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GPS Jamming for $50
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Yes, that would work wonderfully, except for all the passengers in other cars that use cell phones harmlessly, and all the pedestrians you'd be cutting off mid-conversation.
Jamming is BAD, period. You don't want people to yak while they drive? Do what I do - lobby for laws banning the practice.
There are actually many unwinnable FreeCell hands, and as far as I can tell they're all negatively numbered games - try loading game # -1, for instance.
Easy enough to prove there's an unwinnable game - #-1 just cannot be done.
Imagine how badass it would be if nintendo released, say, 30 of their 1st party titles for NES on a single disc for Gamecube w/ an emu to run it all.
OK, so it's only about 15 first-party NES games in Animal Crossing (that I know of), and you have to work a bit to get them (but Universal codes makes it 15 minutes of work MAX), but what you want is already out there. Plus, you get an entire game beyond that.
The Sonic collection is pretty damn neat too, even if it is only 7 games.
Considering the horsepower that's required to do everything post 1997, Xbox level hardware may not cut it for the folks who like the Metal Slug
I've played Metal Slug (including the newest one) on my 433Mhz machine, with pretty much zero slowdown. Considering the Xbox has almost twice what I have, and doesn't have to run a bloated OS like I do, I think it's more than sufficient for anything but the newest 3D games.
1. Those NES in a controller setups are nowhere NEAR legal.
2. Arcade games emulated by MAME are far, far beyond what an NES could ever do.
So, let's sum up: $50 for an illegal, mid 1980's era game unit - or $2-300 for a 100% legal, up to and including games from at least 10 years later unit.
Intolerance knows no boundaries, and while the United States is far from perfect, it's a hell of a lot more tolerant than 90% of the countries on the planet.
Currently the charge raises the price of data CDs by 21 cents
I can buy cd-r's for about 30 cents in bulk in many stores. I'm paying almost 70% of that price as a tax? Can you say cash cow? This is almost as bad as gasoline and cigarette taxes.
Oh wait, I live in Canada, home of the 95% tax structure...
We already went through this during the last big El Nino, then we (well, us in Manitoba anyway) had several really shitty/cold/wet years.
Hell, there was no Spring 2002 here - the trees didn't bud until well into June - THAT'S how cold it was.
Then again, in 1997 we had the 'blizzard of the century' followed by the 'flood of the century', but suddenly no one can remember any years with snow since they were a kid? Give me a break.
The original Cylon fighter and Viper DID actually shoot, and they were damn powerful for the day. Unfortunately, the missles were very small and presented a choking hazard for infants, so the manufacturer changed the toy. Thankfully I still have my original, firing, models:)
Oh yeah, article correction:
"Revenge" of the Jedi was changed because at the time the new Trek movie was titled "The Revenge of Khan". Well known geek folklore, I'm surprised this supposed Star Wars freak didn't know it.
Apple do buy the right brand and most PC manufacturers don't. Mind you, more current Mac owners are bringing me up to date on the fact that apparently even Apple has now abandoned this.
I've personally never been able to understand how neutrinos DON'T have mass. I copped out of physics after 2 years, so I missed most of the good math, but.....since mass = energy, and neutrinos definitely have energy (else how could we measure them? how could they possibly interact with other particles, however weakly, if they didn't?), neutrinos have mass.
Dude, ever take a car anywhere? a bus? a train? Why didn't you WALK?
negativity disclaimer: i am an american, i get paid an above average salary, and i am trying to lose weight.
I'm none of the above, in fact I'm a bit below my ideal weight supposedly, and yet I still am a lazy son of a bitch. I'd buy a Segway in a heartbeat if they could handle the 6 months of snow we get up here. Doesn't mean I'd use it for everything, and it sure wouldn't help me on my 5+ mile hikes into the bush for camping.
Having efficient transportation != making you fat. NEVER doing anything and overeating like crazy.. well sir, they just might.
Perhaps one of the best science/history shows that's ever been on television, and I know I'm not alone in thinking this.
Unfortunately, TLC has replaced it with such inspiring fare as "Trading Spaces" and "Junkyard Wars", and Discovery (Canada) has no hope of picking it up, they're too busy re-running "Guiness Prime Time" - the record keepers, not the beer.
It's sad that every damn form of media is being dumbed down to sensationalist joe punchclock filler - surely there are more than 5 people out there who'd like to see something with SOME substance.
Amazingly, no one seems to ever get this. At least, not people as a whole. We're basically divided up into 2 camps: those that think 'really bad' stuff should be outlawed, and those that think it should be available, but *not for children*, as if children are some retarded semi-race of people incapable of making decisions for themselves, or evaulating material on their own without becoming violent/perverted.
As always, anecdotal != evidence, but come on now: most of us who grew up in the 70's and 80's watched one hell of a lot of violent movies as children (Friday the 13th, anyone?) and yet managed to somehow deal with it. Most children are exposed to insanely graphic literature (Shakespeare, anyone?). Hell, read the Christian Bible sometime (insert most any other religion here I'm sure, but it's the one I'm most familiar with). Death, revenge, glorified violence, sexual deviancy, you name it. Yet somehow children manage to absorb all this without society turning into one massive kill-fest every 20 years.
Every single new media or art form that comes out is inevitably looked upon as something we should somehow keep away from children (let's see, so far we have books, television, movies, comics, music, video games). When will people figure out that by and large, children are perfectly capable of dealing with this, at LEAST as well as adults are?
If you think that society will fall apart without the stratifying influence of capitalism, and that the idea of intellectual property is necessary for the continued prosperity of the US, I say that's b.s. and there are other possible viable economic models.
Capitalism is ALLOWING the markets to function on their own.
Intellectual property rights are the government getting involved in things they probably shouldn't, and then allowing PARTICULAR capitalists to influence said government intervention. It's not EVERY company that wants copyright extended, just those that happen to pay enough money to the government to make it so.
You want another viable economic model? Get the damn government to stop protecting corporations, and allow the market to determine who makes money.
There's something more involved than that, I just tried uploading a test news story, and it doesn't seem to show up on their site. Anyone wanna post 'Slashdot' on there and prove me wrong?:)
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Yes, that would work wonderfully, except for all the passengers in other cars that use cell phones harmlessly, and all the pedestrians you'd be cutting off mid-conversation.
Jamming is BAD, period. You don't want people to yak while they drive? Do what I do - lobby for laws banning the practice.
I connected up to your IP, but all I found was this folder full of fake Olsen Twins porn... :(
SASS
:)
Speak & Spell simulator. It's pretty cool, was based on the UK model so it has a noticably 'brit' accent
There are actually many unwinnable FreeCell hands, and as far as I can tell they're all negatively numbered games - try loading game # -1, for instance.
Easy enough to prove there's an unwinnable game - #-1 just cannot be done.
Hanaho has been legally distributing quite a lot of roms, with full permission of the copyright holders, for some time now.
:)
See: Capcom, for one. There are also quite a few arcade roms that have been put into the public domain over the years.
Nintendo is not the end-all and be-all of video games (even if they did make some of the funnest
Imagine how badass it would be if nintendo released, say, 30 of their 1st party titles for NES on a single disc for Gamecube w/ an emu to run it all.
OK, so it's only about 15 first-party NES games in Animal Crossing (that I know of), and you have to work a bit to get them (but Universal codes makes it 15 minutes of work MAX), but what you want is already out there. Plus, you get an entire game beyond that.
The Sonic collection is pretty damn neat too, even if it is only 7 games.
Considering the horsepower that's required to do everything post 1997, Xbox level hardware may not cut it for the folks who like the Metal Slug
I've played Metal Slug (including the newest one) on my 433Mhz machine, with pretty much zero slowdown. Considering the Xbox has almost twice what I have, and doesn't have to run a bloated OS like I do, I think it's more than sufficient for anything but the newest 3D games.
1. Those NES in a controller setups are nowhere NEAR legal.
2. Arcade games emulated by MAME are far, far beyond what an NES could ever do.
So, let's sum up: $50 for an illegal, mid 1980's era game unit - or $2-300 for a 100% legal, up to and including games from at least 10 years later unit.
Hmm, you're right, why would *anyone* want this?
Man, get out of the house sometime.
Intolerance knows no boundaries, and while the United States is far from perfect, it's a hell of a lot more tolerant than 90% of the countries on the planet.
IIRC, the tobacco companies were successfully sued well before the year 2000.
:)
Lack of personal responsibility for one's actions is nothing new, it's just getting worse by the day
Ok, this is insane:
Currently the charge raises the price of data CDs by 21 cents
I can buy cd-r's for about 30 cents in bulk in many stores. I'm paying almost 70% of that price as a tax? Can you say cash cow? This is almost as bad as gasoline and cigarette taxes.
Oh wait, I live in Canada, home of the 95% tax structure...
I thought that's what C# was all about - cloning Java.
We already went through this during the last big El Nino, then we (well, us in Manitoba anyway) had several really shitty/cold/wet years.
Hell, there was no Spring 2002 here - the trees didn't bud until well into June - THAT'S how cold it was.
Then again, in 1997 we had the 'blizzard of the century' followed by the 'flood of the century', but suddenly no one can remember any years with snow since they were a kid? Give me a break.
Reminds me of a great classic AOL joke:
"Did you hear what happens if you play an AOL CD backwards? It has satanic messages. But it's even worse if you play it fowards:
it installs AOL"
The original Cylon fighter and Viper DID actually shoot, and they were damn powerful for the day. Unfortunately, the missles were very small and presented a choking hazard for infants, so the manufacturer changed the toy. Thankfully I still have my original, firing, models :)
Oh yeah, article correction:
"Revenge" of the Jedi was changed because at the time the new Trek movie was titled "The Revenge of Khan". Well known geek folklore, I'm surprised this supposed Star Wars freak didn't know it.
Apple do buy the right brand and most PC manufacturers don't. Mind you, more current Mac owners are bringing me up to date on the fact that apparently even Apple has now abandoned this.
Are both singular and plural uses common?
Curious, not a troll.
So if the story advocates that there might be a God, thats bad.
:)
If a story advocates that there is a powerfull being that is destroying peoples lives, thats good?
Yup, looks like another New/Old testament debate to me.
I think I'll pick vengeful God this time
I've personally never been able to understand how neutrinos DON'T have mass. I copped out of physics after 2 years, so I missed most of the good math, but... ..since mass = energy, and neutrinos definitely have energy (else how could we measure them? how could they possibly interact with other particles, however weakly, if they didn't?), neutrinos have mass.
Any physics majors out there?
Dude, ever take a car anywhere? a bus? a train? Why didn't you WALK?
negativity disclaimer: i am an american, i get paid an above average salary, and i am trying to lose weight.
I'm none of the above, in fact I'm a bit below my ideal weight supposedly, and yet I still am a lazy son of a bitch. I'd buy a Segway in a heartbeat if they could handle the 6 months of snow we get up here. Doesn't mean I'd use it for everything, and it sure wouldn't help me on my 5+ mile hikes into the bush for camping.
Having efficient transportation != making you fat. NEVER doing anything and overeating like crazy.. well sir, they just might.
Perhaps one of the best science/history shows that's ever been on television, and I know I'm not alone in thinking this.
Unfortunately, TLC has replaced it with such inspiring fare as "Trading Spaces" and "Junkyard Wars", and Discovery (Canada) has no hope of picking it up, they're too busy re-running "Guiness Prime Time" - the record keepers, not the beer.
It's sad that every damn form of media is being dumbed down to sensationalist joe punchclock filler - surely there are more than 5 people out there who'd like to see something with SOME substance.
Amazingly, no one seems to ever get this. At least, not people as a whole. We're basically divided up into 2 camps: those that think 'really bad' stuff should be outlawed, and those that think it should be available, but *not for children*, as if children are some retarded semi-race of people incapable of making decisions for themselves, or evaulating material on their own without becoming violent/perverted.
As always, anecdotal != evidence, but come on now: most of us who grew up in the 70's and 80's watched one hell of a lot of violent movies as children (Friday the 13th, anyone?) and yet managed to somehow deal with it. Most children are exposed to insanely graphic literature (Shakespeare, anyone?). Hell, read the Christian Bible sometime (insert most any other religion here I'm sure, but it's the one I'm most familiar with). Death, revenge, glorified violence, sexual deviancy, you name it. Yet somehow children manage to absorb all this without society turning into one massive kill-fest every 20 years.
Every single new media or art form that comes out is inevitably looked upon as something we should somehow keep away from children (let's see, so far we have books, television, movies, comics, music, video games). When will people figure out that by and large, children are perfectly capable of dealing with this, at LEAST as well as adults are?
If you think that society will fall apart without the stratifying influence of capitalism, and that the idea of intellectual property is necessary for the continued prosperity of the US, I say that's b.s. and there are other possible viable economic models.
Capitalism is ALLOWING the markets to function on their own.
Intellectual property rights are the government getting involved in things they probably shouldn't, and then allowing PARTICULAR capitalists to influence said government intervention. It's not EVERY company that wants copyright extended, just those that happen to pay enough money to the government to make it so.
You want another viable economic model? Get the damn government to stop protecting corporations, and allow the market to determine who makes money.
...if you can't walk into a store and pick it off a shelf, or otherwise acquire it, it is vaporware.
You mean like the Mona lisa?
The Eiffel Tower?
How about the Giza pyramids?
I tried and it didn't work. Page is still being hacked by unknown others as we speak though.
There's something more involved than that, I just tried uploading a test news story, and it doesn't seem to show up on their site. Anyone wanna post 'Slashdot' on there and prove me wrong? :)