I had a horrid ear infection and while I had seen a doctor, the stuff he gave me was not working. I was told I had to see a specialist but since it was a long weekend, I would have to wait several days to see him. One lady at work swore by homeopathy and I looked it up and was skeptical, but hell, at that point I was looking for any relief.
So I went to a nearby natural food and health place and a nice lady helped me find stuff which was meant to help ear infection, especially the pain. It was a bottle of liquid and you would put like 15 drops under your tongue with the included dropped. It was like $5 and I figured it would be an interesting experiment and at worst I was out five bucks.
I tried the stuff and it did help the pain a little, but not because of any homeopathic qualities. The medication was suspended in alcohol. Vodka to be exact. So it actually dulled the pain a bit for that reason. My five bucks would have been better spent on a cheap bottle of Popov at the grocery store.
So the lesson I learned here is homeopathy doesn't work near as well as vodka.
I have and I still think he has a good point. Linux has come a long way, a very long way. It is almost there... it tries so hard to be there. There being the point where it is as user friendly as Windows or Mac OS X. But it still falls short. I seriously think that the Linux GUI developers should take a long hard look at how Apple made UNIX usable to the novice. It would also be great if you could download your apps and either drag them to an applications folder, like on the Mac, or use an installer like on Windows that can handle pulling in the necessary objects to run it and doing the compiling, etc. Yes I know Ubuntu and Debian have Synaptic Package Manager and the like. It makes life a lot easier than manual compiles yet I still don't like it. I think the main problems with it is it's user interface which leave a lot to be desired and it is still very hard to find what I need in there sometimes, scrolling through a long long list of programs and libraries with gimmicky names that have no bearing as to what they actually do.
I'm not a big fan of how some items are categorized as well. I want to be able to play MP3 on my system. Where do I go? What do I install? There is still a lot of hunting around for manuals, help sites and guesswork involved for novices. I still can't get a proper DVD ripper to work and I spent days on that. So yeah, until Linux can overcome stuff like this, it isn't going to cut it for a large segment of the population.
If your reason for using this OS is it's visual looks, then maybe OS X would be better for you. Most of us don't care what it looks like. At work I put windows classic theme on just to cut out all the visual foreplay that slows down my work.
I need someone to join Scientology with me. This isn't a joke. P.O. Box 66666666666666666666666 Oakview, CA 93022. You'll get your credit cards returned when we get back. Must bring your own e-meter. I have only done this once before. Safety not guaranteed.
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You see, 1,000,000 Jillion years ago, the evil alien overlord Xanus ruled the galaxy and a horrible plague of dysentery broke out among all of the populated planets. To eradicate the plague, he rounded up all sufferers of the plague and piled them into huge toilet bowl shaped vessels (see the Ori from Stargate, they stole the design from us and we will sue in internet court!!) and then dumped them into a huge septic tank he dug here on Earth. They died a horrible death in that pit and their souls came out and now cling to everyone elses souls on earth are all backed up leaving our spirits all gassy and bloated.
But have no fear... Sciencolonogy is here!
With our cutting edge soul plunging tech we can easily measure the brain to bowel flow of the bodies energies. By reading the life changing book Diarrhetics, written by our esteemed founder Elron Chubbard, you will learn how we can help you plunge your soul clear of these obstructive souls and allow your energies to flow freely. For a small fee of course. Your initiation will come with the first five pages of the book free and a free half roll of our patented toilet paper. If you run out, the free pages of the book should tide you over until you can get to one of our study centers to buy some more. Our study centers are fully stocked with everything you need, including newpapers, magazines and books, all for a nominal fee. Act now because we are having a special deal! You can get one hour in a stall with a door for the price of the ones that come without! Hurry, this offer won't last!
America's Al Qaida seems to be getting it's claws into Britain something fierce too. I just read about some police official hobnobbing with them at the opening of some building that they were able to build in London. And apparently even MP's were calling the reporter to complain about this piece the BBC is doing. I expect that the famously ruthless British tabloid press will be in there next now that there is blood in the water and nuclear war won't stop them from reporting on this.
But anyway, this video might look bad on the surface, but so far most people who watch it just say, "Oh well he blew his top in an emotionally charged argument. Who hasn't done that?" Scientology loves the cowardly attack the critic with lots of people and in lots of ways approach. They really are scared of exposure, yet they flaunt their wealth in their buildings and such. It's very odd and rather schizoid. In this case Scientology's attack the critic fails. Sometimes it works, but it fails in the following situations.
1. The critic has nothing to lose. His bosses won't fire him because they won't just take the word of creepy strangers calling them about the guy, and his neighbors could care less about his personal life. 2. The critic is well known or famous. This goes with the BBC reporter as well as say the guys who did south park. 3. The critic has already broken every taboo society has to offer. Again South Park. People already know the guys who make it are weird and so they just shrug at whatever story the Co$ shills make up about them.
In the first case, they are just wasting their time and money bothering the protesters. Most people don't pay attention to protesters anyway. They might stare a little as they go by, but most people have other business to be about and will forget the protest within five minutes of it being out of sight.
In the last two cases in particular, their tactics only make things worse for them. People see this reporter screaming and wonder, "Wow, what the hell got him so riled up?" Now they will be sure to go watch the program just to see what the controversy is. With South Park, the whole act of it being "banned" just made people want to go see it. Nothing inspires people to go do something more than to tell them it is forbidden, especially if the action is something that any reasonable person would find harmless. In this case, watching a show. Parker and Stone knew this when they did the episode. They knew this would happen. They counted on it. The whole row with Tom Cruise and the guy who did Chef and the episode being pulled after the first showing gave them more exposure than showing it at half time during the Super Bowl. They knew You Tube and a dozen other sites would host it, it would be on the torrents and there is no way it will ever vanish now. All of it is labeled "BANNED!" which is like putting lights and sirens on it. People see that word and will jump to watch or download it.
You know, the Catholic church learned this lesson a long time ago. I mean you used to have torture by the church to shut people up. Now they realize that only creates Martyrs and pushes dissent underground where they cannot see it or get at it. When Divinci Code came out as a movie, I saw an interview with a bishop who simply said, "We've learned that making a fuss only gets things like this more attention." The church was quiet and the movie came and went with really no noticeable impact on the church itself. Of course the Co$ is really just a criminal enterprise, but hey, even that requires some degree of being inconspicuous. That's why you don't see the Mob running businesses openly. You get too big and too loud, and you will see the 1930's happen all over again with these guys when the people get fed up and the government has to finally respond.
Good lord, this is a terribly wrong statement! But then you probably don't know a lot about guns. It's ok, most people don't but I think it is something people should get educated on.
You can take a.22 and sit it next to a 30.06 round. The 30.06 round utterly dwarfs the.22. It's big, it's mean and it's bottle necked and the.22 is this little stubby looking thing in a tiny straight walled case. So it's not surprising that a lot of people totally underestimate the little.22.
This of course, is a big mistake. Never underestimate any bullet, least of all a.22 These are actually one of the bullets of choice of assassins. They are accurate, tend to fragment in a human target and have a deadly range of up to a mile or more and are easily silenced. The little.22 is nasty once it hits flesh. It tends to bounce around inside the body rather than go out the other end. Bounce off bone and leave bits of itself in organs. Tiny, hard to operate on bits. People think the bullet can't go far, you need to be close to kill someone etc, and that is why people are often careless with these, firing them without checking what is beyond their target. The.22 also loves to ricochet off of trees and take an unexpected path. A lot of firearms accidents happen this way, and the.22 is often the culprit when a rifle is the weapon involved in an accidental shooting.
Now is it deadlier than a 30.06? That's debatable certainly, but to think that a.22 is not "that deadly" is a bad and could be a fatal mistake, for you or someone else. The VT shooter did use a.22 as well as a 9mm and he inflicted savage and fatal wounds with both weapons.
And this is what happens when you sue people at random. You are likely to get grandmothers, little girls and even dead people. None of which is good press at all. Worse, it is only a matter of time before the RIAA picks on the wrong guy, like some psycho who will find one of their offices or affiliated law firms, march in with a rifle and have at it. Or worse.
Given their "win" record so far, which is mostly people who have settled, they are obviously not making any money compared to the cost of sending lawyers to every corner of the US to sue people at random. If I were a shareholder for the companies who fund and back the RIAA, I would be wondering why they are gambling with my money. Eventually they are going to come up snake eyes and there will be a big incident. And then they may start finding it hard to find lawyers willing to take on random cases for fear they will target the next nut.
First off, if Hanson was following people home as some stated above, that hurts his case a bit, because it makes him no better than these people. But the real problem is in how he handled this court defeat.
Instead of running, he should have appealed it and got it up to a court that was not either stupid or somehow bought off by the Co$.
A higher court probably would have thrown out the case or declared a mistrial due to the irregularities of the initial trial. He might well have been free within weeks.
Instead he fled and made his case worse. All this, "I'm afraid they will kill me" is not a good excuse. If you are afraid of possibly being killed, you shouldn't be out messing with members of a criminal terrorist organization like this. This is America's Al Qaida we are dealing with after all. Best thing to do is to work in groups and just educate people from online. People do seem to be wising up to the Co$ and from what I understand, they have been shrinking in membership for some time now, especially since the internet has made it so easy to learn about how psycho and dangerous this organization is.
So yeah, this guy was better off taking a risk and going to prison and fighting it through appeals. It might well have brought a higher court down and even got the media involved in looking at the major irregularities in the original trial. More than likely, he would have gotten out of jail in 6 months if nothing else. I doubt the Co$ wanted to create another martyr like McPherson.
If they didn't do it correctly, then wouldn't that mean they DID NOT do the electric slide and at worse just made themselves look like an ass by doing it wrong? I don't think this guy has a leg to stand on here.
In case he does, how much does that guy who whacks people in the back of the knees charge anyway? I have some business for him. Break a leg indeed!
I doubt it will do much. Unmanned test rockets have gone there before and nothing bad happened.
I'd worry more about the people one board. Sounds like a good way to go up and come back sterile and ripe for having cancer later in life.
Normally the Earth's magnetic field protects us from the sun's charged particles and particles from space. Even the ISS and the shuttle still fly inside the field. The moon is outside it and Apollo astronauts did notice some radiation effects, such as seeing flashes of light when closing their eyes, caused by charged particles hitting their retinas and optic nerves.
However the Earth's magnetic field does concentrate the radiation in two areas, the near the north and south poles of the planet. So people flying on this ship could get a nasty dose of radiation flying up into this, especially if there is a solar flare remnant hitting the earth's magnetic field at the time. Granted I haven't seen anyt data on the radiation levels up there, but when dealing with radiation, you really want to protect yourself from any unnecessary exposure to high amounts of it. It may be that most people who go up there will be fine since it is a short duration. But there will still be a risk that one or more of them could be unlucky and wind up with cancer caused by this exposure.
Well keep in mind that most furs actually are fairly disgusted with the baby fur crowd and such. Some other other groups, like the 20 breasted vixen taurs, well we just kind of take it as being overly imaginative:) Thing is, the more out there elements are the ones who are the most easily noticed.
I personally haven't really had any problems with SL goons. I actually really enjoy the Second Life Safari. These guys haven't seen anything yet. I've seen some truly out there stuff on SL, and yes, I admit most of it was furry created. Like the giant vore armadillo I made on a lark.
I made a gigantic armadillo that stands halfway to the clouds. This thing has a full digestive system you can go through, including intestinal maze. Whenever I drop it somewhere, people come from all over the sim I'm on to look at it and inevitably, go through it. Within five minutes you will see this thing basically shitting avatars. It's really funny when the rear end loving crowd flies up there to stare at it and gets hit by people falling out of the intestinal maze. I really need to make a vid of this sometime, as it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
I wouldn't mind if the SL people came and made fun of it either. I mean that is why I made it, just for amusement purposes. There's really not point in getting upset over it. Which is what makes this whole Anshe thing so sad.
You know, as easy as SL is to copy people (I've made George Bush, the Shredder from TMNT and others)... someone could make an Anshe look alike and do fucked up things to it just to piss her off. Of course then she will have to trademark her looks, thus banning all Asian women from Second Life forever.
No kidding. I mean really who cares? That and from what I understand she lives in GERMANY, not the US. Isn't invoking the DMCA, a US law as a German citizen a little, well, useless? Or is it because the Second Life servers are in the US?
I was present back when Anshe pulled some nasty underhandedness with some a group of "furries" and removed all their content from an area they rented from her for disagreeing with her. This sparked a full on second life riot in the said area.
You know Anshe wouldn't get this treatment is she wasn't such a stuck up shark who abuses her position. No one has a problem with her being a business woman. The real problem is her attitude and her bad business practices.
I'd highly recommend that people simply stop renting from her, because the true cost (her attitude and DMCA crap like this) is really not worth it.
In every single black friday ad I got in the mail and paper and went through, Best Buy, Circuit City, Walmart, etc, not one bothered to even mention the Zune for my local stores. Most of them had the iPod on page one or two or in the hot gifts section. Their displays are kind of sad little things next to the area full of iPod gear and accessories and of course the iPod itself. One of the stores had more space for Sandisk players than the Zune. It would seem even some retailers know this is probably just going to be an expensive side shelf paperweight.
As for the iPod, the local grocery store now carries the iPod and accessories back in the TV and Game aisle and the corner gas station had shuffles for sale next to the compact flash cards, aimed at travelers and vacationers. You just don't get more pervasive than that. Until the Zune can even near this and can branch out into other small flash based devices as well, Microsoft just isn't going anywhere with it.
Actually, Japan has a large and highly advanced military still. It is constrained by their constitution for defensive purposes. That could change very quickly as they can do as they wish with their constitution now and have been slowly pushing the US out of Japan militarily, asking us to close bases, which we have done to save money. The fact they are mulling their own atomic bomb now shows just how bad things are. WWII happened long ago, but they still have the stark reminders of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So for Japan to mull their own nukes and not set off a riot in the streets shows how tense the situation between them and North Korea has become.
North Korea may have nukes now, but how many? I doubt more than a handfull. If we struck pre-emptively with our own nukes, even small tac-nukes on military sites, we could probably cripple them so they couldn't launch even one. The danger then would be nukes left in a large city and detonated once we rolled in militarily. The North Korean government would have no qualms about killing their own people just to get back at us if they were losing a war.
The best bet may be a quick and decisive decapitation strike against their leadership.
You make it sound like people bought new machines that could not run the latest OS. A machine that cost $1500 back in 2000, no it can't run a 2005/2006 release of an OS. My G4 mac is from 2002 and it runs the latest Mac OS just fine and will also run Leopard just fine when it comes out next year. After that, well, that is up in the air but only if they cut off PowerPC support. Besides, by then it will be hopelessly obselete anyway. A computer I bought NOW would probably run the next 5 major releases of OS X... easy. And it would cost a lot less than this thing did back in 2002.
Also the iMac models you reference have not been sold for almost four years. It makes me wonder how long you have been out of circulation.
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I had a horrid ear infection and while I had seen a doctor, the stuff he gave me was not working. I was told I had to see a specialist but since it was a long weekend, I would have to wait several days to see him. One lady at work swore by homeopathy and I looked it up and was skeptical, but hell, at that point I was looking for any relief.
So I went to a nearby natural food and health place and a nice lady helped me find stuff which was meant to help ear infection, especially the pain. It was a bottle of liquid and you would put like 15 drops under your tongue with the included dropped. It was like $5 and I figured it would be an interesting experiment and at worst I was out five bucks.
I tried the stuff and it did help the pain a little, but not because of any homeopathic qualities. The medication was suspended in alcohol. Vodka to be exact. So it actually dulled the pain a bit for that reason. My five bucks would have been better spent on a cheap bottle of Popov at the grocery store.
So the lesson I learned here is homeopathy doesn't work near as well as vodka.
This is the type of thing that NEEDS to be taken out and buried quietly in the back yard.
I have and I still think he has a good point. Linux has come a long way, a very long way. It is almost there... it tries so hard to be there. There being the point where it is as user friendly as Windows or Mac OS X. But it still falls short. I seriously think that the Linux GUI developers should take a long hard look at how Apple made UNIX usable to the novice. It would also be great if you could download your apps and either drag them to an applications folder, like on the Mac, or use an installer like on Windows that can handle pulling in the necessary objects to run it and doing the compiling, etc. Yes I know Ubuntu and Debian have Synaptic Package Manager and the like. It makes life a lot easier than manual compiles yet I still don't like it. I think the main problems with it is it's user interface which leave a lot to be desired and it is still very hard to find what I need in there sometimes, scrolling through a long long list of programs and libraries with gimmicky names that have no bearing as to what they actually do.
I'm not a big fan of how some items are categorized as well. I want to be able to play MP3 on my system. Where do I go? What do I install? There is still a lot of hunting around for manuals, help sites and guesswork involved for novices. I still can't get a proper DVD ripper to work and I spent days on that. So yeah, until Linux can overcome stuff like this, it isn't going to cut it for a large segment of the population.
If your reason for using this OS is it's visual looks, then maybe OS X would be better for you. Most of us don't care what it looks like. At work I put windows classic theme on just to cut out all the visual foreplay that slows down my work.
Hope you like soldering a cellular capable chipset and antenna to it because without that you won't be making any calls on it.
I need someone to join Scientology with me. This isn't a joke. P.O. Box 66666666666666666666666 Oakview, CA 93022. You'll get your credit cards returned when we get back. Must bring your own e-meter. I have only done this once before. Safety not guaranteed.
That is a $cientology front site you posted. They even use the same stupid font for their logo as all their other sites do.
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You see, 1,000,000 Jillion years ago, the evil alien overlord Xanus ruled the galaxy and a horrible plague of dysentery broke out among all of the populated planets. To eradicate the plague, he rounded up all sufferers of the plague and piled them into huge toilet bowl shaped vessels (see the Ori from Stargate, they stole the design from us and we will sue in internet court!!) and then dumped them into a huge septic tank he dug here on Earth. They died a horrible death in that pit and their souls came out and now cling to everyone elses souls on earth are all backed up leaving our spirits all gassy and bloated.
But have no fear... Sciencolonogy is here!
With our cutting edge soul plunging tech we can easily measure the brain to bowel flow of the bodies energies. By reading the life changing book Diarrhetics, written by our esteemed founder Elron Chubbard, you will learn how we can help you plunge your soul clear of these obstructive souls and allow your energies to flow freely. For a small fee of course. Your initiation will come with the first five pages of the book free and a free half roll of our patented toilet paper. If you run out, the free pages of the book should tide you over until you can get to one of our study centers to buy some more. Our study centers are fully stocked with everything you need, including newpapers, magazines and books, all for a nominal fee. Act now because we are having a special deal! You can get one hour in a stall with a door for the price of the ones that come without! Hurry, this offer won't last!
America's Al Qaida seems to be getting it's claws into Britain something fierce too. I just read about some police official hobnobbing with them at the opening of some building that they were able to build in London. And apparently even MP's were calling the reporter to complain about this piece the BBC is doing. I expect that the famously ruthless British tabloid press will be in there next now that there is blood in the water and nuclear war won't stop them from reporting on this.
But anyway, this video might look bad on the surface, but so far most people who watch it just say, "Oh well he blew his top in an emotionally charged argument. Who hasn't done that?" Scientology loves the cowardly attack the critic with lots of people and in lots of ways approach. They really are scared of exposure, yet they flaunt their wealth in their buildings and such. It's very odd and rather schizoid. In this case Scientology's attack the critic fails. Sometimes it works, but it fails in the following situations.
1. The critic has nothing to lose. His bosses won't fire him because they won't just take the word of creepy strangers calling them about the guy, and his neighbors could care less about his personal life.
2. The critic is well known or famous. This goes with the BBC reporter as well as say the guys who did south park.
3. The critic has already broken every taboo society has to offer. Again South Park. People already know the guys who make it are weird and so they just shrug at whatever story the Co$ shills make up about them.
In the first case, they are just wasting their time and money bothering the protesters. Most people don't pay attention to protesters anyway. They might stare a little as they go by, but most people have other business to be about and will forget the protest within five minutes of it being out of sight.
In the last two cases in particular, their tactics only make things worse for them. People see this reporter screaming and wonder, "Wow, what the hell got him so riled up?" Now they will be sure to go watch the program just to see what the controversy is. With South Park, the whole act of it being "banned" just made people want to go see it. Nothing inspires people to go do something more than to tell them it is forbidden, especially if the action is something that any reasonable person would find harmless. In this case, watching a show. Parker and Stone knew this when they did the episode. They knew this would happen. They counted on it. The whole row with Tom Cruise and the guy who did Chef and the episode being pulled after the first showing gave them more exposure than showing it at half time during the Super Bowl. They knew You Tube and a dozen other sites would host it, it would be on the torrents and there is no way it will ever vanish now. All of it is labeled "BANNED!" which is like putting lights and sirens on it. People see that word and will jump to watch or download it.
You know, the Catholic church learned this lesson a long time ago. I mean you used to have torture by the church to shut people up. Now they realize that only creates Martyrs and pushes dissent underground where they cannot see it or get at it. When Divinci Code came out as a movie, I saw an interview with a bishop who simply said, "We've learned that making a fuss only gets things like this more attention." The church was quiet and the movie came and went with really no noticeable impact on the church itself. Of course the Co$ is really just a criminal enterprise, but hey, even that requires some degree of being inconspicuous. That's why you don't see the Mob running businesses openly. You get too big and too loud, and you will see the 1930's happen all over again with these guys when the people get fed up and the government has to finally respond.
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Good lord, this is a terribly wrong statement! But then you probably don't know a lot about guns. It's ok, most people don't but I think it is something people should get educated on.
.22 and sit it next to a 30.06 round. The 30.06 round utterly dwarfs the .22. It's big, it's mean and it's bottle necked and the .22 is this little stubby looking thing in a tiny straight walled case. So it's not surprising that a lot of people totally underestimate the little .22.
.22 These are actually one of the bullets of choice of assassins. They are accurate, tend to fragment in a human target and have a deadly range of up to a mile or more and are easily silenced. The little .22 is nasty once it hits flesh. It tends to bounce around inside the body rather than go out the other end. Bounce off bone and leave bits of itself in organs. Tiny, hard to operate on bits. People think the bullet can't go far, you need to be close to kill someone etc, and that is why people are often careless with these, firing them without checking what is beyond their target. The .22 also loves to ricochet off of trees and take an unexpected path. A lot of firearms accidents happen this way, and the .22 is often the culprit when a rifle is the weapon involved in an accidental shooting.
.22 is not "that deadly" is a bad and could be a fatal mistake, for you or someone else. The VT shooter did use a .22 as well as a 9mm and he inflicted savage and fatal wounds with both weapons.
You can take a
This of course, is a big mistake. Never underestimate any bullet, least of all a
Now is it deadlier than a 30.06? That's debatable certainly, but to think that a
I'll add to this the fact that this guy didn't need a gun to kill. If no guns were available he most likely would have made a bomb instead.
And this is what happens when you sue people at random. You are likely to get grandmothers, little girls and even dead people. None of which is good press at all. Worse, it is only a matter of time before the RIAA picks on the wrong guy, like some psycho who will find one of their offices or affiliated law firms, march in with a rifle and have at it. Or worse.
Given their "win" record so far, which is mostly people who have settled, they are obviously not making any money compared to the cost of sending lawyers to every corner of the US to sue people at random. If I were a shareholder for the companies who fund and back the RIAA, I would be wondering why they are gambling with my money. Eventually they are going to come up snake eyes and there will be a big incident. And then they may start finding it hard to find lawyers willing to take on random cases for fear they will target the next nut.
As with people like Michael Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch for example, they are too rich for the laws to apply to them.
First off, if Hanson was following people home as some stated above, that hurts his case a bit, because it makes him no better than these people. But the real problem is in how he handled this court defeat.
Instead of running, he should have appealed it and got it up to a court that was not either stupid or somehow bought off by the Co$.
A higher court probably would have thrown out the case or declared a mistrial due to the irregularities of the initial trial. He might well have been free within weeks.
Instead he fled and made his case worse. All this, "I'm afraid they will kill me" is not a good excuse. If you are afraid of possibly being killed, you shouldn't be out messing with members of a criminal terrorist organization like this. This is America's Al Qaida we are dealing with after all. Best thing to do is to work in groups and just educate people from online. People do seem to be wising up to the Co$ and from what I understand, they have been shrinking in membership for some time now, especially since the internet has made it so easy to learn about how psycho and dangerous this organization is.
So yeah, this guy was better off taking a risk and going to prison and fighting it through appeals. It might well have brought a higher court down and even got the media involved in looking at the major irregularities in the original trial. More than likely, he would have gotten out of jail in 6 months if nothing else. I doubt the Co$ wanted to create another martyr like McPherson.
What about that dance where you jerk your thumbs about like in Seinfeld?
If they didn't do it correctly, then wouldn't that mean they DID NOT do the electric slide and at worse just made themselves look like an ass by doing it wrong? I don't think this guy has a leg to stand on here.
In case he does, how much does that guy who whacks people in the back of the knees charge anyway? I have some business for him. Break a leg indeed!
I doubt it will do much. Unmanned test rockets have gone there before and nothing bad happened.
I'd worry more about the people one board. Sounds like a good way to go up and come back sterile and ripe for having cancer later in life.
Normally the Earth's magnetic field protects us from the sun's charged particles and particles from space. Even the ISS and the shuttle still fly inside the field. The moon is outside it and Apollo astronauts did notice some radiation effects, such as seeing flashes of light when closing their eyes, caused by charged particles hitting their retinas and optic nerves.
However the Earth's magnetic field does concentrate the radiation in two areas, the near the north and south poles of the planet. So people flying on this ship could get a nasty dose of radiation flying up into this, especially if there is a solar flare remnant hitting the earth's magnetic field at the time. Granted I haven't seen anyt data on the radiation levels up there, but when dealing with radiation, you really want to protect yourself from any unnecessary exposure to high amounts of it. It may be that most people who go up there will be fine since it is a short duration. But there will still be a risk that one or more of them could be unlucky and wind up with cancer caused by this exposure.
The US government seems to be doing a fine job of just that.
Well keep in mind that most furs actually are fairly disgusted with the baby fur crowd and such. Some other other groups, like the 20 breasted vixen taurs, well we just kind of take it as being overly imaginative :) Thing is, the more out there elements are the ones who are the most easily noticed.
I personally haven't really had any problems with SL goons. I actually really enjoy the Second Life Safari. These guys haven't seen anything yet. I've seen some truly out there stuff on SL, and yes, I admit most of it was furry created. Like the giant vore armadillo I made on a lark.
I made a gigantic armadillo that stands halfway to the clouds. This thing has a full digestive system you can go through, including intestinal maze. Whenever I drop it somewhere, people come from all over the sim I'm on to look at it and inevitably, go through it. Within five minutes you will see this thing basically shitting avatars. It's really funny when the rear end loving crowd flies up there to stare at it and gets hit by people falling out of the intestinal maze. I really need to make a vid of this sometime, as it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
I wouldn't mind if the SL people came and made fun of it either. I mean that is why I made it, just for amusement purposes. There's really not point in getting upset over it. Which is what makes this whole Anshe thing so sad.
You know, as easy as SL is to copy people (I've made George Bush, the Shredder from TMNT and others)... someone could make an Anshe look alike and do fucked up things to it just to piss her off. Of course then she will have to trademark her looks, thus banning all Asian women from Second Life forever.
No kidding. I mean really who cares? That and from what I understand she lives in GERMANY, not the US. Isn't invoking the DMCA, a US law as a German citizen a little, well, useless? Or is it because the Second Life servers are in the US?
I was present back when Anshe pulled some nasty underhandedness with some a group of "furries" and removed all their content from an area they rented from her for disagreeing with her. This sparked a full on second life riot in the said area.
Hillarity ensued."
You know Anshe wouldn't get this treatment is she wasn't such a stuck up shark who abuses her position. No one has a problem with her being a business woman. The real problem is her attitude and her bad business practices.
I'd highly recommend that people simply stop renting from her, because the true cost (her attitude and DMCA crap like this) is really not worth it.
In every single black friday ad I got in the mail and paper and went through, Best Buy, Circuit City, Walmart, etc, not one bothered to even mention the Zune for my local stores. Most of them had the iPod on page one or two or in the hot gifts section. Their displays are kind of sad little things next to the area full of iPod gear and accessories and of course the iPod itself. One of the stores had more space for Sandisk players than the Zune. It would seem even some retailers know this is probably just going to be an expensive side shelf paperweight.
As for the iPod, the local grocery store now carries the iPod and accessories back in the TV and Game aisle and the corner gas station had shuffles for sale next to the compact flash cards, aimed at travelers and vacationers. You just don't get more pervasive than that. Until the Zune can even near this and can branch out into other small flash based devices as well, Microsoft just isn't going anywhere with it.
Actually, Japan has a large and highly advanced military still. It is constrained by their constitution for defensive purposes. That could change very quickly as they can do as they wish with their constitution now and have been slowly pushing the US out of Japan militarily, asking us to close bases, which we have done to save money. The fact they are mulling their own atomic bomb now shows just how bad things are. WWII happened long ago, but they still have the stark reminders of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So for Japan to mull their own nukes and not set off a riot in the streets shows how tense the situation between them and North Korea has become.
North Korea may have nukes now, but how many? I doubt more than a handfull. If we struck pre-emptively with our own nukes, even small tac-nukes on military sites, we could probably cripple them so they couldn't launch even one. The danger then would be nukes left in a large city and detonated once we rolled in militarily. The North Korean government would have no qualms about killing their own people just to get back at us if they were losing a war.
The best bet may be a quick and decisive decapitation strike against their leadership.
Um nice piece of FUD there.
You make it sound like people bought new machines that could not run the latest OS. A machine that cost $1500 back in 2000, no it can't run a 2005/2006 release of an OS. My G4 mac is from 2002 and it runs the latest Mac OS just fine and will also run Leopard just fine when it comes out next year. After that, well, that is up in the air but only if they cut off PowerPC support. Besides, by then it will be hopelessly obselete anyway. A computer I bought NOW would probably run the next 5 major releases of OS X... easy. And it would cost a lot less than this thing did back in 2002.
Also the iMac models you reference have not been sold for almost four years. It makes me wonder how long you have been out of circulation.