The Attorney-Client Privelege is not "everything between lawyer and client is secret", there are exceptions. One expection that's been around for awhile is that the client can't use the the lawyer to do other crimes- one of which might be with holding knowledge of a future terrorist act.
No way, I'd choose e-paper over regular paper any day.
While E-ink requires power to write to it, it retains the image even after the power is cut off.
Simply waterproofing the thing would allow you to read it without getting shocked. Heck, then you could even read it underwater if you wanted, while paper would get wet and start to break-up.
And plus paper is organic it will definitily decompose faster than my e-paper would; thousands of years in the future they would still be able to read it. Paper needs very specific conditions to last hundreds of years, and even with the most modern preservation technology I doubt anything could last *thousands* of years. Yeah, I'm sure if you play frisbee or archery practice with my e-paper book it will fail, but I have faith that plastic and metal will last longer than paper.
First, there's a difference between standing on your soapbox yelling "Bush sucks" and yelling "Bush said they're ought to be limits on freedom, what a Nazi." Secondly, he can say whatever he wants on his website, but if he wants to really make money off of it as a professional news site he should keep his childish comments on his own personal webpage.
My website works perfectly in Mozilla and Netscape, that's what the people that I know/want going to my site use.
English is evolving, not de-evolving. It gains new vocabulary just like every language. That doesn't mean you can blatantly ignore all spelling and grammar conventions and call it "English".
A "proper" sentance today is much shorter and simpler than one of 200 years ago tended to be.
That's complete bull, sentences have always had the same grammar requirements as they had +1000 years ago. The style of the time may have been to write long, elegant sentences but that doesn't mean a correct sentence couldn't be extremely short.
I agree that grammar-nazis who attack people when it was just a mistake or they just didn't know the rule suck. But dumbasses who just don't care about simple rules and refuse to claiming, "you know what I meant!" are, well, dumbasses.
is caled engl, is lang we spek, no obey rules of it then not eng
n few gens we'd b gruntn+pointn @ evrthng if teens lik u had way
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It's called English, it's the language we speak. If you don't obey the rules of it, then it's not English.
Within only a few generations we'd be grunting and pointing at everything if teenagers like you had their way.
The exactness and rules of English give it its way of communicating the exact meaning you want. Otherwise you'd only have the general idea and miss the subtle clues one leaves with vocabulary choice and bent grammar rules.
That doesn't change the fact that Taco and micheal (from off the top of my head) slip "little" comments like this in knowing that tens of thousands of people will read it. He's not saying anything remotely factual or persuasive, just shoving his opinions down our throats.
What the hell is he supposed to do? Walk over to California and hand out electricity from his pocket?
He's already proposed new power plants and dozens of other solutions. Californians are to blame anyway, NPR had a report the other day of a huge majority of people in California polled would rather deal with the blackouts than pay higher rates. Hell, they have paid some of the cheapest electricity in the US for decades.
I don't think it as much as a troll but the fact they haven't taken High School History yet. Seriously though, I know so many children who believe this as it's simply common knowledge. It's almost as bad as wacko parents blaming Columbine soley on videogames.
No, I'm not DMan and I was just beginning as a user when the whole thing was going on so I missed most of it. But I've met a couple of editors and people who know them and most of them are indeed assholes with oversized egos just because they are able to spend more time on a website than other people.
While I do believe that he did have alot flames and trolls (there are certainly a number left), I believe he has a side to his story. Any poster trying to write arguments against E2's majority leftist opinion knows that it's there. And though his reactions to it may not have been the right ones, I can definitly see how someone could be pushed to it.
Bah, I don't blame him at all. If I was screwed over that badly, I'd surely be anxious to inform/warn others about it.
I've seen myself how low "factual, well written, and logical" nodes can get when not in the majority leftist opinion. Write a semi-convincing bullshit liberal node filled with urban myths for a little experiment.
"Even if does get voted down, sod it, it's only XP"
It's not about the fucking XP!!! It's about principle of it. Downvoting is simply one step closer to being nuked. When I have a wu that's at -10 I'm not worried about my precious 5 XP points I lost, I'm worried that it'll get nuked by one of the moron editors.
I totally agree. The problem with E2's moderation system is people simply vote up or down- they don't actually interact with the writer.
The only reason why one should vote down is if you just think the node is pure shit and has no place there.
If they have bad spelling, grammar, logic, or anything that they could edit you should/msg them to let them know. Alas, this has never, ever happened with some of my nodes that were good, but I had a typo or forget a </ tag. Only if they refused to change it should someone down vote them.
But as previous comments have mentioned, E2 has become insiders only kind of community. Eventually a newbee will learn not to just write nodes, but write nodes for E2. It's pretty easy to pump out the same generic humor BS that will get upvoted- what's hard is writing something in disagreement with most E2 noders' beliefs. Such as something pro-Christianity, pro-life, anti-drugs, pro-Bush, etc.
I used to think how great NASA was and how we should fund NASA more, until I read a couple articles arguing that NASA actually hinders aerospace development. Which makes sense considering that NASA has a total monopoly on Space. In fact, a certain company started to transport payloads into space for cheaper when NASA promptly undercut them (sorry, don't remember any specific details).
Not knowing a whole lot about the private sector in aerospace technology, I wouldn't mind seeing NASA slowly get out of the buisness aspect and focus more on entirely pure science research. Unless the technology is already there for buisness to make a decent profit.
My 800 Athlon (Windows98se) takes 8 hours to rip a 2 hour long movie (720x480 and 128kbps). I ripped a 3 hour long movie in 10 hours, but also had mIRC running in the background.
And yeah, you can easily fit any movie onto a single CD by notching the resolution down to 640x416 or so and cropping out blackspace (if its widescreen).
As for downloading- I don't mind at all downloading a movie while I sleep, watching it the next afternoon, finding out it sucked horribly (ala Cruel Intentions or Urban Legends) and glad I didn't spend $20 on the DVD. Or that it was a wonderful movie that I never even heard of (Spanish Prisoner for one) and end up buying the DVD because it was so good. And I don't know if Microsoft has gotten around to removing "Disable Javascript and Images" feature in IE, but doing so is an easy remedy to those pop-ups and banners.
I don't think you know as much as you appear to about the Internet or Joe Sixpack.
I'm a college student living on campus, and as such I have downloaded and burned spindles of CDs full of movies, anime, commercials, music videos, etc; all of which were extremely easy to obtain. FTPs, CuteMX, the late ScourEx, FilePool, Gnutella, our college network and BBS are all super-easy ways to find and download movies.
First, the reason most DivX movies are usually larger than ASF is because the DivX ones are near-DVD quality while ASF is something similar to a handheld camcorder at a $.99 theater.
In fact, a DivX rip of the Long Kiss Goodnight (widescreen) is only 470megs, which includes all two hours, 640x416 resolution, 128kbps MP3 sound, and looks absolutely stunning full screen on my 19" monitor. While 12 Monkeys and American Beauty (both two hours long) in ASF are over 500megs and at best get an "okay-poor rating" with their dark, fuzzy picture and static sound.
Second, if Joe Sixpack cannot download and install a simple divx311codec.exe then how can you expect him to download and install Winamp to play MP3s? (Which he and his few million friends all seemed to acclomplish quite well.)
Finally, I, nor anyone I know, buys pirated movies. If the person selling it downloaded it somewhere, then so could they. The whole point of pirated goods is that you don't pay for them.
That movie had some the sweetest action scenes ever. And of course you can't have sweet action scenes and expect them to be realistic or plausible- they're supposed to be eye-popping "NO FSCKING WAY!" shots. The almost complete disregard for the laws of physics is to be expected when you want a really, really cool scene (ala the kick in sand -> vertical jump of gun).
Take the the Matrix- while it did have a reason for action being unrealistic, noone would have found it heart-pounding if everyone stood there slowly taking aim, shoot, take aim again, shoot, etc. And that's exactly what MI2 did; it gave you the action and explosions you went to see. It would have been better if the plot was cooler and didn't resort to simple scene-twists instead of real plot-twists that MI did, MI2 still held up.
I will be the first to admit that the plot wasn't up to par with the first, but there was nothing cliche about it. Nothing more cliche than "honorable and noble general-turned-slave fights the underdog role to fame and glory against evil guy."
I give it a 9 out of 10 for action and 5 for an average plot.
Down here in the South, there's a big paint manufactor named Duron. I'm fairly certain they have trademarks on Duron stuff. Does anybody know anything about this? Makes me wonder if we'll be seeing AMD sued, or quick backpedaling by their legal advisors.
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Tell me about it, this is my first post in eight years!
The Attorney-Client Privelege is not "everything between lawyer and client is secret", there are exceptions. One expection that's been around for awhile is that the client can't use the the lawyer to do other crimes- one of which might be with holding knowledge of a future terrorist act.
No way, I'd choose e-paper over regular paper any day.
While E-ink requires power to write to it, it retains the image even after the power is cut off.
Simply waterproofing the thing would allow you to read it without getting shocked. Heck, then you could even read it underwater if you wanted, while paper would get wet and start to break-up.
And plus paper is organic it will definitily decompose faster than my e-paper would; thousands of years in the future they would still be able to read it. Paper needs very specific conditions to last hundreds of years, and even with the most modern preservation technology I doubt anything could last *thousands* of years. Yeah, I'm sure if you play frisbee or archery practice with my e-paper book it will fail, but I have faith that plastic and metal will last longer than paper.
First, there's a difference between standing on your soapbox yelling "Bush sucks" and yelling "Bush said they're ought to be limits on freedom, what a Nazi." Secondly, he can say whatever he wants on his website, but if he wants to really make money off of it as a professional news site he should keep his childish comments on his own personal webpage.
-AU
My website works perfectly in Mozilla and Netscape, that's what the people that I know/want going to my site use.
English is evolving, not de-evolving. It gains new vocabulary just like every language. That doesn't mean you can blatantly ignore all spelling and grammar conventions and call it "English".
A "proper" sentance today is much shorter and simpler than one of 200 years ago tended to be.
That's complete bull, sentences have always had the same grammar requirements as they had +1000 years ago. The style of the time may have been to write long, elegant sentences but that doesn't mean a correct sentence couldn't be extremely short.
I agree that grammar-nazis who attack people when it was just a mistake or they just didn't know the rule suck. But dumbasses who just don't care about simple rules and refuse to claiming, "you know what I meant!" are, well, dumbasses.
-AU
is caled engl, is lang we spek, no obey rules of it then not eng
n few gens we'd b gruntn+pointn @ evrthng if teens lik u had way
---
It's called English, it's the language we speak. If you don't obey the rules of it, then it's not English.
Within only a few generations we'd be grunting and pointing at everything if teenagers like you had their way.
The exactness and rules of English give it its way of communicating the exact meaning you want. Otherwise you'd only have the general idea and miss the subtle clues one leaves with vocabulary choice and bent grammar rules.
-AU
That doesn't change the fact that Taco and micheal (from off the top of my head) slip "little" comments like this in knowing that tens of thousands of people will read it. He's not saying anything remotely factual or persuasive, just shoving his opinions down our throats.
And that's brain washing propaganda son.
-AU
What the hell is he supposed to do? Walk over to California and hand out electricity from his pocket?
He's already proposed new power plants and dozens of other solutions. Californians are to blame anyway, NPR had a report the other day of a huge majority of people in California polled would rather deal with the blackouts than pay higher rates. Hell, they have paid some of the cheapest electricity in the US for decades.
-AU
Same here, 4.76 Win98se.
BTW, whatever happened to 4.76 on Netscape's site? They offer everything up to 4.75...
-AU
I don't think it as much as a troll but the fact they haven't taken High School History yet. Seriously though, I know so many children who believe this as it's simply common knowledge. It's almost as bad as wacko parents blaming Columbine soley on videogames.
-AU
No, I'm not DMan and I was just beginning as a user when the whole thing was going on so I missed most of it. But I've met a couple of editors and people who know them and most of them are indeed assholes with oversized egos just because they are able to spend more time on a website than other people.
While I do believe that he did have alot flames and trolls (there are certainly a number left), I believe he has a side to his story. Any poster trying to write arguments against E2's majority leftist opinion knows that it's there. And though his reactions to it may not have been the right ones, I can definitly see how someone could be pushed to it.
-AU
Bah, I don't blame him at all. If I was screwed over that badly, I'd surely be anxious to inform/warn others about it.
I've seen myself how low "factual, well written, and logical" nodes can get when not in the majority leftist opinion. Write a semi-convincing bullshit liberal node filled with urban myths for a little experiment.
-AU
Not to pry, but I'd also be really interested in hearing about it.
-AU
"Even if does get voted down, sod it, it's only XP"
It's not about the fucking XP!!! It's about principle of it. Downvoting is simply one step closer to being nuked. When I have a wu that's at -10 I'm not worried about my precious 5 XP points I lost, I'm worried that it'll get nuked by one of the moron editors.
-AU
I totally agree. The problem with E2's moderation system is people simply vote up or down- they don't actually interact with the writer.
/msg them to let them know. Alas, this has never, ever happened with some of my nodes that were good, but I had a typo or forget a </ tag. Only if they refused to change it should someone down vote them.
The only reason why one should vote down is if you just think the node is pure shit and has no place there.
If they have bad spelling, grammar, logic, or anything that they could edit you should
But as previous comments have mentioned, E2 has become insiders only kind of community. Eventually a newbee will learn not to just write nodes, but write nodes for E2. It's pretty easy to pump out the same generic humor BS that will get upvoted- what's hard is writing something in disagreement with most E2 noders' beliefs. Such as something pro-Christianity, pro-life, anti-drugs, pro-Bush, etc.
-AU
I used to think how great NASA was and how we should fund NASA more, until I read a couple articles arguing that NASA actually hinders aerospace development. Which makes sense considering that NASA has a total monopoly on Space. In fact, a certain company started to transport payloads into space for cheaper when NASA promptly undercut them (sorry, don't remember any specific details).
Not knowing a whole lot about the private sector in aerospace technology, I wouldn't mind seeing NASA slowly get out of the buisness aspect and focus more on entirely pure science research. Unless the technology is already there for buisness to make a decent profit.
-AU
This reminds me of The Transparent Society article written by David Brin back in 1996. Still a good read today.
-AU
My 800 Athlon (Windows98se) takes 8 hours to rip a 2 hour long movie (720x480 and 128kbps). I ripped a 3 hour long movie in 10 hours, but also had mIRC running in the background.
And yeah, you can easily fit any movie onto a single CD by notching the resolution down to 640x416 or so and cropping out blackspace (if its widescreen).
As for downloading- I don't mind at all downloading a movie while I sleep, watching it the next afternoon, finding out it sucked horribly (ala Cruel Intentions or Urban Legends) and glad I didn't spend $20 on the DVD. Or that it was a wonderful movie that I never even heard of (Spanish Prisoner for one) and end up buying the DVD because it was so good. And I don't know if Microsoft has gotten around to removing "Disable Javascript and Images" feature in IE, but doing so is an easy remedy to those pop-ups and banners.
-AU
I don't think you know as much as you appear to about the Internet or Joe Sixpack.
I'm a college student living on campus, and as such I have downloaded and burned spindles of CDs full of movies, anime, commercials, music videos, etc; all of which were extremely easy to obtain. FTPs, CuteMX, the late ScourEx, FilePool, Gnutella, our college network and BBS are all super-easy ways to find and download movies.
First, the reason most DivX movies are usually larger than ASF is because the DivX ones are near-DVD quality while ASF is something similar to a handheld camcorder at a $.99 theater. In fact, a DivX rip of the Long Kiss Goodnight (widescreen) is only 470megs, which includes all two hours, 640x416 resolution, 128kbps MP3 sound, and looks absolutely stunning full screen on my 19" monitor. While 12 Monkeys and American Beauty (both two hours long) in ASF are over 500megs and at best get an "okay-poor rating" with their dark, fuzzy picture and static sound.
Second, if Joe Sixpack cannot download and install a simple divx311codec.exe then how can you expect him to download and install Winamp to play MP3s? (Which he and his few million friends all seemed to acclomplish quite well.)
Finally, I, nor anyone I know, buys pirated movies. If the person selling it downloaded it somewhere, then so could they. The whole point of pirated goods is that you don't pay for them.
-AU
That movie had some the sweetest action scenes ever. And of course you can't have sweet action scenes and expect them to be realistic or plausible- they're supposed to be eye-popping "NO FSCKING WAY!" shots. The almost complete disregard for the laws of physics is to be expected when you want a really, really cool scene (ala the kick in sand -> vertical jump of gun).
Take the the Matrix- while it did have a reason for action being unrealistic, noone would have found it heart-pounding if everyone stood there slowly taking aim, shoot, take aim again, shoot, etc. And that's exactly what MI2 did; it gave you the action and explosions you went to see. It would have been better if the plot was cooler and didn't resort to simple scene-twists instead of real plot-twists that MI did, MI2 still held up.
I will be the first to admit that the plot wasn't up to par with the first, but there was nothing cliche about it. Nothing more cliche than "honorable and noble general-turned-slave fights the underdog role to fame and glory against evil guy."
I give it a 9 out of 10 for action and 5 for an average plot.
-AU
You can pick up some icons for Mozilla here and here. Also be sure to look at some of the skins you can get for Mozilla here .
-AU
Down here in the South, there's a big paint manufactor named Duron. I'm fairly certain they have trademarks on Duron stuff.
Does anybody know anything about this? Makes me wonder if we'll be seeing AMD sued, or quick backpedaling by their legal advisors.
-AU
If you want some different icons try over at The Chromezone. Actually they haven't updated the page in a while, but the newer icons are up at my page.
I made some icons for Mozilla if you want some. The old ones are at http://www.mozillazine.org/chrome/icon s.html. Newer ones can be found at http://au.4mg.com/moz.htm.
Speaking of audio interviews, when's the next Geeks in Space coming out?