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read the article. this only applies to premium services like HBO, which is exactly what the CS person told you. they can still package everything else as much as they want
first time i get mod points and fucking ie has my wheel mouse scroll to flamebait when i'm trying to get down the page because my cursor's over it.... really sorry:( people will metamod that i hope
his existence has been expurged? if you're referring to his webpage and, then perhaps it's out of respect for him. "Folks here at XCF who knew Gene thought that it would be better to make his home page non-public at least for now."
(on a side note this is why I don't buy into most conspiracy theories-- the govt. is way too inefficient at keeping things quiet)
not to get my loony on too much here, but some big shit could probably be covered up easily. think about watergate, if that one janitor hadn't accidently stumbled on the Nixon's Plumbers, there would be no watergate, and woodward and bernstien still had to go through a bunch of shit and have Deep Throat help them out just to get it. If some 2 bit burglary job takes that much luck and work to get figured out, imagine how much harder it would be to track a murder or something coming from high up. was kennedy murdered by the CIA, the freemasons and/or my aunt bettie? i dunno, but i could see it happening
"Interestingly, while the ESPN crew all agreed that the hand ball by Germany against the US was a correct non-call, the Univision announcers were foaming at the mouth that there should have been a penalty kick."
a little bit of info on what a "correct non-call" of a hand ball is in soccer, since i'm a soccer referee and this is something that i get a lot of grief from people about. it isn't illegal to have the ball touch your hand, since the rules state that a hand ball is called only when a player intentionally strikes the ball with his hand, so when the ball touches a player's hand, the referee has to decide whether the player intentionally struck the ball or not, and if the ref decides that the ball unintentionally hit the player's hand, there is no foul and play continues. this is a sure way to get your ass yelled at, especially if everyone sees it and it's inside the penalty area like that was
actually, rebates are mostly done by manufacturer's because people don't generally send them in. i think the number is something like 10% of rebates get sent in, and even when you move into $100 dollar territory, the return rate only goes up to about 40%, so the increase in sales that their little "price drop" creates more than makes up for the hit that they take from the few people who do send them in
if you should happen to live in Nebraska, (the do ship anywhere though) I've always found DIT Computers to have very good prices, always comparable to newegg.com and a helluva lot easier.
I know you didn't ask, but to spread knowledge, here we go: Although in English, calling one who practices Islam (Submission to God) a Muslim (One who submits) seems a curious usage issue, in Arabic it makes perfect sense. Almost all words in the Arabic language are formed by 3 consonant stems. In this case, it's SLM , which implies submission. From this you form iSLaM and muSLiM in much the same way you form Christianity and Christian from the root word Christ in English.
this just makes me think about zooming in on things, and if it's technically possible (not today) to take a photo of say that tree and magnify it to see the structure of things inside it... i dunno, like a 200 gigapixel camera or something. just a thought
"Which is all very well, except that Christians and Jews aren't flying planes into buildings or blowing themselves up in the children's areas of restaurants." here's the deal, now repeat after me.... PEOPLE kill people. seriously. just because our current crop of killers happen to be muslim doesn't mean anything about it compared to other religions. througout history, christians have massacred people in *FAR* greater numbers than Muslims have ever done. no muslim ever said "kill them all and let God sort them out." (pope urban vi, on what the crusaders should do when they took constantinople). and the holocaust? all the christians not only the ones in germany slaughtering the jews, but the rest of the world quietly saying "see no evil hear no evil," including the catholic church. and the bombers in israel? why don't you find something out about them before you spout your mouth off, because the majority of them are motiviated by a desire for freedom in their homeland, not religion. how about the 18 year old not particularly religious honor student who blew herself up?
"I have to say that I've also been a little disappointed by the failure of the Islamic community here in the US to condemn such actions..."
and before anyone goes off on a "The Qur'an says fight them all etc etc" rant, allow me to point out that all fighting sanctioned in the qur'an is of a purely defensive nature, with well defined limits. 2:190 "Fight in the cause of Allah, those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loveth not transgressors." If you want I could find the links for the limits (not harming civilians etc.) but i don't think it is necessary (for the record, IAAM (I am a Muslim))
okay, how about not actually giving it to shatner, but a cg image of him as captain kirk. now HE is *sexy*. you don't see miss hoshi scoring with some guy on every single planet that they land on, eh?
i can't find it in the NY Times' archives for the life of me, but last year i read an article talking about how they had recently found documents which were untranslated at the time, but which very specifically gave the date time and location of the 1991 world trade center bombings about a year before they actually happened. the problem was that they had mountains of stuff to translate and not enough translators. this would solve that problem, and i'd imagine that there's some fear that 5 years down the road someone will translate an old interecepted email or something that says "spetember 11th, get on planes, run them into WTC" or something. the idea is that with this, we can translate everything we get, and that won't ever happen again
always too late for modding... curses.. anyway: "most certainly a lot less 'We'll love it regardless' fanatics than AOTCs." yeah, everyone loved episode 1 regardless. oh wait that's right, it totally sucked and very few people would say that they "love it" or even particularly care for it. Episode 2 on the other hand, for all its flaws, is a genuinely interesting movie (darth sidius=palpatine? count dooku working *with* the siths to control the republic? siths playing the entire frickin' jedi council for fools? damn) Spider-man, on the other hand, is a nice action movie. period. just because you don't particularly care for it doesn't make the people who do mindless fanatics.
"Critics say Microsoft is hiding access to its programs, but the fundamental code is still installed on the PC." read the article here before posting please.
you care to take a guess where he got most of his money and weapons? i'll give you a hint. it starts with united states of, and ends with america. why? because then we hated iran (that whole hostage thingy had us a bit peeved still) and they were at war with iran. once again, america's "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" idea that led us to give mujahadin in afghanistan millions of dollars of equipment, including stinger missle launchers to fight the soviets. many of these mujahadin later became the taliban. d'oh.
i think it should be something like mario kart 64 when you die, players become little running bombs and can detonate next to someone. that'll stop the spawn campers.
It should also be pointed out that Scalia's son works for the law firm that represented Bush.
(Funny eh? The two most conservative judges on the Supreme Court having conflicts of interest without recusing themselves.. Impeachment? Hey, a guy can hope.)
on that line, you should check out HavenCo, located in the principality of Sealand from the HavenCo site: "The Principality of Sealand is a former World War II anti-aircraft military fortress in the North Sea. Only authorized persons directly involved in the HavenCo project are permitted to land on the island. The Sealand Government is ideal for web business, as there are no direct reporting or registration requirements."
in go, just like in chess, there are a limited number of moves, though go's total number is monstrously larger, with enough computational power, a computer could analyze every one of these billions(?) of sequences and choose one that lead to victory every time. it may not be a game of tactics on any level we can understand as humans, but it is possible with enough power. Maybe a quantum computer with a whole slew of qubits down the line.
anyone else get a good read on that patent? a good number of their references are openly critical of them "Search Sites' Shocking Secret" "With Goto.com's Search Engine, the highest bidder shall be ranked first" "GoTo.Hell--What happens when an online search engine accepts cash from Web sites?" "Searching for the highest bidder" "New search engine allows sites to pay their way to top" and the list goes on. sheesh.
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read the article. this only applies to premium services like HBO, which is exactly what the CS person told you. they can still package everything else as much as they want
well, i posted in this so it's gone, duh :) all righty
first time i get mod points and fucking ie has my wheel mouse scroll to flamebait when i'm trying to get down the page because my cursor's over it.... really sorry :( people will metamod that i hope
his existence has been expurged? if you're referring to his webpage and, then perhaps it's out of respect for him.
"Folks here at XCF who knew Gene thought that it would be better to make his home page non-public at least for now."
(on a side note this is why I don't buy into most conspiracy theories-- the govt. is way too inefficient at keeping things quiet)
not to get my loony on too much here, but some big shit could probably be covered up easily. think about watergate, if that one janitor
hadn't accidently stumbled on the Nixon's Plumbers, there would be no watergate, and woodward and bernstien still had to go through a bunch of shit and have Deep Throat help them out just to get it. If some 2 bit burglary job takes that much luck and work to get figured out, imagine how much harder it would be to track a murder or something coming from high up.
was kennedy murdered by the CIA, the freemasons and/or my aunt bettie? i dunno, but i could see it happening
"Interestingly, while the ESPN crew all agreed that the hand ball by Germany against the US was a correct non-call, the Univision announcers were foaming at the mouth that there should have been a penalty kick."
a little bit of info on what a "correct non-call" of a hand ball is in soccer, since i'm a soccer referee and this is something that i get a lot of grief from people about.
it isn't illegal to have the ball touch your hand, since the rules state that a hand ball is called only when a player intentionally strikes the ball with his hand, so when the ball touches a player's hand, the referee has to decide whether the player intentionally struck the ball or not, and if the ref decides that the ball unintentionally hit the player's hand, there is no foul and play continues. this is a sure way to get your ass yelled at, especially if everyone sees it and it's inside the penalty area like that was
actually, rebates are mostly done by manufacturer's because people don't generally send them in. i think the number is something like 10% of rebates get sent in, and even when you move into $100 dollar territory, the return rate only goes up to about 40%, so the increase in sales that their little "price drop" creates more than makes up for the hit that they take from the few people who do send them in
if you should happen to live in Nebraska, (the do ship anywhere though) I've always found DIT Computers to have very good prices, always comparable to newegg.com and a helluva lot easier.
I know you didn't ask, but to spread knowledge, here we go:
Although in English, calling one who practices Islam (Submission to God) a Muslim (One who submits) seems a curious usage issue, in Arabic it makes perfect sense. Almost all words in the Arabic language are formed by 3 consonant stems. In this case, it's SLM , which implies submission. From this you form iSLaM and muSLiM in much the same way you form Christianity and Christian from the root word Christ in English.
this just makes me think about zooming in on things, and if it's technically possible (not today) to take a photo of say that tree and magnify it to see the structure of things inside it... i dunno, like a 200 gigapixel camera or something.
just a thought
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.". and.the.Inte1.html
that's what he said. that's all. look it up.
http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.Al.Gore
"Which is all very well, except that Christians and Jews aren't flying planes into buildings or blowing themselves up in the children's areas of restaurants."
here's the deal, now repeat after me.... PEOPLE kill people. seriously. just because our current crop of killers happen to be muslim doesn't mean anything about it compared to other religions. througout history, christians have massacred people in *FAR* greater numbers than Muslims have ever done. no muslim ever said "kill them all and let God sort them out." (pope urban vi, on what the crusaders should do when they took constantinople). and the holocaust? all the christians not only the ones in germany slaughtering the jews, but the rest of the world quietly saying "see no evil hear no evil," including the catholic church.
and the bombers in israel? why don't you find something out about them before you spout your mouth off, because the majority of them are motiviated by a desire for freedom in their homeland, not religion. how about the 18 year old not particularly religious honor student who blew herself up?
"I have to say that I've also been a little disappointed by the failure of the Islamic community here in the US to condemn such actions..."
yeah, well i'm a little disappointed by the US government not giving a shit about the innocent civilians slaughtered in jenin, so we'll call it even.
and before anyone goes off on a "The Qur'an says fight them all etc etc" rant, allow me to point out that all fighting sanctioned in the qur'an is of a purely defensive nature, with well defined limits. 2:190 "Fight in the cause of Allah, those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loveth not transgressors." If you want I could find the links for the limits (not harming civilians etc.) but i don't think it is necessary
(for the record, IAAM (I am a Muslim))
okay, how about not actually giving it to shatner, but a cg image of him as captain kirk. now HE is *sexy*. you don't see miss hoshi scoring with some guy on every single planet that they land on, eh?
i can't find it in the NY Times' archives for the life of me, but last year i read an article talking about how they had recently found documents which were untranslated at the time, but which very specifically gave the date time and location of the 1991 world trade center bombings about a year before they actually happened. the problem was that they had mountains of stuff to translate and not enough translators. this would solve that problem, and i'd imagine that there's some fear that 5 years down the road someone will translate an old interecepted email or something that says "spetember 11th, get on planes, run them into WTC" or something. the idea is that with this, we can translate everything we get, and that won't ever happen again
always too late for modding... curses..
anyway: "most certainly a lot less 'We'll love it regardless' fanatics than AOTCs." yeah, everyone loved episode 1 regardless. oh wait that's right, it totally sucked and very few people would say that they "love it" or even particularly care for it. Episode 2 on the other hand, for all its flaws, is a genuinely interesting movie (darth sidius=palpatine? count dooku working *with* the siths to control the republic? siths playing the entire frickin' jedi council for fools? damn) Spider-man, on the other hand, is a nice action movie. period.
just because you don't particularly care for it doesn't make the people who do mindless fanatics.
you're right, some better answers can be found here :)
"Critics say Microsoft is hiding access to its programs, but the fundamental code is still installed on the PC."
read the article here before posting please.
you care to take a guess where he got most of his money and weapons? i'll give you a hint. it starts with united states of, and ends with america.
why? because then we hated iran (that whole hostage thingy had us a bit peeved still) and they were at war with iran. once again, america's "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" idea that led us to give mujahadin in afghanistan millions of dollars of equipment, including stinger missle launchers to fight the soviets. many of these mujahadin later became the taliban. d'oh.
i think it should be something like mario kart 64 when you die, players become little running bombs and can detonate next to someone. that'll stop the spawn campers.
It should also be pointed out that Scalia's son works for the law firm that represented Bush.
(Funny eh? The two most conservative judges on the Supreme Court having conflicts of interest without recusing themselves.. Impeachment? Hey, a guy can hope.)
Hopefully not, unless they hired Disney's lobbyists
on that line, you should check out HavenCo, located in the principality of Sealand
from the HavenCo site:
"The Principality of Sealand is a former World War II anti-aircraft military fortress in the North Sea. Only authorized persons directly involved in the HavenCo project are permitted to land on the island. The Sealand Government is ideal for web business, as there are no direct reporting or registration requirements."
in go, just like in chess, there are a limited number of moves, though go's total number is monstrously larger, with enough computational power, a computer could analyze every one of these billions(?) of sequences and choose one that lead to victory every time.
it may not be a game of tactics on any level we can understand as humans, but it is possible with enough power. Maybe a quantum computer with a whole slew of qubits down the line.
anyone else get a good read on that patent? a good number of their references are openly critical of them
"Search Sites' Shocking Secret"
"With Goto.com's Search Engine, the highest bidder shall be ranked first"
"GoTo.Hell--What happens when an online search engine accepts cash from Web sites?"
"Searching for the highest bidder"
"New search engine allows sites to pay their way to top"
and the list goes on. sheesh.
i'm not sure that it'll work, but i as far as i know Yahoo! uses google's search engine, so you could give that a shot