4 games:
Finaly Fantasy (pick a number, if you care)
Command and Conquer (pick any of them)
Starcraft
Half-Life
4 books:
The Jumbo Duct Tape Book
Bart Simpson's Guide to Life
Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary
Berlitz Italian-English Dictionary
Which 4 do you think convey more ideas? Which 4 have the most philosphical meanings?
Don't be so quick to judge a video game without thinking about it.
Playing Starcraft or C&C is very similar reading Dune (as well they should be, both having come from it), with a strong emphasis on racial differences, war, peace, and the concepts of equality. I can't find anything like that in the dictionary...
If you wish to trade your right to privacy (as noted above to be in the Bill of Rights), do so for yourself. The entire country doesn't need to go along with you in this, and more to the point, the whole world. If a guy in Zaire wants to look for some sexual explicit material, what business is it of the FBI's? Heck, if I want to look for it, why should I fear "Big Brother" is watching? Terrorism doesn't stop when you monitor a communicaitons medium. Messages can be sent in as simple a way as a post on a message board saying some nonsense word, no one would know it. Also, if the groups that don't want to be watched know they're being watched, they'll simply use a different medium. Picking up a pay phone isn't all that hard to do, and no one's listening in there. All in all, online privacy is my right. Without a warrant, the government shouldn't be able to get info from any domestic server. If it's international, enter the UN.
Yahoo! is also cutting off FTP access unless you pay, as of April 2nd. I haven't had POP3 access on any but my oldest Yahoo! accounts, so I don't use Yahoo! for email. I can only wonder how wise FTP's termination is...Once you're paying for it, you might as well get a domain of your own, since it would cost the same amount.
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4 games:
Finaly Fantasy (pick a number, if you care)
Command and Conquer (pick any of them)
Starcraft
Half-Life
4 books:
The Jumbo Duct Tape Book
Bart Simpson's Guide to Life
Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary
Berlitz Italian-English Dictionary
Which 4 do you think convey more ideas? Which 4 have the most philosphical meanings?
Don't be so quick to judge a video game without thinking about it.
Playing Starcraft or C&C is very similar reading Dune (as well they should be, both having come from it), with a strong emphasis on racial differences, war, peace, and the concepts of equality. I can't find anything like that in the dictionary...
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Angram
The Ironwall Network
If you wish to trade your right to privacy (as noted above to be in the Bill of Rights), do so for yourself. The entire country doesn't need to go along with you in this, and more to the point, the whole world. If a guy in Zaire wants to look for some sexual explicit material, what business is it of the FBI's? Heck, if I want to look for it, why should I fear "Big Brother" is watching? Terrorism doesn't stop when you monitor a communicaitons medium. Messages can be sent in as simple a way as a post on a message board saying some nonsense word, no one would know it. Also, if the groups that don't want to be watched know they're being watched, they'll simply use a different medium. Picking up a pay phone isn't all that hard to do, and no one's listening in there. All in all, online privacy is my right. Without a warrant, the government shouldn't be able to get info from any domestic server. If it's international, enter the UN.
Yahoo! is also cutting off FTP access unless you pay, as of April 2nd. I haven't had POP3 access on any but my oldest Yahoo! accounts, so I don't use Yahoo! for email. I can only wonder how wise FTP's termination is...Once you're paying for it, you might as well get a domain of your own, since it would cost the same amount.