Actually, there are a great number of rare items. They may not be "magical", but they can be "rumored" or "legendary". Like, imagine the hubbub if someone could get their grubby hands on Yoda's tiny lightsaber, or a couple of Spaarti cloning cylanders. I'm sure Ysalmri will be quite popular among outlaws, too, and you really can't get them in too many places.
If I was a Jedi, I'd want a purple Mace Windu lightsaber, but I'm going to get the game and probably be a smuggler. I'd rather be a Han Solo (and get some ass) than be Luke Skywalker (and get nothing).
I loved Rebellion. I wish they wouldn't have made the "space combat" suck so much, but it really takes alot to beat the game, which is a good thing, except for all the people out there who can't manage the hundreds of variables involved.
I wish I could get my hands on a second copy so my friend and I could play 1v1. I thought the game was best suited for human vs. human, anyway, because once you go to the "Hard" difficulty on that game, it's impossible to compete against a game that can manage the variables instantaneously, while the human can handle, at best, 4 or 5.
Afterlife, Monkey Island 2 and DotT, I agree, really weren't good, but Rogue Squadron, Shadows of the Empire, and a few others that came out were good (and I still play Rogue Squadron, because I like flying the Millenium Falcon (Sure, the latest iteration of the X-Wing series lets you fly a ship SIMILAR to the Falcon, but the real thing is kickass).
But I will also say one thing. WTF was X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter? I thought it was supposed to be so awesome and combine the best aspects of the two games, but all it did was take the action and none of the storyline. And the copy I got featured mis-labeled CDs. It was just sad.
Okay, here's something I think the pro-Gore guys should see:
http://www.mattcallaway.com/map.html
This is the map of the 2000 election, county-by-county. Now, whether you agree with the electoral system or not, this is the reason why it exists. Because someone could recieve more electoral votes by appealing to the values of the urban and suburban citizenry, without a mandate from the people who live outside the city.
I hate to have to say it, but people who live in cities have different values from people who live in the country. The reason? The issues that face them are completely different. And the methods of dealing with those issues are different, too. In the country, people respect those who make a living on their own. In the city, the solution to most problems is collective, almost socialist, action. The reason is that people in the cities live closer together and more dependent on links in a chain. Have you ever heard of a metrorail in the middle of montana?
Besides, more than 30 independant recounts have been carried out, and all have either confirmed Bush as the statewide winner, or have said that if we went with Gore's select-county recount, then he would've won (but the ones that say that also say Gore was the winner. I was calling for a statewide recount, and I'd have been satisfied if Gore would've done that, rather than carry out recount after recount after recount on those few counties).
Okay, here's something I think the pro-Gore guys should see:
http://www.mattcallaway.com/map.html
This is the map of the 2000 election, county-by-county. Now, whether you agree with the electoral system or not, this is the reason why it exists. Because someone could recieve more electoral votes by appealing to the values of the urban and suburban citizenry, without a mandate from the people who live outside the city.
I hate to have to say it, but people who live in cities have different values from people who live in the country. The reason? The issues that face them are completely different. And the methods of dealing with those issues are different, too. In the country, people respect those who make a living on their own. In the city, the solution to most problems is collective, almost socialist, action. The reason is that people in the cities live closer together and more dependent on links in a chain. Have you ever heard of a metrorail in the middle of montana?
I believe the Founding Fathers had a better idea than Karl Marx, but I guess that's because I was raised in a small town in the middle of Podunk, Georgia.
...it'd be interesting to see the people who like to mod chip make ANOTHER mod chip that makes it possible to use custom "Live" services. Perhaps an open-source multi-player server group for people who don't want to have their money taken from them by Microsoft if they say something Anti-MS or cuss on an X-Box Live server and get banned.
Besides, if only a certain number of really dedicated mod-chippers were to do it, I'd go buy an X-Box and mod it, too, because I'd finally play with people who care about games enough to have skill at 'em.
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Maybe if us nerds are lucky, it'll make girls faster.
Until then, I'll be hanging outside abortion clinics.
The point I was making is that you should never believe anything that a company says regarding "temporary" measures. I trust companies about as far as I can throw their CEO's, and I have a dislocated shoulder.
And the $30 maximum charge? The Sympatico website CLEARLY states that it is TEMPORARY.
And I bet when you saw Star Wars Episode 2, you actually BELIEVED that Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is ACTUALLY going to lay down his powers at the end of the Clone Wars.;)
...that Microsoft is more concerned with protecting its software from the "evil pirates" who made Windows and Linux big, than they are about keeping our critical information secure. Great, they can lock you in jail for 20 years because you gave your friend a copy of Word XP, but they won't lift a finger to keep REAL CRIMINALS from hijacking your identity.
Microsoft more than anything has pissed me off over their threat ads in certain areas. If you haven't heard them, I'd encourage people to find a way to hear them. They are shocking in their brazen "Stop being a criminal or we'll make you our woman and you'll like it." attitude.
Microsoft has been proven to be the sham it is, even by the government. When the US Government, the most incompetant bureacracy in existence says that you suck...man, you have to seriously do some soul-searching...if Gates even has one.
The Via Eden mini-ITX platform is the opposite of this 'We need more and we don't care if we need liquid nitrogen to cool it,' thinking that has been going on in the Mhz wars.
And here's the question. If the liquid nitrogen becomes standard, does that mean we have to call the A/C guy to come and put more refrigerant in the system?
Well, I chose Madagascar for maximum funny. You see, here at Funnie's Unusual Campus of Kindness, we work hard to ensure the proper levels of funny by pairing the proper "funny" word with the actual funny. I could ramble on and on all day, but I think it's a perfect time to plug the F.U.C.K.-approved Funny Site of the year:
"An fatal operation at 0x004a3542 has occured. YOU will be terminated."
And if you take it on the airplane, the press confererence:
Reporter: "What was the cause of the explosion?"
NTSB Guy: "Windows. If only he used linux...or AT LEAST MacOS X...this disater could've been averted."
Two hours later, at the White House...
Bush: "We have found that the explosion was caused by Windows. By making Windows, Microsoft is a terrorist organization. This morning, troops invaded the evil leader Bill Gates's compound in Redmond."
Two Weeks Later:
Reporter: "Have you found Gates?"
Rumsfeld: "We have Special Forces scouring the area, but we haven't found him. But in order to follow our current policy on the War on Terror, we'll now accuse a random country of being Evil. (::Rumsfeld walks over to a lottery tumbler::) This year's "Evil Nation" is... MADAGASCAR! Alrighty. Now, then. You know the drill. Madagascar currently is in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Now go back to your news bureaus and begin the punditry. That is the end of this conference."
...should listen to these other guys. FREE BEER! Whoo-hoo!
In all seriousness, I do agree with the poster about how there are so many IM standards that it's getting stupid now. But I disagree with them telling you that it should be open source. Not everything for Linux needs to be Open Source, because not everything for Linux requires an active group of people to fix it. There's a concept of responsibility/consequences that should go into effect. If you don't want to release the source, then fine. But you'd have to realize that many users will grumble about it, because many users are assholes.
Specifically, the amendment bans "any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors."
I guess this means that every European newspaper is now hate-speech, given how just about every single one not only espouses anti-American sentiment, but also portrays all Americans as idiotic slackjaw yokels, simply because the stupidest and most inbred people have all the money and political power.
Well, they may not have been G4's, but the things came with easy expansion for a PPC or a DOS Compat. Card. Not only that, but after a bunch of software and hardware tweaks, plus a memory upgrade, it actually outperformed first-generation PPC's, even if they were running of PPC Native.
Not only that, but the pizza-box style was quite easy to put in groups. That's why the case was re-used on the first PPC Workgroup Server.
6) The one place Americans have restrained themselves and not taken "unilateral action".
I'd like to remind the poster of the above that most countries "participating" in the ISS have been defaulting on their share of it, leaving the US to pay up for a capsule that has THEIR flag on it. Then they insult us because we can't afford National Health Care.
Why? Because, if you've been paying attention, the names of the planets, excepting Earth, correspond with the names of Roman Gods.
Mercury- Roman Messenger God
Venus- Goddess of Love
Mars- God of war
Jupiter- God of the Sky
Uranus- God of the Earth (as in rocky Earth, not the planet)
Neptune- God of the Seas
Pluto- God of Death
And now you know why we don't arbitrarily change names of planets to prevent slack-jaw yokels from mispronouncing them as portions of someone else's anatomy.
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I don't count the books, but I have to admit, Luke got the better end of that one, but I'm pretty sure Luke's kid's going to be one messed up brat.
Actually, there are a great number of rare items. They may not be "magical", but they can be "rumored" or "legendary". Like, imagine the hubbub if someone could get their grubby hands on Yoda's tiny lightsaber, or a couple of Spaarti cloning cylanders. I'm sure Ysalmri will be quite popular among outlaws, too, and you really can't get them in too many places.
If I was a Jedi, I'd want a purple Mace Windu lightsaber, but I'm going to get the game and probably be a smuggler. I'd rather be a Han Solo (and get some ass) than be Luke Skywalker (and get nothing).
I loved Rebellion. I wish they wouldn't have made the "space combat" suck so much, but it really takes alot to beat the game, which is a good thing, except for all the people out there who can't manage the hundreds of variables involved.
I wish I could get my hands on a second copy so my friend and I could play 1v1. I thought the game was best suited for human vs. human, anyway, because once you go to the "Hard" difficulty on that game, it's impossible to compete against a game that can manage the variables instantaneously, while the human can handle, at best, 4 or 5.
Afterlife, Monkey Island 2 and DotT, I agree, really weren't good, but Rogue Squadron, Shadows of the Empire, and a few others that came out were good (and I still play Rogue Squadron, because I like flying the Millenium Falcon (Sure, the latest iteration of the X-Wing series lets you fly a ship SIMILAR to the Falcon, but the real thing is kickass).
But I will also say one thing. WTF was X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter? I thought it was supposed to be so awesome and combine the best aspects of the two games, but all it did was take the action and none of the storyline. And the copy I got featured mis-labeled CDs. It was just sad.
Okay, here's something I think the pro-Gore guys should see:
http://www.mattcallaway.com/map.html
This is the map of the 2000 election, county-by-county. Now, whether you agree with the electoral system or not, this is the reason why it exists. Because someone could recieve more electoral votes by appealing to the values of the urban and suburban citizenry, without a mandate from the people who live outside the city.
I hate to have to say it, but people who live in cities have different values from people who live in the country. The reason? The issues that face them are completely different. And the methods of dealing with those issues are different, too. In the country, people respect those who make a living on their own. In the city, the solution to most problems is collective, almost socialist, action. The reason is that people in the cities live closer together and more dependent on links in a chain. Have you ever heard of a metrorail in the middle of montana?
Besides, more than 30 independant recounts have been carried out, and all have either confirmed Bush as the statewide winner, or have said that if we went with Gore's select-county recount, then he would've won (but the ones that say that also say Gore was the winner. I was calling for a statewide recount, and I'd have been satisfied if Gore would've done that, rather than carry out recount after recount after recount on those few counties).
Okay, here's something I think the pro-Gore guys should see:
http://www.mattcallaway.com/map.html
This is the map of the 2000 election, county-by-county. Now, whether you agree with the electoral system or not, this is the reason why it exists. Because someone could recieve more electoral votes by appealing to the values of the urban and suburban citizenry, without a mandate from the people who live outside the city.
I hate to have to say it, but people who live in cities have different values from people who live in the country. The reason? The issues that face them are completely different. And the methods of dealing with those issues are different, too. In the country, people respect those who make a living on their own. In the city, the solution to most problems is collective, almost socialist, action. The reason is that people in the cities live closer together and more dependent on links in a chain. Have you ever heard of a metrorail in the middle of montana?
I believe the Founding Fathers had a better idea than Karl Marx, but I guess that's because I was raised in a small town in the middle of Podunk, Georgia.
...it'd be interesting to see the people who like to mod chip make ANOTHER mod chip that makes it possible to use custom "Live" services. Perhaps an open-source multi-player server group for people who don't want to have their money taken from them by Microsoft if they say something Anti-MS or cuss on an X-Box Live server and get banned.
Besides, if only a certain number of really dedicated mod-chippers were to do it, I'd go buy an X-Box and mod it, too, because I'd finally play with people who care about games enough to have skill at 'em.
Maybe if us nerds are lucky, it'll make girls faster.
Until then, I'll be hanging outside abortion clinics.
"Snooch to the motherfucking nooch!"
The point I was making is that you should never believe anything that a company says regarding "temporary" measures. I trust companies about as far as I can throw their CEO's, and I have a dislocated shoulder.
And the $30 maximum charge? The Sympatico website CLEARLY states that it is TEMPORARY.
;)
And I bet when you saw Star Wars Episode 2, you actually BELIEVED that Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is ACTUALLY going to lay down his powers at the end of the Clone Wars.
I'll let YOU wear the red ones. :)
...that Microsoft is more concerned with protecting its software from the "evil pirates" who made Windows and Linux big, than they are about keeping our critical information secure. Great, they can lock you in jail for 20 years because you gave your friend a copy of Word XP, but they won't lift a finger to keep REAL CRIMINALS from hijacking your identity.
Microsoft more than anything has pissed me off over their threat ads in certain areas. If you haven't heard them, I'd encourage people to find a way to hear them. They are shocking in their brazen "Stop being a criminal or we'll make you our woman and you'll like it." attitude.
Microsoft has been proven to be the sham it is, even by the government. When the US Government, the most incompetant bureacracy in existence says that you suck...man, you have to seriously do some soul-searching...if Gates even has one.
The Via Eden mini-ITX platform is the opposite of this 'We need more and we don't care if we need liquid nitrogen to cool it,' thinking that has been going on in the Mhz wars.
And here's the question. If the liquid nitrogen becomes standard, does that mean we have to call the A/C guy to come and put more refrigerant in the system?
Well, I chose Madagascar for maximum funny. You see, here at Funnie's Unusual Campus of Kindness, we work hard to ensure the proper levels of funny by pairing the proper "funny" word with the actual funny. I could ramble on and on all day, but I think it's a perfect time to plug the F.U.C.K.-approved Funny Site of the year:
http://www.omgjeremy.com/
"An fatal operation at 0x004a3542 has occured. YOU will be terminated."
And if you take it on the airplane, the press confererence:
Reporter: "What was the cause of the explosion?"
NTSB Guy: "Windows. If only he used linux...or AT LEAST MacOS X...this disater could've been averted."
Two hours later, at the White House...
Bush: "We have found that the explosion was caused by Windows. By making Windows, Microsoft is a terrorist organization. This morning, troops invaded the evil leader Bill Gates's compound in Redmond."
Two Weeks Later:
Reporter: "Have you found Gates?"
Rumsfeld: "We have Special Forces scouring the area, but we haven't found him. But in order to follow our current policy on the War on Terror, we'll now accuse a random country of being Evil. (::Rumsfeld walks over to a lottery tumbler::) This year's "Evil Nation" is... MADAGASCAR! Alrighty. Now, then. You know the drill. Madagascar currently is in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Now go back to your news bureaus and begin the punditry. That is the end of this conference."
1) Free software
2) unused brains
3) Profit
Sounds alot like underpants gnomes.
...should listen to these other guys. FREE BEER! Whoo-hoo!
In all seriousness, I do agree with the poster about how there are so many IM standards that it's getting stupid now. But I disagree with them telling you that it should be open source. Not everything for Linux needs to be Open Source, because not everything for Linux requires an active group of people to fix it. There's a concept of responsibility/consequences that should go into effect. If you don't want to release the source, then fine. But you'd have to realize that many users will grumble about it, because many users are assholes.
Specifically, the amendment bans "any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors."
I guess this means that every European newspaper is now hate-speech, given how just about every single one not only espouses anti-American sentiment, but also portrays all Americans as idiotic slackjaw yokels, simply because the stupidest and most inbred people have all the money and political power.
Well, they may not have been G4's, but the things came with easy expansion for a PPC or a DOS Compat. Card. Not only that, but after a bunch of software and hardware tweaks, plus a memory upgrade, it actually outperformed first-generation PPC's, even if they were running of PPC Native.
Not only that, but the pizza-box style was quite easy to put in groups. That's why the case was re-used on the first PPC Workgroup Server.
(I know... "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!")
Can I get a w00t for the Quadra 610? w00t! w00t!
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20020923/station .html
"...Russia would not be able to pay up its share of the International Space Station..."
6) The one place Americans have restrained themselves and not taken "unilateral action".
I'd like to remind the poster of the above that most countries "participating" in the ISS have been defaulting on their share of it, leaving the US to pay up for a capsule that has THEIR flag on it. Then they insult us because we can't afford National Health Care.
I have three letters for you...ROFL. :)
Misc Imp Officer: "How will they maintain control without the beaurocracy?"
Hillary Rosen: "Fear will keep them in line. Fear of the Network Solutions monopoly."
I never met a Space Dog I didn't Laika!
...that is unless you belong to a UFO cult like the Raelians and think we're originally from outer space.
Oh, well...
Anyway, I think its interesting to remember that Dogs made it into space before humans.
Why? Because, if you've been paying attention, the names of the planets, excepting Earth, correspond with the names of Roman Gods.
Mercury- Roman Messenger God
Venus- Goddess of Love
Mars- God of war
Jupiter- God of the Sky
Uranus- God of the Earth (as in rocky Earth, not the planet)
Neptune- God of the Seas
Pluto- God of Death
And now you know why we don't arbitrarily change names of planets to prevent slack-jaw yokels from mispronouncing them as portions of someone else's anatomy.