Violations of rights is Violation of rights is Violation of rights. It doesn't matter if you are a us citizen or not. I believe the constitution said that "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL". Maybe i misread that.
Either way, history has shown that laws supposadly aimed at "non-us citizens" have been extended to us citizens eventually. Know about RICO? That law was supposed to apply only to people in the mafia. Later, abortion protesters and stock brokers were prosecuted under that law. Money Laundering laws and Asset seizure? These were only supposed to apply to the "evil" drug lords. Now innocet americas who have not been accused of a crime can have their property stolen by law enforcement.
And as for Lincoln, Washington, and FDR, they were in REAL WARS, not some fictional crusades like the "War" on Crime, the "War" on Drugs, and the "War" on Terrorism.
Let's look at what this prick has done in the last 2 months:
- Sped through the patriot act, which has us on the road to a police state, allowing for secret searches of property and seizure of information, urinating directly on the 4th amendment.
- Trashed our system of justice by authorizing secret trials, using secret evidence, and even allowing secret executinos. The "evidence"will not be avaiable for the accused to refute, with no opportunity for the accused to appeal. In doing so he has invoked the divine right of kings, not even asking for congress's approval.
- Carrying out acts of war without declaring war(declaring war against a tactic doesn't count, war is by definition a conflict between 2 nations, not some open ended crusade). Only congress can declare war(or approve a declaration of war), and so far it has not done so. In addition, he has justified all these invasions of civil liberties by claiming that we are indeed at war.
- Deciding which american citizens will be protected by the constitution, claiming, "you don't deserve protection if you are hiding and committing acts of terror"(Ed note: or are suspected of doing so)
I dunno about you, but this is a hell of a lot more serious than clinton getting his dick sucked by some slut and then lying about it.
it would have been nice if they extended this ruling to include personal web pages, which have been under attack constantly by lawsuits claiming libel and slander, etc.
Yes, it will be nice playing Half Life TFC in Linux. If WineX can handle something as intensive as a 3D FPS video game, how is it at handling something relatively boring and mundane, such as Excel 97? If I can get Excel 97
AFAIK, wineX is solely concentrating on DirectX and its components. Excel IIRC does not use DirectX, therefore WineX should have no bearing on it.
1 - Everyone has access to a lan or other high-speed connection
2 - Everyone has a zip-disk
I can think of several people who are in groups 1 and 2, and as such using a portable would make sense, assuming they already had one. If they didn't, it would probably be cheaper to get a zip disk drive and some disks.
mod me down as trolling if you like, but i'd like to voice my opinion:
consoles were never meant for online gaming. It just doesn't make sense. If they were, then why the fuck do they bother to give you 2-4 controllers. If i want online gaming, I'll do it with a pc game. Consoles are for games that you either play by youself, or when you bring friends to your room. I'm getting a PS2 for christmas and I can't think of a single game I want for it that would make any sense at all to use as a multiplayer game.
Repeat after me: PC = online net gaming, Console = 2-4 player splitscreen/sports/whatever.
I suppose so, but most rational people would consider that a reasonable and desirable amount of censorship
There is no such thing as "reasonable" or "desirable" censorship. Censorship is Censorship is Censorship. That's that. "Reasonable" and "desirable" censorship differ so wildly from person to person that it is absolutely ludricous to try and come up with a "standard" level of censorship.
most "rational" people would rather see porn banned outright, does that mean we should outlaw it? we live in a REPUBLIC. That means the rights of the minorities may not be trampled on by the will of the majority.
What might be even better news, that Sega is in good financial shape, so they will carry on to make more great games(abliet for other consoles, but hey at least people will actually play their games now).
What I don't understand about spammers is that they expect you to buy their products after you've been annoyed by them.
The reason is that they all do their marketing tests with monkeys. Monkeys like flashy things. Since they figure monkeys and humans are "similar enough" they figure that's the best way to go.
Members of the public who want to use reading rooms at federal agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service must now make an appointment and be escorted by an employee to ensure that information is not misused.
How exactly do they do this? Does this employee escort you for your lifetime to make sure you don't "misuse" this information?
just you wait hemos...
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until they get linux on the x-box. i'm sure you that'll give you a fucking heart attack.
Unbelieveable quote:
"We want to first succeed in the United States and then ride the wave of popularity into the Japanese market,"
It is obvious that microsoft is completely oblivious to how the gaming market works.
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When Microsoft decides to compete with someone they usually won't win in round 1 (at least if they play fair), but when you're a half-trillion dollar company, you can afford to both throw incredible amounts of resources at a problem and wait a few years for an industry-leading product to gel out of it.
I don't think netsape ever was an 800-lb gorilla to begin with. Sure they had a good hold on the browser market at one time, but they were never really a truly huge megacompany that microsoft was. They theoritically could eventually win like this, but i'm sure if they did this it would take MS at least a decade before they could ever overtake either sony or nintendo.
Sony and Nintendo however, are much larger than netscape ever could have been. And now MS is fighting on 2 fronts. One against the Gamecubes launch, and the other against the ps2's 2nd generation titles.
I think the XBox's potential lies in the ability (I would assume) to easily port Windows code over to it.
As for the portability argument, it's not very important for the success of the console. The console's strength lies in its games, and the more games that are avaiable on only your platform, the better. If the games are available on other systems(say the pc), it doesn't strengthen the motivation to get the x-box for the "ported from windows" games, now does it?
The big deal is christmas sales. a couple days doesn't amount to shit. This "X-Box" vs. "Game Cube" thing isn't going to be settled by who comes out first, it's going to be settled by who has the better or more appealling gaming console.
Gates also took some credit for the genesis of open-source software. He said Microsoft made it possible by standardizing computers: "Really, the reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines," he said.
Wow, thanks for the info Bill. I didn't know you guys did hardware! And open source was your creation? Really! Did you invent the internet also, or was Al Gore lying to us?
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Violations of rights is Violation of rights is Violation of rights. It doesn't matter if you are a us citizen or not. I believe the constitution said that "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL". Maybe i misread that.
Either way, history has shown that laws supposadly aimed at "non-us citizens" have been extended to us citizens eventually. Know about RICO? That law was supposed to apply only to people in the mafia. Later, abortion protesters and stock brokers were prosecuted under that law. Money Laundering laws and Asset seizure? These were only supposed to apply to the "evil" drug lords. Now innocet americas who have not been accused of a crime can have their property stolen by law enforcement.
And as for Lincoln, Washington, and FDR, they were in REAL WARS, not some fictional crusades like the "War" on Crime, the "War" on Drugs, and the "War" on Terrorism.
Let's look at what this prick has done in the last 2 months:
- Sped through the patriot act, which has us on the road to a police state, allowing for secret searches of property and seizure of information, urinating directly on the 4th amendment.
- Trashed our system of justice by authorizing secret trials, using secret evidence, and even allowing secret executinos. The "evidence"will not be avaiable for the accused to refute, with no opportunity for the accused to appeal. In doing so he has invoked the divine right of kings, not even asking for congress's approval.
- Carrying out acts of war without declaring war(declaring war against a tactic doesn't count, war is by definition a conflict between 2 nations, not some open ended crusade). Only congress can declare war(or approve a declaration of war), and so far it has not done so. In addition, he has justified all these invasions of civil liberties by claiming that we are indeed at war.
- Deciding which american citizens will be protected by the constitution, claiming, "you don't deserve protection if you are hiding and committing acts of terror"(Ed note: or are suspected of doing so)
I dunno about you, but this is a hell of a lot more serious than clinton getting his dick sucked by some slut and then lying about it.
it would have been nice if they extended this ruling to include personal web pages, which have been under attack constantly by lawsuits claiming libel and slander, etc.
Yes, it will be nice playing Half Life TFC in Linux. If WineX can handle something as intensive as a 3D FPS video game, how is it at handling something relatively boring and mundane, such as Excel 97? If I can get Excel 97
AFAIK, wineX is solely concentrating on DirectX and its components. Excel IIRC does not use DirectX, therefore WineX should have no bearing on it.
i misspelled it. here correct one. sorry.
Commercial, closed source products, have been made from both PLIB and SDL, which are both LGPL, and without any legal problems.
2 assumptions your making:
1 - Everyone has access to a lan or other high-speed connection
2 - Everyone has a zip-disk
I can think of several people who are in groups 1 and 2, and as such using a portable would make sense, assuming they already had one. If they didn't, it would probably be cheaper to get a zip disk drive and some disks.
Bill gates said it was "communism" and "unamerican". That pretty much decided it for them.
Harry Browne loves america. Do you? you sound like you don't.
mod me down as trolling if you like, but i'd like to voice my opinion:
consoles were never meant for online gaming. It just doesn't make sense. If they were, then why the fuck do they bother to give you 2-4 controllers. If i want online gaming, I'll do it with a pc game. Consoles are for games that you either play by youself, or when you bring friends to your room. I'm getting a PS2 for christmas and I can't think of a single game I want for it that would make any sense at all to use as a multiplayer game.
Repeat after me: PC = online net gaming, Console = 2-4 player splitscreen/sports/whatever.
what about debian? that's what my old high school is running.
I suppose so, but most rational people would consider that a reasonable and desirable amount of censorship
There is no such thing as "reasonable" or "desirable" censorship. Censorship is Censorship is Censorship. That's that. "Reasonable" and "desirable" censorship differ so wildly from person to person that it is absolutely ludricous to try and come up with a "standard" level of censorship.
most "rational" people would rather see porn banned outright, does that mean we should outlaw it? we live in a REPUBLIC. That means the rights of the minorities may not be trampled on by the will of the majority.
What might be even better news, that Sega is in good financial shape, so they will carry on to make more great games(abliet for other consoles, but hey at least people will actually play their games now).
go to gandi. No fee for transferring(at least no fee from them).
I guess they aren't if you are the fbi...
What I don't understand about spammers is that they expect you to buy their products after you've been annoyed by them.
The reason is that they all do their marketing tests with monkeys. Monkeys like flashy things. Since they figure monkeys and humans are "similar enough" they figure that's the best way to go.
Members of the public who want to use reading rooms at federal agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service must now make an appointment and be escorted by an employee to ensure that information is not misused.
How exactly do they do this? Does this employee escort you for your lifetime to make sure you don't "misuse" this information?
until they get linux on the x-box. i'm sure you that'll give you a fucking heart attack.
There is a custom disk format i.e. not fat32
... is it reiserfs or ext3?
So
I knew it was going to happen when i read this:
Unbelieveable quote:
"We want to first succeed in the United States and then ride the wave of popularity into the Japanese market,"
It is obvious that microsoft is completely oblivious to how the gaming market works.
When Microsoft decides to compete with someone they usually won't win in round 1 (at least if they play fair), but when you're a half-trillion dollar company, you can afford to both throw incredible amounts of resources at a problem and wait a few years for an industry-leading product to gel out of it.
I don't think netsape ever was an 800-lb gorilla to begin with. Sure they had a good hold on the browser market at one time, but they were never really a truly huge megacompany that microsoft was. They theoritically could eventually win like this, but i'm sure if they did this it would take MS at least a decade before they could ever overtake either sony or nintendo.
Sony and Nintendo however, are much larger than netscape ever could have been. And now MS is fighting on 2 fronts. One against the Gamecubes launch, and the other against the ps2's 2nd generation titles.
I think the XBox's potential lies in the ability (I would assume) to easily port Windows code over to it.
As for the portability argument, it's not very important for the success of the console. The console's strength lies in its games, and the more games that are avaiable on only your platform, the better. If the games are available on other systems(say the pc), it doesn't strengthen the motivation to get the x-box for the "ported from windows" games, now does it?
RIAA = Recording Industry Association of America
The big deal is christmas sales. a couple days doesn't amount to shit. This "X-Box" vs. "Game Cube" thing isn't going to be settled by who comes out first, it's going to be settled by who has the better or more appealling gaming console.
don't forget irc.
Gates also took some credit for the genesis of open-source software. He said Microsoft made it possible by standardizing computers: "Really, the reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines," he said.
Wow, thanks for the info Bill. I didn't know you guys did hardware! And open source was your creation? Really! Did you invent the internet also, or was Al Gore lying to us?