I've seen a similar idea a while back on here and I echo that same sentiment:
Is having a possibly innocent person's nuts hooked up to a car battery or be tossed into the gulag worth a silly prank like this? I know people here have a hairy coniption over spam, but lets not forget the true face of the Chinese government (or any government for that matter) when they get sufficently riled up.
At best, this shoots the messenger. If nobody bought anything from spam, it would disappear overnight.
For the original Willy Wonka movie, there were lots of midgets imported into the Hollywood area to play the Oompa Loompa characters. Once filming was complete, there was nothing for all of those midgets to do.
Worse yet, they were discriminated and ostrasized simply because of the color of their skin.
Let's not fall into the "oh, it must have been piracy so it's ok" thing. Mod-chips serve a purpose and should be legal
Unfortunately, the people who use mod chips for strictly legal uses occupy that alternate reality where people really read Playboy for the articles and governments keep atom bombs around just to make hot cocoa.
While this means that a huge number of/.'ers are relatively safe, the rest of us are still going to get ourselves killed going over the handlebar on our bikes or crashing our cars or walking in front of a bus or hitting trees skiing or etc.
I seriously doubt that. Our mothers basements are usually devoid of those things.
Even the 470 million that hopefully will be disbursed one day, hardly 2000 dollars will go to the families of those who died and 500$ to those who lost everything but their lives. Hardly a sum for the cost of a human life...
Maybe not to us, but $2000 is a handsome sum for this region of India. Cold comfort, I know.
I remember one particularly obnoxious device that was sold in the Radio Shack catalog years ago. Instead of going off like a regular siren, this car alarm would actually be a woman's voice screaming "help me!" or "I was tampered with" if the alarm went off previously. That's just beyond the limits of good taste.
Hopefully their government will start to push for standards from companies that come and park in their counrty. I hope mexico sees this also as we are using them as whores for producing materials. All we can do is hope that they take this tragedy and move towards standards of business and living that will move them towards a better life style.
Not likely, if the Indian government starts getting uppity about "working conditions" or "environmental controls", these corporations will think nothing of pulling up stakes and going to another country that'll be more than happy to let them run a chemical plant as they see fit.
Does the timing of this announcement have anything to do with the success of the Incredibles, which explores the same theme of superheros being discouraged to show themselves and their powers?
He had come to the conclusion that we in the states will do anything for the sake of convenience. I don't know if that is true as my perspective on this is not great. In this circumstance his point might be that until public transit is more convenient than driving your own vehicle, we in the states won't really embrace public transit.
Very true.
Most people (the WASPy suburban types, anyway) don't want to be subject to the schedule of mass transit and be squeezed in amongst the poor or other undesirables. They want to come and go as they please in their own car.
Well, Hillsborough County, host to one of the first FTTP trial sites, has ordered Verizon to stop deployment of FTTP until they can figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside
No wonder. Of course they'll do that if children are mentioned.
Now if the minivan had, say Darl McBride/CarrotTop/Gilbert Gottfried/etc, they'd have the whole state fibered already.
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You'll get a few years in the state pen, but then you'll be a hot commodity.
Be aware that the adjustment to getting a paycheck as opposed to being traded for cigarette packs will take some getting used to.
An icon with some parts flying off while hooked up to a nuclear reactor should symbolize the PSP rather well.
Watch me elude their keylogging efforts simply by making a SSH keypair and using a *nix/*bsd variant.
So they'll just install a hardware logger. OS and ssh keys mean nothing if your own keystrokes are being captured right at the source.
I've seen a similar idea a while back on here and I echo that same sentiment:
Is having a possibly innocent person's nuts hooked up to a car battery or be tossed into the gulag worth a silly prank like this? I know people here have a hairy coniption over spam, but lets not forget the true face of the Chinese government (or any government for that matter) when they get sufficently riled up.
At best, this shoots the messenger. If nobody bought anything from spam, it would disappear overnight.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Where is AOL's marketing department when you need them?
The unemployment office, most likely.
Not politically correct.
He's going to cast lesbian eskimos with astigmatism.
For the original Willy Wonka movie, there were lots of midgets imported into the Hollywood area to play the Oompa Loompa characters. Once filming was complete, there was nothing for all of those midgets to do.
Worse yet, they were discriminated and ostrasized simply because of the color of their skin.
Let's not fall into the "oh, it must have been piracy so it's ok" thing. Mod-chips serve a purpose and should be legal
Unfortunately, the people who use mod chips for strictly legal uses occupy that alternate reality where people really read Playboy for the articles and governments keep atom bombs around just to make hot cocoa.
Does that mean that people who own massive tracts of dessert
This prompts the question: Do people have rights to the airspace over their giant brownies?
While this means that a huge number of /.'ers are relatively safe, the rest of us are still going to get ourselves killed going over the handlebar on our bikes or crashing our cars or walking in front of a bus or hitting trees skiing or etc.
I seriously doubt that. Our mothers basements are usually devoid of those things.
Even the 470 million that hopefully will be disbursed one day, hardly 2000 dollars will go to the families of those who died and 500$ to those who lost everything but their lives. Hardly a sum for the cost of a human life...
Maybe not to us, but $2000 is a handsome sum for this region of India. Cold comfort, I know.
I remember one particularly obnoxious device that was sold in the Radio Shack catalog years ago. Instead of going off like a regular siren, this car alarm would actually be a woman's voice screaming "help me!" or "I was tampered with" if the alarm went off previously. That's just beyond the limits of good taste.
Hopefully their government will start to push for standards from companies that come and park in their counrty. I hope mexico sees this also as we are using them as whores for producing materials.
All we can do is hope that they take this tragedy and move towards standards of business and living that will move them towards a better life style.
Not likely, if the Indian government starts getting uppity about "working conditions" or "environmental controls", these corporations will think nothing of pulling up stakes and going to another country that'll be more than happy to let them run a chemical plant as they see fit.
You mean the Game Formerly Known as Prince of Persia?
Havenco has gone right down the toilet of late. They broke from their strict "live and let live as long as it isn't kiddie porn" policy post 9/11.
Ryan Lackey did a presentation at Defcon 11 which can be viewed here.
Wesley Gone Evil would have been great - and probably would have been a lot more fun for Mr. Wheaton to play.
Better yet, send him to Spring Break destinations with a ton of beads and call it Wesley Gone Wild.
Her boyfriend with the badass goatee may not like that.
That's the longest haiku I've seen in a long time.
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Prior art?
Does the timing of this announcement have anything to do with the success of the Incredibles, which explores the same theme of superheros being discouraged to show themselves and their powers?
Soviet propaganda did a really good job of pumping up their apparent strength, but their economy was in dire straits since the mid-1970s
So they really didn't get their money for nothing and their chicks for free?
Isn't there a park-n-ride type thing near the GWB?
He had come to the conclusion that we in the states will do anything for the sake of convenience. I don't know if that is true as my perspective on this is not great. In this circumstance his point might be that until public transit is more convenient than driving your own vehicle, we in the states won't really embrace public transit.
Very true.
Most people (the WASPy suburban types, anyway) don't want to be subject to the schedule of mass transit and be squeezed in amongst the poor or other undesirables. They want to come and go as they please in their own car.
Well, Hillsborough County, host to one of the first FTTP trial sites, has ordered Verizon to stop deployment of FTTP until they can figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside
No wonder. Of course they'll do that if children are mentioned.
Now if the minivan had, say Darl McBride/CarrotTop/Gilbert Gottfried/etc, they'd have the whole state fibered already.