Youth crime dropped coinciding with the release of the Playstation, contrary to what Jack Thompson would like everyone to believe. And it went down from there as gaming became more popular. Cause and effect? Who knows.
The Mac version tends to lose windows quite often as well. The news, library, game windows, etc. will be active (including the odd duplicate) and not appear on screen. Sometimes it just takes an extra five minutes for the news to load to tell you the latest deal. Hopefully that's not the case for the Linux users as well.
As has been effectively said by Harris and others: If the religious fundamentalists are extremists, wingnuts, and unpleasant individuals, then what does that say about the fundamentals of the religion.
Any video in which the speakers are not obviously American is tagged as a Russian dashcam vid. I've seen Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Austrian, etc.. in those compilation.
You'd think someone that would have such a contingency plan against the "government that is out to get him" would just go somewhere else, pay taxes, and not have to come up with such plans.
You spend a lot of time writing while ignoring the point of my post. The people that always clamor for "more guns!" use the excuse that the "criminals" are out there. It's the same thing as bandying about the word terrorist to get their way.
"Criminals". That magical word that everyone uses to delineate the us and them. Gun crime is as much crimes of passion, negligence, and stupidity by people that wouldn't have been considered "criminals" until after the fact. The US is not a shooting gallery just because it has Jesse James on every corner and guns are falling into the hands of wild gangs. It's poor regulation and background checks, poor safety requirements, mental health, etc.
He wasn't giving up his life. There are people who survive worse every day in wars and car accidents. He just took a couple of days off and popped back up in a tomb.
That's if you actually believe in these myths and that the guy even existed. There have been people calling themselves the christ/messiah for as long as the legend has been around. It's what keeps cults and mental hospitals in business.
Meanwhile "God" has failed to stop church shootings, and the abuse and rape of hundreds of thousands of children within the walls of Catholic and other religious facilities.
If they are so insistent that the removal of god from schools is so damaging why don't they face up to the damage going on in their temples.
The only place anyone trained to operate firearms aims for combat (with the exception of snipers) is center mass. If you need to use a gun then your adrenaline is likely high enough that you are wasting time and potentially lives trying to hit an arm, leg, or gun.
I got shafted on that. I'm intolerant to most fats as well. So cheese, yogurt, anything cooked with vegetable oils... Odd thing is I can have bacon and lard, but hamburger fat is like poison to me.
The Masai have been tapping the blood of bulls to drink for millennia, so it probably wouldn't have been a big stretch to drink the milk of the cows too.
Valve has officially stated that in the event that they would have to shut down the service they would provide an update to allow full offline access to all the user's content. So if you've downloaded your games and backed them up you'd be fine. In that way they provide a balanced service. Users can download their content anywhere they game, and their saves and other data travel with them. It works out. Their DRM is the least intrusive I've encountered. No nasty rootkits or broken drivers polluting my system. DRM-free would be nice, and I've bought quite a few DRM-free games, but I won't begrudge Steam their system because the business model works for them in a way that provides great service for the user without the inconvenience of other systems.
People don't necessarily realize the legal protections (or lack thereof) they have when dealing with licensed and unlicensed contractors. Ontario had a public ad campaign to specifically address that because of the number of people being ripped off by guys who weren't working up to code, and could just shut up shop and open under a new name the next week.
Since Slashdot launched there have been hundreds of articles dealing with conflicts over speech. And each article usually has a couple of dozen people explaining what 'freedom of speech' means in the context of law and government. And yet the same asinine "But it's freedom of speech!" comments pop up every single time.
Do these people read the summary, post, and then never read a single comment therefore remaining ignorant of what it is they're wrong about?
This isn't about the government restricting freedom of speech. This is an individual making a statement, and being sued by they object of that statement. This is speech with consequences, not censorship. The court will then decide whether the plaintiff or the defendant are in the right.
If they expect users to be forced to view their ads then they should be willing to accept legal responsibility for what the servers are distributing. If the ads take up resources or serve malware and exploits then the companies should be on the hook for it. There are sites which I would happily support by leaving the ads visible, except the ad companies have let through some seriously nasty shit.
I remember when a member of an abandonware IRC channel got raided back in the late 90s. They took his game consoles, music CDs, and anything they felt like "as evidence". Never did find out what came of that. Seemed like a lot of effort wasted on someone whose big thing was collecting classic games like Alley Cat.
That's irrelevant when you have technology that can be used to invisibly flag groups of people within the 'herd'. Those stuck wearing the arm bands in Germany had been tagged as undesirable by the government and they wanted to make sure they were easily recognizable. With RFID on everyone, the "arm bands" become flags in a database and the profile is no longer one symbol on your arm but as many categories they want to stick you in. "They" don't even have to see you to determine if you're one of the undesirables. You just need to pass an RFID checkpoint.
Maybe it will be abused, maybe not. But your comparison doesn't stand up to the tech.
Correction, nylonase was in flavobacterium. E. coli evolution was observed in a separate experiment, giving two seperate real time observations of evolution in a lab.
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Youth crime dropped coinciding with the release of the Playstation, contrary to what Jack Thompson would like everyone to believe. And it went down from there as gaming became more popular. Cause and effect? Who knows.
13,000 American signed? That's like 20,000 in metric! (or airplane seats)
The Mac version tends to lose windows quite often as well. The news, library, game windows, etc. will be active (including the odd duplicate) and not appear on screen. Sometimes it just takes an extra five minutes for the news to load to tell you the latest deal.
Hopefully that's not the case for the Linux users as well.
As has been effectively said by Harris and others: If the religious fundamentalists are extremists, wingnuts, and unpleasant individuals, then what does that say about the fundamentals of the religion.
Any video in which the speakers are not obviously American is tagged as a Russian dashcam vid.
I've seen Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Austrian, etc.. in those compilation.
Except he is now "happy" to be back in the US. So there is a balance in there between taxes and killer governments that satisfies him.
You'd think someone that would have such a contingency plan against the "government that is out to get him" would just go somewhere else, pay taxes, and not have to come up with such plans.
You spend a lot of time writing while ignoring the point of my post.
The people that always clamor for "more guns!" use the excuse that the "criminals" are out there.
It's the same thing as bandying about the word terrorist to get their way.
"Criminals". That magical word that everyone uses to delineate the us and them.
Gun crime is as much crimes of passion, negligence, and stupidity by people that wouldn't have been considered "criminals" until after the fact.
The US is not a shooting gallery just because it has Jesse James on every corner and guns are falling into the hands of wild gangs. It's poor regulation and background checks, poor safety requirements, mental health, etc.
He wasn't giving up his life. There are people who survive worse every day in wars and car accidents.
He just took a couple of days off and popped back up in a tomb.
That's if you actually believe in these myths and that the guy even existed. There have been people calling themselves the christ/messiah for as long as the legend has been around. It's what keeps cults and mental hospitals in business.
The "ultimate" sacrifice? Jesus had a bad weekend for your sins.
Meanwhile "God" has failed to stop church shootings, and the abuse and rape of hundreds of thousands of children within the walls of Catholic and other religious facilities.
If they are so insistent that the removal of god from schools is so damaging why don't they face up to the damage going on in their temples.
We've had a total of elevent. None for 70 years in that list too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#Canada
The only place anyone trained to operate firearms aims for combat (with the exception of snipers) is center mass.
If you need to use a gun then your adrenaline is likely high enough that you are wasting time and potentially lives trying to hit an arm, leg, or gun.
Children can't get into the cabinets of responsible gun owners.
Try again.
I got shafted on that. I'm intolerant to most fats as well. So cheese, yogurt, anything cooked with vegetable oils...
Odd thing is I can have bacon and lard, but hamburger fat is like poison to me.
The Masai have been tapping the blood of bulls to drink for millennia, so it probably wouldn't have been a big stretch to drink the milk of the cows too.
Valve has officially stated that in the event that they would have to shut down the service they would provide an update to allow full offline access to all the user's content. So if you've downloaded your games and backed them up you'd be fine.
In that way they provide a balanced service. Users can download their content anywhere they game, and their saves and other data travel with them. It works out. Their DRM is the least intrusive I've encountered. No nasty rootkits or broken drivers polluting my system.
DRM-free would be nice, and I've bought quite a few DRM-free games, but I won't begrudge Steam their system because the business model works for them in a way that provides great service for the user without the inconvenience of other systems.
People don't necessarily realize the legal protections (or lack thereof) they have when dealing with licensed and unlicensed contractors.
Ontario had a public ad campaign to specifically address that because of the number of people being ripped off by guys who weren't working up to code, and could just shut up shop and open under a new name the next week.
Since Slashdot launched there have been hundreds of articles dealing with conflicts over speech.
And each article usually has a couple of dozen people explaining what 'freedom of speech' means in the context of law and government.
And yet the same asinine "But it's freedom of speech!" comments pop up every single time.
Do these people read the summary, post, and then never read a single comment therefore remaining ignorant of what it is they're wrong about?
This isn't about the government restricting freedom of speech. This is an individual making a statement, and being sued by they object of that statement. This is speech with consequences, not censorship. The court will then decide whether the plaintiff or the defendant are in the right.
If your chocolate bar remains hard for more than four hours, please see a confectioner.
If they expect users to be forced to view their ads then they should be willing to accept legal responsibility for what the servers are distributing. If the ads take up resources or serve malware and exploits then the companies should be on the hook for it.
There are sites which I would happily support by leaving the ads visible, except the ad companies have let through some seriously nasty shit.
I remember when a member of an abandonware IRC channel got raided back in the late 90s. They took his game consoles, music CDs, and anything they felt like "as evidence".
Never did find out what came of that. Seemed like a lot of effort wasted on someone whose big thing was collecting classic games like Alley Cat.
That's irrelevant when you have technology that can be used to invisibly flag groups of people within the 'herd'.
Those stuck wearing the arm bands in Germany had been tagged as undesirable by the government and they wanted to make sure they were easily recognizable.
With RFID on everyone, the "arm bands" become flags in a database and the profile is no longer one symbol on your arm but as many categories they want to stick you in. "They" don't even have to see you to determine if you're one of the undesirables. You just need to pass an RFID checkpoint.
Maybe it will be abused, maybe not. But your comparison doesn't stand up to the tech.
Correction, nylonase was in flavobacterium. E. coli evolution was observed in a separate experiment, giving two seperate real time observations of evolution in a lab.