Usually when I play games (only applies to online anyway...) I don't even *know* the sex of the people on the other side.
I found out one time by basically being slapped in the face by nearly everyone that the person I was railing continuously in quake3 was a woman. Alright, I guess railing was a bad term.. using the rail-gun on in massive quantities. I don't go out of my way to find out if a person is male or female.. I don't know why they did.
Seems like everyone wanted to play different with her, because she had a different set of genitals.
Seriously though, what's wrong with people having morals?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with people having morals. We all have them! Since when was pr0n deemed immoral? Some might object to it, but that is only because they have a different set of living standards, and a very different moral grounding. Most of those individuals are known as conservatives.
Pornography is something that is going to be around, and helps many individuals. There are the occasional FREAKS like my cousin who live,breathe,sleep pornography, but they are the exception. (33 years old, you'd figure he'd get sick of it by now, or at least not make a screensaver/background/theme out of it while mixed company is around..) Sex isn't bad... the examples you've given are criminal and/or life-inhibiting things. The last I checked, pornography wasn't criminal nor was it life-inhibiting.
This whole thing about "it's not in the bill of rights or constitution, so you don't have that right!" is getting old. It reminds me of a (lame) joke me and my friend made in High School. Everyone always tried finding ways around school rules, so we joked about a "never-ending commandments" list that would replace the 10-commandments in the bible if it was written today on Mt. Zion LOL.
Thou shall not chew on priests Thou shall not spit on priests Thou shall not chew on the Pew (sp) Thou shall not spit on the Pew (sp) Thou shall not curse loudly when visiting Jesus in heaven Thou shall not masturbate while visiting Jesus in heaven Thou shall not masturburate while listening to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" while visiting Jesus in heaven Thou shall not chew on Jesus while visiting Jesus in heaven Thou shall not chew on Jesus while bouncing on leg while visiting Jesus in heaven
(... ad nauseum)
It's just yet another example of people being childish in todays world it seems. "well, uhh umm.. you didn't make a LAW saying we couldn't do that!"
Where are we going to start this new empire? The only way america was formed was by colonizing another country already inhabited and slaughtering it's civilians. Oh, nevermind.. we have Iraq.:)
1. MS bows to public pressure against encrypted recording
2. MS releases recording software
3. Public finds huge gaping security hole / bug in software
4. MS releases SP1 containing, you guessed it, encryption software for recording
5. Public is left with three options
* Patch up to the encrypted version
* Leave their system open
* Find some new software
I donno.. Sony may have a bad rap from some of their moves, but all in all I have to say that they are a good company. They've been seeing how far they can flex their arms recently, but other than that they're pretty decent.
Well, the rendering engine *is* mozilla, there isn't any defference between the two in that respect. I would have to say it's either a problem with the mozilla code at that moment (it's not using "stable" code...) or a problem with your setup. I'd opt for the earlier, considering even they said any rendering problems are from mozilla's codebase.
Would have been kinda cool to see an Internet Array:P "Daddy, whats that light on the horizon?" "why, Suzan, that's the Global Internet Array! Do you see that brighter dot with all the beams of light going into it like a bicycle wheel? That's the new interplanetary communications grid. Soon, when Mommy gets to the MLA (Martian Lander Acquisition), she'll call us and you'll get to see her once the array lines up! She has her meeting in 6 hours, so she should be landing any moment!"
How am I supposed to accept data from a source that also says that the energy fields (and earth, because they coincide) was created 6,000 years ago?
Unless the remains that my father dug out of the ground at Madeira (sp?) Beach, Florida are from very large reptilian creatures that are carbon dated incorrectly and actually co-existed with mankind within that time. I highly doubt that, considering the basic law of decomposition.
No... the freshwater would not be as dense as salt water. The salt adds density to the water, and adds to it's ability to drop when it gets colder. (without freezing, because of the salt content)
The sudden density increase from the temperatures added to the already high density due to the salt content makes it sink, causing a "vacuum" effect. I don't think just from my experience with freshwater that such a thing could happen with freshwater. At least not to such an extent.
though, your bringing in the variable of the animal life changing in the waters makes me think a bit on how that would also effect the whole chain of events. Thanks for bringing that up.
Eh, the way I see it is pretty simple. We can burn, dump, do whatever we want! It isn't going to do anything in the long run. Once we finally ruin the entire world for our usage, and we finally have no other resources to survive, we just die off. Once we die off, everything goes back to normal, and life brings itself into bloom again.
I wish our body could get rid of our forms of cancer as easily as the earth can.
As much as I hate to say it, I have to side with you on this one. I was just at Fry's Electronics today to pick up a printer and started using one of the OSX boxes over there. Oh my lord, it was soo nice, and came with everything you'd ever want. It had a huge flatscreen monitor with it, also... for 2400 dollars, which is a damn good deal. Tack on another 200 and you can grab that thingee el gator or whatever sells that can turn an Apple into a full fledge Tivo/DVD recorder. (RCA/RF in)
I run a P4-1.8ghz right now, but I have a feeling the next computer I get will definately be an Apple. They've just changed so much over the years that I can't help but to love them now.
Now only to get used to OSX's wierdnesses. (Every OS has them, just every one of them have different weirdnesses)
It's fairly easy it seems... I run windows on my other partition in order to play games and I sometimes download stuff and run it on there. One app got installed and I don't even know how! but it kept redirecting internet explorer to it's search engine. And I didn't even go to a porn site =)
I would have expected that from a porn site, but just an ordinary site is another story. Of course it is win2K... Just from studying the computer afterwards, it looks like all it does is replace dlls. Just by installing the software, you give it admin privs.
why should we stop diseases from entering your country? Let's just abolish the border patrol personnel and let things go back and forth freely. At least until you change your mind a little:)
yeah, because you can't defend yourself properly, might as well let someone else do it for you. You're just a lowly citizen who knows nothing about self-defense, and why should you? Just give us any protection you have on your person, and we'll make sure you reach your destination safe and sound.
Whats that? the pilot doesn't have anything to protect himself with? The stewardess only has coke cans to toss at someone who hid a plastic knife in his jeans? come on... the last hijackings happened because people were afraid of box cutters. Let's not let this get stupid and just make it a pleasure ride for people up there who want to take the plane down.
No... as has been reiterated ad nauseum and is legally correct, it is copyright infringement.
Please, stop calling theft. When I walk up to you, snag the cd from your hand and walk away, that is theft. When I walk up to you, borrow your cd, put it into my handy-dandy portable TiBook and rip it to OGG or MP3 and walk away, now that is copyright infringement. One involves a tangible object, the other is dealing with a something more abstract than a physical object.
4. McDonalds coffee doesn't burn people, stupid people spill it all over themselves.
I agree with your entire post except for the McDonalds incident. If you read the statements on both sides, you will realize that the woman wasn't spilling it on herself, she placed it on the car seat between her legs and the cup collapsed. The coffee in McDonalds according to court documentation from both sides was in excess of 180 degrees F. The statement from McDonalds was as follows (not quoted, but paraphrased), "our coffee temperatures are monitored to be kept at 180-200 degrees because we know our customers will be taking the coffee home to drink it, versus drinking it as soon as they recieve it."
The woman had to undergo reconstructive surgery. Alot of the money was used to cover her medical expenses, because she was wearing sweats at the time, and it caused a wicking effect. It burned a majority of her pelvic area, and onto her legs. Because of the fabric she was wearing, the severity of the burn was dramatically increased.
I used to think it was her fault totally until I read the court documentation from both sides. Just thinking about how that must have been sends chills down my spine.
The Bradies are deadset on believing that the only thing a handgun is good for is assasinating a president. Christ, a guy catches a bullet for a president and the entire country has to feel his pain.
Reminds me of when I signed up for DirecTV. They had the NFL package going for free, and I was on the phone witht he guy to activate the system. In the middle of the activation conversation he says, "You will be recieving the NFL package for free, all that you need is a phone line attached to the converter box to activate." I told him that I don't watch football, so that's alright. He then told me he was going to activate it for me then, so that I can "take advantage of this offer". I was like.. *shrug* alright, fine... whatever heh.. then he says that it will auto-renew in 6 months.
I told him to hold it right there, considering I didn't even want the thing and I made it blatantly clear. I don't want to have it auto-activated, I don't want to think about it, I don't watch football, and I'm not going to be bothered with turning off something that isn't even on my mind.
after a bit of argument he disabled the nfl football package. The oddest part was that I was flipping through the channels on one slow evening, and noticed that it was activated. (!!!!!)
It's more than 6 months later, and I haven't recieved a bill for it, so I guess he just made it so it wouldn't auto-renew. I haven't even checked to see if it's still activated. I could care less lol
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Usually when I play games (only applies to online anyway...) I don't even *know* the sex of the people on the other side.
I found out one time by basically being slapped in the face by nearly everyone that the person I was railing continuously in quake3 was a woman. Alright, I guess railing was a bad term.. using the rail-gun on in massive quantities. I don't go out of my way to find out if a person is male or female.. I don't know why they did.
Seems like everyone wanted to play different with her, because she had a different set of genitals.
I remember that...
Of course, I always got so fed up that I just turned the game off LOL
Seriously though, what's wrong with people having morals?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with people having morals. We all have them! Since when was pr0n deemed immoral? Some might object to it, but that is only because they have a different set of living standards, and a very different moral grounding. Most of those individuals are known as conservatives.
Pornography is something that is going to be around, and helps many individuals. There are the occasional FREAKS like my cousin who live,breathe,sleep pornography, but they are the exception. (33 years old, you'd figure he'd get sick of it by now, or at least not make a screensaver/background/theme out of it while mixed company is around..) Sex isn't bad... the examples you've given are criminal and/or life-inhibiting things. The last I checked, pornography wasn't criminal nor was it life-inhibiting.
jesus..
This whole thing about "it's not in the bill of rights or constitution, so you don't have that right!" is getting old.
It reminds me of a (lame) joke me and my friend made in High School. Everyone always tried finding ways around school rules, so we joked about a "never-ending commandments" list that would replace the 10-commandments in the bible if it was written today on Mt. Zion LOL.
Thou shall not chew on priests
Thou shall not spit on priests
Thou shall not chew on the Pew (sp)
Thou shall not spit on the Pew (sp)
Thou shall not curse loudly when visiting Jesus in heaven
Thou shall not masturbate while visiting Jesus in heaven
Thou shall not masturburate while listening to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" while visiting Jesus in heaven
Thou shall not chew on Jesus while visiting Jesus in heaven
Thou shall not chew on Jesus while bouncing on leg while visiting Jesus in heaven
(... ad nauseum)
It's just yet another example of people being childish in todays world it seems. "well, uhh umm.. you didn't make a LAW saying we couldn't do that!"
Where are we going to start this new empire? :)
The only way america was formed was by colonizing another country already inhabited and slaughtering it's civilians. Oh, nevermind.. we have Iraq.
/. is not a real "news" site as much as it a collaboration point, a portal. Any "relevant" news is posted from multiple sites.
That's the difference.
1. MS bows to public pressure against encrypted recording
2. MS releases recording software
3. Public finds huge gaping security hole / bug in software
4. MS releases SP1 containing, you guessed it, encryption software for recording
5. Public is left with three options
* Patch up to the encrypted version
* Leave their system open
* Find some new software
6.
7. PROFIT!
I donno.. Sony may have a bad rap from some of their moves, but all in all I have to say that they are a good company. They've been seeing how far they can flex their arms recently, but other than that they're pretty decent.
Well, the rendering engine *is* mozilla, there isn't any defference between the two in that respect. I would have to say it's either a problem with the mozilla code at that moment (it's not using "stable" code...) or a problem with your setup. I'd opt for the earlier, considering even they said any rendering problems are from mozilla's codebase.
Anyway, how much of an explosion would either of these make? Doesn't seem that they would take an airplane down.
You wouldn't think a pair of box cutters could do that, either.
I know... :P
Alot like laughing at the computer industry while your bowing to a golden idol.
Would have been kinda cool to see an Internet Array :P
"Daddy, whats that light on the horizon?"
"why, Suzan, that's the Global Internet Array! Do you see that brighter dot with all the beams of light going into it like a bicycle wheel? That's the new interplanetary communications grid. Soon, when Mommy gets to the MLA (Martian Lander Acquisition), she'll call us and you'll get to see her once the array lines up! She has her meeting in 6 hours, so she should be landing any moment!"
How am I supposed to accept data from a source that also says that the energy fields (and earth, because they coincide) was created 6,000 years ago?
Unless the remains that my father dug out of the ground at Madeira (sp?) Beach, Florida are from very large reptilian creatures that are carbon dated incorrectly and actually co-existed with mankind within that time. I highly doubt that, considering the basic law of decomposition.
Go away.
No... the freshwater would not be as dense as salt water. The salt adds density to the water, and adds to it's ability to drop when it gets colder. (without freezing, because of the salt content)
The sudden density increase from the temperatures added to the already high density due to the salt content makes it sink, causing a "vacuum" effect. I don't think just from my experience with freshwater that such a thing could happen with freshwater. At least not to such an extent.
though, your bringing in the variable of the animal life changing in the waters makes me think a bit on how that would also effect the whole chain of events. Thanks for bringing that up.
Most of the trees that are that old are of the type that can withstand climate changes. Most are Oak, or Redwood.
Eh, the way I see it is pretty simple. We can burn, dump, do whatever we want! It isn't going to do anything in the long run. Once we finally ruin the entire world for our usage, and we finally have no other resources to survive, we just die off. Once we die off, everything goes back to normal, and life brings itself into bloom again.
I wish our body could get rid of our forms of cancer as easily as the earth can.
anyone who lives near delaware can tell you.
shut the hell up. you don't need to be a scientist to evaluate the temperature, look at the river and see if it's freezing.
As much as I hate to say it, I have to side with you on this one. I was just at Fry's Electronics today to pick up a printer and started using one of the OSX boxes over there. Oh my lord, it was soo nice, and came with everything you'd ever want. It had a huge flatscreen monitor with it, also... for 2400 dollars, which is a damn good deal. Tack on another 200 and you can grab that thingee el gator or whatever sells that can turn an Apple into a full fledge Tivo/DVD recorder. (RCA/RF in)
I run a P4-1.8ghz right now, but I have a feeling the next computer I get will definately be an Apple. They've just changed so much over the years that I can't help but to love them now.
Now only to get used to OSX's wierdnesses. (Every OS has them, just every one of them have different weirdnesses)
It's fairly easy it seems... I run windows on my other partition in order to play games and I sometimes download stuff and run it on there. One app got installed and I don't even know how! but it kept redirecting internet explorer to it's search engine. And I didn't even go to a porn site =)
I would have expected that from a porn site, but just an ordinary site is another story. Of course it is win2K... Just from studying the computer afterwards, it looks like all it does is replace dlls. Just by installing the software, you give it admin privs.
why should we stop diseases from entering your country? Let's just abolish the border patrol personnel and let things go back and forth freely. At least until you change your mind a little :)
yeah, because you can't defend yourself properly, might as well let someone else do it for you. You're just a lowly citizen who knows nothing about self-defense, and why should you? Just give us any protection you have on your person, and we'll make sure you reach your destination safe and sound.
Whats that? the pilot doesn't have anything to protect himself with? The stewardess only has coke cans to toss at someone who hid a plastic knife in his jeans? come on... the last hijackings happened because people were afraid of box cutters. Let's not let this get stupid and just make it a pleasure ride for people up there who want to take the plane down.
No... as has been reiterated ad nauseum and is legally correct, it is copyright infringement.
Please, stop calling theft. When I walk up to you, snag the cd from your hand and walk away, that is theft. When I walk up to you, borrow your cd, put it into my handy-dandy portable TiBook and rip it to OGG or MP3 and walk away, now that is copyright infringement. One involves a tangible object, the other is dealing with a something more abstract than a physical object.
4. McDonalds coffee doesn't burn people, stupid people spill it all over themselves.
I agree with your entire post except for the McDonalds incident. If you read the statements on both sides, you will realize that the woman wasn't spilling it on herself, she placed it on the car seat between her legs and the cup collapsed. The coffee in McDonalds according to court documentation from both sides was in excess of 180 degrees F. The statement from McDonalds was as follows (not quoted, but paraphrased), "our coffee temperatures are monitored to be kept at 180-200 degrees because we know our customers will be taking the coffee home to drink it, versus drinking it as soon as they recieve it."
The woman had to undergo reconstructive surgery. Alot of the money was used to cover her medical expenses, because she was wearing sweats at the time, and it caused a wicking effect. It burned a majority of her pelvic area, and onto her legs. Because of the fabric she was wearing, the severity of the burn was dramatically increased.
I used to think it was her fault totally until I read the court documentation from both sides. Just thinking about how that must have been sends chills down my spine.
Tell that to the handgun institute...
The Bradies are deadset on believing that the only thing a handgun is good for is assasinating a president. Christ, a guy catches a bullet for a president and the entire country has to feel his pain.
Reminds me of when I signed up for DirecTV. They had the NFL package going for free, and I was on the phone witht he guy to activate the system. In the middle of the activation conversation he says, "You will be recieving the NFL package for free, all that you need is a phone line attached to the converter box to activate." I told him that I don't watch football, so that's alright. He then told me he was going to activate it for me then, so that I can "take advantage of this offer". I was like.. *shrug* alright, fine... whatever heh.. then he says that it will auto-renew in 6 months.
I told him to hold it right there, considering I didn't even want the thing and I made it blatantly clear. I don't want to have it auto-activated, I don't want to think about it, I don't watch football, and I'm not going to be bothered with turning off something that isn't even on my mind.
after a bit of argument he disabled the nfl football package. The oddest part was that I was flipping through the channels on one slow evening, and noticed that it was activated. (!!!!!)
It's more than 6 months later, and I haven't recieved a bill for it, so I guess he just made it so it wouldn't auto-renew. I haven't even checked to see if it's still activated. I could care less lol