BTW, if you want to see *truly* contrived dialogue, grab any of E.E. Smith's early stuff. "The Skylark of Space" or "Spacehounds of IPC", for example. Gawd, that'll set yer teeth on edge for sure.
The USA is still the best place in the world to live - among other things, it allows people like yourself to run away in cowardice and denial any time something the slightest bit controversial comes up. The fewer simpering immature weasels around, the better.
Bye. Don't let the Customs checkpoint barrier hit you on the way out.
The REAL problem here is that at least two morons (Craig Miskell and Cliff) didn't read the entire license before they created a problem where none existed previously. As many people have pointed out, further into the license it says:
All Inprise libraries, source code, Redistributables and other files remain Inprise's exclusive property. Regardless of any modifications that you make, you may not distribute any files (particularly Inprise source code and other non-executable files) except those that Inprise has expressly designated as Redistributables. Nothing in the License Agreement permits you to derive the source code of files that Inprise has provided to you in executable form only, or to reproduce, modify, use, or distribute the source code of such files. You are not, of course, restricted from distributing source code or byte code that is entirely your own. Source code which you generate with an Inprise source code generator, such as an Application Wizard, is considered by Inprise to be your code.
How exactly might the last two sentences be ambiguous? I guess they might be, if you have the IQ of a tin can.
Take a look at the Moon one night, or look at a picture of it. See those craters? We don't have enough explosive matter on this whole planet to make even one of the big ones that the Moon sports. Ya know, the ones you can see at night WITH NO OPTICAL AID NECESSARY even thought the Moon is 250000 MILES away. Now sit the fuck down and ask yourself a question: was the Moon knocked out of orbit when one of those big-ass craters formed in a collision with a supermassive asteroid?
NO IT WASN'T!!! So why the hell do you think one man-made nuclear bomb is gonna do what a rock the size of England couldn't do?
You are so fucking ignorant it's making my skin crawl. Geez..
Well, I think it is 4" per year like someone else said.. that number works out correctly, so let's do the math on that:
It takes the Moon 15,840 Earth years to travel 1 mile at 4" per year. Over 4 billion years it's travelled about 250,000 miles away from Earth. Mars and its satellites are ~78 million miles away on a good day (data from this site). See the scale here? It'll take the Moon another 4 billion years to travel another 250,000 miles. It's not going anywhere any time soon. =)
Even if it travelled a full mile per year, after 50 *million* years, it would still be closer than Mars...
Believe it or not, we've exploded nuclear weapons right here on Earth, and contrary to popular belief, we're not spinning off toward Andromeda as the result of wild and crazy alterations to our orbit.
The Moon is in fact larger than it appears in the sky. See the craters in it, the ones *visible to the naked eye from 250,000 miles away*? We don't have anything that can make those. And thank whatever god/s you may or may not believe in for that.
It takes a bit more than human-made bombs to alter planetary trajectories.
You really think that such a pitiful burst of energy can move something with that much mass?
So, by that logic, the dozens or hundreds of nukes that we've set off on EARTH for testing and killing should have sent us caroming off through the galaxy.
And also by that logic, the millions of HUGE meteors that hit it should have pushed it off to Alpha Centauri or somewhere. Take a look at the moon. Ever thought about the force required to make those craters??
One little pissant atomic burst (hell, *several* explosions.. hell, even 100 atomic explosions) could never EVER rival the impact blast that created the Sea of Tranquility.
But the Moon is still there. Amazing, huh? What's really amazing is that people like you have the arrogance to believe that humans have the power to change and destroy on that scale. We don't. We have the power to kill ourselves, but there will be something left after we're gone. Mebbe better. Mebbe worse. Who knows.
And a news flash.. it's safe to say 'the Americas' instead of 'what we now consider the Americas'... we all know what you're talking about.
It's receding at something like 1/4 inch per year, I think. Not exactly something anyone will have to worry about any time soon.
And suppose we *did* have the ability to drag a moon from another planet and affix it in orbit... wouldn't it be much easier to simply repair the orbit of the one we already *have*?
It's easy enough to see: you won't ever be satisfied with anything the Catholic Church does.. when they don't apologise for something, they're unrepentant mass-murderers - when they DO apologise, they're arrogant politicking bastards.
Why don't you just come out from behind your thin veneer of 'logic' and admit that you hate organized religion, and the Catholic brand of it in particular... it won't make your post any more palatable, but it'll give you your first whiff of honesty.
Sigh. Ok, read this slowly if you have trouble with comprehension:
Yes, they're both forms of economic systems, which amazingly enough makes the comparison a valid one. But governments impose and control them nevertheless.
And the US is by several means a capitalist country. It's not a pure capitalism, but that doesn't exist any more than pure socialism or pure communism.
That's cos he's not actually endorsing that someone do that. It's such an outrageous suggestion that it becomes funny instead of gruesome. It's a joke. Consider looking up the word sometime.
Ehh, never mind. Like I said, yer humor-impaired and you've just proven it.
They sell you a DVD/movie encrypted for your monitor only.
Nope, no sale. No thanks. One of the main points of retail business is remembering that you don't *sell* anything to anyone.. a customer *buys* something from you. It's always an action initiated by *them*. Sounds obvious, but it isn't always remembered..
Just cos it's offered doesn't mean people will buy it. We're not reverse-vending machines. =)
Try to remember that we speak English, as opposed to whatever it is that flits through your mind - that phrase (and you didn't even quote it all) converts to 'the haters of brainwashed Christian sheep' if you stop a few nanoseconds and think about it.
"Law enforcement" cannot protect your machine. It is purely a reactive measure. It can hunt down and prosecute the offending intruder, but it cannot prevent the break-in from happening. Even house security alarms don't prevent things from being stolen or intrusions from occurring - they only alert the police sooner.
People basically have two choices when it comes to computer security: 1) Use security/firewall programs properly, and keep staff on hand to react to alerts, or, 2) Don't connect the machine to the network.
Laws defining computer crimes are fine, but don't think that's going to stop anyone from stealing your data. *You* have to pay attention to your own site security and blocking measures.
Yep, I had to get a new, shorter belt also. Went from a 48 to a 42 already, and the 42's are a bit loose now.
I also don't chart or weigh - I figure if the methods are valid, it will work whether I track it or not. And it has. Went to the doc for a flu shot, got weighed then. I'm right on track.
And I completely ignored the exercise plan. I've lost 10 pounds a month sitting around on my ass, and I like it that way. =)
30 pounds since October for me. Also lost three pant sizes and my disgusting tendency to sweat rivers when I get overheated. Much happier, and hell, I'm actually eating *more* food than before. Some of it even tastes ok.
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Still doesn't explain Kevin Costner. =)
BTW, if you want to see *truly* contrived dialogue, grab any of E.E. Smith's early stuff. "The Skylark of Space" or "Spacehounds of IPC", for example. Gawd, that'll set yer teeth on edge for sure.
The USA is still the best place in the world to live - among other things, it allows people like yourself to run away in cowardice and denial any time something the slightest bit controversial comes up. The fewer simpering immature weasels around, the better.
Bye. Don't let the Customs checkpoint barrier hit you on the way out.
All Inprise libraries, source code, Redistributables and other files remain Inprise's exclusive property. Regardless of any modifications that you make, you may not distribute any files (particularly Inprise source code and other non-executable files) except those that Inprise has expressly designated as Redistributables. Nothing in the License Agreement permits you to derive the source code of files that Inprise has provided to you in executable form only, or to reproduce, modify, use, or distribute the source code of such files. You are not, of course, restricted from distributing source code or byte code that is entirely your own. Source code which you generate with an Inprise source code generator, such as an Application Wizard, is considered by Inprise to be your code.
How exactly might the last two sentences be ambiguous? I guess they might be, if you have the IQ of a tin can.
Bleh. Romana and K-9 should have gotten their own bullets. Scrappy Doo was better than those two fucking retards.
They call em 'sidekicks' cos that's what most people feel like doing to em after about half an hour.
Take a look at the Moon one night, or look at a picture of it. See those craters? We don't have enough explosive matter on this whole planet to make even one of the big ones that the Moon sports. Ya know, the ones you can see at night WITH NO OPTICAL AID NECESSARY even thought the Moon is 250000 MILES away. Now sit the fuck down and ask yourself a question: was the Moon knocked out of orbit when one of those big-ass craters formed in a collision with a supermassive asteroid?
NO IT WASN'T!!! So why the hell do you think one man-made nuclear bomb is gonna do what a rock the size of England couldn't do?
You are so fucking ignorant it's making my skin crawl. Geez..
It takes the Moon 15,840 Earth years to travel 1 mile at 4" per year. Over 4 billion years it's travelled about 250,000 miles away from Earth. Mars and its satellites are ~78 million miles away on a good day (data from this site). See the scale here? It'll take the Moon another 4 billion years to travel another 250,000 miles. It's not going anywhere any time soon. =)
Even if it travelled a full mile per year, after 50 *million* years, it would still be closer than Mars...
Believe it or not, we've exploded nuclear weapons right here on Earth, and contrary to popular belief, we're not spinning off toward Andromeda as the result of wild and crazy alterations to our orbit.
The Moon is in fact larger than it appears in the sky. See the craters in it, the ones *visible to the naked eye from 250,000 miles away*? We don't have anything that can make those. And thank whatever god/s you may or may not believe in for that.
It takes a bit more than human-made bombs to alter planetary trajectories.
You really think that such a pitiful burst of energy can move something with that much mass?
So, by that logic, the dozens or hundreds of nukes that we've set off on EARTH for testing and killing should have sent us caroming off through the galaxy.
And also by that logic, the millions of HUGE meteors that hit it should have pushed it off to Alpha Centauri or somewhere. Take a look at the moon. Ever thought about the force required to make those craters??
One little pissant atomic burst (hell, *several* explosions.. hell, even 100 atomic explosions) could never EVER rival the impact blast that created the Sea of Tranquility.
But the Moon is still there. Amazing, huh? What's really amazing is that people like you have the arrogance to believe that humans have the power to change and destroy on that scale. We don't. We have the power to kill ourselves, but there will be something left after we're gone. Mebbe better. Mebbe worse. Who knows.
And a news flash.. it's safe to say 'the Americas' instead of 'what we now consider the Americas'... we all know what you're talking about.
It's receding at something like 1/4 inch per year, I think. Not exactly something anyone will have to worry about any time soon.
And suppose we *did* have the ability to drag a moon from another planet and affix it in orbit... wouldn't it be much easier to simply repair the orbit of the one we already *have*?
Asking someone to be coherent and well-argued is certainly not the same thing as expecting them to agree with you all the time.
He host[s|ed] a show on PBS called "Reading Rainbow".
It's easy enough to see: you won't ever be satisfied with anything the Catholic Church does.. when they don't apologise for something, they're unrepentant mass-murderers - when they DO apologise, they're arrogant politicking bastards.
Why don't you just come out from behind your thin veneer of 'logic' and admit that you hate organized religion, and the Catholic brand of it in particular... it won't make your post any more palatable, but it'll give you your first whiff of honesty.
Sigh. Ok, read this slowly if you have trouble with comprehension:
Yes, they're both forms of economic systems, which amazingly enough makes the comparison a valid one. But governments impose and control them nevertheless.
And the US is by several means a capitalist country. It's not a pure capitalism, but that doesn't exist any more than pure socialism or pure communism.
That's cos he's not actually endorsing that someone do that. It's such an outrageous suggestion that it becomes funny instead of gruesome. It's a joke. Consider looking up the word sometime.
Ehh, never mind. Like I said, yer humor-impaired and you've just proven it.
Either of those would still be preferable to 'Itanium'.
Oddly enough, the two previous centuries were: Where governments crushed personal liberty and individual rights, and called it 'socialism'.
Doesn't look like much has changed except the morons who can't keep their definitions straight.
It *used* to stand for "Tactical Studies Rules", but they dropped that at some point, and it became simply "TSR".
They sell you a DVD/movie encrypted for your monitor only.
Nope, no sale. No thanks. One of the main points of retail business is remembering that you don't *sell* anything to anyone.. a customer *buys* something from you. It's always an action initiated by *them*. Sounds obvious, but it isn't always remembered..
Just cos it's offered doesn't mean people will buy it. We're not reverse-vending machines. =)
Try to remember that we speak English, as opposed to whatever it is that flits through your mind - that phrase (and you didn't even quote it all) converts to 'the haters of brainwashed Christian sheep' if you stop a few nanoseconds and think about it.
Geez.
"Law enforcement" cannot protect your machine. It is purely a reactive measure. It can hunt down and prosecute the offending intruder, but it cannot prevent the break-in from happening. Even house security alarms don't prevent things from being stolen or intrusions from occurring - they only alert the police sooner.
People basically have two choices when it comes to computer security:
1) Use security/firewall programs properly, and keep staff on hand to react to alerts, or,
2) Don't connect the machine to the network.
Laws defining computer crimes are fine, but don't think that's going to stop anyone from stealing your data. *You* have to pay attention to your own site security and blocking measures.
Nuh-uh! Megaweapon can kick both of their asses!
Megaweapon! Megaweapon! Megaweapon! Make it slooooow!
Yep, I had to get a new, shorter belt also. Went from a 48 to a 42 already, and the 42's are a bit loose now.
I also don't chart or weigh - I figure if the methods are valid, it will work whether I track it or not. And it has. Went to the doc for a flu shot, got weighed then. I'm right on track.
And I completely ignored the exercise plan. I've lost 10 pounds a month sitting around on my ass, and I like it that way. =)
30 pounds since October for me. Also lost three pant sizes and my disgusting tendency to sweat rivers when I get overheated. Much happier, and hell, I'm actually eating *more* food than before. Some of it even tastes ok.
Tragedy #3, morons who believe that 2000 was the start of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium.
Ya goddamned idjit. Yer just another sheep like the rest of em.