Newsweek retracted it's claim that reports of Koran-abuse would appear in a *specific government report*, not that the Koran-abuse occured.
Indeed, I'd read articles about it for at least a year before the Newsweek article.
Naturally, the Republican spin machine tried to pretend that Newsweek retracted the reports of the abuse in general. And subsequent government reports confirmed it.
For concealing rampant nudity in a game rated T no less!
I fail to understand why the Sims and all its sequels and expansions should not now be rated M or possibly even AO. IIRC with the Sims 2, you can unlock all the included nudity and sex in the game with a simple console command code. No mods necessary.
Yet no one here is screaming at Will Wright and EA for deceiving them.
In a stunning move, the ESRB has advised retailers to stop selling The Sims and its expansions. This report follows public pressure over the nudity patch debacle. EA, the publishers of the game have given retailers the option of restickering the game with an M rating or exchanging it for a new version with the controversial content removed. ESRB head Patricia Vance says 'After a thorough investigation, we have concluded that sexually explicit material exists in a fully rendered, unmodified form on the final discs of the game. However, the material was programmed by EA to be inaccessible to the player and they have stated that it was never intended to be made accessible. The material can only be accessed by downloading a software patch, created by an independent third party without EA's permission, which is now freely available on the internet. Considering the existence of the undisclosed and highly pertinent content on the final discs, compounded by the broad distribution of the third party modification, the credibility and utility of the initial ESRB rating has been seriously undermined.'"
and you'll note that all the major successes in combatting terrorism lately have come from law enforcement agencies working together.
This IS a war, and the enemy doesn't give a shit about the Geneva Convention.
You decry terrorists who kill indiscriminately and then argue we should act exactly the same way? WTF is wrong with you? Not only does it make things worse, it erodes our moral superiority. We *are* better than the terrorists and this is one of the reasons why.
Yet so-called "patriots" insist on demeaning America and her alllies. Cesspool dwellers like you need to get the fnck out of this country and let the adults run the war on terror now. Your juvinile approach of "problem-causing" is a failure.
The "excess gas cost" of driving the pickup to work is about 500 gallons/year. (15,000 miles/yr at 15 miles per gallon in the truck vs 30 miles/gal in a small car.)
So, at $2.25 per gallon (today's price) that is $1125. The cheapest car I can find is about $12,000.
Or, you could just, I dunno... RENT A TRUCK for that one weekend a month you actually need a truck. Or pay for delivery. Let's see... $40 per rental and gas times twelve = $480.
There's a rediculous amount of high-quality intelligent television programming on network TV. Include the cable channels and you've got even more. 24, Lost, Boston Legal, Veronica Mars, Survivor, Amazing Race for starters. There's lots more that doesn't interest me but is still nonetheless good.
You really do have to *not* be watching any TV in order to seriously claim "there's nothing good on TV". I'm not sure we've ever had this much high-quality stuff on the air.
They may not have actually voted at all but were miscredited as voting for various reasons. Sometimes the "DECEASED" notation poll workers put on the signature line will be interpreted as the person signing for a ballot, even though none was ever given. There's also the problem of people accidently signing on the wrong signature line; they don't get a credit but the person whose line they signed does.
I doubt these people checked the actual poll books so it's very likely a good chunk of the 50 dead "voters" didn't actually vote.
Before you come down too hard on lazy government workers, keep in mind that there's a lot of politics in government workplaces (ya think?). A lot of little people building little empires, then stepping on the wrong person and getting smacked down.
Whereas this *never* happens in the private sector. No, not at all.
However, I also think that if everyone were just a little more careful, the profitability would not be there.
It's the same principle as spamming. It costs next to nothing to send out the e-mail and you need only a small handful of people to fall for the scam in order to make the whole endeavour worthwhile.
Hell, it's even better than spamming; at least spammers have some sort of product to sell. Scammers don't have to provide anything. They just empty out your bank account for pure profit.
Kind of sounds... Arabic to me. Probably al Quaeda's chief county-intelligence chief if he's single-handedly breaking the United States' best encryption methods.
Shouldn't we be bringing him and everyone at Slashdot who has obviously associated with him numerous times in to Gitmo for "questioning"?
The company that did the SFX for Firefly also did the work for the new BSG. While BSG has sound, it has the same "real" feel to the effects and camera movements. IIRC, Serenity makes a brief appearance in the fleet in the mini-series.
is health care. We Americans pay more money for less health care, most of it due to massive amounts of bureaucratic overhead in the supposedly "efficient" private sector.
Is Universal health care in other countries perfect? No, of course not.
But UHC is better than a sixth of the population simply having no health care coverage whatsoever and many beyond that having inadequete health care coverage. Better than half the people declaring bankruptcy doing it because they got killed by medical costs. We're getting screwed by the insurance companies here.
And before some dittohead chimes in with "malpractice costs" talking points, insurance companies are screwing us there too. Lawsuits and payouts have been trending downwards for years but insurance rates keep going up. Some of it is due to the insurance companies making poor investments and getting killed in the stock market. But mostly it's just greed. If you need any more proof of how malpractice "reform" solves nothing, check out how rates in the states that have imposed limits have gone up faster than the states without them. Go figure. A Bush-sponsored solution that solves nothing. Whatta shocker.
Universal health care would slash huge amounts of overhead out of the costly and inefficiently run health care industry, provide better health care for Americans and make businesses here(especially small ones) more competitive with each other and with others overseas.
Soldiers make Achmed play naked twister and that's considered torture, meanwhile Achmed's cousins are cutting heads off of American's!!!!
I'm guessing you're unaware of the rape(including children) and murder that was going on as well. Read the Taguba report(what little of it that's been released) by the military if you don't believe it.
The press has pretty much ignored what was going on at Abu Graib. Thus there are people like you who still believe it was all fraternity style hijinks and whatnot. There's a reason those five mercenaries were killed and strung up in the same city as the prison...
Because having a low poverty rate is in your best interest. History has numerous examples of what happens when people like you decide to take a "I've got mine" attitude and screw over most of the populace.
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is just the latest sport to come to ESPN8, the Ocho!
Check your local cable listings!
She was covert. That's a fact.
Keep trying to spin away, monkey boy.
Newsweek retracted it's claim that reports of Koran-abuse would appear in a *specific government report*, not that the Koran-abuse occured.
Indeed, I'd read articles about it for at least a year before the Newsweek article.
Naturally, the Republican spin machine tried to pretend that Newsweek retracted the reports of the abuse in general. And subsequent government reports confirmed it.
Suppose this tourist goes shopping at Wal-Mart and then gets blown up by a suicide bomber and the explosion causes a tragic mixup of RFID tags.
Will the police inform Proctor & Gamble that a tube of Vanilla Mint Crest toothpaste(on sale for just $1.99!) was tragically killed in the exploision?
Harry Potter fires Father of Order of the Phoenix.
I was thinking, 'God damn spoilers! It's the "Lone Gunmen are dead" all over again!'
For concealing rampant nudity in a game rated T no less!
I fail to understand why the Sims and all its sequels and expansions should not now be rated M or possibly even AO. IIRC with the Sims 2, you can unlock all the included nudity and sex in the game with a simple console command code. No mods necessary.
Yet no one here is screaming at Will Wright and EA for deceiving them.
In a stunning move, the ESRB has advised retailers to stop selling The Sims and its expansions. This report follows public pressure over the nudity patch debacle. EA, the publishers of the game have given retailers the option of restickering the game with an M rating or exchanging it for a new version with the controversial content removed. ESRB head Patricia Vance says 'After a thorough investigation, we have concluded that sexually explicit material exists in a fully rendered, unmodified form on the final discs of the game. However, the material was programmed by EA to be inaccessible to the player and they have stated that it was never intended to be made accessible. The material can only be accessed by downloading a software patch, created by an independent third party without EA's permission, which is now freely available on the internet. Considering the existence of the undisclosed and highly pertinent content on the final discs, compounded by the broad distribution of the third party modification, the credibility and utility of the initial ESRB rating has been seriously undermined.'"
and you'll note that all the major successes in combatting terrorism lately have come from law enforcement agencies working together.
This IS a war, and the enemy doesn't give a shit about the Geneva Convention.
You decry terrorists who kill indiscriminately and then argue we should act exactly the same way? WTF is wrong with you? Not only does it make things worse, it erodes our moral superiority. We *are* better than the terrorists and this is one of the reasons why.
Yet so-called "patriots" insist on demeaning America and her alllies. Cesspool dwellers like you need to get the fnck out of this country and let the adults run the war on terror now. Your juvinile approach of "problem-causing" is a failure.
The "excess gas cost" of driving the pickup to work is about 500 gallons/year. (15,000 miles/yr at 15 miles per gallon in the truck vs 30 miles/gal in a small car.)
So, at $2.25 per gallon (today's price) that is $1125. The cheapest car I can find is about $12,000.
Or, you could just, I dunno... RENT A TRUCK for that one weekend a month you actually need a truck. Or pay for delivery. Let's see... $40 per rental and gas times twelve = $480.
Amazon only patented the review of wikitorial submissions with one click.
There's a rediculous amount of high-quality intelligent television programming on network TV. Include the cable channels and you've got even more. 24, Lost, Boston Legal, Veronica Mars, Survivor, Amazing Race for starters. There's lots more that doesn't interest me but is still nonetheless good.
You really do have to *not* be watching any TV in order to seriously claim "there's nothing good on TV". I'm not sure we've ever had this much high-quality stuff on the air.
Netcraft confirmed it!
They may not have actually voted at all but were miscredited as voting for various reasons. Sometimes the "DECEASED" notation poll workers put on the signature line will be interpreted as the person signing for a ballot, even though none was ever given. There's also the problem of people accidently signing on the wrong signature line; they don't get a credit but the person whose line they signed does.
I doubt these people checked the actual poll books so it's very likely a good chunk of the 50 dead "voters" didn't actually vote.
The federal gov't shrank under Democratic control.
Before you come down too hard on lazy government workers, keep in mind that there's a lot of politics in government workplaces (ya think?). A lot of little people building little empires, then stepping on the wrong person and getting smacked down.
Whereas this *never* happens in the private sector. No, not at all.
However, I also think that if everyone were just a little more careful, the profitability would not be there.
It's the same principle as spamming. It costs next to nothing to send out the e-mail and you need only a small handful of people to fall for the scam in order to make the whole endeavour worthwhile.
Hell, it's even better than spamming; at least spammers have some sort of product to sell. Scammers don't have to provide anything. They just empty out your bank account for pure profit.
Kind of sounds... Arabic to me. Probably al Quaeda's chief county-intelligence chief if he's single-handedly breaking the United States' best encryption methods.
Shouldn't we be bringing him and everyone at Slashdot who has obviously associated with him numerous times in to Gitmo for "questioning"?
The company that did the SFX for Firefly also did the work for the new BSG. While BSG has sound, it has the same "real" feel to the effects and camera movements. IIRC, Serenity makes a brief appearance in the fleet in the mini-series.
that the submitter simply couldn't spell or capitalise correctly?
"Does launchd Beat cron?"
What is that? Some new form of AOL speak?
We'll see the *actual* updated designs later this season. The ones that finally managed to take down Gallifrey.
Microsoft collapsing like a house of cards when some halfwit cult leader threatened them with a "boycott".
Great article in the Stranger about Microsoft caving in.
The XBOX has one profitable quarter after eleven straight losses, and everyone calls them a success.
but they're making up for it in volume!
is health care. We Americans pay more money for less health care, most of it due to massive amounts of bureaucratic overhead in the supposedly "efficient" private sector.
Is Universal health care in other countries perfect? No, of course not.
But UHC is better than a sixth of the population simply having no health care coverage whatsoever and many beyond that having inadequete health care coverage. Better than half the people declaring bankruptcy doing it because they got killed by medical costs. We're getting screwed by the insurance companies here.
And before some dittohead chimes in with "malpractice costs" talking points, insurance companies are screwing us there too. Lawsuits and payouts have been trending downwards for years but insurance rates keep going up. Some of it is due to the insurance companies making poor investments and getting killed in the stock market. But mostly it's just greed. If you need any more proof of how malpractice "reform" solves nothing, check out how rates in the states that have imposed limits have gone up faster than the states without them. Go figure. A Bush-sponsored solution that solves nothing. Whatta shocker.
Universal health care would slash huge amounts of overhead out of the costly and inefficiently run health care industry, provide better health care for Americans and make businesses here(especially small ones) more competitive with each other and with others overseas.
Soldiers make Achmed play naked twister and that's considered torture, meanwhile Achmed's cousins are cutting heads off of American's!!!!
I'm guessing you're unaware of the rape(including children) and murder that was going on as well. Read the Taguba report(what little of it that's been released) by the military if you don't believe it.
The press has pretty much ignored what was going on at Abu Graib. Thus there are people like you who still believe it was all fraternity style hijinks and whatnot. There's a reason those five mercenaries were killed and strung up in the same city as the prison...
Because having a low poverty rate is in your best interest. History has numerous examples of what happens when people like you decide to take a "I've got mine" attitude and screw over most of the populace.