much hostility and discussions of racism while in the meantime cyclists are being KILLED due to dangerous conditions that have cars turning right into bikes who have their own lane. This, after the mayor tried to stifle funding for safer bike planning (which doesn't even need that much money, certainly less than the SOFTBALL organizations receive).
Great list of game music! I thoroughly enjoyed castlevania: sotn and had my own copy once, thinking this was nothing special as it was a "greatest hits" title. I lost it and when I went to find a new one, I was surprised to see it priced so high as a "collector's item". Fortunately, you can buy it for ps3 and psp as a download for $10.
It's very fun in a rpg-warcraft kind of way, and after you clear the castle, you play the second half of the game in the same castle completely turned upside down, which required all the abilities you had gained. I forget exactly how they explained that, I think it's underground or something...
Another thing that made it cool is you start out with your character fully geared with the most awesome items in the game. But then you get them all knocked off or taken away somehow and are left to start fresh.
Very fun game, and worth checking out if you can. Oh, and the music was indeed beautiful. The cd had actual red book audio (I think?), which made it easy to get the music out to more ears.
Yeah, the last ninja was a great game!
If you haven't already, you should see the recent south park episode about GH called "guitar queer-o".
Slashdot's future is engadget's, boingboing's, digg's, npr's, etc's past. We all know the only real value in getting a slashdot story ahead of everyone is a better chance to first post!
Slashdot subscriptions offer real value in other ways though.
So how does that explain why playing quake 3 arena makes me comfortable and sociable while watching an episode of full house makes me want to invade iraq?
I didn't rtfa, but I would think their explanation would have something to do with empathizing with the (real people) characters on a sort of might-makes-right thing.
That sounds sensible, but I have a hard time seeing this to be a genuine problem that is alleviated with the new adjustment. Why not just throttle downloads to silver members? So maybe they don't have to wait a whole week, and can download it slowly overnight when bandwidth usage is not peaked.
At any rate, the reason given by major nelson was clear, and this was not it.
Oh, is THAT how boolean logic works?!?! No wonder I've always lost bits on my binary relations! Gosh! The sarcasm is just dripping today! I'm gonna wear out my NOT key!
:)
See the "XOR" connecting the two operands? That means that one is true, but not the other. Reading lessons on slashdot. What ARE they teaching the victims of computer science these days?
No malice intended, just trying to be cute
assures us it's not meant to 'annoy' users of the service, but to provide additional value to Gold subscribers
I was reading the major nelson site about this yesterday after reading tycho's post at PA about it.
It annoys me that value is being considered as a zero sum game. To enhance the value of gold memberships, they do so not by adding value to it, but detracting value from the free version.
And isn't the point of demos to produce interest in sales of new games, thereby increasing MS's licensing revenue? How exactly does this help increase their bottom line? I wouldn't expect anyone to upgrade for this reason alone, especially as it's done in poor taste.
Or 2250 Two Dollar Hordes?
Naga, please!
(I didn't know WoW could even use PhysX?)
Cool! I can't wait to see how awesome it will look when I explode the catapults now.