Down boy. We want to run the game without running Steam. It should be possible. Easy even.
I don't care about how inoffensive or supposedly advantageous Steam is, what you have said has been said in every comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.* group for about 5 years now. There have been flame wars in.action. We've all read it. Anyone who's made the choice to live without Steam has been thoroughly, and mostly unwillingly, briefed.
Simply put, I don't want Steam, and neither does the GP. We just want the NASA game. If you haven't gotten the point, please get it. We don't want to join your cult. You guys are like freaking Amway dealers, or iLife fans. Please, no Steam. We abstain.
How bout it, NASA, maybe you "get it?" No unnecessary supernumeraries. What's so hard about an MSI package, or even a damned SFX 7z file?
Thanks for not posting more Valve sales copy in response to this message.
Good point, maybe if they took Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck off the air, the plants would get better. She should try shielding them from just their programs.
Well then she's just going to have to sue him, because a simple C&D isn't going to cut it here. Let's see her tie up limited campaign funds in a quixotic (possibly moronic) lawsuit that can't be won, because this is 99.9% defensible as fair use of copyrighted work.
That is, by the time any sort of decision is reached, the election is over, regardless of the outcome of any legal action. The only hope she has is an injunction, and that's not likely because of the ugly snarl with First Amendment rights in political speech. You can send a C&D for anything you like, but for it to be effective, it has to be backed up by a credible threat of legal action. This C&D is missing that basic backstop.
This goes on all the time, at almost every level of U.S. politics. C&D's are cheap. So are FOIA requests. They get sent/filed routinely as a means of harassment by any properly funded and run campaign. At the U.S. Senate level, however, every campaign has staff prepared to deal with it. Nothing to see here really. It isn't even an abuse of copyright law; it's just politics as usual.
This is amateur hour baloney that Reid will (essentially) ignore until a suit is filed. Then he'll laugh as his lawyers make Angle's managers pay for gross stupidity. The man has money, and that's all you really need to mount a long, tedious defense that will outlast the campaign.
I've certainly seen material about the low sunspot activity. It's just fascinating to live in an age where the things that are supposed to be predictable, aren't.
Those sorts of anomalies sometimes lead to discovery (through comparison). It'll be fun to keep an eye on the work regarding this solar irregularity. In fact, at the risk of injecting my personal politics into this, I propose we give all the money that's going to study of global warming to people studying this, because it's probably a lot more relevant to mankind's future on this speck of dust.
Insidious, ain't it? The only way to see if someone's posted Photoshopped naked pics of you in Facebook is to be on Facebook.
I liked Web 1.0 better, where Photoshopping people on nude bodies was only done to celebrities, who had decided to give up all their privacy in their choice of career, for considerable fringe benefits. That or banished to some obscure part of the Internet.
Web 2.0 is all the disadvantage of celebrity, with none of the benefits.
Bible thumping Texans should not be criticized and belittled by some smart-ass chauvinist from England, for a UK paper, with a disgruntled board member. The rest of Texas should be pretty upset too. I hope they tell her how they appreciate it in the next election. They just need a ballot box.
We're left to fill in the blanks. That's my point. I know how to fill the blanks, but McGreal doesn't know which blanks are important to his own journalistic integrity.
I'm saying that as a reporter, if you bring up an amendment or set of amendments, you either used the word "proposed," and say who the person is caucusing with, or you tally the vote, say, 9-4 in favor, or at least say whether it is in process, rejected or passed.
McGreal failed to do any of that.
A journalist isn't allowed to claim "Google is your friend." Not if you're serious about reporting. Not if you expect to make a point.
I don't think they're going to pretend he didn't exist. If they are, then they'll have to skip over the Delcaration entirely.
They're going to downplay him, and as Devil's advocate, that may be because it's hard to teach about a man who had children by his slaves honestly, at all grade levels. The "whole truth" about Jefferson is somewhat sordid. I'm sure someone on that board thinks it's also about "Church and State," and they're striking a blow for God and country, but we'd really have to have a look at the board minutes to figure out what's going on.
As for "consensus model of truth," I suppose my answer would be pragmatic. Is the lie going to kill me?
We put up with and promote a great deal of untruth every day, through ignorance or necessity. To take that fact and then claim it is an ethical grounds for framing and abusing the truth to manipulate others is the problem I see developing. How we elect to gloss over the facts in a K-12 history curriculum is probably somewhat less sinister. I'm intrigued, and a little embarrassed, but not greatly concerned.;^)
I'm guessing the suggestion is that it's always been an exercise in majoritarian mythology, and that's a pretty much dead on assessment. It'd be hypocritical of me to claim that there's a "gold standard" for K-12 history. The 101 history lectures of "Everything you learned in high school is wrong," are a stereotype, but there's some truth to it. Those K-12 syllabuses paint broad strokes, and the hope is that any damage done through oversimplification will be undone if the student expresses further interest and reads.
The article, OTOH, is slick yellow journalism, written to elicit a response. McGreal took the biggest wing-nut on the board he could find, someone who is probably just more honest and politically inept than anything else, and expanded this to essentially libel the entire board, who don't even warrant a "refused to comment" in this show, and the new curriculum, whatever it may be, in pejorative terms framed lovingly in guilt by association and an utter lack of context when quoted.
The question the reporter should be answering, since he posed it is, "Is Cynthia Dunbar... one of a clutch of US Christian evangelists who have grasped control of the Texas education board[?]" Did he demonstrate that?
Nope. McGreal demonstrated that Dunbar is one fundy on a board that has equal and opposite representation in Mavis Knight. And it documents almost nothing else, except judgmental framing of literally fragments of a detailed cirriculum, and his own opinion of one of the authors they chose. That's the whole article. There literally is no corroboration. His two sources provide only affirmation and refutation.
Then we're told by McGreal that the controversy has "prompted a blizzard of accusations." Sure. How many people are quoted on that? One. Mavis Knight, a one woman blizzard.
Can you name anyone else in Dunbar's "clutch?" Not from reading this.
Did the Dunbar amendment about "free enterprise" pass? It's not mentioned. It says she "backed [it]," but not that she was successful. We're left to fill in the blanks. Seems to me that if he's going to malign the entire board with that amendment, we need to know what the actual vote was.
This is just one, long, chauvinistic tirade of innuendo. It's 'commentary' if we're feeling charitable, insulting propaganda about 'gun toting, Bible kissing hicks' in the U.S. if we're not.
Other scientists that we think are wrong seems to fit just fine, unqualified lay-people works for almost every other case, and we don't need to impose a politically charged, pejorative label to prove our case and/or make our egos feel better.
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Down boy. We want to run the game without running Steam. It should be possible. Easy even.
I don't care about how inoffensive or supposedly advantageous Steam is, what you have said has been said in every comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.* group for about 5 years now. There have been flame wars in .action. We've all read it. Anyone who's made the choice to live without Steam has been thoroughly, and mostly unwillingly, briefed.
Simply put, I don't want Steam, and neither does the GP. We just want the NASA game. If you haven't gotten the point, please get it. We don't want to join your cult. You guys are like freaking Amway dealers, or iLife fans. Please, no Steam. We abstain.
How bout it, NASA, maybe you "get it?" No unnecessary supernumeraries. What's so hard about an MSI package, or even a damned SFX 7z file?
Thanks for not posting more Valve sales copy in response to this message.
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Toro
Good point, maybe if they took Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck off the air, the plants would get better. She should try shielding them from just their programs.
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Toro
Well then she's just going to have to sue him, because a simple C&D isn't going to cut it here. Let's see her tie up limited campaign funds in a quixotic (possibly moronic) lawsuit that can't be won, because this is 99.9% defensible as fair use of copyrighted work.
That is, by the time any sort of decision is reached, the election is over, regardless of the outcome of any legal action. The only hope she has is an injunction, and that's not likely because of the ugly snarl with First Amendment rights in political speech. You can send a C&D for anything you like, but for it to be effective, it has to be backed up by a credible threat of legal action. This C&D is missing that basic backstop.
This goes on all the time, at almost every level of U.S. politics. C&D's are cheap. So are FOIA requests. They get sent/filed routinely as a means of harassment by any properly funded and run campaign. At the U.S. Senate level, however, every campaign has staff prepared to deal with it. Nothing to see here really. It isn't even an abuse of copyright law; it's just politics as usual.
This is amateur hour baloney that Reid will (essentially) ignore until a suit is filed. Then he'll laugh as his lawyers make Angle's managers pay for gross stupidity. The man has money, and that's all you really need to mount a long, tedious defense that will outlast the campaign.
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Toro
They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.
Just like changing your name into an unprintable, unpronounceable symbol can't be good for your career.
The man knows from experience. Make sure your head isn't full of [expletive deleted].
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Toro
I'm being followed by about a hundred people, all wearing Verizon network uniforms, and they're all sending me text messages.
Please block my SMS.
THX
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Toro
That's the second biggest video card I've ever seen.
(and no, I'm not kidding)
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Toro
I've certainly seen material about the low sunspot activity. It's just fascinating to live in an age where the things that are supposed to be predictable, aren't.
Those sorts of anomalies sometimes lead to discovery (through comparison). It'll be fun to keep an eye on the work regarding this solar irregularity. In fact, at the risk of injecting my personal politics into this, I propose we give all the money that's going to study of global warming to people studying this, because it's probably a lot more relevant to mankind's future on this speck of dust.
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Toro
Wait. Which b'ak'tun are we in again? Time to invent an enormous stone time machine and bug out, folks. LOL.
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Toro
Today, we're introducing our new iCide, as an alternative to those who aren't enjoying iLife.
Jump right in folks. I've mixed up a special batch of Kool-Aid, just for you.
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Steve Jobs
Interesting marketing policy. Good for Apple if it doesn't upset people, free publicity when you revoke the policy if it does.
Now that's what I call a win/win scenario.
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Toro
Remember: You will not be able to change the batteries on your iRat. There are no serviceable parts inside.
We'll be getting more of this magical product to market, as soon as Steve finishes playing his iPipe.
If your kids go missing, don't worry, Think Furry (TM)
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Toro
Germany has certainly been keeping their eye on the search giant.
Or so the Germans would have us believe.
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Toro
First time that shtick's ever been funny and accurate.
What happened to "Do No Evil"?
It was replaced by "initial public offering."
You didn't see that one coming?
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Toro
Insidious, ain't it? The only way to see if someone's posted Photoshopped naked pics of you in Facebook is to be on Facebook.
I liked Web 1.0 better, where Photoshopping people on nude bodies was only done to celebrities, who had decided to give up all their privacy in their choice of career, for considerable fringe benefits. That or banished to some obscure part of the Internet.
Web 2.0 is all the disadvantage of celebrity, with none of the benefits.
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Toro
That's true. It doesn't need that crutch.
Bible thumping Texans should not be criticized and belittled by some smart-ass chauvinist from England, for a UK paper, with a disgruntled board member. The rest of Texas should be pretty upset too. I hope they tell her how they appreciate it in the next election. They just need a ballot box.
That's the power that Iran lacks.
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Toro
No "Google is not my friend," in this case.
We're left to fill in the blanks. That's my point. I know how to fill the blanks, but McGreal doesn't know which blanks are important to his own journalistic integrity.
I'm saying that as a reporter, if you bring up an amendment or set of amendments, you either used the word "proposed," and say who the person is caucusing with, or you tally the vote, say, 9-4 in favor, or at least say whether it is in process, rejected or passed.
McGreal failed to do any of that.
A journalist isn't allowed to claim "Google is your friend." Not if you're serious about reporting. Not if you expect to make a point.
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Toro
I don't think they're going to pretend he didn't exist. If they are, then they'll have to skip over the Delcaration entirely.
They're going to downplay him, and as Devil's advocate, that may be because it's hard to teach about a man who had children by his slaves honestly, at all grade levels. The "whole truth" about Jefferson is somewhat sordid. I'm sure someone on that board thinks it's also about "Church and State," and they're striking a blow for God and country, but we'd really have to have a look at the board minutes to figure out what's going on.
As for "consensus model of truth," I suppose my answer would be pragmatic. Is the lie going to kill me?
We put up with and promote a great deal of untruth every day, through ignorance or necessity. To take that fact and then claim it is an ethical grounds for framing and abusing the truth to manipulate others is the problem I see developing. How we elect to gloss over the facts in a K-12 history curriculum is probably somewhat less sinister. I'm intrigued, and a little embarrassed, but not greatly concerned. ;^)
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Toro
I'm guessing the suggestion is that it's always been an exercise in majoritarian mythology, and that's a pretty much dead on assessment. It'd be hypocritical of me to claim that there's a "gold standard" for K-12 history. The 101 history lectures of "Everything you learned in high school is wrong," are a stereotype, but there's some truth to it. Those K-12 syllabuses paint broad strokes, and the hope is that any damage done through oversimplification will be undone if the student expresses further interest and reads.
The article, OTOH, is slick yellow journalism, written to elicit a response. McGreal took the biggest wing-nut on the board he could find, someone who is probably just more honest and politically inept than anything else, and expanded this to essentially libel the entire board, who don't even warrant a "refused to comment" in this show, and the new curriculum, whatever it may be, in pejorative terms framed lovingly in guilt by association and an utter lack of context when quoted.
The question the reporter should be answering, since he posed it is, "Is Cynthia Dunbar... one of a clutch of US Christian evangelists who have grasped control of the Texas education board[?]" Did he demonstrate that?
Nope. McGreal demonstrated that Dunbar is one fundy on a board that has equal and opposite representation in Mavis Knight. And it documents almost nothing else, except judgmental framing of literally fragments of a detailed cirriculum, and his own opinion of one of the authors they chose. That's the whole article. There literally is no corroboration. His two sources provide only affirmation and refutation.
Then we're told by McGreal that the controversy has "prompted a blizzard of accusations." Sure. How many people are quoted on that? One. Mavis Knight, a one woman blizzard.
Can you name anyone else in Dunbar's "clutch?" Not from reading this.
Did the Dunbar amendment about "free enterprise" pass? It's not mentioned. It says she "backed [it]," but not that she was successful. We're left to fill in the blanks. Seems to me that if he's going to malign the entire board with that amendment, we need to know what the actual vote was.
This is just one, long, chauvinistic tirade of innuendo. It's 'commentary' if we're feeling charitable, insulting propaganda about 'gun toting, Bible kissing hicks' in the U.S. if we're not.
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Toro
God damn, stick a fork in it already. FrostWire perhaps?
LOL, LimeWire.
(Yes it's a Flash file. Here be the YouTube version if that makes ya nervous, ya scurvy dogs.)
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Toro
Hey, whoa, what do you mean "this is just entertainment?" Next you'll be telling me that dessert is merely the last course.
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Toro
Other scientists that we think are wrong seems to fit just fine, unqualified lay-people works for almost every other case, and we don't need to impose a politically charged, pejorative label to prove our case and/or make our egos feel better.
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Toro
Unless it's string theory. Then it's just a theory that we're waiting to test.
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Toro
X-padder is now USD$9.99. It was free last I had checked.
It may or may not be worth it, depending on what you play.
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Toro
Easily remedied.
http://www.xpadder.com/
Awesome little utility that makes all the Sidewinder keyboard macro goodness come back to XP.
And any other controller you may use.
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Toro
WiiWare it. That would be the ultimate.