People should also understand that spam like anything else is a business,
Wrong assertion, businesses aren't alike whatever pro-capitalist people are going to pretend. Selling flowers to the public, for example, doesn't, usually , nurture hate, anger and whatever the spam fashion is brewing these days.
be realistic for a minute here
I'm as realistic as anyone else and personally can't see any facts in your post. Perhaps i should read between the lines or something... ( hmmm wonder what's your day job. )
Does anyone protest when the menu guys flood your doorstep? No...
Wrong again. See that sign on my door. It says NO FSCKIN FLYERS! Better not ask for any reading lessons, i have strong tendency to act violently towards illiterate dumb fscks.
What about when Target or some other megaconglomerate sends bs in the mail that you didn't ask for?
They don't do that anymore. Not in my country. In what country do you live in ? Texas ?;-P ( what's Target anyways, lol.. )
Spam is no different.
Sheesh, this is getting pathetic. Did you ever get 1000+ flyers on your doorstep or in your mail box? I doubt it. It couldn't simply fit or it would be a great risk of fire. Imagine a couple kids passing in front of your house.
Now, if i would be running a business everyone hates and i would be told not to run it anymore by a huge majority of society... I would quit. DUH! So what's your point ? Well, i ain't high tonight and i can say i didn't understand what's the point you are trying to make. Anyways.. It was sure fun to reply.
In other news, the movie industry blames people for not being influenced by lame brain washing 'marketing' technics anymore. They report that their latest profit maximization technics have been unsuccessful because of their targetted audience's inherent ability to judge a movie by its content.
This is ridiculous, outrageous, and personally, if I hear anyone arguing in favor of that argument near my place, i'm going to... ( very atrocious act )... his ass.
Someday, the word 'American' is going to replace the word 'Moron' in the Webster for real. People, please make sure this doesn't happen. ( Castrate the idiots living in Hollywood )
Arthur: I mean what's the point? Machine: Nutrition and pleasurable sense data. Share and Enjoy. Arthur: Listen you stupid machine, it tastes filthy! Here take this cup back! Machine: If you have enjoyed the experience of this drink, why not share it with your friends. Arthur: Because i want to keep them. Will you try and comprehend what i'm telling you? That drink.. Machine: That drink was individually tailored to meet your personnal requirements for nutrition and pleasure. Arthur: Ahh! So I'm a masochist on diet am I ? Machine: Share and enjoy! Arthur: Oh! Shut up! Machine: Will that be all ? Arthur: Yes! No look! It's very very simple, all I want.. Are you listening? Machine: Yes. Arthur: Is a cup of tea. Got that ? Machine: I hear. Arthur: Good and you know why i want a cup of tea? Machine: Please wait.. Arthur: What ? Machine: Computing.. Arthur: What are you doing ? Machine: Attempting to calculate answer to your question, why you want dry leaves in boiling water. Arthur: Because I happen to like it, that's why. Machine: Stated reason does not compute with program facts. Arthur: What are you talking about ? Ventillation: You heard. Arthur: What? Who said that? Ventillation: The ventillation system, you had a go at me yesterday. Arthur: Yes, because you keep filling the air with cheap perfum. Ventillation: You like scented air, it's fresh and invigorating. Arthur: No I do not!...
I'm going to start this by smoothly, under the cover of darkness, light up this legitimate cigarette over here.
Now, there is something we must discuss. It's about your recent caffeine consumption. It seems to have gone up a little. What? You say you don't want to sleep anymore ? Hmmm i can see by the looks you haven't slept for a long time.. What you say ? Some strangers are stealing everyone else's credit identity and you think they might be after you ? And so you stay awake in order to protect your identity.
How peculiar. I guess a little of paranoia never hurt anymore. Personally i don't find numbers coming from 'Some government officials' to be very reliable and even if they were, it still doesn't impress me at all. Ask yourself how many people in North America report their wallet stolen in a year? Twice those numbers? Maybe 10 times higher? How many people actually recover their wallet with all the content and are not victims of identity theft? Yet no one is alarmed at the obvious lack of security a wallet provides.
IMHO taking more precautions because of some alarmist numbers thrown by the medias does not spell the word wisdom.
Now light up that cone so we can relax a bit. Thanks;-)
Not pure as in making money out of something or not, but more pure as in no dead lines, no ridiculous marketing requirements and no wacko specifications made by total tech ignorants. 'Pure' as in the players are playing the work of the developpers and not some digested products from an all-star publishing team.
I don't think i could possibly go down to Dell's workshop and say: "Well hello buddys, you know that windows you are installing on my rig ? Please leave it out and give me a 200$ rebate." That simply doesn't work ( I could be wrong ), and building your own laptop is out of the question. I'd be glad to know if that's any close to possible for an ordinary consumer, but i doubt it.
I used to be a big MMORPG player a year ago approx. I quitted this way of life when i got tired of seeing people with better wallets and the will to spend favored by the companies maintaining these games. Since then, i vowed never to spend a single buck on a game that wouldn't restrict the players' investments with a strict rule set and/or an environment which favors strict investments from its community. I guess the less time you spend on the game, the more incline you will be to buy those bits on Ebay, then shame on you for not playing fairly. If you want to become a baseball player, will you go buy your freakin stats to be recruited in MLB? Do you think good quake players bought their fame out of some black box? Frankly, i wish Online RPG games wouldn't be the exception in the gaming world, but they are. Why? Cause they're freakin money cows, that's why..
Kids, this isn't how life goes so don't reply the usual: ".. it's life bla bla bla.. i'm a stupid kid who doesn't understand shit.." ok? Thanks.;-) ( Got tired of that answer already also )
Call it a troll if you want, i just trust benchmarks as much as i trust political surveys. IOW both of those are only tools for the people who publish them, not for the people who are actually reading them ( Sadly, there was time when that wasn't so true... not anymore. )
Anyways, i wouldn't buy an FX ultra, because of the 2 slots you have to give it. Yeah that's kinda BS and also is a good sign of design flaw. Aside for that minor detail, i would, like always, trust the products from Nvidia. I've never had any problems with those, they always gave me very good performances and are painless to install. I can't say the same thing for ATI products. I have a big list of frustating memories from ATI and their open source drivers aren't good enough to clear that list. In fact these drivers are a fsckin PITA and i still can't make them work with the DRI under gentoo.
Guess what? The nvidia drivers do not require the DRI. Woot! Guess what? The nvidia drivers only take 5 secs to install and work. Guess what? The drivers are closed source and i don't give a #$!%#@. ( yeah that kind of thinking usually ends up costing me 100$ more... oh well can't have everything.. )
I remember surfing the SWG official site a couple of months ago and, while reading the FAQ at this time, I suddenly realized that this game was going to suck like hell! The expansion they now seem to market with the personnal starfighter and etc.. wasn't going to happen like this. The expansion would introduce only personnal planetary vehicles and travel ships from which you buy a ticket, sit down and enjoy the ride.
So ? Is this a marketing move with false promises ? Or, could it be that Lucas realized no one would ever play a Star Wars game without the X-wings and Tie Fighters everyone loved in the previous Star Wars games. No matter what it is, if i'm a dev and i hear my boss say that the expansion will have to offer the star fighting feature, and that wasn't expected a couple of months ago, i'm either a very good developper for cutting down dev time or i'm already searching for a new job.
IOW: I'll believe it when i see it and i will play it only when starships with multiplayer crews are available. Going for anything less, would be a lack of respect for the Star Wars universe IMHO.
Seriously, any other country in the world would have found such proposition to be serious madness. Criminals have rights because they are humans like everyone else. Destroying someone's property for the sake of 'justice' ( the author doesn't think copyright enforcement is justice at all. ) isn't justifiable and arguable. Any civilized nation in the world doesn't allow the state to destroy, steal or commit any other criminal act against perpetrator of such crimes because crimes only generates crime. ( the ole saying: fighting evil with evil only generates more evil.. that's not a bold statement at all. )
Makes me think of the jokes in the Robocop movies where car thieves are executed right on the spot by electrical discharge. That wasn't serious at all you know, and it was directly aimed to laugh at people like Sen. Hatch, who obviously are sponsoring the concept of the police state for the ole mighty $.
This guy ( Sen. Hatch ) is the perfect example of a real DUMB ASS AMERICAN WITH A TIN CAN FOR A BRAIN! Please, next election, vote for the sane people. Anyways with the economy totally drowning because of those idiots on capital hill, i don't think the next elections are going to worry the world very much. ( The author does think that some americans are civilized, well educated and capable of working in a equal and free society. )
I find the fact that the AC's post is rated 5 (Insightful) very suspicious since it says "dick woo".
What do you mean Insightful ? Insightful how ? How are you insightful ? You mean insightful like you're a journalist? Do you make us learn anything ? Do you bring anything to the table ?
If you can't find a game with these criteria on store shelves, you are BLIND! Worst, i don't think these will get the ban. Makes me wonder WTH are those people smoking. ( must be a lot more potent than what i use )
The only terrorists operating in the USA imo are the ones running the country, iow the lobbying corporations. Criminals are the ones employed by such entities and involved in obvious criminal actions. How do you call employees of such entities who are not involved in criminal actions ?.. Ignorants ? Sheeps ? Dolls ? Workers perhaps...
Personnaly i don't think there's ever going to be a pacific exit to the USA problems. The problem resides within the application of the "Democracy" philosophy and it started wrong.
Forgive my ignorance, but is there any advantages in buying the special edition DVD, when we know there's a Uber special edition box set scheduled for next year? That is what i remember reading from some press release sometime ago, i may be wrong.
IMO you'll get less for your money if you buy each individual special edtion DVDs. ( Just a thought )
Do you really know what it means for a company to invest in a java oriented platform ? It means, at least, 20 times the cost of a system running OS software.
What kind of platform do you think most cellular companies run on ? ( Java )
Where do you think most cellular companies will be in a couple of years if they don't start listening to people in jeans and not the suits ? In history books.
Software companies should be legally responsible for any non-public code they release as software even if the damage is caused because of missing patches. Thus, encouraging companies to pay extreme attention to the security/reliability of their software, which they should do anyways. This would also discouraged some of them from using the "Oh well, we'll patch it, when someone finds it" philosophy.
Publicly released software is maintained by the public and released by the public, meaning any kind of legal responsability should be avoided. Thus encouraging the Open Source movement, the education of the general public and the free circulation of academic information, which was the primary goal of the Internet after it's birth from the ARPANET project. The possibility of having security flaws/bugs should always be considered by the users of such software as a disavantage towards using private code. ( Since they can sue for any damage resulting from such flaws )
This is an idealistic view of the problem, however IMHO I think more and more people are going to consider a derivative of this in the next few years.
First error mankind ever made: judge the book by its cover. Last error mankind will ever made: judge the darn book by its cover.
This vehicle looks pretty, but it is also higher than large with a very weak center of gravity. I wonder how this thing would behave under heavy winds.
One of the most stable and all road vehicle is renown to be the Hummer. As I recall it, this vehicle is also very large compared to its height, thus making its center of gravity very strong and providing the vehicle extreme stability in all conditions.
This one looks like a... modern work of art. Modern arts usually degrade faster than ancient ones;)
[insert sig here]
What??? That guy can't be serious...
on
The Drone War
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· Score: 1
Drone Wars might not appear so terrible. They might even become irresistible.
Mechanized war will never ever stop human casualties, it will only make things worst. Who the hell do you think would manufacture, design, and operate these piece of machinery. Humans! So how do you stop an enemy nation from sending legions of robots to your door? You kill the humans that manufacture, design and operate them.
Meaning what ? Meaning a drone war would probably be the most vicious type of war ever practice on the face of this planet. Civilians would become the primary targets!!!!!! Not some stupid single robot in some warfield.
Add to this that we would probably consume the earth's ressources 100 times faster to feed the battle grounds, which we would not even care about anymore. The only winner would be the last robot standing. Truly this looks a LOT LIKE A CERTAIN T2 movie...
The only worthwhile war ( If that truly exists ) is the one involving a battle field of humans with swords, shields and basic weaponry. This way you get to see who is really the best fighters. Ok it's gory, there is blood everywhere, and it may look more violent than just a guy pushing a little red button to drop a nuke, but IT DOESN'T KILL MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS. ( Obviously nuking hiroshima was a great technological advance that probably killed more innocents than the crusades did.)
Believe me my friends, technology has only made war worst. The idea that technological war would be better could have only come from a really fuckin dumb ass!.
Now i understand why many people hate Kats! He's an idiot. End of Story.
Piracy is done mainly because software isn't cheap and usually costs a lot. How much do you think 3DS costs? I'm not talking about educational crap here ( as in stripped down of what's really interresting about the software ). Further more, how much do you think the licence of 3DS costs. It is freakin expansive for anybody that doesn't own a business. Now think about how many applications graphic designers have on their machines, total the cost of these and you'll see why piracy is so popular. It is simple, piracy is done because software costs a lot for anybody that doesn't have a 5 digits salary ( even with that it is still expansive ).
The only way to stop piracy is through open source and "free as in beer" software. Har!;) This seems drastic, but it is the only to stop it. I don't picture the scare tactics of the "federal bureau of intimidation" making any difference on the warez trades. Believe it hasn't changed a single thing:)
People still copy what can be copied and that will never ever change! Anybody got his balls busted for copying tapes a few years ago, I don't think so. So now they have no means to stop the copying and they revert to the most coward mean of enforcing the law.
"Don't do this, or i'll go to your place, kick your ass and make your life a nightmare..."
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Wrong assertion, businesses aren't alike whatever pro-capitalist people are going to pretend. Selling flowers to the public, for example, doesn't, usually , nurture hate, anger and whatever the spam fashion is brewing these days.
be realistic for a minute here
I'm as realistic as anyone else and personally can't see any facts in your post. Perhaps i should read between the lines or something... ( hmmm wonder what's your day job. )
Does anyone protest when the menu guys flood your doorstep? No...
Wrong again. See that sign on my door. It says NO FSCKIN FLYERS! Better not ask for any reading lessons, i have strong tendency to act violently towards illiterate dumb fscks.
What about when Target or some other megaconglomerate sends bs in the mail that you didn't ask for?
They don't do that anymore. Not in my country. In what country do you live in ? Texas ?
Spam is no different.
Sheesh, this is getting pathetic. Did you ever get 1000+ flyers on your doorstep or in your mail box? I doubt it. It couldn't simply fit or it would be a great risk of fire. Imagine a couple kids passing in front of your house.
Now, if i would be running a business everyone hates and i would be told not to run it anymore by a huge majority of society... I would quit. DUH! So what's your point ? Well, i ain't high tonight and i can say i didn't understand what's the point you are trying to make. Anyways.. It was sure fun to reply.
Two words: F...IN MORONS!
... ( very atrocious act ) ... his ass.
In other news, the movie industry blames people for not being influenced by lame brain washing 'marketing' technics anymore. They report that their latest profit maximization technics have been unsuccessful because of their targetted audience's inherent ability to judge a movie by its content.
This is ridiculous, outrageous, and personally, if I hear anyone arguing in favor of that argument near my place, i'm going to
Someday, the word 'American' is going to replace the word 'Moron' in the Webster for real. People, please make sure this doesn't happen. ( Castrate the idiots living in Hollywood )
Arthur: I mean what's the point? .. ...
;-)
Machine: Nutrition and pleasurable sense data. Share and Enjoy.
Arthur: Listen you stupid machine, it tastes filthy! Here take this cup back!
Machine: If you have enjoyed the experience of this drink, why not share it with your friends.
Arthur: Because i want to keep them. Will you try and comprehend what i'm telling you? That drink..
Machine: That drink was individually tailored to meet your personnal requirements for nutrition and pleasure.
Arthur: Ahh! So I'm a masochist on diet am I ?
Machine: Share and enjoy!
Arthur: Oh! Shut up!
Machine: Will that be all ?
Arthur: Yes! No look! It's very very simple, all I want.. Are you listening?
Machine: Yes.
Arthur: Is a cup of tea. Got that ?
Machine: I hear.
Arthur: Good and you know why i want a cup of tea?
Machine: Please wait..
Arthur: What ?
Machine: Computing
Arthur: What are you doing ?
Machine: Attempting to calculate answer to your question, why you want dry leaves in boiling water.
Arthur: Because I happen to like it, that's why.
Machine: Stated reason does not compute with program facts.
Arthur: What are you talking about ?
Ventillation: You heard.
Arthur: What? Who said that?
Ventillation: The ventillation system, you had a go at me yesterday.
Arthur: Yes, because you keep filling the air with cheap perfum.
Ventillation: You like scented air, it's fresh and invigorating.
Arthur: No I do not!
Seriously! No thanks
Look man ;-)
;-)
I'm going to start this by smoothly, under the cover of darkness, light up this legitimate cigarette over here.
Now, there is something we must discuss. It's about your recent caffeine consumption. It seems to have gone up a little. What? You say you don't want to sleep anymore ? Hmmm i can see by the looks you haven't slept for a long time.. What you say ? Some strangers are stealing everyone else's credit identity and you think they might be after you ? And so you stay awake in order to protect your identity.
How peculiar. I guess a little of paranoia never hurt anymore. Personally i don't find numbers coming from 'Some government officials' to be very reliable and even if they were, it still doesn't impress me at all. Ask yourself how many people in North America report their wallet stolen in a year? Twice those numbers? Maybe 10 times higher? How many people actually recover their wallet with all the content and are not victims of identity theft? Yet no one is alarmed at the obvious lack of security a wallet provides.
IMHO taking more precautions because of some alarmist numbers thrown by the medias does not spell the word wisdom.
Now light up that cone so we can relax a bit. Thanks
Not pure as in making money out of something or not, but more pure as in no dead lines, no ridiculous marketing requirements and no wacko specifications made by total tech ignorants. 'Pure' as in the players are playing the work of the developpers and not some digested products from an all-star publishing team.
That's how i understood the remark.
Hum what if you are buying a laptop ?
I don't think i could possibly go down to Dell's workshop and say: "Well hello buddys, you know that windows you are installing on my rig ? Please leave it out and give me a 200$ rebate." That simply doesn't work ( I could be wrong ), and building your own laptop is out of the question. I'd be glad to know if that's any close to possible for an ordinary consumer, but i doubt it.
I used to be a big MMORPG player a year ago approx. I quitted this way of life when i got tired of seeing people with better wallets and the will to spend favored by the companies maintaining these games. Since then, i vowed never to spend a single buck on a game that wouldn't restrict the players' investments with a strict rule set and/or an environment which favors strict investments from its community. I guess the less time you spend on the game, the more incline you will be to buy those bits on Ebay, then shame on you for not playing fairly. If you want to become a baseball player, will you go buy your freakin stats to be recruited in MLB? Do you think good quake players bought their fame out of some black box? Frankly, i wish Online RPG games wouldn't be the exception in the gaming world, but they are. Why? Cause they're freakin money cows, that's why..
.. i'm a stupid kid who doesn't understand shit.." ok? Thanks. ;-)
Kids, this isn't how life goes so don't reply the usual: ".. it's life bla bla bla
( Got tired of that answer already also )
But I just dont see any notebooks in the market with Nvidia graphic cards
Look harder buddy:
Dell Inspiron 8500 ( Look in the list you can customize one with a GeForce 4 4200 Go )
Toshiba Satellite 5205 ( This one has the latest mobile Nvidia card. A little bit heavier than the Dell though and only supports 802.11b )
Enjoy!
Call it a troll if you want, i just trust benchmarks as much as i trust political surveys. IOW both of those are only tools for the people who publish them, not for the people who are actually reading them ( Sadly, there was time when that wasn't so true... not anymore. )
Anyways, i wouldn't buy an FX ultra, because of the 2 slots you have to give it. Yeah that's kinda BS and also is a good sign of design flaw. Aside for that minor detail, i would, like always, trust the products from Nvidia. I've never had any problems with those, they always gave me very good performances and are painless to install. I can't say the same thing for ATI products. I have a big list of frustating memories from ATI and their open source drivers aren't good enough to clear that list. In fact these drivers are a fsckin PITA and i still can't make them work with the DRI under gentoo.
Guess what? The nvidia drivers do not require the DRI. Woot! Guess what? The nvidia drivers only take 5 secs to install and work. Guess what? The drivers are closed source and i don't give a #$!%#@. ( yeah that kind of thinking usually ends up costing me 100$ more... oh well can't have everything.. )
I remember surfing the SWG official site a couple of months ago and, while reading the FAQ at this time, I suddenly realized that this game was going to suck like hell! The expansion they now seem to market with the personnal starfighter and etc.. wasn't going to happen like this. The expansion would introduce only personnal planetary vehicles and travel ships from which you buy a ticket, sit down and enjoy the ride.
So ? Is this a marketing move with false promises ? Or, could it be that Lucas realized no one would ever play a Star Wars game without the X-wings and Tie Fighters everyone loved in the previous Star Wars games. No matter what it is, if i'm a dev and i hear my boss say that the expansion will have to offer the star fighting feature, and that wasn't expected a couple of months ago, i'm either a very good developper for cutting down dev time or i'm already searching for a new job.
IOW: I'll believe it when i see it and i will play it only when starships with multiplayer crews are available. Going for anything less, would be a lack of respect for the Star Wars universe IMHO.
Seriously, any other country in the world would have found such proposition to be serious madness. Criminals have rights because they are humans like everyone else. Destroying someone's property for the sake of 'justice' ( the author doesn't think copyright enforcement is justice at all. ) isn't justifiable and arguable. Any civilized nation in the world doesn't allow the state to destroy, steal or commit any other criminal act against perpetrator of such crimes because crimes only generates crime. ( the ole saying: fighting evil with evil only generates more evil.. that's not a bold statement at all. )
Makes me think of the jokes in the Robocop movies where car thieves are executed right on the spot by electrical discharge. That wasn't serious at all you know, and it was directly aimed to laugh at people like Sen. Hatch, who obviously are sponsoring the concept of the police state for the ole mighty $.
This guy ( Sen. Hatch ) is the perfect example of a real DUMB ASS AMERICAN WITH A TIN CAN FOR A BRAIN! Please, next election, vote for the sane people. Anyways with the economy totally drowning because of those idiots on capital hill, i don't think the next elections are going to worry the world very much. ( The author does think that some americans are civilized, well educated and capable of working in a equal and free society. )
I find the fact that the AC's post is rated 5 (Insightful) very suspicious since it says "dick woo".
What do you mean Insightful ?
Insightful how ?
How are you insightful ?
You mean insightful like you're a journalist?
Do you make us learn anything ?
Do you bring anything to the table ?
No, get lost! Thanks.
Players: Law Enforcement Officials.
Goals:
Rating: Teen.
If you can't find a game with these criteria on store shelves, you are BLIND! Worst, i don't think these will get the ban.
Makes me wonder WTH are those people smoking. ( must be a lot more potent than what i use )
The only terrorists operating in the USA imo are the ones running the country, iow the lobbying corporations. Criminals are the ones employed by such entities and involved in obvious criminal actions. How do you call employees of such entities who are not involved in criminal actions ? .. Ignorants ? Sheeps ? Dolls ? Workers perhaps...
Personnaly i don't think there's ever going to be a pacific exit to the USA problems. The problem resides within the application of the "Democracy" philosophy and it started wrong.
my 2 cents, not meant as a flame..
Forgive my ignorance, but is there any advantages in buying the special edition DVD, when we know there's a Uber special edition box set scheduled for next year? That is what i remember reading from some press release sometime ago, i may be wrong.
IMO you'll get less for your money if you buy each individual special edtion DVDs. ( Just a thought )
Java.
Do you really know what it means for a company to invest in a java oriented platform ? It means, at least, 20 times the cost of a system running OS software.
What kind of platform do you think most cellular companies run on ? ( Java )
Where do you think most cellular companies will be in a couple of years if they don't start listening to people in jeans and not the suits ? In history books.
Enough said, i said it too many times anyways...
It can also be found here:
t ernetnews&StoryID=753053
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=in
Software companies should be legally responsible for any non-public code they release as software even if the damage is caused because of missing patches. Thus, encouraging companies to pay extreme attention to the security/reliability of their software, which they should do anyways. This would also discouraged some of them from using the "Oh well, we'll patch it, when someone finds it" philosophy.
Publicly released software is maintained by the public and released by the public, meaning any kind of legal responsability should be avoided. Thus encouraging the Open Source movement, the education of the general public and the free circulation of academic information, which was the primary goal of the Internet after it's birth from the ARPANET project. The possibility of having security flaws/bugs should always be considered by the users of such software as a disavantage towards using private code.
( Since they can sue for any damage resulting from such flaws )
This is an idealistic view of the problem, however IMHO I think more and more people are going to consider a derivative of this in the next few years.
First error mankind ever made: judge the book by its cover.
Last error mankind will ever made: judge the darn book by its cover.
Um hello!? You do not need to ask questions to anyone when doing an hostile takeover, therefor you can cover up what the ... you want.
;)
And for the record, IANAL. ( Meaning, I could be wrong
Or they can just move to anonymous ftp sites... ...
Or they can always trade cds by snail mail...
Or they can always trade thru icq, im, etc...
Or
The end will always justify the means...
This vehicle looks pretty, but it is also higher than large with a very weak center of gravity. I wonder how this thing would behave under heavy winds.
... modern work of art. Modern arts usually degrade faster than ancient ones ;)
One of the most stable and all road vehicle is renown to be the Hummer. As I recall it, this vehicle is also very large compared to its height, thus making its center of gravity very strong and providing the vehicle extreme stability in all conditions.
This one looks like a
[insert sig here]
Drone Wars might not appear so terrible. They might even become irresistible.
Mechanized war will never ever stop human casualties, it will only make things worst. Who the hell do you think would manufacture, design, and operate these piece of machinery. Humans! So how do you stop an enemy nation from sending legions of robots to your door? You kill the humans that manufacture, design and operate them.
Meaning what ? Meaning a drone war would probably be the most vicious type of war ever practice on the face of this planet. Civilians would become the primary targets!!!!!! Not some stupid single robot in some warfield.
Add to this that we would probably consume the earth's ressources 100 times faster to feed the battle grounds, which we would not even care about anymore. The only winner would be the last robot standing. Truly this looks a LOT LIKE A CERTAIN T2 movie...
The only worthwhile war ( If that truly exists ) is the one involving a battle field of humans with swords, shields and basic weaponry. This way you get to see who is really the best fighters. Ok it's gory, there is blood everywhere, and it may look more violent than just a guy pushing a little red button to drop a nuke, but IT DOESN'T KILL MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS. ( Obviously nuking hiroshima was a great technological advance that probably killed more innocents than the crusades did.)
Believe me my friends, technology has only made war worst. The idea that technological war would be better could have only come from a really fuckin dumb ass!.
Now i understand why many people hate Kats! He's an idiot. End of Story.
The pen is stronger than the sword...
Don't ask why it's the first thing that came to my mind. (ROFL)
Think about it: Sex... Machine...
Laughter usually generates laughter... I said usually!
You consider a little daemon an animal ?
;) too much drugs...
mmm Too much drugs dude
LOL.
Piracy is done mainly because software isn't cheap and usually costs a lot. How much do you think 3DS costs? I'm not talking about educational crap here ( as in stripped down of what's really interresting about the software ). Further more, how much do you think the licence of 3DS costs. It is freakin expansive for anybody that doesn't own a business. Now think about how many applications graphic designers have on their machines, total the cost of these and you'll see why piracy is so popular. It is simple, piracy is done because software costs a lot for anybody that doesn't have a 5 digits salary ( even with that it is still expansive ).
;) This seems drastic, but it is the only to stop it. I don't picture the scare tactics of the "federal bureau of intimidation" making any difference on the warez trades. Believe it hasn't changed a single thing :)
The only way to stop piracy is through open source and "free as in beer" software. Har!
People still copy what can be copied and that will never ever change! Anybody got his balls busted for copying tapes a few years ago, I don't think so. So now they have no means to stop the copying and they revert to the most coward mean of enforcing the law.
"Don't do this, or i'll go to your place, kick your ass and make your life a nightmare..."
Anyone wants an ISO of Hitman ?