I guess this fellow who intercepted the emails was some sort of Internet vigilante? He was hacking for the MPAA, which is apparently a quasi-government organization at this point. Stealing tangible mail is still a felony, however.
Your entire post is a false equivalency. I am no fan of religion, but I can tell which one presents the biggest threat to Western civilization. It's like equating the murderous repression of the Stalinist regime to the US. Yes, both of them done great evil. However, one of them is clearly more evil. Comparing Christian lunacy (which is mostly limited to attempting to undermine evolution) vs. Islamist lunacy (suicide bombing, oppression of women) just doesn't add up.
Dell Adamo, for when you want to be pretentious, but you can't afford Apple.
And yes, that website is hideous Flashturbation. I dare you to "encounter," "admire," "discover," or "commit" anything useful about the Adamo on the page. Apple gets credit here for blending marketing and tech specs. Where is the audience for Adamo? They already bought Apple or they're scratching their heads trying to find out how much RAM and CPU it has.
Why the hell is this modded flamebait? It's true. The Internet acts as a support group for weirdos and conspiracy theorists. I realize that can be a good thing as well (like if you're the only gay person in a small town). But for the most part, it's linking together socially retarded adults and delusional children who believe that Dragonball Z is real. I'm not dissing the Internet, I mean, total respect to it, but that's one part of it. You can't deny it, no matter how you try.
Another thing I don't like about the CFL swirls-they always seem to exaggerate their comparative lighting power in watts. I don't mind waiting a couple of seconds for bulbs, but when they print "replaces 60 watts" on their label they'd better damn well be as bright as a 60 watt bulb. Either I'm getting cataracts, or the manufacturers grossly exaggerate the efficiency.
Oh and BTW, CRTs are still better than LCDs for watching TV...color and motion are far better.
Compare Germany after WW1 (no civilian destruction that mattered) and after WWII, when the Germans became remarkably pacific (as did the Japs).
There was "no civilian destruction that mattered" in Germany during World War I? Can I have some of what you're smoking? Oh, and I suppose all the rocket attacks and bombing raids on Great Britain by the Luftwaffe made them "remarkably pacific," right? That's why the Axis won WW2. It couldn't possibly have happened that the bombing raids galvanized the British people and them even tougher in their fight against the Nazis, could it?
Killing "designated casualties"/uniformed forces does not impose a cost upon the civilian population. Burning their world down around their ears (and destroying their soldiery) makes an effective point.
Napoleon you are not, my friend. Not only is this incorrect, it's irrelevant in Iraq where the line between civilian and combatant is very, very thin.
That's why I play video games...so I can pretend to be weak and helpless! In real life I'm a Formula 1 race car driver who moonlights as a secret agent.
I love the (original) Alamo Drafthouse. Austin is the center of the Texas film industry, but that industry is in danger due to poaching from states like Lousiana and New Mexico. If you live in Texas, write your state representative and senator and get them to support Representative Dawnna Duke's economic incentive bill.
You know what's weird? Electronic cigarettes. Their legal status is uncertain in Sweden. I think if they work out the details of this IP agreement, it might help clear up the patent status of the e-cigarette, which was invented in Hong Kong (although it's now illegal there). Yep, e-cigarettes. I don't understand the name. Can your cigarette surf the web? Can you print out nicotine using your inkjet printer? I didn't think so.
The best successes of our intelligence and security apparatus are the ones you never hear about. Why? Because people do not want to know how close they were to being killed. Ever wonder why it seems as if our intelligence fails so often? It's because people never hear about the successes.
That assumes that there are not voluminous amounts of information from former insiders detailing this very problem. Unfortunately, there are. I'm not saying that the people at the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc are evil. I'm just saying that these powerful organizations are more concerned with their own prestige and power than they are with protecting the American people. You remember George Tenet telling Bush that digging up intelligence on the connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein would be a "slam dunk"? He wanted to please the president...finding facts was a secondary goal, if it was a goal at all. It's easy to see how priorities could get distorted in such and environment.
Based on publicly available information that in the last 60+ years since the formation of the CIA, there has never been a credible threat squelched by illegal wiretapping. I know of several that have not been stopped. Even if there were any...and again, there is no publicly available evidence for even one-how many intercepted attacks would there have to have been for it to be worth the trillions of dollars and basic assault on our rights?
I'm sick of all the DLC gouging. And companies that have the gall to charge $60 for a game and then charge extra for the most basic features that are undoubtedly already on the disc should be shackled and ridiculed in the town square. We need a REAL gamer's bill of rights that goes something like this:
Right to resell the game with full functionality-DLC included.
DLC content must be novel. It should not simply be an 'unlock' for something already on the disc.
Alternate costumes should not cost money.
I wish this would happen but it looks like publishers prefer to go the way of DLC only. If that happens, I won't be able to bring games over to my friend's house to play anymore. Ridiculous.
Suppose they wiretap 1000 phones without a warrant. 999 of them are mistakes and nothing comes from it except the violation of citizen rights. (which is a huge thing, IMO) but that 1000th one yields a goldmine of terrorist activity that they would have missed had they been forced to wait for a warrant. Because of the wiretap being quickly put in place, they're able to stop a legitimate terrorist threat.
This happens frequently on TV shows, but has it ever really happened in real life? No.
The entire national security apparatus is a huge expense and a bigger curb to our freedom than anything an outside enemy has ever imposed on us. And what do we get in return? Bloated bureaucracies that have no clear mission. "Homeland Security" was created after 9/11 because the "Department of Defense" failed to defend us, as did the FBI, CIA, NSA, Secret Service, etc. So what's the solution? Another nebulous bureaucracy to drain taxpayer money and entangle us in more foreign wars, all the while bickering with the other agencies for prestige. It's a raw deal if you ask me.
Isn't macular degeneration just a normal part of the aging process?
Anyway, I have an idea...rather than sticking telescopes into the eyes...we take the lenses from the telescope, and make them really large and flat, and put them in front of the face, maybe with a wire or plastic holder. That way, you won't have to have surgery to get the advantages!
No, ONE GAME was $75. Final Fantasy III, in 1994. That's because the cartridge cost plenty to make, because of ROMs. Most games were $50. Now, you can talk about inflation and the price of development going up, and those are both very valid points.
But the real point is that the public cannot and will not pay $60 for most games. They simply do not view it as a good deal. I've been playing games all my life and I still wince at the $60 price tag. If I wait a couple weeks, I can usually get games for $45 from remorseful buyers on Craigslist.
Maybe this means games are going to have to take a step back in terms of production values. That doesn't bother me one bit.
How about $60 games like Mirrors Edge or Beautiful Katamari, that take about 4 hours to complete? And they still have the gall to nickel-and-dime with add-on maps that are on the disc itself, but cost extra money to unlock. Fuck that noise.
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I guess this fellow who intercepted the emails was some sort of Internet vigilante? He was hacking for the MPAA, which is apparently a quasi-government organization at this point. Stealing tangible mail is still a felony, however.
Hmm, I sit here and I wonder...did the submitter for this article have a beard? We'll probably never know.
I often wonder about stuff like that. What about you? Does your soul still wonder about beards?
Your entire post is a false equivalency. I am no fan of religion, but I can tell which one presents the biggest threat to Western civilization. It's like equating the murderous repression of the Stalinist regime to the US. Yes, both of them done great evil. However, one of them is clearly more evil. Comparing Christian lunacy (which is mostly limited to attempting to undermine evolution) vs. Islamist lunacy (suicide bombing, oppression of women) just doesn't add up.
Dell Adamo, for when you want to be pretentious, but you can't afford Apple.
And yes, that website is hideous Flashturbation. I dare you to "encounter," "admire," "discover," or "commit" anything useful about the Adamo on the page. Apple gets credit here for blending marketing and tech specs. Where is the audience for Adamo? They already bought Apple or they're scratching their heads trying to find out how much RAM and CPU it has.
Why the hell is this modded flamebait? It's true. The Internet acts as a support group for weirdos and conspiracy theorists. I realize that can be a good thing as well (like if you're the only gay person in a small town). But for the most part, it's linking together socially retarded adults and delusional children who believe that Dragonball Z is real. I'm not dissing the Internet, I mean, total respect to it, but that's one part of it. You can't deny it, no matter how you try.
Totally agree with you on all points, except the threat of bacteria is exaggerated. Still, a mighty blow against conventional wisdom, my friend!
Photographers will tell you that daylight is blue, due to the effects the atmosphere has on sunlight.
Another thing I don't like about the CFL swirls-they always seem to exaggerate their comparative lighting power in watts. I don't mind waiting a couple of seconds for bulbs, but when they print "replaces 60 watts" on their label they'd better damn well be as bright as a 60 watt bulb. Either I'm getting cataracts, or the manufacturers grossly exaggerate the efficiency.
Oh and BTW, CRTs are still better than LCDs for watching TV...color and motion are far better.
It's not a joke when you tell someone to DIAF on the Internet. What if someone told him that before he died? Think of how guilty they'd feel now!
Use an e-cigarette to smoke, my good man!
Compare Germany after WW1 (no civilian destruction that mattered) and after WWII, when the Germans became remarkably pacific (as did the Japs).
There was "no civilian destruction that mattered" in Germany during World War I? Can I have some of what you're smoking? Oh, and I suppose all the rocket attacks and bombing raids on Great Britain by the Luftwaffe made them "remarkably pacific," right? That's why the Axis won WW2. It couldn't possibly have happened that the bombing raids galvanized the British people and them even tougher in their fight against the Nazis, could it?
Killing "designated casualties"/uniformed forces does not impose a cost upon the civilian population. Burning their world down around their ears (and destroying their soldiery) makes an effective point.
Napoleon you are not, my friend. Not only is this incorrect, it's irrelevant in Iraq where the line between civilian and combatant is very, very thin.
That's why I play video games...so I can pretend to be weak and helpless! In real life I'm a Formula 1 race car driver who moonlights as a secret agent.
I love the (original) Alamo Drafthouse. Austin is the center of the Texas film industry, but that industry is in danger due to poaching from states like Lousiana and New Mexico. If you live in Texas, write your state representative and senator and get them to support Representative Dawnna Duke's economic incentive bill.
You'll be glad you did!
You know what's weird? Electronic cigarettes. Their legal status is uncertain in Sweden. I think if they work out the details of this IP agreement, it might help clear up the patent status of the e-cigarette, which was invented in Hong Kong (although it's now illegal there). Yep, e-cigarettes. I don't understand the name. Can your cigarette surf the web? Can you print out nicotine using your inkjet printer? I didn't think so.
The best successes of our intelligence and security apparatus are the ones you never hear about. Why? Because people do not want to know how close they were to being killed. Ever wonder why it seems as if our intelligence fails so often? It's because people never hear about the successes.
That assumes that there are not voluminous amounts of information from former insiders detailing this very problem. Unfortunately, there are. I'm not saying that the people at the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc are evil. I'm just saying that these powerful organizations are more concerned with their own prestige and power than they are with protecting the American people. You remember George Tenet telling Bush that digging up intelligence on the connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein would be a "slam dunk"? He wanted to please the president...finding facts was a secondary goal, if it was a goal at all. It's easy to see how priorities could get distorted in such and environment.
Based on publicly available information that in the last 60+ years since the formation of the CIA, there has never been a credible threat squelched by illegal wiretapping. I know of several that have not been stopped. Even if there were any...and again, there is no publicly available evidence for even one-how many intercepted attacks would there have to have been for it to be worth the trillions of dollars and basic assault on our rights?
I'm sick of all the DLC gouging. And companies that have the gall to charge $60 for a game and then charge extra for the most basic features that are undoubtedly already on the disc should be shackled and ridiculed in the town square. We need a REAL gamer's bill of rights that goes something like this:
I wish this would happen but it looks like publishers prefer to go the way of DLC only. If that happens, I won't be able to bring games over to my friend's house to play anymore. Ridiculous.
Suppose they wiretap 1000 phones without a warrant. 999 of them are mistakes and nothing comes from it except the violation of citizen rights. (which is a huge thing, IMO) but that 1000th one yields a goldmine of terrorist activity that they would have missed had they been forced to wait for a warrant. Because of the wiretap being quickly put in place, they're able to stop a legitimate terrorist threat.
This happens frequently on TV shows, but has it ever really happened in real life? No.
The entire national security apparatus is a huge expense and a bigger curb to our freedom than anything an outside enemy has ever imposed on us. And what do we get in return? Bloated bureaucracies that have no clear mission. "Homeland Security" was created after 9/11 because the "Department of Defense" failed to defend us, as did the FBI, CIA, NSA, Secret Service, etc. So what's the solution? Another nebulous bureaucracy to drain taxpayer money and entangle us in more foreign wars, all the while bickering with the other agencies for prestige. It's a raw deal if you ask me.
I'm surprised you're the only one on the thread who remembers Moblins. I felled many a moblin with my arrows in the Zelda days of yore!
Hey hey hey! I'm not bashin', I'm just askin'! I respect your bilingualism, and your hot strippers (thank you, Montreal).
What the fuck do you mean by "savorous"? Is that a French word, Mr. Sangfroid?
We've got my billion dollar penile implant to show for it! Wanna see it?
Isn't macular degeneration just a normal part of the aging process?
Anyway, I have an idea...rather than sticking telescopes into the eyes...we take the lenses from the telescope, and make them really large and flat, and put them in front of the face, maybe with a wire or plastic holder. That way, you won't have to have surgery to get the advantages!
No, ONE GAME was $75. Final Fantasy III, in 1994. That's because the cartridge cost plenty to make, because of ROMs. Most games were $50. Now, you can talk about inflation and the price of development going up, and those are both very valid points.
But the real point is that the public cannot and will not pay $60 for most games. They simply do not view it as a good deal. I've been playing games all my life and I still wince at the $60 price tag. If I wait a couple weeks, I can usually get games for $45 from remorseful buyers on Craigslist.
Maybe this means games are going to have to take a step back in terms of production values. That doesn't bother me one bit.
How about $60 games like Mirrors Edge or Beautiful Katamari, that take about 4 hours to complete? And they still have the gall to nickel-and-dime with add-on maps that are on the disc itself, but cost extra money to unlock. Fuck that noise.