The groundsman at Lords Cricket Ground in London is called Mike Hunt. Also for years the RAF had a recruitment pamphlet where one of the guys was wearing a flight suit with the name tag "Ben Dover" on it.
Well I don't know about you, but if I was president of Iran right now, and they don't have nukes yet, with current american sabre rattling I'd be pretty keen to get my first bomb test going pronto. It looks that actually obtaining one is the only way they can actually hold on to power so the race is on. Just another example of Americas aggressive policies coming round to bite it on the ass.
The reason they had to come up with the lies about WMD is because their other reason, "We don't like Saddam" is blatently illegal. There'd be war crimes trials and leaders in jail (maybe not Bush, but probably Blair).
fascists control the government for the benefit of the corporations (and their owners).
That reminds me of another country that is quite keen to expand its economic interests around the world, and is not afraid to use force to get what it wants now and then.
Perhaps even more than $200 a barrel. Oil production will peak globally within 10 years according to some estimates and demand will continue to rise dramatically. Of course as demand rises the price will rise and so it will become economic to extract from smaller fields and to use more advanced methods to squeeze the last drop of oil from the ground. It's tough to forsee exactly how it will pan out but transport and energy will become much more expensive of the next decade or two until the hydrogen economy becomes a reality.
America's authority may have been based upon a moral stance once upon a time, but since Camp X-Ray, Iraq and Abu-Ghraib it is clear that any moral standing you may have had has been discarded like an old pair of shoes.
Re-establishing a moral mandate to the extent that the goodwill, respect and trust which the USA once held might be restored will be a long and difficult job. It will be a period where America will have to humble itself before it's allies and be more internationalist that it has been for many years. It is not a task which can be done by a republican and it's not one that will win many votes, but unless someone does it America will find itself slowly more isolated politically as its former allies look to each other for security.
Still, lasers are not a very likely terrorist weapon because they have historically used very low tech weapons (box cutters?) to achieve their goals. Trying to obtain and assemble a laser weapon would increase the chance for discovery, and that is what they are keen to avoid.
I'm not sure. There is massive competition in game engines and they are often closely guarded secrets. You might be able to argue that OSS for engines makes sense for the end user, in terms of getting lots of different games, they would still cost a large amount for the artwork and level design and you'd just get a bunch of expensive clones. I think that healthy competition and a large number of different types of game drives the games market. You've got Simulations, FPS, MMORG, tactical shooters, real time and turn based strategy, all of which need to be driven forward in gameplay. I don't think OSS is the way.
I think the major problem with open source games is that the OSS payment system for developers of being paid for support just isn't going to work when a game has to be polished and perfect in terms of UI before it will sell. Given that the majority of game development these days is artwork, level design etc rather than actually game engine, a system where graphics engines were open sourced but the rest of the stuff remains copyrighted seems possible. On the other hand gaming is a cut throat business and the major players are not going to give their rivals a helping hand, and why should they.
In the end I think the current system works well for games. Major labels share in house, and possibly engines for big money to other companies, but in general they compete to push the boundaries of what is possible.
I suspect that if games were OSS based that we would still all be running on 486's and hardware 3d would never have taken off.
Face it, games are to the computer hardware industry what porn is to the publishing industry. The dirty little secret that is the driving force behind new technology.
Not only how sturdy is it, but how stable is it. I think this will come with a "Do not buy if clumsy, have small kids, or pets" sticker. Seriously, it looks to me as if it will be very easy to knock this thing over. The base to the stand is very small compared to the width and the height of the unit. Perhaps if you nail it down it might be OK.
perhaps, but with an limitless cheap strong building materials we can build up and down to our hearts content. Space elevator? no problem! Fancy a living room window that looks out over a coral reef? we can do that! Want rivers instead of streets? We can throw a boat in so you can get to the shops! We'd be limited only by our imagination.
Money implies poverty - If there were enough resources for everyone to have everything they wanted then money would be useless and capitalism dead. The scarcity of any resource is what gives it value, and so in a future where no resource is scarce, nothing has inherent value.
This points to a very interesting future if we can ever get nanoassembly to work. The age old drive to acquire wealth or power would be dead overnight and what would people do after that? Some would spend their lives devoted to art, some to exploration, some to sport. Whatever happens some people would find it very difficult to adapt. I think it would be a fasinating time. Perhaps I should write a novel on it.
Clinton hardly invaded yugoslavia at the drop of a hat. He had to be dragged kicking and screaming to war by Europe after several months of umming and ahhing. Once there was clear evidence of genocide taking place he was really forced to act because of treaty obligations. I think there are really very few people who didn't think that something drastic needed to be done in kosovo
I've seen several. A few days ago two women in yellow vests jumped out from behind a bush in Charfield in south gloucestershire to point a radar gun at my car. I've also heard about some in stroud and by a school in south yorkshire. In fact I think that one was on the local news at the time.
no no you misunderstand. Local communities hire the cameras and just fire of whining letters to drivers of cars that speed. They also use the figures as ammo with which to approach the police and get something done about all the awful evil drivers who ruin their nice pretty villages.
Amen brother. I love Machina, and it has played a really important role in my life. Not that I want to get to deep and spiritual you understand, but there are so many levels to that record which you can only get if you're in the right place.
If they were listening to "Hello Computer" that would indeed be unique and different, given that the album is called "OK Computer".
btw, and fyi, Radiohead are a much better band live, and are often said to be one of the greatest live acts playing today. There are loads of bootleg recordings of live performances doing the rounds, and I strongly recommend getting hold of one. The montreux jazz festival performance is one of my favourites.
So what you are saying is that it is OK to make law outlawing something as long as it only adversely affects a minority of people.
That's almost right. It all depends on the respective levels of harm and is a tricky balance. You could outlaw something that adversely affected the majority of people so long as the damage done to the minority by not outlawing it was sufficiently serious. Not only that but the EU human rights court recently backed the abolision of a very popular Turkish Islamic political party on the basis that the party stood for oppression of women's rights and was therefore incompatible with the prerequisites for democracy.
Well, true, except that in order to use a computer game you need a "licence to use" so you can create temporary copies in memory and on screen. That's just the way the law is written.
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FOUR MORE YEARS (of cheap oil, then we're fucked)
On the other hand, when the oil runs out, at least we'll be able to reduce CO2 emmisions.
The groundsman at Lords Cricket Ground in London is called Mike Hunt. Also for years the RAF had a recruitment pamphlet where one of the guys was wearing a flight suit with the name tag "Ben Dover" on it.
Well I don't know about you, but if I was president of Iran right now, and they don't have nukes yet, with current american sabre rattling I'd be pretty keen to get my first bomb test going pronto. It looks that actually obtaining one is the only way they can actually hold on to power so the race is on. Just another example of Americas aggressive policies coming round to bite it on the ass.
The reason they had to come up with the lies about WMD is because their other reason, "We don't like Saddam" is blatently illegal. There'd be war crimes trials and leaders in jail (maybe not Bush, but probably Blair).
That reminds me of another country that is quite keen to expand its economic interests around the world, and is not afraid to use force to get what it wants now and then.
Perhaps even more than $200 a barrel. Oil production will peak globally within 10 years according to some estimates and demand will continue to rise dramatically. Of course as demand rises the price will rise and so it will become economic to extract from smaller fields and to use more advanced methods to squeeze the last drop of oil from the ground. It's tough to forsee exactly how it will pan out but transport and energy will become much more expensive of the next decade or two until the hydrogen economy becomes a reality.
No only that, but the country in question has used WMD's in the past and clearly cannot be trusted with them.
America's authority may have been based upon a moral stance once upon a time, but since Camp X-Ray, Iraq and Abu-Ghraib it is clear that any moral standing you may have had has been discarded like an old pair of shoes.
Re-establishing a moral mandate to the extent that the goodwill, respect and trust which the USA once held might be restored will be a long and difficult job. It will be a period where America will have to humble itself before it's allies and be more internationalist that it has been for many years. It is not a task which can be done by a republican and it's not one that will win many votes, but unless someone does it America will find itself slowly more isolated politically as its former allies look to each other for security.
Still, lasers are not a very likely terrorist weapon because they have historically used very low tech weapons (box cutters?) to achieve their goals. Trying to obtain and assemble a laser weapon would increase the chance for discovery, and that is what they are keen to avoid.
On the other hand there is this site http://www.amazing1.com/burning-lasers.htm
I'm not sure. There is massive competition in game engines and they are often closely guarded secrets. You might be able to argue that OSS for engines makes sense for the end user, in terms of getting lots of different games, they would still cost a large amount for the artwork and level design and you'd just get a bunch of expensive clones. I think that healthy competition and a large number of different types of game drives the games market. You've got Simulations, FPS, MMORG, tactical shooters, real time and turn based strategy, all of which need to be driven forward in gameplay. I don't think OSS is the way.
I think the major problem with open source games is that the OSS payment system for developers of being paid for support just isn't going to work when a game has to be polished and perfect in terms of UI before it will sell. Given that the majority of game development these days is artwork, level design etc rather than actually game engine, a system where graphics engines were open sourced but the rest of the stuff remains copyrighted seems possible. On the other hand gaming is a cut throat business and the major players are not going to give their rivals a helping hand, and why should they.
In the end I think the current system works well for games. Major labels share in house, and possibly engines for big money to other companies, but in general they compete to push the boundaries of what is possible.
I suspect that if games were OSS based that we would still all be running on 486's and hardware 3d would never have taken off.
Face it, games are to the computer hardware industry what porn is to the publishing industry. The dirty little secret that is the driving force behind new technology.
Not only how sturdy is it, but how stable is it. I think this will come with a "Do not buy if clumsy, have small kids, or pets" sticker. Seriously, it looks to me as if it will be very easy to knock this thing over. The base to the stand is very small compared to the width and the height of the unit. Perhaps if you nail it down it might be OK.
Kudos mate.
I'm sorry for asking this, but as a Brit I have no idea what GOP stands for.
perhaps, but with an limitless cheap strong building materials we can build up and down to our hearts content. Space elevator? no problem! Fancy a living room window that looks out over a coral reef? we can do that! Want rivers instead of streets? We can throw a boat in so you can get to the shops! We'd be limited only by our imagination.
Money implies poverty - If there were enough resources for everyone to have everything they wanted then money would be useless and capitalism dead. The scarcity of any resource is what gives it value, and so in a future where no resource is scarce, nothing has inherent value.
This points to a very interesting future if we can ever get nanoassembly to work. The age old drive to acquire wealth or power would be dead overnight and what would people do after that? Some would spend their lives devoted to art, some to exploration, some to sport. Whatever happens some people would find it very difficult to adapt. I think it would be a fasinating time. Perhaps I should write a novel on it.
Clinton hardly invaded yugoslavia at the drop of a hat. He had to be dragged kicking and screaming to war by Europe after several months of umming and ahhing. Once there was clear evidence of genocide taking place he was really forced to act because of treaty obligations. I think there are really very few people who didn't think that something drastic needed to be done in kosovo
I've seen several. A few days ago two women in yellow vests jumped out from behind a bush in Charfield in south gloucestershire to point a radar gun at my car. I've also heard about some in stroud and by a school in south yorkshire. In fact I think that one was on the local news at the time.
no no you misunderstand. Local communities hire the cameras and just fire of whining letters to drivers of cars that speed. They also use the figures as ammo with which to approach the police and get something done about all the awful evil drivers who ruin their nice pretty villages.
Most hot chicks I know don't drink beer, so what is the point of free beer to a hot chick?
Amen brother. I love Machina, and it has played a really important role in my life. Not that I want to get to deep and spiritual you understand, but there are so many levels to that record which you can only get if you're in the right place.
If they were listening to "Hello Computer" that would indeed be unique and different, given that the album is called "OK Computer".
btw, and fyi, Radiohead are a much better band live, and are often said to be one of the greatest live acts playing today. There are loads of bootleg recordings of live performances doing the rounds, and I strongly recommend getting hold of one. The montreux jazz festival performance is one of my favourites.
wrong. Terrorists love GWB because its cheaper and easier to let him do the hard work of converting thousands of young people to their cause.
That's almost right. It all depends on the respective levels of harm and is a tricky balance. You could outlaw something that adversely affected the majority of people so long as the damage done to the minority by not outlawing it was sufficiently serious. Not only that but the EU human rights court recently backed the abolision of a very popular Turkish Islamic political party on the basis that the party stood for oppression of women's rights and was therefore incompatible with the prerequisites for democracy.
Well, true, except that in order to use a computer game you need a "licence to use" so you can create temporary copies in memory and on screen. That's just the way the law is written.